Obtrude to Officiousness

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

obtrude, v. (2)

    Bhr 6.171 11 Every day bears witness to [manners'] gentle rule. People who would obtrude, now do not obtrude.
    Bhr 6.186 15 Those who are not self-possessed obtrude and pain us.

obtruded, v. (2)

    Chr2 10.116 21 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly. In general discourse, they are never obtruded.
    LS 11.24 14 I have no hostility to this institution [the Lord's Supper]; I am only stating my want of sympathy with it. Neither should I ever have obtruded this opinion upon other people, had I not been called by my office to administer it.

obtrudes, v. (1)

    Grts 8.304 8 A sensible man...omits himself as habitually as another man obtrudes himself in the discourse...

obtruding, v. (1)

    Trag 12.414 14 Time the consoler...dries the freshest tears by obtruding new figures...on our eye, new voices on our ear.

obtrusion, n. (2)

    WSL 12.339 13 A less pardonable eccentricity [in Landor] is the cold and gratuitous obtrusion of licentious images...
    PPr 12.385 24 ...we may easily fail in expressing the general objection [to Carlyle's Past and Present] which we feel. It appears to us as a certain disproportion in the picture, caused by the obtrusion of the whims of the painter.

obtuse, adj. (4)

    PPh 4.45 25 In adult life, while the perceptions are obtuse, men and women talk vehemently and superlatively...
    SA 8.84 6 ...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our countenance and carriage, as the lapse of time tells itself on the face of a clock. We may be too obtuse to read it, but the record is there.
    SA 8.84 7 ...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our countenance and carriage, as the lapse of time tells itself on the face of a clock. We may be too obtuse to read it, but the record is there. Some men may be obtuse to read it, but some men are not obtuse and do read it.
    SA 8.84 8 ...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our countenance and carriage, as the lapse of time tells itself on the face of a clock. We may be too obtuse to read it, but the record is there. Some men may be obtuse to read it, but some men are not obtuse and do read it.

obtuse, n. (1)

    Trag 12.415 16 ...[the crucifixions of the middle passage] come to the obtuse and barbarous...

obtuseness, n. (2)

    SL 2.141 20 The pretence that [a man] has another call, a summons by name and personal election...betrays obtuseness to perceive that there is one mind in all the individuals...
    PLT 12.31 15 Each has a certain aptitude for knowing or doing somewhat which, when it appears, is so adapted and aimed on that, that it seems a sort of obtuseness to everything else.

obverse, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.149 7 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals], and when the observer has seen the obverse, he turns it over to see the reverse.

obverse, n. (1)

    PPh 4.56 11 Plato turns incessantly the obverse and the reverse of the medal of Jove.

obvious, adj. (26)

    Nat 1.14 14 ...the examples [of the useful arts are] so obvious, that I shall leave them to the reader's reflection...
    Nat 1.43 17 Not only resemblances exist in things whose analogy is obvious...but also in objects wherein there is great superficial unlikeness.
    LT 1.260 1 Everything that is popular...deserves the attention of the philosopher, and this for the obvious reason, that...it characterizes the people.
    Hist 2.14 12 The identity of history is equally instrinsic, the diversity equally obvious.
    Hist 2.15 21 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...
    NMW 4.230 5 It is obvious that a very small force, skilfully and rapidly manoeuvring so as always to bring two men against one at the point of engagement, will be an overmatch for a much larger body of men.
    Wsp 6.239 23 Men are too often unfit to live, from their obvious inequality to their own necessities;...
    CbW 6.263 2 If now in this connection of discourse we should venture on laying down the first obvious rules of life, I will not here repeat the first rule of economy...
    CbW 6.275 3 ...life would be twice or ten times life if spent with wise and fruitful companions. The obvious inference is, a little useful deliberation and preconcert when one goes to buy house and land.
    Art2 7.53 27 ...each work of art...took its form from the broad hint of Nature. Beautiful in this wise is the obvious origin of all the known orders of architecture;...
    Elo1 7.68 2 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with a substantial cordial man...with his obvious honesty and good meaning...
    Clbs 7.236 22 [Dr. Johnson's] obvious religion or superstition, his deep wish that they should think so or so, weighs with [his company]...
    Clbs 7.250 9 ...while we look complacently at these obvious pleasures and values of good companions, I do not forget that Nature is always very much in earnest...
    PI 8.71 22 ...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias or a rest on to-day's forms.
    Edc1 10.154 3 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
    Supl 10.168 14 Uncle Joel's news is always true, said a person to me with obvious satisfaction...
    SovE 10.204 25 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds.
    MMEm 10.420 21 The difficulty of getting places of low board for a lady, is obvious.
    Thor 10.479 10 A certain habit of antagonism defaced [Thoreau's] earlier writings,-a trick of rhetoric...of substituting for the obvious word and thought its diametrical opposite.
    HDC 11.46 17 [The Massachusetts Bay towns'] powers were speedily settled by obvious convenience...
    PLT 12.23 5 How obvious is the momentum, in our mental history!
    PLT 12.49 18 The difference is obvious enough in Talent between the speed of one man's action above another's.
    PLT 12.61 8 Ideal and practical...are never parallel. Each has...its proper dangers, obvious enough when the opposite element is deficient.
    II 12.72 20 It is this employment of new means...that denotes the inspired man. This is equally obvious in all the fine arts;...
    MLit 12.317 4 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact,-that there is One Mind, and that all the powers and privileges which lie in any, lie in all;...literature is far the best expression. It is true, this is not the only nor the obvious lesson it teaches.
    EurB 12.374 27 ...the obvious division of modern romance is into two kinds...

obviously, adv. (11)

    Hist 2.19 9 I have seen a snow-drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower.
    SR 2.64 14 ...the sense of being which in calm hours rises...in the soul, is not diverse from things...from man, but...proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed.
    Cir 2.310 3 Much more obviously is history and the state of the world at any one time directly dependent on the intellectual classification then existing in the minds of men.
    Pt1 3.41 2 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael, have obviously no limits to their works except the limits of their lifetime...
    MoS 4.175 17 There is the power of complexions, obviously modifying the dispositions and sentiments.
    DL 7.131 25 Obviously, it would be easy for every town to discharge this truly municipal duty [of a library and museum].
    Carl 10.490 5 [Carlyle] is obviously greatly respected by all sorts of people...
    MLit 12.321 2 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book. Obviously for that passage the poem was written...
    AgMs 12.363 20 ...the premium obviously ought to be given for the good management of a poor farm.
    PPr 12.379 10 Obviously, [Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a powerful and accomplished thinker...
    Let 12.394 4 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer? Excellent reasons have been shown us why the writers, obviously persons of sincerity and elegance, should be dissatisfied with the life they lead...

occasion, n. (121)

    DSA 1.128 16 I shall endeavor to discharge my duty to you on this occasion, by pointing out two errors in [the Christian church's] administration...
    DSA 1.135 27 On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you...that the faith of Christ is preached.
    MN 1.211 3 What is best in any work of art but...that which flows from the hour and the occasion...
    LT 1.278 4 You have on some occasion played a bold part.
    Con 1.309 22 ...the moon and the north star you would quickly have occasion for in your closet and bed-chamber.
    SR 2.68 8 ...when [children] come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings, they...are willing to let the words go; for at any time they can use words as good when occasion comes.
    SR 2.81 4 ...when [the wise man's]...duties, on any occasion call him from his house...he is at home still...
    Exp 3.53 17 What notions do [physicians] attach to love! what to religion! One would not willingly pronounce these words in their hearing, and give them the occasion to profane them.
    Chr1 3.105 24 Two persons lately...have given me occasion for thought.
    Mrs1 3.141 10 A man who is not happy in the company cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion.
    Mrs1 3.142 19 ...Napoleon said of [Charles James Fox] on the occasion of his visit to Paris...Mr. Fox will always hold the first place in an assembly at the Tuileries.
    Mrs1 3.151 27 ...no princess could surpass [Lilla's] clear and erect demeanor on each occasion.
    NER 3.275 5 All that [a man] has will he give for an erect demeanor in every company and on each occasion.
    PNR 4.80 4 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion to take hastily a few more notes of the elevation and bearings of this fixed star;...
    MoS 4.160 16 The Spartan and Stoic schemes are too stark and stiff for our occasion.
    MoS 4.173 10 I mean to use the occasion, and celebrate the calendar-day of our Saint Michel de Montaigne, by counting and describing these doubts or negations.
    ShP 4.210 26 ...the occasion which gave the saint's meaning the form of a conversation...is immaterial compared with the universality of its application.
    NMW 4.237 18 In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon] remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the- morning kind: I mean...that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion...
    NMW 4.247 2 We can not...sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon], who took occasion by the beard...
    ET1 5.19 15 [Wordsworth] had much to say of America, the more that it gave occasion for his favorite topic,--that society is being enlightened by a superficial tuition, out of all proportion to its being restrained by moral culture.
    ET2 5.25 1 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire...
    ET3 5.35 7 ...the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...and reads quietly the Times newspaper, which, by its immense correspondence and reporting seems to have machinized the rest of the world for his occasion.
    ET4 5.66 21 ...the Heimskringla has frequent occasion to speak of the personal beauty of its heroes.
    ET7 5.124 1 A slow temperament...has given occasion to the observation that English wit comes afterwards...
    ET13 5.218 26 Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this occasion was not insignificant.
    ET13 5.221 7 A great duke said on the occasion of a victory, in the House of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had not been well used by them...
    ET14 5.244 14 ...[the English] draw only a bucketful at the fountain of the First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not go to the spring-head.
    ET15 5.266 27 I was told of the dexterity of one of [the London Times's] reporters, who, finding himself, on one occasion, where the magistrates had strictly forbidden reporters, put his hands into his coat-pocket, and with pencil in one hand and tablet in the other, did his work.
    ET15 5.267 7 The tone of [the London Times's] articles has often been the occasion of comment from the official organs of the continental courts...
    Pow 6.59 16 The weaker party finds that none of his information or wit quite fits the occasion.
    Wth 6.98 7 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess...
    Wth 6.122 9 Every pedestrian in our pastures has frequent occasion to thank the cows for cutting the best path through the thicket and over the hills;...
    Wsp 6.226 4 He who has acquired the ability may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated...
    Wsp 6.235 6 ...[Benedict said] in all the encounters that have yet chanced, I have not been weaponed for that particular occasion, and have been historically beaten;...
    Civ 7.20 19 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 7.46 8 The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it...
    Art2 7.49 22 In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are...when consciously [the orator] makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour...
    Elo1 7.83 2 There is always a rivalry between the orator and the occasion...
    Elo1 7.84 12 This rivalry between the orator and the occasion is inevitable...
    Elo1 7.84 12 ...the occasion always yields to the eminence of the speaker;...
    Cour 7.256 19 We have had examples of men who, for showing effective courage on a single occasion, have become a favorite spectacle to nations...
    Cour 7.261 19 So great a soldier as the old French Marshal Montluc acknowledges that he has often trembled with fear, and recovered courage when he had said a prayer for the occasion.
    Suc 7.294 19 I pronounce that young man happy who is content with having acquired the skill which he had aimed at, and waits willingly when the occasion of making it appreciated shall arrive...
    OA 7.326 6 If [the old lawyer] should on a new occasion rise quite beyond his mark...that, of course, would instantly tell;...
    SA 8.80 13 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never sharing their affections or debilities, hurls his word like a bullet when occasion requires...
    Elo2 8.112 24 There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected...
    Elo2 8.116 6 You go to a town-meeting where the people are called to some disagreeable duty, such as, for example, often occurred during the war, at the occasion of a new draft.
    Elo2 8.120 5 ...give [an eloquent man] a commanding occasion...and he surprises by new and unlooked-for powers.
    Elo2 8.127 2 If [some men] are to put a thing in proper shape, fit for the occasion and the audience, their mind is a blank.
    Elo2 8.127 17 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion.
    Comc 8.164 4 ...the occasion of laughter is some seeming, some keeping of the word to the ear and eye, whilst it is broken to the soul.
    PPo 8.241 15 On the occasion of Solomon's marriage, all the beasts, laden with presents, appeared before his throne.
    PPo 8.249 11 Nothing is too high, nothing too low for [Hafiz's] occasion.
    Dem1 10.25 6 The peculiarity of the history of Animal Magnetism is that it drew in as inquirers and students a class of persons never on any other occasion known as students and inquirers.
    Supl 10.165 8 Horace Walpole relates that in the expectation, current in London a century ago, of a great earthquake, some people provided themselves with dresses for the occasion.
    Supl 10.165 15 Thousands of people live and die who were never, on a single occasion, hungry or thirsty...
    Supl 10.172 10 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken the whole English language three times over in his speech.
    SovE 10.203 6 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...
    MoL 10.241 12 ...let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...
    MoL 10.245 19 Ernest Renan finds that Europe has thrice assembled for exhibitions of industry, and not a poem graced the occasion;...
    Schr 10.268 9 Nature will fast enough instruct you in the occasion and the need...
    LLNE 10.331 20 Let [Everett] rise to speak on what occasion soever, a fact had always just transpired which composed, with some other fact well known to the audience, the most pregnant and happy coincidence.
    CSC 10.377 2 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention...gave occasion to memorable interviews and conversations...
    EzRy 10.386 16 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity...
    EzRy 10.393 17 [Ezra Ripley's] conversation was strictly personal and apt to the party and the occasion.
    SlHr 10.443 6 I used to feel that [Samuel Hoar's] conscience was a kind of meter of the degree of honesty in the country, by which on each occasion it was tried, and sometimes found wanting.
    SlHr 10.447 29 [Samuel Hoar] had a huge respect for Mr. Webster's ability, with whom he had often occasion to try his strength at the bar...
    Thor 10.458 19 On one occasion [Thoreau] went to the University Library to procure some books.
    Thor 10.463 8 [Thoreau's] trenchant sense...was always up to the new occasion.
    LS 11.5 11 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples...
    LS 11.5 15 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples, but no expression occurs intimating that this feast was hereafter to be commemorated. In St. Mark...the same words are recorded, and still with no intimation that the occasion was to be remembered.
    LS 11.5 24 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper].
    LS 11.6 7 This material fact, that the occasion [the Last Supper] was to be remembered, is found in Luke alone, who was not present.
    LS 11.10 15 The reason why St. John does not repeat [Jesus's] words on this occasion [the Last Supper] seems to be that he had reported a similar discourse of Jesus to the people of Capernaum more at length already...
    LS 11.10 21 ...when the Jews on that occasion [at Capernaum] complained that they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant, he added...that we might not think his body was to be actually eaten, that he only meant we should live by his commandment.
    LS 11.12 10 These views of the original account of the Lord's Supper lead me to esteem it an occasion full of solemn and prophetic interest...
    LS 11.16 19 But it is said: Admit that the rite [the Lord's Supper] was not designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it? Here it stands...the undoubted occasion of much good;...
    LS 11.20 15 [The Lord's Supper] has been, and is, I doubt not, the occasion of indefinite good;...
    HDC 11.30 25 I shall not be expected, on this occasion, to repeat the details of that oppression which drove our fathers out hither.
    HDC 11.42 25 Each of the parts of that perfect structure grew out of the necessities of an instant occasion.
    HDC 11.59 24 The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasions.
    HDC 11.68 3 It would be impossible on this occasion to recite all these patriotic papers [of Concord].
    HDC 11.79 9 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, on this occasion, will not confer with flesh and blood...
    HDC 11.79 13 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. On that occasion, Concord furnished 67 men...
    EWI 11.106 25 Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law, long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its introduction are lost;...
    EWI 11.116 15 We were told that the dress of the negroes [in Antigua] on that occasion [of emancipation in the West Indies] was uncommonly simple and modest.
    EWI 11.120 19 Sir Lionel Smith, the governor, writes to the British Ministry, It is impossible for me to do justice to the good order, decorum and gratitude which the whole laboring population [in Jamaica] manifested on that happy occasion [emancipation].
    EWI 11.135 11 ...I turn gladly to the rightful theme, to the bright aspects of the occasion.
    EWI 11.145 2 I esteem the occasion of this jubilee [of emancipation in the West Indies] to be the proud discovery that the black race can contend with the white...
    FSLC 11.192 27 You know that the Act of Congress of September 18, 1850, is a law which every one of you will break on the earliest occasion.
    FSLC 11.193 9 ...it is absurd...to accuse the friends of freedom in the North with being the occasion of the new stringency of the Southern slave-laws.
    FSLC 11.213 26 It is very certain from...the high arguments of the defenders of liberty, which the occasion [the Fugitive Slave Law] called out, that there is sufficient margin in the statute and the law for the spirit of the Magistrate to show itself...
    FSLN 11.221 24 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that...he was only to say plain and equal things...and the whole occasion was answered by his presence.
    AKan 11.261 22 ...I borrow the language of an eminent man, used long since, with far less occasion: If that be law, let the ploughshare be run under the foundations of the Capitol;...
    TPar 11.290 17 Two days...the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses.
    ACiv 11.303 20 Here again is a new occasion which heaven offers to sense and virtue.
    ALin 11.332 23 The poor negro said of [Lincoln], on an impressive occasion, Massa Linkum am eberywhere.
    ALin 11.333 27 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide fame. What pregnant definitions;...and, on great occasion, what lofty, and more than national, what humane tone!
    ALin 11.334 3 ...[Lincoln's] brief speech at Gettysburg will not easily be surpassed by words on any recorded occasion.
    ALin 11.335 4 ...what an occasion was the whirlwind of the war.
    SMC 11.359 19 [George Prescott] was...engaged in common duties, but equal always to the occasion;...
    SMC 11.359 20 [George Prescott] was...engaged in common duties, but equal always to the occasion; and the [Civil] war showed him still equal, however stern and terrible the occasion grew...
    SHC 11.429 15 [The committee] have thought that the taking possession of this field [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] ought to be marked by a public meeting and religious rites: and they have requested me to say a few words which the serious and tender occasion inspires.
    RBur 11.439 8 ...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced... that...it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].
    RBur 11.439 12 ...I heartily feel the singular claims of the occasion [the Burns Festival].
    Shak1 11.447 23 We can hardly think of an occasion where so little need be said [as Shakespeare's anniversary].
    Shak1 11.451 20 How good and sound and inviolable [Shakespeare's] innocency, that...speaks the pure sense of humanity on each occasion.
    ChiE 11.471 2 Mr. Mayor: I suppose we are all of one opinion on this remarkable occasion of meeting the embassy sent from the oldest Empire in the world to the youngest Republic.
    FRO2 11.485 6 ...it is not in my power to-day to meet the natural demands of the occasion [meeting of the Free Religious Association]...
    FRep 11.521 17 General Jackson was a man of will, and his phrase on one memorable occasion, I will take the responsibility, is a proverb ever since.
    Mem 12.100 8 ...men of great presence of mind who are always equal to the occasion do not need to rely on what they have stored for use...
    CInt 12.131 21 ...it were a good rule to read some lines at least every day that shall not be of the day's occasion or task...
    CW 12.172 25 Linnaeus...took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has ordered my fate, that I live in this time...
    MAng1 12.234 19 [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 12.237 23 ...it seemed to [Michelangelo] that if a man gave him anything, he was always obligated to that individual. His friend Vasari mentions one occasion on which his scruples were overcome.
    ACri 12.288 22 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration. I remember an occasion when a proficient in this style came from North Street to Cambridge and drew a crowd of young critics in the college yard...
    ACri 12.289 25 Goethe, who had collected all the diabolical hints in men and nature for traits for his Walpurgis Nacht, continued the humor of collecting such horrors after this first occasion had passed...
    MLit 12.316 15 ...[the noble natural man] yields himself to your occasion and use...
    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...
    PPr 12.388 14 If the good heaven have any good word to impart to this unworthy generation, here is one scribe [Carlyle] qualified and clothed for its occasion.
    Trag 12.412 26 There is a fire in some men which demands an outlet in some rude action; they betray their impatience of quiet...by irregular, faltering, disturbed speech, too emphatic for the occasion.

occasion, v. (1)

    Chr1 3.99 3 The same transport which the occurrence of the best events in the best order would occasion me, I must learn to taste purer in the perception that my position is every hour meliorated, and does already command those events I desire.

occasional, adj. (22)

    Nat 1.72 25 ...there are not wanting...occasional examples of the action of man upon nature with his entire force...
    GoW 4.287 21 [Goethe] is...a writer of occasional poems and of an encyclopaedia of sentences.
    ET14 5.246 22 Bulwer, an industrious writer, with occasional ability, is distinguished for his reverence of intellect as a temporality...
    ET14 5.249 13 But for Coleridge, and a lurking taciturn minority uttering itself in occasional criticism...one would say that in Germany and in America is the best mind in England rightly respected.
    ET15 5.266 17 ...[the London Times] has never wanted the first pens for occasional assistance.
    Wth 6.97 26 There are many articles good for occasional use, which few men are able to own.
    CbW 6.269 4 The uses of travel are occasional, and short;...
    Elo1 7.62 9 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...occasional stamping...
    DL 7.126 21 Beauty is, even in the beautiful, occasional...
    DL 7.133 2 Let religion cease to be occasional;...
    Boks 7.207 23 ...what with so many occasional poems...[Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time...
    PI 8.35 16 The use of occasional poems is to give leave to originality.
    SA 8.99 9 The way to have large occasional views...is to have large habitual views.
    SA 8.99 21 ...talk is occasional;...
    Insp 8.271 14 The man's insight and power are interrupted and occasional;...
    Chr2 10.116 24 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly. In general discourse, they are never obtruded. If the clergyman should travel...he might leave them locked up in the same closet with his occasional sermons...
    Edc1 10.143 1 Do not spare to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday and experiment;...
    SovE 10.203 4 Our religion...respects and mythologizes some one time and place and person and people. So it is occasional.
    Schr 10.288 18 ...[the scholar's] use of books is occasional, and infinitely subordinate;...
    LLNE 10.366 1 In practice it is always found that virtue is occasional, spotty, and not linear or cubic.
    Thor 10.451 4 [Thoreau's] character exhibited occasional traits drawn from this [French] blood...
    Milt1 12.275 6 [Milton's] sonnets are all occasional poems.

occasionally, adv. (10)

    Comp 2.95 20 I find a similar base tone in the popular religious works of the day and the same doctrines assumed by the literary men when occasionally they treat the related topics.
    Mrs1 3.131 16 There is almost no kind of self-reliance...which fashion does not occasionally adopt and give it the freedom of its saloons.
    ET15 5.269 12 [The London Times] addresses occasionally a hint to Majesty itself...
    Elo1 7.99 25 [Eloquence's] great masters...resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally,--yet subordinated all means;...
    Boks 7.193 21 I visit occasionally the Cambridge Library...
    Thor 10.473 27 Occasionally, a small party of Penobscot Indians would visit Concord...
    LS 11.17 15 I appeal now to the convictions of communicants [in the Lord' s Supper], and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.
    FSLC 11.203 7 [Webster] indulged occasionally in excellent expression of the known feeling of the New England people [on slavery]...
    Mem 12.97 13 Is [Memory] some old aunt who goes in and out of the house, and occasionally recites anecdotes of old times and persons...
    MAng1 12.231 21 Long after [St. Peter's dome] was completed, and often since, to this day, rumors are occasionally spread that it is giving way...

occasioned, v. (3)

    CPL 11.500 23 In a private letter to a lady, [Thoreau] writes, Do you read any noble verses? For my part, they have been the only things I remembered,-or that which occasioned them,-when all things else were blurred and defaced.
    CL 12.138 20 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule...
    MAng1 12.225 8 The news of [Michelangelo's] departure occasioned a general concern in Florence...

occasions, n. (35)

    DSA 1.151 2 What hinders that now...wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, you speak the very truth...
    LE 1.155 18 [The scholar's] successes are occasions of the purest joy to all men.
    LE 1.162 9 To feel the full value of these lives, as occasions of hope and provocation, you must come to know that each admirable genius is but a successful diver in that sea whose floor of pearls is all your own.
    SL 2.143 1 We think greatness entailed or organized...in certain offices or occasions...
    Prd1 2.227 3 Time is always bringing the occasions that disclose [facts!] value.
    Chr1 3.108 17 Character...must not...be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs or on few occasions.
    Mrs1 3.141 13 A man who is happy [in the company], finds in every turn of the conversation equally lucky occasions for the introduction of that which he has to say.
    PPh 4.72 11 ...the rumor ran that on one or two occasions, in the war with Boeotia, [Socrates] had shown a determination which had covered the retreat of a troop;...
    SwM 4.131 1 ...though aware that truth is not solitary nor is goodness solitary, but both must ever mix and marry, [Swedenborg] makes war on his mind...and, on all occasions, traduces and blasphemes it.
    ET6 5.110 20 [The English] have difficulty in bringing their reason to act, and on all occasions use their memory first.
    ET7 5.124 17 ...as [Englishmen's] own belief in guineas is perfect, they readily, on all occasions, apply the pecuniary argument as final.
    ET11 5.195 23 In the university, the [English] noblemen are exempted from the public exercises for the degree...by which they attain a degree called honorary. At the same time, the fees they have to pay for matriculation, and on all other occasions, are much higher.
    ET13 5.223 23 [The Anglican Church]...is perfectly well-bred, and can shut its eyes on all proper occasions.
    Ctr 6.144 10 There is also a negative value in these [minor] arts. Their chief use to the youth is...to be known for what they are, and not to remain to him occasions of heart-burn.
    Ctr 6.155 23 Keep the town for occasions...
    CbW 6.262 2 Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
    CbW 6.278 6 The man,--it is his attitude...not on set days and public occasions, but at all hours...
    Ill 6.311 3 ...we must be content to be pleased without too curiously analyzing the occasions.
    Elo1 7.67 17 Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health...
    Elo1 7.83 20 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with more than his usual alacrity...
    Elo1 7.84 14 ...a great man is the greatest of occasions.
    Clbs 7.231 23 [The lover of letters] uses his occasions;...
    PI 8.54 6 Poetry will never be a simple means, as when...laureate odes on state occasions are written.
    Res 8.147 25 ...we have noted examples among our orators, who have on conspicuous occasions, handled and controlled...a malignant mob, by superior manhood...
    Comc 8.169 19 The multiplication of artificial wants and expenses in civilized life, and the exaggeration of all trifling forms, present innumerable occasions for this discrepancy [between the man and his appearance] to expose itself.
    Insp 8.296 7 The occasions or predisposing circumstances [of inspiration] I could never tabulate;...
    PerF 10.76 5 ...a man draws on all the air for his occasions, as if there were no other breather;...
    PerF 10.78 19 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces'] inspirations flow to us...
    Plu 10.294 1 ...[Plutarch]...appears never to have been in Rome but on two occasions...
    FSLC 11.214 2 ...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and past, in either of which, if one man had felt the spirit of Coke or Mansfield or Parsons, and read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of Massachusetts had been prevented...
    FSLN 11.242 13 I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political arena...
    JBB 11.271 27 ...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts trailed in the dust...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.
    Milt1 12.272 12 The events which produced [Milton's tracts on divorce and freedom of the press]...are mere occasions for this philanthropist to blow his trumpet for human rights.
    WSL 12.338 7 Add to this proud blindness [of John Bull] the better quality of...the love of fair play, on all occasions...
    EurB 12.371 16 Jonson is rude, and only on rare occasions gay.

occasions, v. (3)

    YA 1.389 7 It is not often the worst trait that occasions the loudest outcry.
    Nat2 3.194 24 The uneasiness which the thought of our helplessness in the chain of causes occasions us, results from looking too much at one condition of nature, namely, Motion.
    Comc 8.164 13 ...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its stead. To the sympathies this...occasions grief.

Occhino [Ochino], Bernardin (1)

    PC 8.216 26 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era, namely, Savonarola, Vittoria Colonna, Contarini, Pole, Occhino;...

occiput, n. (1)

    Exp 3.53 7 ...[physicians] esteem each man the victim of another, who...by such cheap signboards as the color of his beard or the slope of his occiput, reads the inventory of his fortunes and character.

occult, adj. (12)

    Nat 1.10 22 The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable.
    Nat 1.67 23 ...we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
    Hist 2.15 21 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 occult and out of the reach of the understanding.
    Comp 2.107 22 The poets related that stone walls and iron swords and leathern thongs had an occult sympathy with the wrongs of their owners;...
    Chr1 3.94 9 When the high cannot bring up the low to itself, it benumbs it, as man charms down the resistance of the lower animals. Men exert on each other a similar occult power.
    NR 3.238 5 ...our economical mother...gathering up into some man every property in the universe, establishes thousand-fold occult mutual attractions among her offspring...
    ShP 4.209 5 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...on the characters of men, and the influences, occult and open, which affect their fortunes;...
    Dem1 10.12 14 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.
    Dem1 10.23 2 Lord Bacon uncovers the magic when he says, Manifest virtues procure reputation; occult ones, fortune.
    Dem1 10.24 15 ...suppose a diligent collection and study of these occult facts were made, they are merely physiological, semi-medical...
    Schr 10.262 25 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...detectors and delineators of occult symmetries and unpublished beauties;...
    PLT 12.22 15 If we go through...any cabinet where is some representation of all the kingdoms of Nature, we are surprised with occult sympathies;...

occupancy, n. (2)

    Con 1.323 22 Is there not something shameful that I should owe my peaceful occupancy of my house and field, not to the knowledge of my countrymen that I am useful, but to their respect for sundry other reputable persons, I know not whom, whose joint virtue still keeps the law in good odor?
    ET5 5.92 20 [The English] have...justified their occupancy of the centre of habitable land, by their supreme ability and cosmopolitan spirit.

occupation, n. (8)

    MR 1.235 23 Who could regret to see...a purer taste exercising a sensible effect on young men in their choice of occupation...
    Comp 2.101 12 Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is a compend of the world...
    Comp 2.126 20 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly...breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living...
    SL 2.139 14 Why need you choose so painfully your...occupation...
    UGM 4.3 21 The search after the great man is...the most serious occupation of manhood.
    UGM 4.21 17 If I work in my garden and prune an apple-tree, I am well enough entertained, and could continue indefinitely in the like occupation.
    Ctr 6.148 3 ...a man who looks...at London, says, If I should be driven from my own home, here at least my thoughts can be consoled by the most prodigal amusement and occupation which the human race in ages could contrive and accumulate.
    Prch 10.224 2 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent...from occupation with details to knowledge of the design;...

occupations, n. (6)

    LT 1.273 5 Milton...describes a relation between religion and the daily occupations...
    YA 1.369 12 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life...
    SR 2.75 21 ...our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen...
    ET8 5.143 3 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence, and however this inclination may have been disturbed by the bribes with which their vast colonial power has warped men out of orbit, the inclination endures, and forms and reforms the laws, letters, manners and occupations.
    Pow 6.71 19 ...the compression and tension of these stern conditions [of war] is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.
    EzRy 10.390 24 ...[Ezra Ripley] had no studies, no occupations, which company could interrupt.

occupied, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.13 14 I am content and occupied with such miracles as I know...

occupied, v. (20)

    MN 1.206 21 The sleepy nations are occupied with their political routine.
    LT 1.269 2 The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who...occupy the ground which Calvinism occupied in the last age...
    SwM 4.120 13 The correspondence between thoughts and things henceforward occupied [Swedenborg].
    SwM 4.137 20 ...he does not know what evil is, or what good is, who thinks any ground remains to be occupied, after saying that evil is to be shunned as evil.
    MoS 4.172 4 The ground occupied by the skeptic is the vestibule of the temple.
    NMW 4.242 3 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied...by a small class of legitimates...
    GoW 4.281 2 ...in all these countries [England, America and France], men of talent write from talent. It is enough if the understanding is occupied...
    ET6 5.105 3 ...not that [the Englishman] is trained to neglect the eyes of his neighbors,--he is really occupied with his own affair and does not think of them.
    ET11 5.181 20 The Duke of Bedford includes or included...the land occupied by Woburn Square, Bedford Square, Russell Square.
    Farm 7.146 26 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has been spared, and every such section has been long occupied.
    Farm 7.148 24 The chemist...now affirms that this dreary space occupied by the farmer is needless;...
    Cour 7.257 24 A large majority of men...beginning early to be occupied day by day with some routine of safe industry, never come to the rough experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman self-subsistent and fearless.
    SA 8.104 2 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;...
    EzRy 10.381 12 The father [Noah Ripley] was born at Hingham [Connecticut], on the farm purchased by his ancestor, William Ripley, of England, at the first settlement of the town; which farm has been occupied by seven or eight generations.
    MMEm 10.411 20 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.
    HDC 11.78 21 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British troops, Concord contributed to the relief of the inhabitants...
    EWI 11.129 11 ...in the last few days that my attention has been occupied with this history [of emancipation in the West Indies], I have not been able to read a page of it without the most painful comparisons.
    EWI 11.138 11 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].
    SMC 11.369 18 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home. I think we were very fortunate to save it at all, for in ten minutes after he was killed the rebels occupied the ground...
    Shak1 11.449 11 Men were so astonished and occupied by [Shakespeare's] poems that they have not been able to see his face and condition...

occupies, v. (13)

    Nat 1.75 17 Whilst the abstract question occupies your intellect, nature brings it in the concrete to be solved by your hands.
    Tran 1.353 10 ...[the Transcendentalist] lies by, or occupies his hands with some plaything, until his hour comes again.
    UGM 4.11 4 We speak now only of...the way in which [the sciences] seem to fascinate and draw to them some genius who occupies himself with one thing, all his life long.
    ET14 5.248 16 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a mistake. Bacon occupies it by specific gravity or levity...
    Art2 7.55 4 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle...and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills, and so make a cup of which the object of attention occupies the hollow area.
    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.
    Aris 10.47 6 I never feel that any man occupies my place...
    SovE 10.185 3 The man down in Nature occupies himself in guarding, in feeding, in warming and multiplying his body...
    Plu 10.297 6 Plutarch occupies a unique place in literature as an encyclopaedia of Greek and Roman antiquity.
    Wom 11.414 12 ...in the East, where Woman occupies, nationally, a lower sphere...Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess, that she has among the ancient Greeks...
    Wom 11.414 15 ...in the East...in the Mohammedan faith, Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess, that she has among the ancient Greeks...
    FRep 11.515 27 At every moment some one country more than any other represents the sentiment and the future of mankind. None will doubt that America occupies this place in the opinion of nations...
    Milt1 12.252 3 ...[Milton]...occupies a more imposing place in the mind of men at this hour than ever before.

occupy, v. (16)

    LE 1.182 12 The man of genius should occupy the whole space between God or pure mind and the multitude of uneducated men.
    MN 1.212 20 ...[the stars] desire to republish themselves in a more delicate world than that they occupy.
    LT 1.269 1 The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who...occupy the ground which Calvinism occupied in the last age...
    Con 1.308 17 I cannot occupy the bleakest crag of the White Hills or the Alleghany Range, but some man or corporation steps up to me to show me that it is his.
    Fdsp 2.215 19 ...next week I shall have languid moods, when I can well afford to occupy myself with foreign objects;...
    NR 3.240 25 ...[the great genius] thinks we wish to belong to him, as he wishes to occupy us.
    MoS 4.155 1 The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely.
    MoS 4.162 5 ...some stark and sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    ET18 5.304 14 [The English] do not occupy themselves on matters of general and lasting import...
    PI 8.32 21 We are dazzled at first by new words and brilliancy of color, which occupy the fancy and deceive the judgment.
    Res 8.150 16 ...in France the theatre and the ball occupy the night.
    Supl 10.169 16 [The citizen's] dress and draperies, house and stables, occupy him.
    FSLC 11.181 25 The very convenience of property, the house and land we occupy, have lost their best value...
    FRep 11.516 17 ...the nature and habits of the American, may well occupy us...
    Mem 12.109 14 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory]...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
    MAng1 12.223 9 The love of beauty which never passes beyond outline and color was too slight an object to occupy the powers of [Michelangelo's] genius.

occupying, v. (1)

    ALin 11.334 9 [Lincoln's] occupying the chair of state was a triumph of the good sense of mankind...

occur, v. (28)

    Nat 1.5 7 In inquiries so general as our present one...no confusion of thought will occur.
    LE 1.156 4 ...when events occur of great import, I count over these representatives of opinion, whom they will affect, as if I were counting nations.
    LT 1.284 5 ...we begin to doubt...whether [Reform] be not...a paper blockade, in which each party is to display the utmost resources of his spirit and belief, and no conflict occur...
    Tran 1.352 4 ...to [Transcendentalists] it seems...not so easy to dispose of the doubts and objections that occur to themselves.
    Chr1 3.91 6 ...in our political elections, where this element [character], if it appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently understand its incomparable rate.
    Nat2 3.169 1 There are days which occur in this climate...wherein the world reaches its perfection;...
    NER 3.253 26 No doubt there was plentiful vaporing, and cases of backsliding might occur.
    NER 3.285 14 It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that it is just as wonderful that he should see with them;...
    SwM 4.116 2 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat...of the astonishing things which occur... throughout nature...
    GoW 4.276 11 Take the most remarkable example that could occur of [Goethe's] tendency to verify every term in popular use.
    DL 7.107 7 The events that occur [in the home] are more near and affecting to us than those which are sought in senates and academies.
    Clbs 7.242 9 ...does it never occur that we perhaps live with people too superior to be seen...
    Suc 7.292 14 The gravest and learnedest courts in this country...will wait months and years for a case to occur that can be tortured into a precedent...
    OA 7.324 1 When the pleuro-pneumonia of the cows raged, the butchers said that...there never was a time when this disease did not occur among cattle.
    PI 8.36 4 The writer in the parlor has more presence of mind, more wit and fancy, more play of thought, on the incidents that occur at table or about the house, than in the politics of Germany or Rome.
    Elo2 8.112 26 There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected,--that he can paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a company, as if they saw it done before their eyes.
    Elo2 8.124 9 ...in your struggles with the world, should a crisis ever occur when even friendship may deem it prudent to desert you...seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
    Comc 8.159 14 We have a primary association between perfectness and this [human] form. But the facts that occur when actual men enter do not make good this anticipation;...
    Prch 10.219 10 It is certain that...many...periods of inactivity,-solstices when we...stand still,-will occur.
    LLNE 10.366 26 The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on washing-day; so it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out clothes; which they punctually did. And it would sometimes occur that when they danced in the evening, clothespins dropped plentifully from their pockets.
    LS 11.8 13 ...though the words, Do this in remembrance of me, do not occur in Matthew, Mark or John...yet many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.
    LS 11.15 3 ...[St. Paul's] mind had not escaped the prevalent error of the primitive Church, the belief, namely, that the second coming of Christ would shortly occur...
    War 11.169 21 ...as far as [the charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme cases, I will say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just man;...
    EPro 11.315 3 In so many arid forms which states encrust themselves with, once in a century...a poetic act and record occur.
    ChiE 11.471 18 ...the wars and revolutions that occur in [China's] annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history...
    ACri 12.289 1 'T is odd what revolutions occur [in language].

occurred, v. (22)

    OS 2.293 25 Has it not occurred to you that you have no right to go, unless you are equally willing to be prevented from going?
    Exp 3.74 23 Why should I fret myself because a circumstance has occurred which hinders my presence where I was expected?
    Chr1 3.107 10 I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?...
    SwM 4.98 11 In modern times no such remarkable example of this introverted mind has occurred as in Emanuel Swedenborg...
    ET7 5.116 13 When any breach of promise occurred [in English government], in the old days of prerogative, it was resented by the people as an intolerable grievance.
    ET12 5.200 19 ...out of twelve hundred young men [at Oxford]...a duel has never occurred.
    Civ 7.28 8 Only one doubt occurred, one staggering objection,-- [Electricity] had no carpet-bag...
    Clbs 7.242 22 There was a time when in France a revolution occurred in domestic architecture;...
    Elo2 8.112 26 There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected,--that he can paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a company, as if they saw it done before their eyes.
    Elo2 8.116 5 You go to a town-meeting where the people are called to some disagreeable duty, such as, for example, often occurred during the war...
    QO 8.199 6 ...[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; waking, the like suggestions occurred for and against the proposition as his own thoughts;...
    Imtl 8.328 15 [Sixty years ago] We were all taught that we were born to die; and over that, all the terrors that theology could gather from savage nations were added to increase the gloom. A great change has occurred.
    Dem1 10.6 3 This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight, that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before...
    LLNE 10.363 5 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment...with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...yet was he the chosen counsellor to whom the guardians [at Brook Farm] would repair on any hitch or difficulty that occurred...
    LLNE 10.367 9 The question which occurs to you had occurred much earlier to Fourier: How in this charming Elysium is the dirty work to be done?
    EWI 11.116 26 ...for the most part, throughout the [West Indian] islands, nothing painful occurred.
    FSLC 11.214 3 ...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and past, in either of which, if one man had felt the spirit of Coke or Mansfield or Parsons, and read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of Massachusetts had been prevented...
    JBB 11.267 6 This commanding event [John Brown's raid] which has brought us together, eclipses all others which have occurred for a long time in our history...
    SMC 11.357 10 I have a note of a conversation that occurred in our first company, the morning before the battle of Bull Run.
    CPL 11.500 6 ...events so important have occurred in the forty years since that book [Shattuck, History of Concord] was published, that it now needs a second volume.
    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.
    Let 12.395 11 Another objection [to Communities] seems to have occurred to a subtle but ardent advocate.

occurrence, n. (10)

    Nat 1.9 20 Crossing a bare common...without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.
    Prd1 2.238 1 In the occurrence of unpleasant things among neighbors, fear comes readily to heart and magnifies the consequence of the other party;...
    Int 2.335 6 [The thought] is...always a miracle, which no frequency of occurrence or incessant study can ever familiarize...
    Int 2.338 25 ...some of the conditions of intellectual construction are of rare occurrence.
    Exp 3.56 7 A deduction must be made from the opinion which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence.
    Chr1 3.99 2 The same transport which the occurrence of the best events in the best order would occasion me, I must learn to taste purer in the perception that my position is every hour meliorated, and does already command those events I desire.
    UGM 4.13 18 Talk much with any man of vigorous mind...and on each occurrence we anticipate his thought.
    SS 7.5 27 These conversations [with my friend] led me...to the discovery that [similar cases] are not of very infrequent occurrence.
    Elo1 7.83 13 Poor Tom never knew the time when the present occurrence was so trivial that he could tell what was passing in his mind without being checked for unseasonable speech;...
    LS 11.10 3 Remember the readiness which [Jesus] always showed to spiritualize every occurrence.

occurrences, n. (5)

    Art2 7.55 13 Heraldry...and the ceremonies of a coronation, are a dignified repetition of the occurrences that might befall a dragoon and his footboy.
    Elo1 7.71 5 These legends [of story-tellers] are only exaggerations of real occurrences...
    Elo1 7.75 1 These talkers [who repeat the newspapers] are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil. Add a little sarcasm and prompt allusion to passing occurrences, and you have the mischievous member of Congress.
    LS 11.5 19 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, although other occurrences of the same evening are related, this whole transaction is passed over without notice.
    EWI 11.115 10 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua.

occurring, v. (2)

    Dem1 10.22 24 There is as precise and as describable a reason for every fact occurring to [the so-called lucky man], as for any occurring to any man.

occurs, v. (16)

    Hist 2.4 26 Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
    PPh 4.46 9 The same weakness and want, on a higher plane, occurs daily in the education of ardent young men and women.
    MoS 4.149 15 [A man] drives his bargain in the street; but it occurs that he also is bought and sold.
    NMW 4.248 27 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops... feel inclined to run.
    NMW 4.249 13 You see [said Napoleon] that two armies are two bodies which meet and endeavor to frighten each other; a moment of panic occurs, and that moment must be turned to advantage.
    GoW 4.270 4 Among these [men of literary genius of our age] no more instructive name occurs than that of Goethe...
    ET10 5.168 26 It is rare to find a merchant who knows why a crisis occurs in trade...
    DL 7.123 26 To each occurs, soon after the age of puberty, some event or society...which becomes the crisis of life...
    Suc 7.304 1 In [the lover's] surprise at the sudden and entire understanding that is between him and the beloved person, it occurs to him that they might somehow meet independently of time and place.
    Insp 8.273 10 ...[most men] say to-day what occurs to them, and something else to-morrow.
    Aris 10.53 4 The first example [of Genius] that occurs is an extraordinary gift of eloquence.
    LLNE 10.367 9 The question which occurs to you had occurred much earlier to Fourier: How in this charming Elysium is the dirty work to be done?
    Thor 10.466 18 Every fact which occurs in the bed [of the Concord River], on the banks or in the air over it;...[was] all known to [Thoreau]...
    LS 11.5 12 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples, but no expression occurs intimating that this feast was hereafter to be commemorated.
    HDC 11.47 26 Not a complaint occurs in all the volumes of our Records [of Concord], of any inhabitant being hindered from speaking...
    Mem 12.97 7 It sometimes occurs that Memory has a personality of its own...

ocean, adj. (4)

    WD 7.158 7 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs...
    WD 7.161 5 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph...
    Edc1 10.130 27 ...what is the charm which every ore...every new fact touching winds, clouds, ocean currents...possess for Humboldt?
    MMEm 10.397 26 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./

Ocean, Atlantic, adj. (10)

    MN 1.205 8 Who would value any number of miled of Atlantic brine bounded by lines of
    YA 1.369 24 We in the Atlantic states, by position, have been commercial...
    Pol1 3.197 18 When the Muses nine/ With the Virtues meet,/ Find to their design/ An Atlantic seat,/ By green orchard boughs/ Fended from the heat,/ Where the statesman ploughs/ Furrows for the wheat;/ .../ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
    ET2 5.32 19 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people [the English]...
    ET6 5.114 2 The English dinner is precisely the model on which our own are constructed in the Atlantic cities.
    ET14 5.250 19 There is in the action of [James Wildinson's] mind a long Atlantic roll not known except in deepest waters...
    Wth 6.91 6 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished;...
    Res 8.142 27 We are working the new Atlantic telegraph.
    AgMs 12.359 2 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil...and here he stands, with Atlantic strength and cheer, invincible still.
    Let 12.398 21 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...

Ocean, Atlantic, n. (13)

    AmS 1.106 2 The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.
    YA 1.370 1 ...now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind...
    SR 2.69 9 Vast spaces of nature, the Atlantic Ocean...are of no account.
    Art1 2.368 25 When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England...is a step of man into harmony with nature.
    F 6.16 25 [The Germans and Irish] are ferried over the Atlantic and carted over America...
    Wth 6.95 15 The world is his who has money to go over it. He arrives at the seashore and a sumptuous ship has floored and carpeted for him the stormy Atlantic...
    Elo1 7.77 1 ...how is it on the Atlantic, in a storm,--do you understand how to infuse your reason into men disabled by terror, and to bring yourself off safe then?...
    Supl 10.172 5 ...the gallant skipper...complained to his owners that he had pumped the Atlantic Ocean three times through his ship on the passage...
    Thor 10.479 23 To [Thoreau] there was no such thing as size. The pond was a small ocean; the Atlantic, a large Walden Pond.
    CL 12.153 3 The history of the world,-what is it but the doings about the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic?
    CL 12.153 22 On the seashore the play of the Atlantic with the coast! What wealth is here!
    CW 12.171 19 ...I have a problem long waiting for an engineer,-this-to what height I must build a tower in my garden that shall show me the Atlantic Ocean from its top-the ocean twenty miles away.
    Bost 12.189 17 The [Massachusetts Bay] territory...extended...in length from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Ocean, German, n. (1)

    ET3 5.41 12 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...

ocean, n. (49)

    Nat 1.12 19 What angels invented...this ocean of air above...
    Nat 1.12 20 What angels invented...this ocean of water beneath...
    Nat 1.23 24 A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind.
    AmS 1.112 13 The drop is a small ocean.
    DSA 1.124 12 ...the ocean receives different names on the several shores which it washes.
    MN 1.205 5 The ocean is everywhere the same...
    MN 1.212 4 Is [man's work in the world] for use? nature is debased, as if one looking at the ocean can remember only the price of fish.
    MN 1.223 24 ...[these qualities] penetrate the ocean and land, space and time...
    LT 1.288 1 Here we drift, like white sail across the wild ocean...
    SR 2.71 17 Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his genius admonished to stay at home to put itself in communication with the internal ocean...
    Comp 2.91 3 Mountain tall and ocean deep/ Trembling balance duly keep./
    OS 2.285 5 By the same fire...which burns until it shall dissolve all things into the waves and surges of an ocean of light, we see and know each other...
    Exp 3.57 1 [Our friends] stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power...
    NER 3.280 11 The familiar experiment called the hydrostatic paradox, in which a capillary column of water balances the ocean, is a symbol of the relation of one man to the whole family of men.
    PPh 4.62 9 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored,--the ocean of love and power...
    SwM 4.129 15 You love the worth in me; then I am your husband; but it is not me, but the worth, that fixes the love; and that worth is a drop of the ocean of worth that is beyond me.
    MoS 4.183 1 George Fox saw that there was an ocean of darkness and death;...
    MoS 4.183 2 George Fox saw that there was an ocean of darkness and death; but withal an infinite ocean of light and love which flowed over that of darkness.
    ET2 5.29 26 ...'t is no wonder that the history of our race is so recent, if the roar of the ocean is silencing our traditions.
    ET4 5.52 14 Perhaps the ocean serves as a galvanic battery...
    ET4 5.52 20 The Scandinavians in [the English] race still hear in every age the murmurs of their mother, the ocean;...
    ET4 5.59 25 The wind blew off the land, the ship flew, burning in clear flame, out between the islets into the ocean, and there was the right end of King Hake.
    ET16 5.282 12 Hercules, in the legend, drew his bow at the sun, and the sun-god gave him a golden cup, with which he sailed over the ocean.
    ET18 5.308 7 ...if the ocean out of which it emerged should wash it away, [England] will be remembered as an island famous for immortal laws...
    F 6.25 3 A tube made of a film of glass can resist the shock of the ocean if filled with the same water.
    Wsp 6.211 3 Kossuth fled hither across the ocean to try if he could rouse the New World to a sympathy with European liberty.
    WD 7.165 23 ...Trade, that pride and darling of our ocean...ends in shameful defaulting, bubble and bankruptcy...
    WD 7.168 3 Czar Alexander...wished to call the Pacific my ocean;...
    Boks 7.205 12 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of civilization, like the new railroad from ocean to ocean...
    Boks 7.205 13 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of civilization, like the new railroad from ocean to ocean...
    Boks 7.219 23 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women. These are Scriptures which the missionary might well carry over prairie, desert and ocean...
    Cour 7.254 6 Men admire...the man...who can lead his telegraph through the ocean from shore to shore;...
    Suc 7.299 26 ...what is the ocean but cubic miles of water?...
    PI 8.6 21 Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against...
    PI 8.22 18 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he.
    PI 8.41 3 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere...[the poet] is permitted to dip his brush into the old paint-pot with which...the broad landscape, the ocean and the eternal sky, were painted.
    PI 8.57 25 An intrepid magniloquence appears in all the bards, as:--The whole ocean flamed as one wound.
    Res 8.138 27 I like the sentiment of the poor woman who, coming...for the first time to the seashore, gazing at the ocean, said she was glad for once in her life to see something which there was enough of.
    PPo 8.242 10 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Afrasiyab...whose heart was bounteous as the ocean...
    PerF 10.72 3 When the continent sinks, the opposite continent, that is to say, the opposite shore of the ocean, rises.
    Chr2 10.92 10 When a man...insists to do...something absurd or whimsical, only because he will...he dams the incoming ocean with his cane.
    Thor 10.479 22 To [Thoreau] there was no such thing as size. The pond was a small ocean;...
    EWI 11.131 5 The poorest fishing-smack that...hunts whale in the Southern ocean, should be encompassed by [Massachusetts's] laws with comfort and protection...
    EdAd 11.382 12 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./
    RBur 11.441 24 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not...like Byron, in the ocean...
    ChiE 11.471 20 ...the wars and revolutions that occur in [China's] annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history...
    CL 12.152 24 The influence of the ocean on the love of liberty, I have mentioned elsewhere.
    CW 12.171 20 ...I have a problem long waiting for an engineer,-this-to what height I must build a tower in my garden that shall show me the Atlantic Ocean from its top-the ocean twenty miles away.
    Bost 12.192 21 ...the awe [of the Massachusetts colonists] was real and overpowering in the superstition with which every new object was magnified. The superstition which hung over the new ocean had not yet been scattered;...

Ocean, Pacific, adj. (1)

    ChiE 11.474 2 It is gratifying to know that the advantages of the new intercourse between the two countries [China and the United States] are daily manifest on the Pacific coast.

Ocean, Pacific, n. (4)

    Pow 6.70 26 The luxury...of electricity [is], not volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific.
    WD 7.161 2 The chain of Western railroads from Chicago to the Pacific has planted cities and civilization in less time than it costs to bring an orchard into bearing.
    WD 7.168 2 Czar Alexander...wished to call the Pacific my ocean;...
    Bost 12.189 17 The [Massachusetts Bay] territory...extended...in length from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Ocean, Southern, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.93 6 This immensely stretched trade, which makes the capes of the Southern Ocean his wharves and the Atlantic Sea his familiar port, centres in [the natural merchant's] brain only;...

Ocean Telegraph, Magnetic, (1)

    EPro 11.315 23 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the Magnetic Ocean Telegraph...

ocean-current, n. (1)

    PerF 10.74 10 If a straw be held still in the direction of the ocean-current, the sea will pour through it as through Gibraltar.

oceans, n. (9)

    YA 1.370 24 To men legislating for the area betwixt the two oceans... somewhat of the gravity of nature will infuse itself into the code.
    Exp 3.73 21 Suffice it for the joy of the universe that we have not arrived at a wall, but at interminable oceans.
    Pow 6.57 4 So a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers, of unseen oceans...
    CbW 6.256 12 The agencies by which events so grand as...the junction of the two oceans, are effected, are paltry...
    Bty 6.301 5 If a man...can join oceans by canals...'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
    Boks 7.192 21 It seems...as if some charitable soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
    PI 8.16 15 Mountains and oceans we think we understand;...
    MMEm 10.425 24 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry:-its oceans, when beating the symbols of ceaseless ages, than when covered with cargoes of war and oppression.
    FRep 11.522 5 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...looks from his coal-fields, his wheat-bearing prairie, his gold-mines, to his two oceans...

ocean-side, n. (1)

    Wth 6.95 9 [The rich] include...the ocean-side, the White Hills...in their notion of available material.

ocean-tempest, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.101 3 A pound of water in the ocean-tempest has no more gravity than in a midsummer pond.

Ochiltrees, Edie, n. (1)

    Scot 11.466 11 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...came with these into real ties of mutual help and good will. From these originals he drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts and Edie Ochiltrees...

Ochino [Occhino], Bernardin (1)

    PC 8.216 26 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era, namely, Savonarola, Vittoria Colonna, Contarini, Pole, Occhino;...

ochre, n. (1)

    Wom 11.412 2 For [woman] the seas their pearls reveal,/ Art and strange lands her pomp supply/ With purple, chrome and cochineal,/ Ochre and lapis lazuli./

ochres, n. (2)

    Pow 6.72 21 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...
    Pow 6.79 14 ...six hours a day at painting, only to give command of the odious materials, oil, ochres and brushes.

Ockley's, Simon, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.248 8 ...Simon Ockley's History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor...

o'clock. (3)

    ET1 5.10 12 From London...I went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge, requesting leave to pay my respects to him. It was near noon. Mr Coleridge sent a verbal message that he was in bed, but if I would call after one o'clock he would see me.
    ET12 5.200 13 It is a curious proof of the English use and wont...that these young men [at Oxford] are locked up every night at nine o'clock...
    SMC 11.363 24 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...wrote a daily or weekly newspaper, called it Stars and Stripes. It advertises, prayer-meeting at 7 o'clock, in cell No. 8, second floor...

o'clock, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.242 1 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari...and tells him...that he sees it is already twenty-four o'clock...

O'Connell, Daniel, n. (2)

    Aris 10.51 23 To a right aristocracy...to...Mirabeau, Jefferson, O'Connell... everything will be permitted and pardoned...
    ACri 12.286 11 He who would be powerful must have the terrible gift of familiarity...Burke, O'Connell, Patrick Henry;...

octavos, n. (1)

    SwM 4.110 24 I own with some regret that [Swedenborg's] printed works amount to about fifty stout octavos...

October, adj. (6)

    Nat2 3.169 14 These halcyons may be looked for with a little more assurance in that pure October weather which we distinguish by the name of the Indian summer.
    Suc 7.298 11 Remember what befalls a city boy who goes for the first time into the October woods.
    Insp 8.287 6 Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, the October woods!
    CL 12.156 15 If you wish to know the shortcomings of poetry and language, try to reproduce the October picture to a city company...

October, n. (12)

    Nat 1.19 18 The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it?
    ET2 5.26 10 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship Washington Irving and sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847.
    ET14 5.237 2 The country gentlemen [in England] had a posset or drink they called October;...
    OA 7.332 22 [John Adams said] I have lived now nearly a century (he was ninety in the following October);...
    SlHr 10.448 29 With beams December planets dart,/ [Samuel Hoar's] cold eye truth and conduct scanned;/ July was in his sunny heart,/ October in his liberal hand./
    HDC 11.51 18 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum;...
    HDC 11.71 24 In October [1774], the Provincial Congress met in Concord.
    HDC 11.81 20 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?
    EPro 11.319 6 October, November, December will have passed over beating hearts and plotting brains...
    CL 12.145 6 In October, the country is covered with [the apple's] ornamental harvests.
    CL 12.151 26 The world has nothing to offer more rich or entertaining than the days which October always brings us...
    MAng1 12.224 9 On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city [Florence]...

octogenarians, n. (1)

    SA 8.83 23 There is the same difference between heavy and genial manners as between the perceptions of octogenarians and those of young girls who see everything in the twinkling of an eye.

octosyllabic, adj. (1)

    PI 8.46 21 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,--of the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms,-- you can easily believe these metres to be organic...

ocular, adj. (2)

    Pt1 3.12 26 ...the all-piercing, all-feeding and ocular air of heaven that man shall never inhabit.
    Bhr 6.179 27 ...the ocular dialect needs no dictionary...

odd, adj. (17)

    Hist 2.29 27 [The advancing man] finds that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations...
    Comp 2.97 7 ...each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as...odd, even;...
    Mrs1 3.155 15 Minerva said...[men] were only ridiculous little creatures, with this odd circumstance, that they had a blur, or indeterminate aspect, seen far or seen near;...
    Nat2 3.192 17 It is an odd jealousy, but the poet finds himself not near enough to his object.
    MoS 4.162 15 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy.
    ShP 4.196 7 ...some passages [in Shakespeare's Henry VIII], as the account of the coronation, are like autographs. What is odd, the compliment to Queen Elizabeth is in the bad rhythm.
    ET6 5.106 9 It was an odd proof of this impressive [English] energy, that in my lectures I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin...
    ET8 5.135 10 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner], odd and ugly...
    F 6.3 3 By an odd coincidence, four or five noted men were each reading a discourse...on the Spirit of the Times.
    Wth 6.124 18 The odd circumstance is that Hotspur thinks it a superiority in himself, this improvidence, which ought to be rewarded with Furlong's lands.
    Ctr 6.152 1 It is odd that our people should have--not water on the brain, but a little gas there.
    Art2 7.54 26 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight, sickness, or odd appearance in the street.
    SA 8.97 10 ...there are...swainish, morose people...and though their odd wit may have some salt for you, your friends would not relish it.
    Comc 8.167 15 I chanced the other day to fall in with an odd illustration of the remark I had heard...
    EPro 11.324 17 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers Europe of the last seventy years...
    Mem 12.98 5 [The orator] has an old story, an odd circumstance, that illustrates the point he is now proving, and is better than an argument.
    ACri 12.289 1 'T is odd what revolutions occur [in language].

oddest, adj. (1)

    PPr 12.383 18 The most elaborate history of to-day will have the oddest dislocated look in the next generation.

oddities, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.408 23 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes...My oddities were never designed...

oddity, n. (2)

    SwM 4.103 17 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;-- being some curiosity or oddity...
    Thor 10.473 1 [Thoreau] grew to be revered and admired by his townsmen, who had at first known him only as an oddity.

oddly, adv. (4)

    MoS 4.163 19 ...oddly enough, the duplicate copy of Florio...turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.
    Boks 7.216 21 We are [in the novel] cheated into laughter or wonder by feats which only oddly combine acts that we do every day.
    Comc 8.169 11 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance; as if a man should neglect himself and treat his shadow on the wall with marks of infinite respect. It affects us oddly...
    FSLN 11.238 12 The plea in the mouth of a slave-holder that the negro is an inferior race sounds very oddly in my ear.

odds, n. (8)

    AmS 1.102 20 The odds are that the whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy.
    NR 3.241 22 If you criticise a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning...
    MoS 4.172 13 The superior mind will find itself equally at odds with the evils of society and with the projects that are offered to relieve them.
    Ctr 6.153 23 'T is heavy odds/ Against the gods,/ When they will match with myrmidons./
    Bty 6.283 19 A deep man believes...that love...can overcome all odds.
    Elo1 7.76 23 We believe that there may be a man who is a match for events...one of inexhaustible personal resources, who can give you any odds and beat you.
    Cour 7.260 24 ...the only title I can have to your help is when I have manfully put forth all the means I possess to keep me, and being overborne by odds, the by-standers have a natural wish to interfere and see fair play.
    PI 8.47 13 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought, believing...that for every thought its proper melody or rhyme exists, though the odds are immense against our finding it...

Ode, Commemoration [James (2)

    ALin 11.328 28 Here [in Lincoln] was a type of the true elder race,/ And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face./ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
    HCom 11.340 25 Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.

Ode, Concord [James Russel (1)

    SMC 11.348 25 ...manhood is the one immortal thing/ Beneath Time's changeful sky,/ And, where it lightened once, from age to age,/ Men come to learn, in grateful pilgrimage,/ That length of days is knowing when to die./ Lowell, Concord Ode.

ode, n. (14)

    Hist 2.15 11 ...to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar, a marble centaur, the peristyle of the Parthenon, and the last actions of Phocion?
    Fdsp 2.195 1 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts. These are...hymn, ode and epic, poetry still flowing...
    Hsm1 2.247 25 ...Wordsworth's Laodamia, and the ode of Dion, and some sonnets, have a certain noble music;...
    Cir 2.312 24 ...some Petrarch or Ariosto...writes me an ode or a brisk romance...
    Pt1 3.25 24 ...a tempest is a rough ode...
    Pt1 3.33 20 ...we love the poet, the inventor, who in any form, whether in an ode or in an action...has yielded us a new thought.
    PI 8.10 2 Every correspondence we observe in mind and matter suggests a substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities. We see the law gleaming through, like the sense of a half-translated ode of Hafiz.
    PI 8.49 17 A right ode...will by any sprightliness be at once lifted out of conventionality...
    PI 8.66 2 He is the true Orpheus who writes his ode, not with syllables, but men.
    PPo 8.252 4 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza.
    PPo 8.256 1 Here is an ode [by Hafiz] which is said to be a favorite with all educated Persians...
    MoL 10.253 25 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise...
    MoL 10.254 8 ...now not only all the statues of bronze in the temples of Aegina are destroyed, but...the very walls of the city are utterly gone; whilst the ode of Pindar, in praise of Pytheas, remains entire.
    PLT 12.14 14 There is something surgical in metaphysics as we treat it. Were not an ode a better form?

Ode, n. (1)

    II 12.73 27 Here is a famous Ode, which is the first performance of the British mind and lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that?

Ode on...Immortality [Willi (1)

    Imtl 8.346 6 ...Wordsworth's Ode is the best modern essay on the subject [of immortality].

Ode on...Immortality [Wm. (2)

    ET17 5.298 7 The Ode on Immortality is the high-water mark which the intellect has reached in this age.
    Boks 7.218 4 ...in our time the Ode of Wordsworth, and the poems and the prose of Goethe, have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...

Ode to Evening [William Co (1)

    PI 8.56 1 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in... Collins's Ode to Evening...

odes, n. (5)

    AmS 1.81 5 We do not meet...for the recitation of histories, tragedies, and odes...
    Art2 7.53 17 The Iliad of Homer...the odes of Pindar...were made...in grave earnest...
    PI 8.54 6 Poetry will never be a simple means, as when...laureate odes on state occasions are written.
    PPo 8.243 4 These legends [of Persian kings], with...lilies, roses, tulips and jasmines,-make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    PPo 8.243 14 ...the connection between the stanzas of [the Persians'] longer odes is much like that between the refrain of our old English ballads...

Odin, n. (9)

    ET4 5.62 22 The mildness of the following ages has not quite effaced these traits of Odin;...
    WD 7.175 27 In the Norse legend of our ancestors, Odin dwells in a fisher' s hut...
    Clbs 7.237 15 Odin comes to the threshold of the Jotun Wafthrudnir in disguise...
    Clbs 7.237 26 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin] the name of the god of the sun... etc.; all which the disguised Odin answers satisfactorily.
    Clbs 7.238 3 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile?
    Clbs 7.238 9 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words.
    PI 8.59 19 The Norsemen have no less faith in poetry and its power, when they describe it thus:--Odin spoke everything in rhyme.
    PI 8.59 23 Odin taught these arts in runes or songs...
    Aris 10.51 21 To a right aristocracy, to Hercules, to Theseus, Odin, the Cid, Napoleon;...everything will be permitted and pardoned...

Odin, of Sweden, n. (1)

    ET4 5.59 15 Odin died in his bed, in Sweden;...

Odin's, n. (1)

    ET5 5.92 17 [The English] have approved...their descent from Odin's smiths, by their hereditary skill in working in iron;...

odious, adj. (25)

    MR 1.246 26 ...the more odious [infirm people] grow, the sharper is the tone of their complaining and craving.
    SL 2.136 2 We must needs intermeddle and have things in our own way, until the sacrifices and virtues of society are odious.
    Art1 2.360 16 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    Exp 3.55 14 Dedication to one thought is quickly odious.
    Exp 3.61 2 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances, however humble or odious, as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us.
    ET13 5.229 6 What is so odious as the polite bows to God, in our books and newspapers?
    F 6.19 25 No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts.
    F 6.34 23 Very odious...are the lessons of Fate.
    Pow 6.79 14 ...six hours a day at painting, only to give command of the odious materials...
    Wth 6.103 24 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote, or adheres to some odious right, he makes so much more equity in Massachusetts;...
    Ctr 6.138 8 'T is incident to scholars that each of them fancies he is pointedly odious in his community.
    Ctr 6.154 3 What is odious but noise...
    DL 7.115 9 If [man]...is mean-spirited and odious, it is because there is so much of his nature which is unlawfully withholden from him.
    OA 7.320 20 Life is well enough, but we shall all be glad to get out of it, and they will all be glad to have us. This is odious on the face of it.
    Res 8.138 12 A Schopenhauer...teaching pessimism...all the talent in the world cannot save him from being odious.
    Insp 8.292 2 When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you...
    Aris 10.43 17 The petty arts which we blame in the half-great seem as odious to them also;...
    LLNE 10.337 15 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred secret to a street show. The attempt was coarse and odious to scientific men...
    EWI 11.106 27 Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law, long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its introduction are lost; and in a case so odious as the condition of slaves, must be taken strictly...
    FSLC 11.179 12 I wake in the morning with a painful sensation...which, when traced home, is the odious remembrance of that ignominy which has fallen on Massachusetts...
    FSLN 11.217 2 I do not often speak to public questions;-they are odious and hurtful...
    RBur 11.442 21 It seemed odious to Luther that the devil should have all the best tunes;...
    FRep 11.520 5 Our politics are full of adventurers, who...think they can afford to join the devil's party. 'T is odious, these offenders in high life.
    Bost 12.206 20 ...here [in Boston] was...a living mind...always afflicting the conservative class with some odious novelty or other;...
    ACri 12.291 27 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious.

odium, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.162 26 Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium...

Odoacer, n. (4)

    Suc 7.304 26 To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric.
    Suc 7.304 27 To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric. Sylvina can't remember, but suggests that Odoacer was defeated;...
    Suc 7.305 3 ...'t is plain to the visitor that 't is of no importance at all about Odoacer and 't is a great deal of importance about Sylvina...
    Suc 7.305 7 ...if [Sylvina] says [Odoacer] was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated than give her a moment's annoy. Odoacer, if there was a particle of the gentleman in him, would have said, Let me be defeated a thousand times.

odor, n. (4)

    MN 1.200 13 Like an odor of incense...[the dance of the hours] is inexact and boundless.
    Con 1.323 27 Is there not something shameful that I should owe my peaceful occupancy of my house and field, not to the knowledge of my countrymen that I am useful, but to their respect for sundry other reputable persons, I know not whom, whose joint virtue still keeps the law in good odor?
    ET2 5.29 1 The confinement, cold, motion, noise and odor [at sea] are not to be dispensed with.
    Bost 12.192 4 In the journey of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and his company through the forest from Boston to Concord they fainted from the powerful odor of the stweefern in the sun;...

odoriferous, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.194 14 Who shall restore to us the odoriferous Sabbaths which made the earth and the humble roof a sanctity?

odorous, adj. (3)

    MN 1.217 9 ...[Love] is that in which the individual...inhales an odorous and celestial air...
    Nat2 3.172 17 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the musical, steaming, odorous south wind...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    PPo 8.255 15 Round and round this heap of ashes/ Now flies the bird [the phoenix] amain,/ But in that odorous niche of heaven/ Nestles the bird again./

odors, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.25 12 The sea...and every flower-bed, pre-exist or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which sail like odors in the air...
    PerF 10.75 22 [Labor] is...in every spectacle, in odors, in flavors...

Odyssey [Homer], n. (3)

    NR 3.232 25 I looked into Pope's Odyssey yesterday: it is as correct and elegant after our canon of to-day as if it were newly written.
    ET4 5.57 3 The Heimskringla...collected by Snorro Sturleson, is the Iliad and Odyssey of English history.
    Elo1 7.71 14 ...what is the Odyssey but a history of the orator...

Oecumencial Councils, n. (1)

    MoL 10.245 22 A French prophet of our age, Fourier, predicted that one day, instead of by battles and Oecumenical Councils, the rival portions of humanity would dispute each other's excellence in the manufacture of little cakes.

Oedipus, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.194 1 [Nature's] secret is untold. Many and many an Oedipus arrives; he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain.
    Trag 12.407 5 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that...makes the Oedipus and Antigone and Orestes objects of such hopeless commiseration.

Oehlenschlager, Adam Gottli (1)

    ET5 5.100 1 The Danish poet Oehlenschlager complains that who writes in Danish writes to two hundred readers.

Oenipodes, n. (1)

    F 6.18 9 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not...a new kind of men, but that Thales... Oenipodes, had anticipated them;...

Oenone [Alfred, Lord Tenny (1)

    EurB 12.372 20 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined...to be more cultivated in the next generation. Oenone was a sketch of the same kind.

o'erinforms, v. (1)

    SwM 4.97 16 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind. But what as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease. This beatitude comes...with shocks to the mind of the receiver. It o'erinforms the tenement of clay,/ and drives the man mad;...

Oersted, Hans Christian, n. (3)

    UGM 4.10 2 A magnet must be made man in some...Oersted...
    PC 8.222 2 When the correlation of the sciences was announced by Oersted and his colleagues, it was no surprise;...
    SovE 10.183 1 Since the discovery of Oersted that galvanism and electricity and magnetism are only forms of one and the same force...we have continually suggested to us a larger generalization...

o'erturned, v. (1)

    JBS 11.276 19 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./

oestrum, n. (1)

    Prch 10.236 16 It is true that which they say of our New England oestrum, which will never let us stand or sit...

offal, n. (2)

    Civ 7.19 5 A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found...a cannibal, and eater of pounded snails, worms and offal...is called Civilization.
    Wom 11.411 8 ...how should we better measure the gulf between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or comeliness?

offence, n. (26)

    MN 1.216 2 ...there is no end to which your practical faculty can aim...that if pursued for itself, will not at last become carrion and an offence to the nostril.
    Con 1.311 7 Have we not atoned for this small offence...of leaving you no right in the soil, by this splendid indemnity of ancestral and national wealth?
    Comp 2.94 12 [The preacher]...urged from reason and from Scripture a compensation to be made to both parties [the wicked and the good] in the next life. No offence appeared to be taken by the congregation at this doctrine.
    Comp 2.103 10 The specific stripes may follow late after the offence...
    Comp 2.107 17 ...in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold. This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis, who...lets no offence go unchastised.
    Comp 2.116 24 ...disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors...
    Lov1 2.182 20 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world, and is able to point it out, and this with mutual joy that they are now able, without offence, to indicate blemishes and hindrances in each other...
    Int 2.339 21 Is it any better if the student, to avoid this offence [single-mindedness]... aims to make a mechanical whole of history...by a numerical addition of all the facts that fall within his vision.
    Mrs1 3.148 4 ...although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage [of the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe], in particulars we should detect offence.
    SwM 4.140 13 ...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a capital offence in so learned a categorist.
    MoS 4.165 8 ...though a biblical plainness coupled with a most uncanonical levity may shut [Montaigne's] pages to many sensitive readers, yet the offence is superficial.
    ShP 4.191 17 The court [in Shakespeare's time] took offence easily at political allusions and attempted to suppress [dramatic entertainments].
    Pow 6.62 18 A Western lawyer of eminence said to me he wished it were a penal offence to bring an English law-book into a court in this country...
    Wsp 6.222 18 ...for each offence a several vengeance;...
    Bty 6.293 5 The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode... This fact suggests the reason of all mistakes and offence in our own modes.
    SA 8.89 24 A few times in my life it has happened to me to meet persons of so good a nature and so good breeding that every topic was...discussed without possibility of offence...
    SA 8.103 16 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company...in the temperance with which he parried all offence...
    Aris 10.35 12 ...neither...the Congress, nor the mob, nor the guillotine, nor fire, nor all together, can avail to outlaw, cut out, burn or destroy the offence of superiority in persons.
    Chr2 10.110 18 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity...without offence...
    HDC 11.66 12 Mr. [Daniel] Bliss...by his earnest sympathy with [George Whitefield], in opinion and practice, gave offence to a part of his people.
    LVB 11.88 4 Say, what is honour? 'T is the finest sense/ Of justice which the human mind can frame,/ Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim,/ And guard the way of life from all offence/...
    EWI 11.111 4 The [West Indian] boy was set to strip and flog his own mother to blood, for a small offence.
    AKan 11.262 16 Every man throughout the country [California] was armed with knife and revolver, and it was known that instant justice would be administered to each offence...
    RBur 11.442 20 ...[Burns] had that secret of genius to draw from the bottom of society the strength of its speech, and astonish the ears of the polite with these artless words...filtered of all offence through his beauty.
    MAng1 12.231 5 [Michelangelo] said he would hang the Pantheon in the air; and he redeemed his pledge by suspending that vast cupola [of St. Peter' s], without offence to grace or to stability, over the astonished beholder.
    AgMs 12.363 7 The true men of skill, the poor farmers, who, by the sweat of their face, without an inheritance and without offence to their conscience have reared a family of valuable citizens and matrons to the state...are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...

Offence, n. (1)

    SL 2.129 11 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ And, by the famous might that lurks/ In reaction and recoil,/ Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;/ Forging, through swart arms of Offence,/ The silver seat of Innocence./

offences, n. (3)

    YA 1.389 6 I might not set down our most proclaimed offences as the worst.
    ET1 5.19 21 [Wordsworth] thinks more of the education of circumstances than of tuition. 'T is not question whether there are offences of which the law takes cognizance, but whether there are offences of which the law does not take cognizance.
    ET1 5.19 23 [Wordsworth] thinks more of the education of circumstances than of tuition. 'T is not question whether there are offences of which the law takes cognizance, but whether there are offences of which the law does not take cognizance.

offend, v. (11)

    DSA 1.137 16 We shrink as soon as the prayers begin, which...smite and offend us.
    Mrs1 3.140 9 The dry light must shine in to adorn our festival, but it must be tempered and shaded, or that will also offend.
    ET14 5.241 1 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part of learning [universality] very deficient, the profounder sort of wits drawing a bucket now and then for their own use, but the spring-head unvisited. This was the dry light which did scorch and offend most men's watery natures.
    Bhr 6.171 26 In hours of business we go to him who knows...that which we want, and we do not let our taste or feeling stand in the way. But this activity over, we...wish for...those...whose manners do not offend us...
    Bhr 6.186 18 [Some men] fear to offend...
    SA 8.89 27 One of my friends said in speaking of certain associates, There is not one of them but I can offend at any moment.
    MoL 10.255 13 Our people...fear to offend...
    FSLC 11.191 5 ...if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are bound to transgress that human law or else we must offend both the natural and divine.
    ALin 11.331 17 ...[Lincoln] did not offend by superiority.
    ACri 12.291 26 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress and writers of books might repair, and learn...to gazette those Americanisms which offend us in all journals.
    EurB 12.378 12 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is...to have the courage to offend against every restraint of decorum...

offended, v. (9)

    SwM 4.137 6 [Swedenborg] is like Michael Angelo, who, in his frescoes, put the cardinal who had offended him to roast under a mountain of devils;...
    Imtl 8.349 14 Nachiketas, knowing that his father Gautama was offended with him, said, O Death! let Gautama be appeased in mind...
    Dem1 10.14 27 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. This act offended the augur and some others...
    Prch 10.220 26 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like...soldiers who rush to battle; but...when the enemy lies cold in his blood at our feet;...we would gladly recall the life that so offended us;...
    LLNE 10.344 15 What [Theodore Parker] said was mere fact, almost offended you...
    MMEm 10.407 24 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] was offended here by the phlegm of all her fellow creatures...
    MMEm 10.410 21 When...Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson]...found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look for them. The man went and returned saying that he could not find them. Go and cry, Elizabeth. The man rather declined this service, as he did not know Miss Hoar. She was highly offended...
    EWI 11.146 20 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes the men of conscience and intellect...hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...
    ACri 12.293 9 We are now offended with Standpoint, Myth, Subjective, the Good and the True and the Cause.

offender, n. (7)

    Prd1 2.238 10 ...the sturdiest offender of your peace and of the neighborhood, if you rip up his claims, is as thin and timid as any...
    ET10 5.170 12 ...being in the fault, [England] has the misfortune of greatness to be held as the chief offender.
    Wsp 6.223 5 From these low external penalties the scale ascends. Next come the resentments, the fears which injustice calls out; then the false relations in which the offender is put to other men;...
    Comc 8.166 16 ...The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy,/ Complaining loudly of the breach/ Of league held forth by Brother Patch,/ Against the articles in force/ Between both churches, his and ours,/ For which he craved the saints to render/ Into his hands, or hang the offender;/...
    Schr 10.286 1 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...which...do daily declare fresh war against all falsehood and custom, and will not let an offender go;...
    FSLC 11.200 14 ...[Nemesis's] dismal way is to pillory the offender in the moment of his triumph.
    AKan 11.259 17 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...and we free statesmen, as accomplices to the guilt, ever in the power of the grand offender.

offenders, n. (4)

    SwM 4.131 16 ...a bird does not more readily weave its nest...than this seer of the souls [Swedenborg] substructs a new hell and pit...round every new crew of offenders.
    GSt 10.504 24 I have heard...that [George Stearns] was indignant at this or that man's behavior, but never that his anger...ever stood in the way of his hearty cooperation with the offenders when they returned to the path of public duty.
    ALin 11.337 13 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which...carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses, weeding out single offenders or offending families...
    FRep 11.520 6 Our politics are full of adventurers, who...think they can afford to join the devil's party. 'T is odious, these offenders in high life.

offending, adj. (1)

    ALin 11.337 13 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which...carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses, weeding out single offenders or offending families...

offends, v. (3)

    Hist 2.14 6 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination;...
    NMW 4.254 1 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals;...intriguing to involve his faithful Junot in hopeless bankruptcy, in order to drive him to a distance from Paris, because the familiarity of his manners offends the new pride of his throne.
    Wom 11.419 12 ...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women' s rights] have been deprived of...opportunities, such as they wished,- because they feel the same rudeness and disadvantage which offends you,- that they have been stung to say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.

offensive, adj. (10)

    UGM 4.24 5 The worthless and offensive members of society...invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive...
    ET8 5.133 11 There are multitudes of rude young English...who...have made the English traveller a proverb for uncomfortable and offensive manners.
    ET11 5.173 10 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself with heraldic names...was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by a few offensive realities...
    Wth 6.111 15 ...the subject [of economy] is tender, and we may easily have too much of it, and therein resembles the hideous animalcules of which our bodies are built up,--offensive in the particular, yet compose valuable and effective masses.
    War 11.167 1 At a certain stage of his progress, the man fights, if he be of sound body and mind. At a certain higher stage, he makes no offensive demonstration...
    War 11.167 27 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]... and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle, and take that limit...which distinguishes offensive war as criminal, defensive war as just.
    FSLN 11.227 26 ...the decision of Webster [for the Fugitive Slave Law] was accompanied with everything offensive to freedom and good morals.
    SMC 11.352 2 The old [Concord] Monument...stands to signalize the first Revolution, where the people resisted offensive usurpations, offensive taxes of the British Parliament...
    SMC 11.352 3 The old [Concord] Monument...stands to signalize the first Revolution, where the people resisted...offensive taxes of the British Parliament...
    Let 12.404 6 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention the graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his energies, whilst...the religious, civil and judicial forms of the country are confessedly effete and offensive.

offensive, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.17 21 The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

offensively, adv. (2)

    Bty 6.293 11 ...many a good experiment, born of good sense and destined to succeed, fails only because it is offensively sudden.
    FSLC 11.203 4 ...as the activity and growth of slavery began to be offensively felt by [Webster's] constituents, the senator became less sensitive to these evils.

offensiveness, n. (3)

    NER 3.261 2 Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish; and that makes the offensiveness of the class.
    FSLN 11.230 4 ...where...[liberty] becomes in a degree matter of concession and protection from their stronger neighbors, the incompatibility and offensiveness of the wrong will of course be most evident to the most cultivated.
    PPr 12.389 8 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons...and yet its offensiveness to multitudes of reluctant lovers makes us often wish some concession were possible on the part of the humorist.

offer, n. (5)

    DSA 1.136 26 Where shall...I feel ennobled by the offer of my uttermost action and passion?
    LT 1.272 6 It is the interior testimony to a fairer possibility of life and manners which agitates society every day with the offer of some new amendment.
    DL 7.115 13 [Man] should be visited in this his prison...with no mean-spirited offer of condolence because you have not money...
    DL 7.115 15 [Man] should be visited in this his prison...with no...mean offer of money as the utmost benefit...
    EzRy 10.386 20 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer; but the Doctor...ejected his offer with some humor...

offer, v. (58)

    LE 1.185 5 ...I have ventured to offer you these considerations upon the scholar's place and hope...
    MR 1.227 1 I wish to offer to your consideration some thoughts on the particular and general relations of man as a reformer.
    SL 2.155 27 By a divine necessity every fact in nature is constrained to offer its testimony.
    Fdsp 2.204 21 Can another be so blessed and we so pure that we can offer him tenderness?
    Fdsp 2.204 26 ...I offer myself faintly and bluntly to those whose I effectually am...
    Prd1 2.223 7 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon...
    OS 2.285 26 ...confronted face to face, accuser and accused, men offer themselves to be judged.
    Chr1 3.90 20 When I beheld Theseus, I desired that I might see him offer battle...
    Chr1 3.94 4 Higher natures overpower lower ones by affecting them with a certain sleep. The faculties are locked up, and offer no resistance.
    Chr1 3.103 1 New actions are the only apologies and explanations of old ones which the noble can bear to offer or to receive.
    Chr1 3.111 10 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous men...
    MoS 4.162 11 ...I will...offer, as an apology for electing him as the representative of skepticism, a word or two to explain how my love began and grew for this admirable gossip [Montaigne].
    ET5 5.87 21 ...if you offer to lay hand on [the Englishman's] day's wages... he will fight to the Judgment.
    ET7 5.121 1 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge;...
    ET9 5.150 5 [The English] have no curiosity about foreigners, and answer any information you may volunteer with Oh, Oh! until the informant makes up his mind that they shall die in their ignorance, for any help he will offer.
    ET12 5.199 23 I saw several faithful, high-minded young men [at Oxford], some of them in the mood of making sacrifices for peace of mind,--a topic, of course, on which I had no counsel to offer.
    ET12 5.202 22 In Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection at London were the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo. This inestimable prize was offered to Oxford University for seven thousand pounds. The offer was accepted...
    ET17 5.296 18 ...in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare;...
    Wth 6.89 14 The same correspondence that is between thirst in the stomach and water in the spring, exists between the whole of man and the whole of nature. The elements offer their service to him.
    Wth 6.108 11 If, in Boston, the best securities offer twelve per cent. for money, they have just six per cent. of insecurity.
    Ill 6.310 10 ...the best thing which the [Mammoth] cave had to offer was an illusion.
    Ill 6.324 27 In a crowded life of many parts and performers...the same elements offer the same choices to each new comer...
    Art2 7.51 3 ...we arrive at this conclusion, which I offer as a confirmation of the whole view, that the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature...
    DL 7.115 18 You are to bring with you that spirit which is understanding, health and self-help. To offer [man] money in lieu of these is to do him the same wrong as when the bridegroom offers his betrothed virgin a sum of money to release him from his engagements.
    WD 7.155 5 To each [the days] offer gifts after his will,/ Bread, kingdoms, stars and sky that holds them all./
    Boks 7.196 22 The three practical rules [for reading]...which I have to offer, are,--1. Never read any book that is not a year old.
    Clbs 7.247 7 [Manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] have found virtue in the strangest homes; and in the rich store of their adventures are instances and examples which you have been seeking in vain for years, and which they suddenly and unwittingly offer you.
    Cour 7.272 6 Heroic women offer themselves as nurses of the brave veteran.
    PI 8.17 24 As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images.
    PI 8.63 8 How rarely [the high poets] offer us the heavenly bread!
    SA 8.99 6 See how it lies there in you; and if there is no counsel, offer none.
    Elo2 8.132 24 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech... that of political advice and persuasion...reaching...into a vast future, and so compelling the best thought and noblest administrative ability that the citizen can offer.
    PC 8.231 4 We wish...to offer liberty instead of chains...
    Imtl 8.348 12 Will you offer empires to such as cannot set a house or private affairs in order?
    Imtl 8.348 15 Here are people who cannot dispose of a day;...and will you offer them rolling ages without end?
    Aris 10.32 11 In the sketches which I have to offer [on Aristocracy] I shall not be surprised if my readers should fancy that I am giving them...a chapter on Education.
    Edc1 10.133 10 If I have renounced the search of truth...I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as a bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain.
    MoL 10.241 13 ...let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...
    MoL 10.241 17 I offer perpetual congratulation to the scholar;...
    Plu 10.313 3 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.
    Plu 10.322 14 ...as it was the desire of these old patriots to fill with their majestic spirit all Sparta or Rome...we hasten to offer them to the American people.
    MMEm 10.428 10 Constantly offer myself [Mary Moody Emerson] to continue the obscurest and loneliest thing ever heard of, with one proviso,- [God's] agency.
    Thor 10.471 8 [Thoreau] would not offer a memoir of his observations to the Natural History Society
    EWI 11.134 20 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out...that [these neglected victims] have no graceful hospitalities to offer...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    FSLC 11.179 4 Fellow Citizens: I accepted your invitation to speak to you on the great question of these days, with very little consideration of what I might have to offer...
    FSLC 11.207 23 Since it is agreed by all sane men of all parties...that slavery is mischievous, why does the South itself never offer the smallest counsel of her own?
    FSLN 11.240 1 To faint hearts the times offer no invitation...
    AsSu 11.248 7 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.
    Wom 11.408 24 Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is...the best result which life has to offer us...
    FRO2 11.485 10 ...quite against my design and my will, I shall have to request the attention of the audience to a few written remarks, instead of the more extensive statement which I had hoped to offer them.
    FRep 11.511 9 The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year, ever since Newton explained to Parliament that the way to improve navigation was to get good watches, and to offer public premiums for a better time-keeper than any then in use.
    FRep 11.539 22 Power can be generous. The very grandeur of the means which offer themselves to us should suggest grandeur in the direction of our expenditure.
    Mem 12.90 18 The sparrow, the ant, the worm, have the same memory as we. If you...offer them somewhat disagreeable to their senses, they make one or two trials, and then once for all avoid it.
    CL 12.151 25 The world has nothing to offer more rich or entertaining than the days which October always brings us...
    CW 12.176 27 This is my ideal of the powers of wealth. Find out what lake or sea Agassiz wishes to explore, and offer to carry him there...
    Bost 12.200 19 ...a gold-mine, a new country...offer swing and play to the confined powers.
    ACri 12.298 18 ...one would think...a sympathizing and much-reading America would make a new treaty or send a minister extraordinary to offer congratulations of honoring delight to England in acknowledgment of such a donation [as Carlyle's History of Frederick II];...
    MLit 12.311 13 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write. In our present attempt to enumerate some traits of the recent literature, we shall have somewhat to offer on each of these topics...

offered, v. (43)

    LE 1.166 21 I pass now to consider the task offered to the intellect of this country.
    MR 1.235 2 If the accumulated wealth of the past generation is thus tainted,-no matter how much of it is offered to us,-we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part to renounce it...
    Tran 1.341 7 ...[many intelligent and religious persons] feel the disproportion between their faculties and the work offered them...
    Int 2.327 14 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal. ... It is offered for science.
    Exp 3.54 11 Temperament is the veto or limitation-power in the constitution...absurdly offered as a bar to original equity.
    MoS 4.172 14 The superior mind will find itself equally at odds with the evils of society and with the projects that are offered to relieve them.
    ShP 4.204 24 The Shakspeare Society have...offered money for any information that will lead to proof,--and with what result?
    ET2 5.25 18 ...the proposal [to lecture in England] offered an excellent opportunity of seeing the interior of England and Scotland...
    ET12 5.202 21 In Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection at London were the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo. This inestimable prize was offered to Oxford University for seven thousand pounds.
    ET12 5.206 3 If a young American...were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical palaces [at Oxford]...he would dance for joy.
    ET18 5.301 2 During the Russian war, few of those that offered as recruits [in England] were found up to the medical standard...
    Wsp 6.209 19 When Paul Leroux offered his article Dieu to the conductor of a leading French journal, he replied, La question de Dieu manque d' actualite.
    Wsp 6.238 19 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely, the terror of its being taken away;...
    Elo1 7.95 22 ...the slight yet sufficient party organization [the resistance to slavery] offered, reinforced the city with new blood from the woods and mountains.
    WD 7.166 26 Works and days were offered us, and we took works.
    WD 7.172 13 ...the earth is the cup, the sky is the cover, of the immense bounty of Nature which is offered us for our daily aliment;...
    Elo2 8.118 1 A worthy gentleman...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
    PC 8.207 24 Land without price is offered to the settler...
    PC 8.224 21 Whilst [Nature's] power is offered to [man's] hand...not less its beauty speaks to his taste, imagination and sentiment.
    Aris 10.59 14 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant that we have no prizes offered to the ambition of virtuous young men;...
    MoL 10.250 10 [Nature says to the American] One thing you have rightly done. You have offered a patch of land in the wilderness to every son of Adam who will till it.
    EzRy 10.386 18 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer;...
    MMEm 10.417 3 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man of talents, education and good social position...
    SlHr 10.438 5 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends.
    SlHr 10.439 14 It was rather his reputation for severe method in his intellect than any special direction in his studies that caused [Samuel Hoar] to be offered the mathematical chair in Harvard University...
    SlHr 10.442 22 ...[Samuel Hoar]...refused very large sums offered him to undertake the defence of criminal persons.
    Thor 10.465 19 Visits were offered [Thoreau] from respectful parties, but he declined them.
    Thor 10.465 21 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost to the Yellowstone River...
    Thor 10.465 27 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 10.472 15 No college ever offered [Thoreau] a diploma...
    EWI 11.103 15 Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes...
    EWI 11.117 4 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...that now for ten months...no injury or violence had been offered to any white [in the West Indies]...
    ALin 11.331 15 [Lincoln] offered no shining qualities at the first encounter;...
    HCom 11.341 8 ...in these last years all opinions have been affected by the magnificent and stupendous spectacle which Divine Providence has offered us of the energies that slept in the children of this country...
    HCom 11.344 14 One mother said, when her son was offered the command of the first negro regiment, If he accepts it, I shall be as proud as if I had heard that he was shot.
    SMC 11.367 7 ...these troops [Thirty-second Regiment] saw every variety of hard service which the war offered...
    RBur 11.439 7 ...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced... that...it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].
    CL 12.140 27 The power of the air was the first explanation offered by the early philosophers of the mutual understanding that men have.
    CL 12.147 16 When Nero advertised for a new luxury, a walk in the woods should have been offered.
    Bost 12.191 14 ...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men, instead of jumping on to the first land that offered, wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...
    Milt1 12.278 24 We have offered no apology for expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John Milton;...
    ACri 12.300 23 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses.
    ACri 12.300 26 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses. When, however, he offered a sufficient present, he composed the poem...

offering, n. (3)

    QO 8.200 23 Every one of my writings [said Goethe] has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things: wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties and experience.
    EWI 11.120 24 Though joy beamed on every countenance, [emancipation day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn thankfulness to God, and the churches and chapels were everywhere filled with these happy people in humble offering of praise.
    MAng1 12.236 13 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.

offering, v. (10)

    YA 1.381 24 On one side is agricultural chemistry...offering, by means of a teaspoonful of artificial guano, to turn a sandbank into corn;...
    ET14 5.259 1 I am not surprised...to find an Englishman like Warren Hastings...deprecating the prejudices of his countrymen while offering them a translation of the Bhagvat.
    ET15 5.269 18 ...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title, late a member of Parliament, into any county jail in England...
    PI 8.51 2 St. Augustine complains to God of his friends offering him the books of the philosophers...
    PI 8.66 27 A good poem...goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men...
    SA 8.100 25 ...[there is in America the general belief that] if [the young American] have...quick eye for the opportunities which are always offering for investment, he can come to wealth...
    QO 8.199 4 ...[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;...
    MMEm 10.399 2 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life.
    JBB 11.273 2 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance, and not a protection; for it takes away [a man's] right reliance on himself...by offering him a form which is a piece of paper.
    CPL 11.496 8 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...offering a strong attraction to strangers who are seeking a country home to sit down here.

offerings, n. (1)

    GSt 10.502 23 ...[George Stearns's] interest [in Kansas] was so manifestly pure and sincere that he easily obtained eager offerings in quarters where other petitioners failed.

offers, n. (3)

    Bhr 6.180 11 Vain and forgotten are all the fine offers and offices of hospitality, if there is no holiday in the eye.
    SlHr 10.438 6 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends. He...refused the offers...
    HDC 11.48 15 In 1795, several town-meetings are called [in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for land taken in making a bridle-road; and one of them demanding large damages, many offers were made him in town-meeting, and refused;...

offers, v. (36)

    Nat 1.40 6 [Nature] offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful.
    LT 1.260 25 Meantime...arises Reform...and offers the sentiment of Love as an overmatch to this material might [of Conservatism].
    YA 1.392 5 ...after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...which offers opportunity to the human mind not known in any other region.
    Fdsp 2.201 26 He who offers himself a candidate for that covenant [of friendship] comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games where the first-born of the world are the competitors.
    Cir 2.313 11 ...steeped in the sea of beautiful forms which the field offers us, we may chance to cast a right glance back upon biography.
    Int 2.341 24 God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
    Pt1 3.13 11 Nature offers all her creatures to [the poet] as a picture-language.
    NER 3.264 8 The scheme [of the new communities] offers...to make every member rich, on the same amount of property that, in separate families, would leave every member poor.
    NER 3.274 23 Caesar, just before the battle of Pharsalia...offers to quit the army, the empire, and Cleopatra, if [the Egyptian priest] will show him those mysterious sources [of the Nile].
    PPh 4.63 2 The sciences...are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.
    PNR 4.86 10 ...the fact of knowledge and ideas reveals to [Plato] the fact of eternity; and the doctrine of reminiscence he offers as the most probable particular explication.
    SwM 4.119 12 When [Swedenborg] attempted to announce the law most sanely, he was forced to couch it in parable. Modern psychology offers no similar example of a deranged balance.
    ET9 5.147 13 ...it must be admitted, the island [England] offers a daily worship to the old Norse god Brage...
    Wth 6.89 15 The sea...offers its perilous aid and the power and empire that follow it...to [man's] craft and audacity.
    Wth 6.89 19 Beware of me, [the sea] says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands. Fire offers, on its side, an equal power.
    Ctr 6.147 3 No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages.
    Ctr 6.150 8 The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist...
    Wsp 6.230 13 Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me?
    Elo1 7.64 12 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians...when a proper opportunity offers, this same person, like a skilful jaculator, will hurl a sentence worthy of attention...
    DL 7.115 20 You are to bring with you that spirit which is understanding, health and self-help. To offer [man] money in lieu of these is to do him the same wrong as when the bridegroom offers his betrothed virgin a sum of money to release him from his engagements.
    DL 7.120 25 ...who can see unmoved...the affectionate delight with which [the eager, blushing boys] greet the return of each one after the early separations which school or business require; the foresight with which, during such absences, they hive the honey which opportunity offers, for the ear and imagination of others;...
    OA 7.327 22 ...at the end of fifty years, [a man's] soul is appeased by seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish and his possession. This makes...the satisfaction [age] slowly offers to every craving.
    PI 8.35 22 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy, and the result is that one of the partners offers a poem in a new style that hints at a new literature.
    QO 8.179 26 In a hundred years, millions of men, and...not a theory of philosophy that offers a solution of the great problems...
    Chr2 10.100 16 It happens now and then, in the ages, that a soul is born... which offers no impediment to the Divine Spirit...
    SovE 10.200 17 A fatal disservice does this Swedenborg or other who offers to do my thinking for me.
    LS 11.18 22 ...a true disciple of Jesus will receive the light he gives most thankfully; but the thanks he offers...are not compliments, commemorations...
    HDC 11.59 22 The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasions.
    FSLC 11.196 4 [the Fugitive Slave Law] offers a bribe in its own clauses for the consummation of the crime.
    ACiv 11.303 20 Here again is a new occasion which heaven offers to sense and virtue.
    ACiv 11.303 27 The one power that has legs long enough and strong enough to wade across the Potomac offers itself at this hour;...
    ACiv 11.305 22 Congress can...abolish slavery, and pay for such slaves as we ought to pay for. Then the slaves near our armies will come to us; those in the interior will know in a week what their rights are, and will, where opportunity offers, prepare to take them.
    PLT 12.28 18 Silent, passive, even sulkily, Nature offers every morning her wealth to man.
    Bost 12.184 10 [Howell] compares [Indian society] to the geologic phenomenon which the black soil of the Dhakkan offers,-the property, namely, of assimilating to itself every foreign substance introduced into its bosom.
    Bost 12.200 17 This thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers;...
    PPr 12.379 9 [Carlyle's Past and Present] grapples honestly with the facts lying before all men...and...offers his best counsel to his brothers.

off-hand, adv. (2)

    ET15 5.262 14 England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs...
    Pow 6.76 19 The good Speaker in the House is not the man who knows the theory of parliamentary tactics, but the man who decides off-hand.

off-hours, n. (1)

    CPL 11.507 26 In saying these things for books, I do not for a moment forget that they are...only used in the off-hours...

Office, General, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.353 10 Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's] design have also believed...that the method of each associate might be trusted, as well as that of his particular Committee and General Office...

office, n. (117)

    Nat 1.37 15 The same good office is performed by Property...
    Nat 1.38 12 A bell and a plough have each their use, and neither can do the office of the other.
    Nat 1.46 20 ...when [our friend] has...become an object of thought, and...is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom, - it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    AmS 1.84 11 In this view of him, as Man Thinking, the theory of [the scholar's] office is contained.
    AmS 1.93 20 Colleges...have their indispensable office, - to teach elements.
    AmS 1.100 18 The office of the scholar is to cheer...
    AmS 1.107 14 Men...very naturally seek money or power;...the spoils, so called, of office.
    DSA 1.134 26 The man enamored of this excellency [of the soul] becomes its priest or poet. The office is coeval with the world.
    DSA 1.135 1 ...observe the condition, the spiritual limitation of the office [of priest].
    DSA 1.135 14 To this holy office [of priest] you propose to devote yourselves.
    DSA 1.135 16 The office [of priest] is the first in the world.
    DSA 1.136 11 This great and perpetual office of the preacher is not discharged.
    DSA 1.144 17 It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was;...
    DSA 1.147 7 Discharge to men the priestly office, and...you shall be followed with their love...
    LE 1.186 6 It is this domineering temper of the sensual world that creates the extreme need of the priests of science; and it is the office and right of the intellect to make and not take its estimate.
    MN 1.208 10 Hereto was [a man] born...to do an office which nature could not forego...
    MN 1.211 24 There is no office or function of man but is rightly discharged by this divine method...
    MN 1.221 4 It is the office, I doubt not, of this age to annul that adulterous divorce which the superstition of many ages has effected between the intellect and holiness.
    MR 1.245 20 Economy is a high, humane office...when its aim is grand;...
    YA 1.379 19 ...the office of statute law should be to express and not to impede the mind of mankind.
    YA 1.389 27 ...to stand for the private verdict against popular clamor is the office of the noble.
    SR 2.60 22 Let us...hurl in the face of custom and trade and office, the fact which is the upshot of all history...
    SR 2.76 2 If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards...it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened...
    SR 2.77 10 That which [men] call a holy office is not so much as brave and manly.
    SL 2.161 13 The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of...our acquisition of an office, and the like...
    SL 2.163 24 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have an outside badge,--some Gentoo diet...or a high office...
    Fdsp 2.208 26 That high office [friendship] requires great and sublime parts.
    Prd1 2.222 12 ...a true prudence or law of shows...knows that its own office is subaltern;...
    Hsm1 2.261 4 There is no weakness or exposure for which we cannot find consolation in the thought--this is...part of my relation and office to my fellow-creature.
    Int 2.344 18 ...[Aeschylus] has not yet done his office when he has educated the learned of Europe for a thousand years.
    Art1 2.354 4 ...historically viewed, it has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty.
    Art1 2.356 15 The office of painting and sculpture seems to be merely initial.
    Art1 2.368 15 ...[genius] will raise to a divine use...the insurance office...
    Pt1 3.13 8 ...let us...observe how nature, by worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming...
    Pt1 3.31 17 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire, which, though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus, will yet hold its natural office and burn as bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold;...
    Exp 3.60 12 Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.
    Exp 3.74 17 [Just persons] refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office.
    Mrs1 3.124 18 The rulers of society must be...equal to their versatile office...
    Mrs1 3.133 16 There will always be in society certain persons...whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world. ... They are clear in their office, nor could they be thus formidable without their own merits.
    Mrs1 3.133 23 [Fops] pass also at their just rate; for how can they otherwise, in circles which exist as a sort of herald's office for the sifting of character.
    Gts 3.161 1 In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience. If it be a fantastic desire, it is better to leave to others the office of punishing him.
    Gts 3.162 3 It is not the office of a man to receive gifts.
    NER 3.277 25 ...we hold on to our little properties...office and money, for the bread which they have in our experience yielded us...
    UGM 4.23 6 I applaud...an officer equal to his office;...
    UGM 4.29 17 Serve the great. ... Grudge no office thou canst render.
    SwM 4.100 11 Later, [Swedenborg] resigned his office of Assessor...
    SwM 4.100 12 Later, [Swedenborg] resigned his office of Assessor: the salary attached to this office continued to be paid to him during his life.
    SwM 4.102 12 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century;...and first demonstrated the office of the lungs.
    SwM 4.119 1 ...[Swedenborg's] ecstasy connected itself with just this office of explaining the moral import of the sensible world.
    MoS 4.173 16 We must do with [doubts and negations] as the police do with old rogues, who are shown up to the public at the marshal's office.
    ShP 4.196 20 A great poet who appears in illiterate times, absorbs into his sphere all the light which is any where radiating. Every intellectual jewel... it is his fine office to bring to his people;...
    ShP 4.210 1 What office, or function, or district of man's work, has [Shakespeare] not remembered?
    NMW 4.235 20 We like to see every thing do its office after its kind...
    GoW 4.261 4 [The writer's] office is a reception of the facts into the mind, and then a selection of the eminent and characteristic experiences.
    GoW 4.264 12 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office;...
    GoW 4.279 23 ...the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] remains ever so new and unexhausted, that we must...be willing to get what good from it we can, assured that it has only begun its office...
    ET12 5.212 23 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors for not admiring the young neologists who pluck the beards of Euclid and Aristotle...
    ET13 5.227 12 Brougham...said...the reverend bishops...solemnly declare in the presence of God that when they are called upon to accept a living, perhaps of 4000 pounds a year, at that very instant they are moved by the Holy Ghost to accept the office and administration thereof, for no other reason whatever?
    ET14 5.256 25 ...the grave old [English] poets...heeded their designs, and less considered the finish. It was their office to lead to the divine sources...
    ET14 5.258 3 The best office of the best poets has been to show how low and uninspired was their general style...
    ET15 5.265 6 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small share in the proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office when you will;...
    ET15 5.265 13 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office...
    ET15 5.270 1 One would think the world was on its knees to The [London] Times office for its daily breakfast.
    Pow 6.63 14 Men expect from good whigs put into office by the respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with Mexico...than from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson...
    Wsp 6.213 24 ...the enginery at work to draw out these powers [of the senses and the understanding] in priority, no doubt has its office.
    Wsp 6.228 16 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots. The young nun...refused the office...
    Wsp 6.231 11 The man whose eyes are nailed, not on the nature of his act but on the wages, whether it be money, or office, or fame, is almost equally low.
    CbW 6.261 15 ...[the rich man] is a shrewd adviser in the insurance office;...
    CbW 6.269 16 When [a blockhead] comes into the office or public room, the society dissolves;...
    Elo1 7.98 19 ...I do not accept that definition of Isocrates, that the office of his art [of eloquence] is to make the great small and the small great;...
    Farm 7.138 16 The farmer's office is precise and important...
    WD 7.157 6 The human body is the magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint was taken.
    OA 7.325 1 To secure strength, [Nature] plants cruel hunger and thirst, which so easily overdo their office, and invite disease.
    Insp 8.276 8 We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute our plans...the whole armory of means are all present, but a certain heat that once used not to fail, refuses its office...
    Aris 10.29 14 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/ His office natural ay wol it hold,/ Up peril of my lif, til that it die./
    Aris 10.50 16 It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential qualifications of its representatives. They ask if a man is a Republican, a Democrat? Yes. Is he a man of talent? Yes. Is he honest and not looking for an office or any manner of bribe? He is honest.
    Chr2 10.116 6 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church. Mankind cannot long suffer this loss, and the office of this age is to put all these writings on the eternal footing of equality of origin in the instincts of the human mind.
    Chr2 10.117 25 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities...
    Edc1 10.127 9 Victory over things is the office of man.
    Edc1 10.132 12 Whilst thus the world exists for the mind;...it becomes the office of a just education to awaken [man] to the knowledge of this fact.
    MoL 10.241 17 ...let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...in regard to the career of letters...its high office in evil times.
    Schr 10.262 21 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...Professors of the Joyous Science...
    Schr 10.264 16 One is tempted to affirm the office and attributes of the scholar a little the more eagerly, because of a frequent perversity of the class itself.
    LLNE 10.328 18 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France. Oh, no...said the landlord;...what should these fellows keep the highway for, when they can rob just as effectually, and much more at their ease, in the bureaus of office?
    LS 11.24 8 ...It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart.
    LS 11.24 15 I have no hostility to this institution [the Lord's Supper]; I am only stating my want of sympathy with it. Neither should I ever have obtruded this opinion upon other people, had I not been called by my office to administer it.
    LS 11.24 23 As it is the prevailing opinion and feeling in our religious community that it is an indispensable part of the pastoral office to administer this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], I am about to resign into your hands that office which you have confided to me.
    LS 11.24 25 As it is the prevailing opinion and feeling in our religious community that it is an indispensable part of the pastoral office to administer this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], I am about to resign into your hands that office which you have confided to me.
    HDC 11.44 15 As early as 1633, the office of townsman or selectman appears [in New England]...
    HDC 11.44 24 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to...choose their own particular officers. This pointed chiefly at the office of constable...
    HDC 11.66 5 Mr. Whiting was succeeded in the pastoral office [in Concord] by Rev. Daniel Bliss...
    HDC 11.67 14 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was soon uneasy that I had used the word, lest some would put a wrong meaning thereupon. The Council...bore witness to his purity and fidelity in his office.
    LVB 11.90 24 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that [the Indians] shall taste justice and love from all to whom we have delegated the office of dealing with them.
    EWI 11.139 7 The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground.
    War 11.154 11 Considerations of this [historical] kind lead us to a true view of the nature and office of war.
    FSLC 11.182 22 ...[the crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed what stuff reputations are made of, what straws we dignify by office and title...
    FSLC 11.198 10 What shall we say of the functionary by whom the recent rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If he has rightly defined his powers, and has no authority to try the case, but only to prove the prisoner's identity, and remand him, what office is this for a reputable citizen to hold?
    FSLN 11.219 19 ...it was strange to see that office, age, fame, talent...all count for nothing.
    EdAd 11.390 12 As soon as men have tasted the enjoyment of learning, friendship and virtue, for which the State exists, the prizes of office appear polluted...
    Wom 11.408 13 The part [women] play...in the care of the young and the tuition of older children, is their organic office in the world.
    FRep 11.512 11 The marine insurance office has its mathematical counsellor to settle averages;...
    FRep 11.519 27 Our great men succumb so far to the forms of the day as to peril their integrity for the sake of adding to the weight of their personal character the authority of office...
    PLT 12.62 24 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes. And meantime he shall be able continually to keep sight of his biographical Ego,-I have a desk, I have an office...
    II 12.79 3 The whole ethics of thought...is a sort of religious office.
    CInt 12.121 1 Need enough there is of such a band of priests of intellect and knowledge; and great is the office...
    CInt 12.129 5 Is...an insurance office, bank or bakery...further from God than a sheep-pasture or a clam-bank?
    CL 12.154 11 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and builds new;-forever redistributing the solid matter of the globe; and performs an analogous office in perpetual new transplanting of the races of men over the surface...
    Bost 12.204 18 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn, yes, but...corn with thanks to the Giver of corn; and the best thanks, namely, obedience to his law; this was the office imposed on our Founders and people;...
    MAng1 12.225 11 ...[Michelangelo] was instantly followed with apologies and importunities to return [to Florence]. He did so, and resumed his office.
    Milt1 12.254 16 Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of every great man, namely, to raise the idea of Man in the minds of his contemporaries and of posterity...
    Milt1 12.268 4 [Milton] felt the heats of that love which esteems no office mean.
    Milt1 12.276 20 ...the genius and office of Milton were different [from those of Homer and Shakespeare]...
    ACri 12.300 16 To make of motes mountains, and of mountains motes, Isocrates said, was the orator's office.
    MLit 12.332 11 [Goethe]...has declined the office proffered to now and then a man in many centuries in the power of his genius, of a Redeemer of the human mind.
    WSL 12.344 18 ...there is a noble nature within [Landor] which instructs him that he is so rich that he can well spare all his trappings, and, leaving to others the painting of circumstance, aspire to the office of delineating character.
    WSL 12.346 9 [Landor] exercises with a grandeur of spirit the office of writer...
    PPr 12.388 10 ...a continuer of the great line of scholars, [Carlyle] sustains their office in the highest credit and honor.

Office, Post, n. (1)

    YA 1.385 19 ...the national Post Office is likely to go into disuse before the private telegraph and the express companies.

Office, President of the In (1)

    MoL 10.256 24 ...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge. But the President of the Bank nods to the President of the Insurance Office, and relates that at Virginia Springs this idol of the forum exhausted a trunkful of classic authors.

office-holders, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.236 8 Amidst endless annoyances from the envy and interest of the office-holders and agents in the work whom he had displaced, [Michelangelo] steadily ripened and executed his vast ideas.

officer, n. (18)

    Pol1 3.202 12 Laban, who has flocks and herds, wishes them looked after by an officer on the frontiers...
    Pol1 3.202 15 Jacob has no flocks or herds, and no fear of the Midianites, and pays no tax to the officer.
    Pol1 3.202 17 It seemed fit that Laban and Jacob should have equal rights to elect the officer who is to defend their persons...
    Pol1 3.202 19 It seemed fit...that Laban and not Jacob should elect the officer who is to guard the sheep and cattle.
    UGM 4.23 5 I applaud...an officer equal to his office;...
    ET7 5.118 21 The Duke of Wellington...advises the French General Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer.
    Ctr 6.139 23 ...Marshal Lannes said to a French officer, Know, Colonel, that none but a poltroon will boast that he never was afraid.
    Cour 7.262 1 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy...
    Comc 8.164 11 ...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its stead.
    Grts 8.314 14 Napoleon commands our respect by...the habit of seeing with his own eyes, never the surface, but to the heart of the matter, whether it was a road, a cannon, a character, an officer, or a king...
    SlHr 10.438 21 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility. The force was apparent and irresistible;...it was now time for the military officer to be sent;...
    Carl 10.493 7 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.
    SMC 11.358 22 Our first company was led by an officer who had grown up in this village from a boy.
    SMC 11.362 13 One day [George Prescott] writes, I expect to have a time this forenoon with the officer from West Point who drills us.
    SMC 11.362 24 At night [George Prescott] adds: I told that officer from West Point, this morning, that he could not swear at my company as he did yesterday;...
    SMC 11.363 4 I [George Prescott] told [the West Point officer] I had a good many young men in my company whose mothers asked me to look after them, and I should do so, and not allow them to hear such language, especially from an officer...
    SMC 11.366 13 The regiment [Fifty-ninth Massachusetts]...suffered extraordinary losses; Captain Buttrick and one other officer being the only officers in it who were neither killed, wounded nor captured.
    FRO2 11.485 22 ...as my friend, your presiding officer [of the Free Religious Association], has asked me to take at least some small part in this day's conversation, I am ready to give...the first simple foundation of my belief...

officered, v. (2)

    Prd1 2.231 20 ...society is officered by men of parts, as they are properly called...
    SA 8.101 1 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class...

officers, n. (32)

    LE 1.179 5 The English officers and men looked on with astonishment...
    MR 1.231 22 ...in the Spanish islands the venality of the officers of the government has passed into usage...
    YA 1.363 21 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, judges, and officers across such tedious distances...
    Pol1 3.202 21 ...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?
    NMW 4.234 24 In vain several officers and myself were placed on the slope of a hill to produce the effect...
    NMW 4.241 6 ...a sort of freedom and companionship grew up between [Napoleon] and [his troops], which the forms of his court never permitted between the officers and himself.
    NMW 4.244 24 The characters which [Napoleon] has drawn of several of his marshals...though they did not content the insatiable vanity of French officers, are no doubt substantially just.
    ET3 5.36 24 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause...on which every body finds himself an interested party. Officers, jurors, judges have all taken sides.
    ET10 5.154 25 When Sir S. Romilly proposed his bill forbidding parish officers to bind children apprentices at a greater distance than forty miles from their home, Peel opposed...
    ET13 5.222 7 Wellington esteems a saint only as far as he can be an army chaplain: Mr. Briscoll, by his admirable conduct and good sense, got the better of Methodism, which had appeared among the soldiers and once among the officers.
    Pow 6.66 1 Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
    Cour 7.267 16 It was told of the Prince of Conde that there not being a more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to make him civil, and to command in words of great obligation to his officers and men...
    PerF 10.80 18 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money.
    SlHr 10.437 24 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina... pending his correspondence with the governor and the legal officers, he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him to appear in public...
    GSt 10.505 25 These interests, which [George Stearns] passionately adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication with patriotic persons holding the same views,-with...officers of the government and of the army...
    HDC 11.44 14 ...each little company [in the Massachusetts Bay colonies] organized itself after the pattern of the larger town, by appointing its constable, and other petty half-military officers.
    HDC 11.44 23 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands and woods, and choose their own particular officers.
    War 11.170 13 In some of our cities they choose noted duellists as presidents and officers of anti-duelling societies.
    EPro 11.318 2 ...it is not long since the President [Lincoln] anticipated the resignation of a large number of officers in the army...
    EPro 11.319 17 The force of the act [the Emancipation Proclamation] is... that it compels the innumerable officers...of the Republic to range themselves on the line of this equity.
    SMC 11.355 17 ...we have all heard passages of generous and exceptional behavior exhibited by individuals there [in the South] to our officers and men...
    SMC 11.359 8 The army officers were welcome to their jest on [George Prescott] as too kind for a captain...
    SMC 11.362 17 [George Prescott writes] There is a fine for officers swearing in the army, and I have too many young men that are not used to such talk.
    SMC 11.365 9 ...the regimental officers believed...that the misfortunes of the day [battle of Bull Run] were not so much owing to the fault of the troops as to the insufficiency of the combinations by the general officers.
    SMC 11.365 14 ...the regimental officers believed...that the misfortunes of the day [battle of Bull Run] were not so much owing to the fault of the troops as to the insufficiency of the combinations by the general officers.
    SMC 11.366 13 The regiment [Fifty-ninth Massachusetts]...suffered extraordinary losses; Captain Buttrick and one other officer being the only officers in it who were neither killed, wounded nor captured.
    SMC 11.368 19 Colonel Prescott's regiment went in [to the battle of Gettysburg] with two hundred and ten men, nineteen officers.
    SMC 11.371 18 On the twelfth [of May], at Laurel Hill, the [Thirty-second] regiment had twenty-one killed and seventy-five wounded, including five officers.
    SMC 11.372 20 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth of June comes at last a respite for a short space, during which...the officers were able to send to the wagons and procure a change of clothes...
    CPL 11.495 4 The people of Massachusetts prize the simple political arrangement of towns, each...electing its own officers...
    Bost 12.189 14 The [Massachusetts Bay] territory-conferred on the patentees...with...the sole power of legislation, the appointment of all officers and all forms of government-extended from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude...
    Bost 12.202 16 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party...

officer's, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.438 20 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility. The force was apparent and irresistible; the legal officer's part was up;...

offices, n. (44)

    MR 1.227 7 ...some of those offices and functions for which we were mainly created are grown so rare in society that the memory of them is only kept alive in old books...
    LT 1.278 22 ...a brave and cold neglect of the offices which prudence exacts, so it be done in a deep upper piety;...is the century which makes the gem.
    YA 1.380 9 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner.
    YA 1.380 26 These [Communities] proceeded...in great part from a feeling that the true offices of the State, the State had let fall to the ground;...
    SR 2.74 21 [My own perfect circle] denies the name of duty to many offices that are called duties.
    SR 2.77 4 It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men;...
    Comp 2.94 19 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine, horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men...
    Comp 2.104 19 Men...would have offices, wealth, power, and fame.
    SL 2.142 27 We think greatness entailed or organized...in certain offices or occasions...
    Lov1 2.187 9 [Lovers] resign each other without complaint to the good offices which man and woman are severally appointed to discharge in time...
    Fdsp 2.206 7 [Friends] are to dignify to each other the daily needs and offices of man's life...
    Chr1 3.111 12 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist, after much exchange of good offices, between two virtuous men...
    Mrs1 3.145 3 Let there be grotesque sculpture about the gates and offices of temples.
    NR 3.232 4 How wise the world appears, when...the completeness of the municipal system is considered! Nothing is left out. If you go into...the insurers' and notaries' offices...it will appear as if one man had made it all.
    NR 3.232 4 How wise the world appears, when...the completeness of the municipal system is considered! Nothing is left out. If you go into...the offices of sealers of weights and measures, of inspection of provisions,--it will appear as if one man had made it all.
    NR 3.246 22 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...making the commonest offices beautiful...
    PPh 4.72 3 [Socrates]...affected low phrases, and illustrations from... grooms and farriers and unnamable offices...
    MoS 4.178 9 ...through all the offices, learned, civil and social, can detect the child.
    GoW 4.286 17 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...no details of offices or employments...
    ET5 5.90 10 The high civil and legal offices [in England] are not beds of ease...
    ET6 5.110 3 A hereditary tenure is natural to [the English]. Offices, farms, trades and traditions descend so.
    ET7 5.119 13 In comparing [the English] ships' houses and public offices with the American, it is commonly said that they spend a pound where we spend a dollar.
    ET11 5.184 16 ...[the English peers] have their share in the subordinate offices, as a school of training.
    ET12 5.209 1 [An English gentleman] should...have bodily activity and strength, unattainable by our sedentary life in public offices.
    ET17 5.292 12 My visit [to England] fell in the fortunate days when Mr. [George] Bancroft was the American Minister in London, and at his house, or through his good offices, I had easy access to excellent persons and to privileged places.
    Pow 6.66 6 The communities hitherto founded by socialists...are only possible by installing Judas as steward. The rest of the offices may be filled by good burgesses.
    Wth 6.93 27 [Columbus's] successors inherited his map, and inherited his fury to complete it. So the men of the mine, telegraph, mill, map and survey,--the monomaniacs who talk up their project in marts and offices...
    Bhr 6.180 11 Vain and forgotten are all the fine offers and offices of hospitality, if there is no holiday in the eye.
    Bhr 6.188 11 People masquerade before us in their...offices, and connections...
    Wsp 6.209 11 The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped...it is impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality;...
    DL 7.122 19 I honor that man whose ambition it is...to administer the offices of master or servant...
    DL 7.124 23 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away. The...manhood and offices they brought thither at this return seemed mere ornamental masks;...
    Clbs 7.242 26 There was a time when in France...the houses of the nobility, which, up to that time, had been constructed on feudal necessities, in a hollow square,--the ground-floor being resigned to offices and stables, and the floors above to rooms of state and to lodging-rooms,--were rebuilt with new purpose.
    Cour 7.259 16 ...the aggressive attitude of men who...will no longer be bothered with...counterfeiters in public offices...that part, the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...
    Aris 10.35 26 If a few grand natures should come to us and weave duties and offices between us and them, it would make our bread ambrosial.
    Aris 10.65 3 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit will not need to administer public offices...
    Chr2 10.107 12 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...
    Chr2 10.117 27 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities,-as in creating... offices of employment for the poor...
    LS 11.17 27 ...our opinions differ much respecting the nature and offices of Christ...
    TPar 11.287 3 A little more feeling of the poetic significance of his facts would have disqualified [Theodore Parker] for some of his severer offices to his generation.
    Wom 11.419 19 ...if a woman demand votes, offices and political equality with men...it must not be refused.
    ChiE 11.473 19 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill... requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.
    Milt1 12.256 7 [Milton] defined the object of education to be, to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
    Let 12.396 26 To live solitary and unexpressed is...painful in proportion to one's consciousness of ripeness and equality to the offices of friendship.

official, adj. (22)

    DSA 1.130 27 ...[Jesus's] name is surrounded with expressions which...are now petrified into official titles...
    YA 1.385 17 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen; and this...by the gradual contempt into which official government falls...
    NMW 4.254 3 The official paper, [Napoleon's] Moniteur, and all his bulletins, are proverbs for saying what he wished to be believed;...
    ET8 5.142 7 ...to appease diseased or inflamed talent, the [English] army and navy may be entered (the worst boys doing well in the navy); and the civil service in departments where serious official work is done;...
    ET15 5.267 8 The tone of [the London Times's] articles has often been the occasion of comment from the official organs of the continental courts...
    ET15 5.272 7 ...as with other empires, [the English press's] tone is prone to be official, and even officinal.
    Wsp 6.212 12 ...the official men can in no wise help you in any question of to-day...
    Boks 7.201 23 ...we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for...to know the tyranny of Aristophanes, requiring more genius and sometimes not less cruelty than belonged to the official commanders.
    QO 8.195 16 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in Tiraboschi...or other historian of literature.
    PC 8.218 26 Even manners are a distinction which...are not to be overborne by rank or official power...
    Grts 8.314 27 ...[Napoleon's] official advices are to me more literary and philosophical than the memoirs of the Academy.
    Schr 10.267 7 Young men, I warn you...against chattering, meddlesome, rich and official people.
    EWI 11.110 10 In 1821, according to official documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa.
    EWI 11.130 11 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port, with the stringent addition, that if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens are to be sold for slaves, to pay that expense.
    FSLN 11.224 14 Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster...caused by his personal and official authority the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill.
    FSLN 11.232 25 The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and clear...that official papers are of no use;...
    FSLN 11.237 13 ...a man cannot steal without incurring the penalties of the thief...though there be a general conspiracy among scholars and official persons to hold him up...
    JBB 11.269 22 ...if [John Brown] must suffer, he must drag official gentlemen into an immortality most undesirable...
    SMC 11.370 11 Let me add an extract from the official report of the brigade commander...
    FRO2 11.489 1 We cannot spare the vision nor the virtue of the saints; but let it be by pure sympathy, not with any personal or official claim.
    FRO2 11.489 5 If you are childish, and exhibit your saint as a worker of wonders, a thaumaturgist, I am repelled. That claim...permits official and arbitrary senses to be grafted on the teachings.
    PPr 12.385 4 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official zeal;...

official, n. (2)

    Supl 10.170 19 ...the great official spoke and beat his breast...
    TPar 11.290 20 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. In terrible earnest he...meted out to every official...his due portion.

officials, n. (5)

    Exp 3.61 2 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us.
    Elo2 8.113 24 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned in driving cattle to the hills...
    Supl 10.170 22 ...the great official...declared that he should remember this honor to the latest moment of his existence. He was answered again by officials.
    FSLC 11.196 14 The first execution of the [Fugitive Slave] law, as was inevitable, was a little hesitating; the second was easier; and the glib officials became, in a few weeks, quite practised and handy at stealing men.
    FSLC 11.196 16 But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited.

officiating, adj. (1)

    EzRy 10.387 10 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain.

officinal, adj. (1)

    ET15 5.272 8 ...as with other empires, [the English press's] tone is prone to be official, and even officinal.

officious, adj. (2)

    LE 1.165 23 The vision of genius comes by renouncing the too officious activity of the understanding...
    FSLC 11.212 7 The behavior of Boston was the reverse of what it should have been: it was supple and officious, and it put itself into the base attitude of pander to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law].

officiousness, n. (1)

    YA 1.373 27 That serene Power interposes the check upon the caprices and officiousness of our wills.

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