Offset to Omniscient

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

offset, n. (9)

    AmS 1.101 21 For all this loss and scorn [to the scholar], what offset?
    ET9 5.152 27 ...[The Americans and the English] are equally badly off in our founders; and the false pickle-dealer is an offset to the false bacon-seller.
    PI 8.69 10 In the presence of Jove, Priapus may be allowed as an offset...
    Res 8.147 23 The natural offset of terror is ridicule.
    MoL 10.245 11 ...those who would check and guide have a dreary feeling that in the change and decay of the old creeds and motives there was no offset to supply their place.
    MoL 10.257 8 All of us have shared the new enthusiasm of country and of liberty which swept like a whirlwind through all souls at the outbreak of war, and brought, by ennobling us, an offset for its calamity.
    FSLN 11.236 11 ...our education is...to know...that divine sentiments which are always soliciting us...are an offset to a Universe of suffering and crime;...
    Wom 11.423 5 If the wants, the passions, the vices, are allowed a full vote... I think it but fair that the virtues, the aspirations should be allowed a full vote, as an offset...
    PLT 12.62 25 ...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...rhetoric or offset to his grand spiritual ego, without impertinence...

offset, v. (3)

    F 6.47 24 To offset the drag of temperament and race...learn this lesson...
    Pow 6.77 13 ...in human action, against the spasm of energy we offset the continuity of drill.
    Wsp 6.209 17 ...in the momentary absence of any religious genius that could offset the immense material activity, there is a feeling that religion is gone.

offshoots, n. (2)

    ET5 5.77 20 All the admirable expedients or means hit upon in England must be looked at as growths or irresistible offshoots of the expanding mind of the race.
    Wom 11.424 15 All events of history are to be regarded as growths and offshoots of the expanding mind of the race...

offspring, n. (9)

    Pt1 3.23 18 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...a fearless, vivacious offspring...
    Nat2 3.169 5 There are days which occur in this climate...when the air, the heavenly bodies and the earth, make a harmony, as if nature would indulge her offspring;...
    NR 3.238 6 ...our economical mother...gathering up into some man every property in the universe, establishes thousand-fold occult mutual attractions among her offspring...
    Art2 7.56 24 The genuine offspring of our ruling passions we behold.
    Prch 10.226 17 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-In spite of all that Beauty may disown/ In your harsh features, Nature doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's art/...
    EWI 11.113 3 ...be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid...shall be absolutely and forever manumitted; and that the children thereafter born to any such persons, and the offspring of such children, shall, in like manner, be free, from their birth;...
    FSLN 11.239 10 [The Greeks] said of the happiness of the unjust, that at its close it begets itself an offspring...and...there sprouts forth for posterity every-ravening calamity...

oftener, adv. (9)

    OS 2.278 12 The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation.
    Pt1 3.12 16 Oftener it falls that this winged man, who will carry me into the heaven, whirls me into mists...
    GoW 4.282 10 In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some moneyed corporation...
    ET14 5.249 13 But for Coleridge, and a lurking taciturn minority uttering itself in occasional criticism, oftener in private discourse, one would say that in Germany and in America is the best mind in England rightly respected.
    Pow 6.71 25 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it dangerous and destructive,--yet it cannot be spared...
    Bty 6.286 21 The crowd in the street oftener furnishes degradations than angels or redeemers...
    Suc 7.291 17 Do your work. I have to say this often, but Nature says it oftener.
    SovE 10.192 8 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early,-sometimes in the nursery...but oftener when the mind is more mature;...
    AsSu 11.248 21 ...men's bodily strength, or skill with knives and guns, is not usually in proportion to their knowledge and mother-wit, but oftener in the inverse ratio...

oftenest, adv. (3)

    Exp 3.57 11 ...each [man] has his special talent, and the mastery of successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practised.
    ET8 5.129 10 The [English] club-houses were established to cultivate social habits, and it is rare that more than two eat together, and oftenest one eats alone.
    Chr2 10.102 24 Such [self-reliant] souls...oftenest appear solitary...

oftentimes, adv. (1)

    MR 1.251 20 ...oftentimes by way of abstinence [Caliph Omar] ate his bread without salt.

Ohio, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.522 15 [The American] is easily fed with wheat and game, with Ohio wine...

Ohio Circles, n. (1)

    Hist 2.11 7 ...all curiosity respecting...the Ohio Circles...is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then...

Ohio, n. (6)

    NMW 4.242 19 The old, iron-bound, feudal France was changed into a young Ohio or New York;...
    Res 8.142 7 ...we have found the Taurida in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
    PerF 10.87 1 ...a sensitive politician suffers his ideas of the part New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties.
    JBS 11.277 18 When [John Brown] was five years old his father emigrated to Ohio...
    SMC 11.353 24 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line into New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Ohio...
    Mem 12.105 19 Captain John Brown, of Ossawatomie, said he had in Ohio three thousand sheep on his farm, and could tell a strange sheep in his flock as soon as he saw its face.

Ohio River, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.94 13 How often has the influence of a true master realized all the tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes into all those who beheld him, a torrent of strong sad light, like an Ohio or Danube...

oil, n. (19)

    Prd1 2.225 20 I want wood or oil, or meal or salt;...
    Art1 2.358 4 Away with your nonsense of oil and easels...
    Gts 3.163 8 I say to [the donor], How can you give me this pot of oil or this flagon of wine when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to deny?
    Gts 3.163 9 I say to [the donor], How can you give me this pot of oil or this flagon of wine when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to deny?
    ShP 4.206 15 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil.
    ET2 5.29 8 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously, upset...suffocated with bilge, mephitis and stewing oil.
    ET8 5.139 5 There is an adipocere in [Englishmen's] constitution, as if they had oil also for their mental wheels...
    ET10 5.153 18 [The English] are under the Jewish law, and read with sonorous emphasis that...they shall have sons and daughters, flocks and herds, wine and oil.
    Pow 6.79 14 ...six hours a day at painting, only to give command of the odious materials, oil, ochres and brushes.
    CbW 6.256 3 California gets peopled and subdued, civilized in this immoral way, and on this fiction a real prosperity is rooted and grown. 'T is a decoy-duck; 't is tubs thrown to amuse the whale; but real ducks, and whales that yield oil, are caught.
    SS 7.14 14 ...[people in conversation] separate as oil from water...
    Civ 7.33 18 ...a purer morality...casts backward all that we held sacred into the profane, as the flame of oil throws a shadow when shined upon by the flame of the Bude-light.
    Res 8.142 4 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha (or petroleum) obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
    Res 8.142 8 ...we have found the Taurida in Pennsylvania and Ohio. If they have not the lamp of Aladdin, they have the Aladdin oil.
    Grts 8.317 19 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it;...
    Schr 10.273 22 If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil, he will fear to go by a workshop;...
    War 11.152 9 ...in the first dawnings of the religious sentiment, that blends itself with [savages'] passions, and is oil to the fire.
    HCom 11.340 1 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./
    Pray 12.356 19 Neither was [the light of the soul] so above my understanding, as oil swims above water...

oil-cask, n. (1)

    Bost 12.186 22 ...New Bedford is not nearer to the whales than New London or Portland, yet...they hug an oil-cask like a brother.

oiled, adj. (2)

    Elo1 7.73 27 ...unless this oiled tongue could, in Oriental phrase, lick the sun and moon away, it must take its place with opium and brandy.
    HDC 11.39 23 The light struggled in through windows of oiled paper, but [the settlers of Concord] read the word of God by it.

oils, n. (1)

    MN 1.206 18 ...when the genius comes...it is...the power of transferring the affair in the street into oils and colors.

Ojeda [Hojeda], Alonso de, (2)

    ET9 5.152 21 Amerigo Vespucci...who went out, in 1499, a subaltern with Hojeda...managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus...
    Suc 7.284 5 ...Ojeda could run out swiftly on a plank projected from the top of a tower...

Oken, Lorenz, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.32 18 All the value which attaches to...Oken...is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
    F 6.14 21 ...a vesicle lodged in darkness, Oken thought, became animal;...
    PI 8.7 17 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science, of which the theories of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, of Oken...are the fruits...
    LLNE 10.338 19 Schelling and Oken introduced their ideal natural philosophy...

Olaf, of Norway, n. (1)

    ET7 5.117 27 The Northman Guttorm said to King Olaf, It is royal work to fulfil royal words.

Oland, Sweden, n. (1)

    CL 12.137 9 [Linnaeus] went into Oland, and found that the farms on the shore were perpetually encroached on by the sea...

old, adj. (752)

    Nat 1.10 26 The waving of the boughs in the storm is new to me and old.
    Nat 1.30 8 When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth...old words are perverted to stand for things which are not;...
    Nat 1.43 7 Xenophanes complained in his old age, that...all things hastened back to Unity.
    Nat 1.64 9 ...the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old.
    AmS 1.82 23 The old fable covers a doctrine ever new and sublime;...
    AmS 1.84 17 ...the old oracle said, All things have two handles: beware of the wrong one.
    AmS 1.101 3 ...[the scholar]...correcting still his old records; must relinquish display and immediate fame.
    AmS 1.101 12 For the ease and pleasure of treading the old road...[the scholar] takes the cross of making his own...
    AmS 1.110 10 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not...when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?
    DSA 1.119 17 ...the never-broken silence with which the old bounty goes forward has not yielded yet one word of explanation.
    DSA 1.144 22 None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
    LE 1.159 16 The sense of spiritual independence is like the lovely varnish of the dew, whereby the old, hard, peaked earth and its old self-same productions are made new every morning,
    LE 1.159 17 The sense of spiritual independence is like the lovely varnish of the dew, whereby the old, hard, peaked earth and its old self-same productions are made new every morning...
    LE 1.173 7 Thus is justice done to each generation and individual,- wisdom teaching man...that he shall not bewail himself, as if the world was old...
    MN 1.195 12 We are forcibly reminded of the old want.
    MN 1.196 12 ...if you come month after month to see what progress our reformer has made...you still find him with new words in the old place...
    MN 1.196 13 ...if you come month after month to see what progress our reformer has made...you still find him...floating about in new parts of the same old vein or crust.
    MN 1.206 3 The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child.
    MN 1.218 17 Here about us coils forever the ancient enigma, so old and so unutterable.
    MN 1.218 19 Behold! there is the sun, and the rain, and the rocks; the old sun, the old stones.
    MN 1.220 3 What a debt is ours to that old religion...teaching privation, self-denial and sorrow!
    MR 1.227 10 ...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...
    MR 1.229 14 It will afford no security from the new ideas, that the old nations...are built on other foundations.
    MR 1.239 10 ...[the heir] is converted from the owner into a watchman or a watch-dog to this magazine of old and new chattels.
    MR 1.248 13 What is a man born for but to be...a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature...which sleeps no moment on an old past...
    MR 1.254 10 Love would put a new face on this weary old world in which we dwell as pagans and enemies too long...
    LT 1.260 20 ...all the children of men attack the colossus [Conservatism] in their youth, and all, or all but a few, bow before it when they are old.
    LT 1.261 8 The fact of aristocracy...is as commanding a feature of...the American republic as of old Rome...
    LT 1.265 3 Let us paint the agitator, and the man of the old school...
    LT 1.267 9 The change and decline of old reputations are the gracious marks of our own growth.
    LT 1.284 16 Old age begins in the nursery...
    Con 1.295 3 The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old...
    Con 1.295 9 The battle...of old usage and accommodation to new facts... reappears in all countries and times.
    Con 1.295 15 On rolls the old world meantime...
    Con 1.296 3 There is a fragment of old fable...which may deserve attention...
    Con 1.296 12 ...Uranus cried, A new work, O Saturn! the old is not good again.
    Con 1.304 13 The respect for the old names of places...is universal.
    Con 1.315 22 These are stories of...romantic sacrifices made in old or in recent times...
    Con 1.316 25 ...the thoughts of some beggarly Homer who strolled...in the infancy and barbarism of the old world;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    Con 1.326 12 It is much that this old and vituperated system of things has borne so fair a child.
    Tran 1.345 10 Talk with a seaman of the hazards to life in his profession and he will ask you, Where are the old sailors?
    Tran 1.345 13 ...we, on this sea of human thought...inquire, Where are the old idealists?...
    Tran 1.346 12 [A man] ought to be...a great influence, which should... refresh old merits continually with new ones;...
    Tran 1.351 8 We will wait. How long? Until the Universe beckons and calls us to work. But whilst you wait, you grow old and useless.
    Tran 1.352 23 ...in the space of an hour probably, I was let down from this height; I was at my old tricks, the selfish member of a selfish society.
    Tran 1.354 27 A reference to Beauty in action sounds...a little hollow and ridiculous in the ears of the old church.
    Tran 1.356 18 ...these old guardians never change their minds;...
    Tran 1.357 11 ...church and old book mumble and ritualize to an unheeding, preoccupied and advancing mind...
    YA 1.367 6 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe;...
    YA 1.387 15 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society; but it is...to guide and adorn life for the multitude...by perseverance, self-devotion, and the remembrance of the humble old friend...
    YA 1.390 24 ...the terror of old people and of vicious people is lest the Union of these states be destroyed;...
    YA 1.392 18 [Imaginative persons in this country] ask, who would live in a new country that can live in an old?...
    YA 1.395 4 This land too is as old as the Flood...
    Hist 2.15 24 [Nature] hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
    Hist 2.16 2 I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit...
    Hist 2.18 8 The trivial experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us...
    Hist 2.20 24 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder...
    Hist 2.22 3 ...in these late and civil countries of England and America these propensities [Nomadism and Agriculture] still fight out the old battle...
    Hist 2.22 18 ...stringent laws and customs tending to invigorate the national bond, were the check on the old rovers;...
    Hist 2.25 19 The costly charm of the ancient tragedy, and indeed of all the old literature, is that the persons speak simply...
    Hist 2.28 4 How easily these old worships of Moses...domesticate themselves in the mind.
    Hist 2.29 11 ...in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times, he repeats step for step the part of old reformers...
    Hist 2.30 20 Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology.
    Hist 2.32 19 As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx...
    Hist 2.36 4 In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded north, south, east, west...
    Hist 2.39 25 Hear the rats in the wall, see the lizard on the fence, the fungus under foot, the lichen on the log. ... As old as the Caucasion man,--perhaps older,--these creatures have kept their counsel beside him...
    Hist 2.40 24 Broader and deeper we must write our annals...instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride...
    SR 2.50 16 I remember an answer which...I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church.
    SR 2.60 7 We love [honor] and pay it homage because it is...of an old immaculate pedigree...
    SR 2.66 6 Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away...
    SR 2.66 15 If...a man...carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in another country, in another world, believe him not.
    SR 2.68 12 When we have new perception, we shall gladly disburden the memory of its hoarded treasures as old rubbish.
    SR 2.81 18 He who travels...to get somewhat which he does not carry... grows old even in youth among old things.
    SR 2.81 19 He who travels...to get somewhat which he does not carry... grows old even in youth among old things.
    SR 2.81 20 In Thebes, in Palmyra, [the traveller's] will and mind have become old and dilapidated as they.
    SR 2.84 18 Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.
    Comp 2.107 1 Aurora forgot to ask youth for her lover, and though Tithonus is immortal, he is old.
    Comp 2.107 12 It would seem there is always this vindictive circumstance stealing in at unawares even into the wild poesy in which the human fancy attempted...to shake itself free of the old laws...
    Comp 2.111 19 All the old abuses in society...are avenged in the same manner.
    Comp 2.125 24 We linger in the ruins of the old tent...
    SL 2.131 9 The river-bank...the old house...have a grace in the past.
    SL 2.138 11 [A man] is old, he is young...
    SL 2.145 21 ...Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne, one of the old noblesse...
    SL 2.145 23 ...Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne...saying that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection...
    SL 2.148 10 My children, said an old man to his boys scared by a figure in the dark entry, my children, you will never see anything worse than yourselves.
    Lov1 2.169 24 The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints...one must not be too old.
    Lov1 2.170 11 ...this passion of which we speak [love]...suffers no one who is its servant to grow old...
    Lov1 2.175 18 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when no place is too solitary...for him who has richer company and sweeter conversation in his new thoughts than any old friends...can give him;...
    Lov1 2.183 4 Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all ages. The doctrine is not old, nor is it new.
    Fdsp 2.192 13 ...the old coat is exchanged for the new...
    Fdsp 2.193 9 Vulgarity, ignorance, misapprehension are old acquaintances.
    Fdsp 2.194 2 I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
    Fdsp 2.197 25 Is it not that the soul puts forth friends as the tree puts forth leaves, and presently, by the germination of new buds, extrudes the old leaf?
    Fdsp 2.214 10 We go to Europe, or we pursue persons, or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will...reveal us to ourselves. Beggars all. The persons are such as we; the Europe, an old faded garment of dead persons;...
    Prd1 2.219 2 [Prudence] Theme no poet gladly sung,/ Fair to old and foul to young;/...
    Prd1 2.227 20 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box... stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel. Herein he tastes an old joy of youth and childhood...
    Prd1 2.240 10 We are too old to regard fashion, too old to expect patronage of any greater or more powerful.
    Prd1 2.240 13 These old shoes are easy to the feet.
    Hsm1 2.246 18 ...[To die] is to end/ An old, stale, weary work and to commence/ A newer and a better..../
    Hsm1 2.256 18 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were...the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations...
    OS 2.267 15 What is the ground...of this old discontent?
    OS 2.267 21 Why do men feel that the natural history of man has never been written, but he is always leaving behind what you have said of him, and it becomes old, and books of metaphysics worthless?
    OS 2.271 23 A wise old proverb says, God comes to see us without bell;...
    Cir 2.302 18 The Greek letters...are already...tumbling into the inevitable pit which the creation of new thought opens for all that is old.
    Cir 2.302 19 The new continents are built out of the ruins of an old planet;...
    Cir 2.302 21 New arts destroy the old.
    Cir 2.305 24 The new statement is always hated by the old...
    Cir 2.305 24 The new statement...to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of scepticism.
    Cir 2.310 20 To-morrow you shall find [the parties in conversation] stooping under the old pack-saddles.
    Cir 2.312 21 In my daily work I incline to repeat my old steps...
    Cir 2.313 2 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto] claps wings to the sides of all the solid old lumber of the world...
    Cir 2.319 4 ...old age seems the only disease;...
    Cir 2.319 8 ...fever, intemperance, insanity, stupidity and crime; they are all forms of old age;...
    Cir 2.319 12 Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.
    Cir 2.319 24 This old age ought not to creep on a human mind.
    Cir 2.320 19 The new position of the advancing man has all the powers of the old, yet has them all new.
    Cir 2.321 1 The difference between talents and character is adroitness to keep the old and trodden round, and power and courage to make a new road to new and better goals.
    Int 2.335 11 [The thought] is...a child of the old eternal soul...
    Int 2.341 6 ...when we receive a new thought it is only the old thought with a new face...
    Int 2.345 17 I shall not presume to interfere in the old politics of the skies;...
    Int 2.346 3 ...wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few [Greek philosophers], these great spiritual lords who have walked in the world,-- these of the old religion...
    Art1 2.361 10 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was the old, eternal fact I had met already in so many forms...
    Art1 2.361 24 What, old mole! workest thou in the earth so fast?
    Art1 2.364 1 Already History is old enough to witness the old age and disappearance of particular arts.
    Art1 2.364 2 Already History is old enough to witness the old age and disappearance of particular arts.
    Art1 2.366 2 The old tragic Necessity...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
    Art1 2.368 11 It is in vain that we look for genius to reiterate its miracles in the old arts;...
    Pt1 3.13 14 Being used as a type, a second wonderful value appears in the object, far better than its old value;...
    Pt1 3.16 24 Some stars...on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood tingle...
    Pt1 3.18 18 In the old mythology...defects are ascribed to divine natures...to signify exuberances.
    Pt1 3.20 13 The poet...gives [things] a power which makes their old use forgotten...
    Pt1 3.23 5 The new agaric of this hour has a chance which the old one had not.
    Pt1 3.30 23 What a joyful sense of freedom we have when Vitruvius announces the old opinion of artists that no architect can build any house well who does not know something of anatomy.
    Pt1 3.31 11 ...Orpheus speaks of hoariness as that white flower which marks extreme old age;...
    Pt1 3.34 15 Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false.
    Pt1 3.38 18 ...I am not wise enough for a national criticism, and must use the old largeness a little longer, to discharge my errand from the muse to the poet concerning his art.
    Pt1 3.39 12 ...[the artist] says, with the old painter, By God it is in me and must go forth of me.
    Pt1 3.42 5 ...thou [O poet] shalt not be able to rehearse the names of thy friends in thy verse, for an old shame before the holy ideal.
    Exp 3.45 8 ...the Genius which according to the old belief stands at the door by which we enter, and gives us the lethe to drink, that we may tell no tales, mixed the cup too strongly...
    Exp 3.51 11 Of what use to make heroic vows of amendment, if the same old law-breaker is to keep them?
    Exp 3.62 10 In the morning I awake and find the old world...not far off.
    Exp 3.62 11 In the morning I awake and find the old world...the dear old spiritual world...not far off.
    Exp 3.62 12 In the morning I awake and find the old world...the dear old spiritual world and even the dear old devil not far off.
    Exp 3.71 26 I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence, old with the love and homage of innumerable ages...
    Exp 3.86 1 ...in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat; up again, old heart!--it seems to say...
    Chr1 3.92 15 In the new objects we recognize the old game...
    Chr1 3.102 24 ...[the hero] is again on his road, adding...new claims on your heart, which will bankrupt you if you have loitered about the old things...
    Chr1 3.102 27 New actions are the only apologies and explanations of old ones which the noble can bear to offer or to receive.
    Chr1 3.109 1 How easily we read in old books...of the smallest action of the patriarchs.
    Mrs1 3.119 7 The husbandry of the modern inhabitants of Gournou (west of old Thebes) is philosophical to a fault.
    Mrs1 3.126 5 I use these old names [Diogenes, Socrates, Epaminondas], but the men I speak of are my contemporaries.
    Mrs1 3.127 24 Napoleon...destroyer of the old noblesse, never ceased to court the Faubourg St. Germain;...
    Mrs1 3.134 19 It was...a very natural point of old feudal etiquette that a gentleman who received a visit...should not leave his roof...
    Mrs1 3.142 1 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons; when Fox urged on his old friend the claims of old friendship with such tenderness that the house was moved to tears.
    Mrs1 3.142 2 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons; when Fox urged on his old friend the claims of old friendship with such tenderness that the house was moved to tears.
    Mrs1 3.146 8 ...there is still...some fanatic who plants...orchards when he is grown old;...
    Mrs1 3.147 11 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads,/ A power more strong in beauty, born of us/ And fated to excel us, as we pass/ In glory that old Darkness.../
    Nat2 3.171 7 We come to our own [in the woods], and make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We never can part with it; the mind loves its old home...
    Nat2 3.171 10 Ever an old friend...comes in this honest face [of nature], and takes a grave liberty with us...
    Nat2 3.177 24 ...I cannot renounce the right of returning often to this old topic [nature].
    Nat2 3.182 8 The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.
    Nat2 3.191 16 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these inconveniences...the old aims have been lost sight of...
    Nat2 3.195 15 ...the new engine brings with it the old checks.
    Pol1 3.199 14 ...the old statesman knows that society is fluid;...
    NR 3.230 7 In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men,--many old women...
    NR 3.240 13 A new poet has appeared; a new character approached us; why should we refuse to eat bread until we have found his regiment and section in our old army-files?
    NR 3.245 16 All the universe over, there is but one thing, this old Two-Face... of which any proposition may be affirmed or denied.
    NR 3.246 12 Lord Eldon said in his old age that if he were to begin life again, he would be damned but he would begin as agitator.
    NR 3.248 16 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I revered saints, but woke up glad that the old pagan world stood its ground and died hard;...
    NER 3.257 24 The old English rule was, All summer in the field, and all winter in the study.
    NER 3.263 14 ...wherever...a just and heroic soul finds itself...by the new quality of character it shall put forth it shall abrogate that old condition, law, or school in which it stands...
    UGM 4.13 5 We are as much gainers by finding a new property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.
    UGM 4.16 18 Genius...by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old.
    UGM 4.25 19 It is observed in old couples...that they grow like...
    PPh 4.57 21 According to the old sentence, If Jove should descend to the earth, he would speak in the style of Plato.
    PPh 4.71 20 ...[Socrates] was what our country-people call an old one.
    PPh 4.71 24 [Socrates]...knew the old characters...
    PPh 4.72 9 Plain old uncle as [Socrates] was...the rumor ran that on one or two occasions, in the war with Boeotia, he had shown a determination which had covered the retreat of a troop;...
    SwM 4.100 1 In 1743, when [Swedenborg] was fifty-four years old, what is called his illumination began.
    SwM 4.107 10 In the old aphorism, nature is always self-familiar.
    SwM 4.112 19 [Swedenborg] knows, if he only, the flowing of nature, and how wise was that old answer of Amasis to him who bade him drink up the sea, Yes, willingly, if you will stop the rivers that flow in.
    SwM 4.124 22 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.
    SwM 4.138 10 Evil, according to old philosophers, is good in the making.
    SwM 4.145 7 Do not rely...on prudence, on common sense, the old usage and main chance of men...
    MoS 4.164 2 Other coincidences...concurred to make this old Gascon [Montaigne] still new and immortal for me.
    MoS 4.164 4 In 1571...Montaigne, then thirty-eight years old, retired from the practice of law at Bordeaux...
    MoS 4.166 25 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say, You may play old Poz, if you will;...
    MoS 4.167 5 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...my old lean bald pate;...
    MoS 4.167 12 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I...think an undress and old shoes that do not pinch my feet...the most suitable.
    MoS 4.167 13 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I...think...old friends who do not constrain me...the most suitable.
    MoS 4.173 15 We must do with [doubts and negations] as the police do with old rogues...
    ShP 4.193 22 Shakspeare...esteemed the mass of old plays waste stock...
    ShP 4.194 26 As soon as the statue was begun for itself, and with no reference to the temple or palace, the art began to decline: freak, extravagance and exhibition took the place of the old temperance.
    ShP 4.201 26 Elated with success and piqued by the growing interest of the problem, [the antiquaries] have left...no file of old yellow accounts to decompose in damp and worms, so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
    NMW 4.242 18 The old, iron-bound, feudal France was changed into a young Ohio or New York;...
    NMW 4.252 25 The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    NMW 4.254 6 ...[Napoleon] sat, in his premature old age...coldly falsifying facts and dates and characters...
    NMW 4.256 16 ...these two parties [democrat and conservative] differ only as young and old.
    NMW 4.256 17 The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat.
    GoW 4.273 22 Amid littleness and detail, [Goethe] detected the Genius of life, the old cunning Proteus, nestling close beside us...
    GoW 4.274 22 [Goethe] treats nature as the old philosophers...did...
    GoW 4.275 27 [Goethe] hates...to be made to say over again some old wife' s fable that has had possession of men's faith these thousand years.
    GoW 4.283 25 The old Eternal Genius who built the world has confided himself more to this man [the writer] than to any other.
    GoW 4.290 8 We shall learn to draw rents and revenues from the immense patrimony of the old and the recent ages.
    ET1 5.10 13 ...[Coleridge] appeared, a short, thick old man...
    ET1 5.14 6 Going out, [Coleridge] showed me...a picture of Allston's, and told me that Montague, a picture-dealer, once came to see him, and glancing towards this, said, Well, you have got a picture! thinking it the work of an old master;...
    ET1 5.14 10 ...Montague, still talking with his back to the canvas, put up his hand and touched it, and exclaimed, By Heaven! this picture is not ten years old...
    ET1 5.14 19 [Coleridge] was old and preoccupied...
    ET1 5.17 1 Gibbon [Carlyle] called the splendid bridge from the old world to the new.
    ET1 5.23 1 This recitation [of his sonnets by Wordsworth] was so unlooked for and surprising,--he, the old Wordsworth, standing apart, and reciting to me in a garden-walk, like a school-boy declaiming,--that I at first was near to laugh;...
    ET2 5.29 24 The sea keeps its old level;...
    ET3 5.37 3 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west, the old Greek, the Oriental...
    ET3 5.40 13 The old Venetians pleased themselves with the flattery that Venice was in 45 degrees, midway between the poles and the line;...
    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...
    ET4 5.48 15 Civilization is a re-agent, and eats away the old traits.
    ET4 5.55 5 ...the Celts or Sidonides are an old family...
    ET4 5.55 24 The English come mainly from the Germans...a people about whom in the old empire the rumor ran there was never any that meddled with them that repented it not.
    ET4 5.59 17 Odin died in his bed, in Sweden; but it was a proverb of ill condition to die the death of old age.
    ET4 5.60 10 ...the old fossil world shows that the first steps of reducing the chaos were confided to saurians and other huge and horrible animals...
    ET4 5.65 20 The American [in England] has arrived at the old mansion-house...
    ET4 5.66 7 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London, and those in Worcester and in Salisbury cathedrals, which are seven hundred years old, are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...
    ET4 5.66 26 ...[the blonde race's] accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch, wherein the old mineral force shall be subjugated at last by humanity...
    ET4 5.69 6 [The English] have a vigorous health and last well into middle and old age.
    ET4 5.69 6 The old [English] men are as red as roses...
    ET5 5.87 10 ...[the English] fundamentally believe that the best strategem in naval war is to lay your ship close alongside of the enemy's ship and bring all your guns to bear on him, until you or he go to the bottom. This is the old fashion...
    ET6 5.109 22 [The English] keep their old customs, costumes, and pomps...
    ET7 5.116 6 The faces of clergy and laity in old sculptures and illuminated missals are charged with earnest belief.
    ET7 5.116 14 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.
    ET7 5.119 5 [The English] read gladly in old Fuller that a lady in the reign of Elizabeth, would have as patiently digested a lie, as the wearing of false stones...
    ET7 5.123 9 The radical mob at Oxford cried after the tory Lord Eldon, There's old Eldon; cheer him; he never ratted.
    ET7 5.124 7 The old Italian author of the Relation of England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when the war is actually raging most furiously, [the English] will seek for good eating and all their other comforts, without thinking what harm might befall them.
    ET8 5.137 11 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race; in Canada, the old French law;...
    ET8 5.137 16 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race;...at the Cape of Good Hope, of the old Netherlands;...
    ET9 5.147 14 ...it must be admitted, the island [England] offers a daily worship to the old Norse god Brage...
    ET10 5.161 17 Nations have lost their old omnipotence;...
    ET10 5.162 14 ...old energy of the Norse race arms itself with these magnificent powers [of steam];...
    ET11 5.177 27 Some of [the English aristocracy] are too old and too proud to wear titles...
    ET11 5.179 26 'T is an old sneer that the Irish peerage drew their names from playbooks.
    ET11 5.188 10 I look with respect at houses six, seven, eight hundred, or, like Warwick Castle, nine hundred years old.
    ET11 5.189 10 Against the cry of the old tenantry and the sympathetic cry of the English press, the [English nobility] have rooted out and planted anew...
    ET11 5.189 17 The grand old halls scattered up and down in England, are dumb vouchers to the state and broad hospitality of their ancient lords.
    ET11 5.191 13 Prostitutes taken from the theatres were made duchesses, their bastards dukes and earls. The young men sat uppermost, the old serious lords were out of favor.
    ET11 5.193 4 Dismal anecdotes abound...of great lords living by the showing of their houses, and of an old man wheeled in his chair from room to room, whilst his chambers are exhibited to the visitor for money;...
    ET11 5.197 3 All the [noble English] families are new, but the name is old...
    ET11 5.197 7 ...the analysis of the [English] peerage and gentry shows the rapid decay and extinction of old families...
    ET12 5.200 20 Oxford is old, even in England...
    ET12 5.206 12 ...[the young men at Oxford] pointed out to me a paralytic old man, who was assisted into the hall.
    ET12 5.210 26 The diet and rough exercise [at Oxford] secure a certain amount of old Norse power.
    ET12 5.213 16 ...the best poetry of England of this age, in the old forms, comes from two graduates at Cambridge.
    ET13 5.215 7 In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say...This was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.
    ET13 5.215 9 In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say, as to-day in front of Dundee Church tower, which is eight hundred years old, This was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.
    ET13 5.216 4 [The priest...translated the sanctities of old hagiology into English virtues on English ground.
    ET13 5.220 21 The spirit that dwelt in this [English] church has glided away to animate other activities, and they who come to the old shrines find apes and players rustling the old garments.
    ET13 5.220 22 The spirit that dwelt in this [English] church has glided away to animate other activities, and they who come to the old shrines find apes and players rustling the old garments.
    ET13 5.223 16 [The Anglican Church] keeps the old structures in repair...
    ET13 5.225 13 The chatter of French politics...and the noise of embarking emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind;...
    ET13 5.225 17 The chatter of French politics...and the noise of embarking emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind; so that when you came to read the liturgy to a modern congregation, it...suggested a masquerade of old costumes.
    ET14 5.238 10 'T is a very old strife between those who elect to see identity and those who elect to see discrepancies;...
    ET14 5.245 15 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards...all new thought must be cast into the old moulds.
    ET14 5.246 12 How can [English genius] discern and hail...new and gigantic thoughts which cannot dress themselves out of any old wardrobe of the past?
    ET14 5.247 13 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
    ET14 5.252 5 Every one of [the Englishmen] is a thousand years old and lives by his memory...
    ET14 5.253 26 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions... adding sometimes the divination of the old masters to the unbroken power of labor in the English mind.
    ET14 5.256 23 ...the grave old [English] poets...heeded their designs, and less considered the finish.
    ET14 5.258 11 It was no Oxonian, but Hafiz, who said, Let us...break up the tiresome old roof of heaven into new forms.
    ET15 5.261 18 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...and no weakness can be taken advantage of by an enemy, since the whole people are already forewarned. Thus England rids herself of those incrustations which have been the ruin of old states.
    ET15 5.263 15 I asked one of [the London Times's] old contributors whether it had once been abler than it is now? Never, he said;...
    ET15 5.265 17 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a powder-mill; but the door was opened by a mild old woman...
    ET15 5.265 26 The old press [the London Times] were then using printed five or six thousand sheets per hour;...
    ET16 5.274 11 Art and high art is a favorite target for [Carlyle's] wit. Yes, Kunst is a great delusion, and Goethe and Schiller wasted a great deal of good time on it:--and he thinks he discovers that old Goethe found this out...
    ET16 5.275 25 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.
    ET16 5.276 16 On the top of a mountain, the old temple [Stonehenge] would not be more impressive.
    ET16 5.276 22 It looked as if the wide margin given in this crowded isle to this primeval temple [Stonehenge] were accorded by the veneration of the British race to the old egg out of which all their ecclesiastical structures and history had proceeded.
    ET16 5.278 3 ...the situation [of Stonehenge is] fixed astronomically,--the grand entrances...being placed exactly northeast, as all the gates of the old cavern temples are.
    ET16 5.279 10 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked in and out and took again and again a fresh look at the uncanny stones [of Stonehenge]. The old sphinx put our petty differences of nationality out of sight.
    ET16 5.279 14 To these conscious stones [of Stonehenge] we two pilgrims [Emerson and Carlyle] were alike known and near. We could equally well revere their old British meaning.
    ET16 5.279 22 The old times of England impress Carlyle much...
    ET16 5.279 27 [Carlyle] can see, as he reads [the Acta Sanctorum], the old Saint of Iona sitting there and writing, a man to men.
    ET16 5.286 13 Carlyle was unwilling, and we did not ask to have the choir [at Salisbury Cathedral] shown us, but returned to our inn, after seeing another old church of the place.
    ET16 5.289 10 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer, which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be given to every one who should ask it at the gate. We had both, from the old couple who take care of the church.
    ET16 5.290 1 [Winchester Cathedral] is very old...
    ET16 5.290 3 [Winchester Cathedral] is very old: part of the crypt into which we went down and saw the Saxon and Norman arches of the old church on which the present stands, was built fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago.
    ET16 5.290 14 The building [Abbey, Hyde, England] was destroyed at the Reformation, and what is left of Alfred's body now lies covered by modern buildings, or buried in the ruins of the old.
    ET16 5.290 22 Slowly we [Emerson and Carlyle] left the old house [Winchester Cathedral]...
    ET17 5.291 1 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons...
    ET17 5.294 16 We [Emerson and Martineau] found Mr. Wordsworth asleep on the sofa. He was at first silent and indisposed, as an old man suddenly waked before he had ended his nap;...
    ET18 5.299 2 ...[England] is an old pile built in different ages...
    ET18 5.300 20 In [English] cities, the children are trained to beg, until they shall be old enough to rob.
    ET18 5.305 23 Will, said the old philosophy, is the measure of power...
    ET18 5.307 19 France has abolished its suffocating old regime, but is not recently marked by any more wisdom or virtue.
    ET19 5.313 8 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so... I feel in regard to this aged England...irretrievably committed as she now is to many old customs which cannot be suddenly changed;...
    ET19 5.313 18 I see [England] in her old age, not decrepit, but young and still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion.
    ET19 5.314 5 ...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen, the old race are all gone...
    F 6.22 19 [Man] betrays his relation to what is below him...and has paid for the new powers by loss of some of the old ones.
    F 6.27 12 Our thought, though it were only an hour old, affirms an oldest necessity...
    F 6.42 3 The tendency of every man to enact all that is in his constitution is expressed in the old belief that the efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it...
    F 6.46 27 ...what we wish for in youth, comes in heaps on us in old age...
    F 6.47 6 ...one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists;...
    Pow 6.55 2 Courage, the old physicians taught...is as the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries.
    Pow 6.55 18 If Eric...is at the top of his condition, and thirty years old, at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland.
    Pow 6.57 18 Import into any stationary district, as into an old Dutch population in New York or Pennsylvania...a colony of hardy Yankees...and everything begins to shine with values.
    Pow 6.59 5 ...when into any old club a new-comer is domesticated,--that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
    Wth 6.95 10 [The rich] include...the Far West and the old European homesteads of man, in their notion of available material.
    Wth 6.100 12 [The right merchant] knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound...
    Wth 6.102 24 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston. Now it will buy a great deal more in our old town...
    Wth 6.126 26 Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation;...
    Ctr 6.139 15 ...the old English poet Gascoigne says, A boy is better unborn than untaught.
    Ctr 6.146 26 California and the Pacific Coast is now the university of this class [of poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut], as Virginia was in old times.
    Ctr 6.148 23 In the country [a man] can find...cheap living and his old shoes;...
    Ctr 6.149 9 In the country, in long time, for want of good conversation, one's understanding and invention contract a moss on them, like an old paling in an orchard.
    Ctr 6.151 12 There are advantages in the old hat and box-coat.
    Ctr 6.151 18 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing/...
    Ctr 6.152 7 ...in old, dense countries, among a million of good coats a fine coat comes to be no distinction...
    Ctr 6.152 17 Can it be that the American forest has refreshed some weeds of old Pictish barbarism just ready to die out...
    Ctr 6.164 24 ...in an old community a well-born proprietor is usually found, after the first heats of youth, to be a careful husband...
    Bhr 6.175 21 We had in Massachusetts an old statesman who had sat all his life in courts...without overcoming an extreme irritability of face, voice and bearing;...
    Bhr 6.177 14 The face and eyes reveal what the spirit is doing, how old it is...
    Bhr 6.186 9 Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second... is not to be resisted, as the date of the transaction is not easily found. People grow up and grow old under this infliction, and never suspect the truth...
    Bhr 6.188 2 Strong will and keen perception overpower old manners and create new;...
    Bhr 6.197 4 An old man who added an elevating culture to a large experience of life, said to me, When you come into the room, I think I will study how to make humanity beautiful to you.
    Wsp 6.203 25 The stern old faiths have all pulverized.
    Wsp 6.207 17 ...the old faiths which comforted nations...seem to have spent their force.
    Wsp 6.208 3 The lover of the old religion complains that our contemporaries...succumb to a great despair...
    Wsp 6.208 21 A silent revolution has loosed the tension of the old religious sects...
    Wsp 6.209 13 ...[Christ] standing on his genius as a moral teacher, it is impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality;...
    Wsp 6.212 14 ...the official men can in no wise help you in any question of to-day, they deriving entirely from the old dead things.
    Wsp 6.214 18 We say the old forms of religion decay...
    CbW 6.246 9 We accompany the youth with sympathy and manifold old sayings of the wise to the gate of the arena...
    CbW 6.246 12 ...not by strength of ours, or of the old sayings, but only on strength of his own, unknown to us or to any, [the youth] must stand or fall.
    CbW 6.249 24 In old Egypt it was established law that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands.
    CbW 6.258 14 ...according to the old oracle, the Furies are the bonds of men;...
    CbW 6.262 21 Nature...works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist whom I found the other day in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.
    CbW 6.264 6 I knew a wise woman who said to her friends, When I am old, rule me.
    CbW 6.265 5 It is an old commendation of right behavior, Aliis laetus, sapiens sibi, which our English proverb translates, Be merry and wise.
    CbW 6.266 1 An old French verse runs, in my translation:--Some of your griefs you have cured,/ And the sharpest you still have survived;/ But what torments of pain you endured/ From evils that never arrived!/
    CbW 6.268 9 [The young people] explore a farm, but the house is small, old, thin;...
    CbW 6.275 11 ...we live...with those who serve us directly, and for money. Yet the old rules hold good. Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured by money.
    CbW 6.278 11 I prefer to say, with the old prophet, Seekest thou great things? seek them not...
    Bty 6.291 22 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan that lay rusting under a wall, and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
    Bty 6.300 1 ...petulant old gentlemen...affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    Ill 6.307 9 House you were born in,/ Friends of your spring-time,/ Old man and young maid,/ Day's toil and its guerdon, /They are all vanishing, / Fleeing to fables,/ Cannot be moored./
    Ill 6.310 6 I remarked especially [in the Mammoth Cave] the mimetic habit with which nature, on new instruments, hums her old tunes...
    Ill 6.313 12 Children, youths, adults and old men, all are led by one bawble or another.
    Ill 6.320 24 That story of Thor, who was set to drain the drinking-horn in Asgard and to wrestle with the old woman and to run with the runner Lok, and presently found that he had been drinking up the sea, and wrestling with Time, and racing with Thought,--describes us...
    Ill 6.321 9 ...says the good Heaven;...vamp your old coats and hats...
    SS 7.14 15 ...[people in conversation] separate...as children from old people...
    Civ 7.17 27 Twirl the old wheels! Time takes fresh start again,/ On for a thousand years of genius more./
    Civ 7.24 10 Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge, overrunning all the old barriers of caste...
    Art2 7.51 27 The galleries of ancient sculpture in Naples and Rome strike no deeper conviction into the mind than the contrast of the purity, the severity expressed in these fine old heads, with the frivolity and grossness of the mob that exhibits and the mob that gazes at them.
    Art2 7.54 24 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.
    Elo1 7.71 20 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast.
    Elo1 7.79 25 In old countries a high money value is set on the services of men who have achieved a personal distinction.
    DL 7.106 9 The street is old as Nature;...
    DL 7.121 6 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band...of austerity, which, excluding them from the sensual enjoyments which make other boys too early old, has directed their activity in safe and right channels...
    DL 7.123 1 In the old fables we used to read of a cloak brought from fairy-land as a gift for the fairest and purest in Prince Arthur's court.
    DL 7.128 20 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains...
    Farm 7.150 6 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know, and have found there is a Concord under old Concord...
    Farm 7.153 23 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime...would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature...
    WD 7.160 24 The old Hebrew king said, He makes the wrath of man to praise him.
    WD 7.163 20 Tantalus, who in old times was seen vainly trying to quench his thirst with a flowing stream which ebbed whenever he approached it, has been seen again lately.
    WD 7.167 1 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...
    WD 7.168 26 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch...
    WD 7.169 12 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.
    WD 7.172 1 Kinde was the old English term, which...filled only half the range of our fine Latin word, with its delicate future tense,--natura, about to be born...
    WD 7.172 17 We are coaxed, flattered and duped...from birth to death; and where is the old eye that ever saw through the deception?
    WD 7.174 23 ...academies convene to settle the claims of the old schools.
    WD 7.175 3 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols was not Persian, nor Memphian, nor Teutonic, nor local at all...
    WD 7.175 11 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was that clay which thou heldest but now in thy foolish hands, and threwest away to go and seek in vain in sepulchres, mummy-pits and old book-shops of Asia Minor, Egypt and England.
    WD 7.175 22 'T is the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
    WD 7.177 21 Zoologists may deny that horse-hairs in the water change to worms, but I find that whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
    WD 7.178 16 ...an old French sentence says, God works in moments...
    Boks 7.190 3 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables...of the old Orpheus of Thrace...
    Boks 7.195 25 'T is...an economy of time to read old and famed books.
    Boks 7.196 23 ...Never read any book that is not a year old.
    Boks 7.197 6 ...I will venture, at the risk of inditing a list of old primers and grammars, to count the few books which a superficial reader must thankfully use.
    Boks 7.197 9 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare...
    Boks 7.201 14 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history...but the shortest is the best, and if one lacks stomach for Mr. Grote' s voluminous annals, the old slight and popular summary of Goldsmith or of Gillies will serve.
    Boks 7.213 27 [The imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance, like planets; and once so liberated...they never quite subside to their old stony state.
    Boks 7.214 3 ...books that treat the old pedantries of the world...with a certain freedom... put us on our feet again...
    Boks 7.220 10 These are a few of the books which the old and the later times have yielded us...
    Clbs 7.228 25 We remember the time...on a long journey in the old stage-coach, where, each passenger being forced to know every other... conversation naturally flowed...
    Clbs 7.229 16 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain...
    Clbs 7.231 5 The reply of old Isocrates comes so often to mind,--The things which are now seasonable I cannot say; and for the things which I can say it is not now the time.
    Clbs 7.235 19 In the old time conundrums were sent from king to king by ambassadors.
    Clbs 7.238 6 ...[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: None of the gods knows what in the old time Thou saidst in the ear of thy son...
    Clbs 7.249 18 If...[l'homme de lettres] dare not speak of fairy gold, he will yet tell what new books he has found, what old ones recovered...
    Clbs 7.250 1 One likes...to make in an old acquaintance unexpected discoveries of scope and power through the advantage of an inspiring subject.
    Cour 7.260 15 An old farmer...when I ask him if he is not going to town-meeting, says: No, 't is no use balloting, for it will not stay;...
    Cour 7.261 16 So great a soldier as the old French Marshal Montluc acknowledges that he has often trembled with fear...
    Cour 7.269 14 The old principles which books exist to express are more beautiful than any book;...
    Cour 7.269 26 ...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class...
    Cour 7.272 12 Everything feels the new breath [of courage] except the old doting nigh-dead politicians...
    Suc 7.283 8 ...we survey our map, which becomes old in a year or two.
    Suc 7.285 11 ...leaving the coast [of Panama], the ship full of one hundred and fifty skilful seamen,--some of them old pilots...the wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
    Suc 7.292 20 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia, the world seems to be born old...
    Suc 7.299 13 Is the old church which gave you the first lessons of religious life...only boards or brick and mortar?
    Suc 7.303 8 Who is he in youth or in maturity or even in old age, who does not like to hear of those sensibilities which turn curled heads round at church...
    Suc 7.306 18 The old trouveur, Pons Capdueil, wrote,--Oft have I heard, and deem the witness true,/ Whom man delights in, God delights in too./
    OA 7.313 1 Once more, the old man cried, ye clouds,/ Airy turrets purple-piled,/ Which once my infancy beguiled,/ Beguile me with the wonted spell./
    OA 7.313 18 ...if it be to [clouds] allowed/ To fool me with a shining cloud,/ So only new griefs are consoled/ By new delights, as old by old,/ Frankly I will be your guest,/ Count your change and cheer the best./
    OA 7.316 25 Nature...now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters.
    OA 7.317 4 ...the essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.
    OA 7.317 12 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise, is a babe found exposed in a basket by the river-side...
    OA 7.317 21 Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.
    OA 7.317 26 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years...
    OA 7.321 12 ...the senate of Sparta, the presbytery of the Church, and the like, all signify simply old men.
    OA 7.322 1 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely old...
    OA 7.322 7 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo, elected doge at eighty-four years...
    OA 7.323 17 When the old wife says, Take care of that tumor in your shoulder, perhaps it is cancerous,--[the man of sixty] replies, I am yielding to a surer decomposition.
    OA 7.325 17 When I chanced to meet the poet Wordsworth, then sixty-three years old, he told me that he had just had a fall and lost a tooth...
    OA 7.327 26 In old persons...we often observe a fair, plump, perennial, waxen complexion...
    OA 7.329 17 An old scholar finds keen delight in verifying the impressive anecdotes and citations he has met with in miscellaneous reading and hearing, in all the years of youth.
    OA 7.330 20 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...
    OA 7.331 13 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...
    OA 7.331 16 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments, and all old men in finishing their houses...
    OA 7.332 1 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825...
    OA 7.332 7 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency. It...reports a moment in the life of a heroic person, who, in extreme old age, appeared still erect and worthy of his fame.
    OA 7.332 11 The old President [John Adams] sat in a large stuffed arm-chair...
    OA 7.333 24 [John Adams] spoke of Mr. Lechmere, whom he well remembered to have seen come down daily, at great age, to walk in the old town-house...
    OA 7.334 25 [John Adams] speaks very distinctly for so old a man...
    OA 7.335 23 ...the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years...
    OA 7.336 1 I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.
    PI 8.5 13 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form;...
    PI 8.5 17 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form; and in animal transformation not less, as...in embryo and man; everything undressing and stealing away from its old into new form...
    PI 8.9 27 Every correspondence we observe in mind and matter suggests a substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities.
    PI 8.13 5 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property...
    PI 8.13 7 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property, as...when the old horse-block in the yard is found to be a Torso Hercules of the Phidian age.
    PI 8.19 14 ...poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight, looking through [things], and using them as types or words for thoughts which they signify. Or is this belief a metaphysical whim of modern times, and quite too refined? On the contrary, it is as old as the human mind.
    PI 8.22 17 [Man] wishes to be rich, to be old, to be young, that things may obey him.
    PI 8.22 25 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds...
    PI 8.25 23 See how tenacious we are of the old names.
    PI 8.33 2 Shakspeare is made up of important passages...like Damascus steel made up of old nails.
    PI 8.37 22 As one of the old Minnesingers sung,--Oft have I heard, and now believe it true,/ Whom man delights in, God delights in too./
    PI 8.40 6 [Poetry] must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
    PI 8.41 1 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere...[the poet] is permitted to dip his brush into the old paint-pot with which birds, flowers, the human cheek, the living rock, the broad landscape, the ocean and the eternal sky were painted.
    PI 8.41 11 ...flights of painted moths are as old as the Alleghanies.
    PI 8.47 23 ...all of them shall wax old like a garment;...
    PI 8.51 16 Time...is now dominant and...looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes...
    PI 8.51 19 Time...is now dominant and...looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semi-somnous on a pyramid... turning old glories into dreams.
    PI 8.64 8 Bring us the bards who shall sing all our old ideas out of our heads...
    PI 8.66 20 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy, the bringing poetry back...to the marrying of Nature and mind, undoing the old divorce in which poetry had been famished and false...
    PI 8.69 27 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image more or less that imports, but...that the old forgotten splendors of the universe should glow again for us;...
    SA 8.77 1 When the old world is sterile/ And the ages are effete,/ He will from wrecks and sediment/ The fairer world complete./
    SA 8.85 21 ...the wily old Talleyrand would still say, Surtout, messieurs, pas de zele,--Above all, gentlemen, no heat.
    SA 8.100 13 The old Confucius in China admitted the benefit [of riches], but stated the limitation...
    SA 8.102 18 Our gentlemen of the old school...were bred after English types...
    Elo2 8.112 4 It is an old proverb that Every people has its prophet;...
    Elo2 8.123 20 [John Quincy Adams's] last lecture...contained some nervous allusions to the treatment he had received from his old friends...
    Res 8.140 13 The marked events in history...the arrival among an old stationary nation of a more instructed race...each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
    Res 8.142 25 ...we begin to perforate and mould the old ball, as a carpenter does with wood.
    Res 8.145 1 The old forester is never far from shelter;...
    Res 8.147 4 When a man is once possessed with fear, said the old French Marshal Montluc...he knows not what he does.
    Res 8.151 10 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country...wants coarse clothes, old shoes...
    Res 8.151 11 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country...wants...an old horse that will stand tied in a pasture half a day without risk...
    Res 8.152 8 Well for [the scholar] if he can say with the old minstrel, I know where to find a new song.
    Comc 8.166 24 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him; yet to do/ The Indian Hoghan Moghan too/ Impartial justice, in his stead did/ Hang an old weaver that was bedrid./
    Comc 8.167 18 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend...
    QO 8.181 19 M. Le Grand showed that in the old Fabliaux were the originals of the tales of Moliere, La Fontaine, Boccaccio, and of Voltaire.
    QO 8.182 10 The Bible itself is like an old Cremona [violin];...
    QO 8.186 2 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...
    QO 8.187 11 It is only within this century that England and America discovered that their nursery-tales were old German and Scandinavian stories;...
    QO 8.187 20 ...if we learn how old are the patterns of our shawls...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    QO 8.195 15 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in Tiraboschi...or other historian of literature.
    QO 8.200 3 The old forest is decomposed for the composition of the new forest.
    QO 8.200 5 The old animals have given their bodies to the earth to furnish through chemistry the forming race...
    QO 8.204 1 Only as braveries of too prodigal power can we pardon it, when the life of genius is so redundant that out of petulance it flings its fire into some old mummy, and, lo! it walks and blushes again here in the street.
    QO 8.204 18 The divine gift is ever the instant life, which...can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.
    PC 8.205 8 ...as through dreams in watches of the night,/ So through all creatures in their form and ways/ Some mystic hint accosts the vigilant,/ Not clearly voiced, but waking a new sense/ Inviting to new knowledge, one with old./
    PC 8.207 20 Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology...
    PC 8.212 23 The old six thousand years of chronology become a kitchen clock...
    PC 8.213 5 Nothing is old but the mind.
    PC 8.213 8 ...I find not only this equality between new and old countries... but also a certain equivalence of the ages of history;...
    PC 8.218 19 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von Arnim, or whatever wit of the old inimitable class, is always allowed.
    PC 8.224 12 The asteroids are the chips of an old star...
    PC 8.225 12 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems...whose outrunning immensity, the old Greeks believed, astonished the gods themselves;...
    PC 8.228 13 Science corrects the old creeds;...
    PC 8.230 8 It is an old legend of just men, Noblesse oblige;...
    PPo 8.236 3 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/...
    PPo 8.238 19 The very geography of old Persia showed these contrasts.
    PPo 8.243 15 ...the connection between the stanzas of [the Persians'] longer odes is much like that between the refrain of our old English ballads...
    PPo 8.244 26 [Hafiz] says to the Shah, Thou who rulest after words and thoughts which no ear has heard and no mind has thought, abide firm until thy young destiny tears off his blue coat from the old graybeard of the sky.
    PPo 8.263 4 I read on the porch of a palace bold/ In a purple tablet letters cast,-/ A house though a million winters old,/ A house of earth comes down at last;/...
    Insp 8.274 2 In June the morning is noisy with birds; in August they are already getting old and silent.
    Insp 8.275 13 The raptures of goodness are as old as history and new with this morning's sun.
    Insp 8.286 17 I remember a capital prudence of old President Quincy, who told me that he never went to bed at night until he had laid out the studies for the next morning.
    Insp 8.287 1 ...we take as much delight in finding the right place for an old observation, as in a new thought.
    Insp 8.289 6 Novelty, surprise, change of scene...break up the tiresome old roof of heaven into new forms, as Hafiz said.
    Insp 8.291 3 Allston rarely left his studio by day. An old friend took him, one fine afternoon, a spacious circuit into the country...
    Insp 8.294 11 [Another source of inspiration is] New poetry; by which I mean chiefly, old poetry that is new to the reader.
    Grts 8.313 14 I have read in an old book that Barcena the Jesuit confessed to another of his order that when the Devil appeared to him in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.
    Grts 8.313 26 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say, with the old Hebrew prophet, Seekest thou great things?-seek them not;...
    Grts 8.315 8 ...the English judge in old times...forgave a culprit who could read and write.
    Grts 8.315 17 How many men, detested in contemporary hostile history, of whom...we have learned to correct our old estimates, and to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great benefit.
    Imtl 8.335 6 The mind delights in immense time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long,-A house, says Ruskin, is not in its prime until it is five hundred years old...
    Imtl 8.339 27 After we have found our depth [on a new planet], and assimilated what we could of the new experience, transfer us to a new scene. In each transfer we shall have acquired...a new mastery of the old thoughts...
    Imtl 8.343 10 If truth live, I live; if justice live, I live, said one of the old saints;...
    Dem1 10.16 26 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons, as frequent in America to-day as the faith in incantations and philters was in old Rome...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    Aris 10.29 2 But for ye speken of such gentillesse/ As is descended out of old richesse,/ That therfore shullen ye be gentilmen,-/ Such arrogance n' is not worth a hen./
    Aris 10.34 21 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe.
    Aris 10.38 3 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages!
    Aris 10.40 26 ...the conclusion which Roman Senators...and great Americans inculcate,-that which they preach...out of their old war and modern land-owning...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
    Aris 10.50 7 When old writers are consulted by young writers who have written their first book, they say, Publish it by all means; so only can you certainly know its quality.
    Aris 10.62 3 ...[the true man] is to know...that...wherever found, the old renown attaches to the virtues of simple faith and stanch endurance and clear perception and plain speech...
    Chr2 10.102 6 Lucifer's wager in the old drama was, There is no steadfast man on earth.
    Chr2 10.112 6 The laws of old empires stood on the religious convictions.
    Chr2 10.114 8 The soul...asks...no new laws,-the old are good enough for it...
    Chr2 10.118 21 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays;...
    Edc1 10.133 6 If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church or old church...I have died to all use of these new events...
    Edc1 10.136 15 The old man thinks the young man has no distinct purpose...
    Edc1 10.144 26 This is the perpetual romance of new life, the invasion of God into the old dead world...
    Supl 10.168 15 ...the old head, after deceiving and being deceived many times, thinks, What's the use of having to unsay to-day what I said yesterday?
    Supl 10.176 2 The old and the modern sages of clearest insight are plain men...
    SovE 10.187 19 The bud extrudes the old leaf...
    SovE 10.198 13 ...spontaneous graces and forces elevate [life] in every domestic circle, which are overlooked while we are reading something less excellent in old authors.
    SovE 10.201 21 The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men...
    SovE 10.202 16 It is simply impossible to read the old history of the first century as it was read in the ninth;...
    SovE 10.205 11 ...the mass of the community indolently follow the old forms with childish scrupulosity...
    SovE 10.207 4 ...we are fast losing or have already lost our old reverence;...
    SovE 10.207 6 ...new views of inspiration, of miracles, of the saints, have supplanted the old opinions...
    SovE 10.211 19 ...the old commandment, Thou shalt not kill, holds down New York, and London, and Paris...
    SovE 10.212 12 ...the Power sends in the next moment a new lesson, which we lose while our eyes are reverted and striving to perpetuate the old.
    Prch 10.217 14 The old [religious] forms rattle...
    Prch 10.217 23 We are born too late for the old and too early for the new faith.
    Prch 10.226 24 ...we can keep our religion, despite of the violent railroads of generalization...that block and intersect our old parish highways.
    Prch 10.229 25 It is the old story again: once we had wooden chalices and golden priests, now we have golden chalices and wooden priests.
    Prch 10.231 2 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people,-though some of them are seven, and some of them seventy years old,-wanting peremptorily instruction;...
    Prch 10.233 27 Only let there be a deep observer, and he will make light of new shop and new circumstance that afflict you; new shop, or old cathedral, it is all one to him.
    Prch 10.234 16 ...the strength of old sects or timorous literalists...is not worth considering [by the young clergyman]...
    Prch 10.236 27 We no longer recite the old creeds of Athanasius or Arius...
    Prch 10.237 2 The old heart remains as ever with its old human duties.
    Prch 10.237 3 The old heart remains as ever with its old human duties.
    Prch 10.237 4 The old intellect still lives...
    MoL 10.241 14 ...let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels which an old scholar may without pretension bring to youth...
    MoL 10.245 11 ...those who would check and guide have a dreary feeling that in the change and decay of the old creeds and motives there was no offset to supply their place.
    Schr 10.259 5 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages,/ And willing grow old,/ Deaf and dumb, blind and cold/...
    Schr 10.266 8 [Nature]...comes in with a new ravishing experience and makes the old time ridiculous.
    Schr 10.275 11 The hero rises out of all comparison with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he disesteems old age, and lands, and money, and power...
    Schr 10.281 8 We are not afraid of new truth, of truth never, new, or old,- no, but of a counterfeit.
    Plu 10.294 8 ...though the contemporary, in his youth or in his old age, of Persius, Juvenal, Lucan and Seneca...[Plutarch] does not cite them...
    Plu 10.303 14 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which...allows us to witness the upturning of the alphabets of old races...
    Plu 10.310 24 [Plutarch] quotes Thucydides's saying that not the desire of honor only never grows old, but much less also the inclination to society and affection to the State...
    Plu 10.320 15 Professor Goodwin is a silent benefactor to the book [Plutarch's Morals], wherever I have compared the editions. I did not know how careless and vicious in parts the old book was...
    Plu 10.320 16 ...in recent reading of the old text [of Plutarch's Morals], on coming on anything absurd or unintelligible, I referred to the new text and found a clear and accurate statement in its place.
    Plu 10.321 2 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals]...
    Plu 10.322 12 ...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.
    LLNE 10.323 1 Of old things all are over old,/ Of good things none are good enough;-/ We 'll show that we can help to frame/ A world of other stuff./ Rob Roy's Grave. Wordsworth.
    LLNE 10.327 22 The structures of old faith in every department of society a few centuries have sufficed to destroy.
    LLNE 10.337 1 ...every lesson of humility, or justice, or charity, which the old ignorant saints had taught [man], was still forever true.
    LLNE 10.338 5 ...while society remained in doubt between the indignation of the old school and the audacity of the new, a higher note sounded.
    LLNE 10.346 24 [Robert Owen] was then seventy years old...
    LLNE 10.347 2 Robert Owen knew Fourier in his old age.
    LLNE 10.355 9 ...like the dreams of poetic people on the first outbreak of the old French Revolution, so [the Fourierist community] would disappear in a slime of mire and blood.
    LLNE 10.359 24 An old house on the place [Brook Farm] was enlarged...
    LLNE 10.361 2 There was no doubt great variety of character and purpose in the members of the community [Brook Farm]. It consisted in the main of young people-few of middle age, and none old.
    LLNE 10.365 11 Eggs might be hatched in ovens, but the hen on her own account much preferred the old way.
    CSC 10.375 1 The most daring innovators and the champions-until-death of the old cause sat side by side [at the Chardon Street Convention].
    EzRy 10.382 6 Always inclined to notice ministers, and frequently attempting, when only five or six years old, to imitate them by preaching... [Ezra Ripley] had an ardent desire to be preacher of the gospel.
    EzRy 10.383 18 It was a pity that [Ezra Ripley's] old meeting-house should have been modernized in his time.
    EzRy 10.383 21 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old, cold, unpainted, uncarpeted, square-pewed meeting-house...
    EzRy 10.384 1 [Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries, the old New England clergy, were believers in what is called a particular providence...
    EzRy 10.387 8 [Ezra Ripley] used to tell the story of one of his old friends, the minister of Sudbury...
    EzRy 10.388 19 When Put Merriam...had the effrontery to call on the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] as an old acquaintance, in the midst of general conversation Mr. Frost came in...
    EzRy 10.389 4 [Ezra Ripley] had...the patient, continuing courtesy...which marks what is called the manners of the old school.
    EzRy 10.390 8 ...[Ezra Ripley] was...a great browbeater of the poor old fathers who still survived from the 19th of April, to the end that they should testify to his history as he had written it.
    EzRy 10.390 18 We remember the remark made by the old farmer who used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern country would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate.
    EzRy 10.391 17 ...all will remember that even in [Ezra Ripley's] old age, if the firebell was rung, he was instantly on horseback with his buckets, and bag.
    EzRy 10.392 22 Mr. N. F. is dead, and I expect to hear of the death of Mr. B. It is cruel to separate old people from their wives in this cold weather.
    EzRy 10.395 2 ...[Ezra Ripley] was engaged to the old forms of the New England Church.
    EzRy 10.395 16 ...in his old age, when all the antique Hebraism and its customs are passing away, it is fit that [Ezra Ripley] too should depart...
    MMEm 10.399 13 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's life]...marks the precise time when the power of the old creed yielded to the influence of modern science and humanity.
    MMEm 10.400 14 [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt and her husband...were getting old...
    MMEm 10.400 25 [Mary Moody Emerson]...lived in entire solitude with these old people...
    MMEm 10.416 6 I [Mary Moody Emerson] felt, till above twenty yeard old, as though Christianity were as necessary to the world as existence;...
    MMEm 10.420 11 In 1830...[Mary Moody Emerson] reproaches herself with some sudden passion she has for visiting her old home and friends in the city...
    MMEm 10.420 17 ...the old desire for the worm is not so greedy as [mine] to find myself in my [Mary Moody Emerson's] old haunts.
    MMEm 10.420 19 ...the old desire for the worm is not so greedy as [mine] to find myself in my [Mary Moody Emerson's] old haunts.
    MMEm 10.423 2 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich, which corrupts old worlds?
    MMEm 10.425 15 Not to complain of the poor old earth's chaotic state, brought so near in its long and gloomy transmutings by the geologist.
    SlHr 10.437 4 ...this is the pregnant season, when our old Roman, Samuel Hoar, has chosen to quit this world.
    SlHr 10.438 7 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends. He...refused the offers, saying that he was old, and his life was not worth much...
    SlHr 10.438 8 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends. He...refused the offers, saying that...he had rather the boys should troll his old head like a football in their streets, than that he should hide it.
    SlHr 10.440 24 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which, in manhood and in old age...left an infantile innocence...
    SlHr 10.443 24 Such was, in old age, the beauty of [Samuel Hoar's] person and carriage, as if the mind radiated, and made the same impression of probity on all beholders.
    SlHr 10.446 26 [Samuel Hoar] had his birth and breeding in a little country town, where the old religion existed in strictness...
    SlHr 10.447 13 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school...
    Thor 10.457 12 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story...or whether it was one of those old philosophical things that she did not care about.
    Thor 10.459 1 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University] that the railroad had destroyed the old scale of distances...
    Thor 10.469 21 Under his arm [Thoreau] carried an old music-book to press plants;...
    Thor 10.475 15 ...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one. They ought...to have chanted to the gods such a hymn as would have sung all their old ideas out of their heads, and new ones in.
    Thor 10.477 13 Now chiefly is my natal hour,/ And only now my prime of life;/ I will not doubt the love untold,/ Which not my worth nor want have bought,/ Which wooed me young, and wooes me old,/ And to this evening hath me brought./
    Carl 10.489 24 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious tinge you sometimes find in burly people. That, and all his qualities, have a certain virulence, coupled though it be in his case with the utmost impatience of Christendom and Jewdom and all existing presentments of the good old story.
    LS 11.17 8 It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity,-that the true worship was transferred from God to Christ...
    HDC 11.36 5 [Musketaquid] was an old village of the Massachusetts Indians.
    HDC 11.73 7 In the field where the western abutment of the old bridge [in Concord] may still be seen...the first organized resistance was made to the British arms.
    HDC 11.84 7 The old town clerks did not spell very correctly...
    LVB 11.95 1 Our counsellors and old statesmen here say that ten years ago they would have staked their lives on the affirmation that the proposed Indian measures could not be executed;...
    EWI 11.104 3 ...if we saw the whip applied to old men...we too should wince.
    EWI 11.117 12 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed to use their old privileges...
    EWI 11.134 2 ...you will not suffer me to forget one eloquent old man [John Quincy Adams], in whose veins the blood of Massachusetts rolls...
    EWI 11.140 13 Not the least affecting part of this history of abolition [in the West Indies] is the annihilation of the old indecent nonsense about the nature of the negro.
    War 11.158 3 ...we read with astonishment of the beastly fighting of the old times.
    FSLC 11.181 14 ...presidents of colleges...importers, manufacturers...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.194 2 The gravid old Universe goes spawning on;...
    FSLC 11.209 21 By new arts the earth is subdued, roaded, tunnelled, telegraphed, gas-lighted; vast amounts of old labor disused;...
    FSLN 11.228 22 There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was fast becoming, a dead letter...
    FSLN 11.229 12 [Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law] showed that the old religion and the sense of the right had faded and gone out;...
    FSLN 11.231 27 In vulgar politics the Whig goes...for the old necessities...
    JBB 11.266 18 ...[John Brown] and his brave boys vowed-so might Heaven help and speed 'em-/ They would save those grand old prairies from the curse that blights the land;/...
    JBS 11.277 17 When [John Brown] was five years old his father emigrated to Ohio...
    TPar 11.287 3 The old religions have a charm for most minds which it is a little uncanny to disturb.
    TPar 11.287 16 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when, to the irresistible march of opinion, the forms still retained by the most advanced sects showed loose and lifeless, and he, with something less of affectionate attachment to the old, or with more vigorous logic, rejected them.
    TPar 11.290 11 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on the years when Southern slavery broke over its old banks...
    ACiv 11.296 3 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/ Up with it once more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The white, blue and red which the nations adore!/
    ACiv 11.299 1 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy...
    ACiv 11.305 3 ...as long as we fight without...any word intimating forfeiture in the rebel states of their old privileges, under the law, [the Southerners] and we fight on the same side, for slavery.
    EPro 11.325 12 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis. Then...the old repulsion will cease...
    ALin 11.328 16 How beautiful to see/ Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/ One whose meek flock the people joyed to be,/ Not lured by any cheat of birth,/ But by his clear-grained human worth,/ And brave old wisdom of sincerity!/
    ALin 11.329 6 Old as history is...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement;...
    HCom 11.339 1 Old classmate, say/ Do you remember our Commencement Day?/
    HCom 11.339 8 These boys we talk about like ancient sages/ Are the same men we read of in old pages-/ The bronze recast of dead heroic ages!/
    HCom 11.339 12 We grudge them not, our dearest, bravest, best,-/ Let but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is Earth's old slave-God battling for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with her visor down./ Holmes.
    HCom 11.341 13 The old Greek Heraclitus said, War is the Father of all things.
    HCom 11.341 17 War passes the power of all chemical solvents, breaking up the old adhesions...
    HCom 11.343 7 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite-God knows they had no fury for killing their old friends and countrymen-had its signal and lasting effect.
    HCom 11.344 19 [Harvard men] might say, with their forefathers the old Norse Vikings, We sung the mass of lances from morning until evening.
    SMC 11.349 16 We are thankful...that the heroes of old and of recent date, who made and kept America free and united, were not rare or solitary growths...
    SMC 11.351 5 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak; have, if I may borrow the old language of the church, converted these elements from a secular to a sacred and spiritual use;...
    SMC 11.351 27 The old [Concord] Monument...stands to signalize the first Revolution...
    SMC 11.352 22 This new [Concord] Monument is built to mark the arrival of the nation at the new principle,-say, rather, at its new acknowledgment, for the principle is as old as Heaven,-that only that state can live, in which injury to the least member is recognized as damage to the whole.
    SMC 11.353 14 When the rights of man are recited under any old government, every one of them is a declaration of war.
    SMC 11.360 16 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back; upon... the grass that can be sold, the old cow, or the heifer.
    SMC 11.360 26 Some of these [Civil War] letters are written on the back of old bills...
    SMC 11.365 22 In the fall of 1861, the old artillery company of this town [Concord] was reorganized...
    EdAd 11.382 1 The old men studied magic in the flowers,/ And human fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring things to names, for these were men/...
    EdAd 11.383 22 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys...with telegraphic despatches not yet fifty minutes old from Buffalo and Cincinnati.
    EdAd 11.388 27 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
    Wom 11.411 5 ...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?
    Wom 11.414 25 When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...
    Wom 11.420 21 If new power is here, of a character which solves old tough questions...you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.
    Wom 11.420 25 If new power is here, of a character...which...opens new careers to our young receptive men and women, you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.
    SHC 11.430 7 In these times we see the defects of our old theology;...
    SHC 11.430 15 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never spared,-have impressed on the mind of the age the futility of these old arts of preserving.
    SHC 11.431 19 You can almost see behind these pines the Indian with bow and arrow lurking yet exploring the traces of the old trail.
    SHC 11.435 9 ...we must look forward also, and make ourselves a thousand years old;...
    SHC 11.435 21 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants.
    Scot 11.463 23 ...when we reopen these old books [of Scott's] we all consent to be boys again
    Scot 11.464 8 [Scott's] own ear had been charmed by old ballads...
    Scot 11.464 15 Just so much thought, so much picturesque detail in dialogue or description as the old ballad required...[Scott] would keep and use...
    ChiE 11.471 14 We had said of China, as the old prophet said of Egypt, Her strength is to sit still.
    ChiE 11.471 22 China is old, not in time only, but in wisdom...
    FRO1 11.481 3 The interests that grow out of a meeting like this [of the Free Religious Association] should bind us with new strength to the old eternal duties.
    FRO2 11.486 22 ...Christianity is as old as the Creation...
    CPL 11.497 15 The sedge Papyrus...is of more importance to history than cotton, or silver, or gold. Its first use for writing is between three and four thousand years old...
    CPL 11.497 22 The chairman of Mr. [William] Munroe's trustees has told you how old is the foundation of our village library...
    FRep 11.511 19 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the forms of old Etruscan vases...
    FRep 11.514 22 Prince Metternich said, Revolutions begin in the best heads and run steadily down to the populace. It is a very old observation;...
    FRep 11.518 5 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians, who...thrust their unworthy minority into the place of the old aristocracy on the one side...
    FRep 11.520 7 You rally to the support of old charities and the cause of literature, and there, to be sure, are these brazen faces [of politicians].
    FRep 11.520 12 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm,-in the old time when the minister was still invited, in the spring, to make a prayer for the blessing of a piece of land,-the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
    FRep 11.520 20 Parties keep the old names, but exhibit a surprising fugacity in creeping out of one snake-skin into another of equal ignominy and lubricity...
    FRep 11.531 9 I wish to see America, not like the old powers of the earth...
    PLT 12.19 7 ...presently, antagonized by other thoughts which [the perceptions of the soul] first aroused, or by thoughts which are sons and daughters of these, the thought buries itself in the new thought of larger scope, whilst the old instrumentalities and incarnations are decomposed and recomposed into new.
    PLT 12.21 9 Every new thought modifies, interprets old problems.
    PLT 12.35 8 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...Behemoth... aboriginal, old as Nature...
    PLT 12.35 13 The old Hindoo Gautama says, Like the approach of the iron to the loadstone is the approach of the new-born child to the breast.
    PLT 12.38 4 These [spiritual] facts, this essence [Truth], are not new; they are old and eternal...
    PLT 12.43 17 There are times when the cawing of a crow...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour. In like mood an old verse, or certain words, gleam with rare significance.
    PLT 12.50 6 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line...
    II 12.71 7 The divine energy...casts its old garb, and reappears, another creature;...
    II 12.71 8 The divine energy...casts its old garb, and reappears, another creature; the old energy in a new form...
    II 12.71 12 Novelty in the means by which we arrive at the old universal ends is the test of the presence of the highest power...
    II 12.74 8 When a young man asked old Goethe about Faust, he replied, What can I know of this?
    II 12.77 18 The old law of science, Imperat parendo, we command by obeying, is forever true;...
    II 12.86 14 The old Herschel must choose between the night and the day...
    II 12.88 9 The old Greek was respectable...who found the genius of tragedy in the conflict between Destiny and the strong should...
    Mem 12.92 6 The old whim or perception was an augury of a broader insight...
    Mem 12.94 6 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza.
    Mem 12.95 11 This command of old facts...is our splendid privilege.
    Mem 12.97 12 Is [Memory] some old aunt who goes in and out of the house...
    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...
    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.
    Mem 12.101 12 If new impressions sometimes efface old ones, yet we steadily gain insight;...
    Mem 12.102 25 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.
    Mem 12.106 18 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge...so that an old scholar, who knows what to do with a memory, is full of wonder and pity that this magical force should be squandered on such frippery.
    Mem 12.107 10 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning.
    Mem 12.109 17 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...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;...
    Mem 12.109 18 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge-new giving undreamed-of value to old;...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;...
    CInt 12.124 13 ...there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges, which is as old as the rejection of Moliere by the French Academy...
    CInt 12.129 15 Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the new shop or old cathedral...
    CInt 12.131 25 ...old men cannot see the powers of society...passing, or soon to pass, into the hands of you and your contemporaries, without an earnest wish that you have caught sight of your high calling...
    CL 12.138 15 ...the curiosity to see [Kalm's] plants, restored [Linnaeus] instantly, and he found an old friend as good as the treatment by wood-strawberries.
    CL 12.140 17 So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part to sympathize...
    CL 12.142 10 The qualifications of a professor [of walking] are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes...
    CL 12.146 9 In old towns there are always certain paradises known to the pedestrian...
    CL 12.146 10 In old towns there are always certain paradises known to the pedestrian, old and deserted farms...
    CL 12.147 2 ...there was a contest between the old orchard and the invading forest-trees...
    CL 12.147 17 [A walk in the woods] is one of the secrets for dodging old age.
    CL 12.147 20 ...I recommend [a walk in the woods] to people who are growing old, against their will.
    CL 12.147 26 ...[the man growing old against his will] may draw a moral from the fact that 't is the old trees that have all the beauty and grandeur.
    CL 12.152 22 ...[man's] old propensities will stir at midsummer, and send him, like an Indian, to the sea.
    CL 12.154 9 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and builds new;...
    CL 12.155 20 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road...
    CL 12.155 25 I [Linnaeus] saw [Lap] men more than seventy years old put their heel on their own neck, without any exertion.
    CL 12.157 7 Can you bring home...the sedgy ripples of the old Colony ponds?...
    CL 12.164 21 ...the best passages of great poets, old and new, are often simple enumerations of some features of landscape.
    CW 12.176 19 There is so much...which a book cannot teach that an old friend can.
    CW 12.177 16 It is an old saying that physicians or naturalists are the only professional men who continue their tasks out of study-hours;...
    Bost 12.183 1 The old physiologists said, There is in the air a hidden food of life;...
    Bost 12.186 17 New England is a sort of Scotland. 'T is hard to say why. Climate is much; then, old accumulation of the means,-books, schools, colleges, literary society;...
    Bost 12.187 14 In...the farthest colonies...a middle-aged gentleman is just embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and spend his old age in Paris;...
    Bost 12.193 20 An old lady who remembered these pious people [the Massachusetts colonists] said of them that they had to hold on hard to the huckleberry bushes to hinder themselves from being translated.
    Bost 12.199 4 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...which have been so profoundly ventilated, but end in a protracted picnic which after a few weeks or months dismisses the partakers to their old homes, we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...
    Bost 12.210 11 We praised with a certain adulation the invariable valor of the old war-gods and war-councillors of the Revolution.
    MAng1 12.216 3 [Michelangelo]...dying at the end of near ninety years, had not yet become old...
    MAng1 12.220 20 Cardinal Farnese one day found [Michelangelo], when an old man, walking alone in the Coliseum...
    MAng1 12.220 27 ...one of the last drawings in [Michelangelo's] portfolio is a sublime hint of his own feeling; for it is a sketch of an old man with a long beard, in a go-cart, with an hour-glass before him; and the motto, Ancora imparo, I still learn.
    MAng1 12.231 9 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily onward...his poetic conceptions into progressive execution...
    MAng1 12.237 12 ...[Michelangelo]...in old age speaks with extreme pleasure of his residence with the hermits in the mountains of Spoleto;...
    MAng1 12.238 15 ...[Michelangelo] was liberal to profusion to his old domestic Urbino...
    Milt1 12.262 18 ...the old eternal goodness finds a home in [Milton's] breast...
    Milt1 12.268 13 The memorable covenant, which in his youth...[Milton] makes with God and his reader, expressed the faith of his old age.
    Milt1 12.269 17 Susceptible as Burke to the attractions...of an ancient church illustrated by old martyrdoms and installed in cathedrals,-[Milton] threw himself...on the side of the reeking conventicle;...
    Milt1 12.278 26 We have offered no apology for expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John Milton; who, in old age, in solitude, in neglect, and blind, wrote Paradise Lost;...
    ACri 12.290 9 The next virtue of rhetoric is compression, the science of omitting, which makes good the old verse of Hesiod, Fools, they did not know that half was better than the whole.
    ACri 12.294 16 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece;...
    ACri 12.296 10 Herrick is a remarkable example of the low style. He is, therefore, a good example of the modernness of an old English writer.
    ACri 12.298 3 What [Carlyle] has said shall be proverb, nobody shall be able to say it otherwise. No book can any longer be tolerable in the old husky Neal-on-the-Puritans model.
    MLit 12.310 20 [The library of the Present Age] can hardly be characterized by any species of book, for every opinion, old and new...has an organ.
    MLit 12.331 25 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones...which...abolish the old heavens and the old earth before the free will or Godhead of man.
    MLit 12.331 26 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones...which...abolish the old heavens and the old earth before the free will or Godhead of man.
    MLit 12.332 18 Life for [Goethe]...has a gem or two more on its robe; but its old eternal burden is not relieved;...
    MLit 12.333 11 When one of these grand monads is incarnated whom Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think that the old weariness of Europe and Asia, the trivial forms of daily life will now end...
    WSL 12.342 6 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear. What boundless leisure!...the old constellations have set...
    WSL 12.346 10 [Landor] exercises with a grandeur of spirit the office of writer, and carries it with an air of old and unquestionable nobility.
    AgMs 12.358 8 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always impresses me with respect, he is...so disdainful of all appearances; excellent and reverable in his old weather-worn cap and blue frock...
    AgMs 12.361 9 ...our [New England] people are not stationary, like those of old countries...
    EurB 12.371 4 Tennyson's compositions are not so much poems as... sketches after the styles of sundry old masters.
    EurB 12.375 3 ...the obvious division of modern romance is into two kinds: first, the novels of costume or of circumstance, which is the old style...
    EurB 12.375 15 Again and again we have been caught in that old foolish trap [the novel of costume of circumstance].
    PPr 12.380 2 Truth is very old...
    PPr 12.381 27 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the assumption throughout the book, that a new chivalry and nobility, namely, the dynasty of labor, is replacing the old nobilities.
    PPr 12.385 14 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by...impressing the reader with the conviction that the satirist himself has the truest love for everything old and excellent in English land and institutions...
    PPr 12.386 17 One can hardly credit, whilst under the spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us-as of a failed world just re-collecting its old withered forces to begin again and try to do a little business.
    Let 12.392 22 Very unlooked-for political and social effects of the iron road are fast appearing. It will require an expansion of the police of the old world.
    Let 12.397 22 Whilst [a man] dwells in the old sin, he will pay the old fine.
    Let 12.397 23 Whilst [a man] dwells in the old sin, he will pay the old fine.
    Let 12.401 2 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German.
    Let 12.402 13 A new perception...is a victory won to the living universe from Chaos and old Night...
    Let 12.403 1 The old Duty is the old God.
    Trag 12.407 4 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that lies at the foundation of the old Greek tragedy...
    Trag 12.415 18 ...[the crucifixions of the middle passage] come to the obtuse and barbarous, to whom they are...only a little worse than the old sufferings.

Old, adj. (2)

    LLNE 10.325 23 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It seemed...a crack in Nature, which split... Calvinism into Old and New schools;...
    LLNE 10.326 1 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It seemed...a crack in Nature, which split... Quakerism into Old and New;...

Old Age, Apology for, n. (1)

    OA 7.315 9 [Josiah Quincy]...entered at some length into an Apology for Old Age...

Old Age, n. (1)

    OA 7.320 16 ...the creed of the street is, Old Age is not disgraceful, but immensely disadvantageous.

Old Boston, England, n. (1)

    Bost 12.190 12 ...Dr. Mather writes of [Boston], The town hath indeed three elder Sisters in this colony, but it hath wonderfully outgrown them all, and her mother, Old Boston in England, also;...

Old Brown, n. (2)

    JBB 11.266 9 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Came homeward in the morning to find his house burned down./
    JBB 11.266 20 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Said, Boys, the Lord will aid us! and he shoved his ramrod down./ Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Brown.

Old England, n. (6)

    LT 1.261 12 The reason and influence of wealth...the tendencies which have acquired the name of Transcendentalism in Old and New England... these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    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.
    Exp 3.64 22 Whilst the debate goes forward on the equity of commerce... New and Old England may keep shop.
    NER 3.272 20 In the circle of the rankest tories that could be collected in England, Old or New, let a powerful and stimulating intellect...act on them, and very quickly these frozen conservators will yield to the friendly influence...
    Pow 6.80 6 Indifferent hacks and mediocrities tower, by pushing their forces to a lucrative point or by working power, over multitudes of superior men, in Old as in New England.
    Chr2 10.106 24 Calvinism was one and the same thing in Geneva, in Scotland, in Old and New England.

Old Hundred, n. (1)

    Bost 12.201 24 There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence. And this...was said and rung...in every note of Old Hundred and Hallelujah and Short Particular Metre.

old, n. (43)

    AmS 1.99 26 Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new...
    AmS 1.110 6 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not... when the old and the new stand side by side...
    DSA 1.143 12 What was once a mere circumstance, that...the young and old, should meet one day as fellows in one house...has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
    DSA 1.144 6 The old is for slaves.
    MN 1.205 19 The great Pan of old...was but the representative of thee, O rich and various Man!...
    LT 1.268 7 The two omnipresent parties of History, the party of the Past and the party of the Future, divide society today as of old.
    Con 1.298 22 ...in autumn and winter we stand by the old;...
    Con 1.307 15 [The youth says] Like the Persian noble of old, I ask that I may neither command nor obey.
    Con 1.322 18 How will every strong and generous mind choose its ground,-with the defenders of the old? or with the seekers of the new?
    Hist 2.25 24 Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
    Comp 2.125 20 We are idolators of the old.
    Lov1 2.170 10 ...this passion of which we speak [love], though it begin with the young, yet forsakes not the old...
    Hsm1 2.248 17 To [Plutarch] we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminondas, the Scipio of old...
    Cir 2.319 4 Nature abhors the old...
    Int 2.333 12 [A person I knew] held the old; he holds the new;...
    Int 2.333 14 [A person I knew] held the old; he holds the new; I had the habit of tacking together the old and the new which he did not use to exercise.
    Art1 2.352 18 ...the new in art is always formed out of the old.
    Exp 3.47 12 ...the men ask, What's the news? as if the old were so bad.
    Pol1 3.204 22 The old...die and leave no wisdom to their sons.
    NER 3.260 27 ...much was to be resisted, much was to be got rid of by those who were reared in the old, before they could begin to affirm and to construct.
    GoW 4.264 23 [The scholar] is...one of the estates of the realm, provided and prepared from of old and from everlasting...
    ET3 5.40 16 Long of old, the Greeks fancied Delphi the navel of the earth...
    ET13 5.218 19 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848, to the decorous English audience...listening with all the devotion of national pride. That was binding old and new to some purpose.
    ET14 5.250 18 Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann, has brought to metaphysics and to physiology...a rhetoric like the armory of the invincible knights of old.
    F 6.25 13 We have successive experiences so important that the new forgets the old...
    Wsp 6.212 27 ...the moral sense reappears to-day with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.
    Elo1 7.70 2 [The right eloquence] draws...the old from their arm-chairs...
    WD 7.177 24 [Our ancestors'] merit was not to reverence the old...
    Suc 7.292 9 ...we dote on the old and the distant;...
    OA 7.321 8 ...in all governments, the councils of power were held by the old;...
    QO 8.175 1 Old and new put their stamp to everything in Nature.
    QO 8.178 21 Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment.
    Imtl 8.350 1 Yama said, For this question [of immortality], it was inquired of old, even by the gods;...
    HDC 11.76 15 We hold by the hand the last of the invincible men of old...
    HDC 11.85 13 With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.
    EPro 11.326 2 Happy are the young, who find the pestilence [slavery] cleansed out of the earth, leaving open to them an honest career. Happy the old, who see Nature purified before they depart.
    II 12.73 8 ...he will instruct and aid us who shows us how the young may be taught without degrading the old;...
    II 12.73 19 [The spirit] has been in the universe before, of old and from everlasting, and knows its way up and down.
    II 12.76 2 ...the moral sense reappears forever with the same angelic newness that has been from of old the fountain of poetry and beauty and strength.
    Mem 12.108 18 The divine gift is not the old but the new.
    Mem 12.108 20 The divine is...the life that can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which it makes all things new.
    MLit 12.334 23 The heart beats in this age as of old...
    MLit 12.335 5 The world does not run smoother than of old,/ There are sad haps that must be told./

Old Sarum, England, n. (1)

    ET16 5.276 5 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a carriage to Amesbury, passing by Old Sarum...

Old South Church, Boston, (1)

    OA 7.334 6 [John Adams] talked of Whitefield, and remembered when he was a Freshman in College to have come into town to the Old South church (I think) to hear him...

Old Style, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.381 2 Ezra Ripley was born May 1, 1751 (O. S.)...

Old Testament, n. (2)

    SwM 4.120 2 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
    ET13 5.224 5 The doctrine of the Old Testament is the religion of England.

Old Walter [John Walter], (1)

    ET15 5.266 12 The staff of The [London] Times has always been made up of able men. Old Walter, Sterling, Bacon...have contributed to its renown...

Old World, n. (2)

    Bhr 6.176 13 The obstinate prejudice in favor of blood, which lies at the base of the feudal and monarchical fabrics of the Old World, has some reason in common experience.
    FRep 11.541 12 Humanity asks...that democratic institutions shall be more thoughtful...for the welfare of sick and unable persons, and serious care of criminals, than was ever any the best government of the Old World.

Oldcastle, John [Lord Cobh (1)

    ET13 5.216 20 ...Cobham, Antony Parsons, Sir Harry Vane...are the democrats, as well as the saints of their times.

older, adj. (38)

    AmS 1.88 19 The books of an older period will not fit this.
    MN 1.224 4 ...[the soul] is...older than time...
    LT 1.288 11 ...to what port are we bound? Who knows! There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves... But what know they more than we? They also found themselves on this wondrous sea. No; from the older sailors, nothing.
    Hist 2.39 26 Hear the rats in the wall, see the lizard on the fence, the fungus under foot, the lichen on the log. ... As old as the Caucasion man,--perhaps older,--these creatures have kept their counsel beside him...
    SR 2.68 1 We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of...tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents...they chance to see...
    SL 2.158 8 A stranger comes from a distant school...with airs and pretensions; an older boy says to himself, It's of no use; we shall find him out to-morrow.
    Chr1 3.87 4 Fixed on the enormous galaxy,/ Deeper and older seemed his eye:/...
    Mrs1 3.142 15 Fox thanked the man for his confidence and paid him, saying, his debt was of older standing, and Sheridan must wait.
    Pol1 3.211 9 ...the older and more cautious among ourselves are learning from Europeans to look with some terror at our turbulent freedom.
    NR 3.228 10 ...as we grow older we value total powers and effects...
    NR 3.234 19 Lively boys write to their ear and eye, and the cool reader finds nothing but sweet jingles in it. When they grow older, they respect the argument.
    ET9 5.145 9 A much older traveller...says:--The English are great lovers of themselves and of every thing belonging to them.
    ET11 5.179 4 The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land. Older than all epics and histories which clothe a nation, this undershirt sits close to the body.
    ET15 5.267 22 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers;...
    Bhr 6.190 6 Neither Aristotle, nor Leibnitz, nor Junius, nor Champollion has set down the grammar-rules of this dialect [of behavior], older than Sanscrit;...
    Wsp 6.227 12 As we grow older we value total powers and effects...
    Suc 7.299 8 ...I have just seen a man...who told me...that his eyes opened as he grew older...
    PI 8.9 26 Every correspondence we observe in mind and matter suggests a substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities.
    PI 8.58 8 ...Discover thou what it is,/ The strong creature from before the flood,/ Without flesh, without bone, without head, without feet,/ It will neither be younger nor older than at the beginning;/...
    Comc 8.165 3 The older the mistake...is, the more ridiculous to the intellect.
    QO 8.181 18 Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century, was long supposed to be the original work, until Grimm found fragments of another original a century older.
    PC 8.228 18 ...[science] does not surprise the moral sentiment. That was older, and awaited expectant these larger insights.
    Insp 8.282 5 Another consideration...will cheer the heart of older scholars, namely that there is diurnal and secular rest.
    Imtl 8.330 21 ...I have in mind the expression of an older believer, who once said to me, The thought that this frail being is never to end is so overwhelming that my only shelter is God's presence.
    Imtl 8.335 9 The mind delights in immense time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long...and here are the Pyramids, which have as many thousands [of years], and cromlechs and earth-mounds much older than these.
    PerF 10.71 17 The Vedas of India, which have a date older than Homer, are hymns to the winds, to the clouds, and to fire.
    Chr2 10.106 14 The older see two generations, or sixty years.
    Edc1 10.146 16 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument, fifty years older than the Parthenon of Athens...
    Edc1 10.148 27 The boy wishes to learn to skate, to coast...and a boy a little older is just as well pleased to teach him these sciences.
    EWI 11.139 24 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons...who owe all their place to the opportunities which the older order of things allowed them, to deceive and defraud men, shudder at the change...
    FSLC 11.212 12 Let us respect the Union to all honest ends. But also respect an older and wider union, the law of Nature and rectitude.
    JBS 11.278 27 ...I incline to accept [John Brown's] own account of the matter at Charlestown, which makes the date a little older, when he said, This was all settled millions of years before the world was made.
    JBS 11.281 21 ...the arch-abolitionist, older than [John] Brown, and older than the Shenandoah Mountains, is Love...
    SMC 11.358 24 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott] at school, at play and at work...
    Wom 11.408 12 The part [women] play...in the care of the young and the tuition of older children, is their organic office in the world.
    Humb 11.456 3 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able to compare older states of knowledge with that which now exists...
    PLT 12.41 16 My percipiency affirms the presence and perfection of law, as much as all the martyrs. A perception, it is of necessity older than the sun and moon...
    Let 12.393 19 When children come into the library, we put the inkstand and the watch on the high shelf, until they be a little older;...

oldest, adj. (48)

    Nat 1.70 20 To [spirit]...the oldest chronologies are young and recent.
    DSA 1.126 11 The sentences of the oldest time, which ejaculate this piety, are still fresh and fragrant.
    MR 1.240 22 ...the husbandman's is the oldest and most universal profession...
    Tran 1.329 4 The first thing we have to say respecting what are called new views here in New England...is, that they are...the very oldest of thoughts cast into the mould of these new times.
    Lov1 2.174 17 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis or comparison and putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years, yet the remembrance of these visions...is a wreath of flowers on the oldest brows.
    Fdsp 2.192 27 For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful, rich communications [with a commended stranger], drawn from the oldest, secretest experience...
    Fdsp 2.194 18 By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find [my friends]...
    Exp 3.56 14 The child asks, Mamma, why don't I like the story as well as when you told it me yesterday? Alas! child, it is even so with the oldest cherubim of knowledge.
    Exp 3.59 26 Under the oldest mouldiest conventions a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world...
    Exp 3.61 25 ...leave me alone and I should relish every hour, and what it brought me, the potluck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.
    Exp 3.68 22 ...the moral sentiment is well called the newness, for it is never other; as new to the oldest intelligence as to the young child;...
    Exp 3.75 18 ...scepticisms...are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as it must include the oldest beliefs.
    Mrs1 3.130 26 A natural gentleman finds his way in [to fashionable society], and will keep the oldest patrician out who has lost his intrinsic rank.
    NER 3.260 2 ...the self-made men took even ground at once with the oldest of the regular graduates...
    SwM 4.107 6 This theory [Identity-philosophy] dates from the oldest philosophers...
    SwM 4.126 9 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws; as when he uttered that famed sentence, that In heaven the angels are advancing continually to the springtime of their youth, so that the oldest angel appears the youngest...
    NMW 4.243 22 ...[Napoleon] said to one of his oldest friends, Men deserve the contempt with which they inspire me.
    ET4 5.55 1 The sources from which tradition derives [the English] stock are mainly three. And first they are of the oldest blood of the world,--the Celtic.
    ET4 5.55 12 [The Celts] are favorably remembered in the oldest records of Europe.
    ET11 5.173 9 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself...with the Hebrew religion and the oldest traditions of the world, was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by a few offensive realities...
    ET12 5.203 26 The oldest building here [at Oxford] is two hundred years younger than the frail manuscript brought by Dr. Clarke from Egypt.
    ET16 5.273 8 It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker...
    ET16 5.281 21 The heroic antiquary [William Stukeley]...connects [Stonehenge] with the oldest monuments and religion of the world...
    F 6.27 13 Our thought...affirms an oldest necessity...
    Wth 6.83 22 What oldest star the fame can save/ Of races perishing to pave/ The planet with a floor of lime?/
    Bhr 6.196 26 The oldest and the most deserving person should come very modestly into any newly awaked company...
    Wsp 6.199 15 [Fate] is the oldest, and best known,/ More near than aught thou call'st thy own/...
    Farm 7.149 25 The town of Concord is one of the oldest towns in this country...
    Cour 7.262 15 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same when I first went out in this way. It was as if an angel spoke to me. From that moment I was as fearless and as forward as the oldest of the boat's crew.
    OA 7.320 11 Few envy the consideration enjoyed by the oldest inhabitant.
    PI 8.19 15 Our best definition of poetry is one of the oldest sentences...
    Elo2 8.125 23 ...all poetry is written in the oldest and simplest English words.
    Res 8.152 23 You cannot tell when [the willows] do bud and blossom, these vivacious trees, so ancient, for they are almost the oldest of all.
    Comc 8.164 22 ...the oldest gibe of literature is the ridicule of false religion.
    QO 8.179 17 The highest statement of new philosophy complacently caps itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest learning.
    QO 8.202 4 ...if the thinker...recognizes the perpetual suggestion of the Supreme Intellect, the oldest thoughts become new and fertile whilst he speaks them.
    PC 8.212 19 The oldest empires...now that we have true measures of duration [in Geology], show like creations of yesterday.
    PerF 10.68 2 No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,/ My oldest force is good as new,/ And the fresh rose on yonder thorn/ Gives back the bending heavens in dew./
    PerF 10.78 5 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as of the diving-bell of the Memory, which descends into the deeps of our past and oldest experience...
    CSC 10.375 3 The still-living merit of the oldest New England families... encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the founders of families, fresh merit...
    EzRy 10.387 19 I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a house at Nine Acre Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a family. He mentioned to me on the way his fears that the oldest son...was becoming intemperate.
    EWI 11.101 18 ...the oldest planters of Jamaica are convinced that it is cheaper to pay wages than to own the slave.
    EWI 11.101 26 In the oldest temples of Egypt, negro captives are painted on the tombs of kings, in such attitudes as to show that they are on the point of being executed;...
    EWI 11.102 3 ...Herodotus, our oldest historian, relates that the Troglodytes hunted the Ethiopians in four-horse chariots.
    EWI 11.145 22 It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one...
    ChiE 11.471 3 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.
    PLT 12.16 27 I am of the oldest religion.
    II 12.69 5 ...could we break the silence of this oldest angel [Instinct], who was with God when the worlds were made!

old-school, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.402 18 Nobody can...recall the conversation of old-school people, without seeing that Milton and Young had a religious authority in their mind...

Oldtown, Maine, n. (1)

    Thor 10.474 8 In his last visit to Maine [Thoreau] had great satisfaction from Joseph Polis, an intelligent Indian of Oldtown...

Old-World, adj. (1)

    ALin 11.328 5 ...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World moulds aside she threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of the unexhausted West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true./

oligarchy, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.299 3 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy...

olive, n. (2)

    PPo 8.256 30 The cedar, the cypress, the palm, the olive and fig-tree...are never wanting in these musky verses [of Hafiz]...
    Schr 10.261 3 The Athenians took an oath, on a certain crisis in their affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the olive the bounds of Attica.

olives, n. (4)

    PPh 4.72 19 [Socrates]...he is hardy as a soldier, and can live on a few olives;...
    ET2 5.28 27 I find the sea-life an acquired taste, like that for tomatoes and olives.
    Schr 10.262 7 We have strayed from the territorial monuments of Attica, but here still are wheat and olives and the vine.
    EPro 11.326 9 Incertainties now crown themselves assured,/ And Peace proclaims olives of endless age./

Olympia, Greece, n. (2)

    PPh 4.72 6 ...[Socrates] showed one who was afraid to go on foot to Olympia, that it was no more than his daily walk within doors, if continuously extended, would easily reach.
    Bost 12.187 27 The Greeks thought him unhappy who died without seeing the statue of Jove at Olympia.

Olympia, n. (1)

    ET12 5.201 15 Here indeed [at Oxford] was the Olympia of all Antony Wood's and Aubrey's games and heroes...

Olympiad, n. (1)

    Hist 2.33 20 These figures, [Goethe] would say, these Chirons, Griffins, Phorkyas, Helen and Leda, are somewhat, and do exert a specific influence on the mind. So far then are they...as real to-day as in the first Olympiad.

Olympiads, n. (2)

    Hist 2.40 15 What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being?
    WD 7.179 19 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar, not who can unearth for me the buried dynasties of Sesostris and Ptolemy...the Olympiads and consulships...

Olympian, adj. (6)

    Pt1 3.2 1 Olympian bards who sung/ Divine ideas below,/ Which always find us young,/ And always keep us so./
    Civ 7.30 23 If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by putting our works in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also evil agents...
    Boks 7.200 11 ...it signifies little where you open [Plutarch's] book, you find yourself at the Olympian tables.
    Boks 7.203 15 These guides [the Platonists] speak of the gods with such depth and with such pictorial details, as if they had been bodily present at the Olympian feasts.
    Grts 8.317 27 Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of Weimar, does not shine. We can see that the Prince had the advantage of the Olympian genius.
    MLit 12.325 15 We are provoked with [Goethe's] Olympian self-complacency...

Olympian, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.202 1 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.

Olympians, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.113 2 Society is spoiled...if the associates are brought a mile to meet. And if it be not society, it is a mischievous, low, degrading jangle, though made up of the best. All the greatness of each is kept back, and every foible in painful activity, as if the Olympians should meet to exchange snuff-boxes.

Olympic, adj. (2)

    Clbs 7.241 1 Conversation is the Olympic games whither every superior gift resorts to assert and approve itself...
    Plu 10.308 2 [Plutarch] thinks that he who has ideas of his own is a bad judge of another man's, it being true that the Eleans would be most proper judges of the Olympic games, were no Eleans gamesters.

Olympic Games, n. (1)

    Wom 11.408 5 Sappho...in the Olympic Games, gained the crown over Pindar.

Olympiodorus, n. (1)

    Int 2.346 8 This band of grandees...Olympiodorus...and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...

Olympus, n. (12)

    Nat 1.56 20 Whilst we wait in this Olympus of gods, we think of nature as an appendix to the soul.
    LE 1.172 5 ...a profound thought will lift Olympus.
    Hsm1 2.257 26 Epaminondas, brave and affectionate, does not seem to us to need Olympus to die upon...
    Chr1 3.112 21 The gods must seat themselves without seneschal in our Olympus...
    Mrs1 3.137 11 Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus.
    Mrs1 3.155 21 Minerva said...there was no one person or action among [men] which would not puzzle her owl, much more all Olympus, to know whether it was fundamentally bad or good.
    SA 8.98 2 As soon as the company give in to this enjoyment [of jokes], we shall have no Olympus.
    Grts 8.319 5 These may serve as local examples [of real heroes] to indicate a magnetism which is probably known better and finer to each scholar in the little Olympus of his own favorites...
    Dem1 10.25 26 Mesmerism is...Momus playing Jove in the kitchens of Olympus.
    PLT 12.9 16 What with egotism on one side and levity on the other, we shall have no Olympus.
    CL 12.166 27 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons...must...have manners that speak of reality and great elements, or we shall know no Olympus.
    EurB 12.378 2 [The Vivian Greys]...could write an Iliad any rainy morning, if fame were not such a bore. Men, women...are stupid things; but a rifle, and a mild pleasant gunpowder, a spaniel, and a cheroot, are themes for Olympus.

Omar, Caliph, n. (1)

    Con 1.317 5 ...the vigor of...Mahomet, Ali and Omar the Arabians... sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.

Omar, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.101 12 When Omar prayed and loved,/ Where Syrian waters roll,/ Aloft the ninth heaven glowed and moved/ To the tread of the jubilant soul./

Omar's, Caliph, n. (1)

    MR 1.251 17 The Caliph Omar's walking-stick struck more terror into those who saw it than another man's sword.

Omar's, n. (1)

    PPh 4.39 2 Among secular books, Plato only is entitled to Omar's fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said, Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.

omelet, n. (1)

    Mem 12.106 3 Nature trains us on to see illusions and prodigies with no more wonder than our toast and omelet at breakfast.

omen, n. (21)

    LE 1.156 11 ...the fact of [the scholar's] existence and pursuits would be a happy omen.
    MN 1.207 8 Follow the great man, and you shall see what the world has at heart in these ages. There is no omen like that.
    MN 1.217 12 Is [Love] not a certain admirable wisdom...in which the individual is no longer his own foolish master...and consults every omen in nature with tremulous interest?
    YA 1.380 7 All this beneficent socialism is a friendly omen...
    Mrs1 3.133 14 There will always be in society certain persons...whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities...
    F 6.46 13 Some people are made up of rhyme, coincidence, omen, periodicity, and presage...
    Bhr 6.181 6 There are...prowling eyes; and eyes full of fate,--some of good and some of sinister omen.
    PI 8.33 4 Homer has his own [important passages],--One omen is best, to fight for one's country;/...
    PI 8.48 23 Omen and coincidence show the rhythmical structure of man;...
    PI 8.65 11 ...every creation is omen of every other.
    Dem1 10.13 24 When Hector is told that the omens are unpropitious, he replies,-One omen is the best, to fight for one's country./
    Dem1 10.28 5 The whole world is an omen and a sign.
    MMEm 10.422 24 To her nephew Charles [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: War; what do I think of it? Why in your ear I think it so much better than oppression that if it were ravaging the whole geography of despotism it would be an omen of high and glorious import.
    HDC 11.75 11 The British, as soon as they were rejoined by the plundering detachment, began that disastrous retreat to Boston, which was an omen to both parties of the event of the war.
    LVB 11.93 16 You [Van Buren], sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this intrument of perfidy [the relocation of the Cherokees]; and the name of this nation, hitherto the sweet omen of religion and liberty, will stink to the world.
    EWI 11.135 3 ...as an omen and assurance of success, I point to you the bright example which England set you [in emancipation in the West Indies]...
    EWI 11.144 11 ...now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint... or of the leaders of [the negro] race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.
    War 11.174 27 ...if the desire of a large class of young men for a faith and hope, intellectual and religious, such as they have not yet found, be an omen to be trusted;...then war has a short day...
    II 12.78 12 ...before the good we aim at, all history is...only a good omen.
    WSL 12.341 23 The existence of the poorest playwright and the humblest scrivener is a good omen.
    PPr 12.391 21 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning, becomes an omen to him henceforward...

omens, n. (18)

    Nat 1.1 3 The eye reads omens where it goes,/ And speaks all languages the rose;/...
    LT 1.259 17 The Times...are to be studied as omens,...
    GoW 4.276 8 ...what [Goethe] says...of omens...refuses to be forgotten.
    ET16 5.283 23 ...we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton, Carlyle not suppressing some threats and evil omens on the proprietors...
    F 6.1 1 Delicate omens traced in air,/ To the lone bard true witness bare;/...
    Suc 7.303 24 ...[the lover] reads omens on the flower...
    PI 8.12 7 God himself...communicates with us by hints, omens, inference...
    PC 8.207 1 We meet to-day under happy omens to our ancient society...
    PC 8.227 9 There is not a person here present to whom omens that should astonish have not predicted his future...
    Dem1 10.3 2 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which shun rather than court inquiry...
    Dem1 10.9 17 ...[dreams] have a substantial truth. The same remark may be extended to the omens and coincidences which may have astonished us.
    Dem1 10.13 22 When Hector is told that the omens are unpropitious, he replies,-One omen is the best, to fight for one's country./
    Dem1 10.15 10 It is not the tendency of our times to ascribe importance...to omens.
    Dem1 10.22 10 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...what is to befall him, omens and coincidences foreshow;...
    Dem1 10.22 18 The deepest flattery...is the flattery of omens.
    Dem1 10.23 25 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds.
    Prch 10.223 11 ...this [movement of religious opinion] of to-day has the best omens as being of the most expansive humanity...
    Plu 10.300 26 ...twilights, shadows, omens and spectres have a charm for [Plutarch].

ominous, adj. (6)

    PPh 4.53 3 [The Greeks] saw before them...no ominous Malthus;...
    ET11 5.193 10 The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts, Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre, and now and then darker scandals break out, ominous as the new chapters added under the Orleans dynasty to the Causes Celebres in France.
    Edc1 10.133 22 It is ominous...that this word Education has so cold, so hopeless a sound.
    MMEm 10.429 6 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up, the last year or two, the hope of dying. In the lowest ebb of health nothing is ominous;...
    EWI 11.110 25 In the [West Indian] islands was an ominous state of cruel and licentious society;...
    Trag 12.409 2 After we have enumerated...mutilation, rack, madness and loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror...an ominous spirit which haunts the afternoon and the night...

ominously, adv. (1)

    FSLC 11.200 19 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate.

omission, n. (5)

    Con 1.319 6 ...[the radical's] theory is right, but he makes no allowance for friction; and this omission makes his whole doctrine false.
    ET12 5.212 11 The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.
    Bty 6.294 22 In rhetoric, this art of omission is a chief secret of power...
    LLNE 10.350 24 Your community should consist of two thousand persons, to prevent accidents of omission;...
    SlHr 10.448 22 [Samuel Hoar] was as if on terms of honor with those nearest him, nor did he think a lifelong familiarity could excuse any omission of courtesy from him.

omissions, n. (2)

    LT 1.274 15 Religion was not invited to eat or drink or sleep with us...but was a holiday guest. Such omissions judge the church;...
    Imtl 8.346 1 ...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry eyes that run through it will close disappointed; the listeners say, That is not here which we desire;-and I shall be as much wronged by their hasty conclusions, as they feel themselves wronged by my omissions.

omit, v. (26)

    Nat 1.39 22 Passing by many particulars of the discipline of nature, we must not omit to specify two.
    Nat 1.67 5 ...the problems to be solved are precisely those which the physiologist and the naturalist omit to state.
    LE 1.181 4 Let [the scholar] not, too eager to grasp some badge of reward, omit the work to be done.
    Con 1.309 5 ...as I am born to the Earth, so the Earth is given to me, what I want of it to till and to plant; nor could I, without pusillanimity, omit to claim so much.
    Tran 1.354 17 ...this class [Transcendentalists] are not sufficiently characterized if we omit to add that they are lovers and worshippers of Beauty.
    Hsm1 2.249 19 Unhappily no man exists who has not in his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation. Our culture therefore must not omit the arming of the man.
    Art1 2.351 11 The details, the prose of nature [the painter] should omit...
    Nat2 3.179 10 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature...
    Pol1 3.217 6 Malthus and Ricardo quite omit [character];...
    NER 3.259 24 ...I will omit this conjugating [of Greek and Latin], and go straight to affairs.
    GoW 4.277 18 ...I cannot omit to specify [Goethe's] Wilhelm Meister.
    ET1 5.8 21 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon...and did not even omit to remark the similar termination of their names.
    Ctr 6.141 16 ...we must not omit any jot of our system...
    Art2 7.43 9 Music, Eloquence, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts. I omit Rhetoric, which only respects the form of eloquence and poetry.
    Elo1 7.85 7 The several talents which the orator employs...deserve a special enumeration. We must not quite omit to name the principal pieces.
    Suc 7.309 12 Omit the negative propositions.
    PI 8.32 27 Later, the thought, the happy image which expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to mind, and sends me back in search of the book. And I wish that the poet should foresee this habit of readers, and omit all but the important passages.
    Insp 8.288 18 ...it is almost impossible for a house-keeper who is in the country a small farmer, to exclude interruptions and even necessary orders, though I...resolutely omit...all that can be omitted.
    Chr2 10.107 16 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...but only...that they see that they can omit the form without loss of real ground;...
    Edc1 10.153 21 ...there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind...
    Supl 10.175 11 ...Nature...crystallizes in water at one invariable angle...in granite at one; and if you omit the smallest condition, the experiment will not succeed.
    EWI 11.133 20 It is so easy to omit to speak, or even to be absent when delicate things are to be handled.
    War 11.168 16 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact. They look only at the passive side of the friend of peace...they quite omit to consider his activity.
    SMC 11.376 11 ...I do not like to omit the testimony to the character of the Commander of the Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment [George Prescott]...
    PLT 12.33 10 In reckoning the sources of our mental power it were fatal to omit that one which pours all the others into its mould;...
    II 12.65 2 In reckoning the sources of our mental power, it were fatal to omit that one which pours all the others into mould...

omits, v. (3)

    PPh 4.61 15 [Plato] omits never this graduation, but slopes his thought, however picturesque the precipice on one side, to an access from the plain.
    Grts 8.304 7 A sensible man...omits himself as habitually as another man obtrudes himself in the discourse...
    ACri 12.290 16 What the poet omits exalts every syllable that he writes.

omitted, v. (18)

    Nat 1.41 11 ...[discipline] is [nature's] public and universal function, and is never omitted.
    LE 1.180 1 ...whilst he...omitted no part of prudence, [Napoleon] believed also in the freedom...of the soul.
    YA 1.381 2 These [Communities] proceeded...in great part from a feeling... that in the scramble of parties for the public purse the main duties of government were omitted...
    YA 1.382 21 It was a noble thought of Fourier...to distinguish in his Phalanx a class as the Sacred Band, by whom whatever duties were disagreeable and likely to be omitted, were to be assumed.
    SwM 4.127 12 The book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] had been grand if the Hebraism had been omitted...
    NMW 4.256 14 ...I said, Bonaparte represents the democrat, or the party of men of business, against the stationary or conservative party. I omitted then to say...that these two parties differ only as young and old.
    ET5 5.95 4 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order, and breeds in which every thing was omitted but what is economical.
    Pow 6.59 17 The weaker party finds that none of his information or wit quite fits the occasion. He thought he knew this or that; he finds that he omitted to learn the end of it.
    CbW 6.277 1 Wherever there is failure, there is...some step omitted...
    SA 8.85 2 There is even a little rule of prudence for the young experimenter which Dr. Franklin omitted to set down...
    Insp 8.288 19 ...it is almost impossible for a house-keeper who is in the country a small farmer, to exclude interruptions and even necessary orders, though I...resolutely omit...all that can be omitted.
    Edc1 10.134 21 If the vast and the spiritual are omitted [in our culture], so are the practical and the moral.
    LS 11.6 3 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially...has quite omitted such a notice.
    FSLC 11.203 10 [Webster] indulged occasionally in excellent expression of the known feeling of the New England people [on slavery]: but, when expected and when pledged, he omitted to speak...
    FSLC 11.203 11 [Webster] indulged occasionally in excellent expression of the known feeling of the New England people [on slavery]: but...he omitted to throw himself into the movement in those critical moments when his leadership would have turned the scale.
    PLT 12.8 16 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor hastens to inform us that he knew it all twenty years ago...and poor Nature and the sublime law...are quite omitted in this triumphant vindication.
    ACri 12.290 25 ...there must be [in writing] no cramp insufficiency, but the superfluous must be omitted.
    MLit 12.324 2 ...for many of [Goethe's] stories, this seems the only reason: Here is a piece of humanity I had hitherto omitted to sketch;-take this.

omitting, v. (6)

    LT 1.268 21 Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes...
    Fdsp 2.203 6 I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy...omitting all compliment and commonplace, spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered...
    GoW 4.274 16 [Goethe] writes in the plainest and lowest tone, omitting a great deal more than he writes...
    Comc 8.164 27 ...the inertia of men inclines them, when the [religious] sentiment sleeps, to imitate that thing it did; it goes through the ceremony omitting only the will...
    EWI 11.100 4 ...by doing and by omitting to do, [emancipation] goes forward.
    ACri 12.290 8 The next virtue of rhetoric is compression, the science of omitting...

omne, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.44 20 Omne verum vero consonat.

Omniarch, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.351 9 There, in the Golden Horn, will the Arch-Phalanx be established; there will the Omniarch reside.

omnibus, n. (1)

    FRep 11.538 1 Ours is the age of the omnibus...

omnific, adj. (1)

    CInt 12.128 17 I would have you rely on Nature ever,-wise, omnific, thousand-handed Nature...

omnipotence, n. (20)

    Comp 2.95 15 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success, instead of... announcing...the omnipotence of the will;...
    Cir 2.317 15 ...these [divine] moments confer a sort of omnipresence and omnipotence...
    ET10 5.161 17 Nations have lost their old omnipotence;...
    F 6.25 4 If there be omnipotence in the stroke, there is omnipotence of recoil.
    F 6.25 5 If there be omnipotence in the stroke, there is omnipotence of recoil.
    F 6.49 26 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout existence; a Law which...solicits the pure in heart to draw on all its omnipotence.
    Ill 6.319 22 The intellect sees...that the mind opens to omnipotence;...
    Civ 7.30 9 ...when [man] is the vehicle of ideas, he borrows their omnipotence.
    Res 8.153 19 Resources of Man...it is the power of passion, the majesty of virtue and the omnipotence of will.
    PC 8.224 2 The immeasurableness of Nature is not more astounding than [man's] power to gather all her omnipotence into a manageable rod or wedge...
    PerF 10.69 8 ...man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can...help him in every kind. Each by itself has a certain omnipotence...
    Schr 10.274 3 [The scholar] is brave, because he sees the omnipotence of what which inspires him.
    LLNE 10.342 11 ...a sympathizing Englishman...interrupted with the question, Mr. Alcott, a lady near me desires to inquire whether omnipotence abnegates attribute?
    ACiv 11.308 22 [Emancipation] is borrowing, as I said, the omnipotence of a principle.
    EdAd 11.382 3 The old men studied magic in the flowers,/ And human fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring things to names, for these were men/...
    Wom 11.413 3 ...the omnipotence of Eve is in humility.
    PLT 12.36 15 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence.
    CInt 12.113 15 ...it were a compounding of all gradation and reverence to suffer the flash of swords...to intrude [in the college] on this sanctity and omnipotence of Intellectual Law.
    Milt1 12.266 9 Few men could be cited who have so well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton], and the precise aid it has brought to men, in being an emphatic affirmation of the omnipotence of spiritual laws...
    Milt1 12.273 13 And so, throughout all his actions and opinions, is [Milton] a consistent...believer in the omnipotence of spiritual laws.

omnipotency, n. (2)

    QO 8.204 19 The divine gift is ever the instant life, which...can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.
    Mem 12.108 21 The divine is...the life that can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which it makes all things new.

omnipotent, adj. (9)

    YA 1.379 8 This beneficent tendency, omnipotent without violence, exists and works.
    Nat2 3.182 22 The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature...omnipotent to its own ends...
    ET9 5.144 16 British citizenship is as omnipotent as Roman was.
    Art2 7.40 21 [In the useful arts] the omnipotent agent is Nature;...
    DL 7.113 25 Give me the means, says the wife, and your house shall not... waste your time. On hearing this we understand how these Means have come to be so omnipotent on earth.
    Chr2 10.96 5 The moral sentiment is alone omnipotent.
    SovE 10.208 18 The life of those once omnipotent traditions was really not in the legend...
    LVB 11.96 6 The potentate and the people perish before [the moral sentiment]; but with it, and as its executor, they are omnipotent.
    PLT 12.28 8 'T is only the source that we can see;-the eternal mind... omnipotent in itself...

Omnipotent, n. (1)

    WD 7.156 2 This passing moment is an edifice/ Which the Omnipotent cannot rebuild/

omnipresence, n. (16)

    MN 1.210 13 It is pitiful to be an artist, when by forbearing to be artists we might be vessels...enriched by the circulations of omniscience and omnipresence.
    Comp 2.101 26 The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.
    Comp 2.125 21 We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence.
    Cir 2.314 17 Omnipresence is a higher fact.
    Cir 2.317 14 ...these [divine] moments confer a sort of omnipresence and omnipotence...
    Exp 3.59 13 ...the practical wisdom infers an indifferency, from the omnipresence of objection.
    Nat2 3.181 14 ...by clothing the sides of a bird with a few feathers [nature] gives him a petty omnipresence.
    UGM 4.12 8 ...we sit by the fire and take hold on the poles of the earth. This quasi omnipresence supplies the imbecility of our condition.
    SwM 4.102 21 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg]...suggests...that a certain... quasi omnipresence of the human soul in nature, is possible.
    F 6.25 17 ...the great day of the feast of life, is that in which the inward eye opens...to the omnipresence of law...
    Wsp 6.215 11 I find the omnipresence and the almightiness in the reaction of every atom in nature.
    QO 8.186 24 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers, Gyge's Ring...whose omnipresence only indicates how easily a good story crosses all frontiers.
    LLNE 10.334 14 ...not a sentence was written in academic exercises...but showed the omnipresence of [Everett's] genius to youthful heads.
    PLT 12.43 1 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...sees so truly the omnipresence of eternal cause that he can convert the daily and hourly event of New York, of Boston, into universal symbols.
    MLit 12.333 21 ...all the hints of omnipresence and energy which we have caught, this man [the poet] should unfold, and constitute facts.
    WSL 12.345 17 What is the quality of the persons who...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history...

Omnipresence, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.427 26 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then I ask not faith nor knowledge;...

omnipresent, adj. (10)

    LT 1.268 5 The two omnipresent parties of History, the party of the Past and the party of the Future, divide society today as of old.
    Comp 2.109 11 ...this law of laws [Compensation]...is hourly preached in all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs, whose teaching is as true and as omnipresent as that of birds and flies.
    Exp 3.43 11 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Use and Surprise,/ Surface and Dream,/ Succession swift, and spectral Wrong,/ Temperament without a tongue,/ And the inventor of the game/ Omnipresent without name;--/...
    Nat2 3.193 16 What shall we say of this omnipresent appearance of that first projectile impulse...
    NER 3.282 21 I am not pained that I cannot frame a reply to the question, What is the operation we call Providence? There lies the unspoken thing, present, omnipresent.
    PPh 4.50 5 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...omnipresent...
    ShP 4.212 16 An omnipresent humanity co-ordinates all [Shakespeare's] faculties.
    Art2 7.41 15 [Our works] must be conformed to [Nature's] law, or they will be ground to powder by her omnipresent activity.
    Imtl 8.341 14 The demands of [the thinker's] task are such that it becomes omnipresent.
    SovE 10.199 21 God is one and omnipresent; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

omnis, adj. (1)

    Clbs 7.238 18 Omnis definitio periculosa est...

omniscience, n. (11)

    MN 1.210 13 It is pitiful to be an artist, when by forbearing to be artists we might be vessels...enriched by the circulations of omniscience and omnipresence.
    MN 1.221 15 Be the lowly ministers of that pure omniscience [the intellect]...
    OS 2.280 14 ...the Maker of all things and all persons...casts his dread omniscience through us over things.
    Mrs1 3.140 13 [One] must leave the omniscience of business at the door, when he comes into the palace of beauty.
    ET15 5.266 19 [The London Times's] private information...recalls the stories of Fouche's police, whose omniscience made it believed that the Empress Josephine must be in his pay.
    Art2 7.49 11 So much as we can...bring the omniscience of reason upon the subject before us, so perfect is the work [of art].
    SovE 10.183 10 There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man, but in every particle.
    Plu 10.299 19 [Plutarch] is...sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of his readers...respectfully skipping to the next chapter. But this scholastic omniscience of our author engages a new respect, since they hope he understands his own diagram.
    CPL 11.503 11 ...what omniscience has music!...
    PLT 12.35 13 ...[Instinct] plays the god in animal nature as in human or as in the angelic, and spends its omniscience on the lowest wants.
    II 12.65 12 We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain...which seems to sheathe a certain omniscience;...

Omniscience, n. (1)

    OS 2.288 1 The same Omniscience flows into the intellect and makes what we call genius.

omniscient, adj. (4)

    OS 2.291 12 Nothing can pass [in the soul]...but...dealing man to man in... omniscient affirmation.
    Pt1 3.17 14 The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation.
    OA 7.330 8 Time, yes, that is...the unweariable explorer...omniscient at last.
    Comc 8.157 8 The Reason pronounces its omniscient yea and nay...

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