Opponent to Organisms

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

opponent, n. (3)

    Pow 6.59 23 ...if [the weaker party] knew all the facts in the encyclopedia, it would not help him; for this is an affair...of aplomb: the opponent has the sun and wind...
    EWI 11.100 12 The institution of slavery seems to its opponent to have but one side...
    Milt1 12.257 11 Wood, [Milton's] political opponent, relates that his deportment was affable...

opponents, n. (5)

    Pol1 3.208 11 The same benign necessity and the same practical abuse appear in the parties...of opponents and defenders of the administration of the government.
    Chr2 10.110 22 ...what Christ meant and willed is in essence more with [the satirists of Christianity] than with their opponents...
    AsSu 11.250 11 [Sumner's] opponents accuse him neither of drunkenness nor debauchery...
    EPro 11.324 11 The popular statement of the opponents of the [Civil] war abroad is the impossibility of our success.
    Milt1 12.265 26 When [Milton] had cut down his opponents, he left the details of death and plunder to meaner partisans.

opportuneness, n. (1)

    EPro 11.322 18 Whilst we have pointed out the opportuneness of the [Emancipation] Proclamation, it remains to be said that the President had no choice.

opportunities, n. (26)

    MN 1.207 26 Is it for [a man]...to linger by the wayside for opportunities?
    LT 1.265 7 Let us paint...the fair aspirant for fashion and opportunities...
    Con 1.306 7 ...when this great tendency [conservatism]...is challenged by young men, to whom it is...a fact of hunger, distress, and exclusion from opportunities, it must needs seem injurious.
    Con 1.319 26 If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has entertained as good against the general despair, Society...shuts him out of her opportunities...
    Lov1 2.185 12 ...adding up costly advantages, friends, opportunities, properties, [lovers] exult in discovering that...they would give all as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head...
    Mrs1 3.123 9 In times of violence, every eminent person must fall in with many opportunities to approve his stoutness and worth;...
    NMW 4.242 13 The day of sleepy, selfish policy, ever narrowing the means and opportunities of young men, was ended [in France]...
    ET4 5.49 2 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...the million opportunities and outlets for expanding and misplaced talent;...
    ET17 5.292 20 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society.
    Elo1 7.71 16 ...what is the Odyssey but a history of the orator...carried through a series of adventures furnishing brilliant opportunities to his talent?
    SA 8.100 24 ...[there is in America the general belief that] if [the young American] have...quick eye for the opportunities which are always offering for investment, he can come to wealth...
    Res 8.137 6 The world is...all opportunities...
    Grts 8.311 7 The world was created as an audience for [the scholar]; the atoms of which it is made are opportunities.
    Grts 8.316 15 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household life are wanting, and yet the opportunities and incentives to sublime daring and performance are often close at hand.
    Aris 10.45 17 He who understands the art of war, reckons the hostile battalions and cities, opportunities and spoils.
    Edc1 10.133 10 If I have renounced the search of truth...I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as a bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain.
    Schr 10.287 13 [The scholar] is still to decline how many glittering opportunities...
    LLNE 10.369 6 [Brook Farm] was a close union...of clergymen, young collegians, merchants, mechanics, farmers' sons and daughters, with men and women of rare opportunities and delicate culture...
    MMEm 10.399 21 I report some of the thoughts and soliloquies of a country girl [Mary Moody Emerson]...growing from youth to age amid slender opportunities and usually very humble company.
    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...
    War 11.172 3 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...quite willing to use the opportunities and advantages that good government throw in his way, but nothing daunted, and not really poorer if government, law and order went by the board;...
    SMC 11.357 5 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...men hitherto of narrow opportunities of knowing the world...
    Wom 11.408 2 ...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece. Till the new education and larger opportunities of very modern times, this position, with the fewest possible exceptions, has always been true.
    Wom 11.419 9 ...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women's rights] have been deprived of...opportunities, such as they wished...that they have been stung to say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.
    Mem 12.91 13 Opportunities of investment are useful only to those who have capital.
    MLit 12.323 8 ...since the earth as we said had become a reading-room, the new opportunities seem to have aided [Goethe] to be that resolute realist he is...

opportunity, n. (45)

    AmS 1.95 25 The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by...
    MR 1.240 12 Every man ought to have this opportunity to conquer the world for himself.
    YA 1.367 20 ...the new modes of travelling enlarge the opportunity of selection [of a seat]...
    YA 1.392 5 ...after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...which offers opportunity to the human mind not known in any other region.
    Gts 3.159 13 If at any time it comes into my head that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.
    Gts 3.162 17 We arraign society if it do not give us...opportunity, love, reverence and objects of veneration.
    Nat2 3.191 3 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual! Could it not be had as well by beggars on the highway? No, all these things came from successive efforts of these beggars to remove friction from the wheels of life, and give opportunity.
    NR 3.239 24 Hence the immense benefit of party in politics, as it reveals faults of character in a chief, which the intellectual force of the persons, with ordinary opportunity...could not have seen.
    NER 3.251 1 Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five years...will have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting.
    MoS 4.160 10 ...skepticism] is [a position] of more opportunity and range...
    NMW 4.249 4 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops...feel inclined to run. That terror proceeds from a want of confidence in their own courage, and it only requires a slight opportunity...to restore confidence to them.
    NMW 4.249 6 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops...feel inclined to run. That terror proceeds from a want of confidence in their own courage, and it only requires a slight opportunity, a pretence, to restore confidence to them. The art is, to give rise to the opportunity and to invent the pretence.
    ET2 5.25 19 ...the proposal [to lecture in England] offered an excellent opportunity of seeing the interior of England and Scotland...
    ET4 5.49 25 Any the least and solitariest fact in our natural history, such as the melioration of fruits and animal stocks, has the worth of a power in the opportunity of geologic periods.
    ET9 5.148 11 [This little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain]... encourages a frank and manly bearing, so that each man...loses no opportunity for want of pushing.
    ET10 5.166 5 I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the better class to that of any potentate in Europe,--whether for travel, or for opportunity of society...
    ET13 5.226 10 Like the Quakers, [the wise legislator] may resist the separation of a class of priests, and create opportunity and expectation in the society to run to meet natural endowment in this kind.
    Pow 6.56 25 [A strong pulse] is like the opportunity of a city like New York or Constantinople, which needs no diplomacy to force capital or genius or labor to it.
    Wth 6.105 27 Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice...
    Ctr 6.146 21 ...boys and men of that condition [who have grown up on a farm, which they have never left] look upon...drudgery in a city, as opportunity.
    Elo1 7.63 8 No one can survey the face of an excited assembly, without being apprised of new opportunity for painting in fire human thought...
    Elo1 7.64 12 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians...when a proper opportunity offers, this same person, like a skilful jaculator, will hurl a sentence worthy of attention...
    Elo1 7.77 7 Face to face with a highwayman who has every temptation and opportunity for violence and plunder, can you bring yourself off safe by your wit exercised through speech?...
    Elo1 7.97 11 Let [the man who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion] look on opposition as opportunity.
    DL 7.120 25 ...who can see unmoved...the affectionate delight with which [the eager, blushing boys] greet the return of each one after the early separations which school or business require; the foresight with which, during such absences, they hive the honey which opportunity offers, for the ear and imagination of others;...
    WD 7.180 12 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will...sit at home with repose and deep joy on its face. The world has no such landscape...the future no equal second opportunity.
    Clbs 7.242 13 There are men who are great only to one or two companions of more opportunity...
    Cour 7.271 19 If opportunity allowed, [Governor Wise and John Brown] would prefer each other's society...
    Elo2 8.119 26 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice, and exulted in the opportunity given her in the great halls she found sometimes built over a railroad depot.
    Res 8.143 7 Here [in America] is bread, and wealth, and power, and education for every man who has the heart to use his opportunity.
    PPo 8.252 16 [Self-naming in poetry] gives [Hafiz] the opportunity of the most playful self-assertion...
    Aris 10.46 27 ...the revolution of things is always bringing the need, now of this, now of that, and is sure to bring home the opportunity to every one.
    Edc1 10.156 11 ...he is,-every child, a new style of man; give him time and opportunity.
    Prch 10.230 16 The simple fact...that all over this country the people are waiting to hear a sermon on Sunday, assures that opportunity which is inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large liberties.
    Schr 10.268 11 Nature...will bring to each of you the crowded hour, the great opportunity.
    LLNE 10.348 22 We had an opportunity of learning something of these Socialists and their theory, from...Albert Brisbane.
    Carl 10.492 7 [Young men] go for free institutions...and only giving opportunity and motive to every man; [Carlyle] for stringent government...
    HDC 11.51 15 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their desire, as opportunity served, and the English lived among them, to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
    HDC 11.86 13 I have had much opportunity of access to anecdotes of families...
    EWI 11.115 24 The clergy and missionaries throughout the island [Antigua] were actively engaged, seizing the opportunity to enlighten the people on all the duties and responsibilities of their new relation...
    ACiv 11.305 22 Congress can...abolish slavery, and pay for such slaves as we ought to pay for. Then the slaves near our armies will come to us; those in the interior will know in a week what their rights are, and will, where opportunity offers, prepare to take them.
    FRep 11.541 15 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity of civil rights...
    PLT 12.3 1 I have used such opportunity as I have had...to attend scientific lectures;...
    PLT 12.12 6 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he... only draws that arc which he clearly sees, or perhaps at a later observation a remote curve of the same orbit, and waits for a new opportunity...
    II 12.82 12 Every man comes into Nature impressed with his own polarity or bias, in obeying which his power, opportunity and happiness reside.

Opportunity, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.299 24 America is another word for Opportunity.

oppose, v. (7)

    YA 1.376 12 ...the Emperor Nicholas is reported to have said to his council...rely on me, gentlemen, I shall oppose an iron will to the progress of liberal opinions.
    NMW 4.249 25 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it.
    Aris 10.59 24 The youth, having got through the first thickets that oppose his entrance into life...is left to himself...
    Schr 10.275 13 The hero rises out of all comparison with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he...will oppose all mankind at the call of that private and perfect Right and Beauty in which he lives.
    HDC 11.52 11 Tahattawan, our Concord sachem, called his Indians together, and bid them not oppose the courses which the English were taking for their good;...
    HDC 11.68 21 ...it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting opposition...
    MAng1 12.224 1 When the Florentines united themselves with Venice, England and France, to oppose the power of the Emperor Charles V., Michael Angelo was appointed Military Architect and Engineer, to superintend the erection of the necessary works.

opposed, v. (10)

    SR 2.48 6 ...that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, [children, babes, and brutes] have not.
    NMW 4.252 23 ...Rome and Austria, centres of tradition and genealogy, opposed [Napoleon].
    ET3 5.36 9 The influence of France is a constituent of modern civility, but not enough opposed to the English for the most wholesome effect.
    ET10 5.154 27 When Sir S. Romilly proposed his bill forbidding parish officers to bind children apprentices at a greater distance than forty miles from their home, Peel opposed...
    PC 8.210 6 When classes are exasperated against each other, the peace of the world is always kept by striking a new note. Instantly...those who were opposed are now side by side.
    LLNE 10.363 10 [Charles Newcomb] lived and thought, in 1842, such worlds of life; all hinging on the thought of Being or Reality as opposed to consciousness;...
    Thor 10.460 11 ...idealist as he was...[Thoreau] found himself not only unrepresented in actual politics, but almost equally opposed to every class of reformers.
    LVB 11.92 5 We have inquired if this [rumored relocation of the Cherokees] be a gross misrepresentation from the party opposed to the government...
    EWI 11.120 9 The accounts [of emancipation] which we have from all parties [in the West Indies], both from the planters (and those too who were originally most opposed to the measure), and from the new freemen, are of the most satisfactory kind.
    FSLC 11.193 27 Mr. Webster tells the President that he has been in the North, and he has found no man, whose opinion is of any weight, who is opposed to the [Fugitive Slave] law.

opposes, v. (7)

    DSA 1.124 2 ...whatever opposes that will is everywhere balked and baffled...
    YA 1.376 18 ...this unpleasant egotism, Feudalism opposes and finally destroys.
    PPh 4.66 27 Socrates declares that if some have grown wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...he pretends not to know the way of it. It is adverse to many, nor can those be benefited by associating with me whom the Daemon opposes;...
    Bhr 6.190 18 Another opposes [a man who is already strong] with sound argument, but the argument is scouted until by and by it gets into the mind of some weighty person; then it begins to tell on the community.
    Schr 10.285 18 ...[Genius]...flings itself on real elemental things...which first subsist, and then resist unweariably forevermore all that opposes.
    Schr 10.285 25 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true, which attack and wound any who opposes them...
    Wom 11.410 21 ...[the horse and ox]...say no thanks, but fight down whatever opposes their appetite.

opposing, adj. (4)

    Con 1.295 14 The war [between Conservatism and Innovation]...agitates every man's bosom with opposing advantages every hour.
    F 6.4 26 ...by firmly stating all that is agreeable to experience on one [topic], and doing the same justice to the opposing facts in the others, the true limitations will appear.
    Elo1 7.70 8 ...[the right eloquence] holds the hearer fast; steals away...his belief, that he shall not admit any opposing considerations.
    FSLN 11.237 3 ...that which is hurtful to the world will sink beneath all the opposing forces which it must exasperate.

opposing, v. (1)

    PPh 4.72 16 ...there was some story that under cover of folly, [Socrates] had, in the city government, when one day he chanced to hold a seat there, evinced a courage in opposing singly the popular voice, which had well-nigh ruined him.

opposite, adj. (24)

    MR 1.229 4 What if...the reformers tend to idealism? That only shows the extravagance of the abuses which have driven the mind into the opposite extreme.
    Comp 2.97 1 Superinduce magnetism at one end of a needle, the opposite magnetism takes place at the other end.
    Fdsp 2.197 27 Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.
    Int 2.342 8 He [in whom the love of truth predominates] will...recognize all the opposite negations between which, as walls, his being is swung.
    Exp 3.54 10 Temperament is the veto or limitation-power in the constitution, very justly applied to restrain an opposite excess in the constitution...
    PPh 4.48 18 Urged by an opposite necessity, the mind returns from the one to that which is not one, but other or many;...
    MoS 4.166 24 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;...
    GoW 4.265 17 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare; and a multitude go mad about it, and they are not to be reproved or cured by the opposite multitude who are kept from this particular insanity by an equal frenzy on another crotchet.
    ET1 5.13 21 ...[Coleridge] compared one island [Malta] with the other [Sicily]...Sicily was an excellent school of political economy; for, in any town there, it only needed to ask what the government enacted, and reverse that, to know what ought to be done; it was the most felicitously opposite legislation to anything good and wise.
    F 6.29 15 Does the reading of history make us fatalists? What courage does not the opposite opinion show!
    Ctr 6.141 27 The best heads that ever existed...were...quite too wise to undervalue letters. Their opinion has weight, because they had means of knowing the opposite opinion.
    Farm 7.151 9 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among the landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that... the land is ever yielding less returns to enlarging hosts of eaters. Henry Carey of Philadelphia replied: Not so, Mr. Malthus, but just the opposite of so is the fact.
    Cour 7.259 22 In ordinary, we have a snappish criticism which watches and contradicts the opposite party.
    PC 8.213 25 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain, or in the opposite province of Britanny; the Chanson de Roland, in France;...
    PerF 10.72 2 When the continent sinks, the opposite continent...rises.
    PerF 10.72 3 When the continent sinks, the opposite continent, that is to say, the opposite shore of the ocean, rises.
    Schr 10.266 24 Men run out of one superstition into an opposite superstition...
    Thor 10.458 18 [Thoreau] coldly and fully stated his opinion without affecting to believe that it was the opinion of the company. It was of no consequence if every one present held the opposite opinion.
    HDC 11.75 5 The militia and minute-men...ran over the hills opposite the battle-field...
    FSLN 11.240 8 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit, but that...age on age, shall cast itself into the opposite scale...
    RBur 11.443 7 The doves perching always on the eaves of the Stone Chapel opposite, may know something about [the memory of Burns].
    PLT 12.13 1 ...just in proportion to the activity of thoughts on the study of outward objects...in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth; but a study in the opposite direction had a damaging effect on the mind.
    PLT 12.61 8 Ideal and practical...are never parallel. Each has...its proper dangers, obvious enough when the opposite element is deficient.
    PLT 12.62 3 Sensibility is the secret readiness to believe in all kinds of power, and the contempt of any experience we have not is the opposite pole.

opposite, n. (3)

    AmS 1.87 1 ...nature is the opposite of the soul...
    UGM 4.27 19 We balance one man with his opposite...
    Thor 10.479 11 A certain habit of antagonism defaced [Thoreau's] earlier writings,-a trick of rhetoric...of substituting for the obvious word and thought its diametrical opposite.

opposites, n. (1)

    ShP 4.215 2 ...every subordinate invention, by which [Shakespeare] helps himself to connect some irreconcilable opposites, is a poem too.

opposition, adj. (1)

    YA 1.388 20 The 'opposition' papers, so called, are on the same side.

opposition, n. (56)

    Nat 1.60 23 [The soul] is not hot and passionate...at the union or opposition of other persons.
    MR 1.253 8 ...at the polls [the rich man] finds [laborers] arrayed in a mass in distinct opposition to him.
    MR 1.253 10 We complain that the politics of masses of the people are... led in opposition to manifest justice and the common weal...
    Con 1.295 21 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution. It is the opposition of Past and Future...
    Con 1.307 25 With equal earnestness and good faith, replies to this plaintiff an upholder of the establishment, a man of many virtues: Your opposition is feather-brained and over-fine.
    Tran 1.336 26 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation, would lie as the dying Desdemona lied;...
    YA 1.388 23 The opposition is against those who have money, from those who wish to have money.
    SR 2.51 2 A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he.
    SL 2.152 20 ...we know that these gentlemen will not communicate their own character and experience to the company. If we had reason to expect such a confidence we should go through all inconvenience and opposition.
    SL 2.162 2 The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his whole being without obstruction, so that on what point soever of his doing your eye falls it shall report truly of his character, whether it be his diet...his opposition.
    Lov1 2.183 7 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages...
    GoW 4.269 24 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must sustain with shameless advocacy some bad government, or must bark, all the year round, in opposition;...
    GoW 4.280 24 In England and in America there is a respect for talent; if it is exerted in support of any ascertained or intelligible interest or party, or in regular opposition to any, the public is satisfied.
    ET5 5.78 25 In [the English] parliament, the tactics of the opposition is to resist every step of the government by a pitiless attack;...
    ET5 5.81 8 In parliament [the English] have hit on that capital invention of freedom, a constitutional opposition.
    ET8 5.136 10 Each of [the English] has an opinion which he feels it becomes him to express all the more that it differs from yours. They are meditating opposition.
    ET15 5.264 25 [The London Times] will kill all but that paper which is diametrically in opposition;...
    F 6.3 15 Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return and reconcile their opposition.
    F 6.21 5 ...all that is wilful and fantastic in [Fate] is in opposition to its fundamental essence.
    Pow 6.65 13 These Hoosiers and Suckers are really better than the snivelling opposition.
    Civ 7.23 20 We see insurmountable multitudes obeying, in opposition to their strongest passions, the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive...
    Elo1 7.73 1 ...[Homer] does not fail to arm Ulysses at first with this power of overcoming all opposition by the blandishments of speech.
    Elo1 7.95 16 ...wherever the fresh moral sentiment, the instinct of freedom and duty, come in direct opposition to fossil conservatism and the thirst of gain, the spark will pass.
    Elo1 7.97 10 Let [the man who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion] look on opposition as opportunity.
    Elo1 7.97 20 [The eloquent man] is not to neutralize [the people's] opposition...
    Cour 7.258 4 Mankind, said Franklin, are dastardly when they meet with opposition.
    Suc 7.308 8 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success.
    Comc 8.173 12 ...what is fitter than that we should espouse and carry a principle against all opposition?
    PC 8.231 13 I believe that the checks are as sure as the springs. It is thereby that men are great and have great allies. And who are the allies? Rude opposition, apathy, slander,-even these.
    Aris 10.50 24 ...[the public] forgot to ask the fourth question...without which the others do not avail. Has [the candidate] a will? Can he carry his points against opposition?
    Aris 10.58 24 ...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which...wearies out opposition...
    SovE 10.189 9 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...though we should fold our arms...the evils we suffer will at last end themselves through the incessant opposition of Nature to everything hurtful.
    CSC 10.376 14 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it...in...the prophetic dignity and transfiguration which accompanies, even amidst opposition and ridicule, a man whose mind is made up to obey the great inward Commander...
    Thor 10.456 1 There was somewhat military in [Thoreau's] nature...as if he did not feel himself except in opposition.
    Thor 10.458 14 No opposition or ridicule had any weight with [Thoreau].
    LS 11.24 16 That is the end of my opposition [to the Lord's Supper], that I am not interested in it.
    HDC 11.68 24 ...it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting opposition...
    LVB 11.95 26 A man [Van Buren] with your experience in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral sentiment.
    EWI 11.137 20 Every one of these [arguments against emancipation in the West Indies] was built on the narrow ground...of sordid gain, in opposition to every motive that had reference to humanity, justice, and religion...
    War 11.155 5 Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle...to resist opposition...
    War 11.162 27 ...what is true...must at last prevail over all obstruction and all opposition.
    FSLC 11.199 21 ...Mr. Webster can judge whether this sort of solar microscope brought to bear on his law is likely to make opposition less.
    FSLC 11.203 17 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th March, 1850, in opposition to his education, association, and to all his own most explicit language for thirty years, [Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery party in this country.
    FSLN 11.228 4 ...by Mr. Webster the opposition to the [Fugitive Slave] law was sharply called treason...
    AKan 11.261 2 In the free states, we give a snivelling support to slavery. The judges give cowardly interpretations to the law, in direct opposition to the known foundation of all law, that every immoral statute is void.
    JBS 11.281 10 Nothing is more absurd than...to complain of a party of men united in opposition to slavery.
    EPro 11.317 25 When we consider the immense opposition that has been neutralized or converted by the progress of the war...one can hardly say the deliberation [on the Emancipation Proclamation] was too long.
    EPro 11.320 5 [The Emancipation Proclamation] does not promise the redemption of the black race;...but it relieves it of our opposition.
    SMC 11.354 14 ...opposition to [justice] is against the nature of things;...
    EdAd 11.388 24 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... constituting a snivelling and despised opposition...and persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
    EdAd 11.389 8 We have a bad war, many victories, each of which converts the country into an immense chanticleer; and a very insincere political opposition.
    PLT 12.26 20 No ambition, no opposition...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association.
    II 12.82 2 A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less comprehension.
    Bost 12.202 27 The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which consumed all opposition...
    Milt1 12.253 6 The opposition to [a masterpiece of art], always greatest at first, continually decreases...
    Milt1 12.271 7 Toland tells us...[Milton] used to tell those about him the entire satisfaction of his mind that he had constantly employed his strength and faculties...in direct opposition to slavery.

oppositions, n. (1)

    F 6.35 17 ...if calamities, oppositions, and weights are wings and means,- we are reconciled.

oppress, v. (4)

    Cir 2.310 24 When each new speaker [in a conversation]...emancipates us from the oppression of the last speaker to oppress us with the greatness and exclusiveness of his own thought...we seem to recover our rights, to become men.
    ET14 5.255 6 The practical and comfortable oppress [the English] with inexorable claims...
    Elo2 8.123 26 At no hour of your life will the love of letters ever oppress you as a burden...
    EWI 11.119 15 The power of the [Jamaican] planters...to oppress, was greater than the power of the apprentice and of his guardians to withstand.

oppressed, adj. (3)

    SovE 10.210 3 Here is contribution...of political support to oppressed parties.
    EWI 11.143 10 Who cares for oppressing whites, or oppressed blacks, twenty centuries ago...
    FSLN 11.244 5 [Liberty] is the oppressed Lady whom true knights on their oath and honor must rescue and save.

oppressed, n. (5)

    YA 1.390 7 That is [the hero's] nobility, his oath of knighthood, to succor the helpless and oppressed;...
    SA 8.95 19 ...there are...brave choices enough of taking the part of truth and of the oppressed against the oppressor, in privatest circles.
    EWI 11.117 23 The governors [of Jamaica], Lord Belmore, the Earl of Sligo, and afterwards Sir Lionel Smith (a governor of their own class who had been sent out to gratify the planters), threw themselves on the side of the oppressed...
    EWI 11.125 1 ...you could not get any poetry, any wisdom, and beauty in woman, any strong and commanding character in man, but these absurdities would still come flashing out,-these absurdities of a demand for justice, a generosity for the weak and oppressed.
    EWI 11.135 18 Other revolutions have been the insurrection of the oppressed; [emancipation in the West Indies] was the repentance of the tyrant.

oppressed, v. (4)

    MN 1.204 5 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that...the whole is oppressed by one superincumbent tendency...
    Prd1 2.233 11 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. ... Yesterday, radiant with the light of an ideal world in which he lives, the first of men; and now oppressed by wants and by sickness, for which he must thank himself.
    GoW 4.289 11 Goethe, coming into an over-civilized time and country, when original talent was oppressed under the load of books and mechanical auxiliaries...taught men how to dispose of this mountainous miscellany and make it subservient.
    EWI 11.129 19 Whilst I have meditated in my solitary walks on the magnanimity of the English Bench and Senate, reaching out the benefit of the law to the most helpless citizen in her world-wide realm [the West Indian slave], I have found myself oppressed by other thoughts.

oppresses, v. (3)

    Prd1 2.232 16 It does not seem to me so genuine grief when some tyrannous Richard the Third oppresses and slays a score of innocent persons, as when Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other.
    DL 7.111 21 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are imitations of these to the extent of their ability. With these ends...[housekeeping] oppresses women.
    LS 11.25 3 ...whilst the recollection of [the pastoral office's] claim oppresses me with a sense of my unworthiness, I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising its highest functions.

oppressing, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.143 10 Who cares for oppressing whites, or oppressed blacks, twenty centuries ago...

oppression, n. (19)

    MR 1.232 10 ...I will not inquire into the oppression of the sailors;...
    Con 1.325 23 ...if they could give their verdict, [mankind] would say that [the intemperate and covetous person's] self-indulgence and his oppression deserved punishment from society...
    YA 1.378 23 We complain of [trade's] oppression of the poor...
    Cir 2.310 23 When each new speaker [in a conversation]...emancipates us from the oppression of the last speaker to oppress us with the greatness and exclusiveness of his own thought...we seem to recover our rights, to become men.
    UGM 4.18 12 Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression.
    ET4 5.46 8 ...slavery does not exist under [the English]. What oppression exists is incidental and temporary;...
    ET18 5.300 15 The [English] game-laws are a proverb of oppression.
    MMEm 10.422 22 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.
    MMEm 10.423 1 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich...
    MMEm 10.425 26 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry:-its oceans, when beating the symbols of ceaseless ages, than when covered with cargoes of war and oppression.
    HDC 11.30 26 I shall not be expected...to repeat the details of that oppression which drove our fathers out hither.
    EWI 11.117 9 ...the habit of oppression was not destroyed [in the West Indies] by a law and a day of jubilee.
    EWI 11.125 16 The oppression of the slave recoiled on [the planters].
    War 11.176 2 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope; but in this broad America...where the forest is only now falling, or yet to fall, and the green earth opened to the inundation of emigrant men from all quarters of oppression and guilt;...
    FSLC 11.180 2 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air, and it is a bad sign when these are discontented, for though they snuff oppression and dishonor at a distance, it is because they are more impressionable...
    FSLN 11.226 5 In the final hour...did [Webster] take...the side of humanity and justice, or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
    FSLN 11.237 4 The terror which the Marseillaise struck into oppression, it thunders again to-day...
    FSLN 11.237 22 The habit of oppression cuts out the moral eyes...
    Bost 12.208 21 ...the genius of Boston is seen in her real independence, productive power and northern acuteness of mind,-which is in nature hostile to oppression.

oppressions, n. (1)

    CbW 6.253 16 The oppressions of William the Norman...made possible the inspirations of Magna Charta...

oppressive, adj. (2)

    ET18 5.305 2 [The English] are oppressive with their temperament...
    PLT 12.7 21 A plain man finds [men of wit] so heavy, dull, and oppressive...that he comes to write in his tablets, Avoid the great man as one who is privileged to be an unprofitable companion.

oppressor, n. (8)

    Hist 2.28 26 ...the oppressor of [the child's] youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth.
    NMW 4.242 23 ...those who smarted under the immediate rigors of the new monarch [Napoleon], pardoned them as the necessary severities of the military system which had driven out the oppressor.
    SA 8.95 20 ...there are...brave choices enough of taking the part of truth and of the oppressed against the oppressor, in privatest circles.
    MoL 10.247 7 A scholar defending the cause...of the oppressor, is a traitor to his profession.
    LVB 11.96 1 However feeble the sufferer and however great the oppressor, it is in the nature of things that the blow should recoil upon the aggressor.
    EWI 11.128 12 For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated...and, at last, the right triumphed...and the oppressor was flung out.
    JBS 11.281 7 ...what is the oath of gentle blood and knighthood? What but to protect the weak and lowly against the strong oppressor?
    WSL 12.340 23 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...a scourge like that of Furies for every oppressor...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.

optative, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.342 5 Our American literature and spiritual history are...in the optative mood;...

optical, adj. (7)

    LE 1.171 9 Take for example the French Eclecticism, which Cousin esteems so conclusive; there is an optical illusion in it.
    Exp 3.52 2 There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
    Exp 3.76 24 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity, with the name of hero or saint. Jesus... is a good man on whom many people are agreed that these optical laws shall take effect.
    Boks 7.220 4 Is there any geography in these things [sacred thoughts]? We call them Asiatic, we call them primeval; but perhaps that is only optical, for Nature is always equal to herself...
    Suc 7.300 4 ...the sand floor is...bent to be a part of the round globe, under the optical sky...
    Schr 10.268 2 ...I do not wish...that life should be to you, as it is to many, optical, not practical.
    SlHr 10.447 15 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school, so called under an impression that the style is passing away, but which, I suppose, is an optical illusion...

optician, n. (1)

    PI 8.11 3 [Goethe] was himself conscious of [imagination's] help, which made him a prophet among the doctors. From this vision he gave brave hints to the zoologist, the botanist and the optician.

opticians, n. (1)

    Supl 10.166 11 Think how much pains astronomers and opticians have taken to procure an achromatic lens.

optics, n. (6)

    UGM 4.10 22 The table of logarithms is one thing, and its vital play in botany, music, optics and architecture another.
    SwM 4.99 8 Such a boy [as Swedenborg]...goes...prying into chemistry and optics...
    GoW 4.275 19 In optics again [Goethe] rejected the artificial theory of seven colors...
    Res 8.149 7 See how [Newton] refreshed himself, resting...from astronomy by optics; from optics by chronology.
    PC 8.211 14 Geology, astronomy, chemistry, optics, have yielded grand results.
    LLNE 10.338 11 The German poet Goethe...declared war against the great name of Newton, proposed his own new and simple optics;...

optimism, n. (3)

    SL 2.135 12 We interfere with the optimism of nature;...
    Prd1 2.227 25 One might find argument for optimism in the abundant flow of this saccharine element of pleasure in every suburb and extremity of the good world.
    CInt 12.126 5 It is true that the University and the Church...do not express the sentiment of the popular politics and the popular optimism, whatever it be.

Optimism, n. (2)

    Comp 2.122 13 The soul...always affirms an Optimism...
    Trag 12.408 3 [Belief in Fate] is discriminated from the doctrine of Philosophical Necessity herein: that the last is an Optimism...

optimist, n. (2)

    LLNE 10.357 15 [Thoreau said] I have never got over my surprise that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world, and in the very nick of time too. There's an optimist for you.
    FSLN 11.236 1 I conceive that thus to detach a man and make him feel that he is to owe all to himself is the way to make him strong and rich; and here the optimist must find, if anywhere, the benefit of Slavery.

option, n. (5)

    Gts 3.160 16 For common gifts, necessity makes pertinences and beauty every day, and one is glad when an imperative leaves him no option;...
    Art2 7.42 4 Man seems to have no option about his tools...
    PPo 8.256 23 Accept whatever befalls; uncover thy brow from thy locks;/ Never to me nor to thee was option imparted;/...
    FSLC 11.179 5 Fellow Citizens: I accepted your invitation to speak to you on the great question of these days, with very little consideration of what I might have to offer: for there seems to be no option.
    PLT 12.63 20 The superiority of the man is...that he...looks straight at the pure fact, with no color of option.

opulence, n. (12)

    Art1 2.356 9 From this succession of excellent objects [of art] we learn at last...the opulence of human nature...
    Art1 2.357 1 ...as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art [of painting], I see the boundless opulence of the pencil...
    Pt1 3.33 7 ...dream delivers us to dream, and while the drunkenness lasts we will sell our bed, our philosophy, our religion, in our opulence.
    NR 3.244 21 Love shows me the opulence of nature...
    PPh 4.59 12 [Plato] has that opulence which furnishes, at every turn, the precise weapon he needs.
    ShP 4.197 20 ...in the whole society of English writers, a large unacknowledged debt [to Chaucer] is easily traced. One is charmed with the opulence which feeds so many pensioners.
    ET12 5.208 25 [An English gentleman] must have average opulence...
    CbW 6.260 14 ...the most meritorious public services have always been performed by persons in a condition of life removed from opulence.
    Boks 7.211 8 [Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy] is an inventory to remind us how many classes and species of facts exist, in observing into what strange and multiplex byways learning has strayed, to infer our opulence.
    Clbs 7.229 18 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain...and the infinite opulence of things is again shown him.
    PI 8.40 26 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere, [the poet] has come into new circulations...the opulence of forms begins to pour into his intellect...
    PI 8.49 24 Rhyme is a pretty good measure of the latitude and opulence of a writer.

opulent, adj. (4)

    SwM 4.118 15 ...whether it be that these things will not be intellectually learned, or that many centuries must elaborate and compose so rare and opulent a soul,--there is no comet, rock-stratum...that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.
    ET10 5.153 20 [The English] do not wish to be represented except by opulent men.
    Suc 7.306 10 The world is always opulent...
    SHC 11.431 25 In cultivated grounds one sees the picturesque and opulent effect of the familiar shrubs...

opulent, n. (1)

    Wth 6.97 23 The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men on thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by the opulent, can be enjoyed by all.

oracle, n. (27)

    AmS 1.84 17 ...the old oracle said, All things have two handles: beware of the wrong one.
    AmS 1.93 13 The discerning will read, in his...Shakspeare...only the authentic utterances of the oracle;...
    LE 1.183 23 Hence the temptation to the scholar...to hear the question...to make an answer of words in lack of the oracle of things.
    SL 2.156 13 You have no oracle to utter...
    Int 2.332 4 ...the oracle comes because we had previously laid siege to the shrine.
    F 6.23 21 Look not on Nature, for her name is fatal, said the oracle.
    Pow 6.73 24 Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle...
    CbW 6.252 18 To say then, the majority are wicked, means...simply that the majority...do not yet know their opinion. That, if they knew it, is an oracle for them and for all.
    CbW 6.258 14 ...according to the old oracle, the Furies are the bonds of men;...
    OA 7.322 13 We still feel the force of Socrates, whom well-advised the oracle pronounced wisest of men;...
    PI 8.64 17 Bring us...poetry which...is the gift to men of new images and symbols, each the ensign and oracle of an age;...
    QO 8.190 11 Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody...
    QO 8.202 8 There is always in [originals] a style and weight of speech which the immanence of the oracle bestowed...
    PC 8.227 20 In our daily intercourse, we...disuse our resort to the Divine oracle.
    Insp 8.286 25 ...eminently thoughtful men...have insisted on an hour of solitude every day, to meet their own mind and learn what oracle it has to impart.
    Insp 8.297 13 [The human soul] is the dictator; the mind itself the awful oracle.
    Grts 8.307 25 ...in this self-respect or hearkening to the privatest oracle, [a man] consults his ease...
    Grts 8.310 2 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. ... It is not an oracle, nor an angel, nor a dream, nor a law;...
    Prch 10.218 27 ...when we have extricated ourselves from all the embarrassments of the social problem, the oracle does not yet emit any light on the mode of individual life.
    Prch 10.224 15 The human race are afflicted with a St. Vitus's dance;... their senses, their talents, are superfluously active, while the torpid heart gives no oracle.
    MoL 10.246 22 There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by suicide.
    ChiE 11.472 20 When Socrates heard that the oracle declared that he was the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that other men held that they were wise, but that he knew that he knew nothing.
    CPL 11.505 7 Hear the testimony of Seldon, the oracle of the English House of Commons in Cromwell's time.
    PLT 12.6 22 When [the student] has once known the oracle he will need no priest.
    PLT 12.45 18 [Thoughts] are the oracle;...
    PLT 12.60 11 That wonderful oracle [the divine soul] will reply when it is consulted...
    CInt 12.121 21 With this divine oracle [thought], we somehow do not get instructed.

Oracle, Pythian, n. (1)

    Plu 10.304 10 In treating of the style of the Pythian Oracle, [Plutarch] says:-Do you not observe, some one will say, what a grace there is in Sappho's measures...

oracles, n. (29)

    AmS 1.102 4 Whatsoever oracles the human heart...has uttered...these [the scholar] shall receive and impart.
    DSA 1.126 26 ...the oracles of this truth cease never...
    DSA 1.151 10 I look for the hour when that supreme Beauty which ravished the souls of those Eastern men...and through their lips spoke oracles to all time, shall speak in the West also.
    MN 1.213 19 ...we have...in the oracles ascribed to the half fabulous Zoroaster, a statement of this fact...
    LT 1.264 18 In the brain of a fanatic; in the wild hope of a mountain boy... is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come, more than in the now organized and accredited oracles.
    Hist 2.8 4 The student is...to esteem his own life the text [of history], and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the Muse of history will utter oracles, as never to those who do not respect themselves.
    SR 2.48 1 What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior of children, babes, and even brutes!
    SL 2.156 15 ...your fellow-men have learned that you cannot help them; for oracles speak.
    OS 2.283 2 In past oracles of the soul the understanding seeks to find answers to sensual questions...
    Int 2.345 23 ...I cannot recite...laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class who have been its prophets and oracles...
    Pt1 3.11 4 I had fancied that the oracles were all silent...
    Pt1 3.30 10 We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air. This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles and all poetic forms.
    NER 3.276 10 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no longer,--it is time to undervalue what he has valued...
    GoW 4.269 11 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person: he wrote...Chaldean oracles...
    CbW 6.272 15 Here [in conversation] are oracles sometimes profusely given...
    Suc 7.306 10 ...the oracles are never silent;...
    PI 8.38 18 ...it is a few oracles spoken by perceiving men that are the texts on which religions and states are founded.
    PI 8.65 18 In the world of letters how few commanding oracles!
    QO 8.193 4 Truth is always present: it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.
    SovE 10.203 16 Far be it from me to underrate the men or the churches that have...organized [men's] devout impulses or oracles into good institutions.
    Plu 10.307 7 Whilst we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power from the philosopher in his closet, we praise it in...the man who lives on quiet terms with existing institutions, yet indicates his perception of these high oracles;...
    Plu 10.313 16 [Plutarch] reminds his friends that the Delphic oracles have given several answers the same in substance as that formerly given to Corax the Naxian: It sounds profane impiety/ To teach that human souls e'er die./
    FRO2 11.489 26 ...in sound frame of mind, we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other men...only for friendship...
    PLT 12.14 7 I observe with curiosity [the Intellect's] risings and settings... that I may learn to...hear and save its oracles and obey them.
    II 12.69 27 Here are we with...the spontaneous impressions of Nature and men, and original oracles,-all ready to be uttered, if only we could be set aglow.
    II 12.79 13 ...there are certain problems one would not willingly open, except when the irresistible oracles broke silence.
    CInt 12.126 13 ...that which [Harvard College] exists for, to be...a Delphos uttering warning and ravishing oracles to lift and lead mankind,-that it shall not be permitted to do or to think of.
    CInt 12.130 10 [The intellect's] oracles countervail all.
    Milt1 12.277 18 What schools and epochs of common rhymers would it need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of [Milton's] muse...

Oracles, Zoroastrian, n. (1)

    Boks 7.218 16 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are, the Desatir of the Persians, and the Zoroastrian Oracles;...

oracular, adj. (8)

    SL 2.151 10 The scholar...follows some giddy girl, not yet taught by religious passion to know the noble woman with all that is serene, oracular and beautiful in her soul.
    Cir 2.322 8 Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius...
    ET16 5.282 27 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass,--a bit of loadstone, easily supposed to be the only one in the world, and therefore naturally awakening the cupidity and ambition of the young heroes of a maritime nation to join in an expedition to obtain possession of this wise stone. Hence the fable that the ship Argo was loquacious and oracular.
    Comc 8.161 27 We feel the absence of [a perception of the Comic] as a defect in the noblest and most oracular soul.
    LLNE 10.333 13 [Everett] abounded...even in a sort of defying experiment of his own wit and skill in giving an oracular weight to Hebrew or Rabbinical words;...
    Thor 10.481 19 [Thoreau] thought the scent a more oracular inquisition than the sight...
    Thor 10.481 20 [Thoreau] thought the scent a more oracular inquisition than the sight,-more oracular and trustworthy.
    Wom 11.405 12 In that race which is now predominant over all the other races of men, it was a cherished belief that women had an oracular nature.

oral, adj. (2)

    ET11 5.173 7 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself...with the written and oral history of Europe...was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by a few offensive realities...
    ACri 12.292 4 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is written, graphic arts and oral arts...but is used as if it meant descriptive...

orange, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.39 3 The maple, which is already making the forest gay with its orange hues, reddened over those houseless men [the settlers of Concord].

orange, n. (2)

    PPh 4.76 14 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which...the sermons of unlettered Arabs and Jews possess. There is an interval; and to cohesion, contact is necessary. I know not what can be said in reply to this criticism but that we have come to a fact in the nature of things: an oak is not an orange.
    Ctr 6.136 3 New York is a sucked orange.

Orange, Prince of, n. (5)

    MAng1 12.224 10 On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city [Florence]...
    MAng1 12.224 16 Michael [Angelo] made such good resistance that the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato].
    MAng1 12.224 22 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack, and by means of a bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable space was left between them and the wall. This simple expedient was sufficient, and the Prince was obliged to turn his siege into a blockade.
    MAng1 12.225 12 On the 21st of March, 1530, the Prince of Orange assaulted the city [Florence] by storm.
    MAng1 12.225 15 Michael Angelo is represented as having ordered his defence [of Florence] so vigorously that the Prince [of Orange] was compelled to retire.

Orange, William of, n. (3)

    NMW 4.239 7 There have been many working kings, from Ulysses to William of Orange...
    ET11 5.195 3 ...[English nobles] were expert in every species of equitation, to the most dangerous practices, and this down to the accession of William of Orange.
    Wsp 6.233 4 It is related of William of Orange, that whilst he was besieging a town on the continent, a gentleman sent to him on public business came to his camp...

orange-flower, n. (1)

    Ill 6.309 19 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...saw every form of stalagmite and stalactite in the sculptured and fretted chambers;--icicle, orange-flower, acanthus, grapes and snowball.

oranges, n. (3)

    ET5 5.94 20 ...oranges and pine-apples are as cheap in London as in the Mediterranean.
    Boks 7.216 9 I remember when some peering eyes of boys discovered that the oranges hanging on the boughs of an orange-tree in a gay piazza were tied to the twigs by thread.
    PerF 10.71 10 Take up a spadeful or a buck-load of loam, who can guess what it holds? But a gardener knows that it is full of peaches, full of oranges...

orange-tree, n. (1)

    Boks 7.216 10 I remember when some peering eyes of boys discovered that the oranges hanging on the boughs of an orange-tree in a gay piazza were tied to the twigs by thread.

orangia, n. (1)

    F 6.18 19 ...in every barrel of cowries brought to New Bedford there shall be one orangia...

oration, n. (9)

    Hist 2.10 21 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before an oration of Burke...
    SL 2.152 13 We see it advertised that Mr. Grand will deliver an oration on the Fourth of July...
    SL 2.152 21 ...a public oration is an escapade...
    Hsm1 2.247 21 I do not readily remember any poem, play, sermon, novel or oration that our press vents in the last few years, which goes to the same [heroic] tune.
    Art1 2.355 14 ...each work of genius...concentrates attention on itself. For the time, it is the only thing worth naming to do that,--be it a sonnet...an oration...
    Art2 7.47 26 Nature...speaks the best part of the oration.
    DL 7.120 9 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...with phrases of the last oration...
    Elo2 8.131 3 What is said is the least part of the oration.
    QO 8.184 5 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument...

orations, n. (7)

    ET12 5.207 16 The great silent crowd of thoroughbred Grecians always known to be around him, the English writer cannot ignore. They prune his orations and point his pen.
    Bhr 6.191 2 We parade our nobilities in poems and orations...
    Ill 6.316 24 I, who have all my life heard any number of orations and debates...am still the victim of any new page;...
    Elo1 7.73 9 Philip of Macedon said of Demosthenes, on hearing the report of one of his orations, Had I been there, he would have persuaded me to take up arms against myself;...
    Elo1 7.99 4 One thought the philosophers of Demosthenes's own time found running through all his orations,--this namely, that virtue secures its own success.
    Boks 7.202 10 The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is the discovery...that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes, especially from the business orations; and from the comic poets.
    Let 12.404 13 In Cambridge orations and elsewhere there is much inquiry for that great absentee American Literature.

orator, n. (81)

    Nat 1.31 17 The poet, the orator, bred in the woods...shall not lose their lesson altogether...
    AmS 1.103 17 The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions...
    DSA 1.133 16 ...when I see among my contemporaries a true orator...I see beauty that is to be desired.
    SL 2.142 1 Somewhere, not only every orator but every man should let out all the length of all the reins;...
    Art1 2.355 1 The power to detach and to magnify by detaching is the essence of rhetoric in the hands of the orator and the poet.
    Pt1 3.38 27 The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic rhapsodist, the orator, all partake one desire, namely to express themselves symmetrically and abundantly...
    Pt1 3.39 5 [Artists] found or put themselves in certain conditions, as...the orator into the assembly of the people...and each presently feels the new desire.
    Pt1 3.40 6 ...hence these throbs and heart-beatings in the orator...to the end namely that thought may be ejaculated as Logos, or Word.
    Exp 3.58 24 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads...
    Exp 3.66 7 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.
    PPh 4.60 1 No orator can measure in effect with him who can give good nicknames.
    GoW 4.268 26 A master likes a master, and does not stipulate whether it be orator, artist, craftsman, or king.
    Pow 6.63 5 ...let these rough riders--legislators in shirt-sleeves...whatever hard head Arkansas, Oregon or Utah sends, half orator, half assassin...drive as they may, and the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.
    Ctr 6.160 22 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order will never quite lose sight of this...
    Bty 6.283 16 A deep man...believes that the orator will decompose his adversary;...
    Bty 6.300 16 The great orator was an emaciated, insignificant person, but he was all brain.
    Art2 7.44 3 Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...
    Art2 7.49 20 In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself;...
    Art2 7.49 25 In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are...when consciously [the orator] makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term abandonment, to describe the self-surrender of the orator.
    Elo1 7.61 15 ...every man is an orator...
    Elo1 7.63 5 [An audience's] sympathy gives them a certain social organism, which fills each member...and most of all the orator...
    Elo1 7.63 19 Who can wonder at the attractiveness...of...the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
    Elo1 7.64 25 The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude...
    Elo1 7.66 1 [Eloquence] is a power...requiring in the orator a great range of faculty and experience...
    Elo1 7.66 7 The audience is a constant meter of the orator.
    Elo1 7.66 24 [Every audience] know so much more than the orator...
    Elo1 7.67 17 Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health...
    Elo1 7.70 27 ...who does not remember in childhood some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?
    Elo1 7.71 6 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard...
    Elo1 7.71 15 ...what is the Odyssey but a history of the orator...
    Elo1 7.73 13 ...Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech on his impeachment, As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an hour as if I were the most culpable being on earth.
    Elo1 7.80 22 ...each man inquires if any orator can change his convictions.
    Elo1 7.82 2 In the assembly, you shall find the orator and the audience in perpetual balance;...
    Elo1 7.82 11 ...if there be personality in the orator, the face of things changes.
    Elo1 7.82 26 This balance between the orator and the audience is expressed in what is called the pertinence of the speaker.
    Elo1 7.83 2 There is always a rivalry between the orator and the occasion...
    Elo1 7.84 11 This rivalry between the orator and the occasion is inevitable...
    Elo1 7.84 15 Of course the interest of the audience and of the orator conspire.
    Elo1 7.85 1 The several talents which the orator employs...deserve a special enumeration.
    Elo1 7.85 4 ...the splendid weapons which went to the equipment...of Demades the natural orator...deserve a special enumeration.
    Elo1 7.85 8 The orator...must be a substantial personality.
    Elo1 7.89 11 The orator possesses no information which his hearers have not...
    Elo1 7.90 1 The orator must be, to a certain extent, a poet.
    Elo1 7.90 24 ...rapid generalization, humor, pathos, are keys which the orator holds;...
    Elo1 7.91 9 ...all these talents [of oratory]...have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
    Elo1 7.93 15 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness...and the orator stands before the people as a demoniacal power...
    Elo1 7.93 26 The orator is thereby an orator, that he keeps his feet ever on a fact.
    Elo1 7.93 27 The orator is thereby an orator, that he keeps his feet ever on a fact.
    Elo1 7.98 22 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth...
    DL 7.120 10 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...with phrases of the last oration, or mimicry of the orator;...
    WD 7.173 10 Hume's doctrine was that...the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
    Boks 7.212 19 ...in this rag-fair neither the Imagination...nor the Morals... are addressed. But though orator and poet be of this hunger party, the capacities remain.
    PI 8.14 15 Our Kentuckian orator [Davy Crockett] said of his dissent from his companion, I showed him the back of my hand.
    PI 8.30 13 ...the moment the orator loses command of his audience, the audience commands him.
    Elo2 8.113 13 The orator is the physician.
    Elo2 8.113 17 The orator is he whom every man is seeking when he goes into the courts...
    Elo2 8.115 16 ...there is no true orator who is not a hero.
    Elo2 8.115 20 The orator must ever stand with forward foot...
    Elo2 8.119 12 The most...thought-paralyzing companion sometimes turns out in a public assembly to be a fluent, various and effective orator.
    Elo2 8.124 19 The orator must command the whole scale of the language...
    Elo2 8.125 14 ...when any orator at the bar or in the Senate rises in his thought, he descends in his language...
    Elo2 8.126 15 If I should make the shortest list of the qualifications of the orator, I should begin with manliness;...
    Res 8.148 3 What can a poor truckman, who is hired to groan and to hiss, do, when the orator shakes him into convulsions of laughter so that he cannot throw his egg?
    Grts 8.305 26 ...there is not a piece of Nature in any kind but a man is born who...aims...to dedicate himself to that. Then there is the poet...the orator...
    Grts 8.309 3 ...the rule of the orator begins...when his deep conviction, and the right and necessity he feels to convey that conviction to his audience,- when these shine and burn in his address;...
    Imtl 8.322 1 Mute orator! well skilled to plead,/ And send conviction without phrase,/ Thou dost succor and remede/ The shortness of our days,/ And promise, on thy Founder's truth,/ Long morrow to this mortal youth./ Monadnoc.
    Imtl 8.339 10 Every really able man...a statesman, an orator...considers his work...as far short of what it should be.
    Aris 10.52 20 Genius...the power to affect the Imagination, as possessed by the orator, the poet, the novelist or the artist,-has a royal right in all possessions and privileges...
    Supl 10.171 9 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer.
    Schr 10.282 3 ...a true orator will make us feel that the states and kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and caterpillars...
    Schr 10.282 9 The orator too becomes a fool and a shadow before this light which lightens through him.
    Plu 10.304 4 Many examples might be cited [in Plutarch] of nervous expression and happy allusion, that indicate a poet and an orator...
    LLNE 10.334 17 ...boys filled their mouths with arguments to prove that the orator [Everett] had a heart.
    HDC 11.66 10 Mr. Bliss heard that great orator [George Whitefield] with delight...
    FSLN 11.242 21 ...in one part of the discourse the orator [Robert Winthrop] allowed to transpire, rather against his will, a little sober sense.
    AsSu 11.251 5 When the same reproach [of writing his speeches] was cast on the first orator of ancient times by some caviller of his day, he said, I should be ashamed to come with one unconsidered word before such an assembly.
    EPro 11.316 13 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...
    SMC 11.351 24 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...becomes a sentiment, a poet, a prophet, an orator...
    Mem 12.98 3 The way in which...any orator surprises us is by his always having a sharp tool that fits the present use.
    CInt 12.120 9 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...strong by the strength of the facts themselves. Then the orator is still one of the audience, persuaded by the same reasons which persuade them;...
    ACri 12.290 15 The silences, pauses, of an orator are as telling as his words.

oratorical, adj. (2)

    ET14 5.241 12 ...[Pericles] meeting with Anaxagoras...he attached himself to him, and nourished himself with sublime speculations on the absolute intelligence; and imported thence into the oratorical art whatever could be useful to it.
    Schr 10.280 12 When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular function, as...his oratorical...skill, the advance of his character and genius pauses;...

oratorio, n. (5)

    LE 1.167 15 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...
    Art1 2.365 8 The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice...
    Art1 2.365 11 The oratorio has already lost its relation to the morning...
    Art1 2.366 16 Men are not well pleased with the figure they make in their own imaginations, and...convey their better sense in an oratorio, a statue, or a picture.
    NR 3.233 26 The genius of nature was paramount at the oratorio [Handel's Messiah].

oratorios, n. (1)

    Nat 1.43 26 In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions...but colors also;...

orators, n. (27)

    DSA 1.147 24 The orators...encroach on us only...by our allowance and homage.
    Art1 2.354 25 It is the habit of certain minds to give an all-excluding fulness to the object, the thought, the word, they alight upon, and to make that for the time the deputy of the world. These are the artists, the orators, the leaders of society.
    PPh 4.55 7 ...[Plato] fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers;...
    Pow 6.54 21 The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe;...
    Pow 6.78 5 A course of mobs is good practice for orators.
    Wth 6.94 3 ...how did North America get netted with iron rails, except by the importunity of these orators who dragged all the prudent men in?
    Ctr 6.148 20 In town [a man] can find...the national orators, in their turn;...
    Elo1 7.62 19 ...the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
    Elo1 7.63 10 No one can survey the face of an excited assembly, without... being agitated to agitate. How many orators sit mute there below!
    Elo1 7.63 25 Antiphon the Rhamnusian, one of Plutarch's ten orators, advertised in Athens that he would cure distempers of the mind with words.
    Elo1 7.69 19 The virtue of books is to be readable, and of orators to be interesting;...
    Elo1 7.81 27 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech, it...supplies the imagination with fine materials. This circumstance enters into every consideration of the power of orators...
    Elo1 7.95 19 The resistance to slavery in this country has been a fruitful nursery of orators.
    Elo1 7.99 1 All the chief orators of the world have been grave men...
    Boks 7.212 15 Men are ever lapsing into a beggarly habit, wherein everything that is not ciphering, that is, which does not serve the tyrannical animal, is hustled out of sight. Our orators and writers are of the same poverty...
    Cour 7.256 11 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very nursery-books...the thunderous emphasis which orators give to every martial defiance and passage of arms, and which the people greet, may testify.
    Elo2 8.119 17 Those whom we admire--the great orators--have some habit of heat...
    Elo2 8.121 6 Plutarch, in his enumeration of the ten Greek orators, is careful to mention their excellent voices...
    Elo2 8.121 16 ...some orators go to the assembly as to a closet where to find their best thoughts.
    Elo2 8.131 27 ...in Germany we have seen a metaphysical zymosis culminating in Kant, Schelling, Schleiermacher, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and so ending. To this we might add the great eras not only of painters but of orators.
    Elo2 8.132 4 ...it was said that no member of either house of the British Parliament will be ranked among the orators, whom Lord North did not see, or who did not see Lord North.
    Elo2 8.132 9 ...when a great sentiment...makes itself deeply felt in any age or country, then great orators appear.
    Elo2 8.132 14 ...the great ideas that suddenly expand at some moment the mind of mankind, indicate themselves by orators.
    Res 8.147 24 ...we have noted examples among our orators, who have... handled and controlled...a malignant mob, by superior manhood...
    Grts 8.309 12 There is a certain transfiguration; all great orators have it...
    Grts 8.309 13 There is a certain transfiguration; all great orators have it, and men who wish to be orators simulate it.
    JBS 11.277 2 ...the best orators who have added their praise to his fame... have one rival who comes off a little better, and that is JOHN BROWN.

orator's, n. (2)

    Elo1 7.84 26 Napoleon's tactics of marching on the angle of an army, and always presenting a superiority of numbers, is the orator's secret also.
    ACri 12.300 16 To make of motes mountains, and of mountains motes, Isocrates said, was the orator's office.

oratory, n. (5)

    Elo1 7.67 15 This range of many powers in the consummate speaker...leads us to consider the successive stages of oratory.
    Elo1 7.75 11 ...we may say of such collectively that the habit of oratory is apt to disqualify them for eloquence.
    Elo1 7.75 18 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen...then they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.
    Elo2 8.113 11 After Sheridan's speech in the trial of Warren Hastings, Mr. Pitt moved an adjournment, that the House might recover from the overpowering effect of Sheridan's oratory.
    Shak1 11.450 15 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket. With that book, the shade of any tree, a room in any inn, becomes a chapel or oratory in which to sit out their happiest hours.

Oratory, Professor of Rheto (1)

    Elo2 8.122 27 In the early years of this century, Mr. [John Quincy] Adams... was elected Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College.

orb, n. (4)

    Hist 2.13 10 Genius...sees the rays parting from one orb, that diverge...by infinite diameters.
    Lov1 2.183 22 In the procession of the soul from within outward, it enlarges its circles ever, like...the light proceeding from an orb.
    Art2 7.40 23 [In the useful arts] the omnipotent agent is Nature; all human acts are satellites to her orb.
    Mem 12.109 23 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...so that what one had painfully held by strained attention and recapitulation...is now clamped and locked by inevitable connection as a planet in its orbit (every other orb, or the law or system of which it is a part, being a perpetual reminder),-we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an

orbed, v. (1)

    NR 3.236 18 [Nature] will not remain orbed in a thought,...

orbis, n. (1)

    Bost 12.188 6 It was said of Rome in its proudest days...the extent of the city and of the world is the same (spatium et urbis et orbis idem).

orbit, n. (18)

    AmS 1.90 2 I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit...
    SR 2.56 26 ...the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts...
    SR 2.70 27 The genesis and maturation of a planet, its poise and orbit...are demonstrations of the...self-relying soul.
    Cir 2.304 14 ...if the soul is quick and strong it...expands another orbit on the great deep...
    Cir 2.312 14 The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to find the parallax of any star.
    Cir 2.315 15 ...the highest prudence is the lowest prudence. Is this too sudden a rushing from the centre to the verge of our orbit?
    Nat2 3.194 5 [Nature's] mighty orbit vaults like the fresh rainbow into the deep...
    NR 3.240 3 Since we are all so stupid, what benefit that there should be two stupidities! It is like that brute advantage so essential to astronomy, of having the diameter of the earth's orbit for a base of its triangles.
    NER 3.284 9 ...our own orbit is all our task...
    ET8 5.143 1 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence, and however this inclination may have been disturbed by the bribes with which their vast colonial power has warped men out of orbit, the inclination endures...
    ET14 5.250 23 If [James Wilkinson's] mind does not rest in immovable biases, perhaps the orbit is larger and the return is not yet...
    F 6.28 4 ...[the breath of will] is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.
    Civ 7.29 12 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second...
    PPo 8.259 23 The Moon thought she knew her own orbit well enough;...
    Carl 10.494 26 [Carlyle] preaches, as by cannonade, the doctrine that every noble nature...however extravagant, will keep its orbit and return from far.
    PLT 12.12 6 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he... only draws that arc which he clearly sees, or perhaps at a later observation a remote curve of the same orbit...
    Mem 12.109 22 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...so that what one had painfully held by strained attention and recapitulation...is now clamped and locked by inevitable connection as a planet in its orbit...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 12.129 13 Do not gravity and polarity keep their unerring watch on a needle and thread...as on the moon's orbit?

orbits, n. (5)

    DSA 1.141 26 What a cruel injustice it is to...that Law whose fatal sureness the astronomical orbits poorly emulate; - that it is travestied and depreciated...
    ShP 4.217 19 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind. Is it not as if one should have...the comets given into his hand...and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night...
    F 6.3 13 Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas...
    SS 7.5 8 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting to...put diameters of the solar system and sidereal orbits between me and all souls...
    PC 8.228 16 Science...necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses.

orbs, n. (3)

    Nat 1.27 12 ...the sky...full of everlasting orbs, is the type of Reason.
    Nat 1.32 11 Did it need...this host of orbs in heaven, to furnish man with the dictionary and grammar of his municipal speech?
    Cir 2.311 2 O, what truths profound and executable only in ages and orbs, are supposed in the announcement of every truth!

orchard, adj. (1)

    Pol1 3.197 19 When the Muses nine/ With the Virtues meet,/ Find to their design/ An Atlantic seat,/ By green orchard boughs/ Fended from the heat,/ Where the statesman ploughs/ Furrow for the wheat;/ .../ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./

orchard, n. (24)

    MR 1.238 9 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as... an orchard by insects;...
    MR 1.238 24 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son,-house, orchard...the son finds his hands full...
    Cir 2.303 12 An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture...to a citizen;...
    ET1 5.8 20 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon--much as our pomologists, in their lists, select the three or the six best pears for a small orchard;...
    ET4 5.52 9 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England...as, out of a hundred pear-trees, eight or ten suit the soil of an orchard and thrive...
    Pow 6.66 11 The most amiable of country gentlemen has a certain pleasure in the teeth of the bull-dog which guards his orchard.
    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.
    Ill 6.314 12 ...a friend of mine complained that all the varieties of fancy pears in our orchard seem to have been selected by somebody who had a whim for a particular kind of pear...
    Farm 7.141 7 He who...plants an orchard...makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.
    Farm 7.147 27 The traveller who saw [the Sequoias] remembered his orchard at home...
    Farm 7.148 9 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps. The planter took the hint of the Sequoias...surrounded the orchard with a nursery of birches and evergreens.
    WD 7.161 3 The chain of Western railroads from Chicago to the Pacific has planted cities and civilization in less time than it costs to bring an orchard into bearing.
    Imtl 8.338 16 I do not wish to live for the sake of...my orchard...
    Aris 10.38 10 ...in orchard and farm...they only prosper or they prosper best who have a military mind...
    Aris 10.44 18 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for orchard, tillage...
    MoL 10.248 1 Man makes no more impression on [Nature's] wealth than the caterpillar or the cankerworm whose petty ravage, though noticed in an orchard or a village, is insignificant in the vast exuberance of the summer.
    EzRy 10.393 2 [Ezra Ripley] watched with interest...the orchard, the house and the barn...
    PLT 12.25 5 In the orchard many trees send out a moderate shoot in the first summer heat, and stop.
    CL 12.145 3 The privilege of the countryman is...the laying out of grounds and gardens, the orchard and the forest.
    CL 12.146 11 In old towns there are always certain paradises known to the pedestrian, old and deserted farms, where the neglected orchard has been left to itself...
    CL 12.147 2 ...there was a contest between the old orchard and the invading forest-trees...
    CL 12.152 17 ...the pleasures of garden, orchard and wood must be alternated.
    CW 12.173 23 In the orchard, we build monuments to Van Mons annually.
    AgMs 12.358 2 In an afternoon in April...I traversed an orchard where boys were grafting apple-trees...

orchardist, n. (1)

    II 12.76 5 ...our famous orchardist once more: Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power.

orchards, n. (9)

    Nat 1.19 10 The shows of day...orchards in blossom...if too eagerly hunted...mock us with their unreality.
    YA 1.368 9 ...[the farmer] is so contented with his alleys, woodlands, orchards and river, that Niagara and the Notch of the White Hills...are superfluities.
    Mrs1 3.146 7 ...there is still...some fanatic who plants...orchards when he is grown old;...
    Farm 7.135 23 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in a single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
    Farm 7.137 24 ...the tranquillity and innocence of the countryman, his independence and his pleasing arts,--the care of bees...the care...of orchards and forests...all men acknowledge.
    Schr 10.288 1 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] must relinquish orchards and gardens...
    CL 12.146 15 I know a whole district...made up of wide, straggling orchards...
    CW 12.170 4 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in the single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
    Let 12.393 13 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air to orchards and lone houses...that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.

orchis, n. (1)

    Thor 10.450 4 It seemed as if the breezes brought him,/ It seemed as if the sparrows taught him/ As if by secret sign he knew/ Where in far fields the orchis grew./

orchis pulcherrima, n. (1)

    CL 12.162 7 Where is the Norway pine...where the epigaea...or orchis pulcherrima...

ordain, v. (3)

    Pol1 3.215 8 ...if, without carrying [my child] into the thought, I look over into his plot, and, guessing how it is with him, ordain this or that, he will never obey me.
    PC 8.231 7 We wish...to ordain free trade, and believe that it will not bankrupt us;...
    FRep 11.518 10 ...liberal congresses and legislatures ordain...equivocal, interested and vicious measures.

ordained, v. (7)

    LT 1.263 19 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man,-let him be of what sect soever,-would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
    ET13 5.214 19 In the barbarous days of a nation, some cultus is formed or imported; altars are built...priests ordained.
    ET18 5.301 22 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct to go out and come into England...
    Supl 10.174 12 I knew a grave man who, being urged to go to a church where a clergyman was newly ordained, said he liked him very well, but he would go when the interesting Sundays were over.
    LLNE 10.366 23 The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on washing-day; so it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out clothes;...
    EzRy 10.382 27 Mr. Ripley was ordained minister of Concord November 7, 1778.
    Wom 11.404 2 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work succeed./ Coventry Patmore.

ordainer, n. (1)

    Wom 11.411 11 ...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? Herein woman is the prime genius and ordainer.

Ordainer, Supreme, n. (1)

    PPh 4.56 22 To the study of nature [Plato]...prefixes the dogma, Let us declare the cause which led the Supreme Ordainer to produce and compose the universe.

ordaineth, v. (1)

    UGM 4.33 23 If the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each, even more swiftly the seeming injustice disappears when we ascend to the central identity of all the individuals, and know that they are made of the substance which ordaineth and doeth.

ordaining, v. (1)

    Con 1.310 12 [Existing institutions] have...left you...no law but our law, to the ordaining of which you were no party.

ordains, v. (6)

    Pol1 3.215 13 A man who cannot be acquainted with me...looking from afar at me ordains that a part of my labor shall go to this or that whimsical end...
    EWI 11.131 11 ...the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States ordains in terms, that, The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
    FSLC 11.195 17 ...the crime which the second law [the Fugitive Slave Law] ordains is greater than the crime which the first law forbids under penalty of the gibbet.
    FSLC 11.206 14 ...as soon as the constitution ordains an immoral law, it ordains disunion.
    FSLC 11.206 15 ...as soon as the constitution ordains an immoral law, it ordains disunion.
    ALin 11.338 2 [Providence]...ordains that only that race which combines perfectly with the virtues of all shall endure.

order, n. (261)

    Nat 1.3 23 ...whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy.
    Nat 1.4 1 ...whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy.
    Nat 1.22 18 The intellect searches out the absolute order of things...
    Nat 1.36 21 Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the necessary lessons...of order...
    Nat 1.45 22 ...the eye...is always accompanied by these forms, male and female; and these are incomparably the richest informations of the power and order that lie at the heart of things.
    Nat 1.55 6 ...the philosopher...postpones the apparent order and relations of things to the empire of thought.
    Nat 1.65 3 [The world's] serene order is inviolable by us.
    Nat 1.67 12 ...it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
    AmS 1.95 14 I pierce [the world's] order;...
    AmS 1.112 1 ...the world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber-room, but has form and order;...
    DSA 1.151 15 ...[the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures]...are not shown in their order to the intellect.
    LE 1.159 1 ...so pass into [the scholar's] mind...the grand events of history, to take a new order and scale from him.
    LE 1.164 19 In order to a knowledge of the resources of the scholar, we must not rest in the use of slender accomplishments...
    MN 1.193 17 Here, a new set of distinctions, a new order of ideas, prevail.
    MN 1.197 1 In the divine order, intellect is primary;...
    MN 1.198 17 ...one who conceives the true order of nature...cannot state his thought without seeming to those who study the physical laws to do them some injustice.
    MN 1.199 13 The wholeness we admire in the order of the world is the result of infinite distribution.
    MN 1.206 7 [Every child]...is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.
    LT 1.263 16 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man...would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
    LT 1.265 12 Could we...indicate those who most accurately represent every good and evil tendency of the general mind, in the just order which they take on this canvas of Time...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    LT 1.268 2 Let us not see the foundations...of a new and better order of things laid, with...an attention preoccupied with trifles.
    LT 1.270 17 ...it is well if government and our social order can extricate themselves from these alembics and find themselves still government and social order.
    LT 1.270 19 ...it is well if government and our social order can extricate themselves from these alembics and find themselves still government and social order.
    LT 1.271 5 There is a perfect chain...of reforms...and all must be seen in order to do justice to any one.
    LT 1.285 26 The revolutions that impend over society are...from new modes of thinking, which shall recompose society after a new order...
    Con 1.303 27 You are welcome...if you can, to displace the actual order by that ideal republic you announce...
    Con 1.305 7 ...you are under the necessity of using the Actual order of things, in order to disuse it;...
    Con 1.305 8 ...you are under the necessity of using the Actual order of things, in order to disuse it;...
    Con 1.313 8 The order of things is as good as the character of the population permits.
    Con 1.321 6 ...the priest presently restored order...
    Tran 1.332 24 In the order of thought, the materialist takes his departure from the external world...
    Tran 1.333 17 ...when he speaks scientifically, or after the order of thought, [the idealist] is constrained to degrade persons into representatives of truths.
    Tran 1.355 23 [Transcendentalists]...find an indemnity in the inviolable order of the world for the violated order and grace of man.
    Tran 1.355 24 [Transcendentalists]...find an indemnity in the inviolable order of the world for the violated order and grace of man.
    YA 1.376 21 The king is compelled to call in the aid of his brothers...to help him keep his overgrown house in order;...
    YA 1.377 11 ...as quickly as men go to foreign parts in ships or caravans, a new order of things springs up;...
    YA 1.395 8 Here...the vast tendencies concur of a new order.
    Hist 2.25 12 ...[Xenophon's army] wrangle with the generals on each new order...
    Comp 2.113 20 In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them...
    Lov1 2.169 21 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.
    Fdsp 2.193 10 Now, when [the stranger] comes, he may get the order, the dress and the dinner...
    Prd1 2.224 14 ...the order of the world and the distribution of affairs and times, being studied with the co-perception of their subordinate place, will reward any degree of attention.
    Cir 2.310 9 The things which are dear to men at this hour are so on account of the ideas which have emerged on their mental horizon, and which cause the present order of things...
    Pt1 3.1 10 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ .../ Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times/ Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes./
    Pt1 3.10 3 The thought and the form are equal in the order of time...
    Pt1 3.10 4 ...in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form.
    Pt1 3.32 3 The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, Those who are free throughout the world.
    Exp 3.83 2 Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness...these are the lords of life. I dare not assume to give their order...
    Chr1 3.95 3 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L' Ouverture: let us fancy, under these swarthy masks he has a gang of Washingtons in chains. When they arrive at Cuba, will the relative order of the ship's company be the same?
    Chr1 3.95 27 Character is this moral order seen through the medium of an individual nature.
    Chr1 3.97 21 A given order of events has no power to secure to [the hero] the satisfaction which the imagination attaches to it;...
    Chr1 3.97 27 ...prosperity belongs to a certain mind, and will introduce that power and victory which is its natural fruit, into any order of events.
    Chr1 3.99 3 The same transport which the occurrence of the best events in the best order would occasion me, I must learn to taste purer in the perception that my position is every hour meliorated, and does already command those events I desire.
    Chr1 3.99 8 That exultation [in events] is only to be checked by the foresight of an order of things so excellent as to throw all our prosperities into the deepest shade.
    Mrs1 3.125 27 ...if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.
    Nat2 3.181 25 The animal is the novice and probationer of a more advanced order.
    Nat2 3.184 12 Once heave the ball from the hand, and we can show how all this mighty order grew.
    Pol1 3.220 8 ...according to the order of nature...it stands thus; there will always be a government of force where men are selfish;...
    PPh 4.45 19 How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and almost literature, is the problem for us to solve. This could not have happened without a...man, able to honor, at the same time, the ideal, or laws of the mind, and fate, or the order of nature.
    PNR 4.84 8 Plato affirms...that the order or proceeding of nature was from the mind to the body...
    PNR 4.87 19 [Plato] describes his own ideal, when he paints, in Timaeus, a god leading things from disorder into order.
    SwM 4.103 16 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;...
    SwM 4.115 6 Forms ascend in order from the lowest to the highest.
    SwM 4.117 17 [Correspondence] required an insight that could rank things in order and series;...
    SwM 4.119 4 To a right perception...of the order of nature, [Swedenborg] added the comprehension of the moral laws in their widest social aspects;...
    SwM 4.123 18 There is an invariable method and order in [Swedenborg's] delivery of his truth...
    SwM 4.133 6 The universe [in Swedenborg's system of the world] is a gigantic crystal, all whose atoms and laminae lie in uninterrupted order...
    MoS 4.158 13 Remember the open question between the present order of competition and the friends of attractive and associated labor.
    MoS 4.172 6 Society does not like to have any breath of question blown on the existing order.
    MoS 4.183 13 ...I know that [facts] will presently appear to me in that order which makes skepticism impossible.
    ShP 4.207 8 That imagination which dilates the closet [Shakespeare] writes in to the world's dimension, crowds it with agents in rank and order, as quickly reduces the big reality to be the glimpses of the moon.
    NMW 4.234 18 At the moment in which the Russian army was making its retreat, painfully, but in good order...the Emperor Napoleon came riding at full speed toward the artillery.
    NMW 4.234 23 You are losing time, [Napoleon] cried; fire upon those masses; they must be engulfed: fire upon the ice! The order remained unexecuted for ten minutes.
    NMW 4.241 9 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz...
    NMW 4.253 26 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals;...intriguing to involve his faithful Junot in hopeless bankruptcy, in order to drive him to a distance from Paris...
    GoW 4.262 11 In man, the memory is a kind of looking-glass, which, having received the images of surrounding objects, is touched with life, and disposes them in a new order.
    GoW 4.264 15 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office; for the class of scholars or writers...who are impelled to exhibit the facts in order...
    GoW 4.266 9 Ideas are subversive of social order and comfort...
    ET1 5.13 3 I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's pamphlet in The Friend] and how much I wished to see the entire work. Yes, he said, the man was a chaos of truths, but lacked the knowledge that God was a God of order.
    ET5 5.84 13 [The English] study use and fitness...in the order of their dwellings...
    ET5 5.88 4 Whilst they are thus instinct with a spirit of order and of calculation, it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views;...
    ET5 5.95 3 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order...
    ET6 5.107 8 A certain order and complete propriety is found in [the Englishman's] dress and in his belongings.
    ET9 5.144 3 Individual right is pushed [in England] to the uttermost bound compatible with public order.
    ET9 5.144 19 The pursy man [in England]...does wrong in order to feel his freedom...
    ET10 5.159 13 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule; a creation, the delight of mill-owners, and destined, they said, to restore order among the industrious classes;...
    ET10 5.164 1 This comfort and splendor [in England]...all consist with perfect order.
    ET12 5.203 21 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Dr. Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order;...
    ET12 5.213 14 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford...to give veracity to art and charm mankind, as an appeal to moral order always must.
    ET13 5.219 14 The [English] national temperament deeply enjoys the unbroken order and tradition of its church;...
    ET13 5.219 22 ...the stability of the English nation is passionately enlisted to [the Church's] support, from its inextricable connection with the cause of public order, with politics and with the funds.
    ET13 5.221 11 A great duke said on the occasion of a victory, in the House of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had not been well used by them, and that it would become their magnanimity, after so great successes, to take order that a proper acknowledgement be made.
    ET16 5.279 19 The spot, the gray blocks [of Stonehenge] and their rude order...suggested to [Carlyle] the flight of ages...
    F 6.18 24 In a large city...things whose beauty lies in their casualty, are produced as punctually...to order as the baker's muffin for breakfast.
    F 6.22 10 Man is not order of nature...
    F 6.22 22 On one side elemental order...and on the other part thought...
    F 6.28 3 ...[the breath of will] is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.
    F 6.31 20 The divine order does not stop where [men's] sight stops.
    F 6.43 13 By and by [man] will...have his gardens and vineyards in the beautiful order...of his thought.
    F 6.49 3 If in the least particular one could derange the order of nature,- who would accept the gift of life?
    Pow 6.66 20 It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle;...as if poor decayed formalists of law and order cannot run like wild goats, wolves, and conies;...
    Wth 6.85 21 ...a better order is equivalent to vast amounts of brute labor.
    Wth 6.86 7 ...the art of getting rich consists not in industry...but in a better order...
    Wth 6.98 5 Every man wishes to see...the mountains and craters in the moon; yet how few can buy a telescope! and of those, scarcely one would like the trouble of keeping it in order and exhibiting it.
    Wth 6.105 18 Rothschild refuses the Russian loan, and there is peace and the harvests are saved. He takes it, and there is...an agitation through a large portion of mankind...ending in revolution and a new order.
    Ctr 6.149 25 ...it requires a great many cultivated women...accustomed...to elegant society,--in order that you should have one Madame de Stael.
    Ctr 6.160 23 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order will never quite lose sight of this...
    Bhr 6.176 6 ...underneath all [the old Massachusetts statesman's] irritability was...a memory in which lay in order and method like geologic strata every fact of his history...
    Bhr 6.183 2 It is reported of one prince that his head had the air of leaning downwards, in order not to humble the crowd.
    Wsp 6.213 21 It is the order of the world to educate with accuracy the senses and the understanding;...
    Wsp 6.222 7 In a new nation and language, [the countryman's] sect...is lost. What! it is not then necessary to the order and existence of society?
    Wsp 6.232 25 Napoleon, says Goethe, visited those sick of the plague, in order to prove that the man who could vanquish fear could vanquish the plague also;...
    Wsp 6.240 22 When [man's] mind is illuminated...he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order...
    CbW 6.254 23 ...the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters a rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.
    CbW 6.276 22 ...begin at the beginning, proceed in order, step by step.
    CbW 6.276 25 'T is as easy...to boil granite as to boil water, if you take all the steps in order.
    Bty 6.282 22 ...man, when his powers unfold in order, will take nature along with him...
    Bty 6.292 7 The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones...
    Ill 6.321 16 We cannot write the order of the variable winds.
    Ill 6.322 5 ...these alternations are not without their order...
    Elo1 7.89 19 [The orator's] mind has some new principle of order.
    Elo1 7.92 27 The possession the subject has of [the eloquent man's] mind is so entire that it insures an order of expression which is the order of Nature itself...
    Elo1 7.93 1 The possession the subject has of [the eloquent man's] mind is so entire that it insures an order of expression which is the order of Nature itself, and so the order of greatest force...
    Elo1 7.94 23 If you would correct my false view of facts,--hold up to me the same facts in the true order of thought...
    DL 7.112 8 ...if you look at the multitude of particulars, one would say: Good housekeeping is impossible; order is too precious a thing to dwell with men and women.
    DL 7.118 1 The diet of the house does not create its order...
    DL 7.119 7 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read...your thought and will...which he may...dine sparely and sleep hard in order to behold.
    DL 7.128 1 Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed... after the highest, and not after the lowest order;...
    Farm 7.135 16 So, year by year,/ [Farmers] fight the elements with elements,/ And by the order in the field disclose/ The order regnant in the yeoman's brain./
    Farm 7.135 17 So, year by year,/ [Farmers] fight the elements with elements,/ And by the order in the field disclose/ The order regnant in the yeoman's brain./
    Farm 7.138 22 [The farmer] bends to the order of the seasons...
    WD 7.176 11 The order of changes in the egg determines the age of fossil strata.
    Boks 7.190 16 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
    Suc 7.300 26 The mind yields sympathetically to the tendencies or law which...make the order of Nature;...
    OA 7.328 18 ...age sets its house in order...
    OA 7.331 18 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments, and all old men in...reducing tangled interests to order...
    PI 8.3 6 ...we must feed, wash, plant, build. These are ends of necessity, and first in the order of Nature.
    PI 8.6 18 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...a certain tyranny which springs up in his own thoughts, which have an order, method and beliefs of their own...
    PI 8.6 19 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...a certain tyranny which springs up in his own thoughts, which have an order, method and beliefs of their own, very different from the order which this common sense uses.
    PI 8.7 21 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...a hint...showing unity and perfect order in physics.
    PI 8.8 7 Identity of law, perfect order in physics...exist.
    PI 8.8 23 Natural objects...are really parts of a symmetrical universe, like words of a sentence; and if their true order is found, the poet can read their divine significance orderly as in a Bible.
    PI 8.35 13 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason, till he sees it...to be related to astronomy and history and the eternal order of the world.
    PI 8.37 8 There is no subject that does not belong to [the poet],--politics, economy, manufactures and stock-brokerage...only these things, placed in their true order, are poetry;...
    PI 8.37 9 There is no subject that does not belong to [the poet],--politics, economy, manufactures and stock-brokerage...only these things...displaced, or put in kitchen order, they are unpoetic.
    PI 8.46 6 Who would hold the order of the almanac so fast but for the ding-dong,-- Thirty days hath September, etc.;...
    PI 8.50 6 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see...how rich and lavish their profusion. In their rhythm is...a vortex, or musical tornado, which, falling on words and the experience of a learned mind, whirls these materials into the same grand order as planets and moons obey...
    PI 8.52 16 ...when we rise into the world of thought...speech refines into order and harmony.
    PI 8.65 27 The supreme value of poetry is to educate us to a height beyond itself, or which it rarely reaches;--the subduing mankind to order and virtue.
    Res 8.137 20 I am benefited by every observation of a victory of man over Nature;...by seeing that every healthy and resolute man is...a method coming into a confusion and drawing order out of it.
    Res 8.140 4 See...how...every impatient boss who sharply shortens the phrase or the word to give his order quicker...improves the national tongue.
    Comc 8.172 14 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite too ugly. Therefore he began to weep; Chodscha also set himself to weep; and so they wept for two hours. On this, some courtiers...entertained [Timur] with strange stories in order to make him forget all about it.
    QO 8.196 7 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person, in order to give it weight...
    PC 8.210 6 When classes are exasperated against each other, the peace of the world is always kept by striking a new note. Instantly the units part, and form a new order...
    PPo 8.241 3 When all [the troops and spirits] were in order, the east wind, at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet and transported with all that were upon it, whither he pleased...
    Grts 8.313 15 ...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.
    Imtl 8.348 13 Will you offer empires to such as cannot set a house or private affairs in order?
    Dem1 10.6 4 This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight, that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before...
    Aris 10.46 6 ...I am not going to argue the merits of gradation in the universe; the existing order of more or less.
    Aris 10.46 18 I only point in passing to the order of the universe...
    Aris 10.57 8 I will not protract this discourse by describing the duties of the brave and generous. And yet I will venture to name one...this, namely, loyalty to your own order.
    Aris 10.57 9 The true aristocrat is he who is at the head of his own order...
    Aris 10.60 3 ...there is an order of men, never quite absent, who enroll no names in their archives but such as are capable of truth.
    PerF 10.75 26 The thoughts, no man ever saw, but disorder becomes order where he goes;...
    PerF 10.79 24 In each talent is the perception of an order and series in the department he deals with...
    PerF 10.79 26 In each talent is the perception...of an order and series which preexisted in Nature...
    PerF 10.80 1 The geometer shows us the true order in figures;...
    Chr2 10.107 24 [The clergy] have dropped...many doctrines and practices once esteemed indispensable to their order.
    Chr2 10.121 8 Take off the roofs of hundreds of happy houses, and you shall see this order without ruler...
    Edc1 10.130 12 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark...but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of power; learning that in his own constitution he can set the shining maze in order...
    Edc1 10.141 4 Friendship is an order of nobility;...
    Edc1 10.157 16 I assume that you [teachers] will keep the grammar, reading, writing and arithmetic in order;...
    Supl 10.178 22 Our modern improvements have been in the invention...of the famous two parallel bars of iron; then of the air-chamber of Watt, and of the judicious tubing of the engine, by Stephenson, in order to the construction of locomotives.
    SovE 10.190 16 For my part, said Napoleon, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order...
    SovE 10.193 16 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart.
    SovE 10.211 18 ...if the instinct of the people was to resist the government, it is plain the government must be two to one in order to be secure...
    Prch 10.218 24 ...I see not how the great God prepares to satisfy the heart in the new order of things.
    Prch 10.226 8 We must reconcile ourselves to the new order of things.
    Prch 10.236 20 We want some intercalated days, to bethink us and to derive order to our life from the heart.
    MoL 10.251 12 I chanced lately to be at West Point, and, after attending the examination in scientific classes, I went into the barracks. The chamber was in perfect order;...
    MoL 10.251 21 Stand by your order.
    MoL 10.252 1 At that time [of the Reform Bill], Earl Grey, who was leader of Reform, was asked, in Parliament, his policy on the measures of the Radicals. He replied, I shall stand by my order.
    MoL 10.252 6 ...the noble in England and Europe stands by his order...
    MoL 10.252 8 ...the scholar does not stand by his order...
    Schr 10.271 25 This reverence [for genius and virtue] is the reestablishment of natural order;...
    Schr 10.275 25 The descent of genius into talents is part of the natural order and history of the world.
    Schr 10.279 16 ...the young...finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul, are confused...
    Schr 10.279 22 Order is heaven's first law.
    Schr 10.280 7 ...there is but one defence against this principle of chaos, and that is the principle of order...
    Schr 10.284 20 Happy if you can answer [life's questions] mutely in the order and disposition of your life!
    Plu 10.301 7 I admire [Plutarch's] rapid and crowded style, as if he had such store of anecdotes of his heroes that he is forced to suppress more than he recounts, in order to keep up with the hasting history.
    LLNE 10.352 21 There is an order in which in a sound mind the faculties always appear...
    LLNE 10.352 26 There is an order in which in a sound mind the faculties always appear, and which, according to the strength of the individual, they seek to realize in the surrounding world. The value of Fourier's system is that it is a statement of such an order externized...
    LLNE 10.353 1 [Fourier's] mistake is that this particular order and series is to be imposed...on all men...
    CSC 10.375 24 If there was not parliamentary order [at the Chardon Street Convention], there was life...
    EzRy 10.390 27 In [Ezra Ripley's] house dwelt order and prudence and plenty.
    EzRy 10.395 4 ...devout, but with an extreme love of order, [Ezra Ripley] adopted heartily...the creed and catechism of the fathers...
    MMEm 10.414 4 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...
    MMEm 10.431 22 ...how much I [Mary Moody Emerson] trusted [God] with every event till I learned the order of human events from the pressure of wants.
    SlHr 10.446 2 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability, and from the order of his mind...that it was admirable...
    SlHr 10.448 17 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to such political activities as a strong sense of duty and the love of order and of freedom urged him to forward.
    Thor 10.471 21 Every fact lay in glory in [Thoreau's] mind, a type of the order and beauty of the whole.
    HDC 11.64 14 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town...being informed of the great present want of Thomas Pellit, gave order to Stephen Hosmer to deliver a town cow...unto said Pellit, for his present supply.
    HDC 11.66 18 The charges seem to have been made by the lovers of order and moderation against Mr. [Daniel] Bliss, as a favorer of religious excitements.
    HDC 11.72 22 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety.
    HDC 11.78 20 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither; and 210 cords of wood were carried. A similar order is taken respecting hay.
    HDC 11.81 3 ...whilst the town [Concord] had its own full share of the public distress, it was very far from desiring relief at the cost of order and law.
    LVB 11.91 24 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting...to drag [the Cherokees]...to a wilderness at a vast distance beyond the Mississippi. And a paper purporting to be an army order fixes a month from this day as the hour for this doleful removal.
    EWI 11.120 17 Sir Lionel Smith, the governor, writes to the British Ministry, It is impossible for me to do justice to the good order, decorum and gratitude which the whole laboring population [in Jamaica] manifested on that happy occasion [emancipation].
    EWI 11.128 1 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion, in order to give members time,-Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    EWI 11.132 23 The Congress...should set on foot the strictest inquisition to discover where such persons [freemen of Massachusetts], brought into slavery by these local [Southern] laws at any time heretofore, may now be. That first; then, let order be taken to indemnify all such as have been incarcerated.
    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...
    War 11.172 6 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...nothing daunted, and not really poorer if government, law and order went by the board;...
    FSLC 11.205 13 [The people] prefer order, and have no taste for misrule and uproar.
    FSLN 11.222 13 In [Webster's] statement things lay in daylight; we saw them in order as they were.
    FSLN 11.231 19 There are two forces in Nature, by whose antagonism we exist;...the order of things...on the one hand,-and Will or Duty or Freedom on the other.
    HCom 11.341 19 War passes the power of all chemical solvents, breaking up the old adhesions, and allowing the atoms of society to take a new order.
    SMC 11.370 15 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods. This order was communicated to Colonel Prescott...
    SMC 11.370 18 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods. This order was communicated to Colonel Prescott, whose regiment was then under the hottest fire. Understanding it to be a peremptory order to retire then, he replied , I don't want to retire;...
    SMC 11.370 22 Being informed that he misunderstood the order, which was only to inform him how to retire when it became necessary, [George Prescott] was satisfied...
    SMC 11.371 4 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...at Baltimore, in Virginia, where they were drawn up in battle order for ten days successively...
    Wom 11.404 4 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work succeed./ Coventry Patmore.
    Wom 11.409 24 [Women's] genius delights...in decorating life...with properties, order and grace.
    RBur 11.440 10 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...which, not in governments so much as in education and social order, has changed the face of the world.
    RBur 11.440 12 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...which, not in governments so much as in education and social order, has changed the face of the world. In order for this destiny, his birth, breeding and fortunes were low.
    Shak1 11.453 9 I could name in this very company...very good types [of men who live well in and lead any society], but in order to be parliamentary, Franklin, Burns and Walter Scott are examples of the rule;...
    Scot 11.465 24 [Scott] saw in the English Church the symbol and seal of all social order;...
    FRO1 11.479 19 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind,-is apprised...that the basis of duty, the order of society...draw their essence from this moral sentiment, then we have a religion that exalts...
    FRep 11.522 3 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...sees its inevitable force unlocking itself in elemental order day by day...
    FRep 11.528 16 [The American people] prefer order...
    PLT 12.4 9 ...in the order of Nature [the higher laws] lie higher and are nearer to the mysterious seat of power and creation.
    PLT 12.24 25 The plant absorbs much nourishment from the ground in order to repair its own waste by exhalation...
    PLT 12.39 10 The detachment consists in seeing [a fact] under a new order...
    PLT 12.52 18 ...to arrange general reflections in their natural order...this continuity is for the great.
    PLT 12.58 14 The condition of sanity is to respect the order of the intellectual world;...
    PLT 12.62 5 The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere, good and order...
    II 12.66 5 'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects. Here alone is the field... of every religion and civil order that has been or shall be.
    II 12.68 13 ...long after we have quitted the place [the art gallery], the objects begin to take a new order;...
    II 12.73 3 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money. Perhaps that is a benefit, but those who give the money must be just so much more shrewd, and worldly, and hostile, in order to save so much money.
    II 12.75 4 ...in order to win infallible verdicts from the inner mind, we must indulge and humor it in every way...
    II 12.87 18 If immortality, in the sense in which you seek it, is best, you shall be immortal. If it is up to the dignity of that order of things you know, it is secure.
    Mem 12.96 22 This thread or order of remembering, this classification, distributes men...
    Mem 12.96 27 ...one [man] rarely takes an interest in how the facts really stand, in the order of cause and effect, without self-reference. This is an intellectual man.
    CInt 12.116 17 ...if [colleges] could cause that a mind not profound should become profound,-we should all rush to their gates; instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.
    CInt 12.120 1 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is in true order...
    CInt 12.121 5 The order of the world educates with care the senses and the understanding.
    CInt 12.121 16 A little finer order...commands centuries of facts...
    CInt 12.123 12 Will you let me say to you what I think is the organic law of learning? It is to observe the order...
    CInt 12.124 5 Here [in a good teacher] is sympathy; here is an order that corresponds to that in [a young man's] own mind...
    CInt 12.124 9 Here [in a good teacher] is sympathy; here is...the hope and impulse imparted. And education is what it should be, a delightful unfolding of the faculties in right order.
    Bost 12.209 12 [Boston] is very willing to be outnumbered and outgrown, so long as [other cities] carry forward its life...of education, of social order, of loyalty to law.
    Milt1 12.258 2 In the midst of London, [Milton] seems...to have been tuned in concord with the order of the world;...
    Milt1 12.277 2 It was plainly needful that [Milton's] poetry should be a version of his own life, in order to give weight and solemnity to his thoughts;...
    ACri 12.305 10 A man of genius or a work of love or beauty will not come to order...
    ACri 12.305 15 Criticism is an art when it...looks at the order of [the poet' s] thoughts...
    MLit 12.311 8 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write.
    MLit 12.311 15 In our present attempt to enumerate some traits of the recent literature...we cannot promise to set in very exact order what we have to say.
    MLit 12.313 11 [Subjectiveness] is founded on...the need to recognize one nature in all the variety of objects, which always characterizes a genius of the first order.
    MLit 12.330 3 ...because Nature is moral, that mind only can see, in which the same order entirely obtains.
    EurB 12.365 8 Wordsworth's nature or character has had all the time it needed in order to make its mark...
    Trag 12.406 24 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the order of Nature and events is controlled by a law not adapted to man, nor man to that...

Order, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.19 6 ...the poet sees [the factory-village and the railway] fall within the great Order not less than the beehive or the spider's geometrical web.

Order of Censors, n. (1)

    YA 1.389 5 I shall not need to go into an enumeration of our national defects and vices which require this Order of Censors in the State.

order, v. (5)

    ET6 5.104 5 Nothing but the most serious business could give one any counterweight to these Baresarks [the English], though they were only to order eggs and muffins for their breakfast.
    Ctr 6.149 4 ...though [Thomas Hobbes] conceived he could order his thinking as well as another, yet he found a great defect.
    SovE 10.193 21 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart. It did itself create and distribute all that is created and distributed, and, trusting to its power, we cease to care for what it will certainly order well.
    SovE 10.196 24 Have you said to yourself ever: I abdicate all choice, I see it is not for me to interfere. I see...that I have been a pitiful person, because I have wished...to dress and order my whole way and system of living.
    AKan 11.258 6 ...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas], or else should resign their seats to those who can. But first let them...order funeral service to be said for the citizens whom they were unable to defend.

ordered, v. (18)

    PPh 4.77 11 [Plato's Platonism] shall be the world passed through the mind of Plato,--nothing less. Every atom shall have the Platonic tinge; every atom, every relation or quality you knew before, you shall know again and find here, but now ordered;...
    NMW 4.238 3 At Montebello, [Napoleon said,] I ordered Kellermann to attack with eight hundred horse...
    Art2 7.56 16 Who cares, who knows what works of art our government have ordered to be made for the Capitol?
    Insp 8.277 20 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote here...but all was ordered according to the direction of the spirit...
    Aris 10.60 23 [Self-reliance] is so prized a jewel that it is sure to be tested. The rules and discipline are ordered for that.
    MoL 10.253 11 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the Mameluke cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square.
    HDC 11.42 4 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter...
    HDC 11.43 4 [The Charter of the Company of Massachusetts Bay]... ordered that all fundamental laws should be enacted by the freemen of the colony.
    HDC 11.44 20 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands and woods, and choose their own particular officers.
    HDC 11.56 26 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    HDC 11.73 23 This little battalion [of minute-men]...retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river, to wait for reinforcement. Colonel Barrett ordered the troops not to fire, unless fired upon.
    War 11.159 15 When [Assacombuit] appeared at court, he lifted up his hand and said, This hand has slain a hundred and fifty of your majesty's enemies within the territories of New England. This so pleased the king that he...ordered a pension of eight livres a day to be paid him during life.
    SMC 11.364 12 ...I [George Prescott] took six poles, and went to the colonel, and told him I had got the poles for two tents, which would cover twenty-four men, and unless he ordered me not to carry them, I should do so.
    SMC 11.373 2 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment]...were ordered to take the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad from the rebels.
    CW 12.172 27 Linnaeus...took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has ordered my fate, that I live in this time...
    CW 12.173 1 Linnaeus...took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has...so ordered [my fate] that I live happier than the king of the Persians.
    Bost 12.195 15 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    MAng1 12.225 14 Michael Angelo is represented as having ordered his defence [of Florence] so vigorously that the Prince [of Orange] was compelled to retire.

ordering, v. (3)

    GoW 4.266 11 It is believed, the ordering a cargo of goods from New York to Smyrna...is practical and commendable.
    ET5 5.84 10 [The English] are neat husbands for ordering all their tools pertaining to house and field.
    Bost 12.189 10 On the 3d of November, 1620, King James incorporated forty of his subjects...the council...for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in America.

orderly, adj. (6)

    PI 8.8 24 Natural objects...are really parts of a symmetrical universe, like words of a sentence; and if their true order is found, the poet can read their divine significance orderly as in a Bible.
    Grts 8.316 12 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it...sometimes...even in persons open to the suspicion of irregular and immoral living, in Bohemians,-as in more orderly examples.
    Dem1 10.25 1 Men...who had thought it the most natural thing in the world that they should exist in this orderly and replenished world, have been unable to suppress their amazement at the disclosures of the somnambulist.
    LLNE 10.360 2 ...the work [at Brook Farm] was distributed in orderly committees to the men and women.
    MMEm 10.408 6 [Mary Moody Emerson] is no...orderly digest of any system of philosophy...
    Trag 12.409 8 A low, haggard sprite sits by our side...a power of the imagination to dislocate things orderly and cheerful and show them in startling array.

orderly, adv. (2)

    SwM 4.103 22 ...Swedenborg is systematic and respective of the world in every sentence; all the means are orderly given;...
    ET5 5.80 25 All the steps [the English] orderly take;...

orders, n. (18)

    LE 1.162 27 [The youth] is curious concerning that man's day. What filled it? the crowded orders...
    Hist 2.19 13 By surrounding ourselves with the original circumstances we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture...
    PPh 4.66 13 Of the five orders of things [said Plato], only four can be taught to the generality of men.
    NMW 4.234 13 Sire, every regiment that approaches the heavy artillery is sacrificed: Sire, what orders?
    ET8 5.129 26 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained.
    ET10 5.155 3 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders.
    Wth 6.123 15 The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an opinion concerning the mode of building my wall...but the ball will rebound to you.
    Art2 7.54 1 ...each work of art...took its form from the broad hint of Nature. Beautiful in this wise is the obvious origin of all the known orders of architecture;...
    Suc 7.294 16 If the artist, in whatever art, is well at work on his own design, it signifies little that he does not yet find orders or customers.
    SA 8.98 25 Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any portion of the company. Tact...never intrudes the orders of the house...
    Insp 8.288 16 ...it is almost impossible for a house-keeper who is in the country a small farmer, to exclude interruptions and even necessary orders...
    Carl 10.493 6 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.
    EWI 11.132 16 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime...
    FSLC 11.192 2 Those governors of places who bravely refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous Massacre of St. Bartholomew, have been universally praised;...
    SMC 11.364 2 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching orders came.
    SMC 11.373 27 On the first of January, 1865, the Thirty-second Regiment made itself comfortable in log huts, a mile south of our rear line of works before Petersburg. On the fourth of February, sudden orders came to move next morning at daylight.
    FRep 11.521 10 ...we can all count the few cases...when a public man ventured to act as he thought without waiting for orders...
    ACri 12.283 21 The decline of the privileged orders, all over the world; the advance of the Third Estate; the transformation of the laborer into reader and writer has compelled the learned and the thinkers to address them.

orders, v. (1)

    ET4 5.59 19 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with his dead men and their weapons, to be taken out to sea...

ordinance, n. (12)

    Prch 10.225 27 ...only those distinctions hold which are, in the nature of things, not matters of positive ordinance.
    LS 11.8 3 ...many opinions may be entertained of [Jesus's] intention, all consistent with the opinion that he did not design a perpetual ordinance [in the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.13 25 I am of opinion that it is wholly upon the Epistle to the Corinthians...that the ordinance [the Lord's Supper] stands.
    LS 11.15 14 In this manner we may see clearly enough how this ancient ordinance [the Lord's Supper] got its footing among the early Christians...
    LS 11.17 6 It has seemed to me that the use of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper] tends to produce confusion in our views of the relation of the soul to God.
    LS 11.17 24 I fear it is the effect of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper] to clothe Jesus with an authority which he never claimed...
    LS 11.19 16 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion, and to some it is a painful impediment. ... The statement of this objection leads me to say that I think this difficulty...to be entitled to the greatest weight. It is alone a sufficient objection to the ordinance.
    LS 11.20 12 The importance ascribed to this particular ordinance [the Lord' s Supper] is not consistent with the spirit of Christianity.
    LS 11.20 14 The general object and effect of the ordinance [the Lord's Supper] is unexceptionable.
    LS 11.23 14 There remain some practical objections to the ordinance [the Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter.
    LS 11.23 23 ...I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the use of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper]...
    LS 11.24 24 As it is the prevailing opinion and feeling in our religious community that it is an indispensable part of the pastoral office to administer this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], I am about to resign into your hands that office which you have confided to me.

ordinances, n. (6)

    NER 3.284 24 We wish to escape from subjection and a sense of inferiority, and we make self-denying ordinances...
    SovE 10.205 3 To a self-denying, ardent church, delighting in rites and ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race...
    LS 11.21 10 I am not engaged to Christianity by...saving ordinances;...
    LS 11.22 19 The whole world was full of idols and ordinances.
    HDC 11.56 8 We pretended to come hither, [Peter Bulkeley] says, for ordinances;...
    HDC 11.56 9 We pretended to come hither, [Peter Bulkeley] says, for ordinances; but now ordinances are light matters with us;...

ordinarily, adv. (11)

    SR 2.61 1 Ordinarily, every body in society reminds us of somewhat else...
    Chr1 3.90 24 Man, ordinarily a pendant to events...in these examples [of men of character] appears to share the life of things...
    Nat2 3.177 15 ...ordinarily...as soon as men begin to write on nature, they fall into euphuism.
    Pol1 3.209 5 Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle;...
    NMW 4.229 10 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...but these men ordinarily lack the power of arrangement...
    NMW 4.241 13 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon promises the troops that he will keep his person out of reach of fire. This declaration, which is the reverse of that ordinarily made by generals and sovereigns on the eve of a battle, sufficiently explains the devotion of the army to their leader.
    Art2 7.50 23 ...in the moment or in the successive moments when that form [of a work of art] was seen, the iron lids of Reason were unclosed, which ordinarily are heavy with slumber.
    Grts 8.306 11 ...whilst ordinarily magnetism of steel is from north to south, in other, substances, gases, it acts from east to west.
    PerF 10.70 20 What agencies of electricity, gravity, light, affinity combine to make every plant what it is, and in a manner so quiet that the presence of these tremendous powers is not ordinarily suspected.
    HDC 11.34 14 ...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims] sing psalms, pray and praise their God, till they can provide them houses, which they could not ordinarily, till the earth...brought forth bread to feed them.
    MLit 12.327 7 ...in the court and law to which we ordinarily speak...we claim for [Goethe] the praise of truth...

ordinary, adj. (39)

    MR 1.232 4 In the island of Cuba, in addition to the ordinary abominations of slavery, it appears only men are bought for the plantations...
    Comp 2.94 6 The preacher...unfolded in the ordinary manner the doctrine of the Last Judgment.
    SL 2.144 26 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards.
    OS 2.277 25 There is a certain wisdom of humanity...which our ordinary education often labors to silence and obstruct.
    Int 2.346 12 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
    Exp 3.52 21 I thus express the law as it is read from the platform of ordinary life...
    Exp 3.78 20 ...[murder] does not unsettle [the murderer] or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles;...
    Mrs1 3.128 24 [The working heroes] are the sowers, their sons shall be the reapers, and their sons, in the ordinary course of things, must yield the possession of the harvest to new competitors...
    Gts 3.159 18 These gay natures [flowers] contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature...
    NR 3.239 24 Hence the immense benefit of party in politics, as it reveals faults of character in a chief, which the intellectual force of the persons, with ordinary opportunity...could not have seen.
    SwM 4.103 10 ...[Swedenborg] is not to be measured by whole colleges of ordinary scholars.
    MoS 4.180 2 There are these, and more than these diseases of thought, which our ordinary teachers do not attempt to remove.
    NMW 4.246 1 Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
    GoW 4.280 11 The book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] treats only of the ordinary affairs of men...
    ET9 5.146 9 ...the ordinary phrases in all good society, of postponing or disparaging one's own things in talking with a stranger, are seriously mistaken by [the English] for an insuppressible homage to the merits of their nation;...
    ET10 5.156 25 Lord Burleigh writes to his son that one ought never to devote more than two thirds of his income to the ordinary expenses of life...
    ET11 5.183 16 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty.
    ET12 5.205 1 The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of ordinary college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year.
    ET16 5.283 15 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns, with an ordinary derrick.
    Pow 6.80 2 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
    WD 7.184 8 There are people...who in their consciousness of deserving success constantly slight the ordinary means of attaining it;...
    Clbs 7.248 2 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it...puts pedantry and business to the door. ...the ordinary reserves are thrown off...
    Clbs 7.249 9 ...in the sections of the British Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in many months of ordinary correspondence...
    Cour 7.253 5 I observe that there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind: 1. Disinterestedness, as shown in indifference to the ordinary bribes and influences of conduct... practical power...courage...
    Comc 8.167 6 The physiologist Camper humorously confesses the effect of his studies in dislocating his ordinary associations.
    Aris 10.58 27 In his consciousness of deserving success, the caliph Ali constantly neglected the ordinary means of attaining it...
    Edc1 10.155 25 ...as [the naturalist] is still immovable, [the creatures of nature]...resume their haunts and their ordinary labors and manners...
    SlHr 10.445 15 ...the vigor of [Samuel Hoar's] understanding was directed on the ordinary domestic and municipal well-being.
    GSt 10.505 18 When one remembers...his immovable convictions,-I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    HDC 11.54 8 Wilson relates that, at their meetings, the Indians sung a psalm, made Indian by [John] Eliot, in one of our ordinary English tunes, melodiously.
    EWI 11.132 12 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts]...go in a body before the Congress and say that they have a demand to make on them, so imperative that all functions of government must stop until it is satisfied. If ordinary legislation cannot reach it, then extraordinary must be applied.
    FSLC 11.179 21 [Massachusetts laws] never came near me to any discomfort before. I find the like sensibility...in that class who take no interest in the ordinary questions of party politics.
    FSLN 11.233 4 [Official papers] are all declaratory of the will of the moment, and are passed with more levity and on grounds far less honorable than ordinary business transactions of the street.
    AKan 11.257 1 This aid must be sent [to Kansas], and this is not to be doled out as an ordinary charity;...
    TPar 11.289 24 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions...it is a hypocrisy...
    Shak1 11.447 4 We seriously endeavored, besides our brothers and our seniors, on whom the ordinary lead of literary and social action falls...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer lovers of the muse...
    Shak1 11.452 21 In our ordinary experience of men there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...
    FRep 11.538 7 The beautiful is never plentiful. Then Illinois and Indiana... must needs be ordinary.
    MLit 12.326 21 If we try Goethe by the ordinary canons of criticism, we should say that his thinking is of great altitude, and all level;...

ordinary, n. (5)

    ET13 5.223 21 [The Anglican Church] is not in ordinary a persecuting church;...
    Wth 6.117 9 ...in ordinary, as means increase, spending increases faster...
    Cour 7.259 20 In ordinary, we have a snappish criticism which watches and contradicts the opposite party.
    Edc1 10.137 24 A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune; an expectation which the child, if justice is done him, will nobly disappoint. By working on the theory that this resemblance exists, we shall do what in us lies to...produce the ordinary and mediocre.
    FSLN 11.219 25 In ordinary, the supposed sense of [Senators'] district and State is their guide...

ordination, n. (3)

    PerF 10.84 17 Things work to their ends...and will certainly defeat any adventurer who fights against this ordination.
    HDC 11.66 6 Mr. Whiting was succeeded in the pastoral office [in Concord] by Rev. Daniel Bliss, in 1738. Soon after his ordination, the town seems to have been divided by ecclesiastical discords.
    Bost 12.205 8 [The people of Massachusetts] accepted the divine ordination that man is for use;...

ordinations, n. (2)

    Art1 2.354 1 Shall I now add that the whole extant product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value...as a stroke drawn in the portrait of that fate...according to whose ordinations all beings advance to their beatitude?
    MMEm 10.421 2 Am I [Mary Moody Emerson], poor victim, swept on through the sternest ordinations of Nature's laws, which slay? yet I 'll trust.

ordnance, n. (1)

    Pow 6.77 21 [Colonel Buford] fired a piece of ordnance some hundred times in swift succession, until it burst.

ore, n. (6)

    UGM 4.15 24 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed...is the secret of the reader's joy in literary genius. Nothing is kept back. There is fire enough to fuse the mountain of ore.
    F 6.35 15 If Fate is ore and quarry...we are reconciled.
    Pow 6.53 18 A man should prize events and possessions as the ore in which this fine mineral [power] is found;...
    PPo 8.253 27 High heart, O Hafiz! though not thine/ Fine gold and silver ore;/ More worth to thee the gift of song,/ And the clear insight more./
    Edc1 10.130 25 ...what is the charm which every ore, every new plant... possess for Humboldt?
    CInt 12.112 15 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./

Oregon, n. (9)

    Pt1 3.38 3 Our log-rolling...Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung.
    NR 3.248 24 Could [my good men] but once understand that I...heartily wished them God-speed, yet...could well consent to their living in Oregon for any claim I felt on them,--it would be a great satisfaction.
    Pow 6.63 4 ...let these rough riders--legislators in shirt-sleeves...whatever hard head Arkansas, Oregon or Utah sends...drive as they may, and the disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty of manners.
    CbW 6.256 11 The agencies by which events so grand as the opening of California, of Texas, or Oregon...are effected, are paltry...
    CbW 6.261 22 ...send [a rich man]...to Oregon; and if he have true faculty, this may be the element he wants...
    Thor 10.459 25 ...[Thoreau] wished to go to Oregon, not to London.
    FSLC 11.201 2 [John Randolph's] words resounding ever since from California to Oregon...come down now like the cry of Fate...
    SHC 11.433 24 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...and here the vast firs of California and Oregon.
    PPr 12.390 13 We have been civilizing very fast...planting New England and India, New Holland and Oregon,-and it has not appeared in literature;...

Oregons, n. (1)

    Pow 6.69 4 There are Oregons, Californias and Exploring Expeditions enough appertaining to America to find [men of this surcharge of arterial blood] in files to gnaw and in crocodiles to eat.

ores, n. (1)

    Schr 10.278 25 [The scholar] is to forge out of coarsest ores the sharpest weapons.

Orestes [Aeschylus, Eumenid (1)

    Exp 3.82 13 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold.

Orestes, n. (2)

    Tran 1.337 3 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would lie and deceive, as Pylades when he personated Orestes;...
    Trag 12.407 5 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that...makes the Oedipus and Antigone and Orestes objects of such hopeless commiseration.

organ, n. (63)

    Nat 1.37 3 Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed, is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided...
    Nat 1.62 9 [Nature] is the organ through which the universal spirit speaks to the individual...
    AmS 1.99 10 Does [the great soul] lack organ or medium to impart his truths?
    LE 1.176 27 ...literary men...dealing with the organ of language...learn to enjoy the pride of playing with this splendid engine...
    LE 1.187 10 [Thought] will speak, though you were dumb, by its own miraculous organ.
    MN 1.198 22 There is an intrinsic defect in the organ.
    MN 1.200 6 In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes that...a mysterious principle of life must be assumed, which not only inhabits the organ but makes the organ.
    MN 1.200 7 In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes that...a mysterious principle of life must be assumed, which not only inhabits the organ but makes the organ.
    Hist 2.29 2 ...the oppressor of [the child's] youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth.
    Comp 2.108 24 We are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period, and was hindered, or...modified in doing, by the interfering volitions...of Shakspeare, the organ whereby man at the moment wrought.
    SL 2.160 22 Let [your friend] feel that the highest love has come to see him, in thee its lowest organ.
    SL 2.163 3 The fact that I am here certainly shows me that the soul had need of an organ here.
    OS 2.270 17 All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ...
    OS 2.271 6 ...the soul, whose organ [what we commonly call man] is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.
    Int 2.334 5 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the corn-flags, and this for five or six hours afterwards. There lie the impressions on the retentive organ, though you knew it not.
    Pt1 3.3 22 We were put into our bodies...but there is no accurate adjustment between the spirit and the organ...
    Pt1 3.27 6 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks...not with the intellect used as an organ, but with the intellect released from all service...
    Pt1 3.35 15 ...all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.
    Exp 3.51 1 Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave...
    Exp 3.51 18 I knew a witty physician who...used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.
    NER 3.269 23 It was found that the intellect could be independently developed, that is, in separation from the man, as any single organ can be invigorated...
    UGM 4.9 13 ...every organ, function, acid, crystal, grain of dust, has its relation to the brain.
    PPh 4.65 20 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated which is blinded and buried by studies of another kind;...
    PPh 4.65 22 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated...an organ better worth saving than ten thousand eyes...
    PPh 4.69 20 ...there is another, which is as much more beautiful than beauty as beauty is than chaos; namely, wisdom, which our wonderful organ of sight cannot reach unto...
    PPh 4.70 18 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to that central figure which he has established in his Academy as the organ through which every considered opinion shall be announced...
    SwM 4.109 3 Every thing, at the end of one use, is taken up into the next, each series punctually repeating every organ and process of the last.
    SwM 4.114 13 The unities of each organ are so many little organs...
    SwM 4.127 17 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] is a fine Platonic development of the science of marriage; teaching that sex is universal, and not local; virility in the male qualifying every organ, act, and thought; and the feminine in woman.
    ShP 4.192 2 ...as we could not hope to suppress newspapers now...neither then [in Shakespeare's time] could king, prelate, or puritan, alone or united, suppress an organ which was ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch and library, at the same time.
    NMW 4.223 7 It is Swedenborg's theory that every organ is made up of homogeneous particles;...
    NMW 4.230 20 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it;...the prudence with which all was seen and the energy with which all was done, make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    NMW 4.240 14 ...[Napoleon] exists as captain and king only as far as the Revolution, or the interest of the industrious masses, found an organ and a leader in him.
    NMW 4.256 26 The counter-revolution...still waits for its organ and representative...
    GoW 4.275 8 ...by varying the conditions, a leaf may be converted into any other organ...
    GoW 4.275 9 ...by varying the conditions, a leaf may be converted into any other organ, and any other organ into a leaf.
    ET4 5.46 22 We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law of physiology that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the same place in its congener;...
    ET4 5.46 23 We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law of physiology that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the same place in its congener;...
    ET8 5.138 9 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found in the American, and differencing the one from the other. I anticipate another anatomical discovery, that this organ will be found to be cortical and caducous;...
    ET13 5.219 1 Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this occasion was not insignificant. Handel's coronation anthem, God save the King, was played by Dr. Camidge on the organ, with sublime effect.
    ET16 5.285 26 The interior of the [Salisbury] Cathedral is obstructed by the organ in the middle...
    ET16 5.286 8 Whilst we listened to the organ [at Salisbury Cathedral], my friend [Carlyle] remarked, the music is good, and yet not quite religious...
    Wth 6.126 7 Will [the man] spend his income, or will he invest? His body and every organ is under the same law.
    Ctr 6.138 27 To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.
    Bhr 6.181 20 If the organ of sight is such a vehicle of power, other features have their own.
    Art2 7.49 1 ...[the artist] is to be an organ through which the universal mind acts.
    Elo1 7.64 26 The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude...
    Elo1 7.81 19 Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.
    WD 7.157 23 ...there is no sense or organ which is not capable of exquisite performance.
    Clbs 7.226 22 A man valuing himself as the organ of this or that dogma is a dull companion enough;...
    PI 8.37 10 Malthus is the right organ of the English proprietors;...
    Elo2 8.122 20 ...the wonders [John Quincy Adams] could achieve with that cracked and disobedient organ [his voice] showed what power might have belonged to it in early manhood.
    Edc1 10.130 5 Whatever the man does, or whatever befalls him, opens another chamber in his soul,-that is, he has got a new feeling, a new thought, a new organ.
    Edc1 10.137 4 Nature, when she sends a new mind into the world, fills it beforehand with a desire for that which she wishes it to know and do. Let us wait and see...of what new organ the great Spirit had need when it incarnated this new Will.
    Edc1 10.159 7 Consent yourself to be an organ of your highest thought, and lo! suddenly you put all men in your debt...
    MoL 10.250 18 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas...
    LLNE 10.344 2 ...[The Dial] was rather a work of friendship among the narrow circle of students than the organ of any party.
    HDC 11.30 23 ...the honor you have done me this day, in making me your organ, testifies your persevering kindness to [Bulkeley's] blood.
    FSLN 11.243 3 You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict clear and prevailing. Had you done so, you would have found me [Robert Winthrop] its glad organ and champion.
    CInt 12.119 14 I value dearly the poet who knows his art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with sympathetic song, just as a powerful note of an organ sets all tuned strings in its neighborhood in accordant vibration...
    MAng1 12.242 27 ...art was to [Michelangelo] no means of livelihood or road to fame, but the end of living, as it was the organ through which he sought to suggest lessons of an unutterable wisdom;...
    Milt1 12.265 16 [Milton's native honor] refined his amusements, which consisted in gardening, in exercise with the sword, and in playing on the organ.
    MLit 12.310 22 [The library of the Present Age] can hardly be characterized by any species of book, for...every whim and folly, has an organ.

organ-grinders, n. (1)

    Insp 8.290 12 Some of us may remember, years ago, in the English journals, the petition...against the license of the organ-grinders...

organic, adj. (52)

    YA 1.392 3 ...after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...
    Hist 2.36 3 [Man's] power consists...in the fact that his life is intertwined with the whole chain of organic and inorganic being.
    Pt1 3.24 25 The expression [of the poet's thoughts] is organic...
    Pt1 3.25 5 Like the metamorphosis of things into higher organic forms is [the poet's thoughts'] change into melodies.
    Exp 3.47 26 There are even few opinions, and these seem organic in the speakers...
    Exp 3.68 9 Man lives by pulses; our organic movements are such;...
    NER 3.268 7 We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people who make up society, are organic...
    NER 3.270 16 I do not believe that the differences of opinion and character in men are organic.
    PPh 4.66 2 In the doctrine of the organic character and disposition is the origin of caste.
    PNR 4.82 4 The expansions [of facts] are organic.
    SwM 4.114 6 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms...
    SwM 4.120 14 The very organic form resembles the end inscribed on it.
    GoW 4.264 21 [The scholar] is...an organic agent...
    GoW 4.277 11 ...[Goethe] flung into literature, in his Mephistopheles, the first organic figure that has been added for some ages...
    ET1 5.6 24 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure...an emphasis of features proportioned to their gradated importance in function; color and ornament to be decided and arranged and varied by strictly organic laws...
    F 6.27 8 Just as much intellect as you add, so much organic power.
    Pow 6.70 10 ...when you espouse an Orleans party...or any other but an organic party...you have a personality instead of a principle, which will inevitably drag you into a corner.
    Ctr 6.139 3 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...
    Ctr 6.166 12 ...if one shall read the future of the race hinted in the organic effort of nature to mount and meliorate, and the corresponding impulse to the Better in the human being, we shall dare affirm that there is nothing he will not overcome and convert...
    Bty 6.290 17 ...all beauty must be organic;...
    Bty 6.291 7 Every necessary or organic action pleases the beholder.
    SS 7.8 6 ...the necessity of solitude...is organic.
    Art2 7.53 8 We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it is spiritually organic;...
    Boks 7.191 7 [Books] become the organic culture of the time.
    Cour 7.266 12 The thoughtful man says...do you not see...that my way of living is organic?
    Cour 7.266 13 On organic action all strength depends.
    Cour 7.272 23 The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was...in the instinct which, at Thermopylae...kept Asia out of Europe,--Asia with its antiquities and organic slavery...
    OA 7.335 21 When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk...
    PI 8.29 7 Imagination uses an organic classification.
    PI 8.42 24 Rightly, poetry is organic.
    PI 8.46 23 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres...you can easily believe these metres to be organic...
    QO 8.204 10 We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.
    Dem1 10.26 23 I think the rappings a new test...to try catechisms with. It detects organic skepticism in the very heads of the Church.
    Aris 10.38 24 If the differences [in men] are organic, so are the merits...
    Aris 10.45 19 An aristocracy could not exist unless it were organic.
    Aris 10.50 26 It is not sufficient that your work...is organic...
    Chr2 10.117 6 In the worst times, men of organic virtue are born...
    Schr 10.264 8 This, gentlemen, is the topic on which I shall speak,-the natural and permanent function of the Scholar, as he is...an organic agent in nature.
    Schr 10.284 24 Happy for more than yourself, a benefactor of men, if you can answer [life's questions] in works of wisdom, art or poetry; bestowing on the general mind of men organic creations...
    MMEm 10.402 23 ...Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus,-how venerable and organic as Nature they are in [Mary Moody Emerson's] mind!
    MMEm 10.427 8 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author of her being...
    Thor 10.471 23 [Thoreau's] determination on Natural History was organic.
    TPar 11.287 22 The opinions of men are organic.
    EPro 11.315 16 [Liberty] comes, like religion...in rare conditions, as if awaiting a culture of the race which shall make it organic and permanent.
    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.
    RBur 11.440 13 [Robert Burns's] organic sentiment was absolute independence...
    PLT 12.22 24 How lately the hunter was the poor creature's organic enemy;...
    PLT 12.31 19 [A man's aptitude] is...an organic sympathy with the whole frame of things.
    PLT 12.32 6 ...men are primary or secondary as their opinions and actions are organic or not.
    PLT 12.47 26 The various talents are organic...
    CInt 12.123 11 Will you let me say to you what I think is the organic law of learning? It is to observe the order...
    ACri 12.303 25 Classic art is the art of necessity; organic;...

organically, adv. (5)

    Art2 7.51 8 ...the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature, again in active operation. It differs from the works of Nature in this, that they are organically reproductive.
    Carl 10.494 5 ...[Carlyle] detects in an instant if a man stands for any cause to which he is not born and organically committed.
    FSLN 11.241 13 Let the aid of virtue, intelligence and education be cast where they rightfully belong. They are organically ours.
    Koss 11.399 3 We [people of Concord] have seen that you [Kossuth] are organically in that cause you plead.
    ACri 12.304 7 The democratic, when the power proceeds organically from the people and is responsible to them, are classic politics.

organism, n. (4)

    F 6.48 15 ...the rainbow and the curve of the horizon and the arch of the blue vault are only results from the organism of the eye.
    Bty 6.290 11 ...in the construction of any fabric or organism any real increase of fitness to its end is an increase of beauty.
    Elo1 7.63 3 [An audience's] sympathy gives them a certain social organism...
    Aris 10.45 8 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism.

organisms, n. (1)

    PI 8.7 15 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development, indicating the way upward from the invisible protoplasm to the highest organisms, gave the poetic key to Natural Science...

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