Parabola to Partially

MMEm 10.401 1 [Mary Moody Emerson's] mother had married again,- married the minister who succeeded her husband in the parish at Concord...

Parish Prison, New Orleans (1)

SMC 11.363 19 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they set themselves to use the time to the wisest advantage...

parish-church, n. (1)

ET13 5.218 4 The carved and pictured chapel...made the parish-church [in England] a sort of book and Bible to the people's eye.

parishes, n. (3)

DSA 1.143 1 In the country, neighborhoods, half parishes are signing off, to use the local term.

ET13 5.217 11 The distribution of land [in England] into parishes enforces a church sanction to every civil privilege;...

Prch 10.231 4 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it.

parishioner, n. (1)

EzRy 10.391 13 The late Dr. Gardiner, in a funeral sermon on some parishioner whose virtues did not readily come to mind, honestly said, He was good at fires.

Parisian, adj. (3)

ET10 5.164 3 [The English] have...no Parisian poissardes and barricades;...

Bty 6.293 11 I suppose the Parisian milliner...will know how to reconcile the Bloomer costume to the eye of mankind...by interposing the just gradations.

PI 8.69 9 Faust abounds in the disagreeable. The vice is prurient, learned, Parisian.

parity, n. (3)

EWI 11.144 1 If the black man is...not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve, and be exterminated.

AsSu 11.247 8 Life has not parity of value in the free state and in the slave state.

FRO2 11.486 7 ...we find parity, identity of design, through Nature...

park, adj. (1)

ET10 5.165 3 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds...

Park, Clarendon, England, n (1)

ET16 5.286 15 We [Emerson and Carlyle] passed in the train Clarendon Park...

park, n. (11)

Art1 2.349 9 Let statue, picture, park and hall,/ Ballad, flag and festival,/ The past restore, the day adorn/ And make each morrow a new morn./

Pt1 3.42 11 Thou [O poet] shalt have the whole land for thy park and manor...

Nat2 3.175 13 That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call a park; that they live in larger and better-garnished saloons than he has visited...these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of romance...

ET10 5.163 27 This comfort and splendor [in England], the breadth of lake and mountain, tillage, pasture and park...all consist with perfect order.

ET11 5.182 19 The Duke of Norfolk's park in Sussex is fifteen miles in circuit.

Insp 8.272 18 ...villa, park, social considerations, cannot cover up real poverty and insignificance...

MoL 10.253 5 Does any one doubt that a good general is better than a park of artillery?

SHC 11.432 2 What work of man will compare with the plantation of a park?

SHC 11.432 20 ...I have heard it said here that we would gladly spend for a park for the living, but not for a cemetery;...

CL 12.144 2 In Massachusetts, our land...is permeable like a park...

CW 12.175 18 ...the word park always charms me.

Park, Spic, England, n. (1)

ET10 5.165 10 Sir Edward Boynton, at Spic Park at Cadenham, on a precipice of incomparable prospect, built a house like a long barn, which had not a window on the prospect side.

Park Theatre, Boston, Mass (1)

ShP 4.206 16 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil. The famed theatres, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Park and Tremont have vainly assisted.

Parker, Colonel, n. (1)

SMC 11.368 9 ...the [Thirty-second] regiment did good service...at Antietam, under Colonel Parker;...

Parker, Mathew, n. (1)

eT11 5.189 25 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker; Lord Herbert of Cherbury's autobiography;... are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.

Parker, Theodore, n. (13)

Ctr 6.135 23 Have you heard Everett, Garrison, Father Taylor, Theodore Parker?

Prch 10.231 13 Buckminster, Channing, Dr. Lowell, Edward Taylor, Parker, Bushnell, Chapin,-it is they who have been necessary...

Prch 10.234 24 That gray deacon or respectable matron with Calvinistic antecedents...could not have presented any obstacle to the march...of Theodore Parker.

LLNE 10.341 14 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr. Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others, gradually drew together...

LLNE 10.344 6 ...some numbers [of The Dial] had an instant exhausting sale, because of papers by Theodore Parker.

LLNE 10.344 7 Theodore Parker was our Savonarola...

LLNE 10.361 24 Theodore Parker, the near neighbor of [Brook] farm...was a frequent visitor.

LLNE 10.366 13 No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent. Thus Mr. Ripley told Theodore Parker, There is your accomplished friend---: he would hoe corn all Sunday if I would let him, but all Massachusetts could not make him do it on Monday.

CSC 10.375 13 ...Mr. Garrison, Mr. May, Theodore Parker,...and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...

TPar 11.284 1 Here comes Parker, the Orson of parsons, a man/ Whom the Church undertook to put under her ban.-/

TPar 11.285 24 Theodore Parker was a son of the soil...

TPar 11.288 14 ...[it will be] in the plain lessons of Theodore Parker in this Music Hall...that the true temper and the authentic record of these days will be read.

TPar 11.292 22 The sudden and singular eminence of Mr. Parker, the importance of his name and influence, are the verdict of his country to his virtues.

park-fences, n. (1)

ET11 5.188 11 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that besides does and pheasants, these have preserved Arundel marbles...

parks, n. (6)

Nat2 3.174 4 Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their...parks and preserves, to back their faulty personality with these strong accessories.

ET11 5.172 6 Palaces, halls, villas, walled parks, all over England, rival the splendor of royal seats.

Boks 7.216 4 We admire parks, and high-born beauties...

Insp 8.290 17 Certain localities, as...natural parks of oak and pine...are excitants of the muse.

SHC 11.432 18 I suppose all of us will readily admit the value of parks and cultivated grounds to the pleasure and education of the people...

EurB 12.370 9 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson]...discriminate the musky poet...of parks and palaces.

parlance, n. (1)

SwM 4.95 17 In common parlance, what one man is said to learn by experience, a man of extraordinary sagacity is said, without experience, to divine.

parle, v. (2)

QO 8.185 2 ...[Grimm] says that Louis XVI., going out of chapel after hearing a sermon from the Abbe Maury, said, Si l'Abbe nous avait parle un peu de religion, il nous aurait parle de tout.

QO 8.185 3 ...[Grimm] says that Louis XVI., going out of chapel after hearing a sermon from the Abbe Maury, said, Si l'Abbe nous avait parle un peu de religion, il nous aurait parle de tout.

parley, n. (1)

PI 8.60 13 ...in Morte d'Arthur, I remember nothing so well as Sir Gawain' s parley with Merlin in his wonderful prison...

parleying, n. (1)

FSLC 11.198 26 Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive Slave Law] was, he told us, final. It was a pacification...a measure of conciliation and adjustment. These were his words at different times: there was to be no parleying more; it was irrepealable.

Parliament. (1)

Carl 10.492 1 In the Long Parliament, [Carlyle] says, the only great Parliament, they sat secret and silent...

Parliament, Act of, n. (1)

FSLC 11.191 7 Lord Coke held that where an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, the common law shall control it...

Parliament, British, n. (2)

Elo2 8.132 3 ...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.

SMC 11.352 3 The old [Concord] Monument...stands to signalize the first Revolution, where the people resisted...offensive taxes of the British Parliament...

Parliament, English, n. (1)

EurB 12.366 19 In the debates on the Copyright Bill, in the English Parliament, Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision...

Parliament House, n. (1)

PPr 12.391 11 [Carlyle's] jokes shake down Parliament House and Windsor Castle...

Parliament, Long, n. (1)

Carl 10.491 27 In the Long Parliament, [Carlyle] says, the only great Parliament, they sat secret and silent...

parliament, n. (12)

Con 1.310 4 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely that...the wisdom and the worth did get into parliament...the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.

Mrs1 3.147 19 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference, as to its inner and imperial court; the parliament of love and chivalry.

NR 3.230 4 In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men...

ET5 5.78 21 You shall trace these Gothic touches [in England]...at the hustings and in parliament.

ET5 5.78 24 In [the English] parliament, the tactics of the opposition is to resist every step of the government by a pitiless attack;...

ET5 5.81 6 In parliament [the English] have hit on that capital invention of freedom, a constitutional opposition.

ET5 5.81 8 ...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced.

HDC 11.68 19 ...we cannot but be alarmed at the great majority, in the British parliament, for the imposition of unconstitutional taxes on the colonies;...

HDC 11.69 2 Resolved, That these colonies have been and still are illegally taxed by the British parliament...

HDC 11.69 8 ...the British parliament have empowered the East India Company to export their tea into America...

EWI 11.127 17 ...the whole transaction [emancipation in the West Indies] reflects infinite honor on the people and parliament of England.

RBur 11.439 19 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival. We are here to hold our parliament with love and poesy...

Parliament, n. (39)

Pt1 3.18 4 ...it is related of Lord Chatham that he was accustomed to read in Bailey's Dictionary when he was preparing to speak in Parliament.

GoW 4.278 22 We had an English romance here...in which the only reward of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage.

ET5 5.95 26 Steam is almost an Englishman. I do not know but they will send him to Parliament next...

ET5 5.97 13 Purity in the elective Parliament [of England] is secured by the purchase of seats.

ET5 5.100 9 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres [in England], when the speakers rise to thought and passion, the language becomes idiomatic;...

ET7 5.122 9 [The English] have a horror of adventurers in or out of Parliament.

ET10 5.154 20 In 1809, the majority in Parliament expressed itself by the language of Mr. Fuller in the House of Commons, If you do not like the country, damn you, you can leave it.

ET10 5.162 20 Scandinavian Thor...in England...enters Parliament...

ET11 5.182 23 The possessions of the Earl of Lonsdale gave him eight seats in Parliament.

ET11 5.182 26 ...before the Reform of 1832, one hundred and fifty-four persons sent three hundred and seven members to Parliament.

ET13 5.219 6 From his infancy, every Englishman is accustomed to hear daily prayers for the Queen, for the royal family and the Parliament, by name;...

ET13 5.225 5 ...[the English] have not been able to congeal humanity by act of Parliament.

ET14 5.235 6 The [English] children and laborers use the Saxon unmixed. The Latin unmixed is abandoned to the colleges and Parliament.

ET14 5.251 17 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men...who were driven by tastes and modes they found in vogue into their several careers. So, at this moment, every ambitious young man studies geology: so members of Parliament are made, and churchmen.

ET15 5.262 24 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and Froudes and Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or short essays for a journal, as they make speeches in Parliament and on the hustings...

ET15 5.269 20 ...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title, late a member of Parliament, into any county jail in England...

ET15 5.272 3 It is usually pretended, in Parliament and elsewhere, that the English press has a high tone...

ET16 5.276 7 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a carriage to Amesbury, passing by Old Sarum, a bare, treeless hill, once containing the town which sent two members to Parliament...

ET18 5.306 2 You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters...

ET18 5.307 1 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England]...that substantial justice was done. Fox, Burke, Pitt...or whatever national man, were by this means sent to Parliament...

ET18 5.307 18 Congress is not wiser or better than Parliament.

Elo1 7.63 16 Who can wonder at the attractiveness of Parliament...for our ambitious young men...

PI 8.14 13 To the Parliament debating how to tax America, Burke exclaimed, Shear the wolf.

Elo2 8.129 7 Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...

Aris 10.42 10 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff of every county is to cause two dubbed knights...to be returned.

MoL 10.251 26 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.

Carl 10.491 24 [Young men] wish freedom of the press, and [Carlyle] thinks the first thing he would do, if he got into Parliament, would be to turn out the reporters...

carl 10.492 10 Here, [Carlyle] says, the Parliament gathers up six millions of pounds every year to give the poor, and yet the people starve.

EWI 11.110 25 In attempting to make its escape from the pursuit of a man-of- war, one ship flung five hundred slaves alive into the sea. These facts went into Parliament.

EWI 11.111 27 ...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted by the planters...and the negroes furiously forbidden to go near them. These outrage...rekindled the flame of British indignation. Petitions poured into Parliament...

EWI 11.114 1 The colonial legislatures [in the West Indies] received the act of Parliament with various degrees of displeasure...

EWI 11.117 1 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament that the system [of emancipation in the West Indies] worked well;...

EWI 11.119 22 Parliament was compelled to pass additional laws for the defence and security of the negro [in the West Indies]...

EWI 11.137 13 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. On the other part, appeared...a resistance which drew from Mr. Huddlestone in Parliament the observation, That a curse attended this trade even in the mode of defending it.

FRep 11.511 8 The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year, ever since Newton explained to Parliament that the way to improve navigation was to get good watches...

CInt 12.114 14 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...

Milt1 12.251 4 The other piece is [Milton's] Areopagitica, the discourse, addressed to the Parliament, in favor of removing the censorship of the press; the most splendid of his prose works.

Milt1 12.270 3 [Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of Lambeth House had been writ in Latin;...

PPr 12.380 27 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds the calamity of the times, not in bad bills of Parliament...but the vice in false and superficial aims of the people...

Parliament of Love, Court a (1)

Lov1 2.170 5 ...I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness and stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love.

Parliament of Paris, n. (1)

QO 8.196 10 ...Cardinal de Retz, at a critical moment in the Parliament of Paris, described himself in an extemporary Latin sentence...

parliamentary, adj. (10)

Mrs1 3.141 25 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons;...

GoW 4.270 24 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no Chatham, but any number of clever parliamentary and forensic debaters;...

ET7 5.123 11 [The English] have given the parliamentary nickname of Trimmers to the timeservers...

ET12 5.209 27 ...it is likely that the university [Oxford] will know how to resist and make inoperative the terrors of parliamentary inquiry;...

Pow 6.76 18 The good Speaker in the House is not the man who knows the theory of parliamentary tactics, but the man who decides off-hand.

Elo2 8.125 4 The speech of the man in the street is invariably strong, nor can you mend it by making it what you call parliamentary.

PerF 10.82 3 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of the great parliamentary debater.

CSC 10.375 23 If there was not parliamentary order [at the Chardon Street Convention], there was life...

CSC 10.376 11 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it, in the attitude taken by the individuals of their number of resistance to the insane routine of parliamentary usage;...

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;...

Parliamentary, adj. (1)

EWI 11.109 5 Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox were drawn into the generous enterprise [emancipation of West Indian slaves]. In 1788, the House of Commons voted Parliamentary inquiry.

Parliamentary Debates, n. (1)

MN 1.206 23 England, France, and America read Parliamentary Debates, which no high genius now enlivens;...

parliamentary-train, n. (1)

ET5 5.96 8 No man [in England] can afford to walk, when the parliamentary-train carries him for a penny a mile.

Parliament's, Long, n. (1)

Ctr 6.158 26 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill; as when we learn of Lord Fairfax, the Long Parliament's general, his passion for antiquarian studies;...

parliaments, n. (4)

AmS 1.81 6 We do not meet...for parliaments of love and poesy, like the Troubadours;...

Boks 7.216 6 We admire...the homage of drawing-rooms and parliaments.

RBur 11.439 21 ...We are here to hold our parliament [the Burns Festival] with love and poesy, as men were wont to do in the Middle Ages. Those famous parliaments might or might not have had more stateliness and better singers than we...but they could not have better reason.

CW 12.176 13 ...if one is so happy as to find the company of a true artist, he...ought only to be used like an oriflamme or a garland, for...parliaments of wit and love.

Parliaments, n. (1)

ET10 5.168 20 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments...went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.

Parliaments of Love and Poe (1)

MoL 10.244 16 Parliaments of Love and Poesy served [the people of the Middle Ages], instead of the House of Commons, Congress and the newspapers.

parlor, adj. (2)

SR 2.75 23 We are parlor soldiers.

PI 8.63 23 None of your parlor or piano verse...will satisfy us.

parlor, n. (22)

SR 2.48 26 A boy is in the parlor what the pit is in the playhouse;...

SR 2.56 4 The by-standers look askance on [the nonconformist]...in the friend's parlor.

Prd1 2.237 24 The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlor and the cabin.

Exp 3.81 3 ...all the muses and love and religion...will find a way to punish the chemist who publishes in the parlor the secrets of the laboratory.

Chr1 3.93 9 In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has been at hard work this morning...

ET3 5.40 2 A gentleman in Liverpool told me that he found he could do without a fire in his parlor about one day in the year.

ET15 5.265 19 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a powder-mill; but...by dint of some transmission of cards, we were at last conducted into the parlor of Mr. Morris...

F 6.31 13 What pious men in the parlor will vote for what reprobates at the polls!

SS 7.14 26 Put Stubbs and Coleridge, Quintilian and Aunt Miriam, into pairs, and you make them all wretched. 'T is an extempore Sing-Sing built in a parlor.

Elo1 7.61 7 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor.

Clbs 7.235 12 However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and spiritual power that are compared; whether in the parlor...or the chamber of science...

Clbs 7.246 7 The girl deserts the parlor for the kitchen;...

Suc 7.286 11 We have seen an American woman write a novel...which... was read with equal interest to three audiences, namely, in the parlor, in the kitchen and in the nursery of every house.

PI 8.36 1 The writer in the parlor has more presence of mind, more wit and fancy, more play of thought, on the incidents that occur at table...than in the politics of Germany or Rome.

SA 8.99 2 Lovers abstain from caresses and haters from insults whilst they sit in one parlor with common friends.

Elo2 8.120 8 ...give [an eloquent man]...the inspiration of a great multitude, and he surprises by new and unlooked-for powers. Before, he was out of place, and unfitted as a cannon in a parlor.

Grts 8.304 24 When [young men] have learned that the parlor and the college and the counting-room demand as much courage as the sea or the camp, they will be willing to consult their own strength and education in their choice of place.

Prch 10.233 18 ...if I had to counsel a young preacher, I should say: When there is any difference felt between the foot-board of the pulpit and the floor of the parlor, you have not yet said that which you should say.

EzRy 10.392 7 ...[Ezra Ripley's] talk in the parlor was chiefly narrative.

EWI 11.122 13 [Our] well-being consists in having...a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table;...

Wom 11.403 5 ...there in the parlor sits/ Some figure in noble guise,-/ Our Angel in a stranger's form;/ Or Woman's pleading eyes./

CL 12.166 15 ...the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive persons. Sometimes a parlor in which fine persons are found...answers our purpose still better.

parlors, n. (3)

NR 3.231 18 Money...which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

Boks 7.189 21 ...after reading to weariness the lettered backs [of books], we...learn, as I did without surprise of a surly bank director, that in bank parlors they estimate all stocks of this kind as rubbish.

Aris 10.62 16 In the best parlors of modern society [the gentleman] will find the laughing devil...

Parma, Italy, n. (1)

ET18 5.301 12 ...[the foreign policy of England] betrayed Genoa, Sicily, Parma, Greece, Turkey, Rome and Hungary.

Parmenides, n. (5)

LE 1.160 25 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith, by showing me that what high dogmas I had supposed were...only now possible to some recent Kant or Fichte,-were the prompt improvisations of the earliest inquirers; of Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Xenophanes.

PPh 4.42 16 Plato absorbed the learning of his times,--Philolaus, Timaeus, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and what else;...

PPh 4.64 27 What a price [Plato] sets on the feats of talent, on the powers of Pericles, of Isocrates, of Parmenides!

QO 8.180 23 Hegel preexists in Proclus, and, long before, in Heraclitus and Parmenides.

Plu 10.297 20 [Plutarch] is...not a metaphysician, like Parmenides, Plato or Aristotle;...

Parmenides [Plato], n. (1)

PPh 4.62 1 [Plato] even stood ready, as in the Parmenides, to demonstrate that it was so,--that this Being exceeded the limits of intellect.

Parnassum, Gradus ad, n. (1)

Ctr 6.142 20 [Your boy] hates the grammar and Gradus...

Parnassus, n. (4)

ET14 5.243 20 [Locke's] countrymen forsook the lofty sides of Parnassus...

PI 8.51 27 Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

LLNE 10.332 17 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination in our unoccupied American Parnassus.

Mem 12.95 18 A seneschal of Parnassus is Mnemosyne.

Parnassus, Persian, n. (1)

PPo 8.237 8 The seven masters of the Persian Parnassus...have ceased to be empty names;...

parochial, adj. (3)

ET14 5.254 16 ...parochial and shop-till politics...betray the ebb of life and spirit [in English students].

EzRy 10.385 25 [Ezra Ripley] looked at every person and thing from the parochial point of view.

EzRy 10.394 17 This intimate knowledge of families...and still more, his sympathy, made [Ezra Ripley] incomparable in his parochial visits...

parody, n. (1)

Mrs1 3.145 5 Let the creed and commandments even have the saucy homage of parody.

parole, n. (1)

ET7 5.118 20 The Duke of Wellington...advises the French General Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer.

paroled, v. (1)

EPro 11.320 6 The President [Lincoln] by this act [the Emancipation Proclamation] has paroled all the slaves in America;...

paroxysms, n. (2)

Cour 7.257 9 The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone...

Insp 8.277 2 Garrick said that on the stage his great paroxysms surprised himself as much as his audience.

parricides, n. (1)

Cour 7.276 7 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...devilish lives...parricides, matricides and whatever moral monsters.

parried, v. (2)

F 6.8 21 ...so long as these strokes [of Nature] are not to be parried by us they must be feared.

SA 8.103 16 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company...in the temperance with which he parried all offence...

parrot, n. (2)

AmS 1.84 8 ...[the scholar] tends to become...the parrot of other men's thinking.

PPo 8.254 20 I am a kind of parrot; the mirror is holden to me;/ What the Eternal says, I stammering say again./

parrot's, n. (1)

PPo 8.251 2 ...Hafiz is a poet for poets, whether he write, as sometimes, with a parrot's, or, as at other times, with an eagle's quill.

parry, v. (5)

Fdsp 2.202 27 We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments...

Mrs1 3.126 25 [Fine manners] are a subtler science of defence to parry and intimidate;...

ET14 5.255 1 [The English] parry earnest speech with banter and levity;...

PerF 10.73 20 ...we see the causes of evils and learn to parry them and use them as instruments, by knowledge...

Schr 10.269 3 Talk frankly with [the practical men] and you learn...that the Spirit of the Age has been before you with influences impossible to parry or resist.

Parry, William Edward, n. (2)

SR 2.86 16 Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in their fishing-boats as to astonish Parry and Franklin...

ET4 5.68 16 ...Sir Edward Parry said of Sir John Franklin, that if he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it;...

parrying, v. (2)

F 6.25 6 ...Fate against Fate is only parrying and defence...

ACiv 11.300 4 The evil you contend with has taken alarming proportions, and you still content yourself with parrying the blows it aims...

parse, v. (1)

PI 8.21 24 Pindar, Dante, yes, and the gray and timeworn sentences of Zoroaster, may all be parsed, though we do not parse them.

parsed, v. (1)

PI 8.21 23 Pindar, Dante, yes, and the gray and timeworn sentences of Zoroaster, may all be parsed...

Parsee, n. (1)

Bost 12.184 3 Parsee, Mongol, Afghan, Israelite, Christian, have all passed under this [Hindoo] influence...

parsimonious, adj. (1)

ET17 5.297 7 ...[in London] you will hear from different literary men that Wordsworth had no personal friend...that he was parsimonious, etc.

parsimony, n. (3)

MoS 4.184 5 [Young and ardent minds] accuse the divine Providence of a certain parsimony.

Farm 7.139 8 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature;...patience...with the parsimony of our strength...

Bost 12.208 12 ...there is yet in every city a certain permanent tone;...giving or parsimony;...

parsing, v. (1)

NER 3.259 6 Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing Greek and Latin...

parsley, adj. (1)

Boks 7.200 18 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited...by the passing of fillets, parsley and laurel wreaths, chariots, armor, sacred cups and utensils of sacrifice.

parsley, n. (1)

Imtl 8.325 19 [The Greek] adorned death, brought wreaths of parsley and laurel;...

parson, n. (2)

F 6.6 18 ...now and then an amiable parson...believes in a pistareen-Providence...

MMEm 10.423 17 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries of the battle-field...what of a vulture being the bier, tomb and parson of a hero, compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?

Parsons, Antony, n. (2)

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

Cour 7.274 20 The poor Puritan, Antony Parsons, at the stake, tied straw on his head when the fire approached him...

parsons, n. (2)

SwM 4.142 8 These angels that Swedenborg paints...are all country parsons...

TPar 11.284 1 Here comes Parker, the Orson of parsons, a man/ Whom the Church undertook to put under her ban.-/

Parsons, Theophilus, n. (2)

SlHr 10.447 22 ...[Samuel Hoar's] sincere admiration was commanded by certain heroes of the [legal] profession, like Judge Parsons and Judge Marshall...

FSLC 11.214 5 ...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and past, in either of which, if one man had felt the spirit of Coke or Mansfield or Parsons, and read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of Massachusetts had been prevented...

part, n. (439)

Nat 1.8 21 [The landscape] is the best part of these men's farms...

Nat 1.9 5 [The lover of nature's] intercourse with heaven and earth becomes part of his daily food.

Nat 1.10 11 ...I am part or parcel of God.

Nat 1.19 9 ...this beauty of Nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part.

Nat 1.24 24 [Beauty in nature] must stand as a part...of the final cause of Nature.

Nat 1.33 5 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, the whole is greater than its part;...

Nat 1.35 26 That which was unconscious truth, becomes...a part of the domain of knowledge...

Nat 1.41 10 Whatever private purpose is answered by any member or part [of nature], [discipline] is its public and universal function...

Nat 1.49 22 The first effort of thought tends to relax this despotism of the senses which binds us to nature as if we were a part of it...

Nat 1.60 24 [The soul] accepts whatsoever befalls, as part of its lesson.

Nat 1.62 24 ...the mind is a part of the nature of things;...

Nat 1.68 17 The following lines are part of [Herbert's] little poem on Man.

Nat 1.68 22 Each part may call the farthest, brother;/...

AmS 1.87 2 ...nature is the opposite of the soul, answering to it part for part.

AmS 1.90 27 On the other part...let [the soul] receive from another mind its truth...and a fatal disservice is done.

AmS 1.92 2 We read the verses of one of the great English poets...with a pleasure...which is in great part caused by the abstraction of all time from their verses.

AmS 1.93 10 ...as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months, so is its record, perhance, the least part of his volume.

AmS 1.93 12 The discerning will read, in his...Shakspeare, only that least part...

AmS 1.96 13 The new deed is yet a part of life...

AmS 1.103 26 ...the deeper [the orator] dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most...universally true. The people delight in it; the better part of every man feels, This is my music;...

DSA 1.133 26 Let [the life and dialogues of Christ] lie as they befell...part of human life...

LE 1.180 1 ...whilst he...omitted no part of prudence, [Napoleon] believed also in the freedom...of the soul.

LE 1.184 21 Be a scholar, and he shall have the scholar's part of everything.

MN 1.194 20 Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the highest or truest name for our communication with the infinite,-but glad and conspiring reception,-reception that becomes giving in its turn, as the receiver is only the All-Giver in part and in infancy.

MN 1.210 27 What is best in any work of art but that part which the work itself seems to require and do;...

MN 1.216 18 Be you only whole and sufficient, and I shall feel you in every part of my life and fortune...

MR 1.232 9 I leave for those who have the knowledge the part of sifting the oaths of our custom-houses;...

MR 1.234 25 Considerations of this kind have turned the attention of many...persons to the claims of manual labor, as a part of the education of every young man.

MR 1.235 3 If the accumulated wealth of the past generation is thus tainted...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part to renounce it...

MR 1.235 7 ...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part...to take each of us bravely his part...

MR 1.243 24 I ought to be armed by every part and function of my household...

MR 1.252 24 ...we enact the part of the selfish noble and king from the foundation of the world.

LT 1.260 24 Meantime, on the other part, arises Reform...

LT 1.266 26 A little while this interval of wonder and comparison is permitted us, but to the end that we shall play a manly part.

LT 1.271 4 There is a perfect chain...of reforms...each cherishing some part of the general idea...

LT 1.275 21 Here is great variety and richness of mysticism, each part of which now only disgusts...

LT 1.278 4 You have on some occasion played a bold part.

Con 1.306 16 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth, where is my part?...

Con 1.317 24 ...nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as [man];...

Con 1.318 14 ...we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation...of views...injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.

Con 1.320 2 Conservatism takes as low a view of every part of human action and passion.

Con 1.322 22 On which part will each of us find himself in the hour of health and of aspiration?

Tran 1.342 22 ...this retirement does not proceed from any whim on the part of these separators;...

Tran 1.342 25 ...if any one will take pains to talk with [these separators], he will find that this part is chosen both from temperament and from principle;...

Tran 1.347 26 ...unwillingly [Transcendentalists] bear their part of the public and private burdens;...

Tran 1.348 25 On the part of these children it is replied that life and their faculty seem to them gifts too rich to be squandered on such trifles as you propose to them.

Tran 1.353 7 To him who looks at his life from these moments of illumination, it will seem that he skulks and plays a mean, shiftless and subaltern part in the world.

YA 1.368 21 The cities drain the country of the best part of its population...

YA 1.372 7 All the facts in any part of nature shall be tabulated and the results shall indicate the same security and benefit;...

YA 1.379 13 Our part is plainly not to throw ourselves across the track, to block improvement...

YA 1.380 26 These [Communities] proceeded...in great part from a feeling that the true offices of the State, the State had let fall to the ground;...

YA 1.382 14 [The Associations] proposed...that all men should take a part in the manual toil...

Hist 2.29 11 ...in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times, he repeats step for step the part of old reformers...

Hist 2.37 2 [Talbot's] substance is not here./ For what you see is but the smallest part/...

SR 2.83 18 The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

Comp 2.96 17 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...

Comp 2.97 21 A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature.

Comp 2.97 22 A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature.

Comp 2.101 10 Each new form repeats not only the main character of the type, but part for part all the details...

Comp 2.102 22 What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears.

Comp 2.105 13 If [the unwise man] escapes [the conditions of life] in one part they attack him in another more vital part.

Comp 2.105 14 If [the unwise man] escapes [the conditions of life] in one part they attack him in another more vital part.

Comp 2.108 9 That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in it;...

Comp 2.112 23 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or money? There arises on the deed the instant acknowledgment of benefit on the one part and of debt on the other;...

Comp 2.113 7 A wise man will...know that it is the part of prudence to face every claimant...

Comp 2.121 2 Essence, or God, is not a relation or a part, but the whole.

SL 2.142 8 The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then is he a part of the machine he moves;...

Fdsp 2.204 5 My friend gives me entertainment without requiring any stipulation on my part.

Fdsp 2.207 8 ...three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

Fdsp 2.209 15 ...friends are self-elected. Reverence is a great part of it.

Fdsp 2.216 13 It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet.

Hsm1 2.248 10 ...Simon Ockley's History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor, with admiration all the more evident on the part of the narrator that he seems to think that his place in Christian Oxford requires of him some proper protestations of abhorrence.

Hsm1 2.260 7 ...when you have chosen your part, abide by it...

Hsm1 2.261 3 There is no weakness or exposure for which we cannot find consolation in the thought--this is a part of my constitution, part of my relation and office to my fellow-creature.

OS 2.269 9 ...within man is...the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related;...

OS 2.269 25 Every man's words who speaks from that [inner] life must sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part.

Cir 2.311 24 If [the speaker and the hearer] were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon.

Int 2.328 4 In the most...introverted self-tormentor's life, the greatest part is incalculable by him...

Int 2.329 25 In every man's mind, some...facts remain, without effort on his part to imprint them, which others forget...

Art1 2.349 20 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part/...

Pt1 3.9 2 I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent writer of lyrics...

Pt1 3.13 20 ...nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

Pt1 3.26 14 The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.

Exp 3.49 6 ...something which I fancied was a part of me...falls off from me and leaves no scar.

Exp 3.49 22 I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects...to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

Exp 3.60 8 It is not the part of men, but of fanatics...to say that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want or sitting high.

Exp 3.76 25 By love on one part and by forbearance to press objection on the other part, it is for a time settled that we will look at [Jesus] in the centre of the horizon...

Exp 3.76 26 By love on one part and by forbearance to press objection on the other part, it is for a time settled that we will look at [Jesus] in the centre of the horizon...

Exp 3.80 9 The partial action of each strong mind in one direction is a telescope for the objects on which it is pointed. But every other part of knowledge is to be pushed to the same extravagance, ere the soul attains her due sphericity.

Exp 3.84 8 When I receive a new gift, I do not macerate my body to make the account square, for if I should die I could not make the account square. The benefit overran the merit the first day, and has overrun the merit ever since. The merit itself, so-called, I reckon part of the receiving.

Chr1 3.89 12 We cannot find the smallest part of the personal weight of Washington in the narrative of his exploits.

Chr1 3.89 21 ...somewhat resided in these men which begot an expectation that outran all their performance. The largest part of their power was latent.

Chr1 3.98 20 On the other part, rectitude is a perpetual victory...

Gts 3.161 9 ...our tokens of compliment and love are for the most part barbarous.

Pol1 3.202 23 ...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?

Pol1 3.204 21 Society always consists in greatest part of young and foolish persons.

Pol1 3.208 19 We might as wisely reprove the east wind or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position...

Pol1 3.210 16 ...the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able and cultivated part of the population, is timid...

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...

Pol1 3.219 26 We must not imagine that all things are lapsing into confusion if every tender protestant be not compelled to bear his part in certain social conventions;...

NR 3.236 11 It is all idle talking: as much as a man is a whole, so is he also a part;...

NR 3.237 22 [Nature] loves better...a groom who is part of his horse;...

NER 3.254 7 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members on account of the somewhat hostile part to the church which his conscience led him to take in the anti-slavery business;...

NER 3.261 27 ...there is no part of society or of life better than any other part.

NER 3.262 1 ...there is no part of society or of life better than any other part.

NER 3.279 2 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors, and a good man at my side, looking on the people, remarked, I am satisfied that the largest part of these men, on either side, mean to vote right.

NER 3.280 6 The man whose part is taken and who does not wait for society in anything, has a power which society cannot choose but feel.

UGM 4.11 10 Each material thing...has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.

UGM 4.11 21 The reason why [man] knows about [things] is that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of that thing.

PPh 4.62 17 There is a scale; and the correspondence...of the part to the whole, is our guide.

PPh 4.68 4 Plato...attempted as if on the part of human intellect, once for all to do it adequate homage...

PPh 4.68 23 ...Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts. Cut again each of these two main parts,--one representing the visible, the other the intelligible world,--and let these two new sections represent the bright part and the dark part of each of these worlds.

PPh 4.68 24 ...Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts. Cut again each of these two main parts,--one representing the visible, the other the intelligible world,--and let these two new sections represent the bright part and the dark part of each of these worlds.

SwM 4.115 1 Every particular idea of man, and...every smallest part of his affection, is an image and effigy of him.

SwM 4.117 23 ...[mankind] had sciences, religions, philosophies, and yet had failed to see the correspondence of meaning between every part and every other part.

SwM 4.117 24 ...[mankind] had sciences, religions, philosophies, and yet had failed to see the correspondence of meaning between every part and every other part.

SwM 4.119 23 [Swedenborg] attempts to give some account of the modus of the new state, affirming that his presence in the spiritual world is attended with a certain separation, but only as to the intellectual part of his mind, not as to the will part;...

SwM 4.119 24 [Swedenborg] attempts to give some account of the modus of the new state, affirming that his presence in the spiritual world is attended with a certain separation, but only as to the intellectual part of his mind, not as to the will part;...

SwM 4.120 25 This design of exhibiting such correpondences [between heaven and earth], which, if adequately executed, would be the poem of the world, in which all history and science would play an essential part, was narrowed and defeated by the exclusively theologic direction which [Swedenborg's] inquiries took.

SwM 4.122 13 [Swedenborg's religion]...fits every part of life...

SwM 4.130 27 ...though aware that truth is not solitary nor is goodness solitary, but both must ever mix and marry, [Swedenborg] makes war on his mind, takes the part of the conscience against it...

SwM 4.131 4 Beauty is disgraced, love is unlovely, when truth, the half part of heaven, is denied...

SwM 4.132 14 The wise people of the Greek race were accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young men, as part of their education, through the Eleusinian mysteries...

MoS 4.151 18 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world...and the practical world...weigh heavily on the other side.

MoS 4.153 24 My neighbor, a jolly farmer, in the tavern bar-room, thinks that the use of money is sure and speedy spending. For his part, he says, he puts his down his neck and gets the good of it.

MoS 4.158 5 ...shall the young man aim at a leading part in law, in politics, in trade? It will not be pretended that a success in either of these kinds is quite coincident with what is best and inmost in his mind.

MoS 4.159 10 Men...like trees, receive a great part of their nourishment from the air.

MoS 4.173 6 [The wise skeptic] does not wish...to play the part of devil's attorney...

MoS 4.176 27 ...is no community of sentiment discoverable in distant times and places? And when it shows the power of self-interest, I accept that as part of the divine law...

ShP 4.192 26 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is the Tale of Troy, which the audience will bear hearing some part of, every week;...

ShP 4.207 1 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...and all I then heard and all I now remember of the tragedian was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost...

ShP 4.211 13 ...[Shakespeare] could divide the mother's part from the father's part in the face of the child...

ShP 4.211 14 ...[Shakespeare] could divide the mother's part from the father's part in the face of the child...

ShP 4.212 22 [A man of talents] crams this part and starves that other part...

NMW 4.239 2 [Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave all letters unopened for three weeks, and then observed with satisfaction how large a part of the correspondence had thus disposed of itself...

NMW 4.243 1 ...even when the majority of the people had begun to ask whether they had really gained any thing under the exhausting levies of men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the whole talent of the country...took his part...

NMW 4.255 3 For my part [said Napoleon] I know very well that I have no true friends.

GoW 4.271 20 ...[Goethe] lived...in a time when Germany played no such leading part in the world's affairs as to swell the bosom of her sons with any metropolitan pride...

GoW 4.271 27 [Goethe's] Helena, or the second part of Faust, is a philosophy of literature set in poetry;...

GoW 4.275 5 ...Goethe suggested the leading idea of modern botany...that every part of a plant is only a transformed leaf to meet a new condition;...

GoW 4.276 13 The Devil had played an important part in mythology in all times.

GoW 4.282 13 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...

GoW 4.283 12 ...men distinguished for wit and learning, in England and France...are not understood to be very deeply engaged, from grounds of character, to the topic or the part they espouse...

GoW 4.283 25 ...your interest in the writer is not confined to his story and he dismissed from memory when he has performed his task creditably, as a baker when he has left his loaf;but his work is the least part of him.

GoW 4.287 2 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal...and the historical part of his Theory of Colors, have the same interest.

ET1 5.6 3 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities,--the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends, and inflaming them with it, and when his strength was spent, a new hand with equal heat continued the work; and so by relays, until it was finished in every part with equal fire.

ET1 5.14 13 ...I...find it impossible to recall the largest part of [Coleridge' s] discourse...

ET1 5.21 21 [Wordsworth] had never gone farther than the first part [of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister];...

ET1 5.24 12 [Wordsworth] then said he would show me a better way towards the inn; and he walked a good part of a mile...

ET3 5.39 12 ...at one season, the country people [of England] say, the lakes contain one part water and two parts fish.

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;...

ET5 5.79 8 ...[Kenelm Digby] had so graceful elocution and noble address, that, had he been dropt out of the clouds in any part of the world, he would have made himself respected;...

ET5 5.98 26 It is the maxim of [English] economists, that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.

ET6 5.111 20 The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex. After the spire and the spines are formed...a juice exudes and a hard enamel varnishes every part.

ET7 5.116 13 The [English] government strictly performs its engagements. The subjects do not understand trifling on its part.

ET8 5.136 20 On deliberate choice and from grounds of character, [the English hero] has elected his part to live and die for...

ET10 5.169 22 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with;...

ET10 5.169 25 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with; and a part to repair the wrongs of this intemperate weaving, by hospitals, savings-banks, Mechanics' Institutes, public grounds, and other charities and amenities.

ET11 5.173 19 The Anglican clergy are identified with the aristocracy. Time and law have made the joining and moulding perfect in every part.

ET11 5.176 21 ...the virtues of pirates gave way [in England] to those of planters, merchants, senators and scholars. Comity, social talent and fine manners, no doubt, have had their part also.

ET11 5.184 22 In the army, the [English] nobility fill a large part of the high commissions...

ET11 5.185 13 If one asks...what service this class [English nobility] have rendered?--uses appear, or they would have perished long ago. Some of these are easily enumerated, others more subtle make a part of unconscious history.

ET11 5.191 4 War is a foul game, yet war is not the worst part of aristocratic history.

ET11 5.193 24 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds a year. The spending is for a great part in servants...

ET11 5.194 4 [English noblemen] might be little Providences on earth, said my friend, and they are, for the most part, jockeys and fops.

ET12 5.211 1 The diet and rough exercise [at Oxford] secure a certain amount of old Norse power. A fop will fight, and in exigent circumstances will play the manly part.

ET13 5.218 25 Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this occasion was not insignificant.

ET13 5.219 3 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. The minster and the music were made for each other. It was a hint of the part the church plays as a political engine.

ET13 5.220 23 The religion of England is part of good-breeding.

ET14 5.238 14 'T is a very old strife between those who elect to see identity and those who elect to see discrepancies; and it renews itself in Britain. The poets, of course, are of one part; the men of the world, of the other.

ET14 5.240 24 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part of learning [universality] very deficient...

ET14 5.253 27 ...for the most part the natural science in England is out of its loyal alliance with morals...

ET16 5.273 21 The fine weather and my friend's [Carlyle's] local knowledge of Hampshire, in which he is wont to spend a part of every summer, made the way short.

ET16 5.288 2 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked.

ET16 5.290 1 [Winchester Cathedral] is very old: part of the crypt into which we went down and saw the Saxon and Norman arches of the old church on which the present stands, was built fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago.

F 6.5 1 Any excess of emphasis on one part would be corrected...

F 6.9 21 Find the part which black eyes and which blue eyes play severally in the company.

F 6.22 24 On one side elemental order...and on the other part thought...

F 6.23 6 ...a part of Fate is the freedom of man.

F 6.24 24 ...if Fate is so prevailing, man also is part of it...

F 6.42 13 As once [man] found himself among toys, so now he plays a part in colossal systems...

F 6.46 23 ...year after year, we find two men, two women, without legal or carnal tie, spend a great part of their best time within a few feet of each other.

Pow 6.64 10 The same elements are always present, only sometimes these conspicuous, and sometimes those; what was yesterday foreground, being to-day background;--what was surface, playing now a not less effective part as basis.

Pow 6.76 26 The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency...but who throws himself on your part so heartily that he can get you out of a scrape.

Wth 6.91 20 The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

Ctr 6.131 17 ...any excess of power in one part is usually paid for at once by some defect in a contiguous part.

Ctr 6.131 18 ...any excess of power in one part is usually paid for at once by some defect in a contiguous part.

Ctr 6.139 26 A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Ctr 6.141 7 ...I think it the part of good sense to provide every fine soul with such culture that it shall not, at thirty or forty years, have to say, This which I might do is made hopeless through my want of weapons.

Ctr 6.141 14 ...a large part of our cost and pains is thrown away.

Ctr 6.145 5 For the most part, only the light characters travel.

Ctr 6.149 12 A great part of our education is sympathetic and social.

Bhr 6.172 5 When we reflect on...how manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth; that, for the most part, his manners marry him, and, for the most part, he marries manners;...we see what range the subject has...

Bhr 6.172 6 When we reflect on...how manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth; that, for the most part, his manners marry him, and, for the most part, he marries manners;...we see what range the subject has...

Bhr 6.179 12 The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will.

Bhr 6.191 24 Novels are the journal or record of manners, and the new importance of these books derives from the fact that the novelist begins to... treat this part of life more worthily.

Bhr 6.193 27 ...when [the monk Basle] came to discourse with [uncivil angels], instead of contradicting or forcing him, they took his part...

Wsp 6.215 14 I can best indicate by examples those reactions by which every part of nature replies to the purpose of the actor...

Wsp 6.230 10 ...the part you took continues to plead for you.

CbW 6.260 3 Marcus Antoninus says that Fronto told him that the so-called high-born are for the most part heartless;...

CbW 6.264 6 ...the best part of health is fine disposition.

CbW 6.270 21 How to live with unfit companions?--for with such, life is for the most part spent;...

Bty 6.282 14 However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders in [astrology], the hint was true and divine...that climate, century, remote natures as well as near, are part of [the soul's] biography.

Ill 6.311 7 ...rainbows and Northern Lights are not quite so spheral as our childhood thought them, and the part our organization plays in them is too large.

SS 7.8 27 ...the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs. The cooperation...is put upon us by the Genius of Life, who reserves this as a part of his prerogative.

Art2 7.38 17 A large part of our habitual actions are unconsciously done...

Art2 7.43 4 [Man's] art is the least part of his work of art.

Art2 7.45 9 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian. And in the statue of Canova or the picture of Titian, these give the great part of the pleasure;...

Art2 7.45 24 ...who will deny that the merely conventional part of the [artistic] performance contributes much to its effect?

Art2 7.46 3 ...the pleasure that a noble temple gives us is only in part owing to the temple.

Art2 7.46 7 The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it...

Art2 7.47 23 Nature paints the best part of the picture...

Art2 7.47 24 Nature...carves the best part of the statue...

Art2 7.47 24 Nature...builds the best part of the house...

Art2 7.47 25 Nature...speaks the best part of the oration.

Art2 7.48 7 Let us proceed to the consideration of the law stated in the beginning of this essay, as it affects the purely spiritual part of a work of art.

Art2 7.54 14 ...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelopipeds, which broken in two, one part would be an obelisk;...

Elo1 7.62 15 Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men;...

Elo1 7.67 10 ...all these several audiences...which successively appear to greet the variety of style and topic [of the orator], are really composed out of the same persons; nay, sometimes the same individual will take active part in them all, in turn.

Elo1 7.67 21 When each auditor feels himself to make too large a part of the assembly...mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable.

Elo1 7.89 2 ...all that is called eloquence seems to me of little use for the most part to those who have it...

DL 7.123 25 [Every man] observes...the humility of the expectations of the greatest part of men.

DL 7.132 15 Will [man] not see...that Law prevails for ever and ever; that his private being is a part of it;...

Farm 7.137 2 The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create.

Boks 7.189 13 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...certainly knowing that his passengers are the same and in no respect better than when he took them on board. So is it with books, for the most part;...

Boks 7.201 16 The valuable part [of Greek history] is the age of Pericles and the next generation.

Boks 7.216 3 For the most part, our novel-reading is a passion for results.

Clbs 7.225 20 ...every healthy and efficient mind passes a large part of life in the company most easy to him.

Cour 7.257 17 ...[the child's] utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every by-stander to take his part.

Cour 7.259 9 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community...always on the defensive, as if the lead were intrusted to the journals, often written in great part by women and boys...

Cour 7.259 17 ...the aggressive attitude of men who...will no longer be bothered with...thieves on the bench; that part, the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...

Cour 7.280 2 But sure that rifle's aim,/ Swift choice of generous part,/ Showed in its passing gleam/ The depths of a brave heart./

Suc 7.291 5 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to understand that the promises of this world are for the most part vain phantoms...

Suc 7.295 7 ...it is a nice point to discriminate this self-trust...from the disease to which it is allied,--the exaggeration of the part which we can play;...

Suc 7.300 1 ...this brute matter is part of somewhat not brute.

Suc 7.300 3 ...the sand floor is...bent to be a part of the round globe...

Suc 7.300 4 ...the sand floor is...bent to be a...part of the astonishing astronomy...

Suc 7.304 9 The supernal powers seem to take [the lover's] part.

PI 8.8 13 In botany we have...the poetic perception of metamorphosis,--that the same vegetable point or eye which is the unit of the plant can be transformed at pleasure into every part...

PI 8.12 17 Genius thus [through figurative speech] makes the transfer from one part of Nature to a remote part...

PI 8.26 23 ...all men know the portrait [of the true poet] when it is drawn, and it is part of religion to believe its possible incarnation.

PI 8.28 24 Fancy relates to surface, in which a great part of life lies.

PI 8.42 14 ...guided by [thoughts and laws], [the poet] is ascending...from the part of a spectator to the part of a maker.

PI 8.69 27 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image more or less that imports, but...that life should be an image in every part beautiful;...

PI 8.75 5 ...the involuntary part of [men's] life is so much as to fill the mind...

SA 8.80 18 ...we for the most part are all drawn into the charivari;...

SA 8.95 19 ...there are...brave choices enough of taking the part of truth...in privatest circles.

Elo2 8.128 21 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...that I wish [a boy's] guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.

Elo2 8.131 3 What is said is the least part of the oration.

Comc 8.158 17 ...man, through his access to Reason, is capable of the perception of a whole and a part.

Comc 8.158 18 ...man, through his access to Reason, is capable of the perception of a whole and a part. Reason is the whole, and whatsoever is not is a part.

Comc 8.158 20 ...separate any part of Nature and attempt to look at it as a whole by itself, and the feeling of the ridiculous begins.

QO 8.191 9 We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is Montesquieu's or Goethe's part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself;...

PC 8.213 14 ...each nation and period has done its full part to make up the result of existing civility.

PC 8.218 1 ...a sentence, has played its part in great events.

PC 8.229 12 When [a man] does not play a part...he communicates himself, and not his vanity.

PC 8.230 7 I know well to what assembly of educated, reflecting, successful and powerful persons I speak. Yours is the part of those who have received much.

PPo 8.243 6 ...for the most part, [the Persians] affect short poems and epigrams.

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

Grts 8.305 14 ...the sun and the planets are made in part or in whole of the same elements as the earth is.

Grts 8.306 1 'T is gratifying to see this adaptation of man to the world, and to every part and particle of it.

Imtl 8.331 14 Both [men] were men of distinction and took an active part in the politics of their day and generation.

Imtl 8.334 6 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find out, part with part, the delicate contrivance and adjustment of a weed...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!

Dem1 10.9 13 A skilful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them...

Dem1 10.9 14 A skilful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them,-a cheerful, manly part, or a poor drivelling part?

Dem1 10.15 17 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success, exists not only among those who take part in political and military projects...

Dem1 10.18 22 In vain do the clear-headed part of mankind discredit [demonic individuals] as deceivers or deceived,-the mass is attracted.

Aris 10.32 2 A reference to society is part of the idea of culture;...

Aris 10.58 5 The noble mind is here to teach us that failure is a part of success.

PerF 10.74 5 [Man's] whole frame is responsive to the world, part for part...

PerF 10.77 12 My conviction of principles,-that is great part of my possessions.

PerF 10.86 12 All our political disasters grow as logically out of our attempts in the past to do without justice, as the sinking of some part of your house comes of defect in the foundation.

PerF 10.87 1 ...a sensitive politician suffers his ideas of the part New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties.

Chr2 10.92 13 It were an unspeakable calamity if any one should think he had the right to impose a private will on others. That is the part of a striker, an assassin.

Chr2 10.94 27 Compare...all our private and personal venture in the world, with this deep of moral nature in which we lie...and we take part with hasty shame against ourselves...

Edc1 10.127 1 For a thousand years the islands and forests of a great part of the world have been filled with savages...

Edc1 10.139 1 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company, the merits of every engine and of every man at the brakes, how to work it, and are swift to try their hand at every part;...

Supl 10.174 16 All rests at last on the simplicity of nature, or real being. Nothing is for the most part less esteemed.

SovE 10.183 14 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design...

SovE 10.184 25 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...

SovE 10.184 27 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...expands into a beautiful form with rainbow wings, and makes a part of the summer day.

SovE 10.190 14 For my part, said Napoleon, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order...

Prch 10.220 14 ...the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and burned. Then the good sense of the people wakes up so far as to take tacit part with them...

Prch 10.232 17 We shall not very long have any part or lot in this earth...

Prch 10.232 26 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves and rid the world of their presence, as all crime sooner or later must. But be that event for us soon or late, we are not excused from playing our short part in the best manner we can...

Prch 10.233 4 ...if the events in which we have taken our part shall not see their solution until a distant future, there is yet a deeper fact;...

Schr 10.275 24 The descent of genius into talents is part of the natural order and history of the world.

Plu 10.294 26 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated in Rome in 1470, and the Morals, part by part, soon after...

Plu 10.308 22 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher...to commend himself to men of public regards and ruling genius: for, if he once possess such a man with principles of honor and religion, he takes a compendious method, by doing good to one, to oblige a great part of mankind.

Plu 10.309 7 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for instruction. This teaching was...strict, sincere and affectionate. The part of each of the class is as important as that of the master.

Plu 10.309 26 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs. They are, for the most part, very crude opinions;...

Plu 10.317 3 I can almost regret that the learned editor of the present republication [of Plutarch's Morals] has not preserved...the preface of Mr. Morgan, the editor and in part writer of this Translation of 1718.

LLNE 10.338 13 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;...every part of the plant from root to fruit is only a modified leaf...

CSC 10.375 20 ...there was no want of female speakers [at the Chardon Street Convention]; Mrs. Little and Mrs. Lucy Sessions took a pleasing and memorable part in the debate...

CSC 10.375 27 If there was not parliamentary order [at the Chardon Street Convention], there was...assurance of that constitutional love for religion and religious liberty which...characterizes the inhabitants of this part of America.

EzRy 10.384 19 Part of the shay, as it lay upon one side, went over my wife, and yet she was scarcely anything hurt. How wonderful the preservation.

MMEm 10.414 1 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...When I get a glimpse of the revolutions of nations,-that retribution which seems forever going on in this part of creasion,-I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...

MMEm 10.425 12 The wonderful inhabitant of the building to which unknown ages were the mechanics, is left out [of Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology] as to that part where the Creator had put his own lighted candle...

MMEm 10.427 21 ...if it were in the nature of things possible He could withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith... that, though cast from Him, my sorrows, my ignorance and meanness were a part of His plan;...

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

Thor 10.453 9 ...[Thoreau] was very competent to live in any part of the world.

Thor 10.457 22 In any circumstance it interested all bystanders to know what part Henry [Thoreau] would take, and what he would say;...

Thor 10.459 26 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans...

Thor 10.469 9 [Thoreau] knew how to sit immovable, a part of the rock he rested on...

Thor 10.470 2 ...[Thoreau's] strong legs were no insignificant part of his armor.

Thor 10.477 25 ...One who surpasses his fellow citizens in virtue is no longer a part of the city. Their law is not for him, since he is a law to himself.

Thor 10.484 25 The country knows not yet, or in the least part, how great a son it has lost [in Thoreau].

LS 11.5 26 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent.

LS 11.24 23 As it is the prevailing opinion and feeling in our religious community that it is an indispensable part of the pastoral office to administer this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], I am about to resign into your hands that office which you have confided to me.

HDC 11.41 6 ...it appears from a petition of some newcomers, in 1643, that a part [of the land in Concord] had been divided among the first settlers without price...

HDC 11.50 25 Master of all sorts of wood-craft, [the Indian] seemed a part of the forest and the lake...

HDC 11.51 10 Early efforts were made to instruct [the Indians], in which Mr. Bulkeley, Mr. Flint, and Captain Willard, took an active part.

HDC 11.52 8 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws apart, the wife of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray when my husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he saith?- which questions were accounted of by some, as part of the whitenings of the harvest toward.

HDC 11.55 24 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr. Jones...

HDC 11.56 1 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr. Jones, and settled Fairfield. Weakened by this loss, the people begged to be released from a part of their rates...

HDC 11.61 2 Concord suffered little from the [King Philip's] war. This is to be attributed no doubt, in part, to the fact that troops were generally quartered here...

HDC 11.62 21 ...Concord then [in 1666] included the greater part of the towns of Bedford, Acton, Lincoln and Carlisle.

HDC 11.63 17 In 1689, Concord partook of the general indignation of the province against Andros. A company marched to the capital...forming a part of that body concerning which we are informed, the country people came armed into Boston, on the afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April)...

HDC 11.66 12 Mr. [Daniel] Bliss...by his earnest sympathy with [George Whitefield], in opinion and practice, gave offence to a part of his people.

HDC 11.72 4 The clergy of New England were, for the most part, zealous promoters of the Revolution.

HDC 11.76 19 ...you, my fathers [veterans of battle of Concord]...may well bear a chief part in keeping this peaceful birthday of our town.

HDC 11.82 8 ...in 1788, the town [Concord], by its delegate, accepted the new Constitution of the United States, and this event closed the whole series of important public events in which this town played a part.

HDC 11.83 26 For the most part, the town [Concord] has deserved the name it wears.

HDC 11.84 11 ...for the most part, [our fathers] deal generously by their minister...

HDC 11.85 5 ...in every part of this country...[Concord's sons] plough the earth...

LVB 11.89 20 ...my communication respects the sinister rumors that fill this part of the country concerning the Cherokee people.

LVB 11.91 2 The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...

LVB 11.91 4 The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...

LVB 11.94 18 ...there exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral character of the government.

EWI 11.109 19 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended. Everything generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come to the attack. On the other part are found cold prudence, bare-faced selfishness and silent votes.

EWI 11.116 25 ...for the most part, throughout the [West Indian] islands, nothing painful occurred.

EWI 11.117 14 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed...to take from [the apprentices], under various pretences, their fourth part of their time;...

EWI 11.119 18 Lord Brougham and Mr. Buxton declared that the [Jamaican] planter had not fulfilled his part in the [emancipation] contract...

EWI 11.137 10 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. On the other part, appeared the reign of pounds and shillings...

EWI 11.140 11 Not the least affecting part of this history of abolition [in the West Indies] is the annihilation of the old indecent nonsense about the nature of the negro.

EWI 11.142 24 I have said that this event [emancipation in the West Indies] interests us because it came mainly from the concession of the whites; I add, that in part it is the earning of the blacks.

EWI 11.144 7 ...if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element...he will survive and play his part.

EWI 11.145 9 ...in the great anthem which we call history...[the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can...take a master's part in the music.

War 11.151 17 War...when seen...in the infancy of society, appears a part of the connection of events...

War 11.155 23 It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part.

War 11.155 24 It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part.

War 11.155 26 Bull-baiting, cockpits and the boxer's ring are the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

FSLC 11.190 10 I had often heard that the Bible constituted a part of every technical law library...

FSLC 11.198 20 These resistances [to the Fugitive Slave Law] appear in the history of the statute, in the retributions which speak so loud in every part of this business...

FSLC 11.210 25 ......still the question recurs, What must we do [about slavery]? One thing is plain, we cannot answer for the Union, but we must keep Massachusetts true. It is of unspeakable importance that she play her honest part.

FSLC 11.211 6 Greece was the least part of Europe. Attica a little part of that,-one tenth of the size of Massachusetts. Yet that district still rules the intellect of men.

FSLN 11.219 27 In ordinary, the supposed sense of [Senators'] district and State is their guide, and that holds them to the part of liberty and justice.

FSLN 11.221 26 [Webster's appearance at Bunker Hill] was a place for behavior more than for speech, and Mr. Webster walked through his part with entire success.

FSLN 11.223 6 [Webster]...took very naturally a leading part in large private and in public affairs;...

FSLN 11.225 12 Nobody doubts that there were good and plausible things to be said on the part of the South.

FSLN 11.226 3 In the final hour...did [Webster] take the part of great principles...or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?

FSLN 11.230 20 The plea on which freedom was resisted was Union. I went to certain serious men, who had a little more reason than the rest, and inquired why they took this part?

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 11.250 3 I have heard that some of [Charles Sumner's] political friends tax him with indolence or negligence in refusing...to bear his part in the labor which party organization requires.

TPar 11.285 22 ...[Theodore Parker's experiences] were part of the history of the civil and religious liberty of his times.

TPar 11.286 9 [Theodore Parker] elected his part of duty...

TPar 11.288 22 ...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story...what part was taken by each actor [in Boston];...

ACiv 11.305 16 Congress can...as a part of the military defence which it is the duty of Congress to provide, abolish slavery...

EPro 11.317 22 [Lincoln] is well entitled to the most indulgent construction. Forget...every mistake, every delay. In the extreme embarrassments of his part, call these endurance, wisdom, magnanimity;...

EPro 11.325 5 ...the aim of the war on our part is indicated by the aim of the President's [Emancipation] Proclamation...

ALin 11.334 6 [The Gettyburg Address] and one other American speech, that of John Brown to the court that tried him, and a part of Kossuth's speech at Birmingham, can only be compared with each other...

SMC 11.356 3 It is an interesting part of the history [of the Civil War], the manner in which this incongruous militia were made soldiers.

SMC 11.360 19 These letters [from soldiers] play a great part in the [Civil] war.

SMC 11.363 15 [George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men] cheerful. 'T is better than medicine. He has games of baseball, and pitching quoits, and euchre, whilst part of the military discipline is sham fights.

SMC 11.367 3 After the return of the three months' company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of volunteers, and Captain Bowers another. Each of these companies included recruits from this town [Concord], and they formed part of the Thirty-second Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers.

SMC 11.368 16 At the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863, the brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part, was in line of battle seventy-two hours...

SMC 11.374 9 On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry, near the Five Forks, and took an important part in that battle which opened Petersburg and Richmond...

SMC 11.374 15 The brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed part was detailed to receive the formal surrender of the rebel arms.

Koss 11.399 12 We [people of Concord] only see in you [Kossuth] the angel of freedom...dividing populations where you go, and drawing to your part only the good.

Wom 11.408 10 The part [women] play in education...is their organic office in the world.

Wom 11.414 11 ...in every remarkable religious development in the world, women have taken a leading part.

Wom 11.415 25 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who gave a scientific exposition of the part played severally by man and woman in the world...

Wom 11.421 5 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;...

Wom 11.423 5 If the wants, the passions, the vices, are allowed a full vote... I think it but fair that the virtues, the aspirations should be allowed a full vote, as an offset, through the purest part of the people.

SHC 11.434 26 ...every part of Nature is handsome when not deformed by bad Art.

Scot 11.467 3 [Scott] played ever a manly part.

FRO2 11.486 1 ...as my friend, your presiding officer [of the Free Religious Association], has asked me to take at least some small part in this day's conversation, I am ready to give...the first simple foundation of my belief...

CPL 11.500 21 In a private letter to a lady, [Thoreau] writes, Do you read any noble verses? For my part, they have been the only things I remembered...when all things else were blurred and defaced.

FRep 11.512 22 ...what is cotton? One plant out of some two hundred thousand known to the botanist, vastly the larger part of which are reckoned weeds.

FRep 11.519 13 The spirit of our political action, for the most part, considers nothing less than the sacredness of man.

FRep 11.527 3 ...here that same great body [of the people] has arrived at a sloven plenty...the man...honest and kind for the most part...

FRep 11.542 20 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...

FRep 11.543 12 It is our part to carry out to the last the ends of liberty and justice.

PLT 12.4 12 ...at last, it is only that exceeding and universal part [of Nature] which interests us...

PLT 12.6 7 Whilst we converse with truths as thoughts, they exist also as plastic forces; as...the genius or constitution of any part of Nature, which makes it what it is.

PLT 12.6 9 Whilst we converse with truths as thoughts, they exist also as plastic forces; as...the genius or constitution of any part of Nature, which makes it what it is. The thought which was...part and parcel of the world, has disengaged itself...

PLT 12.36 21 The action of the Instinct is for the most part negative...

PLT 12.40 8 The philosopher knows only laws. That is, he considers a purely mental fact, part of the soul itself.

PLT 12.47 27 The various talents are...each related to that part of nature it is to explore and utilize.

PLT 12.50 26 We are forced to treat a great part of mankind as if they were a little deranged.

PLT 12.55 10 Literary men for the most part have a settled despair as to the realization of ideas in their own time.

II 12.67 8 To make a practical use of this instinct in every part of life constitutes true wisdom...

II 12.71 25 The poet works to an end above his will, and by means, too, which are out of his will. Every part of the poem is therefore a true surprise to the reader...

II 12.76 8 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power. My part is to sow, and sow, and re-sow, and in short do nothing but sow.

II 12.76 25 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...

II 12.86 7 Follow this leading, nor ask too curiously whither. To follow it is thy part.

Mem 12.95 16 The memory plays a great part in settling the intellectual rank of men.

Mem 12.101 14 ...because all Nature has one law and meaning,-part corresponding to part,-all we have known aids us continually to the knowledge of the rest of Nature.

Mem 12.109 24 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

CInt 12.114 19 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people, or the greater part, more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...

CInt 12.115 22 ...even if we had no son or friend [in college], yet the college is part of the community...

CL 12.138 22 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule...which falls from the air on the face, or hand, or other uncovered part...

CL 12.140 20 So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part to sympathize...

CL 12.155 3 For my own part, says Linnaeus, I have enjoyed good health...

CL 12.158 15 The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is remarkable, and perhaps is not explained. An ingenious friend of mine suggested that it was because the upper part of the eye is little used...

CL 12.164 14 ...it is the best part of poetry, merely to name natural objects well.

CL 12.165 17 ...it is only our ineradicable belief that the world answers to man, and part to part, that gives any interest in the subject.

Bost 12.184 6 Parsee, Mongol, Afghan, Israelite, Christian, have all... exchanged a good part of their patrimony of ideas for the notions, manner of seeing and habitual tone of Indian society.

Bost 12.188 19 ...[Boston's] annals are great historical lines...part of the history of political liberty.

Bost 12.196 15 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year...defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to external nature;...

Bost 12.207 17 The Massachusetts colony grew...all the while sending out colonies to every part of New England;...

MAng1 12.215 11 ...[Michelangelo's] character and his works...seem rather a part of Nature than arbitrary productions of the human will.

MAng1 12.215 20 The means, the materials of [Michelangelo's] activity, were coarse enough to be appreciated, being addressed for the most part to the eye;...

MAng1 12.216 15 Beauty...comprehending grandeur as a part, and reaching to goodness as its soul,-this to receive and this to impart, was [Michelangelo's] genius.

MAng1 12.223 19 [Michelangelo's] Titanic handwriting in marble and travertine is to be found in every part of Rome and Florence;...

MAng1 12.226 8 ...this work [rebuilding the Pons Palatinus] was taken from [Michelangelo]...and intrusted to Nanni di Bacio Bigio, who plays but a pitiful part in Michael's history.

Milt1 12.248 4 The aspect of Milton, to this generation, will be part of the history of the nineteenth century.

Milt1 12.257 1 Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton] by his biographers, that if the anecdotes...had not been in part furnished or corroborated by political enemies, would lead us to suspect the portraits were ideal...

Milt1 12.257 22 [Milton] insists that music shall make a part of a generous education.

Milt1 12.269 11 The part [Milton] took, the zeal of his fellowship, make us acquainted with the greatness of his spirit as in tranquil times we could not have known it.

Milt1 12.272 9 The tracts [Milton] wrote on these topics [divorce and freedom of the press] are, for the most part, as fresh and pertinent to-day as they were then.

ACri 12.291 13 Resolute blotting rids you of all those phrases that sound like something and mean nothing, with which scriptural forms play a large part.

ACri 12.292 19 Vulgarisms to be gazetted, moiety used for a small part;...

ACri 12.303 17 ...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime charm-the superincumbent necessity by which each writer...is made to utter his part in the chorus of humanity...

MLit 12.313 12 Accustomed always to behold the presence of the universe in every part, the soul will not condescend to look at any new part as a stranger...

MLit 12.313 13 Accustomed always to behold the presence of the universe in every part, the soul will not condescend to look at any new part as a stranger...

MLit 12.321 17 There is in [Wordsworth] that property common to all great poets, a wisdom of humanity, which is superior to any talents which they exert. It is the wisest part of Shakspeare and of Milton.

AgMs 12.358 16 I still remember with some shame that in some dealing we had together a long time ago, I found that [Edmund Hosmer] had been looking to my interest in the affair, and I had been looking to my interest, and nobody had looked to his part.

EurB 12.367 22 Early in life...[Wordsworth] made his election between assuming and defending some legal rights, with the chances of wealth and a position in the world, and the inward promptings of his heavenly genius; he took his part;...

EurB 12.372 8 Fortune will still have her part in every victory...

EurB 12.378 3 I fear it was in part the influence of such pictures [as in Vivian Grey] on living society which made the style of manners of which we have so many pictures...

PPr 12.383 14 Each man can very well know his own part of duty, if he will;...

PPr 12.389 10 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons...and yet its offensiveness to multitudes of reluctant lovers makes us often wish some concession were possible on the part of the humorist.

Trag 12.408 5 [Belief in Fate] is discriminated from the doctrine of Philosophical Necessity herein: that the last is an Optimism, and therefore the suffering individual finds his good consulted in the good of all, of which he is a part.

Trag 12.410 10 [Sorrow] is superficial; for the most part fantastic, or in the appearance and not in things.

Trag 12.412 19 All that life demands of us through the greater part of the day is an equilibrium...

part, v. (11)

Comp 2.125 17 We cannot part with our friends.

Fdsp 2.214 17 ...thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform...

Fdsp 2.216 6 [My friends] shall give me that which properly they cannot give, but which emanates from them. ... We will meet as though we met not, and part as though we parted not.

Hsm1 2.246 21 ...Thou thyself must part/ At last from all thy garlands, pleasures, triumphs,/ And prove thy fortitude what then 't will do./

Nat2 3.171 6 We come to our own [in the woods], and make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We never can part with it;...

SwM 4.129 3 We meet, and dwell an instant under the temple of one thought, and part, as though we parted not, to join another thought in other fellowships of joy.

ET5 5.78 3 The island [England] was renowned in antiquity for its breed of mastiffs, so fierce that when their teeth were set you must cut their heads off to part them.

Comc 8.173 21 ...we cannot afford to part with any advantages.

PC 8.210 5 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...

MMEm 10.412 10 The rapture of feeling I [Mary Moody Emerson] would part from, for days more devoted to higher discipline.

EWI 11.101 4 If there be any man...who would not so much as part with his ice-cream, to save [a race of men] from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.

partake, v. (12)

Nat 1.17 8 I seem to partake [the sky's] rapid transformations;...

AmS 1.95 21 I do not see how any man can afford...to spare any action in which he can partake.

YA 1.378 5 Feudalism is not ended yet. Our governments still partake largely of that element.

Cir 2.310 16 The parties [in conversation] are not to be judged by the spirit they partake and even express under this Pentecost.

Cir 2.318 18 ...this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to us but by contrast to some principle of fixture or stability in the soul.

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...

ShP 4.216 3 Epicurus relates that poetry hath such charms that a lover might forsake his mistress to partake of them.

ET9 5.145 18 A much older traveller...says... ... ...whenever [the English] partake of any delicacy with a foreigner, they ask him whether such a thing is made in his country.

Wsp 6.209 4 In creeds never was such levity;... The architecture, the music, the prayer, partake of the madness;...

LS 11.3 10 Without considering the frivolous questions which have been lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's Supper];...the questions have been settled differently in every church...

LS 11.3 17 In the Catholic Church, infants were at one time permitted and then forbidden to partake [of the Lord's Supper]...

Milt1 12.258 11 [Milton says] In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out...and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

partaker, n. (2)

PI 8.29 15 I do not wish...to find that my poet is not partaker of the feast he spreads...

EurB 12.376 10 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect; the development of character being the problem, the reader is made a partaker in the whole prosperity.

partakers, n. (1)

Bost 12.199 4 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...which have been so profoundly ventilated, but end in a protracted picnic which after a few weeks or months dismisses the partakers to their old homes, we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...

partakes, v. (5)

Nat 1.43 12 A leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time...partakes of the perfection of the whole.

MR 1.233 5 The sins of our trade belong...to no individual. One plucks, one distributes, one eats. Every body partakes, every body confesses...

Art2 7.50 19 ...every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate...

PLT 12.44 19 The intellect that sees the interval partakes of it...

MAng1 12.229 12 The style of [Michelangelo's] paintings is monumental; and even his poetry partakes of that character.

partaking, n. (1)

MMEm 10.428 1 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then...honors, pleasures, labors, I always refuse, compared to this divine partaking of existence;...

parted, adj. (3)

Comp 2.104 26 The parted water reunites behind our hand.

SwM 4.140 27 We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who... could hint to human ears the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul.

Milt1 12.274 13 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./

parted, v. (8)

Fdsp 2.216 6 [My friends] shall give me that which properly they cannot give, but which emanates from them. ... We will meet as though we met not, and part as though we parted not.

Prd1 2.231 6 Poetry and prudence should be coincident. ... But now the two things seem irreconcilably parted.

Exp 3.71 16 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries of its profound beauty and repose, as if the clouds that covered it parted at intervals...

SwM 4.129 3 We meet, and dwell an instant under the temple of one thought, and part, as though we parted not, to join another thought in other fellowships of joy.

ET1 5.24 15 [Wordsworth] then said he would show me a better way towards the inn; and he walked a good part of a mile...and finally parted from me with great kindness and returned across the fields.

Imtl 8.331 25 When my friend at last left Congress, [the two men] parted...

Imtl 8.332 12 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert. Any light, Lewis? None, replied he. They...gave one more shake each to the hand he held, and thus parted for the last time.

Dem1 10.4 11 They come, in dim procession led,/ The cold, the faithless, and the dead,/ As warm each hand, each brow as gay,/ As if they parted yesterday./

Parthenon, Athens, Greece, (4)

Hist 2.15 12 ...to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar, a marble centaur, the peristyle of the Parthenon, and the last actions of Phocion?

Hist 2.16 8 There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

Bty 6.295 23 How many copies are there of the Belvedere Apollo...the Parthenon...

Cour 7.272 20 The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was...not in the statue or the Parthenon...

Parthenon, n. (1)

Edc1 10.146 16 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument, fifty years older than the Parthenon of Athens...

Parthian, n. (1)

PI 8.17 26 As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images. Then...Parthian, Mede, Chinese, Spaniard and Indian hear their own tongue.

partial, adj. (33)

AmS 1.99 13 Thinking is a partial act.

Con 1.304 23 We may be partial, but Fate is not.

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

Con 1.326 2 ...to return from this alternation of partial views to the high platform of universal and necessary history, it is a happiness for mankind that innovation has got on so far...

SL 2.140 9 I say, do not choose; but that is a figure of speech by which I would distinguish what is commonly called choice among men, and which is a partial act...and not a whole act of the man.

SL 2.154 5 They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears...

Lov1 2.171 27 ...grief cleaves to names and persons and the partial interests of to-day and yesterday.

Prd1 2.231 16 We call partial half-lights, by courtesy, genius;...

Cir 2.314 12 Has the naturalist or chemist learned his craft...who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is only a partial or approximate statement...

Pt1 3.5 2 [The poet] stands among partial men for the complete man...

Exp 3.77 21 All private sympathy is partial.

Exp 3.80 7 The partial action of each strong mind in one direction is a telescope for the objects on which it is pointed.

Nat2 3.189 16 A man can only speak so long as he does not feel his speech to be partial and inadequate. It is partial, but he does not see it to be so whilst he utters it.

Pol1 3.221 6 ...there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the principle of right and love. All those who have pretended this design have been partial reformers...

NR 3.231 8 ...[general ideas] round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

NR 3.236 12 It is all idle talking: as much as a man is a whole, so is he also a part; and it were partial not to see it.

NR 3.236 15 You have not got rid of parts by denying them, but are the more partial.

NER 3.261 3 [Many reformers] are partial;...

PPh 4.47 10 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from Asia...a confusion of crude notions of morals and of natural philosophy, gradually subsiding through the partial insight of single teachers.

MoS 4.174 21 In the mount of vision, ere they have yet risen from their knees, [the saints] say, We discover that this our homage and beatitude is partial and deformed...

Elo1 7.64 6 Isocrates described his art as the power of magnifying what was small and diminishing what was great,--an acute but partial definition.

DL 7.116 25 ...the reform that applies itself to the household must not be partial.

Clbs 7.249 23 Every man brings into society some partial thought and local culture.

Cour 7.274 1 As long as [the religious sentiment] is cowardly insinuated, as with the wish to succor some partial and temporary interest...it is not imparted...

PI 8.73 23 ...even partial ascents to poetry and ideas are forerunners, and announce the dawn.

Dem1 10.20 11 The Ego partial makes the dream; the Ego total the interpretation.

Chr2 10.99 15 ...slowly the soul unfolds itself in the new man. It is partial at first...

Chr2 10.101 19 I am in the habit of thinking-not, I hope, out of partial experience...that to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him...

SMC 11.374 23 Fellow citizens: The obelisk [at Concord] records only the names of the dead. There is something partial in this distribution of honor.

Scot 11.465 8 If the success of [Scott's] poems, however large, was partial, that of his novels was complete.

CInt 12.117 10 This Integrity over all partial knowledge and skill, homage to truth-how rare!

Milt1 12.262 17 [Milton] is rightly dear to mankind, because in him, among so many perverse and partial men of genius,-in him humanity rights itself;...

MLit 12.314 7 Every form under the whole heaven [the narrow-minded] behold in this most partial light or darkness of intense selfishness...

partialism, n. (1)

Aris 10.31 19 [The best young men] do not yet covet political power...nor do they wish to be saints; for fear of partialism;...

partialist, n. (2)

NR 3.245 19 ...every man is a partialist;...

NR 3.248 9 Is it that every man believes every other to be an incurable partialist, and himself a universalist?

partialists, n. (1)

PPh 4.47 13 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics: then the partialists...

partialities, n. (6)

Fdsp 2.193 4 ...as soon as the stranger begins to intrude his partialities... into the conversation, it is all over.

Fdsp 2.207 15 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. No partialities of friend to friend...are there pertinent...

NMW 4.245 24 As soon as we are removed out of the reach of local and accidental partialities, Man feels that Napoleon fights for him;...

Wom 11.422 7 Human society is made up of partialities.

PLT 12.7 17 Bring the best wits together, and they are so impatient of each other, so vulgar, there is so much more than their wit,-such follies, gluttonies, partialities, age, care, and sleep, that you shall have no academy.

WSL 12.338 23 [Landor's] partialities and dislikes are by no means culpable...

partiality, n. (16)

LT 1.277 27 I cannot feel any pleasure in sacrifices which display to me such partiality of character.

Con 1.301 18 ...men are...very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner...

Lov1 2.188 6 Thus are we put in training for a love which knows not sex, nor person, nor partiality...

Exp 3.66 10 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near, and find... themselves victims of partiality...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.

Nat2 3.189 19 As soon as [a man] is released from the instinctive and particular and sees [his speech's] partiality, he shuts his mouth in disgust.

NER 3.263 16 If partiality was one fault of the movement party, the other defect was their reliance on Association.

PPh 4.52 10 To this partiality [of unity and diversity] the history of nations corresponded.

PPh 4.55 11 [Plato] cannot forgive in himself a partiality...

ShP 4.212 18 Give a man of talents a story to tell, and his partiality will presently appear.

GoW 4.266 25 A certain partiality...is the tax which all action must pay.

PI 8.75 1 What if we find partiality and meanness in us? The grandeur of our life exists in spite of us...

Schr 10.270 7 'T is wonderful, 't is almost scandalous, this extraordinary favoritism shown to poets. I do not mean to excuse it. I admit the enormous partiality.

LLNE 10.349 6 The merit of [Brisbane's] plan was...that it had not the partiality and hint-and-fragment character of most popular schemes...

EzRy 10.389 6 [Ezra Ripley's] partiality for ladies was always strong...

II 12.86 8 Follow this leading, nor ask too curiously whither. To follow it is thy part. And what if it lead, as men say, to an excess, to partiality, to individualism? Follow it still.

MAng1 12.244 12 Three significant garlands are sculptured on [Michelangelo's] tomb; they should be four, but that his countrmen feared their own partiality.

partially, adv. (3)

AmS 1.82 25 ...there is One Man, - present to all particular men only partially...

Comp 2.103 19 Whilst thus the world...refuses to be disparted, we seek to act partially...

MMEm 10.416 9 I [Mary Moody Emerson] felt, till above twenty yeard old, as though Christianity were as necessary to the world as existence;- was ignorant that it was lately promulged, or partially received.

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