Passenger to Pays

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

passenger, n. (11)

    LE 1.169 19 ...this beauty...which the sun and the moon, the snow and the rain, repaint and vary, has never been recorded by art, yet is not indifferent to any passenger.
    Hist 2.32 21 As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx, who was said to sit in the road-side and put riddles to every passenger.
    ET2 5.33 11 Yesterday every passenger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks.
    F 6.10 16 At the corner of the street you read the possibility of each passenger in the facial angle...
    Bhr 6.177 20 It almost violates the proprieties if we say above the breath here what the confessing eyes do not hesitate to utter to every street passenger.
    DL 7.123 16 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger.
    Clbs 7.228 26 We remember the time...on a long journey in the old stage-coach, where, each passenger being forced to know every other... conversation naturally flowed...
    Cour 7.263 22 The terrific chances which make the hours and the minutes long to the passenger, [the sailor] whiles away by incessant application of expedients and repairs.
    OA 7.318 16 How many men habitually believe that each chance passenger with whom they converse is of their own age...
    Res 8.152 26 ...every passenger may strike off a twig [of willow] with his cane;...
    SMC 11.351 24 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...becomes a sentiment, a poet, a prophet, an orator, to every townsman and passenger...

passengers, n. (7)

    Lov1 2.183 25 The rays of the soul alight first on things nearest...on the house and yard and passengers...
    ET2 5.31 25 Among the passengers [on the Washington Irving] there was some variety of talent and profession;...
    Elo1 7.73 25 [Pleasing speech] is heard like a band of music passing through the streets, which converts all the passengers into poets...
    Boks 7.189 8 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...
    Boks 7.189 11 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.
    OA 7.320 7 ...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you look into the faces of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors...
    SHC 11.434 15 What is the Earth itself but...according to the Eastern fable, a bridge full of holes, into one or other of which all passengers sink to silence?

passer-by, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.173 6 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach: the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by...

passes, v. (54)

    Nat 1.27 25 ...a ray of relation passes from every other being to [man].
    AmS 1.95 1 ...the transition through which [thought] passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action.
    AmS 1.109 9 ...I believe each individual passes through all three [epochs].
    MR 1.231 23 ...in the Spanish islands...no article passes into our ships which has not been fraudulently cheapened.
    LT 1.267 26 Let us unmask the king as he passes.
    Hist 2.11 20 ...[Belzoni's] thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs, passes through them all with satisfaction...
    Hist 2.24 4 ...every man passes personally through a Grecian period.
    SR 2.80 4 ...in all unbalanced minds the classification...passes for the end...
    Comp 2.118 19 ...the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself...
    SL 2.157 18 A man passes for that he is worth.
    SL 2.159 2 A man passes for that he is worth.
    Lov1 2.182 1 ...if...the soul passes through the body and falls to admire strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty...
    Lov1 2.182 12 By conversation with that which is in itself excellent, magnanimous, lowly, and just, the lover comes to a warmer love of these nobilities, and a quicker apprehension of them. Then he passes from loving them in one to loving them in all...
    Fdsp 2.198 9 ...every man passes his life in the search after friendship...
    Prd1 2.235 7 [Our Yankee trade] takes bank-notes, good, bad, clean, ragged, and saves itself by the speed with which it passes them off.
    OS 2.276 4 The lover has no talent, no skill, which passes for quite nothing with his enamored maiden...
    OS 2.280 24 ...the soul's communication of truth is the highest event in nature, since it then does not give somewhat from itself, but it...passes into and becomes that man whom it enlightens;...
    OS 2.281 9 A thrill passes through all men at the reception of new truth...
    Int 2.335 22 The ray of light passes invisible through space...
    Art1 2.359 12 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber through galleries of statues, vases, sarcophagi and candelabra...is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of which they all sprung...
    Pt1 3.14 13 We stand before the secret of the world, there where Being passes into Appearance and Unity into Variety.
    Exp 3.54 24 Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed, through which the creator passes.
    Exp 3.80 5 Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new-comer like a travelling geologist who passes through our estate and shows us good slate...in our brush pasture.
    Chr1 3.105 9 ...character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before new flashes of moral worth.
    Mrs1 3.131 18 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring.
    Nat2 3.188 26 The friend coldly turns [the pages of a young person's diary] over, and passes from the writing to conversation...
    Pol1 3.203 7 ...property passes through donation or inheritance to those who do not create it.
    SwM 4.128 9 Do you love me? means [to Swedenborg], Do you see the same truth? If you do, we are happy with the same happiness: but presently one of us passes into the perception of new truth;--we are divorced, and no tension in nature can hold us to each other.
    SwM 4.137 10 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come...
    GoW 4.269 7 A pound passes for a pound.
    ET14 5.245 24 [Hallam] passes in silence, or dismisses with a kind of contempt, the profounder masters...
    ET16 5.281 27 [Stukeley] finds that the cursus on Salisbury Plain stretches across the downs like a line of latitude upon the globe, and the meridian line of Stonehenge passes exactly through the middle of this cursus.
    F 6.49 24 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout existence; a Law which...disdains words and passes understanding;...
    Wth 6.126 12 [The liquor of life] passes through the sacred fermentations...
    CbW 6.268 13 The youth aches for solitude. When he comes to the house he passes through the house.
    Bty 6.281 11 ...does [the geologist] know what effect passes into the man who builds his house in [the strata]?...
    Bty 6.298 8 ...we fear to fatigue [women], and acquire a facility of expression which passes from conversation into habit of style.
    Art2 7.37 20 ...the human mind...tends...to the publication and embodiment of its thought, modified and dwarfed by the impurity and untruth which in all our experience injure the individuality through which it passes.
    Clbs 7.225 20 ...every healthy and efficient mind passes a large part of life in the company most easy to him.
    SA 8.90 12 The life of these persons was conducted in the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse. Life with them was...by no means the hot and hurried business which passes in the world.
    PPo 8.248 3 What is pent and smouldered in the dumb actor, is not pent in the poet, but passes over into new form...
    Chr2 10.98 25 We pretend not to define the way of [the moral sentiment's] access to the private heart. It passes understanding.
    Edc1 10.126 11 ...when one and the same man passes out of the torpid into the perceiving state...all limits disappear.
    SovE 10.193 12 He that plants his foot here [on belief in Divine justice] passes at once out of the kingdom of illusions.
    HCom 11.341 16 War passes the power of all chemical solvents...
    FRO2 11.484 2 Thou metest him by centuries,/ And lo! he passes like the breeze;/...
    FRep 11.525 16 In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive. It is ever an inspiration...a sudden, undated perception of eternal right...a perception that passes through thousands as readily as through one.
    PLT 12.53 18 No man passes for that with another which he passes for with himself.
    II 12.80 2 ...[the secret Power] frowns on moths and puppets, passes by us...
    Mem 12.93 21 We figure [memory] as if the mind were a kind of looking-glass, which being carried through the street of time receives on its clear plate every image that passes;...
    MAng1 12.223 7 The love of beauty which never passes beyond outline and color was too slight an object to occupy the powers of [Michelangelo's] genius.
    ACri 12.299 5 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling... stereoscoping every figure that passes...
    Pray 12.351 22 Wacic the Caliph...ended his life...with these words: O thou whose kingdom never passes away, pity one whose dignity is so transient.
    Let 12.400 7 Let every man mind his own, you say, and I say the same. Only let him mind it with all his heart, and not with this cold study,- literally, hypocritically, to appear that which he passes for...

passing, adj. (24)

    Nat 1.31 27 Long hereafter...these solemn images shall reappear in their morning lustre, as fit symbols and words of the thoughts which the passing events shall awaken.
    AmS 1.102 9 ...whatsoever new verdict Reason...pronounces on the passing men and events of to-day, - this [the scholar] shall hear and promulgate.
    LE 1.167 26 Further inquiry will discover...that [these chanting poets] contented themselves with the passing chirp of a bird...
    YA 1.374 23 ...the existing generation are conspiring with a beneficence which in its working for coming generations, sacrifices the passing one;...
    SR 2.49 20 [The self-reliant individual] would utter opinions on all passing affairs...
    Lov1 2.177 5 ...A midnight bell, a passing groan,--/ These are the sounds we [lovers] feed upon./
    Hsm1 2.260 2 Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. Not in vain you live, for every passing eye is cheered and refined by the vision.
    OS 2.289 17 ...we...feel that the splendid works which [Shakspeare] has created...take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock.
    Mrs1 3.147 23 ...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... And this is constituted of those persons in whom heroic dispositions are native; with the love of beauty, the delight in society and the power to embellish the passing day.
    UGM 4.7 4 One man answers some question which none of his contemporaries put, and is isolated. The past and passing religions and philosophies answer some other question.
    ShP 4.202 7 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses the object on which all candles shine...
    ET16 5.277 13 It was pleasant to see that...[Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the barrows,--mere mounds...like the same mound on the plain of Troy, which still makes good to the passing mariner on Hellespont, the vaunt of Homer...
    CbW 6.252 18 ...in the passing moment the quadruped interest is very prone to prevail;...
    Elo1 7.75 1 These talkers [who repeat the newspapers] are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil. Add a little sarcasm and prompt allusion to passing occurrences, and you have the mischievous member of Congress.
    WD 7.156 1 This passing moment is an edifice/ Which the Omnipotent cannot rebuild/
    WD 7.173 23 ...as soon as the irrecoverable years have woven their blue glory between to-day and us these passing hours shall glitter and draw us as the wildest romance and the homes of beauty and poetry?
    WD 7.179 24 These passing fifteen minutes, men think, are time, not eternity;...
    Cour 7.280 3 But sure that rifle's aim,/ Swift choice of generous part,/ Showed in its passing gleam/ The depths of a brave heart./
    PI 8.35 9 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason...
    PI 8.55 19 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...A midnight bell, a passing groan,/ These are the sounds we feed upon/...
    Imtl 8.327 2 ...the true disciples saw, through the letter, the doctrine of eternity, which...gave grandeur to the passing hour.
    Chr2 10.96 3 Before [the moral sentiment] what are persons, prophets, or seraphim but its passing agents...
    SovE 10.194 24 Let [a man]...find...in the passing hour, the age of ages.
    Plu 10.302 2 Thebes, Sparta, Athens and Rome charm us away from the disgust of the passing hour.

passing, adv. (2)

    LE 1.186 11 Bend to the persuasion which is flowing to you from every object in nature...to show the besotted world how passing fair is wisdom.
    Mem 12.104 8 ...Passing sweet are the domains of tender memory/.

passing, n. (3)

    SL 2.131 11 The river-bank, the weed at the water-side...however neglected in the passing, have a grace in the past.
    Prd1 2.221 24 ...it would be hardly honest in me...whilst my debt to my senses is real and constant, not to own it in passing.
    PI 8.15 16 The endless passing of one element into new forms...explains the rank which the imagination holds in our catalogue of mental powers.

passing, v. (50)

    Nat 1.39 21 Passing by many particulars of the discipline of nature, we must not omit to specify two.
    Nat 1.53 22 The wild beauty of this hyperbole, I may say in passing, it would not be easy to match in literature.
    DSA 1.136 17 In how many churches...is man made sensible...that the earth and heavens are passing into his mind;...
    DSA 1.142 22 ...[the Puritans'] creed is passing away...
    LT 1.278 9 You have set your heart and face against society when you thought it wrong, and returned it frown for frown. Excellent: now can you afford to forget it, reckoning all your action no more than the passing of your hand through the air...
    Hist 2.9 9 Babylon, Troy, Tyre, Palestine, and even early Rome are passing already into fiction.
    Hist 2.26 20 I admire the love of nature in the Philoctetes. In reading those fine apostrophes...to the stars, rocks, mountains and waves, I feel time passing away as an ebbing sea.
    Lov1 2.180 1 The statue is then beautiful...when it is passing out of criticism...
    OS 2.275 1 ...by every throe of growth the man expands there where he works, passing, at each pulsation, classes, populations, of men.
    Cir 2.302 16 The Greek letters...are already passing under the same sentence and tumbling into the inevitable pit which the creation of new thought opens for all that is old.
    Pt1 3.37 25 Banks and tariffs...rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away.
    Chr1 3.102 18 [Men] must...make us feel that they have a controlling happy future opening before them, whose early twilights already kindle in the passing hour.
    PPh 4.50 12 As one diffusive air, passing through the perforations of a flute, is distinguished as the notes of a scale, so the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold [said Krishna]...
    ET11 5.197 22 Whilst the privileges of nobility are passing to the middle class [in England], the badge is discredited...
    ET13 5.231 1 Electricity cannot be made fast...it is passing, glancing, gesticular;...
    ET14 5.248 5 It is very certain, I may say in passing, that if Lord Bacon had been only the sensualist his critic pretends, he would never have acquired the fame which now entitles him to this patronage.
    ET15 5.270 25 ...when [the editors of the London Times] see that [authors of each liberal movement] have established their fact, that power is on the point of passing to them, they strike in with the voice of a monarch...
    ET16 5.276 5 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a carriage to Amesbury, passing by Old Sarum...
    ET17 5.296 27 A gentleman in the neighborhood told the story of Walter Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth, and slipping out every day...to the Swan Inn for a cold cut and porter; and one day passing with Wordsworth the inn, he was betrayed by the landlord's asking him if he had come for his porter.
    Ctr 6.151 1 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes of some great man passing incognito...
    Ctr 6.151 5 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of...any container of transcendent power, passing for nobody;...
    Bty 6.301 17 This is the triumph of expression...charming us with a power so fine and friendly and intoxicating that it makes admired persons insipid, and the thought of passing our lives with them insupportable.
    Civ 7.20 10 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say,--childish illusions passing daily away...is made by tribes.
    Elo1 7.73 24 [Pleasing speech] is heard like a band of music passing through the streets...
    Elo1 7.83 14 Poor Tom never knew the time when the present occurrence was so trivial that he could tell what was passing in his mind without being checked for unseasonable speech;...
    DL 7.106 15 [The child] has heard of wild horses and of bad boys, and with a pleasing terror he watches at his gate for the passing of those varieties of each species.
    Farm 7.145 7 The adamant is always passing into smoke.
    Boks 7.200 17 [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.
    PI 8.4 14 ...the creation is...in transit, always passing into something else...
    Elo2 8.121 20 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his monthly stipend.
    QO 8.193 11 There is...a new charm in such intellectual works as, passing through long time, have had a multitude of authors and improvers.
    Imtl 8.327 27 These truths, passing out of [Swedenborg's] system into general circulation, are now met with every day...
    Dem1 10.17 6 ...[the belief in luck] is not the power...which we regard in passing laws...
    Aris 10.46 17 I only point in passing to the order of the universe...
    Aris 10.53 20 Here [in a village] are classes which day by day have no intercourse, nothing beyond perhaps a surly nod in passing.
    PerF 10.70 12 The adamant is always passing into smoke;...
    Edc1 10.132 27 ...the event of each moment...the passing of a beautiful face, the apoplexy of our neighbor, are all tests to try our theory [of life]...
    Supl 10.171 20 Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.
    EzRy 10.385 27 ...in passing each house [Ezra Ripley] told the story of the family that lived in it...
    EzRy 10.395 17 ...in his old age, when all the antique Hebraism and its customs are passing away, it is fit that [Ezra Ripley] too should depart...
    MMEm 10.397 25 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./
    SlHr 10.447 14 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school, so called under an impression that the style is passing away...
    LS 11.18 26 Passing other objections, I come to this, that the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us.
    HDC 11.33 3 Sometimes passing through thickets where [the pilgrims'] hands are forced to make way for their bodies' passage...
    FSLC 11.202 10 ...passing from the ethical to the political view, I wish to place this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law]...
    FRep 11.516 7 ...[immigrants] find this country just passing through a great crisis in its history...
    PLT 12.43 23 Thought must take the stupendous step of passing into realization.
    PLT 12.59 7 We are passing into new heavens in fact by the movement of our solar system...
    CInt 12.132 2 ...old men cannot see...the institutions, the laws under which they have lived, passing, or soon to pass, into the hands of you and your contemporaries, without an earnest wish that you have caught sight of your high calling...
    Milt1 12.251 26 ...deeply as that peculiar state of society, in which and for which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the world, it shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in Nature; and the accidental facts on which a battle of principles was fought have already passed, or are fast passing, into oblivion.

passion, n. (114)

    Nat 1.30 27 The moment our discourse...is inflamed with passion...it clothes itself in images.
    Nat 1.52 3 Possessed himself by a heroic passion, [the poet] uses matter as symbols of it.
    Nat 1.52 24 ...all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.
    Nat 1.53 5 [Shakspeare's] passion is not the fruit of chance;...
    Nat 1.53 25 This transfiguration which all material objects undergo through the passion of the poet...might be illustrated by a thousand examples from [Shakspeare's] Plays.
    Nat 1.57 7 Yet all men are capable of being raised by piety or by passion, into [ideas'] region.
    DSA 1.136 27 Where shall...I feel ennobled by the offer of my uttermost action and passion?
    Con 1.320 2 Conservatism takes as low a view of every part of human action and passion.
    Tran 1.347 7 With this passion for what is great and extraordinary, it cannot be wondered at that [Transcendentalists] are repelled by vulgarity and frivolity in people.
    YA 1.369 9 Whatever events in progress shall go to...infuse into [men] the passion for country life and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent...
    Hist 2.37 27 A mind might ponder its thoughts for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
    SR 2.69 5 The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation...
    SL 2.151 9 The scholar...follows some giddy girl, not yet taught by religious passion to know the noble woman with all that is serene, oracular and beautiful in her soul.
    Lov1 2.170 8 ...this passion of which we speak [love], though it begin with the young, yet forsakes not the old...
    Lov1 2.170 22 It matters not...whether we attempt to describe the passion [of love] at twenty, thirty, or at eighty years.
    Lov1 2.172 8 How we glow over these novels of passion...
    Lov1 2.176 15 The passion [of love] rebuilds the world for the youth.
    Lov1 2.177 2 Fountain-heads and pathless groves,/ Places which pale passion loves,/ Moonlight walks, when all the fowls/ Are safely housed, save bats and owls,/ A midnight bell, a passing groan,--/ These are the sounds we [lovers] feed upon./
    Lov1 2.177 18 ...men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under any other circumstances.
    Lov1 2.177 20 The like force has the passion [of love] over all [the lover's] nature.
    Lov1 2.184 19 From exchanging glances, [lovers] advance to acts...of gallantry, then to fiery passion...
    Lov1 2.184 20 Passion beholds its object as a perfect unit.
    Lov1 2.187 11 [Lovers]...exchange the passion which once could not lose sight of its object, for a cheerful disengaged furtherance, whether present or absent, of each other's designs.
    Fdsp 2.199 11 We seek our friend...with an adulterate passion...
    OS 2.270 9 If we consider what happens...in times of passion...we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    OS 2.276 26 ...these other souls, these separated selves, draw me as nothing else can. They stir in me the new emotions we call passion;...
    OS 2.289 1 [Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] seem frigid and phlegmatic to those who have been spiced with the frantic passion and violent coloring of inferior but popular writers.
    Int 2.334 9 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not; and a thrill of passion flashes light on their dark chamber...
    Art1 2.366 7 The old tragic Necessity, which...furnishes the sole apology for the intrusion of such anomalous figures [as Venuses and Cupids] into nature,--namely...that the artist was drunk with a passion for form which he could not resist...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
    Mrs1 3.145 16 ...nor is it to be concealed that living blood and a passion of kindness does at last distinguish God's gentleman from Fashion's.
    NR 3.233 4 Shakspeare's passages of passion...are in the very dialect of the present year.
    PPh 4.64 13 [Plato] secures a position not to be commanded, by his passion for reality;...
    PPh 4.70 8 ...the Banquet [of Plato] is a teaching in the same spirit [of ascension]...that the love of the sexes is initial, and symbolizes at a distance the passion of the soul for that immense lake of beauty it exists to seek.
    PPh 4.76 2 ...expounding...the passion of love...[Plato] is literary, and never otherwise.
    PNR 4.87 7 The gods are [to Plato] the ideas. Pan is speech, or manifestation;...and Mars, passion.
    MoS 4.169 12 In speaking of [Socrates], for once [Montaigne's] cheek flushes and his style rises to passion.
    MoS 4.184 16 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds;...
    NMW 4.254 9 Like all Frenchmen [Napoleon] has a passion for stage effect.
    GoW 4.263 12 Vexations and a tempest of passion only fill [the writer's] sail;...
    GoW 4.263 21 A new thought or a crisis of passion apprises [the writer] that all that he has yet learned and written is exoteric...
    GoW 4.276 6 ...what [Goethe] says...of passion...refuses to be forgotten.
    ET5 5.83 11 The bias of the nation [England] is a passion for utility.
    ET5 5.100 11 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres [in England], when the speakers rise to thought and passion, the language becomes idiomatic;...
    ET6 5.107 19 ...within, [the Englishman's house] is...filled with good furniture. 'T is a passion which survives all others, to deck and improve it.
    ET6 5.108 23 The romance does not exceed the height of noble passion in Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, or in Lady Russell, or even as one discerns through the plain prose of Pepys's Diary, the sacred habit of an English wife.
    ET7 5.122 9 The ruling passion of Englishmen in these days is a terror of humbug.
    ET8 5.136 5 Great men, said Aristotle, are always of a nature originally melancholy. 'T is the habit of a mind which attaches to abstractions with a passion which gives vast results.
    ET10 5.155 11 The respect for truth of facts in England is equalled only by the respect for wealth. It is at once the pride of art of the Saxon...and his passion for independence.
    ET10 5.164 7 With this power of creation and this passion of independence, property [in England] has reached an ideal perfection.
    Pow 6.55 6 During passion, anger, fury...a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...
    Ctr 6.134 9 The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity that nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the passion...
    Ctr 6.158 27 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;...
    Wsp 6.217 26 The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent.
    Wsp 6.219 3 ...to [man]...the lures of passion and the commandments of duty are opened;...
    CbW 6.258 12 ...there is no moral deformity but is a good passion out of place;...
    CbW 6.259 9 Passion...is a powerful spring.
    CbW 6.259 10 Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day...
    CbW 6.262 15 In our life and culture everything is worked up and comes in use,--passion, war, revolt, bankruptcy...
    CbW 6.266 20 One day we shall cast out the passion for Europe by the passion for America.
    CbW 6.266 21 One day we shall cast out the passion for Europe by the passion for America.
    Bty 6.279 17 In dens of passion, and pits of woe, [Seyd] saw strong Eros struggling through/...
    Bty 6.299 21 ...it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion.
    Boks 7.216 3 For the most part, our novel-reading is a passion for results.
    Boks 7.217 9 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry...
    Suc 7.290 4 The passion for sudden success is rude and puerile...
    Suc 7.303 14 ...the genial man is interested in every slipper that comes into the assembly. The passion, alike everywhere, creeps under the snows of Scandinavia, under the fires of the equator...
    Suc 7.304 18 ...in complacencies nowise so strict as this of the passion [of love], the man of sensibility counts it a delight only to hear a child's voice fully addressed to him...
    PI 8.10 4 Passion adds eyes;...
    PI 8.28 11 ...as soon as this [inspired] soul is released a little from its passion...we call its action Fancy.
    PI 8.29 10 Fancy...is silent in the presence of great passion and action.
    PI 8.32 6 Chastity, [men of the world] admit, is very well,--but then think of Mirabeau's passion and temperament!
    PI 8.47 7 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words...
    SA 8.105 2 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love...of the boy...in the passion for his country;...
    Elo2 8.111 17 Who knows before the debate begins...what the means are of the combatants? The facts, the reasons, the logic,--above all, the flame of passion and the continuous energy of will which is presently to be let loose on this bench of judges...all are invisible and unknown.
    Elo2 8.117 14 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are... logic; imagination...passion, which is the heat;...
    Elo2 8.125 17 ...when [the orator] rises to any height of thought or of passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his audience.
    Res 8.147 17 Against the terrors of the mob, which, intoxicated with passion...is diabolic...good sense has many arts of prevention and of relief.
    Res 8.153 18 Resources of Man...it is the power of passion, the majesty of virtue and the omnipotence of will.
    QO 8.194 20 The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
    PPo 8.257 20 The sweet narcissus closed/ Its eye, with passion pressed;/ The tulips out of envy burned/ Moles in their scarlet breast./
    PPo 8.259 9 [Hafiz] has run through the whole gamut of passion...
    PPo 8.259 19 From the plain text-The chemist of love/ Will this perishing mould,/ Were it made out of mire,/ Transmute into gold./-[Hafiz] proceeds to the celebration of his passion;...
    Imtl 8.341 17 Montesquieu said, The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion.
    PerF 10.78 16 ...not less [than Memory, Fancy, Imagination, Eloquence], method, patience, self-trust, perseverance, love, desire of knowledge, the passion for truth. These are the angels that take us by the hand...
    Chr2 10.89 1 Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,/ Sit still, and Truth is near;/...
    Edc1 10.141 18 ...because of the disturbing effect of passion and sense...the way to knowledge and power has ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and possessions;...
    Edc1 10.156 4 Can you not baffle the impatience and passion of the child by your tranquillity?
    SovE 10.190 2 ...every wish, appetite and passion rushes into act and embodies itself in usages...
    Prch 10.220 5 Ignorance and passion alloy and degrade.
    Prch 10.229 9 ...besides the passion and interest which pervert [religion], is the shallowness which impoverishes.
    MMEm 10.420 10 In 1830...[Mary Moody Emerson] reproaches herself with some sudden passion she has for visiting her old home and friends in the city...
    EWI 11.104 12 ...if we saw the runaways hunted with bloodhounds into swamps and hills; and, in cases of passion, a planter throwing his negro into a copper of boiling cane-juice,-if we saw these things with eyes, we too should wince.
    War 11.167 4 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness; passion has passed away from him;...
    AsSu 11.247 20 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...spending his days in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against his slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and dangerous way. Such people...readily risk on every passion a life which is of small value to themselves or to others.
    Wom 11.412 22 Beautiful is the passion of love...
    Wom 11.412 26 The passion [of love], with all its grace and poetry, is profane to that which follows it.
    Shak1 11.448 7 Wherever there are men, and in the degree in which they are civil-have...sensibility to beauty, music, the secrets of passion, and the liquid expression of thought, [Shakespeare] has risen to his place as the first poet of the world.
    CPL 11.505 1 Montesquieu...writes: The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion.
    FRep 11.535 11 Let the passion for America cast out the passion for Europe.
    FRep 11.535 12 Let the passion for America cast out the passion for Europe.
    II 12.88 24 ...there is a religion which...is worshipped and pronounced with emphasis again and again by some holy person;-and men, with their... passion for persons, have run mad for the pronouncer, and forgot the religion.
    Mem 12.92 14 You say, I can never think of some act of neglect, of selfishness, or of passion without pain.
    Mem 12.96 24 This thread or order of remembering, this classification, distributes men, one remembering by shop-rule or interest; one by passion;...
    Mem 12.110 12 When we live...by obedience to the law of the mind instead of by passion, the Great Mind will enter into us...
    CInt 12.113 13 ...it were a compounding of all gradation and reverence to suffer the flash of swords and the boyish strife of passion and feebleness of military strength to intrude [in the college] on this sanctity and omnipotence of Intellectual Law.
    CInt 12.121 22 Here are still perverse millions full of passion, crime and blood.
    Bost 12.187 22 Demand and supply run [in Paris] into every invisible and unnamed province of whim and passion.
    MAng1 12.237 11 ...[Michelangelo] had a passion for the country...
    Milt1 12.263 20 [Milton] acknowledges...whatever the Deity may have bestowed upon me in other respects, he has certainly inspired me, if any ever were inspired, with a passion for the good and fair.
    Milt1 12.274 17 The tone of [Adam's] thought and passion is as healthful, as even and as vigorous as befits the new and perfect model of a race of gods.
    MLit 12.316 3 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the wilderness only the sensibility of the sick...
    MLit 12.331 11 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country;...
    WSL 12.347 19 ...the minuteness of [Landor's] verbal criticism gives a confidence in his fidelity when he speaks the language of meditation or of passion.
    Trag 12.413 16 ...all melancholy, as all passion, belongs to the exterior life.

Passion, n. (2)

    PI 8.55 16 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...Fountain-heads and pathless groves,/ Places which pale Passion loves/...
    MMEm 10.397 17 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid in shrouds./

passional, adj. (2)

    ET14 5.256 11 The poetry [of England] of course is low and prosaic; only now and then, as in Wordsworth, conscientious; or in Byron, passional;...
    CbW 6.258 24 ...great educators and lawgivers...esteem men of irregular and passional force the best timber.

passionate, adj. (19)

    Nat 1.60 21 [The soul] is not hot and passionate at the appearance of what it calls its own good or bad fortune...
    MN 1.198 4 What difference can it make whether [our glance at the realities around us] take the shape...of passionate exclamation...
    Fdsp 2.191 19 From the highest degree of passionate love to the lowest degree of good-will, [the emotions of benevolence and complacency] make the sweetness of life.
    Pt1 3.9 27 ...it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,--a thought so passionate and alive that...it has an architecture of its own...
    Wth 6.114 24 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to go upon the land...
    CbW 6.258 8 Better, certainly, if we could secure the strength and fire which rude, passionate men bring into society, quite clear of their vices.
    Bty 6.287 2 ...the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    Boks 7.190 5 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables...of the old Orpheus of Thrace,--books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences...
    QO 8.184 16 ...a lady having expressed in his presence a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
    PPo 8.260 23 ...we have [in Hafiz's poetry] all degrees of passionate abandonment...
    MMEm 10.402 9 [Mary Moody Emerson's] sympathy for young people who pleased her was almost passionate...
    MMEm 10.431 9 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid her passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;...
    War 11.151 22 As far as history has preserved to us the slow unfoldings of any savage tribe, it is not easy to see how war could be avoided by such wild, passionate, needy, ungoverned, strong-bodied creatures.
    EPro 11.320 22 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...the passionate conscience of women, the sympathy of distant nations,-all rally to its support.
    SMC 11.348 9 Felt they no pang of passionate regret/ For those unsolid goods that seem so much our own?/
    FRep 11.515 7 No interest not attaches...to the wars of German, French and Spanish emperors, which were only dynastic wars, but to those in which a principle was involved. These are read with passionate interest...
    MLit 12.317 24 There are facts...which drive young men into gardens and solitary places, and cause extravagant gestures, starts, distortions of the countenance and passionate exclamations;...
    WSL 12.343 26 [Landor's] love of beauty is passionate...
    Trag 12.417 5 ...the intellect in its purity and the moral sense in its purity... both ravish us into a region whereunto these passionate clouds of sorrow cannot rise.

passionately, adv. (3)

    ET13 5.219 20 ...whilst [the Church] endears itself thus to men of more taste than activity, the stability of the English nation is passionately enlisted to its support...
    GSt 10.505 21 These interests, which [George Stearns] passionately adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication with patriotic persons holding the same views...
    Wom 11.426 4 ...there are always a certain number of passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.

passionate-peopled, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.142 19 The warm, many-weathered, passionate-peopled world is to [Swedenborg] a grammar of hieroglyphs...

passionless, adj. (3)

    Prd1 2.229 26 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine;...
    SwM 4.142 11 Strange, scholastic, didactic, passionless, bloodless man [Swedenborg], who denotes classes of souls as a botanist disposes of a carex...
    SovE 10.190 21 Shall I say then it were truer to see Necessity calm, beautiful, passionless...

passions, n. (29)

    Con 1.305 20 You quarrel with my conservatism, but it is to build up one of your own; it will have a new beginning, but...the same trials, the same passions;...
    Cir 2.322 10 ...[men] ask the aid of wild passions...to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart.
    Art1 2.354 20 Love and all the passions concentrate all existence around a single form.
    ET10 5.163 6 All that can feed the senses and passions...in in open market [in England].
    F 6.30 26 [The brave youth's] science is to make weapons and wings of these passions and retarding forces.
    Wth 6.89 27 ...all grand and subtile things, minerals, gases, ethers, passions, war, trade, government,--are [man's] natural playmates...
    Wsp 6.202 4 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out in passions, in war...let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely...
    CbW 6.254 27 Passions, resistance, danger, are educators.
    CbW 6.257 17 ...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one erect; the gratifications of the passions are so quickly seen to be damaging...
    CbW 6.259 7 ...There are none but men of strong passions capable of going to greatness;...
    Ill 6.319 5 There are deceptions of the senses, deceptions of the passions...
    Civ 7.23 21 We see insurmountable multitudes obeying, in opposition to their strongest passions, the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive...
    Art2 7.56 25 The genuine offspring of our ruling passions we behold.
    Elo1 7.79 2 A supreme commander over all his passions and affections; but the secret of [Caesar's] ruling is higher than that.
    OA 7.324 17 [With age] The passions have answered their purpose...
    OA 7.325 5 We live in youth amidst this rabble of passions...
    Insp 8.276 26 See how the passions augment our force...
    Imtl 8.336 7 Our passions, our endeavors, have something ridiculous and mocking, if we come to so hasty an end.
    Imtl 8.348 21 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth;...
    Edc1 10.128 16 Here [in the household] is the sincere thing, the wondrous composition for which day and night go round. In that routine are the sacred relations, the passions that bind and sever.
    Edc1 10.144 2 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion...would you leave the young child to the mad career of his own passions and whimsies...
    Thor 10.454 23 [Thoreau] had...no appetites, no passions, no taste for elegant trifles.
    Carl 10.494 25 [Carlyle] preaches, as by cannonade, the doctrine that every noble nature...contains, if savage passions, also fit checks and grand impulses...
    War 11.152 9 ...in the first dawnings of the religious sentiment, that blends itself with [savages'] passions...
    FSLN 11.236 7 ...our education is not conducted by toys and luxuries, but by austere and rugged masters, by poverty, solitude, passions, War, Slavery;...
    JBS 11.281 15 The sentiment of mercy is the natural recoil which the laws of the universe provide to protect mankind from destruction by savage passions.
    Wom 11.423 1 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...
    Mem 12.107 2 When the body is in a quiescent state in the absence of passions...it yields itself a willing medium to the intellect.
    MLit 12.334 24 ...the passions are busy as ever.

passive, adj. (18)

    Nat 1.75 27 [The world] shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect... and of the affections...by yielding itself passive to the educated Will.
    LE 1.182 26 The student...is great only by being passive to the superincumbent spirit.
    Nat2 3.176 24 ...it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive.
    UGM 4.13 7 We are too passive in the reception of these material or semi-material aids.
    SwM 4.146 6 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him, and which no infirmities of the prophet are suffered to obscure; and he renders a second passive service to men...
    ET8 5.131 23 [The English] are good at storming redoubts...but not, I think, at...any passive obedience...
    Pow 6.57 26 In every company there is not only the active and passive sex...
    Edc1 10.155 20 [The naturalist] sits still; if [the creatures of nature] approach, he remains passive as the stone he sits upon.
    MMEm 10.415 8 Vital, I feel not: not active, but passive...
    HDC 11.47 14 The moderator [of the New England town-meeting] was the passive mouth-piece...
    War 11.168 15 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact. They look only at the passive side of the friend of peace...they quite omit to consider his activity.
    FSLC 11.181 15 ...presidents of colleges...importers, manufacturers...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    EPro 11.316 23 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...a new audience is found in the heart of the assembly,-an audience hitherto passive and unconcerned...
    CPL 11.508 1 In saying these things for books, I do not for a moment forget that they are...only used in the off-hours, only in the pause, and, as it were, the sleep, or passive state of the mind.
    PLT 12.28 17 Silent, passive, even sulkily, Nature offers every morning her wealth to man.
    II 12.68 22 ...what is Inspiration? It is this Instinct, whose normal state is passive, at last put in action.
    Milt1 12.276 7 Shall we say that in our admiration and joy in these wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have even a feeling of regret...that [the men] were too passive in their great service;...
    EurB 12.378 15 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is...to invert the relation in which our sex stand to women, so that they appear the attacking, and he the passive or defensive party.

passive, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.347 11 Is immortality only an intellectual quality, or, shall I say, only an energy, there being no passive?

passively, adv. (1)

    Hist 2.8 1 The student is to read history actively and not passively;...

passivity, n. (1)

    War 11.168 16 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact. They look only at the passive side of the friend of peace, only at his passivity, they quite omit to consider his activity.

Passover, n. (7)

    LS 11.5 1 ...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples;...
    LS 11.7 6 When hereafter, [Jesus] says to [his disciples], you shall keep the Passover, it will have an altered aspect to your eyes.
    LS 11.8 26 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the...manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a... purpose to found a festival. ... But this impression is removed by reading any narrative of the mode in which the...Jews have kept the Passover.
    LS 11.9 3 Jesus did not celebrate the Passover, and afterwards the [Last] Supper, but the Supper was the Passover.
    LS 11.9 4 Jesus did not celebrate the Passover, and afterwards the [Last] Supper, but the Supper was the Passover.
    LS 11.9 16 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all. Among the modern Jews, who in their dispersion retain the Passover, a hymn is also sung after this ceremony...
    LS 11.12 5 ...the Passover was local too, and does not concern us...

passovers, n. (1)

    SwM 4.135 19 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony; what with arks and passovers...

passport, n. (1)

    ChiE 11.473 26 ...the like high esteem of education appears in China in social life, to whose distinctions it is made an indispensable passport.

passports, n. (1)

    Let 12.393 4 When a railroad train shoots through Europe every day...it cannot stop every twenty or thirty miles at a German custom-house, for examination of property and passports.

Passy, Barriere de, n. (1)

    Carl 10.497 3 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe, when...every one ran away in a coucou, with his head shaved, through the Barriere de Passy, one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...

past, adj. (61)

    AmS 1.90 13 The book...the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius.
    AmS 1.92 5 There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world...says that which lies close to my own soul...
    DSA 1.144 13 The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past...indicate...the falsehood of our theology.
    LE 1.175 24 Digest and correct the past experience;...
    MR 1.234 27 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...
    SR 2.56 24 The other terror that scares us from self-trust is...a reverence for our past act or word...
    SR 2.56 26 ...the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts...
    SR 2.69 17 Power...resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state...
    Hsm1 2.251 19 ...just and wise men take umbrage at [the hero's] act, until after some little time be past;...
    Hsm1 2.260 24 A simple manly character...should regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion...
    OS 2.274 8 ...Boston, London, are facts as fugitive as any institution past...
    OS 2.283 2 In past oracles of the soul the understanding seeks to find answers to sensual questions...
    OS 2.295 21 Before the immense possibilities of man...all past biography... shrinks away.
    Cir 2.309 11 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man... cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth...
    Int 2.343 20 Each new mind we approach seems to require an abdication of all our past and present possessions.
    Art1 2.363 2 He has conceived meanly of the resources of man, who believes that the best age of production is past.
    Exp 3.64 17 We must set up the strong present tense against all the rumors of wrath, past or to come.
    UGM 4.7 4 One man answers some question which none of his contemporaries put, and is isolated. The past and passing religions and philosophies answer some other question.
    PPh 4.50 8 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...in time past, present and to come.
    MoS 4.163 26 Leigh Hunt relates of Lord Byron, that Montaigne was the only great writer of past times whom he read with avowed satisfaction.
    GoW 4.272 26 In the menstruum of this man's [Goethe's] wit, the past and the present ages...are dissolved into archetypes and ideas.
    ET14 5.251 27 The voice of [Englishmen's] modern muse has a slight hint of the steam-whistle, and the poem is created...by no means as the bird of a new morning which forgets the past world...
    Wth 6.89 10 He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors...of men in distant countries and in past times.
    Art2 7.55 23 This strict dependence of Art upon material and ideal Nature... has made all its past and may foreshow its future history.
    WD 7.170 17 The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time.
    Suc 7.303 1 I am always, [Socrates] says, asserting that I happen to know... nothing but a mere trifle relating to matters of love; yet in that kind of learning I lay claim to being more skilled than any one man of the past or present time.
    Suc 7.304 22 When the event is past and remote, how insignificant the greatest compared with the piquancy of the present!
    PI 8.2 4 For Fancy's gift/ Can mountains lift;/ The Muse can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that 's just begun;/...
    Elo2 8.116 21 ...[the orator] taking no counsel of past things...surprises [the people] with his tidings...
    QO 8.180 5 If we confine ourselves to literature, 't is easy to see that the debt is immense to past thought.
    PC 8.209 17 ...[the coxcomb] has found...that the day of ruling by scorn and sneers is past;...
    PerF 10.78 4 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as of the diving-bell of the Memory, which descends into the deeps of our past and oldest experience...
    Chr2 10.110 8 One service which this age has rendered is, to make the life and wisdom of every past man accessible and available to all.
    Chr2 10.113 4 Morals is the incorruptible essence, very heedless in its richness of any past teacher or witness...
    Chr2 10.121 25 ...Henry James affirms, that to give the feminine element in life its hard-earned but eternal supremacy over the masculine has been the secret inspiration of all past history.
    SovE 10.213 14 The man of this age must be matriculated in the university of sciences and tendencies flowing from all past periods.
    MoL 10.242 19 ...nothing has been able to resist the tide with which the material prosperity of America in years past has beat down the hope of youth...
    LLNE 10.329 14 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...all gone;...
    MMEm 10.399 5 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life. It is a representative life...of an age now past...
    MMEm 10.415 23 This morning rich in existence; the remembrance of past destitution in the deep poverty of my [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt...
    GSt 10.501 6 ...on the instant of [good men's] death, we wonder at our past insensibility...
    HDC 11.29 4 ...the people of New England, for a few years past, as the second centennial anniversary of each of its early settlements arrived, have seen fit to observe the day.
    HDC 11.56 13 We have among us [says Peter Bulkeley] excess and...pride in apparel, daintiness in diet, and that in those who, in times past, would have been satisfied with bread.
    HDC 11.68 10 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence...the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the past and present obstinate endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    LVB 11.93 26 ...to us the questions upon which the government and the people have been agitated during the past year...seem but motes in comparison [with the relocation of the Cherokees].
    EWI 11.147 10 There have been moments, I said, when men might be forgiven who doubted [emancipation]. Those moments are past.
    FSLC 11.184 16 The levity of the public mind has been shown in the past year by the most extravagant actions.
    FSLC 11.204 19 [Webster] praises Adams and Jefferson, but it is a past Adams and Jefferson that his mind can entertain.
    ACiv 11.296 7 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/ Up with it once more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The white, blue and red which the nations adore!/ It was down at half-mast/ For a grief-that is past!/ To the emblem of glory no sorrow can last!/
    ACiv 11.297 23 ...a man coins himself into his labor;...to secure that to him, to secure his past self to his future self, is the object of all government.
    ACiv 11.306 21 ...what kind of peace shall at that moment be easiest attained, [the people] will make concessions for it,-will give up the slaves, and the whole torment of the past half-century will come back to be endured anew.
    Humb 11.458 11 When [Humboldt] was stopped in Spain and could not get away, he turned round and interpreted their mountain system, explaining the past history of the continent of Europe.
    CPL 11.508 3 Instantly, when the mind itself wakes, all books, all past acts are forgotten...
    PLT 12.59 12 [A fact] is the terminus of a past thought...
    II 12.85 24 A man must do the work with that faculty he has now. But that faculty is the accumulation of past days.
    Mem 12.91 3 The builder of the mind found it not less needful that it should have retroaction, and command its past act and deed.
    Mem 12.100 10 ...men of great presence of mind...can think in this moment as well and deeply as in any past moment...
    Mem 12.108 16 This past memory is the baggage, but where is the troop?
    CL 12.155 27 I [Linnaeus] saw [Lap] men more than seventy years old put their heel on their own neck, without any exertion. O holy simplicity of diet, past all praise!
    ACri 12.303 19 ...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime charm-the superincumbent necessity by which each writer...is enriched by thoughts which flow from all past minds, shares the hopes of all existing minds;...
    WSL 12.341 7 In these busy days...a faithful scholar, receiving from past ages the treasures of wit and enlarging them by his own love, is a friend and consoler of mankind.

past, adv. (1)

    MMEm 10.398 5 On earth I dream;-I die to be:/ Time! shake not thy bald head at me./ I challenge thee to hurry past,/ Or for my turn to fly too fast./

past, n. (59)

    Nat 1.3 14 ...why should we grope among the dry bones of the past...
    AmS 1.84 13 [the scholar] the past instructs;...
    AmS 1.87 15 Books are the best type of the influence of the past...
    AmS 1.113 25 The scholar is that man who must take up into himself...all the constributions of the past...
    LE 1.162 7 No more will I dismiss, with haste, the visions which flash and sparkle across my sky; but...draw out of the past, genuine life for the present hour.
    LE 1.163 18 Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable, obliterated past, what it cannot tell...
    LE 1.167 12 Do not believe the past.
    MN 1.223 3 Who shall dare think he has...missed anything excellent in the past, who seeth the admirable stars of possibility...glittering...in the vast West?
    MR 1.248 13 What is a man born for but to be...a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature...which sleeps no moment on an old past...
    Con 1.300 15 Throughout nature the past combines in every creature with the present.
    Con 1.305 9 The past has baked your loaf, and in the strength of its bread you would break up the oven.
    Con 1.320 13 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim;...not to sink the memory of the past in the glory of a new and more excellent creation;...
    Con 1.324 8 Of the past [the hero] will take no heed;...
    YA 1.394 13 ...[the English] need all and more than all the resources of the past to indemnify a heroic gentleman in that country for the mortifications prepared for him by the system of society...
    SR 2.57 8 It seems to be a rule of wisdom...to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present...
    SR 2.66 7 Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom...it... absorbs past and future into the present hour.
    SR 2.66 20 Whence then this worship of the past?
    SR 2.67 16 ...man...with reverted eye laments the past...
    SR 2.69 20 This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past...
    SL 2.131 11 The river-bank, the weed at the water-side...have a grace in the past.
    SL 2.135 13 ...whenever we get this vantage-ground of the past...we are able to discern that we are begirt with laws which execute themselves.
    Fdsp 2.214 20 A friend...looks to the past and the future.
    OS 2.267 11 We give up the past to the objector, and yet we hope.
    OS 2.268 18 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is that great nature in which we rest...
    Cir 2.319 26 In nature...the past is always swallowed and forgotten;...
    Cir 2.320 20 [The new position of the advancing man] carries in its bosom all the energies of the past...
    Int 2.327 11 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal. It is the past restored, but embalmed.
    Art1 2.349 11 Let statue, picture, park and hall,/ Ballad, flag and festival,/ The past restore, the day adorn/ And make each morrow a new morn./
    Exp 3.67 26 God delights to...hide from us the past and the future.
    NER 3.285 23 May [the heart] not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul...secure that the future will be worthy of the past?
    PNR 4.86 18 [Plato] put in all the past, without weariness...
    ShP 4.206 13 It is the essence of poetry...to abolish the past and refuse all history.
    ET1 5.7 20 ...[Landor]...is well content to impress, if possible, his English whim upon the immutable past.
    ET14 5.246 12 How can [English genius] discern and hail...new and gigantic thoughts which cannot dress themselves out of any old wardrobe of the past?
    Bhr 6.188 4 ...the thought of the present moment has a greater value than all the past.
    Wsp 6.234 16 [Benedict] had hoarded nothing from the past...
    WD 7.177 21 Zoologists may deny that horse-hairs in the water change to worms, but I find that whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
    Boks 7.198 18 [Plato] contains the future, as he came out of the past.
    QO 8.200 2 It is inevitable that you are indebted to the past.
    PC 8.227 10 There is not a person here present to whom omens that should astonish have not predicted his future, have not uncovered his past.
    PerF 10.86 11 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.
    Schr 10.277 5 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them trained: this memory carrying in its caves the pictures of all the past...
    HDC 11.85 12 I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past.
    War 11.151 16 War...when seen in the remote past...appears a part of the connection of events...
    War 11.175 6 ...if the search of the sublime laws of morals and the sources of hope and trust, in man, and not in books, in the present, and not in the past, proceed;...then war has a short day...
    War 11.175 8 ...if the rising generation can be provoked to think it unworthy to nestle into every abomination of the past...then war has a short day...
    FSLC 11.203 25 Mr. Webster is a man who lives by his memory, a man of the past...
    FSLC 11.207 15 [Slavery] got Texas and now will have Cuba, and means to keep her majority. The experience of the past gives us no encouragement to lie by.
    SMC 11.351 8 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak;...have made them look to the past and the future;...
    CPL 11.506 18 In books I have the history or the energy of the past.
    PLT 12.58 10 The expansions [of the Intellect] are the invitations from heaven to try a larger sweep...and to leave all our past for this enlarged scope.
    PLT 12.59 7 ...we behold [the universe] shooting the gulf from the past to the future.
    Mem 12.91 8 Memory...holds together past and present...
    Mem 12.108 15 You cannot overstate our debt to the past...
    Mem 12.110 9 With every new insight into the duty or fact of to-day we come into new possession of the past.
    Mem 12.110 18 Now we are halves, we see the past but not the future...
    CW 12.169 10 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./
    Milt1 12.276 23 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion-by an equal perception, that is, of the past and the future-to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man.
    MLit 12.319 1 Scott and Crabbe, who formed themselves on the past, had none of this [subjective] tendency;...

Past, n. (22)

    Nat 1.60 8 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...not as painfully accumulated...in an aged creeping Past...
    AmS 1.87 12 The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past...
    LT 1.259 14 The Times are...the receptable in which the Past leaves its history;...
    LT 1.262 4 ...[persons] are the results of the Past;...
    LT 1.268 6 The two omnipresent parties of History, the party of the Past and the party of the Future, divide society today as of old.
    Con 1.295 22 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution. It is the opposition of Past and Future...
    Con 1.301 11 If we see [the world] from the side of Will, or the Moral Sentiment, we shall accuse the Past and the Present...
    Con 1.303 24 The contest between the Future and the Past is one between Divinity entering and Divinity departing.
    SR 2.82 17 ...our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past...
    Cir 2.318 15 ...I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.
    Mrs1 3.128 4 ...[fashion] is a hall of the Past.
    Ctr 6.129 10 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/ Of landscape and of sky,/ And tender to the spirit-touch/ Of man's or maiden's eye:/ But, to his native centre fast,/ Shall into Future fuse the Past,/ And the world's flowing fates in his own mould recast./
    QO 8.201 13 To all that can be said of the preponderance of the Past, the single word Genius is a sufficient reply.
    QO 8.201 17 The profound apprehension of the Present is Genius, which makes the Past forgotten.
    QO 8.204 4 We cannot overstate our debt to the Past...
    QO 8.204 5 The Past is for us;...
    PPo 8.264 5 The bird-soul was ashamed;/ [The birds'] body was quite annihilated;/ They had cleaned themselves from the dust,/ And were by the light ensouled./ What was, and was not,-the Past,-/ Was wiped out from their breast./
    LLNE 10.325 12 There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future;...
    HDC 11.30 9 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow that enters at a window...and flies out at another, and none knoweth whence he came, or whither he goes. The more reason...that we should recall the Past, and expect the Future.
    SHC 11.433 2 This ground [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] is happily so divided by Nature as to admit of this relation between the Past and the Present.
    Mem 12.91 21 The Past has a new value every moment to the active mind...
    Mem 12.101 22 ...the Past will not sleep...

past, v. (2)

    AmS 1.95 25 The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by...
    FSLC 11.214 3 ...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and past, in either of which, if one man had felt the spirit of Coke or Mansfield or Parsons, and read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of Massachusetts had been prevented...

paste, n. (1)

    EWI 11.143 4 Our planet, before the age of written history, had its races of savages, like the generations of sour paste...

pasteboard, adj. (1)

    MAng1 12.237 25 ...Michael [Angelo] was accustomed to work at night with a pasteboard cap or helmet on his head, into which he stuck a candle...

pasteboard, n. (1)

    DSA 1.150 6 All attempts to contrive a system are as cold as the new worship introduced by the French to the goddess of Reason, - to-day, pasteboard and filigree...

pasted, v. (1)

    CInt 12.128 21 ...if the Latin, Greek, Algebra or Art were in the parents, it will be in the children, without being pasted on.

pastime, n. (2)

    Chr1 3.93 3 ...[the natural merchant] inspires respect and the wish to deal with him...for the intellectual pastime which the spectacle of so much ability affords.
    PLT 12.9 9 Here [in society] they play the game of conversation, as they play billiards, for pastime and credit.

pastimes, n. (1)

    Res 8.150 21 The chapter of pastimes is very long.

pastor, n. (8)

    Imtl 8.346 24 You shall not say, O my bishop, O my pastor, is there any resurrection?
    EzRy 10.394 1 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...
    HDC 11.38 19 I seem to see [the settlers of Concord], with their pious pastor, addressing themselves to the work of clearing the land.
    HDC 11.40 5 There is no people, said [the settlers of Concord's] pastor to his little flock of exiles, but will strive to excel in something. What can we excel in, if not in holiness?
    HDC 11.63 4 Edward Bulkeley was the pastor [in Concord], until his death, in 1696.
    HDC 11.77 11 William Emerson, the pastor [of Concord], had a hereditary claim to the affection of the people...
    CPL 11.498 2 The town [Concord] was settled by a pious company of non-conformists from England, and the printed books of their pastor and leader... testify the ardent sentiment which they shared.
    FRep 11.520 15 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.

pastoral, adj. (4)

    Hist 2.23 6 The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation;...
    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 11.66 4 Mr. Whiting was succeeded in the pastoral office [in Concord] by Rev. Daniel Bliss...
    Milt1 12.261 2 ...[Milton] scattered, in tones of prolonged and delicate melody, his pastoral and romantic fancies;...

pastoral, n. (1)

    ET13 5.218 12 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848...

pasturage, n. (6)

    Hist 2.22 10 The nomads of Asia follow the pasturage from month to month.
    Exp 3.47 1 Yonder uplands are rich pasturage...but my field, says the querulous farmer, only holds the world together.
    Civ 7.22 9 Another step in civility is the change from war, hunting and pasturage, to agriculture.
    Aris 10.44 18 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow;...
    Edc1 10.128 1 The necessities imposed by this most irritable and all-related texture have taught Man hunting, pasturage...
    SovE 10.190 9 Community of property is tried, as when a Tartar horde or an Indian tribe roam over a vast tract for pasturage or hunting;...

pasture, n. (14)

    Pt1 3.36 18 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me...
    Exp 3.80 7 Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new-comer like a travelling geologist who passes through our estate and shows us good...anthracite, in our brush pasture.
    ET3 5.43 4 Let buffalo gore buffalo, and the pasture to the strongest!
    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.
    Pow 6.59 7 When a new boy comes into school...that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
    Wth 6.123 8 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for...the convenience to the pasture...
    WD 7.168 5 ...if [Czar Alexander] had the earth for his pasture and the sea for his pond, he would be a pauper still.
    OA 7.313 9 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/ And stony pathway to the wood./
    PI 8.70 16 O celestial Bacchus! drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds...hungry for poetry...perishing for want of electricity to vitalize this too much pasture...
    Res 8.151 12 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country...wants...an old horse that will stand tied in a pasture half a day without risk...
    RBur 11.441 27 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East, but in the homely landscape which the poor see around them,-bleak leagues of pasture and stubble...
    CPL 11.507 19 The imagination knows its own food in every pasture...
    PLT 12.32 14 White huckleberries are so rare that in miles of pasture you shall not find a dozen.
    CL 12.136 1 The nomads wander over vast territory, to find their pasture.

pasture, v. (1)

    CL 12.148 8 Some English reformers thought...that, if there were no cows to pasture, less land would suffice.

pastures, n. (17)

    Nat 1.18 21 The succession of native plants in the pastures and roadsides... will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer.
    Cir 2.313 7 We can never see Christianity from the catechism:--from the pastures...we possibly may.
    Pt1 3.41 7 O poet! a new nobility is conferred in groves and pastures...
    ET4 5.72 10 The pastures of Tartary were still remembered by the tenacious practice of the Norsemen to eat horseflesh at religious feasts.
    ET16 5.288 22 There, in that great sloven continent [America], in high Alleghany pastures...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother...
    Wth 6.120 12 ...how can Cockayne, who has no pastures...be pothered with fatting and killing oxen?
    Wth 6.122 8 Every pedestrian in our pastures has frequent occasion to thank the cows for cutting the best path through the thicket and over the hills;...
    SS 7.4 8 [My new friend] left the city; he hid himself in pastures.
    Elo1 7.59 12 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In his every syllable/ Lurketh nature veritable;/ .../ The forest waves, the morning breaks,/ The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,/ Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be/ And life pulsates in rock or tree./
    Thor 10.468 17 See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which have been hoed at by a million farmers...and just now come out triumphant over all lanes, pastures, fields and gardens...
    HDC 11.42 1 The first record [of Concord] now remaining is that of...the appropriation of new lands as commons or pastures to some poor men.
    HDC 11.43 22 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf was to be killed;...the pastures to be cleared;...
    HDC 11.64 12 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town lends its commons as pastures, to poor men;...
    EWI 11.129 20 As I have walked in the pastures and along the edge of woods, I could not keep my imagination on those agreeable figures, for other images that intruded on me.
    SMC 11.350 5 ...we shall cling affectionately to our houses, our river and pastures...
    CL 12.154 16 We may well yield us for a time to [the sea's] lessons. But the nomad instinct...persists to drive us to fresh fields and pastures new.
    ACri 12.305 3 ...when I come into the pastures, I find antiquity again.

Patch, Brother [Butler, Hu (1)

    Comc 8.166 12 ...The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy,/ Complaining loudly of the breach/ Of league held forth by Brother Patch/...

patch, n. (7)

    Fdsp 2.215 10 In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the firmament. ... I fear only that I may lose them receding into the sky in which now they are only a patch of brighter light.
    Farm 7.151 27 't is long before [the first planter] digs or plants at all, and then only a patch.
    Cour 7.264 7 ...the farmer is skilful to fight [the forest fire]. The neighbors run together;...and by raking with the hoe a long but little trench, confine to a patch the fire which would easily spread over a hundred acres.
    Edc1 10.130 9 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch wandering from age to age...
    MoL 10.250 10 [Nature says to the American] One thing you have rightly done. You have offered a patch of land in the wilderness to every son of Adam who will till it.
    CW 12.175 20 I could not find it in my heart to chide the citizen who should ruin himself to buy a patch of heavy oak timber.
    Let 12.403 27 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden;...

patcher, n. (1)

    Con 1.320 14 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim;...a timid cobbler and patcher, it degrades whatever it touches.

patches, n. (5)

    OS 2.297 9 [Man] will weave no longer a spotted life of shreds and patches...
    PPh 4.77 2 Here is the world...perfect...not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but [Plato's] theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.
    Bty 6.299 10 The man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches...
    Insp 8.288 5 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye, when you have stood by a lake in the woods in summer, and saw where little flaws of wind whip spots or patches of still water into fleets of ripples...
    RBur 11.441 16 ...[Burns] has endeared...patches and poverty...

patches, v. (1)

    WD 7.176 1 In the Norse legend of our ancestors, Odin dwells in a fisher's hut and patches a boat.

patching, n. (2)

    Nat 1.5 13 ...[man's] operations taken together are so insignificant, a little chipping, baking, patching, and washing...
    Ctr 6.140 21 Politics is...a poor patching.

pate, n. (2)

    MoS 4.167 6 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...my old lean bald pate;...
    Clbs 7.229 11 ...the days come when we are alarmed, and say there are no thoughts. What a barren-witted pate is mine! the student says;...

patent, adj. (3)

    Pt1 3.7 5 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. ... ...each of these three has the power of the others latent in him and his own, patent.
    WD 7.157 6 The human body is the magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint was taken.
    Edc1 10.148 14 ...in education...we are continually trying costly machinery against nature, in patent schools and academies and in great colleges and universities.

patent, n. (4)

    YA 1.377 17 [Traders'] information, their wealth, their correspondence, have made them quite other men than left their native shore. They are nobles now, and by another patent than the king's.
    ET10 5.159 10 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule;...
    Aris 10.60 21 One trait more we must celebrate, the self-reliance which is the patent of royal natures.
    PerF 10.84 27 A man has a rare mathematical talent...and wishes to clap a patent on it;...

patentees, n. (1)

    Bost 12.189 12 The [Massachusetts Bay] territory-conferred on the patentees in absolute property...extended from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude...

Patent-Office Commissioner, (1)

    QO 8.179 1 The Patent-Office Commissioner knows that all machines in use have been invented and re-invented over and over;...

pater, Zeu, n. (1)

    WD 7.167 2 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God,--Dyaus, Deus, Zeus, Zeu pater, Jupiter...

Paterculus, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.131 27 The historian Paterculus says of Cicero, that only in Cicero's lifetime was any great eloquence in Rome;...

paternal, adj. (2)

    Ctr 6.155 17 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that...pays off the mortgage on the paternal farm...
    FRep 11.541 7 Humanity asks that government shall not be ashamed to be tender and paternal...

paternity, n. (1)

    QO 8.185 11 Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

path, n. (58)

    Nat 1.14 11 [The private poor man] sets his house upon the road, and the human race go forth every morning, and shovel out the snow, and cut a path for him.
    Nat 1.69 17 In every path,/ [Man] treads down that which doth befriend him/...
    Nat 1.77 3 As when the summer comes...the face of the earth becomes green before it, so shall the advancing spirit create its ornaments along its path...
    AmS 1.107 2 [The poor and the low] are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person...
    DSA 1.120 2 ...in the powers and path of light, heat, attraction, and life, [the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    Tran 1.357 26 ...the path which the hero travels alone is the highway of health and benefit to mankind.
    Hist 2.40 27 ...the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature.
    Comp 2.96 12 I shall attempt...to record some facts that indicate the path of the law of Compensation;...
    Comp 2.107 20 ...if the sun in heaven should transgress his path [the Furies] would punish him.
    SL 2.160 13 Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
    Fdsp 2.213 18 By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little you gain the great.
    Prd1 2.237 23 Examples are cited by soldiers of men who have seen the cannon pointed and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from the path of the ball.
    Hsm1 2.251 17 ...every man must be supposed to see a little farther on his own proper path than any one else.
    Cir 2.313 4 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto] claps wings to the sides of all the solid old lumber of the world, and I am capable once more of choosing a straight path in theory and practice.
    Pt1 3.26 8 This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but...by sharing the path or circuit of things through forms...
    Pt1 3.26 10 The path of things is silent.
    Pt1 3.38 21 Art is the path of the creator to his work.
    Mrs1 3.150 21 ...by the firmness with which she treads her upward path, [woman] convinces the coarsest calculators that another road exists than that which their feet know.
    Nat2 3.185 6 ...to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path...
    PNR 4.82 15 Everywhere [Plato] stands on a path which has no end...
    SwM 4.96 5 The soul having been often born, or, as the Hindoos say, travelling the path of existence through thousands of births...there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge...
    SwM 4.97 1 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all things flow into it: they mix; and he is present and sympathetic with their structure and law. This path is difficult, secret and beset with terror.
    SwM 4.113 2 [Swedenborg] noted that in [nature] proceeding from first principles through her several subordinations, there was no state through which she did not pass, as if her path lay through all things.
    ET2 5.32 19 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people [the English]...
    ET5 5.93 3 In every path of practical activity [the English] have gone even with the best.
    ET14 5.253 17 The poet only sees [the reptile or the mollusk] as an inevitable step in the path of the Creator.
    Wth 6.97 15 They should own who can administer...they whose work... opens a path for all.
    Wth 6.122 10 Every pedestrian in our pastures has frequent occasion to thank the cows for cutting the best path through the thicket and over the hills;...
    Ctr 6.163 5 Steep and craggy, said Porphyry, is the path of the gods.
    Wsp 6.218 27 The path of a star, the moment of an eclipse, can be determined to the fraction of a second.
    Wsp 6.219 9 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft, and the ball never loses its way in its wild path through space,--a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...
    Wsp 6.240 6 The only path of escape known in all the worlds of God is performance.
    Civ 7.30 24 If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by putting our works in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also evil agents...
    Cour 7.263 9 It is the veteran soldier, who, seeing the flash of the cannon, can step aside from the path of the ball.
    Suc 7.285 13 ...leaving the coast [of Panama]...the wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
    PI 8.10 15 The metaphysician, the poet, only sees each animal form as an inevitable step in the path of the creating mind.
    PPo 8.260 15 They strew in the path of kings and czars/ Jewels and gems of price:/ But for thy head I will pluck down stars,/ And pave thy way with eyes./
    Grts 8.304 1 ...follow the path your genius traces like the galaxy of heaven for you to walk in.
    Grts 8.307 2 ...there is a teaching for [every man] from within which is leading him in a new path...
    Grts 8.307 18 [A man's bias] is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path...
    Grts 8.310 17 ...there is for each a Best Counsel which enjoins the fit word and the fit act for every moment. And the path of each, pursued, leads to greatness.
    Grts 8.317 20 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it;...
    Grts 8.317 22 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it; and this again casts a shadow in the path of the electric light.
    Schr 10.289 6 ...if I could prevail to communicate the incommunicable mysteries, you [scholars] should see...that ever as you ascend your proper and native path, you receive the keys of Nature and history...
    Plu 10.311 17 Plutarch is genial; with an endless interest in all human and divine things; Seneca...though he keep a sublime path, is less interesting, because less humane;...
    MMEm 10.419 18 ...so poor are some of those allotted to join me [Mary Moody Emerson] on the weary needy path, that 't is benevolence enjoins self-denial.
    MMEm 10.428 14 Constantly offer myself [Mary Moody Emerson] to continue the obscurest and loneliest thing ever heard of, with one proviso,- [God's] agency. Yes, love Thee, and all Thou dost, while Thou sheddest frost and darkness on every path of mine.
    Thor 10.461 19 [Thoreau] could find his path in the woods at night, he said, better by his feet than his eyes.
    Thor 10.469 19 [Thoreau] knew every track in the snow or on the ground, and what creature had taken this path before him.
    GSt 10.504 25 I have heard...that [George Stearns] was indignant at this or that man's behavior, but never that his anger...ever stood in the way of his hearty cooperation with the offenders when they returned to the path of public duty.
    SHC 11.434 22 ...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...
    PLT 12.37 10 If we could retain our early innocence, we might trust our feet uncommanded to take the right path to our friend in the woods.
    PLT 12.37 13 If we could retain our early innocence, we might trust our feet uncommanded to take the right path to our friend in the woods. But... the feet have lost, by our distrust, their proper virtue, and we take the wrong path and miss him.
    PLT 12.42 11 To every soul that is created is its path, invisible to all but itself.
    PLT 12.42 12 Each soul...walking in its own path walks firmly;...
    PLT 12.42 14 Each soul...walking in its own path walks firmly; and to the astonishment of all other souls, who see not its path, it goes as softly and playfully on its way as if...it were a wide prairie.
    PLT 12.59 17 Routine, the rut, is the path of indolence...
    Mem 12.90 18 The sparrow, the ant, the worm, have the same memory as we. If you bar their path...they make one or two trials, and then once for all avoid it.

pathetic, adj. (8)

    Pow 6.60 27 We watch in children with pathetic interest the degree in which they possess recuperative force.
    Wth 6.117 2 Saving and unexpensiveness will not keep the most pathetic family from ruin...
    Ill 6.316 2 Too pathetic, too pitiable, is the region of affection...
    Elo1 7.68 22 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of hers. Her speech flows like a river,--so unconsidered, so humorous, so pathetic...
    Clbs 7.244 13 It was a pathetic experience when a genial and accomplished person said to me, looking from his country home to the capital of New England, There is a town of two hundred thousand people, and not a chair for me.
    PI 8.46 26 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres...you can easily believe these metres to be...derived from the human pulse, and to be therefore not proper to one nation, but to mankind. I think you will also find a charm heroic, plaintive, pathetic, in these cadences...
    SlHr 10.443 27 Such was, in old age, the beauty of [Samuel Hoar's] person and carriage, as if the mind radiated, and made the same impression of probity on all beholders. His beauty was pathetic and touching in these latest days...
    II 12.77 6 I think this pathetic,-not to have any wisdom at our own terms...

pathetically, adv. (1)

    SS 7.9 15 ...how insular and pathetically solitary are all the people we know!

pathless, adj. (2)

    Lov1 2.177 1 Fountain-heads and pathless groves,/ Places which pale passion loves,/ Moonlight walks, when all the fowls/ Are safely housed, save bats and owls,/ A midnight bell, a passing groan,--/ These are the sounds we [lovers] feed upon./
    PI 8.55 15 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...Fountain-heads and pathless groves/...

pathology, n. (1)

    Bty 6.286 20 So inveterate is our habit of criticism that much of our knowledge in this direction belongs to the chapter of pathology.

pathos, n. (7)

    Nat 1.28 22 ...do the seasons gain no grandeur or pathos from that analogy [with man's life]?
    ShP 4.200 5 The Liturgy, admired for its energy and pathos, is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations...
    ET14 5.246 17 Dickens...with pathos and laughter...writes London tracts.
    Elo1 7.90 24 ...rapid generalization, humor, pathos, are keys which the orator holds;...
    Prch 10.235 12 ...emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject;...seeing that a sentiment never loses its pathos or its persuasion...
    EWI 11.135 23 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the masters revolting from their mastery. The slave-holder said, I will not hold slaves. The end was noble and the means were pure. Hence the elevation and pathos of this chapter of history.
    FRep 11.515 8 No interest not attaches...to the wars of German, French and Spanish emperors, which were only dynastic wars, but to those in which a principle was involved. These...never lose their pathos by time.

paths, n. (11)

    Art1 2.364 23 I do not wonder that Newton, with an attention habitually engaged on the paths of planets and suns, should have wondered what the Earl of Pembroke found to admire in stone dolls.
    Pt1 3.38 22 Art is the path of the creator to his work. The paths or methods are ideal and eternal...
    Civ 7.29 24 ...[the heavenly powers] swerve never from their foreordained paths...
    Plu 10.305 1 The paths of life are large, but few are men directed by the Daemons.
    Thor 10.452 16 ...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question, and it required rare decision to refuse all the accustomed paths...
    Thor 10.469 16 [Thoreau] knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.
    HDC 11.32 22 ...the Indian paths leading up and down the country were a foot broad.
    HDC 11.33 22 Much time was lost in travelling [the pilgrims] knew not whither...for...the Indian paths, once lost, they did not easily find.
    HDC 11.86 17 ...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place, in all times since its planting, of pious and excellent persons, who walked meekly through the paths of common life...
    PLT 12.42 8 The universe is traversed by paths or bridges or stepping-stones across the gulfs of space in every direction.
    CW 12.174 3 [A thoughtful man] can spend the entire day therein [in his wood-lot], with hatchet or pruning-shears, making paths, without remorse of wasting time.

pathway, n. (1)

    OA 7.313 10 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/ And stony pathway to the wood./

pathways, n. (2)

    Koss 11.396 7 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./ My angel,-his name is Freedom,-/ Choose him to be your king;/ He shall cut pathways east and west,/ And fend you with his wing./
    SHC 11.428 4 ...Here the green pines delight, the aspen droops/ Along the modest pathways, and those fair/ Pale asters of the season spread their plumes/ Around this field, fit garden for our tombs./

patience, n. (43)

    AmS 1.115 4 Patience, - patience; with the shades of all the good and great for company;...
    AmS 1.115 5 Patience, - patience; with the shades of all the good and great for company;...
    LE 1.183 25 ...let [the scholar]...wait in patience...
    LT 1.278 21 A patience which is grand;...is the century which makes the gem.
    LT 1.285 4 ...have a little patience with this melancholy humor.
    Tran 1.351 23 Cannot we screw our courage to patience and truth...
    Tran 1.354 8 Patience, then, is for us, is it not?
    Tran 1.354 9 Patience, then, is for us, is it not? Patience, and still patience.
    Lov1 2.170 26 ...it is to be hoped that by patience and the Muses' aid we may attain to that inward view of the law which shall describe a truth ever young and beautiful...
    Exp 3.85 14 Patience and patience, we shall win at the last.
    Exp 3.85 15 Patience and patience, we shall win at the last.
    ET5 5.88 23 This highly destined race [the English], if it had not somewhere added the chamber of patience to its brain, would not have built London.
    Wth 6.99 20 Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness and patience in the players.
    Wth 6.102 1 [The farmer] knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience...
    Farm 7.139 5 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun...
    Farm 7.139 7 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature;...patience with the slowness of our feet...
    Farm 7.139 11 The farmer...acquires that livelong patience which belongs to [Nature].
    Cour 7.276 10 ...[the hideous facts in history] require of us a patience as robust as the energy that attacks us...
    OA 7.330 6 ...especially we have a certain insulated thought, which haunts us, but remains insulated and barren. Well, there is nothing for all this but patience and time.
    PerF 10.78 14 ...not less [than Memory, Fancy, Imagination, Eloquence], method, patience, self-trust, perseverance, love, desire of knowledge, the passion for truth. These are the angels that take us by the hand...
    Edc1 10.151 20 Is it not manifest...that...children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue? So to regard the young child, the young man, requires, no doubt, a rare patience...
    Edc1 10.151 20 Is it not manifest...that...children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue? So to regard the young child, the young man, requires...a patience that nothing but faith in the remedial forces of the soul can give.
    Edc1 10.152 4 In these judgments one needs that foresight which was attributed to an eminent reformer, of whom it was said his patience could see in the bud of the aloe the blossom at the end of a hundred years.
    Edc1 10.155 6 Leave this military hurry and adopt the pace of Nature. Her secret is patience.
    Edc1 10.155 13 [the naturalist's] secret is patience;...
    SovE 10.202 5 With patience and fidelity to truth [a man] may work his way through, if only by coming against somebody who believes more fables than he does;...
    Schr 10.286 9 [The scholar] must have a great patience...
    Schr 10.288 8 ...gentlemen, there is plainly no end to these expansions [on the scholar]. I have exhausted your patience, and I have only begun.
    Plu 10.320 26 In spite of its carelessness and manifold faults, which, I doubt not, have tried the patience of its present learned editor and corrector, I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals]...
    Thor 10.469 8 The other weapon with which [Thoreau] conquered all obstacles in science was patience.
    LS 11.24 1 My brethren have considered my views [on the Lord's Supper] with patience and candor...
    HDC 11.83 13 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown. The author [Lemuel Shattuck] has done us and posterity a kindness, by the zeal and patience of his research...
    LVB 11.89 14 ...at the instance of a few of my friends and neighbors, I crave of your [Van Buren's] patience a short hearing for their sentiments and my own...
    EWI 11.127 19 It was a stately spectacle, to see the cause of human rights argued with so much patience and generosity...before that powerful people [the English].
    EWI 11.134 8 ...the reader of Congressional debates, in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the minority of slave-holders.
    FSLN 11.241 1 Whilst the inconsistency of slavery with the principles on which the world is built guarantees its downfall, I own that the patience it requires is almost too sublime for mortals...
    SMC 11.359 24 ...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott]...a patience not to be tired out...
    CPL 11.505 9 Patience is the chiefest fruit of study.
    PLT 12.47 17 Sometimes the patience and love [of intellectual men] are rewarded by the chamber of power being at last opened;...
    PLT 12.51 17 Immense is the patience of Nature.
    PLT 12.51 22 Nature having for capital this rill [of thought]...this rill and her patience,-she husbands and hives...
    II 12.67 5 All true wisdom of thought and of action comes of deference to this instinct, patience with its delays.
    Bost 12.199 17 John Smith says...nothing would be done for a plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam and Leyden went to New Plymouth; whose humorous ignorances caused them for more than a year to endure a wonderful deal of misery, with an infinite patience.

patient, adj. (18)

    Nat 1.74 13 ...there are patient naturalists, but they freeze their subject under the wintry light of the understanding.
    AmS 1.103 1 ...let [the scholar]...add observation to observation, patient of neglect...
    AmS 1.103 2 ...let [the scholar]...add observation to observation...patient of reproach...
    LE 1.162 3 ...the immortal bards of philosophy,-that which they have written out with patient courage, makes me bold.
    LE 1.180 5 ...[Napoleon] neglected never the least particular...of patient adaptation;...
    Hist 2.32 4 ...every creature is man agent or patient.
    SL 2.131 23 No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might. Allow for exaggeration in the most patient and sorely ridden hack that ever was driven.
    Nat2 3.180 3 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed;...
    ET1 5.7 12 ...[Landor] was the most patient and gentle of hosts.
    ET5 5.81 10 ...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon of defence from year to year is the obstinate reproduction of the grievance...
    ET8 5.138 27 To understand the power of performance that is in their finest wits, in their patient Newton...one should see how English day-laborers hold out.
    Wth 6.83 11 ...well the primal pioneer/ Knew the strong task to it assigned,/ Patient through Heaven's enormous year/ To build in matter home for mind./
    Farm 7.144 1 The good rocks, those patient waiters, say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it.
    Aris 10.59 17 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant...that there is no...stern exclusive Legion of Honor, to be entered only by long and real service and patient climbing up all the steps.
    EzRy 10.389 1 [Ezra Ripley] had...the patient, continuing courtesy...
    FSLC 11.209 9 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The father of his country shall wait, well pleased, a little longer for his monument;...and the patient Columbus for his.
    CL 12.142 15 Good observers have the manners of trees and animals, their patient good sense...
    Let 12.400 19 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius, who love and foster the Beautiful. The Good! They...are like the patient Ulysses whilst he sat in the guise of a beggar at his own door...

patient, n. (9)

    Ctr 6.132 25 In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round and continues to spin slowly on one spot.
    Ctr 6.133 21 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation. It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and by treating the patient tenderly, to shut him up in a narrower selfism...
    CbW 6.245 17 The physician prescribes hesitatingly out of his few resources the same tonic or sedative to this new and peculiar constitution which he has applied with various success to a hundred men before. If the patient mends he is glad and surprised.
    Elo1 7.62 7 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...
    SA 8.106 2 ...what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment? Was ever one converted? The innocence and ignorance of the patient is the first difficulty;...
    Comc 8.174 7 When Carlini was convulsing Naples with laughter, a patient waited on a physician in that city, to obtain some remedy for excessive melancholy...
    CL 12.159 18 In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts, especially gazelles, collect around an insane person, and live with him on a friendly footing. The patient found something curative in that intercourse...
    Trag 12.415 11 We fancy [suffering] is torture; the patient has his own compensations.
    Trag 12.416 2 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.

patiently, adv. (2)

    ET7 5.119 7 [The English] read gladly in old Fuller that a lady in the reign of Elizabeth, would have as patiently digested a lie, as the wearing of false stones...
    EPro 11.317 6 ...so fair a mind that none ever listened so patiently to such extreme varieties of opinion,-so reticent...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.

patients, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.62 6 Our county conventions often exhibit a small-pot-soon-hot style of eloquence. We are too much reminded of a medical experiment where a series of patients are taking nitrous-oxide gas.

patient's, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.227 14 The physician helps [people] mainly...by healthy talk giving a right tone to the patient's mind.

patimur, v. (1)

    F 6.42 1 Quisque suos patimur manes.

Patmore, Coventry, n. (2)

    ET17 5.292 26 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...the younger poets, Clough, Arnold and Patmore;...
    Wom 11.404 9 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work succeed./ Coventry Patmore.

Patmos, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.106 21 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...as feeling that they have a stake in that book;...and especially the total solitude of the critic, the Patmos of thought from which he writes, in unconsciousness of any eyes that shall ever read this writing.

patois, n. (3)

    OS 2.283 20 Never a moment did that sublime spirit [Jesus] speak in [men' s] patois.
    RBur 11.442 12 [Burns] grew up in a rural district, speaking a patois unintelligible to all but natives...
    ACri 12.285 18 [George Borrow]...mastered the patois of the gypsies...

patres, n. (1)

    OA 7.321 9 ...patricians or patres, senate or senes, seigneurs or seniors... and the like, all signify simply old men.

patriarch, n. (1)

    CbW 6.251 4 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...nor does it seem to make much difference whether he is bachelor or patriarch;...

patriarchal, adj. (3)

    YA 1.375 14 The patriarchal form of government readily becomes despotic...
    YA 1.376 14 ...this patriarchal or family management gets to be rather troublesome to all but the papa;...
    Wth 6.90 16 ...no clanship, no patriarchal style of living by the revenues of a chief...suits [the Saxons];...

patriarchs, n. (2)

    SR 2.84 2 ...if you can hear what these patriarchs say, surely you can reply to them in the same pitch of voice;...
    Chr1 3.109 2 How easily we read in old books...of the smallest action of the patriarchs.

patribus, n. (1)

    Bost 12.211 21 Sicut patribus,

patrician, adj. (7)

    Mrs1 3.140 26 ...society demands in its patrician class another element... which it significantly terms good-nature...
    Nat2 3.175 24 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road,--a certain haughty favor, as if from patrician genii to patricians...
    PPh 4.43 24 [Plato]...was of patrician connection in his times and city...
    PPh 4.57 18 [Plato's] patrician polish, his intrinsic elegance...adorn the soundest health and strength of frame.
    PPh 4.65 27 [Plato's] patrician tastes laid stress on the distinctions of birth.
    ET11 5.194 17 With the tribe of artistes, including the musical tribe, the patrician morgue [in England] keeps no terms, but excludes them.
    ACri 12.286 27 See how Plato managed it, with an imagination so gorgeous, and a taste so patrician, that Jove, if he descended, was to speak in his style.

patrician, n. (5)

    Con 1.295 8 The battle of patrician and plebeian...reappears in all countries and times.
    Mrs1 3.130 26 A natural gentleman finds his way in [to fashionable society], and will keep the oldest patrician out who has lost his intrinsic rank.
    ET11 5.173 27 [The English people] are proud...of the language and symbol of chivalry. Even the word lord is the luckiest style that is used in any language to designate a patrician.
    ET11 5.195 18 All advantages given to absolve the young patrician from intellectual labor are of course mistaken.
    EurB 12.368 1 We have poets who write the poetry...of the patrician and conventional Europe...

patricians, n. (6)

    Nat2 3.175 25 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road,--a certain haughty favor, as if from patrician genii to patricians...
    PPh 4.74 10 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates], whose strange conceits, drollery and bonhommie diverted the young patricians...turns out...to have a probity as invincible as his logic...
    ET11 5.173 14 The hopes of the commoners [in England] take the same direction with the interest of the patricians.
    ET11 5.180 18 The predilection of the patricians for residence in the country...makes the safety of the English hall.
    Bhr 6.174 19 If you look at the pictures of patricians and of peasants of different periods and countries, you will see how well they match the same classes in our towns.
    OA 7.321 9 ...patricians or patres, senate or senes, seigneurs or seniors... and the like, all signify simply old men.

Patrick, n. (2)

    Wth 6.107 23 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you.
    Wth 6.107 25 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that the weeds will grow with the potatoes...

Patrick, Simon, n. (1)

    WSL 12.339 8 ...nor will [Landor] persuade us to burn Plato and Xenophon, out of our admiration of Bishop Patrick...

Patrick Spens, Sir [Ballad (1)

    PI 8.25 18 Give [people]...Sir Andrew Barton, or Sir Patrick Spens...and they like these well enough.

patrimony, n. (5)

    Pol1 3.202 5 One man owns his clothes, and another owns a county. This accident, depending primarily on the skill and virtue of the parties, of which there is every degree, and secondarily on patrimony, falls unequally, and its rights...are unequal.
    Pol1 3.203 11 ...in the other case, of patrimony, the law makes an ownership which will be valid in each man's view according to the estimate which he sets on the public tranquillity.
    GoW 4.290 7 We shall learn to draw rents and revenues from the immense patrimony of the old and the recent ages.
    CbW 6.271 7 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...a patrimony...and the like.
    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.

patriot, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.339 16 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling on despotic times, made patriot Catos and Brutuses;...

patriot, n. (13)

    Nat 1.21 15 Charles II., to intimidate the citizens of London, caused the patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal streets of the city...
    SR 2.88 23 ...the young patriot feels himself stronger than before by a new thousand of eyes and arms.
    Chr1 3.96 12 [A man] encloses the world, as the patriot does his country, as a material basis for his character...
    PPh 4.40 26 This citizen of a town in Greece [Plato] is no villager nor patriot.
    ET15 5.272 21 ...[if the London Times would cleave to the right] its proud function, that of being...the defender of the exile and patriot against despots, would be more effectually discharged;...
    Elo2 8.109 4 He, when the rising storm of party roared,/ Brought his great forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with fears the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/...
    PC 8.209 26 The fop is unable to cut the patriot in the street;...
    Schr 10.275 1 The great English patriot Algernon Sidney wrote to his father from his prison a little before his execution: I have ever had in my mind that when God should cast me into such a condition as that I cannot save my life but by doing an indecent thing he shows me the time has come when I should resign it.
    MMEm 10.400 3 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...a warm patriot in 1775, went as a chaplain to the American army at Ticonderoga...
    FSLN 11.226 23 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow.
    JBB 11.269 2 ...[John Brown] conceives that the only obstruction to the Union is Slavery, and for that reason, as a patriot, he works for its abolition.
    FRep 11.539 1 Here is the post where the patriot should plant himself;...
    CL 12.160 6 I hold all these opinions on the power of the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them;...the patriot on his mountains or his prairie affirms them;...

patriotic, adj. (11)

    Mrs1 3.129 25 We sometimes meet men under some strong moral influence, as a patriotic, a literary, a religious movement, and feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature.
    ET3 5.40 24 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian...
    ET9 5.144 21 [The Englishman] is intensely patriotic...
    ET10 5.161 18 Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tie does not hold.
    ET14 5.246 17 Dickens...with patriotic and still enlarging generosity, writes London tracts.
    GSt 10.501 17 We recall the all but exclusive devotion of this excellent man [George Stearns] during the last twelve years to public and patriotic interests.
    GSt 10.503 21 Every important patriotic measure in this region has had [George Stearns's] sympathy...
    GSt 10.505 23 These interests, which [George Stearns] passionately adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication with patriotic persons holding the same views...
    HDC 11.68 4 It would be impossible on this occasion to recite all these patriotic papers [of Concord].
    SHC 11.433 11 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved...for...patriotic eloquence...
    CW 12.172 1 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through for their learning, or subtlety, or active or patriotic power...

patriotism, n. (22)

    YA 1.367 14 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe;...works...which might well...inflame patriotism.
    YA 1.369 19 Any relation to the land...generates the feeling of patriotism.
    MoS 4.172 20 ...[the wise skeptic] penetrates the popular patriotism.
    ET9 5.151 6 ...this childish [English] patriotism costs something...
    ET15 5.270 6 The morality and patriotism of The [London] Times claim only to be representative...
    CbW 6.262 5 ...we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism...
    Civ 7.26 19 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes...patriotism, as in the Spartan and Roman republics;...
    Art2 7.56 2 These arts have their origin always in some enthusiasm, as love, patriotism or religion.
    Art2 7.56 22 In this country, at this time, other interests than religion and patriotism are predominant...
    Elo2 8.116 20 When a good man rises in the cold and malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to be silent; why not rest, sir, on your good record? Nobody doubts your talent and power, but...we are tired of being pushed into patriotism by people who stay at home.
    Elo2 8.124 15 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the patriotism of Cicero, Demosthenes and Burke...
    Comc 8.161 2 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy...pretending to patriotism and to parental virtues...
    Comc 8.173 6 What is nobler than the expansive sentiment of patriotism...
    PerF 10.77 21 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise,-is it...the reform of some public abuse, or some effort of patriotism,-what he chiefly brings...is...his thoughts...
    MoL 10.258 4 The times develop the strength they need. Boys are heroes. Women have shown a tender patriotism and inexhaustible charity.
    Schr 10.281 26 As we read the newspapers...patriotism and religion seem to shriek like ghosts.
    LLNE 10.326 24 ...the sentiment of patriotism is weak;...
    HDC 11.59 25 The virtues of patriotism and of prodigious courage and address were exhibited [in King Philip's war] on both sides...
    EdAd 11.386 27 ...who can see the continent...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which...this sudden creation of enormous values is made? This is equally the view of science and of patriotism.
    EdAd 11.387 1 We hesitate to employ a word so much abused as patriotism...
    EdAd 11.387 5 ...the right patriotism consists in the delight which springs from contributing our peculiar and legitimate advantages to the benefit of humanity.
    CInt 12.120 4 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes...

Patriotism, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.213 19 Let us not lie, not steal, nor help to steal, and let us not call stealing by any fine name, as Union or Patriotism.

patriots, n. (14)

    ET18 5.308 6 [England] is the land of patriots, martyrs, sages and bards...
    F 6.13 24 ...strong natures...are inevitable patriots...
    Wsp 6.210 25 Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and establish free trade.
    Civ 7.31 8 Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots?...
    Plu 10.291 4 ...Be great, be true, and all the Scipios,/ The Catos, the wise patriots of Rome,/ Shall flock to you and tarry by your side/ And comfort you with their high company./
    Plu 10.322 12 ...as it was the desire of these old patriots to fill with their majestic spirit all Sparta or Rome...we hasten to offer them to the American people.
    HDC 11.47 9 He is ill informed who expects, on running down the [New England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find...a metropolis of patriots...
    HDC 11.71 27 This body [the Provincial Congress] was composed of the foremost patriots...
    EWI 11.129 24 I could not see the great vision of the patriots and senators who have adopted the slave's cause...
    AsSu 11.252 5 ...if our arms at this distance cannot defend [Charles Sumner] from assassins, we confide the defence of a life so precious to all honorable men and true patriots...
    SMC 11.353 19 Once we were patriots up to the town-bounds, or the state-line.
    FRep 11.521 2 ...the stiffest patriots falter and compromise;...
    CL 12.139 9 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...and...ponder the moral secrets which, in her solitudes, Nature has to whisper to us, we were better patriots and happier men.
    Bost 12.203 16 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some John Adams and Josiah Quincy and Governor Andrew to undertake and carry the defence of patriots in the courts against the uproar of all the province;...

patrolling, n. (1)

    War 11.163 18 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this incessant patrolling of sentinels;...seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.

patron, adj. (1)

    ET6 5.112 22 Sir Philip Sidney is one of the patron saints of England...

patron, n. (11)

    MN 1.208 6 What patron shall [a man] ask for employment and reward?
    LT 1.291 5 You shall be the asylum and patron of every new thought...
    Chr1 3.99 15 I revere the person who is riches; so that I cannot think of him as alone...but as perpetual patron, benefactor and beatified man.
    NMW 4.243 2 ...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...defended him as its natural patron.
    NMW 4.244 12 If he felt himself their patron and the founder of their fortunes, as when he said I made my generals out of mud,--[Napoleon] could not hide his satisfaction in receiving from them a seconding and support commensurate with the grandeur of his enterprise.
    ET8 5.137 20 England is the lawgiver, the patron, the instructor, the ally.
    ET9 5.152 12 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England, patron of chivalry...
    Clbs 7.240 25 These masters [eloquent men]...need no patron.
    Schr 10.287 2 ...the great Necessity is [the scholar's] patron...
    FSLC 11.207 19 ...will any expert statesman furnish us a plan for the summary or gradual winding up of slavery, so far as the Republic is its patron?
    II 12.83 1 ...[a man's] workbench is home, education, power and patron.

patronage, n. (11)

    Prd1 2.240 11 We are...too old to expect patronage of any greater or more powerful.
    ET14 5.248 8 It is very certain...that if Lord Bacon had been only the sensualist his critic pretends, he would never have acquired the fame which now entitles him to this patronage.
    ET18 5.306 14 The feudal system survives [in England]...in the social barriers which confine patronage and promotion to a caste...
    Wsp 6.225 18 I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply...not into patronage.
    Elo2 8.114 16 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man whom college drill or patronage never made...
    Aris 10.49 19 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...better than any royal patronage;...
    Edc1 10.143 11 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life-Hodson who took prisoner the king of Delhi. They teach the same truth,-a trust...in your own worth, and not in tricks, plotting, or patronage.
    EzRy 10.382 11 ...through a kind providence and the patronage of Dr. Forbes, [Ezra Ripley] entered Harvard University, July, 1772.
    MMEm 10.409 12 ...so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy, the recesses of ancient and modern lore. All say-Forbear to enter the pales of the initiated by birth, wealth, talents and patronage.
    Koss 11.399 21 Far be from [the people of Concord], Sir [Kossuth], any tone of patronage;...
    Bost 12.187 20 Astronomers come [to Paris] because there they can find apparatus and companions. Chemist, geologist, artist, musician, dancer, because there only are grandees and their patronage, appreciators and patrons.

patronize, v. (3)

    Con 1.322 3 Every honest fellow...must patronize Providence and piety...
    PLT 12.31 9 The temptation is to patronize Providence, to fall into the accepted ways of talking and acting of the good sort of people.
    PLT 12.55 13 There is in all students a distrust of truth, a timidity about affirming it; a wish to patronize Providence.

patronizing, adj. (2)

    DL 7.103 8 ...[the nestler's] tiny beseeching weakness is compensated perfectly by the happy patronizing look of the mother...
    MLit 12.325 16 We are provoked with...the patronizing air with which [Goethe] vouchsafes to tolerate the genius and performances of other mortals...

patrons, n. (6)

    UGM 4.4 19 Our religion is the love and cherishing of these patrons [great men].
    ET11 5.190 22 ...often [English nobles] have been the friends and patrons of genius and learning...
    Cour 7.267 3 In every school there are certain fighting boys;...in every town, bravoes and bullies...patrons of the cock-pit and the ring.
    LLNE 10.365 13 It was a curious experience of the patrons and leaders of this noted community [Brook Farm]...that in every instance the newcomers showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
    Bost 12.187 20 Astronomers come [to Paris] because there they can find apparatus and companions. Chemist, geologist, artist, musician, dancer, because there only are grandees and their patronage, appreciators and patrons.
    MAng1 12.223 3 Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo, against the taste and against the admonition of his patrons, to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures...

patronymically, adv. (1)

    ET4 5.57 10 In Norway...the actors are bonders or landholders, every one of whom is named and personally and patronymically described, as the king's friend and companion.

patted, v. (1)

    ET16 5.290 17 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately...

pattering, v. (1)

    LE 1.168 7 ...the fall of swarms of flies...pattering down on the leaves like rain; the angry hiss of the wood-birds;...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].

pattern, adj. (1)

    NMW 4.230 11 The times, [Bonaparte's] constitution and his early circumstances combined to develop this pattern democrat.

pattern, n. (10)

    Mrs1 3.124 18 The rulers of society must be...men of the right Caesarian pattern...
    Wth 6.107 9 The manufacturer says he will furnish you with just that thickness or thinness [of paper] you want; the pattern is quite indifferent to him;...
    Wth 6.107 13 A pound of paper costs so much, and you may have it made up in any pattern you fancy.
    Farm 7.152 17 ...true political economy is...on the pattern of the sun and sky.
    Clbs 7.234 2 One lesson we learn early,--that...men are all of one pattern.
    Edc1 10.149 15 I have seen a carriage-maker's shop emptied of all its workmen into the street, to scrutinize a new pattern from New York.
    Supl 10.168 3 All our manner of life is on a secure and moderate pattern...
    HDC 11.44 12 ...each little company [in the Massachusetts Bay colonies] organized itself after the pattern of the larger town...
    FSLN 11.216 4 We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,/ Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,/ Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,/ Made him our pattern to live and to die!/
    Milt1 12.256 11 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem; a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things...

patterns, n. (4)

    ET8 5.129 25 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained.
    QO 8.187 20 ...if we learn how old are the patterns of our shawls...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    FRep 11.533 16 We import trifles, dancers, singers, laces, books of patterns...
    FRep 11.534 12 [A man's life] is manufactured for him. The tailor makes your dress;...the upholsterer, from an imported book of patterns, your furniture;...

patty, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.287 25 I remember when a venerable divine [Dr. Osgood] called the young preacher's sermon patty cake.

patty-pan, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.61 9 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. The waters, of course, are not very deep. He has...a patty-pan ebullition.

patty-pan, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.364 27 [Brook Farm] was...an Age of Reason in a patty-pan.

paucity, n. (1)

    LE 1.161 12 I console myself...in the paucity of great men...by falling back on these sublime recollections...

Paul, Father [Paulo Sarpi] (1)

    ShP 4.203 17 ...I find among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Paul Sarpi, Arminius...

Paul I, of Russia, n. (1)

    YA 1.376 2 ...a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some matter...

Paul III, Pope, n. (5)

    MAng1 12.225 24 In Rome, Michael Angelo was consulted by Pope Paul III. in building the fortifications of San Borgo.
    MAng1 12.235 6 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work...
    MAng1 12.235 14 Michael Angelo, who...distrusted his capacity as an architect, at first refused [to build St. Peter's] and then reluctantly complied. His heroic stipulation with the Pope was worthy of the man and the work.
    MAng1 12.236 3 When the Pope, delighted with one of his chapels, sent [Michelangelo] one hundred crowns of gold, as one month's wages, Michael sent them back.
    MAng1 12.236 6 When the Pope...sent [Michelangelo] one hundred crowns of gold, as one month's wages, Michael sent them back. The Pope was angry, but the artist was immovable.

Paul IV, Pope, n. (3)

    MAng1 12.234 9 When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves.
    MAng1 12.234 12 When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves.
    MAng1 12.234 22 When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine] chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold, Michael Angelo replied, In those days, gold was not worn; and the characters I have painted were neither rich nor desirous of wealth...

Paul, St., n. (28)

    Nat 1.28 14 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting analogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of, in all discourse, up to the voice of Paul...
    SR 2.67 24 ...see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what...Paul.
    SL 2.159 23 Can a cook, a Chiffinch, an Iachimo be mistaken for Zeno or Paul?
    SL 2.165 3 This over-estimate of the possibilities of Paul and Pericles... comes from a neglect of the fact of an identical nature.
    SL 2.165 12 ...the painter uses the conventional story of the Virgin Mary, of Paul, of Peter.
    Prd1 2.239 1 If they set out to contend, Saint Paul will lie and Saint John will hate.
    OS 2.282 5 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light. The trances of Socrates...the conversion of Paul...are of this kind.
    Pol1 3.199 21 ...society is fluid;...any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement and compel the system to gyrate round it; as...every man of truth, like Plato or Paul, does forever.
    NR 3.244 11 Jesus is not dead; he is very well alive: nor John, nor Paul, nor Mahomet, nor Aristotle;...
    ET1 5.11 10 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul...this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...
    DL 7.116 7 What kind of a house was kept by Paul and John...
    Cour 7.274 10 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Huss, Paul...
    SovE 10.195 27 Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt...never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or Saint Paul.
    SovE 10.196 2 We answer, when they tell us of the bad behavior of Luther or Paul: Well, what if he did?
    SovE 10.201 6 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree.
    SovE 10.201 14 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. ... Let him know by your security that...if he were Paul himself, you also are here, and with your Creator.
    LS 11.13 10 [Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the Jewish converts...and also by the Pagan converts, whose idolatrous worship had been made up of sacred festivals, and who very readily abused these to gross riot, as appears from the censures of St. Paul.
    LS 11.13 20 It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity. The circumstance...that St. Paul adopts these views, has seemed to many persons conclusive in favor of the institution [the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.14 16 ...St. Paul was living in the lifetime of all the apostles who could give him an account of the transaction [the Last Supper];...
    LS 11.15 18 ...this single expectation of a speedy reappearance of a temporal Messiah, which kept its influence even over so spiritual a man as St. Paul, would naturally tend to preserve the use of the rite [the Lord's Supper] when once established.
    LS 11.15 25 ...it does not appear that the opinion of St. Paul...ought to alter our opinion derived from the Evangelists [concerning the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.22 5 ...although for the satisfaction of others I have labored to show by the history that this rite [the Lord's Supper] was not intended to be perpetual; although I have gone back to weigh the expressions of Paul, I feel that here is the true point of view.
    LS 11.22 7 In the midst of considerations as to what Paul thought, and why he so thought, I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to argue to or from his convictions, or those of Luke and John respecting any form.
    LS 11.22 12 That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously;...was to redeem us from a formal religion...
    FSLN 11.234 11 Of course [slave-owners] will not dare to read the Bible? Won's they? They quote the Bible, Quote Paul, quote Christ, to justify slavery.
    CPL 11.501 21 There are utilitarians who prefer that Jesus should have wrought as a carpenter, and Saint Paul as a tent-maker.
    Bost 12.195 1 How needful is David, Paul, Leighton, Fenelon, to our devotion.
    MLit 12.311 18 How can the age be a bad one which gives me Plato and Paul and Plutarch...beside its own riches?

Paulding, Commodore, n. (1)

    JBB 11.271 16 ...the government, the judges...give...such protection as they gave to their own Commodore Paulding, when he was simple enough to mistake the formal instructions of his government for their real meaning.

Paul's, St., Cathedral, Lo (1)

    ET11 5.186 7 [English nobility] survey society as from the top of St. Paul' s...

Paul's, St., n. (3)

    DSA 1.146 12 Once...take secondary knowledge, as St. Paul's...and you get wide from God with every year this secondary form lasts...
    Cir 2.313 17 ...yet was there never a young philosopher whose breeding had fallen into the Christian church by whom that brave text of Paul's was not specially prized...
    LS 11.13 25 Upon this matter of St. Paul's view of the [Lord's] Supper, a few important considerations must be stated.

paunch, n. (1)

    ET9 5.148 1 If one of [the English] have...a paunch...he has persuaded himself that there is something modish and becoming in it...

pauper, n. (10)

    DSA 1.138 21 ...of the bad preacher, it could not be told from his sermon... whether he was a freeholder or a pauper;...
    MR 1.243 1 For privileges so rare and grand, let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] not stint to pay a great tax. Let him be...a pauper...
    Tran 1.355 5 ...the justice which is now claimed for...the pauper...is for Beauty...
    YA 1.390 15 We cannot give our life to the cause...of the pauper, as another is doing;...
    Mrs1 3.154 1 Are you...rich enough to make...the lame pauper hunted by overseers from town to town...feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    MoS 4.173 1 It turns out that [the wise skeptic] is not the champion of the operative, the pauper, the prisoner, the slave.
    ET5 5.97 16 The pauper [in England] lives better than the free laborer...
    ET5 5.97 18 The pauper [in England] lives better than the free laborer, the thief better than the pauper...
    WD 7.168 6 ...if [Czar Alexander] had the earth for his pasture and the sea for his pond, he would be a pauper still.
    Carl 10.497 22 ...[Carlyle] has stood for the people, for the Chartist, for the pauper...

pauperism, n. (4)

    YA 1.374 16 ...it turns out that our charity increases pauperism.
    YA 1.392 26 Would [our youths and maidens] like...a pauperism now constituting one thirteenth of the population?
    ET1 5.17 17 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...
    ET18 5.300 15 Pauperism incrusts and clogs the [English] state...

paupers, n. (3)

    Art1 2.365 27 ...a ball-room makes us feel that we are all paupers in the almshouse of this world...
    CbW 6.248 13 What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves and triflers of both sexes might be advantageously spared!
    Trag 12.411 12 The most exposed classes, soldiers, sailors, paupers, are nowise destitute of animal spirits.

pauper-societies, n. (1)

    SL 2.136 4 Our Sunday-schools and churches and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck.

Pausanias, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.79 12 [The Grecian States] did not send to Lacedaemon for troops, but they said, Send us a commander; and Pausanias, or Gylippus...was despatched by the Ephors.

pause, n. (13)

    Con 1.297 19 Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.
    Cir 2.319 1 ...there is no sleep, no pause, no preservation...
    Chr1 3.113 8 ...if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause;...now pause, now possession is required...
    NER 3.273 13 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say...displayed his plan with such an astonishing and animating force of eloquence and enthusiasm that they...after some pause, rose up all together with earnestness, exclaiming, Let us set out with him immediately.
    ET1 5.12 18 I took advantage of a pause to say that [Coleridge] had many readers of all religious opinions in America...
    ET17 5.295 23 I said, if Plato's Republic were published in England as a new book to-day, do you think it would find any readers?--[Wordsworth] confessed it would not: and yet, he added after a pause...and yet we have embodied it all.
    Wsp 6.218 14 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius...
    Elo1 7.94 11 ...a pause in the speaker's own character is very properly a loss of attraction.
    SA 8.86 5 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals. It has the effect to...introduce a moment of reflection. After the pause, all resume their usual intercourse from a vantage-ground.
    Insp 8.287 24 Did you never observe, says Gray, while rocking winds are piping loud, that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself...
    MMEm 10.417 6 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man...whom she respected. The proposal gave her pause and much to think...
    FSLN 11.227 23 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a totally different course from Mr. Webster. If any man had in that hour possessed the weight with the country which he had acquired, he could have brought the whole country to its senses. But not a moment's pause was allowed.
    CPL 11.507 27 In saying these things for books, I do not for a moment forget that they are...only used in the off-hours, only in the pause, and, as it were, the sleep, or passive state of the mind.

pause, v. (9)

    Chr1 3.113 7 ...if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause;...
    NER 3.256 12 This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think...
    ShP 4.214 23 ...the speeches in [Shakespeare's] plays, and single lines, have a beauty which tempts the ear to pause on them for their euphuism...
    ET3 5.37 26 The innumerable details [in England]...all these catching the eye and never allowing it to pause, hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET11 5.192 13 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the splendor of the titles, and the apathy of the nation; are instructive, and make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    DL 7.117 27 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains...to be...a hall...whose inmates...do not ask your house how theirs should be kept. They have aims; they cannot pause for trifles.
    PI 8.15 13 ...the thoughts of God pause but for a moment in any form.
    SHC 11.428 7 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o' er the heart in this calm place/...
    Shak1 11.449 20 ...we pause expectant before the genius of Shakspeare- as if his biography were not yet written;...

paused, v. (4)

    PPh 4.58 27 One would say [Plato] had read the inscription on the gates of Busyrane,--Be bold; and on the second gate,--Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold; and then again had paused well at the third gate,--Be not too bold.
    DL 7.101 3 I reached the middle of the mount/ Up which the incarnate soul must climb,/ And paused for them, and looked around,/ With me who walked through space and time./
    Boks 7.210 10 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side...
    Boks 7.210 19 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford]. There ended the strife [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio]. Ere Evans let the hammer fall, he paused;...

pauses, n. (1)

    ACri 12.290 15 The silences, pauses, of an orator are as telling as his words.

pauses, v. (2)

    Schr 10.280 13 When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular function...the advance of his character and genius pauses;...
    MLit 12.326 27 [Goethe] has an eye constant to the fact of life and that never pauses in its advance.

pausing, v. (2)

    PI 8.72 9 The habit of saliency, or not pausing but going on, is a sort of importation or domestication of the Divine effort in a man.
    PLT 12.59 15 The habit...of not pausing but proceeding, is a sort of importation and domestication of the divine effort into a man.

pauxillis, adj. (2)

    SwM 4.113 18 Ossa videlicet e pauxillis atque minutis/ Ossibus sic et de pauxillis atque minutis/ Visceribus viscus gigni, sanguenque creari/ Sanguinis inter se multis coeuntibus guttis;/...
    SwM 4.113 19 Ossa videlicet e pauxillis atque minutis/ Ossibus sic et de pauxillis atque minutis/ Visceribus viscus gigni, sanguenque creari/ Sanguinis inter se multis coeuntibus guttis;/...

pave, v. (2)

    Wth 6.83 23 What oldest star the fame can save/ Of races perishing to pave/ The planet with a floor of lime?/
    PPo 8.260 18 They strew in the path of kings and czars/ Jewels and gems of price:/ But for thy head I will pluck down stars,/ And pave thy way with eyes./

paved, adj. (1)

    Art1 2.349 5 ...On the city's paved street/ Plant gardens lined with lilac sweet/...

paved, v. (3)

    Con 1.317 12 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...your roads are well cut and well paved;...
    ET3 5.39 5 The land [in England] naturally abounds with game; immense heaths and downs are paved with quails, grouse and woodcock...
    F 6.8 7 ...the forms of the shark...the jaw of the sea-wolf paved with crushing teeth...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.

pavement, n. (2)

    F 6.43 7 History is the action and reaction of these two,-Nature and Thought; two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement.
    PPo 8.241 11 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built...a palace, of which the floor or pavement was of glass...

pavements, n. (1)

    Grts 8.319 26 The good botanist will find flowers between the street pavements...

paves, v. (1)

    Nat 1.13 23 To diminish friction, [man] paves the road with iron bars...

pavilion, n. (2)

    ET16 5.285 9 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...came down into the Italian garden and into a French pavilion garnished with French busts;...
    Suc 7.298 16 [The city boy in the October woods] is the king he dreamed he was; he walks...through bowers of crimson, porphyry and topaz, pavilion on pavilion...

pavilions, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.192 16 I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds floating feathery overhead...whilst yet they appeared not so much the drapery of this place and hour, as forelooking to some pavilions and gardens of festivity beyond.

paving, v. (1)

    LT 1.275 5 ...[the spirit of Reform] goes up and down, paving the earth with eyes...

pawing, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.165 19 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.

pawn, n. (1)

    ET11 5.193 2 Dismal anecdotes abound...of [English] dukes served by bailiffs, with all their plate in pawn;...

Pawnee Indian, n. (2)

    Pow 6.68 17 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood]...had rather die by the hatchet of a Pawnee than sit all day and every day at a counting-room desk.
    SA 8.105 26 ...civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?

pawns, n. (1)

    Comp 2.110 26 Treat men as pawns and ninepins and you shall suffer as well as they.

paws, n. (1)

    Cour 7.279 8 I say unarmed [the hunter] stood./ Against those frightful paws/ The rifle butt, or club of wood,/ Could stand no more than straws./

Paxton, John, n. (1)

    ET10 5.163 20 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the taste of foreign and domestic artists, Shenstone, Pope, Brown, Loudon, Paxton,--are in the vast auction [in England]...

pay, n. (9)

    ET2 5.30 25 Jack [Tar] has a life of risks, incessant abuse and the worst pay.
    ET2 5.31 1 Jack [Tar] has a life of risks, incessant abuse and the worst pay. It is a little better with the mate, and not very much better with the captain. A hundred dollars a month is reckoned high pay.
    ET11 5.192 2 ...the English Channel was swept and London threatened by the Dutch fleet, manned too by English sailors, who, having been cheated of their pay for years by the king, enlisted with the enemy.
    ET15 5.263 6 [Writing for English journals] comes of the crowded state of the professions, the violent interest which all men take in politics, the facility of experimenting in the journals, and high pay.
    ET15 5.266 20 [The London Times's] private information...recalls the stories of Fouche's police, whose omniscience made it believed that the Empress Josephine must be in his pay.
    CbW 6.252 26 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil.
    CbW 6.276 14 When I asked an ironmaster about the slag and cinder in railroad iron,--O, he said, there's always good iron to be had: if there's cinder in the iron it is because there was cinder in the pay.
    HDC 11.80 24 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the town, and if it should be that the General Court should resolve, that, their pay should be more than 6s., then the representative shall be hereby directed to pay the overplus into the town treasury.
    War 11.158 8 Only in Elizabeth's time, out of the European waters, piracy was all but universal. The proverb was,-No peace beyond the line; and the seaman shipped on the buccaneer's bargain, No prey, no pay.

pay, v. (141)

    LE 1.164 22 ...we must pay our vows to the highest power...
    LE 1.182 1 Let [the scholar] pay his tithe and serve the world as a true and noble man;...
    MR 1.242 27 For privileges so rare and grand, let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] not stint to pay a great tax.
    LT 1.284 8 ...we must pay for being too intellectual, as they call it.
    Con 1.308 12 To that fidelity and labor I pay homage.
    Con 1.322 8 What a compliment we pay to the good SPIRIT with our superserviceable zeal!
    Con 1.325 20 To the intemperate and covetous person...mankind would pay no rent, no dividend, if force were once relaxed;...
    Tran 1.346 24 ...[youths] pay you only this one compliment, of insatiable expectation;...
    YA 1.382 7 Here are Etzlers...who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would make every man rich;-and, on the other side, a multitude of poor men and women seeking work, and who cannot find enough to pay their board.
    YA 1.385 1 How gladly would each citizen pay a commission for the support and continuation of good guidance.
    YA 1.385 27 It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services...
    YA 1.386 1 It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect...
    Hist 2.17 8 ...common souls pay with what they do, nobler souls with that which they are.
    SR 2.52 26 Men do what is called a good action...much as they would pay a fine...
    SR 2.53 3 [Men's] works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world,-as invalids and the insane pay a high board.
    SR 2.53 14 I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right.
    SR 2.60 4 We love [honor] and pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage...
    SR 2.63 17 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to...pay for benefits not with money but with honor...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    Comp 2.109 18 What will you have? quoth God; pay for it and take it.
    Comp 2.112 15 Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along...
    Comp 2.113 4 [The borrower] may soon come to see...that the highest price he can pay for a thing is to ask for it.
    Comp 2.113 8 A wise man will...know that it is the part of prudence to... pay every just demand on your time, your talents, or your heart.
    Comp 2.113 10 Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.
    Comp 2.113 13 You must pay at last your own debt.
    Comp 2.113 27 Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.
    Comp 2.114 5 It is best to pay in your land a skilful gardener...
    Comp 2.120 20 The thoughtless say...What boots it to do well?...if I gain any good I must pay for it;...
    SL 2.154 20 There are not in the world at any time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato,--never enough to pay for an edition of his works;...
    SL 2.164 21 I can think of nothing to fill my time with, and I find the Life of Brant. It is a very extravagant compliment to pay to Brant...
    OS 2.292 12 Deal so plainly with man and woman as to...destroy all hope of trifling with you. It is the highest compliment you can pay.
    Cir 2.316 8 ...that second man...asks himself Which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor?...
    Exp 3.48 17 [Grief], like all the rest...never introduces me into the reality, for contact with which we would even pay the costly price of sons and lovers.
    Chr1 3.112 7 Could we not pay our friend the compliment of truth, of silence, of forbearing?
    Chr1 3.115 28 ...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it is to own it.
    Gts 3.159 3 It is said...that the world owes the world more than the world can pay...
    Gts 3.159 10 ...it is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
    Pol1 3.215 17 Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes.
    Pol1 3.220 19 We...pay unwilling tribute to governments founded on force.
    NER 3.256 16 ...I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person whom I pay with money;...
    NER 3.257 5 I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.
    UGM 4.13 23 If you affect to give me bread and fire, I perceive that I pay for it the full price...
    UGM 4.15 10 Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day...
    PNR 4.84 17 ...the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay [affirms Plato], is, to be governed by a worse man;...
    GoW 4.266 27 ...a headiness and loss of balance, is the tax which all action must pay.
    ET1 5.10 9 From London...I went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge, requesting leave to pay my respects to him.
    ET1 5.19 4 On the 28th August [1833] I went to Rydal Mount, to pay my respects to Mr. Wordsworth.
    ET2 5.30 10 Such discomfort and such danger as the narratives of the captain and mate disclose are bad enough as the costly fee we pay for entrance to Europe;...
    ET5 5.82 7 In politics [the English] put blunt questions, which must be answered; Who is to pay the taxes?
    ET5 5.95 14 Chat Moss and the fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire are unhealthy and too barren to pay rent.
    ET5 5.97 27 Solvency is maintained [in England] by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
    ET9 5.145 22 ...when [the Englishman] wishes to pay you the highest compliment, he says, I should not know you from an Englishman.
    ET10 5.155 14 To pay their debts is [the Englishmen's] national point of honor.
    ET10 5.155 19 The British armies are solvent and pay for what they take.
    ET10 5.156 13 If [the English] cannot pay, they do not buy;...
    ET11 5.195 23 In the university, the [English] noblemen are exempted from the public exercises for the degree...by which they attain a degree called honorary. At the same time, the fees they have to pay for matriculation, and on all other occasions, are much higher.
    ET13 5.227 25 ...you must pay for conformity.
    ET14 5.254 12 No hope, no sublime augury cheers the [English] student... but only a casual dipping here and there, like diggers in California prospecting for a placer that will pay.
    ET16 5.286 16 We [Emerson and Carlyle] passed in the train Clarendon Park, but could see little but the edge of a wood, though Carlyle had wished to pay closer attention to the birthplace of the Decrees of Clarendon.
    ET17 5.296 20 ...in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare; if they wanted anything more, they must pay him for their board.
    Wth 6.90 18 ...no system of clientship suits [the Saxons]; but every man must pay his scot.
    Wth 6.110 16 [Immigrants] go into the poor-rates, and though we refuse wages, we must now pay the same amount in the form of taxes.
    Wth 6.110 21 ...the standing army of preventive police we must pay.
    Wth 6.110 24 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute. But the gross amount of these costs will begin to pay back what we thought was a net gain from our transatlantic customers of 1800.
    Wth 6.111 5 ...we have to pay, not what would have contented [the immigrants] at home, but what they have learned to think necessary here;...
    Wth 6.119 7 In autumn a farmer could sell an ox or a hog and get a little money to pay taxes withal.
    Wth 6.125 16 ...Best use of money is to pay debts;...
    Ctr 6.137 25 'T is a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
    Wsp 6.212 3 ...they who pay this homage [to the public sinner] have said to themselves, On the whole, we don't know about this that you call honesty;...
    CbW 6.247 19 Now we reckon [days]...by some debt which is to be paid us or which we are to pay...
    CbW 6.251 7 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...if he do not violently decline the duties that fall to him, this amount of helpfulness will in one way or another be brought home to him. This is the tax which his abilities pay.
    CbW 6.262 22 ...when you pay for your ticket and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.
    Ill 6.321 5 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition...broken glass to pay for...
    Ill 6.323 1 Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds.
    SS 7.4 16 The most agreeable compliment you could pay [my new friend] was to imply that you had not observed him in a house or a street where you had met him.
    Civ 7.31 10 Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots?--he got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much.
    Civ 7.31 13 Tobacco and opium...will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
    Elo1 7.80 6 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons. His clients pay not so much for legal as for manly accomplishments...
    DL 7.113 13 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find no invitation to what is good in us, and no receptacle for what is wise:--this is a great price to pay for sweet bread and warm lodging...
    DL 7.115 5 [To give money to a sufferer] is only...a credit system in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation.
    Farm 7.150 10 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know, and have found...that Massachusetts has a basement story...that promises to pay a better rent than all the superstructure.
    Clbs 7.241 13 We consider those...who think it the highest compliment they can pay a man to deal with him as an intellect...
    Cour 7.272 9 The troop of Virginian infantry that had marched to guard the prison of John Brown ask leave to pay their respects to the prisoner.
    OA 7.326 16 All the good days behind [a man] are sponsors, who...pay for him when he has no money...
    SA 8.84 21 Every innocent man has in his countenance a promise to pay...
    Elo2 8.118 9 ...the great and daily growing interests at stake in this country must pay proportional prices to their spokesmen and defenders.
    QO 8.183 14 Thirty years ago...you might often hear cited as Mr. Webster' s three rules...thirdly, never to pay any debt to-day.
    PC 8.226 24 There is anything but humiliation in the homage men pay to a great man;...
    PPo 8.246 2 The world is a bride superbly dressed;-/ Who weds her for dowry must pay his soul./
    PPo 8.263 18 Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical tale, in which the birds...resolve on a pilgrimage...to pay their homage to the Simorg.
    Insp 8.270 12 They...cut off [the aboriginal man's] tail, set him on end, sent him to school and made him pay taxes, before he could begin to write his sad story...
    Aris 10.47 23 Whoever wants more power than is the legitimate attraction of his faculty, is a politician, and must pay for that excess;...
    Aris 10.51 8 The expectation and claims of mankind indicate the duties of this class [public respresentatives]. Some service they must pay.
    Aris 10.51 11 We do not expect [public representatives] to be saints, and it is very pleasing to see the instinct of mankind on this matter,-how much they will forgive to such as pay substantial service and work energetically after their kind;...
    Aris 10.63 1 Pay [money], and you may play the tyrant at discretion...
    PerF 10.80 11 There was a story in the journals of a poor prisoner in a Western police-court who was told he might be released if he would pay his fine.
    PerF 10.85 9 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will pay best...
    Chr2 10.100 24 Men are forced by their own self-respect to give [some souls] a certain attention. Evil men shrink and pay involuntary homage by hiding or apologizing for their action.
    Chr2 10.103 19 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests...are the homage we render to this sentiment, as compared with the lower regard we pay to other thoughts...
    Edc1 10.128 21 ...here [in the household] the secrets of character are told... the compensations which, like angels of justice, pay every debt...
    SovE 10.206 8 Superstitious persons we see with respect, because...they walk attended by pictures of the imagination, to which they pay homage.
    Prch 10.231 25 ...it is impossible to pay no regard to the day's events...
    Schr 10.271 17 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that genius and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread...
    EzRy 10.381 22 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...and to have him labor during the time sufficiently to pay for his instruction, clothing and books.
    MMEm 10.420 4 'T is only now that I [Mary Moody Emerson] would not let--pay my hotel-bill.
    SlHr 10.440 17 When I talked with [Samuel Hoar] one day of some inequality of taxes in the town, he said it was his practice to pay whatever was demanded;...
    Thor 10.454 9 ...[Thoreau] refused to pay a tax to the State;...
    Thor 10.458 9 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail.
    Carl 10.492 22 [Carlyle says] St. John was insulted by the Dutch; he came home, got the law passed that foreign vessels should pay high fees, and it cut the throat of the Dutch, and made the English trade.
    GSt 10.499 5 Who, when great trials come,/ Nor seeks nor shunnes them; but doth calmly stay/ Till he the thing and the example weigh:/ All being brought into a summe/ What place or person calls for he doth pay./ George Herbert.
    LS 11.18 4 ...I believe...that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.
    LS 11.20 4 I will...not pay [Jesus] a stiff sign of respect, as men do those whom they fear.
    HDC 11.41 12 ...in the first years [of Concord], the land would not pay the necessary public charges...
    HDC 11.65 15 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June;...for which service, the town is to pay Captain Minott ten pounds.
    HDC 11.80 15 [The country towns] were jealous lest the General Court should pay itself too liberally...
    HDC 11.80 25 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the town, and if it should be that the General Court should resolve, that, their pay should be more than 6s., then the representative shall be hereby directed to pay the overplus into the town treasury.
    EWI 11.101 20 ...the oldest planters of Jamaica are convinced that it is cheaper to pay wages than to own the slave.
    EWI 11.118 9 We sometimes say...give [the planter] a machine that will yield him as much money as the slaves, and he will thankfully let them go. He has no love of slavery, but he wants luxury, and he will pay even this price of crime and danger for it.
    EWI 11.130 11 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port, with the stringent addition, that if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens are to be sold for slaves, to pay that expense.
    EWI 11.130 13 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port, with the stringent addition, that if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens are to be sold for slaves, to pay that expense.
    AKan 11.257 9 I know people who are making haste to reduce their expenses and pay their debts...in preparation to save and earn for the benefit of the Kansas emigrants.
    ACiv 11.302 2 ...by the dislike of people to pay out a direct tax, governments are forced to render life costly by making them pay twice as much, hidden in the price of tea and sugar.
    ACiv 11.302 4 ...by the dislike of people to pay out a direct tax, governments are forced to render life costly by making them pay twice as much, hidden in the price of tea and sugar.
    ACiv 11.305 18 Congress can...abolish slavery, and pay for such slaves as we ought to pay for.
    ACiv 11.305 19 Congress can...abolish slavery, and pay for such slaves as we ought to pay for.
    ACiv 11.307 16 Now, [the Southern people's] interest is in keeping out white labor; then [after Emancipation], when they must pay wages, their interest will be to let it in...
    ACiv 11.309 21 We want a state of things in which crime shall not pay.
    EPro 11.314 5 Pay ransom to the owner/ And fill the bag to the brim./ Who is the owner? The slave is the owner,/ And ever was. Pay him./
    EPro 11.314 8 Pay ransom to the owner/ And fill the bag to the brim./ Who is the owner? The slave is the owner,/ And ever was. Pay him./
    SMC 11.360 8 [The Civil War soldiers] have notes to pay at home;...
    SMC 11.375 1 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay.
    FRep 11.523 18 ...[the people] must pay their debts...
    FRep 11.526 12 ...here is the human race poured out over the continent to do itself justice;...unmistakably taking off its coat to hard work, when labor is sure to pay.
    FRep 11.540 9 We shall not make coups d'etat and afterwards explain and pay...
    FRep 11.541 2 We want a state of things in which crime will not pay;...
    PLT 12.36 18 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such homage did the Greek... pay to unscrutable force we call Instinct...
    II 12.86 13 ...the artist must pay for his learning and doing with his life.
    MLit 12.328 12 ...that we may not...pay a great man so ill a compliment as to praise him only in the conventional and comparative speech, let us honestly record our thought upon the total worth and influence of this genius [Goethe].
    AgMs 12.360 23 ...this [Agricultural Survey] was written for the literary men. But in that case, the state should not be taxed to pay for it.
    AgMs 12.363 18 These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation, and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very uninviting and inconspicuous to State Commissioners. So with these premiums to farms, and premiums at cattle-shows. The class that I describe must pay the premium which is awarded to the rich.
    EurB 12.376 22 ...a probity, a justice was to be [the society in Wilhelm Meister's] element, symbolized by the insisting that each property...should pay its full tax to the state.
    Let 12.397 23 Whilst [a man] dwells in the old sin, he will pay the old fine.

pay-day, n. (1)

    Wth 6.110 3 ...the Americans grew rich and great. But the pay-day comes round.

paying, v. (14)

    YA 1.383 12 ...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs, that of paying talent and labor at one rate...
    YA 1.383 13 ...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs, that of...paying all sorts of service at one rate...
    Cir 2.316 3 One man thinks justice consists in paying debts...
    Exp 3.68 17 The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely...one gets the cheer of their light without paying too great a tax.
    ET13 5.226 7 If in any manner [the wise legislator] can leave the election and paying of the priest to the people, he will do well.
    Dem1 10.20 15 The history of man is a series of conspiracies to win from Nature some advantage without paying for it.
    Dem1 10.25 20 ...in the Universe no man was ever known to get a cent's worth without paying in some form or other the cent...
    Aris 10.63 1 In America [the gentleman] shall find...the narrowest contraction of ethics to the one duty of paying money.
    LLNE 10.359 23 Many members [of Brook Farm] took shares by paying money...
    HDC 11.75 25 [the minute-men] supposed they had a right to their corn and their cattle, without paying tribute to any but their own governors.
    HDC 11.78 17 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither;...
    HDC 11.79 14 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will...fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns. On that occasion, Concord furnished 67 men, paying them itself...
    AKan 11.259 22 ...Union is a conspiracy against the Northern States which the Northern States are to have the privilege of paying for;...
    CInt 12.121 1 Need enough there is of such a band of priests of intellect and knowledge; and great is the office, and well deserving and well paying the last sacrifices and the highest ability.

payment, n. (10)

    Comp 2.119 10 The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you;...
    Cir 2.316 17 For me...love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can i...concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.
    Cir 2.316 21 If a man should dedicate himself to the payment of notes, would not this be injustice?
    Mrs1 3.142 8 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment.
    Gts 3.161 27 This is...a false state of property, to make presents of gold and silver stuffs, as a kind of symbolical sin-offering, or payment of blackmail.
    Wth 6.110 27 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute. But the gross amount of these costs will begin to pay back what we thought was a net gain from our transatlantic customers of 1800. It is vain to refuse this payment.
    DL 7.115 3 [To give money to a sufferer] is only a postponement of the real payment...
    SA 8.85 4 ...Do not go to ask your debtor the payment of a debt on the day when you have no other resource.
    Mem 12.96 17 In the minds of most men memory is nothing but a farm-book or a pocket-diary. On such a day I paid my note;...on the next the banks suspended payment.
    CL 12.147 13 Evelyn quotes Lord Caernarvon's saying, Wood is an excrescence of the earth provided by God for the payment of debts.

pays, n. (1)

    ET8 5.128 18 [The English] sported sadly; ils s'amusaient tristement, selon la coutume de leur pays, said Froissart;...

pays, v. (16)

    Comp 2.112 16 ...a man often pays dear for a small frugality.
    Mrs1 3.136 14 Wherever [Montaigne] goes he pays a visit to whatever prince or gentleman of note resides upon his road...
    Pol1 3.202 13 Laban, who has flocks and herds, wishes them looked after by an officer on the frontiers...and pays a tax to that end.
    Pol1 3.202 15 Jacob has no flocks or herds, and no fear of the Midianites, and pays no tax to the officer.
    NER 3.281 15 ...[lovers of truth] know...what a price of greatness the power of expression too often pays.
    UGM 4.16 10 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence. This honor...genius perpetually pays;...
    ET10 5.156 5 The Crystal Palace is not considered honest until it pays;...
    F 6.35 12 ...a defect pays [a man] revenues on the other side.
    Wth 6.84 19 ...though light-headed man forget,/ Remembering Matter pays her debt/...
    Wth 6.85 11 [A man] fails to make his place good in the world unless he not only pays his debt but also adds something to the common wealth.
    Wth 6.109 5 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel, and believes he must somehow have outwitted Dr. Franklin and Malthus, for luxuries are cheap. But he pays for the one convenience of a better dinner, by the loss of some of the richest social and educational advantages.
    Ctr 6.138 16 Your man of genius pays dear for his distinction.
    Ctr 6.155 16 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that...pays off the mortgage on the paternal farm...
    Ill 6.312 18 [The dreariest alderman] pays a debt quicker to a rich man than to a poor man.
    Aris 10.45 21 The blood royal never pays, we say.
    AsSu 11.251 3 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be true in Sumner's case, as it was true...of every first-rate speaker that ever lived. It is the high compliment he pays to the intelligence of the Senate and of the country.

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