People to Peremtory
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
people, adj. (1)
HDC 11.29 3 ...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.
People, Chosen, n. (1)
MMEm 10.423 8 [War] was the glory of the Chosen People,
nay, it is said
there was war in Heaven.
People, English, Defence... (2)
Milt1 12.248 21 [Milton's] prose writings, especially
the Defence of the
English People, seem to have been read with avidity.
Milt1 12.250 1 The Defence of the People of England, on
which [Milton's] contemporary fame was founded, is...the worst of his
works.
people, n. (746)
AmS 1.81 11 ...our holiday has been simply a friendly
sign of the survival
of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any
more.
AmS 1.103 26 ...the deeper [the orator] dives into his
privatest, secretest
presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most...universally
true. The
people delight in it;...
DSA 1.138 16 The true preacher can be known by this,
that he deals out to
the people his life...
DSA 1.138 23 It seemed strange that the people should
come to church.
DSA 1.139 24 The prayers and even the dogmas of our
church are...wholly
insulated from anything now extant in the life and business of the
people.
DSA 1.140 14 Would [the poor preacher] urge people to a
godly way of
living;...
LE 1.170 22 The moment a man of genius pronounces the
name...of the
Roman people, we see their state under a new aspect.
MN 1.191 6 Where there is no vision, the people perish.
MR 1.246 7 Society is full of infirm people...
MR 1.252 23 We do not greet [the laborers']
talents...nor in the assembly
of the people vote for what is dear to them.
MR 1.253 9 We complain that the politics of masses of
the people are
controlled by designing men...
MR 1.253 12 ...the people do not wish to be represented
or ruled by the
ignorant and base.
LT 1.260 2 Everything that is popular...deserves the
attention of the
philosopher, and this for the obvious reason, that...it characterizes
the
people.
LT 1.261 21 If you speak of the age, you mean your own
platoon of
people...
LT 1.263 16 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of
order here in
Boston, who supposed that our people were identified with their
religious
denominations, by declaring that an eloquent man...would be ordained at
once in one of our metropolitan churches.
LT 1.265 2 ...let us set up our Camera also, and let
the sun paint the people.
LT 1.269 18 ...[modern reform movements] educate the
conscience and the
intellect of the people.
LT 1.270 24 ...each of these aspirations and attempts
of the people for the
Better is magnified by the natural exaggeration of its advocates...
LT 1.281 1 The exaggeration which our young people make
of [the slave's] wrongs, characterizes themselves.
LT 1.284 9 ...we must pay for being too intellectual,
as they call it. People
are not as light-hearted for it.
LT 1.290 3 ...I read [the Moral Sentiment] in the pride
and in the humility
of people;...
Con 1.320 18 ...the people have the power...
Tran 1.347 9 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 1.363 1 ...our people have their intellectual
culture from one country
and their duties from another.
YA 1.364 11 An unlooked-for consequence of the railroad
is the increased
acquaintance it has given the American people with the boundless
resources
of their own soil.
YA 1.364 14 ...this invention [the railroad] has
reduced England to a third
of its size, by bringing people so much nearer...
YA 1.367 2 ...with cheap land, and the pacific
disposition of the people, everything invites to the arts of
agriculture...
YA 1.369 22 The vast majority of the people of this
country live by the
land...
YA 1.370 5 How much better when the whole land is a
garden, and the
people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
YA 1.376 24 ...this club of noblemen...combine to brave
the sovereign, and
call in the aid of the people.
YA 1.377 21 ...as they say of dying people, all
[Feudalism's] faults came
out.
YA 1.380 8 ...the swelling cry of voices for the
education of the people
indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and
executioner.
YA 1.385 4 ...many people have a native skill for
carving out business for
many hands;...
YA 1.388 1 The people, and the world, are now suffering
from the want of
religion and honor in its public mind.
YA 1.390 25 ...the terror of old people and of vicious
people is lest the
Union of these states be destroyed;...
YA 1.393 7 The English, the most conservative people
this side of India, are not sensible of the restraint [of
aristocracy]...
Hist 2.14 18 We have the civil history of [the Greek]
people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given
it;...
Hist 2.15 9 ...of the genius of one remarkable people
we have a fourfold
representation...
Hist 2.19 15 By surrounding ourselves with the original
circumstances we
invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture, as we see how
each people merely decorated its primitive abodes.
Hist 2.27 26 Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual
people.
SR 2.49 2 ...looking out from his corner on such people
and facts as pass
by, [the boy] tries and sentences them on their merits...
SR 2.53 21 What I must do is all that concerns me, not
what the people
think.
SR 2.56 17 ...when to [the cultivated classes']
feminine rage the indignation
of the people is added...it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion
to
treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
SR 2.65 13 Thoughtless people contradict as readily the
statement of
perceptions as of opinions...
SR 2.72 23 Live no longer to the expectation of these
deceived and
deceiving people with whom we converse.
SR 2.83 1 ...if the American artist will study...the
precise thing to be done
by him, considering...the wants of the people...he will create a house
in
which [beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves
fitted...
Comp 2.93 4 ...it seemed to me when very young that on
this subject [Compensation]...the people knew more than the preachers
taught.
SL 2.132 10 Our young people are diseased with the
theological problems
of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like.
SL 2.133 14 People represent virtue as a struggle...
SL 2.136 21 Do not shut up the young people against
their will in a pew...
SL 2.147 19 People are not the better for the sun and
moon, the horizon and
the trees;...
SL 2.153 25 ...when the empty book has gathered all its
praise, and half the
people say, What poetry! what genius! it still needs fuel to make fire.
SL 2.166 7 Let the great soul incarnated in some
woman's form...sweep
chambers and scour floors, and...all people will get mops and
brooms;...
Fdsp 2.199 15 Almost all people descend to meet.
Prd1 2.221 10 ...I...hate...people without perception.
Prd1 2.239 3 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical
people an argument on
religion will make of the pure and chosen souls!
Prd1 2.240 3 We refuse sympathy and intimacy with
people, as if we
waited for some better sympathy and intimacy to come.
Hsm1 2.260 11 ...we have the weakness to expect the
sympathy of people
in those actions whose excellence is that they outrun sympathy...
Hsm1 2.260 16 If you would serve your brother, because
it is fit for you to
serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent
people
do not commend you.
OS 2.278 9 We owe many valuable observations to people
who are not very
acute or profound...
OS 2.279 19 Foolish people ask you, when you have
spoken what they do
not wish to hear, How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your
own?
Cir 2.320 5 People wish to be settled;...
Cir 2.321 13 People say sometimes, See what I have
overcome;...
Art1 2.364 6 [Sculpture] was originally a useful
art...and among a people
possessed of a wonderful perception of form this childish carving was
refined to the utmost splendor of effect.
Art1 2.364 9 ...[sculpture] is the game of a rude and
youthful people...
Pt1 3.16 27 The people fancy they hate poetry...
Pt1 3.37 22 ...Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and
dull to dull people...
Pt1 3.39 6 [Artists] found or put themselves in certain
conditions, as...the
orator into the assembly of the people...and each presently feels the
new
desire.
Exp 3.46 5 We are like millers on the lower levels of a
stream, when the
factories above them have exhausted the water. We too fancy that the
upper
people must have raised their dams.
Exp 3.48 8 People grieve and bemoan themselves, but it
is not half so bad
with them as they say.
Exp 3.58 12 Our young people have thought and written
much on labor and
reform...
Exp 3.59 18 [Life's] chief good is for well-mixed
people who can enjoy
what they find, without question.
Exp 3.61 17 The fine young people despise life...
Exp 3.67 22 It is ridiculous that we are diplomatists,
and doctors, and
considerate people;...
Exp 3.68 14 The most attractive class of people are
those who are powerful
obliquely...
Exp 3.76 18 People forget that it is the eye which
makes the horizon...
Exp 3.76 23 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which
makes this or that man
a type or representative of humanity, with the name of hero or saint.
Jesus... is a good man on whom many people are agreed that these
optical laws
shall take effect.
Exp 3.82 9 A preoccupied attention is the only answer
to the importunate
frivolity of other people;...
Exp 3.84 15 People disparage knowing and the
intellectual life...
Chr1 3.91 8 The people know that they need in their
representative much
more than talent, namely the power to make his talent trusted.
Chr1 3.91 13 [The people] cannot come at their ends by
sending to
Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be not one who,
before
he was appointed by the people to represent them, was appointed by
Almighty God to stand for a fact...
Chr1 3.103 13 People always recognize this difference.
We know who is
benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscription to
soup-societies.
Mrs1 3.119 18 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to
whom we owe this
account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres...
Mrs1 3.125 25 ...if the man of the people cannot speak
on equal terms with
the gentleman...he is not to be feared.
Mrs1 3.129 14 ...if the people should destroy class
after class, until two
men only were left, one of these would be the leader and would be
involuntarily served and copied by the other.
Mrs1 3.135 11 ...by luxuries and ornaments we amuse the
young people...
Mrs1 3.137 26 Must we have a good understanding with
one another's
palates? as foolish people who have lived long together know when each
wants salt or sugar.
Mrs1 3.139 26 [Society]...hates quarrelsome,
egotistical, solitary and
gloomy people;...
Gts 3.164 25 ...rectitude...receives with wonder the
thanks of all people.
Nat2 3.178 13 It is when...the house is filled with
grooms and gazers, that
we turn from the people to find relief in the majestic men that are
suggested
by the pictures and the architecture.
Nat2 3.188 7 Each prophet comes presently...to esteem
his hat and shoes
sacred. However this may discredit such persons with the judicious, it
helps
them with the people...
Pol1 3.200 5 Republics abound in young civilians who
believe...that any
measure, though it were absurd, may be imposed on a people if only you
can get sufficient voices to make it a law.
Pol1 3.207 13 In this country we are very vain of our
political institutions, which are singular in this, that they sprung,
within the memory of living
men, from the character and condition of the people...
Pol1 3.213 16 The wise man [the community] cannot find
in nature, and it
makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by
contrivance; as by causing the entire people to give their voices on
every
measure;...
NR 3.228 9 Young people admire talents or particular
excellences;...
NR 3.231 1 In any controversy concerning morals, an
appeal may be made
with safety to the sentiments which the language of the people
expresses.
NER 3.268 7 We believe that the defects of so many
perverse and so many
frivolous people who make up society, are organic...
NER 3.279 1 I remember standing at the polls one day
when the anger of
the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the
independent
electors, and a good man at my side, looking on the people, remarked, I
am
satisfied that the largest part of these men, on either side, mean to
vote right.
UGM 4.4 5 ...I do not travel to find comfortable, rich
and hospitable
people...
UGM 4.5 14 We must not...deny the substantial existence
of other people.
UGM 4.8 16 Mind thy affair, says the spirit:--coxcomb,
would you meddle
with the skies, or with other people?
UGM 4.15 14 The people cannot see [the hero] enough.
UGM 4.19 14 When nature removes a great man, people
explore the
horizon for a successor;...
UGM 4.23 19 ...I find [a master] greater when he can
abolish himself and
all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts,
destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is
nothing. Then he is a monarch who gives a constitution to his
people;...
UGM 4.24 8 The worthless and offensive members of
society...invariably
think themselves the most ill-used people alive...
UGM 4.25 15 Great men are...a collyrium to clear our
eyes from egotism
and enable us to see other people and their works.
PPh 4.58 4 ...the anecdotes that have come down from
the times attest [Plato's] manly interference before the people in his
master's behalf...
PPh 4.58 12 [Plato] has...a humanity which makes him
tender for the
superstitions of the people.
PNR 4.89 26 Plato plays Providence a little with the
baser sort, as people
allow themselves with their dogs and cats.
SwM 4.100 24 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical
skill, and the
added fame...of extraordinary religious knowledge and gifts, drew to
him
queens...and people about the ports through which he was wont to
pass...
SwM 4.120 7 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the
fine fable of a
most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling nigher to the
gods;...
SwM 4.132 12 The wise people of the Greek race were
accustomed to lead
the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian
mysteries...
ShP 4.190 24 ...[every master's] power lay in his
sympathy with his
people...
ShP 4.191 16 Shakspeare's youth fell in a time when the
English people
were importunate for dramatic entertainments.
ShP 4.191 21 ...the religious among the Anglican
church, would suppress [dramatic entertainments]. But the people wanted
them.
ShP 4.191 25 The [English] people had tasted this new
joy [the theatre];...
ShP 4.194 5 [Popular tradition] holds [the poet] to the
people...
ShP 4.195 2 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor
found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found
in the accumulated dramatic
materials to which the people were already wonted...
ShP 4.196 21 A great poet who appears in illiterate
times, absorbs into his
sphere all the light which is any where radiating. Every intellectual
jewel... it is his fine office to bring to his people;...
ShP 4.202 17 There is somewhat touching in the madness
with which the
passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and
lets pass
without a single valuable note...the man...on whose thoughts the
foremost
people of the world are now for some ages to be nourished...
ShP 4.202 23 A popular player;--nobody suspected
[Shakespeare] was the
poet of the human race; and the secret was kept as faithfully from
poets and
intellectual men as from courtiers and frivolous people.
ShP 4.212 11 [Shakespeare] clothed the creatures of his
legend with form
and sentiments as if they were people who had lived under his roof;...
NMW 4.223 16 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy...if
Napoleon is
Europe, it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.
NMW 4.225 1 God has granted, says the Koran, to every
people a prophet
in its own tongue.
NMW 4.231 16 ...[Bonaparte] pleased himself, as well as
the people, when
he styled himself the Child of Destiny.
NMW 4.240 27 The market-place, [Napoleon] said, is the
Louvre of the
common people.
NMW 4.241 19 ...there is in particulars this identity
between Napoleon and
the mass of the people...
NMW 4.242 2 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that
no longer the
throne was occupied...by a small class of legitimates...
NMW 4.242 24 ...even when the majority of the people
had begun to ask
whether they had really gained any thing under the exhausting levies of
men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the whole talent of the
country...took his part...
GoW 4.266 1 ...there is a certain ridicule, among
superficial people, thrown
on the scholars or clerisy...
GoW 4.266 7 Our people are of Bonaparte's opinion
concerning ideologists.
GoW 4.286 22 ...certain love affairs [of Goethe] that
came to nothing, as
people say, have the strangest importance...
ET1 5.3 5 In 1833...I crossed from Boulogne and landed
in London at the
Tower stairs. It was a dark Sunday morning; there were few people in
the
streets...
ET1 5.4 18 The young scholar fancies it happiness
enough to live with
people who can give an inside to the world;...
ET1 5.18 1 [Carlyle] still returned to English
pauperism...the selfish
abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform.
Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come
wandering over these moors. ... They burned the stacks and so found a
way
to force the rich people to attend to them.
ET1 5.21 1 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political
aspects, for he wished
to impress on me and all good Americans...never to call into action the
physical strength of the people...
ET2 5.32 21 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic
ship the right avenue to
the palace front of this seafaring people [the English]...
ET3 5.37 24 The innumerable details [in England]...the
multitudes of rich
and of remarkable people...hide all boundaries by the impression of
magnificence and endless wealth.
ET3 5.39 11 ...at one season, the country people [of
England] say, the lakes
contain one part water and two parts fish.
ET3 5.42 3 ...to make these [commercial] advantages
avail, the river
Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the
kingdom, giving...all the conveniency to trade that a people so skilful
and
sufficient in economizing water-front by docks, warehouses and lighters
required.
ET3 5.43 8 The sea shall disjoin the people from
others, and knit them to a
fierce nationality.
ET3 5.43 13 [Nature made] An island,--but not so large,
the people [of
England] not so many as to glut the great markets...
ET3 5.43 21 It is a singular coincidence to this
geographic centrality [of
England], the spiritual centrality which Emanuel Swedenborg ascribes to
the people.
ET4 5.45 1 The British Empire is reckoned to contain
(in 1848)...perhaps a
fifth of the population of the globe... So far have the British people
predominated.
ET4 5.45 5 The British Empire is reckoned to contain
(in 1848)...perhaps a
fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions
are of
British stock. Add the United States of America, which
reckon...20,000,000
of people...and you have a population of English descent and language
of
60,000,000...
ET4 5.48 6 The French in Canada, cut off from all
intercourse with the
parent people, have held their national traits.
ET4 5.49 10 'T is said that the views of nature held by
any people
determine all their institutions.
ET4 5.51 3 Everything English is a fusion of distant
and antagonistic
elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are
counter...a
people scattered by their wars and affairs over the face of the whole
earth, and homesick to a man;...
ET4 5.51 10 Neither do this people [the English] appear
to be of one stem, but collectively a better race than any from which
they are derived.
ET4 5.53 25 Only a hardy and wise people could have
made this small
territory [England] great.
ET4 5.55 24 The English come mainly from the
Germans...a people about
whom in the old empire the rumor ran there was never any that meddled
with them that repented it not.
ET4 5.57 26 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are people
considerably
advanced in rural arts...
ET4 5.63 17 The [English] public schools are charged
with being bear-gardens
of brutal strength, and are liked by the people for that cause.
ET4 5.64 19 As soon as this land [England]...got a
hardy people into it, they could not help becoming the sailors and
factors of the globe.
ET4 5.65 23 The pictures on the chimney-tiles of [the
American's] nursery
were pictures of these [English] people.
ET4 5.70 6 [The English] have more constitutional
energy than any other
people.
ET4 5.70 22 [The English] are the most voracious people
of prey that ever
existed.
ET4 5.71 5 The people at home [in England] are addicted
to boxing, running, leaping and rowing matches.
ET4 5.73 1 ...[the English] boast that they understand
horses better than
any other people in the world...
ET5 5.74 5 ...from the residence of a portion of these
[Scandinavian] people in France...the Norman has come popularly to
represent in England
the aristocratic, and the Saxon the democratic principle.
ET5 5.74 19 The Roman came [to England], but in the
very day when his
fortune culminated. He looked in the eyes of a new people that was to
supplant his own.
ET5 5.75 24 The power of the Saxon-Danes...stood on the
strong
personality of these people.
ET5 5.78 4 The people [of England] have that nervous
bilious temperament
which is known by medical men to resist every means employed to make
its
possessor subservient to the will of others.
ET5 5.79 24 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that
syllogisms do breed, or
rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth
nothing
else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this...he findeth,
nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the
cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it. There spoke the genius
of the
English people.
ET5 5.82 14 Philip de Commines says, Now, in my
opinion, among all the
sovereignties I know in the world, that in which the public good is
best
attended to, and the least violence exercised on the people, is that of
England.
ET5 5.82 26 Montesquieu said, No people have true
common-sense but
those who are born in England.
ET5 5.88 26 I know not from which of the tribes and
temperaments that
went to the composition of the people [of England] this tenacity was
supplied, but they clinch every nail they drive.
ET5 5.89 22 [The Englishman] would rather not do
anything at all than not
do it well. I suppose no people have such thoroughness;...
ET5 5.93 26 A proof of the energy of the British people
is the highly
artificial construction of the whole fabric.
ET5 5.99 6 Not only good minds are born among [the
English], but all the
people have good minds.
ET5 5.100 12 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres [in
England], when the
speakers rise to thought and passion, the language becomes idiomatic;
the
people in the street best understand the best words.
ET6 5.103 18 The mechanical might and organization [in
England] requires
in the people constitution and answering spirits;...
ET6 5.103 23 ...[England] is no country for
fainthearted people;...
ET6 5.104 2 It requires, men say, a good constitution
to travel in Spain. I
say as much of England, for other cause, simply on account of the vigor
and
brawn of the people.
ET6 5.106 19 These people [the English] have sat here a
thousand years, and here they will continue to sit.
ET7 5.116 15 When any breach of promise occurred [in
English
government], in the old days of prerogative, it was resented by the
people
as an intolerable grievance.
ET7 5.118 9 The phrase of the lowest of the [English]
people is honor-bright...
ET8 5.128 8 As compared with the Americans, I think
[the English] cheerful and contented. Young people in this country are
much more prone
to melancholy.
ET8 5.128 13 [The English] are...not so easily amused
as the southerners, and are among them as grown people among
children...
ET8 5.130 24 ...you shall find in the common [English]
people a surly
indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper;...
ET8 5.138 24 Our swifter Americans, when they first
deal with English, pronounce them stupid; but, later, do them justice
as people who wear
well...
ET8 5.139 8 Even the scale of expense on which people
live...proves the
tension of [English] muscle...
ET8 5.140 11 Haldor...told his opinion bluntly and was
obstinate and hard: and this could not please the king, who had many
clever people about him...
ET8 5.141 10 The conservative, money-loving,
lord-loving English are yet
liberty-loving; and so freedom is safe: for they have more personal
force
than any other people.
ET10 5.155 26 During the war from 1789 to 1815...the
English were
growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.
ET10 5.156 15 If [the English] cannot pay, they do not
buy; for they have
no presumption of better fortunes next year, as our people have;...
ET10 5.160 18 In 1848, Lord John Russell stated that
the people of this
country [England] had laid out 300,000,000 pounds of capital in
railways, in the last four years.
ET10 5.166 7 I much prefer the condition of an English
gentleman of the
better class to that of any potentate in Europe,--whether for
travel...or for
mere comfort and easy healthy relation to people at home.
ET10 5.166 11 The cause and spring of [England's
wealth] is the wealth of
temperament in the people.
ET11 5.172 18 The frame of [English] society is
aristocratic, the taste of
the people is loyal.
ET11 5.172 20 The estates, names and manners of the
[English] nobles
flatter the fancy of the people...
ET11 5.173 4 ...we take sides as we read for the loyal
England, and King
Charles's return to his right with his Cavaliers,--knowing what a
heartless
trifler he is, and what a crew of Godforsaken robbers they are. The
people
of England knew as much.
ET11 5.173 23 The taste of the [English] people is
conservative.
ET11 5.186 5 These people [English nobility] seem to
gain as much as they
lose by their position.
ET11 5.186 16 The upper classes have only birth, say
the people here [in
England], and not thoughts.
ET11 5.187 20 Every one who has tasted the delight of
friendship will
respect every social guard which our manners can establish, tending to
secure from the intrusion of frivolous and distasteful people.
ET11 5.189 13 Against the cry of the old tenantry and
the sympathetic cry
of the English press, the [English nobility] have rooted out and
planted
anew, and now six millions of people live, and live better, on the same
land
that fed three millions.
ET11 5.196 17 English history, wisely read, is the
vindication of the brain
of that people.
ET11 5.198 11 It is computed that, with titles and
without, there are
seventy thousand of these people coming and going in London, who make
up what is called high society.
ET13 5.214 1 No people at the present day can be
explained by their
national religion.
ET13 5.216 10 [Christianity] lived by the love of the
people.
ET13 5.216 17 The priest came out of the people and
sympathized with his
class.
ET13 5.216 24 The Catholic Church, thrown on this
toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a
massive system...
ET13 5.217 20 The English Church has many certificates
to show of
humble effective service in humanizing the people...
ET13 5.218 8 ...when the Saxon instinct had secured a
[religious] service in
the vernacular tongue, it was the tutor and university of the people.
ET13 5.226 8 If in any manner [the wise legislator] can
leave the election
and paying of the priest to the people, he will do well.
ET13 5.226 18 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a
bishopric, or
rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it
another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course,
money...will
steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was
bequeathed.
ET14 5.236 17 There is a hygienic simpleness...in the
common style of the [English] people...
ET14 5.237 22 The unique fact in literary history, the
unsurprised reception
of Shakspeare;...seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the
people.
ET14 5.257 25 ...[Tennyson] wants a subject, and climbs
no mount of
vision to bring its secrets to the people.
ET15 5.261 15 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper]
drags every secret
to the day...and no weakness can be taken advantage of by an enemy,
since
the whole people are already forewarned.
ET15 5.261 21 No antique privilege, no comfortable
monopoly, but sees
surely that its days are counted; the people are familiarized with the
reason
of reform...
ET15 5.271 23 [The London Times's] existence honors the
people who
dare to print all they know...
ET16 5.275 14 I told Carlyle that...I like the
[English] people;...
ET16 5.289 12 Just before entering Winchester we
stopped at the Church
of Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of
beer, which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be
given to
every one who should ask it at the gate. We had both, from the old
couple
who take care of the church. Some twenty people every day, they said,
make the same demand.
ET18 5.303 2 [the English] is a people of myriad
personalities.
ET18 5.304 8 [The English] are expiating the wrongs of
India by benefits;... in the instruction of the people...
ET18 5.306 16 The feudal system survives [in
England]...in the social
barriers which confine patronage and promotion to a caste, and still
more in
the submissive ideas pervading these people.
ET18 5.307 15 ...the American people do not yield
better or more able
men...than the English.
F 6.9 14 People seem sheathed in their tough
organization.
F 6.12 15 People are born with the moral or with the
material bias;...
F 6.24 4 'T is weak and vicious people who cast the
blame on Fate.
F 6.29 21 As Voltaire said, 't is the misfortune of
worthy people that they
are cowards;...
F 6.46 12 Some people are made up of rhyme,
coincidence, omen, periodicity, and presage...
Pow 6.62 12 The rough-and-ready style which belongs to
a people of
sailors, foresters, farmers and mechanics, has its advantages.
Pow 6.62 15 As long as our people quote English
standards they dwarf their
own proportions.
Pow 6.62 27 As long as our people quote English
standards they will miss
the sovereignty of power;...
Pow 6.63 13 The instinct of the people is right.
Pow 6.65 15 [The Hoosiers and the Suckers] see, against
the unanimous
declarations of the people, how much crime the people will bear;...
Pow 6.65 16 [The Hoosiers and the Suckers] see, against
the unanimous
declarations of the people, how much crime the people will bear;...
Pow 6.67 14 [Boniface] girdled the trees and cut off
the horses' tails of the
temperance people, in the night.
Pow 6.70 1 The people lean on this [aboriginal
source]...
Pow 6.70 4 March without the people...and you march
into night...
Wth 6.96 4 ...if men should...leave off aiming to be
rich, the moralists
would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people,
lest
civilization should be undone.
Wth 6.97 16 ...he is the rich man in whom the people
are rich...
Wth 6.97 17 ...he is the poor man in whom the people
are poor;...
Wth 6.105 6 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept
bills, the people at
Manchester...are forced into the highway...
Wth 6.110 8 Britain, France and Germany...send out,
attracted by the fame
of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor
people, to share the crop.
Wth 6.110 27 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant]
people...
Wth 6.114 14 ...proud people are intolerably selfish...
Wth 6.117 17 In England...I was assured...that great
lords and ladies had no
more guineas to give away than other people;...
Ctr 6.133 11 ...we have seen children who finding
themselves of no
account when grown people come in, will cough until they choke, to draw
attention.
Ctr 6.140 10 There are people who can never understand
a trope...
Ctr 6.142 7 I like people who like Plato.
Ctr 6.145 10 I think there is a restlessness in our
people which argues want
of character.
Ctr 6.149 14 Boys and girls who have been brought up
with well-informed
and superior people show in their manners an inestimable grace.
Ctr 6.150 9 The best bribe which London offers to-day
to the imagination
is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe
there
is room for persons of romantic character to exist...
Ctr 6.152 1 It is odd that our people should have--not
water on the brain, but a little gas there.
Ctr 6.154 3 What is odious but...people who scream and
bewail?...
Ctr 6.154 4 What is odious but...people whose vane
points always east...
Ctr 6.158 14 I must have children...I must have a
social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or
basis. But to give these
accessories any value, I must know them as contingent...possessions,
which
pass for more to the people than to me.
Ctr 6.159 16 I suffer every day from the want of
perception of beauty in
people.
Ctr 6.160 11 I have heard that stiff people lose
something of their
awkwardness under high ceilings and in spacious halls.
Bhr 6.171 11 Every day bears witness to [manners']
gentle rule. People
who would obtrude, now do not obtrude.
Bhr 6.172 2 When we reflect on...how [manners]
recommend, prepare, and
draw people together...we see what range the subject has...
Bhr 6.172 17 We prize [manners] for their
rough-plastic, abstergent force; to get people out of the quadruped
state;...
Bhr 6.173 21 ...these [bad manners] are social
inflictions...which must be
entrusted to the restraining force of...familiar rules of behavior
impressed
on young people in their school-days.
Bhr 6.175 9 There are always exceptional people and
modes.
Bhr 6.183 3 There are people who come in ever like a
child with a piece of
good news.
Bhr 6.186 9 Society...if you do not belong to it,
resists and sneers at you, or
quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the
second... is not to be resisted, as the date of the transaction is not
easily found. People grow up and grow old under this infliction, and
never suspect the
truth...
Bhr 6.188 10 People masquerade before us in their
fortunes...
Bhr 6.192 18 The novels are as useful as Bibles if they
teach you the secret
that...the greatest success is...perfect understanding between sincere
people.
Bhr 6.193 5 In all the superior people I have met I
notice directness...
Bhr 6.195 19 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and
gravity, defended
himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus
Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There
is no
witness. Which do you believe, Romans? Utri creditis, Quirites? When he
had said these words he was absolved by the assembly of the people.
Wsp 6.208 10 How is it people manage to live on,--so
aimless as they are?
Wsp 6.212 6 Even well-disposed, good sort of people are
touched with the
same infidelity...
Wsp 6.224 10 People seem not to see that their opinion
of the world is also
a confession of character.
Wsp 6.227 11 Young people admire talents and particular
excellences.
Wsp 6.228 21 We need not much mind what people please
to say, but what
they must say;...
Wsp 6.234 21 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal
people to whom I
have no skill to reply.
CbW 6.253 21 Edward I. wanted money, armies, castles,
and as much as he
could get. It was necessary to call the people together by shorter,
swifter
ways,--and the House of Commons arose.
CbW 6.255 17 I do not think very respectfully of the
designs or the doings
of the people who went to California in 1849.
CbW 6.263 27 ...if people were sick and dying to any
purpose, we would
leave all and go to them...
CbW 6.265 14 ...I find the gayest castles in the air
that were ever piled, far
better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are
daily dug
and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.
CbW 6.266 12 The Turkish cadi said to Layard, After the
fashion of thy
people, thou hast wandered from one place to another, until thou art
happy
and content in none.
CbW 6.267 25 The young people do not like the town, do
not like the sea-shore...
CbW 6.268 10 [The young people] explore a farm, but the
house is small, old, thin; discontented people lived there and are
gone;...
CbW 6.269 25 ...a virulent, aggressive fool taints the
reason of a
household. I have seen a whole family of quiet, sensible people
unhinged
and beside themselves, victims of such a rogue.
CbW 6.272 5 Ask what is best in our experience, and we
shall say, a few
pieces of plain dealing with wise people.
CbW 6.274 14 ...it is who lives near us of equal social
degree,--a few
people at convenient distance...these, and these only, shall be your
life's
companions;...
CbW 6.274 22 ...one may take a good deal of pains to
bring people
together...and yet no result come of it.
CbW 6.274 27 ...a habit of union and competition brings
people up and
keeps them up to their highest point;...
CbW 6.275 6 ...we live with people on other
platforms;...
CbW 6.275 27 Few people discern that it rests with the
master or the
mistress what service comes from the man or the maid;...
CbW 6.276 4 All sensible people are selfish...
CbW 6.277 10 ...your theories and plans of life are
fair and commendable:-- but will you stick? Not one, I fear, in that
Common full of people...
CbW 6.277 19 The main difference between people seems
to be that one
man can come under obligations on which you can rely,--is obligable;
and
another is not.
Bty 6.288 3 ...everybody knows people who appear
beridden...
Bty 6.297 12 Walpole says...people go early to get
places at the theatres, when it is known [the Gunning sisters] will be
there.
Bty 6.297 16 Such crowds, [Walpole] adds elsewhere,
flock to see the
Duchess of Hamilton, that seven hundred people sat up all night...to
see her
get into her post-chaise next morning.
Bty 6.300 3 ...petulant old gentlemen, who have chanced
to suffer some
intolerable weariness from pretty people...affirm that the secret of
ugliness
consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ill 6.312 17 [The dreariest alderman] imitates the air
and actions of people
whom he admires...
SS 7.3 20 ...[my new friend] had one defect,--he could
not speak in the tone
of the people.
SS 7.9 16 ...how insular and pathetically solitary are
all the people we
know!
SS 7.11 2 The people, not the college, is the writer's
home.
SS 7.11 15 Concert fires people to a certain fury of
performance they can
rarely reach alone.
SS 7.13 12 ...the people are to be taken in very small
doses.
SS 7.13 19 So many men whom I know are degraded by
their sympathies; their native aims being high enough, but their
relation all too tender to the
gross people about them.
SS 7.14 10 Put any company of people together with
freedom for
conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place into sets and
pairs.
SS 7.14 15 ...[people in conversation] separate...as
children from old
people...
SS 7.15 27 It is not the circumstance of seeing more or
fewer people, but
the readiness of sympathy, that imports;...
Civ 7.22 21 There was once a giantess who had a
daughter, and the child
saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran...and carried
them
to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort of a beetle is this that I
found
wriggling in the sand? But the mother said, Put it away, my child; we
must
begone out of this land, for these people will dwell in it.
Civ 7.32 19 ...when I see how much each virtuous and
gifted person, whom
all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent
people...I see
what cubic values America has...
Civ 7.32 21 ...when I see how much each virtuous and
gifted person, whom
all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people
who
are not known far from home, and perhaps with great reason reckons
these
people his superiors in virtue...I see what cubic values America has...
Art2 7.54 3 ...[all the known orders of architecture]
were the idealizing of
the primitive abodes of each people.
Art2 7.56 6 The Gothic cathedrals were built when the
builder and the
priest and the people were overpowered by their faith.
Elo1 7.65 11 Him we call an artist...who, seeing the
people furious, shall
soften and compose them...
Elo1 7.68 26 Our Southern people are almost all
speakers...
Elo1 7.69 1 Our Southern people are almost all
speakers, and have every
advantage over the New England people, whose climate is so cold that 't
is
said we do not like to open our mouths very wide.
Elo1 7.70 1 The right eloquence needs no bell to call
the people together...
Elo1 7.70 10 The pictures we have of [eloquence] in
semi-barbarous ages, when it has some advantages in the simpler habit
of the people, show what
it aims at.
Elo1 7.76 27 You are safe...in the city...under the
eyes of a hundred
thousand people.
Elo1 7.80 12 ...among our cool and calculating
people...there is a good deal
of skepticism as to extraordinary influence.
Elo1 7.84 20 If [the orator] should attempt to instruct
the people in that
which they already know, he would fail;...
Elo1 7.85 18 ...in any public assembly, him who has the
facts and can and
will state them, people will listen to...
Elo1 7.91 10 ...people always perceive whether you
drive or whether the
horses take the bits in their teeth and run.
Elo1 7.93 15 ...the main distinction between [the
eloquent man] and other
well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a
whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness...and the
orator stands before the people as a demoniacal power...
Elo1 7.94 5 Fame of voice or of rhetoric will carry
people a few times to
hear a speaker;...
Elo1 7.97 15 It is not the people that are in fault for
not being convinced, but he that cannot convince them.
DL 7.123 19 ...every man is provided in his thought
with a measure of man
which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many
thousands
comes up to the stature and proportions of the model. Neither does the
measurer himself; neither do the people in the street;...
DL 7.130 6 ...let the creations of the plastic arts be
collected with care in
galleries by the piety and taste of the people...
Farm 7.152 26 This crust of soil which ages have
refined [the farmer] refines again for the feeding of a civil and
instructed people.
WD 7.162 16 ...ships were built capacious enough to
carry the people of a
county.
WD 7.174 11 ...every man in moments of deeper thought
is apprised that he
is repeating the experiences of the people in the streets of Thebes or
Byzantium.
WD 7.183 26 There are people who do not need much
experimenting;...
Boks 7.190 27 Go with mean people and you think life is
mean.
Boks 7.215 10 ...when one observes how ill and ugly
people make their
loves and quarrels, 't is pity they should not read novels a little
more...
Clbs 7.226 21 Opinions are accidental in people...
Clbs 7.226 26 Neither do we by any means always go to
people for
conversation.
Clbs 7.227 11 The clergyman walks from house to house
all day all the
year to give people the comfort of good talk.
Clbs 7.229 2 We remember the time...on a long journey
in the old stage-coach, where...people became rapidly acquainted...
Clbs 7.232 15 Some men love only to talk where they are
masters. They
like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an
ear to
any one.
Clbs 7.233 10 Able people, if they do not know how to
make allowance for [men of a delicate sympathy], paralyze them.
Clbs 7.236 4 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with
humble people on life
and duty...
Clbs 7.239 24 When Henry III. (1217) plead duress
against his people
demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If
this
were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of
one of
the contending parties.
Clbs 7.242 10 ...we perhaps live with people too
superior to be seen...
Clbs 7.242 18 ...in all civil nations attempts have
been made to organize
conversation by bringing together cultivated people under the most
favorable conditions.
Clbs 7.244 17 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.
Clbs 7.245 6 There are people who cannot well be
cultivated;...
Clbs 7.245 15 [A club] requires people who are not
surprised and shocked...
Cour 7.256 1 I need not show how much [courage] is
esteemed, for the
people give it the first rank.
Cour 7.256 13 ...any man who puts his life in peril in
a cause which is
esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very nursery-books...the
thunderous emphasis which orators give to every martial defiance and
passage of arms, and which the people greet, may testify.
Suc 7.283 1 Our American people cannot be taxed with
slowness in
performance or in praising their performance.
Suc 7.286 23 For success, to be sure we esteem it a
test in other people, since we do first in ourselves.
Suc 7.288 4 The Arabian sheiks, the most dignified
people in the planet, do
not want [American arts];...
Suc 7.288 24 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is
victory, without
regard to the cause;...the way of the Talleyrands, prudent people,
whose
watches go faster than their neighbors'...
Suc 7.309 27 I have seen scores of people who can
silence me...
OA 7.318 13 ...if we did not find the reflection of
ourselves in the eyes of
the young people, we could not know that the century-clock had struck
seventy instead of twenty.
OA 7.322 3 ...if the life be true and noble, we have
quite another sort of
seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely
old,-- namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty
their
houses to gaze at and obey them...
OA 7.326 10 ...[the old lawyer] may go below his mark
with impunity, and
people will say, O, he had headache...
PI 8.1 4 But over all his crowning grace,/ Wherefor
thanks God his daily
praise,/ Is the purging of his eye/ To see the people of the sky/...
PI 8.25 5 When people tell me they do not relish poetry,
and bring me
Shelley...I am quite of their mind.
PI 8.47 3 Young people like rhyme, drum-beat, tune...
PI 8.48 20 ...the people liked an overpowering jewsharp
tune.
PI 8.53 24 Outside of the nursery the beginning of
literature is the prayers
of a people...
SA 8.84 25 ...just in proportion to the morality of a
people will be the
expansion of the credit system.
SA 8.87 23 [The young European emigrant's] good and
becoming clothes
put him on thinking that he must behave like people who are so
dressed;...
SA 8.87 27 ...quite another class of our own youth I
should remind, of dress
in general, that some people need it and others need it not.
SA 8.91 9 That every well-dressed lady or gentleman
should be at liberty to
exceed ten minutes in his or her call on serious people, shows a
civilization
still rude.
SA 8.92 22 Virtues speak to virtues, vices to
vices,--each to their own kind
in the people with whom we deal.
SA 8.96 15 When people come to see us, we foolishly
prattle, lest we be
inhospitable.
SA 8.97 4 ...there are people who cannot be
cultivated...
SA 8.97 5 ...there are...people on whom speech makes no
impression;...
SA 8.97 6 ...there are...swainish, morose people, who
must be kept down
and quieted as you would those who are a little tipsy;...
SA 8.98 14 Never worry people with your contritions...
SA 8.103 20 ...I said to myself, How little this man
[an American to be
proud of] suspects, with...his respect for lettered and scientific
people, that
he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself.
SA 8.103 27 That is the point which decides the welfare
of a people; which
way does it look?
SA 8.104 1 That is the point which decides the welfare
of a people; which
way does it look? If to any other people, it is not well with them.
SA 8.104 4 If [a people is] occupied in its own affairs
and thoughts and
men, with a heat which excludes almost the notice of any other
people... they are sublime;...
SA 8.104 16 We have come...to know...the good will that
is in the people...
SA 8.106 22 ...those people, and no others, interest
us, who believe in their
thought...
Elo2 8.111 2 I do not know any kind of history, except
the event of a battle, to which people listen with more interest than
to any anecdote of
eloquence;...
Elo2 8.112 5 It is an old proverb that Every people has
its prophet;...
Elo2 8.112 6 It is an old proverb that Every people has
its prophet; and
every class of the people has.
Elo2 8.116 3 You go to a town-meeting where the people
are called to
some disagreeable duty...
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 8.120 17 Many people have no ear for music...
Elo2 8.127 13 ...when once going to preach the Thursday
lecture in Boston (which in those days people walked from Salem to
hear), on going up the
pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had
fallen
into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned...
Elo2 8.132 27 ...here [in the United States] are the
service of science, the
demands of art, and the lessons of religion to be brought home to the
instant
practice of thirty millions of people.
Res 8.141 10 Here in America are all the wealth of
soil, of timber, of mines
and of the sea, put into the possession of a people who wield all these
wonderful machines...
Res 8.143 18 ...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has
sent home to China
American food and tools and luxuries, until he has taught his people to
use
them...
Res 8.144 2 The whole history of our civil war is rich
in a thousand
anecdotes attesting...the skilled labor of our people.
Res 8.148 20 See the dexterity of the good aunt in
keeping the young
people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...
QO 8.187 7 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends,
laughingly compared his
writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they
were
pronounced, and the next summer, when they were warmed and melted by
the sun, the people heard what had been spoken in the winter.
QO 8.188 8 People go out to look at sunrises and
sunsets who do not
recognize their own...
QO 8.193 26 ...people quote so differently...
QO 8.196 24 ...it is not rare to find...people who copy
drawings with
admirable skill, but are incapable of any design.
PC 8.208 2 The temper of our people delights in this
whirl of life.
PC 8.210 26 People have in all countries been burned
and stoned for saying
things which are commonplaces at all our breakfast-tables.
PC 8.218 17 Popes and kings and Councils of Ten are
very sharp with their
censorships and inquisitions, but it is on dull people.
PC 8.219 22 Agassiz and Owen and Huxley affect to
address the American
and English people...
PC 8.232 21 We are a complaisant, forgiving people...
PC 8.233 12 ...I draw new hope...from the healthy
sentiment of the
American people...
PPo 8.238 22 My father's empire, said Cyrus to
Xenophon, is so large that
people perish with cold at one extremity whilst they are suffocated
with
heat at the other.
PPo 8.238 24 The temperament of the people [in the
East] agrees with this
life in extremes.
PPo 8.239 10 The favor of the climate...allows to the
Eastern nations a
highly intellectual organization,-leaving out of view, at present, the
genius
of the Hindoos...whom no people have surpassed in the grandeur of their
ethical statement.
PPo 8.241 22 Asaph, the vizier, at a certain time, lost
the seal of Solomon, which one of the Dews or evil spirits found, and,
governing in the name of
Solomon, deceived the people.
PPo 8.254 9 [Hafiz] asserts his dignity as bard and
inspired man of his
people.
PPo 8.262 5 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be
all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/
But thee the people
prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./
Insp 8.281 12 Some people will tell you there is a
great deal of poetry and
fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
Grts 8.308 9 Clinging to Nature, or to that province of
Nature which he
knows, [the commander]...works after her laws and at her own pace, so
that
his doing, which is perfectly natural, appears miraculous to dull
people.
Grts 8.308 24 Set ten men to write their journal for
one day, and nine of
them will...lose themselves in misreporting the supposed experience of
other people.
Grts 8.316 8 We like the natural greatness of health
and wild power. I
confess that I am as much taken by it...sometimes in people not normal,
nor
educated, nor presentable, nor church-members...as in more orderly
examples.
Grts 8.316 18 We must have some charity for the sense
of the people, which admires natural power...
Grts 8.320 3 ...people are as those with whom they
converse?
Imtl 8.324 4 The Egyptian people furnish us the
earliest details of an
established civilization...
Imtl 8.328 11 The emphasis of all the good books given
to young people [sixty years ago] was on death.
Imtl 8.342 17 Ignorant people confound reverence for
the intuitions with
egotism.
Imtl 8.347 23 Jesus explained nothing, but the
influence of him took people
out of time, and they felt eternal.
Imtl 8.348 8 ...Plato and Cicero had both allowed
themselves to overstep
the stern limits of the spirit, and gratify the people with that
picture [of
personal immortality].
Imtl 8.348 13 Here are people who cannot dispose of a
day;...
Dem1 10.16 2 I have a lucky hand, sir, said
Napoleon...those on whom I lay
it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form...that
children and
young persons come off safe from casualties that would have proved
dangerous to wiser people.
Dem1 10.23 4 ...the so-called fortunate man is one who,
though not gifted
to speak when the people listen...relies on his instincts...
Dem1 10.27 18 ...I think the numberless forms in which
this superstition [demonology] has reappeared in every time and every
people indicates the
inextinguishableness of wonder in man;...
Aris 10.33 10 The terrible aristocracy that is in
Nature. Real people
dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people
dwelling in a
relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal
man...
Aris 10.33 11 The terrible aristocracy that is in
Nature. Real people
dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people
dwelling in a
relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal
man...
Aris 10.36 8 The English government and people, or the
French
government, may easily make mistakes [in bestowing titles];...
Aris 10.37 11 We like cool people...
Aris 10.45 26 Dull people think it Fortune that makes
one rich and another
poor.
Aris 10.52 8 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman,
who serves the
people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who
shall
blame them if they burn his barns...
Aris 10.54 17 In the fine arts, I find none in the
present age...who have
achieved any nobility by ennobling the people.
Aris 10.57 22 ...amid the levity and giddiness of
people one looks round... on some self-dependent mind...
Aris 10.61 5 In the presence of the Chapter it is easy
for each member to
carry himself royally and well; but in the absence of his colleagues
and in
the presence of mean people he is tempted to accept the low customs of
towns.
Aris 10.61 12 Give up, once for all, the hope of
approbation from the
people in the street, if you are pursuing great ends.
Aris 10.64 10 No great man has existed who did not rely
on the sense and
heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people...
PerF 10.82 10 Every one knows what are the effects of
music to put people
in gay or mournful or martial mood.
Chr2 10.104 25 ...sometimes also [the moral sentiment]
is the source, in
natures less pure, of sneers and flippant jokes of common people, who
feel
that the forms and dogmas are not true for them...
Chr2 10.108 11 ...the rally on the principle must
arrive as people become
intellectual.
Chr2 10.108 16 I suspect, that, when the theology was
most florid and
dogmatic, it was the barbarism of the people...
Chr2 10.118 19 How many people are there in Boston?
Some two hundred
thousand. Well, then so many sects.
Chr2 10.120 19 Confucius said one day to Ke Kang: Sir,
in carrying on
your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced
desires be for what is good, and the people will be good.
Edc1 10.138 1 Cannot we let people be themselves...
Edc1 10.143 1 Do not spare to put novels into the hands
of young people as
an occasional holiday and experiment;...
Edc1 10.157 23 Set this law up, whatever becomes of the
rules of the
school: [the pupils] must not whisper, much less talk; but if one of
the
young people says a wise thing, greet it...
Supl 10.163 18 We talk, sometimes, with people whose
conversation would
lead you to suppose that they had lived in a museum...
Supl 10.163 21 We talk, sometimes, with people whose
conversation would
lead you to suppose that they had lived in a museum, where all the
objects
were monsters and extremes. Their good people are phoenixes; their
naughty are like the prophet's figs.
Supl 10.165 7 Horace Walpole relates that in the
expectation, current in
London a century ago, of a great earthquake, some people provided
themselves with dresses for the occasion.
Supl 10.165 14 Thousands of people live and die who
were never...hungry
or thirsty...
Supl 10.167 20 The people of English stock...are a
solid people...
Supl 10.167 21 The people of English stock...are a
solid people...
Supl 10.169 13 I am daily struck with the forcible
understatement of people
who have no literary habit.
Supl 10.169 24 The common people diminish...
Supl 10.174 6 Children and thoughtless people like
exaggerated event and
activity;...
Supl 10.176 6 The firmest and noblest ground on which
people can live is
truth;...
SovE 10.203 4 Our religion...respects and mythologizes
some one time and
place and person and people.
SovE 10.204 7 The religion of seventy years ago was an
iron belt to the
mind, giving it concentration and force. A rude people were kept
respectable by the determination of thought on the eternal world.
SovE 10.206 19 ...[the Orientals] will not turn on
their heel to avoid
famine, plague or the sword of the enemy. That is great, and gives a
great
air to the people.
SovE 10.211 11 Governments stand by [men's
credence],-by the faith that
the people share...
SovE 10.211 16 ...if the instinct of the people was to
resist the government, it is plain the government must be two to one in
order to be secure...
Prch 10.216 2 The true preacher can be known by this,
that he deals out to
the people his life...
Prch 10.220 13 ...the virtuous sentiment appears
arrayed against the
nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and
burned. Then the good sense of the people wakes up so far as to take
tacit part with
them...
Prch 10.230 15 The simple fact...that all over this
country the people are
waiting to hear a sermon on Sunday, assures that opportunity which is
inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large
liberties.
Prch 10.231 1 There are always plenty of young,
ignorant people...wanting
peremptorily instruction;...
MoL 10.244 16 Dramatic mysteries were the entertainment
of the people [in the Middle Ages].
MoL 10.247 9 A scholar defending the cause...of the
oppressor, is a traitor
to his profession. He has ceased to be a scholar. He is not company for
clean people.
MoL 10.252 2 Where there is no vision, the people
perish.
MoL 10.255 12 Our people have this levity and
complaisance...
MoL 10.258 5 ...on each new threat of faction, the
ballot of the people has
been unexpectedly right.
Schr 10.266 24 ...practical people in America give
themselves wonderful
airs.
Schr 10.267 7 Young men, I warn you...against
chattering, meddlesome, rich and official people.
Schr 10.278 2 I think there is no more intellectual
people than ours.
Schr 10.278 11 ...when one observes how eagerly our
people entertain and
discuss a new theory...one would draw a favorable inference as to their
intellectual and spiritual tendencies.
Plu 10.294 2 ...[Plutarch]...appears never to have been
in Rome but on two
occasions, and then on business of the people of his native city,
Chaeronea;...
Plu 10.322 15 ...as it was the desire of these old
patriots to fill with their
majestic spirit all Sparta or Rome...we hasten to offer them to the
American
people.
LLNE 10.325 3 There grew a certain tenderness on the
people...
LLNE 10.326 26 People grow philosophical about native
land and parents
and relations.
LLNE 10.330 27 There was an influence on the young
people from the
genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that of Pericles in
Athens.
LLNE 10.338 2 ...the joy with which [Mesmerism] was
greeted was an
instinct of the people which no true philosopher would fail to profit
by.
LLNE 10.339 5 ...the tendency even of Punch's
caricature, was all on the
side of the people.
LLNE 10.340 13 Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with
George Ripley, to the point whether it were possible to bring
cultivated, thoughtful people
together...
LLNE 10.343 15 From that time meetings were held for
conversation...of
people engaged in studies...
LLNE 10.344 10 Theodore Parker was...the tribune of the
people...
LLNE 10.345 4 Society always values...inoffensive
people...
LLNE 10.355 4 As soon as our people got wind of the
doctrine of Marriage
held by this master [Fourier], it would fall at once into the hands of
a
lawless crew...
LLNE 10.355 8 ...like the dreams of poetic people on
the first outbreak of
the old French Revolution, so [the Fourierist community] would
disappear
in a slime of mire and blood.
LLNE 10.361 1 There was no doubt great variety of
character and purpose
in the members of the community [Brook Farm]. It consisted in the main
of
young people...
LLNE 10.361 14 ...there was immense hope in these young
people [at
Brook Farm].
LLNE 10.361 17 The young people [at Brook Farm] lived a
great deal in a
short time...
LLNE 10.364 8 The Founders of Brook Farm should have
this praise, that
they made what all people try to make, an agreeable place to live in.
LLNE 10.366 2 Good people are as bad as rogues if
steady performance is
claimed;...
LLNE 10.366 6 It was very gently said [at Brook Farm]
that people on
whom beforehand all persons would put the utmost reliance were not
responsible.
LLNE 10.368 5 People cannot live together in any but
necessary ways.
LLNE 10.368 12 Few people can live together on their
merits.
LLNE 10.369 13 ...the lady or the romantic scholar [at
Brook Farm] saw
the continuous strength and faculty in people who would have disgusted
them but that these powers were now spent in the direction of their own
theory of life.
LLNE 10.369 24 I please myself with the thought that
our American mind... is beginning to show a quiet power, drawn from
wide and abundant sources, proper to a Continent and to an educated
people.
EzRy 10.392 19 The society will meet after the Lyceum,
as it is difficult to
bring people together in the evening,-and no moon.
EzRy 10.392 22 Mr. N. F. is dead, and I expect to hear
of the death of Mr. B. It is cruel to separate old people from their
wives in this cold weather.
MMEm 10.400 25 [Mary Moody Emerson]...lived in entire
solitude with
these old people...
MMEm 10.402 8 [Mary Moody Emerson's] sympathy for young
people
who pleased her was almost passionate...
MMEm 10.402 18 Nobody can...recall the conversation of
old-school
people, without seeing that Milton and Young had a religious authority
in
their mind...
MMEm 10.413 13 Ah! were virtue, and that of dear
heavenly meekness
attached by any necessity to a lower rank of genteel people, who would
sympathize with the exalted with satisfaction?
Thor 10.454 25 A fine house, dress, the manners and
talk of highly
cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau].
Thor 10.456 20 ...[Thoreau]...threw himself heartily
and childlike into the
company of young people whom he loved...
Thor 10.460 20 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses
in Concord that he
would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John
Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come.
Thor 10.460 26 The hall was filled at an early hour by
people of all parties, and [Thoreau's] earnest eulogy of the hero [John
Brown] was heard by all
respectfully...
Thor 10.466 8 Mr. Thoreau dedicated his genius with
such entire love to
the fields, hills and waters of his native town, that he made them
known and
interesting to all reading Americans, and to people over the sea.
Carl 10.489 20 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious
tinge you sometimes
find in burly people.
Carl 10.490 6 [Carlyle] is obviously greatly respected
by all sorts of
people...
Carl 10.491 18 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with
contempt;...they will eat
vegetables and drink water, and he...describes with gusto the crowds of
people who gaze at the sirloins in the dealer's shop-window...
Carl 10.492 8 [Young men] go for free
institutions...and only giving
opportunity and motive to every man; [Carlyle] for stringent
government, that shows people what they must do, and makes them do it.
Carl 10.492 12 Here, [Carlyle] says, the Parliament
gathers up six millions
of pounds every year to give the poor, and yet the people starve.
Carl 10.497 21 ...[Carlyle] has stood for the people...
GSt 10.502 2 [George Stearns] was an early laborer in
the resistance to
slavery. This brought him into sympathy with the people of Kansas.
GSt 10.504 27 A man of the people, in strictly private
life, girt with family
ties;...[George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an
indispensable power in the state.
GSt 10.505 26 These interests, which [George Stearns]
passionately
adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication with patriotic
persons holding the same views,-with two Presidents...and with leading
people everywhere.
LS 11.7 11 In years to come [says Jesus to his
disciples], as long as your
people shall come up to Jerusalem to keep this feast [the Passover],
the
connection which has subsisted between us will give a new meaning in
your
eyes to the national festival, as the anniversary of my death.
LS 11.10 16 The reason why St. John does not repeat
[Jesus's] words on
this occasion [the Last Supper] seems to be that he had reported a
similar
discourse of Jesus to the people of Capernaum more at length already...
LS 11.19 1 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's
Supper], however
suitable to the people and modes of thought in the East...is foreign
and
unsuited to affect us.
LS 11.24 14 I have no hostility to this institution
[the Lord's Supper]; I am
only stating my want of sympathy with it. Neither should I ever have
obtruded this opinion upon other people, had I not been called by my
office
to administer it.
HDC 11.35 7 ...let no man, writes our pious chronicler
[Edward Johnson]... make a jest of pumpkins, for with this fruit the
Lord was pleased to feed his
people until their corn and cattle were increased.
HDC 11.35 12 The great cost of cattle...the sufferings
of the people [pilgrims] in the great snows and cold soon
following;...are the other
disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
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 11.40 10 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we
look to number, we
are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all
the people
of God through the whole world.
HDC 11.40 12 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we
look to number, we
are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all
the people
of God through the whole world. We cannot excel nor so much as equal
other people in these things;...
HDC 11.40 14 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we
look to number, we
are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all
the people
of God through the whole world. We cannot excel nor so much as equal
other people in these things; and if we come short in grace and
holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven.
HDC 11.40 17 The sermon [to the settlers of Concord]
fell into good and
tender hearts; the people conspired with their teacher.
HDC 11.49 12 ...the people [of Concord] truly feel that
they are lords of the
soil.
HDC 11.54 23 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared, that
the new
plantations of Dedham and Concord...will contain abundance of people.
HDC 11.55 22 ...the Concord people became uneasy, and
looked around for
new seats.
HDC 11.55 27 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of
the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr.
Jones, and settled
Fairfield. Weakened by this loss, the people begged to be released from
a
part of their rates...
HDC 11.56 2 Mr. Bulkeley dissuaded his people from
removing...
HDC 11.56 7 Even this check which befell [the people of
Concord] acquaints us with the rapidity of their growth, for the good
man [Peter
Bulkeley], in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.
HDC 11.56 14 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. This is the sin of the lowest of the
people.
HDC 11.56 18 The people on the [Massachusetts] bay
built ships...
HDC 11.56 21 The people on the [Massachusetts]
bay...found the way to
the West Indies...and the country people speedily learned to supply
themselves with sugar, tea and molasses.
HDC 11.58 12 [Simon Willard] marched from Concord to
Brookfield, in
season to save the people whose houses had been burned...
HDC 11.61 22 ...the Indian seemed to inspire such a
feeling as the wild
beast inspires in the people near his den.
HDC 11.63 18 ...the country people came armed into
Boston, on the
afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April)...
HDC 11.66 12 Mr. [Daniel] Bliss...by his earnest
sympathy with [George
Whitefield], in opinion and practice, gave offence to a part of his
people.
HDC 11.66 25 The ninth allegation [against Daniel
Bliss] is That in
praying for himself...he said, he was a poor vile worm of the dust,
that was
allowed as Mediator between God and his people.
HDC 11.67 6 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was
filled with wonder, that
such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent
Christ... even so far as to be bringing the petitions and
thank-offerings of the people
unto God...
HDC 11.67 7 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was
filled with wonder, that
such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent
Christ... even so far as to be bringing the petitions and
thank-offerings of the people
unto God, and God's will and truths to the people;...
HDC 11.67 17 In 1764, [George] Whitfield preached again
at Concord, on
Sunday afternoon; Mr. [Daniel] Bliss preached in the morning, and the
Concord people thought their minister gave them the better sermon of
the
two.
HDC 11.68 22 ...it gives life and strength to every
attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of
this, but the neighboring
provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting
opposition...
HDC 11.69 7 ...the purchasing commodities subject to
such illegal taxation
is an explicit, though an impious and sordid resignation of the
liberties of
this free and happy people.
HDC 11.72 11 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in
Concord] for the
enlisting of minute-men. Reverend William Emerson...preached to the
people.
HDC 11.72 20 It is said that all the services of that
day [March 13, 1775] made a deep impression on the people [of
Concord]...
HDC 11.75 14 In all the anecdotes of that day's [April
19, 1775] events we
may discern the natural action of the people.
HDC 11.77 12 William Emerson, the pastor [of Concord],
had a hereditary
claim to the affection of the people...
HDC 11.77 18 ...[William Emerson]...is said to have
deeply inspired many
of his people with his own enthusiasm [for the Revolution].
HDC 11.79 25 The great expense of the [Revolutionary]
war was borne
with cheerfulness [by Concord], whilst the war lasted; but years
passed, after the peace, before the debt was paid. As soon as danger
and injury
ceased, the people were left at leisure to consider their poverty and
their
debts.
HDC 11.81 4 In 1786, when the general sufferings drove
the people in
parts of Worcester and Hampshire counties to insurrection, a large
party of
armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...
HDC 11.81 10 In 1786...a large party of armed
insurgents arrived in this
town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas.
But
they found no countenance here. The same people who had been active in
a
County Convention to consider grievances, condemned the rebellion...
HDC 11.86 22 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being
exalts the
history of this people [of Concord].
LVB 11.89 21 ...my communication respects the sinister
rumors that fill
this part of the country concerning the Cherokee people.
LVB 11.90 10 In common with the great body of the
American people, we
have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the
Cherokees] to redeem their own race from the doom of eternal
inferiority...
LVB 11.92 6 We have inquired if this [rumored
relocation of the
Cherokees] be a gross misrepresentation from the party opposed to the
government and anxious to blacken it with the people.
LVB 11.92 22 Sir [Van Buren], does this government
think that the people
of the United States are become savage and mad?
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].
LVB 11.94 10 ...[the question of currency and trade] is
the chirping of
grasshoppers beside the immortal question...whether all the attributes
of
reason, of civility, of justice, and even of mercy, shall be put off by
the
American people...
LVB 11.94 19 ...there exists in a great part of the
Northern people a gloomy
diffidence in the moral character of the government.
LVB 11.95 21 I will at least...show you [Van Buren] how
plain and humane
people...regard the policy of the government...
LVB 11.96 5 The potentate and the people perish before
[the moral
sentiment];...
EWI 11.114 12 It was feared that the interest of the
master and servant [in
the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In
the island of Antigua, containing 37,000 people, 30,000 being negroes,
these objections had such weight that the legislature rejected the
apprenticeship system...
EWI 11.115 16 ...I must be indulged in quoting a few
sentences...narrating
the behavior of the emancipated people [of the West Indies] on the next
day.
EWI 11.115 24 The clergy and missionaries throughout
the island [Antigua] were actively engaged, seizing the opportunity to
enlighten the
people on all the duties and responsibilities of their new relation...
EWI 11.116 6 The [West Indian] planters informed us
that [the day after
emancipation] they went to the chapels where their own people were
assembled...
EWI 11.116 12 At Grace Bay, [the day following
emancipation in the West
Indies] the people, all dressed in white, formed a procession...
EWI 11.120 23 Though joy beamed on every countenance,
[emancipation
day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn thankfulness to
God, and the churches and chapels were everywhere filled with these
happy
people in humble offering of praise.
EWI 11.123 7 Our civility, England determines the style
of, inasmuch...as
we are the expansion of that people.
EWI 11.127 16 ...the whole transaction [emancipation in
the West Indies] reflects infinite honor on the people and parliament
of England.
EWI 11.127 21 It was a stately spectacle, to see the
cause of human rights
argued...before that powerful people [the English].
EWI 11.131 27 If the State has no power to defend its
own people in its
own shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal
Government, has it no representation in the Federal Government?
EWI 11.138 2 This moral force perpetually reinforces
and dignifies the
friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that
superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which makes in all
countries anti-slavery meetings so attractive to the people...
EWI 11.139 6 [The statesmen's] vocation is a
presumption against them
among well-meaning people.
War 11.153 3 The [early] leaders, picked men of a
courage and vigor tried
and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to distinguish themselves
above
each other by new merits, as clemency, hospitality, splendor of living.
The
people imitate the chiefs.
War 11.157 2 Wherever there is no property, the people
will put on the
knapsack for bread;...
FSLC 11.180 12 ...Boston, whose citizens, intelligent
people in England
told me they could always distinguish by their culture among
Americans;... Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
FSLC 11.182 13 Just now a friend came into my house and
said, If this [Fugitive Slave] law shall be repealed I shall be glad
that I have lived; if not
I shall be sorry that I was born. What kind of law is that which
extorts
language like this from the heart of a free and civilized people?
FSLC 11.184 23 Here are humane people who have tears
for misery, an
open purse for want; who should have been the defenders of the poor
man, are found his embittered enemies...merely from party ties.
FSLC 11.187 21 If our resistance to this law [the
Fugitive Slave Law] is
not right, there is no right. This is not meddling with other people's
affairs: this is hindering other people from meddling with us.
FSLC 11.196 6 To serve [the Fugitive Slave Law], low
and mean people
are found by the groping of the government.
FSLC 11.196 22 I wonder that our acute people who have
learned that the
cheapest police is dear schools, should not find out that an immoral
law
costs more than the loss of the custom of a Southern city.
FSLC 11.197 11 Philadelphia...in this auction of the
rights of mankind, rescinded all its legislation against slavery. And
the Boston Advertiser, and
the Courier...urge the same course on the people of Massachusetts.
FSLC 11.199 24 [The Fugitive Slave Law] has been like a
university to the
entire people.
FSLC 11.200 21 The words of John Randolph, wiser than
he knew, have
been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in
the
heat of the Missouri debate. We do not govern the people of the North
by
our black slaves, but by their own white slaves.
FSLC 11.203 9 [Webster] indulged occasionally in
excellent expression of
the known feeling of the New England people [on slavery]...
FSLC 11.205 12 The people are loyal, law-loving,
law-abiding.
FSLC 11.205 19 The union of this people is a real
thing...
FSLC 11.205 23 The people cleave to the Union, because
they see their
advantage in it...
FSLC 11.209 26 The genius of this people, it is found,
can do anything
which can be done by men.
FSLC 11.213 13 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the
Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was
foully lost, that the well-known
sentiment of her people was not expressed.
FSLN 11.220 4 ...when a great man comes who knots up
into himself the
opinions and wishes of the people, it is so much easier to follow him
as an
exponent of this.
FSLN 11.221 10 ...[Webster's] arrival in any place was
an event which
drew crowds of people...
FSLN 11.223 9 ...what [Webster] saw so well he
compelled other people to
see also.
FSLN 11.227 19 ...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.
FSLN 11.228 6 [Webster] told the people at Boston they
must conquer
their prejudices;...
FSLN 11.230 16 We [in Massachusetts] have more money
and value of
every kind than other people...
AsSu 11.247 18 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 live for the moment...
AsSu 11.250 19 ...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing
his opinion of the
Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States...
AKan 11.256 21 In these calamities under which they
suffer...the people of
Kansas ask for bread, clothes, arms and men...
AKan 11.257 8 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.
AKan 11.258 10 I think there never was a people so
choked and stultified
by forms.
AKan 11.259 12 I do not know any story so gloomy as the
politics of this
country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly
round
one spring, and that a vast crime...illustrating the fatal effects of a
false
position to...put the best people always at a disadvantage;...
AKan 11.260 7 ...our poor people, led by the nose by
these fine words [Union and Democracy], dance and sing...with every new
link of the chain
which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the Capitol.
AKan 11.260 25 Are there no women in that [Southern]
country,-women, who always carry the conscience of a people?
AKan 11.261 13 The President told the Kansas Committee
that the whole
difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people...
AKan 11.262 5 California, a few years ago, by the
testimony of all people
at that time in the country, had the best government that ever existed.
AKan 11.263 1 I think the American Revolution bought
its glory cheap. If
the problem was new, it was simple. If there were few people, they were
united...
JBB 11.270 19 ...a common feeling joins the people of
Massachusetts with [John Brown].
JBS 11.276 9 Then angrily the people cried,/ The loss
outweighs the profit
far;/ Our goods suffice us as they are:/ We will not have them tried./
JBS 11.277 7 Everything that is said of [John Brown]
leaves people a little
dissatisfied;...
JBS 11.280 18 ...all people, in proportion to their
sensibility and self-respect, sympathize with [John Brown].
JBS 11.280 25 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John
Brown's] side. I do
not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed
handkerchiefs, but men of gentle blood and generosity...
TPar 11.287 10 ...I found some harshness in [Theodore
Parker's] treatment
both of Greek and of Hebrew antiquity, and sympathized with the pain of
many good people in his auditory...
TPar 11.290 13 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on
the years when
Southern slavery...wrung from the weakness or treachery of Northern
people fatal concessions in the Fugitive Slave Bill...
ACiv 11.297 14 ...standing on this doleful experience
[slavery], these
people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind,
and
to pronounce labor disgraceful...
ACiv 11.300 2 ...a literal, slavish following of
precedents...is not for those
who at this hour lead the destinies of this people.
ACiv 11.300 7 If the American people hesitate, it is
not for want of
warning or advices.
ACiv 11.300 20 There are already mountains of facts [on
slavery], if any
one wants them. But people do not want them.
ACiv 11.301 2 You wish to satisfy people that slavery
is bad economy.
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 27 I wish I saw in the people that
inspiration which, if
government would not obey the same, would leave the government
behind...
ACiv 11.303 7 Better the war...should...punish us with
burned capitals and
slaughtered regiments, and so exasperate the people to energy...
ACiv 11.304 6 [Emancipation] is a progressive policy,
puts the whole
people in healthy, productive, amiable position...
ACiv 11.306 15 There does exist, perhaps, a popular
will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole
breadth of the continent, and
from Canada to the Gulf. But since this is the rooted belief and will
of the
people, so much the more are they in danger, when impatient of defeats,
or
impatient of taxes, to go with a rush for some peace;...
ACiv 11.307 14 ...[Emancipation] alters the atomic
social constitution of
the Southern people.
EPro 11.314 3 To-day unbind the captive,/ So only are
ye unbound;/ Lift
up a people from the dust,/ Trump of their rescue, sound!/
EPro 11.318 25 The virtues of a good magistrate...seem
vastly more potent
than the acts of bad governors, which are ever tempered by the good
nature
in the people...
EPro 11.324 15 If you could add, say [foreign critics],
to your strength the
whole army of England, of France and of Austria, you could not coerce
eight millions of people to come under this government against their
will.
EPro 11.324 24 ...granting the truth, rightly read, of
the historical
aphorism, that the people always conquer, it is to be noted that, in
the
Southern States, the tenure of land and the local laws, with slavery,
give the
social system not a democratic but an aristocratic complexion;...
EPro 11.325 26 [The Emancipation Proclamation] will be
an insurance to
the ship as it goes plunging through the sea with glad tidings to all
people.
ALin 11.328 13 How beautiful to see/ Once more a
shepherd of mankind
indeed,/ Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;/ One whose meek
flock the people joyed to be,/ Not lured by any cheat of birth,/ But by
his
clear-grained human worth,/ And brave old wisdom of sincerity!/
ALin 11.330 8 The President [Lincoln] stood before us
as a man of the
people.
ALin 11.331 7 The profound good opinion which the
people of Illinois and
of the West had conceived of [Lincoln]...was not rash...
ALin 11.331 14 A plain man of the people, an
extraordinary fortune
attended [Lincoln].
ALin 11.334 21 ...this man [Lincoln] wrought
incessantly...laboring to find
what the people wanted, and how to obtain that.
ALin 11.335 14 [Lincoln] is the true history of the
American people in his
time.
HCom 11.341 23 The War has lifted many other people
besides Grant and
Sherman into their true places.
SMC 11.352 2 The old [Concord] Monument...stands to
signalize the first
Revolution, where the people resisted offensive usurpations, offensive
taxes
of the British Parliament...
SMC 11.355 19 ...the common people [in the South], rich
or poor, were the
narrowest and most conceited of mankind...
SMC 11.356 2 This [Civil War] will be a slow business,
writes our
Concord captain [George Prescott] home, for we have to stop and
civilize
people as we go along.
SMC 11.356 10 ...when the Border raids were let loose
on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with
rage, that they
became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined
avengers.
SMC 11.358 9 None of us can have forgotten how sharp a
test to try our
peaceful people with, was the first call for troops [in the Civil War].
SMC 11.368 4 How would Concord people, [George
Prescott] asks, like to
pass the night on the battle-field, and hear the dying cry for help,
and not be
able to go to them.
SMC 11.370 6 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth
[Regiment], came to
him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to
appreciate the
Thirty-second Regiment: it always was a good regiment, and people are
just
beginning to find it out; Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity
they
have not found it out before it was all gone.
SMC 11.375 21 There are people who can hardly read the
names on yonder
bronze tablet [Concord Monument], the mist so gathers in their eyes.
EdAd 11.383 1 The American people are fast opening
their own destiny.
EdAd 11.385 22 What more serious calamity can befall a
people than a
constitutional dulness and limitation?
EdAd 11.389 24 ...the laws and governors cannot possess
a commanding
interest for any but vacant or fanatical people;...
EdAd 11.392 19 In the rapid decay of what was called
religion, timid and
unthinking people fancy a decay of the hope of man.
Koss 11.397 4 The people of this town [Concord] share
with their
countrymen the admiration of valor and perseverance;...
Koss 11.397 10 ...it is the privilege of the people of
this town [Concord] to
keep a hallowed mound which has a place in the story of the country;...
Koss 11.398 17 ...I may say of the people of this
country at large, that their
sympathy is more worth, because it stands the test of party.
Wom 11.417 24 There are plenty of people who believe
women to be
incapable of anything but to cook...
Wom 11.417 27 There are plenty of people who believe
that the world is
governed by men of dark complexions...
Wom 11.418 26 The answer that lies, silent or spoken,
in the minds of well-meaning
persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this: that...they
are asked for by people who intellectually seek them, but who have not
the
support or sympathy of the truest women;...
Wom 11.419 8 ...perhaps it is because these people
[advocates of women's
rights] have been deprived of education...that they have been stung to
say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see that the whole
race of women
shall not suffer as we have suffered.
Wom 11.420 25 If new power is here, of a
character...which...opens new
careers to our young receptive men and women, you [women] can well
leave voting to the old dead people.
Wom 11.421 20 ...if any man will take the trouble to
see how our people
vote...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as
wisely.
Wom 11.423 6 If the wants, the passions, the vices, are
allowed a full vote... I think it but fair that the virtues, the
aspirations should be allowed a full
vote, as an offset, through the purest part of the people.
SHC 11.430 24 Our people accepting this lesson from
science, yet touched
by the tenderness which Christianity breathes, have found a mean in the
consecration of gardens.
SHC 11.432 19 I suppose all of us will readily admit
the value of parks and
cultivated grounds to the pleasure and education of the people...
RBur 11.441 7 The people who care nothing for
literature and poetry care
for Burns.
Scot 11.466 3 ...[Scott's] eminent humanity delighted
in the sense and
virtue and wit of the common people.
ChiE 11.471 16 [China's] people had such elemental
conservatism that by
some wonderful force of race and national manners, the wars and
revolutions that occur in her annals have proved but momentary swells
or
surges on the pacific ocean of her history...
FRO1 11.478 7 We are all very sensible...of the
feeling...that a technical
theology no longer suits us. It is not the ill will of people...
FRO2 11.487 3 When I find in people narrow religion, I
find also in them
narrow reading.
CPL 11.495 1 The people of Massachusetts prize the
simple political
arrangement of towns...
CPL 11.495 16 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens
who cannot wait for
the slow growth of the population to make these advantages adequate to
the
desires of the people...
CPL 11.498 6 There is no people, said [Peter Bulkeley]
to his little flock of
exiles, but will strive to excel in something. What can we excel in if
not in
holiness?
CPL 11.498 11 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to
number, we are the
fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people
of God
through the whole world.
CPL 11.498 13 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to
number, we are the
fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people
of God
through the whole world. We cannot excel, nor so much as equal other
people in these things...
CPL 11.498 15 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to
number, we are the
fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people
of God
through the whole world. We cannot excel, nor so much as equal other
people in these things, and if we come short in grace and holiness too,
we
are the most despicable people under heaven.
FRep 11.517 5 The lodging the power in the people...has
the effect of
holding things closer to common sense;...
FRep 11.517 16 One hundred years ago the American
people attempted to
carry out the bill of political rights to an almost ideal perfection.
FRep 11.518 11 ...liberal congresses and legislatures
ordain, to the surprise
of the people, equivocal, interested and vicious measures.
FRep 11.518 15 No [legislative] measure is attempted
for itself, but the
opinion of the people is courted in the first place...
FRep 11.518 23 The people are feared and flattered.
FRep 11.521 5 ...we do as other people do...
FRep 11.522 21 I think this levity is a reaction on the
[American] people
from the extraordinary advantages and invitations of their condition.
FRep 11.523 17 The people are right-minded enough on
ethical questions...
FRep 11.524 7 The record of the election now and then
alarms people by
the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler.
FRep 11.524 13 [The election of a rogue and a brawler]
was done by the
very men you know,-the mildest, most sensible, best-natured people.
FRep 11.525 7 After every practical mistake out of
which any disaster
grows, the [American] people wake and correct it with energy.
FRep 11.526 23 ...instead of the doleful experience of
the European
economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the
great
body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has
arrived at a sloven plenty...
FRep 11.528 7 All this [American] forwardness and
self-reliance...proceed
on the belief that as the people have made a government they can make
another;...
FRep 11.528 15 The [American] people are loyal,
law-abiding.
FRep 11.528 19 America was opened after the feudal
mischief was spent, and so the people made a good start.
FRep 11.529 8 As the globe keeps its identity by
perpetual change, so our
civil system, by perpetual appeal to the people...
FRep 11.529 23 The men, the women, all over this land
shrill their
exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or
is
unbecoming in the government...not on the class-feeling which narrows
the
perception of English, French, German people at home.
FRep 11.532 4 Our people are too slight and vain.
FRep 11.532 11 Our people act on the moment...
FRep 11.534 26 ...the land and sea educate the
people...
FRep 11.535 1 ...the land and sea educate the people,
and bring out
presence of mind, self-reliance, and hundred-handed activity. These are
the
people for an emergency.
FRep 11.538 9 It is not a question whether we shall be
a multitude of
people.
PLT 12.8 22 ...was there ever prophet burdened with a
message to his
people who did not cloud our gratitude by a strange confounding in his
own
mind of private folly with his public wisdom?
PLT 12.22 19 Is it not a little startling to see with
what genius some people
take to hunting...
PLT 12.22 20 Is it not a little startling to see...with
what genius some
people fish...
PLT 12.31 11 The temptation is to patronize Providence,
to fall into the
accepted ways of talking and acting of the good sort of people.
PLT 12.39 8 A man of talent has only to name any form
or fact with which
we are most familiar, and the strong light which he throws on it
enhances it
to all eyes. People wonder they never saw it before.
PLT 12.47 25 We like people who can do things.
PLT 12.57 4 If a man show cleverness...people clap
their hands without
asking more.
PLT 12.58 1 ...there are quick limits to our interest
in the personality of
people.
Mem 12.94 18 'T is because of the believed
incompatibility of the
affirmative and advancing attitude of the mind with tenacious acts of
recollection that people are often reproached with living in their
memory.
Mem 12.98 11 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider
he sees; he seems
to remember all he ever knew; thus certifying us that he is in the
habit of
seeing better than other people;...
CInt 12.114 19 Milton congratulates the Parliament
that, whilst London is
besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other
times
wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to
be
reformed...
CInt 12.118 24 The English newspapers and some writers
of reputation
disparage America. Meantime I note that the British people are
emigrating
hither by thousands...
CInt 12.119 1 The emigration into America of British,
as well as of
Continental people, is the eulogy of America...
CInt 12.119 9 I delight in people who can do things.
CInt 12.119 21 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows
how to seize the
heart-strings of the people...
CInt 12.121 18 ...a larger angle of vision, commands
centuries of facts and
millions of thoughtless people.
CInt 12.122 9 ...it happens often that the wellbred and
refined...are more
vicious and malignant than the rude country people...
CL 12.135 8 The land, the care of land, seems to be the
calling of the
people of this new country...
CL 12.137 15 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people
suffering every
spring from the loss of their cattle...
CL 12.147 19 ...I recommend [a walk in the woods] to
people who are
growing old, against their will.
CL 12.147 22 ...I recommend [a walk in the woods] to
people who are
growing old, against their will. A man in that predicament, if he
stands... among young people, is made quite too sensible of the
fact;...
CL 12.149 10 The Hindoos called fire Agni...protector
of people in
villages;...
CL 12.153 21 ...whenever we find a coast broken up into
bays and harbors, we find an instant effect on the intellect and the
industry of the people.
CW 12.172 15 ...our people are vain, when abroad, of
having the freedom
of foreign cities presented to them in a gold box.
CW 12.173 12 Here [in the Academy Garden] I [Linnaeus]
admire the
wisdom of the Supreme Artist, disclosing Himself by proofs of every
kind, and show them to others. Our people are learning that lesson year
by year.
CW 12.174 13 In the arboretum you should have
things...which people who
read of them are hungry to see.
Bost 12.183 7 ...it was remarked that insulary people
are versatile and
addicted to change...
Bost 12.185 7 ...if the character of the people [of
Boston] has a larger range
and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of
extremes...
Bost 12.185 21 Give me a climate where people think
well and construct
well,-I will spend six months there, and you may have all the rest of
my
years.
Bost 12.190 1 [John Smith writes (1624)] The seacoast,
as you pass, shows
you all along...great troops of well-proportioned people.
Bost 12.193 21 An old lady who remembered these pious
people [the
Massachusetts colonists] said of them that they had to hold on hard to
the
huckleberry bushes to hinder themselves from being translated.
Bost 12.195 8 I trace to this deep religious sentiment
and to its culture great
and salutary results to the people of New England;...
Bost 12.203 26 ...I do not find in our [New England]
people, with all their
education, a fair share of originality of thought;...
Bost 12.204 19 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want
epic poems and
dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world.
Corn, yes, but...corn with thanks to the Giver of corn; and the best
thanks, namely, obedience to his law; this was the office imposed on
our Founders
and people;...
Bost 12.204 25 The seed of prosperity was planted [in
Massachusetts]. The
people did not gather where they had not sown.
Bost 12.205 13 ...when within our memory some flippant
senator wished to
taunt the people of this country by calling them the mudsills of
society, he
paid them ignorantly a true praise;...
Bost 12.206 4 When men saw that these people [of
Boston], besides their
industry and thrift, had a heart and soul...they desired to come and
live here.
Bost 12.206 9 A house in Boston was worth as much again
as a house just
as good in a town of timorous people...
MAng1 12.229 24 In the church called the Minerva, at
Rome, is [Michelangelo's] Christ; an object of so much devotion to the
people that
the right foot has been shod with a brazen sandal to prevent it from
being
kissed away.
Milt1 12.265 22 [Milton]...deliberately undertakes the
defence of the
English people, when advised by his physicians that he does it at the
cost of
sight.
ACri 12.285 17 ...[George Borrow] had one clear
perception, that the key
to every country was command of the language of the common people.
ACri 12.288 3 The short Saxon words with which the
people help
themselves are better than Latin.
ACri 12.298 12 Here has come into the country, three
months ago, a
History of Friedrich...a book that, one would think, the English people
would rise up in a mass to thank [Carlyle] for...
ACri 12.304 8 The democratic, when the power proceeds
organically from
the people and is responsible to them, are classic politics.
ACri 12.304 25 When I read Plutarch, or look at a Greek
vase, I incline to
accept the common opinion of scholars, that the Greeks had clearer wits
than any other people.
MLit 12.319 11 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this
[subjective] taste in
the people more than the circulation of the poems...of Coleridge,
Shelley
and Keats.
AgMs 12.361 8 ...our [New England] people are not
stationary...
PPr 12.380 18 [Carlyle's Past and Present] has the
merit which belongs to
every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent,
and
so...as the country people say of good preaching, comes bounce down
into
every pew.
PPr 12.381 2 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds...the
vice [of the times] in false
and superficial aims of the people...
PPr 12.387 5 Each age has its own follies, as its
majority is made up of
foolish young people;...
Let 12.393 25 The sea and the iron road are safer toys
for such ungrown
people;...
Let 12.394 19 [The correspondents] do not wish a
township or any large
expenditure or incorporated association, but simply a concentration of
chosen people.
Let 12.396 7 It is not for nothing, we assure
ourselves, that our people are
busied with these projects of a better social state...
Let 12.399 25 I cannot conceive of a people more
disjoined than the
Germans.
Let 12.400 14 There is nothing holy...which is not
degraded to a mean end
among this people [the Germans].
Let 12.401 15 Where a people honors genius in its
artists, there breathes
like an atmosphere a universal soul...
Let 12.401 20 Where a people honors genius in its
artists, there breathes
like an atmosphere a universal soul...all hearts become pious and
great, and
it adds fire to heroes. The home of all men is with such a people...
Let 12.402 18 In all the cases we have ever seen where
people were
supposed to suffer from too much wit...it turned out that they had not
wit
enough.
Trag 12.409 22 There are people who have an appetite
for grief...
Trag 12.412 10 The Egyptian sphinxes...have
countenances expressive of
complacency and repose...verifying the primeval sentence of history on
the
permanency of that people, Their strength is to sit still.
people, v. (2)
Tran 1.347 18 ...a favorite spot in the hills or the
woods which they can
people with the fair and worthy creation of the fancy, can give
[Transcendentalists] often forms so vivid that these for the time shall
seem
real, and society the illusion.
Pt1 3.40 23 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes
pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark, to come forth again
to people a new world.
peopled, v. (7)
Con 1.326 14 ...amidst a planet peopled with
conservatives, one Reformer
may yet be born.
ET4 5.56 25 The men who have built a ship and invented
the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more
than a ship. Now arm
them and every shore is at their mercy. ... As soon as the shores are
sufficiently peopled to make piracy a losing business, the same skill
and
courage are ready for the service of trade.
CbW 6.255 26 California gets peopled and subdued,
civilized in this
immoral way...
Ill 6.309 14 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...paddled three
quarters of a mile in
the deep Echo River, whose waters are peopled with the blind fish;...
WD 7.161 24 When Europe is over-populated, America and
Australia crave
to be peopled;...
Boks 7.191 2 ...read Plutarch, and the world is a proud
place, peopled with
men of positive quality...
Dem1 10.3 19 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/
How many a large
creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/
Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never
feels
the crowd./
peoples, n. (4)
ET2 5.32 24 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic
ship the right avenue to
the palace front of this seafaring people [the English], who for
hundreds of
years...exacted toll and the striking sail from the ships of all other
peoples.
ET4 5.55 2 Some peoples are deciduous or transitory.
Wth 6.93 19 Columbus...looks on all kings and peoples
as cowardly
landsmen until they dare fit him out.
SovE 10.187 13 The civil history of men might be traced
by the successive
meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...bargains of
kings
with peoples of certain rights to certain classes, then of rights to
masses...
people's, n. [peoples',] (14)
SL 2.157 19 Very idle is all curiosity concerning other
people's estimate of
us...
Exp 3.81 18 ...I cannot dispose of other people's
facts;...
Chr1 3.106 1 Two persons lately...have given me
occasion for thought. When I explored the source of their sanctity and
charm for the imagination, it seemed as if each answered, From my
non-conformity; I never listened to
your people's law...
MoS 4.182 7 the people's questions are not [the
spiritualist's];...
NMW 4.248 5 Bonaparte relied on his own sense, and did
not care a bean
for other people's.
ET13 5.218 5 The carved and pictured chapel...made the
parish-church [in
England] a sort of book and Bible to the people's eye.
SA 8.99 5 Don't recite other people's opinions.
QO 8.197 9 We...could express ourselves in other
people's phrases to finer
purpose than they knew.
PerF 10.78 13 What a power [is Imagination], when,
combined with the
analyzing understanding, it makes Eloquence;...the art of making
peoples'
hearts dance to his pipe!
HDC 11.61 8 ...the mantle of [Peter Bulkeley's] piety
and of the people's
affection fell upon his son Edward...
FSLC 11.187 20 If our resistance to this law [the
Fugitive Slave Law] is
not right, there is no right. This is not meddling with other people's
affairs: this is hindering other people from meddling with us.
FSLN 11.217 11 The one thing not to be forgiven to
intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this
want of manly rest in their own
and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility
and
fatigue of their conversation.
FRep 11.521 21 The American marches with a careless
swagger to the
height of power, very heedless of his own liberty or of other
peoples'...
ACri 12.294 23 Shakespeare's] loom is better toothed,
cranked and
pedalled than other people's...
peopling, v. (1)
OS 2.292 22 How dear, how soothing to man, arises the
idea of God, peopling the lonely place...
Pepa [Borrow, The Zincali] (1)
ET13 5.229 26 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the
Apostles' Creed
in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The
features of the assembly were twisted...not an individual present but
squinted; the genteel Pepa, the good-humored Chicharona...
pepper, n. (4)
MoS 4.153 9 [The men of the senses] believe...that
pepper is hot...
ET10 5.168 2 England is aghast at the disclosure of her
fraud in the
adulteration of food, of drugs...finding that milk will not
nourish...nor
pepper bite the tongue...
EWI 11.111 12 ...iron collars were riveted on [West
Indian slaves'] necks
with iron prongs ten inches long; capsicum pepper was rubbed in the
eyes
of the females;...
PLT 12.13 15 I think metaphysics a grammar to which,
once read, we
seldom return. 'T is a Manila full of pepper, and I want only a
teaspoonful
in a year.
pepper-corn, adj. (2)
Nat 1.32 9 ...how great a language to convey such
pepper-corn
informations!
Wsp 6.208 12 After [the people's] pepper-corn aims are
gained, it seems as
if the lime in their bones alone held them together...
Pepperell, William, n. (1)
Elo1 7.78 6 It was said of Sir William Pepperell...that,
put him where you
might, he commanded, and saw what he willed come to pass.
pepper-pot, n. (1)
Bty 6.304 16 Every word has a double, treble or centuple
use and meaning. What! has my stove and pepper-pot a false bottom?
Pepys, Samuel, n. (7)
ET11 5.178 21 Pepys tells us, in writing of an Earl
Oxford, in 1666, that
the honor had now remained in that name and blood six hundred years.
ET11 5.190 3 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from
the pen of Queen
Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...some glimpses at the interiors of
noble
houses, which we owe to Pepys and Evelyn;...are favorable pictures of a
romantic style of manners.
ET11 5.191 8 Grammont, Pepys and Evelyn show the
kennels to which the
king and court went in quest of pleasure.
ET11 5.191 18 In logical sequence of these dignified
revels, Pepys can tell
the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced...
ET13 5.224 19 Abroad with my wife, writes Pepys
piously, the first time
that ever I rode in my own coach; which do make my heart rejoice and
praise God...
ET14 5.234 2 Hobbes was perfect in the noble vulgar
speech. Donne... Taylor, Evelyn, Pepys...wrote it.
Elo1 7.84 2 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...I did never
observe how much
easier a man do speak when he knows all the company to be below him,
than in him;...
Pepys's, Samuel, n. (1)
ET6 5.108 26 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.
Pequot Indians, n. (4)
HDC 11.35 14 The great cost of cattle...and the fear of
the Pequots; are the
other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
HDC 11.44 9 ...it was the river, or the winter, or
famine, or the Pequots, that spoke through [the townsmen] to the
Governor and the Council of
Massachusetts Bay.
HDC 11.54 18 The Pequots, the terror of the farmer,
were exterminated in
1637.
CL 12.147 4 ...there was a contest between the old
orchard and the
invading forest-trees, for the possession of the ground, of the whites
against
the Pequots...
per cent, n. (8)
ET5 5.75 26 ...the banker, with his seven per cent.,
drives the earl out of his
castle.
Wth 6.108 11 If, in Boston, the best securities offer
twelve per cent. for
money, they have just six per cent. of insecurity.
Wth 6.108 12 If, in Boston, the best securities offer
twelve per cent. for
money, they have just six per cent. of insecurity.
Suc 7.293 22 It is the dulness of the multitude that
they cannot see the
house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector.
Whilst
it is a thought...it is cried down, it is a chimera; but when it is a
fact, and
comes in the shape of eight per cent....they cry, It is the voice of
God.
Suc 7.293 23 It is the dulness of the multitude that
they cannot see the
house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector.
Whilst
it is a thought...it is cried down, it is a chimera; but when it is a
fact, and
comes in the shape of...ten per cent., a hundred per cent., they cry,
It is the
voice of God.
CL 12.147 8 According to the common estimate of
farmers, the wood-lot
yields its gentle rent of six per cent....
CL 12.159 25 ...the speculators who rush for
investment, at ten per cent., twenty per cent....are all more or less
mad...
CL 12.159 26 ...the speculators who rush for
investment, at ten per cent., twenty per cent, cent. per cent., are all
more or less mad...
per cents, n. (1)
ET8 5.143 7 [The English] choose that welfare which is
compatible with
the commonwealth, knowing that such alone is stable; as wise merchants
prefer investments in the three per cents.
per cents, six, n. (1)
Pow 6.61 23 A timid man...might easily believe that he
and his country
have seen their best days, and he hardens himself the best he can
against the
coming ruin. But after this has been foretold with equal confidence
fifty
times, and government six per cents have not declined a quarter of a
mill, he discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are
here in play
make our politics unimportant.
perambulated, v. (1)
Farm 7.149 27 The selectmen [of Concord] have once in
every five years
perambulated the boundaries...
Perceforest, n. (1)
Hist 2.34 25 In Perceforest and Amadis de Gaul a garland
and a rose bloom
on the head of her who is faithful...
perceivable, adj. (1)
DL 7.124 17 ...we soon catch the trick of each man's
conversation, and
knowing his two or three main facts, anticipate what he thinks of each
new
topic that rises. It is scarcely less perceivable in educated men, so
called, than in the uneducated.
perceive, v. (32)
Nat 1.66 18 [The best read naturalist] will perceive
that there are far more
excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and
infallibility;...
MR 1.242 4 ...there were two pairs of eyes in man, and
it is requisite that
the pair which are beneath should be closed, when the pair that are
above
them perceive...
MR 1.246 25 ...[infirm people] have a great deal more
to do for themselves
than they can possibly perform, nor do they once perceive the cruel
joke of
their lives...
MR 1.250 13 ...the reason of the distrust of the
practical man in all theory, is his inability to perceive the means
whereby we work.
Tran 1.329 18 ...the second class [Idealists] perceive
that the senses are not
final...
Tran 1.331 10 Even the materialist Condillac...was
constrained to say...it is
always our own thought that we perceive.
Tran 1.332 20 ...[the materialist] will perceive that
his mental fabric is built
up on just as strange and quaking foundations as his proud edifice of
stone.
SR 2.80 13 [Unbalanced minds] do not yet perceive that
light...will break
into any cabin...
SL 2.141 21 The pretence that [a man] has another call,
a summons by
name and personal election...betrays obtuseness to perceive that there
is one
mind in all the individuals...
SL 2.142 24 We...do not perceive that any thing man can
do may be
divinely done.
Fdsp 2.212 15 Late,--very late,--we perceive that no
arrangements...would
be of any avail to establish us in such relations with [the noble] as
we
desire...
Int 2.329 14 If we consider what persons have
stimulated and profited us, we shall perceive the superiority of the
spontaneous or intuitive principle
over the arithmetical or logical.
Mrs1 3.125 26 ...if the man of the people cannot speak
on equal terms with
the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already
really
of his own order, he is not to be feared.
UGM 4.13 22 If you affect to give me bread and fire, I
perceive that I pay
for it the full price...
Ctr 6.142 5 I am always happy to meet persons who
perceive the
transcendent superiority of Shakspeare over all other writers.
Bhr 6.186 27 A person of strong mind comes to perceive
that for him an
immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which
is
native and proper to him...
Wsp 6.229 12 When the parent...puts them off with a
traditional or a
hypocritical answer, the children perceive that it is traditional or
hypocritical.
CbW 6.268 15 The youth aches for solitude. When he
comes to the house
he passes through the house. That does not make the deep recess he
sought. Ah! now I perceive, he says, it must be deep with persons;...
Civ 7.23 22 We see insurmountable multitudes
obeying...the restraints of a
power which they scarcely perceive...
Elo1 7.91 11 ...people always perceive whether you
drive or whether the
horses take the bits in their teeth and run.
Cour 7.265 26 Our affections and wishes for the
external welfare of the
hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries: but we,
like him, subside into indifferency and defiance when we perceive how
short is the
longest arm of malice...
PI 8.71 14 ...you must have the vivacity of the poet to
perceive in the
thought its futurities.
Dem1 10.6 23 You may catch the glance of a dog
sometimes which lays a
kind of claim to sympathy and brotherhood. What! somewhat of me down
there? Does he know it? Can he too, as I...perceive relations?
Chr2 10.100 1 Some men's words I remember so well that
I must often use
them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard
the
same truth...
Edc1 10.130 16 If Newton come and...perceive that not
alone certain
bodies fall to the ground at a certain rate, but that all bodies in the
Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his
mind... over every cubic atom of his native planet...
Prch 10.237 13 There are two pairs of eyes in man; and
it is requisite that
the pair which are beneath should be closed when the pair that are
above
them perceive;...
MMEm 10.429 15 [God] communicates this our condition
and humble
waiting, or I [Mary Moody Emerson] should never perceive Him.
EWI 11.145 7 ...in the great anthem which we call
history...[the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can
strike in with effect...
PLT 12.21 17 ...having accepted this law of identity
pervading the
universe, we next perceive that whilst every creature represents and
obeys
it, there is diversity...
Mem 12.105 14 Michael Angelo, after having once seen a
work of any
other artist, would remember it so perfectly that if it pleased him to
make
use of any portion thereof, he could do so, but in such a manner that
none
could perceive it.
Bost 12.186 5 What Vasari said...of the republican city
of Florence might
be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully
generated by the air of that place, in the men of every profession;
whereby
all who possess talent are impelled to struggle that they may not
remain in
the same grade with those whom they perceive to be only men like
themselves...
ACri 12.300 18 Whatever new object we see, we perceive
to be only a new
version of our familiar experience...
perceived, v. (13)
PPh 4.63 12 The soul which has never perceived the
truth, cannot pass into
the human form [said Plato].
PPh 4.65 24 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each
of these disciplines a
certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated...an organ
better
worth saving than ten thousand eyes, since truth is perceived by this
alone.
MoS 4.166 1 ...I, [says Montaigne,]...am afraid that
Plato, in his purest
virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, would
have heard
some jarring sound of human mixture; but faint and remote and only to
be
perceived by himself.
Clbs 7.242 1 Even Montesquieu confessed that in
conversation, if he
perceived he was listened to by a third person, it seemed to him from
that
moment the whole question vanished from his mind.
OA 7.319 18 We had a judge in Massachusetts who at
sixty proposed to
resign, alleging that he perceived a certain decay in his faculties;...
Comc 8.173 7 ...when this [patriotic] enthusiasm is
perceived to end in the
very intelligible maxims of trade...the intellect feels again the
half-man.
QO 8.177 14 He who has once known [a book's]
satisfactions is provided
with a resource against calamity. Like Plato's disciple who has
perceived a
truth, he is preserved from harm until another period.
Imtl 8.329 3 A man of thought is willing to die,
willing to live; I suppose
because he has seen the thread on which the beads are strung, and
perceived
that it reaches up and down...
Chr2 10.109 3 ...when once it is perceived that the
English missionaries in
India put obstacles in the way of schools...it is seen at once how wide
of
Christ is English Christianity.
SovE 10.200 25 You have perceived in the first fact of
your conscious life
here a miracle so astounding...as to exhaust wonder...
LS 11.8 27 ...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.
It is
then perceived that the leading circumstances in the Gospels are only a
faithful account of that ceremony.
PLT 12.41 2 ...a thought, properly speaking,-that is a
truth held...because
we have perceived it is a fact in the nature of things...is of
inestimable value.
Mem 12.96 5 We are told that Boileau having recited to
Daguesseau one
day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau
tranquilly
told him he knew it already, and in proof set himself to recite it from
end to
end. Boileau, astonished, was much distressed, until he perceived that
it
was only a feat of memory.
perceiver, n. (2)
OS 2.279 16 The soul is the perceiver and revealer of
truth.
PC 8.220 18 How much more are...the wise and good
souls...Alfred the
king, Shakspeare the poet, Newton the philosopher, the perceiver and
obeyer of truth,-than the foolish and sensual millions around them!
perceivers, n. (1)
F 6.5 6 Great men, great nations,
have...been...perceivers of the terror of
life...
perceives, v. (12)
Nat 1.72 4 [Man] perceives that if his law is still
paramount...it is not
inferior but superior to his will.
DSA 1.121 14 [The sentiment of virtue] perceives that
this homely game of
life we play, covers...principles that astonish.
SR 2.69 6 The soul raised over passion...perceives the
self-existence of
Truth and Right...
Pt1 3.20 15 [The poet] perceives the independence of
the thought on the
symbol...
Pt1 3.20 24 ...[the poet]...perceives that thought is
multiform;...
Exp 3.66 23 ...if one remembers how innocently he began
to be an artist, he
perceives that nature joined with his enemy.
PNR 4.82 5 The mind does not create what it
perceives...
Bhr 6.184 5 ...[of every two persons who meet on any
affair],--one
instantly perceives that he has the key of the situation...
DL 7.126 13 [One] perceives that Nature has laid for
each the foundations
of a divine building...
DL 7.132 20 When [man] perceives the Law, he ceases to
despond.
Prch 10.229 12 The opinions of men lose all worth to
him who perceives
that they are accurately predictable from the ground of their sect.
MAng1 12.217 2 ...in proportion as man rises above the
servitude to wealth
and a pursuit of mean pleasures, he perceives that what is most real is
most
beautiful...
perceiving, adj. (3)
PI 8.38 18 ...it is a few oracles spoken by perceiving
men that are the texts
on which religions and states are founded.
Chr2 10.92 5 ...will, pure and perceiving, is not
wilfulness.
Edc1 10.126 11 ...when one and the same man passes out
of the torpid into
the perceiving state...all limits disappear.
perceiving, n. (1)
NER 3.281 6 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse
with the most
commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear...that a perfect
understanding, a like receiving, a like perceiving, abolished
differences;...
perceiving, v. (10)
Nat 1.36 16 ...Reason transfers all these lessons into
its own world of
thought, by perceiving the analogy that marries Matter and Mind.
AmS 1.85 27 ...what is classification but the
perceiving that these objects
are not chaotic...
SR 2.89 12 He who knows that power is inborn...and, so
perceiving, throws
himself unhesitatingly on his thought, instantly rights himself...
Pt1 3.12 21 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in
perceiving that [the
poet] does not know the way into the heavens...
PPh 4.48 1 We unite all things by perceiving the law
which pervades
them;...
PPh 4.48 2 We unite all things...by perceiving the
superficial differences
and the profound resemblances.
F 6.18 6 No one can read the history of astronomy
without perceiving that
Copernicus, Newton...are not new men...
Bty 6.304 20 ...there is a joy in perceiving the
representative or symbolic
character of a fact...
Comc 8.160 17 The activity of our sympathies may for a
time hinder our
perceiving the fact intellectually...
Supl 10.164 3 Like the French, [those with the
superlative temperament] are enchanted, they are desolate, because you
have got or have not got a
shoe-string or a wafer you happen to want,-not perceiving that
superlatives are diminutives, and weaken;...
perception, n. (199)
Nat 1.16 13 ...the simple perception of natural forms is
a delight.
Nat 1.38 8 The whole character and fortune of the
individual are affected
by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding; for
example, in
the perception of differences.
Nat 1.54 22 The perception of real affinities between
events...enables the
poet...to assert the predominance of the soul.
Nat 1.57 22 ...we learn...that with a perception of
truth...[time and space] have no affinity.
Nat 1.68 14 A perception of this mystery inspires the
muse of George
Herbert...
Nat 1.69 22 The perception of this class of [spiritual]
truths makes the
attraction which draws men to science...
Nat 1.74 5 Love is as much [the spirit's] demand as
perception.
AmS 1.112 14 This perception of the worth of the vulgar
is fruitful in
discoveries.
DSA 1.121 5 ...when by intellectual perception [man]
attains to say, - I
love the Right...then...God is well pleased.
DSA 1.124 22 The perception of this law of laws awakens
in the mind a
sentiment which we call the religious sentiment...
MN 1.203 3 ...we are steadied by the perception that a
great deal is doing;...
MN 1.222 20 Do what you know, and perception is
converted into
character...
LT 1.283 8 The inadequacy of the work to the faculties
is the painful
perception which keeps [men] still.
LT 1.286 19 [The spiritualists'] fault is that they
have stopped at the
intellectual perception;...
LT 1.288 24 ...we...do not know that the law and the
perception of the law
are at last one;...
Con 1.301 22 Our experience, our perception is
conditioned by the need to
acquire in parts and in succession...
Tran 1.350 10 A great man will be content to have
indicated in any the
slightest manner his perception of the reigning Idea of his time...
Hist 2.27 3 ...when a truth that fired the soul of
Pindar fires mine, time is no
more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception...why should I
measure
degrees of latitude...
Hist 2.31 23 The philosophical perception of identity
through endless
mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus.
SR 2.47 18 Great men have always...confided themselves
childlike to the
genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely
trustworthy was seated at their heart...
SR 2.65 16 ...[thoughtless people] do not distinguish
between perception
and notion.
SR 2.65 18 ...perception is not whimsical, but fatal.
SR 2.65 22 ...my perception of [a trait] is as much a
fact as the sun.
SR 2.68 11 When we have new perception, we shall gladly
disburden the
memory of its hoarded treasures as old rubbish.
SL 2.138 1 ...the perception of the inexhaustibleness
of nature is an
immortal youth.
Prd1 2.221 10 ...I...hate...people without perception.
Prd1 2.223 2 The first class have common sense; the
second, taste; and the
third, spiritual perception.
Prd1 2.228 11 It is vinegar to the eyes to deal with
men of loose and
imperfect perception.
Prd1 2.228 15 Our American character is marked by a
more than average
delight in accurate perception...
Prd1 2.238 20 ...kindness is necessary to
perception;...
Hsm1 2.255 15 The essence of greatness is the
perception that virtue is
enough.
OS 2.279 26 It was a grand sentence of Emanuel
Swedenborg, which would
alone indicate the greatness of that man's perception,--It is no proof
of a
man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases;...
OS 2.281 15 In these communications [of the soul] the
power to see is not
separated from the will to do, but the insight proceeds from obedience,
and
the obedience proceeds from a joyful perception.
Int 2.325 20 ...[the mind] melts will into
perception...
Int 2.340 22 ...an index or mercury of intellectual
proficiency is the
perception of identity.
Art1 2.354 4 ...historically viewed, it has been the
office of art to educate
the perception of beauty.
Art1 2.364 7 [Sculpture] was originally a useful
art...and among a people
possessed of a wonderful perception of form this childish carving was
refined to the utmost splendor of effect.
Pt1 3.3 17 ...men seem to have lost the perception of
the instant dependence
of form upon soul.
Pt1 3.13 25 ...a perception of beauty should be
sympathetic, or proper only
to the good.
Pt1 3.20 12 The poet, by an ulterior intellectual
perception, gives [things] a
power which makes their old use forgotten...
Pt1 3.20 22 ...through that better perception [the
poet] stands one step
nearer to things...
Pt1 3.36 8 There was this perception in [Swedenborg]
which makes the
poet or seer an object of awe and terror...
Exp 3.45 15 Our life is not so much threatened as our
perception.
Chr1 3.99 4 The same transport which the occurrence of
the best events in
the best order would occasion me, I must learn to taste purer in the
perception that my position is every hour meliorated, and does already
command those events I desire.
Mrs1 3.138 20 We imperatively require a perception of,
and a homage to
beauty in our companions.
Mrs1 3.139 14 This perception [of measure] comes in to
polish and perfect
the parts of the social instrument.
Mrs1 3.140 25 ...besides personal force and so much
perception as
constitutes unerring taste, society demands in its patrician class
another
element...which it significantly terms good-nature...
Pol1 3.215 5 If I put myself in the place of my child,
and we stand in one
thought and see that things are thus or thus, that perception is law
for him
and me.
UGM 4.18 1 The high functions of the intellect are so
allied that some
imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...especially in
meditative men of an intuitive habit of thought. This class serve us,
so that
they have the perception of identity and the preception of reaction.
UGM 4.18 2 The high functions of the intellect are so
allied that some
imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...especially in
meditative men of an intuitive habit of thought. This class serve us,
so that
they have the perception of identity and the preception of reaction.
UGM 4.18 4 The perception of these laws [of identity
and of reaction] is a
kind of metre of the mind.
UGM 4.24 19 Not the feeblest grandame, not a mowing
idiot, but uses what
spark of perception and faculty is left, to chuckle and triumph in his
or her
opinion over the absurdities of all the rest.
PPh 4.48 4 ...every mental act,--this very perception
of identity, or oneness, recognizes the difference of things.
PPh 4.60 14 Such as his perception, was [Plato's]
speech...
PNR 4.82 19 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a
second sense, and
ulterior senses. His perception of the generation of contraries, of
death out
of life and life out of death...
SwM 4.106 9 [Swedenborg] was apt for cosmology, because
of that native
perception of identity which made mere size of no account to him.
SwM 4.119 3 To a right perception...of the order of
nature, [Swedenborg] added the comprehension of the moral laws in their
widest social aspects;...
SwM 4.121 1 [Swedenborg's] perception of nature is not
human and
universal...
SwM 4.121 4 [Swedenborg] fastens each natural object to
a theologic
notion;--a horse signifies carnal understanding; a tree, perception;...
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 4.143 18 It is remarkable that this man
[Swedenborg], who, by his
perception of symbols, saw the poetic construction of things...remained
entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression...
SwM 4.143 21 It is remarkable that this man
[Swedenborg], who, by his
perception of symbols, saw the poetic construction of things...remained
entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression, which that
perception creates.
MoS 4.150 4 One class [predisposed to Sensation] has
the perception of
difference...
MoS 4.150 8 Another class [predisposed to Morals] have
the perception of
identity...
MoS 4.172 9 ...the interrogation of custom at all
points...is the evidence of [the superior mind's] perception of the
flowing power which remains itself
in all changes.
ShP 4.213 10 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is
strong, who lifts the
land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she
floats a
bubble in the air, and likes as well to do the one as the other. This
makes
that equality of power in farce, tragedy, narrative, and love-songs; a
merit
so incessant that each reader is incredulous of the perception of other
readers.
NMW 4.231 4 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and
such a man was
born;...of a perception which did not suffer itself to be baulked or
misled by
any pretences of others...
GoW 4.264 26 There is a certain heat in the breast
which attends the
perception of a primary truth...
ET4 5.67 7 On the English face are combined decision
and nerve with the
fair complexion, blue eyes and open and florid aspect. Hence the love
of
truth, hence the sensibility, the fine perception and poetic
construction.
ET5 5.83 1 This [English] common-sense is a perception
of all the
conditions of our earthly existence;...
ET6 5.111 13 All [the Englishmen's] statesmen...have
invented many fine
phrases to cover this slowness of perception and prehensility of tail.
ET8 5.138 21 A saving stupidity masks and protects
[Englishmen's] perception...
ET14 5.250 16 Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann,
has brought to
metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor, with a catholic
perception of
relations, equal to the highest attempts...
F 6.27 25 ...when souls reach a certain clearness of
perception they accept a
knowledge and motive above selfishness.
F 6.28 15 ...we can see that with the perception of
truth is joined the desire
that it shall prevail;...
F 6.29 19 Perception is cold...
F 6.30 1 ...no man has a right perception of any truth
who has not been
reacted on by it so as to be ready to be its martyr.
F 6.36 2 ...every generosity, every new
perception...are certificates of
advance out of fate into freedom.
F 6.49 20 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely
or softly educates [man] to the perception that there are no
contingencies;...
Ctr 6.159 15 I suffer every day from the want of
perception of beauty in
people.
Bhr 6.188 1 Strong will and keen perception overpower
old manners and
create new;...
Bhr 6.195 25 I have seen manners that make a similar
impression with
personal beauty;...and in memorable experiences they are suddenly
better
than beauty, and make that superfluous and ugly. But they must be
marked
by fine perception...
Bty 6.290 2 ...the forms and colors of nature have a
new charm for us in our
perception that not one ornament was added for ornament...
Bty 6.306 20 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend:
an ascent from the
joy of a horse in his trappings, up to the perception of Newton that
the
globe on which we ride is only a larger apple falling from a larger
tree...the
first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
Bty 6.306 22 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend:
an ascent from the
joy of a horse in his trappings...up to the perception of Plato that
globe and
universe are rude and early expressions of an all-dissolving
Unity,--the first
stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
Elo1 7.62 10 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in
turn exhibits similar
symptoms...an alarming loss of perception of the passage of time...
Elo1 7.62 12 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in
turn exhibits similar
symptoms...a selfish enjoyment of his sensations, and loss of
perception of
the sufferings of the audience.
Boks 7.190 25 We owe to books those general benefits
which come from
high intellectual action. Thus...we often owe to them the perception of
immortality.
Clbs 7.227 22 ...in higher activity of mind, every new
perception is
attended with a thrill of pleasure...
Cour 7.264 21 The general must stimulate the mind of
his soldiers to the
perception that they are men, and the enemy is no more.
Suc 7.298 23 All this happiness [the city boy in the
October woods] owes
only to his finer perception.
Suc 7.301 10 Our perception far outruns our talent.
Suc 7.309 23 As much love, so much perception.
Suc 7.311 17 [The inner life] is a quiet, wise
perception.
PI 8.3 1 The perception of matter is made the common
sense, and for cause.
PI 8.8 10 In botany we have...the poetic perception of
metamorphosis...
PI 8.17 12 [Poetry's] essential mark is that it betrays
in every word instant
activity of mind, shown...in preternatural quickness or perception of
relations.
PI 8.20 19 All that is wondrous in Swedenborg is not
his invention, but his
extraordinary perception;...
PI 8.27 4 As a power [poetry] is the perception of the
symbolic character of
things...
PI 8.29 3 ...imagination [is] a perception and
affirming of a real relation
between a thought and some material fact.
PI 8.30 10 The right poetic mood...shows a sharper
insight: and the
perception creates the strong expression of it...
PI 8.38 20 ...it is a few oracles spoken by perceiving
men that are the texts
on which religions and states are founded. And this perception has at
once
its moral sequence.
PI 8.40 14 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his
condition. In that
prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception of means and
materials...hitherto utterly unknown to him...
PI 8.42 17 ...as...every perception is a destiny, there
is no limit to [the poet'
s] hope.
Res 8.141 3 By his machines man...can...divine the
future possibility of the
planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of Nature.
Comc 8.157 4 The rocks, the plants, the beasts, the
birds, neither do
anything ridiculous, nor betray a perception of anything absurd done in
their presence.
Comc 8.158 16 ...man, through his access to Reason, is
capable of the
perception of a whole and a part.
Comc 8.160 7 ...[The man of the world's] perception of
disparity...makes
the eyes run over with laughter.
Comc 8.160 22 ...all falsehoods, all vices...seen from
the point where our
moral sympathies do not interfere, become ludicrous. The comedy is in
the
intellect's perception of discrepancy.
Comc 8.161 21 ...a perception of the Comic seems to be
a balance-wheel in
our metaphysical structure.
Comc 8.161 27 The perception of the Comic is a tie of
sympathy with other
men...
Comc 8.162 9 Men celebrate their perception of halfness
and a latent lie by
the peculiar explosions of laughter.
QO 8.199 19 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a
circle of intelligences
that reached...back to the first negro, who, with more health or better
perception, gave a shriller sound or name for the thing he saw and
dealt
with?
PC 8.219 1 Even manners are a distinction which...are
not to be overborne... even by other eminent talents, since they too
proceed from a certain deep
innate perception of fit and fair.
PC 8.222 18 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an
apple to the ground, the
fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was
accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a
fact
more immense still...
PC 8.228 14 Science...sweeps away, with every new
perception, our
infantile catechisms...
PPo 8.247 19 ...quick perception and corresponding
expression...this
generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
PPo 8.250 6 Hafiz praises wine, roses...to give vent to
his immense hilarity
and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy; and lays the emphasis
on
these to mark his scorn of sanctimony and base prudence. These are the
natural topics and language of his wit and perception.
Insp 8.269 11 Our money is only a second best. We would
jump to buy
power with it, that is, intellectual perception moving the will.
Insp 8.274 21 Plato...notes that the perception is only
accomplished by long
familiarity with the objects of intellect...
Insp 8.276 13 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat;
as if...a genial
companion, or a new thought suggested in book or conversation could...
wake the fancy and the clear perception.
Insp 8.277 5 Swedenborg's genius was the perception of
the doctrine that
The Lord flows into the spirits of angels and of men;...
Insp 8.279 6 There are...certain risks in this
presentiment of the decisive
perception...
Grts 8.309 16 If we should ask ourselves what is this
self-respect, it would
carry us to the highest problems. It is our practical perception of the
Deity
in man.
Imtl 8.340 12 A sort of absoluteness attends all
perception of truth...
Imtl 8.341 23 [The thinker] is but as a fly or a worm
to this mountain, this
continent, which his thoughts inhabit. It is a perception that comes by
the
activity of the intellect;...
Imtl 8.342 20 The health of the mind consists in the
perception of law.
Aris 10.62 5 ...[the true man] is to
know...that...wherever found, the old
renown attaches to the virtues of simple faith and stanch endurance and
clear perception and plain speech...
PerF 10.73 2 ...[the force of intellect] is
perception...
PerF 10.79 24 In each talent is the perception of an
order and series in the
department he deals with...
Chr2 10.97 24 ...in all men is this majestic [moral]
perception and
command;...
Edc1 10.144 19 Here are the two capital facts [of
education], Genius and
Drill. The first is the inspiration in the well-born healthy child, the
new
perception he has of nature.
SovE 10.185 6 ...presently...a new perception opens,
and [the man down in
Nature] is made a citizen of the world of souls...
SovE 10.209 25 [The religious feeling] prepares to rise
out of all forms to
an absolute justice and healthy perception.
SovE 10.213 3 ...to [innocence] come grandeur of
situation and poetic
perception...
Prch 10.218 6 I see in those classes and those
persons...who contain the
activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow...a clear enough
perception of the inadequacy of the popular religious statement to the
wants
of their heart and intellect...
MoL 10.249 17 ...let us have masculine and divine men,
formidable
lawgivers...who...penetrate [the churches of the world] through and
through
with original perception.
Schr 10.270 8 ...such is the gulf between our
perception and our painting... that all the human race have agreed to
value a man according to his power
of expression.
Plu 10.307 7 Whilst we expect this awe and reverence of
the spiritual
power from the philosopher in his closet, we praise it in...the man who
lives
on quiet terms with existing institutions, yet indicates his perception
of
these high oracles;...
LLNE 10.326 16 This perception [that the individual is
the world] is a
sword such as was never drawn before.
LLNE 10.334 24 ...[Everett's power] lay...in a new
perception of Grecian
beauty, to which he had opened our eyes.
LLNE 10.341 24 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and
many others...from
time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious
conversation. With them was always...a man...with rare simplicity and
grandeur of perception...
MMEm 10.431 2 I [Mary Moody Emerson] believe thus much,
that [the
greatest geniuses'] large perception consumed their egotism...
SlHr 10.439 8 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man...with a clear
perception of
justice...
Thor 10.474 11 The depth of [Thoreau's] perception
found likeness of law
throughout Nature...
Thor 10.474 24 ...[Thoreau] had the source of poetry in
his spiritual
perception.
Thor 10.479 21 The tendency to magnify the moment...is
of course comic
to those who do not share the philosopher's perception of identity.
Carl 10.495 23 [Carlyle's] guiding genius is...his
perception of the sole
importance of truth and justice;...
War 11.165 5 ...when a truth appears,-as, for instance,
a perception in the
wit of one Columbus that there is land in the Western Sea...it will
build
ships;...
War 11.174 19 If peace is to be maintained, it must be
by brave men...men
who have...attained such a perception of their own intrinsic worth that
they
do not think property or their own body a sufficient good to be saved
by
such dereliction of principle as treating a man like a sheep.
FSLC 11.205 1 It is neither praise nor blame to say
that [Webster] has no
moral perception, no moral sentiment...
FSLN 11.229 22 The theory of personal liberty must
always appeal...to the
men of the rarest perception...
FSLN 11.238 5 The habit of mind of traders in power
would not be
esteemed favorable to delicate moral perception.
ACiv 11.302 14 We want men of original perception and
original action...
Wom 11.410 15 The spiritual force of man is as much
shown in taste...as in
his perception of truth.
ChiE 11.473 2 [Confucius's] rare perception appears in
his GOLDEN
MEAN...
CPL 11.501 26 Everything that gives [a man] a new
perception of beauty
multiplies his pure enjoyments.
FRep 11.525 14 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 coming into and correcting things that were
wrong;...
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.
FRep 11.529 22 The men, the women, all over this land
shrill their
exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or
is
unbecoming in the government...not on the class-feeling which narrows
the
perception of English, French, German people at home.
FRep 11.536 4 [The class of which I speak] complain of
the flatness of
American life; America has no illusions, no romance. They have no
perception of its destiny.
FRep 11.537 1 We want men of original perception and
original action...
PLT 12.16 3 The grandeur of the impression the stars
and heavenly bodies
make on us is surely more valuable than our exact perception of a tub
or a
table on the ground.
PLT 12.28 13 Wherever there is health, that is, consent
to the cause and
constitution of the universe, there is perception and power.
PLT 12.29 13 [Man] has his own defences and his own
fangs; his
perception and his own mode of reply to sophistries.
PLT 12.38 21 ...the perception [of spiritual facts]
thus satisfied reacts on
the senses, to clarify them...
PLT 12.39 1 A man is intellectual in proportion as he
can make an object
of every sensation, perception and intuition;...
PLT 12.40 3 A perception is always a generalization.
PLT 12.40 19 The game of Intellect is the perception
that whatever befalls
or can be stated is a universal proposition;...
PLT 12.41 9 The first fact is the fate in every mental
perception,-that my
seeing this or that, and that I see it so or so, is as much a fact in
the natural
history of the world as is the freezing of water at thirty-two degrees
of
Fahrenheit.
PLT 12.41 15 My percipiency affirms the presence and
perfection of law, as much as all the martyrs. A perception, it is of
necessity older than the sun
and moon...
PLT 12.41 21 [A perception] is impatient to put on its
sandals and be gone
on its errand, which is to lead to a larger perception...
PLT 12.44 8 This slight discontinuity which perception
effects between the
mind and the object paralyzes the will.
PLT 12.44 20 ...the fact of intellectual perception
severs once for all the
man from the things with which he converses.
PLT 12.46 1 A blending of these two-the intellectual
perception of truth
and the moral sentiment of right-is wisdom.
II 12.81 20 The haberdashers and brokers and attorneys
are idealists and
only differ in the amount and clearness of their perception.
II 12.87 13 ...perception that the tendency of the
whole is to the benefit of
the individual is the universal of faith.
II 12.89 4 The joy of knowledge, the late discovery
that the veil which hid
all things from him is really transparent, transparent everywhere
to...the
heart of trust which every perception fortifies,-renew life for [a
man].
Mem 12.91 4 The builder of the mind found it not less
needful that it
should have retroaction, and command its past act and deed.
Perception... was not sufficient.
Mem 12.92 6 The old whim or perception was an augury of
a broader
insight...
Mem 12.97 24 A knife with a good spring, a
forceps...the teeth or jaws of
which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when
badly
put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick
and
strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
CL 12.164 6 Every new perception of the method and
beauty of Nature
gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure;...
CW 12.176 8 ...the perception of beauty always
exhilarates...
MAng1 12.232 14 A man of such habits and such deeds [as
Michelangelo] made good his pretensions to a perception and to
delineation of external
beauty.
Milt1 12.252 26 We think we have heard the recitation
of [Milton's] verses
by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation
which
told, in the diamond sharpness of every articulation, that now first
was such
perception and enjoyment possible;...
Milt1 12.252 27 We think we have heard the recitation
of [Milton's] verses
by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation
which
told...that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible; the
perception and enjoyment of all his varied rhythm...
Milt1 12.255 22 The genius of France has not...yet
culminated in any one
head...into such perception of all the attributes of humanity as to
entitle it to
any rivalry in these lists [with Milton].
Milt1 12.267 6 ...the following passage...indicates
[Milton's] own
perception of the doctrine of humility.
Milt1 12.268 21 Thus chosen...for the clear perception
of all that is graceful
and all that is great in man, Milton was not less happy in his times.
Milt1 12.274 20 The perception we have attributed to
Milton, of a purer
ideal of humanity, modifies his poetic genius.
Milt1 12.276 22 ...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.
ACri 12.285 15 ...[George Borrow] had one clear
perception, that the key
to every country was command of the language of the common people.
MLit 12.316 20 Of the perception now fast becoming a
conscious fact,- that there is One Mind, and that all the powers and
privileges which lie in
any, lie in all...literature is far the best expression.
MLit 12.331 27 That Goethe had not a moral perception
proportionate to
his other powers is not...merely a circumstance...
WSL 12.344 3 ...beyond his delight in genius and his
love of individual and
civil liberty, Mr. Landor has a perception that is much more rare, the
appreciation of character.
WSL 12.346 5 Mr. Landor, almost alone among living
English writers, has
indicated his perception of [character].
EurB 12.365 11 [Wordsworth] has the merit of just moral
perception...
EurB 12.376 23 ...a perception of beauty was the
equally indispensable
element of the association [society in Wilhelm Meister]...
Let 12.402 11 A new perception...is a victory won to
the living universe
from Chaos and old Night...
Perception, n. (2)
PLT 12.37 16 ...Perception is the armed eye.
PLT 12.37 20 Perception differs from Instinct by adding
the Will.
perceptions, n. (44)
Nat 1.63 6 [If Idealism only deny the existence of
matter] It leaves me in
the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions...
AmS 1.98 7 Years are well spent...to the one end of
mastering...a language
by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
MR 1.234 8 Suppose a man is so unhappy as to be born a
saint, with keen
perceptions...and he is to get his living in the world;...
SR 2.65 5 Every man discriminates between the voluntary
acts of his mind
and his involuntary perceptions...
SR 2.65 6 Every man...knows that to his involuntary
perceptions a perfect
faith is due.
SR 2.65 14 Thoughtless people contradict as readily the
statement of
perceptions as of opinions...
Lov1 2.177 14 The heats that have opened [the lover's]
perceptions of
natural beauty have made him love music and verse.
Lov1 2.177 27 [The lover] is a new man, with new
perceptions...
Prd1 2.226 24 Let [a man] have accurate perceptions.
OS 2.282 21 The nature of these revelations is the
same; they are
perceptions of the absolute law.
Pt1 3.14 24 The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits,
in its
transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual
perceptions;...
Chr1 3.92 17 In the new objects we recognize the old
game, the habit of
fronting the fact, and not dealing with it...through the perceptions of
somebody else.
Mrs1 3.138 16 Defect in manners is usually the defect
of fine perceptions.
Mrs1 3.140 10 Accuracy is essential to beauty, and
quick perceptions to
politeness...
Mrs1 3.140 11 Accuracy is essential to beauty, and
quick perceptions to
politeness, but not too quick perceptions.
PPh 4.45 25 In adult life, while the perceptions are
obtuse, men and women
talk vehemently and superlatively...
ET14 5.233 3 ...the Englishman has accurate
perceptions;...
Ctr 6.136 25 ...our talents are as mischievous as if
each had been seized
upon by some bird of prey...some zeal, some bias, and only when he was
now gray and nerveless was it relaxing its claws and he awaking to
sober
perceptions.
Wsp 6.214 24 ...obey your moral perceptions at this
hour.
Art2 7.51 13 ...a study of admirable works of art
sharpens our perceptions
of the beauty of Nature;...
DL 7.118 15 [The great] call into activity the higher
perceptions...
DL 7.118 17 ...the higher perceptions find their
objects everywhere;...
SA 8.83 23 There is the same difference between heavy
and genial manners
as between the perceptions of octogenarians and those of young girls
who
see everything in the twinkling of an eye.
Elo2 8.117 12 The special ingredients of this force [of
eloquence] are clear
perceptions; memory; power of statement; logic; imagination...
PC 8.209 20 ...[the coxcomb] has found...that good
sense is now in power, and that resting...on perceptions less and less
dim of laws the most sublime.
Insp 8.292 23 Some perceptions...are granted to the
single soul;...
Insp 8.296 16 The day is good in which we have had the
most perceptions.
Imtl 8.325 12 The Greek, with his perfect senses and
perceptions, had quite
another philosophy [of immortality].
Chr2 10.100 18 It happens now and then, in the ages,
that a soul is born
which offers no impediment to the Divine Spirit...and all its thoughts
are
perceptions of things as they are, without any infirmity of earth.
Chr2 10.116 14 ...the simple and free minds among our
clergy have not
resisted...the advanced perceptions of the mind;...
Edc1 10.129 4 How [the desire of power] sharpens the
perceptions and
stores the memory with facts.
Edc1 10.147 5 Give a boy accurate perceptions.
Edc1 10.151 23 ...you see [the young man's] want of
those tastes and
perceptions which make the power and safety of your character.
Plu 10.314 18 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty
lead him to his stern
delight in heroism;...
Plu 10.321 20 We owe to these translators [of Plutarch]
many sharp
perceptions of the wit and humor of their author...
Thor 10.464 7 [Thoreau's] robust common sense, armed
with stout hands, keen perceptions and strong will, cannot yet account
for the superiority
which shone in his simple and hidden life.
FSLC 11.202 27 [Webster] has been by his clear
perceptions and
statements in all these years the best head in Congress...
PLT 12.18 16 The perceptions of a soul, its wondrous
progeny, are born by
the conversation, the marriage of souls;...
PLT 12.41 25 Do not trifle with your perceptions...
Mem 12.96 20 ...another man's memory is the history of
science and art
and civility and thought; and still another deals with laws and
perceptions
that are the theory of the world.
CL 12.152 26 Its power on the mind in sharpening the
perceptions has
made the sea the famous educator of our race.
MAng1 12.222 15 Not easily in this age will any man
acquire by himself
such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the
student
of art owes to the remains of Phidias...
Milt1 12.257 24 With these keen perceptions, [Milton]
naturally received a
love of Nature...
Trag 12.409 17 ...it is natures...not of quick and
steady perceptions, but
imperfect characters from which somewhat is hidden that all others see,
who suffer most from these causes.
perceptive, adj. (4)
PPh 4.46 24 There is a moment in the history of every
nation, when...the
perceptive powers reach their ripeness...
PPh 4.54 9 Metaphysics and natural philosophy expressed
the genius of
Europe; [Plato] substructs the religion of Asia, as the base. In short,
a
balanced soul was born, perceptive of the two elements.
ET14 5.260 5 ...the two complexions, or two styles of
mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality
class,--are ever in
counterpoise...
Let 12.402 12 ...the smallest new activity given to the
perceptive power, is
a victory won to the living universe from Chaos and old Night...
Perceval, Spencer, n. (1)
ET6 5.109 17 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity
of Perceval, prime
minister in 1810, to the fact that he was wont to go to church every
Sunday...
perch, n. (2)
PPo 8.256 9 O high-flying falcon! the Tree of Life is
thy perch;/ This nook
of grief fits thee ill for a nest./
HDC 11.36 17 ...in winter, [the Indians] sat around
holes in the ice, catching salmon, pickeral, breams and perch...
perch, v. (1)
PPo 8.255 17 Once flees [the phoenix] upward, he will
perch/ On Tuba's
golden bough;/ His home is on that fruited arch/ Which cools the blest
below.
perchance, adv. (9)
Nat 1.20 17 When a noble act is done, - perchance in a
scene of great
natural beauty...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the
scene
to the beauty of the deed?
AmS 1.93 10 ...as the seer's hour of vision is short
and rare among heavy
days and months, so is its record, perhance, the least part of his
volume.
Con 1.303 14 Reform converses with possibilities,
perchance with
impossibilities;...
Hsm1 2.259 15 [A woman] has a new and unattempted
problem to solve, perchance that of the happiest nature that ever
bloomed.
Pt1 3.36 21 ...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, and perchance to
themselves
appear upright men;...
Mrs1 3.135 12 ...if perchance a searching realist comes
to our gate...then
again we run to our curtain, and hide ourselves...
Nat2 3.192 24 This or this [in nature] is but outskirt
and a far-off reflection
and echo of the triumph that has passed by, and is now at its glancing
splendor and heyday, perchance in the neighboring fields...
NR 3.246 21 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at
ignorance and the life of
the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...
Thor 10.482 15 The youth gets together his materials to
build a bridge to
the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at
length the
middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
perched, v. (1)
F 6.20 17 ...the ring of necessity is always perched at
the top.
perching, v. (1)
RBur 11.443 5 The doves perching always on the eaves of
the Stone
Chapel opposite, may know something about [the memory of Burns].
percipiency, n. (2)
PLT 12.37 21 Simple percipiency is the virtue of space,
not of man.
PLT 12.41 14 My percipiency affirms the presence and
perfection of law, as much as all the martyrs.
percussion-caps, n. (1)
Civ 7.33 11 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in
modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are
casual facts which... elevate the rule of life. In the presence of
these agencies it is frivolous to
insist on the invention...of...percussion-caps and rubber-shoes...
Percy, Algernon [Duke of N (1)
ET15 5.262 2 So your grace likes the comfort of reading
the newspapers, said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark
my words;... these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of
Northumberland
out of their titles...
Percy, Kate [Shakespeare, (1)
ET6 5.108 22 The sentiment of Imogen in Cymbeline is
copied from
English nature; and not less...the Kate Percy and the Desdemona.
Percy, Lucy, n. (1)
MMEm 10.398 20 ...[Lucy Percy]...will take a deep
interest for persons of
celebrity.
Percy, Thomas, n. (1)
Clbs 7.244 3 ...we owe to Boswell our knowledge of the
club of Dr. Johnson...Beauclerk and Percy.
perdition, n. (1)
Chr2 10.96 20 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/
There came a
voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/ When for the
truth he
ought to die./
perdu, adj. (3)
ET11 5.177 10 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer
lies perdu under the
coronet...
SA 8.81 3 ...he who has not this fine garment of
behavior is studious of
dress, and then not less of house and furniture and pictures and
gardens, in
all which he hopes to lie perdu...
PLT 12.50 22 The excess of individualism, when it is
not...subordinated to
the Supreme Reason, makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones,
men of one idea, or, as the French say, enfant perdu d'une conviction
isolee...
perdus, adj. (1)
Aris 10.63 18 Let [the man of honor]...say, The time
will come when these
poor enfans perdus of revolution, will have instructed their party, if
only by
their fate...
Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Pa (1)
MoS 4.162 25 It happened, when in Paris, in 1833, that,
in the cemetery of
Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon...
peregrinations, n. (1)
Dem1 10.4 12 ...[in dreams] we seem busied for hours and
days in
peregrinations over seas and lands...
Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, Pa (1)
Comc 8.171 24 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure,
had given the
Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion
to
her tall figure, as well as to her republican opinions; the Countess
retaliated
by calling Madame the Venus of the Pere-Lachaise...
peremptorily, adv. (7)
SwM 4.112 13 It is remarkable that this sublime genius
[Swedenborg] decides peremptorily for the analytic, against the
synthetic method;...
ET18 5.302 2 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all
merchants shall
have safe and secure conduct...to buy and sell by the ancient allowed
customs, without any evil toll, except in time of war, or when they
shall be
of any nation at war with us. It is a statute and obliged hospitality
and
peremptorily maintained.
Wth 6.88 13 ...[nature]...takes away warmth, laughter,
sleep, friends and
daylight, until [a man] has fought his way to his own loaf. Then, less
peremptorily but still with sting enough, she urges him to the
acquisition of
such things as belong to him.
Bhr 6.196 17 ...there is one topic peremptorily
forbidden to all well-bred, to
all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
Clbs 7.245 21 It is always a practical difficulty with
clubs to regulate the
laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance.
Chr2 10.114 11 Men will learn to put back the emphasis
peremptorily on
pure morals...
Prch 10.231 2 There are always plenty of young,
ignorant people...wanting
peremptorily instruction;...
peremptory, adj. (11)
Fdsp 2.206 26 ...I find this law of one to one
peremptory for conversation...
GoW 4.284 24 ...there is no weapon in the armory of
universal genius [Goethe] did not take into his hand, but with
peremptory heed that he
should not be for a moment prejudiced by his instruments.
Wth 6.90 25 ...it is a peremptory point of virtue that
a man's independence
be secured.
SS 7.9 26 We must infer that the ends of thought were
peremptory, if they
were to be secured at such ruinous cost.
Civ 7.29 20 It is a peremptory rule with [the heavenly
powers] that they
never go out of their road.
Res 8.152 1 ...the uses of the woods are many, and some
of them for the
scholar high and peremptory.
Carl 10.497 23 ...[Carlyle] has stood for the
people...teaching the nobles
their peremptory duties.
FSLN 11.226 2 In the final hour, when he was forced by
the peremptory
necessity of the closing armies to take a side,-did [Webster] take the
part
of great principles...or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
TPar 11.289 8 It was [Theodore Parker's] merit,
like...to speak tart truth, when that was peremptory and when there
were few to say it.
SMC 11.370 17 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that,
when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods. This
order was
communicated to Colonel Prescott, whose regiment was then under the
hottest fire. Understanding it to be a peremptory order to retire then,
he
replied , I don't want to retire;...
Milt1 12.249 8 ...peremptory and impassioned, [Milton]
demands, on the
instant, an ideal justice.
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