Perennial to Permitting

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

perennial, adj. (6)

    Nat 1.9 27 Within these plantations of God...a perennial festival is dressed...
    OS 2.297 3 ...man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh...
    OA 7.327 27 In old persons...we often observe a fair, plump, perennial, waxen complexion...
    Chr2 10.117 25 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities...
    II 12.86 5 There is but one only liberator in this life from the demons that invade us, and that is Endeavor,-earnest, entire, perennial endeavor.
    CL 12.150 11 ...I admire that perennial four-petalled flower, which has one gray petal, one green, one red, and one white.

pereo, v. (1)

    ET1 5.16 13 ...[Carlyle] liked Nero's death, Qualis artifex pereo! better than most history.

perfect, adj. (201)

    Nat 1.9 21 Crossing a bare common...I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.
    Nat 1.12 11 Yet although low, [Commodity] is perfect in its kind...
    Nat 1.48 20 Any distrust of the permanence of laws would paralyze the faculties of man. Their permanence is sacredly respected, and his faith therein is perfect.
    Nat 1.62 23 Idealism acquaints us with the total disparity between the evidence of our own being and the evidence of the world's being. The one is perfect; the other, incapable of any assurance;...
    Nat 1.74 5 ...neither [love nor perception] can be perfect without the other.
    Nat 1.76 9 For you is the phenomenon perfect.
    Nat 1.77 12 The kingdom of man over nature...he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.
    AmS 1.88 9 ...[no work of art] is quite perfect.
    AmS 1.88 10 ...no air-pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum...
    AmS 1.88 26 The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward it is settled the book is perfect;...
    AmS 1.104 21 ...[the scholar] will...find in himself a perfect comprehension of [fear's] nature and extent;...
    LE 1.184 17 ...[the scholar] can easily think that in a society of perfect sympathy, no word, no act, no record, would be.
    LE 1.187 14 By virtue of the laws of that Nature which is one and perfect, [Thought] shall yield every sincere good that is in the soul to the scholar...
    MN 1.207 23 [a man] cannot read, or think, or look but he unites the hitherto separated strands into a perfect cord.
    MR 1.227 12 ...beautiful and perfect men we are not now...
    LT 1.271 2 There is a perfect chain...of reforms emerging from the surrounding darkness...
    Tran 1.332 1 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which rounds off to an almost perfect sphericity...
    Hist 2.25 26 The Greeks are...perfect in their senses and in their health...
    SR 2.43 2 ...the soul that can/ Render an honest and a perfect man,/ Commands all light.../
    SR 2.54 3 ...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
    SR 2.65 7 Every man...knows that to his involuntary perceptions a perfect faith is due.
    SR 2.67 9 ...[the rose] is perfect in every moment of its existence.
    SR 2.74 20 I have my own...perfect circle.
    SR 2.75 14 Our age yields no great and perfect persons.
    SR 2.87 5 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms...
    Comp 2.101 21 The microscope cannot find the animalcule which is less perfect for being little.
    Comp 2.102 10 Justice is not postponed. A perfect equity adjusts its balance in all parts of life.
    Comp 2.111 11 Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet...as two currents of air mix, with perfect diffusion and interpenetration of nature.
    Comp 2.115 6 Human labor...is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe.
    Comp 2.120 27 Under all this running sea of circumstance, whose waters ebb and flow with perfect balance, lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being.
    SL 2.139 22 Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom...and you are without effort impelled...to right and a perfect contentment.
    SL 2.146 18 We are always reasoning from the seen to the unseen. Hence the perfect intelligence that subsists between wise men of remote ages.
    Lov1 2.173 10 In the village [girls and boys] are on a perfect equality...
    Lov1 2.184 21 Passion beholds its object as a perfect unit.
    Lov1 2.186 5 The soul which is in the soul of each [lover], craving a perfect beatitude, detects incongruities, defects and disproportion in the behaviour of the other.
    Fdsp 2.198 20 ...dare I not presume in thee a perfect intelligence of me...
    Fdsp 2.211 11 Respect so far the holy laws of this fellowship [of friends] as not to prejudice its perfect flower...
    Prd1 2.219 5 Grandeur of the perfect sphere/ Thanks the atoms that cohere./
    Hsm1 2.249 26 ...let [a man]...with perfect urbanity dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech...
    Hsm1 2.254 4 ...they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger... do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.
    Hsm1 2.256 14 Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
    Hsm1 2.262 18 I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk, but after the counsel of his own bosom.
    OS 2.269 12 ...this deep power...whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour...
    OS 2.295 7 When I rest in perfect humility...what can Calvin or Swedenborg say?
    Cir 2.311 24 If [the speaker and the hearer] were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon.
    Int 2.333 22 ...notwithstanding our utter incapacity to produce anything like Hamlet and Othello, see the perfect reception this wit and immense knowledge of life and liquid eloquence find in us all.
    Art1 2.353 27 Shall I now add that the whole extant product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value...as a stroke drawn in the portrait of that fate, perfect and beautiful, according to whose ordinations all beings advance to their beatitude?
    Art1 2.361 19 [At Naples] I...said to myself--Thou foolish child, hast thou come out hither...to find that which was perfect to thee there at home?
    Exp 3.67 3 How easily, if fate would suffer it, we might...adjust ourselves, once for all, to the perfect calculation of the kingdom of known cause and effect.
    Mrs1 3.130 21 Each man's rank in that perfect graduation [of fashion] depends on some symmetry in his structure or some agreement in his structure to the symmetry of society.
    Mrs1 3.152 5 ...the bias of [Lilla's] nature was not to thought, but to sympathy, yet was she so perfect in her own nature as to meet intellectual persons by the fulness of her heart...
    Nat2 3.172 11 The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water... these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    Nat2 3.186 12 [Nature]...has secured the symmetrical growth of the [the child's] bodily frame by all these attitudes and exertions,--an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.
    Pol1 3.197 25 When the Church is social worth,/ When the state-house is the hearth,/ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
    Pol1 3.213 1 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. In these decisions all the citizens find a perfect agreement...
    Pol1 3.213 25 All forms of government symbolize an immortal government...perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.
    Pol1 3.213 26 All forms of government symbolize an immortal government...perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.
    NR 3.223 6 ...in the new-born millions,/ The perfect Adam lives./
    NR 3.240 7 If John was perfect, why are you and I alive?
    NER 3.267 4 The union [of men] is only perfect when all the uniters are isolated.
    NER 3.281 5 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;...
    UGM 4.30 7 Presently a dot appears on the animal [the monad], which enlarges to a slit, and it becomes two perfect animals.
    PPh 4.50 3 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...pervading, uniform, perfect, preeminent over nature...
    PPh 4.53 12 ...[the Greeks'] perfect works in architecture and sculpture seemed things of course...
    PPh 4.59 4 [Plato's] strength is like the momentum of a falling planet, and his discretion the return of its due and perfect curve...
    PPh 4.60 19 The admirable earnest [in Plato] comes not only...in the perfect yes and no of the dialogue...
    PPh 4.69 21 ...there is another, which is as much more beautiful than beauty as beauty is than chaos; namely, wisdom...which, could it be seen, would ravish us with its perfect reality.
    PPh 4.71 8 [Socrates] was a cool fellow, adding to his humor a perfect temper and a knowledge of his man...
    PPh 4.75 23 ...[Plato] was able...to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates, to which unquestionably his own debt was great; and these derived again their principal advantage from the perfect art of Plato.
    PPh 4.76 26 Here is the world...perfect...
    PPh 4.78 12 No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.
    SwM 4.126 12 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Man, in his perfect form, is heaven...
    MoS 4.165 23 ...I, [says Montaigne,] who am as sincere and perfect a lover of virtue of that stamp as any other whatever, 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;...
    ShP 4.214 7 Here [in Shakespeare] is perfect representation, at last;...
    NMW 4.235 10 There shall be no Alps, [Napoleon] said; and he built his perfect roads...
    GoW 4.264 5 Whatever can be thought...still rises for utterance, though to rude and stammering organs. If they cannot compass it, it waits and works, until at last it moulds them to its perfect will and is articulated.
    ET7 5.124 17 ...as [Englishmen's] own belief in guineas is perfect, they readily, on all occasions, apply the pecuniary argument as final.
    ET8 5.129 20 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of Englishmen]. The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot, the bilious resident in the East or West Indies, are wide of the perfect behavior of the educated and dignified man of family [in England].
    ET9 5.144 4 Property is so perfect [in England] that it seems the craft of that race...
    ET10 5.164 1 This comfort and splendor [in England]...all consist with perfect order.
    ET11 5.173 19 The Anglican clergy are identified with the aristocracy. Time and law have made the joining and moulding perfect in every part.
    ET11 5.192 22 Under the present reign the perfect decorum of the Court is thought to have put a check on the gross vices of the [English] aristocracy;...
    ET12 5.203 21 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Dr. Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order;...
    ET14 5.233 10 [The Englishman]...prefers his hot chop, with perfect security and convenience in the eating of it...
    ET14 5.234 1 Hobbes was perfect in the noble vulgar speech.
    ET14 5.236 8 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental soaring, of which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the writers of two centuries.
    ET14 5.240 12 [Bacon] held this element [prima philosophia] essential... believing that no perfect discovery can be made in a flat or level, but you must ascend to a higher science.
    ET14 5.241 5 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature, since loftiness of thought and perfect mastery over every subject seem to be derived from some such source as this.
    ET15 5.263 21 [The London Times] has shown those qualities which are dear to Englishmen...a towering assurance, backed by the perfect organization in its printing-house...
    ET15 5.265 2 The late Mr. Walter was printer of The [London] Times, and had gradually arranged the whole materiel of it in perfect system.
    F 6.48 7 Let us build altars to the Blessed Unity which holds nature and souls in perfect solution...
    Pow 6.78 22 A humorous friend of mine thinks that the reason why Nature is so perfect in her art, and gets up such inconceivably fine sunsets, is that she has learned how, at last, by dint of doing the same thing so very often.
    Wth 6.100 13 [The right merchant] knows that all goes on the old road...for every effect a perfect cause...
    Bhr 6.174 14 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to persons who look at marble statues that they shall not smite them with canes. But even in the perfect civilization of this city [Boston] such cautions are not quite needless in the Athenaeum and City Library.
    Bhr 6.192 17 The novels are as useful as Bibles if they teach you the secret that...the greatest success is...perfect understanding between sincere people.
    Bhr 6.197 12 Who dare assume to guide a youth, a maid, to perfect manners?...
    Wsp 6.203 2 ...whether your community is made...of saints or of wreckers, it coheres in a perfect ball.
    Wsp 6.203 9 ...as [the Shakers] go with perfect sympathy to their tasks in the field or shop, so are they inclined for a ride or a journey at the same instant...
    Wsp 6.220 2 ...look where we will...a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.
    CbW 6.252 6 [The sane man's] existence is a perfect answer to all sentimental cavils.
    Bty 6.283 9 ...a right and perfect man would be felt to the centre of the Copernican system.
    Bty 6.286 5 ...we are aware of a perfect law in nature...
    Bty 6.294 9 The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy.
    Art2 7.49 12 So much as we can...bring the omniscience of reason upon the subject before us, so perfect is the work [of art].
    Art2 7.52 23 Arising out of eternal Reason, one and perfect, whatever is beautiful rests on the foundation of the necessary.
    Art2 7.53 5 The most perfect form to answer an end is so far beautiful.
    Art2 7.53 8 We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it is spiritually organic;...
    Elo1 7.77 24 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily and with perfect assurance, would confound merchant, banker, judge...
    DL 7.126 22 Beauty is, even in the beautiful, occasional, or, as one has said, culminating and perfect only a single moment...
    Farm 7.143 14 Nature works on a method of all for each and each for all. The strain that is made on one point bears on every arch and foundation of the structure. There is a perfect solidarity.
    Farm 7.153 10 Put [the farmer] on a new planet and he would know where to begin; yet there is no arrogance in his bearing, but a perfect gentleness.
    WD 7.165 7 Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
    WD 7.180 15 ...life is good only when it is...a perfect timing and consent...
    WD 7.181 17 The days at Belleisle were all different, and only joined by a perfect love of the same object.
    Boks 7.195 3 Nature is always clarifying her water and her wine. No filtration can be so perfect.
    Boks 7.198 15 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...yet with no less security of bold and perfect song, when he cares to use it...
    Boks 7.209 22 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold. The sale lasted forty-two days...and among the many curiosities was a copy of Boccaccio published by Valdarfer, at Venice, in 1471; the only perfect copy of this edition.
    Cour 7.255 6 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will...
    Cour 7.263 18 ...the frontiersman [loses fear], when he has a perfect rifle and has acquired a sure aim.
    Suc 7.284 2 Giotto could draw a perfect circle...
    OA 7.323 3 We still feel the force...of Washington, the perfect citizen;...
    OA 7.323 4 We still feel the force...of Wellington, the perfect soldier;...
    PI 8.7 21 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...a hint...showing unity and perfect order in physics.
    PI 8.8 7 Identity of law, perfect order in physics...exist.
    PI 8.8 7 Identity of law...perfect parallelism between the laws of Nature and the laws of thought exist.
    PI 8.8 18 In geology, what a useful hint was given to the early inquirers on seeing in the possession of Professor Playfair a bough of a fossil tree which was perfect wood at one end and perfect mineral coal at the other.
    PI 8.27 24 William Blake...writes thus... The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and more minutely organized than anything seen by his mortal eye.
    PI 8.35 8 ...every man would be a poet if his intellectual digestion were perfect.
    PI 8.44 26 In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama;...they are perfect in their organs, attitude, manners;...
    PI 8.48 22 ...the people liked an overpowering jewsharp tune. Later they like...to detect a melody as prompt and perfect in their daily affairs.
    SA 8.81 6 The perfect defence and isolation which [manners] effect makes an insuperable protection.
    SA 8.81 24 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs.
    Comc 8.161 4 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy...cooly ignoring the Reason, whilst he invokes its name...only to make the fun perfect by enjoying the confusion betwixt Reason and the negation of Reason...
    Comc 8.167 26 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me...with joy sparkling in his eyes. And how is my friend, the reverend Doctor? I inquired. O, I saw him this morning; it is the most correct apoplexy I have ever seen;...all the symptoms perfect.
    Comc 8.171 26 Lord C., said the Countess of Gordon, O, he is a perfect comb, all teeth and back.
    PC 8.226 20 The ear outgrows the tongue, is sooner ripe and perfect;...
    Insp 8.281 4 The perfection of writing is...when the mind finds perfect obedience in the body.
    Insp 8.282 2 The wealth of the mind in this respect of seeing is like that of a looking-glass, which is never tired or worn by any multitude of objects which it reflects. You may carry it all round the world, it is ready and perfect as ever for new millions.
    Imtl 8.325 12 The Greek, with his perfect senses and perceptions, had quite another philosophy [of immortality].
    Dem1 10.10 13 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun...
    Aris 10.44 25 ...the well-built head supplies all the steps, one as perfect as the other, in the series.
    Aris 10.49 14 In the absence of such anthropometer I have a perfect confidence in the natural laws.
    PerF 10.75 13 [Labor] surprises in the perfect form and condition of trees clean of caterpillars and borers...
    Chr2 10.121 21 In perfect accord with [Goethe], Henry James affirms, that to give the feminine element in life its hard-earned but eternal supremacy over the masculine has been the secret inspiration of all past history.
    Edc1 10.146 15 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...
    Supl 10.163 23 [Those with the superlative temperament] use the superlative of grammar: most perfect, most exquisite, most horrible.
    Prch 10.221 22 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To...behold the horse, cow and bird, and to foresee an equal and speedy end to him and them;-no, the bird, as it hurried by him with its bold and perfect flight, would disclaim his sympathy...
    MoL 10.243 26 The Greek was so perfect in action and in imagination, his poems...so charming in form and so true to the human mind, that we cannot forget or outgrow their mythology.
    MoL 10.251 12 I chanced lately to be at West Point, and, after attending the examination in scientific classes, I went into the barracks. The chamber was in perfect order;...
    Schr 10.275 14 The hero rises out of all comparison with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he...will oppose all mankind at the call of that private and perfect Right and Beauty in which he lives.
    Schr 10.281 6 We have seen to weariness what you [idealists] cannot do; now show us what you can and will do, asks the practical man, and with perfect reason.
    Schr 10.283 19 [Mother-wit's] justice is perfect;...
    LLNE 10.331 11 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...a voice of...such precise and perfect utterance, that...it was the most mellow and beautiful and correct of all the instruments of the time.
    LLNE 10.332 25 In the lecture-room, [Everett]...pleased himself with the play of detailing erudition in a style of perfect simplicity.
    LLNE 10.346 23 [Robert Owen] had not the least doubt that he had hit on a right and perfect socialism...
    LLNE 10.363 23 Rev. William Henry Channing...was...in perfect sympathy with this experiment [at Brook Farm].
    EzRy 10.390 3 To undeceive [Ezra Ripley], I hastened to recall some particulars to show the absurdity of the thing, as the Major [Jack Downing] and the President [Andrew Jackson] going out skating on the Potomac, etc. Why, said the Doctor with perfect faith, it was a bright moonlight night;...
    SlHr 10.439 9 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man...with a clear perception of justice, and a perfect obedience thereto in his action;...
    SlHr 10.440 7 ...[Samuel Hoar's] self-command was perfect.
    SlHr 10.446 6 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was...like one of those opaque crystals...not less perfect in their angles and structure, and only less beautiful, than the transparent topazes and diamonds.
    SlHr 10.448 19 Perfect in his private life, husband, father, friend, [Samuel Hoar] was severe only with himself.
    Thor 10.452 19 ...it required rare decision to...keep [Thoreau's] solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends: all the more difficult that he had a perfect probity...
    Thor 10.472 10 Our naturalist [Thoreau] had perfect magnanimity;...
    Thor 10.478 20 Himself of a perfect probity, [Thoreau] required not less of others.
    LS 11.21 17 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence;...
    HDC 11.42 24 Each of the parts of that perfect structure grew out of the necessities of an instant occasion.
    HDC 11.50 22 The man of the woods might well draw on himself the compassion of the planters. His erect and perfect form...was found joined to a dwindled soul.
    EWI 11.145 21 ...the civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
    War 11.162 11 You forget that the quiet...which lets the wagon go unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there...
    FSLC 11.213 24 It is very certain from the perfect guaranties in the constitution...that there is sufficient margin in the statute and the law for the spirit of the Magistrate to show itself...
    FSLN 11.223 1 After [Webster's] talents have been described, there remains that perfect propriety which animated all the details of the action or speech with the character of the whole...
    AKan 11.262 8 Pans of gold lay drying outside of every man's tent, in perfect security [in California].
    AKan 11.262 16 Every man throughout the country [California] was armed with knife and revolver, and it was known that instant justice would be administered to each offence, and perfect peace reigned.
    JBB 11.268 15 [John Brown] joins that perfect Puritan faith which brought his fifth ancestor to Plymouth Rock with his grandfather's ardor in the Revolution.
    JBS 11.276 24 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./ And when, to stop all future harm,/ They strewed its ashes to the breeze,/ They little guessed each grain of these/ Conveyed the perfect charm./ William Allingham.
    ALin 11.328 21 [The people] knew that outward grace is dust;/ They could not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's [Lincoln's] unfaltering skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent, like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust./
    Wom 11.415 14 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes. It is even more perfect in the later sect of the Shakers...
    FRO1 11.479 16 ...as soon as every man...is apprised that the perfect law of duty corresponds with the laws of chemistry, of vegetation, of astronomy, as face to face in a glass;...then we have a religion that exalts...
    NHI 12.1 1 Bacon's perfect law of inquiry after truth was that nothing should be in the globe of matter which was not also in the globe of crystal;...
    PLT 12.22 4 If man has organs...for reproduction and love and care of his young, you shall find all the same in the muskrat. There is a perfect correspondence;...
    PLT 12.49 25 The same functions which are perfect in our quadrupeds are seen slower performed in palaeontology.
    Mem 12.90 21 Every machine must be perfect of its sort.
    Mem 12.93 9 As every creature is furnished with teeth to seize and eat, and with stomach to digest its food, so the memory is furnished with a perfect apparatus.
    Mem 12.102 16 ...I would rather have a perfect recollection of all I have thought and felt in a day or a week of high activity than read all the books that have been published in a century.
    Mem 12.110 20 Now we are halves, we see the past but not the future, but in that day [when the Great Mind enters into us] will the hemisphere complete itself and foresight be as perfect as aftersight.
    CL 12.156 21 Where is he who is to save the perfect moment...
    MAng1 12.215 23 A purity severe and even terrible goes out from the lofty productions of [Michelangelo's] pencil and his chisel, and again from the more perfect sculpture of his own life...
    MAng1 12.216 7 Above all men whose history we know, Michael Angelo presents us with the perfect image of the artist.
    MAng1 12.217 5 This truth, that perfect beauty and perfect goodness are one, was made known to Michael Angelo;...
    MAng1 12.223 14 ...[Michelangelo's] love of beauty is made solid and perfect by his deep understanding of the mechanic arts.
    MAng1 12.238 20 Michael Angelo was of that class of men who are too superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect sympathy.
    MAng1 12.244 24 ...[Michelangelo] was a brother and a friend to all who acknowledge the beauty that beams in universal Nature, and who seek by labor and self-denial to approach its source in perfect goodness.
    Milt1 12.253 1 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...his perfect fusion of the classic and the English styles.
    Milt1 12.263 24 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres, according to the fable, ever seek her daughter Proserpine with such unceasing solicitude as I have sought this tou kalou idean, this perfect model of the beautiful in all forms and appearances of things.
    Milt1 12.265 2 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors...till...memory have its perfect fraught;...
    Milt1 12.266 14 The indifferency of a wise mind to what is called high and low, and the fact that true greatness is a perfect humility, are revelations of Christianity which Milton well understood.
    Milt1 12.274 18 The tone of [Adam's] thought and passion is as healthful, as even and as vigorous as befits the new and perfect model of a race of gods.
    ACri 12.296 26 [Herrick] has, and knows that he has...a perfect, plain style...
    MLit 12.323 5 ...[Goethe] has a perfect propriety and taste...
    Pray 12.355 18 I thank thee...especially for him who brought me so perfect a type of thy goodness and love to men.
    PPr 12.383 11 Time stills the loud noise of opinions, sinks the small, raises the great, so that the true emerges without effort and in perfect harmony to all eyes;...

perfect, n. (1)

    DSA 1.120 25 [Man] learns...that to the good, to the perfect, he is born...

Perfect, n. (3)

    LT 1.272 4 Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs the effort at the Perfect.
    OS 2.296 19 [The soul saith] I, the imperfect, adore my own Perfect.
    Cir 2.301 20 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn], as far as it symbolizes the moral fact of the Unattainable, the flying Perfect... may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.

perfect, v. (4)

    Mrs1 3.139 15 This perception [of measure] comes in to polish and perfect the parts of the social instrument.
    OA 7.324 21 To perfect the commissariat, [Nature] implants in each a certain rapacity to get the supply, and a little oversupply, of his wants.
    Edc1 10.146 27 Always genius...desires nothing so much as...to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.
    MAng1 12.240 21 [Michelangelo] enthrones his mistress as a benignant angel, who is to refine and perfect his own character.

perfected, v. (3)

    Art1 2.358 16 In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art; art perfected...
    Ill 6.319 25 ...the soul doth not know itself in its own act when that act is perfected.
    PI 8.20 25 Poetry, if perfected, is the only verity;...

perfecter, adj. (2)

    PI 8.39 7 [The poet's] inspiration is power to carry out and complete the metamorphosis, which, in the imperfect kinds arrested for ages, in the perfecter proceeds rapidly in the same individual.
    PI 8.39 27 In [Michelangelo] and the like perfecter brains the instinct [of creation] is resistless...

perfecting, v. (2)

    ET15 5.264 18 ...[the London Times] attacks its rivals by perfecting its printing machinery...
    Wom 11.410 2 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty;...

perfection, n. (57)

    Nat 1.3 22 We must trust the perfection of the creation...
    Nat 1.8 3 Neither does the wisest man...lose his curiosity by finding out all [nature's] perfection.
    Nat 1.19 22 The presence of a higher, namely, of the spiritual element is essential to [nature's] perfection.
    Nat 1.43 13 A leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time...partakes of the perfection of the whole.
    Nat 1.45 3 An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
    DSA 1.119 19 One is constrained to respect the perfection of this world in which our senses converse.
    DSA 1.122 8 The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul.
    DSA 1.123 17 See again the perfection of the Law as it applies itself to the affections...
    LE 1.182 8 If [the scholar] have this twofold goodness,-the drill and the inspiration...then...the perfection of his endowment will appear in his compositions.
    MN 1.218 1 ...what is Genius but finer love...a love of the flower and perfection of things...
    Tran 1.354 19 In the eternal trinity of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, each in its perfection including the three, [Transcendentalists] prefer to make Beauty the sign and head.
    Hist 2.24 6 The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature, the perfection of the senses...
    Lov1 2.188 22 ...the warm loves and fears, that swept over us as clouds, must lose their finite character and blend with God, to attain their own perfection.
    Fdsp 2.206 18 [Friendship] cannot subsist in its perfection...betwixt more than two.
    Prd1 2.223 21 ...culture...aiming at the perfection of the man as the end, degrades every thing else...into means.
    Int 2.340 20 The intellect must have the like perfection in its apprehension and in its works.
    Exp 3.71 4 Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection;...
    Mrs1 3.147 8 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
    Nat2 3.169 3 There are days which occur in this climate...wherein the world reaches its perfection;...
    Nat2 3.187 6 The lover seeks in marriage his private felicity and perfection...
    NR 3.227 4 I observe a person who makes a good public appearance, and conclude thence the perfection of his private character, on which this is based;...
    SwM 4.126 11 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...The perfection of man is the love of use...
    ShP 4.200 2 ...centuries and churches brought [our English Bible] to perfection.
    NMW 4.228 6 Fontanes...expressed Napoleon's own sense, when...he addressed him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.
    ET3 5.38 13 The territory [England] has a singular perfection.
    ET4 5.73 17 The [English] gentlemen...have brought horses to an ideal perfection;...
    ET5 5.89 18 A nation of laborers, every [English] man is trained to some one art or detail, and aims at perfection in that;...
    ET6 5.103 5 Machinery has been applied to all work [in England], and carried to such perfection that little is left for the men but to mind the engines...
    ET6 5.114 7 The [English] dress-dinner generates a talent of table-talk which reaches great perfection...
    ET6 5.114 19 English stories, bon-mots and the recorded table-talk of their wits, are as good as the best of the French. In America, we...have not yet attained the same perfection...
    ET10 5.164 9 With this power of creation and this passion of independence, property [in England] has reached an ideal perfection.
    Bty 6.296 5 The felicities of design in art or in works of nature are shadows or forerunners of that beauty which reaches its perfection in the human form.
    Bty 6.302 19 The radiance of the human form, though sometimes astonishing, is only a burst of beauty for a few years or a few months at the perfection of youth...
    Elo1 7.81 16 ...it is not powers of speech that we primarily consider under this word eloquence, but the power that being present, gives them their perfection...
    Elo1 7.98 21 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth...
    DL 7.103 1 The perfection of the providence for childhood is easily acknowledged.
    Suc 7.300 27 The mind yields sympathetically to the tendencies or law which...make the order of Nature; and in the perfection of this correspondence or expressiveness, the health and force of man consist.
    Comc 8.159 10 ...the human form...suggests to our imagination the perfection of truth or goodness...
    PC 8.223 7 There is no use in Copernicus if the robust periodicity of the solar system does not show its equal perfection in the mental sphere...
    Insp 8.281 2 The perfection of writing is when mind and body are both in key;...
    Imtl 8.349 6 It is curious to find the selfsame feeling, that it is...not duration, but a state of abandonment to the Highest, and so the sharing of His perfection,-appearing in the farthest east and west.
    LLNE 10.349 3 As we listened to [Albert Brisbane's] exposition it appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy; for the system was the perfection of arrangement and contrivance.
    Carl 10.495 19 [Carlyle] feels that the perfection of health is sportiveness...
    HDC 11.37 3 To his bodily perfection, the wild man added some noble traits of character.
    EWI 11.122 9 ...each age thinks its own [civility] the perfection of reason.
    FSLN 11.222 1 ...the perfection of [Webster's] elocution...we shall not soon find again.
    FSLN 11.236 13 ...our education is...to know...that self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
    FRO1 11.479 20 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind,-is apprised...that the basis of duty...the perfection of taste...draw their essence from this moral sentiment, then we have a religion that exalts...
    FRep 11.511 12 The manufacturers rely on turbines of hydraulic perfection;...
    FRep 11.517 18 One hundred years ago the American people attempted to carry out the bill of political rights to an almost ideal perfection.
    PLT 12.10 3 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled... which is a perfection of their nature...
    PLT 12.41 14 My percipiency affirms the presence and perfection of law, as much as all the martyrs.
    PLT 12.62 11 We have all of us by nature a certain divination and parturient vaticination in our minds of some higher good and perfection than either power or knowledge.
    CL 12.139 16 If we have coarse days, and dogdays...and days that are like ice-blinks, we have also...days which are...the perfection of temperature.
    Milt1 12.263 17 [Milton] acknowledges to his friend Diodati, at the age of twenty-one, that he is enamoured...of moral perfection...

Perfectionist, n. (1)

    LT 1.275 23 Here is great variety and richness of mysticism, each part of which now only disgusts whilst it forms the sole thought of some poor Perfectionist or "Comer out"...

perfections, n. (4)

    Prd1 2.234 4 Let [a man] esteem...[Nature's] perfections the exact measure of our deviations.
    ET16 5.281 20 The heroic antiquary [William Stukeley], charmed with the geometric perfections of his ruin, connects [Stonehenge] with the oldest monuments and religion of the world...
    Chr2 10.93 25 We can only mark, one by one, the perfections which [the moral intuition] combines in every act.
    Milt1 12.256 24 Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton] by his biographers...

perfectly, adv. (27)

    SL 2.149 16 Introduce a base person among gentlemen, it is all to no purpose; he is not their fellow. Every society protects itself. The company is perfectly safe...
    Mrs1 3.132 13 A circle of men perfectly well-bred would be a company of sensible persons in which every man's native manners and character appeared.
    SwM 4.114 10 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms, which act similarly to the larger ones, but more perfectly and more universally;...
    SwM 4.114 11 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms, which act similarly to the larger ones, but more perfectly and more universally; and the least forms so perfectly and universally as to involve an idea representative of their entire universe.
    ET1 5.12 1 He (Coleridge) knew all about Unitarianism perfectly well...
    ET13 5.223 22 [The Anglican Church]...is perfectly well-bred, and can shut its eyes on all proper occasions.
    Elo1 7.82 6 If the talents for speaking exist, but not the strong personality, then there are good speakers who perfectly receive and express the will of the audience...
    DL 7.103 7 ...[the nestler's] tiny beseeching weakness is compensated perfectly by the happy patronizing look of the mother...
    PI 8.22 8 Genius certifies its entire possession of its thought, by translating it into a fact which perfectly represents it...
    SA 8.88 25 ...I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
    Elo2 8.125 13 The power of [the men in the street's] speech is, that it is perfectly understood by all;...
    Elo2 8.130 4 Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
    Grts 8.308 8 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.
    Imtl 8.334 9 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find out...the delicate contrivance and adjustment...of a moss, to its wants, growth and perpetuation; all these adjustments becoming perfectly intelligible to our study,-and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
    MoL 10.256 19 [Senators and lawyers] read that they might know, did they not? Well, these men [who passed infamous laws] did not know. They blundered; they were utterly ignorant of that which every boy and girl of fifteen knows perfectly,-the rights of men and women.
    Schr 10.264 24 The poet and the citizen perfectly agree in conversation on the wise life.
    EzRy 10.385 19 [Ezra Ripley] was a perfectly sincere man...
    SlHr 10.439 22 ...it was perfectly easy for [Samuel Hoar] to associate with farmers...
    FSLN 11.222 8 ...[Webster] knew perfectly well how to make such exordiums, episodes and perorations as might give perspective to his harangues without in the least embarrassing his march or confounding his transitions.
    ALin 11.338 3 [Providence]...ordains that only that race which combines perfectly with the virtues of all shall endure.
    PLT 12.23 1 How lately the hunter was the poor creature's organic enemy; a presumption inflamed, as the lawyers say, by observing how many faces in the street still remind us of visages in the forest,-the escape from the quadruped type not yet perfectly accomplished.
    Mem 12.97 22 A knife with a good spring...a watch, the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly...describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
    Mem 12.105 11 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...
    CL 12.160 27 When I look at natural structures...I know that I am seeing an architecture and carpentry...which perfectly answers its end...
    CL 12.166 1 [External Nature] requires a will as perfectly organized,- requires man.
    MAng1 12.232 19 He alone, [Michelangelo] said, is an artist whose hands can perfectly execute what his mind has conceived;...
    MAng1 12.241 2 [Condivi wrote] As for me...this I know very well, that in a long intimacy, I never heard from [Michelangelo's] mouth a single word that was not perfectly decorous...

perfectness, n. (4)

    Nat 1.23 25 A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind. What is common to them all - that perfectness and harmony, is beauty.
    Comc 8.159 13 We have a primary association between perfectness and this [human] form.
    FSLN 11.240 17 ...freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
    Milt1 12.249 13 [Milton's tracts] have no perfectness.

perfects, v. (1)

    War 11.152 18 War...perfects the physical constitution...

perfidious, adj. (2)

    NMW 4.255 14 ...[Napoleon] was perfidious;...
    ET7 5.123 24 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners: which, to be sure, is paralleled...by the French popular legends on the subject of perfidious Albion.

perfidy, n. (1)

    LVB 11.93 15 You [Van Buren], sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this intrument of perfidy [the relocation of the Cherokees];...

perforate, v. (1)

    Res 8.142 24 ...we begin to perforate and mould the old ball, as a carpenter does with wood.

perforated, v. (2)

    PPh 4.69 10 The universe is perforated by a million channels for [the supreme Good's] activity.
    Res 8.142 21 ...the walls of a modern house are perforated with water-pipes, sound-pipes, gas-pipes, heat-pipes...

perforates, v. (1)

    FRep 11.542 23 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...perforates forests and stony mountain chains with roads...

perforations, n. (1)

    PPh 4.50 12 As one diffusive air, passing through the perforations of a flute, is distinguished as the notes of a scale, so the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold [said Krishna]...

perforce, adv. (1)

    Prd1 2.226 14 The northerner is perforce a householder.

perform, v. (19)

    MR 1.246 25 ...[infirm people] have a great deal more to do for themselves than they can possibly perform...
    Con 1.303 2 ...Wisdom attempts...nothing which it cannot perform or nearly perform.
    Tran 1.350 4 Unless the action is necessary, unless it is adequate, I do not wish to perform it.
    YA 1.389 2 /Man alone/ Can perform the impossible./
    UGM 4.28 7 It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men, and sending it to perform one more turn through the circle of beings, wrote, Not transferable and Good for this trip only, on these garments of the soul.
    ET1 5.17 19 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform.
    ET5 5.93 7 The steam-chamber of Watt, the locomotive of Stephenson, the cotton-mule of Roberts, perform the labor of the world.
    ET8 5.139 6 There is an adipocere in [Englishmen's] constitution, as if they...could perform vast amounts of work without damaging themselves.
    Pow 6.53 24 A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works...
    SS 7.12 21 The recluse witnesses what others perform by their aid, with a kind of fear.
    SA 8.102 13 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools...
    PPo 8.265 13 What you see is He not;/ What you hear is He not./ The valleys which you traverse,/ The actions which you perform,/ They lie under our treatment/ And among our properties./
    Imtl 8.339 2 Most men...promise by their countenance and conversation and by their early endeavor much more than they ever perform...
    Imtl 8.340 19 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers...came to this point, that whatsoever motions the spirit of man could act and perform without the organs of the body, might remain after death;...
    Edc1 10.129 22 Is it not true that every landscape I behold...every act I perform...leaves me a different being from that they found me?
    Plu 10.313 3 When you are persuaded in your mind that you cannot either offer or perform anything more agreeable to the gods than the entertaining a right notion of them, you will then avoid superstition as a no less evil than atheism.
    Carl 10.496 20 ...Carlyle thinks that the only religious act which a man nowadays can securely perform is to wash himself well.
    FRep 11.539 9 Let the good citizen perform the duties put on him here and now.
    Milt1 12.256 6 [Milton] defined the object of education to be, to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

performance, n. (77)

    LE 1.179 9 ...that man [Napoleon]...represented performance in lieu of pretension.
    MN 1.202 21 None of [the eminent souls] seen by himself, and his performance compared with his promise or idea, will justify the cost of that enormous apparatus of means by which this spotted and defective person was at last procured.
    MN 1.221 13 I will that we...live a life of discovery and performance.
    LT 1.287 8 Our time too is full of activity and performance.
    Hsm1 2.258 17 We have seen or heard of many extraordinary young men... whose performance in actual life was not extraordinary.
    OS 2.281 10 A thrill passes through all men...at the performance of a great action...
    Cir 2.322 2 The great moments of history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas...
    Exp 3.80 21 How long before our masquerade will end its noise of tambourines, laughter and shouting, and we shall find it was a solitary performance?
    Chr1 3.89 21 ...somewhat resided in these men which begot an expectation that outran all their performance.
    Nat2 3.190 3 All promise outruns the performance.
    NR 3.230 13 It is even worse in America, where, from the intellectual quickness of the race, the genius of the country is more splendid in its promise and more slight in its performance.
    UGM 4.14 2 I cannot even hear of...great power of performance, without fresh resolution.
    PPh 4.64 21 [Plato] delighted...in every graceful and useful and truthful performance;...
    MoS 4.179 13 So vast is the disproportion between the sky of law and the pismire of performance under it, that whether [a man] is a man of worth or a sot is not so great a matter as we say.
    MoS 4.183 23 [The man of thought] can behold with serenity the yawning gulf between the ambition of man and his power of performance...
    NMW 4.239 8 There have been many working kings...but none who accomplished a tithe of this man's [Napoleon's] performance.
    GoW 4.281 8 ...[the German intellect] has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance...
    ET5 5.92 4 Faithful performance of what is undertaken to be performed, [the English] honor in themselves, and exact in others...
    ET8 5.138 26 To understand the power of performance that is in their finest wits...one should see how English day-laborers hold out.
    ET9 5.144 22 [The Englishman's] confidence in the power and performance of his nation makes him provokingly incurious about other nations.
    ET12 5.207 23 When born with good constitutions, [English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box;...
    ET13 5.222 1 The English, in common perhaps with Christendom in the nineteenth century, do not respect power, but only performance;...
    ET14 5.245 10 Mr. Hallam...has written the history of European literature for three centuries,--a performance of great ambition...
    ET14 5.251 9 ...the artificial succor which marks all English performance appears in letters also...
    ET15 5.262 16 England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs, expressing with clearness and courage their opinion on any person or performance.
    ET18 5.307 22 The power of performance [in England] has not been exceeded...
    ET19 5.311 12 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which...in trade and in the mechanic's shop, gives that honesty in performance...which is a national [English] characteristic.
    F 6.42 15 As once [man] found himself among toys, so now...his growth is declared in...his performance.
    F 6.42 19 ...in each town there is some man who is, in his brain and performance, an explanation of the...ways of living and society of that town.
    Pow 6.55 14 For performance of great mark, it needs extraordinary health.
    Ctr 6.131 12 For performance, nature has no mercy...
    Ctr 6.137 24 No performance is worth loss of geniality.
    Wsp 6.216 2 What a day dawns when we have taken to heart the doctrine of faith! to prefer, as a better investment...character to performance;...
    Wsp 6.216 11 ...when there was any extraordinary power of performance... the human soul was in earnest...
    Wsp 6.240 7 The only path of escape known in all the worlds of God is performance.
    SS 7.11 15 Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.
    Art2 7.45 24 ...who will deny that the merely conventional part of the [artistic] performance contributes much to its effect?
    WD 7.157 24 ...there is no sense or organ which is not capable of exquisite performance.
    WD 7.161 6 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph...whose sudden performance astonished mankind....
    WD 7.182 26 [The savant's] performance is a memoir to the Academy on fish-worms, tadpoles, or spiders' legs;...
    Boks 7.195 16 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye. All these are young adventurers, who produce their performance to the wise ear of Time...
    Boks 7.205 17 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of civilization...and, I think, will be sure to send the reader to his...Abstracts of my Readings, which will spur the laziest scholar to emulation of his prodigious performance.
    Suc 7.283 2 Our American people cannot be taxed with slowness in performance or in praising their performance.
    Suc 7.283 3 Our American people cannot be taxed with slowness in performance or in praising their performance.
    Suc 7.290 25 ...excellence is lost sight of in the hunger for sudden performance and praise.
    Suc 7.293 7 So far from the performance being the real success, it is clear that the success was much earlier than that, namely, when all the feats that make our civility were the thoughts of good heads.
    Suc 7.295 5 ...it is a nice point to discriminate this self-trust, which is the pledge of all mental vigor and performance, from the disease to which it is allied,--the exaggeration of the part which we can play;...
    OA 7.321 2 A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty;...
    SA 8.79 24 'T is an inestimable hint that I owe to a few persons of fine manners, that they make behavior the very first sign of force,--behavior, and not performance...
    SA 8.88 18 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably. He...may easily find that performance an addition of confidence...
    Elo2 8.118 3 If the performance of the advocate reaches any high success it is paid in England with dignities in the professions...
    Comc 8.157 22 The essence...of all comedy, seems to be...a non-performance of what is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance.
    Comc 8.161 16 If the essence of the Comic be the contrast in the intellect between the idea and the false performance, there is good reason why we should be affected by the exposure.
    PC 8.215 22 If [your public] are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better.
    PC 8.229 9 Men say, Ah! if a man could impart his talent, instead of his performance, what mountains of guineas would be paid!
    Grts 8.311 8 The world was created as an audience for [the scholar]; the atoms of which it is made are opportunities. Read the performance of Bentley, Gibbon...
    Grts 8.316 17 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household life are wanting, and yet the opportunities and incentives to sublime daring and performance are often close at hand.
    Imtl 8.328 23 ...spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it...
    Dem1 10.25 24 ...this prodigious promiser [Animal Magnetism] ends always and always will...in a very small and smoky performance.
    PerF 10.76 15 ...[man's] his ability and performance are according to his reception of these various streams of force.
    PerF 10.78 2 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces;...
    Edc1 10.147 12 It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy, because they require exactitude of performance;...
    Edc1 10.147 14 It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy, because they require exactitude of performance; it is made certain...that power of performance is worth more than the knowledge.
    Supl 10.174 27 Nor is there in Nature itself any swell, any brag, any strain or shock, but...a true proportion between her means and her performance.
    MoL 10.256 1 We should see in [the work of art] the great belief of the artist, which caused him to make it so as he did, and not otherwise;... somewhat that must be done then and there by him; he could not take his neck out of that yoke, and save his soul. And this design must shine through the whole performance.
    MoL 10.256 4 I distrust all the legends of great accomplishments or performance of unprincipled men.
    LLNE 10.366 2 Good people are as bad as rogues if steady performance is claimed;...
    ALin 11.331 27 ...it turned out that [Lincoln]...had prodigious faculty of performance;...
    FRep 11.526 3 The history of civilization, or the refining of certain races to wonderful power of performance, is analogous;...
    PLT 12.24 4 ...the spectacle of vigor of any kind, any prodigious power of performance wonderfully arms and recruits us.
    PLT 12.36 27 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health.
    PLT 12.53 6 I must think...this thrill of awe with which we watch the performance of genius, a sign of our own readiness to exert the like power.
    II 12.72 5 The poetic state given, a little more or a good deal more or less performance seems indifferent.
    II 12.73 27 Here is a famous Ode, which is the first performance of the British mind and lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that?
    CL 12.155 12 ...[Linnaeus] celebrates the health and performance of the Laps as the best walkers of Europe.
    Milt1 12.261 9 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music...
    Milt1 12.267 22 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton with great promise and small performance, in returning from Italy because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school.

performances, n. (18)

    Hist 2.24 27 ...[in the Grecian period] the habit of [each man's] supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances.
    Art1 2.365 14 All works of art should not be detached, but extempore performances.
    Nat2 3.184 26 That famous aboriginal push propagates itself...through the history and performances of every individual.
    Nat2 3.190 12 ...bread and wine, mix and cook them how you will, leave us hungry and thirsty, after the stomach is full. It is the same with all our arts and performances.
    NER 3.271 11 ...we are not so wedded to our paltry performances of every kind but that every man has at intervals the grace to scorn his performances, in comparing them with his belief of what he should do;...
    NER 3.271 13 ...every man has at intervals the grace to scorn his performances, in comparing them with his belief of what he should do;...
    NER 3.276 26 ...[those who reject us]...urge us to new and unattempted performances.
    PPh 4.43 22 ...a philosopher converts the value of all his fortunes into his intellectual performances.
    MoS 4.177 25 There is a painful rumor in circulation that we have been practised upon in all the principal performances of life...
    GoW 4.273 11 The immense horizon which journeys with us lends its majesty...to matters of convenience and necessity, as to solemn and festal performances.
    Ctr 6.132 2 ...if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.
    Bhr 6.178 22 ...there is no end to the catalogue of [the eye's] performances...
    Suc 7.298 7 What is it we look for...in the sea and the firmament? what but a compensation for the cramp and pettiness of human performances?
    OA 7.326 5 ...[the old lawyer's] reputation does not gain or suffer from one or a dozen new performances.
    OA 7.331 23 ...there is a calendar of [a man's] years, so of his performances.
    Insp 8.277 11 ...all poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments...when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times;...
    Prch 10.230 23 Let [the young preacher] see his performances only as limitations.
    MLit 12.325 17 We are provoked with...the patronizing air with which [Goethe] vouchsafes to tolerate the genius and performances of other mortals...

performed, v. (26)

    Nat 1.37 15 The same good office is performed by Property...
    LE 1.179 20 [Napoleon] believed that the great captains of antiquity performed their exploits only by correct combinations...
    Mrs1 3.132 2 ...the countryman at a city dinner, believes that there is a ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed...
    SwM 4.97 25 Indeed, it takes/ From our achievements, when performed at height,/ The pith and marrow of our attribute./
    SwM 4.99 17 [Swedenborg] performed a notable feat of engineering in 1718...
    NMW 4.241 6 [Napoleon's troops] performed, under his eye, that which no others could do.
    GoW 4.283 23 ...your interest in the writer is not confined to his story and he dismissed from memory when he has performed his task creditably...
    ET4 5.72 18 Two centuries ago the English horse never performed any eminent service beyond the seas;...
    ET5 5.92 5 Faithful performance of what is undertaken to be performed, [the English] honor in themselves, and exact in others...
    ET11 5.190 4 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the details which Ben Jonson's masques (performed at Kenilworth, Althorpe, Belvoir and other noble houses), record or suggest;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    ET11 5.190 18 I must hold Ludlow Castle an honest house, for which Milton's Comus was written, and the company nobly bred which performed it with knowledge and sympathy.
    ET12 5.210 16 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...containing the tasks which many competitors had victoriously performed...
    ET18 5.300 11 Down to a late day, marriages performed by dissenters were illegal [in England].
    Pow 6.54 17 All the great captains, said Bonaparte, have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of the art...
    CbW 6.260 13 ...the most meritorious public services have always been performed by persons in a condition of life removed from opulence.
    Art2 7.42 13 All powerful action is performed by bringing the forces of Nature to bear upon our objects.
    Elo1 7.78 19 [Caesar]...declaimed to [the pirates]; if they did not applaud his speeches, he threatened them with hanging,--which he performed afterwards...
    Cour 7.266 19 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who tried to prophesy without command in the Temple at Delphi, though she performed the usual rites...fell into convulsions and died.
    OA 7.327 12 All the functions of human duty irritate and lash [man] forward...until they are performed.
    Comc 8.157 21 The essence...of all comedy, seems to be...a non-performance of what is pretended to be performed...
    QO 8.177 8 If we go into a library or newsroom, we see the same function [of suction] of a higher plane, performed with like ardor...
    MMEm 10.407 2 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing who...is looked up to as a specimen of genius. I performed a mission in secretly undermining his vanity...
    ACiv 11.309 7 Time, say the Indian Scriptures, drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and which is delayed in the execution.
    PLT 12.49 26 The same functions which are perfect in our quadrupeds are seen slower performed in palaeontology.
    II 12.85 1 ...all parties acquiesce, at last, each in a private box, with the whole play performed before himself solus.
    MAng1 12.236 2 ...as [the building of St. Peter's] was undertaken, so it was performed.

performer, n. (4)

    ShP 4.206 25 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...
    Ctr 6.131 13 For performance, nature has no mercy, and sacrifices the performer to get it done;...
    Ill 6.319 27 There is illusion that shall deceive even the performer of the miracle.
    Milt1 12.257 20 [Milton's] ear for music was so acute that he was not only enthusiastic in his love, but a skilful performer himself;...

performers, n. (4)

    NR 3.233 20 ...the master [Handel] overpowered the littleness and incapableness of the performers, and made them conductors of his electricity...
    UGM 4.10 16 The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on things,--He saw that they were good. We know where to find them; and these performers are relished all the more, after a little experience of the pretending races.
    ET7 5.125 16 I knew a very worthy man...who went to the opera to see Malibran. In one scene, the heroine was to rush across a ruined bridge. Mr. B. arose and mildly yet firmly called the attention of the audience and the performers to the fact that, in his judgment, the bridge was unsafe!
    Ill 6.324 24 In a crowded life of many parts and performers...the same elements offer the same choices to each new comer...

performing, n. (1)

    Cour 7.266 7 [Courage] is directness,--the instant performing of that which [a man] ought.

performing, v. (7)

    Hist 2.15 5 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms...like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods...
    Exp 3.80 15 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas...
    ET6 5.112 13 When Thalberg the pianist was one evening performing before the Queen at Windsor, in a private party, the Queen accompanied him with her voice.
    Suc 7.294 5 Cannot we please ourselves with performing our work...
    Prch 10.221 26 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action, warm-hearted... performing their promises,-what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?
    PLT 12.27 22 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms, which, after performing compulsory duty to this enchanted statue, are released again to flow in the currents of the world.
    CL 12.141 24 In the English universities, the reading men are daily performing their punctual training in the boat-clubs...

performings, n. (1)

    ET14 5.249 3 ...the misfortune of [Coleridge's] life, his vast attempts but most inadequate performings...seems to mark the closing of an era.

performs, v. (6)

    AmS 1.83 6 In the divided or social state these functions [of priest, scholar, statesman, producer, and soldier] are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.
    Hist 2.13 12 Genius watches the monad through all his masks as he performs the metempsychosis of nature.
    ET7 5.116 11 The [English] government strictly performs its engagements.
    Ctr 6.150 20 ...[the man of the world]...performs much...
    Mem 12.91 6 Memory performs the impossible for man...
    CL 12.154 11 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and builds new;-forever redistributing the solid matter of the globe; and performs an analogous office in perpetual new transplanting of the races of men over the surface...

perfume, n. (5)

    Nat 1.11 10 ...the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs is overspread with melancholy to-day.
    MN 1.218 27 Genius sheds wisdom like perfume...
    Mrs1 3.151 1 ...are there not women who fill our vase with wine and roses to the brim, so that the wine runs over and fills the house with perfume;...
    Ill 6.314 14 ...a friend of mine complained that all the varieties of fancy pears in our orchard seem to have been selected by somebody who had a whim for a particular kind of pear, and only cultivated such as had that perfume;...
    HDC 11.86 11 The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history... sheds a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.

perfume, v. (1)

    ET4 5.62 11 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into royal highnesses...

perfumed, adj. (5)

    Fdsp 2.205 21 I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display...
    Aris 10.52 7 ...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...
    JBS 11.280 26 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...
    Bost 12.194 26 These ancient men...send out their perfumed breath across the great tracts of time.
    EurB 12.370 14 Amid swinging censers and perfumed lamps...we long for rain and frost.

perfumed, v. (4)

    Cir 2.319 23 ...let [the man and woman of seventy] behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted...they are perfumed again with hope and power.
    Mrs1 3.144 25 Another mode [of winning a place in fashion] is to pass through all the degrees...being...perfumed, and dined, and introduced...
    Imtl 8.346 18 ...only by rare integrity, by a man permeated and perfumed with airs of heaven...can the vision [of immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime.
    Plu 10.304 16 ...[Plutarch] says...the Sibyl, with her frantic grimaces, uttering sentences altogether thoughtful and serious, neither fucused nor perfumed, continues her voice a thousand years...

perfumery, n. (1)

    CbW 6.247 6 [Fine society] renders the service of a perfumery or a laundry...

perfumes, n. (4)

    MR 1.246 12 Sofas, ottomans, stoves, wine, game-fowl, spices, perfumes, rides, the theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want...
    MR 1.248 23 ...it would be like dying of perfumes to sink in the effort to re-attach the deeds of every day to the holy and mysterious recesses of life.
    ET11 5.195 12 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense. They went from city to city, learning receipts to make perfumes, sweet powders, pomanders, antidotes...preparing for a private life thereafter...
    PLT 12.64 6 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness...

perfunctorily, adv. (2)

    Wsp 6.225 22 In every variety of human employment...there are, among the numbers who do their task perfunctorily...the working men, on whom the burden of the business falls;...
    FRep 11.518 16 No [legislative] measure is attempted for itself, but the opinion of the people is courted in the first place, and the measures are perfunctorily carried through as secondary.

perfunctory, adj. (1)

    ET18 5.302 8 ...this perfunctory hospitality puts no sweetness into [Englishmen's] unaccommodating manners...

perglobator [globator], Volvo (1)

    GoW 4.290 5 Man is the most composite of all creatures; the wheel-insect, volvox globator, is at the other extreme.

perhaps, adv. (211)

    Nat 1.70 14 I shall...conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature...which, as they...perhaps reappear to every bard, may be both history and prophecy.
    Nat 1.76 13 ...you perhaps call [your house], a cobbler's trade;...
    AmS 1.81 3 Our anniversary is one of hope, perhaps, not enough of labor.
    AmS 1.81 14 Perhaps the time is already come when [our holiday] ought to be, and will be, something else;...
    AmS 1.87 16 ...perhaps we shall get at the truth...by considering [books'] value alone.
    AmS 1.108 23 ...I have dwelt perhaps tediously upon this abstraction of the Scholar.
    LE 1.168 22 ...[when I see the daybreak] I feel perhaps the pain of an alien world;...
    MR 1.241 17 I know it often, perhaps usually, happens that where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual finds himself compelled to wait on his thoughts;...
    MR 1.245 13 How can the man who has learned but one art, procure all the conveniences of life honestly? Shall we say all we think?-Perhaps with his own hands.
    MR 1.245 16 How can the man who has learned but one art, procure all the conveniences of life honestly? Shall we say all we think?-Perhaps with his own hands. Suppose he collects or makes them ill;-yet he has learned their lesson. If he cannot do that?-Then perhaps he can go without.
    MR 1.247 6 It is more elegant to answer one's own needs than to be richly served; inelegant perhaps it may look to-day, and to a few...
    LT 1.272 2 Is there a necessity that the works of man should be sordid? Perhaps not.
    Con 1.320 23 ...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class;...they will...perhaps lay a hand on the sacred muniments of wealth itself...
    Tran 1.331 5 Even the materialist Condillac, perhaps the most logical expounder of materialism, was constrained to say...it is always our own thought that we perceive.
    Tran 1.331 27 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity, red-hot or white-hot perhaps at the core...
    Tran 1.343 12 ...[Transcendentalists] will own...that there are...persons whose faces are perhaps unknown to them, but whose fame and spirit have penetrated their solitude...
    Tran 1.358 18 Perhaps too there might be room [in society] for the exciters and monitors;...
    Tran 1.359 22 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim... shall abide in beauty and strength...to invest themselves anew in other, perhaps higher endowed and happier mixed clay than ours...
    Hist 2.23 2 At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow, [a man of rude health and flowing spirits]...associates as happily as beside his own chimneys. Or perhaps his facility is deeper seated, in the increased range of his faculties of observation...
    Hist 2.39 25 Hear the rats in the wall, see the lizard on the fence, the fungus under foot, the lichen on the log. ... As old as the Caucasion man,--perhaps older,--these creatures have kept their counsel beside him...
    Lov1 2.172 11 Perhaps we never saw [the lovers] before and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance...and we are no longer strangers.
    Fdsp 2.206 21 [Friendship] cannot subsist in its perfection...betwixt more than two. I am not quite so strict in my terms, perhaps because I have never known so high a fellowship as others.
    Fdsp 2.215 22 ...if you come, perhaps you will fill my mind only with new visions;...
    Hsm1 2.262 7 The circumstances of man, we say, are historically somewhat better in this country and at this hour than perhaps ever before.
    OS 2.287 16 The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...or perhaps as acquainted with the fact on the evidence of third persons.
    OS 2.290 16 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...the brilliant friend they know; still further on perhaps the gorgeous landscape...they enjoyed yesterday...
    Int 2.333 16 Perhaps, if we should meet Shakspeare we should not be conscious of any steep inferiority;...
    Int 2.345 4 ...whosoever propounds to you a philosophy of the mind, is only a more or less awkward translator of things in your consciousness which you have also your way of seeing, perhaps of denominating.
    Int 2.345 9 ...[the philosopher] has not succeeded in rendering back to you your consciousness. He has not succeeded; now let another try. If Plato cannot, perhaps Spinoza will.
    Int 2.345 10 ...[the philosopher] has not succeeded in rendering back to you your consciousness. He has not succeeded; now let another try. If Plato cannot, perhaps Spinoza will. If Spinoza cannot, then perhaps Kant.
    Art1 2.359 24 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist, who toiled perhaps in ignorance of the existence of other sculpture...
    Exp 3.49 2 If to-morrow I should be informed of the bankruptcy of my principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a great inconvenience to me, perhaps, for many years; but it would leave me as it found me...
    Exp 3.60 18 Let us treat the men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.
    Exp 3.76 1 Perhaps these subject-lenses have a creative power;...
    Exp 3.76 2 ...perhaps there are no objects.
    Chr1 3.94 4 Higher natures overpower lower ones by affecting them with a certain sleep. The faculties are locked up, and offer no resistance. Perhaps that is the universal law.
    Mrs1 3.140 18 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover...the air of drowsy strength...perhaps because such a person seems to reserve himself for the best of the game...
    Nat2 3.189 10 ...perhaps the discovery that wisdom has other tongues and ministers than we...might check injuriously the flames of our zeal.
    NR 3.230 17 We conceive distinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German genius, and it is not the less real that perhaps we should not meet in either of those nations a single individual who corresponded with the type.
    NR 3.237 13 ...once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.
    NER 3.265 11 I have failed, and you have failed, but perhaps together we shall not fail.
    NER 3.265 13 Our housekeeping is not satisfactory to us, but perhaps a phalanx, a community, might be.
    NER 3.265 20 I have not been able either to persuade my brother or to prevail on myself to disuse the traffic or the potation of brandy, but perhaps a pledge of total abstinence might effectually restrain us.
    UGM 4.7 8 Certain men affect us as rich possibilities, but helpless to themselves and to their times,--the sport perhaps of some instinct that rules in the air;...
    UGM 4.27 10 Perhaps Voltaire was not bad-hearted, yet he said of the good Jesus, even, I pray you, let me never hear that man's name again.
    PPh 4.42 21 Plato absorbed the learning of his time...and finding himself still capable of a larger synthesis...he travelled...into Egypt, and perhaps still farther East...
    SwM 4.101 25 No one man is perhaps able to judge of the merits of [Swedenborg's] works on so many subjects.
    SwM 4.107 7 This theory [Identity-philosophy] dates from the oldest philosophers, and derives perhaps its best illustration from the newest.
    SwM 4.128 22 Perhaps the true subject of the Conjugal Love [by Swedenborg] is Conversation, whose laws are profoundly set forth.
    SwM 4.130 14 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion...of moral and mental power, which perhaps obeys the law of those chemical ratios which make a proportion in volumes necessary to combination...
    SwM 4.137 8 [Swedenborg] is...like Dante, who avenged, in vindictive melodies, all his private wrongs; or perhaps still more like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come...
    SwM 4.146 7 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him, and which no infirmities of the prophet are suffered to obscure; and he renders a second passive service to men, not less than the first, perhaps, in the great circle of being...
    ShP 4.197 7 [The poet] knows the sparkle of the true stone, and puts it in high place, wherever he finds it. Such is the happy position of Homer perhaps;...
    NMW 4.246 21 Perhaps it is a little puerile, the pleasure [Napoleon] took in making these contrasts glaring;...
    NMW 4.254 26 I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]: perhaps Joseph a little, from habit...
    ET1 5.14 15 ...I...find it impossible to recall the largest part of [Coleridge' s] discourse, which was often like so many printed paragraphs in his book,-- perhaps the same...
    ET1 5.22 13 [Wordsworth] said, If you are interested in my verses perhaps you will like to hear these lines.
    ET2 5.28 2 Our ship was registered 750 tons, and weighed perhaps, with all her freight, 1500 tons.
    ET4 5.44 21 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe;...
    ET4 5.45 1 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.
    ET4 5.52 14 Perhaps the ocean serves as a galvanic battery...
    ET13 5.221 26 The English, in common perhaps with Christendom in the nineteenth century, do not respect power, but only performance;...
    ET13 5.227 10 Brougham...said...the reverend bishops...solemnly declare in the presence of God that when they are called upon to accept a living, perhaps of 4000 pounds a year, at that very instant they are moved by the Holy Ghost to accept the office and administration thereof, for no other reason whatever?
    ET14 5.250 23 If [James Wilkinson's] mind does not rest in immovable biases, perhaps the orbit is larger and the return is not yet...
    ET14 5.253 5 I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English] science, since they have known how to make it repulsive and bereave nature of its charm;--though perhaps the complaint flies wider...
    ET14 5.253 21 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions... perhaps of Robert Brown, the botanist;...
    ET15 5.267 16 The daily paper [London Times] is the work...chiefly, it is said, of young men recently from the University, and perhaps reading law in chambers in London.
    ET17 5.296 6 ...perhaps it is a high compliment to the cultivation of the English generally, when we find such a man [as Wordsworth] not distinguished.
    Pow 6.53 9 ...if there be such a tie that wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers...
    Pow 6.60 2 The second man is as good as the first,--perhaps better;...
    Wth 6.109 9 [The New Hampshire youth in the city] will perhaps find by and by that he left the Muses at the door of the hotel, and found the Furies inside.
    Wth 6.120 7 Perhaps [Mr. Cockayne] bought also a yoke of oxen to do his work;...
    Ctr 6.135 16 ...after a man has discovered that there are limits to the interest which his private history has for mankind, he still converses with... perhaps with half a dozen personalities that are famous in his neighborhood.
    Ctr 6.145 12 All educated Americans...go to Europe; perhaps because it is their mental home...
    Bhr 6.175 16 ...perhaps the ambitious youth thinks he has got the whole secret when he has learned that disengaged manners are commanding.
    Wsp 6.234 25 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal people to whom I have no skill to reply. They think they have defeated me. It is so published in society, in the journals; I am defeated in this fashion...perhaps on a dozen different lines.
    CbW 6.261 15 ...perhaps [the rich man] could pass a college examination, and take his degrees;...
    CbW 6.261 17 ...perhaps [the rich man] can give wise counsel in a court of law.
    Bty 6.283 24 ...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good son...and perhaps reckon only his money value...
    Bty 6.286 11 At the birth of Winckelmann...side by side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty; and perhaps some sparks from it may yet light a conflagration in the other.
    Ill 6.312 22 [the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow and compliment of some leader in the state or in society; weighs what he says; perhaps he never comes nearer to him for that, but dies at last better contented for this amusement of his eyes and his fancy.
    SS 7.5 21 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins, in which he forbade him to insert his name with the solution of the problem in the Philosophical Transactions: It would perhaps increase my acquaintance...
    Civ 7.32 20 ...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...
    Elo1 7.64 21 ...the end of eloquence is...to alter...perhaps in a half hour's discourse, the convictions and habits of years.
    Elo1 7.67 16 Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health...
    Elo1 7.91 1 ...perhaps we should say that the truly eloquent man is a sane man with power to communicate his sanity.
    Elo1 7.92 22 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It... perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.
    DL 7.129 10 ...perhaps Love is only the highest symbol of Friendship...
    Boks 7.194 16 ...perhaps, the human mind would be a gainer if all the secondary writers were lost...
    Boks 7.205 27 To help us, perhaps a volume or two of M. Sismondi's Italian Republics will be as good as the entire sixteen.
    Boks 7.220 3 Is there any geography in these things [sacred thoughts]? We call them Asiatic, we call them primeval; but perhaps that is only optical, for Nature is always equal to herself...
    Clbs 7.241 15 We consider those...who think it the highest compliment they can pay a man...to expose to him the grand and cheerful secrets perhaps never opened to their daily companions...
    Clbs 7.242 9 ...we perhaps live with people too superior to be seen...
    Cour 7.265 16 Bodily pain is superficial, seated usually in the skin and the extremities...not in the vitals, where the rupture that produces death is perhaps not felt...
    OA 7.315 23 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...happiest perhaps in his praise of life on the farm;...
    OA 7.323 18 When the old wife says, Take care of that tumor in your shoulder, perhaps it is cancerous,--[the man of sixty] replies, I am yielding to a surer decomposition.
    PI 8.50 11 Thomas Taylor...is really...a better poet, or perhaps I should say a better feeder to a poet, than any man between Milton and Wordsworth.
    PI 8.56 2 Perhaps this dainty style of poetry is not producible to-day...
    PI 8.68 12 Perhaps Homer and Milton will be tin pans yet.
    SA 8.88 15 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably.
    Elo2 8.113 21 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned in driving cattle to the hills...
    Elo2 8.114 3 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier days by the torrent in the gloom of the pine-woods...
    Elo2 8.119 16 What is peculiar in [eloquence] is a certain creative heat, which a man attains to perhaps only once in his life.
    Elo2 8.120 4 ...a man of this talent [of eloquence] sometimes finds himself... perhaps a heavy companion;...
    Elo2 8.120 21 Every one of us has at some time...perhaps been repelled once for all by a harsh, mechanical speaker.
    Elo2 8.126 16 If I should make the shortest list of the qualifications of the orator, I should begin with manliness; and perhaps it means here presence of mind.
    Res 8.140 12 The marked events in history...the discovery of the mariner's compass, which perhaps the Phoenicians made;...each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
    Res 8.147 10 ...what danger soever there may be, there is still one way or other to get off, and perhaps to your honor.
    QO 8.190 27 ...we value in Coleridge his excellent knowledge and quotations perhaps as much, possibly more, than his original suggestions.
    PC 8.232 21 We are a complaisant, forgiving people, presuming, perhaps, on a feeling of strength.
    Insp 8.287 8 I confide that my reader...has perhaps Slighted Minerva's learned tongue,/ But leaped with joy when on the wind the shell of Clio rung./
    Insp 8.288 1 Perhaps you can recall a delight like [the swell of an Aeolian harp], which spoke to the eye...
    Insp 8.291 24 Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your book-shelf and your task.
    Insp 8.296 10 ...now one, now another landscape, form, color, or companion, or perhaps one kind of sounding word or syllable, strikes the electric chain with which we are darkly bound...
    Insp 8.297 7 [Scholars] are men whom a book could entertain, a new thought intoxicate and hold them prisoners for years perhaps.
    Grts 8.301 10 I might call [the prize] completeness, but that is later,- perhaps adjourned for ages.
    Grts 8.309 24 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for.
    Grts 8.315 5 We perhaps look on [intellect's] crimes as experiments of a universal student;...
    Grts 8.318 22 Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most remarkable example of this class [of great style of hero] that we have seen...
    Imtl 8.345 15 ...it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul. That knowledge is hidden very cunningly. Perhaps the archangels cannot find the secret of their existence...
    Dem1 10.6 10 Animals have been called the dreams of Nature. Perhaps for a conception of their consciousness we may go to our own dreams.
    Dem1 10.24 11 Read demonology or Colquhoun's Report, and we are bewildered and perhaps a little besmirched.
    Aris 10.49 2 I don't know how much Epictetus was sold for...or Toussaint l' Ouverture, and perhaps it was not a good market-day.
    Aris 10.53 20 Here [in a village] are classes which day by day have no intercourse, nothing beyond perhaps a surly nod in passing.
    Chr2 10.102 27 Such [self-reliant] souls...oftenest appear solitary...because those who can understand and uphold such appear rarely, not many, perhaps not one, in a generation.
    Chr2 10.107 17 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...but only...perhaps that they find some violence, some cramping of their freedom of thought, in the constant recurrence of the form.
    Edc1 10.136 18 The old man thinks the young man has no distinct purpose, for he could never get anything intelligible and earnest out of him. Perhaps the young man does not think it worth his while to explain himself to so hard and inapprehensive a confessor.
    SovE 10.203 7 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace.
    Prch 10.219 14 Perhaps there must be austere elections and determinations before any clear vision.
    Prch 10.228 19 I fear that what is called religion, but is perhaps pew-holding, not obeys but conceals the moral sentiment.
    MoL 10.241 8 You go to be teachers...I hope, some of you, to be the men of letters, critics, philosophers; perhaps the rare gift of poetry already sparkles...
    MoL 10.258 11 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our advantage, irretrievably. For such a gain...one generation might well be sacrificed; perhaps it will;...
    Schr 10.277 26 Perhaps I value power of achievement a little more because in America there seems to be a certain indigence in this respect.
    Schr 10.282 20 ...it is the end of eloquence...perhaps in a few sentences,- to persuade a multitude of persons to renounce their opinions, and change the course of life.
    Schr 10.288 9 I had perhaps wiselier adhered to my first purpose of confining my illustration [of the scholar] to a single topic...
    Plu 10.305 25 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay...
    Plu 10.305 27 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay...or perhaps, at a rhetorician's school, the subject of Herodotus being the lesson of the day, Plutarch was appointed by lot to take the adverse side.
    Plu 10.307 10 These men [who revere the spiritual power]...are not the parasites of wealth. Perhaps they sometimes compromise...but they keep open the source of wisdom and health.
    Plu 10.311 12 'T is almost inevitable to compare Plutarch with Seneca, who...was for many years his contemporary, though...their writings were perhaps unknown to each other.
    Plu 10.317 23 If [Plutarch] did not compile the piece [Apothegms of Noble Commanders], many, perhaps most of the anecdotes were already scattered in his works.
    LLNE 10.342 21 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity. Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon Coleridge and Wordsworth...with pleasure and sympathy.
    LLNE 10.343 9 ...perhaps those persons who were mutually the best friends were the most private...
    LLNE 10.343 20 ...the intelligence and character and varied ability of the company...perhaps waked curiosity as to its aims and results.
    LLNE 10.344 2 Perhaps [The Dial's] writers were its chief readers...
    LLNE 10.352 13 [Fourier] treats man...perhaps as a vegetable, from which, though now a poor crab, a very good peach can by manure and exposure be in time produced...
    LLNE 10.361 4 Those who inspired and organized [Brook Farm] were... persons impatient of...the uniformity, perhaps they would say the squalid contentment of society around them...
    LLNE 10.361 9 ...impulse was the rule in the society [at Brook Farm], without centripetal balance; perhaps it would not be severe to say, intellectual sans-culottism...
    LLNE 10.361 18 The young people [at Brook Farm] lived a great deal in a short time, and came forth some of them perhaps with shattered constitutions.
    LLNE 10.362 18 I recall one youth...I believe I must say the subtlest observer and diviner of character I ever met, living, reading, writing, talking there [at Brook Farm], perhaps as long as the colony held together;...
    LLNE 10.367 4 The country members [at Brook Farm] naturally were surprised to observe that one man ploughed all day and one looked out of the window all day, and perhaps drew his picture, and both received at night the same wages.
    EzRy 10.384 7 Perhaps I cannot better illustrate this tendency [to believe in a particular providence] than by citing a record from the diary of the father of [Ezra Ripley's] predecessor...
    EzRy 10.389 16 ...[Ezra Ripley] knew nothing beyond the columns of his weekly religious newspaper, the tracts of his sect, and perhap the Middlesex Yeoman.
    MMEm 10.397 26 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./
    MMEm 10.399 6 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life. It is a representative life...of an age now past, and of which I think no types survive. Perhaps I deceive myself and overestimate its interest.
    MMEm 10.410 8 By and by [Mary Moody Emerson] said, Mrs. Thoreau, I don't know whether you have observed that my eyes are shut. Yes, Madam, I have observed it. Perhaps you would like to know the reasons?
    MMEm 10.412 15 ...when Nature beams with such excess of beauty, when the heart thrills with hope in its Author...it exults, too fondly perhaps for a state of trial.
    MMEm 10.412 23 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden]. Ah! mortifying sight! instinct perhaps triumphs over reason...
    MMEm 10.413 22 The feverish lust of notice perhaps in all these cases would injure the heart of common refinement and virtue.
    MMEm 10.421 14 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I [Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing;...yet joying in existence, perhaps striving to beautify one individual of God's creation.
    MMEm 10.426 9 ...the hold on [external objects] is so slight, that duty is lost sight of perhaps, at times.
    MMEm 10.428 7 The sickness of the last week was fine medicine; pain disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual. I [Mary Moody Emerson] rose,-I felt that I had given to God more perhaps than an angel could...
    MMEm 10.430 22 ...one secret sentiment of virtue, disinterested (or perhaps not), is worthy...
    MMEm 10.431 16 While I [Mary Moody Emerson] am sympathizing in the government of God over the world, perhaps I lose nearer views.
    Thor 10.454 16 Perhaps [Thoreau] fell into his way of living without forecasting it much...
    Thor 10.472 18 ...no academy made [Thoreau]...its discoverer, or even its member. Perhaps these learned bodies feared the satire of his presence.
    Thor 10.475 2 [Thoreau] could not be deceived as to the presence or absence of the poetic element in any composition, and his thirst for this made him negligent and perhaps scornful of superficial graces.
    LVB 11.93 2 In speaking thus the sentiments of my neighbors and my own, perhaps I overstep the bounds of decorum.
    EWI 11.133 5 ...perhaps I know too little of politics for the smallest weight to attach to any censure of mine...
    EWI 11.133 15 To what purpose have we clothed each of those representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons...if they are to sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and sold;- perhaps to gentlemen sitting by them in the hall?
    EWI 11.133 18 There is a scandalous rumor...perhaps wholly false,-that members [of Congress] are bullied into silence by Southern gentlemen.
    FSLC 11.203 21 Mr. Webster perhaps is only following the laws of his blood and constitution.
    TPar 11.287 18 'T is objected to [Theodore Parker] that he scattered too many illusions. Perhaps more tenderness would have been graceful;...
    ACiv 11.306 10 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will that the Union shall not be broken...
    ACiv 11.311 5 More and better than the President has spoken shall, perhaps, the effect of this message [proposal for gradual abolition] be...
    ALin 11.329 18 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward on its long march through mourning states...we might well be silent...
    ALin 11.336 5 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim? Far happier this fate than...to have seen- perhaps even he-the proverbial ingratitude of statesmen;...
    HCom 11.343 1 [Our young men] said, It is not in me to resist. I go [to war] because I must. It is a duty which I shall never forgive myself if I decline. I do not know that I can make a soldier. I may be very clumsy. Perhaps I shall be timid;...
    SMC 11.357 7 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...men hitherto of narrow opportunities of knowing the world, but well taught in the grammar-schools. But perhaps in every one of these classes were idealists...
    SMC 11.364 16 [George Prescott writes] We only had about twelve men [the rest of the company being, perhaps, on picket or other duty]...
    SMC 11.365 2 [George Prescott writes] The major had tried to discourage me;-said, perhaps, if I carried [tent-poles] over, some other company would get them;...
    SMC 11.365 4 [George Prescott writes] The major had tried to discourage me;-said, perhaps, if I carried [tent-poles] over, some other company would get them;-I told him, perhaps he did not think I was smart.
    Wom 11.405 3 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind,-perhaps we should say sporadic...is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman.
    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.
    Scot 11.463 10 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled-perhaps he alone among literary men of this century is entitled...
    CPL 11.499 18 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes in her diary...perhaps a greater variety of internal emotions would be felt by remaining with books in one place than pursuing the waves which are ever the same.
    FRep 11.518 20 We do not choose our own candidate...only the available candidate, whom, perhaps, no man loves.
    PLT 12.12 4 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he... only draws that arc which he clearly sees, or perhaps at a later observation a remote curve of the same orbit...
    PLT 12.16 23 ...I have a suspicion that, as geologists say every river makes its own valley, so does this mystic stream. It makes its valley, makes its banks and makes perhaps the observer too.
    PLT 12.25 22 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line.
    PLT 12.32 21 Perhaps creatures live with us which we never see, because their motion is too swift for our vision.
    PLT 12.51 5 You laugh at the monotones, at the men of one idea, but if we look nearly at heroes we may find the same poverty; and perhaps it is not poverty, but power.
    II 12.73 1 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money. Perhaps that is a benefit...
    II 12.74 5 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago passed out of it, and perhaps his only concern with it is some copyright of an edition in which certain pages...are contained.
    II 12.84 25 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre; but they soon desist from the attempt, in finding that they also have some farce, or, perhaps, some ear-and heart-rending tragedy forward on their secret boards, on which they are intent;...
    Mem 12.92 2 Some fact that had a childish significance to your childhood and was a type in the nursery, when riper intelligence recalls it...perhaps in your age has new meaning.
    Mem 12.99 10 ...there is a wild memory in children and youth which makes what is early learned impossible to forget; and perhaps in the beginning of the world it had most vigor.
    CInt 12.119 10 I value talent,-perhaps no man more.
    CInt 12.127 19 Ah, gentlemen, it's only a dream of mine, and perhaps never will be true,-but I thought a college was a place not to train talents... but to adorn Genius...
    CInt 12.130 13 ...know that, next to being [intellect's] minister, like Aristotle, and perhaps better than that, is the profound reception and sympathy, without ambition, which secularizes and trades it.
    CL 12.158 13 The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is remarkable, and perhaps is not explained.
    Bost 12.185 10 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes...
    MAng1 12.238 27 It has been the defect of some great men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of others, and so lacked...one of the best elements of humanity. This apathy perhaps happens as often from preoccupied attention as from jealousy.
    Milt1 12.276 16 Perhaps we speak to no fact, but to mere fables, of an idle mendicant Homer, and of a Shakspeare content with a mean and jocular way of life.
    MLit 12.317 12 Perhaps no considerable minority, no one man, leads a quite clean and lofty life.
    EurB 12.370 9 Perhaps we felt the popular objection that [Tennyson] wants rude truth;...
    EurB 12.371 27 Perhaps Tennyson is too quaint and elegant. What then?
    PPr 12.382 17 A man's diet should be what is simplest and readiest to be had, because it is so private a good. His house should be better, because that is for the use of hundreds, perhaps of thousands...
    PPr 12.386 19 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear...
    Let 12.395 14 Another objection [to Communities] seems to have occurred to a subtle but ardent advocate. Is it, he writes, a too great wilfulness and intermeddling with life,-which is better accepted than calculated? Perhaps so;...
    Let 12.402 5 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class...perhaps is the more violent that whilst our work is imposed by the soil and the sea, our culture is the tradition of Europe.
    Let 12.403 20 Perhaps the adversities of our commerce have not yet been pushed to the wholesomest degree of severity.

Perhaps, n. (1)

    QO 8.185 13 Rabelais's dying words, I am going to see the great Perhaps... only repeats the IF inscribed on the portal of the temple at Delphi.

Periander's, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.235 21 In the old time conundrums were sent from king to king by ambassadors. The seven wise masters at Periander's banquet spent their time in answering them.

pericarp, n. (2)

    MN 1.203 25 ...my [Nature's] aim is...by no means the pampering of a monstrous pericarp at the expense of all the other functions.
    F 6.39 3 The vegetable eye makes leaf, pericarp, root, bark, or thorn, as the need is;...

Pericles, n. (23)

    Tran 1.350 19 All that the brave Xanthus brings home from his wars is the recollection that at the storming of Samos, in the heat of the battle, Pericles smiled on me, and passed on to another detachment.
    SL 2.165 4 This over-estimate of the possibilities of Paul and Pericles... comes from a neglect of the fact of an identical nature.
    Hsm1 2.258 9 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...teach us how needlessly mean our life is;...
    Mrs1 3.125 11 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this strong type; Saladin...Pericles...
    NR 3.227 15 ...there are no such men as we fable; no Jesus, nor Pericles... such as we have made.
    PPh 4.43 24 [Plato] was born 427 A.C., about the time of the death of Pericles;...
    PPh 4.47 11 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics...
    PPh 4.52 25 European civility is...delight...in comprehensible results. Pericles, Athens, Greece, had been working in this element with the joy of genius not yet chilled by any foresight of the detriment of an excess.
    PPh 4.64 27 What a price [Plato] sets on the feats of talent, on the powers of Pericles, of Isocrates, of Parmenides!
    ShP 4.203 24 Since the constellation of great men who appeared in Greece in the time of Pericles, there was never any such society [as that in Elizabethan England];...
    ET14 5.241 7 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature, since loftiness of thought and perfect mastery over every subject seem to be derived from some such source as this. This Pericles had, in addition to a great natural genius.
    Pow 6.71 3 In history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage...and you have Pericles and Phidias, not yet passed over into the Corinthian civility.
    Pow 6.75 9 There was, in the whole city, but one street in which Pericles was ever seen...
    Ctr 6.141 22 The best heads that ever existed, Pericles, Plato...were well-read, universally educated men...
    Ctr 6.161 13 ...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty. Plato says Pericles owed this elevation to the lessons of Anaxagoras.
    Elo1 7.73 5 ...Thucydides, when Archidamus, king of Sparta, asked him which was the best wrestler, Pericles or he, replied, When I throw him, he says he was never down, and he persuades the very spectators to believe him.
    Elo1 7.94 25 The power of Chatham, of Pericles, of Luther, rested on this strength of character...
    DL 7.103 14 Welcome to the parents the puny struggler...his lips touched with persuasion which Chatham and Pericles in manhood had not.
    Boks 7.199 11 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners...portraits of Pericles, Alcibiades...
    Boks 7.201 17 The valuable part [of Greek history] is the age of Pericles and the next generation.
    LLNE 10.331 2 There was an influence on the young people from the genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that of Pericles in Athens.
    TPar 11.285 10 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends.
    WSL 12.344 27 ...in the character of Pericles [Landor] has found full play for beauty and greatness of behavior...

Pericles's, n. (1)

    LE 1.163 13 ...in the great idea and the puny execution;...behold Pericles's day...

periculosa, adj. (1)

    Clbs 7.238 18 Omnis definitio periculosa est...

Perigord, France, n. (1)

    MoS 4.163 8 ...in prosecuting my correspondence [with John Sterling], I found that, from a love of Montaigne, he had made a pilgrimage to his chateau, still standing near Castellan, in Perigord...

peril, n. (19)

    Con 1.306 22 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me...my pleasant ground where to build my cabin. Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;...
    Con 1.306 25 Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;... And what is that peril?
    Hsm1 2.255 6 Better still is the temperance of King David, who poured out on the ground unto the Lord the water which three of his warriors had brought him to drink at the peril of their lives.
    Cir 2.315 8 Geoffrey draws on his boots to go through the woods, that his feet may be safer from the bite of snakes; Aaron never thinks of such a peril.
    Pol1 3.204 17 If it be not easy to settle the equity of this question [of property], the peril is less when we take note of our natural defenses.
    PNR 4.89 7 All [Plato's] painting in the Republic must be esteemed mythical, with intent to bring out...his thought. You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.
    NMW 4.237 2 We are always in peril...
    GoW 4.267 1 Act, if you like,--but you do it at your peril.
    ET11 5.174 24 The things these English have done were not done without peril of life...
    Wsp 6.222 10 In a new nation and language, [the countryman's] sect...is lost. ... This is the peril of New York...to young men.
    Cour 7.252 1 Peril around, all else appalling,/ Cannon in front and leaden rain,/ Him duty, through the clarion calling/ To the van, called not in vain./
    Cour 7.256 7 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men.
    Cour 7.262 24 The child is as much in danger from...a cat, as the soldier from...an ambush. Each surmounts the fear as fast as he precisely understands the peril...
    Aris 10.29 15 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/ His office natural ay wol it hold,/ Up peril of my lif, til that it die./
    Schr 10.279 3 The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride.
    War 11.152 6 ...in the infancy of society...the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak, at whatever peril of future revenge.
    ACiv 11.303 12 There are Scriptures written invisibly on men's hearts, whose letters do not come out until they are enraged. They can be read by... eyes in the last peril.
    HCom 11.340 8 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness/...
    FRep 11.535 3 ...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. They...can find a way out of any peril.

peril, v. (3)

    Aris 10.38 17 ...we wish to see those to whom existence is most adorned and attractive, foremost to peril it for their object...
    War 11.173 9 [Shakespeare's lords] make what is in their minds the greatest sacrifice. They will, for an injurious word, peril all their state and wealth, and go to the field.
    FRep 11.519 25 Our great men succumb so far to the forms of the day as to peril their integrity for the sake of adding to the weight of their personal character the authority of office...

perilous, adj. (12)

    SwM 4.118 24 ...[Swedenborg's] profound mind admitted the perilous opinion...that he was an abnormal person...
    ShP 4.194 27 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...
    Wth 6.89 15 The sea...offers its perilous aid and the power and empire that follow it...to [man's] craft and audacity.
    Bhr 6.173 13 I have seen...the pitiers of themselves, a perilous class;...
    Wsp 6.217 25 The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent.
    Clbs 7.237 14 In the Norse legends, The gods of Valhalla when they meet the Jotuns, converse on the perilous terms that he who cannot answer the other's questions forfeits his own life.
    OA 7.323 9 [Age] has weathered the perilous capes and shoals in the sea whereon we sail...
    SA 8.98 17 ...even if you could trust yourself on that perilous topic [sickness], beware of unmuzzling a valetudinarian, who will soon give you your fill of it.
    Elo2 8.116 2 I must feel that the speaker...comes for something,--it is a cry on the perilous edge of the fight,--or let him be silent.
    PPo 8.260 25 I know this perilous love-lane/ No whither the traveller leads,/ Yet my fancy the sweet scent of/ Thy tangled tresses feeds./
    LLNE 10.368 2 [The members of Brook Farm] expressed, after much perilous experience, the conviction that plain dealing was the best defence of manners and moral between the sexes.
    PLT 12.11 9 Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect], which we will cautiously approach on different sides of this dim and perilous lake...

perils, n. (7)

    LE 1.183 3 [The student's] success has its perils too.
    Hist 2.21 27 Agriculture [in Asia and Africa]...was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.
    Hist 2.23 13 The home-keeping wit...has its own perils of monotony and deterioration...
    Hist 2.29 13 ...in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times, he repeats step for step the part of old reformers, and in the search after truth finds, like them, new perils to virtue.
    Civ 7.33 25 ...if there be...a country where knowledge cannot be diffused without perils of mob law and statute law;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    HDC 11.76 13 ...we see what manner of persons they were who stood in the worst perils of the [American] Revolution.
    ACiv 11.308 5 Why should not America be capable...of an affirmative step in the interests of human civility, urged on her...by her own extreme perils?

period, n. (78)

    Nat 1.9 24 In the woods, too, a man...at what period soever of life is always a child.
    AmS 1.88 19 The books of an older period will not fit this.
    AmS 1.101 5 In the long period of his preparation [the scholar] must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts...
    AmS 1.110 5 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution;...
    MN 1.219 24 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement] was the growth and expansion of the human race, and resembled herein the sequent Revolution, which was...the overflowing of the sense of natural right in every clear and active spirit of the period.
    LT 1.270 22 The student of history will hereafter compute the singular value of our endless discussion of questions to the mind of the period.
    LT 1.282 14 A great perplexity hangs like a cloud on the brow of all cultivated persons...which distinguishes the period.
    Hist 2.24 5 ...every man passes personally through a Grecian period.
    Hist 2.24 19 The manners of [the Grecian] period are plain and fierce.
    Hist 2.34 13 All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve.
    SR 2.86 12 The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume...
    Comp 2.108 21 We are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period...
    Lov1 2.169 11 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...
    Lov1 2.170 23 He who paints [love] at the first period will lose some of its later...traits.
    Fdsp 2.213 9 We may congratulate ourselves that the period of nonage...is passed in solitude...
    Prd1 2.225 5 There revolve, to give bound and period to [man's] being on all sides, the sun and moon...
    OS 2.279 5 As [the soul] is present in all persons, so it is in every period of life.
    Int 2.327 24 In the period of infancy [the mind] accepted and disposed of all impressions...
    Art1 2.352 22 As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far it will retain a certain grandeur...
    Exp 3.84 23 I hear always the law of Adrastia, that every soul which had acquired any truth, should be safe from harm until another period.
    NER 3.260 23 ...in this, as in every period of intellectual activity, there has been a noise of denial and protest;...
    UGM 4.31 20 ...if any appear never to assume the chair, but always to stand and serve, it is because we do not see the company in a sufficiently long period for the whole rotation of parts to come about.
    PPh 4.45 19 The first period of a nation, as of an individual, is the period of unconscious strength.
    PPh 4.45 20 The first period of a nation, as of an individual, is the period of unconscious strength.
    ShP 4.204 22 ...there is in all cultivated minds a silent appreciation of [Shakespeare's] superlative power and beauty, which, like Christianity, qualifies the period.
    GoW 4.270 15 ...[the nineteenth century's] poet, is Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century...taking away...the reproach of weakness which but for him would lie on the intellectual works of the period.
    GoW 4.286 18 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...a period of ten years...after his settlement at Weimar, in sunk in silence.
    ET1 5.6 17 I have a private letter from [Greenough],--later, but respecting the same period...
    ET4 5.49 20 ...all our historical period is a point to the duration in which nature has wrought.
    ET11 5.189 15 The English barons, in every period, have been brave and great...
    ET12 5.204 22 Seven years' residence [at Oxford] is the theoretic period for a master's degree.
    ET14 5.235 12 A good [English] writer, if he has indulged in a Roman roundness, makes haste to chasten and nerve his period by English monosyllables.
    ET14 5.242 27 Not these particulars, but the mental plane or the atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and element of the writers and readers in what we loosely call the Elizabethan age (say, in literary history, the period from 1575 to 1625)...
    ET14 5.243 1 ...[the Elizabethan age was] a period almost short enough to justify Ben Jonson's remark on Lord Bacon,--About his time, and within his view, were born all the wits that could honor a nation, or help study.
    ET14 5.257 4 The exceptional fact of the period is the genius of Wordsworth.
    F 6.28 11 Always one man more than another represents the will of Divine Providence to the period.
    F 6.44 12 The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other.
    Pow 6.75 13 During the whole period of his administration [Pericles] never dined at the table of a friend.
    Wsp 6.207 17 We live in a transition period, when the old faiths which comforted nations...seem to have spent their force.
    Bty 6.285 10 The king...conferred the sovereignty on [Tisso], saying, Prince, administer this empire for seven days; at the termination of that period I shall put thee to death.
    DL 7.109 3 An increased consciousness of the soul, you say, characterizes the period.
    DL 7.124 6 ...it is pitiful to date and measure all the facts and sequel of an unfolding life from such a youthful and generally inconsiderate period as the age of courtship and marriage.
    Boks 7.202 8 The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is the discovery...that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes...and from the comic poets.
    Boks 7.207 1 ...in the Elizabethan era [the scholar] is at the richest period of the English mind...
    PI 8.46 11 We are lovers of...period and musical reflection.
    QO 8.177 15 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.
    PC 8.213 14 ...each nation and period has done its full part to make up the result of existing civility.
    PPo 8.237 6 [Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into German...specimens of two hundred [Persian] poets who wrote during a period of five and a half centuries...
    Imtl 8.331 16 [Both men] were men of intellect, and one of them, at a later period, gave to a friend this anecdote.
    Imtl 8.340 11 Salt is a good preserver; cold is: but a truth cures the taint of mortality better, and preserves from harm until another period.
    Chr2 10.99 10 The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child...a short period of lactation...
    Chr2 10.115 22 ...in every period of intellectual expansion, the Church ceases to draw into its clergy those who best belong there, the largest and freest minds...
    Edc1 10.131 22 Yonder magnificent astronomy [man] is at last to import, fetching away...solstice, period, comet and binal star, by comprehending their relation and law.
    Edc1 10.142 21 There comes the period of the imagination to each, a later youth;...
    SovE 10.204 21 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism...
    Prch 10.217 21 ...it appears...as the misfortune of this period that the cultivated mind has not the happiness and dignity of the religious sentiment.
    MoL 10.247 23 ...no decay has crept over the spiritual force which gives bias and period to boundless Nature.
    Plu 10.321 5 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals], for its vigorous English style. The work of some forty or fifty University men...it is a monument of the English language at a period of singular vigor and freedom of style.
    LLNE 10.326 3 The key to the period [1820 and following] appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself.
    LLNE 10.331 5 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...
    LLNE 10.337 6 ...whether by a reaction of the general mind against the too formal science, religion and social life of the earlier period,-there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century, a certain sharpness of criticism...
    LLNE 10.357 19 I regard these philanthropists as themselves the effects of the age in which we live, and...the efflorescence of the period and predicting a good fruit that ripens.
    LLNE 10.364 19 There is agreement in the testimony that [Brook Farm] was...to many, the most important period of their life...
    MMEm 10.403 25 ...certain expressions, when they marked a memorable state of mind in [Mary Moody Emerson's] experience, recurred to her afterwards, and she would vindicate herself as having said to Dr. Ripley or Uncle Lincoln [Ripley] so and so, at such a period of her life.
    HDC 11.43 27 The nature of man and his condition in the world, for the first time within the period of certain history, controlled the formation of the State [in Massachusetts].
    HDC 11.55 14 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused some distress...
    HDC 11.62 26 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English government, concerning the country towns; The farmers are numerous and wealthy...
    HDC 11.65 3 The charges of education and of legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord];...
    EWI 11.122 6 ...that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age...
    EWI 11.143 15 Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature; and there too is the germ forever protected, unfolding...a richer fruit, in every period...
    ALin 11.333 17 I am sure if this man [Lincoln] had ruled in a period of less facility of printing, he would have become mythological in a very few years...
    EdAd 11.391 25 What will easily seem to many a far higher question than any other is that which respects the embodying of the Conscience of the period.
    EdAd 11.392 10 This period of peace, this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know his religious constitution...
    Humb 11.456 1 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able to compare older states of knowledge with that which now exists...
    Milt1 12.268 27 [Milton's] birth fell upon the agitated years when the discontents of the English Puritans were fast drawing to a head against the tyranny of the Stuarts. No period has surpassed that in the general activity of mind.
    ACri 12.290 20 A good writer must convey the feeling...as if in his densest period was no cramp...
    MLit 12.318 22 This feeling of the Infinite has deeply colored the poetry of the period.
    MLit 12.323 21 ...[Goethe] is an apology for the analytic spirit of the period...

periodic, adj. (3)

    Comp 2.97 27 The periodic or compensating errors of the planets is another instance [of Compensation].
    MoS 4.161 4 We are...compensated or periodic errors...
    Wsp 6.208 25 In creeds never was such levity; witness...the periodic revivals...

periodical, adj. (5)

    Hist 2.22 15 Sacred cities, to which a periodical religious pilgrimage was enjoined...were the check on the old rovers;...
    SR 2.86 22 It is curious to see the periodical disuse and perishing of means and machinery which were introduced with loud laudation a few years or centuries before.
    Bty 6.294 1 To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all circular movement has; as...the periodical motion of planets...
    Prch 10.219 19 No age and no person is destitute of the [religious] sentiment, but in actual history its illustrious exhibitions are interrupted and periodical...
    CL 12.135 21 ...Nature has impressed on savage men periodical or secular impulses to emigrate...

periodically, adv. (1)

    DSA 1.146 12 Not too anxious to visit periodically all families...in your parish connection, - when you meet one of these men or women, be to them a divine man;...

periodicity, n. (5)

    F 6.46 13 Some people are made up of rhyme, coincidence, omen, periodicity, and presage...
    CbW 6.254 24 The sharpest evils are bent into that periodicity which makes the errors of planets...self-limiting.
    PC 8.223 6 There is no use in Copernicus if the robust periodicity of the solar system does not show its equal perfection in the mental sphere...
    PC 8.223 8 There is no use in Copernicus if the robust periodicity of the solar system does not show its equal perfection in the mental sphere, the periodicity...
    PC 8.232 2 Periodicity, reaction, are laws of mind as well as of matter.

periods, n. (50)

    Nat 1.22 25 ...[the intellectual and the active powers] are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals;...
    Nat 1.71 18 ...the periods of [man's] actions externized themselves into day and night...
    AmS 1.91 3 ...let [the soul] receive from another mind its truth...without periods of solitude, inquest, and self-recovery, and a fatal disservice is done.
    DSA 1.142 15 ...there have been periods when...a greater faith was possible in names and persons.
    LT 1.282 16 We do not find the same trait [of perplexity]...in the Greek, Roman, Norman, English periods;...
    LT 1.285 20 No man can compare the ideas and aspirations of the innovators of the present day with those of former periods, without feeling how great and high this criticism is.
    Hist 2.24 1 What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history...in all its periods...
    Hist 2.38 24 You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.
    Prd1 2.224 19 ...our existence, thus apparently attached in nature to the sun and the returning moon and the periods which they mark...reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
    Pt1 3.14 25 The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits, in its transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions; being moved in conjunction with the unapparent periods of intellectual natures.
    Exp 3.83 21 The effect is deep and secular as the cause. It works on periods in which mortal lifetime is lost.
    Nat2 3.180 4 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed;...
    PNR 4.81 6 [Nature] waited tranquilly the flowing periods of paleontology...
    PNR 4.81 8 [Nature] waited tranquilly...for the hour to be struck when man should arrive. Then periods must pass before the motion of the earth can be suspected;...
    MoS 4.176 22 As far as [the power of moods] asserts rotation of states of mind, I suppose it suggests its own remedy, namely in the record of larger periods.
    ShP 4.200 8 The Liturgy...is...a translation of the prayers and forms of the Catholic church,--these collected, too, in long periods...
    GoW 4.276 8 ...what [Goethe] says...of periods of belief...refuses to be forgotten.
    ET4 5.49 25 Any the least and solitariest fact in our natural history, such as the melioration of fruits and animal stocks, has the worth of a power in the opportunity of geologic periods.
    ET13 5.220 5 Heats and genial periods arrive in history...
    Wth 6.116 22 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc. How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation and rapt concentration and almost a going out of the body to think!
    Ctr 6.156 17 ...the wise instructor will press this point of securing to the young soul in the disposition of time and the arrangements of living, periods and habits of solitude.
    Ctr 6.160 5 ...the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind and an indifference to death.
    Bhr 6.174 20 If you look at the pictures of patricians and of peasants of different periods and countries, you will see how well they match the same classes in our towns.
    PI 8.49 6 ...the elemental forces have their own periods and returns...
    PC 8.212 26 The old six thousand years of chronology become a kitchen clock...since the duration of geologic periods has come into view.
    PC 8.233 15 ...in certain historic periods there have been times of negation...
    PPo 8.263 21 From this poem [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], written five hundred years ago, we cite the following passage, as a proof of the identity of mysticism in all periods.
    Insp 8.280 12 Life is in short cycles or periods;...
    Imtl 8.334 26 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in mountain chains, and in the evidence of vast geologic periods which these give;...
    PerF 10.88 6 ...the cause of right for which we labor...works in long periods...
    Edc1 10.130 15 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch...but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of power;...and finding and carrying their law in his mind, can, as it were, see his simple idea realized up yonder in...frightful periods of duration.
    SovE 10.188 25 The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue. There is always an instinctive sense of right, an obscure idea...which in long periods vindicates itself at last.
    SovE 10.192 16 The idea of right...lays itself out...in the equalities and periods of our system...
    SovE 10.213 14 The man of this age must be matriculated in the university of sciences and tendencies flowing from all past periods.
    Prch 10.219 8 It is certain that...many...periods of inactivity...will occur.
    CSC 10.375 26 If there was not parliamentary order [at the Chardon Street Convention], there was...assurance of that constitutional love for religion and religious liberty which, in all periods, characterizes the inhabitants of this part of America.
    EzRy 10.392 5 ...often...[Ezra Ripley's] speech was a satire on the loose, voluminous, draggle-tail periods of other speakers.
    HDC 11.83 16 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown. The author [Lemuel Shattuck]...has wisely enriched his pages with the resolutions, addresses and instructions to its agents, which...at critical periods, the town has voted.
    HDC 11.85 19 Fortunate and favored this town [Concord] has been, in having received so large an infusion of the spirit of both of those periods [the Planting and the Revolution of the colony].
    EWI 11.143 9 The grand style of Nature, her great periods, is all we observe in them.
    TPar 11.284 8 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak/...
    ACiv 11.299 20 There are periods, said Niebuhr, when something much better than happiness and security of life is attainable.
    EPro 11.315 14 [Liberty] comes, like religion, for short periods...
    Shak1 11.449 8 ...[Shakespeare] is...the genius which...in sterile periods, keeps up the credit of the human mind.
    Shak1 11.452 1 There are periods fruitful of great men;...
    Shak1 11.452 3 There are periods fruitful of great men; others, barren;, or, as the world is always equal to itself, periods when the heat is latent,- others when it is given out.
    CPL 11.505 25 In 1618 (8th March) John Kepler came upon the discovery of the law connecting the mean distances of the planets with the periods of their revolution about the sun...
    Mem 12.94 20 Late in life we live by memory, and in our solstices or periods of stagnation;...
    ACri 12.295 12 Shakspeare would have sufficed for the culture of a nation for vast periods.
    PPr 12.391 18 ...[Carlyle] is full of rhythm, not only in the perpetual melody of his periods...

perish, v. (27)

    AmS 1.107 9 [The poor and the low]...will perish to add one drop of blood to make that great heart beat...
    LE 1.185 25 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go...then once more perish the buds of art...
    MN 1.191 6 Where there is no vision, the people perish.
    Tran 1.341 8 ...[many intelligent and religious persons] prefer to ramble in the country and perish of ennui, to the degradation of such charities and such ambitions as the city can propose to them.
    Tran 1.350 26 We [Transcendentalists] perish of rest and rust: but we do not like your work.
    Tran 1.351 10 ...I can sit in a corner and perish (as you call it), but I will not move until I have the highest command.
    Prd1 2.232 12 He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.
    Nat2 3.186 23 ...[the vegetable life] fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves;...
    ET1 5.23 22 [Wordsworth] preferred such of his poems as touched the affections, to any others; for whatever is didactic...might perish quickly;...
    ET4 5.57 8 In Norway, no Persian masses fight and perish to aggrandize a king...
    ET5 5.92 13 ...if all the wealth in the planet should perish by war or deluge, [the English] know themselves competent to replace it.
    ET18 5.304 16 [The English]...occupy themselves...on a corporeal civilization, on goods that perish in the using.
    F 6.11 18 The more of these drones perish, the better for the hive.
    Ctr 6.165 13 The fossil strata show us that Nature began with rudimental forms and rose to the more complex as fast as the earth was fit for their dwelling-place; and that the lower perish as the higher appear.
    Bty 6.295 17 Burns writes a copy of verses and sends them to a newspaper, and the human race take charge of them that they shall not perish.
    PI 8.47 22 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure...
    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 8.245 8 The rapidity of [Hafiz's] turns is always surprising us:-See how the roses burn!/ Bring wine to quench the fire!/ Alas! the flames come up with us,/ We perish with desire./
    PerF 10.83 19 The last revelation of intellect and of sentiment is that in a manner it...makes known to [the man]...that he is to deal absolutely in the world, as if he alone were a system and a state, and though all should perish could make all anew.
    Chr2 10.95 9 High instincts, before which our mortal nature/ Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised,-/ Which, be they what they may,/ Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,/ Are yet the master-light of all our seeing,-/ Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make/ Our noisy years seem moments in the being/ Of the eternal silence,-truths that wake/ To perish never./
    SovE 10.195 11 We perish, and perish gladly, if the law remains.
    MoL 10.252 2 Where there is no vision, the people perish.
    LVB 11.96 5 The potentate and the people perish before [the moral sentiment];...
    Mem 12.102 8 ...some thoughts perish in the using.
    Mem 12.104 9 You may perish out of your senses, but not out of your memory or imagination.
    CL 12.156 20 Is all this beauty [of nature] to perish?
    Trag 12.407 7 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that...makes the Oedipus and Antigone and Orestes objects of such hopeless commiseration. They must perish...

perishable, adj. (2)

    Tran 1.359 9 ...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    Prch 10.225 25 All positive rules, ceremonial, ecclesiastical, distinctions of race or of person, are perishable;...

perishable, n. (1)

    AmS 1.88 12 ...neither can any artist entirely exclude...the perishable from his book...

perished, v. (10)

    LT 1.272 21 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope, which had well-nigh perished out of the world, that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands.
    Art1 2.364 3 The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect.
    UGM 4.12 23 Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky.
    PPh 4.47 6 [Philosophy's] early records, almost perished, are of the immigrations from Asia...
    ShP 4.199 8 ...there were fountains around Homer, Menu, Saadi, or Milton, from which they drew;--friends, lovers, books, traditions, proverbs,--all perished...
    ET11 5.185 11 If one asks...what service this class [English nobility] have rendered?--uses appear, or they would have perished long ago.
    Wsp 6.210 6 What [proof of infidelity], like the externality of churches that...now have perished away till they are a speck of whitewash on the wall?
    Farm 7.147 24 The roots that shot deepest, and the stems of happiest exposure, drew the nourishment from the rest, until the less thrifty perished and manured the soil for the stronger...
    EzRy 10.394 13 In [Ezra Ripley] have perished more local and personal anecdotes of this village and vicinity than are possessed by any survivor.
    ALin 11.330 2 [Lincoln] was the most active and hopeful of men; and his work had not perished...

perishes, v. (6)

    Pt1 3.33 10 The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.
    Pol1 3.200 8 ...foolish legislation is a rope of sand which perishes in the twisting;...
    NER 3.261 1 Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish;...
    PPh 4.77 25 ...the bitten world holds the biter fast by his own teeth. There he perishes...
    SwM 4.139 2 Every thing is superficial and perishes but love and truth only.
    Plu 10.314 2 To [Plutarch] the Epicureans are hateful, who held that the soul perishes when it is separated from the body.

perishing, adj. (4)

    PI 8.27 21 William Blake...writes thus: He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
    PPo 8.259 16 From the plain text-The chemist of love/ Will this perishing mould,/ Were it made out of mire,/ Transmute into gold./-[Hafiz] proceeds to the celebration of his passion;...
    Chr2 10.97 26 We affirm that in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and command; that it is the presence of the Eternal in each perishing man;...
    HDC 11.76 26 We will not hide your [veterans of the battle of Concord's] honorable gray hairs under perishing laurel-leaves...

perishing, v. (6)

    SR 2.86 23 It is curious to see the periodical disuse and perishing of means and machinery which were introduced with loud laudation a few years or centuries before.
    SwM 4.98 3 Shall we say, that the economical mother disburses so much earth and so much fire...to make a man, and will not add a pennyweight, though a nation is perishing for a leader?
    ET11 5.197 21 Another stride that has been taken [in England] appears in the perishing of heraldry.
    Wth 6.83 23 What oldest star the fame can save/ Of races perishing to pave/ The planet with a floor of lime?/
    PI 8.70 15 O celestial Bacchus! drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds...hungry for poetry...perishing for want of electricity to vitalize this too much pasture...
    MoL 10.258 16 Who would not, if it could be made certain that the new morning of universal liberty should rise on our race by the perishing of one generation, who would not consent to die?

peristyle, n. (1)

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

periwig, n. (1)

    Res 8.146 2 ...coming among a wild party of Illinois, [Tissenet] overheard them say that they would scalp him. He said to them, Will you scalp me? Here is my scalp, and confounded them by lifting a little periwig he wore.

perjure, v. (1)

    Tran 1.337 4 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like Epaminondas and John de Witt;...

perjury, n. (3)

    MR 1.231 18 ...we eat and drink and wear perjury and fraud in a hundred commodities.
    ET13 5.227 8 Brougham...said, How will the reverend bishops...be able to express their due abhorrence of the crime of perjury...
    ET13 5.230 8 False position introduces cant, perjury, simony and ever a lower class of mind and character into the [English] clergy...

permanence, n. (27)

    Nat 1.48 17 Any distrust of the permanence of laws would paralyze the faculties of man.
    Nat 1.48 19 Any distrust of the permanence of laws would paralyze the faculties of man. Their permanence is sacredly respected...
    Nat 1.48 21 The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature.
    Nat 1.49 4 ...whilst we acquiesce entirely in the permanence of natural laws, the question of the absolute existence of nature still remains open.
    MN 1.199 16 The wholeness we admire in the order of the world is the result of infinite distribution. Its smoothness is the smoothness of the pitch of the cataract. Its permanence is a perpetual inchoation.
    YA 1.378 27 ...the aristocracy of trade has no permanence...
    SL 2.154 24 The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort...
    Lov1 2.169 17 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... gives permanence to human society.
    Cir 2.302 2 Permanence is but a word of degrees.
    Cir 2.303 20 Permanence is a word of degrees.
    Exp 3.55 10 Our love of the real draws us to permanence...
    MoS 4.176 16 ...what guaranty for the permanence of [a man's] opinions?
    Wth 6.99 8 In Europe, where the feudal forms secure the permanence of wealth in certain families, those families buy and preserve these things [works of art] and lay them open to the public.
    Wsp 6.208 22 A silent revolution has loosed the tension of the old religious sects, and in place of the gravity and permanence of those societies of opinion, they run into freak and extravagance.
    Elo1 7.98 18 ...in this dominion of chance we find a principle of permanence.
    SA 8.101 13 That method [of hereditary nobility] secured permanence of families...
    QO 8.202 9 There is always in [originals] a style and weight of speech... which cannot be counterfeited. Hence the permanence of the high poets.
    Imtl 8.333 26 ...proceeding to the enumeration of the few simple elements of the natural faith, the first fact that strikes us is our delight in permanence.
    Imtl 8.334 1 All great natures are lovers of stability and permanence...
    Imtl 8.334 2 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind.
    Edc1 10.131 11 By the permanence of Nature, minds are trained alike...
    MoL 10.248 8 War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize. Weeks, months pass-a new harvest; trade springs up, and there stand new cities, new homes, all rebuilt and sleepy with permanence.
    HDC 11.30 8 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow that enters at a window...and flies out at another, and none knoweth whence he came, or whither he goes. The more reason that we should give to our being what permanence we can;...
    HDC 11.30 12 In the country...the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.
    EPro 11.322 8 The territory of the Union shines to-day with a lustre which every European emigrant can discern from far; a sign of inmost security and permanence.
    PPr 12.381 14 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the proposition...that the principle of permanence shall be admitted into all contracts of mutual service;...
    Trag 12.413 24 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...and in calm times it will not appear that he is adrift and not moored; but let any shock take place in society...and at once his type of permanence is shaken.

permanency, n. (2)

    Pol1 3.212 12 A mob cannot be a permanency;...
    Trag 12.412 9 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.

permanent, adj. (52)

    Nat 1.35 17 By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature...
    DSA 1.126 7 ...all the expressions of this [moral] sentiment are...permanent in proportion to their purity.
    Tran 1.358 4 What is the privilege and nobility of our nature but its persistency, through its power to attach itself to what is permanent?
    Comp 2.99 18 ...do men desire the more substantial and permanent grandeur of genius?
    SL 2.138 14 There is no permanent wise man except in the figment of the Stoics.
    SL 2.153 9 ...if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men;...
    Lov1 2.188 10 We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
    Fdsp 2.208 3 We talk sometimes of a great talent for conversation, as if it were a permanent property in some individuals.
    OS 2.274 1 ...we say...that a day of certain political, moral, social reforms is at hand, and the like, when we mean that in the nature of things one of the facts we contemplate is external and fugitive, and the other is permanent and connate with the soul.
    Cir 2.303 8 Everything looks permanent until its secret is known.
    Mrs1 3.121 16 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men. It seems a certain permanent average;...
    Mrs1 3.121 16 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men. It seems a certain permanent average; as the atmosphere is a permanent composition...
    Mrs1 3.128 17 The class of power, the working heroes...see that [fashion] is the festivity and permanent celebration of such as they;...
    Mrs1 3.130 4 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man...
    Pol1 3.218 11 ...we are constrained to reflect on our splendid moment with a certain humiliation...and not as...a fair expression of our permanent energy.
    NER 3.270 18 I do not recognize...a permanent class of sceptics...
    PNR 4.85 26 [Plato's] definition of ideas, as what is simple, permanent, uniform and self-existent...marks an era in the world.
    SwM 4.124 12 That slow but commanding influence which [Swedenborg] has acquired, like that of other religious geniuses, must...have its tides, before it subsides into a permanent amount.
    MoS 4.170 5 Shall we say that Montaigne has...given the right and permanent expression of the human mind, on the conduct of life?
    ET8 5.141 17 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters?
    ET16 5.277 8 It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet...
    F 6.27 22 I know not whether there be...in the upper region of our atmosphere, a permanent westerly current...
    Wth 6.119 23 Nor is any investment so permanent that it can be allowed to remain without incessant watching...
    Ill 6.323 19 The permanent interest of every man is never to be in a false position...
    Civ 7.32 16 ...when I...see...the invitation which experience and permanent causes open to youth and labor...I see what cubic values America has...
    Farm 7.139 20 [The farmer] is permanent...
    Cour 7.270 19 ...the right men will give a permanent direction to the fortunes of a state.
    Insp 8.292 25 Some perceptions...are granted to the single soul; they...are the permanent and controlling ones.
    Imtl 8.321 8 ...What is excellent,/ As God lives, is permanent;/...
    Aris 10.31 3 There is an attractive topic, which...is impertinent in no community,-the permanent traits of the Aristocracy.
    Aris 10.33 25 ...I notice also that [the finer qualities] may become fixed and permanent in any stock...
    Chr2 10.120 2 Character is the habit of action from the permanent vision of truth.
    Schr 10.264 6 This, gentlemen, is the topic on which I shall speak,-the natural and permanent function of the Scholar...
    LS 11.5 27 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent.
    LS 11.19 22 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of commemoration...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it.
    EWI 11.125 7 The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties.
    EWI 11.147 7 I am sure that the good and wise elders, the ardent and generous youth, will not permit what is incidental and exceptional to withdraw their devotion from the essential and permanent characters of the question [of emancipation].
    War 11.155 6 Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle...to attain to a mastery and the security of a permanent, self-defended being;...
    War 11.162 23 ...we never make much account of objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this moment, but which admit the general expediency and permanent excellence of the project.
    FSLC 11.195 3 ...the language of all permanent laws will be in contradiction to any immoral enactment.
    AKan 11.263 10 ...I think the towns should hold town meetings, and resolve themselves into Committees of Safety, go into permanent sessions...
    EPro 11.315 16 [Liberty] comes, like religion...in rare conditions, as if awaiting a culture of the race which shall make it organic and permanent.
    EPro 11.316 6 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...and now, eminently, President Lincoln's [Emancipation] Proclamation on the twenty-second of September. These are acts...working on a long future and on permanent interests...
    SHC 11.432 14 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...making together a large block of public ground, permanent property of the town and county...
    FRep 11.514 12 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title to [the party's] permanent respect, and to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the real public interest, and to stand for that;...
    PLT 12.27 16 There is no permanent wise man...
    Bost 12.208 10 ...there is yet in every city a certain permanent tone;...
    MAng1 12.217 14 Can this charming element [Beauty] be so abstracted by the human mind as to become a distinct and permanent object?
    Milt1 12.247 11 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided, and left the poet to the enjoyment of his permanent fame...
    Milt1 12.247 17 ...it is...true that [Milton] has gained, in this age, some increase of permanent praise.
    MLit 12.312 1 If we should designate favorite studies in which the age delights more than in the rest of this great mass of the permanent literature of the human race, one or two instances would be conspicuous.
    WSL 12.343 4 Whatever can make for itself...the most profound and permanent existence in the hearts and heads of millions of men, must have a reason for its being.

permanent, adv. (1)

    DSA 1.134 24 ...somehow [the seer] publishes [his dream] with solemn joy...but clearest and most permanent, in words.

permanent, n. (2)

    MoS 4.186 4 Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting;...
    Imtl 8.336 1 ...what are these delights in the vast and permanent and strong, but approximations and resemblances of what is entire and sufficing, creative and self-sustaining life?

permanently, adv. (3)

    Wth 6.118 9 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich.
    Clbs 7.250 4 There is no permanently wise man...
    LLNE 10.358 19 It chanced that here in one family were two brothers, one a brilliant and fertile inventor, and close by him his own brother, a man of business, who knew how to direct his faculty and make it instantly and permanently lucrative.

permeable, adj. (3)

    SR 2.70 8 ...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities...who are not.
    Dem1 10.17 19 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... All which limits us seemed permeable to that.
    CL 12.144 2 In Massachusetts, our land...is permeable like a park...

permeated, v. (2)

    Nat 1.71 14 Once [man] was permeated and dissolved by spirit.
    Imtl 8.346 18 ...only by rare integrity, by a man permeated and perfumed with airs of heaven...can the vision [of immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime.

permission, n. (2)

    Ill 6.315 13 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I...affect to grant the permission reluctantly...
    Edc1 10.158 4 Nobody [in the school] shall...leave his desk without permission...

permissive, adj. (3)

    Pt1 3.7 12 ...the poet is not any permissive potentate...
    GoW 4.264 20 [The scholar] is no permissive or accidental appearance...
    Schr 10.264 7 This, gentlemen, is the topic on which I shall speak,-the natural and permanent function of the Scholar, as he is no permissive or accidental appearance...

permit, v. (9)

    Con 1.318 15 ...we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation or continuance of views and practices injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.
    Art1 2.366 22 ...this division of beauty from use, the laws of nature do not permit.
    Exp 3.78 9 We permit all things to ourselves...
    ET11 5.181 9 Evelyn writes from Blois, in 1644: The wolves are here in such numbers, that they often come and take children out of the streets; yet will not the Duke, who is sovereign here, permit them to be destroyed.
    WD 7.174 6 He is a strong man who can look [these passing hours] in the eye...nor permit love, or death, or politics, or money, war or pleasure to draw him from his task.
    Edc1 10.141 14 ...if circumstances do not permit the high social advantages, solitude has also its lessons.
    LLNE 10.364 15 It is certain that...variety of work, variety of means of thought and instruction, art, music, poetry, reading, masquerade, did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
    EWI 11.146 22 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes the men of conscience and intellect...hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...
    EWI 11.147 4 I am sure that the good and wise elders, the ardent and generous youth, will not permit what is incidental and exceptional to withdraw their devotion from the essential and permanent characters of the question [of emancipation].

permits, v. (7)

    Con 1.313 9 The order of things is as good as the character of the population permits.
    YA 1.372 24 Remark the unceasing effort throughout nature at... amelioration in nature, which alone permits and authorizes amelioration in mankind.
    Comp 2.126 22 [The death of a friend] permits or constrains the formation of new acquaintances...
    Mrs1 3.121 26 [Good society] is a spontaneous fruit of talents and feelings of precisely that class...who take the lead in the world at this hour, and though...far from constituting the gladdest and highest tone of human feeling, it is as good as the whole society permits it to be.
    Pol1 3.200 15 ...the form of government which prevails is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.
    ACiv 11.298 12 ...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in disguise...and insults the faithful workman at his daily toil? I see...for such calamity no solution but servile war and the Africanization of the country that permits it.
    FRO2 11.489 5 If you are childish, and exhibit your saint as a worker of wonders, a thaumaturgist, I am repelled. That claim...permits official and arbitrary senses to be grafted on the teachings.

permitted, adj. (2)

    SR 2.55 1 ...[the preacher] is pledged to himself not to look but at...the permitted side...
    FRO2 11.487 24 I think wise men wish their religion to be all of this kind, teaching the agent...not to hang on the world as a pensioner, a permitted person...

permitted, v. (35)

    LT 1.266 20 ...we are not permitted to stand as spectators of the pageant which the times exhibit;...
    LT 1.266 24 A little while this interval of wonder and comparison is permitted us...
    YA 1.380 25 These [Communities] proceeded...from a wish for greater freedom than the manners and opinions of society permitted...
    YA 1.389 13 ...the bold face and tardy repentance permitted to this local mischief [Repudiation] reveal a public mind so preoccupied with the love of gain that the common sentiment of indignation at fraud does not act with its natural force.
    Fdsp 2.202 24 Sincerity is the luxury allowed...only to the highest rank; that being permitted to speak truth...
    Mrs1 3.148 25 Once or twice in a lifetime we are permitted to enjoy the charm of noble manners...
    UGM 4.29 16 We need not fear excessive influence. A more generous trust is permitted.
    SwM 4.126 21 [According to Swedenborg] It is never permitted to any one, in heaven, to stand behind another and look at the back of his head;...
    MoS 4.165 3 In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only... so that in a humorist a certain nakedness of statement was permitted...
    NMW 4.241 5 ...a sort of freedom and companionship grew up between [Napoleon] and [his troops], which the forms of his court never permitted between the officers and himself.
    ET5 5.89 13 When Thor and his companions arrive at Utgard, he is told that nobody is permitted to remain here, unless he understand some art, and excel in it all other men.
    ET6 5.112 18 Cold, repressive manners prevail [in England]. No enthusiasm is permitted except at the opera.
    ET6 5.113 26 The guests [at dinner in London] are expected to arrive within half an hour of the time fixed by card of invitation, and nothing but death or mutilation is permitted to detain them.
    F 6.31 2 ...whether, seeing these two things, fate and power, we are permitted to believe in unity?
    Bhr 6.173 24 In the hotels on the banks of the Mississippi they print...that No gentleman can be permitted to come to the public table without his coat;...
    Bty 6.296 8 Wherever [the human form] goes...everything is permitted to it.
    Elo1 7.99 26 [Eloquence's] great masters...never permitted any talent...to appear for show;...
    WD 7.173 3 Seldom and slowly the mask [of illusion] falls and the pupil is permitted to see that all is one stuff...
    Cour 7.277 16 I am permitted to enrich my chapter by adding an anecdote of pure courage from real life...
    PI 8.12 3 Conversation is not permitted without tropes;...
    PI 8.40 27 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere...[the poet] is permitted to dip his brush into the old paint-pot with which birds, flowers, the human cheek, the living rock, the broad landscape, the ocean and the eternal sky were painted.
    PI 8.56 18 Newton may be permitted to call Terence a playbook...
    PPo 8.254 15 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple. Nor has any man inhaled...from the musky morning wind that sweet air which I am permitted to breathe every hour of the day.
    Aris 10.52 1 To a right aristocracy...everything will be permitted and pardoned...
    Plu 10.316 25 ...[Plutarch] praises the Romans, who, when the feast was over, dealt well with the lamps, and did not take away the nourishment they had given, but permitted them to live and shine by it.
    Thor 10.458 23 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the loan of books to resident graduates...
    LS 11.3 17 In the Catholic Church, infants were at one time permitted and then forbidden to partake [of the Lord's Supper]...
    LS 11.10 7 [Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed, declaring that it was for his interment.
    HDC 11.61 24 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits...
    EPro 11.317 17 [Lincoln] has been permitted to do more for America than any other American man.
    CInt 12.126 9 Everything will be permitted there [at Harvard College] which goes to adorn Boston Whiggism...
    CInt 12.126 15 ...that which [Harvard College] exists for, to be...a Delphos uttering warning and ravishing oracles to lift and lead mankind,-that it shall not be permitted to do or to think of.
    MAng1 12.235 16 [Michelangelo] required that he should be permitted to accept this work [building St. Peter's] without any fee or reward...
    ACri 12.303 8 The art of writing is the highest of those permitted to man as drawing directly from the soul...
    MLit 12.326 17 No man was permitted to call Goethe brother.

permitting, v. (5)

    Nat 1.48 16 God...will not compromise the end of nature by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.
    PNR 4.89 24 I am sorry to see [Plato], after such noble superiorities, permitting [in The Republic] the lie to governors.
    PC 8.207 17 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in time and place as in America to-day?...the hungry cry for men which goes up from the wide continent; the answering facility of immigration, permitting every wanderer to choose his climate and government.
    LLNE 10.360 20 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive...not permitting men to combine cultivation of mind and heart with a reasonable amount of daily labor.
    Trag 12.412 13 To this architectural stability of the human form, the Greek genius added an ideal beauty...permitting no violence of mirth, or wrath, or suffering.

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