Permutation to Perspire

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

permutation, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.186 15 ...as life wears on, it proves a game of permutation and combination of all possible positions of the parties...

Permutation, n. (1)

    Boks 7.192 10 ...your chance of hitting on the right [book] is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination...

pernicious, adj. (7)

    SwM 4.138 8 Another dogma, growing out of this pernicious theologic limitation, is [Swedenborg's] Inferno.
    NMW 4.258 19 The pacific Fourier will be as inefficient as the pernicious Napoleon.
    Pow 6.62 19 A Western lawyer of eminence said to me he wished it were a penal offence to bring an English law-book into a court in this country, so pernicious had he found in his experience our deference to English precedent.
    Wth 6.115 16 A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of every month in the newspapers, which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand and draw in his arm, his leg and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
    CbW 6.249 6 Masses are...pernicious in their demands and influence...
    SovE 10.190 24 Shall I say then it were truer to see Necessity...stretching her dark warp across the universe? These threads are Nature's pernicious elements...
    MLit 12.313 17 There is a pernicious ambiguity in the use of the term subjective.

pero, adv. (1)

    Exp 3.55 8 This onward trick of nature is too strong for us: Pero si muove.

peroration, n. (2)

    NMW 4.226 12 It struck Dumont that he could fit [Mirabeau's speech] with a peroration...
    Milt1 12.251 1 ...the peroration [of Milton's Defence of the English People]...is in a just spirit.

perorations, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.222 9 ...[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.

perpendicular, adj. (4)

    NMW 4.235 2 The almost perpendicular fall of the heavy projectiles produced the desired effect.
    PC 8.233 8 [Swedenborg] saw in vision the angels and the devils; but these two companies stood...foot to foot,-these perpendicular up, and those perpendicular down.
    PC 8.233 9 [Swedenborg] saw in vision the angels and the devils; but these two companies stood...foot to foot,-these perpendicular up, and those perpendicular down.
    CL 12.144 6 In Massachusetts, our land...is permeable like a park, and not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills having each one side at forty-five degrees and the other side perpendicular...

perpendicularity, n. (2)

    Prd1 2.230 5 ...beside all the resistless beauty of form, [the Raphael in the Dresden gallery] possesses in the highest degree the property of the perpendicularity of all the figures.
    Prd1 2.230 6 This perpendicularity we demand of all the figures in this picture of life.

perpetual, adj. (99)

    Nat 1.7 10 One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.
    Nat 1.9 25 In the woods is perpetual youth.
    Nat 1.19 6 ...the river is a perpetual gala...
    Nat 1.31 7 ...good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories.
    Nat 1.61 14 [Nature] is a perpetual effect.
    Nat 1.71 10 Infancy is the perpetual Messiah...
    DSA 1.136 11 This great and perpetual office of the preacher is not discharged.
    DSA 1.149 1 The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause. Such souls...are...the perpetual reserve...
    LE 1.165 10 The condition of our incarnation in a private self seems to be a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law...to the exclusion of the law of universal being.
    LE 1.167 11 The perpetual admonition of nature to us, is, The world is new...
    LE 1.186 17 Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry.
    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.
    Tran 1.334 20 All that you call the world is...the perpetual creation of the powers of thought...
    Tran 1.335 23 [The Transcendentalist] believes...in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power;...
    Hist 2.30 13 What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Prometheus!
    Hist 2.34 21 The preternatural prowess of the hero, the gift of perpetual youth, and the like, are alike the endeavor of the human spirit to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind.
    SL 2.160 8 [Virtue] consists in a perpetual substitution of being for seeming...
    Fdsp 2.199 19 What a perpetual disappointment is actual society...
    Prd1 2.234 3 Let [a man] esteem Nature a perpetual counsellor...
    Art1 2.357 23 There is no statue like this living man, with his infinite advantage over all ideal sculpture, of perpetual variety.
    Exp 3.46 27 Men seem to have learned of the horizon the art of perpetual retreating and reference.
    Chr1 3.98 21 ...rectitude is a perpetual victory...
    Chr1 3.99 14 I revere the person who is riches; so that I cannot think of him as alone...but as perpetual patron, benefactor and beatified man.
    Mrs1 3.136 19 When [Montaigne] leaves any house in which he has lodged for a few weeks, he causes his arms to be painted and hung up as a perpetual sign...
    Nat2 3.170 13 The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning...
    NR 3.239 12 ...there is a perpetual tendency to a set mode.
    UGM 4.21 13 ...I am plagued, in all my living, with a perpetual tariff of prices.
    PPh 4.45 9 This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art;...
    SwM 4.115 11 The second and next higher form is the circular, which is also called the perpetual-angular, because the circumference of a circle is a perpetual angle.
    MoS 4.177 18 I can reason down or deny every thing, except this perpetual Belly...
    ET2 5.29 20 To the geologist...the land is in perpetual flux and change...
    ET2 5.29 23 ...the registered observations of a few hundred years find [the land] in a perpetual tilt...
    ET10 5.168 7 It is not, I suppose, want of probity, so much as the tyranny of trade, which necessitates a perpetual competition of underselling...
    ET10 5.168 8 It is not, I suppose, want of probity, so much as the tyranny of trade, which necessitates a perpetual competition of underselling, and that again a perpetual deterioration of the fabric.
    F 6.43 9 ...matter and mind are in perpetual tilt and balance, so.
    Ctr 6.134 9 The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity that nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the passion, at the risk of perpetual crime and disorder.
    Wsp 6.220 2 ...look where we will...a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.
    Wsp 6.237 23 Honor him whose life is perpetual victory;...
    Bty 6.298 11 That Beauty is the normal state is shown by the perpetual effort of nature to attain it.
    Bty 6.298 22 ...short legs which constrain us to short, mincing steps are a kind of personal insult and contumely to the owner; and long stilts again put him at perpetual disadvantage...
    Elo1 7.82 2 In the assembly, you shall find the orator and the audience in perpetual balance;...
    DL 7.128 26 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the shadow of a Friend./
    Farm 7.145 12 [The plants] burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption.
    Farm 7.145 25 Whilst all thus burns...it needs a perpetual tempering...to check the fury of the conflagration;...
    Cour 7.257 12 ...mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.
    Suc 7.309 21 ...every gift of noble origin/ Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath./
    PI 8.14 9 The aged Michel Angelo indicates his perpetual study as in boyhood,--I carry my satchel still.
    PI 8.17 4 Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing...
    SA 8.79 10 [The charm of fine manners] is perpetual promise of more than can be fulfilled.
    SA 8.103 10 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company: what with a perpetual practical wisdom...
    Comc 8.158 22 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence, aloof...
    Comc 8.168 23 ...the same confusion of the sympathies because a pretension is not made good, points the perpetual satire against poverty...
    QO 8.179 18 The highest statement of new philosophy complacently caps itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest learning. There is something mortifying in this perpetual circle.
    QO 8.202 3 ...if the thinker...recognizes the perpetual suggestion of the Supreme Intellect, the oldest thoughts become new and fertile whilst he speaks them.
    PC 8.228 4 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the Source of events...
    PPo 8.248 17 Hypocrisy is the perpetual butt of [Hafiz's] arrows...
    Imtl 8.339 14 Every really able man...considers his work...as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?
    Aris 10.37 5 The game of the world is a perpetual trial of strength between man and events.
    Chr2 10.94 6 On the perpetual conflict between the dictate of this universal mind and the wishes and interests of the individual, the moral discipline of life is built.
    Chr2 10.102 4 ...the perpetual supply of new genius shocks us with thrills of life...
    Chr2 10.104 21 The moral sentiment is the perpetual critic on these [religious] forms...
    Chr2 10.120 9 [Character] confers perpetual insight.
    Edc1 10.136 11 One fact...inspires all my trust, viz., this perpetual youth, which, as long as there is any good in us, we cannot get rid of.
    Edc1 10.137 14 ...there is a perpetual hankering to violate this individuality, to warp [the new man's] ways of thinking and behavior to resemble or reflect your thinking and behavior.
    Edc1 10.144 24 This is the perpetual romance of new life, the invasion of God into the old dead world...
    MoL 10.241 17 I offer perpetual congratulation to the scholar;...
    MoL 10.242 7 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the source of events.
    MoL 10.243 10 It is the perpetual tendency of wealth to draw on the spiritual class...
    MoL 10.249 18 The intellectual man lives in perpetual victory.
    Schr 10.269 15 ...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but truth, and perpetual advance in knowledge of it...
    Plu 10.311 22 [Seneca] is tiresome through perpetual didactics.
    LLNE 10.364 25 [Brook Farm] was a perpetual picnic...
    Thor 10.481 1 [Thoreau's] study of Nature was a perpetual ornament to him...
    LS 11.4 27 ...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples;...
    LS 11.8 3 ...many opinions may be entertained of [Jesus's] intention, all consistent with the opinion that he did not design a perpetual ordinance [in the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.12 12 These views of the original account of the Lord's Supper lead me to esteem it an occasion full of solemn and prophetic interest, but never intended by Jesus to be the foundation of a perpetual institution.
    LS 11.15 23 ...it does not appear from a careful examination of the account of the Last Supper in the Evangelists, that it was designed by Jesus to be perpetual;...
    LS 11.16 16 But it is said: Admit that the rite [the Lord's Supper] was not designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it?
    LS 11.22 3 ...although for the satisfaction of others I have labored to show by the history that this rite [the Lord's Supper] was not intended to be perpetual; although I have gone back to weigh the expressions of Paul, I feel that here is the true point of view.
    EWI 11.102 25 The prizes of society...a perpetual melioration into a finer civility,-these were for all, but not for [negro slaves].
    EWI 11.114 10 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them.
    War 11.155 4 Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle to be...
    ACiv 11.310 2 ...there is perpetual march and progress to ideas.
    FRep 11.529 6 As the globe keeps its identity by perpetual change, so our civil system, by perpetual appeal to the people...
    FRep 11.529 7 As the globe keeps its identity by perpetual change, so our civil system, by perpetual appeal to the people...
    PLT 12.20 23 ...as mind, our mind, or mind like ours, reappears to us in our study of Nature, Nature being everywhere formed after a method which we can well understand...therefore our own organization is a perpetual key...
    PLT 12.54 27 [A man]...does not give to any manner of life the strength of his constitution. Hence the perpetual loss of power and waste of human life.
    PLT 12.56 19 There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is trust...the worship of ideas. This is solitary, grand, secular. They are in perpetual balance and strife.
    PLT 12.58 17 There must be perpetual rallying and self-recovery.
    PLT 12.59 1 The children have only the instinct of the universe, in which becoming somewhat else is the perpetual game of Nature...
    II 12.75 10 [The inner mind] is one, it belongs to all: yet how to impart it? This makes the perpetual problem of education.
    Mem 12.109 24 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...so that what one had painfully held by strained attention and recapitulation...is now clamped and locked by inevitable connection as a planet in its orbit (every other orb, or the law or system of which it is a part, being a perpetual reminder),-we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an
    CInt 12.123 13 There must be the perpetual rallying and self-recovery;...
    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...
    CW 12.176 10 ...if one is so happy as to find the company of a true artist, he is a perpetual holiday and benefactor...
    CW 12.177 26 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in winter, because, remove the snow a little...and there is a perpetual push of buds...
    WSL 12.340 25 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page...we feel how dignified is this perpetual Censor in his curule chair...
    PPr 12.382 19 ...[a man's] speech is a perpetual and public instrument;...
    PPr 12.391 17 ...[Carlyle] is full of rhythm, not only in the perpetual melody of his periods...

perpetual-angular, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.115 10 The second and next higher form is the circular, which is also called the perpetual-angular...

perpetual-celestial, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.115 18 The form above [the perpetual-circular] is the vortical, or perpetual-spiral: next, the perpetual-vortical, or celestial: last, the perpetual-celestial, or spiritual.

perpetual-circular, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.115 15 The form above [the circular] is the spiral...its diameters... have a spherical surface for centre; therefore it is called the perpetual-circular.

perpetually, adj. (1)

    Plu 10.322 23 ...Plutarch will be perpetually rediscovered from time to time as long as books last.

perpetually, adv. (15)

    Nat 1.47 6 A noble doubt perpetually suggests itself, - whether this end [Discipline] be not the Final Cause of the Universe;...
    Tran 1.334 4 [The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...
    SR 2.88 13 ...what the man acquires, is living property, which...perpetually renews itself wherever the man breathes.
    Exp 3.58 4 Like a bird which alights nowhere, but hops perpetually from bough to bough, is the Power which abides in no man and in no woman, but for a moment speaks from this one, and for another moment from that one.
    Pol1 3.208 27 A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.
    UGM 4.16 10 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence. This honor...genius perpetually pays;...
    SwM 4.107 9 [Identity-philosophy] is this, that Nature iterates her means perpetually on successive planes.
    Comc 8.160 8 ...[the man of the world's] eye wandering perpetually from the rule to the crooked, lying, thieving fact, makes the eyes run over with laughter.
    Imtl 8.338 20 As a hint of endless being, we may rank that novelty which perpetually attends life.
    Plu 10.299 22 [Plutarch] perpetually suggests Montaigne...
    EWI 11.137 23 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies].
    War 11.154 19 ...[war] is exhibited to us continually in the dumb show of brute nature, where war between tribes, and between individuals of the same tribe, perpetually rages.
    PLT 12.13 7 Metaphysics must be perpetually reinforced by life;...
    II 12.70 24 ...[Inspiration] has the royal expedient to thrust Nature between him and you, and perpetually to divert attention from himself, by the stream of thoughts, laws and images.
    CL 12.137 10 [Linnaeus] went into Oland, and found that the farms on the shore were perpetually encroached on by the sea...

perpetual-spiral, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.115 17 The form above [the perpetual-circular] is the vortical, or perpetual-spiral......

perpetual-vortical, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.115 17 The form above [the perpetual-circular] is the vortical, or perpetual-spiral: next, the perpetual-vortical, or celestial...

perpetuate, v. (2)

    Aris 10.33 24 Some qualities [Nature] carefully fixes and transmits, but some, and those the finer, she exhales with the breath of the individual, as too costly to perpetuate.
    SovE 10.212 12 ...the Power sends in the next moment a new lesson, which we lose while our eyes are reverted and striving to perpetuate the old.

perpetuated, v. (1)

    SovE 10.190 6 ...every wish, appetite and passion rushes into act and... protects itself with laws. Some of them...hinder none, help all, and these are honored and perpetuated.

perpetuates, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.120 18 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society...which...perpetuates itself...

perpetuating, v. (2)

    Art2 7.54 4 There was no wilfulness in the savages in this perpetuating of their first rude abodes.
    LS 11.11 6 ...it is not a little singular that we should have preserved this rite [the Lord's Supper] and insisted upon perpetuating one symbolical act of Christ whilst we have totally neglected all others...

perpetuation, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.334 8 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;...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!

perpetuations, n. (1)

    ET13 5.230 17 But the religion of England...is it the sects? no; they are only perpetuations of some private man's dissent...

perpetuity, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.187 9 ...nature hides in [the lover's] happiness her own end, namely...the perpetuity of the race.

perplexed, adj. (1)

    LVB 11.92 1 Men and women with pale and perplexed faces meet one another in the streets and churches here, and ask if this [relocation of the Cherokees] be so.

perplexed, v. (9)

    Con 1.315 13 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how they were perplexed in their daily walk lest they should fail in their duty to them.
    SL 2.132 6 No man need be perplexed in his speculations.
    MoS 4.153 19 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther had milk in him... when he advised a young scholar, perplexed with fore-ordination and free-will, to get well drunk.
    ET7 5.125 6 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel, and made up his mind; then the counsel for the other side taking their turn to speak, he found himself so unsettled and perplexed that he exclaimed, So help me God! I will never listen to evidence again.
    Wth 6.117 27 I remember in Warwickshire to have been shown a fair manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time. The rent-roll I was told is some fourteen thousand pounds a year; but when the second son of the late proprietor was born, the father was perplexed how to provide for him.
    Elo2 8.109 3 He, when the rising storm of party roared,/ Brought his great forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with fears the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/...
    MoL 10.242 6 Are men perplexed with evil times?
    EWI 11.134 7 ...the reader of Congressional debates, in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the minority of slave-holders.
    ACri 12.285 9 ...if I were asked how many masters of English idiom I know, I shall be perplexed to count five.

perplexes, v. (1)

    ET13 5.231 2 Electricity cannot be made fast...it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret, which perplexes [the English] and puts them out.

perplexing, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.267 1 ...[the cant of the time] believes that ideas do not lead to the owning of stocks; they are perplexing and effeminating.

perplexities, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.157 1 No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee... can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities [in education]...

perplexity, n. (7)

    LT 1.282 11 A great perplexity hangs like a cloud on the brow of all cultivated persons...
    LT 1.284 24 I have seen the authentic sign of anxiety and perplexity on the greatest forehead of the State.
    SwM 4.94 7 The human mind stands ever in perplexity...
    Comc 8.165 15 Smith, in his perplexity how to satisfy the Society, sent out a party into the swamp, caught an Indian, and sent him home in the first ship to London...
    Aris 10.59 5 ...perplexity is [a grand interest's] noonday...
    SlHr 10.442 12 Many good stories are still told of the perplexity of jurors who found the law and the evidence on one side, and yet Squire Hoar had said that he believed, on his conscience, his client entitled to a verdict.
    EdAd 11.390 17 A journal that would meet the real wants of this time must have a courage and power sufficient to solve the problems which the great groping society around us, stupid with perplexity, is dumbly exploring.

Perry, Erskine, n. (1)

    Bost 12.183 24 ...Sir Erskine Perry says the usage and opinion of the Hindoos so invades men of all castes and colors who deal with them that all take a Hindoo tint.

Perry, Matthew Calbraith, n (1)

    Bhr 6.174 25 The modern aristocrat...is well drawn...in the pictures which Commodore Perry brought home of dignitaries in Japan.

Perry, Oliver Hazard, n. (1)

    PC 8.215 14 The war-proa of the Malays in the Japanese waters struck Commodore Perry by its close resemblance to the yacht America.

persecute, v. (2)

    Comp 2.115 26 The beautiful laws and substances of the world persecute and whip the traitor.
    ET12 5.212 15 Universities are of course hostile to geniuses...as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

persecuted, v. (1)

    EWI 11.111 22 ...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted by the planters...

persecutes, v. (2)

    Comp 2.119 22 [The mob] persecutes a principle;...
    Chr2 10.110 4 Paganism...writes the tracts, elects the minister, and persecutes the true believer.

persecuting, adj. (1)

    ET13 5.223 21 [The Anglican Church] is not in ordinary a persecuting church;...

persecution, n. (10)

    Comp 2.119 13 The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature...
    Fdsp 2.206 4 [Friendship] is fit for serene days...but also for...poverty and persecution.
    Hsm1 2.262 13 ...the trial of persecution always proceeds.
    ET4 5.64 6 The Jews have been the favorite victims [in England] of royal and popular persecution.
    ET5 5.88 17 [The Englishmen's] drowsy minds need to be flagellated by war and trade and politics and persecution.
    CbW 6.262 5 As we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism, so is a fanatical persecution...more rich in the central tones than languid years of prosperity.
    Clbs 7.234 13 [Yonder man's] dissent from me is the veriest affectation. This conclusion is at once the logic of persecution and of love.
    Supl 10.164 9 Controvert [the man with the superlative temperament's] opinion and he cries Persecution!...
    HDC 11.31 21 Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
    Bost 12.208 2 I know that this history [of Massachusetts] contains many black lines of cruel injustice; murder, persecution, and execution of women for witchcraft.

persecutions, n. (1)

    Cour 7.276 4 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history,--persecutions, inquisitions...

persecutor, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.107 3 ...the church-warden or tithing-man was a petty persecutor;...

perseverance, n. (11)

    YA 1.387 14 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society; but it is...to guide and adorn life for the multitude...by perseverance, self-devotion...
    ET10 5.170 16 [England's] prosperity, the splendor which so much manhood and talent and perseverance has thrown upon vulgar aims, is the very argument of materialism.
    ET16 5.279 1 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance... which leaves its own Stonehenge...to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.
    Cour 7.269 4 The judge...squarely accosts the question, and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair. Perseverance strips it of all peculiarity...
    SA 8.100 22 There is in America a general conviction in the minds of all mature men, that every young man of good faculty and good habits can by perseverance attain to an adequate estate;...
    Aris 10.66 3 ...the American who would serve his country must learn the beauty and honor of perseverance...
    PerF 10.78 15 ...not less [than Memory, Fancy, Imagination, Eloquence], method, patience, self-trust, perseverance, love, desire of knowledge, the passion for truth. These are the angels that take us by the hand...
    GSt 10.501 19 Known until that time in no very wide circle as a man of skill and perseverance in his business;...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
    War 11.156 9 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped? Of man, boy or beast, the only trait that much interests the speakers is the pugnacity. And why? Because the speaker has as yet no other image of manly activity and virtue...none of perseverance...
    Koss 11.397 6 The people of this town [Concord] share with their countrymen the admiration of valor and perseverance;...
    II 12.85 19 Within this magical power derived from fidelity to his nature, [man] adds also the mechanical force of perseverance.

persevere, v. (1)

    Pray 12.355 14 Wilt thou give me strength to persevere in this great work of redemption.

persevered, v. (2)

    PPo 8.263 25 In the fable [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], the birds were soon weary of the length and difficulties of the way, and at last almost all gave out. Three only persevered...
    Let 12.394 19 By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity.

persevering, adj. (8)

    DSA 1.121 23 [These divine laws] elude our persevering thought;...
    SR 2.79 1 To the persevering mortal, said Zoroaster, the blessed Immortals are swift.
    Bhr 6.173 11 I have seen...the persevering talker, who gives you his society in large saturating doses;...
    Insp 8.283 22 To the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift.
    LLNE 10.347 13 ...[Robert Owen] interpreted with great generosity the acts of...Prince Metternich, with whom the persevering doctrinaire had obtained interviews;...
    LLNE 10.362 2 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth, a plain man...with a persevering interest in education...came and built a house on [Brook] farm...
    HDC 11.30 23 ...the honor you have done me this day, in making me your organ, testifies your persevering kindness to [Bulkeley's] blood.
    HDC 11.70 17 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...and we hope...that they will still remain watchful and persevering;...

persevering, n. (1)

    Wth 6.106 4 In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.

Persia, n. (12)

    DSA 1.126 16 This [moral] thought dwelled always deepest in the minds of men in the devout and contemplative East; not alone in Palestine...but...in Persia...
    Hist 2.36 7 In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded...to the centre of every province of the empire, making each market-town of Persia, Spain and Britain pervious to the soldiers of the capital...
    PI 8.36 11 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects; as when the poet goes to India, or to Rome, or to Persia, for his fable.
    Res 8.141 27 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie, a traveller in Persia, told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha... obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
    PPo 8.238 19 The very geography of old Persia showed these contrasts.
    Insp 8.275 15 The legends of Arabia, Persia and India are of the same complexion as the Christian.
    MoL 10.244 10 On the south and east shores of the Mediterranean Mahomet impressed his fierce genius how deeply into the manners, language and poetry of Arabia and Persia!
    Plu 10.307 24 [Plutarch] thinks that Alexander invaded Persia with greater assistance from Aristotle than from his father Philip.
    Plu 10.315 6 [Plutarch] thinks it was by superior virtue that Alexander won his battles in Asia and Africa, and the Greeks theirs against Persia.
    War 11.153 23 [Alexander's conquest of the East] carried the arts and language and philosophy of the Greeks into the sluggish and barbarous nations of Persia, Assyria and India.
    EdAd 11.383 17 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys with journals still wet from Liverpool and Havre...
    FRO2 11.487 8 ...the knowledge of Europe looks out into Persia and India...

Persian, adj. (22)

    Con 1.307 15 [The youth says] Like the Persian noble of old, I ask that I may neither command nor obey.
    Hist 2.21 15 ...the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave over the nomadism of its barbarous tribes...
    Mrs1 3.144 13 ...here is...Spahi, the Persian ambassador;...
    Mrs1 3.151 12 Was it Hafiz or Firdousi that said of his Persian Lilla, She was an elemental force...
    Mrs1 3.151 27 [Lilla] did not study the Persian grammar...
    SwM 4.95 11 ...the Persian poet exclaims to a soul of this kind [of goodness],--Go boldly forth, and feast on being's banquet;/ Thou art the called,--the rest admitted with thee./
    GoW 4.263 18 ...if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck.
    ET4 5.57 7 In Norway, no Persian masses fight and perish to aggrandize a king...
    WD 7.175 4 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols was not Persian, nor Memphian, nor Teutonic, nor local at all...
    Boks 7.217 25 The Greek fables, the Persian history...have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    SA 8.89 18 Either death or a friend, is a Persian proverb.
    Elo2 8.121 17 The Persian poet Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud...
    PPo 8.239 21 When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond control. The other Bedouins were scarcely less moved by these rude measures, which have the same kind of effect on the wild tribes of the Persian mountains.
    PPo 8.240 8 The Persian poetry rests on a mythology whose few legends are connected with the Jewish history and the anterior traditions of the Pentateuch.
    PPo 8.241 23 Firdusi, the Persian Homer, has written in the Shah Nameh the annals of the fabulous and heroic kings of the country...
    PPo 8.241 26 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Karun (the Persian Croesus)...
    PPo 8.243 4 These legends [of Persian kings], with...lilies, roses, tulips and jasmines,-make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    PPo 8.244 11 Hafiz is the prince of Persian poets...
    PPo 8.262 12 The following passages exhibit the strong tendency of the Persian poets to contemplative and religious poetry and to allegory.
    Aris 10.40 23 ...the conclusion which Roman Senators...Persian Magians... inculcate...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
    Plu 10.318 25 That prince [Alexander] kept Homer's poems not only for himself under his pillow in his tent, but carried these for the delight of the Persian youth...
    FSLN 11.236 16 The Persian Saadi said, Beware of hurting the orphan. When the orphan sets a-crying, the throne of the Almighty is rocked from side to side.

Persian, n. (6)

    Hist 2.21 13 ...the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm...
    F 6.5 14 The Turk, the Arab, the Persian, accepts the foreordained fate...
    F 6.29 10 One of these [sallies of freedom] is the verse of the Persian Hafiz...
    OA 7.317 26 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years...
    FRO2 11.489 27 ...in sound frame of mind, we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other men, whether Jew or Indian, or Greek or Persian, only for friendship...
    MAng1 12.235 24 [Michelangelo] required...that he should be absolute master of the whole design [of St. Peter's], free to depart from the plans of San Gallo and to alter what had been already done. This disinterestedness and spirit-no fee and no interference-reminds one of the reward named by the ancient Persian.

Persian Parnassus, n. (1)

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

Persians, n. (20)

    Chr1 3.109 12 When the Yunani sage arrived at Balkh, the Persians tell us, Gushtasp appointed a day on which the Mobeds of every country should assemble...
    Wth 6.95 16 The Persians say, 'T is the same to him who wears a shoe, as if the whole earth were covered with leather.
    CbW 6.250 8 Suppose the three hundred heroes at Thermopylae had paired off with three hundred Persians;...
    Ill 6.325 4 It would be hard to put more mental and moral philosophy than the Persians have thrown into a sentence...
    Boks 7.194 15 ...Hafiz was the eminent genius of the Persians...
    Boks 7.218 15 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are, the Desatir of the Persians, and the Zoroastrian Oracles;...
    SA 8.104 5 If [a people is] occupied in its own affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the notice of any other people,--as... the Persians, the Romans...at their best times have been,--they are sublime;...
    Comc 8.171 27 The Persians have a pleasant story of Tamerlane...
    PPo 8.237 3 To Baron von Hammer Purgstall...we owe our best knowledge of the Persians.
    PPo 8.239 11 The Persians and the Arabs...are exquisitely sensible to the pleasures of poetry.
    PPo 8.243 5 The Persians have epics and tales...
    PPo 8.252 1 The Persians had a mode of establishing copyright the most secure of any contrivance with which we are acquainted.
    PPo 8.255 2 ...the cultivated Persians know [Hafiz's] poems by heart.
    PPo 8.256 2 Here is an ode [by Hafiz] which is said to be a favorite with all educated Persians...
    Plu 10.319 2 [Alexander] persuaded...the Persians to reverence, not marry their mothers;...
    War 11.153 25 [Alexander's conquest of the East] weaned the Scythians and Persians from some cruel and licentious practices to a more civil way of life.
    Mem 12.105 8 The Persians say, A real singer will never forget the song he has once learned.
    CL 12.159 13 ...it was the practice...of the Persians, to let insane persons wander at their own will out of the towns, into the desert...
    CW 12.173 2 Linnaeus...took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has...so ordered [my fate] that I live happier than the king of the Persians.
    Let 12.398 8 [American youths] are in the state of the young Persians, when that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and said, Behold the signs of evil days are come;...

persist, v. (3)

    Tran 1.347 1 ...if [these youths] only stand fast in this watch-tower, and persist in demanding unto the end, and without end, then are they terrible friends...
    Pt1 3.40 9 Doubt not, O poet, but persist.
    CL 12.159 1 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...these we call professors.

persistance, n. (1)

    PerF 10.72 25 What I have said of the inexorable persistance of every elemental force to remain itself...the same rule applies again strictly to this force of intellect;...

persisted, v. (3)

    ET1 5.16 27 ...[Carlyle] disparaged Socrates; and, when pressed, persisted in making Mirabeau a hero.
    PerF 10.79 19 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and after many years succeeded in his production of the right article for commerce...
    LLNE 10.346 8 I think [the pilgrim] persisted for two years in his brave practice...

persistence, n. (3)

    Chr1 3.105 14 It is of no use to ape [character] or to contend with it. Somewhat is possible of resistance, and of persistence, and of creation, to this power, which will foil all emulation.
    PC 8.230 26 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...you are...under bad governments to force on them, by your persistence, good laws.
    PerF 10.78 26 The power of persistence...is one of these [mental] forces which never loses its charm.

persistency, n. (7)

    Tran 1.358 2 What is the privilege and nobility of our nature but its persistency...
    Prd1 2.236 7 ...let [a man]...feel the admonition to...keep a slender human word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and thither, and, by persistency, make the paltry force of one man reappear to redeem its pledge after months and years in the most distant climates.
    Hsm1 2.260 4 The characteristic of heroism is its persistency.
    Res 8.153 3 ...[the willows'] gentle persistency lives when the oak is shattered by storm...
    QO 8.200 27 ...there remains the indefeasible persistency of the individual to be himself.
    PC 8.230 27 Around that immovable persistency of yours, statesmen, legislatures, must revolve...
    II 12.85 20 In persistency, [man] knows the strength of Nature, and the immortality of man to lie.

persistent, adj. (3)

    SA 8.103 5 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of. I said never was such...good action, combined with...such modesty and persistent preference for others.
    LLNE 10.350 4 Attractive Industry would speedily subdue, by adventurous scientific and persistent tillage, the pestilential tracts;...
    ALin 11.332 9 ...this man [Lincoln] was sound to the core, cheerful, persistent...

persisting, adj. (1)

    MR 1.255 20 He who would help himself and others should...be...a continent, persisting, immovable person...

persisting, v. (5)

    Fdsp 2.203 10 I knew a man who...spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered, and that with great insight and beauty. At first...all men agreed he was mad. But persisting...he attained to the advantage of bringing every man of his acquaintance into true relations with him.
    Fdsp 2.213 17 By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little you gain the great.
    Exp 3.71 12 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...
    ET9 5.144 20 The pursy man [in England]...does wrong in order to feel his freedom, and makes a conscience of persisting in it.
    PerF 10.71 20 [The winds, the clouds, the fire] all have certain properties which adhere to them, such as...persisting to be themselves...

persists, v. (3)

    Hsm1. 2.252 6 [Heroism] persists;...
    Ctr 6.134 12 ...egotism has its root in the cardinal necessity by which each individual persists to be what he is.
    CL 12.154 15 We may well yield us for a time to [the sea's] lessons. But the nomad instinct...persists to drive us to fresh fields and pastures new.

Persius, n. (2)

    Plu 10.294 8 ...though the contemporary...of Persius, Juvenal, Lucan and Seneca...[Plutarch] does not cite them...
    Plu 10.296 27 M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral philosophy...in the Revue des Deux Mondes; and M. C. Martha, chapters on the genius of Marcus Aurelius, of Persius and Lucretius, in the same journal;...

Person, Divine, n. (1)

    Wom 11.413 8 The instincts of mankind have drawn the Virgin Mother- Created beings all in lowliness/ Surpassing, as in height above them all./ This is the Divine Person whom Dante and Milton saw in vision.

Person, First, n. (1)

    FRO1 11.479 10 ...in the thirteenth century the First Person began to appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in sculpture, for worship...

person, n. (301)

    Nat 1.22 9 ...whosoever has seen a person of powerful character...will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him...
    Nat 1.46 16 When much intercourse with a friend...has increased our respect for the resources of God who thus sends a real person to outgo our ideal;...it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    AmS 1.107 2 [The poor and the low] are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person...
    AmS 1.108 15 The human mind cannot be enshrined in a person who shall set a barrier on any one side to this unbounded, unboundable empire.
    AmS 1.113 13 Another sign of our times...is the new importance given to the single person.
    DSA 1.130 17 [Christianity] has dwelt, it dwells, with noxious exaggeration about the person of Jesus.
    DSA 1.143 5 I have heard a devout person...say...On Sundays, it seems wicked to go to church.
    DSA 1.144 21 None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
    LE 1.159 22 If any person have less love of liberty...shall he therefore dictate to you and me?
    MN 1.196 21 ...a man lasts but a very little while, for his monomania becomes insupportably tedious in a few months. It is so with every book and person...
    MN 1.199 5 ...let us hope that as far as we receive the truth, so far shall we be felt by every true person to say what is just.
    MN 1.202 24 None of [the eminent souls] seen by himself...will justify the cost of that enormous apparatus of means by which this spotted and defective person was at last procured.
    MR 1.228 2 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call to cast aside all evil customs...
    MR 1.233 9 [The individual] did not create the abuse; he cannot alter it. What is he? an obscure private person who must get his bread.
    MR 1.236 17 The use of manual labor...is inapplicable to no person.
    MR 1.239 19 ...we have now a puny, protected person...
    MR 1.246 23 ...[infirm people] never bestir themselves to serve another person;...
    MR 1.247 16 If we...say,-I will [not]...deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still.
    MR 1.255 21 He who would help himself and others should...be...a continent, persisting, immovable person...
    LT 1.263 26 Every fact we have was brought here by some person;...
    LT 1.263 27 ...there is [no fact] that will not change and pass away before a person whose nature is broader than the person which the fact in question represents.
    LT 1.264 1 ...there is [no fact] that will not change and pass away before a person whose nature is broader than the person which the fact in question represents.
    LT 1.264 14 ...in the hair-splitting conscientiousness of some eccentric person who has found some new scruple to embarrass himself and his neighbors withal is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
    LT 1.273 22 To [some divine, the wealthy man] adheres...and indeed makes the very person of that man his religion;...
    Con 1.313 27 A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.
    Con 1.323 10 The man of courage and resources is shown [in war or anarchy], and the effeminate and base person.
    Con 1.325 19 To the intemperate and covetous person no love flows;...
    Tran 1.336 26 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation, would lie as the dying Desdemona lied;...
    YA 1.375 16 The patriarchal form of government readily becomes despotic, as each person may see in his own family.
    YA 1.378 8 Trade goes...to bring every kind of faculty of every individual that can in any manner serve any person, on sale.
    Hist 2.8 18 [Each man] should see that he can live all history in his own person.
    Hist 2.11 16 When [Belzoni] has satisfied himself...that [Thebes] was made by such a person as he...the problem is solved;...
    Hist 2.26 14 A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek...
    Hist 2.29 10 ...in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times, he repeats step for step the part of old reformers...
    Hist 2.38 8 No man can...guess what faculty or feeling a new object shall unlock, any more than he can draw to-day the face of a person whom he shall see to-morrow for the first time.
    SR 2.49 11 As soon as [a man] has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person...
    SR 2.60 8 We love [honor] and pay it homage because it is...of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.
    SR 2.61 3 Ordinarily, every body in society reminds us...of some other person.
    SR 2.63 19 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to...represent the law in his person, was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    SR 2.83 13 No man yet knows what [that which he can do best] is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it.
    SL 2.131 10 The river-bank...the foolish person...have a grace in the past.
    SL 2.147 25 There are graces in the demeanor of a polished and noble person which are lost upon the eye of a churl.
    SL 2.148 23 [A man] cleaves to one person and avoids another, according to their likeness or unlikeness to himself...
    SL 2.149 14 Introduce a base person among gentlemen, it is all to no purpose;...
    SL 2.150 17 ...a person of related mind...comes to us so softly and easily... that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having come;...
    Lov1 2.172 4 What do we wish to know of any worthy person so much as how he has sped in the history of this sentiment [of love]?
    Lov1 2.178 4 ...[the lover] is a person;...
    Lov1 2.181 15 ...the man beholding such a [beautiful] person in the female sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form, movement and intelligence of this person...
    Lov1 2.181 18 ...the man beholding such a [beautiful] person in the female sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form, movement and intelligence of this person...
    Lov1 2.186 24 The person love does to us fit,/ Like manna, has the taste of all in it./
    Lov1 2.188 6 Thus are we put in training for a love which knows not sex, nor person, nor partiality...
    Lov1 2.188 16 There are moments when the affections...make [the man's] happiness dependent on a person or persons.
    Fdsp 2.195 14 A new person is to me a great event and hinders me from sleep.
    Fdsp 2.202 14 A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
    Fdsp 2.202 27 Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
    Fdsp 2.203 7 I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy...spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered...
    Fdsp 2.209 18 Of course [your friend] has merits...that you cannot honor if you must needs hold him close to your person.
    Prd1 2.238 9 You are solicitous of the good-will of the meanest person, uneasy at his ill-will.
    Hsm1 2.249 16 Unhappily no man exists who has not in his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the sin...
    Hsm1 2.260 21 It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person...
    OS 2.292 16 The simplest person who in his integrity worships God, becomes God;...
    Int 2.326 15 He who is immersed in what concerns person or place cannot see the problem of existence.
    Int 2.333 7 I knew...a person who always deferred to me;...
    Int 2.334 20 ...we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.
    Pt1 3.6 13 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses have sufficient force to arrive at the senses, but not enough to...compel the reproduction of themselves in speech. The poet is the person in whom these powers are in balance...
    Pt1 3.11 13 We know that the secret of the world is profound, but who or what shall be our interpreter, we know not. A mountain ramble...a new person, may put the key into our hands.
    Pt1 3.35 3 Either of these [symbols], or of a myriad more, are equally good to the person to whom they are significant.
    Exp 3.52 3 There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
    Exp 3.81 21 A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men...
    Chr1 3.94 22 Cannot Caesar in irons shuffle off the irons and transfer them to the person of Hippo or Thraso the turnkey?
    Chr1 3.96 20 ...[a healthy soul] stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person.
    Chr1 3.97 14 [The feeble souls] never behold a principle until it is lodged in a person.
    Chr1 3.98 16 Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person...
    Chr1 3.99 12 I revere the person who is riches;...
    Chr1 3.101 22 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform...
    Chr1 3.108 7 [Divine persons] are usually received with ill-will...because they set a bound to the exaggeration that has been made of the personality of the last divine person.
    Chr1 3.108 9 When we see a great man we fancy a resemblance to some historical person...
    Chr1 3.112 5 Could we not deal with a few persons,--with one person,-- after the unwritten statutes...
    Chr1 3.113 12 A divine person is the prophecy of the mind;...
    Mrs1 3.123 8 In times of violence, every eminent person must fall in with many opportunities to approve his stoutness and worth;...
    Mrs1 3.124 27 ...only that plenteous nature is rightful master which is the complement of whatever person it converses with.
    Mrs1 3.138 26 I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws than with a sloven and unpresentable person.
    Mrs1 3.139 9 The person who screams...puts whole drawing-rooms to flight.
    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...
    Mrs1 3.146 1 There is still ever some admirable person in plain clothes...
    Mrs1 3.155 20 Minerva said...there was no one person or action among [men] which would not puzzle her owl...to know whether it was fundamentally bad or good.
    Gts 3.161 6 ...we might convey to some person that which properly belonged to his character...
    Gts 3.163 20 ...the expectation of gratitude...is continually punished by the total insensibility of the obliged person.
    Gts 3.164 6 You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person.
    Gts 3.164 17 ...we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation.
    Nat2 3.177 1 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity...
    Nat2 3.188 10 Each young and ardent person writes a diary...
    Pol1 3.205 16 ...the attributes of a person...will exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper force...
    Pol1 3.207 5 The same necessity which secures the rights of person and property against the malignity or folly of the magistrate, determines the form and methods of governing, which are proper to each nation...
    NR 3.227 3 I observe a person who makes a good public appearance, and conclude thence the perfection of his private character, on which this is based;...
    NR 3.232 18 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...
    NR 3.236 19 ...when each person...would conquer all things to his poor crochet, [Nature] raises up against him another person...
    NR 3.236 22 ...when each person...would conquer all things to his poor crochet, [Nature] raises up against him another person...
    NR 3.239 15 In every conversation, even the highest, there is a certain trick, which may be soon learned by an acute person...
    NR 3.243 2 As soon as a person is no longer related to our present well-being, he is concealed, or dies, as we say.
    NR 3.244 3 When [a man] has exhausted for the time the nourishment to be drawn from any one person or thing, that object is withdrawn from his observation...
    NER 3.256 15 ...I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person whom I pay with money;...
    NER 3.256 22 Am I not too protected a person?...
    NER 3.269 18 [The scholar] was a profane person...
    UGM 4.6 16 It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes;...
    UGM 4.31 11 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower basin.
    PPh 4.72 4 [Socrates]...affected low phrases, and illustrations from... grooms and farriers and unnamable offices,--especially if he talked with any superfine person.
    SwM 4.95 2 [The moral sentiment]...by inspiring the will, which is the seat of personality, seems to convert the universe into a person;...
    SwM 4.118 26 ...[Swedenborg's] profound mind admitted the perilous opinion...that he was an abnormal person...
    SwM 4.124 27 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character. It is subjective, or depends entirely upon the thought of the person.
    SwM 4.125 2 [To Swedenborg] All things in the universe arrange themselves to each person anew, according to his ruling love.
    SwM 4.144 14 The entire want of poetry in so transcendent a mind [as Swedenborg's]...like a hoarse voice in a beautiful person, is a kind of warning.
    MoS 4.162 5 ...some stark and sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    ShP 4.209 23 ...[Shakespeare] is the one person, in all modern history, known to us.
    ShP 4.214 18 ...like the tone of voice of some incomparable person, so [are Shakespeare's sonnets] a speech of poetic beings...
    NMW 4.232 17 In 1796 [Bonaparte] writes to the Directory: I have conducted the campaign without consulting any one. I should have done no good if I had been under the necessity of conforming to the notions of another person.
    NMW 4.234 5 Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be collected from [Napoleon's] history, of the price at which he bought his successes; but he must not therefore be set down as cruel...not bloodthirsty, not cruel,--but woe to what thing or person stood in his way!
    NMW 4.236 17 [Napoleon] came, several times, within an inch of ruin; and his own person was all but lost.
    NMW 4.241 11 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon promises the troops that he will keep his person out of reach of fire.
    NMW 4.243 11 Like every superior person, [Napoleon] undoubtedly felt a desire for men and compeers...
    GoW 4.269 8 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person...
    GoW 4.286 3 An intellectual man can see himself as a third person;...
    GoW 4.287 12 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton. The drawing of the line is, for the time and person, a solution of the formidable problem...
    ET1 5.5 18 [Greenough's] face was so handsome and his person so well formed that he might be pardoned, if, as was alleged, the face of his Medora and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay, were idealizations of his own.
    ET1 5.11 24 ...I tell you, sir [said Coleridge], that I have known ten persons who loved the good, for one person who loved the true;...
    ET1 5.12 10 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...talked of trinism and tetrakism and much more, of which I only caught this, that the will was that by which a person is a person;...
    ET1 5.15 21 Few were the objects and lonely the man [Carlyle]; not a person to speak to within sixteen miles except the minister of Dunscore;...
    ET1 5.24 6 ...[Wordsworth] said he wished to show me what a common person in England could do...
    ET4 5.48 17 ...the Briton of to-day is a very different person from Cassibelaunus or Ossian.
    ET4 5.67 27 The English delight in the antagonism which combines in one person the extremes of courage and tenderness.
    ET5 5.79 6 [Kenelm Digby's] person was handsome and gigantic...
    ET5 5.93 25 ...the vigilance of party criticism [in England] insures the selection of a competent person.
    ET6 5.113 18 ...[the English] would sooner give five or six ducats to provide an entertainment for a person, than a groat to assist him in any distress.
    ET13 5.227 19 The [English] Bishop is elected by the Dean and Prebends of the cathedral. The Queen sends these gentlemen a conge d'elire, or leave to elect; but also sends them the name of the person whom they are to elect.
    ET14 5.241 9 ...[Pericles] meeting with Anaxagoras, who was a person of this kind, he attached himself to him, and nourished himself with sublime speculations on the absolute intelligence;...
    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.
    ET15 5.265 20 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a powder-mill; but...we were at last conducted into the parlor of Mr. Morris, a very gentle person...
    ET15 5.268 12 [The London Times] draws from any number of learned and skilful contributors; but a more learned and skilful person supervises, corrects, and co-ordinates.
    ET15 5.269 18 ...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title, late a member of Parliament, into any county jail in England...
    ET16 5.273 16 I was glad...to exchange a few reasonable words on the aspects of England with a man...who had as much penetration and as severe a theory of duty as any person in it [Carlyle].
    ET17 5.291 15 ...what is nowhere better found than in England, a cultivated person fitly surrounded by a happy home, with Honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ is of all institutions the best.
    F 6.39 18 The secret of the world is the tie between person and event.
    F 6.39 18 Person makes event...
    F 6.39 19 Person makes event, and event person.
    F 6.46 14 ...[some people] meet the person they seek;...
    Pow 6.67 11 [Boniface]...united in his person the functions of bully, incendiary, swindler, barkeeper, and burglar.
    Wth 6.98 23 In the Greek cities it was reckoned profane that any person should pretend a property in a work of art...
    Ctr 6.132 19 ...nature has secured individualism by giving the private person a high conceit of his weight in the system.
    Bhr 6.170 18 There are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force that if a person have them, he or she must be considered...
    Bhr 6.186 26 A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is native and proper to him...
    Bhr 6.190 1 Under the humblest roof, the commonest person in plain clothes sits there massive, cheerful, yet formidable...
    Bhr 6.190 21 Another opposes [a man who is already strong] with sound argument, but the argument is scouted until by and by it gets into the mind of some weighty person; then it begins to tell on the community.
    Bhr 6.196 27 The oldest and the most deserving person should come very modestly into any newly awaked company...
    Wsp 6.210 16 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce...that after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.
    Wsp 6.225 15 The American workman who strikes ten blows with his hammer whilst the foreign workman only strikes one, is as really vanquishing that foreigner as if the blows were aimed at and told on his person.
    Wsp 6.234 12 I recall some traits of a remarkable person whose life and discourse betrayed many inspirations of this [moral] sentiment.
    Wsp 6.236 20 ...[Benedict] would correct his conduct, in that respect in which he had faulted, to the next person he should meet.
    Wsp 6.237 16 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of person he is...
    CbW 6.248 18 A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die...
    CbW 6.269 27 ...the steady wrongheadedness of one perverse person irritates the best;...
    Bty 6.299 13 A beautiful person among the Greeks was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods;...
    Bty 6.300 14 If command...exist in the most deformed person, all the accidents that usually displease, please...
    Bty 6.300 17 The great orator was an emaciated, insignificant person, but he was all brain.
    Bty 6.304 1 ...in chosen men and women I find somewhat in form, speech and manners, which is not of their person and family, but of a humane, catholic and spiritual character...
    Ill 6.319 8 There is the illusion of love, which attributes to the beloved person all which that person shares with his or her family, sex, age or condition...
    SS 7.8 8 I have seen many a philosopher whose world is large enough for only one person.
    Civ 7.32 18 ...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person...lives affectionately with scores of excellent people...I see what cubic values America has...
    Elo1 7.64 12 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians...when a proper opportunity offers, this same person, like a skilful jaculator, will hurl a sentence worthy of attention...
    Elo1 7.69 10 [The Sicilians] mimic the voice and manner of the person they describe;...
    Elo1 7.72 21 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood...and neither moved his sceptre backward nor forward, but held it still, like an awkward person, you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...
    Elo1 7.76 2 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union...
    Elo1 7.76 17 We have a half belief that the person is possible who can counterpoise all other persons.
    Elo1 7.80 2 He who has points to carry must hire, not a skilful attorney, but a commanding person.
    Elo1 7.81 5 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?--for example...if he is a prudent, industrious person, to forsake his work...
    Elo1 7.85 12 In any knot of men conversing on any subject, the person who knows most about it will have the ear of the company if he wishes it...
    DL 7.126 10 One is struck in every company...with the riches of Nature, when he...sees in each person original manners...
    Farm 7.138 26 [The farmer] is a slow person...
    Farm 7.153 20 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime...would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature...
    Boks 7.203 20 ...Pythagoras was eminently a practical person...
    Boks 7.215 22 The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party. A person of commanding individualism will answer it as Rochester does...
    Boks 7.215 26 A person of less courage...will answer [the question of a vicious marriage] as the heroine [of Jane Eyre] does,--giving way to fate...
    Clbs 7.226 5 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts...sometimes it is thought, as from a person who is a mind only;...
    Clbs 7.227 7 The experience of retired men is positive,--that we lose our days and are barren of thought for want of some person to talk with.
    Clbs 7.230 22 ...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he tells me...that he has no companion.
    Clbs 7.238 22 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton;...when France, in the person of Madame de Stael, visited Goethe and Schiller;...
    Clbs 7.242 2 Even Montesquieu confessed that in conversation, if he perceived he was listened to by a third person, it seemed to him from that moment the whole question vanished from his mind.
    Clbs 7.244 14 It was a pathetic experience when a genial and accomplished person said to me, looking from his country home to the capital of New England, There is a town of two hundred thousand people, and not a chair for me.
    Suc 7.304 1 In [the lover's] surprise at the sudden and entire understanding that is between him and the beloved person, it occurs to him that they might somehow meet independently of time and place.
    Suc 7.304 12 When [the lover] went abroad, he met, by wonderful casualties, the one person he sought.
    Suc 7.307 22 No historical person begins to content us.
    Suc 7.312 2 ...[this tranquil, well-founded, wide-seeing soul] lies in the sun and broods on the world. A person of this temper once said to a man of much activity, I will pardon you that you do so much, and you me that I do nothing.
    OA 7.317 5 If we look into the eyes of the youngest person we sometimes discover that here is one who knows already what you would go about with much pains to teach him;...
    OA 7.332 6 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency. It is but a sketch...but it reports a moment in the life of a heroic person...
    OA 7.335 6 [John Adams] likes to have a person always reading to him...
    PI 8.3 23 ...the most imaginative and abstracted person never makes with impunity the least mistake in this particular,--never tries to kindle his oven with water...
    PI 8.19 2 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes.
    PI 8.22 27 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds...
    PI 8.26 20 ...when we describe man as poet...we speak of the potential or ideal man,--not found now in any one person.
    PI 8.61 20 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...when you shall have departed from this place, I shall nevermore speak to you, nor to any other person, save only my mistress;...
    PI 8.61 21 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...when you shall have departed from this place, I shall nevermore speak to you, nor to any other person, save only my mistress; for never other person will be able to discover this place for anything which may befall;...
    SA 8.81 8 Though the person so clothed [in manners] wrestle with you...he is yet a thousand miles off...
    SA 8.86 13 In man or woman, the face and the person lose power when they are on the strain to express admiration.
    SA 8.88 2 ...a king or a general does not need a fine coat, and a commanding person may save himself all solicitude on that point.
    SA 8.90 23 Every highly organized person knows the value of the social barriers...
    SA 8.103 17 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company...in the temperance with which he...opened the eyes of the person he talked with without contradicting him.
    Elo2 8.114 19 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man who...speaks by the right of being the person in the assembly who has the most to say...
    Elo2 8.121 18 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud...
    Elo2 8.130 5 Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
    Comc 8.162 18 ...with what unfeigned compassion we have seen such a person [of excessive susceptibility to the ludicrous] receiving like a willing martyr the whispers into his ear of a man of wit.
    QO 8.190 12 Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value.
    QO 8.196 6 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person...
    PC 8.220 10 The importance of the one person who has the truth over nations who have it not, is because power obeys reality, and not appearance;...
    PC 8.227 8 There is not a person here present to whom omens that should astonish have not predicted his future...
    Grts 8.303 10 You say of some new person, That man will go far...
    Grts 8.304 3 A sensible person will soon see the folly and wickedness of thinking to please.
    Dem1 10.5 11 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem...like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer;...
    Dem1 10.6 1 In sleep one shall travel certain roads...or shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows, which road or which meadow in waking hours he never looked upon. This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...
    Aris 10.52 12 ...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...assault his person...
    Aris 10.61 22 ...by secret obedience, [the generous soul] has made a place for himself in the world; stands there a real, substantial, unprecedented person...
    PerF 10.77 18 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise...what he chiefly brings...is...his thoughts...
    PerF 10.78 21 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces'] inspirations...make the selfish and protected and tenderly bred person strong for his duty...
    Chr2 10.97 18 It would instantly indispose us to any person claiming to speak for the Author of Nature, the setting forth any fact or law which we did not find in our consciousness.
    Chr2 10.99 7 The Divine Mind imparts itself to the single person...
    Chr2 10.99 23 The Divine Mind imparts itself to the single person...
    Chr2 10.102 11 See how one noble person dwarfs a whole nation of underlings.
    Chr2 10.115 11 ...[Jesus's disciples] hamper us with limitations of person and text.
    Chr2 10.120 11 [Character] sees that a man's friends and his foes are of his own household, of his own person.
    Supl 10.165 2 Every favorite is not a cherub...nor each unpleasing person a dark, diabolical intriguer;...
    Supl 10.168 14 Uncle Joel's news is always true, said a person to me with obvious satisfaction...
    SovE 10.196 23 Have you said to yourself ever: I abdicate all choice, I see it is not for me to interfere. I see...that I have been a pitiful person...
    SovE 10.203 4 Our religion...respects and mythologizes some one time and place and person and people.
    SovE 10.212 16 ...all the religion we have is the ethics of one or another holy person;...
    Prch 10.219 17 No age and no person is destitute of the [religious] sentiment...
    Prch 10.225 25 All positive rules, ceremonial, ecclesiastical, distinctions of race or of person, are perishable;...
    Prch 10.231 4 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it.
    Prch 10.231 5 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. It is only that person who concerns me...
    Schr 10.261 5 A stranger but yesterday to every person present, I find myself already at home...
    Schr 10.265 11 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the sound of some subtle word that falls from the lips of an imaginative person...this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    Schr 10.288 23 ...[the scholar] is to hold lightly every tradition, every opinion, every person...
    Plu 10.309 21 ...[Plutarch]...despises the Epicharmian disputations: as, that...he that was yesterday invited to supper, the next night comes an unbidden guest, for that he is quite another person.
    LLNE 10.331 7 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 10.334 26 There was that finish about this person [Everett] which is about women...
    LLNE 10.356 20 Thoreau was in his own person a practical answer...to the theories of the socialists.
    EzRy 10.385 25 [Ezra Ripley] looked at every person and thing from the parochial point of view.
    EzRy 10.394 11 [Ezra Ripley]...seemed to address each person rather as the representative of his house and name, than as an individual.
    MMEm 10.405 17 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] would easily rouse [the minister's] curiosity, as a person who could read his secret and tell him his fortune.
    MMEm 10.405 21 When [Mary Moody Emerson] met a young person who interested her, she made herself acquainted and intimate with him or her at once...
    MMEm 10.410 10 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? Yes, I should. I don't like to see a person of your age guilty of such levity in her dress.
    SlHr 10.443 24 Such was, in old age, the beauty of [Samuel Hoar's] person and carriage, as if the mind radiated, and made the same impression of probity on all beholders.
    SlHr 10.446 10 ...whilst [Samuel Hoar's] talent and his profession led him to guard the material wealth of society, a more disinterested person did not exist.
    SlHr 10.446 18 No person was more keenly alive to the stabs which the ambition and avarice of men inflicted on the commonwealth [than Samuel Hoar].
    Thor 10.477 17 ...[Thoreau] was a person of a rare, tender and absolute religion...
    Thor 10.477 18 ...[Thoreau] was...a person incapable of any profanation, by act or by thought.
    GSt 10.499 5 Who, when great trials come,/ Nor seeks nor shunnes them; but doth calmly stay/ Till he the thing and the example weigh:/ All being brought into a summe/ What place or person calls for he doth pay./ George Herbert.
    LS 11.11 14 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels...
    HDC 11.69 25 ...in conjunction with our brethren in America, we will risk our fortunes, and even our lives, in defence of his majesty, King George the Third, his person, crown and dignity;...
    HDC 11.70 3 ...if any person or persons...shall import any tea from the India House, in England...we will treat them...as enemies to their country...
    HDC 11.80 19 ...our fathers must be forgiven by their charitable posterity, if, in 1782...it was Voted that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day...
    EWI 11.100 14 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts.
    EWI 11.112 22 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes free...
    EWI 11.131 15 If such a damnable outrage [kidnapping of freeborn negroes] can be committed on the person of a citizen with impunity, let the Governor break the broad seal of the State;...
    EWI 11.136 23 One feels very sensibly in all this history [of emancipation in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there...infinitely attractive to every person according to the degree of reason in his own mind...
    War 11.159 17 This valuable person [Assacombuit]...took to killing his own neighbors and kindred...
    FSLC 11.190 19 ...no reasonable person needs a quotation from Blackstone to convince him that white cannot be legislated to be black...
    FSLC 11.191 25 All authors who have any conscience or modesty agree that a person ought not to obey such commands as are evidently contrary to the laws of God.
    FSLC 11.197 16 Every person who touches this business [the Fugitive Slave Law] is contaminated.
    AsSu 11.248 9 The whole state of South Carolina does not now offer one or any number of persons who are to be weighed for a moment in the scale with such a person as the meanest of them all has now struck down.
    AsSu 11.249 6 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it. He would not so much as go up to the state house to shake hands with this or that person whose good will was reckoned important by his friends.
    JBS 11.279 3 [John Brown] grew up a religious and manly person...
    TPar 11.285 1 At the death of a good and admirable person [Theodore Parker] we meet to console and animate each other by the recollection of his virtues.
    TPar 11.291 23 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person...
    Wom 11.420 9 On the questions that are important,-whether the government shall be in one person, or whether representative, or whether democratic;...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
    Humb 11.458 24 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants; that Germany has furnished the greatest number;...because in that empire there is no canton without some well-informed person capable of making researches and publishing interesting results.
    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...
    FRep 11.517 26 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy.
    FRep 11.532 19 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him;...and they transfer the repute of judgment to the next prosperous person who has not yet blundered.
    FRep 11.538 2 Ours is the age...of the third person plural...
    FRep 11.540 11 We...shall proceed like William Penn, or whatever other Christian or humane person who treats with the Indian or the foreigner, on principles of honest trade and mutual advantage.
    PLT 12.24 12 ...the nervous and hysterical and animalized will produce a like series of symptoms in you...though you are conscious that they...are a sort of extension of the diseases of this particular person into you.
    PLT 12.33 25 ...the ingenious person is warped by his ingenuity and mis-sees.
    II 12.78 20 ...[the writer]...should write nothing that will not help somebody,-as I knew of a good man who held conversations, and wrote on the wall, that every person might speak to the subject, but no allusion should be made to the opinions of other speakers;...
    II 12.88 22 ...there is a religion which...is worshipped and pronounced with emphasis again and again by some holy person;...
    Mem 12.97 24 A knife with a good spring, a forceps...the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
    Mem 12.108 3 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was...but...a possession of the intellect. Then...we put the onus of being remembered on the object, instead of on our will. We shall do as we do with all our studies, prize the fact or the name of the person by that predominance it takes in our mind after near acquaintance.
    CL 12.159 17 In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts, especially gazelles, collect around an insane person...
    CL 12.161 25 Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows where arnica grows...
    Bost 12.207 7 With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston] took immense pleasure in turning out the governor and deputy and assistants...
    MAng1 12.218 12 A beautiful person has a kind of universality...
    MAng1 12.237 10 [Michelangelo]...never or very rarely took his meals with any person.
    MAng1 12.237 20 ...[Michelangelo]...never would receive a present from any person;...
    MAng1 12.240 16 [Michelangelo's sonnets] are founded on the thought... that a beautiful person is sent into the world as an image of the divine beauty...
    MAng1 12.242 4 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration.
    Milt1 12.274 2 Was there not a fitness in the undertaking of such a person [as Milton] to write a poem on the subject of Adam...
    ACri 12.289 16 ...in the popular mind, the Devil is a malignant person.
    ACri 12.292 21 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...there being scarce a person of any note in England but what some time or other paid a visit or sent a present to our Lady of Walsingham...
    ACri 12.304 6 The politics of monarchy, when all hangs on the accidents of life and temper of a single person, may be called romantic politics.
    MLit 12.314 13 Nor is the distinction between these two habits [of subjectiveness] to be found in the circumstance of using the first person singular...
    MLit 12.314 23 ...the criterion which discriminates these two habits [of subjectiveness] in the poet's mind is the tendency of his composition; namely, whether it leads us to Nature, or to the person of the writer.
    WSL 12.345 24 ...though [character] may be resisted at any time, yet resistance to it is a suicide. For the person who stands in this lofty relation to his fellow men is always the impersonation to them of their conscience.
    EurB 12.376 16 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] was founded on power to do what was necessary, each person finding it an indispensable qualification of membership that he could do something useful...
    Trag 12.410 15 ...analyze [tragedy];...it is always another person who is tormented.

personage, n. (3)

    Ctr 6.152 16 In an English party a man...with a face like red dough, unexpectedly discloses...personal familiarity with good men in all parts of the world, until you think you have fallen upon some illustrious personage.
    PC 8.220 23 ...[the true man] is the only great event, and it is easy to lift him into a mythological personage.
    ACri 12.289 9 ...George Sand finds a whole nation who regard [the Devil] as a personage who has been greatly wronged...

personages, n. (5)

    Mrs1 3.125 11 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this strong type; Saladin...Pericles, and the lordliest personages.
    GoW 4.286 13 This idea [that a man exists for culture] reigns in [Goethe's] Dichtung und Wahrheit and directs the selection of incidents; and nowise... the rank of the personages...
    Boks 7.215 15 ...'t is pity [people] should not read novels a little more, to import the fine generosities and the clear, firm conduct, which are as becoming in the unions and separations which love effects under shingle roofs as in palaces and among illustrious personages.
    Prch 10.232 2 ...it is impossible to pay no regard...to war and peace...great personages...
    Shak1 11.451 2 The palaces [Englishmen] compass earth and sea to enter, the magnificence and personages of royal and imperial abodes, are shabby imitations and caricatures of [Shakespeare's]...

personal, adj. (169)

    Nat 1.74 19 ...when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations...shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew...
    LE 1.175 5 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant thought comes...they spurn personal relations;...
    MN 1.207 3 A man, a personal ascendency, is the only great phenomenon.
    LT 1.261 25 In our idea of progress, we do not go out of this personal picture.
    LT 1.263 13 A personal ascendency,-that is the only fact much worth considering.
    LT 1.277 13 [The Reforms] mix the fire of the moral sentiment with personal and party heats...
    LT 1.286 13 The spiritualist wishes this only, that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself...without the admission of anything unspiritual that is, anything positive, dogmatic, or personal.
    Con 1.305 27 ...before this personal appeal, the innovator must confess his weakness...
    Con 1.313 26 ...see you not how every personal character reacts on the form, and makes it new?
    Con 1.322 27 ...[war] demonstrates the personal merits of all men.
    Con 1.323 8 In the civil wars of France, Montaigne alone, among all the French gentry...made his personal integrity as good at least as a regiment.
    Tran 1.336 3 [The Transcendentalist] wishes that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself...without the admission of... anything positive, dogmatic, personal.
    Tran 1.342 2 ...it would not misbecome us to inquire...what these companions and contemporaries of ours think and do, at least so far as these thoughts and actions appear to be not accidental and personal...
    YA 1.394 19 Commanding worth and personal power must sit crowned in all companies...
    Hist 2.7 15 Books, monuments, pictures, conversations, are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the lineaments he is forming. The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him, and he is stimulated wherever he moves, as by personal allusions.
    Hist 2.7 17 A true aspirant therefore never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse.
    Hist 2.24 20 The reverence exhibited [in the Grecian period] is for personal qualities;...
    SR 2.70 20 ...war, eloquence, personal weight, are somewhat...
    SL 2.141 17 The pretence that [a man] has another call, a summons by name and personal election...is fanaticism...
    Lov1 2.172 2 The strong bent of nature is seen in the proportion which this topic of personal relations usurps in the conversation of society.
    Lov1 2.174 2 I have been told that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal relations.
    Lov1 2.178 23 ...the maiden stands to [the lover] for a representative of all select things and virtues. For that reason the lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others.
    Lov1 2.180 16 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself when it dissatisfies us with any end;...
    Fdsp 2.198 5 The soul invirons itself with friends that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season that it may exalt its conversation or society. This method betrays itself along the whole history of our personal relations.
    Fdsp 2.210 3 Why insist on rash personal relations with your friend?
    Prd1 2.224 1 Cultivated men always feel and speak...as if a great fortune... great personal influence...had their value as proofs of the energy of the spirit.
    Hsm1 2.245 11 In harmony with this delight in personal advantages [in the elder English dramatists] there is in their plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...
    Cir 2.307 24 Every personal consideration that we allow costs us heavenly state.
    Cir 2.311 14 The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday... breeding, personal beauty, and the like, have strangely changed their proportions.
    Int 2.326 5 Intellect separates the fact considered...from all local and personal reference...
    Art1 2.359 27 [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...created his work without other model save life...and the sweet and smart of personal relations...
    Chr1 3.89 13 We cannot find the smallest part of the personal weight of Washington in the narrative of his exploits.
    Chr1 3.100 6 Our houses ring with laughter and personal and critical gossip, but it helps little.
    Mrs1 3.120 20 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society...which...adopts and makes its own whatever personal beauty or extraordinary native endowment anywhere appears.
    Mrs1 3.121 3 The word gentleman...is a homage to personal and incommunicable properties.
    Mrs1 3.123 6 ...that is a natural result of personal force and love, that they should possess and dispense the goods of the world.
    Mrs1 3.123 13 ...personal force never goes out of fashion.
    Mrs1 3.123 18 The competition is transferred from war to politics and trade, but the personal force appears readily enough in these new arenas.
    Mrs1 3.131 1 ...good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other.
    Mrs1 3.140 24 ...besides personal force and so much perception as constitutes unerring taste, society demands in its patrician class another element...which it significantly terms good-nature...
    Mrs1 3.142 17 ...[Charles James Fox] possessed a great personal popularity;...
    Pol1 3.202 7 Personal rights...demand a government framed on the ratio of the census;...
    Pol1 3.205 22 The boundaries of personal influence it is impossible to fix...
    Pol1 3.208 24 Our quarrel with [political parties] begins when they quit this deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader, and obeying personal considerations, throw themselves into the maintenance and defence of points nowise belonging to their system.
    Pol1 3.216 19 [The wise man] has no personal friends...
    Pol1 3.219 19 [The movement toward self-government] promises a recognition of higher rights than those of personal freedom...
    NR 3.229 3 A personal influence is an ignis fatuus.
    UGM 4.14 1 I cannot even hear of personal vigor of any kind...without fresh resolution.
    UGM 4.14 10 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden, who was...of parts not to be imposed on by the most subtle and sharp, and of a personal courage equal to his best parts;--of Falkland...
    UGM 4.16 9 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence. This honor, which is possible in personal intercourse scarcely twice in a lifetime, genius perpetually pays;...
    UGM 4.31 16 We pass very fast, in our personal moods, from dignity to dependence.
    PPh 4.58 8 ...the indignation towards popular government, in many of [Plato's] pieces, expresses a personal exasperation.
    PPh 4.71 2 Socrates, a man...of a personal homeliness so remarkable as to be a cause of wit in others...
    MoS 4.152 14 In England...property stands for more, compared with personal ability, than in any other.
    MoS 4.162 8 ...the personal regard which I entertain for Montaigne may be unduly great...
    MoS 4.167 1 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I stand here for truth, and will not, for all the states and churches and revenues and personal reputations of Europe, overstate the dry fact, as I see it;...
    ShP 4.215 10 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses; but it is easy to read, through their poems, their personal history...
    NMW 4.225 23 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...personal weight...
    NMW 4.238 1 [Napoleon's] personal attention descended to the smallest particulars.
    NMW 4.245 6 ...the crosses of [Napoleon's] Legion of Honor were given to personal valor, and not to family connexion.
    NMW 4.247 6 We can not...sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon], who...showed us how much may be accomplished by the mere force of such virtues as all men possess in less degrees; namely, by punctuality, by personal attention, by courage and thoroughness.
    ET4 5.45 19 [The English] give the bias to the current age; and that...by the number of individuals among them of personal ability.
    ET4 5.46 19 Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed...to laws and traditions, nor to fortune; but to superior brain, as it makes the praise more personal to him.
    ET4 5.48 25 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as personal liberty;...
    ET4 5.66 22 ...the Heimskringla has frequent occasion to speak of the personal beauty of its heroes.
    ET5 5.82 15 Life [in England] is safe, and personal rights;...
    ET6 5.105 7 I know not where any personal eccentricity is so freely allowed [as in England]...
    ET6 5.106 14 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin, about poor, thin, unable mortals;--so much had the fine physique and the personal vigor of this robust race worked on my imagination.
    ET6 5.107 6 All the world praises the comfort and private appointments of an English inn, and of English households. You are sure of neatness and of personal decorum.
    ET6 5.114 13 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of... political, literary and personal news;...
    ET8 5.141 10 The conservative, money-loving, lord-loving English are yet liberty-loving; and so freedom is safe: for they have more personal force than any other people.
    ET9 5.148 12 A man's personal defects will commonly have, with the rest of the world, precisely that importance which they have to himself.
    ET11 5.194 24 When every noble was a soldier, they were carefully bred to great personal prowess.
    ET11 5.196 22 This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs and seas and rains proclaimed [in England],--that intellect and personal force should make the law;...
    ET17 5.297 5 ...[in London] you will hear from different literary men that Wordsworth had no personal friend...
    ET18 5.299 18 [Englishmen's] political conduct is not decided by general views, but by internal intrigues and personal and family interest.
    F 6.13 18 All conservatives are such from personal defects.
    F 6.30 12 A personal influence towers up in memory only worthy...
    F 6.49 23 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout existence; a Law which is...not personal nor impersonal...
    Pow 6.58 5 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency...then quite easily...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
    Pow 6.61 26 Personal power, freedom, and the resources of nature strain every faculty of every citizen.
    Wth 6.90 12 The Saxons are the merchants of the world; now, for a thousand years, the leading race, and by nothing more than their quality of personal independence...
    Ctr 6.152 13 In an English party a man...with a face like red dough, unexpectedly discloses...personal familiarity with good men in all parts of the world...
    Ctr 6.162 11 When the state is unquiet, personal qualities are more than ever decisive.
    Bhr 6.181 14 A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
    Bhr 6.195 21 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty;...
    Wsp 6.236 18 [Benedict] had the whim not to make an apology to the same individual whom he had wronged. For this he said was a piece of personal vanity;...
    CbW 6.271 9 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...a legacy and the like. With these objects, their conversation deals with surfaces: politics...personal defects...
    Bty 6.286 14 ...the power of form and our sensibility to personal influence never go out of fashion.
    Bty 6.298 21 ...short legs which constrain us to short, mincing steps are a kind of personal insult and contumely to the owner;...
    Civ 7.34 16 Morality and all the incidents of morality are essential; as, justice to the citizen, and personal liberty.
    Elo1 7.76 13 ...eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of personal ascendency...
    Elo1 7.76 22 We believe that there may be a man who is a match for events...one of inexhaustible personal resources...
    Elo1 7.79 26 In old countries a high money value is set on the services of men who have achieved a personal distinction.
    Elo1 7.81 19 Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.
    Elo1 7.81 19 Personal ascendency may exist with or without adequate talent for its expression.
    Elo1 7.99 24 [Eloquence's] great masters...resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...
    DL 7.105 9 The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so...enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.
    DL 7.107 18 It is what is done and suffered in the house...in the personal history, that has the profoundest interest for us.
    WD 7.178 21 Moments...of fine personal relation...what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
    OA 7.327 18 [A man] has his calling, homestead, social connection and personal power...
    PI 8.36 23 What are [the poet's] garland and singing-robes? What but a sensibility so keen that the scent of an elder-blow, or the timber-yard and corporation-works of a nest of pismires is event enough for him,--all emblems and personal appeals to him.
    PI 8.38 1 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed, confined...in personal animosities...
    Elo2 8.129 15 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend it?
    Comc 8.171 11 More food for the Comic is afforded whenever the personal appearance, the face, form and manners, are subjects of thought with the man himself.
    PC 8.217 16 [Culture] creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down...
    PC 8.234 6 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up,-what high personal worth, what love of men, what hope, is joined with rich information and practical power...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    Imtl 8.329 18 I think all sound minds rest on a certain preliminary conviction, namely, that if it be best that conscious personal life shall continue, it will continue; if not best, then it will not;...
    Imtl 8.344 9 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality, and quite spontaneously. But...so soon as [the man] dogmatically will grasp a personal duration to bolster up in cockney fashion that inward assurance, he is lost in contradiction.
    Imtl 8.348 5 ...[Jesus] never preaches the personal immortality;...
    Aris 10.38 26 Aristocracy is the class eminent by personal qualities...
    PerF 10.86 14 ...a certain personal virtue is essential to freedom;...
    Chr2 10.94 24 Compare...all our private and personal venture in the world, with this deep of moral nature in which we lie...
    Edc1 10.153 4 ...[the teacher] cannot delight in personal relations with young friends, when his eye is always on the clock...
    SovE 10.200 1 When we ask simply, What is true in thought? what is just in action? it is the yielding of the private heart to the Divine mind, and all personal preferences, and all requiring of wonders, are profane.
    SovE 10.203 1 Mere morality means-not put into a personal master of morals.
    Prch 10.218 14 Scorn of hypocrisy, pride of personal character...all these [persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have;...
    Prch 10.218 17 ...a boundless ambition of intellect, willingness to sacrifice personal interests for the integrity of the character,-all these [persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have;...
    Prch 10.222 21 We are in transition, from the worship of the fathers which enshrined the law in a private and personal history...
    Prch 10.228 7 Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness.
    Schr 10.268 8 I should wish your energy to run in works and emergencies growing out of your personal character.
    Plu 10.294 14 ...[Plutarch's] name is never mentioned by any Roman writer. It would seem that the community of letters and of personal news was even more rare at that day than the want of printing...would suggest to us.
    Plu 10.319 13 If Plutarch...held the balance between the severe Stoic and the indulgent Epicurean, his humanity shines not less in his intercourse with his personal friends.
    LLNE 10.368 26 ...what personal power...many of the members owed to [Brook Farm]!
    EzRy 10.393 16 [Ezra Ripley's] conversation was strictly personal and apt to the party and the occasion.
    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.
    MMEm 10.431 7 That greatest of all gifts, however small my [Mary Moody Emerson's] power of receiving,-the capacity, the element to love the All-perfect, without regard to personal happiness:-happiness?-'t is itself.
    SlHr 10.437 15 The Homeric heroes, when they saw the gods mingling in the fray, sheathed their swords. So did not [Samuel Hoar] feel any call to make it a contest of personal strength with mobs or nations;...
    SlHr 10.440 8 Though rich, [Samuel Hoar was] of a plainness and almost poverty of personal expenditure...
    Thor 10.460 14 One man [John Brown], whose personal acquaintance he had formed, [Thoreau] honored with exceptional regard.
    GSt 10.505 22 These interests, which [George Stearns] passionately adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication with patriotic persons holding the same views...
    LS 11.8 18 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.
    LS 11.13 1 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that what was done with peculiar propriety by them, his personal friends, with less propriety should come to be extended to their companions also.
    LS 11.13 14 There was good reason for [Christ's] personal friends to remember their friend and repeat his words.
    HDC 11.45 6 I esteem it the happiness of this country that its settlers...were united by personal affection.
    HDC 11.59 23 The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasions.
    EWI 11.102 24 The prizes of society...the decencies and joys of marriage, honor, obedience, personal authority...these were for all, but not for [negro slaves].
    EWI 11.130 19 ...a citizen of Nantucket, walking in New Orleans, found a freeborn [negro] citizen of Nantucket, a man, too, of great personal worth... working chained in the streets of that city...
    FSLC 11.179 17 I have lived all my life in this state [Massachusetts], and never had any experience of personal inconvenience from the laws, until now.
    FSLN 11.219 6 ...I never felt the check on my free speech and action, until, the other day, when Mr. Webster, by his personal influence, brought the Fugitive Slave Law on the country.
    FSLN 11.222 15 Though [Webster] knew very well how to present his own personal claims, yet in his argument he was intellectual,-stated his fact pure of all personality...
    FSLN 11.224 14 Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster...caused by his personal and official authority the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill.
    FSLN 11.229 20 The theory of personal liberty must always appeal to the most refined communities...
    AsSu 11.250 13 [Sumner's] opponents accuse him neither of drunkenness... nor personal aims of any kind.
    EPro 11.321 13 What right has any one to read in the journals tidings of victories, if he has not bought them by his own valor, treasure, personal sacrifice...
    SMC 11.349 8 ...the facts which make to us the interest of this day are in a great degree personal and local here;...
    SMC 11.366 17 In August, 1862...mainly through the personal example and influence of Mr. Sylvester Lovejoy, twelve men, including himself, were enlisted for three years...
    SMC 11.376 10 ...In the above Address I have been compelled to suppress more details of personal interest than I have used.
    Wom 11.418 13 [Women] are more personal.
    FRO2 11.489 1 We cannot spare the vision nor the virtue of the saints; but let it be by pure sympathy, not with any personal or official claim.
    FRep 11.519 26 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...
    FRep 11.522 12 In proportion to the personal ability of each man, [the American] feels the invitation and career which the country opens to him.
    FRep 11.534 18 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence...
    FRep 11.541 16 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power...
    PLT 12.30 23 When, moved by love, a man...rushes at immense personal sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.
    PLT 12.39 10 The detachment consists in seeing [a fact]...not under a personal but under a universal light.
    II 12.77 9 The only comfort I can lay to my own sorrow is that we have a higher than a personal interest, which, in the ruin of the personal, is secured.
    II 12.77 10 The only comfort I can lay to my own sorrow is that we have a higher than a personal interest, which, in the ruin of the personal, is secured.
    Mem 12.90 6 ...[memory] is the thread on which the beads of man are strung, making the personal identity which is necessary to moral action.
    CInt 12.123 7 All [the Understanding's] activities are to short, personal ends...
    Milt1 12.251 23 ...deeply as that peculiar state of society, in which and for which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the world, it shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in Nature;...
    Milt1 12.254 6 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton]...who, respect to personal relations, is to us as the wind...
    Milt1 12.269 5 Questions that involve all social and personal rights were hasting to be decided by the sword...
    Milt1 12.275 18 The most affecting passages in Paradise Lost are personal allusions;...
    MLit 12.314 14 Nor is the distinction between these two habits [of subjectiveness] to be found in the circumstance of...reciting facts and feelings of personal history.
    MLit 12.314 26 The great man, even whilst he relates a private fact personal to him, is really leading us away from him to an universal experience.
    WSL 12.345 12 What is the nature of that subtle and majestic principle which attaches us to a few persons, not so much by personal as by the most spiritual ties?
    WSL 12.348 18 [Landor's] books are a strange mixture of politics, etymology, allegory, sentiment and personal history;...
    EurB 12.374 4 It is implied in all superior culture that a complete man would need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

personal, n. (1)

    DSA 1.130 15 ...[Christianity] is...an exaggeration of the personal...

personalities, n. (15)

    Con 1.295 18 ...now [Conservatism], now [Innovation] gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities.
    Nat2 3.172 27 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I leave the village politics and personalities... behind...
    Nat2 3.173 1 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities, behind...
    Pol1 3.209 15 Parties of principle...degenerate into personalities, or would inspire enthusiasm.
    ET1 5.5 15 ...I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons, as they respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world to make it needful to affect any prudery of suppression about a few hints of those bright personalities.
    ET8 5.134 2 No man can claim...to put upon the company with the loud statement of his crotchets or personalities.
    ET18 5.303 2 [the English] is a people of myriad personalities.
    Ctr 6.135 17 ...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 6.136 5 All conversation is at an end when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities...
    Ctr 6.138 6 ...here is a pedant that cannot...conceal his wrath at interruption by the best, if their conversation do not fit his impertinency,--here is he to afflict us with his personalities.
    Clbs 7.230 20 ...serious, happy discourse, avoiding personalities, dealing with results, is rare...
    SovE 10.196 5 Shall we attach ourselves violently to our teachers and historical personalities, and think the foundation shaken if any fault is shown in their record?
    Prch 10.231 17 I do not love sensation preaching,-the personalities for spite...
    Schr 10.278 5 These iron personalities, such as in Greece and Italy...were formed to strike fear into kings...rarely appear [in America].
    FRep 11.535 14 What this country longs for is personalities...

personality, n. (43)

    Nat 1.58 4 Religion includes the personality of God;...
    SR 2.57 11 In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity...
    Lov1 2.173 4 Among the throng of girls [the village boy] runs rudely enough, but one alone distances him; and these two little neighbors...have learned to respect each other's personality.
    Int 2.326 13 The intellect...floats over its own personality...
    Int 2.343 10 Silence is a solvent that destroys personality...
    Chr1 3.108 6 [Divine persons] are usually received with ill-will...because they set a bound to the exaggeration that has been made of the personality of the last divine person.
    Nat2 3.174 5 Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their...parks and preserves, to back their faulty personality with these strong accessories.
    Pol1 3.209 1 A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.
    NR 3.234 9 In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
    NR 3.236 20 ...when each person, inflamed to a fury of personality, would conquer all things to his poor crochet, [Nature] raises up against him another person...
    UGM 4.33 7 The study of many individuals leads us to an elemental region...wherein all touch by their summits. Thought and feeling that break out there cannot be impounded by any fence of personality.
    SwM 4.95 1 [The moral sentiment]...by inspiring the will, which is the seat of personality, seems to convert the universe into a person;...
    SwM 4.113 11 The pursuing the inquiry under the light of an end or final cause gives wonderful animation, a sort of personality to the whole writing [of Swedenborg].
    SwM 4.137 23 I doubt not [Swedenborg] was led by the desire to insert the element of personality of Deity.
    NMW 4.226 25 ...Mirabeau, with his overpowering personality, felt that these things which his presence inspired were as much his own as if he had said them...
    GoW 4.281 14 There must be a man behind the book; a personality which by birth and quality is pledged to the doctrines there set forth...
    ET5 5.75 23 The power of the Saxon-Danes...stood on the strong personality of these people.
    ET18 5.305 24 ...personality is the token of this race [the English].
    Pow 6.70 11 ...when you espouse an Orleans party...or any other but an organic party...you have a personality instead of a principle, which will inevitably drag you into a corner.
    Bhr 6.190 15 ...men do not convince by their argument, but by their personality...
    Wsp 6.209 14 ...[Christ] standing on his genius as a moral teacher, it is impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality;...
    Bty 6.283 7 ...[a man] feels the antipodes and the pole as drops of his blood; they are the extension of his personality.
    Elo1 7.79 15 It is easy to illustrate this overpowering personality by these examples of soldiers and kings;...
    Elo1 7.82 5 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...
    Elo1 7.82 11 ...if there be personality in the orator, the face of things changes.
    Elo1 7.85 9 The orator...must be a substantial personality.
    PI 8.15 27 ...the book, the landscape or the personality which...penetrated to the inward sense, agitates us, and is not forgotten.
    PI 8.21 11 ...[the poet's] personality [is] as fugitive as the trope he employs.
    Elo2 8.130 20 [Eloquence] leads us to...the men of character, who bring an overpowering personality into court...
    Grts 8.309 9 ...the rule of the orator begins...when the thought which he stands...adds to him a grander personality...
    Imtl 8.343 1 ...everything connected with our personality fails.
    Supl 10.177 1 ...[Nature]...in the East...inculcates the tenet of a beatitude to be found in escape from all organization and all personality...
    SovE 10.200 6 The word miracle, as it is used, only indicates the ignorance of the devotee...heedless of the stupendous fact of his own personality.
    Schr 10.282 13 [Truth]...diminishes and annihilates everybody, and the prophet so gladly feels his personality lost in this victorious life.
    FSLN 11.222 16 ...in his argument [Webster] was intellectual,-stated his fact pure of all personality...
    Scot 11.463 15 ...no modern writer has inspired his readers with such affection to his own personality [as Scott].
    ChiE 11.470 6 Nature...in the East...inculcates a beatitude to be found in escape from all organization and all personality...
    PLT 12.53 14 Every sincere man is right, or, to make him right, only needs a little larger dose of his own personality.
    PLT 12.58 1 ...there are quick limits to our interest in the personality of people.
    II 12.70 22 ...genius is as weary of [Inspiration's] personality as others are...
    II 12.82 18 All excellence is only an inflamed personality.
    Mem 12.97 7 It sometimes occurs that Memory has a personality of its own...
    MLit 12.313 27 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality.

personally, adv. (8)

    Con 1.310 9 ...in respect to you, personally, O brave young man! [existing institutions] cannot be justified.
    Hist 2.24 4 ...every man passes personally through a Grecian period.
    UGM 4.34 9 For a time our teachers serve us personally...
    ET4 5.57 10 In Norway...the actors are bonders or landholders, every one of whom is named and personally and patronymically described, as the king's friend and companion.
    Wsp 6.214 8 The Spirit saith to the man, How is it with thee? thee personally?...
    Elo2 8.130 2 Speak what you do know and believe; and are personally in it;...
    Imtl 8.331 13 Many years ago, there were two men in the United States Senate, both of whom are now dead. I have seen them both; one of them I personally knew.
    FSLC 11.197 18 Every person who touches this business [the Fugitive Slave Law] is contaminated. There has not been in our lifetime another moment when public men were personally lowered by their political action.

personated, v. (2)

    Tran 1.337 3 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would lie and deceive, as Pylades when he personated Orestes;...
    PPh 4.71 6 The players personated [Socrates] on the stage;...

personation, n. (1)

    PPh 4.65 3 [Plato] called the several faculties, gods, in his beautiful personation.

personification, n. (1)

    PI 8.23 12 ...good poetry is always personification...

personifies, v. (1)

    PI 8.53 18 Poetry...runs into fable, personifies every fact...

personify, v. (3)

    ET2 5.28 5 It is impossible not to personify a ship;...
    Prch 10.219 24 ...the sentiment that pervades a nation, the nation must react upon. It is resisted and corrupted by that obstinate tendency to personify and bring under the eyesight what should be the contemplation of Reason alone.
    MMEm 10.422 5 [Time] is a goodly name for our notions of breathing, suffering, enjoying, acting. We personify it.

personne, n. (1)

    ET13 5.231 6 ...if religion be the doing of all good, and for its sake the suffering of all evil, souffrir de tout le monde, et ne faire souffrir personne, that divine secret has existed in England from the days of Alfred...

persons, n. (453)

    Nat 1.8 23 To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature.
    Nat 1.8 24 Most persons do not see the sun.
    Nat 1.22 11 ...whosoever has seen a person of...happy genius, will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him, - the persons...
    Nat 1.60 5 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...
    Nat 1.60 17 ...very incurious concerning persons or miracles...[the soul] accepts from God the phenomenon [Christianity], as it finds it...
    Nat 1.60 23 [The soul] is not hot and passionate...at the union or opposition of other persons.
    AmS 1.103 19 The orator distrusts at first...his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses...
    DSA 1.127 19 ...the divine nature is attributed to one or two persons...
    DSA 1.130 18 The soul knows no persons.
    DSA 1.142 17 ...there have been periods when...a greater faith was possible in names and persons.
    DSA 1.147 18 There are persons who are not actors...but influences;...
    DSA 1.147 20 There are...persons too great for fame...
    LE 1.184 15 When [the scholar] sees how much thought he owes to the disagreeable antagonism of various persons who pass and cross him, he can easily think that in a society of perfect sympathy, no word, no act, no record, would be.
    MN 1.199 23 ...insane persons are those who hold fast to one thought...
    MR 1.229 5 It is when your facts and persons grow unreal and fantastic by too much falsehood, that the scholar flies for refuge to the world of ideas...
    MR 1.234 25 Considerations of this kind have turned the attention of many...persons to the claims of manual labor, as a part of the education of every young man.
    MR 1.236 2 When many persons shall have done this, when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law, state], their abuses will be redressed...
    MR 1.240 13 Only such persons interest us...who have stood in the jaws of need, and have by their own wit and might extricated themselves...
    MR 1.246 19 Sofas, ottomans...theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want...and if they miss any one, they represent themselves as the... most wretched persons on earth.
    LT 1.262 3 What is the reason to be given for this extreme attraction which persons have for us...
    LT 1.262 11 ...persons are the world to persons...
    LT 1.270 27 ...each of these aspirations and attempts of the people for the Better is magnified by the natural exaggeration of its advocates, until it... repels discreet persons by the unfairness of the plea...
    LT 1.273 3 ...the thought that [these ideas] can ever have any footing in real life, seems long since to have been exploded by all judicious persons.
    LT 1.279 16 The great majority of men...are not aware of the evil that is around them until they see it in some gross form, as in a class of... fraudulent persons.
    LT 1.282 12 A great perplexity hangs like a cloud on the brow of all cultivated persons...
    LT 1.287 4 I do not wish to be guilty of the narrowness and pedantry of inferring the tendency and genius of the Age from a few and insufficient facts or persons.
    Con 1.314 19 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...in the presence of friendly and generous persons, has also his gracious and relenting moments...
    Con 1.315 23 These are stories of...romantic sacrifices made...by great and not mean persons;...
    Con 1.318 9 These considerations...must needs command the sympathy of all reasonable persons.
    Con 1.318 10 ...beside that charity which should make all adult persons interested for the youth...we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation...of views...injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.
    Con 1.322 1 [The sagacious] detect the falsehood of the preaching, but when they say so, all good citizens cry...do not take off the strait jacket from dangerous persons.
    Con 1.323 25 Is there not something shameful that I should owe my peaceful occupancy of my house and field, not to the knowledge of my countrymen that I am useful, but to their respect for sundry other reputable persons, I know not whom, whose joint virtue still keeps the law in good odor?
    Tran 1.333 18 ...[the idealist] is constrained to degrade persons into representatives of truths.
    Tran 1.340 27 ...many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus...
    Tran 1.342 27 ...these persons [Transcendentalists] are not by nature melancholy...
    Tran 1.343 10 ...[Transcendentalists] will own...that there are persons whom in their hearts they daily thank for existing...
    Tran 1.343 11 ...[Transcendentalists] will own...that there are...persons whose faces are perhaps unknown to them, but whose fame and spirit have penetrated their solitude...
    Tran 1.349 12 Few persons have any magnificence of nature to inspire enthusiasm...
    Tran 1.352 1 ...to come a little closer to the secret of these persons, we must say that to [Transcendentalists] it seems a very easy matter to answer the objections of the man of the world...
    Tran 1.356 6 These persons [Transcendentalists] are of unequal strength, and do not all prosper.
    Tran 1.358 14 ...in society...there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character;...
    Tran 1.358 15 ...in society...there must be a few...persons of a fine, detecting instinct...
    YA 1.375 11 We should be mortified to learn that the little benefit we chanced in our own persons to receive was the utmost [the things we do] would yield.
    YA 1.392 14 ...to imaginative persons in this country there is somewhat bare and bald in our short history and unsettled wilderness.
    YA 1.394 21 Commanding worth and personal power must sit crowned in all companies, nor will extraordinary persons be slighted or affronted in any company of civilized men.
    Hist 2.5 22 ...I can see my own vices without heat in the distant persons of Solomon, Alcibiades, and Catiline.
    Hist 2.14 21 We have the civil history of [the Greek] people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it; a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were and what they did.
    Hist 2.25 19 The costly charm of the ancient tragedy...is that the persons speak simply...
    Hist 2.25 20 The costly charm of the ancient tragedy...is that the persons... speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it...
    SR 2.52 11 There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold;...
    SR 2.61 22 ...all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.
    SR 2.69 1 All persons that ever existed are [the soul's] forgotten ministers.
    SR 2.71 22 How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look...
    SR 2.74 2 ...all persons have their moments of reason...
    SR 2.75 14 Our age yields no great and perfect persons.
    SR 2.87 15 The persons who make up a nation to-day, next year die...
    Comp 2.111 2 The senses would make things of all persons;...
    Comp 2.113 11 Persons and events may stand for a time between you and justice, but it is only a postponement.
    Comp 2.119 25 ...[the mob] would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have [a principle, right, justice].
    Comp 2.123 6 I do not wish more external goods,--neither possessions, nor honors, nor powers, nor persons.
    SL 2.141 22 The pretence that [a man] has another call, a summons by name and personal election...betrays obtuseness to perceive that there is one mind in all the individuals, and no respect of persons therein.
    SL 2.144 11 Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in [a man's] memory without his being able to say why, remain because they have a relation to him not less real for being as yet unapprehended.
    SL 2.144 20 ...I will go to the man who knocks at my door, whilst a thousand persons as worthy go by it, to whom I give no regard.
    SL 2.149 6 ...that author [Virgil] is a thousand books to a thousand persons.
    SL 2.149 20 What avails it to fight with the eternal laws of mind, which adjust the relation of all persons to each other by the mathematical measure of their havings and beings?
    SL 2.150 11 Persons approach us, famous for their beauty...with very imperfect result.
    SL 2.154 18 There are not in the world at any time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato...
    SL 2.154 22 There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato,--never enough to pay for an edition of his works; yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons...
    SL 2.156 10 You think because you...have given no opinion on the times... on parties and persons, that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.
    SL 2.157 13 It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to articulate a proposition which they did not believe;...
    SL 2.157 24 If a man know that he can do any thing...he has a pledge of the acknowledgement of that fact by all persons.
    SL 2.165 27 Let a man believe in God, and not in names and places and persons.
    Lov1 2.171 26 ...grief cleaves to names and persons and the partial interests of to-day and yesterday.
    Lov1 2.174 4 ...persons are love's world...
    Lov1 2.178 18 ...[the maiden] extrudes all other persons from [the lover's] attention as cheap and unworthy...
    Lov1 2.178 26 [The lover's] friends find in [his mistress] a likeness to her mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood.
    Lov1 2.184 3 Neighborhood, size, numbers, habits, persons, lose by degrees their power over us.
    Lov1 2.184 9 ...even love, which is the deification of persons, must become more impersonal every day.
    Lov1 2.187 23 Looking at these aims with which two persons, a man and a woman...are shut up in one house to spend in the nuptial society forty or fifty years, I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
    Lov1 2.188 16 There are moments when the affections...make [the man's] happiness dependent on a person or persons.
    Fdsp 2.191 5 How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor, and who honor us!
    Fdsp 2.193 23 The moment we indulge our affections...nothing fills the proceeding eternity but the forms all radiant of beloved persons.
    Fdsp 2.195 16 I have often had fine fancies about persons...
    Fdsp 2.196 15 In strict science all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness.
    Fdsp 2.213 15 Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons...
    Fdsp 2.214 7 We are sure that we have all in us. We go to Europe, or we pursue persons...in the instinctive faith that these will call it out...
    Fdsp 2.214 10 We go to Europe, or we pursue persons, or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will...reveal us to ourselves. Beggars all. The persons are such as we;...
    Fdsp 2.214 11 We go to Europe, or we pursue persons, or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will...reveal us to ourselves. Beggars all. The persons are such as we; the Europe, an old faded garment of dead persons;...
    Prd1 2.226 2 ...climate is a great impediment to idle persons;...
    Prd1 2.232 17 It does not seem to me so genuine grief when some tyrannous Richard the Third oppresses and slays a score of innocent persons, as when Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other.
    Prd1 2.236 18 Prudence concerns the present time, persons, property and existing forms.
    OS 2.273 15 The emphasis of facts and persons in my thought has nothing to do with time.
    OS 2.274 12 [The soul] has no dates...nor persons...
    OS 2.275 8 With each divine impulse the mind...comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It...becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian than with persons in the house.
    OS 2.276 19 I live...with persons who answer to thoughts in my own mind...
    OS 2.277 1 Persons are supplementary to the primary teaching of the soul.
    OS 2.277 3 In youth we are mad for persons.
    OS 2.277 7 Persons themselves acquaint us with the impersonal.
    OS 2.277 8 In all conversation between two persons tacit reference is made...to a common nature.
    OS 2.279 4 As [the soul] is present in all persons, so it is in every period of life.
    OS 2.280 13 ...the Maker of all things and all persons stands behind us...
    OS 2.282 8 What was in the case of these remarkable persons a ravishment, has, in innumerable instances in common life, been exhibited in less striking manner.
    OS 2.287 18 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.
    Cir 2.307 20 I know and see too well...the speedy limits of persons called high and worthy.
    Cir 2.313 20 Let the claims and virtues of persons be never so great and welcome, the instinct of man presses eagerly onward to the impersonal and illimitable...
    Int 2.329 13 If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle over the arithmetical or logical.
    Int 2.333 5 The difference between persons is not in wisdom but in art.
    Int 2.340 23 We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature.
    Pt1 3.3 2 Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures...
    Pt1 3.24 21 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the morning break...and for many days after, he strove to express this tranquillity, and lo! his chisel had fashioned out of marble the form of a beautiful youth, Phosphorus, whose aspect is such that it is said all persons who look on it become silent.
    Pt1 3.30 8 We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air.
    Exp 3.56 20 ...thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular? The reason of the pain this discovery causes us...is the plaint of tragedy which murmurs from it in regard to persons, to friendship and love.
    Exp 3.61 8 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us. If these are mean and malignant, their contentment...is a more satisfying echo to the heart than... the casual sympathy of admirable persons.
    Exp 3.69 20 The persons who compose our company converse...and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked-for result.
    Exp 3.69 25 [The individual] designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done;...
    Exp 3.74 14 ...all just persons are satisfied with their own praise.
    Exp 3.76 5 ...now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us. Nature, art, persons, letters, religions, objects, successively tumble in...
    Exp 3.85 3 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous.
    Chr1 3.91 17 ...the most confident and the most violent persons learn that here [in a man of character] is resistance on which both impudence and terror are wasted...
    Chr1 3.94 26 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L'Ouverture...
    Chr1 3.96 27 Impure men consider life as it is reflected in opinions, events and persons.
    Chr1 3.105 22 Two persons lately...have given me occasion for thought.
    Chr1 3.106 6 ...nature advertises me in such [nonconforming] persons that in democratic America she will not be democratized.
    Chr1 3.108 1 Divine persons are character born...
    Chr1 3.108 15 Character...must not be crowded on by persons...
    Chr1 3.110 26 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and... the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;...and there are persons he cannot choose but remember, who gave a transcendent expansion to his thought...
    Chr1 3.111 7 The sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the power and the furniture of man, is in that possibility of joyful intercourse with persons, which makes the faith and practice of all reasonable men.
    Chr1 3.112 4 Could we not deal with a few persons,--with one person,-- after the unwritten statutes...
    Mrs1 3.121 9 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.
    Mrs1 3.122 27 The gentleman is...not in any manner dependent and servile, either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.
    Mrs1 3.130 12 ...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... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and through it, a meeting of merchants...a political, a religious convention;--the persons seem to draw inseparably near;...
    Mrs1 3.132 14 A circle of men perfectly well-bred would be a company of sensible persons in which every man's native manners and character appeared.
    Mrs1 3.133 9 There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation...
    Mrs1 3.146 20 The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy are not found in the actual aristocracy...
    Mrs1 3.147 20 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference... And this is constituted of those persons in whom heroic dispositions are native;...
    Mrs1 3.151 17 [Lilla] was a solvent powerful to reconcile all heterogeneous persons into one society...
    Mrs1 3.152 6 ...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...
    Gts 3.165 3 There are persons from whom we always expect fairy-tokens;...
    Nat2 3.188 6 Each prophet comes presently...to esteem his hat and shoes sacred. However this may discredit such persons with the judicious, it helps them with the people...
    Nat2 3.193 10 Is it that beauty...in persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?
    Nat2 3.194 14 We cannot...deal with [Nature] as we deal with persons.
    Pol1 3.201 21 The theory of politics...which [men] have expressed the best they could in their laws and in their revolutions, considers persons and property as the two objects for whose protection government exists.
    Pol1 3.201 23 Of persons, all have equal rights, in virtue of being identical in nature.
    Pol1 3.201 26 Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal.
    Pol1 3.202 18 It seemed fit that Laban and Jacob should have equal rights to elect the officer who is to defend their persons...
    Pol1 3.203 6 ...so long as it comes to the owners in the direct way, no other opinion would arise in any equitable community than that property should make the law for property, and persons the law for persons.
    Pol1 3.203 17 It was not...found easy to embody the readily admitted principle that property should make law for property, and persons for persons;...
    Pol1 3.203 18 It was not...found easy to embody the readily admitted principle that property should make law for property, and persons for persons;...
    Pol1 3.203 18 ...persons and property mixed themselves in every transaction.
    Pol1 3.204 8 ...there is an instinctive sense...that the whole constitution of property, on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading;...
    Pol1 3.204 10 ...there is an instinctive sense...that truly the only interest for the consideration of the State is persons;...
    Pol1 3.204 11 ...there is an instinctive sense...that property will always follow persons;...
    Pol1 3.204 21 Society always consists in greatest part of young and foolish persons.
    Pol1 3.205 8 Under any forms, persons and property must and will have their just sway.
    Pol1 3.205 23 The boundaries of personal influence it is impossible to fix, as persons are organs of moral or supernatural force.
    Pol1 3.205 27 Under the dominion of an idea which possesses the minds of multitudes...the powers of persons are no longer subjects of calculation.
    Pol1 3.210 6 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...for facilitating in every manner the access of the young and the poor to the sources of wealth and power. But he can rarely accept the persons whom the so-called popular party propose to him as representatives of these liberalities.
    Pol1 3.218 11 Most persons of ability meet in society with a kind of tacit appeal.
    Pol1 3.218 25 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could enter into strict relations with the best persons...could he...covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
    NR 3.226 24 All persons exist to society by some shining trait of beauty or utility which they have.
    NR 3.228 9 Our native love of reality joins with this [disillusioning] experience...to dissuade a too sudden surrender to the brilliant qualities of persons.
    NR 3.229 2 Human life and its persons are poor empirical pretensions.
    NR 3.233 24 ...it was easy [at Handel's Messiah] to observe what efforts nature was making, through so many hoarse, wooden and imperfect persons, to produce beautiful voices...
    NR 3.235 23 I wish to speak with all respect of persons...
    NR 3.236 2 ...the uninspired man certainly finds persons a conveniency in household matters...
    NR 3.236 19 [Nature]...rushes into persons;...
    NR 3.236 22 ...when each person...would conquer all things to his poor crochet, [Nature] raises up against him another person, and by many persons incarnates again a sort of whole.
    NR 3.239 24 Hence the immense benefit of party in politics, as it reveals faults of character in a chief, which the intellectual force of the persons... could not have seen.
    NR 3.241 11 A recluse sees only two or three persons, and allows them all their room;...
    NR 3.243 5 Really, all things and persons are related to us...
    NR 3.243 8 All persons, all things which we have known, are here present...
    NR 3.243 21 ...the divine Providence which keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul, conceals all the furniture and all the persons that do not concern a particular soul, from the senses of that individual.
    NER 3.259 11 ...the persons who, at forty years, still read Greek, can all be counted on your hand.
    NER 3.259 13 Four or five persons I have seen who read Plato.
    NER 3.259 19 Some intelligent persons said or thought, Is that Greek and Latin some spell to conjure with...
    NER 3.263 19 Doubts such as those I have intimated drove many good persons to agitate the questions of social reform.
    NER 3.266 26 ...in a celebrated experiment, by expiration and respiration exactly together, four persons lift a heavy man from the ground by the little finger only...
    NER 3.269 14 ...some doubt is felt by good and wise men whether really the happiness and probity of men is increased by the culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education. Unhappily too the doubt comes...from persons who have tried these methods.
    NER 3.275 17 ...a naval and military honor...the acknowledgment of eminent merit,--have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    NER 3.279 8 ...the general purpose in the great number of persons is fidelity.
    NER 3.280 25 When two persons sit and converse in a thoroughly good understanding, the remark is sure to be made, See how we have disputed about words!
    UGM 4.4 8 ...if there were any magnet that would point to the countries and houses where are the persons who are intrinsically rich and powerful, I would sell all and buy it...
    UGM 4.6 27 ...there are persons who, in their character and actions, answer questions which I have not skill to put.
    UGM 4.20 5 Mankind have in all ages attached themselves to a few persons who...were entitled to the position of leaders and law-givers.
    UGM 4.20 18 ...if persons and things are scores of a celestial music, let us read off the strains.
    UGM 4.22 2 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who knows little of persons or parties...but who...certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player...that man liberates me;...
    UGM 4.22 10 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body,--that man liberates me; I forget the clock. I pass out of the sore relation to persons.
    UGM 4.23 15 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason, irrespective of persons...
    UGM 4.25 7 We love to associate with heroic persons...
    UGM 4.25 19 It is observed in old couples, or in persons who have been housemates for a course of years, that they grow like...
    UGM 4.29 7 How superior [are children] in their security from infusions of evil persons...
    PPh 4.43 2 [Plato] says, in the Republic, Such a genius as philosophers must of necessity have, is wont but seldom in all its parts to meet in one man, but its different parts generally spring up in different persons.
    SwM 4.93 1 Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers...
    SwM 4.98 22 As happens in great men, [Swedenborg] seemed...to be a composition of several persons...
    SwM 4.132 10 ...when [Swedenborg's] visions become the stereotyped language of multitudes of persons of all degrees of age and capacity, they are perverted.
    MoS 4.150 6 One class [predisposed to Sensation]...is conversant with... cities and persons...
    ShP 4.203 11 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances, the following persons: Theodore Beza, Isaac Casaubon...
    NMW 4.223 1 Among the eminent persons of the nineteenth century, Bonaparte is far the best known...
    NMW 4.225 25 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...the standing in the attitude of a benefactor to all persons about him...
    NMW 4.226 21 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly. It is impossible, said Dumont, as, unfortunately, I have shown it to Lord Elgin. If you have shown it to Lord Elgin and to fifty persons beside, I shall still speak it to-morrow...
    NMW 4.232 6 [Bonaparte] is...terrific to all talkers and confused truth-obscuring persons.
    NMW 4.232 25 [Kings and governors] are a class of persons much to be pitied...
    NMW 4.237 24 ...[Napoleon] did not hesitate to declare that he was himself eminently endowed with this two-o'clock-in-the-morning courage, and that he had met with few persons equal to himself in this respect.
    NMW 4.244 1 [Napoleon's] impatience at levity was...an oblique tribute of respect to those able persons who commanded his regard...
    NMW 4.249 24 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it.
    GoW 4.268 9 This disparagement [of speculative thought] will not come from the leaders, but from inferior persons.
    GoW 4.277 26 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is read by very intelligent persons with wonder and delight.
    GoW 4.279 18 ...[Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is so crammed with... knowledge of the world and with knowledge of laws; the persons so truly and subtly drawn...that we must...be willing to get what good from it we can...
    ET1 5.4 9 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers...and I suppose if I had sifted the reasons that led me to Europe...it was mainly the attraction of these persons.
    ET1 5.5 11 ...I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons...
    ET1 5.11 24 ...I tell you, sir [said Coleridge], that I have known ten persons who loved the good, for one person who loved the true;...
    ET1 5.17 19 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform.
    ET1 5.24 25 It is not very rare to find persons loving sympathy and ease, who expatiate their departure from the common in one direction, by their conformity in every other.
    ET4 5.57 14 Individuals are often noticed [in the Norse Sagas] as very handsome persons...
    ET4 5.58 16 These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main...
    ET4 5.66 1 It is the fault of their forms that [the English] grow stocky...few tall, slender figures of flowing shape, but stunted and thickset persons.
    ET5 5.76 2 A nobility of soldiers cannot keep down a commonalty of shrewd scientific persons.
    ET5 5.90 6 The business of the House of Commons is conducted by a few persons...
    ET5 5.90 21 Private persons [in England] exhibit...the same pertinacity as the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against the empire of Bonaparte...
    ET6 5.105 26 In mixed or in select companies [the English] do not introduce persons;...
    ET6 5.108 6 An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other...
    ET8 5.129 7 A Yorkshire mill-owner told me he had ridden more than once all the way from London to Leeds, in the first-class carriage, with the same persons, and no word exchanged.
    ET8 5.133 18 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man...and would often speak his mind of particular persons then accidentally present...
    ET11 5.172 15 Primogeniture is a cardinal rule of English property and institutions. Laws, customs, manners, the very persons and faces, affirm it.
    ET11 5.182 25 ...before the Reform of 1832, one hundred and fifty-four persons sent three hundred and seven members to Parliament.
    ET12 5.209 4 The race of English gentlemen presents an appearance of manly vigor and form not elsewhere to be found among an equal number of persons.
    ET13 5.226 26 The [English] curates are ill paid, and the prelates are overpaid. This abuse draws into the church the children of the nobility and other unfit persons who have a taste for expense.
    ET13 5.228 21 Religious persons are driven out of the Established Church into sects...
    ET14 5.234 5 [Swift] describes his fictitious persons as if for the police.
    ET15 5.267 22 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if persons of exact information, and with settled views of policy, supplied the writers with the basis of fact and the object to be attained...
    ET16 5.274 20 In these days, [Carlyle] thought, it would become an architect to...say, I can build you a coffin for such dead persons as you are, and for such dead purposes as you have, but you shall have no ornament.
    ET17 5.291 4 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons...
    ET17 5.292 13 My visit [to England] fell in the fortunate days when Mr. [George] Bancroft was the American Minister in London, and at his house, or through his good offices, I had easy access to excellent persons and to privileged places.
    ET17 5.292 14 At the house of Mr. Carlyle, I met persons eminent in society and in letters.
    ET17 5.293 12 ...my recollections of the best hours go back to private conversations in different parts of the kingdom [England], with persons little known.
    ET19 5.309 23 On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company, and doubly pleasant to see the faces of so many distinguished persons on this platform.
    ET19 5.310 1 On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company, and doubly pleasant to see the faces of so many distinguished persons on this platform. But I have known all these persons already.
    ET19 5.311 17 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes,--the electing of worthy persons to a certain fraternity...
    F 6.6 27 The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood...
    F 6.7 2 ...fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.
    F 6.7 20 At Naples three years ago ten thousand persons were crushed in a few minutes.
    F 6.32 8 The cold is inconsiderate of persons...
    F 6.39 20 The times, the age, what is that but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?
    F 6.39 21 The times, the age, what is that but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?
    F 6.41 5 Thus events grow on the same stem with persons;...
    F 6.41 10 ...insane persons are indifferent to their dress, diet, and other accommodations...
    F 6.49 25 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout existence; a Law which...dissolves persons;...
    Pow 6.55 11 During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...and but little is sent into the veins. This condition is constant with intrepid persons.
    Pow 6.65 5 ...churchmen and men of refinement, it seems agreed, are not fit persons to send to Congress.
    Wth 6.104 2 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital, the rates of insurance will indicate it;...
    Ctr 6.134 4 This goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;...
    Ctr 6.139 7 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...with eminent persons...
    Ctr 6.142 5 I am always happy to meet persons who perceive the transcendent superiority of Shakspeare over all other writers.
    Ctr 6.150 10 The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist...
    Bhr 6.171 2 We send girls of a timid, retreating disposition...to the ball-room, or wheresoever they can come into acquaintance and nearness of leading persons of their own sex;...
    Bhr 6.172 27 Society is infested with rude, cynical, restless and frivolous persons...
    Bhr 6.174 9 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to persons who look over fine engravings that they should be handled like cobwebs and butterflies' wings;...
    Bhr 6.174 11 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.
    Bhr 6.178 15 ...in enumerating the names of persons or of countries...the eyes wink at each new name.
    Bhr 6.184 4 [The successful man of the world] knows that troops behave as they are handled at first; that is his cheap secret; just what happens to every two persons who meet on any affair...
    Bhr 6.184 17 ...to earnest persons...we cannot extol [dress circles] highly.
    Bhr 6.184 25 ...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle] fancied...that all the talkers were brained and exhausted by the deoxygenated air; it spoiled the best persons;...
    Bhr 6.188 4 In persons of character we do not remark manners...
    Bhr 6.193 10 Between simple and noble persons there is always a quick intelligence;...
    Wsp 6.209 14 ...[Christ's personality] recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.
    Wsp 6.217 4 ...such persons [of higher moral sentiment] are nearer to the secret of God than others;...
    Wsp 6.229 9 Even children are not deceived by the false reasons which their parents give in answer to their questions, whether touching natural facts, or religion, or persons.
    Wsp 6.232 11 It is strange that superior persons should not feel that they have some better resistance against cholera than avoiding green peas and salads.
    CbW 6.250 26 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...
    CbW 6.251 12 All revelations...are made...to single persons.
    CbW 6.260 13 ...the most meritorious public services have always been performed by persons in a condition of life removed from opulence.
    CbW 6.268 16 The youth aches for solitude. When he comes to the house he passes through the house. That does not make the deep recess he sought. Ah! now I perceive, he says, it must be deep with persons;...
    Bty 6.292 26 I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste that the fashions follow a law of gradation...
    Bty 6.301 16 This is the triumph of expression...charming us with a power so fine and friendly and intoxicating that it makes admired persons insipid...
    SS 7.9 5 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons...
    SS 7.11 23 ...the one event which never loses its romance is the encounter with superior persons on terms allowing the happiest intercourse.
    SS 7.12 8 ...if we recall the rare hours when we encountered the best persons, we then found ourselves...
    Art2 7.56 17 Who cares, who knows what works of art our government have ordered to be made for the Capitol? They are a mere flourish to please the eye of persons who have associations with books and galleries.
    Elo1 7.59 13 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In his every syllable/ Lurketh nature veritable;/ .../ The forest waves, the morning breaks,/ The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,/ Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be/ And life pulsates in rock or tree./
    Elo1 7.66 27 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination;...
    Elo1 7.67 9 ...all these several audiences...which successively appear to greet the variety of style and topic [of the orator], are really composed out of the same persons;...
    Elo1 7.76 18 We have a half belief that the person is possible who can counterpoise all other persons.
    DL 7.106 10 The street is old as Nature; the persons all have their sacredness.
    DL 7.108 9 It is easier...to criticise [a territory's] polity, books, art, than to come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their character...
    DL 7.112 24 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If all are well attended, then must the master and mistress be studious of particulars at the cost of their own accomplishments and growth; or persons are treated as things.
    DL 7.117 22 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains...to be the shelter always open to good and true persons;...
    DL 7.125 23 There are no divine persons with us...
    DL 7.128 15 There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth...
    Farm 7.153 25 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime...would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature, comparable to... rainbow and flood; because he is, as all natural persons are, representative of Nature as much as these.
    Boks 7.199 9 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners...
    Boks 7.201 12 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history, in which the important moments and persons can be rightly set down;...
    Boks 7.207 20 ...the works of Ben Jonson are a sort of hoop to bind all these fine [Elizabethan] persons together...
    Boks 7.208 2 ...[Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time, if not to the same extent yet much in the same way, as Walter Scott has celebrated the persons and places of Scotland.
    Boks 7.220 21 ...let each scholar associate himself to such persons as he can rely on, in a literary club...
    Clbs 7.229 13 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation...
    Clbs 7.241 26 It is possible that the best conversation is between two persons who can talk only to each other.
    Clbs 7.242 4 I have known persons of rare ability who were heavy company to good social men...
    OA 7.327 26 In old persons...we often observe a fair, plump, perennial, waxen complexion...
    PI 8.15 1 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence,--is only phenomenal. Youth, age, property, condition, events, persons,--self, even,-- are successive maias (deceptions) through which Vishnu mocks and instructs the soul.
    PI 8.43 22 ...the poet creates his persons, and then watches and relates what they do and say.
    PI 8.44 7 This force of representation so plants [the poet's] figures before him that he...is affected by them as by persons.
    PI 8.44 10 Vast is the difference between writing clean verses for magazines, and creating these new persons and situations...
    PI 8.44 25 In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama;...
    PI 8.70 6 In a cotillon some persons dance and others await their turn when the music and the figure come to them.
    PI 8.75 5 Men are facts as well as persons...
    SA 8.79 7 ...the subject of manners has a constant interest to thoughtful persons.
    SA 8.79 22 '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...
    SA 8.80 2 Whilst almost everybody has a supplicating eye turned on events and things and other persons, a few natures are central...
    SA 8.89 9 Welfare requires...persons with whom we can speak a few reasonable words every day...
    SA 8.89 21 A few times in my life it has happened to me to meet persons of so good a nature and so good breeding that every topic was open...
    SA 8.89 24 A few times in my life it has happened to me to meet persons of so good a nature and so good breeding that every topic was...discussed without possibility of offence,--persons who could not be shocked.
    SA 8.90 7 The life of these persons was conducted in the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse.
    SA 8.92 5 A wise man once said to me that all whom he knew, met:-- meaning that he need not take pains to introduce the persons whom he valued to each other...
    SA 8.94 2 ...[Madame de Stael] knew all distinguished persons in letters or society in England, Germany and Italy...
    SA 8.105 10 Now society in towns is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them.
    Elo2 8.121 27 ...there are persons of natural fascination...
    Comc 8.174 3 Mirth quickly becomes intemperate, and the man would soon die of inanition, as some persons have been tickled to death.
    QO 8.181 5 Swedenborg, Behmen, Spinoza, will appear original to uninstructed and to thoughtless persons...
    QO 8.199 3 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his bed, alternately sleeping and waking,-sleeping, he was surrounded by persons disputing and offering opinions on the one side and on the other side of a proposition;...
    QO 8.200 21 Every one of my writings [said Goethe] has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons...
    PC 8.218 4 The history of Greece is at one time reduced to two persons,- Philip...and Demosthenes...
    PC 8.219 14 Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million.
    PC 8.230 6 I know well to what assembly of educated, reflecting, successful and powerful persons I speak.
    Insp 8.279 1 Bonaparte said: There is no man more pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan. I magnify...all the possible mischances. I am in an agitation utterly painful. That does not prevent me from appearing quite serene to the persons who surround me.
    Insp 8.294 13 I have heard from persons who had practice in rhyming, that it was sufficient to set them on writing verses, to read any original poetry.
    Grts 8.316 10 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it...sometimes...even in persons open to the suspicion of irregular and immoral living, in Bohemians,-as in more orderly examples.
    Imtl 8.328 6 Sixty years ago...the habits and thought of religious persons, were all directed on death.
    Imtl 8.337 20 I have known admirable persons, without feeling that they exhaust the possibilities of virtue and talent.
    Imtl 8.347 12 He has [immortality], and he alone, who gives life to all names, persons, things, where he comes.
    Dem1 10.4 1 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows, wherein time, space, persons, cities, animals, should dance before us...
    Dem1 10.5 8 A painful imperfection almost always attends [dreams]. The fairest forms, the most noble and excellent persons, are deformed by some pitiful and insane circumstance.
    Dem1 10.6 6 This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room...
    Dem1 10.15 27 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon...those on whom I lay it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form...that children and young persons come off safe from casualties that would have proved dangerous to wiser people.
    Dem1 10.16 8 As [the young man] comes into manhood he remembers passages and persons that seem...to have been supernaturally deprived of injurious influence on him.
    Dem1 10.16 24 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons, as frequent in America to-day as the faith in incantations and philters was in old Rome...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    Dem1 10.18 15 [Demonic individuals] are not always superior persons...
    Dem1 10.25 6 The peculiarity of the history of Animal Magnetism is that it drew in as inquirers and students a class of persons never on any other occasion known as students and inquirers.
    Aris 10.31 8 My concern with [Aristocracy] is that concern which all well-disposed persons will feel, that there should be model men...
    Aris 10.35 12 ...neither...the Congress, nor the mob, nor the guillotine, nor fire, nor all together, can avail to outlaw, cut out, burn or destroy the offence of superiority in persons.
    Aris 10.35 19 The superiority in [my companion] is inferiority in me, and if this particular companion were wiped by a sponge out of Nature, my inferiority would still be made evident to me by other persons...
    Aris 10.39 20 I wish...men...who would find their fellows in persons of real elevation of whatever kind of speculative or practical ability.
    Aris 10.55 24 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud.
    Aris 10.61 8 The honor of a member consists in an indifferency to the persons and practices about him...
    Chr2 10.96 3 Before [the moral sentiment] what are persons, prophets, or seraphim...
    Chr2 10.108 1 ...So far the religion is now where it should be. Persons are discriminated as honest, as veracious, as illuminated...
    Chr2 10.114 1 The Church, in its ardor for beloved persons, clings to the miraculous...
    Supl 10.166 16 I hear without sympathy the complaint of young and ardent persons that they find life no region of romance...
    SovE 10.191 27 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment: the house, the works, the persons, the days, the weathers-all that he calls Nature, all that he calls institutions, when once his mind is active are visions merely...
    SovE 10.206 5 Superstitious persons we see with respect, because their whole existence is not bounded by their hats and their shoes...
    SovE 10.213 24 A man who has accustomed himself...to carry his possessions, his relations to persons, and even his opinions, in his hand... has put himself out of the reach of all skepticism;...
    Prch 10.218 1 I see in those classes and those persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress...character, but skepticism;...
    Schr 10.276 18 There is plenty of wild wrath, but it steads not until we can get it racked off...and bottled into persons;...
    Schr 10.278 17 It seems as if two or three persons coming who should add to a high spiritual aim great constructive energy, would carry the country with them.
    Schr 10.282 21 ...it is the end of eloquence...to persuade a multitude of persons to renounce their opinions, and change the course of life.
    Plu 10.296 4 Montesquieu...in his Pensees, declares, I am always charmed with Plutarch; in his writings are circumstances attached to persons, which give great pleasure;...
    LLNE 10.343 4 As these persons became in the common chances of society acquainted with each other, there resulted certainly strong friendships...
    LLNE 10.343 9 ...perhaps those persons who were mutually the best friends were the most private...
    LLNE 10.344 13 Highly refined persons might easily miss in [Theodore Parker] the element of beauty.
    LLNE 10.350 24 Your community should consist of two thousand persons, to prevent accidents of omission;...
    LLNE 10.360 10 Many persons, attracted by the beauty of the place [Brook Farm] and the culture and ambition of the community, joined them as boarders...
    LLNE 10.361 3 Those who inspired and organized [Brook Farm] were... persons impatient of the routine...of society around them...
    LLNE 10.362 14 In and around Brook Farm, whether as members, boarders or visitors, were many remarkable persons...
    LLNE 10.366 7 It was very gently said [at Brook Farm] that people on whom beforehand all persons would put the utmost reliance were not responsible.
    LLNE 10.369 11 The yeoman [at Brook Farm] saw refined manners in persons who were his friends;...
    CSC 10.373 5 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled...in obedience to a call in the newspapers... inviting all persons to a public discussion of the institutions of the Sabbath, the Church and the Ministry.
    CSC 10.373 22 This [Chardon Street] Convention never printed any report of its deliberations...the professed objects of those persons who felt the greatest interest in its meetings being simply the elucidation of truth through free discussion.
    CSC 10.374 14 The singularity and latitude of the summons [to the Chardon Street Convention] drew together...many persons whose church was a church of one member only.
    CSC 10.375 11 The assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was characterized by the predominance of a certain plain, sylvan strength and earnestness, whilst many of the most intellectual and cultivated persons attended its councils.
    CSC 10.375 16 ...Edward, Palmer, Jones Very, Maria W. Chapman and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
    CSC 10.377 2 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention brought together many remarkable persons...
    EzRy 10.394 7 In all such passages [with people] [Ezra Ripley] justified himself to the conscience, and commonly to the love, of the persons concerned.
    MMEm 10.398 12 ...[Lucy Percy's] nature values fortunate persons.
    MMEm 10.398 19 ...[Lucy Percy]...will take a deep interest for persons of celebrity.
    SlHr 10.442 23 ...[Samuel Hoar]...refused very large sums offered him to undertake the defence of criminal persons.
    SlHr 10.445 19 The useful and practical super-abounded in [Samuel Hoar' s] mind, and to a degree which might be even comic to young and poetical persons.
    Thor 10.457 7 I said [to Thoreau]...who does not see with regret that his page is not solid with a right materialistic treatment, which delights everybody? Henry objected, of course, and vaunted the better lectures which reached only a few persons.
    Thor 10.478 9 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a friend...almost worshipped by those few persons who resorted to him as their confessor and prophet...
    Thor 10.478 24 [Thoreau] detected paltering as readily in dignified and prosperous persons as in beggars...
    Carl 10.490 20 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where he is unknown, and set a-swinging, to the surprise and consternation of all persons...
    GSt 10.505 23 These interests, which [George Stearns] passionately adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication with patriotic persons holding the same views...
    GSt 10.506 4 ...this sudden association now with the leaders of parties and persons of pronounced power and influence in the nation...never altered... one trait of [George Stearns's] manners.
    LS 11.8 17 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.
    LS 11.13 10 Many persons consider this fact, the observance of such a memorial feast [the Lord's Supper] by the early disciples, decisive of the question whether it ought to be observed by us.
    LS 11.13 21 It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity. The circumstance...that St. Paul adopts these views, has seemed to many persons conclusive in favor of the institution [the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.17 14 I appeal now to the convictions of communicants [in the Lord' s Supper], and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.
    LS 11.23 17 There remain some practical objections to the ordinance [the Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter. There is one on which I had intended to say a few words; I mean the unfavorable relation in which it places that numerous class of persons who abstain from it merely from disinclination to the rite.
    HDC 11.69 18 ...all such persons as shall purchase, sell, or use any such tea, shall, for the future, be deemed unfriendly to the happy constitution of this country.
    HDC 11.70 3 ...if any person or persons...shall import any tea from the India House, in England...we will treat them...as enemies to their country...
    HDC 11.70 21 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant...
    HDC 11.76 12 ...we see what manner of persons they were who stood in the worst perils of the [American] Revolution.
    HDC 11.78 27 When...the poor of Boston were quartered by the Provincial Congress on the neighboring country, Concord received 82 persons to its hospitality.
    HDC 11.86 16 ...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place, in all times since its planting, of pious and excellent persons...
    LVB 11.90 19 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that [the Indians] shall be duly cared for;...
    LVB 11.91 3 The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...
    EWI 11.99 19 I might well hesitate...to undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you; which ought rather to be done by a strict cooperation of many well-advised persons;...
    EWI 11.105 7 Humane persons who were informed of the reports [on West Indian slavery] insisted on proving them.
    EWI 11.109 23 In 1791, three hundred thousand persons in Britain pledged themselves to abstain from all articles of [West Indian] island produce.
    EWI 11.111 27 ...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted by the planters...and the negroes furiously forbidden to go near them. These outrage...rekindled the flame of British indignation. Petitions poured into Parliament: a million persons signed their names to these;...
    EWI 11.112 8 The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as apprenticed laborers...
    EWI 11.112 18 ...the praedials [in the West Indies] should owe three fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years, and the non-praedials for four years. The other fourth of the apprentice's time was to be his own, which he might sell to his master, or to other persons;...
    EWI 11.113 3 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid...shall be absolutely and forever manumitted; and that the children hereafter born to any such persons, and the offspring of such children, shall, in like manner, be free, from their birth...
    EWI 11.116 9 At Grace Hill, [the day after emancipation in the West Indies] there were at least a thousand persons around the Moravian Chapel who could not get in.
    EWI 11.132 21 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime, and should set on foot the strictest inquisition to discover where such persons...may now be.
    EWI 11.133 12 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;...
    EWI 11.137 17 By a certain fatality, none but the vilest arguments were brought forward [against emancipation in the West Indies], which corrupted the very persons who used them.
    EWI 11.139 22 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons...shudder at the change...
    War 11.154 16 ...[war] is at this moment the delight of half the world, of almost all young and ignorant persons;...
    War 11.161 7 ...the fact that [the idea that there can be peace as well as war] has become so distinct to any small number of persons as to become a subject of prayer and hope...that is the commanding fact.
    War 11.164 17 Observe the ideas of the present day...see...how timber, brick, lime and stone have flown into convenient shape, obedient to the master-idea reigning in the minds of many persons.
    FSLC 11.183 17 ...only persons who were known and tried benefactors are found standing for freedom...
    FSLN 11.217 8 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is, not to know their own task...
    FSLN 11.237 13 ...a man cannot steal without incurring the penalties of the thief...though there be a general conspiracy among scholars and official persons to hold him up...
    AsSu 11.248 8 The whole state of South Carolina does not now offer one or any number of persons who are to be weighed for a moment in the scale with such a person as the meanest of them all has now struck down.
    AsSu 11.248 23 ...it will only do to send foolish persons to Washington, if you wish them to be safe.
    Wom 11.418 22 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [of rights for women], is this: that though their mathematical justice is not be be denied, yet the best women do not wish these things;...
    Wom 11.419 4 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this:...that, if the laws and customs were modified in the manner proposed, it would embarrass and pain gentle and lovely persons with duties which they would find irksome and distasteful.
    Wom 11.422 27 ...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote, representing the wants and desires of honest and refined persons.
    CPL 11.496 26 If you consider what has befallen you when reading...a tragedy, or a novel, even, that deeply interested you,-how you forgot...the persons sitting in the room...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...
    CPL 11.501 14 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons...
    CPL 11.507 2 You say, [reading] is a languid pleasure. Yes, but its tractableness...contrasts with the slowness of fortune and the inaccessibleness of persons.
    FRep 11.535 14 What this country longs for is...grand persons...
    FRep 11.541 11 Humanity asks...that democratic institutions shall be more thoughtful...for the welfare of sick and unable persons...
    PLT 12.24 9 ...the nervous and hysterical and animalized will produce a like series of symptoms in you, though no other persons ever evoke the like phenomena...
    PLT 12.28 6 In this eternal resurrection and rehabilitation of transitory persons, who and what are they?
    PLT 12.31 2 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is that they believe in the ideas of others.
    PLT 12.43 27 We believe that certain persons add to the common vision a certain degree of control over these states of mind;...
    II 12.88 20 ...there is a religion which survives immutably all persons and fashions...
    II 12.88 24 ...there is a religion which...is worshipped and pronounced with emphasis again and again by some holy person;-and men, with their... passion for persons, have run mad for the pronouncer, and forgot the religion.
    II 12.89 6 [A man] finds that events spring from the same root as persons;...
    Mem 12.93 13 There is no book like the memory, none with such a good index, and that of every kind...arranged by names of persons...
    Mem 12.97 14 Is [Memory] some old aunt who goes in and out of the house, and occasionally recites anecdotes of old times and persons...
    Mem 12.109 9 You know what is told of the experience of some persons who have been recovered from drowning. They relate that their whole life's history seemed to pass before them in review.
    CInt 12.117 13 Few men wish to know how the thing really stands, what is the law of it without reference to persons.
    CInt 12.128 24 When you say the times, the persons are prosaic...you expose your atheism.
    CL 12.159 13 ...it was the practice...of the Persians, to let insane persons wander at their own will out of the towns, into the desert...
    CL 12.159 21 ...there are more insane persons than are so called...
    CL 12.166 15 I know that the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive persons.
    CL 12.166 16 ...the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive persons. Sometimes a parlor in which fine persons are found...answers our purpose still better.
    CL 12.166 21 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons must have had the influence of Nature...
    Bost 12.185 1 There is great testimony of discriminating persons to the effect that Rome is endowed with the enchanting property of inspiring a longing in men there to live and there to die.
    Bost 12.189 1 A capital fact distinguishing this colony [Massachusetts Bay] from all other colonies was that the persons composing it consented to come on the one condition that the charter should be transferred from the company in England to themselves;...
    Milt1 12.271 1 Toland tells us, As [Milton] looked upon true and absolute freedom to be the greatest happiness of this life, whether to societies or single persons, so he thought constraint of any sort to be the utmost misery;...
    ACri 12.293 4 Persons have been named from their abuse of certain phrases, as Pyramid Lambert...
    MLit 12.324 10 With the sharpest eye for...engraving, medals, persons and manners, [Goethe] never stopped at surface...
    WSL 12.337 7 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;-a man nowise cautious to conceal...his very slight esteem for the persons and the country that surround him.
    WSL 12.337 11 When Mr. Bull rides in an American coach...he is very ready to confess his ignorance of everything about him,-persons, manners, customs, politics, geography.
    WSL 12.345 11 What is the nature of that subtle and majestic principle which attaches us to a few persons...
    WSL 12.345 13 What is the quality of the persons who...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history...
    PPr 12.389 5 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons...
    Let 12.394 4 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer? Excellent reasons have been shown us why the writers, obviously persons of sincerity and elegance, should be dissatisfied with the life they lead...
    Let 12.396 8 It is not for nothing, we assure ourselves...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society.
    Trag 12.407 14 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...
    Trag 12.409 20 In those persons who move the profoundest pity, tragedy seems to consist in temperament, not in events.

perspective, n. (15)

    Nat 1.15 12 By the mutual action of [the eye's] structure and of the laws of light, perspective is produced...
    AmS 1.115 6 ...for solace the perspective of your own infinite life;...
    Hist 2.5 18 This [identification with history] throws our actions into perspective...
    Hist 2.21 7 The mountain of granite [the Gothic cathedral] blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty.
    Pt1 3.33 2 ...how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature; how great the perspective!...
    Chr1 3.108 17 [Character] needs perspective...
    Nat2 3.180 3 Geology has...taught us to...exchange our Mosaic and Ptolemaic schemes for her large style. We knew nothing rightly, for want of perspective.
    PPh 4.53 20 The Roman legion...the steam-mill, steamboat, steam-coach, may all be seen in perspective;...
    GoW 4.287 19 This lawgiver of art [Goethe] is not an artist. Was it...that his sight was microscopic and interfered with the just perspective...
    F 6.36 15 The whole circle of animal life...until at last...the whole chemical mass is mellowed and refined for higher use-pleases at a sufficient perspective.
    FSLN 11.222 10 ...[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.
    PLT 12.44 4 ...the true scholar is one who has the power...to hold off his thoughts at arm's length, and give them perspective.
    Mem 12.102 5 The experienced and cultivated man is lodged in a hall hung with pictures...to which every step in the march of the soul adds a more sublime perspective.
    Milt1 12.247 20 [The fame of a great man] needs time to give it due perspective.
    ACri 12.299 7 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling... stereoscoping every figure that passes, and every hill, river, wood, hummock and pebble in the long perspective...

perspicacity, n. (1)

    Bty 6.300 19 Cardinal De Retz says of De Bouillon, With the physiognomy of an ox, he had the perspicacity of an eagle.

perspiration, n. (2)

    F 6.41 22 In age we put out another sort of perspiration...
    PPo 8.247 15 We absorb elements enough, but have not leaves and lungs for healthy perspiration and growth.

perspire, v. (1)

    F 6.41 18 ...the woolly aphides on the apple perspire their own bed...

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