Persuade to Picard

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

persuade, v. (17)

    AmS 1.105 16 They are the kings of the world who...persuade men...that this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck...
    Nat2 3.170 18 The incommunicable trees begin to persuade us to live with them...
    Nat2 3.171 5 We come to our own [in the woods], and make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise.
    Pol1 3.220 24 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of things, to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system;...
    NER 3.265 18 I have not been able either to persuade my brother or to prevail on myself to disuse the traffic or the potation of brandy...
    NER 3.282 3 We would persuade our fellow to this or that; another self within our eyes dissuades him.
    Elo1 7.80 26 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?...
    PI 8.13 24 ...a good symbol...is a missionary to persuade thousands.
    SA 8.92 17 ...speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
    Elo2 8.122 3 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style; like Bouillon, who could almost persuade you that a quartan ague was wholesome;...
    Schr 10.282 20 ...it is the end of eloquence...to persuade a multitude of persons to renounce their opinions, and change the course of life.
    Schr 10.285 6 [Men of talent]...noisily persuade society that this thing which they do is the needful cause of all men.
    HDC 11.31 25 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him.
    CPL 11.499 13 ...whenever [Mary Moody Emerson] arrived in a town where was a good minister who had a library, she would persuade him to receive her as a boarder...
    CInt 12.120 10 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...strong by the strength of the facts themselves. Then the orator is still one of the audience, persuaded by the same reasons which persuade them;...
    CL 12.160 1 ...the speculators who rush for investment...are all more or less mad...these...persuade us to seek in the fields the health of the mind.
    WSL 12.339 6 ...nor will [Landor] persuade us to burn Plato and Xenophon, out of our admiration of Bishop Patrick...

persuaded, v. (20)

    Chr1 3.91 15 [The people] cannot come at their ends by sending to Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be not one who, before he was appointed by the people to represent them, was appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact,--invincibly persuaded of that fact in himself...
    Mrs1 3.145 21 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout, who loved his friend and persuaded his enemy;...
    PPh 4.60 21 I, therefore, Callicles, am persuaded by these accounts [said Plato], and consider how I may exhibit my soul before the judge in a healthy condition.
    MoS 4.170 10 We are persuaded that a thread runs through all things...
    ET9 5.148 2 If one of [the English] have...a squeaking or a raven voice, he has persuaded himself that there is something modish and becoming in it...
    Wth 6.91 22 The world is full of fops...who had persuaded beauties and men of genius to wear their fop livery;...
    Wth 6.100 7 [The right merchant] is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic.
    Elo1 7.73 10 Philip of Macedon said of Demosthenes, on hearing the report of one of his orations, Had I been there, he would have persuaded me to take up arms against myself;...
    Chr2 10.109 18 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
    Plu 10.313 2 When you are persuaded in your mind that you cannot either offer or perform anything more agreeable to the gods than the entertaining a right notion of them, you will then avoid superstition as a no less evil than atheism.
    Plu 10.318 27 [Alexander] persuaded the Sogdians not to kill, but to cherish their aged parents;...
    MMEm 10.401 5 Her aunt became strongly attached to Mary [Moody Emerson], and persuaded the family to give the child up to her as a daughter...
    EWI 11.100 23 When we consider what remains to be done for this interest [emancipation] in this country, the dictates of humanity make us tender of such as are not yet persuaded.
    ACiv 11.300 25 ...interests were never persuaded.
    EdAd 11.386 13 ...we are persuaded that moral and material values are always commensurate.
    EdAd 11.388 26 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
    CPL 11.500 16 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...more widely known as the writer of some of the best books which have been written in this country, and which, I am persuaded, have not yet gathered half their fame.
    CInt 12.120 9 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...strong by the strength of the facts themselves. Then the orator is still one of the audience, persuaded by the same reasons which persuade them;...
    Milt1 12.252 10 ...we are persuaded, [Milton] kindles a love and emulation in us which he did not in foregoing generations.
    Let 12.396 4 We shall hardly trust ourselves to reply to arguments by which we would gladly be persuaded.

persuader, n. (1)

    PerF 10.74 24 [Man] is...a geometer, an astronomer, a persuader of men... and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material elements.

persuades, v. (3)

    Exp 3.81 19 ...I cannot dispose of other people's facts; but I possess such a key to my own as persuades me, against all their denials, that they also have a key to theirs.
    Elo1 7.73 6 ...Thucydides, when Archidamus, king of Sparta, asked him which was the best wrestler, Pericles or he, replied, When I throw him, he says he was never down, and he persuades the very spectators to believe him.
    Clbs 7.240 16 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who converts the censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play into an ardent advocate? The court appoints another censor, who shall crush it this time. Beaumarchais persuades him to defend it.

persuading, adj. (1)

    Art1 2.365 12 The oratorio has already lost its relation...to the sun, and the earth, but that persuading [human] voice is in tune with these.

persuading, v. (1)

    Boks 7.216 27 Money, and killing, and the Wandering Jew, and persuading the lover that his mistress is betrothed to another, these are the main-springs [of the novel];...

persuasion, n. (23)

    Nat 1.32 5 ...with these forms, the spells of persuasion...are put into [the poet's] hands.
    Nat 1.40 11 [Man] forges the...air...into...words, and gives them wing as angels of persuasion and command.
    DSA 1.136 19 Where now sounds the persuasion, that...imparadises my heart...
    LE 1.186 8 Bend to the persuasion which is flowing to you from every object in nature...
    OS 2.277 1 ...these other souls, these separated selves, draw me as nothing else can. They stir in me the new emotions we call passion;...thence come conversation, competition, persuasion, cities and war.
    Int 2.346 6 ...persuasion is in soul, but necessity is in intellect.
    PPh 4.64 7 ...[said Plato] the persuasion that we must search that which we do not know, will render us, beyond comparison, better, braver and more industrious than if we thought it impossible to discover what we do not know, and useless to search for it.
    MoS 4.161 10 Every thing that is excellent in mankind...lips of persuasion... [the wise skeptic] will see and judge.
    NMW 4.232 20 I have gained some advantages over superior forces and when totally destitute of every thing [Bonaparte writes to the Directory], because, in the persuasion that your confidence was reposed in me, my actions were as prompt as my thoughts.
    NMW 4.247 12 [Napoleon's] power does not consist...in any...singular power of persuasion;...
    F 6.24 12 ...no persuasion, no bribe shall make [man] give up his point.
    Bhr 6.190 12 ...the persuasion of [men's] speech is not in what they say...
    Elo1 7.59 2 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ And touch with soft persuasion,/ His words, like a storm-wind, can bring/ Terror and beauty on their wing;/...
    Elo1 7.97 4 He who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight.
    DL 7.103 13 Welcome to the parents the puny struggler...his lips touched with persuasion which Chatham and Pericles in manhood had not.
    Cour 7.273 16 There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause...
    Elo2 8.132 21 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech... that of political advice and persuasion...
    PC 8.209 16 ...[the coxcomb] has found that this country and this age belong to the most liberal persuasion;...
    Aris 10.34 3 ...I take this inextinguishable persuasion in men's minds [of hereditary transmission of qualities] as a hint from the outward universe to man to inlay as many virtues and superiorities as he can into this swift fresco of the day...
    Prch 10.235 12 ...emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject;...seeing that a sentiment never loses its pathos or its persuasion...
    LS 11.21 19 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...the persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and onward.
    War 11.169 9 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;... I shall find them...men whose very look and voice carry the sentence of honor and shame; and all forces yield to their energy and persuasion.
    CInt 12.120 24 You, gentlemen, are...set apart through some strong persuasion of your own, or of your friends, that you were capable of the high privilege of thought.

persuasive, adj. (3)

    LT 1.265 23 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear; men...of persuasive speech;...
    Bhr 6.171 27 When we reflect on [manners'] persuasive and cheering force;...we see what range the subject has...
    SA 8.82 8 The attitudes of children are gentle, persuasive, royal...

pert, adj. (1)

    Boks 7.191 18 Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to be heard on the questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is familiar with the books of Plato, where all his pert objections have once for all been disposed of.

pertaining, v. (1)

    ET5 5.84 10 [The English] are neat husbands for ordering all their tools pertaining to house and field.

pertest, adj. (1)

    Pol1 3.200 27 Nature...will not be fooled or abated of any jot of her authority by the pertest of her sons;...

pertinacious, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.356 15 ...Thoreau gave in flesh and blood and pertinacious Saxon belief the purest ethics.

pertinacity, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.188 1 Jacob Behmen and George Fox betray their egotism in the pertinacity of their controversial tracts...
    ET5 5.90 22 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...

pertinence, n. (2)

    Hist 2.30 13 What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Prometheus!
    Elo1 7.82 27 This balance between the orator and the audience is expressed in what is called the pertinence of the speaker.

pertinences, n. (1)

    Gts 3.160 14 For common gifts, necessity makes pertinences and beauty every day...

pertinency, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.391 21 [Ezra Ripley] showed even in his fireside discourse traits of that pertinency and judgment...which make the distinction of the scholar...

pertinent, adj. (6)

    Nat 1.67 5 It is not so pertinent to man to know all the individuals of the animal kingdom...
    SL 2.163 7 Shall I...imagine my being here impertinent? less pertinent than Epaminondas or Homer being there?...
    Fdsp 2.207 17 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. No partialities of friend to friend...are there pertinent...
    Boks 7.193 20 It is easy...to demonstrate that though [a man] should read from dawn till dark, for sixty years, he must die in the first alcoves [of the libraries]. But nothing can be more deceptive than this arithmetic, where none but a natural method is really pertinent.
    Supl 10.176 18 ...in the East [the superlative] is animated, it is pertinent, pleasing, poetic.
    Milt1 12.272 10 The tracts [Milton] wrote on these topics [divorce and freedom of the press] are, for the most part, as fresh and pertinent to-day as they were then.

pertly, adv. (1)

    Chr1 3.107 16 ...however pertly our sermons and disciplines would divide some share of credit...[Nature] goes her own gait and puts the wisest in the wrong.

pertness, n. (1)

    SwM 4.103 24 ...Swedenborg is systematic and respective of the world in every sentence;...and this admirable writing is pure from all pertness or egotism.

perturbation, n. (1)

    PI 8.58 20 [The wind] makes no perturbation in the place where God wills it,/ On the sea, on the land./

perturbations, n. (4)

    MR 1.246 1 ...parched corn and a house with one apartment, that I may be free of all perturbations...is frugality for gods and heroes.
    Exp 3.81 14 The life of truth...is not the slave of tears, contritions and perturbations.
    F 6.7 13 The planet is liable to...perturbations from planets...
    Wom 11.417 13 In all [literature], the body of the joke...is identical with Mahomet's opinion that women have not a sufficient moral or intellectual force to control the perturbations of their physical structure.

Peru, n. (1)

    War 11.158 19 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain...

Perugino [Pietro Vannucci], (1)

    ET1 5.8 1 [Landor]...shares the growing taste for Perugino and the early masters.

peruke, n. (1)

    SwM 4.142 17 [Swedenborg] goes up and down the world of men, a modern Rhadamanthus in gold-headed cane and peruke...

peruse, v. (1)

    ACri 12.292 17 Dangerous words in like kind are display, improvement, peruse...

pervade, v. (4)

    Nat 1.27 21 ...these analogies...pervade nature.
    Wsp 6.215 19 Let us...dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern.
    MoL 10.247 19 [The scholar] knows...that the forces which uphold and pervade [the world] are eternal.
    PLT 12.55 7 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism; a certain recognition of the simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern.

pervaded, v. (5)

    Nat 1.55 21 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles]...that the solid seeming block of matter has been pervaded and dissolved by a thought;...
    Nat 1.63 9 Nature is so pervaded with human life that there is something of humanity in all and in every particular.
    Chr1 3.94 14 How often has the influence of a true master realized all the tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes into all those who beheld him...which pervaded them with his thoughts...
    EWI 11.116 3 In every quarter [of Antigua], we were assured, the day [after emancipation] was like a Sabbath. Work had ceased. The hum of business was still: tranquillity pervaded the towns and country.
    MLit 12.321 13 ...more than any other contemporary bard [Wordsworth] is pervaded with a reverence of somewhat higher than (conscious) thought.

pervades, v. (12)

    Nat 1.44 18 So intimate is this Unity, that...it...betrays its source in Universal Spirit. For it pervades Thought also.
    SL 2.152 1 The same reality pervades all teaching.
    OS 2.271 21 [This pure nature] is undefinable, unmeasurable; but we know that it pervades and contains us.
    PPh 4.48 2 We unite all things by perceiving the law which pervades them;...
    SwM 4.116 23 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences, together with a vocabulary containing the terms of spiritual things, as well as of the physical things for which they are to be substituted. This symbolism pervades the living body.
    SwM 4.144 5 ...was it that [Swedenborg] saw the vision [of heavenly society] intellectually, and hence that chiding of the intellectual that pervades his books?
    ET5 5.94 4 The climate and geography [of England], I said, were factitious, as if the hands of man had arranged the conditions. The same character pervades the whole kingdom.
    Civ 7.25 6 The skill that pervades complex details; the man that maintains himself;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms... which is the index of high civilization.
    Imtl 8.344 25 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect which pervades Nature...leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a caprice...
    Prch 10.219 22 ...the sentiment that pervades a nation, the nation must react upon.
    MAng1 12.241 22 A fine melancholy, not unrelieved by his habitual heroism, pervades [Michelangelo's] thoughts on this subject [death].
    PPr 12.391 6 This grandiose character pervades [Carlyle's] wit and his imagination.

pervading, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.50 3 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...pervading, uniform, perfect, preeminent over nature...

pervading, v. (3)

    ET18 5.306 15 The feudal system survives [in England]...in the social barriers which confine patronage and promotion to a caste, and still more in the submissive ideas pervading these people.
    PLT 12.21 17 ...having accepted this law of identity pervading the universe, we next perceive that whilst every creature represents and obeys it, there is diversity...
    PLT 12.27 2 The mechanical laws might as easily be shown pervading the kingdom of mind as the vegetative.

pervasive, adj. (1)

    F 6.45 9 I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive;...

perverse, adj. (12)

    LT 1.283 12 ...the current literature and poetry with perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation.
    Tran 1.356 20 ...[these old guardians] have but one mood on the subject, namely, that Antony is very perverse...
    Pol1 3.208 16 [Parties] have nothing perverse in their origin...
    NER 3.268 6 We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people who make up society, are organic...
    CbW 6.269 27 ...the steady wrongheadedness of one perverse person irritates the best;...
    Comc 8.162 2 The perception of the Comic is...a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves.
    Edc1 10.148 8 It is curious how perverse and intermeddling we are...
    Edc1 10.152 12 It is difficult to class [pupils], some are too young, some are slow, some perverse.
    FRep 11.544 4 Such and so potent is this high method by which the Divine Providence sends the chiefest benefits under the mask of calamities, that I do not think we shall by any perverse ingenuity prevent the blessing.
    CInt 12.121 22 Here are still perverse millions full of passion, crime and blood.
    Milt1 12.262 17 [Milton] is rightly dear to mankind, because in him, among so many perverse and partial men of genius,-in him humanity rights itself;...
    ACri 12.287 4 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk...

perversion, n. (6)

    DSA 1.127 18 ...because the indwelling Supreme Spirit cannot wholly be got rid of, the doctrine of it suffers this perversion...
    SwM 4.138 18 To what a painful perversion had Gothic theology arrived, that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil spirits!
    Cour 7.258 25 The political reigns of terror have been...a total perversion of opinion;...
    PerF 10.85 11 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will...make me Chancellor or Foreign Secretary. But this perversion is punished with instant loss of true wisdom and real power.
    Chr2 10.104 17 Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead of this Deity. The Dionysia and Saturnalia of Greece and Rome...the vindictive mythology of Calvinism, are examples of this perversion.
    Prch 10.228 11 An era in human history is the life of Jesus; and the immense influence for good leaves all the perversion and superstition almost harmless.

perversities, n. (1)

    Aris 10.43 13 ...the origin of most of the perversities and absurdities that disgust us is, primarily, the want of health.

perversity, n. (3)

    ET8 5.131 5 [The English] are headstrong believers and defenders of their opinion, and not less resolute in maintaining their whim and perversity.
    Schr 10.264 18 One is tempted to affirm the office and attributes of the scholar a little the more eagerly, because of a frequent perversity of the class itself.
    Trag 12.414 4 If any perversity or profligacy break out in society, [the man who is centred] will join with others to avert the mischief...

pervert, v. (2)

    LE 1.156 16 ...the importunity, with which society presses its claim upon young men, tends to pervert the views of youth in respect to the culture of the intellect.
    Prch 10.229 10 ...besides the passion and interest which pervert [religion], is the shallowness which impoverishes.

perverted, adj. (2)

    AmS 1.89 2 The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude...having once received this book, stands upon it...
    TPar 11.292 17 ...the polished and pleasant traitors to human rights, with perverted learning and disgraced graces, rot and are forgotten...

perverted, v. (7)

    Nat 1.30 8 When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth...old words are perverted to stand for things which are not;...
    SwM 4.132 11 ...when [Swedenborg's] visions become the stereotyped language of multitudes of persons of all degrees of age and capacity, they are perverted.
    ET12 5.209 17 No doubt, the foundations have been perverted [in English universities].
    CbW 6.270 5 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into contradictors...
    QO 8.204 15 ...the words overheard at unawares by the free mind, are trustworthy and fertile when obeyed and not perverted to low and selfish account.
    SovE 10.199 2 While the immense energy of the sentiment of duty and the awe of the supernatural exert incomparable influence on the mind,-yet it is often perverted...
    MLit 12.319 7 [Byron's] will is perverted...

perverting, v. (1)

    TPar 11.287 20 ...it is vain to charge [Theodore Parker] with perverting the opinions of the new generation.

pervious, adj. (2)

    Hist 2.36 8 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...
    NR 3.243 15 ...all things are pervious to [the soul] and like highways...

Pescara, Marquis di [Fernan (1)

    MAng1 12.240 6 [Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of the most accomplished lady of the time, Vittoria Colonna, the widow of the Marquis di Pescara...

pessimism, n. (1)

    Res 8.138 8 A Schopenhauer, with logic and learning and wit, teaching pessimism...all the talent in the world cannot save him from being odious.

Pessimism, n. (1)

    Comp 2.122 13 The soul...always affirms an Optimism, never a Pessimism.

pest, n. (6)

    UGM 4.24 6 The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive...
    ET17 5.294 25 [Wordsworth] detailed the two models, on one or the other of which all the sentences of the historian Robertson are framed. Nor could Jeffrey, nor the Edinburgh Reviewers write English, nor can-----who is a pest to the English tongue.
    F 6.33 2 ...every other pest is not less in the chain of cause and effect...
    Ctr 6.132 20 The pest of society is egotists.
    Clbs 7.233 14 One of those conceited prigs who value Nature only as it feeds and exhibits them is equally a pest with the roysterers.
    MoL 10.258 10 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our advantage, irretrievably. For such a gain, to end once for all that pest of all our free institutions, one generation might well be sacrificed;...

Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich (3)

    AmS 1.113 20 I learned, said the melancholy Pestalozzi, that no man...is either willing or able to help any other man.
    LT 1.281 13 The sad Pestalozzi...recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
    CbW 6.256 20 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...or Pestalozzi...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...

Pestalozzian, adj. (1)

    UGM 4.31 6 Is it a reply to these suggestions to say, Society is a Pestalozzian school: all are teachers and pupils in turn?

pestered, v. (4)

    ET1 5.8 8 [Landor] pestered me with Southey; but who is Southey?
    Wsp 6.241 7 Let us not be pestered with assertions and half-truths...
    Comc 8.165 12 The Society in London...pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...
    Imtl 8.329 6 A man of affairs is afraid to die, is pestered with terrors...

pestilence, n. (3)

    Wsp 6.232 8 A poor, tender, painful body, [man] can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.
    HDC 11.82 12 [Concord] has suffered neither from war, nor pestilence...
    EPro 11.325 27 Happy are the young, who find the pestilence [slavery] cleansed out of the earth...

pestilent, adj. (1)

    PPo 8.246 8 There resides in the grieving/ A poison to kill;/ Beware to go near them/ 'T is pestilent still./

pestilential, adj. (2)

    LLNE 10.349 23 The Desert of Sahara, the Campagna di Roma, the frozen Polar circles, which by their pestilential or hot or cold airs poison the temperate regions, accuse man.
    LLNE 10.350 4 Attractive Industry would speedily subdue...the pestilential tracts;...

pestles, n. (1)

    Thor 10.473 13 Indian relics abound in Concord,-arrow-heads, stone chisels, pestles and fragments of pottery;...

pests, n. (1)

    Nat 1.76 23 A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. So fast will disagreeable appearances...snakes, pests...vanish;...

pet, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.154 20 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never...some fool...who...had a pet madness in his brain, but fled at once to him;...

petal, n. (3)

    SwM 4.107 14 In the plant, the eye or germinative point opens to a leaf, then to another leaf, with a power of transforming the leaf into radicle, stamen, pistil, petal, bract, sepal, or seed.
    PI 8.8 13 In botany we have...the poetic perception of metamorphosis,--that the same vegetable point or eye which is the unit of the plant can be transformed at pleasure into every part, as bract, leaf, petal, stamen, pistil or seed.
    CL 12.150 12 ...I admire that perennial four-petalled flower, which has one gray petal, one green, one red, and one white.

petals, n. (1)

    OA 7.329 10 In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with delight the little white Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his system.

Peter, n. (4)

    WD 7.178 7 ...Peter and John are working up all existence into Peter and John.
    WD 7.178 8 ...Peter and John are working up all existence into Peter and John.
    PLT 12.57 23 Peter is the mould into which everything is poured like warm wax...
    PLT 12.57 26 Peter is the mould into which everything is poured like warm wax, and be it astronomy or railroads or French revolution or theology or botany, it comes out Peter.

Peter, St., n. (1)

    SL 2.165 12 ...the painter uses the conventional story of the Virgin Mary, of Paul, of Peter.

Peterborough, Lord [Charles (1)

    WSL 12.340 1 A sort of Earl Peterborough in literature, [Landor's] eccentricity is too decided not to have diminished his greatness.

Peters, Hermit, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.95 24 Wild men...Hermit Peters...utter the savage sentiment of Nature in the heart of commercial capitals.

Peter's, St., Basilica, Ro (10)

    Nat 1.68 2 The American who has been confined...to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.
    Hist 2.17 22 Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model.
    DL 7.106 3 St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.
    MAng1 12.216 5 [Michelangelo]...dying at the end of near ninety years... was engaged in executing his grand conceptions in the ineffaceable architecture of Saint Peter's.
    MAng1 12.229 26 In Saint Peter's, is [Michelangelo's] Pieta, or dead Christ in the arms of his mother.
    MAng1 12.231 2 Of [Michelangelo's] genius for architecture it is sufficient to say that he built Saint Peter's...
    MAng1 12.235 5 Not until he was in the seventy-third year of his age, [Michelangelo] undertook the building of Saint Peter's.
    MAng1 12.236 18 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies that to leave Saint Peter's in the state in which it now was would be to ruin the structure, and thereby be guilty of a great sin;...
    MAng1 12.239 9 [Michelangelo] said of his predecessor, the architect Bramante, that he laid the first stone of Saint Peter's, clear, insulated, luminous, with fit design for a vast structure.
    MAng1 12.239 15 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome, to build Saint Peter's, he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.

Petersburg, Norfolk and, Ra (1)

    SMC 11.373 3 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment]...were ordered to take the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad from the rebels.

Petersburg, St., Russia, n. (2)

    YA 1.376 3 ...a French ambassador mentioned to Paul of Russia that a man of consequence in St. Petersburg was interesting himself in some matter...
    Art1 2.369 1 The boat at St. Petersburg, which plies along the Lena by magnetism, needs little to make it sublime.

Petersburg, Virginia, n. (3)

    SMC 11.372 27 On the sixteenth of June, [the Thirty-second Regiment]... marched to within three miles of Petersburg.
    SMC 11.373 26 On the first of January, 1865, the Thirty-second Regiment made itself comfortable in log huts, a mile south of our rear line of works before Petersburg.
    SMC 11.374 10 On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry, near the Five Forks, and took an important part in that battle which opened Petersburg and Richmond...

petition, n. (8)

    MN 1.195 4 It is God in us which checks the language of petition by a grander thought.
    ET13 5.224 25 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this bill...
    Insp 8.290 10 Some of us may remember, years ago, in the English journals, the petition...against the license of the organ-grinders...
    MMEm 10.420 27 Hard to contend for a health which is daily used in petition for a final close.
    LS 11.18 8 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought?
    HDC 11.41 5 ...it appears from a petition of some newcomers, in 1643, that a part [of the land in Concord] had been divided among the first settlers without price...
    Pray 12.351 12 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant that I may be beautiful within;...
    Pray 12.354 22 The last of the four orisons...contains this petition;-My Father: I now come to thee with a desire to thank thee for the continuance of our love...

petition, v. (1)

    HDC 11.65 4 The charges of education and of legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord]; for they vote to petition the General Court to be eased of the law relating to providing a school-master;...

petitioned, v. (1)

    HDC 11.32 5 [The pilgrims] petitioned the General Court for a grant of a township...

petitioner, n. (5)

    Gts 3.160 24 In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity...
    EzRy 10.387 12 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain. As soon as the service was over, he went to the petitioner, and said, You Boston ministers, as soon as a tulip wilts under your windows, go to church and pray for rain, until all Concord and Sudbury are under water.
    Thor 10.459 10 ...the President [of Harvard University] found the petitioner [Thoreau] so formidable, and the rules [of the Harvard Library] getting to look so ridiculous, that he ended by giving him a privilege which in his hands proved unlimited thereafter.
    HDC 11.44 7 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court...to certain purposes, sovereign powers. The townsmen's words were heard and weighed, for all knew that it was a petitioner that could not be slighted;...
    ALin 11.332 13 ...[Lincoln] had a vast good nature...fair-minded, leaning to the claim of the petitioner;...

petitioners, n. (2)

    SR 2.62 8 To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book... seem to say...Who are you, Sir? Yet they all are...petitioners to his faculties...
    GSt 10.502 24 ...[George Stearns's] interest [in Kansas] was so manifestly pure and sincere that he easily obtained eager offerings in quarters where other petitioners failed.

petitions, n. (5)

    Hsm1 2.255 24 ...these rare [heroic] souls set opinion, success, and life at so cheap a rate that they will not soothe their enemies by petitions...
    ET13 5.224 24 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted by petitions from all parts of the kingdom...
    EzRy 10.386 14 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers...are well remembered, and his own entire faith that these petitions were not to be overlooked...
    HDC 11.67 5 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ... even so far as to be bringing the petitions and thank-offerings of the people unto God...
    EWI 11.111 26 ...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...

Petitions to the King, n. (1)

    Bost 12.201 21 There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence. And this...could be heard (by an acute ear) in the Petitions to the King...

Petrarca, Francesco, n. (1)

    ShP 4.197 26 ...Petrarch, Boccaccio and the Provencal poets are [Chaucer' s] benefactors...

Petrarca, Francesco [Petrar (5)

    Lov1 2.183 6 Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all ages. The doctrine is not old, nor is it new. If Plato, Plutarch and Apuleius taught it, so have Petrarch, Angelo and Milton.
    Cir 2.312 23 ...some Petrarch or Ariosto...writes me an ode or a brisk romance...
    DL 7.110 4 All [the scholar's] expense is for Aristotle, Fabricius, Erasmus and Petrarch.
    Suc 7.302 20 The great doctors of this science [of sensibility] are the greatest men,--Dante, Petrarch, Michel Angelo and Shakspeare.
    MAng1 12.240 13 [Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome repeatedly to see [Michelangelo]. To her his sonnets are addressed; and they all breathe a chaste and divine regard, unparalleled in any amatory poetry except that of Dante and Petrarch.

petrarch [Francesco Petrarca (1)

    DL 7.110 4 All [the scholar's] expense is for Aristotle, Fabricius, Erasmus and Petrarch.

Petrarch [Francesco Petrarc (4)

    Lov1 2.183 6 Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all ages. The doctrine is not old, nor is it new. If Plato, Plutarch and Apuleius taught it, so have Petrarch, Angelo and Milton.
    Cir 2.312 23 ...some Petrarch or Ariosto...writes me an ode or a brisk romance...
    Suc 7.302 20 The great doctors of this science [of sensibility] are the greatest men,--Dante, Petrarch, Michel Angelo and Shakspeare.
    MAng1 12.240 13 [Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome repeatedly to see [Michelangelo]. To her his sonnets are addressed; and they all breathe a chaste and divine regard, unparalleled in any amatory poetry except that of Dante and Petrarch.

Petrarch, n. (1)

    CPL 11.494 5 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...but the poet's misery caused him to restore the key on the first evening. And I verily believe I should have become insane, says Petrarch, if my mind had longer been deprived of its necessary nourishment.

Petrarch's, n. (1)

    CPL 11.494 1 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...

petrels, n. (1)

    ET2 5.27 1 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks, petrels, swim, dive and hover around;...

petrified, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.43 24 A Gothic church, said Coleridge, is a petrified religion.
    MLit 12.333 15 What is Austria? What is England? What is our graduated and petrified social scale of ranks and employments?

petrified, v. (1)

    DSA 1.130 26 ...[Jesus's] name is surrounded with expressions which...are now petrified into official titles...

petroleum, n. (3)

    Res 8.142 1 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha (or petroleum) 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...
    PC 8.208 6 Who does not prefer the age...of coal, petroleum, cotton, steam, electricity, and the spectroscope?
    Grts 8.317 20 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it;...

pets, n. (6)

    Gts 3.159 21 Nature does not cocker us; we are children, not pets;...
    Ctr 6.137 21 We must leave our pets at home when we go into the street...
    PI 8.10 16 The Indian, the hunter, the boy with his pets, have sweeter knowledge of these [animal forms] than the savant.
    Dem1 10.19 22 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...as if the laws of the Father of the universe were sometimes balked and eluded by a meddlesome Aunt of the universe for her pets.
    Scot 11.466 5 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...
    Bost 12.202 16 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party...

petted, v. (1)

    JBS 11.278 12 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy...whom he looked upon as his superior. This boy was a slave;...he saw that this boy had nothing better to look forward to in life, whilst he himself was petted and made much of;...

pettiness, n. (2)

    ET14 5.249 21 ...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the cant, into the preaching of Fate.
    Suc 7.298 7 What is it we look for...in the sea and the firmament? what but a compensation for the cramp and pettiness of human performances?

petty, adj. (33)

    Tran 1.354 5 ...we retain the belief that this petty web we weave will at last be overshot and reticulated with veins of the blue...
    Hist 2.34 4 The universal nature, too strong for the petty nature of the bard, sits on his neck and writes through his hand;...
    SR 2.66 11 ...in the universal miracle petty and particular miracles disappear.
    Comp 2.110 4 We aim at a petty end quite aside from the public good...
    Fdsp 2.199 6 ...we have aimed at a swift and petty benefit...
    Prd1 2.226 5 We are instructed by these petty experiences which usurp the hours and years.
    Hsm1. 2.252 4 ...[heroism] is...scornful of petty calculations...
    Nat2 3.181 14 ...by clothing the sides of a bird with a few feathers [nature] gives him a petty omnipresence.
    Pol1 3.217 21 It is because we know how much is due from us that we are impatient to show some petty talent as a substitute for worth.
    GoW 4.271 18 ...[Goethe] lived...in a petty state...
    ET9 5.147 18 ...[the English] have...a petty courage, through which every man delights in showing himself for what he is and in doing what he can;...
    ET16 5.279 11 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked in and out and took again and again a fresh look at the uncanny stones [of Stonehenge]. The old sphinx put our petty differences of nationality out of sight.
    Wth 6.102 20 There are wide countries, like Siberia, where [the dollar] would buy little else to-day than some petty mitigation of suffering.
    Wth 6.106 22 The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy;...
    Wth 6.106 27 ...however wary we are of the falsehoods and petty tricks which we suicidally play off on each other, every man has a certain satisfaction whenever his dealing touches on the inevitable facts;...
    Ctr 6.154 12 Let these triflers [who scream and bewail] put us out of conceit with petty comforts.
    Elo1 7.74 12 There is a petty lawyer's fluency...
    DL 7.124 27 We...are still villagers, who think that every thing in their petty town is a little superior to the same thing anywhere else.
    Farm 7.146 20 ...[the farmer]...is taught the power that lurks in petty things.
    SA 8.106 16 Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
    Aris 10.43 16 The petty arts which we blame in the half-great seem as odious to them also;...
    PerF 10.74 1 ...each of a thousand petty accidents puts [man] to death every day...
    Chr2 10.107 3 ...the church-warden or tithing-man was a petty persecutor;...
    Edc1 10.129 27 [Is it not true] That...sickness, sorrow, success, all...unlock for us the concealed faculties of the mind? Whatever private or petty ends are frustrated, this end is always answered.
    MoL 10.247 27 Man makes no more impression on [Nature's] wealth than the caterpillar or the cankerworm whose petty ravage...is insignificant in the vast exuberance of the summer.
    Schr 10.267 12 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends. Yes, but not a petty fingering and running...
    Thor 10.465 13 [Thoreau's] own dealing with [young men of sensibility] was...didactic, scorning their petty ways...
    HDC 11.44 14 ...each little company [in the Massachusetts Bay colonies] organized itself after the pattern of the larger town, by appointing its constable, and other petty half-military officers.
    FSLC 11.211 9 Judaea was a petty country. Yet these two, Greece and Judaea, furnish the mind and the heart by which the rest of the world is sustained;...
    ACiv 11.302 10 In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want, but that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle, believing that Nature...will...more than make good any petty and injurious profit which it may disturb.
    ACiv 11.308 7 ...the statesman who shall break through the cobwebs of doubt, fear and petty cavil that lie in the way [of Emancipation], will be greeted by the unanimous thanks of mankind.
    PLT 12.28 2 An individual mind...is a fixation or momentary eddy in which certain services and powers are taken up and minister in petty niches and localities...
    CInt 12.123 15 ...each talent links itself so fast with self-love and with petty advantage that it loses sight of its obedience...

petulance, n. (16)

    Nat 1.12 14 The misery of man appears like childish petulance...
    YA 1.375 22 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter. This feeling...becomes petulance and tyranny when the head of the clan...deals with the same difference of opinion in his subjects.
    SR 2.72 1 All men have my blood and I all men's. Not for that will I adopt their petulance or folly...
    Int 2.347 6 ...nor do [the Greek philosophers] ever...testify the least displeasure or petulance at the dulness of their amazed auditory.
    Nat2 3.193 24 Are we tickled trout, and fools of nature? One look at the face of heaven and earth lays all petulance at rest...
    NER 3.260 9 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements, through all the petulance and all the puerility...
    SwM 4.103 16 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;...
    ET1 5.7 9 I had inferred from [Landor's] books...impression of Achillean wrath,--an untamable petulance.
    QO 8.204 1 Only as braveries of too prodigal power can we pardon it, when the life of genius is so redundant that out of petulance it flings its fire into some old mummy, and, lo! it walks and blushes again here in the street.
    PerF 10.88 8 Wrath and petulance may have their short success...
    Edc1 10.136 22 ...let not the sallies of [the young man's] petulance or folly be checked with disgust or indignation or despair.
    SovE 10.205 7 To a self-denying, ardent church, delighting in rites and ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race...and the more intellectual reject every yoke of authority and custom with a petulance unprecedented.
    MMEm 10.408 18 ...the whim and petulance in which by diseased habit [Mary Moody Emerson] had grown to indulge without suspecting it, was burned up in the glow of her pure and poetic spirit, which dearly loved the Infinite.
    Thor 10.477 15 Whilst [Thoreau] used in his writings a certain petulance of remark in reference to churches or churchmen, he was a person of a rare, tender and absolute religion...
    HDC 11.47 21 In these assemblies [New England town-meetings]...every local feeling, every private grudge, every suggestion of petulance and ignorance, were not less faithfully produced.
    ACri 12.287 10 ...all able men have known how to import the petulance of the street into correct discourse.

petulances, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.127 22 The strong men usually give some allowance even to the petulances of fashion...
    EWI 11.146 21 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes the men of conscience and intellect...hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...

petulant, adj. (7)

    ShP 4.196 13 If [Shakespeare] lost any credit of design, he augmented his resources; and, at that day, our petulant demand for originality was not so much pressed.
    ET6 5.104 8 The Englishman is very petulant and precise about his accommodation at inns and on the roads;...
    ET15 5.269 3 [The London Times] has the national courage, not rash and petulant, but considerate and determined.
    Wsp 6.205 16 The Greek poets did not hesitate to let loose their petulant wit on their deities also.
    Bty 6.300 1 ...petulant old gentlemen...affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    LLNE 10.363 2 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;... finding his delight in the petulant heroism of boys;...
    WSL 12.343 27 [Landor's] love of beauty...betrays itself in all petulant and contemptuous expressions.

petulantly, adv. (1)

    Milt1 12.267 21 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton with great promise and small performance, in returning from Italy because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school.

petulence, n. (1)

    ET8 5.132 6 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which creates... petulence and projects in youth.

peu, adj. (1)

    UGM 4.6 20 Peu de moyens, beaucoup d'effet.

peu, n. (2)

    WD 7.178 17 ...an old French sentence says, God works in moments,--En peu d'heure Dieu labeure.
    QO 8.185 2 ...[Grimm] says that Louis XVI., going out of chapel after hearing a sermon from the Abbe Maury, said, Si l'Abbe nous avait parle un peu de religion, il nous aurait parle de tout.

Peutetre, n. (1)

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

pew, n. (5)

    SL 2.136 21 Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew...
    HDC 11.49 7 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house, a public pew...hath been set up, or pulled down... without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair.
    HDC 11.84 18 [Our fathers] stint and higgle on the price of a pew, that they may send 200 soldiers to General Washington to keep Great Britain at bay.
    FRep 11.528 25 ...a pew in a particular church gives an easier entrance to the subscription ball.
    PPr 12.380 20 [Carlyle's Past and Present] has the merit which belongs to every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent, and so...as the country people say of good preaching, comes bounce down into every pew.

pew-holding, n. (1)

    Prch 10.228 19 I fear that what is called religion, but is perhaps pew-holding, not obeys but conceals the moral sentiment.

pews, n. (2)

    DSA 1.137 11 ...we can make...even sitting in our pews, a far better, holier, sweeter [Sabbath], for ourselves.
    Bhr 6.173 26 ...in the same country [on the banks of the Mississippi], in the pews of the churches little placards plead with the worshipper against the fury of expectoration.

pewter, n. (1)

    Res 8.143 10 It was thought that the immense production of gold would make gold cheap as pewter.

Phaedo [Plato], n. (4)

    PPh 4.40 22 Calvinism is in [Plato's] Phaedo: Christianity is in it.
    PPh 4.57 27 With the palatial air there is [in Plato]...a certain earnestness, which mounts, in the Republic and in the Phaedo, to piety.
    Boks 7.199 17 ...who can overestimate the images [in Plato]...which pass like bullion in the currency of all nations? Read the Phaedo...
    Plu 10.314 12 I can easily believe that an anxious soul may find in Plutarch' s...Letter to his Wife Timoxena, a more sweet and reassuring argument on the immortality than in the Phaedo of Plato;...

Phaedrus [Plato], n. (4)

    PPh 4.69 12 All things mount and mount. All [Plato's] thought has this ascension; in Phaedrus, teaching that beauty is the most lovely of all things...but that there is another, which is as much more beautiful than beauty is than chaos; namely, wisdom...
    PNR 4.89 2 ...poetry has never soared higher than in the Timaeus and the Phaedrus.
    Boks 7.199 18 ...who can overestimate the images [in Plato]...which pass like bullion in the currency of all nations? Read...the Phaedrus...
    Pray 12.351 12 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant that I may be beautiful within;...

phalansteries, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.357 27 The large cities are phalansteries;...

Phalansteries, n. (1)

    Bost 12.199 1 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth, the...Oakdales and Phalanteries...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...

phalanstery, n. (2)

    ET3 5.34 21 ...England is a huge phalanstery...
    LLNE 10.349 13 [Brisbane's plan]...wove its large Ptolemaic web of cycle and epicycle, of phalanx and phalanstery, with laudable assiduity.

phalanx, n. (6)

    NER 3.264 26 ...a grand phalanx of the best of the human race, banded for some catholic object; yes, excellent;...
    NER 3.265 13 Our housekeeping is not satisfactory to us, but perhaps a phalanx, a community, might be.
    ET5 5.101 25 ...whilst in some directions [the English] do not represent the modern spirit but constitute it;--this vanguard of civility and power they coldly hold, marching in phalanx, lockstep, foot after foot, file after file of heroes, ten thousand deep.
    ET18 5.299 7 Broad-fronted, broad-bottomed Teutons, [the English] stand in solid phalanx foursquare to the points of the compass;...
    SA 8.106 4 ...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming health. A rough realist or a phalanx of realists would be prescribed; but that is like proposing to mend your bad road with diamonds.
    LLNE 10.349 13 [Brisbane's plan]...wove its large Ptolemaic web of cycle and epicycle, of phalanx and phalanstery, with laudable assiduity.

Phalanx, n. (2)

    YA 1.382 19 It was a noble thought of Fourier...to distinguish in his Phalanx a class as the Sacred Band...
    LLNE 10.356 22 [Thoreau] required no Phalanx, no Government, no society, almost no memory.

Phalanx Theban, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.327 17 Anciently, society was in the course of things. There was...a Theban Phalanx.

phalanxes, n. (3)

    LLNE 10.350 27 ...fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side...
    LLNE 10.352 19 [Fourier]...skips the faculty of life...which makes or supplants a thousand phalanxes and New Harmonies with each pulsation.
    PLT 12.48 16 To hammer out phalanxes must be done by smiths;...

Phalanx's, Theban, n. (1)

    QO 8.190 5 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they...call their poem Beaumont and Fletcher, or the Theban Phalanx's?

phantasm, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.142 24 The painted phantasm Fashion rises to cast a species of derision on what we say.
    Ill 6.321 11 Well, 't is all phantasm;...

phantasmagoria, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.8 14 Wise and sometimes terrible hints shall in [dreams] be thrown to the man out of a quite unknown intelligence. He shall be startled two or three times in his life by the justice as well as the significance of this phantasmagoria.

phantasms, n. (2)

    LT 1.279 8 ...the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart.
    Ill 6.318 4 Since our tuition is through emblems and indirections, it is well to know that there is method in it, a fixed scale and rank above rank in the phantasms.

phantom, n. (2)

    Tran 1.331 17 ...how easy it is to show [the materialist] that he also is a phantom walking and working amid phantoms...
    CbW 6.263 11 I figure [sickness] as a pale, wailing, distracted phantom...

phantoms, n. (6)

    Tran 1.331 17 ...how easy it is to show [the materialist] that he also is a phantom walking and working amid phantoms...
    NER 3.273 25 What is it we heartily wish of each other? Is it to be pleased and flattered? No, but...to be...made men of, instead of ghosts and phantoms.
    UGM 4.21 6 Ever their phantoms arise before us,/ Our loftier brothers, but one in blood;/...
    Ill 6.308 4 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    Suc 7.291 5 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to understand that the promises of this world are for the most part vain phantoms...
    Dem1 10.8 4 We call the phantoms that rise [in dreams], the creation of our fancy...

Pharaoh, n. (1)

    ET4 5.48 16 The Arabs of to-day are the Arabs of Pharaoh;...

Pharisee, n. (1)

    DL 7.104 5 ...when [the nestler] fasts, the little Pharisee fails not to sound his trumpet before him.

Pharisees, n. (1)

    LS 11.10 5 [Jesus] admonished his disciples respecting the leaven of the Pharisees.

pharmacopoeia, n. (1)

    NMW 4.251 14 Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia [said Bonaparte].

Pharos, n. (1)

    Aris 10.59 22 A grand style of culture, which, without injury, an ardent youth can propose to himself as a Pharos through long dark years, does not exist...

Pharsalia, Greece, n. (1)

    NER 3.274 22 Caesar, just before the battle of Pharsalia, discourses with the Egyptian priest concerning the fountains of the Nile...

phases, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.392 4 We have a better opinion of the economy of Nature than to fear that those varying phases which humanity presents ever leave out any of the grand springs of human action.

pheasant, n. (1)

    ET5 5.84 7 You dine with a gentleman [in England] on venison, pheasant, quail, pigeons, poultry, mushrooms and pine-apples, all the growth of his estate.

pheasants, n. (1)

    ET11 5.188 12 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that besides does and pheasants, these have preserved Arundel marbles...

phenomena, n. (22)

    Nat 1.4 20 [A true theory's] test is, that it will explain all phenomena.
    Nat 1.49 9 It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind, not to shake our faith in the stability of particular phenomena...
    Nat 1.54 25 The perception of real affinities between events...enables the poet thus to make free with the most imposing forms and phenomena of the world...
    Nat 1.55 11 [Philosophy] proceeds on the faith that a law determines all phenomena...
    Nat 1.55 12 [Philosophy] proceeds on the faith that a law determines all phenomena, which being known, the phenomena can be predicted.
    Nat 1.62 2 We can foresee God in the coarse, as it were, distant phenomena of matter;...
    Tran 1.333 13 Nature, literature, history, are only subjective phenomena.
    SR 2.86 20 Galileo, with an opera-glass, discovered a more splendid series of celestial phenomena than any one since.
    Prd1 2.231 9 ...when by chance we espy a coincidence between reason and the phenomena, we are surprised.
    Int 2.326 24 All that mass of mental and moral phenomena which we do not make objects of voluntary thought, come within the power of fortune;...
    Exp 3.76 8 Nature and literature are subjective phenomena;...
    SwM 4.109 20 Metaphysics shows us a sort of gravitation operative also in the mental phenomena;...
    SwM 4.113 4 ...as often as [nature] betakes herself upward from visible phenomena...she instantly as it were disappears, while no one knows what has become of her...
    SwM 4.141 23 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like...to the phenomena of dreaming...
    MoS 4.170 23 We hearken to the man of science, because we anticipate the sequence in natural phenomena which he uncovers.
    Comc 8.158 8 ...if there be phenomena in botany which we call abortions, the abortion is also a function of Nature...
    Dem1 10.18 6 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the woof. For the phenomena which hence originate there are countless names...
    Edc1 10.131 5 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena...
    Edc1 10.136 7 Let us apply to this subject [education] the light of the same torch by which we have looked at all the phenomena of the time; the infinitude, namely, of every man.
    Thor 10.468 1 [Thoreau] returned Kane's Arctic Voyage to a friend of whom he had borrowed it, with the remark, that Most of the phenomena noted might be observed in Concord.
    PLT 12.19 24 Whilst we consider this appetite of the mind to arrange its phenomena, there is another fact which makes this useful.
    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...

phenomenal, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.60 2 ...seen in the light of thought, the world always is phenomenal;...
    SR 2.87 14 [The wave's] unity is only phenomenal.
    PI 8.14 27 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence,--is only phenomenal.

Phenomenal, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.197 16 I cannot deny it, O friend, that the vast shadow of the Phenomenal includes thee also in its pied and painted immensity...

phenomenon, n. (13)

    Nat 1.29 17 ...this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses its power to affect us.
    Nat 1.43 2 What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of Health!
    Nat 1.49 10 It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind...to lead us to regard nature as phenomenon...
    Nat 1.60 19 ...[the soul] accepts from God the phenomenon [Christianity], as it finds it...
    Nat 1.62 20 Idealism saith: matter is a phenomenon, not a substance.
    Nat 1.75 14 ...each phenomenon has its roots in the faculties and affections of the mind.
    Nat 1.76 8 For you is the phenomenon perfect.
    LE 1.166 5 Observe the phenomenon of extempore debate.
    MN 1.196 16 ...the thunder is a surface phenomenon...
    MN 1.207 4 A man, a personal ascendency, is the only great phenomenon.
    Pt1 3.15 4 ...if any phenomenon remains brute and dark it is because the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
    Insp 8.271 3 The poet cannot see a natural phenomenon which does not express to him a correspondent fact in his mental experience;...
    Bost 12.184 9 [Howell] compares [Indian society] to the geologic phenomenon which the black soil of the Dhakkan offers,-the property, namely, of assimilating to itself every foreign substance introduced into its bosom.

Pheryllt, n. (1)

    ET12 5.200 22 [Oxford's] foundations date...from Arthur, if, as is alleged, the Pheryllt of the Druids had a seminary here.

Phi Beta Kappa Society, n. (2)

    OA 7.315 1 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy...was received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.
    OA 7.315 4 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy, senior member of the Society...was received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.

phial, n. (3)

    OS 2.291 7 The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap and so things of course, that in the infinite riches of the soul it is like...bottling a little air in a phial...
    Res 8.146 12 ...taking from his portmanteau a small phial of white brandy, [Tissenet] poured it into a cup...
    PLT 12.51 23 Nature having for capital this rill [of thought]...she husbands and hives, she forms reservoirs, were it only a phial or a hair-tube that will hold as it were a drop of attar.

phials, n. (1)

    Bty 6.284 22 [The collector] has got all snakes and lizards in his phials...

Phidian, adj. (3)

    ShP 4.207 25 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...in the Phidian sculpture...Genius draws up the ladder after him...
    Suc 7.302 16 This sensibility appears...when we see...features that explain the Phidian sculpture.
    PI 8.13 9 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property, as...when the old horse-block in the yard is found to be a Torso Hercules of the Phidian age.

Phidias, n. (11)

    SR 2.83 24 There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias...
    Comp 2.108 16 Phidias it is not, but the work of man in that early Hellenic world that I would know.
    Comp 2.108 18 The name and circumstance of Phidias...embarrass when we come to the highest criticism.
    Comp 2.108 23 We are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period, and was hindered, or...modified in doing, by the interfering volitions of Phidias...the organ whereby man at the moment wrought.
    PNR 4.80 22 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result.
    Pow 6.71 4 In history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage...and you have Pericles and Phidias, not yet passed over into the Corinthian civility.
    Art2 7.52 14 Raphael paints wisdom...Phidias carves it...
    Art2 7.56 20 ...in Greece, the Demos of Athens divided into political factions upon the merits of Phidias.
    DL 7.130 9 ...we are...competitors, each one, with Phidias and Raphael in the production of what is graceful or grand.
    MAng1 12.222 18 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to the remains of Phidias...
    PPr 12.382 23 [A man's] manners,-let them be hospitable and civilizing, so that no Phidias or Raphael shall have taught anything better in canvas or stone;...

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (2)

    Wth 6.96 15 It is the interest of all men that there should be...Philadelphia Academies of Natural History...
    FRep 11.531 4 Our national flag is not affecting...because it does not represent the population of the United States, but some...Cincinnati or Philadelphia caucus;...

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (8)

    ET3 5.40 21 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.
    Civ 7.32 2 ...it is not New York streets...though stretching out towards Philadelphia until they touch it...that make the real estimation.
    Farm 7.151 8 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among the landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that... the land is ever yielding less returns to enlarging hosts of eaters. Henry Carey of Philadelphia replied: Not so, Mr. Malthus...
    Suc 7.286 3 Dr. Benjamin Rush, in Philadelphia, carried that city heroically through the yellow fever of the year 1793.
    Grts 8.319 15 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village: O yes, If I lived in...Philadelphia...there might be fit society;...
    GSt 10.503 14 In 1863 [George Stearns] began to recruit colored soldiers in Buffalo, then at Philadelphia and Nashville.
    FSLC 11.197 6 New York advertised in Southern markets that it would go for slavery, and posted the names of merchants who would not. Boston, alarmed, entered into the same design. Philadelphia, more fortunate, had no conscience at all...
    EPro 11.323 19 Give [the Confederacy] Washington, and they would have assumed the army and navy, and, through these, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston.

Philadelphian, n. (1)

    ET3 5.40 25 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian...

philanthropic, adj. (6)

    MR 1.234 24 Considerations of this kind have turned the attention of many philanthropic...persons to the claims of manual labor, as a part of the education of every young man.
    SL 2.163 22 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have an outside badge,--some Gentoo diet...or philanthropic society...
    MoS 4.172 27 [The wise skeptic] is a reformer; yet he is no better member of the philanthropic association.
    Pow 6.65 26 Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
    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]...
    SlHr 10.448 14 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to unpaid services of the Temperance and Peace and other philanthropic societies...

philanthropies, n. (3)

    Tran 1.349 14 ...the philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
    PC 8.210 16 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies...have evoked!...
    Bost 12.186 14 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...at least an equal freedom in our laws and customs...with so many philanthropies, humanities, charities, soliciting us to be great and good.

philanthropist, n. (6)

    LT 1.280 7 This denouncing philanthropist is himself a slaveholder in every word and look.
    YA 1.371 13 ...the land...of the philanthropist...[America] should speak for the human race.
    YA 1.390 19 ...to one thing we are bound...not to throw stumbling-blocks in the way of the abolitionist, the philanthropist;...
    SR 2.52 7 I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar...I give to such men as do not belong to me...
    SA 8.105 3 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love...in the tender-hearted philanthropist to spend and be spent for some romantic charity...
    Milt1 12.272 13 The events which produced [Milton's tracts on divorce and freedom of the press]...are mere occasions for this philanthropist to blow his trumpet for human rights.

philanthropists, n. (7)

    MR 1.229 12 ...let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be... philanthropists.
    Tran 1.348 5 The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth;...
    UGM 4.21 26 I go to a convention of philanthropists. Do what I can, I cannot keep my eyes off the clock.
    Ctr 6.133 27 ...if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis [egotism]...
    MoL 10.241 6 You go to be teachers, to become...statesmen, naturalists, philanthropists;...
    LLNE 10.357 16 I regard these philanthropists as themselves the effects of the age in which we live...
    II 12.72 22 It is this employment of new means...that denotes the inspired man. This is equally obvious...in action as well as in fine arts. We must try our philanthropists so.

philanthropy, n. (9)

    LT 1.269 1 The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who...by their conscience and philanthropy..compose the visible church of the existing generation.
    SR 2.51 10 If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy, shall that pass?
    Fdsp 2.203 27 Almost every man we meet...has...some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head...which spoils all conversation with him.
    CbW 6.256 18 The benefaction derived in Illinois and the great West from railroads is inestimable, and vastly exceeding any intentional philanthropy on record.
    Elo2 8.112 20 ...the political questions...find or form a class of men by nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these measures, and make them intelligible and acceptable to the electors. So of education, of art, of philanthropy.
    Chr2 10.103 25 The [moral] sentiment...measures...whatever philanthropy, or politics, or saint, or seer pretends to speak in its name.
    War 11.168 19 ...no man, it may be presumed, ever embraced the cause of peace and philanthropy for the sole end and satisfaction of being plundered and slain.
    FSLN 11.217 7 ...I see what havoc it makes with any good mind, a dissipated philanthropy.
    Bost 12.206 22 ...here [in Boston] was...a living mind...always afflicting the conservative class with some odious novelty or other;...a reform in education, a philanthropy.

Philhellene, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.146 6 ...there is still...some friend of Poland; some Philhellene;...

Philip II, of Macedon, n. (10)

    NER 3.270 22 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice...
    NER 3.270 23 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which Philip refused...
    NER 3.270 26 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which Philip refused: the woman exclaimed, I appeal: the king, astonished, asked to whom she appealed: the woman replied, From Philip drunk to Philip sober.
    NER 3.271 1 I believe not in two classes of men, but in man in two moods, in Philip drunk and Philip sober.
    NER 3.271 2 I believe not in two classes of men, but in man in two moods, in Philip drunk and Philip sober.
    ET1 5.7 21 ...[Landor]...is well content to impress, if possible, his English whim upon the immutable past. No great man ever had a great son, if Philip and Alexander be not an exception;...
    ET1 5.7 22 ...[Landor]...is well content to impress, if possible, his English whim upon the immutable past. No great man ever had a great son, if Philip and Alexander be not an exception; and Philip he calls the greater man.
    Elo1 7.73 7 Philip of Macedon said of Demosthenes, on hearing the report of one of his orations, Had I been there, he would have persuaded me to take up arms against myself;...
    PC 8.218 5 The history of Greece is at one time reduced to two persons,- Philip, or the successor of Philip...and Demosthenes...
    Plu 10.307 26 [Plutarch] thinks that Alexander invaded Persia with greater assistance from Aristotle than from his father Philip.

Philip II, of Spain, n. (1)

    YA 1.393 22 Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador for neglecting serious affairs in Italy...

Philip IV, of Spain, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.272 26 [Milton] defends the slaying of the king, because a king is a king no longer than he governs by the laws; It would be right to kill Philip of Spain making an inroad into England, and what right the king of Spain hath to govern us at all, the same hath the king Charles to govern tyranically.

Philip, King, n. (4)

    HDC 11.57 27 This expedition [against the Niantic Indians] was but the introduction of the war with King Philip.
    HDC 11.58 2 Philip surrendered seventy guns to the Commissioners in Taunton Meeting-house...
    HDC 11.58 26 A still more formidable enemy [of Concord] was removed... by the capture of Canonchet, the faithful ally of Philip...
    HDC 11.60 15 With the tragical end of Philip, the war ended.

Philippe, Louis, of France, (2)

    Carl 10.494 12 ...if, after Guizot had been a tool of Louis Philippe for years, he is now to come and write essays on the character of Washington, on The Beautiful...[Carlyle] thinks that nothing.
    Carl 10.496 23 ...the new French revolution of 1848 was the best thing [Carlyle] had seen, and the teaching this great swindler, Louis Philippe, that there is a God's justice in the Universe, after all, was a great satisfaction.

Philippi, Greece, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.255 8 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides...

Philippo, Mr., n. (1)

    EWI 11.142 11 The recent testimonies...of Gurney, of Philippo, are very explicit on this point, the capacity and the success of the colored and the black population [in the West Indies]...

Philip's, King, n. (1)

    HDC 11.62 5 After Philip's death, [the Indians'] strength was irrecoverably broken.

Philistia, n. (1)

    PI 8.51 26 Rhyme, being a kind of music, shares this advantage with music, that it has a privilege of speaking truth which all Philistia is unable to challenge.

Philistine, n. (1)

    PI 8.52 5 With...the first strain of a song,...we pour contempt on the prose you so magnify; yet the sturdiest Philistine is silent.

philistines, n. (1)

    PPh 4.71 24 [Socrates]...valued the bores and philistines...

Philistines, n. (1)

    II 12.81 17 [Men] all share, to the rankest Philistines, the same belief.

Phillips, Mr., n. (1)

    AKan 11.256 15 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal catalogue of private tragedies show it? Do the private letters? Is it an exaggeration, that...Mr. Jennison of Groton, Mr. Phillips of Berkshire, have been murdered?

Phillips, Wendell, n. (3)

    Pow 6.78 9 Stumping it through New England for twice seven [years] trained Wendell Phillips.
    PI 8.25 27 [People] like to go...to Faneuil Hall, and be taught by Otis...or Kossuth, or Phillips, what great hearts they have...
    Elo2 8.117 19 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression, like Chatham, Erskine, Patrick Henry, Webster, or Phillips, all the great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman...

Philo Judaeus, n. (1)

    ET1 5.11 11 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul,--the doctrine of the Trinity, which was also according to Philo Judaeus the doctrine of the Jews before Christ, this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...

Philoctetes [Sophocles], n. (1)

    Hist 2.26 17 I admire the love of nature in the Philoctetes.

Philolaus, n. (2)

    PPh 4.42 9 When we are praising Plato, it seems we are praising quotations from Solon and Sophron and Philolaus.
    PPh 4.42 16 Plato absorbed the learning of his times,--Philolaus, Timaeus, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and what else;...

philological, adj. (1)

    F 6.11 26 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain,-an architectural, a musical, or a philological knack;...

Philological Society, Commi (1)

    Plu 10.321 7 I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in London...will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch]...

philonic, adj. (1)

    QO 8.182 15 ...whatever undue reverence may have been claimed for [the Bible] by the prestige of philonic inspiration, the stronger tendency we are describing is likely to undo.

philosopher, n. (75)

    Nat 1.35 2 Material objects, said a French philosopher, are necessarily kinds of scoriae of the substantial thoughts of the Creator...
    Nat 1.55 2 ...[the poet] differs from the philosopher only herein, that the one proposes Beauty as his main end; the other Truth.
    Nat 1.55 4 ...the philosopher...postpones the apparent order and relations of things to the empire of thought.
    Nat 1.55 14 The true philosopher and the true poet are one...
    AmS 1.108 2 Each philosopher...has only done for me...what one day I can do for myself.
    DSA 1.150 18 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first the Sabbath...whose light dawns welcome alike into the closet of the philosopher, into the garret of toil...
    LE 1.187 4 ...Ask not...Who is the better for the philosopher who conceals his accomplishments...
    MN 1.196 6 ...as soon as [the grand inquisitor] probes the crust, behold gimlet, plumb-line, and philosopher take a lateral direction...
    MN 1.200 16 Away, profane philosopher! seekest thou in nature the cause?
    LT 1.259 24 Everything that is popular...deserves the attention of the philosopher...
    Con 1.301 20 There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times.
    Con 1.301 21 There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times.
    YA 1.378 18 The philosopher and lover of man have much harm to say of trade;...
    Hist 2.12 20 ...to the philosopher...all things are friendly and sacred...
    Lov1 2.174 5 ...the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love...
    Cir 2.313 15 ...yet was there never a young philosopher whose breeding had fallen into the Christian church by whom that brave text of Paul's was not specially prized...
    Cir 2.317 19 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you have arrived at a fine Pyrrhonism...
    Pol1 3.209 27 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...
    NR 3.236 8 ...[nature]...insults the philosopher in every moment with a million of fresh particulars.
    PPh 4.43 4 A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.
    PPh 4.43 5 A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.
    PPh 4.43 21 ...a philosopher converts the value of all his fortunes into his intellectual performances.
    PPh 4.78 8 ...admirable texts can be quoted on both sides of every great question from [Plato]. These things we are forced to say if we must consider the effort of Plato or of any philosopher to dispose of nature,-- which will not be disposed of.
    SwM 4.93 14 Then, also, the philosopher has his value...
    SwM 4.95 22 The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali Seena, the philosopher, conferred together;...
    SwM 4.95 23 The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali Seena, the philosopher, conferred together; and, on parting, the philosopher said, All that he sees, I know; and the mystic said, All that he knows, I see.
    MoS 4.151 20 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world, including the animal in the philosopher and poet also, and the practical world...weigh heavily on the other side.
    MoS 4.151 22 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world...and the practical world, including the painful drudgeries which are never excused to philosopher or poet any more than to the rest,-- weigh heavily on the other side.
    MoS 4.153 7 ...[the men of the senses] make themselves merry with the philosopher...
    MoS 4.154 19 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a damned rascal...
    MoS 4.167 20 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher...
    ShP 4.210 12 Some able and appreciating critics think...that [Shakespeare] is falsely judged as poet and philosopher.
    GoW 4.271 8 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;...
    ET13 5.222 7 [The English] value a philosopher as they value an apothecary who brings bark or a drench;...
    ET13 5.223 1 [The English university] ripens a bishop, and extrudes a philosopher.
    ET14 5.233 14 When [the Englishman] is intellectual, and a poet or a philosopher, he carries the same hard truth and the same keen machinery into the mental sphere.
    ET14 5.249 6 Even in [Coleridge], the traditional Englishman was too strong for the philosopher...
    ET16 5.274 6 I thought it natural that [travelling Americans] should give...a little [time] to scientific clubs and museums, which, at this moment, make London very attractive. But my philosopher [Carlyle] was not contented.
    ET16 5.279 15 My philosopher [Carlyle] was subdued and gentle [at Stonehenge].
    SS 7.8 7 I have seen many a philosopher whose world is large enough for only one person.
    WD 7.178 10 A poor Indian chief of the Six Nations of New York made a wiser reply than any philosopher, to some one complaining that he had not enough time. Well, said Red Jacket, I suppose you have all there is.
    Boks 7.198 12 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...the poet converted to a philosopher...
    Boks 7.201 8 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of every kind...containing that ironical eulogy of Socrates which is the source from which all the portraits of that philosopher current in Europe have been drawn.
    PI 8.10 6 Sonnets of lovers...are valuable to the philosopher...for their potent symbolism.
    PI 8.56 11 The critic, the philosopher, is a failed poet.
    Comc 8.159 21 ...a prophet...or a philosopher...these do not joke...
    Comc 8.163 16 Plutarch happily expresses the value of the jest as a legitimate weapon of the philosopher.
    Comc 8.169 7 The poverty...of the rapt philosopher...is not comic.
    PC 8.216 14 ...every one has heard the remark...that the philosopher was above his audience.
    PC 8.220 17 How much more are...the wise and good souls...Alfred the king, Shakspeare the poet, Newton the philosopher...than the foolish and sensual millions around them!
    PC 8.224 4 The immeasurableness of Nature is not more astounding than [man's] power to gather all her omnipotence into a manageable rod or wedge, bringing it to a hair-point for the eye and hand of the philosopher.
    Grts 8.305 25 ...there is not a piece of Nature in any kind but a man is born who...aims...to dedicate himself to that. Then there is the poet, the philosopher...
    Imtl 8.340 24 ...Van Helmont, the philosopher of Holland, drew his sufficient proof [of immortality] purely from the action of the intellect.
    Aris 10.44 6 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you if he shall be poet, king...
    Schr 10.269 6 The dry-goods men, and the brokers...are idealists, and only differ from the philosopher in the intensity of the charge.
    Plu 10.299 14 [Plutarch] is a philosopher with philosophers...
    Plu 10.306 11 We are always interested in the man who treats the intellect well. We expect it from the philosopher...
    Plu 10.307 4 ...we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power from the philosopher in his closet...
    Plu 10.308 17 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher not to hide in a corner...
    Plu 10.311 15 Plutarch is genial; with an endless interest in all human and divine things; Seneca, a professional philosopher...
    LLNE 10.326 14 The modern mind believed that the nation existed...for the guardianship and education of every man. This idea...in the mind of the philosopher had far more precision; the individual is the world.
    LLNE 10.337 23 On the heels of this intruder [Phrenology] came Mesmerism, which...attempted the explanation of miracle and prophecy, as well as of creation. What could be more revolting to the contemplative philosopher!
    LLNE 10.338 3 ...the joy with which [Mesmerism] was greeted was an instinct of the people which no true philosopher would fail to profit by.
    LLNE 10.344 22 I habitually apply to [Theodore Parker] the words of a French philosopher who speaks of the man of Nature who abominates the steam-engine and the factory.
    LLNE 10.362 24 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher...
    EPro 11.320 19 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...every poet, every philosopher...all rally to its support.
    SMC 11.359 16 [George Prescott] was a man...who never fancied himself a philosopher or a saint;...
    PLT 12.14 23 ...[the poet] is believing; the philosopher, after some struggle, having only reasons for believing.
    PLT 12.40 7 The philosopher knows only laws.
    Mem 12.102 25 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.
    CInt 12.114 8 ...when the Roman soldier, at the sack of Syracuse, broke into his study, the philosopher [Archimedes] could not rise from his chair and his diagram...
    CInt 12.125 5 ...unless...the professor...takes care to interpose a certain relief and cherishing and reverence for the wild poet and dawning philosopher he has detected in his classes, that will happen which has happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
    MAng1 12.244 6 There [in Santa Croce], near the tomb of Nicholas Macchiavelli, the historian and philosopher;...stands the monument of Michael Angelo Buonarotti.
    MLit 12.322 13 ...of all men he who has united in himself...the tendencies of the era, is the German poet, naturalist and philosopher, Goethe.
    WSL 12.346 20 ...[Landor] is not a poet or a philosopher.

philosophers, n. (48)

    Con 1.301 16 ...men are not philosophers...
    Tran 1.339 15 This [Transcendental] way of thinking, falling on Roman times, made Stoic philosophers;...
    SR 2.57 18 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by...philosophers...
    Hsm1 2.251 4 ...for the hero that thing he does is the highest deed, and is not open to the censure of philosophers or divines.
    OS 2.287 7 The great distinction...between philosophers like Spinoza, Kant and Coleridge, and philosophers like Locke, Paley, Mackintosh and Stewart...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    OS 2.287 8 The great distinction...between philosophers like Spinoza, Kant and Coleridge, and philosophers like Locke, Paley, Mackintosh and Stewart...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    Pt1 3.16 11 The schools of poets and philosophers are not more intoxicated with their symbols than the populace with theirs.
    NR 3.248 11 I talked yesterday with a pair of philosophers;...
    PPh 4.42 26 [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...
    PPh 4.56 13 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...
    PPh 4.73 8 ...under his hypocritical pretence of knowing nothing, [Socrates] attacks and brings down...all the fine philosophers of Athens...
    SwM 4.104 9 The robust Aristotelian method...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    SwM 4.107 6 This theory [Identity-philosophy] dates from the oldest philosophers...
    SwM 4.130 4 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed. Philosophers are, therefore, vipers, cockatrices...
    SwM 4.138 10 Evil, according to old philosophers, is good in the making.
    MoS 4.150 12 Plotinus believes only in philosophers;...
    NMW 4.250 16 To the philosophers [Napoleon] readily yielded all that was proved against religion as the work of men and time...
    GoW 4.274 22 [Goethe] treats nature as the old philosophers...did...
    ET11 5.190 19 In the roll of [English] nobles are found poets, philosophers, chemists, astronomers...
    Wth 6.88 20 ...the philosophers have laid the greatness of man in making his wants few...
    Ctr 6.133 14 This distemper [egotism] is the scourge...of artists, inventors and philosophers.
    Ctr 6.133 27 ...if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis [egotism]...
    Bty 6.289 6 I am warned by the ill fate of many philosophers not to attempt a definition of Beauty.
    Ill 6.324 4 The early Greek philosophers Heraclitus and Xenophanes measured their force on this problem of identity.
    Elo1 7.99 3 One thought the philosophers of Demosthenes's own time found running through all his orations,--this namely, that virtue secures its own success.
    Clbs 7.248 8 No doubt the suppers of wits and philosophers acquire much lustre by time and renown.
    PI 8.4 18 Faraday, the most exact of natural philosophers, taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements...we should...find...spherules of force.
    PI 8.51 2 St. Augustine complains to God of his friends offering him the books of the philosophers...
    Comc 8.164 1 ...the very jests and merry talk of true philosophers move those that are not altogether insensible...
    Comc 8.173 25 ...explore the whole of Nature, the farce and buffoonery in the yard below, as well as the lessons of poets and philosophers upstairs in the hall...
    Imtl 8.340 15 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers who were least divine denied generally the immortality of the soul...
    Dem1 10.11 22 ...all the bravest tales of Homer and the poets, modern philosophers can explain with profound judgment of law and state and ethics.
    Chr2 10.115 15 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan philosophers.
    MoL 10.241 8 You go to be teachers...I hope, some of you, to be the men of letters, critics, philosophers;...
    Schr 10.266 18 It was superstitious to exact too much from philosophers and the literary class.
    Schr 10.266 21 ...the philosophers and diffusion-societies have not much helped us.
    Plu 10.299 14 [Plutarch] is a philosopher with philosophers...
    Plu 10.301 12 [Plutarch] gossips of heroes, philosophers and poets;...
    Plu 10.309 4 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for instruction.
    Plu 10.317 12 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of ignorance, which, 't is a favorable opinion to hope that the Almighty will sometime wink at; that our souls may be with these philosophers together in the same state of bliss.
    ACiv 11.309 26 It is the maxim of natural philosophers that the natural forces wear out in time all obstacles, and take place...
    ChiE 11.472 17 ...[China] has philosophers who cannot be spared.
    PLT 12.8 18 Was it better when we came to the philosophers, who found everybody wrong;...
    PLT 12.38 16 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published...in conversation of scholars and philosophers...
    CL 12.140 27 The power of the air was the first explanation offered by the early philosophers of the mutual understanding that men have.
    Bost 12.184 14 How can we not believe in influences of climate and air, when, as true philosophers, we must believe that chemical atoms also have their spiritual cause why they are thus and not other;...
    Milt1 12.254 23 Many philosophers in England, France and Germany have formally dedicated their study to this problem [human nature];...
    PPr 12.380 25 Though...more than most philosophers a believer in political systems, Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds the calamity of the times...in false and superficial aims of the people...

Philosophers, n. (1)

    CSC 10.374 24 ...Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians and Philosophers,-all came successively to the top [at the Chardon Street Convention]...

philosopher's, n. (2)

    Comc 8.159 26 ...the best of all jokes is the sympathetic contemplation of things by the understanding from the philosopher's point of view.
    Comc 8.160 4 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man...who, sympathizing with the philosopher's scrutiny, sympathizes also with the confusion and indignation of the detected, skulking institutions.

Philosophers, Opinions of th (1)

    Plu 10.309 24 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs.

philosophia, prima, n. (1)

    ET14 5.240 5 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality, or prima philosophia;...

philosophic, adj. (7)

    PPh 4.61 11 [Plato] has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class have...
    SwM 4.111 7 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson...a philosophic critic...
    SwM 4.124 25 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.
    ET14 5.235 24 For two centuries England was philosophic, religious, poetic.
    Boks 7.200 15 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited...by philosophic sentiments...
    LLNE 10.330 4 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the English philosophic theologians...
    MLit 12.312 16 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn...

philosophical, adj. (17)

    Nat 1.5 5 In enumerating the values of nature...I shall use the word...in its common and in its philosophical import.
    AmS 1.92 9 But for the evidence thence afforded to the philosophical doctrine of the identity of all minds, we should suppose some preestablished harmony...
    AmS 1.112 25 ...[Swedenborg] endeavored to engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time.
    LE 1.170 18 Since Carlyle wrote French History, we see that no history that we have is safe, but a new classifier shall give it new and more philosophical arrangement.
    LT 1.287 16 ...we think the Genius of this Age more philosophical than any other has been...
    Hist 2.31 22 The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus.
    Hsm1 2.250 18 There is somewhat not philosophical in heroism;...
    Mrs1 3.119 7 The husbandry of the modern inhabitants of Gournou...is philosophical to a fault.
    NER 3.260 7 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...
    PPh 4.78 1 In view of eternal nature, Plato turns out of be philosophical exercitations.
    ET9 5.150 13 ...in a philosophical essay...one is surprised [in England] by the most innocent exhibition of unflinching nationality.
    Grts 8.315 1 ...[Napoleon's] official advices are to me more literary and philosophical than the memoirs of the Academy.
    LLNE 10.326 26 People grow philosophical about native land and parents and relations.
    Thor 10.457 12 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story...or whether it was one of those old philosophical things that she did not care about.
    EdAd 11.391 3 There are literary and philosophical reputations to settle.
    ACri 12.289 13 As a study in language, the use of this word [Devil] is curious, to see how words help us and must be philosophical.
    MLit 12.312 9 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which, spreading from the poetic into the scientific, religious and philosophical domains, has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world...

Philosophical age, n. (1)

    AmS 1.109 5 ...there are data for marking the genius of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or Philosophical age.

Philosophical Necessity, n. (1)

    Trag 12.408 2 [Belief in Fate] is discriminated from the doctrine of Philosophical Necessity herein: that the last is an Optimism...

Philosophical Transactions, (1)

    SS 7.5 20 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins, in which he forbade him to insert his name with the solution of the problem in the Philosophical Transactions...

philosophically, adv. (1)

    Nat 1.4 23 Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

philosophies, n. (5)

    UGM 4.7 5 One man answers some question which none of his contemporaries put, and is isolated. The past and passing religions and philosophies answer some other question.
    SwM 4.117 22 ...[mankind] had sciences, religions, philosophies...
    GoW 4.272 3 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures...
    Elo1 7.78 27 ...histories, poems and new philosophies arise to account for [Caesar].
    Dem1 10.18 7 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the woof. For the phenomena which hence originate there are countless names, since all philosophies and religions have attempted in prose or in poetry to solve this riddle...

philosophize, v. (4)

    PPh 4.58 15 ...[Plato] believes...that the gods never philosophize...
    NMW 4.241 24 [Napoleon] knew...how to philosophize on liberty and equality;...
    Comc 8.163 22 ...it is the top of wisdom to philosophize yet not appear to do it...
    Plu 10.312 23 Plutarch...thought it the top of wisdom to philosophize yet not appear to do it...

philosophizes, v. (1)

    MLit 12.318 15 The very child in the nursery prattles mysticism, and doubts and philosophizes.

philosophizing, v. (2)

    SwM 4.127 23 ...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total; and chastity not a local, but a universal virtue; unchastity being discovered as much in the trading, or planting, or speaking, or philosophizing, as in generation;...
    MoS 4.156 9 [The skeptic says] I, at least, will shun the weakness of philosophizing beyond my depth.

Philosophy, First, n. (2)

    ET14 5.244 14 ...[the English] draw only a bucketful at the fountain of the First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not go to the spring-head.
    WSL 12.346 23 Only from a mind conversant with the First Philosophy can definitions be expected.

philosophy, n. (155)

    Nat 1.3 7 Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition...
    Nat 1.17 18 ...the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.
    Nat 1.28 9 ...the most trivial of these [natural] facts...applied to the illustration of a fact in intellectual philosophy...affects us in the most lively...manner.
    Nat 1.50 12 Our first institution in the Ideal philosophy is a hint from Nature herself.
    Nat 1.55 7 The problem of philosophy...is, for all that exists conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute.
    Nat 1.58 11 [Religion] does that for the unschooled, which philosophy does for Berkeley and Viasa.
    Nat 1.59 27 [The ideal theory] is...the view which Reason...that is, philosophy and virtue, take.
    AmS 1.86 24 ...when he has learned...to see that the natural philosophy that now is, is only the first gropings of [the soul's] gigantic hand, [the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.
    AmS 1.110 16 I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming days, as they glimmer already...through philosophy and science...
    AmS 1.111 2 The literature of the poor...the philosophy of the street...are the topics of the time.
    AmS 1.112 20 There is one man of genius who has done much for this philosophy of life...I mean Emanuel Swedenborg.
    LE 1.160 20 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith...
    LE 1.162 2 ...the immortal bards of philosophy,-that which they have written out...makes me bold.
    LE 1.162 13 The impoverishing philosophy of ages has laid stress on the distinctions of the individual...
    LE 1.170 27 Religion is yet to be settled on its fast foundations in the breast of man;...and philosophy...
    LE 1.171 5 This starting, this warping of the best literary works from the adamant of nature, is especially observable in philosophy.
    LE 1.171 19 ...[the light] is gone before you can cry, Hold. And so it happens with our philosophy.
    LE 1.172 6 The book of philosophy is only a fact...
    LE 1.182 22 If [the man of genius] be defective at either extreme of the scale, his philosophy will seem low and utilitarian...
    MR 1.236 20 We must have a basis for...our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.
    MR 1.241 19 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual finds himself compelled to wait on his thoughts;...
    MR 1.242 10 ...the faults and vices of our literature and philosophy...are attributable to the enervated and sickly habits of the literary class.
    LT 1.261 10 The reason and influence of wealth, the aspect of philosophy and religion...these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    Tran 1.338 5 ...we know of none but prophets and heralds of such a philosophy [Transcendendalism];...
    Tran 1.340 1 ...Immanuel Kant...replied to the skeptical philosophy of Locke...by showing that there was a very important class of ideas or imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which experience was acquired;...
    Hist 2.14 24 We have the same national mind expressed for us again in [Greek] literature, in epic and lyric poems, drama, and philosophy;...
    SR 2.65 2 ...if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault.
    SR 2.74 9 ...the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes.
    SR 2.86 3 ...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes...
    Comp 2.111 5 The vulgar proverb, I will get it from his purse or get it from his skin, is sound philosophy.
    SL 2.155 23 Our philosophy is affirmative...
    SL 2.164 7 Why need I go gadding into the scenes and philosophy of Greek and Italian history before I have justified myself to my benefactors?
    Lov1 2.170 1 The delicious fancies of youth reject the least savor of a mature philosophy...
    Lov1 2.181 3 [What we love] is that which you know not in yourself and can never know. This agrees well with that high philosophy of Beauty which the ancient writers delighted in;...
    OS 2.267 22 The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul.
    Cir 2.315 22 The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you.
    Int 2.339 22 Is it any better if the student...aims to make a mechanical whole of...philosophy, by a numerical addition of all the facts that fall within his vision.
    Int 2.342 2 He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept...the first philosophy...he meets...
    Int 2.345 1 ...whosoever propounds to you a philosophy of the mind, is only a more or less awkward translator of things in your consciousness...
    Pt1 3.3 19 There is no doctrine of forms in our philosophy.
    Pt1 3.33 6 ...dream delivers us to dream, and while the drunkenness lasts we will sell our bed, our philosophy, our religion, in our opulence.
    Exp 3.49 26 We may have the sphere for our cricket-ball, but not a berry for our philosophy.
    Exp 3.63 27 ...the new molecular philosophy shows astronomical interspaces betwixt atom and atom...
    Exp 3.75 16 ...scepticisms...are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in...
    Nat2 3.196 3 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... and have some stake in every possibility, lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
    NR 3.235 5 ...[Mesmerism, Swedenborgism, Fourierism, and the Millennial Church]...are poor pretensions enough, but good criticism on the science, philosophy and preaching of the day.
    NR 3.246 27 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...and...we admire and love her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature of the fair earth, not dissipated or too early ripened by books, philosophy, religion, society, or care!...
    NER 3.260 20 I conceive...the indication of growing trust in the private self-supplied powers of the individual, to be the affirmative principle of the recent philosophy...
    NER 3.268 23 We do not believe that...any system of philosophy...will ever give depth of insight to a superficial mind.
    UGM 4.5 7 ...our philosophy finds one essence collected or distributed.
    PPh 4.40 8 Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato...
    PPh 4.40 23 Mahometanism draws all its philosophy...from [Plato].
    PPh 4.42 25 This breadth [of synthesis] entitles [Plato] to stand as the representative of philosophy.
    PPh 4.45 13 How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and almost literature, is the problem for us to solve.
    PPh 4.47 5 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness... ... That is the moment of adult health, the culmination of power. Such is the history of Europe, in all points; and such in philosophy.
    PPh 4.47 9 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from Asia...a confusion of crude notions of morals and of natural philosophy...
    PPh 4.47 23 He shall be as a god to me, who can rightly divide and define. This defining is philosophy.
    PPh 4.47 23 Philosophy is the account which the human mind gives to itself of the constitution of the world.
    PPh 4.48 17 All philosophy, of East and West, has the same centripetence.
    PPh 4.52 12 ...the seat of a philosophy delighting in abstractions...is Asia;...
    PPh 4.52 18 ...[Europe's] philosophy was a discipline;...
    PPh 4.54 6 Metaphysics and natural philosophy expressed the genius of Europe;...
    PPh 4.57 5 All things are for the sake of the good, and it is the cause of every thing beautiful. This dogma animates and impersonates [Plato's] philosophy.
    PPh 4.59 25 Socrates' profession of obstetric art is good philosophy;...
    PPh 4.60 8 ...philosophy is an elegant thing, if any one modestly meddles with it [said Plato];...
    PPh 4.64 14 [Plato] secures a position not to be commanded, by his passion for reality; valuing philosophy only as it is the pleasure of conversing with real being.
    SwM 4.111 22 The admirable preliminary discourses with which Mr. Wilkinson has enriched these volumes [by Swedenborg], throw all the contemporary philosophy of England into shade...
    MoS 4.149 21 This head and this tail [Sensation and Morals] are called, in the language of philosophy, Infinite and Finite;...
    MoS 4.150 9 Another class [predisposed to Morals]...are men of faith and philosophy...
    MoS 4.152 9 Things always bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.
    MoS 4.159 26 [Unbelief and universal doubting] are no more [the skeptic' s] moods than are those of religion and philosophy.
    MoS 4.160 14 The philosophy we want is one of fluxions and mobility.
    MoS 4.175 9 ...though philosophy extirpates bugbears, yet it supplies the natural checks of vice, and polarity to the soul.
    ShP 4.204 14 Now, literature, philosophy and thought are Shakspearized.
    ShP 4.209 25 What point...of philosophy...has [Shakespeare] not settled?
    GoW 4.272 1 [Goethe's] Helena...is a philosophy of literature set in poetry;...
    GoW 4.283 2 ...the [German] professor can not divest himself of the fancy that the truths of philosophy have some application to Berlin and Munich.
    ET1 5.19 13 ...[Wordsworth] had broken a tooth by a fall, when walking with two lawyers, and had said that he was glad it did not happen forty years ago; whereupon they had praised his philosophy.
    ET9 5.151 4 America is the paradise of the [English] economists;...but when he speaks directly of the Americans the islander forgets his philosophy and remembers his disparaging anecdotes.
    ET14 5.240 8 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality, or prima philosophia; the receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special parts of philosophy, but are more common and of a higher stage.
    ET14 5.240 14 If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied;...
    ET14 5.243 17 Locke, to whom the meaning of ideas was unknown, became the type of philosophy [in England]...
    ET14 5.247 8 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly teaches...that the glory of modern philosophy is its direction on fruit;...
    ET14 5.247 12 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
    ET14 5.249 18 It is the surest sign of national decay, when the Bramins can no longer read or understand the Braminical philosophy.
    ET14 5.252 9 ...even what is called philosophy and letters [in England] is mechanical in its structure...
    ET14 5.252 19 [The English] have lost all commanding views in literature, philosophy and science.
    ET14 5.254 15 ...satire at the names of philosophy and religion...betray the ebb of life and spirit [in English students].
    ET18 5.305 23 Will, said the old philosophy, is the measure of power...
    F 6.49 12 Why should we be afraid of Nature, which is no other than philosophy and theology embodied?
    Wth 6.114 18 ...if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider...
    Wth 6.124 25 It is a doctrine of philosophy that man is a being of degrees;...
    Ctr 6.137 26 'T is a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
    Ctr 6.139 8 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...with the high resources of philosophy, art and religion;...
    Ctr 6.150 26 ...[the man of the world] allows himself to be surprised into... the unlocking of his learning and philosophy.
    Ctr 6.160 26 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order... will come to affairs as from a higher ground, and though he will say nothing of philosophy, he will have a certain mastery in dealing with them...
    Ctr 6.162 5 We wish to learn philosophy by rote...
    CbW 6.272 10 Our conversation once and again has apprised us...that a mental power invites us whose generalizations are more worth for joy and for effect than anything that is now called philosophy or literature.
    Ill 6.325 3 It would be hard to put more mental and moral philosophy than the Persians have thrown into a sentence...
    Civ 7.26 13 ...there have been learning, philosophy and art in Iceland, and in the tropics.
    DL 7.127 5 The secret power of form over the imagination and affections transcends all our philosophy.
    WD 7.172 4 Kinde was the old English term, which...filled only half the range of our fine Latin word, with its delicate future tense,--natura, about to be born, or what German philosophy denotes as a becoming.
    WD 7.184 15 There are people...who have no talents, or care not to have them,--being that which was before talent, and shall be after it, and of which talent seems only a tool: this is character, the highest name at which philosophy has arrived.
    Boks 7.217 22 Every good fable...every passage of love, and even philosophy and science, when they proceed from an intellectual integrity... have the imaginative element.
    Clbs 7.236 13 Dr. Johnson was a man of no profound mind,--full of English limitations, English politics...Oxford philosophy;...
    Suc 7.301 21 Aristotle or Bacon or Kant propound some maxim which is the key-note of philosophy thenceforward.
    PI 8.54 5 Poetry will never be a simple means, as when history or philosophy is rhymed...
    PI 8.63 6 We are sometimes apprised that there is a mental power and creation more excellent that anything which is commonly called philosophy and literature;...
    PI 8.66 18 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy...
    PI 8.66 23 The philosophy which a nation receives, rules its religion, poetry, politics, arts, trades and whole history.
    Elo2 8.114 23 For the time, [the orator's] exceeding life throws all other gifts into shade,--philosophy speculating on its own breath, taste, learning and all...
    Res 8.138 2 A philosophy which sees only the worst;...dispirits us;...
    Comc 8.163 18 Men cannot exercise their rhetoric unless they speak, but their philosophy even whilst they are silent or jest merrily;...
    QO 8.179 15 The highest statement of new philosophy complacently caps itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest learning.
    QO 8.179 25 In a hundred years, millions of men, and...not a theory of philosophy that offers a solution of the great problems...
    PC 8.213 11 ...the child is in his playthings working incessantly at problems of natural philosophy...
    Insp 8.292 10 [Conversation] is the true school of philosophy...
    Imtl 8.325 13 The Greek, with his perfect senses and perceptions, had quite another philosophy [of immortality].
    Dem1 10.23 27 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into this twilight and say, There 's more than is dreamed of in your philosophy.
    Aris 10.63 25 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy...
    Edc1 10.132 26 We have our theory of life, our religion, our philosophy;...
    Edc1 10.147 11 It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy...
    SovE 10.186 13 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter, an Oxford Fellow. It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
    SovE 10.205 19 I do not think the summit of this age truly reached or expressed unless it attain the height which religion and philosophy reached in any former age.
    SovE 10.208 11 We are thrown back on rectitude...to mend one; that is all we can do. But that the zealot stigmatizes as a sterile chimney-corner philosophy.
    SovE 10.213 6 Now science and philosophy recognize the parallelism, the approximation, the unity of the two [Spirit and Matter]...
    MoL 10.243 18 The subtle Hindoo, who carried religion to ecstasy and philosophy to idealism, produced the wonderful epics of which, in the present century, the translations have added new regions to thought.
    MoL 10.244 26 There is much criticism...but an affirmative philosophy is wanting.
    MoL 10.244 26 Our profoundest philosophy...is skepticism.
    Plu 10.296 24 M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral philosophy...
    Plu 10.308 12 Of philosophy [Plutarch] is more interested in the results than in the method.
    Plu 10.312 5 Seneca...learned to temper his philosophy with facts.
    LLNE 10.328 23 In philosophy, Immanuel Kant has made the best catalogue of the human faculties and the best analysis of the mind.
    LLNE 10.338 20 Schelling and Oken introduced their ideal natural philosophy...
    LLNE 10.342 16 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to...inaugurate some movement in literature, philosophy and religion...
    LLNE 10.349 2 As we listened to [Albert Brisbane's] exposition it appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy;...
    LLNE 10.365 18 It was a curious experience of the patrons and leaders of this noted community [Brook Farm], in which the agreement with many parties was that they should give so many hours of instruction, in mathematics, in music, in moral and intellectual philosophy, and so forth,- that in every instance the newcomers showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
    MMEm 10.408 7 [Mary Moody Emerson] is no...orderly digest of any system of philosophy...
    MMEm 10.409 9 As a traveller enters some fine palace and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy...
    EWI 11.145 23 It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one...
    EWI 11.146 5 There have been moments in [emancipation in the West Indies], as well as in every piece of moral history, when there seemed room for the infusions of a skeptical philosophy;...
    War 11.151 1 It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy to indicate the steps of human progress...
    War 11.153 21 [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.
    FSLN 11.218 19 Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb, carry the business men into the city to their...work-yards and warehouses. With them enters the car-the newsboy, that humble priest of politics, finance, philosophy, and religion.
    PLT 12.6 11 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is that the student shall learn to appreciate the miracle of the mind;...
    PLT 12.14 20 ...philosophy is still rude and elementary.
    II 12.75 12 How shall I educate my children? Shall I indulge, or shall I control them? Philosophy replies, Nature is stronger than your will...
    MAng1 12.222 9 ...not the most swinish compost of mud and blood that was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in human clay.
    MAng1 12.239 26 Michael [Angelo]...had the philosophy to say, Only an inventor can use the inventions of others.
    MAng1 12.241 7 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper by Signor Radici in the London Retrospective Review...
    Milt1 12.264 17 [Milton] states these things, he says, to show that...a certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline, learned out of the noblest philosophy, was enough to keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had been charged on him.
    Milt1 12.275 10 ...the Comus [is] a transcript, in charming numbers, of that philosophy of chastity, which, in the Apology for Smectymnuus, and in the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] declares to be his defence and religion.
    ACri 12.289 14 The Devil in philosophy is absolute negation...
    MLit 12.318 5 All over the modern world the educated and susceptible have betrayed their discontent...with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy.
    WSL 12.347 8 [Landor's] Dialogue on the Epicurean philosophy is a theory of the genius of Epicurus.

Philosophy, n. (2)

    Nat 1.4 26 ...all which Philosophy distinguishes as the NOT ME...must be ranked under this name, NATURE.
    LLNE 10.325 15 There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement. At times...the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.

Philosophy of History [Fran (1)

    Carl 10.494 15 ...if, after Guizot had been a tool of Louis Philippe for years, he is now to come and write essays on the character of Washington... and on Philsophy of History, [Carlyle] thinks that nothing.

philsopher's, n. (1)

    Thor 10.479 20 The tendency to magnify the moment...is of course comic to those who do not share the philosopher's perception of identity.

philters, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.16 25 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.

Phinney, Elias [Mr. D.], n (3)

    AgMs 12.362 3 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth.
    AgMs 12.362 9 ...Mr. D. [Elias Phinney]...would starve in two years on any one of fifty poor farms in this neighborhood...
    AgMs 12.362 13 Mr. D. inherited a farm, and spends on it every year from other resources;...

Phipps, Constantine [Lord (1)

    WSL 12.344 23 [Landor]...serenely enjoys the victory of Nature over fortune. Not only the elaborated story of Normanby, but the whimsical selection of his heads proves this taste.

Phlegethon River, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.194 10 At last the escorting angel returned with his prisoner [the monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that no phlegethon could be found that would burn him;...

phlegm, n. (6)

    Pt1 3.6 3 ...there is some...excess of phlegm in our constitution which does not suffer [sun, stars, earth, water] to yield the due effect.
    ET8 5.135 27 [The English] have that phlegm or staidness which it is a compliment to disturb.
    CbW 6.270 14 For remedy, while the case [of the blockhead] is yet mild, I recommend phlegm and truth;...
    Farm 7.145 26 Whilst all thus burns...it needs a perpetual tempering, a phlegm...to check the fury of the conflagration;...
    Clbs 7.249 26 One likes in a companion a phlegm which it is a triumph to disturb...
    MMEm 10.407 25 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] was offended here by the phlegm of all her fellow creatures...

phlegmatic, adj. (4)

    OS 2.288 27 [Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] seem frigid and phlegmatic to those who have been spiced with the frantic passion and violent coloring of inferior but popular writers.
    Elo1 7.61 24 The plight of these phlegmatic brains is better than that of those who prematurely boil...
    Comc 8.162 27 The peace of society and the decorum of tables seem to require that next to a notable wit should always be posted a phlegmatic bolt-upright man...
    Trag 12.410 24 In phlegmatic natures calamity is unaffecting, in shallow natures it is rhetorical.

Phocion, n. (11)

    Nat 1.22 5 Homer, Pindar, Socrates, Phocion, associate themselves fitly in our memory with the geography and climate of Greece.
    Hist 2.15 13 ...to the senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar, a marble centaur, the peristyle of the Parthenon, and the last actions of Phocion?
    SR 2.86 7 Phocion, Socrates, Anaxagoras, Diogenes, are great men...
    Hsm1 2.260 25 A simple manly character...should regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion...
    ET1 5.8 18 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon...
    DL 7.133 15 ...the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror.
    Boks 7.199 24 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library; first because he is so readable, which is much; then that he is medicinal and invigorating. The lives of...Phocion, Marcellus and the rest, are what history has of best.
    Cour 7.253 20 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown of the heroes of Greece and Rome,--of Socrates, Aristides and Phocion;...
    PC 8.220 9 In politics, mark the importance of minorities of one, as of Phocion...
    Plu 10.314 22 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him...to...his love...of heroes like Aristides, Phocion and Cato.
    Plu 10.318 12 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch, who told the story of Leonidas...of Aristides, Phocion...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.

Phoebus, n. (5)

    Hist 2.24 10 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;...
    Pol1 3.197 14 Out of dust to build/ What is more than dust,--/ Walls Amphion piled/ Phoebus stablish must./
    WD 7.184 22 It is a fine fable for the advantage of character over talent, the Greek legend of the strife of Jove and Phoebus.
    WD 7.184 22 Phoebus challenged the gods...
    Insp 8.285 1 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./

Phoenician, adj. (1)

    ET16 5.282 17 ...as Britain was a Phoenician secret, so they kept their compass a secret...

Phoenician, n. (1)

    ET5 5.74 16 The Phoenician, the Celt and the Goth had already got in [to England].

Phoenicians, n. (4)

    ET16 5.282 7 The Druids were Phoenicians.
    ET16 5.282 9 ...Hercules was the god of the Phoenicians.
    Res 8.140 13 The marked events in history...the discovery of the mariner's compass, which perhaps the Phoenicians made;...each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
    PLT 12.26 7 ...the dull, melancholy Pelasgi arrive at no civility until the Phoenicians and Ionians come in.

phoenix, n. (2)

    PPo 8.255 9 My phoenix long ago secured/ His nest in the sky-vault's cope;/ In the body's cage immured,/ He was weary of life's hope./
    PPo 8.255 22 If over this world of ours/ His wings my phoenix spread,/ How gracious falls on land and sea/ The soul-refreshing shade!/

Phoenix, n. (1)

    PPo 8.255 8 In the following poem the soul is figured as the Phoenix alighting on Tuba, the Tree of Life...

phoenixes, n. (2)

    UGM 4.34 3 Once you saw phoenixes: they are gone; the world is not therefore disenchanted.
    Supl 10.163 21 We talk, sometimes, with people whose conversation would lead you to suppose that they had lived in a museum, where all the objects were monsters and extremes. Their good people are phoenixes; their naughty are like the prophet's figs.

phonei, v. (1)

    PPo 8.250 27 In all poetry, Pindar's rule holds,-sunetois phonei, it speaks to the intelligent;...

Phorkyas [Goethe, Helena], (1)

    Hist 2.33 16 These figures, [Goethe] would say, these Chirons, Griffins, Phorkyas, Helen and Leda, are somewhat, and do exert a specific influence on the mind.

phosphorescent, adj. (1)

    CL 12.154 2 ...what strength and fecundity [in the sea], from the sea-monsters, hugest of animals, to the primary forms of which it is the immense cradle, and the phosphorescent infusories;...

phosphoric, adj. (1)

    ET2 5.28 24 Near the equator you can read small print by [the light of the sea-fire]; and the mate describes the phosphoric insects, when taken up in a pail, as shaped like a Carolina potato.

Phosphorus, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.24 20 [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...

photograph, n. (1)

    WD 7.158 7 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived...

photographic, adj. (1)

    Thor 10.471 16 ...[Thoreau's] memory was a photographic register of all he saw and heard.

photographs, n. (2)

    WD 7.164 11 ...we must look deeper for our salvation than to steam, photographs, balloons or astronomy.
    Suc 7.308 17 I do not find...grisly photographs of the field on the day after the battle, fit subjects for cabinet pictures.

photometers, n. (1)

    SL 2.166 12 We are the photometers...that measure the accumulations of the subtle element.

phrase, n. (42)

    MN 1.218 11 Genius...draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience and spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to.
    MR 1.253 5 Let any two matrons meet, and observe how soon their conversation turns on the troubles from their "help,", as our phrase is.
    Pt1 3.11 21 ...the phrase will be the fittest, most musical, and the unerring voice of the world for that time.
    Chr1 3.108 2 Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
    SwM 4.96 15 ...the soul having heretofore known all, nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind, or according to the common phrase has learned, one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge...
    MoS 4.161 25 Some wise limitation, as the modern phrase is;...some stark and sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    ET5 5.82 2 [Englishmen] are not to be led by a phrase...
    ET5 5.100 6 In Germany there is one speech for the learned, and another for the masses, to that extent that, it is said, no sentiment or phrase from the works of any great German writer is ever heard among the lower classes.
    ET6 5.106 12 ...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...
    ET6 5.110 27 The favorite phrase of [the Englishmen's] law is, a custom whereof the memory of man runneth not back to the contrary.
    ET7 5.118 8 The phrase of the lowest of the [English] people is honor-bright...
    Ctr 6.146 27 ...the phrase to know the world, or to travel, is synonymous with all men's ideas of advantage and superiority.
    Ctr 6.159 9 We only vary the phrase, not the doctrine, when we say that culture opens the sense of beauty.
    Wsp 6.209 27 In this country...the phrase higher law became a political gibe.
    CbW 6.258 18 In the high prophetic phrase, He causes the wrath of man to praise him...
    Bty 6.305 19 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders;...
    Elo1 7.74 1 ...unless this oiled tongue could, in Oriental phrase, lick the sun and moon away, it must take its place with opium and brandy.
    Elo1 7.90 17 Put the argument...into an image,--some hard phrase...and the cause is half won.
    Boks 7.196 25 ...Never read any [books] but what you like;, or, in Shakspeare's phrase, No profit goes where is no pleasure te'en:/ In brief, sir, study what you most affect./
    PI 8.12 13 A figurative statement...is remembered and repeated. How often has a phrase of this kind made a reputation.
    PI 8.40 4 The reason we set so high a value on any poetry,--as often on a line or a phrase as on a poem,--is that it is a new work of Nature...
    PI 8.47 16 Another form of rhyme is iterations of phrase...
    Res 8.140 3 See...how...every impatient boss who sharply shortens the phrase or the word to give his order quicker...improves the national tongue.
    QO 8.185 16 Goethe's favorite phrase, the open secret, translates Aristotle' s answer to Alexander, These books are published and not published.
    QO 8.195 7 There is an illusion in a new phrase.
    QO 8.195 12 A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg...and is very merry at heart that he has now got so fine a thing. Translate it out of the new words into his own usual phrase, and he will wonder again at his own simplicity...
    QO 8.202 12 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said...
    PC 8.232 9 It was what we call plantation manners which drove peaceable forgiving New England to emancipation without phrase.
    PPo 8.247 8 That hardihood and self-equality of every sound nature... which...make [the poet] an object of interest and his every phrase and syllable significant, are in Hafiz...
    Imtl 8.322 2 Mute orator! well skilled to plead,/ And send conviction without phrase,/ Thou dost succor and remede/ The shortness of our days,/ And promise, on thy Founder's truth,/ Long morrow to this mortal youth./ Monadnoc.
    Chr2 10.104 7 Chateaubriand said, with some irreverence of phrase, If God made man in his image, man has paid him well back.
    Plu 10.300 17 I do not know where to find a book-to borrow a phrase of Ben Jonson's-so rammed with life [as Plutarch]...
    Plu 10.322 1 Were there not a sun, we might, for all the other stars, pass our days in the Reverend Dark, as Heraclitus calls it. I find a humor in the phrase which might well excuse its doubtful accuracy.
    LLNE 10.367 8 One would meet also [at Brook Farm] some modest pride in their advanced condition, signified by a frequent phrase, Before we came out of civilization.
    MMEm 10.403 20 It was ever the will and not the phrase that concerned [Mary Moody Emerson].
    SlHr 10.442 1 ...a plain way [Samuel Hoar] had of putting his statement with all his might, and now and then borrowing the aid of...a farmer's phrase...
    FSLC 11.205 3 It is neither praise nor blame to say that [Webster] has no moral perception, no moral sentiment, but in that region-to use the phrase of the phrenologists-a hole in the head.
    FRO1 11.477 16 I say again, in the phrase used by my friend, that we began [the Free Religious Association] many years ago...
    FRep 11.521 17 General Jackson was a man of will, and his phrase on one memorable occasion, I will take the responsibility, is a proverb ever since.
    ACri 12.290 11 The French have a neat phrase, that the secret of boring you is that of telling all...
    MLit 12.330 16 ...to use a phrase of Ben Jonson's, [Wilhelm Meister] is rammed with life.
    WSL 12.348 4 The dense writer has yet ample room and choice of phrase...

phrase, v. (1)

    FSLN 11.231 20 There are two forces in Nature, by whose antagonism we exist; the power of Fate...or however else we choose to phrase it...on the one hand,-and Will or Duty or Freedom on the other.

phraseology, n. (4)

    SR 2.66 14 If...a man...carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in another country, in another world, believe him not.
    SR 2.67 23 ...see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David...
    Elo2 8.125 26 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.
    ACri 12.284 6 There is, in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.

phrases, n. (16)

    PPh 4.71 27 [Socrates]...affected low phrases...
    ShP 4.200 24 The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being translation on translation. There never was a time when there was none. All the truly idiomatic and national phrases are kept, and all others successively picked out and thrown away.
    NMW 4.250 26 ...the men of letters [Bonaparte] slighted; they were manufacturers of phrases.
    ET6 5.111 12 All [the Englishmen's] statesmen...have invented many fine phrases to cover this slowness of perception and prehensility of tail.
    ET9 5.146 9 ...the ordinary phrases in all good society, of postponing or disparaging one's own things in talking with a stranger, are seriously mistaken by [the English] for an insuppressible homage to the merits of their nation;...
    ET14 5.236 25 I could cite from the seventeenth century [in England] sentences and phrases of edge not to be matched in the nineteenth.
    Wsp 6.221 20 If any reader tax me with using vague and traditional phrases, let me suggest to him by a few examples what kind of a trust this is [in the moral sentiment], and how real.
    Elo1 7.85 26 ...in the examination of witnesses there usually leap out...three or four stubborn words or phrases which are the pith and fate of the business...
    DL 7.120 9 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...with phrases of the last oration...
    Boks 7.204 7 ...in our Bible...it seems easy and inevitable to render the rhythm and music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
    QO 8.180 22 Read in Plato and you shall...stumble on our evangelical phrases.
    QO 8.197 9 We...could express ourselves in other people's phrases to finer purpose than they knew.
    Plu 10.321 16 there are, no doubt, many vulgar phrases [in the 1718 edition of Plutarch], and many blunders of the printer;...
    ACri 12.291 11 Resolute blotting rids you of all those phrases that sound like something and mean nothing...
    ACri 12.293 5 Persons have been named from their abuse of certain phrases, as Pyramid Lambert...
    ACri 12.295 24 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech,-words and phrases that no scholar coined;...

phrenologist, n. (4)

    Int 2.339 12 How wearisome...the phrenologist...whose balance is lost by the exaggeration of a single topic.
    F 6.9 10 ...the cab-man is phrenologist so far, he looks in your face to see if his shilling is sure.
    F 6.34 24 Who likes to have a dapper phrenologist pronouncing on his fortunes?
    Aris 10.44 6 Not the phrenologist but the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you if he shall be poet, king...

phrenologists, n. (3)

    Exp 3.53 2 I hear the chuckle of the phrenologists.
    NR 3.234 25 Anomalous facts, as...the new allegations of phrenologists and neurologists, are of ideal use.
    FSLC 11.205 3 It is neither praise nor blame to say that [Webster] has no moral perception, no moral sentiment, but in that region-to use the phrase of the phrenologists-a hole in the head.

phrenology, n. (6)

    Nat2 3.179 7 Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology;...and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.
    NER 3.253 8 With these [reformers] appeared the adepts of homoeopathy... of phrenology...
    Wsp 6.229 21 Physiognomy and phrenology are not new sciences...
    DL 7.108 14 The physiognomy and phrenology of to-day are rash and mechanical systems enough...
    Suc 7.290 12 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology...
    EzRy 10.389 20 [Ezra Ripley] was the easy dupe of any tonguey agent, whether...charlatan of iron combs, or tractors, or phrenology, or magnetism, who went by.

Phrenology, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.337 11 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature...

Phrygius, Dares, n. (1)

    ShP 4.197 25 Chaucer, it seems, drew continually...from Guido di Colonna, whose Latin romance of the Trojan war was in turn a compilation from Dares Phrygius, Ovid and Statius.

physic, n. (3)

    YA 1.365 26 The continent we inhabit is to be physic and food for our mind, as well as our body.
    MoS 4.172 25 [The wise skeptic's] politics are those...of Krishna, in the Bhagavat, There is none who is worthy of my love or hatred; whilst he sentences law, physic, divinity, commerce and custom.
    Edc1 10.131 25 ...[man] is to be the stalwart...Newton, of the physic, metaphysic and ethics of the design of the world.

physical, adj. (42)

    Nat 1.33 9 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, the whole is greater than its part;...and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense.
    Nat 1.58 27 It appears that motion...physical and intellectual science...all tend to affect our convictions of the reality of the external world.
    MN 1.198 15 My eyes and ears are revolted by any neglect of the physical facts, the limitations of man.
    MN 1.198 20 ...one who...beholds the visible as proceeding from the invisible, cannot state his thought without seeming to those who study the physical laws to do them some injustice.
    YA 1.377 26 [Trade] displaces physical strength...
    Hist 2.25 27 The Greeks are...perfect in their senses and in their health, with the finest physical organization in the world.
    Prd1 2.222 6 [Prudence] is content to seek health of body by complying with physical conditions...
    Prd1 2.232 27 A man of genius...reckless of physical laws...becomes presently unfortunate, querulous...
    Exp 3.54 17 I see not, if one be once caught in this trap of so-called sciences, any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical necessity.
    Chr1 3.94 1 The excess of physical strength is paralyzed by [character].
    Mrs1 3.128 12 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired...in their physical organization a certain health and excellence which secure to them, if not the highest power to work, yet high power to enjoy.
    NER 3.258 23 ...the Mathematics had a momentary importance at some era of activity in physical science.
    PPh 4.56 13 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...
    SwM 4.116 5 ...one would swear [says Swedenborg] that the physical world was purely symbolical of the spiritual world;...
    SwM 4.116 8 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...
    SwM 4.116 12 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma, in place of the physical truth or precept...
    SwM 4.116 21 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences, together with a vocabulary containing the terms of spiritual things, as well as of the physical things for which they are to be substituted.
    SwM 4.117 4 ...[Lord Bacon] instanced some physical propositions, with their translation into a moral or political sense.
    ET1 5.20 28 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans...never to call into action the physical strength of the people...
    ET6 5.104 19 [The Englishman] has that aplomb which results from a good adjustment of the moral and physical nature...
    Pow 6.64 4 ...all kinds of power usually emerge at the same time;...power of mind with physical health;...
    Pow 6.70 17 Physical force has no value where there is nothing else.
    Ctr 6.133 8 [Egotists] like sickness, because physical pain will extort some show of interest from the bystanders...
    Art2 7.44 3 Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...the physical strength...
    Elo1 7.67 18 Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health...
    Elo1 7.69 12 ...[the Sicilians]...were it only by the physical strength exerted in telling the story, keep the table in unbounded excitement.
    Cour 7.268 16 There is a courage in the treatment of every art by a master in architecture...in painting or in poetry...which yet nowise implies the presence of physical valor in the artist.
    Elo2 8.120 9 ...there are physical advantages,--some eminently leading to this art [of eloquence].
    Aris 10.43 8 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers.
    PerF 10.69 18 Art is long, and life short, and [a man] must supply this disproportion by borrowing and applying to his task the energies of Nature. Reinforce his self-respect, show him...his arsenal of forces, physical, metaphysical, immortal.
    SovE 10.184 16 St. Pierre says of the animals that a moral sentiment seems to have determined their physical organization.
    SovE 10.187 11 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;-virtue meaning physical courage, then chastity and temperance, then justice and love;...
    Prch 10.236 14 We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...which yet is more than a match for any physical resistance.
    HDC 11.36 18 [The Indians'] physical powers...astonished the white men.
    War 11.152 18 War...perfects the physical constitution...
    FSLN 11.224 24 ...the appeal is sure to be made to [Webster's] physical and mental ability when his character is assailed.
    Wom 11.417 14 In all [literature], the body of the joke...is identical with Mahomet's opinion that women have not a sufficient moral or intellectual force to control the perturbations of their physical structure.
    Wom 11.422 22 There is no lack of votes representing the physical wants;...
    PLT 12.51 7 The secret of power, intellectual or physical, is concentration...
    MAng1 12.243 7 ...are we not authorized to say that...here was a man [Michelangelo] who lived to demonstrate that to the human faculties, on every hand, worlds of grandeur and grace are opened...which, to see and enjoy, demands the severest discipline of all the physical, intellectual and moral faculties of the individual?
    Milt1 12.262 13 ...as basis or fountain of his rare physical and intellectual accomplishments, the man Milton was just and devout.
    Trag 12.416 19 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature... has given me a temperament like a block of marble. Thunder cannot move it; the shaft merely glides along. The great events of my life have slipped over me without making any demand on my moral or physical nature.

physically, adv. (3)

    Nat 1.57 10 We become physically nimble and lightsome;...
    Bty 6.299 9 The man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches...
    Comc 8.158 1 ...the break of continuity in the intellect, is comedy, and it announces itself physically in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

physician, n. (24)

    Exp 3.51 15 I knew a witty physician who found the creed in the biliary duct...
    Exp 3.82 1 A wise and hardy physician will say, Come out of that, as the first condition of advice.
    NER 3.259 21 If the physician, the lawyer, the divine, never use [Greek and Latin] to come at their ends, I need never learn it to come at mine.
    UGM 4.12 25 Engineer...physician...inasmuch as he has any science,--is a definer and map-maker of the latitudes and longitudes of our condition.
    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.
    F 6.5 17 On the first [the appointed day], neither balm nor physician can save/...
    F 6.35 4 A learned physician tells us the fact is invariable with the Neapolitan...
    Ctr 6.132 5 The physician Sanctorius spent his life in a pair of scales, weighing his food.
    Ctr 6.138 25 To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.
    CbW 6.245 13 The physician prescribes hesitatingly out of his few resources the same tonic or sedative to this new and peculiar constitution which he has applied with various success to a hundred men before.
    Bty 6.284 24 Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.
    Clbs 7.227 12 The clergyman walks from house to house all day all the year to give people the comfort of good talk. The physician helps them mainly in the same way...
    Elo2 8.113 13 The orator is the physician.
    Comc 8.167 20 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician...
    Comc 8.174 7 When Carlini was convulsing Naples with laughter, a patient waited on a physician in that city, to obtain some remedy for excessive melancholy...
    Comc 8.174 10 The physician endeavored to cheer [his melancholy patient' s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre and see Carlini. He replied, I am Carlini.
    Grts 8.305 26 ...there is not a piece of Nature in any kind but a man is born who...aims...to dedicate himself to that. Then there is the poet...the physician.
    Aris 10.49 26 The prerogatives of a right physician are determined...by the health he restores to body and mind;...
    MoL 10.247 12 Disease alarms the family, but the physician sees in it a temporary mischief, which he can check and expel.
    LLNE 10.325 6 I recall the remark of a witty physician who remembered the hardships of his own youth;...
    Thor 10.478 6 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a physician to the wounds of any soul;...
    EWI 11.142 8 ...[the negro] is now the principal if not the only mechanic in the West Indies; and is, besides, an architect, a physician, a lawyer...
    MAng1 12.219 25 The symptoms disclose the constitution to the physician;...
    MLit 12.332 21 Humanity must wait for its physician still at the side of the road...

Physician, n. (1)

    MLit 12.332 24 ...they have served [humanity] better, who assured it out of the innocent hope in their hearts that a Physician will come, than this majestic Artist [Goethe]...

Physician of the Soul [Char (1)

    Plu 10.296 25 M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral philosophy, under the title of A Physician of the Soul...

physicians, n. (9)

    SL 2.155 22 The laws of disease, physicians say, are as beautiful as the laws of health.
    Exp 3.53 1 I know the mental proclivity of physicians.
    Exp 3.53 10 The physicians say they are not materialists; but they are...
    Pow 6.55 2 Courage, the old physicians taught...is as the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries.
    Ctr 6.132 24 In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round and continues to spin slowly on one spot.
    MoL 10.241 5 You go to be teachers, to become physicians, lawyers, divines;...
    II 12.85 10 A new constitution, a new fever, say the physicians.
    CW 12.177 17 ...physicians or naturalists are the only professional men who continue their tasks out of study-hours;...
    Milt1 12.265 22 [Milton]...deliberately undertakes the defence of the English people, when advised by his physicians that he does it at the cost of sight.

Physicians, n. (1)

    Aris 10.41 16 We shall come to add Kings in the Contents of the Directory, as we do Physicians, Brokers, etc.

physicist, n. (1)

    Plu 10.310 17 [Plutarch's] Natural History is that of a lover and poet, and not of a physicist.

physicists, n. (1)

    ET14 5.253 7 I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English] science, since they have known how to make it repulsive and bereave nature of its charm;--though perhaps...the vice attaches to many more than to British physicists.

physics, n. (11)

    Nat 1.33 4 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics.
    Nat 1.39 5 How calmly and genially the mind apprehends one after another the laws of physics!
    Nat 1.55 26 In physics, when [discovery of natural law] is attained, the memory disburthens itself of its cumbrous catalogues of particulars...
    Nat 1.56 3 Thus even in physics, the material is degraded before the spiritual;...
    Pt1 3.14 19 ...physics and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent;...
    Exp 3.52 25 On the platform of physics we cannot resist the contracting influences of so-called science.
    ET14 5.241 19 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics.
    ET14 5.245 1 [Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation, that no copula had been detected between any cause and effect, either in physics or in thought;...
    PI 8.7 21 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...a hint...showing unity and perfect order in physics.
    PI 8.8 7 Identity of law, perfect order in physics...exist.
    LLNE 10.329 6 ...chemistry, which is the analysis of matter, has taught us that we eat gas, drink gas, tread on gas, and are gas. The same decomposition has changed the whole face of physics;...

physiognomies, n. (1)

    SL 2.148 6 We see our evil affections embodied in bad physiognomies.

physiognomists, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.223 16 We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character...

physiognomy, n. (5)

    ET4 5.48 19 Each religious sect has its physiognomy.
    Wsp 6.229 20 Physiognomy and phrenology are not new sciences...
    Bty 6.300 18 Cardinal De Retz says of De Bouillon, With the physiognomy of an ox, he had the perspicacity of an eagle.
    DL 7.108 14 The physiognomy and phrenology of to-day are rash and mechanical systems enough...
    Dem1 10.10 22 We doubt not a man's fortune may be read...in the lines of his face, by physiognomy;...

Physiognomy, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.337 10 [The eagerness for reform] appeared in the popularity of Lavater's Physiognomy, now almost forgotten.

physiological, adj. (3)

    SR 2.66 22 Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye makes...
    F 6.13 9 A good deal of our politics is physiological.
    Dem1 10.24 16 ...suppose a diligent collection and study of these occult facts were made, they are merely physiological, semi-medical...

physiologist, n. (6)

    Nat 1.67 4 ...the problems to be solved are precisely those which the physiologist and the naturalist omit to state.
    MN 1.200 3 In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes that no chemistry...can account for the facts...
    Comp 2.97 18 ...in the animal kingdom the physiologist has observed that no creatures are favorites...
    Comc 8.167 4 The physiologist Camper humorously confesses the effect of his studies in dislocating his ordinary associations.
    CL 12.140 17 So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part to sympathize...
    CL 12.164 27 We are not to be imposed upon by the apparatus and the nomenclature of the physiologist.

physiologists, n. (1)

    Bost 12.183 1 The old physiologists said, There is in the air a hidden food of life;...

physiology, n. (6)

    MN 1.216 11 The doctrine in vegetable physiology of the presence or the general influence of any substance over and above its chemical influence... is more predicable of man.
    Nat2 3.179 6 Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology;...and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.
    SwM 4.99 8 Such a boy [as Swedenborg]...goes...prying into...physiology, mathematics and astronomy...
    ET4 5.46 21 We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law of physiology that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the same place in its congener;...
    ET14 5.250 15 Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann, has brought to metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor...
    Pow 6.55 3 Courage, the old physicians taught (and their meaning holds, if their physiology is a little mythical)...is as the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries.

Physiology, n. (1)

    Nat 1.39 18 ...weigh the problems suggested concerning...Physiology...and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.

Physiology of Taste [Brilla (1)

    Res 8.150 27 I do not know that the treatise of Brillat-Savarin on the Physiology of Taste deserves its fame.

physique, n. (2)

    Hist 2.26 6 [Vases, tragedies, statues] have continued to be made in all ages, and are now, wherever a healthy physique exists;...
    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.

pianist, n. (1)

    ET6 5.112 12 When Thalberg the pianist was one evening performing before the Queen at Windsor, in a private party, the Queen accompanied him with her voice.

piano, adj. (1)

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

piano, n. (4)

    Pow 6.79 12 Six hours every day at the piano, only to give facility of touch;...
    Civ 7.17 13 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./
    Civ 7.21 22 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier.
    Elo1 7.65 10 Him we call an artist who shall play on an assembly of men as a master on the keys of the piano...

Piazza del Gran Duca, Flor (1)

    MAng1 12.229 19 In the Piazza del Gran Duca at Florence, stands, in the open air, [Michelangelo's] David...

piazza, n. (2)

    Boks 7.216 10 I remember when some peering eyes of boys discovered that the oranges hanging on the boughs of an orange-tree in a gay piazza were tied to the twigs by thread.
    MAng1 12.225 27 ...[Michelangelo] arranged the piazza of the Capitol [Rome], and built its porticos.

pibroch, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.411 5 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] was...a quite clannish instrument, a pibroch...

Picard, Jean, n. (1)

    Res 8.137 13 ...whether searched by the plough of Adam...the surveyor's chain of Picard, or the submarine telegraph,--to every one of these experiments [the earth] makes a gracious response.

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