Poets to Polls

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

Poets [John Aiken], n. (1)

    PI 8.25 7 When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me... Aiken's Poets...I am quite of their mind.

poets, n. (156)

    Nat 1.27 22 These [analogies] are not the dreams of a few poets...
    Nat 1.52 16 Shakspeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets.
    AmS 1.91 7 The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.
    AmS 1.91 27 We read the verses of one of the great English poets...with the most modern joy...
    AmS 1.111 26 ...let me see...the shop, the plough, and the ledger referred to the like cause by which light undulates and poets sing;...
    DSA 1.147 25 ...the poets...encroach on us only...by our allowance and homage.
    LE 1.167 23 Further inquiry will discover...that not these chanting poets themselves, knew anything sincere of these handsome natures they so commended;...
    LE 1.168 17 Whilst I read the poets, I think that nothing new can be said about morning and evening.
    LE 1.169 19 All men are poets at heart.
    LE 1.174 25 The poets who have lived in cities have been hermits still.
    MN 1.211 13 If the theory has receded out of modern criticism, it is because we have not had poets.
    MN 1.212 23 ...[the stars] would have such poets as Newton, Herschel and Laplace, that they may re-exist and re-appear in the finer world of rational souls...
    MN 1.222 19 The only way into nature is to enact our best insight. Instantly we are higher poets...
    MR 1.227 11 ...prophets and poets...we are not now...
    Hist 2.6 14 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures...anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men;...
    Hist 2.31 12 Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus, said the poets.
    Hist 2.34 9 ...Plato said that poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
    Hist 2.38 26 [A man] shall walk, as the poets have described that goddess, in a robe painted all over with wonderful events and experiences;...
    SR 2.70 10 ...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all...poets, who are not.
    Comp 2.107 21 The poets related that stone walls and iron swords and leathern thongs had an occult sympathy with the wrongs of their owners;...
    SL 2.136 13 We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn; poets will sing;...
    Prd1 2.231 1 We do not know the properties of plants and animals and the laws of nature, through our sympathy with the same; but this remains the dream of poets.
    Prd1 2.231 2 Poets should be lawgivers;...
    OS 2.287 6 The great distinction...between poets like Herbert, and poets like Pope...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    OS 2.287 7 The great distinction...between poets like Herbert, and poets like Pope...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    OS 2.288 20 There is in all great poets a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.
    OS 2.289 2 ...[Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul...
    Int 2.336 4 ...in our happy hours we should be inexhaustible poets if once we could break through the silence into adequate rhyme.
    Int 2.341 14 ...it is given to few men to be poets...
    Pt1 3.4 6 ...even the poets are contented with a civil and conformed manner of living...
    Pt1 3.7 18 ...some men, namely poets, are natural sayers...
    Pt1 3.9 21 Our poets are men of talents who sing...
    Pt1 3.15 16 Is it only poets, and men of leisure and cultivation, who live with [nature]?
    Pt1 3.16 11 The schools of poets and philosophers are not more intoxicated with their symbols than the populace with theirs.
    Pt1 3.17 1 ...[the people] are all poets and mystics!
    Pt1 3.21 24 The poets made all the words...
    Pt1 3.28 12 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty, as painters, poets, musicians and actors, have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...
    Pt1 3.30 10 We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air. This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles and all poetic forms. Poets are thus liberating gods.
    Pt1 3.32 1 The poets are thus liberating gods.
    Pt1 3.38 11 If I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries of English poets.
    Pt1 3.38 12 [The English poets] are wits more than poets, though there have been poets among them
    Pt1 3.40 27 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael, have obviously no limits to their works except the limits of their lifetime...
    Exp 3.61 7 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us. If these are mean and malignant, their contentment, which is the last victory of justice, is a more satisfying echo to the heart than the voice of poets...
    Exp 3.78 18 Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it;...
    Mrs1 3.151 9 Steep us, we cried [to women], in these influences, for days, for weeks, and we shall be sunny poets...
    Mrs1 3.152 1 [Lilla] did not study...the books of the seven poets...
    NR 3.227 7 All our poets, heroes and saints, fail utterly in some one or in many parts to satisfy our idea...
    NER 3.275 13 ...a naval and military honor...the laurel of poets...have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    SwM 4.93 9 A higher class, in the estimation and love of this city-building market-going race of mankind, are the poets...
    SwM 4.117 7 The poets, in as far as they are poets, use [Correspondence];...
    SwM 4.117 8 The poets, in as far as they are poets, use [Correspondence];...
    SwM 4.141 8 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads when once the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit is sounded...
    MoS 4.150 13 Plotinus believes only in philosophers;...Pindar and Byron, in poets.
    MoS 4.174 27 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century, from Byron, Goethe and other poets of less fame...I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination;...
    ShP 4.191 4 Men, nations, poets, artisans, women, all have worked for [the great man]...
    ShP 4.197 10 ...[Homer, Chaucer, Saadi] are librarians and historiographers, as well as poets.
    ShP 4.197 27 ...Petrarch, Boccaccio and the Provencal poets are [Chaucer' s] benefactors...
    ShP 4.202 22 A popular player;--nobody suspected [Shakespeare] was the poet of the human race; and the secret was kept as faithfully from poets and intellectual men as from courtiers and frivolous people.
    ShP 4.216 21 ...[solitude] can teach us to spare both heroes and poets;...
    ET8 5.139 1 To understand the power of performance that is in their finest wits...in the versatile transcendent poets...one should see how English day-laborers hold out.
    ET9 5.150 10 The habit of brag runs through all classes [in England], from the Times newspaper through politicians and poets...
    ET11 5.190 19 In the roll of [English] nobles are found poets, philosophers, chemists, astronomers...
    ET14 5.236 26 I could cite from the seventeenth century [in England] sentences and phrases of edge not to be matched in the nineteenth. Their poets by simple force of mind equalized themselves with the accumulated science of ours.
    ET14 5.237 3 The country gentlemen [in England] had a posset or drink they called October; and the poets, as if by this hint, knew how to distil the whole season into their autumnal verses...
    ET14 5.238 13 'T is a very old strife between those who elect to see identity and those who elect to see discrepancies; and it renews itself in Britain. The poets, of course, are of one part; the men of the world, of the other.
    ET14 5.256 12 ...if I should count the poets who have contributed to the Bible of existing England sentences of guidance and consolation which are still glowing and effective,--how few!
    ET14 5.256 16 ...if I should count the poets who have contributed to the Bible of existing England sentences of guidance and consolation which are still glowing and effective,--how few! Shall I find my heavenly bread in the reigning poets?
    ET14 5.256 23 ...the grave old [English] poets...heeded their designs, and less considered the finish.
    ET14 5.258 4 The best office of the best poets has been to show how low and uninspired was their general style...
    ET17 5.292 26 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...the younger poets, Clough, Arnold and Patmore;...
    F 6.21 2 ...if we give it the high sense in which the poets use it, even thought itself is not above Fate;...
    Ctr 6.133 26 ...if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis [egotism]...
    Ctr 6.136 23 ...our talents are as mischievous as if each had been seized upon by some bird of prey which had whisked him away from fortune... from the dear society of the poets;...
    Bhr 6.191 10 ...poets have often nothing poetical about them except their verses.
    Wsp 6.205 15 The Greek poets did not hesitate to let loose their petulant wit on their deities also.
    Wsp 6.207 1 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath.
    Bty 6.281 7 ...poets and romancers talk of herbs of grace and healing...
    Bty 6.304 25 The poets are quite right in decking their mistresses with the spoils of the landscape...
    Bty 6.305 24 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns. This is that haughty force of beauty... which the poets praise...
    Art2 7.50 7 The first time you hear [good poetry], it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet. The feeling of all great poets has accorded with this.
    Elo1 7.65 21 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in the Pied Piper of Hamelin...
    Elo1 7.73 25 [Pleasing speech] is heard like a band of music passing through the streets, which converts all the passengers into poets...
    WD 7.176 13 ...it was the rule of our poets, in the legends of fairy lore, that the fairies largest in power were the least in size.
    WD 7.180 12 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will...sit at home with repose and deep joy on its face. The world has no such landscape...the future no equal second opportunity. Now let poets sing!...
    Boks 7.202 11 The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is the discovery...that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes...and from the comic poets.
    PI 8.3 21 In spite of all the joys of poets and the joys of saints, the most imaginative and abstracted person never makes with impunity the least mistake in this particular,--never tries to kindle his oven with water...
    PI 8.19 6 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes. And thus begins that deification which all nations have made of their heroes in every kind,--saints, poets, lawgivers and warriors.
    PI 8.19 17 ...Poets are standing transporters, whose employment consists in speaking to the Father and to matter;...
    PI 8.22 26 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds...
    PI 8.25 5 This metonymy, or seeing the same sense in things so diverse, gives a pure pleasure. Every one of a million times we find a charm in the metamorphosis. It makes us dance and sing. All men are so far poets.
    PI 8.29 25 Veracity...is that which we require in poets...
    PI 8.44 24 In dreams we are true poets;...
    PI 8.50 9 There are also prose poets.
    PI 8.50 15 Thomas Moore had the magnanimity to say, If Burke and Bacon were not poets...he did not know what poetry meant.
    PI 8.50 20 ...every good reader will easily recall expressions or passages in works of pure science which have given him the same pleasure which he seeks in professed poets.
    PI 8.52 20 ...we have not done with music, no, nor with rhyme, nor must console ourselves with prose poets so long as boys whistle and girls sing.
    PI 8.57 9 It costs the early bard little talent to chant more impressively than the later, more cultivated poets.
    PI 8.63 6 We are sometimes apprised that...the high poets...do not fully content us.
    PI 8.63 17 There is something...the eminent scholars of England, historians and reviewers, romancers and poets included, might deny and blaspheme it,--which is setting us and them aside...and planting itself.
    PI 8.63 24 ...none of your carpet poets...will satisfy us.
    PI 8.64 9 Bring us...men-making poets;...
    PI 8.65 19 In the world of letters how few commanding oracles! Homer did what he could; Pindar, Aeschylus, and the Greek Gnomic poets...
    PI 8.69 1 Vexatious to find poets, who are by excellence the thinking and feeling of the world, deficient in truth of intellect and of affection.
    PI 8.73 13 We must not conclude against poetry from the defects of poets.
    PI 8.73 26 In the mire of the sensual life, [poets'] religion, their poets...are hosts of ideals...
    PI 8.74 17 O yes, poets we shall have...
    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...
    QO 8.182 20 What divines had assumed as the distinctive revelations of Christianity, theologic criticism has matched by exact parallelisms from the Stoics and poets of Greece and Rome.
    QO 8.194 16 ...a passage from one of the poets, borrows new interest from the rendering...
    QO 8.199 14 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached through all thinkers, poets, inventors and wits...
    QO 8.202 10 There is always in [originals] a style and weight of speech... which cannot be counterfeited. Hence the permanence of the high poets.
    QO 8.202 11 Plato, Cicero and Plutarch cite the poets in the manner in which Scripture is quoted in our churches.
    QO 8.202 17 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: importing that the bard spoke not his own, but the words of some god. True poets have always ascended to this lofty platform...
    PC 8.229 1 It happens sometimes that poets do not believe their own poetry;...
    PC 8.229 2 It happens sometimes that poets do not believe their own poetry; they are so much the less poets.
    PPo 8.237 5 [Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into German...specimens of two hundred [Persian] poets...
    PPo 8.239 22 Such [amatory] verses, chanted by their self-taught poets... will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat...
    PPo 8.244 11 Hafiz is the prince of Persian poets...
    PPo 8.251 1 ...Hafiz is a poet for poets...
    PPo 8.254 6 O Hafiz! speak not of thy need;/ Are not these verses thine?/ Then all the poets are agreed,/ No man can less repine./
    PPo 8.258 13 Friendship is a favorite topic of the Eastern poets...
    PPo 8.261 16 We add to these fragments of Hafiz a few specimens from other poets.
    PPo 8.262 12 The following passages exhibit the strong tendency of the Persian poets to contemplative and religious poetry and to allegory.
    Insp 8.277 7 ...all poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves...
    Insp 8.294 17 What is best in literature is the affirming, prophesying, spermatic words of men-making poets.
    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.
    Dem1 10.12 23 In the hands of poets...nothing in the line of [the occult sciences'] character and genius would surprise us.
    Chr2 10.98 1 We affirm that in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and command;...that it distances and degrades all statements of whatever saints, heroes, poets, as obscure and confused stammerings before its silent revelation.
    Schr 10.262 23 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be (as the poets were called in the Middle Ages) Professors of the Joyous Science...
    Schr 10.264 27 The poet with poets betrays no amiable weakness.
    Schr 10.270 6 'T is wonderful, 't is almost scandalous, this extraordinary favoritism shown to poets.
    Plu 10.297 14 [Plutarch] is, among prose writers, what Chaucer is among English poets...
    Plu 10.301 12 [Plutarch] gossips of heroes, philosophers and poets;...
    Plu 10.305 12 ...I had rather a great deal that men should say, There was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat up his children as soon as they were born, as the poets speak of Saturn.
    Plu 10.305 15 [Plutarch's] chapter On Fortune should be read by poets, and other wise men;...
    Thor 10.464 13 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...which showed him the material world as a means and symbol. This discovery, which sometimes yields to poets a certain casual and interrupted light...was in him an unsleeping insight;...
    Wom 11.412 13 [Women] are poets who believe their own poetry.
    SHC 11.435 14 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century...heroes, poets, beauties, sanctities, benefactors, will have made the air timeable and articulate.
    Shak1 11.446 8 ...centuries brood, nor can attain/ The sense and bound of Shakspeare's brain./ The men who lived with him became/ Poets, for the air was fame./
    Scot 11.467 1 [Scott's] strong good sense saved him from the faults and foibles incident to poets...
    FRep 11.515 18 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then gods join in the combat; then poets are born, and the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    PLT 12.14 21 [Philosophy] will one day be taught by poets.
    PLT 12.57 14 The men we know, poets, wits, writers, deal with their thoughts as jewellers with jewels...
    Mem 12.95 21 ...the poets represented the Muses as the daughters of Memory...
    Mem 12.108 7 I...can drop easily many poets out of the Elizabethan chronology, but not Shakspeare.
    CInt 12.122 6 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...dwelling amidst...lectures, poets, libraries, newspapers...are more vicious and malignant than the rude country people...
    CL 12.152 4 ...[in October] all the trees are wind-harps, filling the air with music; and all men become poets...
    CL 12.156 2 ...mountains are silent poets...
    CL 12.164 21 ...the best passages of great poets, old and new, are often simple enumerations of some features of landscape.
    Milt1 12.260 20 The world, no doubt, contains many of that class of men whom Wordsworth denominates silent poets...
    MLit 12.321 15 There is in [Wordsworth] that property common to all great poets, a wisdom of humanity, which is superior to any talents which they exert.
    MLit 12.321 18 ...[Shakespeare and Milton] are poets by the free course which they allow to the informing soul...
    MLit 12.329 6 We can fancy [Goethe] saying to himself: There are poets enough of the Ideal; let me paint the Actual...
    MLit 12.332 9 [Goethe] was content to fall into the track of vulgar poets...
    MLit 12.332 15 [Goethe] has written better than other poets only as his talent was subtler...
    EurB 12.367 27 We have poets who write the poetry of society...

poet's, n. (18)

    DSA 1.129 10 The understanding caught this high chant from the poet's lips...
    Hist 2.17 25 The true poem is the poet's mind;...
    Pt1 3.13 7 ...let us...observe how nature, by worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming...
    Pt1 3.23 22 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...a fearless, vivacious offspring, clad with wings...which carry them fast and far, and infix them irrecoverably into the hearts of men. These wings are the beauty of the poet's soul.
    Pt1 3.26 14 The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.
    Pt1 3.29 12 ...the poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
    MoS 4.163 19 [Montaigne's Essays] is the only book which we certainly know to have been in the poet's [Shakespeare's] library.
    ShP 4.203 26 Our poet's [Shakespeare's] mask was impenetrable.
    ShP 4.215 15 In the poet's mind the fact has gone quite over into the new element of thought, and has lost all that is exuvial.
    Wth 6.84 14 ...New slaves fulfilled the poet's dream,/ Galvanic wire, strong-shouldered steam./
    Plu 10.299 2 ...[Plutarch] has a taste for common life, and knows...the forge, farm, kitchen and cellar, and every utensil and use, and with a wise man's or a poet's eye.
    CPL 11.494 2 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...
    CPL 11.494 3 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.
    Milt1 12.253 3 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation which told...that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible; the perception and enjoyment of...his perfect fusion of the classic and the English styles. This is a poet's right;...
    Milt1 12.275 5 ...throughout [Milton's] poems, one may see, under a thin veil, the opinions, the feelings, even the incidents of the poet's life...
    Milt1 12.275 22 ...in Paradise Regained, we have the most distinct marks of the progress of the poet's mind...
    MLit 12.314 21 ...the criterion which discriminates these two habits [of subjectiveness] in the poet's mind is the tendency of his composition;...
    EurB 12.365 21 [Wordsworth's] are such verses as in a just state of culture should be vers de societe, such as every gentleman could write but none would think...of claiming the poet's laurel on their merit.

point, n. (212)

    Nat 1.24 8 The poet...the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point...
    Nat 1.39 15 What we know is a point to what we do not know.
    Nat 1.50 20 The least change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
    Nat 1.51 6 ...the most wonted objects, (make a very slight change in the point of vision,) please us most.
    Nat 1.65 6 [The world] is a fixed point whereby we may measure our departure.
    Nat 1.75 19 It were a wise inquiry...to compare, point by point...our daily history with the rise and progress of ideas in the mind.
    Nat 1.75 20 It were a wise inquiry...to compare, point by point...our daily history with the rise and progress of ideas in the mind.
    Nat 1.76 15 ...point for point your dominion is as great as [Adam's and Caesar's]...
    AmS 1.108 8 ...we have come up with the point of view which the universal mind took through the eyes of one scribe;...
    DSA 1.124 20 In so far as [a man] roves from these [good] ends...he becomes less and less...a point...
    DSA 1.128 18 I shall endeavor to discharge my duty to you on this occasion, by pointing out two errors in [the Christian church's] administration, which daily appear more gross from the point of view we have just now taken.
    DSA 1.130 9 In this point of view we become sensible of the first defect of historical Christianity.
    MN 1.205 11 ...the point of greatest interest is where the land and water meet.
    MN 1.209 1 ...[a man's] health and erectness consist in the fidelity with which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point on which his genius can act.
    YA 1.393 24 Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador for neglecting serious affairs in Italy, whilst he debated some point of honor with the French ambassador;...
    Hist 2.8 22 ...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history is commonly read...to himself...
    SR 2.68 4 ...when [children] come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings, they understand them...
    SR 2.77 18 Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
    Comp 2.102 2 The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point.
    Comp 2.107 27 ...the sword which Hector gave Ajax was that on whose point Ajax fell.
    Comp 2.110 19 No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, said Burke.
    Comp 2.117 2 ...no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him...
    Comp 2.118 7 It is more [a wise man's] interest than it is [his assailants'] to find his weak point.
    SL 2.138 9 Every man sees that he is that middle point whereof every thing may be affirmed and denied with equal reason.
    SL 2.161 25 The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his whole being without obstruction, so that on what point soever of his doing your eye falls it shall report truly of his character...
    SL 2.162 8 Why should we make it a point with our false modesty to disparage that man we are...
    Lov1 2.171 19 Every thing is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth.
    Fdsp 2.195 12 I confess to an extreme tenderness of nature on this point [of friendship].
    Cir 2.311 27 Literature is a point outside of our hodiernal circle through which a new one may be described.
    Cir 2.316 2 ...one man's wisdom [is] another's folly; as one beholds the same objects from a higher point.
    Pt1 3.30 21 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definition; as when...Plato defines a line to be a flowing point;...
    Exp 3.70 8 The ancients...exalted Chance into a divinity; but that is to stay too long at the spark, which glitters truly at one point, but the universe is warm with the latency of the same fire.
    Exp 3.70 14 In the growth of the embryo, Sir Everard Home I think noticed that the evolution was not from one central point...
    Exp 3.77 22 Two human beings are like globes, which can touch only in a point...
    Exp 3.78 25 Especially the crimes that spring from love seem right and fair from the actor's point of view...
    Exp 3.79 13 Saints are sad, because they behold sin...from the point of view of the conscience...
    Mrs1 3.122 16 The point of distinction in all this class of names, as courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that the flower and fruit, not the grain of the tree, are contemplated.
    Mrs1 3.126 27 [Fine manners] are a subtler science of defence to parry and intimidate; but once matched by the skill of the other party, they drop the point of the sword...
    Mrs1 3.134 19 It was...a very natural point of old feudal etiquette that a gentleman who received a visit...should not leave his roof...
    Mrs1 3.136 5 ...the first point of courtesy must always be truth...
    Nat2 3.172 3 The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality meet.
    Nat2 3.174 14 ...we knew of [the rich man's] villa, his grove, his wine and his company, but the provocation and point of the invitation came out of these beguiling stars.
    Nat2 3.176 6 In every landscape the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth...
    Nat2 3.187 15 ...each [man] has a vein of folly in his composition...to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which nature had taken to heart.
    NR 3.232 23 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...but there is such equality and identity both of judgment and point of view in the narrative that it is plainly the work of one all-seeing, all-hearing gentleman.
    NR 3.246 7 ...every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
    NR 3.247 23 ...if there could be any regulation...that a man should never leave his point of view without sound of trumpet.
    UGM 4.12 24 Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky.
    UGM 4.18 17 Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of Aristotle...in religion the history of hierarchies, of saints, and the sects which have taken the name of each founder, are in point.
    UGM 4.26 2 Viewed from any high point, this city of New York...would seem a bundle of insanities.
    UGM 4.33 25 The genius of humanity is the right point of view of history.
    PPh 4.66 8 The Koran is explicit on this point of caste.
    PNR 4.86 15 [Plato] has indicated every eminent point in speculation.
    SwM 4.107 11 In the plant, the eye or germinative point opens to a leaf...
    SwM 4.140 12 ...the right examples are private experiences, which are absolutely at one on this point.
    ShP 4.189 11 ...seeing what men want and sharing their desire, [the hero] adds the needful length of sight and of arm, to come at the desired point.
    ShP 4.195 6 In point of fact it appears that Shakspeare did owe debts in all directions...
    ShP 4.209 24 What point of morals...has [Shakespeare] not settled?
    ShP 4.213 23 [Shakespeare] carried his powerful execution into minute details, to a hair point;...
    NMW 4.225 11 Napoleon...at the highest point of his fortunes, has the very spirit of the newspapers.
    NMW 4.229 27 [The art of war] consisted, according to [Bonaparte], in having always more forces than the enemy, on the point where the enemy is attacked, or where he attacks...
    NMW 4.230 7 ...a very small force, skilfully and rapidly manoeuvring so as always to bring two men against one at the point of engagement, will be an overmatch for a much larger body of men.
    NMW 4.232 7 [Bonaparte] sees where the matter hinges, throws himself on the precise point of resistance...
    NMW 4.236 5 On any point of resistance [Bonaparte] concentrated squadron on squadron in overwhelming numbers...
    NMW 4.236 22 At Lonato, and at other places, [Napoleon] was on the point of being taken prisoner.
    ET3 5.37 9 ...some signs portend that [London] has reached its highest point.
    ET3 5.39 2 The constant rain...brings agricultural production [in England] up to the highest point.
    ET4 5.44 9 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law...nor did he...count with precision the existing races and settle the true bounds; a point of nicety...
    ET4 5.49 21 ...all our historical period is a point to the duration in which nature has wrought.
    ET4 5.56 19 Bonaparte's art of war, namely of concentrating force on the point of attack, must always be theirs who have the choice of the battle-ground.
    ET4 5.69 13 Good feeding is a chief point of national pride among the vulgar [in England]...
    ET5 5.87 13 It is not usually a point of honor...that [the English] will shed their blood for;...
    ET5 5.101 10 The chancellor carries England on his mace, the midshipman at the point of his dirk...
    ET6 5.113 8 [The English] value themselves...on conciseness and going to the point, in private affairs.
    ET9 5.151 26 Nature trips us up when we strut; and there are curious examples in history on this very point of national pride.
    ET10 5.155 15 To pay their debts is [the Englishmen's] national point of honor.
    ET10 5.169 9 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that...the dreadful barometer of the poor-rates was touching the point of ruin.
    ET12 5.204 23 Seven years' residence [at Oxford] is the theoretic period for a master's degree. In point of fact, it has long been three years' residence, and four years more of standing.
    ET13 5.228 2 ...you, who are an honest man in other particulars [than conformity], know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also that he shall not kneel to false gods...
    ET14 5.239 6 [Idealism] seems an affair of race, or of meta-chemistry;--the vital point being, how far the sense of unity, or instinct for seeking resemblances, predominated.
    ET15 5.270 25 ...when [the editors of the London Times] see that [authors of each liberal movement] have established their fact, that power is on the point of passing to them, they strike in with the voice of a monarch...
    ET16 5.282 2 ...here is the high point of [Stukeley's] theory [of Stonehenge]...
    F 6.24 13 ...no bribe shall make [man] give up his point.
    F 6.27 4 ...now we are as men in a balloon, and do not think so much of the point we have left...as of the liberty and glory of the way.
    F 6.27 5 ...now we are as men in a balloon, and do not think so much...of the point we would make, as of the liberty and glory of the way.
    F 6.31 15 To a certain point, [men] believe themselves the care of a Providence.
    F 6.36 18 ...find if you can a point where there is no thread of connection [between fate and freedom].
    Pow 6.57 6 So a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers, of unseen oceans, which are covered with barks that night and day are drifted to this point.
    Pow 6.60 10 Here is question, every spring...whether to whitewash, or to potash, or to prune; but the one point is the thrifty tree.
    Pow 6.64 2 ...here is my point,--that all kinds of power usually emerge at the same time;...
    Pow 6.76 11 There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest;...
    Pow 6.80 5 Indifferent hacks and mediocrities tower, by pushing their forces to a lucrative point...
    Wth 6.90 25 ...it is a peremptory point of virtue that a man's independence be secured.
    Wth 6.112 10 [Each man] wants an equipment of means and tools proper to his talent. And to save on this point were to neutralize the special strength and helpfulness of each mind.
    Wth 6.117 6 ...after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.
    Wth 6.123 10 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for...the convenience to the pasture, the garden, the field and the road. So Dock Square yields the point, and things have their own way.
    Wth 6.124 5 Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow...
    Ctr 6.134 7 The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity that nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the passion...
    Ctr 6.147 6 A foreign country is a point of comparison wherefrom to judge [a man's] own.
    Ctr 6.149 20 You cannot have one well-bred man without a whole society of such. They keep each other up to any high point.
    Ctr 6.156 15 ...the wise instructor will press this point of securing to the young soul in the disposition of time and the arrangements of living, periods and habits of solitude.
    Bhr 6.176 20 Every man...looks with confidence for some traits and talents in his own child which he would not dare to presume in the child of a stranger. The Orientalists are very orthodox on this point.
    Bhr 6.182 26 ...it is a point of pride with kings to remember faces and names.
    Bhr 6.188 15 ...it is a point of prudent good manners to treat these reputations tenderly...
    Bhr 6.188 27 A man who is sure of his point, carries a broad and contented expression...
    Bhr 6.192 6 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last the point is gained...
    Wsp 6.217 2 ...we very slowly admit in another man...an ear to hear acuter notes of right and wrong than we can. I think we listen suspiciously and very slowly to any evidence to that point.
    CbW 6.258 6 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls... on...some trade or politics of the hour, he...seems inspired and a godsend to those who wish to magnify the matter and carry a point.
    CbW 6.264 27 You may rub the same chip of pine to the point of kindling a hundred times;...
    CbW 6.266 17 All America seems on the point of embarking for Europe.
    CbW 6.273 6 ...few writers have said anything better to this point [of friendship] than Hafiz...
    CbW 6.275 1 ...a habit of union and competition brings people up and keeps them up to their highest point;...
    CbW 6.275 15 Do not make life hard to any. This point is acquiring new importance in American social life.
    SS 7.3 23 There was some paralysis on [my new friend's] will, such that when he met men on common terms he spoke...from the point, like a flighty girl.
    Civ 7.21 2 ...chiefly the seashore has been the point of departure, to knowledge, as to commerce.
    Civ 7.26 18 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes the point of honor, as in the institution of chivalry;...
    Civ 7.31 6 What a benefit would the American government...render to itself...if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition!
    Art2 7.41 22 The veranda or pagoda roof can curve upward only to a certain point.
    Art2 7.53 22 The Iliad of Homer...the plays of Shakspeare...were made...in tears and smiles of suffering and loving men. Viewed from this point the history of Art becomes intelligible...
    Art2 7.55 18 The leaning towers originated from the civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower. Then it became a point of family pride...
    Elo1 7.92 15 In transcendent eloquence, there was ever some crisis in affairs, such as could deeply engage the man to the cause he pleads, and draw all this wide power to a point.
    Elo1 7.94 4 The orator is thereby an orator, that he keeps his feet ever on a fact. Thus only is he invincible. No gifts...will make any amends for want of this. All audiences are just to this point.
    Elo1 7.98 13 It is only to these simple strokes [of the moral sentiment] that the highest power belongs,--when a weak human hand touches, point by point, the eternal beams and rafters on which the whole structure of Nature and society is laid.
    Farm 7.143 12 Nature works on a method of all for each and each for all. The strain that is made on one point bears on every arch and foundation of the structure.
    WD 7.177 3 The highest heaven of wisdom is alike near from every point...
    Clbs 7.236 20 ...Dr. Johnson impresses his company, not only by the point of the remark, but also...because he makes it.
    Clbs 7.236 21 ...Dr. Johnson impresses his company, not only by the point of the remark, but also, when the point fails, because he makes it.
    Cour 7.255 3 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end;...and leads them in glad surprise to the very point where they would be...
    Suc 7.294 7 I gain my point...if I can reach my companion with any statement which teaches him his own worth.
    Suc 7.295 3 ...it is a nice point to discriminate this self-trust...from the disease to which it is allied,--the exaggeration of the part which we can play;...
    Suc 7.295 17 My next point is that in the scale of powers it is not talent but sensibility which is best...
    OA 7.318 25 From the point of sensuous experience...the estimate of age is low...
    OA 7.331 4 Goethe himself carried this completion of studies to the highest point.
    PI 8.8 11 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...
    SA 8.83 5 'T is a great point in a gallery, how you hang pictures;...
    SA 8.86 19 The attitude is the main point...
    SA 8.88 3 ...a king or a general does not need a fine coat, and a commanding person may save himself all solicitude on that point.
    SA 8.96 23 The main point is to throw yourself on the truth...
    SA 8.103 26 That is the point which decides the welfare of a people; which way does it look?
    Elo2 8.125 9 ...[the man in the street]...can always get the ear of an audience to the exclusion of everybody else. Well, this is an example in point. That something which each man was created to say and do, he only or he best can tell you...
    Comc 8.159 27 ...the best of all jokes is the sympathetic contemplation of things by the understanding from the philosopher's point of view.
    Comc 8.160 20 ...all falsehoods, all vices...seen from the point where our moral sympathies do not interfere, become ludicrous.
    QO 8.193 9 ...it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others, as it is to invent. Always...some sudden alteration...of point of view, betrays the foreign interpolation.
    QO 8.203 11 The earliest describers of savage life...have a charm of truth and just point of view.
    PC 8.225 25 The sublime point of experience is the value of a sufficient man.
    PC 8.228 3 If [men in Kansas and California] are made as [the wise man] is...he knows that their joy or resentment rises to the same point as his own.
    PPo 8.262 21 A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/ So that all which delighted the eye in one side,/ The same, point for point, in the other replied./
    Insp 8.273 17 A glimpse, a point of view that by its brightness excludes the purview is granted, but no panorama.
    Insp 8.273 19 A fuller inspiration should cause the point to flow and become a line...
    Grts 8.307 11 A point of education that I can never too much insist upon is this tenet that every individual man has a bias which he must obey...
    Grts 8.313 23 ...Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
    Imtl 8.340 17 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers...came to this point, that whatsoever motions the spirit of man could act and perform without the organs of the body, might remain after death;...
    Imtl 8.341 11 What we know is a point to what we do not know.
    Aris 10.44 22 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow; but just as easily he...could lay his hand as readily on one as on another point in that series which opens the capability to the last point.
    Aris 10.44 23 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow; but just as easily he...could lay his hand as readily on one as on another point in that series which opens the capability to the last point.
    PerF 10.80 7 ...[Bonaparte's] will is an immense battery discharging irresistible volleys of power always at the right point in the right time.
    PerF 10.83 26 ...[the world's energies] work together on a system of mutual aid...the strain made on one point bears on every arch and foundation of the structure.
    Edc1 10.145 23 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone...
    Supl 10.163 13 There is a superlative temperament which...swiftly oscillates from the freezing to the boiling point...
    SovE 10.184 23 The animal who is wholly kept down in Nature has no anxieties. By yielding, as he must do, to it, he is enlarged and reaches his highest point.
    SovE 10.189 14 The excellence of men consists in the completeness with which the lower system is taken up into the higher-a process...in which no point of the lower should be left untranslated;...
    Plu 10.299 24 ...Montaigne excelled his master [Plutarch] in the point and surprise of his sentences.
    Plu 10.321 22 We owe to these translators [of Plutarch] many sharp perceptions of the wit and humor of their author, sometimes even to the adding of the point.
    LLNE 10.328 15 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France. Oh, no, set your heart at rest on that point, said the landlord;...
    LLNE 10.340 12 Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with George Ripley, to the point whether it were possible to bring cultivated, thoughtful people together...
    LLNE 10.341 27 ...the men of talent complained of the want of point and precision in this abstract and religious thinker [Alcott].
    LLNE 10.342 8 ...at a knotty point in the discourse, a sympathizing Englishman...interrupted...
    EzRy 10.385 26 [Ezra Ripley] looked at every person and thing from the parochial point of view.
    EzRy 10.393 15 [Ezra Ripley] was sincere, and kept to his point...
    EzRy 10.394 2 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...
    SlHr 10.438 18 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
    SlHr 10.442 3 ...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, whose force had imprinted it on his memory, and, by the same token, his hearers were bound to remember his point.
    LS 11.22 6 ...although for the satisfaction of others I have labored to show by the history that this rite [the Lord's Supper] was not intended to be perpetual; although I have gone back to weigh the expressions of Paul, I feel that here is the true point of view.
    EWI 11.102 2 In the oldest temples of Egypt, negro captives are painted on the tombs of kings, in such attitudes as to show that they are on the point of being executed;...
    EWI 11.121 14 ...every man's position [in Jamaica] is settled by the same circumstances which regulate that point in other free countries...
    EWI 11.137 25 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It gave that tenacity to their point which has insured ultimate triumph...
    EWI 11.138 7 ...we are indebted mainly to this movement [for emancipation in the West Indies] and to the continuers of it, for the popular discussion of every point of practical ethics...
    EWI 11.139 18 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely, to put every man on his merits...
    EWI 11.142 12 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]...
    FSLC 11.188 16 I thought it a point on which all sane men were agreed, that the law must respect the public morality.
    ACiv 11.309 15 ...the laws by which the universe is organized reappear at every point, and will rule it.
    SMC 11.355 8 ...armies...lift the spirit of the soldiers who compose them to the boiling point.
    SMC 11.361 25 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he keeps up a constant acquaintance with them;...
    SMC 11.363 12 [George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men] cheerful.
    EdAd 11.387 11 ...every acre on the globe, every family of men, every point of climate, has its distinguishing virtues.
    EdAd 11.390 20 Let [a journal] now show its astuteness by...arguing diffusely every point on which men are long ago unanimous.
    Wom 11.419 24 Educate and refine society to the highest point,-bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions?
    Wom 11.422 3 For the other point, of [women] not knowing the world, and aiming at abstract right without allowance for circumstances,-that is not a disqualification, but a qualification [for voting].
    SHC 11.432 5 I do not wonder that [parks] are the chosen badge and point of pride of European nobility.
    Humb 11.458 6 ...at any point on land or sea [Humboldt] found the objects of his researches.
    ChiE 11.473 14 China interests us at this moment in a point of politics.
    FRO2 11.488 3 All our sects have refined the point of difference between them.
    FRO2 11.488 4 The point of difference that still remains between churches...is in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat positive and historical.
    FRep 11.536 9 The felon is the logical extreme of the epicure and coxcomb. Selfish luxury is the end of both, though in one it is decorated with refinements, and in the other brutal. But my point now is, that this spirit is not American.
    PLT 12.35 18 The Instinct begins at this low point, at the surface of the earth...
    PLT 12.38 10 The point of interest is here, that these gates [spiritual facts], once opened, never swing back.
    PLT 12.54 9 Nonsense will not keep its unreason if you come into the humorist's point of view...
    PLT 12.55 9 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. You will say this is quite axiomatic and a little too true. I do not find it an agreed point.
    PLT 12.56 4 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men...seems inspired and a god-send to those who wish to...carry a point.
    II 12.68 16 The Instinct begins at this low point at the surface of the earth...
    II 12.83 17 Him we account the fortunate man whose determination to his aim is sufficiently strong to leave him no doubt. I am aware that Nature does not always pronounce early on this point.
    Mem 12.98 6 [The orator] has an old story, an odd circumstance, that illustrates the point he is now proving, and is better than an argument.
    CL 12.143 17 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. ...if young ladies were aware of the magical transformations which can be wrought in the depth and sweetness of the eye by a few weeks' exercise, I fancy we should see their habits in this point altered greatly for the better.
    CL 12.160 1 ...the speculators who rush for investment...are all more or less mad...these point the moral, and persuade us to seek in the fields the health of the mind.
    Bost 12.191 15 ...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men...wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay...
    Bost 12.202 24 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...spend the salaries. No, but the theorists and extremists...these men will...never tire in carrying their point.
    Bost 12.206 21 ...here [in Boston] was...a living mind...always afflicting the conservative class with some odious novelty or other;...a political point, a point of honor...
    MAng1 12.236 22 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies...that he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with...
    Milt1 12.248 26 ...as writings designed to gain a practical point, [Milton's tracts] fail.
    ACri 12.303 4 I designed to speak of one point more, the touching a principal question in criticism in recent times-the Classic and Romantic, or what is classic?
    MLit 12.315 4 [The great man's] own affection is in Nature...and, of course, all his communication leads outward to it, starting from whatsoever point.
    EurB 12.366 9 The poet, like the electric rod, must reach from a point nearer the sky than all surrounding objects, down to the earth, and into the dark wet soil, or neither is of use.

point, v. (23)

    LE 1.155 18 [The scholar's] duties lead him directly into the holy ground, where other men's aspirations only point.
    MN 1.203 6 We can point nowhere to anything final;...
    Lov1 2.179 11 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization. Nor does it point to any relations of friendship or love known and described in society...
    Lov1 2.182 19 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world, and is able to point it out...
    Mrs1 3.123 25 ...whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name [gentleman] will be found to point at original energy.
    Mrs1 3.136 6 ...the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.
    UGM 4.4 7 ...if there were any magnet that would point to the countries and houses where are the persons who are intrinsically rich and powerful, I would sell all and buy it...
    UGM 4.24 4 Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe, but wherever she mars her creature with some deformity or defect, lays her poppies plentifully on the bruise, and the sufferer goes joyfully through life, ignorant of the ruin and incapable of seeing it, though all the world point their finger at it every day.
    ShP 4.190 12 [A great man] stands where all the eyes of men look one way, and their hands all point in the direction in which he should go.
    ET12 5.207 16 The great silent crowd of thoroughbred Grecians always known to be around him, the English writer cannot ignore. They prune his orations and point his pen.
    Ill 6.316 21 'T is fine for us to point at one or another fine madman, as if there were any exempts.
    Suc 7.289 17 I could point to men in this country...of this [egotistical] humor, whom we could ill spare;...
    PI 8.34 21 'T is easy to repaint the mythology...of...the martyrdoms of mediaeval Europe; but to point out where the same creative force is now working in our own houses and public assemblies;...requires a subtile and commanding thought.
    PI 8.50 23 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    Elo2 8.128 6 ...it would be easy to point to many masters [of eloquence] whose readiness is sure;...
    Aris 10.46 17 I only point in passing to the order of the universe...
    Supl 10.163 9 I wish to point at some of [the doctrine of temperance's] higher functions as it enters into mind and character.
    MoL 10.241 20 The very disadvantages of [the scholar's] condition point at superiorities.
    EWI 11.135 4 ...as an omen and assurance of success, I point to you the bright example which England set you [in emancipation in the West Indies]...
    War 11.175 17 The proposition of the Congress of Nations is undoubtedly that at which the present fabric of our society and the present course of events do point.
    PLT 12.38 25 This is the first property of the Intellect I am to point out; the mind detaches.
    PLT 12.64 2 We wish to sum up the conflicting impressions [of Intellect] by saying that all point at last to a unity which inspires all.
    ACri 12.289 26 Goethe...professed to point his guest to his Walpurgis Sack...in which, he said, he put all his dire hints and images...

Point, West, n. (4)

    MoL 10.251 9 I chanced lately to be at West Point...
    SMC 11.362 13 One day [George Prescott] writes, I expect to have a time this forenoon with the officer from West Point who drills us.
    SMC 11.362 23 [George Prescott writes] This lieutenant seems to think that these men, who never saw a gun, can drill as well as he, who has been at West Point four years.
    SMC 11.362 25 At night [George Prescott] adds: I told that officer from West Point, this morning, that he could not swear at my company as he did yesterday;...

Point, West, New York, n. (1)

    Pow 6.77 18 At West Point, Colonel Buford...pounded with a hammer on the trunnions of a cannon until he broke them off.

pointed, v. (17)

    Hist 2.18 22 ...one summer day in the fields my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...
    Prd1 2.237 21 Examples are cited by soldiers of men who have seen the cannon pointed and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from the path of the ball.
    Exp 3.80 9 The partial action of each strong mind in one direction is a telescope for the objects on which it is pointed.
    ShP 4.189 18 There is nothing whimsical and fantastic in [the poet's] production, but sweet and sad earnest...pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.
    NMW 4.224 18 The instinct of active, brave, able men, throughout the middle class every where, has pointed out Napoleon as the incarnate Democrat.
    NMW 4.250 20 ...Bonaparte pointed to the stars, and said, You may talk as long as you please, gentlemen, but who made all that?
    NMW 4.253 4 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse and deceive him... and the instinct of the young, ardent and active men every where, which pointed him out as the giant of the middle class, make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    ET12 5.206 11 ...[the young men at Oxford] pointed out to me a paralytic old man, who was assisted into the hall.
    ET16 5.280 26 I stood on the last [the sacrificial stone at Stonehenge], and [Mr. Brown] pointed to the upright, or rather, inclined stone, called the astronomical, and bade me notice that its top ranged with the sky-line.
    Art2 7.49 3 ...I pointed to the fact that we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength...
    PC 8.205 3 Nature spoke/ To each apart, lifting her lovely shows/ To spiritual lessons pointed home/...
    Dem1 10.17 18 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... It resembled Providence, since it pointed at connection.
    SovE 10.199 17 When I talked with an ardent missionary, and pointed out to him that his creed found no support in my experience, he replied, It is not so in your experience, but is so in the other world.
    Schr 10.285 11 The gun [men of talent] have pointed can defend nothing but itself...
    MMEm 10.431 19 No object of science or observation ever was pointed out to me [Mary Moody Emerson] by my poor aunt, but [God's] Being and commands;...
    HDC 11.44 23 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to...choose their own particular officers. This pointed chiefly at the office of constable...
    EPro 11.322 18 Whilst we have pointed out the opportuneness of the [Emancipation] Proclamation, it remains to be said that the President had no choice.

pointedly, adv. (2)

    Mrs1 3.133 26 We pointedly, and by name, introduce the parties to each other.
    Ctr 6.138 8 'T is incident to scholars that each of them fancies he is pointedly odious in his community.

pointer, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.139 11 The hardiest skeptic who has seen...a pointer trained...will not deny the validity of education.

pointing, v. (8)

    Nat 1.61 14 [Nature] is a great shadow pointing always to the sun behind us.
    DSA 1.128 16 I shall endeavor to discharge my duty to you on this occasion, by pointing out two errors in [the Christian church's] administration...
    NMW 4.224 21 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material, pointing at a sensual success and employing the richest and most various means to that end;...
    Elo1 7.71 19 Helen is pointing out to Priam...the different Grecian chiefs.
    OA 7.334 12 I...saw [George Whitefield], [John Adams] said, through a window, and distinctly heard all. He had a voice such as I never heard before or since. He cast it out so that you might hear it at the meeting-house (pointing towards the Quincy meeting-house)...
    PI 8.8 1 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms...
    Carl 10.495 8 ...pointing all his satire, is the severity of [Carlyle's] moral sentiment.
    HDC 11.38 7 ...after the bargain [for Concord] was concluded, Mr. Simon Willard, pointing to the four corners of the world, declared that they had bought three miles from that place, east, west, north and south.

points, n. (62)

    Nat 1.70 23 In the cycle of the universal man...centuries are points...
    LT 1.287 6 ...it is only when surveyed from inferior points of view that great varieties of character appear.
    Tran 1.358 25 ...it may not be without its advantage that we should now and then encounter rare and gifted men, to compare the points of our spiritual compass...
    Hist 2.23 5 ...perhaps [the healthy man's] facility is deeper seated, in the increased range of his faculties of observation, which yield him points of interest wherever fresh objects meet his eyes.
    Exp 3.70 14 In the growth of the embryo, Sir Everard Home I think noticed that the evolution was...coactive from three or more points.
    Exp 3.77 23 Two human beings are like globes, which can touch only in a point, and whilst they remain in contact all other points of each of the spheres are inert;...
    Chr1 3.91 20 The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say...
    Mrs1 3.126 27 [Fine manners] are a subtler science of defence to parry and intimidate; but once matched by the skill of the other party, they drop the point of the sword,--points and fences disappear...
    Mrs1 3.136 22 ...that of all the points of good-breeding I most require and insist upon, is deference.
    Mrs1 3.139 24 [Society] hates corners and sharp points of character...
    Pol1 3.208 26 Our quarrel with [political parties] begins when they quit this deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader, and...throw themselves into the maintenance and defence of points nowise belonging to their system.
    NR 3.234 12 In modern sculpture, picture and poetry, the beauty is miscellaneous; the artist works here and there and at all points...
    NR 3.242 20 ...the points come in succession to the meridian...
    NR 3.246 16 We hide this universality if we can, but it appears at all points.
    UGM 4.23 24 ...I intended to specify, with a little minuteness, two or three points of service.
    UGM 4.33 2 No man, in all the procession of famous men, is reason or illumination or that essence we were looking for; but is an exhibition, in some quarter, of new possibilities. Could we one day complete the immense figure which these flagrant points compose!
    PPh 4.47 4 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;...
    SwM 4.106 4 [Swedenborg's] varied and solid knowledge makes his style lustrous with points and shooting spiculae of thought...
    MoS 4.172 7 ...the interrogation of custom at all points is an inevitable stage in the growth of every superior mind...
    NMW 4.250 11 In 1806 [Napoleon] conversed with Fournier, bishop of Montpellier, on matters of theology. There were two points on which they could not agree...
    NMW 4.250 15 The Emperor told Josephine that he disputed like a devil on these two points [hell, and salvation out of the pale of the church]...
    ET4 5.48 10 ...I found abundant points of resemblance between the Germans of the Hercynian forest, and our Hoosiers, Suckers and Badgers of the American woods.
    ET6 5.104 13 [The Englishman's] vivacity betrays itself at all points...
    ET6 5.107 3 [The English] are positive, methodical, cleanly and formal... loving truth and religion...but inexorable on points of form.
    ET7 5.123 21 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners: which, to be sure, is paralleled by the democratic whimsy in this country which I have noticed to be shared by men sane on other points, that the English are at the bottom of the agitation of slavery...
    ET14 5.257 13 Tennyson is endowed precisely in points where Wordsworth wanted.
    ET16 5.273 7 It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker...
    ET16 5.282 4 ...here is the high point of the theory: the Druids had the magnet; laid their courses by it; their cardinal points in Stonehenge, Ambresbury, and elsewhere...followed the variations of the compass.
    ET18 5.299 8 Broad-fronted, broad-bottomed Teutons, [the English] stand in solid phalanx foursquare to the points of the compass;...
    F 6.4 10 ...our geometry cannot span these extreme points and reconcile them.
    F 6.44 4 The whole world is the flux of matter over the wires of thought to the poles or points where it would build.
    Pow 6.73 20 ...there are two economies which are the best succedanea which the case admits. The first is...concentrating our force on one or a few points;....
    Wth 6.124 15 The good merchant [finds] large gains, ships, stocks and money. The good poet [finds] fame and literary credit; but not either the other. Yet there is commonly a confusion of expectations on these points.
    Ctr 6.137 18 [Man's] excellence is facility...of transition, through many related points, to wide contrasts and extremes.
    Ctr 6.138 20 When [nature] has points to carry, she carries them.
    CbW 6.278 17 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...
    Elo1 7.79 27 He who has points to carry must hire, not a skilful attorney, but a commanding person.
    Clbs 7.246 26 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come from many zones;... they have seen the best and the worst of men. Their knowledge contradicts the popular opinion and your own on many points.
    Clbs 7.249 3 I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in their several arts to compare and expand their views, to come to an understanding on these points...
    Suc 7.294 7 ...I gain all points, if I can reach my companion with any statement which teaches him his own worth.
    Suc 7.308 8 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success.
    PI 8.40 2 In [Michelangelo] and the like perfecter brains the instinct [of creation]...is...at all points divine.
    SA 8.80 14 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never sharing their affections or debilities...knows his way and carries his points.
    Grts 8.303 1 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet; a vibration propagated over Asia and Africa? What of Menu? what...of Franklin? There are certain points of identity in which these masters agree.
    Imtl 8.333 21 When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.
    Aris 10.50 24 ...[the public] forgot to ask the fourth question...without which the others do not avail. Has [the candidate] a will? Can he carry his points against opposition?
    Edc1 10.144 12 The two points in a boy's training are, to keep his naturel and train off all but that...
    Edc1 10.144 17 The two points in a boy's training are...to...keep his nature and arm it with knowledge in the very direction in which it points.
    LLNE 10.337 26 ...[Mesmerism] affirmed unity and connection between remote points...
    CSC 10.376 27 ...although no decision was had, and no action taken on all the great points mooted in the discussion, yet the [Chardon Street] Convention brought together many remarkable persons...
    SlHr 10.444 26 [Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the clear apprehension and the powerful statement of the material points of his case.
    FSLC 11.201 18 [Webster] must learn...that those who have no points to carry that are not identical with public morals and generous civilization... disown him...
    FSLN 11.225 8 ...though I have my own opinions on [Webster's] seventh of March discourse and those others, and think them very transparent and very open to criticism,-yet the secondary merits of a speech, namely, its logic, its illustrations, its points, etc., are not here in question.
    ACiv 11.304 13 I will only advert to some leading points of the argument [for emancipation]...
    HCom 11.342 8 The revolutions carry their own points...
    Wom 11.420 6 ...all my points would sooner be carried in the State if women voted.
    FRep 11.526 15 ...really, though you see wealth in the capitals, it is only a sprinkling of rich men in the cities and at sparse points;...
    II 12.69 3 [Instinct]...is melodious, and at all points a god.
    II 12.72 4 [The poem] is miraculous at all points.
    CL 12.159 3 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and know all the good points within ten miles...these we call professors.
    ACri 12.287 7 Everybody knows the points in which the mob has the advantage of the Academy...
    MLit 12.309 16 We go musing into the vault of day and night;...the stars are white points...

points, v. (14)

    Nat 1.64 19 This [spiritual] view, which...points to virtue as to The golden key/ Which opes the palace of eternity,/ carries upon its face the highest certificate of truth...
    SL 2.155 25 ...every shadow points to the sun.
    Lov1 2.179 9 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? We are touched with emotions of tenderness and complacency, but we cannot find whereat this dainty emotion, this wandering gleam, points.
    Mrs1 3.144 1 ...Fashion loves lions, and points like Circe to her horned company.
    SwM 4.136 14 Locke said, God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man. Swedenborg's history points the remark.
    Ctr 6.154 4 What is odious but...people whose vane points always east...
    Bty 6.305 1 The poets are quite right in decking their mistresses with the spoils of the landscape...since all beauty points at identity;...
    Art2 7.50 17 The whole language of men...points at the belief that every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate...
    Comc 8.168 23 ...the same confusion of the sympathies because a pretension is not made good, points the perpetual satire against poverty...
    Grts 8.307 17 [A man's bias] is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path...
    Chr2 10.102 18 Character...by implication points to the source of right motive.
    Chr2 10.102 22 ...when used with emphasis, [character] points to what no events can change, that is, a will built on the reason of things.
    FSLN 11.238 16 ...when the Southerner points to the anatomy of the negro, and talks of chimpanzee,-I recall Montesquieu's remark, It will not do to say that negroes are men, lest it should turn out that whites are not.
    PLT 12.46 8 Will is the advance to that...to which the inward magnet ever points...

poise, n. (7)

    MN 1.221 23 The sanity of man needs the poise of this immanent force.
    Hist 2.4 16 ...the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces...
    SR 2.70 27 The genesis and maturation of a planet, its poise and orbit...are demonstrations of the...self-relying soul.
    MoS 4.175 20 ...as soon as each man attains the poise and vivacity which allow the whole machinery to play, he will not need extreme examples...
    ET18 5.306 4 You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters, but by the contumacious sharp-tongued energy of English naturel, with a poise impossible to disturb...
    Pow 6.74 10 Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes,--all are distractions which cause oscillations in our giddy balloon, and make a good poise and a straight course impossible.
    Elo2 8.119 6 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do. It only needs that they should be once well pushed off into the water...and after a mad struggle or two they find their poise...

poised, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.60 16 Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, to-day.

poised, v. (1)

    F 6.45 2 [The great man's] mind is righter than others because he yields to a current so feeble as can be felt only by a needle delicately poised.

poises, v. (3)

    Farm 7.135 24 ...every atom poises for itself,/ And for the whole./
    PPo 8.251 15 Thy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike down,/ Poises Arcturus aloft morning and evening his spear./
    CW 12.170 5 ...every atom poises for itself,/ And for the whole..../

poising, v. (1)

    Bty 6.291 23 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan...and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.

poison, n. (14)

    Fdsp 2.195 13 It is almost dangerous to me to crush the sweet poison of misused wine of the affections.
    ET8 5.132 18 [Young Englishmen] chew hasheesh;...taste every poison;...
    Pow 6.60 6 Health is good,--power, life, that resists disease, poison and all enemies...
    Wth 6.104 7 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the schools will feel it, the children will bring home their little dose of the poison;...
    Clbs 7.225 8 ...thought is the native air of the mind, yet pure it is a poison to our mixed constitution...
    OA 7.319 4 ...the surest poison is time.
    PPo 8.246 6 There resides in the grieving/ A poison to kill;/ Beware to go near them/ 'T is pestilent still./
    SovE 10.190 25 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements, her deluges miasma, disease, poison;...
    War 11.157 23 The increase of civility has abolished the use of poison and of torture...
    FSLC 11.210 6 Let [the United States] confront this mountain of poison [slavery]...
    SMC 11.352 15 It turned out that this one violation [slavery] was a subtle poison...
    SMC 11.352 17 ...this one violation [slavery] was a subtle poison, which in eighty years...brought the alternative of extirpation of the poison or ruin to the Republic.
    PLT 12.55 16 To science there is no poison;...
    Let 12.400 27 Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the muse among the Germans; some seven years later, and...they are like a soil which an enemy has sown with poison...

poison, v. (4)

    NMW 4.255 11 [Napoleon] would steal, slander, assassinate, drown and poison, as his interest dictated.
    ET3 5.39 21 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks...poison many plants and corrode the monuments and buildings.
    ET5 5.78 16 [The English] neither poison, nor waylay, nor assassinate;...
    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.

poisoned, adj. (2)

    ET8 5.132 16 [Young Englishmen] chew hasheesh; cut themselves with poisoned creases;...
    Trag 12.409 25 There are people who have an appetite for grief... mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread...

poisoned, v. (5)

    MR 1.252 27 In every household, the peace of a pair is poisoned by the malice...of domestics.
    Prd1 2.225 15 ...we are poisoned by the air that is too cold or too hot, too dry or too wet.
    NMW 4.254 10 Like all Frenchmen [Napoleon] has a passion for stage effect. Every action that breathes of generosity is poisoned by this calculation.
    Farm 7.138 11 Poisoned by town life and town vices, the sufferer resolves: Well, my children...shall go back to the land...
    ACiv 11.299 7 ...the rude and early state of society...has poisoned politics, public morals and social intercourse in the Republic, now for many years.

poisoning, adj. (1)

    War 11.166 22 ...bayonet and sword...will be transferred to the museums of the curious, as poisoning and torturing tools are at this day.

poisoning, v. (1)

    ET18 5.300 21 Men and women were convicted [in England] of poisoning scores of children for burial-fees.

poisonous, adj. (5)

    MN 1.216 23 From the poisonous tree, the world, say the Brahmins, two species of fruit are produced, sweet as the waters of life;...
    ET14 5.239 23 The Platonic is the poetic tendency; the so-called scientific is the negative and poisonous.
    Pow 6.65 7 Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
    Wth 6.116 2 The devotion to these vines and trees [the land-owner] finds poisonous.
    Bost 12.191 26 John Smith was stung near to death by the most poisonous tail of a fish, called a sting-ray.

poisonously, adv. (1)

    Pol1 3.205 20 ...the attributes of a person, his wit and his moral energy, will exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper force...if not wholesomely, then poisonously;...

poisons, n. (4)

    Pow 6.66 22 It is an esoteric doctrine of society...that as there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues;...
    CbW 6.258 15 ...the poisons are our principal medicines...
    Supl 10.165 26 ...there is an inverted superlative...which...feeds on drugs and poisons;...
    CL 12.162 5 Where are the best hazel-nuts, chestnuts and shagbarks? Where the white grapes? Where are the choice apple-trees? And what are the poisons?

poissardes, n. (1)

    ET10 5.164 3 [The English] have...no Parisian poissardes and barricades;...

Poitiers, France, n. (1)

    Cour 7.256 5 What a memory of Poitiers and Crecy, and Bunker Hill, and Washington's endurance!

poke, v. (1)

    PLT 12.45 18 [Thoughts] are the oracle; we are not to poke and drill and force, but to follow them.

Poland, n. (5)

    Mrs1 3.146 5 ...there is still...some friend of Poland;...
    ET8 5.141 13 ...[The English] think humanely on the affairs of France...of Poland...
    ET18 5.301 11 [The foreign policy of England] sanctioned the partition of Poland...
    FSLN 11.239 22 In 1825 Greece found America deaf, Poland found America deaf...
    EPro 11.324 20 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers...the condition...of Poland, since 1793...

polar, adj. (4)

    Con 1.311 21 ...for thee the hospitable North opens its heated palaces under the polar circle;...
    ET5 5.91 13 The [English] Admiralty sent out the Arctic expeditions year after year, in search of Sir John Franklin, until at last they have threaded their way through polar pack and Behring's Straits...
    Wth 6.87 1 [Coal] carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle;...
    CL 12.140 2 I own I prefer the solar to the polar climates.

Polar, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.349 22 The Desert of Sahara, the Campagna di Roma, the frozen Polar circles...accuse man.

polarities, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.95 13 Wherever the polarities meet...the spark will pass.

polarity, n. (16)

    AmS 1.111 23 ...let me see every trifle bristling with the polarity that ranges it instantly on an eternal law;...
    Comp 2.96 16 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...
    Prd1 2.225 3 [Prudence] respects...the law of polarity, growth and death.
    NR 3.228 18 The magnetism which arranges tribes and races in one polarity is alone to be respected;...
    SwM 4.104 13 ...Descartes, taught by Gilbert's magnet, with its vortex, spiral and polarity, had filled Europe with the leading thought of vortical motion, as the secret of nature.
    MoS 4.175 11 ...though philosophy extirpates bugbears, yet it supplies the natural checks of vice, and polarity to the soul.
    F 6.3 16 We can only obey our own polarity.
    F 6.4 18 We are sure that...necessity does comport with liberty...my polarity with the spirit of the times.
    PI 8.7 7 [Thought] has its own polarity.
    PC 8.222 27 Every law in Nature, as...polarity...has a counterpart in the intellect.
    Grts 8.306 16 ...further experiments led [Faraday] to the theory that every chemical substance would be found to have its own, and a different, polarity.
    SovE 10.204 9 The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the mind, giving it concentration and force. A rude people were kept respectable by the determination of thought on the eternal world. Now men...want polarity...
    PLT 12.61 16 ...the clear-headed thinker complains of souls led hither and thither by affections...and in the confusion asks the polarity of intellect.
    II 12.82 11 Every man comes into Nature impressed with his own polarity or bias...
    II 12.87 9 One polarity is impressed on the universe and on its particles.
    CInt 12.129 10 Do not gravity and polarity keep their unerring watch on a needle and thread...as on the moon's orbit?

Polarity, n. (1)

    AmS 1.98 24 That great principle of Undulation in nature...is known to us under the name of Polarity...

polarization, n. (2)

    Res 8.145 18 Malus, known for his discoveries in the polarization of light, was captain of a corps of engineers in Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign...
    PC 8.211 16 The correlation of forces and the polarization of light have carried us to sublime generalizations...

polarized, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.305 8 Polarized light showed the secret architecture of bodies;...

pole, n. (14)

    LE 1.182 20 At one pole is Reason; at the other, Common Sense.
    Chr1 3.96 16 A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole;...
    Chr1 3.97 4 Everything in nature...has a positive and a negative pole.
    Chr1 3.97 8 Will is the north, action the south pole.
    Chr1 3.97 11 The feeble souls are drawn to the south or negative pole.
    ET4 5.52 16 Perhaps the ocean serves as a galvanic battery, to distribute acids at one pole and alkalies at the other.
    ET4 5.70 12 [The English] box, run, shoot, ride, row, and sail from pole to pole.
    ET5 5.85 4 The admirable equipment of [Englishmen's] arctic ships carries London to the pole.
    Bty 6.279 12 Oft peeled for [Seyd] a lofty tone/ From nodding pole and belting zone./
    Bty 6.283 6 ...[a man] feels the antipodes and the pole as drops of his blood;...
    PI 8.12 18 Genius thus [through figurative speech]...betrays the rhymes and echoes that pole makes with pole.
    PI 8.12 19 Genius thus [through figurative speech]...betrays the rhymes and echoes that pole makes with pole.
    FSLN 11.235 18 The army of unright is encamped from pole to pole...
    PLT 12.62 3 Sensibility is the secret readiness to believe in all kinds of power, and the contempt of any experience we have not is the opposite pole.

Pole, North, n. (3)

    Suc 7.283 11 We have gone nearest to the Pole.
    Thor 10.468 2 [Thoreau] seemed a little envious of the Pole, for the coincident sunrise and sunset...
    CL 12.139 21 ...Massachusetts...is on the northern slope, towards the Arctic circle, and the Pole.

Pole, Reginald, n. (1)

    PC 8.216 26 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era, namely, Savonarola, Vittoria Colonna, Contarini, Pole, Occhino;...

polemic, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.261 8 ...[Milton]...searched the kennel and jakes as well as the palaces of sound for the harsh discords of his polemic wrath.

polemic, n. (2)

    SwM 4.137 1 ...[Swedenborg's] judgments are those of a Swedish polemic...
    Milt1 12.252 7 Milton the polemic has lost his popularity long ago;...

polemically, adv. (2)

    Exp 3.85 10 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. ... Worse, I observe that in the history of mankind there is never a solitary example of success,--taking their own tests of success. I say this polemically...
    II 12.78 17 ...[the writer] should write affirmatively, not polemically...

polemics, n. (3)

    Chr2 10.110 19 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity...without offence: since, at bottom, those men mean honestly, their polemics proceed out of a religious striving...
    FRO2 11.485 17 I am glad...that we are likely one day to forget our obstinate polemics in the ambition to excel each other in good works.
    Milt1 12.265 24 There is a forbearance even in [Milton's] polemics.

Polemos, n. (1)

    Plu 10.302 27 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind. I hope it is only my immense ignorance that makes me believe that they do not survive out of his pages,-not only Thespis, Polemos, Euphorion......

poles, n. (24)

    Con 1.296 2 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution. ... It is...the appearance in trifles of the two poles of nature
    YA 1.372 10 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;...
    Comp 2.110 6 ...our act arranges itself by irresistible magnetism in a line with the poles of the world.
    Nat2 3.179 22 A little heat...is all that differences the...deadly cold poles of the earth from the prolific tropical climates.
    Nat2 3.196 1 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being, from the centre to the poles of nature...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.
    Pol1 3.212 4 The fact of two poles, of two forces...is universal...
    UGM 4.12 8 ...we sit by the fire and take hold on the poles of the earth.
    PPh 4.55 12 [Plato]...is resolved that the two poles of thought shall appear in his statement.
    PPh 4.55 15 [Plato's] argument and his sentence are self-poised and spherical. The two poles appear;...
    PNR 4.87 21 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated, and can distinguish poles, equator and lines of latitude...
    SwM 4.117 18 ...[Correspondence] required such rightness of position that the poles of the eye should coincide with the axis of the world.
    ET3 5.40 15 The old Venetians pleased themselves with the flattery that Venice was in 45 degrees, midway between the poles and the line;...
    ET5 5.83 18 More than the diamond Koh-i-noor...[the English] prize that dull pebble...whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world...
    ET5 5.83 19 More than the diamond Koh-i-noor...[the English] prize that dull pebble...whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world...
    F 6.22 14 Man is...a dragging together of the poles of the Universe.
    F 6.44 4 The whole world is the flux of matter over the wires of thought to the poles or points where it would build.
    Wth 6.89 15 The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid and the power and empire that follow it...to [man's] craft and audacity.
    Wth 6.96 21 It is the interest of all that there should be...Rosses, Franklins, Richardsons and Kanes, to find the magnetic and the geographic poles.
    PI 8.70 3 ...when life is true to the poles of Nature, the streams of truth will roll through us in song.
    Aris 10.54 26 ...the two poles of nature are Beauty and Meanness...
    SMC 11.364 9 ...I [George Prescott] took six poles, and went to the colonel, and told him I had got the poles for two tents, which would cover twenty-four men...
    SMC 11.364 10 ...I [George Prescott] took six poles, and went to the colonel, and told him I had got the poles for two tents, which would cover twenty-four men...
    SMC 11.364 18 [George Prescott writes] We only had about twelve men... and some of them have their heavy knapsacks and guns to carry, so could not carry any poles.
    Milt1 12.260 13 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument... Such where the deep transported mind may soar/ Above the wheeling poles, and at Heaven's door/ Look in, and see each blissful deity,/ How he before the thunderous throne doth lie./

pole-star, n. (1)

    AmS 1.82 8 ...the star in the constellation Harp...astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star...

police, adj. (2)

    Edc1 10.153 14 ...the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth...knows as much vice as the judge of a police court...
    PLT 12.22 22 The robber, as the police reports say, must have been intimately acquainted with the premises.

police, n. (29)

    Con 1.321 4 The corporation were advised to call off the police...
    MoS 4.173 15 We must do with [doubts and negations] as the police do with old rogues...
    ShP 4.211 16 ...[Shakespeare] knew the laws of repression which make the police of nature...
    NMW 4.255 16 ...[Napoleon]...delighted in his infamous police...
    ET5 5.97 16 Foreign power [in England] is kept by armed colonies; power at home, by a standing army of police.
    ET6 5.103 11 ...drill of regiments, drill of police...have operated [in England] to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of men.
    ET8 5.127 22 The police [in England] does not interfere with public diversions.
    ET14 5.234 6 [Swift] describes his fictitious persons as if for the police.
    ET15 5.266 19 [The London Times's] private information...recalls the stories of Fouche's police...
    F 6.34 13 The opinion of the million was the terror of the world, and it was attempted...to pile it over with strata of society...with clamps and hoops of... police.
    Wth 6.110 21 ...the standing army of preventive police we must pay.
    Bhr 6.171 15 Your manners are always under examination, and by...a police in citizens' clothes...
    Bhr 6.180 25 There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep...others...seem to call out the police...
    Bhr 6.188 19 ...the sad realist knows these fellows [of position] at a glance, and they know him; as when in Paris the chief of the police enters a ball-room, so many diamonded pretenders shrink...
    Wsp 6.221 26 ...the police and sincerity of the universe are secured by God' s delegating his divinity to every particle;...
    Wsp 6.223 1 Nature created a police of many ranks.
    Wsp 6.224 16 ...gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police...
    Wsp 6.226 18 ...the divine assessors who came up with [a man] into life... like a police in citizens' clothes,--walk with him, step for step...
    Civ 7.23 10 The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...and what a police and ten commandments their work thus becomes.
    Elo1 7.76 26 You are safe...in the city, in broad daylight, amidst the police...
    Res 8.147 21 Disorganization [good sense] confronts with organization, with police, with military force.
    Dem1 10.27 4 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. ...a droll bedlam, where...the actors and spectators have no conscience or reflection, no police, no foot-rule, no sanity...
    Edc1 10.150 24 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...you grow departmental, routinary, military almost with your discipline and college police.
    SovE 10.211 22 ...the old commandment, Thou shalt not kill, holds down New York, and London, and Paris, and not a police or horse-guards.
    EWI 11.143 19 [Nature] appoints no police to guard the lion but his teeth and claws;...
    FSLC 11.196 23 I wonder that our acute people who have learned that the cheapest police is dear schools, should not find out that an immoral law costs more than the loss of the custom of a Southern city.
    Mem 12.92 15 You say, I can never think of some act of neglect, of selfishness, or of passion without pain. Well, that is as it should be. That is the police of the Universe...
    CInt 12.116 16 ...if [colleges] could cause that a mind not profound should become profound,-we should all rush to their gates; instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.
    Let 12.392 22 Very unlooked-for political and social effects of the iron road are fast appearing. It will require an expansion of the police of the old world.

police-court, n. (1)

    PerF 10.80 10 There was a story in the journals of a poor prisoner in a Western police-court...

policeman, n. (2)

    ET15 5.269 6 [The London Times] attacks a duke as readily as a policeman...
    Ctr 6.132 2 If [nature] creates a policeman like Fouche, he is made up of suspicions and of plots to circumvent them.

policemen, n. (1)

    PC 8.209 24 Men are now to be astonished by seeing acts of...Christian charity...executed...by policemen and the constable.

police-records, n. (1)

    Wth 6.105 9 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills...landlords are shot down in Ireland. The police-records attest it.

policies, n. (1)

    Wom 11.423 9 As for the unsexing and contamination [of women in politics],-that only...shows...that our policies are so crooked...

policy, n. (27)

    Nat 1.53 10 ...[My passion] fears not policy/...
    LE 1.183 27 Truth shall be policy enough for [the scholar].
    YA 1.374 14 ...the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.
    Pol1 3.200 1 Republics abound in young civilians who believe...that grave modifications of the policy and modes of living and employments of the population...may be voted in or out;...
    Pol1 3.210 20 ...[the conservative party] proposes no generous policy;...
    NMW 4.233 18 Incidents ought not to govern policy, [Napoleon] said, but policy, incidents.
    NMW 4.233 19 Incidents ought not to govern policy, [Napoleon] said, but policy, incidents.
    NMW 4.242 12 The day of sleepy, selfish policy...was ended [in France]...
    NMW 4.243 11 The necessity of [Napoleon's] position required a hospitality to every sort of talent, and its appointment to trusts; and his feeling went along with this policy.
    ET15 5.267 23 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if persons of exact information, and with settled views of policy, supplied the writers with the basis of fact and the object to be attained...
    ET18 5.301 5 The foreign policy of England...has not often been generous or just.
    ET18 5.304 1 [England's] colonial policy, obeying the necessities of a vast empire, has become liberal.
    ET19 5.313 23 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations...still wise to entertain and swift to execute the policy which the mind and heart of mankind requires in the present hour...
    Aris 10.41 21 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages...
    Aris 10.46 19 I only point in passing to the order of the universe, which makes a rotation,-not like the coarse policy of the Greeks, ten generals, each commanding one day and then giving place to the next...
    MoL 10.251 26 At that time [of the Reform Bill], Earl Grey, who was leader of Reform, was asked, in Parliament, his policy on the measures of the Radicals.
    LVB 11.95 22 I will at least...show you [Van Buren] how plain and humane people, whose love would be honor, regard the policy of the government...
    EWI 11.113 26 The apprenticeship system [in the West Indies] is understood to have proceeded from Lord Brougham, and was by him urged on his colleagues, who, it is said, were inclined to the policy of immediate emancipation.
    War 11.162 15 All admit that [peace] would be the best policy, if the world were all a church...
    War 11.165 2 This happens daily, yearly about us, with half thoughts, often with flimsy lies, pieces of policy and speculation. With good nursing they will last three or four years before they will come to nothing.
    AKan 11.259 10 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...until it is notorious that all promotion, power and policy are dictated from one source...
    ACiv 11.304 6 [Emancipation] is a progressive policy...
    ACiv 11.309 9 I hope it is not a fatal objection to this policy [of emancipation] that it is simple and beneficent thoroughly...
    EPro 11.317 2 ...[Lincoln's] long-avowed expectant policy...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    EPro 11.318 4 ...it is not long since the President [Lincoln] anticipated...the secession of three states, on the promulgation of this policy [Emancipation]...
    EPro 11.320 26 ...we are assuming the firmness of the policy thus declared [in the Emancipation Proclamation].
    FRep 11.541 15 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity.

Polini, Marchese, n. (2)

    MAng1 12.231 25 Benedict XIV., during one of these panics, sent for the architect Marchese Polini to come to Rome and examine [St. Peter's dome].
    MAng1 12.231 26 Polini put an end to all the various projects of repairs [to St. Peter's dome], by the satisfying sentence: The cupola does not start, and if it should start, nothing can be done but to pull it down.

Polis, Joseph, n. (1)

    Thor 10.474 7 In his last visit to Maine [Thoreau] had great satisfaction from Joseph Polis, an intelligent Indian of Oldtown...

polish, n. (5)

    Chr1 3.106 14 They are a relief from literature,--these fresh draughts from the sources of thought and sentiment; as we read, in an age of polish and criticism, the first lines of written prose and verse of a nation.
    PPh 4.57 18 [Plato's] patrician polish, his intrinsic elegance...adorn the soundest health and strength of frame.
    MoL 10.255 18 It is not enough that the work [of art] should show... admirable polish and finish;...
    LLNE 10.345 5 Society always values...inoffensive people, susceptible of conventional polish.
    ACri 12.288 17 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies. The better the worse, you will say; and I own it reminds one of Vathek's collection of monstrous men with...horns of exquisite polish.

polish, v. (3)

    Mrs1 3.139 15 This perception [of measure] comes in to polish and perfect the parts of the social instrument.
    PPo 8.258 9 O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
    Milt1 12.259 25 Among the advantages of his foreign travel, Milton certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and polish that great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power of language.

polished, adj. (13)

    SL 2.147 25 There are graces in the demeanor of a polished and noble person which are lost upon the eye of a churl.
    Mrs1 3.127 19 There exists a strict relation between the class of power and the exclusive and polished circles.
    ET6 5.105 5 Every man in this polished country [England] consults only his convenience...
    ET6 5.115 2 ...[at an English dress-dinner] one meets now and then with polished men who know every thing...
    ET12 5.200 3 [The Oxford students'] affectionate and gregarious ways reminded me at once of the habits of our Cambridge men, though I imputed to these English an advantage in their secure and polished manners.
    Bhr 6.182 20 A calm and resolute bearing, a polished speech...are essential to the courtier;...
    Bhr 6.183 15 The enthusiast is introduced to polished scholars in society and is chilled and silenced by finding himself not in their element.
    Art2 7.44 16 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.
    EWI 11.141 4 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom...polished stones and woods...
    TPar 11.292 16 ...the polished and pleasant traitors to human rights...rot and are forgotten...
    SMC 11.357 3 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...young men...of excellent education and polished manners...
    FRep 11.527 1 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...an unbuttoned comfort...far from polished...
    EurB 12.378 8 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is to appear with the most wooden manners, as little polished as will suffice to avoid castigation...

polished, v. (2)

    LLNE 10.352 12 [Fourier] treats man as...something that may be... moulded, polished...at the will of the leader;...
    Wom 11.419 13 ...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women' s rights] have been deprived of...opportunities, such as they wished...that they have been stung to say, It is too late for us to be polished and fashioned into beauty, but, at least, we will see that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.

polishing, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.35 1 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith; and, he believes, should stand for the same realities to every reader. But the first reader prefers as naturally the symbol of...a jeweller polishing a gem.

polite, adj. (16)

    MN 1.195 22 ...if polite and various [great men] are shallow.
    Pt1 3.17 15 The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation.
    PPh 4.55 7 ...[Plato] fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers;...
    PPh 4.59 23 There is indeed no weapon in all the armory of wit which [Plato] did not possess and use,--epic, analysis, mania, intuition, music, satire and irony, down to the customary and polite.
    ET4 5.72 4 Add a certain degree of refinement to the vivacity of these [English] riders, and you obtain the precise quality which makes the men and women of polite society formidable.
    ET7 5.118 24 The Duke of Wellington...advises the French General Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer. The English, of all classes, value themselves on this trait, as distinguishing them from the French, who, in the popular belief, are more polite than true.
    ET9 5.151 23 ...to wave our own flag at the dinner table or in the University is to carry the boisterous dulness of a fire-club into a polite circle.
    ET13 5.229 6 What is so odious as the polite bows to God, in our books and newspapers?
    ET14 5.245 18 Hallam is uniformly polite, but with deficient sympathy;...
    DL 7.122 2 [Lord Falkland's] house being within little more than ten miles from Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that University...
    PI 8.73 4 Much that we call poetry is but polite verse.
    SA 8.107 7 These are the bases of civil and polite society; namely, manners, conversation, lucrative labor and public action;...
    PerF 10.69 10 ...man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can...help him in every kind. Each by itself has a certain omnipotence, but all...in the presence of each other, are antagonized and kept polite...
    MMEm 10.427 4 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...
    Wom 11.409 8 It was Burns's remark when he first came to Edinburgh that between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed little difference;...
    Wom 11.415 20 A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil; the change of sentiment from a rude to a polite character, in the age of Louis XIV...

polite, n. (4)

    Ctr 6.164 2 Who wishes to resist the eminent and polite, in behalf of the poor, and low, and impolite?
    Elo2 8.126 5 The polite are always catching modish innovations...
    RBur 11.442 19 ...[Burns] had that secret of genius to draw from the bottom of society the strength of its speech, and astonish the ears of the polite with these artless words...
    ACri 12.284 12 The polite are always catching modish innovations [in language]...

politely, adv. (3)

    PC 8.216 13 ...every one has heard the remark (too often, I fear, politely made), that the philosopher was above his audience.
    ACiv 11.306 25 Neither do I doubt, is such a composition should take place, that the Southerners will come back quietly and politely...
    Wom 11.423 25 ...when I read the list of men of intellect, of refined pursuits...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.

politeness, n. (9)

    Exp 3.61 20 The fine young people despise life, but in me...to whom a day is a sound and solid good, it is a great excess of politeness to look scornful and cry for company.
    Exp 3.67 27 We would look about us, but with grand politeness [God] draws down before us an inpenetrable screen of purest sky, and another behind us of purest sky.
    Mrs1 3.140 10 Accuracy is essential to beauty, and quick perceptions to politeness...
    Mrs1 3.145 5 The forms of politeness universally express benevolence in superlative degrees.
    ET11 5.187 6 Politeness is the ritual of society...
    Elo1 7.96 5 [The woods and mountains] send us every year...some some sturdy countryman, on whom neither money, nor politeness...make any impression.
    SA 8.81 15 Balzac finely said: Kings themselves cannot force the exquisite politeness of distance to capitulate...
    Plu 10.303 8 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which...has drawn attention to what an ancient might call the politeness of Fate...
    FSLN 11.230 7 ...it is...the essence...of politeness...to prefer another...

politic, adj. (5)

    Nat 1.53 12 ...[My passion] all alone stands hugely politic./
    Prd1 2.236 25 ...the good man will be the wise man, and the single-hearted the politic man.
    Pol1 3.208 6 What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for ages has signified cunning...
    SMC 11.352 16 ...this one violation [slavery] was a subtle poison, which in eighty years corrupted the whole overgrown body politic...
    FRep 11.530 15 ...we say that revolutions beat all the insurgents, be they never so determined and politic;...

political, adj. (173)

    Nat 1.73 5 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...the achievements of a principle, as in religious and political revolutions...
    AmS 1.106 27 The poor and the low find some amends...for their acquiescence in a political and social inferiority.
    AmS 1.113 12 Another sign of our times, also marked by an analogous political movement, is the new importance given to the single person.
    LE 1.176 18 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons...
    MN 1.206 22 The sleepy nations are occupied with their political routine.
    LT 1.261 15 The reason and influence of wealth...the fuller development and the freer play of Character as a social and political agent;-these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    LT 1.270 10 The political questions touching the Banks;...are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...
    LT 1.280 13 We are all thankful [the denouncing philanthropist] has no more political power...
    Con 1.320 8 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim;...
    Tran 1.359 6 ...when every voice is raised...for a political party, or the division of an estate,-will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    YA 1.363 17 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch...
    YA 1.370 17 ...the uprise and culmination of the new and anti-feudal power of Commerce is the political fact of most significance to the American at this hour.
    Hist 2.5 13 Each new law and political movement has a meaning for you.
    SR 2.88 18 The political parties meet in numerous conventions;...
    SR 2.89 25 A political victory...or some other favorable event raises your spirits...
    Comp 2.98 3 The influences of climate and soil in political history is another [instance of Compensation].
    Hsm1 2.248 21 Each of [Plutarch's] Lives is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists.
    Hsm1 2.248 26 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that book its immense fame. We need books of this tart cathartic virtue more than books of political science...
    OS 2.273 25 ...we say...that a day of certain political, moral, social reforms is at hand...
    Int 2.339 12 How wearisome...the political or religious fanatic...whose balance is lost by the exaggeration of a single topic.
    Int 2.342 2 He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept...the first political party he meets...
    Pt1 3.16 14 In our political parties, compute the power of badges and emblems.
    Pt1 3.16 16 In the political processions, Lowell goes in a loom...
    Exp 3.58 24 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads...
    Chr1 3.91 4 ...in our political elections, where this element [character], if it appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently understand its incomparable rate.
    Mrs1 3.130 11 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and through it, a meeting of merchants...a political, a religious convention;...
    Pol1 3.207 10 In this country we are very vain of our political institutions...
    Pol1 3.208 18 We might as wisely reprove the east wind or the frost, as a political party...
    Pol1 3.217 3 As a political power...[character's] presence is hardly yet suspected.
    NER 3.278 25 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors...
    UGM 4.25 27 The like assimilation goes on between men...of one political party;...
    PPh 4.53 2 [The Greeks] saw before them no sinister political economy;...
    SwM 4.117 5 ...[Lord Bacon] instanced some physical propositions, with their translation into a moral or political sense.
    MoS 4.185 15 Although knaves win in every political struggle...yet, general ends are somehow answered.
    ShP 4.191 18 The court [in Shakespeare's time] took offence easily at political allusions and attempted to suppress [dramatic entertainments].
    NMW 4.233 20 To be hurried away by every event is to have no political system at all.
    GoW 4.278 20 We had an English romance here...professing...to unfold the political hope of the party called Young England,--in which the only reward of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage.
    ET1 5.13 17 ...on learning that I had been in Malta and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other, repeating what he had said to the Bishop of London when he returned from that country, that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy;...
    ET1 5.20 7 ...I fear [the Americans] are too much given to the making of money [said Wordsworth]; and secondly, to politics; that they make political distinction the end and not the means.
    ET1 5.20 25 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans to cultivate the moral, the conservative, etc., etc....
    ET4 5.44 3 An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has written a book to prove that races are imperishable, but nations are pliant political constructions...
    ET4 5.53 19 In Ireland are the same climate and soil as in England, but... political dependence...
    ET5 5.92 26 [The English] have made...London...a sanctuary to refugees of every political and religious opinion;...
    ET5 5.97 9 The last Reform-bill [in England] took away political power from a mound, a ruin and a stone wall...
    ET5 5.98 15 Man in England submits to be a product of political economy.
    ET6 5.114 12 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of... political, literary and personal news;...
    ET7 5.116 17 ...any slipperiness in the [English] government of political faith...would bring the whole nation to a committee of inquiry and reform.
    ET9 5.150 12 In the gravest treatise on political economy...one is surprised [in England] by the most innocent exhibition of unflinching nationality.
    ET10 5.154 18 A natural fruit of England is the brutal political economy.
    ET10 5.167 19 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of linen...or when commons are enclosed by landlords. Then society is admonished...that the best political economy is care and culture of men;...
    ET11 5.184 17 This monopoly of political power has given [the English peers] their intellectual and social eminence in Europe.
    ET11 5.184 20 A few law lords and a few political lords take the brunt of public business [in England].
    ET12 5.208 23 A gentleman [in England] must possess a political character...
    ET13 5.219 4 Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this occasion was not insignificant. Handel's coronation anthem, God save the King, was played by Dr. Camidge on the organ, with sublime effect. The minster and the music were made for each other. It was a hint of the part the church plays as a political engine.
    ET14 5.242 7 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Harrington's political rule that power must rest on land...
    ET15 5.261 2 The power of the newspaper is familiar in America, and in accordance with our political system.
    ET15 5.262 10 The tendency in England towards social and political institutions like those of America, is inevitable...
    ET15 5.266 21 [The London Times] has mercantile and political correspondents in every foreign city...
    ET18 5.299 17 [Englishmen's] political conduct is not decided by general views...
    ET18 5.302 4 ...this [English] shop-rule had one magnificent effect. It extends its cold unalterable courtesy to political exiles of every opinion...
    ET19 5.310 5 ...the political, the social, the parietal wit of Punch go duly every fortnight to every boy and girl in Boston and New York.
    Pow 6.63 23 The senators who dissented from Mr. Polk's Mexican war were...those who from political position could afford it;...
    Pow 6.66 26 'T is not very rare, the coincidence of sharp private and political practice with public spirit and good neighborhood.
    Wth 6.105 13 Not much otherwise the economical power touches the masses through the political lords.
    Wth 6.105 20 The basis of political economy is noninterference.
    Wth 6.106 20 Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer...knows all of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.
    Wsp 6.209 27 In this country...the phrase higher law became a political gibe.
    Wsp 6.224 27 Here is a low political economy plotting to cut the throat of foreign competition and establish our own;...
    CbW 6.265 24 When the political economist reckons up the unproductive classes, he should put at the head this class of pitiers of themselves...
    Civ 7.30 1 ...all our social and political action leans on principles.
    Art2 7.40 4 The useful arts comprehend...the sciences, so far as they are made serviceable to political economy.
    Art2 7.56 20 ...in Greece, the Demos of Athens divided into political factions upon the merits of Phidias.
    Art2 7.57 6 ...as far as [popular institutions] accelerate the end of political freedom and national education, they are preparing the soil of man for fairer flowers and fruits in another age.
    Elo1 7.89 27 By applying the habits of a higher style of thought to the common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces beauty and magnificence wherever he goes. Such a power was Burke's, and of this genius we have had some brilliant examples in our own political and legal men.
    Farm 7.141 16 If it be true that, not by votes of political parties but by the eternal laws of political economy, slaves are driven out of a slave state as fast as it is surrounded by free states, then the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    Farm 7.141 17 If it be true that...by the eternal laws of political economy, slaves are driven out of a slave state as fast as it is surrounded by free states, then the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    Farm 7.150 12 These [drainage] tiles are political economists...
    Farm 7.152 16 ...true political economy is not mean...
    WD 7.162 3 Another result of our arts is the new intercourse which is surprising us with new solutions of the embarrassing political problems.
    WD 7.162 25 Malthus...forgot to say that the human mind was also a factor in political economy...
    WD 7.165 3 ...the political economist thinks 't is doubtful if all the mechanical inventions that ever existed have lightened the day's toil of one human being.
    Boks 7.195 13 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye.
    Cour 7.258 24 The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity...
    Cour 7.259 4 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community,--how infirm and ignoble!...
    Suc 7.283 15 Our political constitution is the hope of the world...
    OA 7.333 3 ...[John Adams]...added, My son has more political prudence that any man that I know who has existed in my time;...
    PI 8.37 11 ...we shall never understand political economy until Burns or Beranger or some poet shall teach it in songs...
    SA 8.99 10 The way to have large occasional views, as in a political or social crisis, is to have large habitual views.
    SA 8.107 9 These are the bases of civil and polite society; namely, manners, conversation, lucrative labor and public action; whether political, or in the leading of social institutions.
    Elo2 8.112 16 ...the political questions...find or form a class of men by nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these measures...
    Elo2 8.118 27 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis.
    Elo2 8.123 15 When, on his return from Washington, [John Quincy Adams] resumed his lectures in Cambridge...many of his political friends deserted him.
    Elo2 8.132 20 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...
    Res 8.143 1 American energy is overriding every venerable maxim of political science.
    Res 8.143 4 America is...such a magazine of power, that at her shores all the common rules of political economy utterly fail.
    PC 8.208 17 The new claim of woman to a political status is itself an honorable testimony to the civilization which has given her a civil status new in history.
    PC 8.211 5 Every one who was in Italy thirty-five years ago will remember the caution with which his host or guest in any house looked around him, if a political topic were broached.
    PC 8.217 12 Culture alters the political status of an individual.
    PC 8.232 12 The community of scholars...dishearten each other by tolerating political baseness in their members.
    Insp 8.297 3 ...political relations...would have been impediments to [scholars].
    Dem1 10.15 17 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success, exists not only among those who take part in political and military projects...
    Dem1 10.18 29 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing.
    Dem1 10.20 25 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language, used to serve only low or political purposes, the transfusion of the blood...are of this kind.
    Aris 10.31 17 [The best young men] do not yet covet political power...
    PerF 10.85 6 ...a military genius, instead of using that to defend his country, he says, I will fight the battle so as to give me place and political consideration;...
    PerF 10.86 10 All our political disasters grow as logically out of our attempts in the past to do without justice, as the sinking of some part of your house comes of defect in the foundation.
    Chr2 10.118 18 In the present tendency of our society...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.
    Edc1 10.144 23 Somewhat [the child] sees in forms...or believes practicable in mechanics or possible in political society, which no one else sees or hears or believes.
    Supl 10.178 8 The political economist defies us to show any gold-mine country that is traversed by good roads...
    SovE 10.210 2 Here is contribution...of political support to oppressed parties.
    Prch 10.217 5 In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself first...in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of...the scientific or political or economic institution for other better or worse forms.
    MoL 10.253 5 See a political revolution dogging a book.
    LLNE 10.327 8 [The new race] rebel against theological as against political dogmas;...
    LLNE 10.340 4 ...there was no great public interest, political, literary or even economical...on which [Channing] did not leave some printed record of his brave and thoughtful opinion.
    SlHr 10.442 27 ...in many a town it was asked, What does Squire Hoar think of this? and in political crises, he was entreated to write a few lines to make known to good men in Chelmsford, or Marlborough, or Shirley, what that opinion was.
    SlHr 10.448 2 [Samuel Hoar] had a huge respect for Mr. Webster's ability... and a proportionately deep regret at Mr. Webster's political course in his later years.
    SlHr 10.448 16 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to such political activities as a strong sense of duty and the love of order and of freedom urged him to forward.
    Carl 10.491 13 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they admire Cobden and free trade and he is a protectionist in political economy;...
    Carl 10.493 20 The literary, the fashionable, the political man...comes eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily enjoyed... and are struck with despair at the first onset.
    HDC 11.42 11 ...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their civil history...
    HDC 11.46 26 In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered...
    EWI 11.110 2 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade...
    EWI 11.134 15 If the managers of our political parties are too prudent and too cold;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    EWI 11.134 17 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out that these neglected victims are poor and without weight;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    EWI 11.138 10 It is notorious that the political, religious and social schemes, with which the minds of men are now most occupied, have been matured, or at least broached, in the free and daring discussions of these assemblies [on emancipation].
    EWI 11.138 18 Men have become aware, through the emancipation [in the West Indies] and kindred events, of the presence of powers which, in their days of darkness, they had overlooked. Virtuous men will not again rely on political agents.
    EWI 11.138 19 [Virtuous men] have found out the deleterious effect of political association.
    EWI 11.139 14 There are now other energies than force, other than political, which no man in future can allow himself to disregard.
    EWI 11.142 9 ...[the negro] is now the principal if not the only mechanic in the West Indies; and is, besides...a magistrate, an editor, and a valued and increasing political power.
    FSLC 11.184 4 What is the use of admirable law-forms, and political forms, if a hurricane of party feeling and a combination of monied interests can beat them to the ground?
    FSLC 11.184 10 What is the use of a Federal Bench, if its opinions are the political breath of the hour?
    FSLC 11.197 19 Every person who touches this business [the Fugitive Slave Law] is contaminated. There has not been in our lifetime another moment when public men were personally lowered by their political action.
    FSLC 11.202 10 ...passing from the ethical to the political view, I wish to place this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law]...
    FSLN 11.225 19 Who doubts the power of any fluent debater to defend either of our political parties...
    FSLN 11.238 3 ...if you have a nice question of right and wrong, you would not go with it...to a political hack...
    FSLN 11.242 12 [American universities] have...grown worldly and political.
    FSLN 11.242 15 I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political arena...
    AsSu 11.249 27 I have heard that some of [Charles Sumner's] political friends tax him with indolence or negligence in refusing to make electioneering speeches...
    AKan 11.255 9 ...I had been wiser to have stayed at home, unskilled as I am to address a political meeting...
    AKan 11.256 4 It is a maxim that all party spirit produces the incapacity to receive natural impressions from facts; and our recent political history has abundantly borne out the maxim.
    JBS 11.280 14 I am not a little surprised at the easy effrontery with which political gentlemen, in and out of Congress, take it upon them to say that there are not a thousand men in the North who sympathize with John Brown.
    TPar 11.285 16 ...the political rule is a cosmical rule, that if a man is not strong in his own district, he is not a good candidate elsewhere.
    TPar 11.290 9 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell on a political crisis also;...
    ACiv 11.298 14 At this moment in America the aspects of political society absorb attention.
    ACiv 11.309 15 The end of all political struggle is to establish morality as the basis of all legislation.
    ACiv 11.310 15 [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] marks the happiest day in the political year.
    EPro 11.315 5 These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs, when, roused by danger or inspired by genius, the political leaders of the day break the else insurmountable routine of class and local legislation...
    EPro 11.315 10 Every step in the history of political liberty is a sally of the human mind into the untried Future...
    HCom 11.341 15 The old Greek Heraclitus said, War is the Father of all things. He said it, no doubt, as science, but we of this day can repeat it as political and social truth.
    HCom 11.343 26 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States, and now...the diffuser of religious, literary and political opinion;...I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    SMC 11.352 7 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence.
    EdAd 11.386 5 It is a poor consideration...that political interests on so broad a scale as ours are administered by little men...
    EdAd 11.389 8 We have a bad war, many victories, each of which converts the country into an immense chanticleer; and a very insincere political opposition.
    Wom 11.419 19 ...if a woman demand votes, offices and political equality with men...it must not be refused.
    CPL 11.495 2 The people of Massachusetts prize the simple political arrangement of towns...
    FRep 11.517 17 One hundred years ago the American people attempted to carry out the bill of political rights to an almost ideal perfection.
    FRep 11.519 8 The spirit of our political economy is low and degrading.
    FRep 11.519 12 The spirit of our political action, for the most part, considers nothing less than the sacredness of man.
    FRep 11.522 16 [The American] is easily fed with wheat and game, with Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts, by political power...
    FRep 11.527 13 The facility with which clubs are formed by young men for discussion of social, political and intellectual topics secures the notoriety of the questions.
    FRep 11.538 13 It is not a question whether we shall be a multitude of people. No...but whether we shall be...the guide and lawgiver of all nations, as having clearly chosen and firmly held the simplest and best rule of political society.
    FRep 11.540 24 The end of all political struggle is to establish morality as the basis of all legislation.
    Bost 12.188 20 ...[Boston's] annals are great historical lines...part of the history of political liberty.
    Bost 12.202 15 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party...
    Bost 12.206 21 ...here [in Boston] was...a living mind...always afflicting the conservative class with some odious novelty or other;...a political point, a point of honor...
    Milt1 12.257 2 Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton] by his biographers, that if the anecdotes...had not been in part furnished or corroborated by political enemies, would lead us to suspect the portraits were ideal...
    Milt1 12.257 11 Wood, [Milton's] political opponent, relates that his deportment was affable...
    ACri 12.304 15 [The classic] does not make a novel to establish a principle of political economy.
    PPr 12.379 4 In its first aspect [Carlyle's Past and Present] is a political tract...
    PPr 12.379 13 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a powerful and accomplished thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years...
    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...
    PPr 12.383 25 ...when the political aspects are so calamitous that the sympathies of the man overpower the habits of the poet, a higher than literary inspiration may succor him.
    Let 12.392 20 Very unlooked-for political and social effects of the iron road are fast appearing.

Political Economy, n. (1)

    Wth 6.101 14 Political Economy is as good a book wherein to read the life of man...as any Bible which has come down to us.

politically, adv. (1)

    RBur 11.440 8 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...that uprising which worked politically in the American and French Revolutions...

politician, n. (13)

    Pol1 3.219 2 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could...make life serene around him by the dignity and sweetness of his behavior, could he...covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
    ET9 5.148 18 I remember a shrewd politician...told me that he had known several successful statesmen made by their foible.
    Ctr 6.149 27 The head of a commercial house or a leading lawyer or politician is brought into daily contact with troops of men from all parts of the country...
    PI 8.41 21 ...the broker sees the stock-list; the politician, the ward and county votes;...
    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 politician...
    Aris 10.47 23 Whoever wants more power than is the legitimate attraction of his faculty, is a politician...
    PerF 10.86 27 ...a sensitive politician suffers his ideas of the part New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties.
    MoL 10.252 6 ...the politician believes in his arts and combinations;...
    LLNE 10.344 26 The vulgar politician disposed of this circle [of Transcendentalists] cheaply as the sentimental class.
    FSLC 11.199 14 There is...not a politician but is watching [slavery's] incalculable energy in the elections;...
    SMC 11.356 25 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...the village politician, who could now verify his newspaper knowledge...
    CInt 12.123 5 [The Understanding] is the power which the world of men adopt and educate. He is the calculator, he is the merchant, the politician, the worker in the useful;...
    Bost 12.203 18 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some defender of the slave against the politician and the merchant;...

politicians, n. (11)

    ET7 5.122 20 [The English] attack their own politicians every day...as adventurers.
    ET9 5.150 9 The habit of brag runs through all classes [in England], from the Times newspaper through politicians and poets...
    Ctr 6.161 6 A man who stands on a good footing with the heads of parties at Washington, reads...the guesses of provincial politicians with a key to the right and wrong in each statement, and sees well enough where all this will end.
    CbW 6.248 14 What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves and triflers of both sexes might be advantageously spared!
    CbW 6.250 2 What a vicious practice is this of our politicians at Washington pairing off!...
    Cour 7.272 12 Everything feels the new breath [of courage] except the old doting nigh-dead politicians...
    PC 8.230 22 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amongst angry politicians swelling with self-esteem...
    SlHr 10.446 20 No person was more keenly alive to the stabs which the ambition and avarice of men inflicted on the commonwealth [than Samuel Hoar] .Yet when politicians or speculators approached him, these memories left no scar;...
    FSLN 11.220 18 In what I have to say of Mr. Webster I do not confound him with vulgar politicians before or since.
    Wom 11.421 8 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;-that...if they become good politicians they are worse clergymen.
    FRep 11.518 3 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians...

politics, n. (186)

    Nat 1.31 22 The poet...bred in the woods...shall not lose their lesson altogether, in...the broil of politics.
    AmS 1.104 12 It is a shame to [the scholar]...if he seek a temporary peace by the diversion of his thoughts from politics or vexed questions...
    LE 1.170 27 Religion is yet to be settled on its fast foundations in the breast of man; and politics...
    MR 1.252 1 ...there will dawn ere long on our politics...a nobler morning than that Arabian faith...
    MR 1.253 9 We complain that the politics of masses of the people are controlled by designing men...
    LT 1.290 15 I wish to speak of the politics...around us without ceremony or false deference.
    Con 1.297 15 This [fable of Saturn and Uranus] may stand for the earliest account of a conversation on politics between a Conservative and a Radical which has come down to us.
    Tran 1.354 27 In politics, it has often sufficed, when they treated of justice, if they kept the bounds of selfish calculation.
    YA 1.363 9 America is beginning to assert herself to the senses and to the imagination of her children, and Europe is receding in the same degree. This their reaction on education gives a new importance to the internal improvements and to the politics of the country.
    YA 1.363 16 This rage of road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade...
    YA 1.391 25 After all the deductions which are to be made for our pitiful politics...there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...
    Lov1 2.183 26 The rays of the soul alight first on things nearest...on politics and geography and history.
    Fdsp 2.210 10 I can get politics and chat and neighborly conveniences from cheaper companions [than my friend].
    Hsm1 2.263 22 Who that sees the meanness of our politics but inly congratulates Washington that he is long already wrapped in his shroud...
    Int 2.345 17 I shall not presume to interfere in the old politics of the skies;...
    Art1 2.353 3 No man can...produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages and arts of his time shall have no share.
    Pt1 3.5 16 In love...in politics...we study to utter our painful secret.
    Pt1 3.28 1 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize... politics...
    Pt1 3.37 26 Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics...are yet unsung.
    Pt1 3.41 11 [O poet] Thou shalt not know any longer the times, customs, graces, politics, or opinions of men...
    Exp 3.60 24 ...amidst this vertigo of shows and politics, I settle myself ever the firmer in the creed that we should...do broad justice where we are...
    Exp 3.82 18 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold. The face of the god expresses a shade of regret and compassion, but is calm with the conviction of the irreconcilableness of the two spheres. He is born into other politics...
    Exp 3.83 10 I gossip for my hour concerning the eternal politics.
    Chr1 3.111 15 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which...makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
    Mrs1 3.123 18 The competition is transferred from war to politics and trade, but the personal force appears readily enough in these new arenas.
    Mrs1 3.123 20 In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.
    Mrs1 3.126 9 ...the politics of this country, and the trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers...
    Mrs1 3.144 26 Another mode [of winning a place in fashion] is to pass through all the degrees...being...perfumed, and dined, and introduced, and properly grounded in all the biography and politics and anecdotes of the boudoirs.
    Nat2 3.172 27 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I leave the village politics and personalities... behind...
    Pol1 3.199 21 ...politics rest on necessary foundations...
    Pol1 3.201 18 The theory of politics which has possessed the mind of men... considers persons and property as the two objects for whose protection government exists.
    NR 3.239 22 Hence the immense benefit of party in politics, as it reveals faults of character in a chief, which the intellectual force of the persons... could not have seen.
    NER 3.255 9 In politics...it is easy to see the progress of dissent.
    NER 3.272 11 Is not every man sometimes a radical in politics?
    UGM 4.10 27 There are advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first, when, by union with intellect and will, they...reappear in conversation, character and politics.
    UGM 4.20 18 We will know the meaning of our economies and politics.
    MoS 4.158 6 ...shall the young man aim at a leading part in law, in politics, in trade? It will not be pretended that a success in either of these kinds is quite coincident with what is best and inmost in his mind.
    MoS 4.172 21 [The wise skeptic's] politics are those of the Soul's Errand of Sir Walter Raleigh;...
    NMW 4.227 24 There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics...
    NMW 4.247 22 ...it is the belief of men to-day that nothing new can be undertaken in politics...
    GoW 4.272 27 In the menstruum of this man's [Goethe's] wit, the past and the present ages, and their religions, politics and modes of thinking, are dissolved into archetypes and ideas.
    ET1 5.20 7 ...I fear [the Americans] are too much given to the making of money [said Wordsworth]; and secondly, to politics;...
    ET4 5.49 4 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...readiness of combination among themselves for politics or for business;...
    ET5 5.82 5 In politics [the English] put blunt questions, which must be answered;...
    ET5 5.88 17 [The Englishmen's] drowsy minds need to be flagellated by war and trade and politics and persecution.
    ET5 5.93 14 ...in the complications of the trade and politics of their vast empire, [the English] have been equal to every exigency...
    ET5 5.101 15 In politics and in war [the English] hold together as by hooks of steel.
    ET7 5.123 14 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions;...
    ET7 5.123 22 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners: which, to be sure, is paralleled by the democratic whimsy in this country...that the English are at the bottom of the agitation of slavery, in American politics...
    ET9 5.146 21 The same insular limitation pinches [the Englishman's] foreign politics.
    ET11 5.173 11 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself with heraldic names...was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by...the politics of shoe-makers and costermongers.
    ET11 5.173 22 ...the national music, the popular romances, conspire to uphold the heraldry which the current politics of the day [in England] are sapping.
    ET11 5.174 14 Piracy and war gave place [in England] to trade, politics and letters;...
    ET12 5.205 18 ...the known sympathy of entire Britain in what is done there [at the universities], justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America, where his college is half suspected by the Freshman to be insignificant in the scale beside trade and politics.
    ET13 5.219 22 ...the stability of the English nation is passionately enlisted to [the Church's] support, from its inextricable connection with the cause of public order, with politics and with the funds.
    ET13 5.222 17 The most sensible and well-informed [English] men possess the power of thinking just so far...as the chancellor of the exchequer in politics.
    ET13 5.223 25 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts.
    ET13 5.225 11 The chatter of French politics, the steam-whistle...had quite put most of the old legends out of mind;...
    ET14 5.239 26 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists, and that the dull men will be Lockists. Then politics and commerce will absorb from the educated class men of talents without genius, precisely because such have no resistance.
    ET14 5.252 7 Nothing comes to the [English] book-shops but politics, travels, statistics, tabulation and engineering;...
    ET14 5.252 27 ...a devotion to the theory of politics like that of Hooker and Milton and Harrington, the modern English mind repudiates.
    ET14 5.254 16 ...parochial and shop-till politics...betray the ebb of life and spirit [in English students].
    ET15 5.263 4 [Writing for English journals] comes of the crowded state of the professions, the violent interest which all men take in politics...
    ET17 5.298 1 ...[Wordsworth] had conformities to English politics and traditions;...
    F 6.13 9 A good deal of our politics is physiological.
    F 6.31 8 ...in politics, [men] think they come under another [dominion];...
    F 6.34 16 The Fultons and Watts of politics, believing in unity, saw that it was a power...
    Pow 6.56 18 A man who knows men, can talk well on politics, trade, law, war, religion.
    Pow 6.61 26 ...[a timid man] discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are here in play make our politics unimportant.
    Pow 6.64 17 In politics, the sons of democrats will be whigs;...
    Pow 6.65 3 Our politics fall into bad hands...
    Pow 6.65 6 Politics is a deleterious profession...
    Pow 6.74 3 ...the one evil [in life] is dissipation; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are...politics, or music, or feasting.
    Pow 6.75 1 Concentration is the secret of strength in politics...
    Pow 6.75 7 ...if you will have a text from politics [concerning concentration], take this from Plutarch...
    Wth 6.111 3 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant] people, and we cannot get rid of their will to be supported. That has become an inevitable element of our politics;...
    Ctr 6.140 21 Politics is an after-work...
    Ctr 6.140 26 We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education.
    Ctr 6.158 23 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill;...
    Ctr 6.160 18 ...culture must reinforce from higher influx the empirical skills of eloquence, or of politics...
    Ctr 6.161 19 ...Jefferson, Washington, stood on a fine humanity, before which the brawls of modern senates are but pot-house politics.
    Wsp 6.239 24 ...[men] suffer from politics, or bad neighbors...and they would gladly know that they were to be dismissed from the duties of life.
    CbW 6.258 3 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls... on...some trade or politics of the hour, he prefers it to the universe...
    CbW 6.271 9 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...a legacy and the like. With these objects, their conversation deals with surfaces: politics, trade...
    CbW 6.276 19 ...whatever art you select...commerce, politics,--all are attainable...on the same terms of selecting that for which you are apt;...
    Ill 6.318 13 You play with...bowls, horse and gun, estates and politics; but there are finer games before you.
    DL 7.129 3 [Friendship] is the happiness which...makes politics and commerce and churches cheap.
    Farm 7.140 26 The men in cities who are...the driving-wheels of trade, or politics or practical arts...are the children or grandchildren of farmers...
    WD 7.162 8 Our politics are disgusting;...
    WD 7.165 21 Politics were never more corrupt and brutal;...
    WD 7.174 7 He is a strong man who can look [these passing hours] in the eye...nor permit love, or death, or politics, or money, war or pleasure to draw him from his task.
    Clbs 7.236 13 Dr. Johnson was a man of no profound mind,--full of English limitations, English politics, English Church...
    Clbs 7.240 26 Every variety of gift--science, religion, politics, letters, art, prudence, war or love--has its vent and exchange in conversation.
    Clbs 7.249 5 I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in their several arts to compare and expand their views, to come to an understanding on these points, and so that their united opinion shall have its just influence on public questions of education and politics.
    Suc 7.289 8 Rien ne reussit mieux que le succes. And we Americans are tainted with this insanity, as our...reckless politics may show.
    PI 8.5 26 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets our politics, trade...
    PI 8.36 5 The writer in the parlor has more presence of mind, more wit and fancy, more play of thought, on the incidents that occur at table or about the house, than in the politics of Germany or Rome.
    PI 8.37 5 There is no subject that does not belong to [the poet],--politics, economy, manufactures and stock-brokerage, as much as sunsets and souls;...
    PI 8.38 1 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed, confined...in profligate politics...
    PI 8.66 24 The philosophy which a nation receives, rules its religion, poetry, politics, arts, trades and whole history.
    PI 8.70 18 O celestial Bacchus! drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds...hungry for poetry...and in the long delay indemnifying themselves with the false wine of alcohol, of politics or of money.
    SA 8.95 13 Politics, war, party, luxury, avarice, fashion, are all asses with loaded panniers to serve the kitchen of Intellect, the king.
    SA 8.98 16 Never worry people...with dismal views of politics or society.
    Res 8.142 15 ...we have seen the most healthful revolution in the politics of the nation,--the Constitution not only amended, but construed in a new spirit.
    Res 8.153 11 ...I think [the mighty law of vegetation] more grateful and health-giving than any news I am likely to find of man in the journals, and better than Washington politics.
    Comc 8.165 23 The satire [on religion] reaches its climax when the actual Church is set in direct contradiction to the dictates of the religious sentiment, as in the sketch of our Puritan politics in Hudibras...
    Comc 8.173 4 Politics also furnish the same mark for satire.
    QO 8.184 23 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has Brougham! he knows politics, Greek, history, science;...
    PC 8.220 7 In politics, mark the importance of minorities of one...
    PC 8.232 18 It has been our misfortune that the politics of America have been often immoral.
    PC 8.232 26 We have suffered our young men of ambition to play the game of politics and take the immoral side without loss of caste...
    PC 8.234 12 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot...doubt that the interests of science, of letters, of politics and humanity, are safe.
    PPo 8.248 7 We accept the religions and politics into which we fall...
    Insp 8.295 9 You shall not read newspapers, nor politics, nor novels...
    Imtl 8.331 14 Both [men] were men of distinction and took an active part in the politics of their day and generation.
    Aris 10.32 22 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but...so little in sympathy with the predominant politics of nations, that their names and doings are not recorded in any Book of Peerage...
    Aris 10.39 6 I wish...men of universal politics...
    Aris 10.46 22 I only point in passing to the order of the universe, which makes a rotation,-not...like our democratic politics, my turn now, your turn next...
    Aris 10.47 25 Whoever wants more power than is the legitimate attraction of his faculty, is a politician, and must pay for that excess; must truckle for it. This is the whole game of society and the politics of the world.
    Aris 10.65 5 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit will not need...to direct large interests of...politics...
    PerF 10.87 5 There is a speedy limit to profligate politics.
    Chr2 10.91 17 ...we say in our modern politics...that the object of the State is the greatest good of the greatest number...
    Chr2 10.103 25 The [moral] sentiment...measures...whatever philanthropy, or politics, or saint, or seer pretends to speak in its name.
    Supl 10.168 12 ...I do not know any advantage more conspicuous which a man owes to his experience in markets and the Exchange, or politics, than the caution and accuracy he acquires in his report of facts.
    SovE 10.206 23 We in America are charged...that our institutions, our politics and our trade have fostered a self-reliance which is small, liliputian, full of fuss and bustle;...
    Prch 10.223 4 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws...and will regard natural history, private fortunes and politics, not for themselves, as we have done, but as illustrations of those laws...
    Prch 10.223 10 Every movement of religious opinion is of profound importance to politics and social life;...
    Schr 10.269 24 Why need [the poet] meddle with politics? His idlest thought...is told already in the Senate.
    Schr 10.270 12 For [the poet] arms, art, politics, trade, waited like menials...
    LLNE 10.326 2 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It...brought new divisions in politics;...
    LLNE 10.338 23 The result [of Modern Science] in literature and the general mind was a return to law; in science, in politics, in social life;...
    LLNE 10.338 25 The result [of Modern Science] in literature and the general mind was a return to law;...as distinguished from the profligate manners and politics of earlier times.
    Thor 10.460 10 ...idealist as he was...[Thoreau] found himself not only unrepresented in actual politics, but almost equally opposed to every class of reformers.
    GSt 10.501 22 ...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
    EWI 11.127 6 The House of Commons would...interfere in English politics in the [West Indian] island legislation...
    EWI 11.133 5 ...perhaps I know too little of politics for the smallest weight to attach to any censure of mine...
    EWI 11.140 9 The First of August [1834] marks the entrance of a new element into modern politics, namely, the civilization of the negro.
    War 11.170 7 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of routine and mere forms,-the universal specific of modern politics;...
    FSLC 11.179 6 The last year has forced us all into politics...
    FSLC 11.179 21 [Massachusetts laws] never came near me to any discomfort before. I find the like sensibility...in that class who take no interest in the ordinary questions of party politics.
    FSLC 11.199 27 When a moral quality comes into politics...general principles are laid bare...
    FSLC 11.211 22 The immense power of rectitude is apt to be forgotten in politics.
    FSLN 11.218 18 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.
    FSLN 11.223 17 Whether evil influences and the corruption of politics, or whether original infirmity, it was the misfortune of his country that with this large understanding [Webster] had not what is better than intellect...
    FSLN 11.231 26 In vulgar politics the Whig goes for what has been...
    FSLN 11.242 25 I [Robert Winthrop] am, as you see, a man virtuously inclined, and only corrupted by my profession of politics.
    AsSu 11.249 2 [Charles Sumner] had not taken his degrees in the caucus and in hack politics.
    AKan 11.259 5 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years...
    TPar 11.289 27 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...immoral politics...it is a hypocrisy...
    ACiv 11.299 7 ...the rude and early state of society...has poisoned politics, public morals and social intercourse in the Republic, now for many years.
    ACiv 11.306 5 We fancy that the endless debate...has brought the free states to some conviction that it can never go well with us whilst this mischief of slavery remains in our politics...
    ALin 11.331 5 ...men naturally talked of [Lincoln's] chances in politics as incalculable.
    EdAd 11.387 20 ...though it may not be easy to define [America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality...even in the reckless and sinister politics, not less than in purer expressions.
    EdAd 11.387 27 ...we should certainly be glad to give good advice in politics.
    EdAd 11.388 5 We are more solicitous than others to make our politics clear and healthful...
    EdAd 11.388 6 ...we believe politics to be nowise accidental or exceptional...
    EdAd 11.388 13 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully...
    EdAd 11.389 20 ...we...should be sincerely pleased if we could give a direction to the Federal politics...
    EdAd 11.389 21 ...we are far from believing politics the primal interest of men.
    Koss 11.401 6 ...as the shores of Europe and America approach every month, and their politics will one day mingle, when the crisis arrives it will find us all instructed beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary...
    Wom 11.403 1 The politics are base,/ The letters do not cheer,/ And 't is far in the deeps of history,/ The voice that speaketh clear./
    Wom 11.418 18 ...there are multitudes of men who live to objects quite out of them, as to politics, to trade...
    Wom 11.421 5 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;...
    Wom 11.421 7 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;-that if they are good clergymen they are unacquainted with the expediencies of politics...
    Wom 11.423 8 As for the unsexing and contamination [of women in politics],-that only accuses our existing politics...
    Shak1 11.452 9 [Periods fruitful of great men] are like the great wine years...which, it is said, are always followed by new vivacity in the politics of Europe.
    ChiE 11.473 15 China interests us at this moment in a point of politics.
    FRep 11.514 3 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns that it is by no means by obeying the vulgar weathercock of his party...that real power is gained...
    FRep 11.520 1 Our politics are full of adventurers...
    FRep 11.522 26 [Americans] are careless of politics, because they do not entertain the possibility of being seriously caught in meshes of legislation.
    FRep 11.525 8 ...any disturbances in politics...sober [the American people]...
    FRep 11.527 26 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the predominance of the democratic party in the politics of the Union...
    FRep 11.533 25 Our politics threaten [England]. Her manners threaten us.
    PLT 12.54 23 ...[a man's] genius leads him one way, but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another.
    CInt 12.113 2 I cannot consent to wander from the duties of this day into the fracas of politics.
    CInt 12.126 5 It is true that the University and the Church...do not express the sentiment of the popular politics and the popular optimism, whatever it be.
    CInt 12.127 8 ...these two [the College and the Church] should be counterbalancing to the bad politics and selfish trade.
    Bost 12.200 22 The American idea, Emancipation, appears in our freedom of intellection, in our reforms and in our bad politics;...
    ACri 12.304 4 The politics of monarchy, when all hangs on the accidents of life and temper of a single person, may be called romantic politics.
    ACri 12.304 6 The politics of monarchy, when all hangs on the accidents of life and temper of a single person, may be called romantic politics.
    ACri 12.304 9 The democratic, when the power proceeds organically from the people and is responsible to them, are classic politics.
    MLit 12.317 21 There are facts on which men of the world superciliously smile, which are worth all their trade and politics;...
    WSL 12.337 12 When Mr. Bull rides in an American coach...he is very ready to confess his ignorance of everything about him,-persons, manners, customs, politics, geography.
    WSL 12.348 17 [Landor's] books are a strange mixture of politics, etymology, allegory, sentiment and personal history;...
    PPr 12.379 19 ...the topic of English politics becomes the best vehicle for the expression of [Carlyle's] recent thinking...
    PPr 12.386 21 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear...

Politics, n. (2)

    Int 2.340 1 When we are young we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art...
    Art2 7.37 2 All departments of life at the present day--Trade, Politics, Letters, Science, or Religion--seem to feel...the identity of their law.

polity, n. (4)

    Hsm1 2.258 22 ...[many extraordinary young men] seem to throw contempt on our entire polity and social state;...
    DL 7.108 8 It is easier...to criticise [a territory's] polity, books, art, than to come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their character...
    Imtl 8.325 2 ...the polity of the Egyptians...respected burial.
    EdAd 11.390 8 ...the insight which commands the laws and conditions of the true polity precludes forever all interest in the squabbles of parties.

Polk's, James Knox, n. (1)

    Pow 6.63 21 The senators who dissented from Mr. Polk's Mexican war were not those who knew better...

poll, n. (1)

    ET5 5.99 23 Though not military, yet every common subject [in England] by the poll is fit to make a soldier of.

pollen, n. (1)

    LE 1.168 9 ...the pine throwing out its pollen for the benefit of the next century; the turpentine exuding from the tree...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].

Pollock [Pollok], Frederick (1)

    SL 2.154 15 Blackmore, Kotzebue or Pollok may endure for a night...

polls, n. (9)

    MR 1.253 7 ...at the polls [the rich man] finds [laborers] arrayed in a mass in distinct opposition to him.
    NER 3.278 24 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors...
    F 6.31 14 What pious men in the parlor will vote for what reprobates at the polls!
    HDC 11.50 8 Tell [the Continental nations] the Union has twenty-four States, and Massachusetts is one. Tell them...that in Concord are five hundred ratable polls, and every one has an equal vote.
    HDC 11.62 25 In the great growth of the country, Concord participated, as is manifest from its increasing polls and increased rates.
    Wom 11.421 23 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen...standing at the door of the polls, give every innocent citizen his ticket as he comes in, informing him that this is the vote of his party;...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    FRep 11.523 5 [Americans] stay away from the polls, saying that one vote can go no good!
    FRep 11.524 9 The record of the election now and then alarms people by the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler. But how was it done? What lawless mob burst into the polls and threw in these hundreds of ballots in defiance of the magistrates?
    PLT 12.38 20 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published...in conversation...of men of the world, and at last in the very choruses of songs. The young hear it, and...they accept it, vote for it at the polls...

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