Pollute to Positives

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

pollute, v. (2)

    Bhr 6.196 22 ...if you have headache...or thunderstroke, I beseech you...to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning...
    Let 12.401 5 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken, that with them all is imperfect only because they leave nothing pure, which they do not pollute...

polluted, v. (2)

    NER 3.252 25 [Other reformers] attacked the system of agriculture, the use of animal manures in farming, and the tyranny of man over brute nature; these abuses polluted his food.
    EdAd 11.390 12 As soon as men have tasted the enjoyment of learning, friendship and virtue, for which the State exists, the prizes of office appear polluted...

polonian, n. (1)

    ET12 5.201 6 Albert Alaskie, a noble Polonian...was entertained with stage-plays in the Refectory of Christ-Church [College, Oxford] in 1583.

poltroon, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.139 24 ...Marshal Lannes said to a French officer, Know, Colonel, that none but a poltroon will boast that he never was afraid.
    Dem1 10.8 25 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in certain actions which seem...out of all fitness. He is hostile...he is a poltroon.

poltroonery, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.140 7 ...poltroonery is the acknowledging an inferiority to be incurable.

Polycrates, n. (1)

    Comp 2.112 9 The terror of cloudless noon, the emerald of Polycrates...are the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.

polyglots, n. (1)

    ACri 12.285 4 ...when I read of various extraordinary polyglots...who can understand fifty languages, I answer that I shall be glad and surprised to find that they know one.

Polymnia, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.150 20 The wonderful generosity of her sentiments raises [woman] at times into heroical and godlike regions, and verifies the pictures of Minerva, Juno, or Polymnia;...

Polynesia, n. (2)

    ET11 5.198 2 [Titles of lordship...may be advantageously consigned...to the dignitaries of Australia and Polynesia.
    Suc 7.303 17 ...the genial man is interested in every slipper that comes into the assembly. The passion, alike everywhere, creeps under the snows of Scandinavia...and swims in the seas of Polynesia.

pomanders, n. (1)

    ET11 5.195 12 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense. They went from city to city, learning receipts to make perfumes, sweet powders, pomanders, antidotes...preparing for a private life thereafter...

pomologists, n. (1)

    ET1 5.8 19 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon--much as our pomologists, in their lists, select the three or the six best pears for a small orchard;...

Pomona, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.180 8 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken, and the first lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil, and opened the door for the remote Flora, Fauna, Ceres, and Pomona to come in.

pomp, n. (14)

    Nat 1.17 13 Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
    Nat 1.19 5 In July, the blue pontederia...swarms with yellow butterflies in continual motion. Art cannot rival this pomp of purple and gold.
    Nat 1.41 4 ...Nature...lends all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
    Nat 1.53 8 No, [my passion] was builded far from accident;/ It suffers not in smiling pomp.../
    Con 1.316 22 ...the plant Man does not require for his most glorious flowering this pomp of preparation and convenience...
    Nat2 3.193 2 ...what recesses of ineffable pomp and loveliness in the sunset!
    SwM 4.132 15 The wise people of the Greek race were accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian mysteries, wherein, with much pomp and graduation, the highest truths known to ancient wisdom were taught.
    CbW 6.248 1 See what a cometary train of auxiliaries man carries with him, of animals, plants, stones, gases and imponderable elements. Let us infer his ends from this pomp of means.
    Bty 6.298 1 ...the enamoured youth mixes [women's] form...with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer.
    WD 7.155 7 I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,/ Forgot my morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day/ Turned and departed silent./
    Suc 7.298 12 [The city boy in the October woods] is suddenly initiated into a pomp and glory that brings to pass for him the dreams of romance.
    Wom 11.411 27 For [woman] the seas their pearls reveal,/ Art and strange lands her pomp supply/ With purple, chrome and cochineal,/ Ochre and lapis lazuli./
    MAng1 12.223 6 Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures, improper, says his biographer, for the place, but proper for the exhibition of all the pomp of his profound knowledge.
    Milt1 12.249 15 These writings [Milton's tracts] are wonderful for...the subtility and pomp of the language;...

Pompeii, Italy, n. (2)

    QO 8.179 7 ...movable types, the kaleidoscope, the railway, the power-loom, etc., have been many times found and lost, from Egypt, China and Pompeii down;...
    Imtl 8.325 25 [The Greek] carried his arts to Rome, and built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii.

Pompey, n. (2)

    LT 1.281 4 What are no trifles to [our young people], they naturally think are no trifles to Pompey.
    CInt 12.113 19 You shall not put up in your Academy the statue of Caesar or Pompey...

pompous, adj. (5)

    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?
    NR 3.236 13 What you say in your pompous distribution only distributes you into your class and section.
    Bty 6.282 26 The human heart...is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.
    Ill 6.318 21 What if you shall come to discern that the play and playground of all this pompous history are radiations from yourself...
    CL 12.166 3 Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures...

pomps, n. (4)

    ShP 4.190 14 The Church has reared [a great man] amidst rites and pomps, and he carries out the advice which her music gave him, and builds a cathedral needed by her chants and processions.
    ET6 5.109 23 [The English] keep their old customs, costumes, and pomps...
    OA 7.313 11 I care not if the pomps [clouds] show/ Be what they soothfast appear,/ Or if yon realms in sunset glow/ Be bubbles of the atmosphere./
    PLT 12.18 25 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves...the pomps of religion...

ponchos, n. (1)

    ET5 5.96 16 [The English] make ponchos for the Mexican, bandannas for the Hindoo...

Pond, Bateman's, n. (1)

    Thor 10.480 9 ...the blockheads were not born in Concord; but who said they were? It was their unspeakable misfortune to be born in London, or Paris, or Rome; but...they did what they could, considering that they never saw Bateman's Pond...

Pond, Frog, Boston, Massac (2)

    Elo2 8.127 15 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned...
    Elo2 8.127 23 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated...he implored the Divine Being to--to--to bless to them all the boy that was this morning drowned in Frog Pond.

pond, n. (11)

    Lov1 2.183 22 In the procession of the soul from within outward, it enlarges its circles ever, like the pebble thrown into the pond...
    Cir 2.308 8 Infinitely alluring and attractive was [a man] to you yesterday... a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond...
    Cir 2.313 8 We can never see Christianity from the catechism...from a boat in the pond...we possibly may.
    Int 2.334 18 ...our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond;...
    Chr1 3.101 4 A pound of water in the ocean-tempest has no more gravity than in a midsummer pond.
    Ill 6.311 20 ...the fisherman dripping all day over a cold pond, the switchman at the railway intersection...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
    WD 7.168 6 ...if [Czar Alexander] had the earth for his pasture and the sea for his pond, he would be a pauper still.
    Prch 10.222 7 To [the soul which is without God] heaven and earth have lost their beauty. How gloomy is the day, and upon yonder shining pond what melancholy light!
    Thor 10.479 22 To [Thoreau] there was no such thing as size. The pond was a small ocean;...
    SHC 11.436 1 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...and in the grass, and by the pond, the locust, the cricket and the hyla, shall shrilly play.
    CL 12.150 22 In March, the thaw...and the splendor of the icicles. On the pond there is a cannonade of a hundred guns...

Pond, Nagog, Massachusetts, (1)

    HDC 11.54 3 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651, [the Indians'] desire was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog Pond... became an Indian town...

Pond, Walden [Concord, Mas (1)

    Insp 8.281 9 ...I fancy that my logs, which have grown so long in sun and wind by Walden, are a kind of muses.

Pond, Walden, n. (2)

    Thor 10.457 27 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond...
    Thor 10.479 23 To [Thoreau] there was no such thing as size. The pond was a small ocean; the Atlantic, a large Walden Pond.

ponder, v. (6)

    Nat 1.34 4 When in fortunate hours we ponder this miracle, the wise man doubts if at all other times he is not blind and deaf;...
    LT 1.287 19 ...as we ponder this meaning of the times, every new thought drives us to the deep fact that the Time is the child of the Eternity.
    Hist 2.37 25 A mind might ponder its thoughts for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
    Prd1 2.230 21 There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature... which seems at last to have aroused all the wit and virtue in the world to ponder the question of Reform.
    PC 8.225 10 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems, which we ponder all our lives through, and leave where we found them;...
    CL 12.139 7 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...and...ponder the moral secrets which, in her solitudes, Nature has to whisper to us, we were better patriots and happier men.

pondered, v. (1)

    Insp 8.283 25 To the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift. Yes, for they know how to give you in one moment the solution of the riddle you have pondered for months.

ponderous, adj. (11)

    SL 2.136 27 Our society is encumbered by ponderous machinery...
    ET5 5.87 1 ...[the English]...do not like ponderous and difficult tactics...
    ET10 5.171 3 ...the means of meeting a certain ponderous expense, is that which is considered by a youth in England emerging from his minority.
    F 6.15 7 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...the ponderous, rock-like jaw;...
    Wsp 6.202 10 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out in passions, in war...let us not be so nice that we cannot...doubt but there is a counter-statement as ponderous, which we can arrive at...
    CbW 6.243 13 ...thou, Cyndyllan's son! beware/ Ponderous gold and stuffs to bear/...
    Clbs 7.249 10 ...in the sections of the British Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in...the printing and transmission of ponderous reports.
    Chr2 10.112 1 We...want power to drive the ponderous State.
    SovE 10.193 8 All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar [of Divine justice]. Settles for evermore the ponderous equator to its line...
    PLT 12.19 1 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves...agriculture, trade, commerce;-these are the ponderous instrumentalities into which the nimble thoughts pass...
    PLT 12.48 9 ...the whole ponderous machinery of the state has really for its aim just to place this skill of each.

ponderously, adv. (1)

    Imtl 8.325 1 ...the whole life of man in the first ages was ponderously determined on death;...

ponders, v. (2)

    Int 2.326 17 He who is immersed in what concerns person or place cannot see the problem of existence. This the intellect always ponders.
    PI 8.9 5 While the student ponders this immense unity, he observes that all things...have a mysterious relation to his thoughts and his life;...

pond-hole, n. (1)

    Pow 6.62 26 The commerce of rivers...must add an American extension to the pond-hole of admiralty.

pond-lilies, n. (1)

    EurB 12.371 25 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields...stuck...with ferns and pond-lilies which the children have gathered.

pond-lily, n. (1)

    Thor 10.481 15 [Thoreau] honored certain plants with special regard, and, over all, the pond-lily...

ponds, n. (6)

    ET5 5.95 9 The rivers, lakes and ponds [in England], too much fished, or obstructed by factories, are artificially filled with the eggs of salmon, turbot and herring.
    ET11 5.189 9 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced...the artificial replenishment of lakes and ponds with fish...
    Thor 10.453 17 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him... the depth and extent of ponds and rivers...and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    Thor 10.467 13 As [Thoreau] knew the river, so the ponds in this region.
    HDC 11.51 2 Those [Indians] who dwelled by ponds and rivers had some tincture of civility...
    CL 12.157 7 Can you bring home...the sedgy ripples of the old Colony ponds?...

poniards, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.132 5 The air, said Fouche, is full of poniards.

Pons Palatinus, Rome, Ital (1)

    MAng1 12.226 2 [Michelangelo] was charged with rebuilding the Pons Palatinus over the Tiber.

pontederia, n. (1)

    Nat 1.19 2 In July, the blue pontederia...blooms in large beds...

pontiff, n. (1)

    UGM 4.23 19 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts, destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is nothing. Then he is a...pontiff who preaches the equality of souls...

Pontus, n. (1)

    Boks 7.189 9 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...

Pook, Samuel Hartt, n. (1)

    PC 8.219 25 McKay, the shipbuilder, thinks of George Steers; and Steers, of Pook, the naval constructor.

pool, n. (10)

    DSA 1.124 1 ...one mind is everywhere active...in each wavelet of the pool;...
    MN 1.197 20 ...we explore the face of the sun in a pool, when our eyes cannot brook his direct splendors.
    PPh 4.69 7 ...every pool reflects the image of the sun...
    ET17 5.292 4 ...[my Manchester correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and bonhommie. There seemed a pool of honey about his heart...
    Farm 7.148 19 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine,--Enclosing in the garden square/ A dead and standing pool of air/...
    MMEm 10.404 15 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I scarcely feel the sympathies of this life enough to agitate the pool.
    Thor 10.469 27 [Thoreau] waded into the pool for the water-plants...
    Thor 10.470 4 On the day I speak of [Thoreau] looked for the Menyanthes, detected it across the wide pool...
    PLT 12.11 12 Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect], which we will cautiously approach on different sides of this dim and perilous lake, so attractive, so delusive. We have had so many guides and so many failures. And now the world is still uncertain whether the pool has been sounded or not.
    CL 12.151 3 The next day the Hylas were piping in every pool...

pools, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.242 18 I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political arena, believing that senators and statesmen would be glad to throw off the harness and to dip again in the Castalian pools.

poop, n. (1)

    Res 8.147 12 ...when fear has once possessed you, God ye good even! You think you are flying towards the poop when you are running towards the prow...

poor, adj. (268)

    Nat 1.14 3 The private poor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built for him.
    AmS 1.106 23 What a testimony, full of grandeur, full of pity, is borne to the demands of his own nature, by the poor clansman...who rejoices in the glory of his chief.
    AmS 1.106 24 What a testimony, full of grandeur, full of pity, is borne to the demands of his own nature, by...the poor partisan, who rejoices in the glory of his chief.
    DSA 1.140 11 ...[the poor preacher's] face is suffused with shame, to propose to his parish that they should send money...to furnish such poor fare as they have at home...
    DSA 1.140 17 ...can [the poor preacher] ask a fellow-creature to come to Sabbath meetings, when he and they all know what is the poor uttermost they can hope for therein.
    LE 1.183 10 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find that he is a poor, ignorant man...like themselves...
    MN 1.202 16 ...one can hardly help asking if this planet is a fair specimen of the so generous astronomy...and whether it be quite worth while to make more, and glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    MN 1.214 25 The reforms whose fame now fills the land...are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.
    MR 1.245 8 We shall be rich to great purposes; poor only for selfish ones.
    MR 1.249 12 I ought not to allow any man, because he has broad lands, to feel that he is rich in my presence. I ought to make him feel...though I be utterly penniless...that he is the poor man beside me.
    MR 1.253 25 The State must consider the poor man...
    MR 1.254 20 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...by its...gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    LT 1.263 10 There is no interest or institution so poor and withered, but if a new strong man could be born into it, he would immediately redeem and replace it.
    LT 1.275 23 Here is great variety and richness of mysticism, each part of which now only disgusts whilst it forms the sole thought of some poor Perfectionist or "Comer out"...
    LT 1.288 6 ...to what port are we bound? Who knows! There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves...
    Tran 1.346 9 A man is a poor limitary benefactor.
    YA 1.368 26 The land...looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.
    YA 1.373 17 It is because Nature thus saves and uses, laboring for the general, that we poor particulars...find it so hard to live.
    YA 1.373 23 Our condition is like that of the poor wolves...
    YA 1.382 5 Here are Etzlers...who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would make every man rich;-and, on the other side, a multitude of poor men and women seeking work...
    YA 1.384 17 ...Government must educate the poor man.
    YA 1.386 4 If any man has a talent...for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry...let him in the county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
    YA 1.388 23 The 'opposition' papers, so called, are on the same side. They attack the great capitalist, but with the aim to make a capitalist of the poor man.
    SR 2.52 6 ...do not tell me...of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations.
    SR 2.62 3 ...the man in the street...feels poor when he looks on [towers and statues].
    SR 2.69 26 To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking.
    Comp 2.94 21 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine, horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men, whilst the saints are poor and despised;...
    SL 2.163 19 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have an outside badge...
    SL 2.166 1 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form, poor and sad and single...go out to service...
    Lov1 2.178 12 The lover cannot paint his maiden to his fancy poor and solitary.
    Fdsp 2.194 10 Nor is Nature so poor but she gives me this joy [of friendship] several times...
    Fdsp 2.197 14 ...I see well that, for all his purple cloaks, I shall not like [the party you praise], unless he is at least a poor Greek like me.
    Fdsp 2.198 26 Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions...
    Fdsp 2.216 24 True love transcends the unworthy object...and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad...
    Prd1 2.239 2 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls!
    Art1 2.366 2 ...a ball-room makes us feel that we are all paupers in the almshouse of this world...without skill or industry. Art is as poor and low.
    Pt1 3.22 26 Nobody cares for planting the poor fungus;...
    Pt1 3.33 9 The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.
    Exp 3.81 27 Charity would be wasted on this poor waiting on the symptoms.
    Chr1 3.95 6 Is there never a glimpse of right in a poor slave-captain's mind;...
    Chr1 3.99 13 I revere the person who is riches; so that I cannot think of him as alone, or poor, or exiled, or unhappy, or a client...
    Chr1 3.104 7 A man is a poor creature if he is to be measured [by a list of specifications of benefit].
    Chr1 3.104 20 ...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of this simple and rapid power [of character]...
    Chr1 3.105 4 How death-cold is literary genius before this fire of life [character]! These are the touches that...give [my soul] eyes to pierce the dark of nature. I find, where I thought myself poor, there was I most rich.
    Mrs1 3.154 2 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    Mrs1 3.154 13 The king of Schiraz could not afford to be so bountiful as the poor Osman who dwelt at his gate.
    Mrs1 3.154 18 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never a poor outcast...but fled at once to him;...
    Nat2 3.175 8 To the poor young poet, thus fabulous is his picture of society; he is loyal; he respects the rich;...
    Nat2 3.175 11 To the poor young poet, thus fabulous is his picture of society; he is loyal; he respects the rich; they are rich for the sake of his imagination; how poor his fancy would be, if they were not rich!
    Nat2 3.180 26 ...so poor is nature with all her craft, that from the beginning to the end of the universe she has but one stuff...
    Nat2 3.191 21 ...the masses are not men, but poor men, that is, men who would be rich;...
    Pol1 3.204 4 ...doubts have arisen whether too much weight had not been allowed in the laws to property, and such a structure given to our usages as allowed the rich to encroach on the poor, and to keep them poor;...
    Pol1 3.217 16 ...successes in those fields [of trade and ambition] are the poor amends, the fig-leaf with which the shamed soul attempts to hide its nakedness.
    Pol1 3.218 19 This conspicuous chair is [senators' and presidents'] compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.
    NR 3.229 2 Human life and its persons are poor empirical pretensions.
    NR 3.235 4 ...[Mesmerism, Swedenborgism, Fourierism, and the Millennial Church]...are poor pretensions enough, but good criticism on the science, philosophy and preaching of the day.
    NR 3.236 21 ...when each person...would conquer all things to his poor crochet, [Nature] raises up against him another person...
    NR 3.244 26 ...a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear than a poor one;...
    NER 3.256 24 ...is there not a wide disparity between the lot of me and the lot of thee, my poor brother, my poor sister?
    NER 3.264 11 The scheme [of the new communities] offers...to make every member rich, on the same amount of property that, in separate families, would leave every member poor.
    NER 3.270 21 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice...
    NER 3.271 20 Genius counts all its miracles poor and short.
    UGM 4.27 15 They cry up the virtues of George Washington,--Damn George Washington! is the poor Jacobin's whole speech and confutation.
    UGM 4.29 10 ...[children] are not at the mercy of such poor educators as we adults.
    UGM 4.30 20 Generous and handsome, [the thoughtful youth] says, is your hero; but look at yonder poor Paddy...
    PPh 4.59 16 ...the rich man...sits in no more chambers than the poor...
    PPh 4.72 18 [Socrates] is very poor;...
    PNR 4.81 26 The naturalist...is as poor when cataloguing the resolved nebula of Orion, as when measuring the angles of an acre.
    SwM 4.138 25 Burns, with the wild humor of his apostrophe to poor auld Nickie Ben...has the advantage of the vindictive theologian.
    MoS 4.158 17 It is from the poor man's hut alone that strength and virtue come...
    MoS 4.185 27 ...throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means.
    ShP 4.198 6 ...poor Gower [Chaucer] uses as if he were only a brick-kiln or stone-quarry out of which to build his house.
    ET1 5.16 7 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig. He had spent much time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one enclosure in his pen, but pig, by great strokes of judgment, had found out how to let a board down, and had foiled him.
    ET1 5.17 20 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do.
    ET1 5.17 21 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat...
    ET1 5.17 26 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. ... But here are thousands of acres which might give them all meat, and nobody to bid these poor Irish go to the moor and till it.
    ET3 5.41 7 The sea, which, according to Virgil's famous line, divided the poor Britons utterly from the world, proved to be the ring of marriage with all nations.
    ET4 5.58 12 ...[going into guest-quarters] was the only way in which, in a poor country, a poor king with many retainers could be kept alive when he leaves his own farm to collect his dues through the kingdom.
    ET4 5.58 13 ...[going into guest-quarters] was the only way in which, in a poor country, a poor king with many retainers could be kept alive when he leaves his own farm to collect his dues through the kingdom.
    ET4 5.59 10 Never was a poor gentleman so surfeited with life...as the Northman.
    ET4 5.69 15 ...in their caricatures [the English] represent the Frenchman as a poor, starved body.
    ET6 5.106 13 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin, about poor, thin, unable mortals;...
    ET10 5.154 17 ...I found the two disgraces in [Wood's Athenae Oxonienses]...are, first, disloyalty to Church and State, and, second, to be born poor, or come to poverty.
    ET11 5.191 15 Prostitutes taken from the theatres were made duchesses, their bastards dukes and earls. The young men sat uppermost, the old serious lords were out of favor. The discourse that the king's companions had with him was poor and frothy.
    ET13 5.221 16 ...gentlemen lately testified in the House of Commons that in their lives they never saw a poor man in a ragged coat inside a church.
    ET13 5.229 17 Lord Shaftesbury calls the poor thieves together and reads sermons to them, and they call it gas.
    ET14 5.247 1 Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the poor thing in his universe...
    ET18 5.299 4 ...[England] is an old pile built in different ages, with repairs, additions and makeshifts; but you see the poor best you have got.
    ET18 5.305 19 These poor tortoises [the English] must hold hard, for they feel no wings sprouting at their shoulders.
    Pow 6.66 19 It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle;...as if poor decayed formalists of law and order cannot run like wild goats, wolves, and conies;...
    Pow 6.68 22 I remember a poor Malay cook on board a Liverpool packet...
    Wth 6.97 17 ...he is the poor man in whom the people are poor;...
    Wth 6.97 18 ...he is the poor man in whom the people are poor;...
    Wth 6.110 7 Britain, France and Germany...send out, attracted by the fame of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor people, to share the crop.
    Wth 6.110 13 ...in the artificial system of society and of protected labor, which we...have adopted and enlarged, there come presently checks and stoppages. Then we refuse to employ these poor [immigrant] men.
    Wth 6.114 9 Pride...can talk with poor men...
    Wth 6.118 9 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich.
    Wth 6.124 1 ...'t is very well that the poor husband reads in a book of a new way of living...let him go home and try it, if he dare.
    Wth 6.124 17 Hotspur of course is poor, and Furlong a good provider.
    Ctr 6.140 21 Politics is...a poor patching.
    Ctr 6.143 6 ...the first boy has acquired much more than these poor games along with them.
    Ctr 6.144 23 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic...
    Ctr 6.146 21 Poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut formerly owed what knowledge they had to their peddling trips to the Southern States.
    Ctr 6.153 2 [The English] have piqued themselves on governing the whole world in the poor, plain, dark Committee-room which the House of Commons sat in, before the fire.
    Ctr 6.155 9 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country, that has not got into literature...
    Ctr 6.157 21 The poet, as a craftsman, is only interested in the praise accorded to him, and not in the censure, though it be just. And the poor little poet hearkens only to that...
    Ctr 6.163 19 Bettine replies to Goethe's mother, who chides her disregard of dress,--If I cannot do as I have a mind in our poor Frankfort, I shall not carry things far.
    Bhr 6.187 17 Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
    Bhr 6.192 9 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the wedding day is fixed, and we follow the gala procession home to the bannered portal, when the doors are slammed in our face and the poor reader is left outside in the cold...
    Wsp 6.201 20 I have no sympathy with a poor man I knew, who, when suicides abounded, told me he dared not look at his razor.
    Wsp 6.215 10 Men talk of mere morality,--which is much as if one should say, Poor God, with nobody to help him.
    Wsp 6.232 6 A poor, tender, painful body, [man] can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.
    Wsp 6.236 24 Mira came to ask what she should do with the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her...
    CbW 6.248 21 A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die,--quantities of poor lives...
    CbW 6.250 13 Nature makes fifty poor melons for one that is good...
    CbW 6.255 14 Not Antoninus, but a poor washer-woman, said, The more trouble, the more lion; that's my principle.
    CbW 6.261 2 He [who is to be wise for many] must know the huts where poor men lie...
    CbW 6.261 3 He [who is to be wise for many] must know...the chores which poor men do.
    CbW 6.261 5 The first-class minds...had the poor man's feeling and mortification.
    CbW 6.271 4 Our habit of thought...is not satisfying; in the common experience I fear it is poor and squalid.
    Ill 6.312 19 [The dreariest alderman] pays a debt quicker to a rich man than to a poor man.
    Ill 6.325 17 ...[the young mortal] fancies himself poor, orphaned, insignificant.
    Civ 7.24 12 Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge...by the cheap press, bringing the university to every poor man's door...
    Civ 7.30 7 A puny creature, walled in on every side, as Daniel wrote,-- Unless above himself he can/ Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!/...
    Elo1 7.68 20 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of hers.
    Elo1 7.83 12 Poor Tom never knew the time when the present occurrence was so trivial that he could tell what was passing in his mind without being checked for unseasonable speech;...
    Elo1 7.87 15 ...the horrible shark of the district attorney being still there, grimly awaiting with his The court must define,--the poor court pleaded its inferiority.
    DL 7.116 4 Aristides was made general receiver of Greece, to collect the tribute which each state was to furnish against the barbarian. Poor, says Plutarch, when he set about it, poorer when he had finished it.
    DL 7.118 9 ...the poor are only they who feel poor...
    DL 7.118 10 ...poverty consists in feeling poor.
    DL 7.119 21 The poor man's son is educated.
    Farm 7.147 11 Set out a pine-tree, and it dies in the first year, or lives a poor spindle.
    Farm 7.151 13 The first planter, the savage...looking chiefly to safety from his enemy,--man or beast,--takes poor land.
    Farm 7.151 17 [The first planter] is a poor creature;...
    WD 7.170 20 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...
    WD 7.173 19 Ah! poor dupe, will you never slip out of the web of the master juggler...
    WD 7.175 2 Poor child! that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols was not Persian, nor Memphian, nor Teutonic, nor local at all...
    WD 7.175 26 Real kings...affect a plain and poor exterior.
    WD 7.176 5 In the Greek legend...Jove liked to rusticate among the poor Ethiopians.
    WD 7.178 9 A poor Indian chief of the Six Nations of New York made a wiser reply than any philosopher, to some one complaining that he had not enough time. Well, said Red Jacket, I suppose you have all there is.
    Boks 7.212 22 The child asks you for a story, and is thankful for the poorest. It is not poor to him...
    Boks 7.213 8 Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature.
    Cour 7.274 19 The poor Puritan, Antony Parsons, at the stake, tied straw on his head when the fire approached him...
    PI 8.51 27 Music is the poor man's Parnassus.
    PI 8.68 4 ...our overpraise and idealization of famous masters is not in its origin a poor Boswellism...
    PI 8.74 15 Poems!--we have no poem. Whenever that angel shall be organized and appear on earth, the Iliad will be reckoned a poor ballad-grinding.
    SA 8.85 14 ...youth in America is wont to be poor and hurried...
    SA 8.101 24 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house...made the whole population poor;...
    Res 8.138 25 I like the sentiment of the poor woman who, coming...for the first time to the seashore...said she was glad for once in her life to see something which there was enough of.
    Res 8.148 2 What can a poor truckman, who is hired to groan and to hiss, do, when the orator shakes him into convulsions of laughter so that he cannot throw his egg?
    Comc 8.162 23 The victim who has just received the discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea; and though it does not split it, the poor bark is for the moment critically staggered.
    Comc 8.170 3 ...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat a gay cascade was thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow...a picture of his own, with which the poor painter had been fain to repair the shortcomings of his wardrobe.
    Comc 8.171 2 In poor pictures the limbs and trunk degrade the face.
    PPo 8.251 26 Timour taxed Hafiz with treating disrepectfully his two cities, to raise and adorn which he had conquered nations. Hafiz replied, Alas, my lord, if I had not been so prodigal, I had not been so poor!
    Insp 8.268 3 If with light head erect I sing,/ Though all the Muses lend their force,/ From my poor love of anything,/ The verse is weak and shallow as its source./
    Grts 8.315 23 A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him... came with it in his poverty to Diderot...
    Imtl 8.327 1 ...the true disciples saw, through the letter, the doctrine of eternity, which dissolved the poor corpse and nature also...
    Dem1 10.6 24 We fear lest the poor brute [the dog] should gain one dreadful glimpse of his condition...
    Dem1 10.9 14 A skilful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them,-a cheerful, manly part, or a poor drivelling part?
    Dem1 10.14 7 The poor ship-master discovered a sound theology, when in the storm at sea he made his prayer to Neptune, O God, thou mayst save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayst destroy me; but, however, I will hold my rudder true.
    Aris 10.45 27 Dull people think it Fortune that makes one rich and another poor.
    Aris 10.56 10 Of course a man is a poor bag of bones.
    Aris 10.63 18 Let [the man of honor]...say, The time will come when these poor enfans perdus of revolution, will have instructed their party, if only by their fate...
    PerF 10.73 27 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man, who, unarmed, is no match for the wild beasts...none for a fog, or a damp air, or the feeble fork of a poor worm...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...
    PerF 10.80 9 There was a story in the journals of a poor prisoner in a Western police-court...
    Chr2 10.97 8 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us.
    Chr2 10.107 4 ...in many a house in country places the poor children found seven sabbaths in a week.
    Chr2 10.113 23 Some poor soul beheld the Law blazing through such impediments as he had, and yielded himself to humility and joy. What was gained by being told that it was justification by faith?
    Chr2 10.118 21 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays;...
    Edc1 10.125 15 ...the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Edc1 10.141 7 Society [the boy] must have or he is poor indeed;...
    Supl 10.169 17 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets, coaches, dinners, wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you...
    SovE 10.183 20 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design,-works in a lobster or a mite-worm as a wise man would if imprisoned in that poor form.
    SovE 10.184 23 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...
    SovE 10.206 2 The poor Irish laborer one sees with respect, because he believes in something, in his church, and in his employers.
    MoL 10.250 25 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed, and all his economies heroic;...a stoic...knowing how to be poor...
    Schr 10.270 21 Genius is a poor man and has no house...
    Plu 10.305 24 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay...
    LLNE 10.340 7 A poor little invalid all his life, [Channing] is yet one of those men who vindicate the power of the American race to produce greatness.
    LLNE 10.345 15 [The pilgrim] was a poor printer...
    LLNE 10.352 14 [Fourier] treats man...as a vegetable, from which, though now a poor crab, a very good peach can by manure and exposure be in time produced...
    EzRy 10.390 8 ...[Ezra Ripley] was...a great browbeater of the poor old fathers who still survived from the 19th of April, to the end that they should testify to his history as he had written it.
    MMEm 10.399 19 I report some of the thoughts and soliloquies of a country girl [Mary Moody Emerson], poor, solitary...
    MMEm 10.414 6 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things than their individual fault. It was from being early impressed by my poor unpractical aunt, that Providence and Prayer were all in all.
    MMEm 10.414 7 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things than their individual fault. It was from being early impressed by my poor unpractical aunt, that Providence and Prayer were all in all. Poor woman!
    MMEm 10.419 17 ...so poor are some of those allotted to join me [Mary Moody Emerson] on the weary needy path, that 't is benevolence enjoins self-denial.
    MMEm 10.419 22 Could I [Mary Moody Emerson] but live free from calculation, as in the first half of life, when my poor aunt lived.
    MMEm 10.421 1 Am I [Mary Moody Emerson], poor victim, swept on through the sternest ordinations of Nature's laws, which slay? yet I 'll trust.
    MMEm 10.425 15 Not to complain of the poor old earth's chaotic state, brought so near in its long and gloomy transmutings by the geologist.
    MMEm 10.425 21 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry...
    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;...
    SlHr 10.439 24 ...it was perfectly easy for [Samuel Hoar] to associate... with plain, uneducated, poor men...
    Thor 10.454 14 [Thoreau]...knew how to be poor without the least hint of squalor or inelegance.
    Thor 10.480 7 ...the blockheads were not born in Concord; but who said they were? It was their unspeakable misfortune to be born in London, or Paris, or Rome; but, poor fellows, they did what they could...
    HDC 11.28 5 Lo now! if these poor men/ Can govern the land and sea/ And make just laws below the sun,/ As planets faithful be./
    HDC 11.34 6 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter, under a hillside, and casting the soil aloft upon timbers, they make a fire against the earth, at the highest side. And thus these poor servants of Christ provide shelter for themselves...
    HDC 11.34 11 ...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims] sing psalms, pray and praise their God...
    HDC 11.39 18 A poor servant [in Concord], that is to possess but fifty acres, may afford to give more wood for fire as good as the world yields, than many noblemen in England.
    HDC 11.42 1 The first record [of Concord] now remaining is that of...the appropriation of new lands as commons or pastures to some poor men.
    HDC 11.60 20 ...it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor followers to come at the ground-nuts, else they had starved.
    HDC 11.64 12 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town lends its commons as pastures, to poor men;...
    HDC 11.66 24 The ninth allegation [against Daniel Bliss] is That in praying for himself...he said, he was a poor vile worm of the dust, that was allowed as Mediator between God and his people.
    HDC 11.75 18 Those poor farmers who came up, that day [April 19, 1775], to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest instincts.
    LVB 11.93 9 ...how could we call the conspiracy that should crush these poor [Cherokee] Indians our government...
    LVB 11.94 3 These hard times...have brought the discussion [of currency and trade] home to every farmhouse and poor man's house in this town [Concord];...
    EWI 11.103 4 For the negro...no right in the poor black woman that cherished him in her bosom...
    EWI 11.103 27 We sympathize very tenderly here with the poor aggrieved [West Indian] planter...
    EWI 11.111 20 ...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries...had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and cheer the poor victim...these missionaries were persecuted by the planters...
    EWI 11.119 5 Sir Lionel Smith defended the poor negro girls, prey to the licentiousness of the [Jamaican] planters;...
    EWI 11.125 12 It was shown to the planters...that though they paid no wages, they got very poor work;...
    EWI 11.126 24 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day; [British merchants] could not expect any mitigation in the madness of the poor African war-chiefs.
    EWI 11.128 11 For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated...and, at last, the right triumphed, the poor man was vindicated...
    EWI 11.129 4 ...an honest tenderness for the poor negro...combined with the national pride, which refused to give the support of English soil or the protection of the English flag to these disgusting violations of nature [slavery in the West Indies].
    EWI 11.129 27 ...I see very poor, very ill-clothed, very ignorant men...yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,- whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...
    EWI 11.130 2 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment as mariners, cooks or stewards, in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...
    EWI 11.134 18 ...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 11.141 16 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to the House of Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have obtained for these poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition of their human nature...
    EWI 11.144 14 ...now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint... outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity. The anti-slavery of the whole world is dust in the balance before this,-is a poor squeamishness and nervousness...
    War 11.161 27 This is a poor, tedious society of yours, [sensible men] say; we do not see what good can come of it.
    FSLC 11.184 25 Here are humane people who have tears for misery, an open purse for want; who should have been the defenders of the poor man, are found his embittered enemies...merely from party ties.
    FSLC 11.185 12 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime: and the poor black boy...on arriving here finds all this force employed to catch him.
    FSLC 11.197 25 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law]. We poor men in the country who might once have thought it an honor to shake hands with them...would now shrink from their touch...
    FSLC 11.200 5 ...it is cheering to behold what champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor black boy;...
    FSLN 11.227 18 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law.
    FSLN 11.235 20 Everything may be taken away; he may be poor, he may be houseless, yet [the self-reliant man] will know out of his arms to make a pillow, and out of his breast a bolster.
    AKan 11.258 3 ...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    AKan 11.259 4 The government armed and led the ruffians against the poor farmers [in Kansas].
    AKan 11.260 2 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I call it the stealing all the earnings of a poor man and the earnings of his little girl and boy...
    AKan 11.260 7 ...our poor people, led by the nose by these fine words [Union and Democracy], dance and sing...with every new link of the chain which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the Capitol.
    AKan 11.261 7 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to the courts; though he knows that when the poor plundered farmer comes to the court, he finds the ringleader who has robbed him dismounting from his own horse, and unbuckling his knife to sit as his judge.
    JBB 11.270 6 It were bold to affirm that there is within that broad commonwealth, at this moment, another citizen as worthy to live, and as deserving of all public and private honor, as this poor prisoner [John Brown].
    ALin 11.332 22 The poor negro said of [Lincoln], on an impressive occasion, Massa Linkum am eberywhere.
    SMC 11.355 19 ...the common people [in the South], rich or poor, were the narrowest and most conceited of mankind...
    EdAd 11.386 3 It is a poor consideration that the country wit is precocious...
    EdAd 11.386 11 Conceding these unfavorable appearances, it would yet be a poor pedantry to read the fates of this country from these narrow data.
    Wom 11.406 16 [Women] learn so fast and convey the result so fast as to outrun the logic of their slow brother, and make his acquisitions poor.
    RBur 11.441 12 ...how true a poet is [Burns]! And the poet, too, of poor men...
    RBur 11.441 17 ...[Burns] has endeared...ale, the poor man's wine;...
    RBur 11.442 9 ...as he was thus the poet of the poor, anxious, cheerful, working humanity, so had [Burns] the language of low life.
    Shak1 11.452 19 ...Shakspeare...simply by his colossal proportions, dwarfs the geniuses of Elizabeth as easily as...the poor slipshod troubadours of King Rene.
    FRep 11.526 6 Ours is the country of poor men.
    FRep 11.526 10 ...here is the human race poured out over the continent to do itself justice;...not grimacing like poor rich men in cities, pretending to be rich, but unmistakably taking off its coat to hard work...
    FRep 11.526 16 ...the bulk of the population is poor.
    FRep 11.526 23 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...
    PLT 12.8 14 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor hastens to inform us that he knew it all twenty years ago...and poor Nature and the sublime law...are quite omitted in this triumphant vindication.
    PLT 12.19 16 So works the poor little blockhead manikin.
    PLT 12.22 24 How lately the hunter was the poor creature's organic enemy;...
    PLT 12.28 26 To the idle blockhead Nature is poor, sterile, inhospitable.
    PLT 12.35 9 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...Behemoth... aboriginal...and saying, like poor Topsy, never was born; growed.
    II 12.86 20 See the poor flies, lately so wanton, now fixed to the wall or the tree, exhausted and presently blown away.
    Mem 12.103 12 The poor short lone fact dies at the birth.
    CInt 12.122 11 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...need to have their corrupt voting and violence corrected by the cleaner and wiser suffrages of poor farmers.
    CL 12.154 23 Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch mountains, The appearance is that of matter...dismissed by Nature from her care. The poor blear-eyed doctor was no poet.
    CL 12.157 14 The landscape is vast, complete, alive. We step about...and attempt in poor linear ways to hobble after those angelic radiations.
    Bost 12.193 8 ...by some secret tie [the divine will] holds the poor savage to it...
    MAng1 12.237 18 ...[Michelangelo] lived like a poor man...
    ACri 12.283 1 Literature is but a poor trick...when it busies itself to make words pass for things;...
    ACri 12.302 1 'T is very easy to call the gracious spring poor goody herb-wife...
    ACri 12.302 4 'T is very easy...to represent the farm, which stands for the organization of the gravest needs, as a poor trifle of pea-vines, turnips and hen-roosts.
    Pray 12.350 2 Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,/ Nor gems whose rates are either rich or poor/ As fancy values them; but with true prayers,/...
    Pray 12.355 10 I know that thou hast not created me and placed me here on earth...and told me to be like thyself when I see so little of thee here to profit by; thou hast not done this, and then left me here to myself, a poor, weak man, scarcely able to earn my bread.
    AgMs 12.362 11 ...Mr. D. [Elias Phinney]...would starve in two years on any one of fifty poor farms in this neighborhood...
    AgMs 12.363 5 The true men of skill, the poor farmers...are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...
    AgMs 12.363 21 ...the premium obviously ought to be given for the good management of a poor farm.
    PPr 12.382 26 ...[a man's] acts should be representative of the human race, as one who makes them rich in his having, and poor in his want.
    PPr 12.384 15 It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present], even those whose existence it proscribes. Poor Queen Victoria,-poor Sir Robert Peel...
    PPr 12.384 16 It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present], even those whose existence it proscribes. Poor Queen Victoria,-poor Sir Robert Peel...
    PPr 12.384 17 It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present], even those whose existence it proscribes. Poor Queen Victoria...poor Primates and Bishops,-poor Dukes and Lords!

poor, n. (62)

    AmS 1.106 25 The poor and the low find some amends to their immense moral capacity...
    AmS 1.111 2 The literature of the poor, the feelings of the child...are the topics of the time.
    DSA 1.143 11 What was once a mere circumstance, that...the poor and the rich...should meet one day as fellows in one house...has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
    MR 1.240 8 ...the whole interest of history lies in the fortunes of the poor.
    MR 1.254 3 Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor.
    Con 1.295 10 The battle...of the rich and the poor, reappears in all countries and times.
    YA 1.374 11 ...we would have a common granary for the poor;...
    YA 1.378 24 We complain of [trade's] oppression of the poor...
    YA 1.381 4 These [Communities] proceeded...in great part from a feeling... that in the scramble of parties for the public purse the main duties of government were omitted,-the duty to instruct the ignorant, to supply the poor with work and with good guidance.
    YA 1.390 4 If a humane measure is propounded...for the succor of the poor; that sentiment...will have the homage of the hero.
    SR 2.52 7 ...do not tell me...of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor?
    SR 2.56 18 ...when the ignorant and the poor are aroused...it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
    Comp 2.111 3 The senses would make things of all persons; of women, of children, of the poor.
    Cir 2.315 20 The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you.
    Cir 2.316 9 ...that second man...asks himself Which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor?...
    Art1 2.363 11 Art has not yet come to its maturity...if it do not make the poor and uncultivated feel that it addresses them with a voice of lofty cheer.
    Pt1 3.29 21 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts...comes forth to the poor and hungry...
    Nat2 3.174 21 When the rich tax the poor with servility and obsequiousness, they should consider the effect of men reputed to be the possessors of nature, on imaginative minds.
    Nat2 3.174 24 Ah! if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!
    Pol1 3.204 3 ...doubts have arisen whether too much weight had not been allowed in the laws to property, and such a structure given to our usages as allowed the rich to encroach on the poor...
    Pol1 3.206 26 When the rich are outvoted...it is the joint treasury of the poor which exceeds their accumulations.
    Pol1 3.210 5 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...for facilitating in every manner the access of the young and the poor to the sources of wealth and power.
    Pol1 3.210 23 ...[the conservative party] does not...befriend the poor...
    NER 3.278 5 If...we start objections to your project, O friend of the slave, or friend of the poor...understand well that it is because we wish to drive you to drive us into your measures.
    UGM 4.19 5 ...[a wise man] would...calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guaranties of condition. The rich would see their mistakes and poverty, the poor their escapes and their resources.
    UGM 4.22 13 Here is great competition of rich and poor.
    NMW 4.223 21 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between those who have made their fortunes, and the young and the poor who have fortunes to make;...
    ET3 5.39 9 The rivers [in England] and the surrounding sea spawn with fish; there are salmon for the rich and sprats and herrings for the poor.
    ET5 5.100 9 ...in England, the language of the noble is the language of the poor.
    ET8 5.133 4 The Saxon melancholy in the vulgar rich and poor appears as gushes of ill-humor...
    ET12 5.209 13 These seminaries [English public schools] are finishing schools for the upper classes, and not for the poor.
    ET13 5.217 13 ...the gradation of the clergy [in England],--prelates for the rich and curates for the poor,--with the fact that a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.
    ET13 5.221 13 [The English Church] is the church of the gentry, but it is not the church of the poor.
    ET16 5.289 16 This hospitality of seven hundred years' standing [at the Church of Saint Cross] did not hinder Carlyle from pronouncing a malediction on the priest who receives 2000 pounds a year, that were meant for the poor...
    Ctr 6.164 3 Who wishes to resist the eminent and polite, in behalf of the poor, and low, and impolite?
    DL 7.111 17 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are imitations of these to the extent of their ability.
    DL 7.118 9 ...the poor are only they who feel poor...
    PPo 8.238 9 The rich [in the East] feed on fruits and game,-the poor, on a watermelon's peel.
    Aris 10.63 14 If [the man of honor] cannot vote with the poor, he should stay by himself.
    PerF 10.69 19 Show [a man] the riches of the poor...
    Chr2 10.118 1 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities,-as in creating...offices of employment for the poor...
    SovE 10.190 19 For my part, said Napoleon, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor.
    MMEm 10.409 19 ...from the highway hedges where I [Mary Moody Emerson] get lodging...I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.
    MMEm 10.418 25 Should I [Mary Moody Emerson] take so much care to save a few dollars? Never was I so much ashamed. Did I say with what rapture I might dispose of them to the poor?
    MMEm 10.423 1 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich...
    Carl 10.492 11 Here, [Carlyle] says, the Parliament gathers up six millions of pounds every year to give the poor, and yet the people starve.
    Carl 10.492 13 [Carlyle says] I think if [Parliament] would give [the money] to me, to provide the poor with labor, and with authority to make them work or shoot them,-and I to be hanged if I did not do it,-I could find them in plenty of Indian meal.
    HDC 11.46 22 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty...in the care of public worship, the school and the poor;...
    HDC 11.47 5 Here [in the town-meeting] the rich gave counsel, but the poor also;...
    HDC 11.78 25 When...the poor of Boston were quartered by the Provincial Congress on the neighboring country, Concord received 82 persons to its hospitality.
    HDC 11.82 22 This year, [Concord] expends 800 dollars for its poor;...
    HDC 11.84 13 ...for the most part, [our fathers]...provide well for the schools and the poor.
    EWI 11.105 17 The man [West Indian slave] applied to Mr. William Sharpe, a charitable surgeon, who attended the diseases of the poor.
    EWI 11.135 1 ...government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party;...
    FSLC 11.196 9 No government ever found it hard to pick up tools for base actions. If you cannot find them in the huts of the poor, you shall find them in the palaces of the rich.
    JBB 11.269 14 You remember [John Brown's] words: If I had interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful...it would all have been right. But I believe that to have interfered as I have done, for the despised poor, was not wrong, but right.
    Koss 11.396 4 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./
    RBur 11.441 26 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East, but in the homely landscape which the poor see around them...
    FRep 11.540 2 If our mechanic arts are unsurpassed in usefulness...let these wonders work...for the poor...
    Bost 12.182 15 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/ Make sunshine in her brain./ And each shall care for other,/ And each to each shall bend,/ To the poor a noble brother,/ To the good an equal friend./
    PPr 12.381 8 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths; the picture of the English nation all sitting enchanted,-the poor, enchanted so that they cannot work, the rich, enchanted so that they cannot enjoy, and are rich in vain;...
    PPr 12.382 12 Let no man think himself absolved because he...befriends the poor...

Poor, n. (1)

    ET14 5.259 27 I can well believe what I have often heard, that there are two nations in England; but it is not the Poor and the Rich...

Poor Richard, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.234 13 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only the wisdom of Poor Richard...

poorer, adj. (9)

    NMW 4.257 13 [Napoleon] left France smaller, poorer, feebler, than he found it;...
    GoW 4.284 6 There are nobler strains in poetry than any [Goethe] has sounded. There are writers poorer in talent, whose tone is purer...
    Ctr 6.151 21 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing,/ For you 'll find it certain,/ The poorer and the baser you appear,/ The more you 'll look through still./
    DL 7.116 5 Aristides was made general receiver of Greece, to collect the tribute which each state was to furnish against the barbarian. Poor, says Plutarch, when he set about it, poorer when he had finished it.
    Farm 7.151 6 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among the landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that... the plight of every new generation is worse than of the foregoing, because the first comers take up the best lands; the next, the second best; and each succeeding wave of population is driven to poorer...
    WD 7.182 17 The masters of English lyric wrote their songs [for joy]. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers; as was said of the letters of the Frenchwoman,--the charming accident of their more charming existence. Then the poet is never the poorer for his song.
    SA 8.102 24 Our gentlemen of the old school...were bred after English types, and that style of breeding furnished fine examples in the last generation; but, though some of us have seen such, I doubt they are all gone. But Nature is not poorer to-day.
    MMEm 10.420 7 Better anything than dishonest dependence, which robs the poorer...
    War 11.172 5 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...nothing daunted, and not really poorer if government, law and order went by the board;...

poorest, adj. (11)

    AmS 1.102 21 The odds are that the whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy.
    Pt1 3.18 5 The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought.
    ET6 5.108 3 ...the poorest [Englishmen] have some spoon or saucepan... saved out of better times.
    DL 7.115 26 The greatest man in history was the poorest.
    Boks 7.212 22 The child asks you for a story, and is thankful for the poorest.
    Suc 7.307 4 The plenty of the poorest place is too great...
    Comc 8.169 5 The poorest man who stands on his manhood destroys the jest.
    HDC 11.40 10 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world.
    EWI 11.131 3 The poorest fishing-smack that floats under the shadow of an iceberg in the Northern seas...should be encompassed by [Massachusetts' s] laws with comfort and protection...
    CPL 11.498 11 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world.
    WSL 12.341 22 The existence of the poorest playwright and the humblest scrivener is a good omen.

poor-house, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.49 14 ...in the smokes of the poor-house chimney...[the people of Concord] read their own power...

poor-law, adj. (1)

    ET15 5.263 26 [The London Times] adopted a poor-law system, and almost alone lifted it through.

poorly, adv. (6)

    DSA 1.141 26 What a cruel injustice it is to...that Law whose fatal sureness the astronomical orbits poorly emulate; - that it is travestied and depreciated...
    MN 1.195 20 [Great men] are poorly tied to one thought.
    Fdsp 2.207 19 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. ... Only he may then speak who can sail on the common thought of the party, and not poorly limited to his own.
    Cir 2.317 12 [When these waves of God flow into me] I no longer poorly compute my possible achievement by what remains to me of the month or the year;...
    Chr1 3.99 21 ...if I go to see an ingenious man I shall think myself poorly entertained if he give me nimble pieces of benevolence and etiquette;...
    SwM 4.121 7 [Swedenborg...poorly tethers every symbol to a several ecclesiastic sense.

poorness, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.173 14 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... I am taught the poorness of our invention...

poor-rate, n. (1)

    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. The poor-rate was sucking in the solvent classes and forcing an exodus of farmers and mechanics.

poor-rates, n. (2)

    ET10 5.169 8 ...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.
    Wth 6.110 14 [Immigrants] go into the poor-rates...

poor-smell, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.348 11 A man is entitled...to the air of good conversation in his bringing up, and not, as we or so many of us, to the poor-smell and musty chambers...

poor-spirited, adj. (2)

    Pow 6.56 4 Sickness is poor-spirited...
    Wth 6.116 10 The smell of the plants has drugged [the land-owner] and robbed him of energy. He finds a catalepsy in his bones. He grows peevish and poor-spirited.

poor-white, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.307 22 Emancipation at one stroke elevates the poor-white of the South...

pop-corn, n. (1)

    Res 8.148 24 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire.

Pope, Alexander, n. (14)

    AmS 1.112 9 In contrast with their [Goethe's, Wordsworth's, Carlyle's] writing, the style of Pope, of Johnson, of Gibbon, looks cold and pedantic.
    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...
    MoS 4.150 18 The correspondence of Pope and Swift describes mankind around them as monsters;...
    MoS 4.152 21 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day...
    ShP 4.197 17 ...more recently not only Pope and Dryden have been beholden to [Chaucer], but, in the whole society of English writers, a large unacknowledged debt is easily traced.
    ET5 5.94 23 The Mark-Lane Express, or the Custom House Returns, bear out to the letter the vaunt of Pope...
    ET5 5.100 15 ...[the English people's] language seems drawn from the Bible, the Common Law and the works of Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, Pope, Young, Cowper, Burns and Scott.
    ET10 5.163 20 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the taste of foreign and domestic artists, Shenstone, Pope, Brown, Loudon, Paxton,--are in the vast auction [in England]...
    ET14 5.255 25 Pope and his school wrote poetry fit to put round frosted cake.
    Boks 7.197 11 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare: 1. Homer, who in spite of Pope and all the learned uproar of centuries, has really the true fire...
    Comc 8.155 2 The glory, jest and riddle of the world. Pope.
    Schr 10.270 27 Where is the palace in England whose tenants are not too happy if it can make a home for Pope or Addison...
    Milt1 12.255 12 Addison, Pope, Hume and Johnson, students...of the same subject [human nature], cannot, taken together, make any pretension to the amount or the quality of Milton's inspirations.
    WSL 12.341 13 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature.

pope, n. (2)

    Con 1.305 23 ...among the lovers of the new I observe...that the seceder from the seceder is as damnable as the pope himself.
    SovE 10.204 17 Luther would cut his hand off sooner than write theses against the pope if he suspected that he was bringing on with all his might the pale negations of Boston Unitarianism.

Pope, n. (5)

    Bhr 6.193 19 It is related by the monk Basle, that being excommunicated by the Pope, he was, at his death, sent in charge of an angel, to find a fit place of suffering in hell;...
    Wsp 6.228 1 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy, and the abbess advised the Holy Father of the wonderful powers shown by her novice. The Pope did not well know what to make of these new claims...
    Wsp 6.228 17 Philip [Neri] ran out of doors, mounted his mule and returned instantly to the Pope;...
    CbW 6.254 11 Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely, as Henry VIII. in the contest with the Pope;...
    FSLC 11.186 11 There is always something in the very advantages of a condition which hurts it. Africa has its malformation;...Italy its Pope;...

popedom, n. (1)

    DSA 1.150 13 A whole popedom of forms one pulsation of virtue can uplift and vivify.

Popery, n. (3)

    ET5 5.87 25 ...star-chamber, ship-money, Popery...are all questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner...
    Wsp 6.208 27 In creeds never was such levity; witness...the retrogression to Popery...
    Chr2 10.104 15 Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead of this Deity. The Dionysia and Saturnalia of Greece and Rome...the Purgatory, the Indulgences, and the Inquisition of Popery...are examples of this perversion.

Pope's, Alexander, n. (1)

    NR 3.232 25 I looked into Pope's Odyssey yesterday: it is as correct and elegant after our canon of to-day as if it were newly written.

popes, n. (2)

    PC 8.218 14 Popes and kings and Councils of Ten are very sharp with their censorships and inquisitions...
    War 11.157 18 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to... come and reside in the towns. The popes...declared religious jubilees...

pope's, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.227 1 Michael [Angelo] demanded of San Gallo, the pope!s architect, how these holes [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling] were to be repaired in the picture.

Pope's, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.135 17 Cardinal Caprara, the Pope's legate at Paris, defended himself from the glances of Napoleon by an immense pair of green spectacles.
    Pow 6.72 19 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...

popgun, n. (1)

    AmS 1.102 24 Let [the scholar] not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun...

popinjay, n. (1)

    MoS 4.160 6 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing...that we cannot give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict, with powers so vast and unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited vulnerable popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every danger, on the other.

popish, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.339 18 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling...on popish times, made protestants and ascetic monks...

poppies, n. (1)

    UGM 4.24 1 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...

poppy-leaves, n. (1)

    Insp 8.296 17 ...poppy-leaves are strewn when a generalization is made;...

populace, n. (14)

    SR 2.74 6 The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard...
    Pt1 3.16 13 The schools of poets and philosophers are not more intoxicated with their symbols than the populace with theirs.
    NMW 4.245 12 The Revolution entitled the strong populace of the Faubourg St. Antoine, and every horse-boy and powder-monkey in the army, to look on Napoleon as flesh of his flesh...
    Ctr 6.162 16 ...let the populace bestow on you their coldest contempts.
    Bhr 6.176 26 Take a date-tree [said the emir Abdel-Kader], leave it without water, without culture, and it will always produce dates. Nobility is the date-tree and the Arab populace is a bush of thorns.
    CbW 6.278 8 The populace says, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful.
    Elo1 7.77 5 ...how is it on the Atlantic, in a storm,--do you understand how to infuse your reason into men disabled by terror, and to bring yourself off safe then?--how...among an infuriated populace...
    Elo1 7.82 8 ...the commonest populace is flattered by hearing its low mind returned to it with every ornament which happy talent can add.
    PPo 8.258 20 Ibn Jemin writes thus:-Whilst I disdain the populace,/ I find no peer in higher place./ Friend is a word of royal tone,/ Friend is a poem all alone./
    Grts 8.313 23 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful.
    Aris 10.51 25 To a right aristocracy...to the men, that is, who are incomparably superior to the populace in ways agreeable to the populace... everything will be permitted and pardoned...
    Aris 10.51 26 To a right aristocracy...to the men, that is, who are incomparably superior to the populace in ways agreeable to the populace... everything will be permitted and pardoned...
    Chr2 10.104 2 The populace drag down the gods to their own level...
    FRep 11.514 22 Prince Metternich said, Revolutions begin in the best heads and run steadily down to the populace.

popular, adj. (120)

    Nat 1.59 24 The advantage of the ideal theory over the popular faith is this, that it presents the world in precisely that view which is most desirable to the mind.
    AmS 1.100 11 ...a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.
    AmS 1.101 7 ...[the scholar] must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts...
    AmS 1.102 14 ...it becomes [the scholar]...to defer never to the popular cry.
    AmS 1.112 25 ...[Swedenborg] endeavored to engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time.
    MN 1.206 26 ...nobody will read [Parliamentary Debates] who trusts his own eye: only they who are deceived by the popular repetition of distinguished names.
    LT 1.259 23 Everything that is popular...deserves the attention of the philosopher...
    Tran 1.348 13 The popular literary creed seems to be, I am a sublime genius; I ought not therefore to labor.
    YA 1.388 13 I find no expression...of a high national feeling, no lofty counsels that rightfully stir the blood. I speak of those organs which can be presumed to speak a popular sense.
    YA 1.389 27 ...to stand for the private verdict against popular clamor is the office of the noble.
    SR 2.52 13 ...your miscellaneous popular charities;...though...I sometimes... give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar...
    SR 2.52 22 Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule.
    SR 2.62 12 That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead-drunk in the street...symbolizes...the state of man...
    SR 2.74 7 The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard...
    SR 2.74 23 ...if I can discharge [my own perfect circle's] debts it enables me to dispense with the popular code.
    Comp 2.95 18 I find a similar base tone in the popular religious works of the day...
    Comp 2.95 22 ...our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle...
    Fdsp 2.214 1 Whatever correction of our popular views we make from insight, nature will be sure to bear us out in...
    OS 2.283 1 The popular notion of a revelation is that it is a telling of fortunes.
    OS 2.289 2 [Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] seem frigid and phlegmatic to those who have been spiced with the frantic passion and violent coloring of inferior but popular writers.
    Cir 2.314 26 The great man will not be prudent in the popular sense;...
    Int 2.346 5 ...wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few [Greek philosophers], these great spiritual lords...dwelling in a worship which makes the sanctities of Christianity look parvenues and popular;...
    Int 2.347 4 ...nor do [the Greek philosophers] ever relent so much as to insert a popular or explaining sentence...
    Art1 2.351 5 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the useful and fine arts, if we employ the popular distinction of works according to their aim either at use or beauty.
    Art1 2.365 25 A popular novel...makes us feel that we are all paupers in the almshouse of this world...
    Exp 3.62 22 ...in popular experience everything good is on the highway.
    Chr1 3.108 20 ...we should not require rash explanation, either on the popular ethics, or on our own, of [character's] action.
    Mrs1 3.122 23 ...our words intimate well enough the popular feeling that the appearance supposes a substance.
    Mrs1 3.123 4 The popular notion [of a gentleman] certainly adds a condition of ease and fortune;...
    Mrs1 3.125 16 A plentiful fortune is reckoned necessary, in the popular judgment, to the completion of this man of the world;...
    Mrs1 3.126 14 ...the politics of this country, and the trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers, who have...a broad sympathy which puts them in fellowship with crowds, and makes their action popular.
    Nat2 3.196 5 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... and have some stake in every possibility, lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
    Pol1 3.210 7 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...for facilitating in every manner the access of the young and the poor to the sources of wealth and power. But he can rarely accept the persons whom the so-called popular party propose to him as representatives of these liberalities.
    Pol1 3.211 18 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely...
    NER 3.257 9 The popular education has been taxed with a want of truth and nature.
    NER 3.268 18 ...the ground on which eminent public servants urge the claims of popular education is fear;...
    PPh 4.55 3 ...[Plato] saved himself by propounding the most popular of all principles, the absolute good...
    PPh 4.58 7 ...the indignation towards popular government, in many of [Plato's] pieces, expresses a personal exasperation.
    PPh 4.72 17 ...there was some story that under cover of folly, [Socrates] had, in the city government, when one day he chanced to hold a seat there, evinced a courage in opposing singly the popular voice, which had well-nigh ruined him.
    PPh 4.74 16 When accused before the judges of subverting the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the soul...
    PPh 4.74 19 When accused before the judges of subverting the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the soul, the future reward and punishment; and refusing to recant, in a caprice of the popular government was condemned to die...
    PNR 4.88 21 The secret of [Plato's] popular success is the moral aim which endeared him to mankind.
    SwM 4.124 5 The moral insight of Swedenborg, the correction of popular errors...take him out of comparison with any other modern writer...
    MoS 4.172 20 ...[the wise skeptic] penetrates the popular patriotism.
    ShP 4.194 3 The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work...
    ShP 4.202 19 A popular player;--nobody suspected [Shakespeare] was the poet of the human race;...
    GoW 4.270 8 I described Bonaparte as a representative of the popular external life and aims of the nineteenth century.
    GoW 4.276 12 Take the most remarkable example that could occur of [Goethe's] tendency to verify every term in popular use.
    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;...the popular test of the theory.
    ET4 5.54 8 We must use the popular category...for convenience...
    ET4 5.55 17 ...[The Celts] made the best popular literature of the Middle Ages...
    ET4 5.64 6 The Jews have been the favorite victims [in England] of royal and popular persecution.
    ET5 5.90 2 Sir Samuel Romilly refused to speak in popular assemblies...
    ET6 5.114 11 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of clever projects, bits of popular science...
    ET7 5.118 23 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.
    ET7 5.123 23 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners: which, to be sure, is paralleled...by the French popular legends on the subject of perfidious Albion.
    ET11 5.173 20 ...the national music, the popular romances, conspire to uphold the heraldry which the current politics of the day [in England] are sapping.
    ET11 5.196 8 The tools of our time, namely steam, ships, printing, money and popular education, belong to those who can handle them;...
    ET13 5.229 7 The popular press is flagitious in the exact measure of its sanctimony...
    ET14 5.257 2 ...if this religion is in the poetry, it raises us to some purpose, and we can well afford...want of popular tune in the verses.
    ET15 5.271 9 Many of [Punch's] caricatures...will convey to the eye in an instant the popular view which was taken of each turn of public affairs.
    Pow 6.62 9 The same energy in the Greek Demos drew the remark that the evils of popular government appear greater than they are;...
    Pow 6.66 15 ...in representations of the Deity, painting, poetry, and popular religion have ever drawn the wrath from Hell.
    Ctr 6.162 24 He who aims high must dread an easy home and popular manners.
    Civ 7.33 20 Not the less the popular measures of progress will ever be the arts and the laws.
    Art2 7.39 19 If we follow the popular distinction of works according to their aim, we should say, the Spirit, in its creation, aims at use or at beauty...
    Art2 7.56 25 Popular institutions, the school...are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings.
    Elo1 7.61 1 It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters that whoever can speak can sing.
    Elo1 7.62 24 Of all the musical instruments on which men play, a popular assembly is that which has the largest compass and variety...
    Elo1 7.90 11 A popular assembly...is commanded by these two powers,-- first by a fact, then by skill of statement.
    Elo1 7.97 5 He who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education, not on popular arts, but on character and insight.
    DL 7.119 19 There was...never any [country in the world] where the state has made such efficient provision for popular education...
    Boks 7.201 15 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history...but the shortest is the best, and if one lacks stomach for Mr. Grote' s voluminous annals, the old slight and popular summary of Goldsmith or of Gillies will serve.
    Boks 7.201 26 An excellent popular book is J. A. St. John's Ancient Greece;...
    Clbs 7.246 25 ...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.
    Suc 7.308 7 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success.
    OA 7.318 24 ...if the question be the felicity of age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
    PI 8.30 2 ...the fault of our popular poetry is that it is not sincere.
    Elo2 8.113 19 The orator is he whom every man is seeking when he goes... into any popular assembly...
    QO 8.186 26 The popular incident of Baron Munchausen, who hung his bugle up by the kitchen fire and the frozen tune thawed out, is found in Greece in Plato's time.
    QO 8.194 1 ...people quote so differently: one finding only what is gaudy and popular;...
    Imtl 8.326 10 No more truth can be conveyed than the popular mind can bear...
    Dem1 10.16 17 In the popular belief, ghosts are a selecting tribe...
    Dem1 10.19 23 ...[belief in the demonological] extends the popular idea of success to the very gods;...
    Aris 10.54 15 In the fine arts, I find none in the present age who have any popular power...
    Edc1 10.147 27 By many steps...the hesitating collegian, in the school debate...in mock court, comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly...
    Edc1 10.154 9 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
    Supl 10.167 1 Doctor Channing's piety and wisdom had such weight that, in Boston, the popular idea of religion was whatever this eminent divine held.
    SovE 10.208 14 ...natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds.
    SovE 10.211 14 Governments stand by [men's credence],-by the faith that the people share,-whether it comes from the religion in which they were bred, or from an original conscience in themselves, which the popular religion echoes.
    Prch 10.218 7 I see in those classes and those persons...who contain the activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow...a clear enough perception of the inadequacy of the popular religious statement to the wants of their heart and intellect...
    Plu 10.296 21 M. Octave Greard, in a critical work on [Plutarch's] Morals, has carefully corrected the popular legends...
    LLNE 10.329 26 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...
    LLNE 10.335 13 By a series of lectures largely and fashionably attended for two winters in Boston [Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing...
    LLNE 10.349 7 The merit of [Brisbane's] plan was...that it had not the partiality and hint-and-fragment character of most popular schemes...
    SlHr 10.445 29 ...of the modern sciences [Samuel Hoar] liked to read popular books on geology.
    Thor 10.483 22 Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.
    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...
    War 11.164 11 Observe the ideas of the present day...popular education, temperance, anti-masonry, anti-slavery;...
    FSLC 11.183 14 The popular assumption that all men loved freedom, and believed in the Christian religion, was found hollow American brag;...
    AKan 11.260 20 Is it to be supposed that there are no men in Carolina who dissent from the popular sentiment now reigning there?
    ACiv 11.306 10 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will that the Union shall not be broken...
    EPro 11.324 10 The popular statement of the opponents of the [Civil] war abroad is the impossibility of our success.
    SMC 11.354 27 ...it was found, contrary to all popular belief, that the country was at heart abolitionist...
    EdAd 11.387 2 We hesitate to employ a word so much abused as patriotism, whose true sense is almost the reverse of its popular sense.
    Koss 11.399 13 We [people of Concord] are afraid that you [Kossuth] are growing popular...
    Wom 11.424 18 ...whatever is popular is important, shows the spontaneous sense of the hour.
    FRO2 11.489 15 ...do not attempt to elevate [the lesson of the New Testament] out of humanity, by saying, This was not a man, for then you confound it with the fables of every popular religion...
    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 11.525 10 ...any disturbances in politics...sober [the American people], and instantly show more virtue and conviction in the popular vote.
    FRep 11.529 2 We...are are defended from shocks now for a century by the facility with which through popular assemblies every necessary measure of reform can instantly be carried.
    FRep 11.535 8 ...if we found [Westerners] clinging to English traditions... as the English Church...and distrust of popular election, we should feel this...absurdly out of place.
    II 12.77 3 We call genius, in all our popular and proverbial language, divine;...
    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.
    Bost 12.211 3 The elder Otis could hardly excel the popular eloquence of the younger Otis;...
    Milt1 12.257 5 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, like...the popular traditions of Alfred the Great.
    ACri 12.289 15 ...in the popular mind, the Devil is a malignant person.
    WSL 12.345 16 What is the quality of the persons who, without being public men...or (in the popular sense) religious men, have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history...
    EurB 12.369 19 The influence [of Wordsworth]...was wafted up and down into lone and into populous places, resisting the popular taste...
    EurB 12.370 9 Perhaps we felt the popular objection that [Tennyson] wants rude truth;...

popularity, n. (18)

    SR 2.62 17 That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead-drunk in the street...owes its popularity to the fact that it symbolizes so well the state of man...
    Mrs1 3.142 18 ...[Charles James Fox] possessed a great personal popularity;...
    NMW 4.227 3 Much more absolute and centralizing was the successor to Mirabeau's popularity...
    GoW 4.289 22 This cheerful laborer [Goethe], with no external popularity or provocation...tasked himself with stints for a giant...
    ET6 5.109 16 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval, prime minister in 1810, to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday...
    Ctr 6.163 3 Popularity is for dolls.
    Boks 7.215 17 What made the popularity of Jane Eyre, but that a central question was answered in some sort?
    Cour 7.253 23 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown...of Chatham, whose scornful magnanimity gave him immense popularity;...
    Suc 7.295 2 ...a few years will show the advantage of the real master over the short popularity of the showman.
    OA 7.334 19 We asked if at Whitefield's return the same popularity continued.
    Plu 10.294 18 ...this neglect by [Plutarch's] contemporaries has been compensated by an immense popularity in modern nations.
    Plu 10.298 22 The reason of Plutarch's vast popularity is his humanity.
    Plu 10.322 16 Plutarch's popularity will return in rapid cycles.
    LLNE 10.337 9 [The eagerness for reform] appeared in the popularity of Lavater's Physiognomy, now almost forgotten.
    LLNE 10.339 1 The popularity of Combe's Constitution of Man;...was all on the side of the people.
    EPro 11.317 13 ...great as the popularity of the President [Lincoln] has been, 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.
    Milt1 12.252 7 Milton the polemic has lost his popularity long ago;...
    Milt1 12.253 24 As a poet, Shakspeare undoubtedly transcends, and far surpasses [Milton] in his popularity with foreign nations;...

popularized, v. (1)

    SHC 11.430 9 ...Science is popularized;...

popularly, adv. (6)

    Tran 1.329 11 What is popularly called Transcendentalism among us, is Idealism;...
    Tran 1.340 14 ...whatever belongs to the class of intuitive thought is popularly called at the present day Transcendental.
    Int 2.334 24 In the intellect constructive, which we popularly designate by the word Genius, we observe the same balance of two elements as in intellect receptive.
    ET5 5.74 7 ...the Norman has come popularly to represent in England the aristocratic, and the Saxon the democratic principle.
    ET14 5.239 14 Bacon, in the structure of his mind, held...of the idealists, or (as we popularly say, naming from the best example) Platonists.
    F 6.20 4 The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation.

population, n. (107)

    Nat 1.11 18 The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
    MN 1.191 19 The rapid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire... by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest;...
    LT 1.284 12 I question if care and doubt ever wrote their names so legibly on the faces of any population.
    Con 1.312 9 ...every whim is anticipated and served by the best ability of the whole population of each country.
    Con 1.313 9 The order of things is as good as the character of the population permits.
    YA 1.365 6 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto. A consciousness of this fact is beginning to take the place of the purely trading spirit and education which sprang up whilst all the population lived on the fringe of sea-coast.
    YA 1.367 23 ...the new modes of travelling enlarge the opportunity of selection [of a seat], by making it easy to cultivate very distant tracts and yet remain in strict intercourse with the centres of trade and population.
    YA 1.368 21 The cities drain the country of the best part of its population...
    YA 1.369 7 ...these [European estates]...are a constant education to the eye of the surrounding population.
    YA 1.370 26 A heterogeneous population crowding on all ships from all corners of the world to the great gates of North America...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    YA 1.372 17 The census of the population is found to keep an invariable equality in the sexes...
    YA 1.372 25 The population of the world is a conditional population;...
    YA 1.372 26 The population of the world is a conditional population;...
    YA 1.374 7 ...the principle of population is always reducing wages to the lowest pittance on which human life can be sustained.
    YA 1.392 27 Would [our youths and maidens] like...a pauperism now constituting one thirteenth of the population?
    Hist 2.24 23 A sparse population and want [in the Grecian period] make every man his own valet, cook, butcher and soldier...
    Hist 2.36 23 Transport [Napoleon] to...dense population...and you shall see that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not the virtual Napoleon.
    Prd1 2.236 2 When [a man] sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float round the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was written, amidst a swarming population, let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...
    Hsm1 2.245 6 In the elder English dramatists...there is a constant recognition of gentility, as if a noble behavior were as easily marked in the society of their age as color is in our American population.
    Gts 3.159 6 I do not think this general insolvency [of the world], which involves in some sort all the population, to be the reason of the difficulty experienced at Christmas and New Year and other times, in bestowing gifts;...
    Pol1 3.200 2 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 3.200 15 ...the form of government which prevails is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.
    Pol1 3.210 17 ...the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able and cultivated part of the population, is timid...
    NMW 4.253 20 The highest-placed individual in the most cultivated age and population of the world,--[Napoleon] has not the merit of common truth and honesty.
    GoW 4.272 6 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition, with its international intercourse of the whole earth's population, researches into Indian, Etruscan and all Cyclopean arts;...
    GoW 4.273 13 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If that...had become, by population, compact organization and drill of parts, one great Exploring Expedition...this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of all.
    ET1 5.14 1 [Coleridge said] There were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights [Sicily], namely, itch, pox and famine. Whereas in Malta, the force of law and mind was seen, in making that barren rock of semi-Saracen inhabitants the seat of population and plenty.
    ET4 5.44 22 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe;...
    ET4 5.45 8 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
    ET4 5.45 9 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000, and governing a population of 245,000,000 souls.
    ET4 5.53 9 As you go north into the manufacturing and agricultural districts, and to the population that never travels;...the world's Englishman is no longer found.
    ET4 5.57 12 In Norway...the actors are bonders or landholders, every one of whom is named and personally and patronymically described, as the king's friend and companion. A sparce population gives this high worth to every man.
    ET4 5.61 13 England yielded to the Danes and Northmen in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and was the receptacle into which all the mettle of that strenuous population was poured.
    ET5 5.96 3 The markets created by the manufacturing population [in England] have erected agriculture into a great thriving and spending industry.
    ET5 5.96 23 The Board of Trade [of England] caused the best models of Greece and Italy to be placed within the reach of every manufacturing population.
    ET5 5.98 19 The rapid doubling of the population [in England] dates from Watt's steam-engine.
    ET5 5.98 23 A landlord who owns a province [in England] says, The tenantry are unprofitable; let me have sheep. He unroofs the houses and ships the population to America.
    ET10 5.160 10 The steam-pipe has added to [England's] population and wealth the equivalent of four or five Englands.
    ET10 5.160 23 ...there is wealth enough in England to support the entire population in idleness for one year.
    ET10 5.161 11 [The Bank of England] votes an issue of bills, population is stimulated and cities rise;...
    ET18 5.300 8 In the home population of near thirty millions [in England], there are but one million voters.
    F 6.16 1 The population of the world is a conditional population;...
    F 6.16 2 The population of the world is a conditional population;...
    F 6.17 6 It is a rule that the most casual and extraordinary events, if the basis of population is broad enough, become matter of fixed calculation.
    F 6.17 11 ...on a population of twenty or two hundred millions, something like accuracy may be had.
    Pow 6.57 18 Import into any stationary district, as into an old Dutch population in New York or Pennsylvania...a colony of hardy Yankees...and everything begins to shine with values.
    Wsp 6.203 26 'T is a whole population of gentlemen and ladies out in search of religions.
    Wsp 6.208 7 In our large cities the population is godless...
    CbW 6.249 19 If government knew how, I should like to see it check not multiply the population.
    CbW 6.275 26 ...the evil [in our domestic service] increases from the ignorance and hostility of every ship-load of the immigrant population swarming into houses and farms.
    Civ 7.21 7 ...the change of shores and population clears [a man's] head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
    Elo1 7.74 24 ...whoever can say off currently, sentence by sentence, matter neither better nor worse than what is there [in the country newspaper] printed, will be very impressive to our easily pleased population.
    Farm 7.151 5 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among the landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that... the plight of every new generation is worse than of the foregoing, because the first comers take up the best lands; the next, the second best; and each succeeding wave of population is driven to poorer...
    Farm 7.152 17 Population increases in the ratio of morality;...
    SA 8.101 24 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house...made the whole population poor;...
    Res 8.141 21 When our population, swarming west, reached the boundary of arable land...on the face of the sterile waste beyond, the land was suddenly in parts found covered with gold and silver...
    Imtl 8.348 10 How ill agrees this majestical immortality of our religion with the frivolous population!
    Aris 10.39 16 I wish...men who...can feel and convey the sense which is only collectively or totally expressed by a population;...
    PerF 10.80 21 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money. And I suppose, if he could have played loud enough...the whole population of the globe would beat time...
    PerF 10.81 9 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...and learned that Papa had made it; that hidden deep in that thick skull was this gentle art and taste which the little fingers and caresses of his son had the power to draw out into day; he was no peasant after all. So near to us is the flowering of Fine Art in the rudest population.
    Edc1 10.131 27 ...truly the population of the globe has its origin in the aims which their existence is to serve;...
    MoL 10.242 3 [The scholar]...is born one or two centuries too early for the rough and sensual population into which he is thrown.
    MoL 10.254 21 The country complains loudly of the inefficiency of the army. It was badly led. But, before this, it was not the army alone, is was the population that was badly led.
    HDC 11.49 10 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house...a mill-dam, hath been...altered, or bought, or sold, without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair.
    HDC 11.54 15 ...Concord increased in territory and population.
    HDC 11.78 6 [Concord's] little population of 1300 souls behaved like a party to the contest [the American Revolution].
    HDC 11.82 10 From that time [1788] to the present hour, this town [Concord] has made a slow but constant progress in population and wealth...
    HDC 11.82 13 [Concord's] population, in the census of 1830, was 2020 souls.
    HDC 11.85 1 ...the natural increase of [Concord's] population is drained by the constant emigration of the youth.
    LVB 11.90 1 The interest always felt in the aboriginal population...has been heightened in regard to this tribe [Cherokee].
    EWI 11.114 17 The reception of [emancipation] by the negro population [of the West Indies] was equal in nobleness to the deed.
    EWI 11.119 25 ...the great island of Jamaica, with a population of half a million...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
    EWI 11.120 19 Sir Lionel Smith, the governor, writes to the British Ministry, It is impossible for me to do justice to the good order, decorum and gratitude which the whole laboring population [in Jamaica] manifested on that happy occasion [emancipation].
    EWI 11.120 27 The Queen, in her speech to the Lords and Commons, praised the conduct of the emancipated population [of Jamaica]...
    EWI 11.121 5 All those who are acquainted with the state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are as free...as any that we know of in any country.
    EWI 11.121 21 [Charles Metcalfe] further describes the erection of numerous churches, chapels and schools which the new population [of Jamaica] required...
    EWI 11.121 25 The legislature [of Jamaica]...say, The peaceful demeanor of the emancipated population redounds to their own credit...
    EWI 11.126 2 ...[slavery] does not increase the white population;...
    EWI 11.132 8 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts], containing a population of a million freemen, go in a body before the Congress and say that they have a demand to make on them, so imperative that all functions of government must stop until it is satisfied.
    EWI 11.142 13 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]...
    War 11.151 24 ...in the infancy of society, when a thin population and improvidence make the supply of food and of shelter insufficient and very precarious...the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
    FSLC 11.180 4 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air, and it is a bad sign when these are discontented, for though they snuff oppression and dishonor at a distance, it is because they are more impressionable: the whole population will in a short time be as painfully affected.
    FSLN 11.240 6 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit, but that...population on population...shall cast itself into the opposite scale...
    FSLN 11.240 7 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit, but that...population on population...shall cast itself into the opposite scale...
    FSLN 11.244 19 The Anti-Slavery Society will add many members this year. The Whig Party will join it; the Democrats will join it. The population of the free states will join it.
    JBB 11.271 1 Great wealth, great population, men of talent in the executive, on the bench,-all the forms right...
    SMC 11.353 16 War civilizes, rearranges the population, distributing by ideas...
    SMC 11.354 1 [A principle] lifts every population to an equal power and merit.
    EdAd 11.383 5 ...the territory [of America] is a considerable fraction of the planet, and the population neither loath nor inexpert to use their advantages.
    EdAd 11.384 22 ...we cannot stave off the ulterior question...the WHERE TO of all this [American] power and population...
    Wom 11.423 3 If the wants, the passions, the vices, are allowed a full vote through the hands of a half-brutal intemperate population, I think it but fair that the virtues, the aspirations should be allowed a full vote...
    FRO1 11.478 23 ...the statistics of the American, the English and the German cities, showing that the mass of the population is leaving off going to church, indicate the necessity...that the Church should always be new and extemporized...
    CPL 11.495 15 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who cannot wait for the slow growth of the population to make these advantages adequate to the desires of the people...
    CPL 11.499 5 ...Concord counted fourteen graduates of Harvard in its first century, and its representation there increased with its gross population.
    CPL 11.508 16 ...there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population...
    FRep 11.518 7 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, who...thrust their unworthy minority into the place...of the good, industrious, well-taught but unambitious population...
    FRep 11.526 16 ...the bulk of the population is poor.
    FRep 11.531 2 Our national flag is not affecting...because it does not represent the population of the United States, but some...caucus;...
    CInt 12.115 7 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not. If it be, then...turn your college into barracks and warehouses, and divert the funds of your founders into the stock of...a tan-yard or some other undoubted conveniency for the surrounding population.
    CL 12.136 2 As the increasing population finds new values in the ground, the nomad life is given up for settled homes.
    CL 12.146 22 Here [on Estabrook Farm]...the wide distance from any population is fence enough...
    Bost 12.187 25 Each great city...comes to be the brag of its age and population.
    Bost 12.197 13 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...
    Bost 12.205 26 ...there was never, I suppose, a more rapid expansion in population, wealth and all the elements of power, and in the citizens' consciousness of power and sustained assertion of it, than was exhibited here.
    Bost 12.207 14 The Massachusetts colony grew and filled its own borders with a denser population than any other American State...
    Let 12.393 9 ...we think the population is not yet quite fit for [flying-machines]...
    Let 12.403 15 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;-a result not so much owing to the natural increase of population as to the hard times...

populations, n. (12)

    OS 2.275 2 ...by every throe of growth the man expands there where he works, passing, at each pulsation, classes, populations, of men.
    UGM 4.4 15 ...enormous populations, if they be beggars, are disgusting...
    UGM 4.25 16 ...there are vices and follies incident to whole populations and ages.
    UGM 4.26 27 What indemnification is one great man for populations of pigmies!
    ET19 5.313 12 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so...I feel in regard to this aged England...pressed upon by...new and all incalculable modes, fabrics, arts, machines and competing populations.
    F 6.26 17 The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history;...
    Wsp 6.207 27 Here are...even in the decent populations, idolatries wherein the whiteness of the ritual covers scarlet indulgence.
    Suc 7.286 16 We have seen a woman who by pure song could melt the souls of whole populations.
    PC 8.219 10 ...in every wise and genial soul we have England, Greece, Italy, walking, and can dispense with populations of navvies.
    EPro 11.322 12 If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp, which engulfed armies and populations...then this taxation...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
    HCom 11.344 2 ...when I see how irresistible the convictions of Massachusetts are in these swarming populations,-I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    Koss 11.399 11 We [people of Concord] only see in you [Kossuth] the angel of freedom...dividing populations where you go...

Populo Anglicano Defensio, (1)

    ET12 5.202 1 Here [at Oxford]...John Milton's Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio and Iconoclastes were committed to the flames.

populous, adj. (8)

    CbW 6.269 3 When joy or calamity or genius shall show [the youth his purpose], then woods...then city shopmen...will mirror back to him...its populous solitude.
    WD 7.160 19 The soil of Holland, once the most populous in Europe, is below the level of the sea.
    WD 7.170 14 Yesterday...the world was barren, peaked and pining: to-day ' t is inconceivably populous;...
    WD 7.175 14 [That flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn;...the populous, all-loving solitude which men quit for the tattle of towns.
    Suc 7.300 19 ...the affections make some little web of cottage and fireside populous, important...
    War 11.157 15 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to dismantle their castles...
    Mem 12.103 18 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches;...
    EurB 12.369 18 The influence [of Wordsworth] was in the air, and was wafted up and down into lone and into populous places...

Poquelin, Jean Baptiste [M (2)

    QO 8.181 20 M. Le Grand showed that in the old Fabliaux were the originals of the tales of Moliere, La Fontaine, Boccacio, and of Voltaire.
    CInt 12.124 13 ...there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges, which is as old as the rejection of Moliere by the French Academy...

porcelain, adj. (2)

    GoW 4.279 1 In the progress of the story, the characters of the hero and heroine [of Sand's Consuelo] expand at a rate that shivers the porcelain chess-table of aristocratic convention...
    OA 7.322 26 We still feel the force...of Fontenelle, that precious porcelain vase laid up in the centre of France...

porcelain, n. (3)

    Mrs1 3.130 16 Each [member of an assembly] returns to his degree in the scale of good society, porcelain remains porcelain, and earthen earthen.
    SwM 4.98 8 If you will have pure carbon, carbuncle, or diamond, to make the brain transparent, the trunk and organs shall be so much the grosser: instead of porcelain they are potter's earth, clay, or mud.
    Aris 10.34 1 ...I notice also that [the finer qualities] may become fixed and permanent in any stock, by painting and repainting them on every individual, until at last Nature adopts them and bakes them into her porcelain.

porch, n. (2)

    WD 7.168 27 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch...
    PPo 8.263 2 I read on the porch of a palace bold/ In a purple tablet letters cast,-/ A house though a million winters old,/ A house of earth comes down at last;/...

porches, n. (1)

    Hist 2.20 5 What would...neat porches and wings have been, associated with those gigantic halls before which only Colossi could sit as watchmen...

pore, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.11 6 ...behold! all night, from every pore, these fine auroras have been streaming.
    GoW 4.272 22 ...[Goethe] is a poet...and, under this plague of microscopes (for he seems to see out of every pore of his skin), strikes the harp with a hero's strength and grace.
    GoW 4.275 24 [Goethe] sees at every pore...
    PerF 10.74 5 [Man's] whole frame is responsive to the world...every sense, every pore to a new element...

pores, n. (4)

    Nat 1.64 8 ...the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old.
    UGM 4.26 12 We learn of our contemporaries what they know...almost through the pores of the skin.
    Farm 7.146 13 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little, and entering the smallest holes and pores.
    Wom 11.412 14 [Women] emit from their pores a colored atmosphere...

poring, v. (2)

    Int 2.345 5 Say then, instead of too timidly poring into his obscure sense, that [the philosopher] has not succeeded in rendering back to you your consciousness.
    Bty 6.282 25 The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes...

porous, adj. (1)

    OS 2.290 26 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...dwells...in the earnest experience of the common day,--by reason of the present moment and the mere trifle having become porous to thought...

porphyry, n. (1)

    Suc 7.298 16 [The city boy in the October woods] is the king he dreamed he was; he walks...through bowers of crimson, porphyry and topaz...

Porphyry, n. (6)

    OS 2.282 4 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light. The trances of Socrates...the vision of Porphyry...are of this kind.
    SwM 4.97 10 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Porphyry...will readily come to mind.
    Ctr 6.163 4 Steep and craggy, said Porphyry, is the path of the gods.
    Boks 7.202 15 If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps from the master to the disciples, we have...the Platonists...Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus, Synesius, Jamblichus.
    Boks 7.202 19 Of Plotinus, we have eulogies by Porphyry and Longinus...
    Plu 10.319 8 What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria, to be the birthplace or home of...Porphyry, Origen...

Porphyry's, n. (1)

    CbW 6.247 21 Is all we have to do to draw the breath in and blow it out again? Porphyry's definition is better; Life is that which holds matter together.

porpoise, n. (1)

    Comc 8.167 11 I have been employed, [Camper] says, six months on the Cetacea; I understand the osteology of the head of all these monsters, and have made the combination with the human head so well that everybody now appears to me narwhale, porpoise or marsouins.

porpoises, n. (2)

    Comc 8.167 14 Women [Camper says], the prettiest in society, and those whom I find less comely, they are all either narwhales or porpoises to my eyes.
    Supl 10.172 7 ...the gallant skipper...complained to his owners that he had pumped the Atlantic Ocean three times through his ship on the passage, and 't was common to strike seals and porpoises in the hold.

Porrex, Ferrex and [Thomas (1)

    ShP 4.201 19 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...from Ferrex and Porrex, and Gammer Gurton's Needle, down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.

porridge, n. (1)

    ET18 5.300 17 Pauperism incrusts and clogs the [English] state, and in hard times becomes hideous. In bad seasons, the porridge was diluted.

porringers, n. (1)

    ET6 5.108 1 ...though [the Englishman] have no gallery of portraits of his ancestors, he has of their punch-bowls and porringers.

Porson, Richard, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.391 25 [Ezra Ripley] showed even in his fireside discourse traits of that pertinency and judgment...which, under a better discipline, might have ripened into a Bentley or a Porson.

port, n. (27)

    LT 1.260 27 I wish to consider well this affirmative side [Reform], which has a loftier port and reason than heretofore...
    LT 1.265 21 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear;...
    LT 1.288 3 ...from what port did we sail?
    LT 1.288 4 ...from what port did we sail? Who knows? Or to what port are we bound?
    SR 2.59 27 [Virtue] is it which throws...dignity into Washington's port...
    Hsm1 2.260 1 Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
    Chr1 3.93 7 This immensely stretched trade, which makes the capes of the Southern Ocean his wharves and the Atlantic Sea his familiar port, centres in [the natural merchant's] brain only;...
    Mrs1 3.149 22 I have seen an individual...who shook off the captivity of etiquette, with happy, spirited bearing, good-natured and free as Robin Hood;,--yet with the port of an emperor, if need be...
    ET2 5.28 9 It is impossible not to personify a ship; every body does, in every thing they say...she looks into a port.
    ET2 5.30 14 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port...
    ET4 5.56 3 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean. They even entered the port of the town where he was...
    ET4 5.56 13 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump; the working in and out of port, have acquired much more than a ship.
    ET19 5.312 27 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port...
    Pow 6.71 13 ...whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated...
    SS 7.6 14 If [Archimedes and Newton] had been good fellows, fond of dancing, port and clubs, we should have had no Theory of the Sphere and no Principia.
    OA 7.314 7 ...Lowly faithful, banish fear,/ Right onward drive unharmed;/ The port, well worth the cruise, is near,/ And every wave is charmed./
    Aris 10.55 2 He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself.
    Aris 10.55 11 What is it that makes the true knight? Loyalty to his thought. That makes...the commanding port which all men admire...
    Aris 10.58 25 ...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which...wearies out opposition, and arrives at its port.
    Aris 10.61 18 The generous soul, on arriving in a new port, makes instant preparation for a new voyage.
    Edc1 10.133 5 If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism...I have died to all use of these new events...
    Supl 10.161 1 When wrath and terror changed Jove's port/ And the rash-leaping thunderbolt fell short./
    EWI 11.110 13 In 1821, according to official documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa. Nearly 30,000 were landed in the port of Havana alone.
    EWI 11.130 10 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port...
    Bost 12.190 19 In our beautiful [Boston] bay, with its broad and deep waters covered with sails from every port...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
    Bost 12.199 25 What should hinder that this America...the firm shore hid until...a man should be found who should sail steadily west fixty-eight days from the port of Palos to find it...should have its happy ports...
    ACri 12.301 8 I fell in with one of the founders [of New City] who showed its advantages and its river and port and the capabilities...

portable, adj. (6)

    LE 1.183 16 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find...that he cannot make of his infrequent illumination a portable taper to carry whither he would...
    Tran 1.349 9 Each cause as it is called...becomes speedily a little shop, where the article...is now made up into portable and convenient cakes...
    ET18 5.304 19 The English mind turns every abstraction it can receive into a portable utensil...
    F 6.32 26 The plague in the sea-service from scurvy is healed by lemon juice and other diets portable or procurable;...
    Wth 6.86 26 ...coal is a portable climate.
    Carl 10.490 17 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell...

portal, n. (3)

    Bhr 6.167 2 Grace, Beauty, and Caprice/ Build this golden portal/...
    Bhr 6.192 8 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the wedding day is fixed, and we follow the gala procession home to the bannered portal...
    QO 8.185 15 Rabelais's dying words...only repeats the IF inscribed on the portal of the temple at Delphi.

portend, v. (1)

    ET3 5.37 8 ...some signs portend that [London] has reached its highest point.

portent, n. (1)

    MoL 10.246 25 There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by suicide. The sign of it is the decay of thought. Niebuhr has given striking examples of that fatal portent;...

portentous, adj. (2)

    Ill 6.318 18 The fine star-dust and nebulous blur in Orion, the portentous year of Mizar and Alcor, must come down and be dealt with in your household thought.
    War 11.164 1 It is really a thought that built this portentous war-establishment...

Porter, Anna Maria and Jan (1)

    LE 1.172 25 Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other; Ivanhoe and Waverley compared with Castle Radcliffe and the Porter novels;...

Porter, Jane, adj. (1)

    EurB 12.375 10 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both, and the business of the piece is to provide him suitably. This is the problem to be solved in thousands of English romances, including the Porter novels...

porter, n. (12)

    Hist 2.40 19 ...what food or experience or succor have [Olympiads and Consulates]...for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?
    SL 2.161 8 We call the poet inactive, because he is not...a porter.
    Int 2.330 16 Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes...for you?
    NER 3.256 10 Why should professional labor and that of the counting-house be paid so disproportionately to the labor of the porter and wood-sawyer?
    ET4 5.65 16 I remarked the stoutness [of the English] on my first landing at Liverpool; porter, drayman, coachman, guard...
    ET6 5.110 16 The [English] ship-carpenter in the public yards, my lord's gardener and porter, have been there for more than a hundred years, grandfather, father, and son.
    ET12 5.200 14 ...the porter at each hall [at Oxford] is required to give the name of any belated student who is admitted after that hour [nine o'clock].
    ET17 5.296 27 A gentleman in the neighborhood told the story of Walter Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth, and slipping out every day...to the Swan Inn for a cold cut and porter;...
    ET17 5.297 2 A gentleman in the neighborhood told the story of Walter Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth, and slipping out every day...to the Swan Inn for a cold cut and porter; and one day passing with Wordsworth the inn, he was betrayed by the landlord's asking him if he had come for his porter.
    Farm 7.146 5 ...there is no porter like Gravitation, who will bring down any weights which man cannot carry...
    Elo2 8.124 26 Ought not the scholar to be able to convey his meaning in terms as short and strong as the porter or truckman uses to convey his?
    Grts 8.303 6 The porter or truckman refuses a reward for finding your purse, or for pulling you drowning out of the river. Thereby, with the service, you have got a moral lift.

porters, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.4 17 ...we are not pans and barrows, nor even porters of the fire and torch-bearers...
    Wsp 6.230 24 If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
    WSL 12.341 26 A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers of the House of Fame, even as porters and grooms in the courts;...

portfolio, n. (2)

    Bty 6.295 13 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper...is put in portfolio...
    MAng1 12.220 25 ...one of the last drawings in [Michelangelo's] portfolio is a sublime hint of his own feeling;...

portfolios, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.165 25 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...if Art with its portfolios;...can set his dull nerves throbbing... make way and sing paean!

Portia [Shakespeare, Julius (1)

    ET6 5.108 21 The sentiment of Imogen in Cymbeline is copied from English nature; and not less the Portia of Brutus...

Portia's [Shakespeare, Merc (1)

    ShP 4.207 18 The forest of Arden...the moonlight of Portia's villa...where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?

porticos, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.226 1 ...[Michelangelo] arranged the piazza of the Capitol [Rome], and built its porticos.

Portinari, Beatrice, n. (1)

    Boks 7.205 25 There is...Dante's Vita Nuova, to explain Dante and Beatrice;...

portion, n. (26)

    AmS 1.93 16 Of course there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man.
    DSA 1.139 27 In a large portion of the community, the religious service gives rise to quite other thoughts and emotions.
    LT 1.267 13 Slowly...it steals on us, the new fact, that we who were pupils or aspirants...do compose a portion of that head and heart we are wont to think worthy of all reverence and heed.
    SR 2.46 14 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction...that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion;...
    SR 2.88 14 Thy lot or portion of life...is seeking after thee;...
    Gts 3.161 11 The only gift is a portion of thyself.
    MoS 4.152 19 After dinner...ideas are...follies of young men, repudiated by the solid portion of society...
    NMW 4.251 26 The most agreeable portion [of Bonaparte's memoirs] is the Campaign in Egypt.
    GoW 4.266 5 In this country...the solid portion of the community is named with significant respect in every circle.
    GoW 4.284 12 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of universal truth, to be his portion...
    GoW 4.287 6 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself;...
    ET5 5.74 5 ...from the residence of a portion of these [Scandinavian] people in France...the Norman has come popularly to represent in England the aristocratic, and the Saxon the democratic principle.
    ET18 5.302 6 ...this [English] shop-rule had one magnificent effect. It extends its cold unalterable courtesy to political exiles of every opinion, and is a fact which might give additional light to that portion of the planet seen from the farthest star.
    Wth 6.105 16 Rothschild refuses the Russian loan, and there is peace and the harvests are saved. He takes it, and there is...an agitation through a large portion of mankind...
    Wsp 6.210 21 It is believed by well-dressed proprietors...that the solid portion of society exist for the arts of comfort;...
    Elo1 7.69 26 ...the power of discourse of certain individuals amounts to fascination, though it may have no lasting effect. Some portion of this sugar must intermingle.
    Cour 7.259 6 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community,--how infirm and ignoble!...
    SA 8.98 23 Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any portion of the company.
    Insp 8.279 17 We might say of these memorable moments of life that we were in them, not they in us. We found ourselves by happy fortune in an illuminated portion or meteorous zone...
    Edc1 10.132 2 ...truly the population of the globe has its origin in the aims which their existence is to serve; and so with every portion of them.
    Thor 10.462 15 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau] said that only a small portion of them would be sound...
    HDC 11.41 4 Agreeably to the custom of the times, a large portion [of land in Concord] was reserved to the public...
    TPar 11.290 21 Two days...the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses. He kept nothing back. In terrible earnest he...meted out to every official...his due portion.
    ACiv 11.299 13 ...Why cannot the best civilization be extended over the whole country, since the disorder of the less-civilized portion menaces the existence of the country?
    SHC 11.433 5 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...
    Mem 12.105 12 Michael Angelo, after having once seen a work of any other artist, would remember it so perfectly that if it pleased him to make use of any portion thereof, he could do so...

portions, n. (6)

    Prd1 2.234 19 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the the prudence which consists in husbanding...little portions of time...
    Wth 6.99 12 ...in America, where democratic institutions divide every estate into small portions after a few years, the public should step into the place of these [European] proprietors, and provide this culture and inspiration for the citizen.
    Boks 7.194 14 ...the Bible has been the literature as well as the religion of large portions of Europe;...
    MoL 10.245 22 A French prophet of our age, Fourier, predicted that one day...the rival portions of humanity would dispute each other's excellence in the manufacture of little cakes.
    Schr 10.276 12 [There is] Plenty of water also, sea full, sky full; who cares for it? But when we can get it where we want it, and in measured portions... we will buy it with millions.
    HDC 11.41 9 Other portions [of land in Concord] seem to have been successively divided off and granted to individuals...

Portland, adj. (1)

    ET11 5.188 14 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that... these have preserved...Warwick and Portland vases...

Portland, Maine (?), n. [Portland,] (4)

    Wsp 6.222 16 ...the censors of action are as numerous and as near in Paris as in Littleton or Portland;...
    Wsp 6.222 21 ...things are as broad as they are long, is not a rule for Littleton or Portland, but for the universe.
    MMEm 10.400 1 When introduced to Lafayette at Portland, [Mary Moody Emerson] told him that she was in arms at the Concord Fight.
    Bost 12.186 21 ...New Bedford is not nearer to the whales than New London or Portland...

Portland, Massachusetts, n. (1)

    F 6.42 27 We know in Massachusetts...who built...Portland...

portly, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.43 5 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ Like and unlike,/ Portly and grim/...

portmanteau, n. (1)

    Res 8.146 12 ...taking from his portmanteau a small phial of white brandy, [Tissenet] poured it into a cup...

portrait, adj. (3)

    LT 1.264 24 ...why not draw for these times a portrait gallery?
    Bty 6.299 4 Portrait painters say that most faces and forms are irregular and unsymmetrical;...
    Boks 7.207 24 ...what with...the portrait sketches in his Discoveries... [Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time...

portrait, n. (28)

    Nat 1.51 9 ...a portrait of a well-known face gratifies us.
    DSA 1.131 24 ...you must...take [Christ's] portrait as the vulgar draw it.
    MR 1.255 10 Will you suffer me to add one trait more to this portrait of man the reformer?
    Tran 1.344 16 That, indeed, constitutes a new feature in [the Transcendentalists'] portrait, that they are the most exacting and extortionate critics.
    Comp 2.110 9 With his will or against his will [a man] draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word.
    Prd1 2.232 14 Goethe's Tasso is very likely to be a pretty fair historic portrait, and that is true tragedy.
    Hsm1 2.247 28 ...Scott will sometimes draw a [heroic] stroke like the portrait of Lord Evandale given by Balfour of Burley.
    Int 2.336 14 In common hours we have the same facts as in the uncommon or inspired, but they do not sit for their portrait;...
    Art1 2.351 20 In a portrait [the painter] must inscribe the character and not the features...
    Art1 2.353 27 Shall I now add that the whole extant product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value...as a stroke drawn in the portrait of that fate...according to whose ordinations all beings advance to their beatitude?
    Pol1 3.200 22 Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait...
    NR 3.227 1 All persons exist to society by some shining trait of beauty or utility which they have. We borrow the proportions of the man from that one fine feature, and finish the portrait symmetrically;...
    SwM 4.101 16 There is a common portrait of [Swedenborg] in antique coat and wig...
    GoW 4.277 3 ...[Goethe]...looked for [the Devil]...in every shade of coldness, selfishness and unbelief that...darkens over the human thought,-- and found that the portrait gained reality and terror by every thing he added...
    ET8 5.135 11 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...resembling in countenance the portrait of Punch with the laugh left out;...
    ET8 5.139 25 The following passage from the Heimskringla might almost stand as a portrait of the modern Englishman...
    Bty 6.299 18 ...we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she...sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.
    Bty 6.299 25 Abbe Menage said of the President Le Bailleul that he was fit for nothing but to sit for his portrait.
    PI 8.26 23 ...all men know the portrait [of the true poet] when it is drawn...
    PI 8.44 16 This power [of characterization] appears not only in the outline or portrait of [Shakespeare's] actors...
    Plu 10.318 18 The chapters On the Fortune of Alexander, in [Plutarch's] Morals, are an important appendix to the portrait in the Lives.
    MMEm 10.399 3 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life.
    MMEm 10.399 16 I have found that I could only bring you this portrait [of Mary Moody Emerson] by selections from the diary of my heroine...
    MAng1 12.233 7 [Michelangelo] never made but one portrait...
    Milt1 12.254 23 Human nature in these ages is indebted to [Milton] for its best portrait.
    Milt1 12.255 6 Bacon's Essays are the portrait of an ambitious and profound calculator...
    WSL 12.344 19 [Landor] draws his own portrait in the costume of a village schoolmaster...
    WSL 12.344 25 [Landor] draws with evident pleasure the portrait of a man who never said anything right and never did anything wrong.

portraits, n. (17)

    Hist 2.7 12 Books, monuments, pictures, conversations, are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the lineaments he is forming.
    UGM 4.14 6 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden...of Falkland...
    ShP 4.214 9 Here [in Shakespeare] is perfect representation, at last; and now let the world of figures sit for their portraits.
    GoW 4.277 17 [Goethe's works] consist of translations, criticism, dramas, lyric and every other description of poems, literary journals and portraits of distinguished men.
    ET4 5.52 27 The portraits that hang on the walls in the Academy Exhibition at London...are distinctive English...
    ET4 5.57 3 [The Heimskringla's] portraits, like Homer's, are strongly individualized.
    ET6 5.107 27 ...though [the Englishman] have no gallery of portraits of his ancestors, he has of their punch-bowls and porringers.
    ET11 5.189 20 Shakspeare's portraits of good Duke Humphrey, of Warwick, of Northumberland, of Talbot, were drawn in a strict consonance with the traditions.
    ET16 5.284 22 Although these apartments and the long library [at Wilton Hall] were full of good family portraits...yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...
    Boks 7.199 11 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners...portraits of Pericles, Alcibiades...
    Boks 7.201 8 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of every kind...containing that ironical eulogy of Socrates which is the source from which all the portraits of that philosopher current in Europe have been drawn.
    Boks 7.214 21 These stories [novels] are to the plots of real life what the figures in La Belle Assemblee...are to portraits.
    ALin 11.335 23 Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved under those who have suffered at the block, adds a certain lofty charm to the picture.
    Milt1 12.257 3 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...
    ACri 12.294 7 ...the only check on the detail of each of [Shakespeare's] portraits is his own universality...
    WSL 12.345 3 [Landor's] portraits, though mere sketches, must be valued as attempts in the very highest kind of narrative...
    WSL 12.348 23 [Landor's] merit must rest, at last, not...on the symmetry of any of his historical portraits...

portraiture, n. (3)

    LE 1.172 17 ...any particular portraiture does not in any manner exclude or forestall a new attempt...
    Boks 7.200 24 ...the meeting of the Seven Wise Masters is a charming portraiture of ancient manners and discourse...
    Chr2 10.89 6 Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,/ Sit still, and Truth is near;/ Suddenly it will uplift/ Your eyelids to the sphere:/ Wait a little, you shall see/ The portraiture of things to be./

portray, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.169 21 The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints...one must not be too old.

portrayed, v. (1)

    Scot 11.466 25 ...Scott portrayed with equal strength and success every figure in his crowded company.

portrays, v. (1)

    ET4 5.67 24 I apply to Britannia...the words in which her latest novelist portrays his heroine; She is as mild as she is game, and as game as she is mild.

portress, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.124 2 In the vain and foolish exultation of the heart...the pensive portress of Science shall call you to the sober pleasures of her holy cell.

Port-Royalists, n. (2)

    NR 3.240 16 Here is a new enterprise of Brook Farm...why so impatient to baptize them...Port-Royalists...or by any known and effete name?
    Pow 6.66 2 The communities hitherto founded by socialists...the Port-Royalists... are only possible by installing Judas as steward.

ports, n. (6)

    Art1 2.368 26 When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat... arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.
    SwM 4.100 24 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill, and the added fame...of extraordinary religious knowledge and gifts, drew to him queens...and people about the ports through which he was wont to pass...
    Plu 10.302 6 We sail on [Plutarch's] memory into the ports of every nation...
    EWI 11.130 8 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...
    EWI 11.132 15 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime...
    Bost 12.199 27 What should hinder that this America...what should hinder that this New Atlantis should have its happy ports...

pose, n. (1)

    Pow 6.79 16 The masters say that they know a master in music, only by seeing the pose of the hands on the keys;...

Posidonius, n. (1)

    Plu 10.319 7 What a fruit and fitting monument of [Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria, to be the birthplace or home of...Synesius, Posidonius...

position, n. (100)

    Nat 1.50 16 ...a small alteration in our local position, apprizes us of a dualism.
    Nat 1.59 11 I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man...
    LE 1.183 4 There is somewhat inconvenient and injurious in [the student's] position.
    LE 1.186 17 Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry.
    Tran 1.331 3 This [idealistic] manner of looking at things transfers every object in nature from an independent and anomalous position without there, into the consciousness.
    Tran 1.335 9 Am I in harmony with myself? my position will seem to you just and commanding.
    YA 1.369 25 We in the Atlantic states, by position, have been commercial...
    SR 2.89 14 He who knows that power is inborn...stands in the erect position...
    Comp 2.99 1 Is a man...by temper and position a bad citizen...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters...
    Prd1 2.234 1 Health, bread, climate, social position, have their importance...
    Prd1 2.239 10 ...neither should you put yourself in a false position with your contemporaries by indulging a vein of hostility and bitterness.
    OS 2.295 14 The position men have given to Jesus...is a position of authority.
    OS 2.295 16 The position men have given to Jesus...is a position of authority.
    Cir 2.320 17 The new position of the advancing man has all the powers of the old, yet has them all new.
    Chr1 3.99 5 The same transport which the occurrence of the best events in the best order would occasion me, I must learn to taste purer in the perception that my position is every hour meliorated, and does already command those events I desire.
    Mrs1 3.132 19 We are such lovers of self-reliance that we excuse in a man many sins if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position...
    Pol1 3.208 20 We might as wisely reprove the east wind or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position...
    UGM 4.20 8 Mankind have in all ages attached themselves to a few persons who...were entitled to the position of leaders and law-givers.
    UGM 4.33 17 ...the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each...
    PPh 4.64 12 [Plato] secures a position not to be commanded, by his passion for reality;...
    SwM 4.117 18 ...[Correspondence] required such rightness of position that the poles of the eye should coincide with the axis of the world.
    SwM 4.137 17 [Swedenborg's] cardinal position in morals is that evils should be shunned as sins.
    MoS 4.160 8 [Skepticism] is a position taken up for better defence...
    MoS 4.166 21 [Montaigne] took and kept this position of equilibrium.
    MoS 4.181 14 ...[some minds'] sensual habit would fix the believer to his last position...
    ShP 4.197 7 [The poet] knows the sparkle of the true stone, and puts it in high place, wherever he finds it. Such is the happy position of Homer perhaps;...
    NMW 4.225 18 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny...
    NMW 4.236 3 [Bonaparte]...on a hostile position, rained a torrent of iron...
    NMW 4.243 8 The necessity of [Napoleon's] position required a hospitality to every sort of talent...
    GoW 4.271 25 [Goethe] is not a debtor to his position...
    ET3 5.40 6 Factitious climate, factitious position [in England].
    ET3 5.40 10 England resembles a ship in its shape, and if it were one, its best admiral could not have worked it or anchored it in a more judicious or effective position.
    ET3 5.41 24 ...these Britons have precisely the best commercial position in the whole planet...
    ET7 5.121 21 ...the Englishman is not fickle. He had really made up his mind now for years as he read his newspaper, to hate and despise M. Guizot; and the altered position of the man as an illustrious exile and a guest in the country, makes no difference to him...
    ET8 5.137 19 [The English] are very conscious of their advantageous position in history.
    ET11 5.186 6 These people [English nobility] seem to gain as much as they lose by their position.
    ET12 5.208 24 A gentleman [in England] must possess...an independent and public position...
    ET13 5.230 8 False position introduces cant, perjury, simony and ever a lower class of mind and character into the [English] clergy...
    ET16 5.281 6 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position.
    ET18 5.303 3 [The English people's] many-headedness is owing to the advantageous position of the middle class...
    F 6.13 19 [Conservatives] have been effeminated by position or nature...
    F 6.42 6 ...a man likes better to be complimented on his position...than on his merits.
    Pow 6.63 23 The senators who dissented from Mr. Polk's Mexican war were...those who from political position could afford it;...
    Wth 6.90 22 The English are prosperous and peaceable, with their habit of considering that every man...has himself to thank if he do not maintain and improve his position in society.
    Wth 6.121 18 How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position;...
    Wth 6.123 4 ...the practical neighbor cavils at the position of the barn;...
    Bhr 6.192 2 The boy [in earlier novels] was to be raised from a humble to a high position.
    Wsp 6.206 21 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. O fie! O how unwilling should I be to forsake thee, in so forlorn and dreadful a position, were I thy lord and advocate, as thou art mine.
    CbW 6.278 2 Fancy prices are paid for position and for the culture of talent...
    Ill 6.323 20 The permanent interest of every man is never to be in a false position...
    Civ 7.23 25 Right position of woman in the State is another index [of civilization].
    Civ 7.34 5 ...if there be...a country...where the position of the white woman is injuriously affected by the outlawry of the black woman;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Art2 7.42 17 ...we build a mill in such position as to set the north wind to play upon our instrument...
    Elo1 7.80 9 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons. His clients pay not so much for legal as for manly accomplishments,--for courage, conduct and a commanding social position...
    Elo1 7.87 27 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real...
    Boks 7.216 7 We admire...the homage of drawing-rooms and parliaments. They make us skeptical, by giving prominence to wealth and social position.
    Cour 7.276 22 I do not wish to put myself or any man into a theatrical position...
    PI 8.42 26 We cannot know things by words and writing, but only by taking a central position in the universe and living in its forms.
    Grts 8.312 13 A man will say: I am born to this position; I must take it...
    Aris 10.35 4 The young adventurer finds that the relations of society, the position of classes, irk and sting him...
    Aris 10.47 2 The only relief that I know against the invidiousness of superior position is, that you exert your faculty;...
    Aris 10.63 15 Let [the man of honor] accept the position of armed neutrality...
    Aris 10.64 3 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy...who abandons his right position of being priest and poet of these impious and unpoetic doers of God's work.
    Chr2 10.94 13 Every hour puts the individual in a position where his wishes aim at something which the sentiment of duty forbids him to seek.
    Chr2 10.107 20 So of the changed position and manners of the clergy.
    SovE 10.208 12 ...the first position I make is that natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds.
    Prch 10.235 4 Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid! As for position, the position is always the same...
    MMEm 10.417 4 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man of talents, education and good social position...
    LVB 11.89 3 Sir [Van Buren]: The seat you fill places you in a relation of credit and nearness to every citizen. By right and natural position, every citizen is your friend.
    EWI 11.121 13 ...every man's position [in Jamaica] is settled by the same circumstances which regulate that point in other free countries...
    EWI 11.125 19 [The planters] were full of vices; their children were lumps of pride, sloth, sensuality and rottenness. The position of woman was nearly as bad as it could be;...
    EWI 11.127 8 ...[British merchants] hastened to make the best of their position, and accepted the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies].
    EWI 11.142 20 [West Indian negroes] receive hints and advances from the whites that they will be gladly received...as members of this or that committee of trust. They hold back, and say to each other that social position is not to be gained by pushing.
    FSLC 11.208 23 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West Indian slaves. I say buy...that we may acknowledge the calamity of [the planter's] position...
    FSLC 11.213 12 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost...
    FSLN 11.217 17 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation. For they...affirm these...only from their cramped position of standing for their teacher.
    AsSu 11.248 27 Mr. Sumner's position is exceptional in its honor.
    AsSu 11.249 10 In Congress, [Charles Sumner] did not rush into party position.
    AsSu 11.249 16 [Charles Sumner] took his position and kept it.
    AKan 11.259 11 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...illustrating the fatal effects of a false position to demoralize legislation...
    ACiv 11.304 7 [Emancipation] is a progressive policy, puts the whole people in healthy, productive, amiable position...
    ACiv 11.311 8 More and better than the President has spoken shall, perhaps, the effect of this message [proposal for gradual abolition] be,- but...not more or better than he hoped in his heart, when, thoughtful of all the complexities of his position, he penned these cautious words.
    EPro 11.318 13 ...such was [Lincoln's] position, and such the felicity attending the action [Emancipation Proclamation], that he has replaced government in the good graces of mankind.
    EPro 11.320 8 ...[the Emancipation Proclamation] relieves our race once for all of its crime and false position.
    EPro 11.320 11 The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves right. We have recovered ourselves from our false position...
    SMC 11.367 14 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation, attested...by the important position usually assigned them in the field.
    EdAd 11.388 15 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...
    Wom 11.405 6 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman.
    Wom 11.408 3 ...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece. Till the new education and larger opportunities of very modern times, this position, with the fewest possible exceptions, has always been true.
    Wom 11.410 1 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty;...
    Wom 11.414 2 There is much in [women's] nature, much in their social position which gives them a certain power of divination.
    Wom 11.414 16 ...in the East...in the Mohammedan faith, Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess, that she has among the ancient Greeks...
    Wom 11.414 22 In barbarous society the position of women is always low...
    Wom 11.415 2 When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...she is incapable of evil or of good. And something like that position, in all low society, is the position of woman;...
    Wom 11.415 5 With the advancements of society, the position and influence of woman bring her strength or her faults into light.
    WSL 12.346 6 These merits make Mr. Landor's position in the republic of letters one of great mark and dignity.
    WSL 12.346 19 [Landor's] position is by no means the highest in literature...
    EurB 12.367 20 Early in life...[Wordsworth] made his election between assuming and defending some legal rights, with the chances of wealth and a position in the world, and the inward promptings of his heavenly genius;...
    Let 12.397 25 More letters we have on the subject of the position of young men, which accord well enough with what we see and hear.
    Let 12.402 15 A new perception...is a victory won to the living universe... and cheaply bought by any amounts of hard fare and false social position.

positions, n. (3)

    Lov1 2.186 16 ...as life wears on, it proves a game of permutation and combination of all possible positions of the parties...
    Elo1 7.96 20 [The sturdy countryman] has not only the documents in his pocket to answer all cavils and to prove all his positions...
    Schr 10.285 13 What is the use of artificial positions?

positive, adj. (34)

    DSA 1.124 4 Good is positive.
    LT 1.286 13 The spiritualist wishes this only, that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself...without the admission of anything unspiritual that is, anything positive, dogmatic, or personal.
    Tran 1.336 3 [The Transcendentalist] wishes that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself...without the admission of... anything positive, dogmatic, personal.
    OS 2.288 26 [Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, Milton] use the positive degree.
    Chr1 3.97 4 Everything in nature...has a positive and a negative pole.
    Chr1 3.97 6 Spirit is the positive [pole], the event is the negative.
    Chr1 3.99 26 ...[the ingenious man] shall stand stoutly in his place and let me...know that I have encountered a new and positive quality;...
    UGM 4.13 25 ...all mental and moral force is a positive good.
    MoS 4.161 26 ...some condition between the extremes, and having, itself, a positive quality; some stark and sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    MoS 4.168 24 Montaigne...uses the positive degree;...
    ET6 5.106 27 [The English] are positive, methodical, cleanly and formal...
    F 6.15 3 Once we thought positive power was all.
    Pow 6.73 12 Success goes...invariably with a certain plus or positive power...
    Wth 6.98 14 There is a refining influence from the arts of Design on a prepared mind which is as positive as that of music...
    Bhr 6.197 10 As respects the delicate question of culture I do not think that any other than negative rules can be laid down. For positive rules, for suggestion, nature alone inspires it.
    Boks 7.191 3 ...read Plutarch, and the world is a proud place, peopled with men of positive quality...
    Clbs 7.227 5 The experience of retired men is positive,--that we lose our days and are barren of thought for want of some person to talk with.
    Suc 7.307 9 The good mind chooses what is positive...
    Chr2 10.115 19 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan philosophers. It is not that the Upanishads or the Maxims of Antoninus are better, but that they do not invade his freedom; because they are only suggestions, whilst the other adds the inadmissible claim of positive authority...
    Supl 10.167 17 [The English mind] does not love the superlative but the positive degree.
    Supl 10.169 6 Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
    Supl 10.171 16 ...whilst thus everything recommends simplicity and temperance of action; the utmost directness, the positive degree, we mean thereby that rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument.
    Supl 10.178 12 The European civility, or that of the positive degree, is established by coal-mines, by ventilation, by irrigation and every skill...
    Prch 10.218 2 I see in those classes and those persons in whom I am accustomed to look...for what is most positive and most rich in human nature...character, but skepticism;...
    Prch 10.225 24 All positive rules, ceremonial, ecclesiastical, distinctions of race or of person, are perishable;...
    Prch 10.225 27 ...only those distinctions hold which are, in the nature of things, not matters of positive ordinance.
    EWI 11.106 25 Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law, long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its introduction are lost;...
    FSLC 11.190 24 Blackstone admits the sovereignty antecedent to any positive precept, of the law of Nature...
    FRO2 11.488 7 The point of difference that still remains between churches...is in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat positive and historical.
    FRO2 11.488 16 This positive, historical, authoritative scheme [of miraculous dispensation] is not consistent with our experience or our expectations.
    PLT 12.61 22 If the first rule is to obey your genius, in the second place the good mind is known by the choice of what is positive...
    PLT 12.64 11 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is...that by casting ourselves on it and being its voice it rushes each moment to positive commands...
    CL 12.148 2 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to a house... through a wood; besides the beauty, it has a positive effect on manners...
    CL 12.156 13 Of the finer influences [of nature], I shall say that they are not less positive, if they are indescribable.

positive, n. (3)

    DSA 1.130 16 ...[Christianity] is...an exaggeration of...the positive...
    Supl 10.164 5 ...the positive is the sinew of speech...
    Supl 10.171 22 The superlative is as good as the positive, if it be alive.

positively, adv. (1)

    Int 2.325 3 Every substance is negatively electric to that which stands above it in the chemical tables, positively to that which stands below it.

positives, n. (1)

    Supl 10.173 24 Superlatives must be bought by too many positives.

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