Posse to Powders

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

posse, v. (1)

    SwM 4.113 22 Ex aurique putat micis consistere posse/ Aurum, et de terris terram concrescere parvis;/...

possess, v. (59)

    AmS 1.83 7 The fable implies that the individual, to possess himself, must sometimes return from his own labor to embrace all the other laborers.
    AmS 1.87 7 So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does [the scholar] not yet possess.
    LE 1.173 17 ...[the scholar] must possess [the world] by putting himself into harmony with the constitution of things.
    MN 1.212 13 ...[all things] seek to penetrate and overpower each the nature of every other creature, and itself alone in all modes and throughout space and spirit to prevail and possess.
    MN 1.212 18 Every man who comes into the world [the stars] seek to fascinate and possess...
    MR 1.256 25 ...the time will come when we too...shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers...
    Con 1.308 4 ...I laid my bones to, and drudged for the good I possess;...
    SR 2.72 10 The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity.
    Comp 2.104 21 [Men] think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side, the bitter.
    Prd1 2.221 15 We paint those qualities which we do not possess.
    OS 2.276 6 The lover has no talent, no skill, which passes for quite nothing with his enamored maiden, however little she may possess of related faculty;...
    OS 2.278 17 We do not yet possess ourselves...
    Pt1 3.42 14 ...thou [O poet] shalt possess that wherein others are only tenants and boarders.
    Exp 3.81 11 We must hold hard to this poverty...and by more vigorous self-recoveries, after the sallies of action, possess our axis more firmly.
    Exp 3.81 18 ...I cannot dispose of other people's facts; but I possess such a key to my own as persuades me, against all their denials, that they also have a key to theirs.
    Mrs1 3.123 7 ...that is a natural result of personal force and love, that they should possess and dispense the goods of the world.
    NER 3.275 22 ...having established his equality with class after class of those with whom he would live well, [a man] still finds certain others before whom he cannot possess himself...
    PPh 4.59 21 There is indeed no weapon in all the armory of wit which [Plato] did not possess and use...
    PPh 4.76 9 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which...the sermons of unlettered Arabs and Jews possess.
    NMW 4.224 4 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor...and the interests of living labor, which seeks to possess itself of land and buildings and money stocks.
    NMW 4.247 4 We can not...sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon], who...showed us how much may be accomplished by the mere force of such virtues as all men possess in less degrees;...
    ET1 5.23 9 I told [Wordsworth] how much the few printed extracts had quickened the desire to possess his unpublished poems.
    ET11 5.198 14 [The English] cannot shut their eyes to the fact that an untitled nobility possess all the power without the inconveniences that belong to rank...
    ET12 5.208 22 A gentleman [in England] must possess a political character...
    ET12 5.210 5 Such knowledge as they prize [at Oxford] they possess and impart.
    ET13 5.222 14 The most sensible and well-informed [English] men possess the power of thinking just so far as the bishop in religious matters...
    ET15 5.262 14 England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs...
    Pow 6.61 1 We watch in children with pathetic interest the degree in which they possess recuperative force.
    Wth 6.98 9 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess...
    Bhr 6.170 25 Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning or owning them, they solicit him to enter and possess.
    Bhr 6.193 13 ...[simple and noble persons]...meet on a better ground than the talents and skills they may chance to possess...
    Wsp 6.210 21 It is believed by well-dressed proprietors that there is no more virtue than they possess;...
    DL 7.121 15 ...[the eager, blushing boys] sigh...for the theatre and premature freedom and dissipation, which others possess.
    Cour 7.260 23 ...the only title I can have to your help is when I have manfully put forth all the means I possess to keep me...
    Suc 7.311 14 There is an external life, which is...taught to grasp all the boy can get, urging him...to...unfold his talents, shine, conquer and possess.
    SA 8.100 4 The consideration the rich possess in all societies is not without meaning or right.
    Elo2 8.119 7 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do. It only needs that they should be once well pushed off into the water...and henceforward they possess this new and wonderful element.
    Imtl 8.344 13 The doctrine [of immortality]...is grounded in the necessities and forces we possess.
    PerF 10.74 8 No force but is [man's] force. He does not possess them, he is a pipe through which their currents flow.
    Edc1 10.131 1 ...what is the charm which every ore...every new fact touching...the secrets of chemical composition and decomposition possess for Humboldt?
    Plu 10.308 19 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher...to commend himself to men of public regards and ruling genius: for, if he once possess such a man with principles of honor and religion, he takes a compendious method, by doing good to one, to oblige a great part of mankind.
    LS 11.14 23 ...the import of [St. Paul's] expression is that he had received the story [of the Last Supper] of an eye-witness such as we also possess.
    HDC 11.39 19 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.
    EdAd 11.384 15 ...[the traveller in America] exclaims, What a negro-fine royalty is that of Jamschid and Solomon. What a substantial sovereignty does my townsman possess!
    EdAd 11.389 23 ...the laws and governors cannot possess a commanding interest for any but vacant or fanatical people;...
    CPL 11.499 6 I possess the manuscript journal of a lady [Mary Moody Emerson], native of this town [Concord]...who removed into Maine...
    PLT 12.3 15 ...I thought-could not a similar [scientific] enumeration be made of the laws and powers of the Intellect, and possess the same claims on the student?
    PLT 12.43 25 Our thoughts at first possess us.
    PLT 12.43 26 Our thoughts at first possess us. Later, if we have good heads, we come to possess them.
    PLT 12.47 11 The new sect stands for certain thoughts. We go to individual members for an exposition of them. Vain expectation. They are possessed by the ideas but do not possess them.
    PLT 12.53 9 I must think we are entitled to powers far transcending any that we possess;...
    Mem 12.107 22 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess.
    CW 12.173 5 I [Linnaeus] possess here [in the Academy Garden] all that I desire...
    Bost 12.186 3 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully generated by the air of that place, in the men of every profession; whereby all who possess talent are impelled to struggle that they may not remain in the same grade with those whom they perceive to be only men like themselves...
    Bost 12.198 5 We can show [in New England] native examples...who possess all the elements of noble behavior.
    MAng1 12.218 25 ...certain minds, more closely harmonized with Nature, possess the power of abstracting Beauty from things...
    Milt1 12.277 4 It was plainly needful that [Milton's] poetry should be a version of his own life, in order to give weight and solemnity to his thoughts; by which they might penetrate and possess the imagination and the will of mankind.
    WSL 12.348 20 ...what skill of transition [Landor] may possess is superficial...
    EurB 12.372 23 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined...to be more cultivated in the next generation. Oenone was a sketch of the same kind. One of the best specimens we have of the class is Wordsworth's Laodamia, of which no special merit it can possess equals the total merit of having selected such a subject in such a spirit.

possessed, adj. (3)

    Int 2.339 13 How wearisome...any possessed mortal whose balance is lost by the exaggeration of a single topic.
    Pt1 3.26 19 ...beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect [every intellectual man] is capable of a new energy...by abandonment to the nature of things;...
    PI 8.59 11 Another bard in like tone says,--I am possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat;...

possessed, v. (41)

    Nat 1.52 3 Possessed himself by a heroic passion, [the poet] uses matter as symbols of it.
    Tran 1.350 6 Once possessed of the principle, it is equally easy to make four or forty thousand applications of it.
    Prd1 2.223 12 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessed no other faculties than the palate, the nose...
    OS 2.270 24 All goes to show that the soul in man...is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is...an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.
    Int 2.333 19 Perhaps, if we should meet Shakspeare we should...be conscious...only that he possessed a strange skill of using, of classifying his facts, which we lacked.
    Art1 2.364 6 [Sculpture] was originally a useful art...and among a people possessed of a wonderful perception of form this childish carving was refined to the utmost splendor of effect.
    Mrs1 3.142 17 ...[Charles James Fox] possessed a great personal popularity;...
    Pol1 3.201 18 The theory of politics which has possessed the mind of men... considers persons and property as the two objects for whose protection government exists.
    PPh 4.65 16 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...and that having thus learned, and being naturally possessed of a correct reasoning faculty, we might...set right our own wanderings and blunders.
    NMW 4.226 2 ...precisely what is agreeable to the heart of every man in the nineteenth century, this powerful man [Napoleon] possessed.
    ET6 5.103 14 A terrible machine has possessed itself of the ground, the air, the men and women [in England]...
    ET6 5.110 13 Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of Westmoreland, Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood.
    ET11 5.180 20 The predilection of the patricians for residence in the country, combined with the degree of liberty possessed by the peasant, makes the safety of the English hall.
    Wsp 6.210 11 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him;...
    Bty 6.303 3 [Beauty] is not yet possessed...
    Art2 7.46 27 The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us
    Elo1 7.90 7 Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified. They feel as if they already possessed some new right and power over a fact which they can detach...
    DL 7.106 5 St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.
    OA 7.330 21 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge... possessed by this hope of completing a task...
    Elo2 8.110 2 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things...when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    Res 8.147 3 When a man is once possessed with fear, said the old French Marshal Montluc...he knows not what he does.
    Res 8.147 11 ...when fear has once possessed you, God ye good even!
    Dem1 10.8 19 [Dreams] are the maturation often of opinions not consciously carried out to statements, but whereof we already possessed the elements.
    Aris 10.52 19 Genius...the power to affect the Imagination, as possessed by the orator, the poet, the novelist or the artist,-has a royal right in all possessions and privileges...
    MoL 10.246 18 A shrewd broker out of State Street visited a quiet countryman possessed of all the virtues...
    LLNE 10.346 26 ...being asked, Well, Mr. Owen, who is your disciple? How many men are there possessed of your views who will remain after you are gone to put them in practice? Not one, was his reply.
    EzRy 10.394 14 In [Ezra Ripley] have perished more local and personal anecdotes of this village and vicinity than are possessed by any survivor.
    SlHr 10.445 1 [Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the clear apprehension and the powerful statement of the material points of his case. He soon possessed it, and he never possessed it better...
    Thor 10.472 21 ...so much knowledge of Nature's secret and genius few others [than Thoreau] possessed;...
    Thor 10.481 3 [Thoreau's] study of Nature...inspired his friends with curiosity to see the world through his eyes, and to hear his adventures. They possessed every kind of interest.
    HDC 11.27 2 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./
    FSLN 11.227 21 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a totally different course from Mr. Webster. If any man had in that hour possessed the weight with the country which he had acquired, he could have brought the whole country to its senses.
    Humb 11.457 7 Humboldt was one of those wonders of the world...who appear from time to time...a universal man, not only possessed of great particular talents, but they were symmetrical...
    CPL 11.499 9 I possess the manuscript journal of a lady [Mary Moody Emerson]...who removed into Maine, where she possessed a farm and a modest income.
    PLT 12.47 10 The new sect stands for certain thoughts. We go to individual members for an exposition of them. Vain expectation. They are possessed by the ideas but do not possess them.
    MAng1 12.216 12 This idea [of Beauty] possessed [Michelangelo]...
    MAng1 12.226 22 ...[Michelangelo] possessed an unexpected dexterity in minute mechanical contrivances.
    MAng1 12.237 8 ...[Michelangelo] possessed an intense love of solitude.
    Milt1 12.254 14 ...no man in these later ages, and few men ever, possessed so great a conception of the manly character [as Milton].
    Milt1 12.262 5 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    ACri 12.286 3 Bacon, if he could out-cant a London chirurgeon, must have possessed the Romany under his brocade robes.

possesses, v. (19)

    Nat 1.31 13 These facts may suggest the advantage which the country-life possesses...
    Nat 1.52 14 Shakspeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression...
    MN 1.217 19 He who is in love...sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
    Prd1 2.230 4 ...beside all the resistless beauty of form, [the Raphael in the Dresden gallery] possesses in the highest degree the property of the perpendicularity of all the figures.
    Pol1 3.205 25 Under the dominion of an idea which possesses the minds of multitudes...the powers of persons are no longer subjects of calculation.
    SwM 4.98 25 [Swedenborg's] frame is on a larger scale and possesses the advantages of size.
    NMW 4.225 20 [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...
    ET10 5.153 13 Haydon says, There is a fierce resolution [in England] to make every man live according to the means he possesses.
    CbW 6.269 15 ...a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
    Bty 6.299 16 ...we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands...she confers a favor on the world.
    Elo1 7.89 11 The orator possesses no information which his hearers have not...
    Farm 7.154 5 What possesses interest for us is the naturel of each [man]...
    WD 7.168 8 He only is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
    Clbs 7.228 4 A certain truth possesses us which we in all ways strive to utter.
    SovE 10.194 21 Let [a man]...find the riches of love which possesses that which it adores;...
    PLT 12.47 6 There is a meter which determines the constructive power of man,-this, namely, the question whether the mind possesses the control of its thoughts, or they of it.
    PLT 12.50 17 The Delphian prophetess, when the spirit possesses her, is herself a victim.
    CL 12.163 18 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each man.
    CW 12.178 25 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each...

possessing, v. (5)

    YA 1.386 16 Where is he who seeing a thousand men...making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?
    Pt1 3.34 3 ...all books of the imagination endure, all which ascend to that truth that the writer sees nature beneath him, and uses it as his exponent. Every verse or sentence possessing this virtue will take care of its own immortality.
    ET14 5.248 27 Coleridge...is one of those who save England from the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
    CL 12.135 3 The Teutonic race have been marked in all ages by a trait which has received the name of Earth-hunger, a love of possessing land.
    Milt1 12.261 17 ...Milton was conscious of possessing this intellectual voice...

possession, n. (74)

    Nat 1.39 25 From the child's successive possession of his several senses... he is learning the secret that he can...conform all facts to his character.
    DSA 1.128 27 [Jesus Christ] saw that God...evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his World.
    LE 1.159 21 ...a complaisance...to the wisdom of antiquity, must not defraud me of supreme possession of this hour.
    MN 1.204 14 ...there is a Life not to be described or known otherwise than by possession?
    MN 1.211 20 [This ecstatic state] respects...hope, and not possession;...
    MR 1.238 13 ...whoever takes any of these things [species of property] into his possession, takes the charge of defending them from this troop of enemies...
    MR 1.243 6 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] may leave to others...the possession of works of art.
    LT 1.260 14 Here is this great fact of Conservatism...which has planted its... various signs and badges of possession, over every rood of the planet...
    LT 1.261 4 I wish to consider well this affirmative side [Reform]...which encroaches on [Conservatism] every day...and leaves it nothing but silence and possession.
    LT 1.268 10 Here is the innumerable multitude of those who accept the state and the church from the last generation, and stand on no argument but possession.
    Con 1.295 3 The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation...have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
    Con 1.309 17 Your want is a gulf which the possession of the broad earth would not fill.
    SR 2.62 9 To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book... seem to say...Who are you, Sir? Yet they all are...petitioners to his faculties that they will come out to take possession.
    SR 2.83 10 ...of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
    Fdsp 2.194 9 Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,--a possession for all time.
    Prd1 2.235 12 Iron cannot rust...nor money stocks depreciate, in the few swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain in his possession.
    OS 2.289 24 This energy [of the soul] does not descend into individual life on any other condition than entire possession.
    Pt1 3.5 23 ...the great majority of men seem to be minors, who have not yet come into possession of their own...
    Chr1 3.113 8 ...if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause;...now pause, now possession is required...
    Mrs1 3.128 25 [The working heroes] are the sowers, their sons shall be the reapers, and their sons...must yield the possession of the harvest to new competitors...
    UGM 4.22 11 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body,--that man liberates me;... ... I am made immortal by apprehending my possession of incorruptible goods.
    PPh 4.51 22 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is...possession; the other, trade...
    ShP 4.192 16 The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for it.
    ShP 4.201 21 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
    GoW 4.276 1 [Goethe] hates...to be made to say over again some old wife's fable that has had possession of men's faith these thousand years.
    ET1 5.12 24 ...I proceeded to inquire [of Coleridge] if the extract from the Independent's pamphlet, in the third volume of the Friend, were a veritable quotation. He replied that it was really taken from a pamphlet in his possession entitled A Protest of one of the Independents, or something to that effect.
    ET5 5.75 17 The island [England] is lucrative to free labor, but not worth possession on other terms.
    ET6 5.106 24 The power and possession which surround [the English] are their own creation...
    ET8 5.136 16 There is an English hero superior to the French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek. When he is brought to the strife with fate, he sacrifices a richer material possession...
    ET10 5.164 18 Whatever surly sweetness possession can give, is tasted in England to the dregs.
    ET10 5.164 20 ...absolute possession gives the smallest freeholder [in England] identity of interest with the duke.
    ET13 5.230 4 The [English] church at this moment is much to be pitied. She has nothing left but possession.
    ET16 5.282 25 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass,--a bit of loadstone, easily supposed to be the only one in the world, and therefore naturally awakening the cupidity and ambition of the young heroes of a maritime nation to join in an expedition to obtain possession of this wise stone.
    ET17 5.295 5 [The Edinburgh Review] had...changed the tone of its literary criticism from the time when a certain letter was written to the editor by Coleridge. Mrs. W[ordsworth]. had the Editor's answer in her possession.
    ET18 5.299 11 ...[the English] have earned their vantage ground and held it through ages of adverse possession.
    Bhr 6.191 14 Jacobi said that when a man has fully expressed his thought, he has somewhat less possession of it.
    Bty 6.287 15 The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him;...
    Bty 6.303 6 [Beauty] instantly deserts possession, and flies to an object in the horizon.
    Elo1 7.65 8 That...which eloquence ought to reach, is...a taking sovereign possession of the audience.
    Elo1 7.87 25 The parts [in the court-room trial] were so well cast and discriminated that it was an interesting game to watch. The government was well enough represented. It was stupid, but it had a strong will and possession...
    Elo1 7.92 26 The possession the subject has of [the eloquent man's] mind is so entire that it insures an order of expression which is the order of Nature itself...
    Farm 7.137 7 ...all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
    Farm 7.139 26 In the town where I live...most of the first settlers (in 1635), should they reappear on the farms to-day, would find their own blood and names still in possession.
    WD 7.170 24 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...the fashion of a cloak or hat; like the luck of naked Indians, of whom one is proud in the possession of a glass bead or a red feather...
    OA 7.327 21 ...at the end of fifty years, [a man's] soul is appeased by seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish and his possession.
    PI 8.8 16 In geology, what a useful hint was given to the early inquirers on seeing in the possession of Professor Playfair a bough of a fossil tree which was perfect wood at one end and perfect mineral coal at the other.
    PI 8.10 19 We use semblances of logic until experience puts us in possession of real logic.
    PI 8.22 7 Genius certifies its entire possession of its thought, by translating it into a fact which perfectly represents it...
    PI 8.33 14 In proportion always to [the writer's] possession of his thought is his defiance of his readers.
    Elo2 8.118 26 ...deep interest or sympathy...will carry the cold and fearful presently into self-possession and possession of the audience.
    Elo2 8.130 9 ...such possession of thought as is here required [in eloquence]...is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer.
    Res 8.141 10 Here in America are all the wealth of soil, of timber, of mines and of the sea, put into the possession of a people who wield all these wonderful machines...
    PC 8.217 10 Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers;...
    Insp 8.273 12 This insecurity of possession...tantalizes us.
    Imtl 8.338 1 Shall I hold on with both hands to every paltry possession?
    Aris 10.29 17 Here may ye see wel, how that genterie/ Is not annexed to possession,/ Sith folk ne don their operation/ Alway, as doth the fire, lo, in his kind,/ For God it wot, men may full often find/ A lorde's son do shame and vilanie./
    Aris 10.53 5 A man who has that possession of his means and that magnetism that he can at all times carry the convictions of a public assembly, we must respect...
    Edc1 10.145 11 ...[the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
    Prch 10.236 23 That should be the use of the Sabbath,-to...put us in possession of ourselves once more...
    LLNE 10.359 18 The West Roxbury Association was formed in 1841, by a society of members...who bought a farm in West Roxbury...and took possession of the place in April.
    MMEm 10.401 9 [Mary Moody Emerson's aunt] would leave the farm to her by will. This promise was kept; she came into possession of the property many years after...
    EWI 11.105 21 Granville Sharpe found [the West Indian slave] at his brother's and procured a place for him in an apothecary's shop. The master accidentally met his recovered slave, and instantly endeavored to get possession of him again.
    FSLN 11.241 9 Possession is sure to throw its stupid strength for existing power...
    ACiv 11.303 22 It looks as if we held the fate of the fairest possession of mankind in our hands...
    ACiv 11.305 12 ...next winter we must begin at the beginning, and conquer [the South] over again. What use then to...get possession of an inlet...
    Koss 11.400 23 Sir [Kossuth], whatever obstruction from selfishness, indifference, or from property (which always sympathizes with possession) you may encounter, we congratulate you that you have known how to convert calamities into powers...
    SHC 11.429 11 [The committee] have thought that the taking possession of this field [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] ought to be marked by a public meeting and religious rites...
    FRep 11.521 27 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...
    Mem 12.107 24 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was...but...a possession of the intellect.
    Mem 12.110 9 With every new insight into the duty or fact of to-day we come into new possession of the past.
    Mem 12.110 16 Memory is a presumption of a possession of the future.
    CInt 12.115 11 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us to...give it possession of us and ours;...
    CL 12.147 3 ...there was a contest between the old orchard and the invading forest-trees, for the possession of the ground...
    Trag 12.405 13 How slender the possession that yet remains to us;...

possessions, n. (26)

    LE 1.156 9 ...the intellect hath somewhat so sacred in its possessions that the fact of [the scholar's] existence and pursuits would be a happy omen.
    LE 1.186 26 Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread...such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions...
    MR 1.239 24 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...and who...is made anxious by all that endangers those possessions...
    Comp 2.123 5 I do not wish more external goods,--neither possessions, nor honors...
    Int 2.343 20 Each new mind we approach seems to require an abdication of all our past and present possessions.
    Mrs1 3.123 1 The gentleman is...not in any manner dependent and servile, either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.
    Nat2 3.175 19 That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call a park; that they...go in coaches...to watering-places and to distant cities,-- these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of romance, compared with which their actual possessions are shanties and paddocks.
    NER 3.275 26 Is [a man's] ambition pure? then will his laurels and his possessions seem worthless...
    GoW 4.284 16 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of universal truth, to be his portion: a man...having one test for all men,--What can you teach me? All possessions are valued by him for that only;...
    ET11 5.182 22 The possessions of the Earl of Lonsdale gave him eight seats in Parliament.
    ET15 5.262 8 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;...these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles and possessions...
    ET19 5.313 5 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, with the possessions, honors and trophies...
    Pow 6.53 17 A man should prize events and possessions as the ore in which this fine mineral [power] is found;...
    Pow 6.53 19 ...[a man] can well afford to let events and possessions and the breath of the body go, if their value has been added to him in the shape of power.
    Wth 6.97 8 Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions.
    Ctr 6.158 13 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis. But to give these accessories any value, I must know them as contingent and rather showy possessions...
    Bty 6.289 2 Every man values every acquisition he makes in the science of beauty, above his possessions.
    Elo1 7.86 11 In every company the man with the fact is like the guide you hire to lead your party...through a difficult country. He may not compare with any of the party in mind or breeding or courage or possessions, but he is much more important to the present need than any of them.
    Aris 10.52 21 Genius...has a royal right in all possessions and privileges...
    PerF 10.77 12 My conviction of principles,-that is great part of my possessions.
    Edc1 10.141 24 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and possessions;...
    SovE 10.213 24 A man who has accustomed himself...to carry his possessions, his relations to persons, and even his opinions, in his hand... has put himself out of the reach of all skepticism;...
    EWI 11.113 9 ...be it enacted...that from and after the first August, 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and forever abolished and declared unlawful throughout the British colonies, plantations, and possessions abroad.
    CInt 12.115 12 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us...to give, among other possessions, the college into its hand...
    CL 12.157 25 The facts disclosed by...Greenough, Ruskin, Garbett, Penrose, are joyful possessions...
    CL 12.163 4 Before the sun was up, [my naturalist] went up and down to survey his possessions...

possessor, n. (11)

    Chr1 3.114 23 In society, high advantages are set down to the possessor as disadvantages.
    PNR 4.85 20 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:...as respects either of them in itself, and subsisting by its own power in the soul of the possessor...no one has yet sufficiently investigated...how, namely, that injustice is the greatest of all the evils that the soul has within it, and justice the greatest good.
    GoW 4.266 10 Ideas...at last make a fool of the possessor.
    ET5 5.78 7 The people [of England] have that nervous bilious temperament which is known by medical men to resist every means employed to make its possessor subservient to the will of others.
    QO 8.201 11 ...however received, these elements pass into the substance of [the individual's] constitution...and tend always to form, not a partisan, but a possessor of truth.
    PC 8.230 4 Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
    Schr 10.263 7 ...a true talent delights the possessor first.
    Schr 10.266 14 ...for the moment it appears as if in former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to the possessor greater rank and authority.
    Schr 10.277 6 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them trained: this memory carrying in its caves the pictures of all the past, and rendering them in the instant when they can serve the possessor;...
    GSt 10.501 4 High virtue has such an air of nature and necessity that to thank its possessor would be to praise the water for flowing...
    MLit 12.316 8 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the wilderness only...the exhibition of a talent...which has no root in the character, and can thus minister to the vanity but not to the happiness of the possessor;...

possessors, n. (3)

    OS 2.287 15 The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary...is that one class speak from within, or from experience, as parties and possessors of the fact; and the other class from without...
    Nat2 3.174 23 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.
    ET10 5.163 23 The present possessors [in England] are to the full as absolute as any of their fathers in choosing and procuring what they like.

posset, n. (1)

    ET14 5.237 2 The country gentlemen [in England] had a posset or drink they called October;...

possibilities, n. (20)

    Nat 1.64 13 Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man?
    AmS 1.110 10 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not...when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?
    Con 1.303 14 Reform converses with possibilities...
    SL 2.165 3 This over-estimate of the possibilities of Paul and Pericles... comes from a neglect of the fact of an identical nature.
    OS 2.295 20 Before the immense possibilities of man all mere experience... shrinks away.
    Cir 2.313 1 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto]...breaks up my whole chain of habits, and I open my eye on my own possibilities.
    Exp 3.53 21 I had fancied that the value of life lay in its inscrutable possibilities;...
    UGM 4.7 6 Certain men affect us as rich possibilities...
    UGM 4.33 1 No man, in all the procession of famous men, is reason or illumination or that essence we were looking for; but is an exhibition, in some quarter, of new possibilities.
    Ctr 6.150 6 ...we must remember the high social possibilities of a million of men.
    Suc 7.296 16 In good hours we...find Shakspeare or Homer...only to have been translators of the happy present, and every man and woman divine possibilities.
    Res 8.149 19 When now and then the vaulted roof [of the Mammoth Cave] rises high overhead and hides all its possibilities in lofty depths, 't is but gloom on gloom.
    Imtl 8.337 15 The love of life...seems to indicate...a conviction of immense resources and possibilities proper to us...
    Imtl 8.337 21 I have known admirable persons, without feeling that they exhaust the possibilities of virtue and talent.
    Edc1 10.138 5 ...we sacrifice the genius of the pupil, the unknown possibilities of his nature, to a neat and safe uniformity...
    LLNE 10.348 20 [Fourier's] ciphering goes...into stars, atmospheres and animals, and men and women, and classes of every character. It...could not but suggest vast possibilities of reform to the coldest and least sanguine.
    MMEm 10.405 16 ...the minister found quickly that [Mary Moody Emerson] knew all his books and many more, and made shrewd guesses at his character and possibilities...
    Humb 11.457 4 Humboldt was one of those wonders of the world...who appear from time to time, as if to show us the possibilities of the human mind...
    FRep 11.530 21 Never country had such a fortune...as this, in its geography, its history, and in its majestic possibilities.
    CInt 12.132 6 ...old men cannot see...the institutions, the laws under which they have lived, passing, or soon to pass, into the hands of you and your contemporaries, without an earnest wish that you have caught sight of... your vast possibilities and inspiring duties.

possibility, n. (29)

    MN 1.205 4 Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility?
    MN 1.223 4 Who shall dare think he has...missed anything excellent in the past, who seeth the admirable stars of possibility...glittering...in the vast West?
    LT 1.272 5 It is the interior testimony to a fairer possibility of life and manners which agitates society every day with the offer of some new amendment.
    Con 1.298 9 ...conservatism...must deny the possibility of good...
    Tran 1.337 24 The Buddhist...who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.
    Cir 2.306 17 ...every man believes that he has a greater possibility.
    Pt1 3.13 3 I...have lost my faith in the possibility of any guide who can lead me thither where I would be.
    Chr1 3.111 7 The sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the power and the furniture of man, is in that possibility of joyful intercourse with persons, which makes the faith and practice of all reasonable men.
    Nat2 3.196 2 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... and have some stake in every possibility, lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
    NR 3.246 9 The rabid democrat, as soon as he is senator and rich man, has ripened beyond the possibility of sincere radicalism...
    UGM 4.11 5 The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed.
    UGM 4.25 4 Without Plato we should almost lose our faith in the possibility of a reasonable book.
    ShP 4.212 7 [Shakespeare] was...the subtilest of authors, and only just within the possibility of authorship.
    ShP 4.214 10 No recipe can be given for the making of a Shakspeare; but the possibility of the translation of things into song is demonstrated.
    NMW 4.236 14 In the fury of assault, [Napoleon] no more spared himself. He went to the edge of his possibility.
    GoW 4.263 6 In [the writer's] eyes...the universe is the possibility of being reported.
    ET1 5.16 1 [Carlyle] had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse. Blackwood's was the sand magazine; Fraser's nearer approach to possibility of life was the mud magazine;...
    F 6.10 15 At the corner of the street you read the possibility of each passenger in the facial angle...
    SS 7.12 23 The recluse witnesses what others perform by their aid, with a kind of fear. It is as much out of his possibility as the prowess of Coeur-de-Lion...
    PI 8.43 24 ...the poet creates his persons, and then watches and relates what they do and say. Such creation is poetry...and its possibility is an unfathomable enigma.
    SA 8.89 23 A few times in my life it has happened to me to meet persons of so good a nature and so good breeding that every topic was...discussed without possibility of offence...
    Elo2 8.112 22 Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.
    Res 8.141 2 By his machines man...can...divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of Nature.
    SlHr 10.438 18 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
    FRep 11.522 27 [Americans] are carless of politics, because they do not entertain the possibility of being seriously caught in meshes of legislation.
    II 12.66 1 't is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects.
    MLit 12.330 19 I am [in Wilhelm Meister]...instructed in the possibility of a highly accomplished society...
    MLit 12.331 6 Goethe...must be set down as...the poet of limitation, not of possibility;...
    MLit 12.335 25 [The Genius of the time] will describe...the now unbelieved possibility of simple living...

possible, adj. (114)

    Nat 1.44 22 [Every universal truth] is like a great circle on a sphere, comprising all possible circles;...
    Nat 1.66 4 That which seems faintly possible...is often faint and dim because it is deepest seated in the mind among the eternal verities.
    DSA 1.142 17 ...there have been periods when...a greater faith was possible in names and persons.
    LE 1.160 23 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith, by showing me that what high dogmas I had supposed were...only now possible to some recent Kant or Fichte,-were the prompt improvisations of the earliest inquirers;...
    LE 1.164 3 An intimation of these broad rights is familiar in the sense of injury which men feel in the assumption of any man to limit their possible progress.
    LE 1.164 24 ...we must...pass, if it be possible...into the visions of absolute truth.
    MR 1.237 6 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar...by simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...
    MR 1.250 24 ...the believer not only beholds his heaven to be possible, but already to begin to exist...
    MR 1.251 1 To principles something else is possible that transcends all the power of expedients.
    MR 1.252 6 We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.
    LT 1.286 10 The spiritualist wishes this only, that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself...in all possible applications to the state of man...
    Con 1.298 3 The project of innovation is the best possible state of things.
    Con 1.301 9 If we read the world historically, we shall say, Of all the ages... this is the best throw of the dice of nature that has yet been, or that is yet possible.
    Tran 1.335 27 [The Transcendentalist] wishes that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself...in all possible applications to the state of man...
    Tran 1.343 22 ...to behold in another the expression of a love so high that it assures itself,-assures itself also to me against every possible casualty except my unworthiness;-these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
    Comp 2.123 11 I contract the boundaries of possible mischief.
    SL 2.138 20 ...we have been ourselves that coward and robber, and shall be again,--not in the low circumstance, but in comparison with the grandeurs possible to the soul.
    SL 2.139 16 Certainly there is a possible right for you that precludes the need of balance and wilful election.
    Lov1 2.186 16 ...as life wears on, it proves a game of permutation and combination of all possible positions of the parties...
    Fdsp 2.216 7 It has seemed to me lately more possible than I knew, to carry a friendship greatly, on one side, without due correspondence on the other.
    Hsm1 2.251 9 [Heroism] is the avowal of the unschooled man that he... knows that his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists.
    OS 2.281 27 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy...to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion, in which form it warms...all the families and associations of men, and makes society possible.
    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;...
    Cir 2.321 6 Character makes...a cheerful, determined hour, which fortifies all the company by making them see that much is possible and excellent that was not thought of.
    Int 2.336 20 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states, without which no production is possible.
    Art1 2.357 3 ...as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art [of painting], I see...the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.
    Art1 2.367 27 ...the distinction between the fine and the useful arts [must] be forgotten. If history were truly told...it would be no longer easy or possible to distinguish the one from the other.
    Pt1 3.27 19 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct...the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible.
    Exp 3.75 8 In liberated moments we know that a new picture of life and duty is already possible;...
    Chr1 3.105 14 It is of no use to ape [character] or to contend with it. Somewhat is possible of resistance, and of persistence, and of creation, to this power, which will foil all emulation.
    Chr1 3.111 26 If it were possible to live in right relations with men!...
    NER 3.263 23 ...the revolt against...the inveterate abuses of cities, did not appear possible to individuals;...
    NER 3.266 5 ...let there be one man, let there be truth in two men, in ten men, then is concert for the first time possible;...
    UGM 4.3 23 We travel into foreign parts...if possible, to get a glimpse of [the great man].
    UGM 4.16 8 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence. This honor, which is possible in personal intercourse scarcely twice in a lifetime, genius perpetually pays;...
    UGM 4.31 24 ...true art is only possible on the conviction that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere.
    PPh 4.55 27 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    PPh 4.56 26 Exempt from envy, [the Supreme Ordainer] wished that all things should be as much as possible like himself.
    PPh 4.67 1 Socrates declares that if some have grown wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...he pretends not to know the way of it. It is adverse to many, nor can those be benefited by associating with me whom the Daemon opposes; so that it is not possible for me to live with these.
    PNR 4.84 12 Plato affirms...that the order or proceeding of nature was from the mind to the body, and, though a sound body cannot restore an unsound mind, yet a good soul can, by its virtue, render the body the best possible.
    SwM 4.102 22 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg]...suggests...that a certain... quasi omnipresence of the human soul in nature, is possible.
    MoS 4.176 4 ...a book...or only the sound of a name, shoots a spark through the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will...all is possible to the resolved mind.
    ShP 4.193 10 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know. All the mass has been treated, with more or less skill, by every playwright, and the prompter has the soiled and tattered manuscripts. It is now no longer possible to say who wrote them first.
    ShP 4.204 4 It was not possible to write the history of Shakspeare till now;...
    NMW 4.238 19 [Bonaparte's] instructions to his secretary at the Tuileries are worth remembering. During the night, enter my chamber as seldom as possible.
    ET1 5.7 18 ...[Landor]...is well content to impress, if possible, his English whim upon the immutable past.
    ET5 5.101 5 The laborer [in England] is a possible lord. The lord is a possible basket-maker.
    ET10 5.157 5 The headlong bias to utility [in England]...if possible will teach spiders to weave silk stockings.
    ET10 5.159 3 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether it were not possible to make a spinner that would not rebel...
    ET10 5.164 11 The laws [of England] are framed to give property the securest possible basis...
    ET14 5.259 18 ...I know that a retrieving power lies in the English race which seems to make any recoil possible;...
    ET16 5.274 23 For the science, [Carlyle] had if possible even less tolerance [than for art]...
    F 6.28 26 There is a bribe possible for any finite will.
    F 6.38 3 [A creature] is not possible until the invisible things are right for him...
    Pow 6.55 12 Where the arteries hold their blood, is courage and adventure possible.
    Pow 6.58 27 The strong man sees the possible houses and farms.
    Pow 6.66 5 The communities hitherto founded by socialists...are only possible by installing Judas as steward.
    Wth 6.87 25 Wealth begins...in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers;...
    Wth 6.122 12 ...travellers and Indians know the value of a buffalo-trail, which is sure to be the easiest possible pass through the ridge.
    Ctr 6.144 26 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic, which they are not; and a free admission to them on an equal footing, if it were possible, only once or twice, would be worth ten times its cost, by undeceiving him.
    CbW 6.253 17 ...savage forest laws and crushing despotism made possible the inspirations of Magna Charta under John.
    SS 7.5 11 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting...to slip away into the back stars...there to... forget memory itself, if it be possible?
    Civ 7.17 21 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again/...
    Art2 7.53 10 We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it...was one of the possible forms in the Divine mind...
    Elo1 7.76 17 We have a half belief that the person is possible who can counterpoise all other persons.
    Elo1 7.91 24 There is for every man a statement possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive...
    Elo1 7.91 26 There is for every man a statement possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive,--a statement possible, so broad and so pungent that he cannot get away from it...
    Farm 7.146 18 Whilst these grand energies [of Nature] have wrought for him and made his task possible, [the farmer] is habitually engaged in small economies...
    Boks 7.211 11 ...[a dictionary] is full of suggestion,--the raw material of possible poems and histories.
    Clbs 7.241 25 It is possible that the best conversation is between two persons who can talk only to each other.
    Clbs 7.244 6 Such [literary] societies are possible only in great cities...
    Cour 7.265 10 ...'t is possible that the beholders suffer more keenly than the victims.
    Suc 7.305 19 An Englishman of marked character and talent...assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England...
    PI 8.26 1 [People] like to go...to Faneuil Hall, and be taught by Otis, Webster, or Kossuth...what great hearts they have...what new possible enlargements to their narrow horizons.
    PI 8.26 24 ...all men know the portrait [of the true poet] when it is drawn, and it is part of religion to believe its possible incarnation.
    PI 8.63 13 [The high poets] have touched this heaven and retain afterwards some sparkle of it: they betray their belief that such discourse is possible.
    PI 8.71 22 The free spirit sympathizes not only with the actual form, but with the power or possible forms;...
    SA 8.79 19 ...how impossible to...acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start; and this makes the value of wise forethought to give ourselves and our children as much as possible the habit of cultivated society.
    Res 8.138 9 A Schopenhauer...teaching that this is the worst of all possible worlds...all the talent in the world cannot save him from being odious.
    Res 8.140 5 See...how...every impatient boss who sharply shortens the phrase or the word to give his order quicker, reducing it to the lowest possible terms...improves the national tongue.
    Res 8.140 19 The marked events in history...each of these events...supples the tough barbarous sinew, and brings it into that state of sensibility which makes the transition to civilization possible and sure.
    Insp 8.278 26 Bonaparte said: There is no man more pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan. I magnify...all the possible mischances.
    Insp 8.289 15 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness which is not found in staying at home nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible,-these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    Aris 10.31 10 My concern with [Aristocracy] is that concern which all well-disposed persons will feel, that there should be model men...if possible, living standards.
    Aris 10.49 6 Time was, in England, when the state stipulated beforehand what price should be paid for each citizen's life, if he was killed. Now,if it were possible, I should like to see that appraisal applied to every man...
    Chr2 10.94 6 The antagonist nature is the individual...with appetites which...would enlist the entire spiritual faculty of the individual, if it were possible, in catering for them.
    Edc1 10.144 22 Somewhat [the child] sees in forms...or believes practicable in mechanics or possible in political society, which no one else sees or hears or believes.
    SovE 10.188 19 When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses; only so are the conditions of the then world met, and these monsters are the...diggers, pioneers and fertilizers...making better life possible.
    Prch 10.223 26 ...there is a statement of religion possible which makes all skepticism absurd.
    Prch 10.231 8 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. ... The others...are only neuters in the hive,-every one a possible royal bee, but not now significant.
    Plu 10.316 9 It would be generous to lend our eyes and ears, nay, if possible, our reason and fortitude to others, whilst we are idle or asleep.
    LLNE 10.340 13 Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with George Ripley, to the point whether it were possible to bring cultivated, thoughtful people together...
    LLNE 10.355 16 In our free institutions, where...all possible modes of working and gaining are open to [a man], fortunes are easily made...
    MMEm 10.427 14 ...Were it possible that the Creator was not virtually present with the spirits and bodies which He has made...
    MMEm 10.427 17 ...if it were in the nature of things possible He could withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith that, at some moment of His existence, I was present...
    Thor 10.459 23 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned from London circles; and though he tried to be civil, these anecdotes fatigued him. The men were all imitating each other, and on a small mould. Why can they not live as far apart as possible, and each be a man by himself?
    HDC 11.43 16 ...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
    FSLC 11.192 13 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter...both [the inhabitants and soldiers] and I must humbly entreat your majesty to be pleased to employ your arms and lives in things that are possible...
    Wom 11.408 4 ...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.
    FRep 11.539 7 It is not possible to extricate yourself from the questions in which your age is involved.
    PLT 12.20 15 It is necessary to suppose that every hose in Nature fits every hydrant; so only is combination, chemistry, vegetation, animation, intellection possible.
    II 12.86 26 There is a probity of the Intellect, which demands, if possible, virtues more costly than any Bible has consecrated.
    Mem 12.91 11 [Memory] holds us to our family, to our friends. Hereby a home is possible;...
    Mem 12.97 10 One sometimes asks himself, Is it possible that [Memory] is only a visitor, not a resident?
    CL 12.143 1 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are not under any circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing, but, after a long day's toil in walking, I have seen them assume an appearance the most solemn and spiritual that it is possible for the human eye to wear.
    CL 12.145 10 The American sun paints itself in these glowing balls [apples] amid the green leaves, the social fruit, in which Nature has deposited every possible flavor;...
    Milt1 12.252 27 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation which told, in the diamond sharpness of every articulation, that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible;...
    Milt1 12.259 3 ...as far as possible [writes Milton], I aim to show myself equal in thought and speech to what I have written, if I have written anything well.
    WSL 12.348 9 There is no inadequacy or disagreeable contraction in [the dense writer's] sentence, any more than in a human face, where in a square space of a few inches is found room for every possible variety of expression.
    PPr 12.389 10 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons...and yet its offensiveness to multitudes of reluctant lovers makes us often wish some concession were possible on the part of the humorist.
    Let 12.394 19 By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity.
    Let 12.399 9 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class, who...use all possible endeavors to secure to [their children] the same result.
    Let 12.404 13 As far as our correspondents have entangled their private griefs with the cause of American Literature, we counsel them to disengage themselves as fast as possible.
    Trag 12.411 21 [A man...should keep as much as possible the reins in his own hands...

possible, n. (2)

    SR 2.61 14 ...millions of minds so grow and cleave to [Christ's] genius that he is confounded with...the possible of man.
    Dem1 10.17 23 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... Only in the impossible it seemed to delight, and the possible to repel with contempt.

possibly, adv. (20)

    MR 1.246 24 ...[infirm people] have a great deal more to do for themselves than they can possibly perform...
    Tran 1.358 7 Possibly some benefit may yet accrue from [Transcendentalists] to the state.
    SR 2.54 22 ...not possibly can [the preacher] say a new and spontaneous word?
    SR 2.83 26 Not possibly will the soul...deign to repeat itself;...
    Cir 2.311 5 We all stand waiting, empty,--knowing, possibly, that we can be full...
    Cir 2.313 9 We can never see Christianity from the catechism...from amidst the songs of wood-birds, we possibly may.
    NER 3.265 16 Many of us have differed in opinion, and we could find no man who could make the truth plain, but possibly a college, or an ecclesiastical council, might.
    SwM 4.116 14 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma, in place of the physical truth or precept: although no mortal would have predicted that any thing of the kind could possibly arise by bare literal transposition;...
    SwM 4.130 9 Possibly Swedenborg paid the penalty of introverted faculties.
    ET6 5.107 7 A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.
    Elo1 7.80 25 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?...
    SA 8.86 22 The attitude is the main point, assuring your companion that... you remain in good heart and good mind, which is the best news you can possibly communicate.
    QO 8.191 1 ...we value in Coleridge his excellent knowledge and quotations perhaps as much, possibly more, than his original suggestions.
    Dem1 10.11 18 ...all productions of man are so anthropomorphous that not possibly can he invent any fable that shall not have a deep moral...
    Aris 10.47 26 This is the whole game of society and the politics of the world. Being will always seem well;-but whether possibly I cannot contrive to seem without the trouble of being?
    Thor 10.472 12 ...[Thoreau] would carry you...even to his most prized botanical swamp,-possibly knowing that you could never find it again...
    LS 11.18 18 [Jesus] is the mediator in that only sense in which possibly any being can mediate between God and man, that is, an instructor of man.
    HDC 11.68 9 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence...the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    CPL 11.507 9 ...the book is a sure friend...opens to the very page you desire, and shuts at your first fatigue,-as possibly your professor might not.
    WSL 12.340 6 ...we have spoken all our discontent [with Landor]. Possibly his writings are open to harsher censure;...

post mortem, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.286 9 At the birth of Winckelmann...side by side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty;...

post, n. (7)

    MN 1.191 12 ...it is a common calamity if [the scholars] neglect their post in a country where the material interest is so predominant as it is in America.
    SL 2.163 4 The fact that I am here certainly shows me that the soul had need of an organ here. Shall I not assume the post?
    Chr1 3.104 3 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...a post under the Grand Duke for Herder...
    Wsp 6.211 14 ...if an adventurer...procure himself to be elected to a post of trust...by the same arts as we detest in the house-thief,--the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...
    HDC 11.58 9 From Narragansett to the Connecticut River, the scene of war was shifted as fast as these red hunters could traverse the forest. Concord was a military post.
    FRep 11.539 1 Here is the post where the patriot should plant himself;...
    ACri 12.304 20 The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung deprecates an observatory founded for the benefit of navigation. Nor can we promise that our School of Design will secure a lucrative post to the pupils.

Post Office, n. (1)

    YA 1.385 19 ...the national Post Office is likely to go into disuse before the private telegraph and the express companies.

postage, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.383 9 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from the expansions effected by public schools, cheap postage and a cheap press...

postage-stamps, n. (1)

    SMC 11.360 23 After the first marches [in the Civil War] there is no letter-paper, there are no envelopes, no postage-stamps...

post-captains, n. (1)

    GoW 4.270 21 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no Columbus, but hundreds of post-captains...

post-chaise, n. (1)

    Bty 6.297 18 Such crowds, [Walpole] adds elsewhere, flock to see the Duchess of Hamilton, that seven hundred people sat up all night...to see her get into her post-chaise next morning.

posted, v. (4)

    ET4 5.64 19 As soon as this land [England], thus geographically posted, got a hardy people into it, they could not help becoming the sailors and factors of the globe.
    Comc 8.162 27 The peace of society and the decorum of tables seem to require that next to a notable wit should always be posted a phlegmatic bolt-upright man...
    HDC 11.73 25 The British following [the minute-men] across the bridge, posted two companies...to guard the bridge...
    FSLC 11.197 4 New York advertised in Southern markets that it would go for slavery, and posted the names of merchants who would not.

posterior, adj. (1)

    Boks 7.202 17 Of Jamblichus the Emperor Julian said that he was posterior to Plato in time, not in genius.

posterity, n. (18)

    AmS 1.88 15 ...neither can any artist entirely...write a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient...to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries...
    YA 1.383 20 One man buys with [a dime] a land-title of an Indian, and makes his posterity princes;...
    SR 2.61 9 ...posterity seem to follow [a true man's] steps as a train of clients.
    PPh 4.40 13 ...the thinkers of all civilized nations are [Plato's] posterity...
    ET4 5.56 9 As [the Northmen] put out to sea again, the emperor [Charlemagne] gazed long after them, his eyes bathed in tears. I am tormented with sorrow, he said, when I foresee the evils they will bring on my posterity.
    ET5 5.89 16 When Thor and his companions arrive at Utgard, he is told that nobody is permitted to remain here, unless he understand some art, and excel in it all other men. The same question is still put to the posterity of Thor.
    Wth 6.110 22 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute.
    Chr2 10.112 25 Every age, says Varnhagen, has another sieve for the religious tradition, and will sift it out again. Something is continually lost by this treatment, which posterity cannot recover.
    MoL 10.246 4 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support. ... I suppose posterity will ask how many rats and mice it will feed.
    HDC 11.29 13 We will...pass that just verdict on [the deeds of our fathers] we expect from posterity on our own.
    HDC 11.70 2 ...we will...to the utmost of our power, defend all our rights inviolate to the latest posterity.
    HDC 11.80 17 ...our fathers must be forgiven by their charitable posterity, if, in 1782, before choosing a representative, it was Voted that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day...
    HDC 11.83 12 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown. The author [Lemuel Shattuck] has done us and posterity a kindness...
    EWI 11.131 22 The great-hearted Puritans have left no posterity.
    FSLN 11.233 12 You relied on the constitution. It has not the word slave in it; and very good argument has shown...that, with provisions so vague for an object not named...the robbing of a man and of all his posterity is effected.
    FSLN 11.239 12 [The Greeks] said of the happiness of the unjust, that at its close...there sprouts forth for posterity every-ravening calamity...
    CPL 11.506 13 [Kepler writes] ...I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice;...the book is written; to be read either now or by posterity.
    Milt1 12.254 18 Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of every great man, namely, to raise the idea of Man in the minds of his contemporaries and of posterity...

posthumous, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.128 2 ...[fashion] is a kind of posthumous honor.

posthumously, adv. (1)

    Plu 10.310 5 [Some of Plutarch's works] are...very crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors, some of them jocosely misreporting the dogma of the professor, who laid them aside as memoranda for future revision, which he never gave, and they were posthumously published.

postilion, n. (2)

    ET5 5.101 12 ...the [English] postilion cracks his whip for England...
    ACri 12.288 19 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of the Sacre! of the French postilion...

postilion's, n. (1)

    CbW 6.273 12 [Friendship] is...not a postilion's dinner to be eaten on the run.

posting, v. (1)

    PC 8.222 9 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one, his hand shook...

postman, n. (1)

    Con 1.312 12 The king on the throne governs for thee...the postman rides.

postmarks, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.111 26 ...how many sentences and books we owe to unknown authors,-to writers who were not careful to set down name or date or titles or cities or postmarks in these illuminations!

post-office, n. [postoffice,] (7)

    Nat 1.14 5 [The private poor man] goes to the post-office, and the human race run on his errands;...
    Pol1 3.220 14 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure the code of force they will be wise enough to see how these public ends of the post-office, of the highway...can be answered.
    Civ 7.22 22 Another success is the post-office...
    Civ 7.33 27 ...if there be...a country...where the post-office is violated, mail-bags opened and letters tampered with;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Art2 7.56 27 Popular institutions...the post-office...are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings.
    DL 7.109 24 ...some things each man buys without hesitation; if it were only letters at the postoffice...
    QO 8.198 21 ...what dismay when the good Matilda, pleased with [the author's] pleasure, confessed she had written the criticism, and carried it with her own hands to the post-office!

postpone, v. (9)

    MR 1.243 9 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] must... postpone his self-indulgence...
    Con 1.298 17 ...[conservatism] goes to make an adroit member of the social frame, [liberalism] to postpone all things to the man himself;...
    SR 2.76 15 [A sturdy lad from Vermont]...feels no shame in not studying a profession, for he does not postpone his life...
    Exp 3.60 25 ...we should not postpone and refer and wish...
    Chr1 3.102 8 We shall still postpone our existence...whilst it is only a thought and not a spirit that incites us.
    OA 7.319 13 We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write...
    PI 8.1 15 ...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly to postpone/ Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human age,/ Freely as task at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.
    Dem1 10.20 5 The demonologic is only a fine name for egotism; an exaggeration namely of the individual, whom it is Nature's settled purpose to postpone.
    FSLN 11.230 8 ...it is...the essence...of love...to postpone oneself...

postponed, adj. (1)

    AmS 1.81 17 Perhaps the time is already come...when the sluggard intellect of this continent will...fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill.

postponed, v. (6)

    Comp 2.102 10 Justice is not postponed.
    Cir 2.316 24 ...are all claims on [a man] to be postponed to a landlord's or a banker's?
    Pt1 3.12 16 This day shall be better than my birthday: then I became an animal; now I am invited into the science of the real. Such is the hope, but the fruition is postponed.
    PI 8.73 9 The high poetry which shall...bring in the new thoughts, the sanity and heroic aims of nations, is...longer postponed than was America or Australia...
    EPro 11.323 3 The war existed long before the cannonade of Sumter, and could not be postponed.
    CL 12.157 2 In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for this walking.

postponement, n. (4)

    Comp 2.113 13 Persons and events may stand for a time between you and justice, but it is only a postponement.
    DL 7.115 3 [To give money to a sufferer] is only a postponement of the real payment...
    EWI 11.128 4 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    Let 12.399 2 ...[a stay in Europe] is only a postponement of [American youths'] proper work...

postpones, v. (7)

    Nat 1.55 5 ...the philosopher...postpones the apparent order and relations of things to the empire of thought.
    MR 1.256 8 There is a sublime prudence which is the very highest that we know of man, which...postpones always the present hour to the whole life;...
    MR 1.256 9 There is a sublime prudence...which...postpones talent to genius, and special results to character.
    SR 2.67 14 ...man postpones or remembers;...
    Chr1 3.111 14 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications...
    Bhr 6.197 23 ...'t is a thousand to one that [the young girl's] air and manner will at once betray...that there is some other one or many of her class to whom she habitually postpones herself.
    DL 7.129 2 [Friendship] is the happiness which...postpones all other satisfactions...

postponing, v. (2)

    DSA 1.129 27 [Jesus] felt...no unfit tenderness at postponing [the prophets'] initial revelations to the hour and the man that now is;...
    ET9 5.146 10 ...the ordinary phrases in all good society, of postponing or disparaging one's own things in talking with a stranger, are seriously mistaken by [the English] for an insuppressible homage to the merits of their nation;...

posts, n. (6)

    LT 1.283 27 ...we begin to doubt if that great revolution in the art of war, which has made it a game of posts instead of a game of battles, has not operated on Reform;...
    LT 1.284 2 ...we begin to doubt...whether [Reform] be not also a war of posts...
    ET5 5.90 10 The high civil and legal offices [in England] are...posts which exact frightful amounts of mental labor.
    ET5 5.93 23 [The English] have a wealth of men to fill important posts...
    Elo2 8.131 2 ...all eloquence is a war of posts.
    FRep 11.518 8 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...win the posts of power and give their direction to affairs.

postulate, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.184 13 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. ... A very unreasonable postulate, said the metaphysicians...

postulates, n. (1)

    Hist 2.35 4 ...all the postulates of elfin annals...I find true in Concord...

posture, n. (2)

    OA 7.331 19 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments, and all old men in...leaving all in the best posture for the future.
    LS 11.3 9 Without considering the frivolous questions which have been lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's Supper];...the questions have been settled differently in every church...

posture-master, n. (1)

    SA 8.82 5 Nature is the best posture-master.

posture-masters, n. (1)

    SA 8.81 25 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs.

pot, n. (8)

    Nat 1.32 15 Whilst we use this grand cipher to expedite the affairs of our pot and kettle, we feel that we have not yet put it to its use...
    Comp 2.123 3 I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn, for example to find a pot of buried gold...
    Gts 3.163 8 I say to [the donor], How can you give me this pot of oil or this flagon of wine when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to deny?
    F 6.33 17 Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover...
    F 6.33 19 Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof...
    Wth 6.106 17 ...for all that is consumed so much less remains in the basket and pot...
    Civ 7.30 16 Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.
    OA 7.323 20 The humorous thief who drank a pot of beer at the gallows blew off the froth because he had heard it was unhealthy;...

potash, n. (1)

    Farm 7.149 9 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving turkeys on bread and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on the viands they like best. If they have an appetite for potash...he will indulge them.

potash, v. (1)

    Pow 6.60 9 Here is question, every spring...whether to whitewash, or to potash, or to prune;...

potassium, n. (1)

    SS 7.6 5 ...there are metals, like potassium and sodium, which, to be kept pure, must be kept under naphtha.

potation, n. (1)

    NER 3.265 19 I have not been able either to persuade my brother or to prevail on myself to disuse the traffic or the potation of brandy...

potato, n. (4)

    Nat 1.65 14 We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as...the potato and the vine.
    ET2 5.28 25 Near the equator you can read small print by [the light of the sea-fire]; and the mate describes the phosphoric insects, when taken up in a pail, as shaped like a Carolina potato.
    Wth 6.114 7 Pride...can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn...
    Wth 6.117 13 When the cholera is in the potato, what is the use of planting larger crops?

potatoes, n. (3)

    Wth 6.107 26 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that the weeds will grow with the potatoes...
    Wth 6.119 2 The farm yielded no money, and the farmer got on without it. If he fell sick, his neighbors came in to his aid;...hoed his potatoes...
    EurB 12.371 23 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields, loaded with potatoes and apples...

potato-field, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.129 1 Every one has a trust of power,-every man, every boy a jurisdiction, whether it be over a cow or a rood of a potato-field...

pot-belly, n. (1)

    F 6.9 12 A dome of brow denotes one thing, a pot-belly another;...

pot-companions, n. (2)

    MN 1.220 18 Shall we not quit our companions, as if they were thieves and pot-companions...
    ET11 5.191 16 No man who valued his head might do what these pot-companions familiarly did with the king.

potencies, n. (2)

    Suc 7.302 10 The world is enlarged for us, not by new objects, but by finding more affinities and potencies in those we have.
    Res 8.137 1 Men are made up of potencies.

potency, n. (3)

    Grts 8.302 22 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet;...
    Dem1 10.16 26 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons, as frequent in America to-day as the faith in...the wholesome potency of the sign of the cross in modern Rome...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    MMEm 10.423 25 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou, whose might has laid low the vastest and crushed the worm, restest on thy hoary throne, with like potency over thy agitations and thy graves.

potent, adj. (19)

    Lov1 2.178 6 ...let us examine a little nearer the nature of that influence [love] which is thus potent over the human youth.
    Art1 2.363 8 Art has not yet come to its maturity if it do not put itself abreast with the most potent influences of the world...
    NER 3.265 26 ...concert is...neither more nor less potent, than individual force.
    ET4 5.50 19 ...navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer of nations.
    ET8 5.141 17 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which, though not less potent, is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters?
    ET10 5.161 9 ...another machine more potent in England than steam is the Bank.
    Bhr 6.182 25 A calm and resolute bearing...and the art of hiding all uncomfortable feeling, are essential to the courtier; and Saint Simon and Cardinal de Retz and Roederer and an encyclopaedia of Memoires will instruct you, if you wish, in those potent secrets.
    Wsp 6.230 16 I am well assured that the Questioner who brings me so many problems will bring the answers also in due time. Very rich, very potent, very cheerful Giver that he is, he shall have it all his own way, for me.
    Elo1 7.91 7 ...all these talents [of oratory], so potent and charming, have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
    Cour 7.271 9 ...men who wish to inspire terror seem thereby to confess themselves cowards. Why do they rely on it, but because they know how potent it is with themselves?
    PI 8.10 7 Sonnets of lovers...are valuable to the philosopher...for their potent symbolism.
    Dem1 10.27 21 ...I think the numberless forms in which this superstition [demonology] has reappeared...betrays [man's] conviction that behind all your explanations is a vast and potent and living Nature...
    Edc1 10.134 11 If [a man] is jovial...if he is...a potent ally...society has need of all these.
    FSLN 11.241 21 It is a potent support and ally to a brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right...to know that better men in other parts of the country appreciate the service...
    EPro 11.318 23 The virtues of a good magistrate...seem vastly more potent than the acts of bad governors...
    HCom 11.343 10 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its signal and lasting effect. It was found that enthusiasm was a more potent ally than science and munitions of war without it.
    Shak1 11.450 19 ...[Shakespeare] is the most robust and potent thinker that ever was.
    FRep 11.544 1 Such and so potent is this high method by which the Divine Providence sends the chiefest benefits under the mask of calamities, that I do not think we shall by any perverse ingenuity prevent the blessing.
    Bost 12.183 5 [The old physiologists] believed the air of mountains and the seashore a potent predisposer to rebellion.

potentate, n. (8)

    Pt1 3.7 12 ...the poet is not any permissive potentate...
    UGM 4.23 17 ...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.
    ET10 5.166 4 I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the better class to that of any potentate in Europe...
    ET14 5.248 13 It is because [Bacon]...basked in an element of contemplation out of all modern English atmospheric gauges, that he...has become a potentate not to be ignored.
    Pow 6.62 14 Power educates the potentate.
    Elo1 7.63 21 [The successful orator] is the true potentate;...
    Elo2 8.117 22 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression...all the great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman, so that he is at once a potentate...
    LVB 11.96 4 The potentate and the people perish before [the moral sentiment];...

potentates, n. (1)

    SS 7.7 24 ...each of these potentates [Dante, Michaelangelo, Columbus] saw well the reason of his exclusion.

potential, adj. (4)

    PI 8.26 19 ...when we describe man as poet...we speak of the potential or ideal man...
    Edc1 10.150 5 ...every young man...is a potential genius;...
    PLT 12.34 1 Instinct is our name for the potential wit.
    CInt 12.122 14 Instinct is the name for the potential wit...

potentially, adv. (1)

    MoL 10.248 27 Every man is a scholar potentially...

pothered, v. (1)

    Wth 6.120 13 ...how can Cockayne, who has no pastures...be pothered with fatting and killing oxen?

pot-house, adj. (1)

    Ctr 6.161 19 ...Jefferson, Washington, stood on a fine humanity, before which the brawls of modern senates are but pot-house politics.

potluck, n. (1)

    Exp 3.61 24 ...leave me alone and I should relish every hour, and what it brought me, the potluck of the day...

Potomac, Army of the, n. (1)

    SMC 11.372 12 We [Thirty-second Regiment] have been in the first line twenty-six days, and fighting every day but two; whilst your newspapers talk of the inactivity of the Army of the Potomac.

Potomac River, adj. (2)

    Bost 12.187 3 ...they who drink for some little time of the Potomac water lose their relish for the water of the Charles River...
    Bost 12.187 6 I think the Potomac water is a little acrid...

Potomac River, n. (2)

    EzRy 10.390 2 To undeceive [Ezra Ripley], I hastened to recall some particulars to show the absurdity of the thing, as the Major [Jack Downing] and the President [Andrew Jackson] going out skating on the Potomac, etc.
    ACiv 11.303 26 The one power that has legs long enough and strong enough to wade across the Potomac offers itself at this hour;...

pots, n. (5)

    Mrs1 3.119 9 The husbandry of the modern inhabitants of Gournou...is philosophical to a fault. To set up their housekeeping nothing is requisite but two or three earthen pots, a stone to grind meal, and a mat which is the bed.
    F 6.33 25 Could [steam] lift pots and roofs and houses so handily?
    Ill 6.321 5 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition...pots to buy...
    Aris 10.46 15 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...such despotism of wealth and comfort in banquet-halls, whilst death is in the pots of the wretched...
    EurB 12.371 20 Ben's [Jonson's] flowers are not in pots at a city florist's...

pottage, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.210 10 A message, a thought, a sincerity, a glance from [my friend] I want, but not news, nor pottage.
    EdAd 11.382 17 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./ For we invade them impiously for gain;/ We devastate them unreligiously,/ And coldly ask their pottage, not their love./

potted, v. (1)

    F 6.9 27 It often appears in a family as if all the qualities of the progenitors were potted in several jars...

potter, n. (2)

    F 6.33 18 Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover...
    FRep 11.511 16 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel...

potteries, n. (1)

    ET5 5.97 2 [The English] have ransacked Italy to find new forms, to add a grace to the products of their looms, their potteries and their foundries.

pottering, v. (1)

    Wth 6.116 6 [The land-owner] believes he composes easily on the hills. But this pottering in a few square yards of garden is dispiriting and drivelling.

potters, n. (2)

    PPh 4.55 10 ...[Plato] fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers;...from...the shops of potters...
    PPh 4.71 6 ...the potters copied [Socrates'] ugly face on their stone jugs.

potter's, n. (2)

    SwM 4.98 9 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.
    ET3 5.39 3 [England] has plenty...of potter's clay, of coal...

pottery, n. (5)

    UGM 4.34 6 The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery;...
    ET5 5.84 2 [The English] apply themselves...to fishery, to manufacture of indispensable staples,--salt, plumbago, leather, wool, glass, pottery and brick...
    Thor 10.473 14 Indian relics abound in Concord,-arrow-heads, stone chisels, pestles and fragments of pottery;...
    EWI 11.126 10 It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that...if the slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves would be clothed, would build houses, would fill them with tools, with pottery, with crockery, with hardware;...
    ChiE 11.472 11 I need not mention [China's] useful arts,-its pottery indispensable to the world...

pou, adv. (1)

    Prch 10.230 21 The existence of the Sunday, and the pulpit waiting for a weekly sermon, give [the young preacher] the very conditions, the pou sto he wants.

poultice, n. (1)

    ET5 5.78 17 ...when [the English] have pounded each other to a poultice, they will shake hands and be friends for the remainder of their lives.

poultry, n. (4)

    NR 3.237 26 ...the frugal farmer takes care that...swine shall eat the waste of his house, and poultry shall pick the crumbs...
    ET5 5.84 8 You dine with a gentleman [in England] on venison, pheasant, quail, pigeons, poultry, mushrooms and pine-apples, all the growth of his estate.
    Farm 7.137 23 ...the tranquillity and innocence of the countryman, his independence and his pleasing arts,--the care of bees, of poultry...all men acknowledge.
    HDC 11.63 3 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English government, concerning the country towns; The farmers...make good advantage by their corn, cattle, poultry, butter and cheese.

poultry-yard, n. (2)

    Prd1 2.227 23 [The good husband's] garden or his poultry-yard tells him many pleasant anecdotes.
    ACri 12.296 13 [Herrick] found his subject where he stood, between his feet, in his house, pantry, barn, poultry-yard...

pounce, v. (2)

    QO 8.192 12 On the whole, we like the valor of [quotation]. 'T is on Marmontel's principle, I pounce on what is mine, wherever I find it;...
    PPr 12.390 26 How like an air-balloon or bird of Jove does [Carlyle] seem to float over the continent, and, stooping here and there, pounce on a fact as a symbol which was never a symbol before.

pound, n. (16)

    Chr1 3.96 5 An individual is an encloser. Time and space...truth and thought, are left at large no longer. Now, the universe is a close or pound.
    Chr1 3.101 3 A pound of water in the ocean-tempest has no more gravity than in a midsummer pond.
    Pol1 3.205 11 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...it will always weigh a pound;...
    Pol1 3.205 13 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...it will always weigh a pound;...
    Pol1 3.205 15 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...it will always attract and resist other matter by the full virtue of one pound weight...
    MoS 4.153 7 ...[the men of the senses]...weigh man by the pound.
    GoW 4.269 7 A pound passes for a pound.
    ET7 5.119 15 In comparing [the English] ships' houses and public offices with the American, it is commonly said that they spend a pound where we spend a dollar.
    ET13 5.224 9 [England] believes in a Providence which does not treat with levity a pound sterling.
    F 6.28 22 There must be a pound to balance a pound.
    Wth 6.100 12 [The right merchant] knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound...
    Wth 6.107 12 A pound of paper costs so much...
    Wth 6.109 22 ...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on;...
    Aris 10.36 13 Forever and ever it takes a pound to lift a pound.
    Aris 10.36 14 Forever and ever it takes a pound to lift a pound.
    HDC 11.49 8 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house...a pound...hath been set up, or pulled down... without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair.

pound, v. (1)

    Plu 10.301 3 [Plutarch's] vivacity and abundance never leave him to loiter or pound on an incident.

pound-cake, n. (1)

    Aris 10.58 6 Prosperity and pound-cake are for very young gentlemen, whom such things content;...

pounded, adj. (2)

    Civ 7.19 4 A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found...a cannibal, and eater of pounded snails, worms and offal...is called Civilization.
    HDC 11.37 2 A little pounded parched corn or no-cake sufficed [Indians] on the march.

pounded, v. (3)

    ET5 5.78 17 ...when [the English] have pounded each other to a poultice, they will shake hands and be friends for the remainder of their lives.
    Pow 6.77 19 At West Point, Colonel Buford...pounded with a hammer on the trunnions of a cannon until he broke them off.
    ACiv 11.301 3 You wish to satisfy people that slavery is bad economy. Why, The Edinburgh Review pounded on that string...forty years ago.

pounding, v. (3)

    F 6.4 12 ...by harping, or, if you will, pounding on each string, we learn at last its power.
    Thor 10.480 21 Pounding beans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days;...
    Thor 10.480 22 Pounding beans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days;...

pounds, n. (40)

    ET7 5.124 20 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money.
    ET10 5.160 16 A thousand million of pounds sterling are said to compose the floating money of commerce [of England].
    ET10 5.160 19 In 1848, Lord John Russell stated that the people of this country [England] had laid out 300,000,000 pounds of capital in railways, in the last four years.
    ET11 5.193 24 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds a year.
    ET12 5.202 22 In Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection at London were the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo. This inestimable prize was offered to Oxford University for seven thousand pounds.
    ET12 5.202 24 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds...
    ET12 5.202 26 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, they called on Lord Eldon. Instead of a hundred pounds, he surprised them by putting down his name for three thousand pounds.
    ET12 5.202 27 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, they called on Lord Eldon. Instead of a hundred pounds, he surprised them by putting down his name for three thousand pounds.
    ET12 5.203 6 ...[Lord Eldon] withdrew his cheque for three thousand, and wrote four thousand pounds.
    ET12 5.204 10 This rich library [the Bodleian] spent during the last year (1847), for the purchase of books, 1668 pounds.
    ET12 5.205 6 ...the expenses of private tuition [at Oxford] are reckoned at from 50 pounds to 70 pounds a year...
    ET12 5.205 27 The number of fellowships at Oxford is 540, averaging 200 pounds a year...
    ET12 5.206 17 The income of the nineteen colleges [at Oxford] is conjectured at 150,000 pounds a year.
    ET13 5.227 10 Brougham...said...the reverend bishops...solemnly declare in the presence of God that when they are called upon to accept a living, perhaps of 4000 pounds a year, at that very instant they are moved by the Holy Ghost to accept the office and administration thereof, for no other reason whatever?
    ET15 5.269 18 ...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title, late a member of Parliament, into any county jail in England...
    ET16 5.289 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...
    F 6.38 24 Do you suppose [the new-born man] can be estimated by his weight in pounds...
    Wth 6.117 25 I remember in Warwickshire to have been shown a fair manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time. The rent-roll I was told is some fourteen thousand pounds a year;...
    Wsp 6.202 19 The strength of that principle [Faith] is not measured in ounces and pounds;...
    Elo1 7.80 4 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.
    Boks 7.210 8 ...the contest [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] proceeded until the Marquis said, Two thousand pounds.
    Boks 7.210 15 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side, as if to bring his father a fresh lance to renew the fight. Father and son whispered together, and Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds!
    Elo2 8.118 1 A worthy gentleman...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
    Aris 10.65 8 There is no need that [a man of generous spirit] should count the pounds of property or the numbers of agents whom his influence touches;...
    Supl 10.172 20 At the Bank of England they put a scrap of paper that is worth a million pounds sterling into the hands of the visitor to touch.
    EzRy 10.384 13 The minister [Joseph Emerson] writes against January 31st [1735]: Bought a shay for 27 pounds, 10 shillings.
    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.
    HDC 11.42 10 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter, and...in regard of the ease of the East quarter above the rest, in their highways, they are to allow the North quarter 3 pounds.
    HDC 11.54 26 ...in 1640, when the colony rate was 1200 pounds, Concord was assessed 50 pounds.
    HDC 11.65 16 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June;...for which service, the town is to pay Captain Minott ten pounds.
    HDC 11.65 21 It is an article in the selectmen's warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in for a representative not exceeding four pounds.
    HDC 11.78 23 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British troops, Concord contributed to the relief of the inhabitants, 70 pounds, in money;...
    HDC 11.79 15 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will...fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns. On that occasion, Concord furnished 67 men, paying them itself, at an expense of 622 pounds.
    HDC 11.79 19 The taxes [in Concord], which, before the [Revolutionary] war, had not much exceeded 200 pounds per annum, amounted, in the year 1782, to 9544 dollars, in silver.
    EWI 11.113 12 The Ministers, having estimated the slave products of the colonies...at 1,500,000 pounds per annum, estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...
    EWI 11.113 14 The Ministers...estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...
    EWI 11.113 17 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters, as a compensation for so much of the slaves' time as the act [of emancipation] took from them, 20,000,000 pounds sterling...
    EWI 11.137 11 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. On the other part, appeared the reign of pounds and shillings...
    MAng1 12.238 4 Vasari observed that [Michelangelo] did not use wax candles, but a better sort made of the tallow of goats. He therefore sent him four bundles of them, containing forty pounds.
    Trag 12.411 18 ...the frailest glass bell will support a weight of a thousand pounds of water at the bottom of a river or sea, if filled with the same.

pounds, v. (1)

    ET5 5.95 27 [Steam] weaves, forges, saws, pounds, fans...

pour, v. (15)

    DSA 1.119 9 Through the transparent darkness the stars pour their almost spiritual rays.
    SL 2.146 10 If you pour water into a vessel twisted into coils and angles...it will find its level in all.
    SL 2.146 12 If you pour water into a vessel twisted into coils and angles, it is vain to say, I will pour it only into this or that;--it will find its level in all.
    Fdsp 2.211 7 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me. It is a spiritual gift... ... In these warm lines the heart will...pour out the prophecy of a godlier existence than all the annals of heroism have yet made good.
    Pt1 3.40 22 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark...
    ET2 5.26 17 ...we crept along through the floating drift of boards, logs and chips, which the rivers of Maine and New Brunswick pour into the sea after a freshet.
    Pow 6.55 13 Where [the arteries] pour [the blood] unrestrained into the veins, the spirit is low and feeble.
    Bty 6.283 4 All the elements pour through [a man's] system;...
    PI 8.40 27 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere, [the poet] has come into new circulations...the opulence of forms begins to pour into his intellect...
    PI 8.52 4 With...the first strain of a song,...we pour contempt on the prose you so magnify;...
    PPo 8.258 3 Presently we have [in Hafiz's poetry],-All day the rain/ Bathed the dark hyacinths in vain,/ The flood may pour from morn to night/ Nor wash the pretty Indians white./
    Grts 8.303 14 ...what a bitter-sweet sensation when we have gone to pour out our acknowledgment of a man's nobleness, and found him quite indifferent to our good opinion!
    PerF 10.74 11 If a straw be held still in the direction of the ocean-current, the sea will pour through it as through Gibraltar.
    Thor 10.449 6 ...[Nature] to her son will treasures more,/ And more to purpose, freely pour/ In one wood walk, than learned men/ Will find with glass in ten times ten./
    II 12.68 3 One often sees in the embittered acuteness of critics snuffing heresy from afar, their own unbelief, that they pour forth on the innocent promulgator of new doctrine their anger at that which they vainly resist in their own bosom.

poured, v. (17)

    LE 1.184 10 If, with a high trust, [the scholar] can thus submit himself, he will find that ample returns are poured into his bosom...
    Tran 1.335 5 I-this thought which is called I-is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.
    Hsm1 2.255 4 Better still is the temperance of King David, who poured out on the ground unto the Lord the water which three of his warriors had brought him to drink...
    Nat2 3.196 23 ...wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood;...
    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 5.101 1 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata...or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion. So what is invented or known in agriculture...or in literature and antiquities. A great ability...poured into the general mind...
    F 6.27 18 [Thought] is poured into the souls of all men...
    Pow 6.57 6 So a broad, healthy, massive understanding seems to lie on the shore of unseen rivers, of unseen oceans, which are covered with barks that night and day are drifted to this point. That is poured into its lap which other men lie plotting for.
    Clbs 7.226 6 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts...sometimes a singing, as if the heart poured out all like a bird;...
    Res 8.146 13 ...taking from his portmanteau a small phial of white brandy, [Tissenet] poured it into a cup...
    Insp 8.285 14 ...the love-filled singers [nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet melodies,-/...
    Aris 10.53 23 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village], so full of his facts, so unable to suppress them, that he has poured out a river of knowledge to all comers...
    PerF 10.88 14 The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
    EWI 11.104 8 ...if we saw men's backs flayed with cowhides, and hot rum poured on...we too should wince.
    EWI 11.111 26 ...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted by the planters...and the negroes furiously forbidden to go near them. These outrage...rekindled the flame of British indignation. Petitions poured into Parliament...
    FRep 11.526 8 ...here is the human race poured out over the continent to do itself justice;...
    PLT 12.57 24 Peter is the mould into which everything is poured like warm wax...

pouring, adj. (1)

    ET6 5.105 10 An Englishman walks in a pouring rain, swinging his closed umbrella like a walking-stick;...and no remark is made.

pouring, v. (6)

    Mrs1 3.144 12 ...here is...Signor Torre del Greco, who extinguished Vesuvius by pouring into it the Bay of Naples;...
    ET8 5.135 16 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed, and profusely pouring over the cold mind of his countrymen creations of grace and truth...
    ET18 5.303 19 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates...
    Ill 6.325 11 The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament; there is he alone with [the gods] alone, they pouring on him benedictions and gifts...
    Plu 10.306 17 The central fact is the superhuman intelligence, pouring into us from its unknown fountain...
    LLNE 10.367 18 See how much more joy [children] find in pouring their pudding on the table-cloth than into their beautiful mouths.

pours, v. (11)

    OS 2.268 12 When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I am a pensioner;...
    Art1 2.360 23 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    Pt1 3.39 14 The poet pours out verses in every solitude.
    NER 3.271 26 How sinks the song in the waves of melody which the universe pours over [the master's] soul!
    Elo2 8.114 12 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside, where a hard-featured, scarred and wrinkled Methodist becomes the poet of the sailor and the fisherman, whilst he pours out the abundant streams of his thought through a language all glittering and fiery with imagination;...
    Insp 8.267 1 That flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me.
    Chr2 10.114 6 The soul, penetrated with the beatitude which pours into it on all sides, asks no interpositions...
    MoL 10.242 14 [The inviolate soul] is...a prophet surrendered with self-abandoning sincerity to the Heaven which pours through him its will to mankind.
    PLT 12.33 10 In reckoning the sources of our mental power it were fatal to omit that one which pours all the others into its mould;...
    II 12.65 2 In reckoning the sources of our mental power, it were fatal to omit that one which pours all the others into mould...
    Pray 12.353 26 I know that sorrow comes not at once only. We cannot meet it and say, now it is overcome, but again, and yet again, its flood pours over us, and as full as at first.

Poussin, Nicolas, n. (1)

    Exp 3.62 25 A collector peeps into all the picture-shops of Europe for a landscape of Poussin...

poverty, n. (117)

    Nat 1.75 12 ...poverty, labor, sleep, fear, fortune, are known to you.
    AmS 1.98 9 I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech.
    AmS 1.101 11 Worse yet, [the scholar] must accept - how often! - poverty and solitude.
    LE 1.161 11 I console myself in the poverty of my thoughts...by falling back on these sublime recollections...
    Tran 1.346 7 By their unconcealed dissatisfaction [youths] expose our poverty and the insignificance of man to man.
    YA 1.382 8 ...surely the poverty is real.
    YA 1.384 4 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...setting a higher value on the private family, with poverty, than on an association with wealth, will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    YA 1.386 11 How can our young men complain of the poverty of things in New England...
    YA 1.386 12 How can our young men complain of the poverty of things in New England, and not feel that poverty as a demand on their charity to make New England rich?
    Hist 2.35 14 ...Ravenswood Castle [is] a fine name for proud poverty...
    SR 2.69 21 This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that... turns all riches to poverty...
    SR 2.71 12 Let...our docility to our own law demonstrate the poverty of nature and fortune beside our native riches.
    Comp 2.116 24 ...disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors...
    Fdsp 2.197 7 I cannot choose but rely on my own poverty more than on your wealth.
    Fdsp 2.206 3 [Friendship] is fit for serene days...but also for...poverty and persecution.
    Hsm1 2.255 16 The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament.
    OS 2.278 27 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty...
    Int 2.337 24 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states] has...no meagreness or poverty;...
    Art1 2.360 1 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist, who...created his work without other model save life...and the sweet and smart...of poverty and necessity and hope and fear.
    Art1 2.360 15 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    Art1 2.360 21 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...in the narrow lodging where [the artist] has endured the constraints and seeming of a city poverty, will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    Exp 3.80 3 Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new-comer like a travelling geologist who passes through our estate and shows us good slate...in our brush pasture.
    Exp 3.81 9 We must hold hard to this poverty, however scandalous...
    Chr1 3.98 11 What have I gained...that I do not tremble before...the Calvinistic Judgment-day,--if I quake...at the threat of...poverty...
    Chr1 3.106 3 I was content with the simple rural poverty of my own;...
    Mrs1 3.126 3 Diogenes, Socrates, and Epaminondas, are gentlemen...who have chosen the condition of poverty...
    NR 3.248 22 Could [my good men] but once understand that I...heartily wished them God-speed, yet, out of my poverty of life and thought, had no word or welcome for them when they came to see me...it would be a great satisfaction.
    NER 3.256 27 Am I not defrauded of my best culture in the loss of those gymnastics which manual labor and the emergencies of poverty constitute?
    NER 3.274 5 [Souls of great vigor] feel the poverty at the bottom of all the seeming affluence of the world.
    UGM 4.12 12 In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other, it seems a poverty that we can only spend it once...
    UGM 4.19 4 ...[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...
    ShP 4.209 2 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...on wealth and poverty...
    GoW 4.279 11 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo]...no longer answers to his own titled name; it sounds foreign and remote in his ear. I am only man, he says; I breathe and work for man; and this in poverty and extreme sacrifices.
    GoW 4.288 13 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's] tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture. It was the infirmity of an admirable scholar...who did not quite trust the compensations of poverty and nakedness.
    ET3 5.43 11 [Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side. Long time I will keep them on their feet, by poverty, border-wars... seafaring...
    ET4 5.53 14 In Scotland...the poverty of the country makes itself remarked...
    ET4 5.69 24 The extremes of poverty and ascetic penance, it would seem, never reach cold water in England.
    ET4 5.69 26 Wood the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not deny him beer.
    ET10 5.153 19 [The English] are under the Jewish law, and read with sonorous emphasis that...they shall have sons and daughters, flocks and herds, wine and oil. In exact proportion is the reproach of poverty.
    ET10 5.154 1 Sydney Smith said, Poverty is infamous in England.
    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.
    ET10 5.170 19 [England's] success strengthens the hands of base wealth. Who can propose to youth poverty and wisdom, when mean gain has arrived at the conquest of letters and arts;...
    ET12 5.206 3 If a young American, loving learning and hindered by poverty, were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical palaces [at Oxford]...he would dance for joy.
    ET12 5.209 23 Oxford...mis-spends the revenues bestowed for such youths as should be most meet for towardness, poverty and painfulness;...
    F 6.10 25 ...the fine organs of [the digger's] brain have been pinched by overwork and squalid poverty...
    Wth 6.90 27 Poverty demoralizes.
    Ctr 6.162 7 ...the wiser God says, Take the shame, the poverty and the penal solitude that belong to truth-speaking.
    Bhr 6.179 2 ...[eyes] respect neither poverty nor riches...
    CbW 6.259 22 The wise workman will not regret the poverty or the solitude which brought out his working talents.
    CbW 6.263 7 No...poverty, nor exercise, that can gain [health], must be grudged.
    CbW 6.278 17 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm and in the miscellany of metropolitan life...
    Ill 6.323 14 One would think from the talk of men that riches and poverty were a great matter;...
    Ill 6.323 22 Riches and poverty are a thick or thin costume;...
    SS 7.10 14 A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty...
    Civ 7.23 26 Poverty and industry with a healthy mind read very easily the laws of humanity...
    Elo1 7.96 12 ...[the sturdy countryman]...has nothing to learn of labor or poverty or the rough of farming.
    DL 7.115 25 Genius and virtue, like diamonds, are best...set in lead, set in poverty.
    DL 7.118 7 Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are.
    DL 7.118 10 ...poverty consists in feeling poor.
    DL 7.119 24 There is many a humble house...where talent and taste and sometimes genius dwell with poverty and labor.
    DL 7.121 4 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band of poverty...
    Farm 7.138 5 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum where, in case of mischance, to hide their poverty...
    Farm 7.141 3 The men in cities who are the centres of energy...and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated...in poverty, necessity and darkness.
    WD 7.175 13 [That flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn; the rich poverty which men hate;...
    Boks 7.212 15 Men are ever lapsing into a beggarly habit, wherein everything that is not ciphering, that is, which does not serve the tyrannical animal, is hustled out of sight. Our orators and writers are of the same poverty...
    Boks 7.216 24 Great is the poverty of [novelists'] inventions.
    Cour 7.275 12 Poverty, the prison...appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity;...
    Suc 7.296 5 There is something of poverty in our criticism.
    Suc 7.307 11 Our system is one of poverty.
    PI 8.3 7 Poverty, frost, famine, disease, debt, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to common sense.
    PI 8.30 19 ...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were, muffle the fact to suit the poverty or caprice of their expression...
    PI 8.42 5 Better men saw heavens and earths; saw noble instruments of noble souls. We see railroads, mills and banks, and we pity the poverty of these dreaming Buddhists.
    PI 8.49 15 There is under the seeming poverty of metres an infinite variety...
    PI 8.49 25 Rhyme is a pretty good measure of the latitude and opulence of a writer. If unskilful, he is at once detected by the poverty of his chimes.
    SA 8.106 7 ...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming health. A rough realist or a phalanx of realists would be prescribed; but that is like proposing to mend your bad road with diamonds. Then poverty, famine, war, imprisonment, might be tried.
    Comc 8.168 23 ...the same confusion of the sympathies because a pretension is not made good, points the perpetual satire against poverty...
    Comc 8.168 26 ...according to Latin poetry and English doggerel,--Poverty does nothing worse/ Than to make man ridiculous./
    Comc 8.169 4 If the man is not ashamed of his poverty, there is no joke.
    Comc 8.169 6 The poverty of the saint...is not comic.
    PPo 8.250 9 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you with verses which express the poverty of sensual joys...
    Insp 8.272 19 ...villa, park, social considerations, cannot cover up real poverty and insignificance...
    Insp 8.279 9 Great wits to madness nearly are allied;/ Both serve to make our poverty our pride./
    Grts 8.315 26 A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him... came with it in his poverty to Diderot...
    Aris 10.34 24 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe. By the abolition of kingship and aristocracy, tyranny, inequality and poverty would end.
    Aris 10.34 25 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe. By the abolition of kingship and aristocracy, tyranny, inequality and poverty would end. Alas! no; tyranny, inequality, poverty, stood as fast and fierce as ever.
    Edc1 10.128 17 Here [in the household] is poverty and all the wisdom its hated necessities can teach...
    Edc1 10.129 24 [Is it not true] That poverty, love, authority, anger...all work actively upon our being...
    Edc1 10.138 21 I like...boys...known to have no money in their pockets, and themselves not suspecting the value of this poverty;...
    Supl 10.164 18 ...we may challenge Providence to send a fact so tragical that we cannot contrive to make it a little worse in our gossip. All this comes of poverty.
    Supl 10.176 4 The old and the modern sages of clearest insight are plain men, who have held themselves hard to the poverty of Nature.
    SovE 10.189 21 Savage war gives place to that of Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code. This war again gives place to the finer quarrel of property, where the victory is wealth and the defeat poverty.
    SovE 10.194 22 Let [a man]...find...the riches of poverty;....
    SovE 10.208 6 ...by poverty we are rich...
    Schr 10.286 8 The scholar must be ready for...poverty, insult, weariness...
    Schr 10.287 22 Give me bareness and poverty so that I know them as the sure heralds of the Muse.
    LLNE 10.351 13 Poverty shall be abolished [by Fourierism];...
    LLNE 10.357 4 [Thoreau said] Again and again I congratulate myself on my so-called poverty...
    LLNE 10.357 6 [Thoreau said] What you call bareness and poverty, is to me simplicity.
    MMEm 10.413 20 A mediocre mind will be deranged in either extreme of wealth or poverty...
    MMEm 10.415 23 This morning rich in existence; the remembrance of past destitution in the deep poverty of my [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt...
    MMEm 10.416 18 ...the simple principle which made me [Mary Moody Emerson] say, in youth and laborious poverty, that, should He make me a blot on the fair face of his Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never been equalled...
    MMEm 10.423 11 War is...no worse than the strife with poverty, malice and ignorance.
    SlHr 10.440 8 Though rich, [Samuel Hoar was] of a plainness and almost poverty of personal expenditure...
    Thor 10.465 5 [Thoreau]...saw the limitations and poverty of those he talked with...
    HDC 11.44 2 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court, immunities...
    HDC 11.79 26 The great expense of the [Revolutionary] war was borne with cheerfulness [by Concord], whilst the war lasted; but years passed, after the peace, before the debt was paid. As soon as danger and injury ceased, the people were left at leisure to consider their poverty and their debts.
    FSLN 11.232 11 ...if we are Whigs, let us be Whigs of nature and science, and so for all the necessities. Let us know that, over and above all the musts of poverty and appetite, is the instinct of man to rise...
    FSLN 11.236 7 ...our education is not conducted by toys and luxuries, but by austere and rugged masters, by poverty, solitude, passions, War, Slavery;...
    JBS 11.279 4 [John Brown] grew up a religious and manly person, in severe poverty;...
    ALin 11.337 27 [Providence]...creates the man for the time, trains him in poverty, inspires his genius, and arms him for his task.
    RBur 11.441 16 ...[Burns] has endeared...patches and poverty...
    PLT 12.51 5 You laugh at the monotones, at the men of one idea, but if we look nearly at heroes we may find the same poverty;...
    PLT 12.51 6 You laugh at the monotones, at the men of one idea, but if we look nearly at heroes we may find the same poverty; and perhaps it is not poverty, but power.
    CL 12.153 8 The freedom [of the sea] makes the observer feel as a slave. Our expression is so thin and cramped! Can we not learn here a generous eloquence? This was the lesson our starving poverty wanted.
    Bost 12.208 4 I am afraid there are anecdotes of poverty and disease in Broad Street that match the dismal statistics of New York and London.
    MLit 12.318 5 All over the modern world the educated and susceptible have betrayed their discontent...with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy.
    Trag 12.406 18 ...no theory of life can have any right which leaves out of account the values of...poverty, insecurity...

Poverty, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.162 4 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--...Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./

poverty-stricken, adj. (2)

    YA 1.368 25 The land...looks poverty-stricken...
    Clbs 7.226 21 Opinions are accidental in people,--have a poverty-stricken air.

powder, n. (5)

    UGM 4.30 23 Why are the masses...food for knives and powder?
    ET11 5.197 26 [Titles of lordship] belong, with wigs, powder and scarlet coats, to an earlier age...
    F 6.47 18 ...when a man...is ground to powder by the vice of his race;-he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
    Art2 7.41 15 [Our works] must be conformed to [Nature's] law, or they will be ground to powder by her omnipresent activity.
    Boks 7.210 10 Earl Spencer bethought him like a prudent general of useless bloodshed and waste of powder...

powder-houses, n. (1)

    War 11.165 26 He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

powdering-tubs, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.183 12 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages with words that take hold of the upper world, whilst one eye is prowling in the cellar; so that its gravest discourse has a savor of hams and powdering-tubs.

powder-magazine, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.206 20 ...he who writes a crime into the statute-book digs under the foundations of the Capitol to plant there a powder-magazine...

powder-mill, n. (2)

    ET15 5.265 16 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a powder-mill;...
    PI 8.4 3 ...the most imaginative and abstracted person...never...carries a torch into a powder-mill...

powder-monkey, n. (1)

    NMW 4.245 14 The Revolution entitled...every horse-boy and powder-monkey in the army, to look on Napoleon as flesh of his flesh...

powders, 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...

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