Power (continued) to Poz
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
Insp 8.269 11 Our money is only a second best. We would
jump to buy
power with it, that is, intellectual perception moving the will.
Insp 8.271 6 ...[the poet] is made aware of a power to
carry on and
complete the metamorphosis of natural into spiritual facts.
Insp 8.271 10 In the mind we call this enlarged power
Inspiration.
Insp 8.271 13 The man's insight and power are
interrupted and
occasional;...
Insp 8.272 8 Power is the first good.
Insp 8.273 12 ...this quick ebb of power...tantalizes
us.
Insp 8.277 10 ...all poets have signalized their
consciousness of rare
moments...when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted
them to performances far better than they could reach at other
times;...
Insp 8.278 9 The depth of the notes which we
accidentally sound on the
strings of Nature...might teach us what strangers and novices we are,
vagabond in this universe of pure power...
Insp 8.281 22 ...in writing a letter to a friend we may
find that we rise to a
thought and to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort...
Insp 8.283 10 The power of the will is sometimes
sublime;...
Insp 8.289 17 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the
experience of poetic
creativeness...these are the types or conditions of this power [of
novelty].
Insp 8.297 14 All our power, all our happiness consists
in our reception of [the soul's] hints...
Grts 8.301 2 There is a prize which we are all aiming
at, and the more
power and goodness we have, so much more the energy of that aim.
Grts 8.307 16 ...it is only as [a man] feels and obeys
[his bias] that he
rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world.
Grts 8.309 10 ...the rule of the orator begins...when
the thought which he
stands for...gives him valor, breadth and new intellectual power...
Grts 8.311 20 Let the scholar measure his valor by his
power to cope with
intellectual giants.
Grts 8.312 9 The day will come...when the eye...will
indicate rank fast
enough by exerting power.
Grts 8.316 6 We like the natural greatness of health
and wild power.
Grts 8.316 19 We must have some charity for the sense
of the people, which admires natural power...
Grts 8.316 22 ...natural is really allied to moral
power...
Imtl 8.337 9 If there is the desire to live, and in
larger sphere, with more
knowledge and power, it is because life and knowledge and power are
good
for us...
Imtl 8.341 27 Courage comes naturally to
those...who...know the power of
their arms and bodies;...
Dem1 10.6 13 In a dream we have...the same torpidity of
the highest power, the same unsurprised assent to the monstrous as
these metamorphosed men [animals] exhibit.
Dem1 10.15 10 It is not the tendency of our times to
ascribe importance...to
omens. But the faith in peculiar and alien power takes another form in
the
modern mind...
Dem1 10.16 22 This faith in a doting power...runs
athwart the recognized
agencies...which science and religion explore.
Dem1 10.17 1 This faith...in the particular of lucky
days and fortunate
persons...this supposed power runs athwart the recognized
agencies...which
science and religion explore.
Dem1 10.17 4 ...[the belief in luck] is not the power
to which we build
churches...
Dem1 10.18 18 ...a monstrous force goes out from
[demonic individuals], and they exert an incredible power over all
creatures...
Dem1 10.19 5 It would be easy in the political history
of every time to
furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which
without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. ... A power goes out from
them
which draws all men and events to favor them.
Dem1 10.21 9 Before we acquire great power we must
acquire wisdom to
use it well.
Dem1 10.21 19 The best are never demoniacal or
magnetic; leave this
limbo to the Prince of the power of the air.
Dem1 10.21 21 Power as such is not known to the angels.
Dem1 10.25 10 [Animal Magnetism] becomes...a black art.
The uses of the
thing, the commodity, the power, at once come to mind...
Aris 10.31 17 [The best young men] do not yet covet
political power...
Aris 10.38 25 ...the power and excellence we describe
are real.
Aris 10.39 12 I wish...men...who...are not too learned
to love...the power
and the spirits of Solitude;...
Aris 10.40 11 ...if the finders of parallax, of new
planets, of steam power
for boat and carriage...should keep their secrets...must not the whole
race of
mankind serve them as gods?
Aris 10.43 6 ...a sound body must be at the root of any
excellence in
manners and actions; a strong and supple frame which...generates the
habit
of relying on a supply of power for all extraordinary exertions.
Aris 10.44 2 ...when the well-mixed man is born...he
brings with him
fortune, followers, love, power.
Aris 10.47 8 All spiritual or real power makes its own
place.
Aris 10.47 17 Let a man's social aims be proportioned
to his means and
power.
Aris 10.47 20 A certain quantity of power belongs to a
certain quantity of
faculty.
Aris 10.47 21 Whoever wants more power than is the
legitimate attraction
of his faculty, is a politician...
Aris 10.49 11 I should like to see...every man made
acquainted with the
true number and weight of every adult citizen, and that he be placed
where
he belongs, with so much power confided to him as he could carry and
use.
Aris 10.49 23 I think that the community...will be the
best measure and the
justest judge of the citizen...better than any statute elevating...any
class to
sacerdotal education and power.
Aris 10.50 27 It is not sufficient that your work...is
organic, to give you the
magnetic power over men.
Aris 10.52 19 Genius...the power to affect the
Imagination...has a royal
right in all possessions and privileges...
Aris 10.53 3 ...Genius...gives [men] a sense of
delicious liberty and power.
Aris 10.54 5 The more familiar examples of this power
[of eloquence] certainly are those who establish a wider dominion over
men's minds than
any speech can;...
Aris 10.54 16 In the fine arts, I find none in the
present age who have any
popular power...
Aris 10.54 20 Elevation of sentiment, refining and
inspiring the manners, must really take the place of every distinction
whether of material power or
of intellectual gifts.
Aris 10.64 24 ...I believe in the closest affinity
between moral and material
power.
Aris 10.66 4 ...the American who would serve his
country...must reinforce
himself by the power of character...
PerF 10.69 11 ...man in Nature is surrounded by a gang
of friendly giants
who can...help him in every kind. Each by itself has a certain
omnipotence, but all...in the presence of each other...own the balance
of power.
PerF 10.70 7 See what your robust neighbor, who never
feared to live in [the air], has got from it;...power to convince...
PerF 10.74 19 Look at [man]; you can give no guess at
what power is in
him
PerF 10.75 27 ...disorder becomes order where [man]
goes; weakness
becomes power;...
PerF 10.76 15 For man, the receiver of all, and
depositary of these volumes
of power, I am to say that his ability and performance are according to
his
reception of these various streams of force.
PerF 10.77 25 Every valuable person who joins in an
enterprise...what he
chiefly brings...is...his method. And thus with every one a new power.
PerF 10.77 26 In proportion to the depth of the insight
is the power and
reach of the kingdom [a man] controls.
PerF 10.78 10 It would be easy to awake wonder by
sketching the
performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Imagination,
which
turns every dull fact into pictures and poetry, by making it an emblem
of
thought. What a power, when, combined with the analyzing understanding,
it makes Eloquence;...
PerF 10.78 26 The power of persistence...is one of
these [mental] forces
which never loses its charm.
PerF 10.79 1 The power of a man increases steadily by
continuance in one
direction.
PerF 10.79 8 [The persistent man] is his own
apprentice, and more time
gives a great addition of power...
PerF 10.80 7 ...[Bonaparte's] will is an immense
battery discharging
irresistible volleys of power...
PerF 10.81 6 One day I found [the stupid farmer's]
little boy of four years
dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...and learned
that
Papa had made it; that hidden deep in that thick skull was this gentle
art and
taste which the little fingers and caresses of his son had the power to
draw
out into day;...
PerF 10.82 12 Every one knows what are the effects of
music to put people
in gay or mournful or martial mood. But these are...only the hint of
its
power on a keener sense.
PerF 10.85 12 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of
debate, and says, I
will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will...make me
Chancellor or Foreign Secretary. But this perversion is punished with
instant loss of true wisdom and real power.
PerF 10.88 13 ...the massive might of ideas is
irresistible at last. Whence
does the knowledge come? Where is the source of power?
Chr2 10.92 15 All violence...is not power but the
absence of power.
Chr2 10.92 16 All violence...is not power but the
absence of power.
Chr2 10.94 21 We have no idea of power so simple and so
entire as this [general mind].
Chr2 10.95 6 High instincts, before which our mortal
nature/ Doth tremble
like a guilty thing surprised,-/ Which, be they what they may,/ Are yet
the
fountain-light of all our day,/ Are yet the master-light of all our
seeing,-/ Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make/ Our noisy years
seem
moments in the being/ Of the eternal silence,-truths that wake/ To
perish
never./
Chr2 10.97 4 Devout men...have used different images to
suggest this
latent [moral] force;...all indicating its power and its latency.
Chr2 10.98 20 In the ever-returning hour of reflection,
[a man] says: I
stand here glad at heart of all the sympathies I can awaken and
share...yet
knowing that it is not in the power of all who surround me to take from
me
the smallest thread I call mine.
Chr2 10.111 27 We...want power to drive the ponderous
State.
Chr2 10.112 3 The constitution and law in America must
be written on
ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world can
be
enlisted to hold the loyalty of the citizen...
Chr2 10.118 2 The power that in other times inspired
crusades...flies to the
help of the deaf-mute and the blind...
Edc1 10.125 1 A new degree of intellectual power seems
cheap at any price.
Edc1 10.128 11 Here is a world...fenced and planted
with civil partitions
and properties, which all put new restraints on the young inhabitant.
He too
must come into this magic circle of relations, and know...the charm of
riches, the charm of power.
Edc1 10.128 11 The household is a school of power.
Edc1 10.128 26 Every one has a trust of power...
Edc1 10.129 3 ...what activity the desire of power
inspires!
Edc1 10.129 14 No dollar of property can be created
without...some
acquisition of knowledge and practical force. It is...an accumulation
of
power...
Edc1 10.130 11 Why does [man] track in the midnight
heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch wandering from age to age, but
because he acquires
thereby a majestic sense of power;...
Edc1 10.130 21 If Newton come and...perceive...that
every atom in Nature
draws to every other atom,-he extends the power of his mind...over
every
cubic atom of his native planet...
Edc1 10.132 9 ...whilst thus the man is ever invited
inward into shining
realms of knowledge and power by the shows of the world...it becomes
the
office of a just education to awaken him to the knowledge of this fact.
Edc1 10.141 22 ...the way to knowledge and power has
ever been an escape
from too much engagement with affairs and possessions;...
Edc1 10.142 22 There comes the period of the
imagination to each, a later
youth; the power of beauty, the power of books, of poetry.
Edc1 10.142 23 There comes the period of the
imagination to each, a later
youth; the power of beauty, the power of books, of poetry.
Edc1 10.147 14 It is better to teach the child
arithmetic and Latin grammar
than rhetoric or moral philosophy, because they require exactitude of
performance; it is made certain...that power of performance is worth
more
than the knowledge.
Edc1 10.147 16 [The boy] can learn anything which is
important to him
now that the power to learn is secured...
Edc1 10.148 1 By many steps...the hesitating collegian,
in the school
debate...in mock court, comes at last to full, secure, triumphant
unfolding of
his thought in the popular assembly, with a fulness of power that makes
all
the steps forgotten.
Edc1 10.151 24 ...you see [the young man's] want of
those tastes and
perceptions which make the power and safety of your character.
Edc1 10.157 3 The will, the male power, organizes...
Edc1 10.159 4 The beautiful nature of the world has
here blended your
happiness with your power.
Supl 10.168 24 The first valuable power in a reasonable
mind, one would
say, was the power of plain statement...
Supl 10.168 25 The first valuable power in a reasonable
mind, one would
say, was the power of plain statement...
Supl 10.168 26 The first valuable power in a reasonable
mind, one would
say, was...the power to receive things as they befall...
Supl 10.172 24 Our travelling is a sort of search for
the superlatives or
summits of art,-much more the real wonders of power in the human form.
Supl 10.173 10 ...it would seem the whole human race
agree to value a man
precisely in proportion to his power of expression;...
Supl 10.179 6 There is no writing which has more
electric power to unbind
and animate the torpid intellect than the bold Eastern muse.
SovE 10.183 17 That convertibility we so admire in
plants and animal
structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when
one
part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and
self-creation
proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest
and meanest structures by the same design...
SovE 10.193 20 ...the habit of respecting that great
order which certainly
contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from
the
heart. It did itself create and distribute all that is created and
distributed, and, trusting to its power, we cease to care for what it
will certainly order
well.
SovE 10.197 6 I have not discovered, until this blessed
ray flashed just now
through my soul, that there dwelt any power in Nature that would
relieve
me of my load.
SovE 10.198 21 ...I see not why to these simple
instincts, simple yet grand, all the heights and transcendencies of
virtue and of enthusiasm are not
open. There is power enough in them to move the world;...
SovE 10.201 4 You have perceived in the first fact of
your conscious life
here a miracle so astounding...as to...leave you no need of hunting
here or
there for any particular exhibitions of power.
SovE 10.210 15 ...to draw [the moral principle] out of
its natural current is
to lose at once all its power.
SovE 10.212 26 ...with what power [innocence] converts
evil accidents into
benefits;...
SovE 10.212 27 ...with what power [innocence] converts
evil accidents into
benefits; the power of its countenance; the power of its presence!
Prch 10.219 11 It is certain that...many...periods of
inactivity...will occur. In those hours, we can find comfort in
reverence of the highest power, and
only in that.
Prch 10.220 21 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly
in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of
the intellect, the surprise
of the results and the sense of power, we are like hunters on the
scent...
Prch 10.221 13 The understanding...because it has found
absurdities to
which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration; so
that
analysis has run to seed in unbelief. There is no faith left. We laugh
and
hiss, pleased with our power in making heaven and earth a howling
wilderness.
Prch 10.222 10 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you
take away the
purpose that animates him. The ball...is there, but his power to
cheer...is
gone forever.
Prch 10.233 13 ...power is not so much shown in talent
as in tone.
Prch 10.234 7 A vivid thought brings the power to paint
it;...
Prch 10.234 26 ...though I observe the deafness to
counsel among men, yet
the power of sympathy is always great;...
Prch 10.235 2 ...the power of sympathy is always great;
and affirmative
discourse, presuming assent, will often obtain it when argument would
fail. Such, too, is the active power of good temperament.
Prch 10.235 18 The inevitable course of remark for us,
when we meet each
other for meditation on life and duty, is...simply the celebration of
the
power and beneficence amid which and by which we live...
Prch 10.238 3 We [in the Church] come...to know that
though ministers of
justice and power fail, Justice and Power fail never.
MoL 10.241 16 ...let me use the occasion...to offer you
some counsels...in
regard to the career of letters,-the power and joy that belong to it...
MoL 10.243 16 It is charged that all vigorous nations,
except our own, have balanced their labor by mental activity, and
especially by the
imagination,-the cardinal human power...
MoL 10.243 25 The Egyptian built Thebes and Karnak on a
scale which
dwarfs our art, and by the paintings on their interior walls invited us
into
the secret of the religious belief whence he drew such power.
MoL 10.246 26 There is an oracle current in the world,
that nations die by
suicide. The sign of it is the decay of thought. Niebuhr has given
striking
examples of that fatal portent; as in the loss of power of thought that
followed the disasters of the Athenians in Sicily.
MoL 10.247 21 Air, water, fire, iron, gold, wheat,
electricity, animal fibre, have not lost a particle of power...
MoL 10.248 15 You [scholars] are here as the carriers
of the power of
Nature...
MoL 10.251 18 I asked the first [West Point] Cadet, Who
makes your bed? I do. Who fetches your water? I do. Who blacks your
shoes? I do. It was so
in every room. These are first steps to power.
MoL 10.252 12 ...I am here to commend to you your art
and profession as
thinkers. It is real. It is the secret of power.
Schr 10.263 6 Every natural power exhilarates;...
Schr 10.263 23 [Intellect] is the power that makes the
world incarnated in
man...
Schr 10.270 11 ...all the human race have agreed to
value a man according
to his power of expression.
Schr 10.275 12 The hero rises out of all comparison
with contemporaries
and with ages of men, because he disesteems old age, and lands, and
money, and power...
Schr 10.275 22 There is no power in the mind but in
turn becomes an
instrument.
Schr 10.277 26 Perhaps I value power of achievement a
little more because
in America there seems to be a certain indigence in this respect.
Schr 10.281 25 ...as we see the effrontery with which
money and power
carry their ends and ride over honesty and good meaning, patriotism and
religion seem to shriek like ghosts.
Schr 10.284 1 ...memory, arithmetic, practical
power...are all good things...
Schr 10.284 26 These questions [of life] speak to
Genius, to that power
which is underneath and greater than all talent...
Schr 10.287 19 I invite you [scholars]...to bareness,
to power, to
enthusiasm...
Plu 10.298 3 ...[Plutarch] had many qualities of the
poet in the power of his
imagination...
Plu 10.307 3 ...we expect this awe and reverence of the
spiritual power
from the philosopher in his closet...
Plu 10.307 23 ...[Plutarch] delights in memory, with
its miraculous power
of resisting time.
Plu 10.316 19 ...nothing so resembles an animal as
fire. It is moved and
nourished by itself, and...in its quenching shows some power that seems
to
proceed from a vital principle...
LLNE 10.327 13 The association [of the time] is for
power, merely,-for
means;...
LLNE 10.328 7 The nobles shall not any longer, as
feudal lords, have
power of life and death over the churls...
LLNE 10.330 11 The popular religion of our fathers had
received many
severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary
influence of Swedenborg; a man...exerting a singular power over an
important intellectual class;...
LLNE 10.334 22 ...[Everett's] power lay in the magic of
form;...
LLNE 10.339 7 There was...a consciousness of power not
yet finding its
determinate aim.
LLNE 10.339 13 I attribute much importance to two
papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were
the first
specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had
given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review.
LLNE 10.340 9 ...[Channing] is yet one of those men who
vindicate the
power of the American race to produce greatness.
LLNE 10.368 27 ...what personal power...many of the
members owed to [Brook Farm]!
LLNE 10.369 22 I please myself with the thought that
our American mind... is beginning to show a quiet power...
MMEm 10.398 10 They whom [Lucy Percy] is pleased to
choose are such
as are of the most eminent condition both for power and employment...
MMEm 10.398 18 Of Love freely will [Lucy Percy]
discourse, listen to all
its faults amd mark its power...
MMEm 10.399 13 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's life]...marks
the precise time
when the power of the old creed yielded to the influence of modern
science
and humanity.
MMEm 10.403 8 [Mary Moody Emerson] liked to notice that
the greatest
geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence.
MMEm 10.408 11 [Mary Moody Emerson] is...a
Bible...wherein are
sentences of condemnation, promises and covenants of love that make
foolish the wisdom of the world with the power of God.
MMEm 10.415 1 Oh, if there be a power superior to
me...when will He let
my lights go out...
MMEm 10.415 5 I am not infinite, nor have I power or
will...
MMEm 10.418 8 O the power of vision, then the delicate
power of the
nerve which receives impressions from sounds!
MMEm 10.418 9 O the power of vision, then the delicate
power of the
nerve which receives impressions from sounds!
MMEm 10.430 27 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have heard that
the greatest
geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence on the arts
and
sciences.
MMEm 10.431 6 That greatest of all gifts, however small
my [Mary
Moody Emerson's] power of receiving,-the capacity, the element to love
the All-perfect, without regard to personal happiness:-happiness?-'t is
itself.
SlHr 10.441 23 [Samuel Hoar] had little or no power of
generalization.
Thor 10.471 13 [Thoreau's] power of observation seemed
to indicate
additional senses.
Thor 10.482 8 I subjoin a few sentences taken from
[Thoreau's] unpublished manuscripts, not only as records of his thought
and feeling, but
for their power of description and literary excellence...
Carl 10.498 5 ...in England, where the morgue of
aristocracy has very
slowly admitted scholars into society...[Carlyle] has...made himself a
power
confessed by all men...
GSt 10.505 6 ...[George Stearns] became, in the most
natural manner, an
indispensable power in the state.
GSt 10.506 4 ...this sudden association now with the
leaders of parties and
persons of pronounced power and influence in the nation...never
altered... one trait of [George Stearns's] manners.
HDC 11.42 15 ...this first recorded political act of
our fathers, this tax
assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in
their
civil history, implying...the exercise of a sovereign power...
HDC 11.42 22 The greater speed and success that
distinguish the planting
of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in
history, owe
themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small
corporations of land and power.
HDC 11.43 2 [The Charter of the Company of
Massachusetts Bay]...gave [the freemen] the power of prescribing the
manner in which freemen should
be elected;...
HDC 11.44 21 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is
Ordered, that the
freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands
and
woods, and choose their own particular officers.
HDC 11.44 26 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is
Ordered, that the
freemen of every town shall have power to...choose their own particular
officers. This pointed chiefly at the office of constable, but they
soon chose
their own selectmen, and very early assessed taxes; a power at first
resisted, but speedily confirmed to them.
HDC 11.45 5 I esteem it the happiness of this country
that its settlers, whilst they were...determining the power of the
magistrate, were united by
personal affection.
HDC 11.45 20 [The settlers] were to settle the internal
constitution of the
towns, and, at the same time, their power in the commonwealth.
HDC 11.46 1 It was on doubts concerning their own
power, that, in 1634, a
committee repaired to [John Winthrop] for counsel...
HDC 11.49 16 ...in the clock on the church, [the people
of Concord] read
their own power...
HDC 11.52 14 Tahattawan, our Concord sachem, called his
Indians
together, and bid them not oppose the courses which the English were
taking for their good; for, said he, all the time you have lived after
the
Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they
care
for you?
HDC 11.68 14 ...We cannot possibly view with
indifference the...endeavors
of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those...rights, that we
are
obliged to no power, under heaven, for the enjoyment of;...
HDC 11.70 1 ...we will...to the utmost of our power,
defend all our rights
inviolate to the latest posterity.
LVB 11.96 10 I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray
with one voice more
that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen
millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which
threatens the Cherokee tribe.
EWI 11.107 3 ...(tracing the subject to natural
principles, the claim of
slavery never can be supported). The power claimed by this return never
was in use here.
EWI 11.118 13 ...experience...shows the existence,
beside the
covetousness, of a bitterer element [in slavery], the love of power...
EWI 11.119 13 ...[Sir Lionel Smith] defended the
Baptist preachers and the
stipendiary magistrates, who are the negroes' friends [in Jamaica],
from the
power of the planter.
EWI 11.119 14 The power of the [Jamaican] planters...to
oppress, was
greater than the power of the apprentice and of his guardians to
withstand.
EWI 11.119 15 The power of the [Jamaican] planters...to
oppress, was
greater than the power of the apprentice and of his guardians to
withstand.
EWI 11.131 27 If the State has no power to defend its
own people in its
own shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal
Government, has it no representation in the Federal Government?
EWI 11.132 1 If the State has no power to defend its
own people in its own
shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal
Government, has it no representation in the Federal Government?
EWI 11.133 11 To what purpose have we clothed each of
those
representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons...if they
are to
sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and
sold;...
EWI 11.136 13 ...Derived power cannot be superior to
the power from
which it is derived...
EWI 11.136 25 One feels very sensibly in all this
history [of emancipation
in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there...so
that this
cause has had the power to draw to it every particle of talent and of
worth
in England...
EWI 11.138 24 The secret cannot be kept, that the seats
of powers are
filled by underlings...
EWI 11.139 7 The superstition respecting power and
office is going to the
ground.
EWI 11.139 20 The tendency of things runs steadily to
this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally
exerts...
EWI 11.142 9 ...[the negro] is now the principal if not
the only mechanic in
the West Indies; and is, besides...a magistrate, an editor, and a
valued and
increasing political power.
EWI 11.143 18 ...[nature] saves not by compassion, but
by power.
FSLC 11.182 7 ...real estate, every kind of wealth,
every branch of
industry, every avenue to power, suffers injury [from the Fugitive
Slave
Law]...
FSLC 11.182 15 The crisis [over the Fugitive Slave Law]
had the
illuminating power of a sheet of lightning at midnight.
FSLC 11.185 9 Because of this preoccupied mind, the
whole wealth and
power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime...
FSLC 11.188 10 ...all men that are born are, in
proportion to their power of
thought and their moral sensibility, found to be the natural enemies of
this [Fugitive Slave] law.
FSLC 11.189 7 I thought that every time a man goes back
to his own
thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him, and that, in the
best
hours, he is uplifted in virtue of this essence, into a peace and into
a power
which the material world cannot give...
FSLC 11.200 12 ...the Nemesis works underneath again.
It is a power that
makes noonday dark...
FSLC 11.202 21 We delighted...in [Webster's] power of
labor...
FSLC 11.204 13 ...[Webster] has no faith in the power
of self-government;...
FSLC 11.205 24 The people cleave to the Union, because
they see their
advantage in it, the added power of each.
FSLC 11.207 2 ...I strongly share the hope of mankind
in the power, and
therefore, in the duties of the Union;...
FSLC 11.209 17 Nothing is impracticable to this nation,
which it shall set
itself to do. Were ever men so endowed, so placed, so weaponed? Their
power of territory seconded by a genius equal to every work.
FSLC 11.211 5 Europe, the least of all the continents,
has almost
monopolized for twenty centuries the genius and power of them all.
FSLC 11.211 21 The immense power of rectitude is apt to
be forgotten in
politics.
FSLC 11.213 3 Every Englishman...in whatever barbarous
country their
forts and factories have been set up,-represents London, represents the
art, power and law of Europe.
FSLC 11.213 22 That is the secret of Southern power,
that they rest not on
meetings, but on private heats and courages.
FSLN 11.215 2 Of all we loved and honored, naught/ Save
power
remains,-/ A fallen angel's pride of thought,/ Still strong in chains./
FSLN 11.220 10 I saw plainly that the great show their
legitimate power in
nothing more than in their power to misguide us.
FSLN 11.220 26 There are those...who have power and
inspiration only to
do ill.
FSLN 11.222 20 [Webster's] power...was total.
FSLN 11.223 25 If [Webster's] moral sensibility had
been proportioned to
the force of his understanding, what limits could have been set to his
genius
and beneficent power?
FSLN 11.225 18 Who doubts the power of any fluent
debater to defend
either of our political parties...
FSLN 11.231 18 There are two forces in Nature, by whose
antagonism we
exist; the power of Fate...the material necessities, on the one
hand,-and
Will or Duty or Freedom on the other.
FSLN 11.237 18 ...as well-doing makes power and wisdom,
ill-doing takes
them away.
FSLN 11.238 4 The habit of mind of traders in power
would not be
esteemed favorable to delicate moral perception.
FSLN 11.241 10 Possession is sure to throw its stupid
strength for existing
power...
FSLN 11.243 1 You, gentlemen of these literary and
scientific schools, and
the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict
clear and prevailing.
AKan 11.259 9 I do not know any story so gloomy as the
politics of this
country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly
round
one spring, and that a vast crime...until it is notorious that all
promotion, power and policy are dictated from one source...
AKan 11.259 16 I do not know any story so gloomy as the
politics of this
country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly
round
one spring, and that a vast crime...and we free statesmen, as
accomplices to
the guilt, ever in the power of the grand offender.
JBB 11.271 24 ...the use of a judge is to secure good
government, and
where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power,
to use
that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government.
TPar 11.286 6 Theodore Parker was...a man of study, fit
for a man of the
world; with decided opinions and plenty of power to state them;...
TPar 11.290 21 By the incessant power of his statement,
[Theodore Parker] made and held a party.
TPar 11.293 2 ...[Theodore Parker] has gone down in
early glory to his
grave, to be a living and enlarging power, wherever learning, wit,
honest
valor and independence are honored.
ACiv 11.296 4 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/ Up
with it once
more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The white, blue and
red
which the nations adore!/
ACiv 11.297 22 ...a man coins himself into his labor;
turns his day, his
strength, his thought, his affection into some product which remains as
the
visible sign of his power;...
ACiv 11.299 2 We have attempted to hold together two
states of
civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and
the right
of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old
military
tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands,
makes
an oligarchy...
ACiv 11.303 25 The one power that has legs long enough
and strong
enough to wade across the Potomac offers itself at this hour;...
ACiv 11.307 12 The power of Emancipation is this, that
it alters the atomic
social constitution of the Southern people.
EPro 11.318 6 ...when we see how the great stake which
foreign nations
hold in our affairs has recently brought every European power as a
client
into this court...one can hardly say the deliberation [on Emancipation]
was
too long.
EPro 11.318 17 'T is wonderful what power is...
HCom 11.341 16 War passes the power of all chemical
solvents...
HCom 11.342 14 [The war] charged with power, peaceful,
amiable men...
SMC 11.351 15 ...whatever good grows to the country out
of war, the
largest results, the future power and genius of the land, will go on
clothing
this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
SMC 11.354 2 [A principle] lifts every population to an
equal power and
merit.
EdAd 11.383 8 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive
an unprecedented
material power from the new arts...
EdAd 11.384 7 [The traveller] reflects on the power
which each of these
plain republicans can employ;...
EdAd 11.384 22 ...we cannot stave off the ulterior
question...the WHERE
TO of all this [American] power and population...
EdAd 11.385 2 The aspect this country presents is...an
immense apparatus
of cunning machinery which turns out, at last, some Nuremberg toys. Has
it
generated, as some great interests do, any intellectual power?
EdAd 11.390 15 A journal that would meet the real wants
of this time must
have a courage and power sufficient to solve the problems which the
great
groping society around us...is dumbly exploring.
Wom 11.409 5 What is civilization? I answer, the power
of good women.
Wom 11.412 20 ...the starry crown of woman is in the
power of her
affection and sentiment...
Wom 11.414 2 There is much in [women's] nature, much in
their social
position which gives them a certain power of divination.
Wom 11.414 18 This [prophetic] power, this religious
character, is
everywhere to be remarked in [women].
Wom 11.419 21 ...if a woman demand votes, offices and
political equality
with men, as among the Shakers an Elder and Elderess are of equal
power... it must not be refused.
Wom 11.420 20 If new power is here, of a character
which solves old tough
questions...you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.
SHC 11.432 27 Certainly the living need [a garden] more
than the dead; indeed...it is given to the dead for the reaction of
benefit on the living. But
if the direct regard to the living be thought expedient, that is also
in your
power.
Shak1 11.448 6 Wherever there are men, and in the
degree in which they
are civil-have power of mind...[Shakespeare] has risen to his place as
the
first poet of the world.
Shak1 11.448 14 What shocks of surprise and sympathetic
power, this
battery, which [Shakespeare] is, imparts to every fine mind that is
born!
Scot 11.465 17 [Scott's] power on the public mind rests
on the singular
union of two influences.
ChiE 11.471 12 All share the surprise and pleasure when
the venerable
Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations. This
auspicious event...is an irresistible result of the science which has
given us
the power of steam and the electric telegraph.
ChiE 11.474 4 [Asian immigrants'] power of continuous
labor, their
versatility...are unlooked-for virtues.
FRO1 11.476 10 The great Idea baffles wit,/ Language
falters under it,/ It
leaves the learned in the lurch;/ Nor art, nor power, nor toil can
find/ The
measure of the eternal Mind,/ Nor hymn nor prayer nor church./
FRO1 11.479 19 ...as soon as every man is apprised of
the Divine Presence
within his own mind,-is apprised...that the basis of duty...the power
of
character...draw their essence from this moral sentiment, then we have
a
religion that exalts...
FRO2 11.485 4 ...it is not in my power to-day to meet
the natural demands
of the occasion [meeting of the Free Religious Association]...
CPL 11.504 5 ...in proportion to the spontaneous power
should be the
assimilating power.
CPL 11.504 6 ...in proportion to the spontaneous power
should be the
assimilating power.
FRep 11.513 7 ...it is not...the whole magazine of
material nature that can
give the sum of power...
FRep 11.514 9 In our popular politics you may note that
each aspirant who
rises above the crowd...soon learns that it is by no means by obeying
the
vulgar weathercock of his party...that real power is gained...
FRep 11.517 5 The lodging the power in the people...has
the effect of
holding things closer to common sense;...
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.
FRep 11.518 27 ...each aspirant for power vies with his
rival which can
stoop lowest...
FRep 11.519 20 We have seen the great party of property
and education in
the country drivelling and huckstering away...the dearest hopes of
mankind; the trustees of power only energetic when mischief could be
done...
FRep 11.521 20 The American marches with a careless
swagger to the
height of power...
FRep 11.522 11 [The American] sits secure in the
possession of his vast
domain...and feels the security that there can be...no danger from any
excess of importation of art or learning into a country of...such
immense
digestive power.
FRep 11.522 17 [The American] is easily fed with wheat
and game, with
Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts, by
political
power and by the power in the railroad board, in the mills, or the
banks.
FRep 11.523 10 ...[Americans...say, One vote can do no
harm! and vote for
something which they do not approve, because their party or set votes
for it. Of course this puts them in the power of any party having a
steady interest
to promote which does not conflict manifestly with the pecuniary
interest of
the voters.
FRep 11.526 3 The history of civilization, or the
refining of certain races to
wonderful power of performance, is analogous;...
FRep 11.527 21 Our institutions, of which the town is
the unit, are
educational... ... The result appears in the power of invention...
FRep 11.534 16 In the planters of this country...the
conditions of the
country, combined with the impatience of arbitrary power which they
brought from England, forced them to a wonderful personal
independence...
FRep 11.537 16 The flowering of civilization is the
finished man, the man
of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power...
FRep 11.539 19 ...liberty...like all power subsists
only by new rallyings on
the source of inspiration.
FRep 11.539 21 Power can be generous.
FRep 11.540 16 ...the Constitution and the law in
America must be written
on ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world
shall
hold the citizen loyal...
FRep 11.541 16 The genius of the country has marked out
our true
policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power...
NHI 12.2 1 Power that by obedience grows,/ Knowledge
that its source not
knows,/ Wave which severs whom it bears/ From the things which he
compares./
PLT 12.4 10 ...in the order of Nature [the higher laws]
lie higher and are
nearer to the mysterious seat of power and creation.
PLT 12.6 14 My belief in the use of a course of
philosophy is that the
student...shall learn [the mind's] subtle but immense power...
PLT 12.13 19 I want not the logic, but the power, if
any, which [metaphysics] brings into science and literature;...
PLT 12.14 1 I wish to know the laws of this wonderful
power, that I may
domesticate it.
PLT 12.17 5 ...I believe...that the genius of man is a
continuation of the
power that made him...
PLT 12.18 5 [Thoughts or intellections] again all mimic
in their sphericity
the first mind, and share its power.
PLT 12.21 20 ...having accepted this law of identity
pervading the
universe, we next perceive that whilst every creature represents and
obeys
it, there is diversity, there is more or less of power;...
PLT 12.24 4 ...the spectacle of vigor of any kind, any
prodigious power of
performance wonderfully arms and recruits us.
PLT 12.25 21 All great masters are chiefly
distinguished by the power of
adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous
line.
PLT 12.27 20 There is no permanent wise man, but men
capable of
wisdom, who, being put into certain company or other favorable
conditions, become wise, as glasses rubbed acquire power for a time.
PLT 12.28 13 Wherever there is health, that is, consent
to the cause and
constitution of the universe, there is perception and power.
PLT 12.28 14 Each man is a new power in Nature.
PLT 12.30 9 Power fraternizes with power...
PLT 12.30 15 There is always a loss of truth and power
when a man leaves
working for himself to work for another.
PLT 12.33 3 The appetite and the power of digestion
measure our right to
knowledge.
PLT 12.33 6 As soon as our accumulation [of knowledge]
overruns our
invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin...
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;...
PLT 12.34 24 [Instinct] is that source of thought and
feeling which acts on
masses of men, on all men at certain times with resistless power.
PLT 12.35 2 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to
light which is no man'
s invention, but the common instinct, making the revolutions that never
go
back. This is Instinct, and Inspiration is only this power excited...
PLT 12.39 14 ...this is the measure of all intellectual
power among men, the power to complete this detachment...
PLT 12.39 15 ...this is the measure of all intellectual
power among men, the power to complete this detachment...
PLT 12.39 16 ...this is the measure of all intellectual
power among men... the power of genius to hurl a new individual into
the world.
PLT 12.39 18 An intellectual man has the power to go
out of himself and
see himself as an object;...
PLT 12.42 19 Genius is a delicate sensibility to the
laws of the world, adding the power to express them again in some new
form.
PLT 12.42 21 The highest measure of poetic power is
such insight and
faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent
the
whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself...
PLT 12.44 2 ...the true scholar is one who has the
power to stand beside his
thoughts...
PLT 12.44 18 If you cut or break in two a block or
stone and press the two
parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near,
but
never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can
take up
the block as one. That indescribably small interval...has forever
severed the
practical unity. Such is the immense deduction from power by
discontinuity.
PLT 12.46 12 Will is the measure of power.
PLT 12.46 23 Heaven is the exercise of the faculties,
the added sense of
power.
PLT 12.47 2 A man tries to speak [the truth] and his
voice is...rude and
chiding. The truth is not spoken but injured. The same thing happens in
power to do the right.
PLT 12.47 5 There is a meter which determines the
constructive power of
man...
PLT 12.47 18 Sometimes the patience and love [of
intellectual men] are
rewarded by the chamber of power being at last opened;...
PLT 12.50 13 ...each power is commonly at the expense
of some other.
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.
PLT 12.51 6 The secret of power, intellectual or
physical, is concentration...
PLT 12.52 6 I am familiar with cases...wherein the
vital force being
insufficient for the constitution, everything is neglected that can be
spared; some one power fed, all the rest pine.
PLT 12.53 8 I must think...this thrill of awe with
which we watch the
performance of genius, a sign of our own readiness to exert the like
power.
PLT 12.54 27 [A man]...does not give to any manner of
life the strength of
his constitution. Hence the perpetual loss of power and waste of human
life.
PLT 12.56 15 There are two theories of life;... One is
activity...in this
direction lie usefulness, comfort, society, low power of all sorts.
PLT 12.58 11 Present power...requires concentration on
the moment...
PLT 12.59 10 Transition is the attitude of power.
PLT 12.60 17 In action is [man's] power;...
PLT 12.60 21 The spiritual power of man is twofold,
mind and heart...
PLT 12.60 25 The spiritual power of man is
twofold...Intellect and morals; one respecting truth, the other the
will. One is the man, the other the woman
in spiritual nature. One is power, the other is love.
PLT 12.62 2 Sensibility is the secret readiness to
believe in all kinds of
power...
PLT 12.62 12 We have all of us by nature a certain
divination and
parturient vaticination in our minds of some higher good and perfection
than either power or knowledge.
PLT 12.62 13 Knowledge is plainly to be preferred
before power...
II 12.65 1 In reckoning the sources of our mental
power, it were fatal to
omit that one which pours all the others into mould...
II 12.66 8 None of the metaphysicians have prospered in
describing this
power [consciousness], which constitutes sanity;...
II 12.68 23 We attributed power and science and good
will to the Instinct...
II 12.69 14 ...the drop of blood has latent power and
organs...
II 12.71 13 Novelty in the means by which we arrive at
the old universal
ends is the test of the presence of the highest power...
II 12.72 13 One master could so easily be conceived as
writing all the
books of the world. They are all alike. For [Inspiration] is a power to
convert all Nature to his use.
II 12.73 20 Power is the authentic mark of spirit.
II 12.73 22 What a revelation of power is music!
II 12.76 8 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his
experiments at crossing and
refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the
native
power.
II 12.77 7 I think this pathetic,-not to have any
wisdom at our own terms, not to have any power of organizing victory.
II 12.82 12 Every man comes into Nature impressed with
his own polarity
or bias, in obeying which his power, opportunity and happiness reside.
II 12.82 24 The secret of power is delight in one's
work.
II 12.83 1 ...[a man's] workbench is home, education,
power and patron.
II 12.84 11 ...men...always work in society with great
loss of power.
II 12.85 16 Each must be rich, but not only in money or
lands, he may have
instead the riches of riches,-creative supplying power.
II 12.85 17 Within this magical power derived from
fidelity to his nature, [man] adds also the mechanical force of
perseverance.
Mem 12.95 19 This power [of memory] will alone make a
man
remarkable;...
Mem 12.95 23 ...the power [of memory] exists in some
marked and
eminent degree in men of an ideal determination.
Mem 12.97 5 ...this mysterious power [memory] that
binds our life together
has its own vagaries and interruptions.
Mem 12.104 19 ...this power of sinking the pain of any
experience and of
recalling the saddest with tranquillity, and even with a wise pleasure,
is
familiar.
Mem 12.105 17 ...we understand best what we like; for
this doubles our
power of attention, and makes it our own.
Mem 12.106 6 Talk of memory and cite me these fine
examples of Grotius
and Daguesseau, and I think how awful is that power...
Mem 12.109 27 If we occupy ourselves long on this
wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge
calls upon old
knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus
there
must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its
use;...
Mem 12.110 1 If we occupy ourselves long on this
wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge
calls upon old
knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint...that there
must
be a proportion between the power of memory and the amount of
knowables;...
CInt 12.116 7 This power which [the college] deals is
dear to all.
CInt 12.116 9 If the colleges...really...had the power
of imparting valuable
thought...we should all rush to their gates;...
CInt 12.117 6 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and
literary and social honors
to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the
contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear; then the
college... ceases to be a school; power oozes out of it just as fast as
truth does;...
CInt 12.121 8 A certain quantity of power belongs to a
certain quantity of
truth.
CInt 12.123 1 The Understanding is the name we give to
the low, limitary
power working to short ends...
CInt 12.123 3 [The Understanding] is the power which
the world of men
adopt and educate.
CInt 12.126 4 It is true that the University and the
Church, which should be
counterbalancing institutions to our great material institutions of
trade and
of territorial power, do not express the sentiment of the popular
politics and
the popular optimism, whatever it be.
CInt 12.128 11 Now if there be genius in the scholar, a
delicate sensibility
to the laws of the world, and the power to express them again in some
new
form, he is made to find his own way.
CInt 12.130 6 My friend, stretch a few threads over a
common Aeolian
harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times
and the
heart of Nature. I do not think that you will believe that the miracle
of
Nature is less, the chemical power worn out.
CInt 12.130 20 Power costs nothing to the powerful.
CInt 12.130 25 Power never departs from [truth].
CL 12.140 26 The power of the air was the first
explanation offered by the
early philosophers of the mutual understanding that men have.
CL 12.152 25 Its power on the mind in sharpening the
perceptions has
made the sea the famous educator of our race.
CL 12.160 3 I hold all these opinions on the power of
the air to be
substantially true.
CL 12.166 14 I know that the imagination...is a coy,
capricious power...
CW 12.172 1 Still less did I know [when I bought my
farm] what good and
true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country
through
for their learning, or subtlety, or active or patriotic power...
Bost 12.189 13 The [Massachusetts Bay]
territory-conferred on the
patentees...with...the sole power of legislation...extended from the
40th to
the 48th degree of north latitude...
Bost 12.195 26 The universality of an elementary
education in New
England is her praise and her power in the whole world.
Bost 12.200 2 What should hinder that this
America...what should hinder
that this New Atlantis should have...its gardens fit for human abode,
where
all elements were right for the health, power and virtue of man?
Bost 12.200 6 America is growing like a cloud...and
wealth (always
interesting, since from wealth power cannot be divorced) is piled in
every
form invented for comfort or pride.
Bost 12.204 4 ...I do not find in our [New England]
people, with all their
education, a fair share of originality of thought;...not any...equal
power of
imagination.
Bost 12.205 19 The power of labor which belongs to the
English race fell
here into a climate which befriended it...
Bost 12.205 26 ...there was never, I suppose, a more
rapid expansion in
population, wealth and all the elements of power, and in the citizens'
consciousness of power and sustained assertion of it, than was
exhibited
here.
Bost 12.205 27 ...there was never, I suppose, a more
rapid expansion in
population, wealth and all the elements of power, and in the citizens'
consciousness of power and sustained assertion of it, than was
exhibited
here.
Bost 12.208 20 ...the genius of Boston is seen in her
real independence, productive power and northern acuteness of mind...
Bost 12.209 18 ...[Boston] owes its existence and its
power to principles
not of yesterday...
Bost 12.210 16 The [American] heroes only shared this
power of a
sentiment, which, if it now breathes into us, will make it easy to us
to
understand them, and we shall no longer flatter them.
MAng1 12.218 22 ...all men have...a power of deriving
pleasure from
Beauty.
MAng1 12.218 25 ...certain minds, more closely
harmonized with Nature, possess the power of abstracting Beauty from
things...
MAng1 12.220 1 ...to the artist it belongs by a better
knowledge of
anatomy, and, within anatomy, of life and thought, to acquire the power
of
true drawing.
MAng1 12.224 2 When the Florentines united themselves
with Venice, England and France, to oppose the power of the Emperor
Charles V., Michael Angelo was appointed Military Architect and
Engineer, to
superintend the erection of the necessary works.
Milt1 12.253 10 The opposition to [a masterpiece of
art]...at last ends; and
a new race grows up in the taste and spirit of the work, with the
utmost
advantage for seeing intimately its power and beauty.
Milt1 12.253 16 It is the prerogative of this great man
[Milton] to stand at
this hour foremost of all men in literary history, and so (shall we not
say?) of all men, in the power to inspire.
Milt1 12.259 27 Among the advantages of his foreign
travel, Milton
certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and
polish that
great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power
of language.
Milt1 12.261 22 ...[Milton] knew that this mastery of
language was a
secondary power...
Milt1 12.271 16 [Milton] proposed to establish a
republic, of which the
federal power was weak and loosely defined...
Milt1 12.271 18 [Milton] proposed to establish a
republic, of which...the
substantial power should remain with primary assemblies.
Milt1 12.271 24 One of [Milton's] tracts is writ to
prove that no power on
earth can compel in matters of religion.
ACri 12.283 16 ...Heaven, Hell, power, science, the
Neant, exist to [the
writer] as colors for his brush.
ACri 12.290 4 Dante is the professor that shall teach
both the noble low
style, the power of working up all his experience into heaven and hell;
also
the sculpture of compression.
ACri 12.299 26 After Low Style and Compression what the
books call
Metonomy is a principal power of rhetoric.
ACri 12.300 4 The power of the poet is in controlling
these symbols;...
ACri 12.304 7 The democratic, when the power proceeds
organically from
the people and is responsible to them, are classic politics.
MLit 12.316 3 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature
because his own soul was
too happy in beholding her power and love?
MLit 12.320 6 ...whilst every line of the true poet
will be genuine, he is in a
boundless power and freedom to say a million things.
MLit 12.326 25 Dramatic power, the rarest talent in
literature, [Goethe] has
very little.
MLit 12.332 13 [Goethe]...has declined the office
proffered to now and
then a man in many centuries in the power of his genius, of a Redeemer
of
the human mind.
MLit 12.332 26 ...they have served [humanity] better,
who assured it out of
the innocent hope in their hearts that a Physician will come, than this
majestic Artist [Goethe], with all the treasuries of wit, of science,
and of
power at his command.
MLit 12.334 14 Has the power of poetry ceased, or the
need?
Pray 12.354 5 The next [prayer] is in a metrical form.
It is the aspiration of
a different mind, in quite other regions of power and duty...
EurB 12.367 13 ...[Wordsworth's] poems evince a power
of diction that is
no more rivalled by his contemporaries than is his poetic insight.
EurB 12.370 4 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of
this writer [Tennyson]...his power of language...discriminate the musky
poet of
gardens and conservatories...
EurB 12.370 19 A critical friend of ours affirms that
the vice which
bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition to begin where
their fathers ended;...
EurB 12.373 4 We have heard it alleged with some
evidence that the
prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved
a
main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England
and
America.
EurB 12.374 17 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses
our respect... because the power with which his hero is armed is a
toy...
EurB 12.374 18 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses
our respect... because the power with which his hero is armed is a toy,
inasmuch as the
power does not flow from its legitimate fountains in the mind...
EurB 12.374 20 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses
our respect... because the power with which his hero is armed is a toy,
inasmuch as the
power...is a power for London; a divine power converted into a
burglar's
false key...
EurB 12.376 15 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] was
founded on power
to do what was necessary...
EurB 12.377 7 ...high behavior fraternized with high
behavior [in the
society in Wilhelm Meister], without question of heraldry, and the only
power recognized is the force of character.
Let 12.399 17 ...we should not know where to find in
literature any record
of...so much power without equal applicability, as our young men
pretend
to.
Let 12.401 12 On earth all is imperfect! is an old
proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these
God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life
is shallow and anxious and full of discord because they despise genius,
which brings power and nobleness into manly action...
Let 12.402 12 ...the smallest new activity given to the
perceptive power, is
a victory won to the living universe from Chaos and old Night...
Let 12.404 19 A literature...is the affair of a power
which works by a
prodigality of life and force very dismaying to behold...
Trag 12.409 7 A low, haggard sprite sits by our
side...a power of the
imagination to dislocate things orderly and cheerful and show them in
startling array.
Power, n. (22)
MR 1.240 9 Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of
man over his
necessities...
YA 1.373 26 That serene Power interposes the check upon
the caprices and
officiousness of our wills.
YA 1.379 5 Trade is an instrument in the hands of that
friendly Power
which works for us in our own despite.
OS 2.272 4 Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom,
Power.
Art1 2.358 8 The reference of all production at last to
an aboriginal Power
explains the traits common to all works of the highest art...
Exp 3.58 4 Like a bird which alights nowhere, but hops
perpetually from
bough to bough, is the Power which abides in no man and in no woman,
but
for a moment speaks from this one, and for another moment from that
one.
NER 3.285 19 Shall not the heart which has received so
much, trust the
Power by which it lives?
F 6.22 4 ...though Fate is immense, so is
Power...immense.
F 6.22 6 If Fate follows and limits Power, Power
attends and antagonizes
Fate.
Wsp 6.201 3 Some of my friends have complained...that
we discussed Fate, Power and Wealth on too low a platform;...
Wsp 6.241 25 ...the nameless Power...[man] shall repose
alone on that.
Ill 6.313 15 Yoganidra, the goddess of illusion,
Proteus, or Momus, or
Gylfi's Mocking,--for the Power has many names,--is stronger than the
Titans...
Ill 6.317 18 'T is the charm of practical men that
outside of their
practicality are a certain poetry and play, as if they led the good
horse
Power by the bridle, and preferred to walk...
Insp 8.269 3 It was Watt who told King George III. that
he dealt in an
article of which kings were said to be fond,-Power.
Imtl 8.337 26 ...I have enjoyed the benefits of all
this complex machinery
of arts and civilization, and its results of comfort. The good Power
can
easily provide me millions more as good.
Chr2 10.95 28 Truth, Power, Goodness, Beauty, are [the
moral sentiment'
s] varied names...
SovE 10.212 10 We buttress [the moral sentiment]
up...with legends, traditions and forms, each good for the one moment
in which it was a happy
type or symbol of the Power; but the Power sends in the next moment a
new lesson...
Prch 10.238 4 We [in the Church] come...to know that
though ministers of
justice and power fail, Justice and Power fail never.
Schr 10.273 13 We who should be the channel of that
unweariable Power
which never sleeps, must give our diligence no holidays.
EWI 11.147 23 The sentiment of Right...pronounces
Freedom. The Power
that built this fabric of things affirms it in the heart;...
SMC 11.357 27 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these
words: You may
think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from
danger, should wish to enter the army; but there is a higher Power that
tunes
the hearts of men...
II 12.79 27 ...the secret Power will not impart himself
to us for tea-table
talk;...
Power, Supreme, n. (3)
YA 1.390 22 It is for us to confide in the beneficent
Supreme Power...
Wsp 6.239 3 [The soul] asks no questions of the Supreme
Power.
WD 7.167 7 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us
the origin of the
old names of God...names of the sun...indicating that those ancient
men, in
their attempts to express the Supreme Power of the universe, called him
the
Day...
Power, Universal, n. (1)
MN 1.213 15 ...[the poet's] will in [his inspiration
must be] only the
surrender of will to the Universal Power...
powerful, adj. (53)
Nat 1.22 9 ...whosoever has seen a person of powerful
character...will have
remarked how easily he took all things along with him...
Nat 1.31 13 These facts may suggest the advantage which
the country-life
possesses, for a powerful mind...
Tran 1.340 23 ...the history of genius and of religion
in these times, though...as yet not incarnated in any powerful
individual, will be the history
of this [Transcendental] tendency.
SR 2.79 21 ...[creeds and churches] are also
classifications of some
powerful mind...
Prd1 2.240 11 We are...too old to expect patronage of
any greater or more
powerful.
Exp 3.68 15 The most attractive class of people are
those who are powerful
obliquely...
Mrs1 3.151 16 [Lilla] was a solvent powerful to
reconcile all
heterogeneous persons into one society...
NER 3.272 20 In the circle of the rankest tories...let
a powerful and
stimulating intellect...act on them, and very quickly these frozen
conservators will yield to the friendly influence...
UGM 4.4 9 ...if there were any magnet that would point
to the countries
and houses where are the persons who are intrinsically rich and
powerful, I
would sell all and buy it...
UGM 4.18 10 Especially when a mind of powerful method
has instructed
men, we find the examples of oppression.
PPh 4.70 23 Socrates and Plato are the double star
which the most powerful
instruments will not entirely separate.
MoS 4.150 27 In powerful moments, [the genius's]
thought has dissolved
the works of art and nature into their causes...
ShP 4.213 22 [Shakespeare] carried his powerful
execution into minute
details...
NMW 4.223 3 Among the eminent persons of the nineteenth
century, Bonaparte is far the...most powerful;...
NMW 4.226 2 ...precisely what is agreeable to the heart
of every man in the
nineteenth century, this powerful man [Napoleon] possessed.
ET3 5.34 15 The long habitation of a powerful and
ingenious race has
turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use...
ET4 5.65 15 [The English] are round, ruddy and
handsome;...and there is a
tendency to stout and powerful frames.
ET5 5.74 6 ...from the residence of a portion of these
[Scandinavian] people in France, and from some effect of that powerful
soil on their blood
and manners, the Norman has come popularly to represent in England the
aristocratic, and the Saxon the democratic principle.
ET5 5.88 20 Tacitus says of the Germans, Powerful only
in sudden efforts, they are impatient of toil and labor.
ET10 5.165 22 [The Englishman] goes with the most
powerful protection...
ET15 5.272 5 [The English press] has an imperial tone,
as of a powerful
and independent nation.
ET17 5.292 2 ...the editor of a powerful local journal,
[my Manchester
correspondent] added to solid virtues an infinite sweetness and
bonhommie.
Wth 6.104 17 ...if you should take out of the powerful
class engaged in
trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad...would not the
dollar... presently find it out?
Wsp 6.234 21 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal
people to whom I
have no skill to reply.
CbW 6.259 10 Passion...is a powerful spring.
CbW 6.278 9 The populace says, with Horne Tooke, If you
would be
powerful, pretend to be powerful.
CbW 6.278 10 The populace says, with Horne Tooke, If
you would be
powerful, pretend to be powerful.
Art2 7.42 13 All powerful action is performed by
bringing the forces of
Nature to bear upon our objects.
Art2 7.51 10 ...the delight which a work of art
affords, seems to arise from
our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature, again in active
operation. It differs from the works of Nature in this, that they are
organically
reproductive. This is not, but spiritually it is prolific by its
powerful action
on the intellects of men.
Clbs 7.241 4 Conversation is the Olympic games whither
every superior
gift resorts to assert and approve itself,--and, of course, the
inspirations of
powerful and public men, with the rest.
Suc 7.290 15 I hate this shallow Americanism which
hopes...to learn... power through making believe you are powerful...
PI 8.72 15 The problem of the poet is...to give the
pleasure of color, and be
not less the most powerful of sculptors.
Elo2 8.122 16 I have heard that no man could read the
Bible with such
powerful effect [as John Quincy Adams].
QO 8.177 18 Of a large and powerful class we might ask
with confidence, What is the event they most desire?...
PC 8.210 16 Consider...what masters, each in his
several province...the
novel and powerful philanthropies...have evoked!...
PC 8.230 6 I know well to what assembly of educated,
reflecting, successful and powerful persons I speak.
Grts 8.313 25 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke,
If you would be
powerful, pretend to be powerful.
Imtl 8.331 1 ...what is called great and powerful
life...is prone to develop
narrow and special talent;...
Imtl 8.331 9 There is a profound melancholy at the base
of men of active
and powerful talent, seldom suspected.
PerF 10.70 22 Faraday said, A grain of water is known
to have electric
relations equivalent to a very powerful flash of lightning.
LLNE 10.330 12 The popular religion of our fathers had
received many
severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary
influence of Swedenborg;...then the powerful influence of the genius
and
character of Dr. Channing.
SlHr 10.444 25 [Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the clear
apprehension and
the powerful statement of the material points of his case.
Thor 10.453 8 With his hardy habits and few wants, his
skill in wood-craft, and his powerful arithmetic, [Thoreau] was very
competent to live in any
part of the world.
EWI 11.127 20 It was a stately spectacle, to see the
cause of human rights
argued...before that powerful people [the English].
FSLC 11.203 26 [Webster] obeys his powerful animal
nature;...
EdAd 11.384 3 ...the train...shows our traveller what
tens of thousands of
powerful and weaponed men...sit at large in this ample region...
PLT 12.21 5 [A thought] comes single like a foreign
traveller,-but find
out its name, and it is related to a powerful and numerous family.
II 12.82 3 A man of more comprehensive view can always
see with good
humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less
comprehension.
II 12.84 7 This determination of Genius in each is so
strong that, if it were
not guarded with powerful checks, it would have made society
impossible.
CInt 12.119 13 I value dearly the poet who knows his
art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with
sympathetic song, just as a
powerful note of an organ sets all tuned strings in its neighborhood in
accordant vibration...
Bost 12.192 4 In the journey of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and
his company
through the forest from Boston to Concord they fainted from the
powerful
odor of the stweefern in the sun;...
ACri 12.286 9 He who would be powerful must have the
terrible gift of
familiarity...
PPr 12.379 11 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the
book of a powerful and
accomplished thinker...
powerful, n. (2)
JBB 11.269 10 You remember [John Brown's] words: If I
had interfered in
behalf of the rich, the powerful...it would all have been right.
CInt 12.130 21 Power costs nothing to the powerful.
powerfully, adv. (3)
Chr2 10.99 23 ...men act powerfully on us.
CL 12.142 23 There is also an effect [of walking] on
beauty. De Quincey
said, I have seen Wordsworth's eyes sometimes affected powerfully in
this
respect.
Bost 12.186 1 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...
powerless, adj. (2)
Exp 3.58 21 At Education Farm the noblest theory of life
sat on the noblest
figures of young men and maidens, quite powerless and melancholy.
SA 8.88 27 ...I have heard with admiring submission the
experience of the
lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives
a
feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
power-loom, n. (2)
WD 7.159 1 ...the sewing-machine, the power-loom, the
McCormick
reaper...are new in this century...
QO 8.179 6 ...movable types, the kaleidoscope, the
railway, the power-loom, etc., have been many times found and lost...
power-looms, n. (1)
ET10 5.158 12 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by
wooden ploughs. And it was to little purpose that [the English] had
pit-coal, or that looms
were improved, unless Watt and Stephenson had taught them to work
force-pumps
and power-looms by steam.
powers, n. (229)
Nat 1.3 12 Embosomed for a season in nature, whose
floods of life...invite
us, by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why
should
we grope among the dry bones of the past...
Nat 1.22 20 The intellectual and the active powers seem
to succeed each
other...
Nat 1.48 25 ...so long as the active powers predominate
over the reflective, we resist...any hint that nature is more
short-lived or mutable than spirit.
Nat 1.50 8 The best moments of life are these delicious
awakenings of the
higher powers...
AmS 1.86 11 The ambitious soul...one after another
reduces...all new
powers...
DSA 1.120 1 ...in the powers and path of light, heat,
attraction, and life, [the world] is well worth the pith and heart of
great men to subdue and
enjoy it.
DSA 1.149 15 ...then, when the dead began to fall in
ranks around him, awoke [Massena's] powers of combination...
MN 1.221 17 [The intellect] will burn up...all the
false powers of the world, as in a moment of time.
MR 1.256 13 ...the great man [is] very willing to lose
particular powers and
talents, so that he gain in the elevation of his life.
MR 1.256 26 ...the time will come when we too...shall
eagerly convert
more than we now possess into means and powers...
LT 1.263 9 ...[persons] are the channel of supernatural
powers.
Con 1.303 1 ...Wisdom attempts nothing enormous and
disproportioned to
its powers...
Con 1.303 21 ...[the existing world] has...a long
friendship and cohabitation
with the powers of nature.
Tran 1.334 21 All that you call the world is...the
perpetual creation of the
powers of thought...
YA 1.375 21 Fathers...behold with impatience a new
character and way of
thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter. This
feeling, which all their love and pride in the powers of their children
cannot
subdue, becomes petulance and tyranny when the head of the clan...deals
with the same difference of opinion in his subjects.
YA 1.386 24 In every society some men are born to rule
and some to
advise. Let the powers be well directed...and they would everywhere be
greeted with joy and honor.
Hist 2.5 11 What befell Asdrubal or Caesar Borgia is as
much an
illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen
us.
Hist 2.34 15 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a
deep presentiment of
the powers of science.
SR 2.76 20 Let a Stoic...tell men...that with the
exercise of self-trust, new
powers shall appear;...
Comp 2.101 4 Every thing in nature contains all the
powers of nature.
Comp 2.123 6 I do not wish more external
goods,--neither possessions, nor
honors, nor powers, nor persons.
SL 2.141 10 ...the more truly [a man] consults his own
powers, the more
difference will his work exhibit from the work of any other.
SL 2.141 12 [A man's] ambition is exactly proportioned
to his powers.
SL 2.156 18 Dreadful limits are set in nature to the
powers of dissimulation.
Fdsp 2.191 22 Our intellectual and active powers
increase with our
affection.
Fdsp 2.193 3 For long hours we can continue a series of
sincere, graceful, rich communications [with a commended stranger]...so
that they who sit
by...shall feel a lively surprise at our unusual powers.
Fdsp 2.197 6 No advantages, no powers, no gold or
force, can be any
match for [a man who stands united with his thought].
Fdsp 2.208 1 Unrelated men...will never suspect the
latent powers of each.
Hsm1 2.256 12 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage,
Juletta tells the
stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to
hang
ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and
scorn
ye./
OS 2.273 4 The least activity of the intellectual
powers redeems us in a
degree from the conditions of time.
OS 2.276 3 ...whoso dwells in this moral beatitude
already anticipates those
special powers which men prize so highly.
OS 2.276 10 ...the heart which abandons itself to the
Supreme Mind...will
travel a royal road to particular knowledges and powers.
Cir 2.320 18 The new position of the advancing man has
all the powers of
the old, yet has them all new.
Int 2.341 13 ...the constructive powers are rare...
Art1 2.369 4 When science is learned in love, and its
powers are wielded
by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the
material
creation.
Pt1 3.6 13 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses
have sufficient force to
arrive at the senses, but not enough to...compel the reproduction of
themselves in speech. The poet is the person in whom these powers are
in
balance...
Pt1 3.27 25 All men avail themselves of such means as
they can, to add this
extraordinary power to their normal powers;...
Exp 3.54 13 When virtue is in presence, all subordinate
powers sleep.
Exp 3.54 27 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or
the heart, lover of
absolute good, intervenes for our succor, and at one whisper of these
high
powers we awake from ineffectual struggles with this nightmare [of
science].
Exp 3.69 2 There is a certain magic about [a man's]
properest action which
stupefies your powers of observation...
Exp 3.74 11 [The spirit] has plentiful powers and
direct effects.
Chr1 3.102 22 ...[the hero] is again on his road,
adding new powers and
honors to his domain...
Nat2 3.171 20 There are all degrees of natural
influence, from these
quarantine powers of nature, up to her dearest and gravest
ministrations to
the imagination and the soul.
Nat2 3.194 20 ...if, instead of identifying ourselves
with the work, we feel
that the soul of the Workman streams through us, we shall find...the
fathomless powers of gravity and chemistry, and, over them, of life,
preexisting within us in their highest form.
Pol1 3.205 27 Under the dominion of an idea which
possesses the minds of
multitudes...the powers of persons are no longer subjects of
calculation.
NR 3.228 11 ...as we grow older we value total powers
and effects...
NR 3.245 3 The end and the means...life is made up of
the intermixture and
reaction of these two amicable powers...
NER 3.260 18 I conceive...the indication of growing
trust in the private self-supplied
powers of the individual, to be the affirmative principle of the
recent philosophy...
NER 3.270 3 [A canine appetite for knowledge] gave the
scholar certain
powers of expression...
NER 3.276 25 ...[those who reject us]...supply to us
new powers out of the
recesses of the spirit...
NER 3.285 10 ...what powers are wrapped up under the
coarse mattings of
custom...
UGM 4.10 3 A magnet must be made man in some...Oersted,
before the
general mind can come to entertain its powers.
UGM 4.21 1 These [great] men...engage us to new aims
and powers.
UGM 4.28 6 It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul
which he sends into
nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men...
PPh 4.43 6 Plato is clothed with the powers of a
poet...
PPh 4.46 24 There is a moment in the history of every
nation, when...the
perceptive powers reach their ripeness...
PPh 4.55 22 ...our enlarged powers at the approach and
at the departure of
a friend;...this command of two elements must explain the power and the
charm of Plato.
PPh 4.64 26 What a price [Plato] sets on the feats of
talent, on the powers
of Pericles, of Isocrates, of Parmenides!
PNR 4.81 11 [Nature] waited tranquilly...for the hour
to be struck when
man should arrive. Then periods must pass...before the map of the
instincts
and cultivable powers can be drawn.
SwM 4.98 21 As happens in great men, [Swedenborg]
seemed, by the
variety and amount of his powers, to be a composition of several
persons...
SwM 4.119 13 The principal powers continued to maintain
a healthy action [in Swedenborg]...
MoS 4.156 10 [The skeptic says] What is the use of
pretending to powers
we have not?
MoS 4.160 4 [The skeptic] is the
considerer...believing...that we cannot
give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict, with
powers so
vast and unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited
vulnerable popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every
danger, on the other.
ShP 4.191 9 Choose any other thing...out of the
national feeling and
history, and...[the great man's] powers would be expended in the first
preparations.
ShP 4.209 7 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded
convictions on those
questions which knock for answer at every heart...on those mysterious
and
demoniacal powers which defy our science...
ShP 4.217 16 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to
mankind. Is it not
as if one should have, through the majestic powers of science, the
comets
given into his hand...and should draw them from their orbits to glare
with
the municipal fireworks on a holiday night...
NMW 4.224 23 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes']
virtues and their
vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is
material... conversant with mechanical powers...
NMW 4.225 15 The man in the street finds in [Napoleon]
the qualities and
powers of other men in the street.
NMW 4.227 22 Bonaparte was the idol of common men
because he had in
transcendent degree the qualities and powers of common men.
NMW 4.239 5 [Bonaparte's] achievement of
business...enlarges the known
powers of man.
NMW 4.242 15 A market for all the powers and
productions of man was
opened [in France];...
NMW 4.257 4 Here [in Napoleon] was an experiment...of
the powers of
intellect without conscience.
GoW 4.262 19 ...besides the universal joy of
conversation, some men are
born with exalted powers for this second creation. Men are born to
write.
GoW 4.265 8 Society has, at all times, the same want,
namely of one sane
man with adequate powers of expression to hold up each object of
monomania in its right relations.
GoW 4.270 5 Among these [men of literary genius of our
age] no more
instructive name occurs than that of Goethe to represent the powers and
duties of the scholar or writer.
GoW 4.275 18 Man and the higher animals are built up
through the
vertebrae, the powers being concentrated in the head [wrote Goethe].
ET1 5.15 12 [Carlyle] was...self-possessed and holding
his extraordinary
powers of conversation in easy command;...
ET4 5.61 18 The continued draught of the best men in
Norway, Sweden
and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted those
countries...and
these have been second-rate powers ever since.
ET6 5.104 20 [The Englishman] has that aplomb which
results from...the
obedience of all the powers to the will;...
ET10 5.162 15 ...old energy of the Norse race arms
itself with these
magnificent powers [of steam];...
ET11 5.196 5 The great powers of industrial art have no
exclusion of name
or blood.
ET12 5.207 23 When born with good constitutions,
[English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...whose powers of
performance
compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box;...
ET14 5.243 22 [Locke's] countrymen...disused the
studies once so beloved; the powers of thought fell into neglect.
ET14 5.250 21 There is in the action of [James
Wilkinson's] mind a long
Atlantic roll...only lacking what ought to accompany such powers, a
manifest centrality.
ET14 5.251 22 [Englishmen]...respect the five mechanic
powers even in
their song.
F 6.8 27 The menagerie, or forms and powers of the
spine, is a book of
fate;...
F 6.22 18 [Man] betrays his relation to what is below
him...and has paid for
the new powers by loss of some of the old ones.
Pow 6.53 11 ...if there be such a tie that wherever the
mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men
whose magnetisms are
of that force to draw material and elemental powers...
Wth 6.87 25 Wealth begins...in giving on all sides by
tools and auxiliaries
the greatest possible extension to our powers;...
Wth 6.89 23 ...the powers of tillage;...are [man's]
natural playmates...
Wth 6.127 2 Nor is the man enriched...unless through
new powers and
ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher
good to be already on the way to the highest.
Ctr 6.131 10 A topical memoray makes [a man] an
almanac;...a skill to get
money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these
inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant
talent...
Ctr 6.131 11 A topical memoray makes [a man] an
almanac;...a skill to get
money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these
inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant
talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers.
Bhr 6.190 24 Self-reliance...is the guaranty that the
powers are not
squandered in too much demonstration.
Wsp 6.213 23 ...the enginery at work to draw out these
powers [of the
senses and the understanding] in priority, no doubt has its office.
Wsp 6.213 25 ...we are never without a hint that these
powers [of the
senses and of the understanding] are mediate and servile...
Wsp 6.216 8 It is certain that worship stands in some
commanding relation
to the health of man and to his highest powers...
Wsp 6.227 13 As we grow older we value total powers and
effects...
Wsp 6.227 27 Among the nuns in a convent not far from
Rome, one had
appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and
prophecy, and the abbess advised the Holy Father of the wonderful
powers shown by
her novice.
CbW 6.265 22 ...despair...untunes the active powers.
CbW 6.271 15 ...if one comes who can...show
[men]...what gifts they
have...what magical powers over nature and men;..he wakes in them the
feeling of worth...
CbW 6.271 16 ...if one comes who can...show
[men]...what gifts they
have...what access to poetry, religion and the powers which constitute
character,--he wakes in them the feeling of worth...
Bty 6.281 6 Our botany is all names, not powers...
Bty 6.282 22 ...man, when his powers unfold in order,
will take nature
along with him...
Bty 6.302 11 ...if a man...can take such advantages of
nature that all her
powers serve him;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
Ill 6.311 13 In admiring the sunset we do not yet
deduct the rounding, coordinating, pictorial powers of the eye.
Ill 6.317 27 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and
railway men have a
gentleness when off duty, a good-natured admission that there are
illusions, and who shall say that he is not their sport? We stigmatize
the cast-iron
fellows who cannot so detach themselves, as...fools of fate, with
whatever
powers endowed.
Civ 7.29 17 We cannot bring the heavenly powers to us,
but if we will only
choose our jobs in directions in which they travel, they will undertake
them
with the greatest pleasure.
Civ 7.30 26 If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by
putting our works
in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also...the powers
of
darkness...
Elo1 7.64 27 The orator sees himself the organ of a
multitude, and
concentrating their valors and powers...
Elo1 7.67 12 This range of many powers in the
consummate speaker...leads
us to consider the successive stages of oratory.
Elo1 7.76 15 ...eloquence is attractive as an example
of the magic of
personal ascendency,--a total and resultant power, and rare, because it
requires a rich coincidence of powers, intellect, will, sympathy,
organs
and...good fortune in the cause.
Elo1 7.81 14 ...it is not powers of speech that we
primarily consider under
this word eloquence...
Elo1 7.88 8 The statement of the fact...sinks before
the statement of the
law, which requires immeasurably higher powers...
Elo1 7.90 14 A popular assembly...is commanded by these
two powers,-- first by a fact, then by skill of statement.
DL 7.127 7 The first glance we meet may satisfy us that
matter is the
vehicle of higher powers than its own...
Farm 7.135 2 To these men [farmers]/ The landscape is
an armory of
powers/...
Farm 7.146 22 Great is the force of a few simple
arrangements; for
instance, the powers of a fence.
Farm 7.150 24 There has been a nightmare bred in
England of indigestion
and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that men
breed too fast for the powers of the soil;...
Farm 7.153 5 We see the farmer with pleasure and
respect when we think
what powers and utilities are so meekly worn.
WD 7.182 14 The masters of English lyric wrote their
songs [for joy]. It
was a fine efflorescence of fine powers;...
Boks 7.212 8 A right metaphysics should do justice to
the coordinate
powers of Imagination, Insight, Understanding and Will.
Clbs 7.231 14 Among the men of wit and learning, [the
lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety, grasp
of memory, luck, splendor and speed; such exploits of discourse, such
feats of society! What
new powers, what mines of wealth!
Cour 7.255 12 The third excellence is courage, the
perfect will...which...is
never quite itself until the hazard is extreme; then...all its powers
play well.
Suc 7.295 17 ...in the scale of powers it is not talent
but sensibility which is
best...
Suc 7.296 24 ...the powers of this busy brain are
miraculous and illimitable.
Suc 7.304 8 The supernal powers seem to take [the
lover's] part.
Suc 7.311 23 ...we have powers, connection, children,
reputations, professions;...
OA 7.326 22 The youth suffers not only from ungratified
desires, but from
powers untried...
PI 8.15 19 The endless passing of one element into new
forms...explains
the rank which the imagination holds in our catalogue of mental powers.
PI 8.38 3 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed,
confined...in mean
employments,--and victims of these; and the nobler powers untried,
unknown.
PI 8.71 11 To every plant there are two powers; one
shoots down as rootlet, and one upward as tree.
SA 8.91 23 ...sincere and happy conversation doubles
our powers;...
SA 8.99 25 ...[manners and talk] require...plenty and
ease,--since only so
can certain finer and finest powers appear and expand.
Elo2 8.120 7 ...give [an eloquent man]...the
inspiration of a great multitude, and he surprises by new and
unlooked-for powers.
Elo2 8.120 14 A good voice has a charm in speech as in
song;...and
indicates a rare sensibility, especially when trained to wield all its
powers.
Elo2 8.126 13 ...all these are the gymnastics, the
education of eloquence, and not itself. They cannot be too much
considered and practised as
preparation, but the powers are those I first named.
Elo2 8.129 13 ...[Lord Ashley] drew such an argument
from his own
confusion as more advantaged his cause that all the powers of eloquence
could have done.
Res 8.153 21 ...the one fact that shines through all
this plenitude of [man's] powers is, that as is the receiver, so is the
gift;...
QO 8.196 23 ...it is not rare to find great powers of
recitation, without the
least original eloquence...
PC 8.217 10 Culture implies all which gives the mind
possession of its own
powers;...
PC 8.221 7 The chief value [of devotion to natural
science] is not the useful
powers he obtained, but the test it has been of the scholar.
PC 8.225 6 Look out into the July night and see the
broad belt of silver
flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the
bonfires
of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its
enormous age...
PC 8.228 23 Great love is the inventor and expander of
the frozen powers...
PC 8.230 13 ...the transcendent powers of mind were not
meant to be
misused.
Insp 8.276 24 ...says the man...the favorable hour will
come when I can
command all my powers...
Insp 8.289 8 ...our enlarged powers in the presence, or
rather at the
approach and at the departure of a friend...these are the types or
conditions
of this power [of novelty].
Insp 8.292 11 ...[conversation is] the college where
you learn what
thoughts are, what powers lurk in those fugitive gleams...
Insp 8.297 12 These are some hints towards what is in
all education a chief
necessity,-the right government, or...the right obedience to the powers
of
the human soul.
Imtl 8.333 11 The ground of hope is in the infinity of
the world; which
infinity reappears in every particle, the powers of all society in
every
individual...
Dem1 10.18 21 All united moral powers avail nothing
against [demonic
individuals].
Dem1 10.20 16 It is curious to see what grand powers we
have a hint of...
Dem1 10.27 12 Willingly I too say, Hail! to the unknown
awful powers
which transcend the ken of the understanding.
Aris 10.36 2 ...inequalities exist...in the powers of
expression and action;...
Aris 10.43 9 When Nature goes to create a national man,
she puts a
symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers.
Aris 10.50 1 ...the powers of a geometer [are
determined] by solving his
problem;...
PerF 10.70 20 What agencies of electricity, gravity,
light, affinity combine
to make every plant what it is, and in a manner so quiet that the
presence of
these tremendous powers is not ordinarily suspected.
PerF 10.73 6 The brain of man has methods and
arrangements
corresponding to these material powers...
PerF 10.76 13 ...[man] exhausts by his use all the
harvests, all the powers
of the world.
PerF 10.78 24 I delight in tracing these wonderful
[mental] powers...
PerF 10.83 16 The last revelation of intellect and of
sentiment is that in a
manner it...makes known to [the man] that the spiritual powers are
sufficient to him if no other being existed;...
PerF 10.85 13 I find the survey of these cosmical
powers a doctrine of
consolation...
Supl 10.173 20 ...the luminous object...is luminous
because it is burning
up; and if the powers are disposed for display, there is all the less
left for
use and creation.
SovE 10.186 21 All forces are found in Nature united
with that which they
move...light is not massed aloof, nor electricity, nor gravity, but
they are
always in combination. And so moral powers;...
MoL 10.250 4 [Nature says to the American] I have
measured out to you
by weight and tally the powers you need.
Schr 10.283 2 I wish...to see men's sense of duty
extend to the cherishing
and use of their intellectual powers...
Schr 10.285 16 ...[Genius]...flings itself on real
elemental things, which are
powers, self-defensive;...
Plu 10.297 26 ...if [Plutarch] had not the highest
powers, he was yet a man
of rare gifts.
LLNE 10.329 12 [The new age] marked itself by a certain
predominance of
the intellect in the balance of powers.
LLNE 10.369 14 ...the lady or the romantic scholar [at
Brook Farm] saw
the continuous strength and faculty in people who would have disgusted
them but that these powers were now spent in the direction of their own
theory of life.
MMEm 10.398 17 [Lucy Percy] converses with those who
are most
distinguished for their conversational powers.
MMEm 10.426 12 Sadness is better than walking talking
acting
somnambulism. Yes, this entire solitude with the Being who makes the
powers of life!
SlHr 10.447 1 ...the farmers greeted [Samuel Hoar] as
one of themselves, whilst they paid due homage to his powers of mind
and to his virtues.
Thor 10.456 4 [Thoreau]...required a little sense of
victory...to call his
powers into full exercise.
Thor 10.480 17 ...I so much regret the loss of
[Thoreau's] rare powers of
action, that I cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no
ambition.
GSt 10.507 2 ...when I consider...that [George
Stearns]...was never called
to suffer under the decays and loss of his powers...I count him happy
among
men.
HDC 11.36 18 [The Indians'] physical
powers...astonished the white men.
HDC 11.42 16 ...this first recorded political act of
our fathers, this tax
assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in
their
civil history, implying...the exercise of a sovereign power, and
connected
with all the immunities and powers of a corporate town in
Massachusetts.
HDC 11.44 5 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty,
their manifest
convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General
Court...to certain purposes, sovereign powers.
HDC 11.45 12 [The settlers of Concord] bore to John
Winthrop, the
Governor, a grave but hearty kindness. For the first time, men examined
the
powers of the chief whom they loved and revered.
HDC 11.46 17 [The Massachusetts Bay towns'] powers were
speedily
settled by obvious convenience...
EWI 11.138 15 Men have become aware, through the
emancipation [in the
West Indies] and kindred events, of the presence of powers which, in
their
days of darkness, they had overlooked.
EWI 11.142 26 [The blacks] won the pity and respect
which they have
received [in the West Indies], by their powers and native endowments.
War 11.160 13 The eternal germination of the better has
unfolded new
powers...
FSLC 11.198 7 What shall we say of the functionary by
whom the recent
rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If he has rightly
defined
his powers, and has no authority to try the case, but only to prove the
prisoner's identity, and remand him, what office is this for a
reputable
citizen to hold?
FSLN 11.220 12 I saw that a great man [Webster],
deservedly admired for
his powers and their general right direction, was able...when he
failed...to
carry parties with him.
FSLN 11.224 9 Four years ago to-night, on one of those
high critical
moments in history...when the powers of right and wrong are mustered
for
conflict...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on
the
side of Slavery...
TPar 11.291 3 There are men of good powers who have so
much sympathy
that they must be silent when they are not in sympathy.
ACiv 11.299 15 Is...this evolution of man to the
highest powers, only to
give him sensibility...
ACiv 11.302 21 [Government] has, of necessity, in any
crisis of the state, the absolute powers of a dictator.
ALin 11.334 13 [Lincoln's] occupying the chair of state
was a triumph...of
the public conscience. This middle-class country had got a middle-class
president, at last. Yes, in manners and sympathies, but not in powers,
for
his powers were superior.
ALin 11.334 14 [Lincoln's] occupying the chair of state
was a triumph...of
the public conscience. This middle-class country had got a middle-class
president, at last. Yes, in manners and sympathies, but not in powers,
for
his powers were superior.
HCom 11.339 5 Old classmate, say/ Do you remember our
Commencement
Day?/ Were we such boys as these at twenty? Nay,/ God called them to a
nobler task than ours,/ And gave them holier thoughts and manlier
powers,-/ This is the day of fruits and not of flowers!/
EdAd 11.391 27 Is the age we live in unfriendly to the
highest powers;...
Koss 11.400 25 Sir [Kossuth]...we congratulate you that
you have known
how to convert calamities into powers...
Humb 11.457 9 ...a man's natural powers are often a
sort of committee that
slowly...give their attention and action;...
Humb 11.457 24 There is no book like [Humboldt's
Cosmos]; none
indicating such a battalion of powers.
FRep 11.531 9 I wish to see America, not like the old
powers of the earth...
PLT 12.3 6 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's
explanation of magnetic
powers...one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and
happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...
PLT 12.3 14 ...I thought-could not a similar
[scientific] enumeration be
made of the laws and powers of the Intellect...
PLT 12.4 4 These [higher] powers and laws are also
facts in a Natural
History.
PLT 12.10 19 The laws and powers of the Intellect
have...a stupendous
peculiarity...
PLT 12.12 22 ...the natural direction of the
intellectual powers is from
within outward...
PLT 12.21 22 ...the lowest only means incipient form,
and over it is a
higher class in which its rudiments are...raised to higher powers;...
PLT 12.26 19 In unfit company the finest powers are
paralyzed.
PLT 12.28 1 An individual mind...is a fixation or
momentary eddy in
which certain services and powers are taken up...
PLT 12.15 25 Not having enough [thought] to support all
the powers of a
race, [Nature] thins all her stock...
PLT 12.53 9 I must think we are entitled to powers far
transcending any
that we possess;...
PLT 12.60 5 This premature stop, I know not how,
befalls most of us in
early youth; as if the growth of high powers...closed at two or three
years in
the child...
II 12.80 16 We do not yet trust the unknown powers of
thought.
II 12.80 17 We do not yet trust the unknown powers of
thought. The whole
world is nothing but an exhibition of the powers of this principle,
which
distributes men.
II 12.81 1 The powers that make the capitalist are
metaphysical...
II 12.81 5 All conquests that history tells of will be
found to resolve
themselves into the superior mental powers of the conquerors...
CInt 12.116 11 If the colleges...really...had the power
of imparting...truths
which become powers...we should all rush to their gates;...
CInt 12.131 8 ...'t is very certain that an examination
is yonder before us
and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived, that
every
scholar is to be put fairly on his own powers...
CInt 12.132 1 ...old men cannot see the powers of
society...passing, or soon
to pass, into the hands of you and your contemporaries, without an
earnest
wish that you have caught sight of your high calling...
CW 12.176 25 This is my ideal of the powers of wealth.
Find out what lake
or sea Agassiz wishes to explore, and offer to carry him there...
Bost 12.184 21 Even at this day men are to be found
superstitious enough
to believe that to certain spots on the surface of the planet special
powers
attach...
Bost 12.192 22 ...the awe [of the Massachusetts
colonists] was real and
overpowering in the superstition with which every new object was
magnified. The superstition which hung over the new ocean had not yet
been scattered; the powers of the savage were not known;...
Bost 12.200 19 ...a gold-mine, a new country...offer
swing and play to the
confined powers.
MAng1 12.223 9 The love of beauty which never passes
beyond outline
and color was too slight an object to occupy the powers of
[Michelangelo's] genius.
MAng1 12.228 4 [Michelangelo] finished the gigantic
painting of the
ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in twenty months, a fact which enlarges,
it has
been said, the known powers of man.
Milt1 12.258 25 ...in reply apparently to some
compliment on his powers of
conversation, [Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their
compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed
no marks of sublimity or genius.
Milt1 12.274 4 ...by the proportion of his
powers;...[Milton] would
reascend to the height from which our nature is supposed to have
descended.
ACri 12.300 10 The world, history, the powers of
Nature,-[the poet] can
make them speak what sense he will.
MLit 12.316 22 Of the perception now fast becoming a
conscious fact,- that there is One Mind, and that all the powers and
privileges which lie in
any, lie in all...literature is far the best expression.
MLit 12.332 1 That Goethe had not a moral perception
proportionate to his
other powers is not...merely a circumstance...
MLit 12.333 21 All that in our sovereign moments each
of us has divined
of the powers of thought...this man [the poet] should unfold, and
constitute
facts.
PPr 12.383 16 ...to bring out the truth for beauty, and
as literature, surmounts the powers of art.
pox, n. (1)
ET1 5.13 24 [Coleridge said] There were only three
things which the
government had brought into that garden of delights [Sicily], namely,
itch, pox and famine.
Poz, n. (1)
MoS 4.166 25 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite
the title-page, I
seem to hear him say, You may play old Poz, if you will;...
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