Practicable to Preeminent

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

practicable, adj. (7)

    Nat 1.47 2 Thus is the unspeakable but intelligible and practicable meaning of the world conveyed to man...in every object of sense.
    Pol1 3.221 15 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures. If the individual who exhibits them dare to think them practicable, he disgusts scholars and churchmen;...
    Elo1 7.68 6 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with...a hue-and-cry style of harangue, which...makes all safe and secure, so that any and every sort of good speaking becomes at once practicable.
    Boks 7.193 3 There are books; and it is practicable to read them, because they are so few.
    PI 8.31 19 To the poet...all is practicable;...
    Edc1 10.144 22 Somewhat [the child] sees in forms...or believes practicable in mechanics...which no one else sees or hears or believes.
    FSLC 11.208 25 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West Indian slaves. I say buy...because it is the only practicable course...

practicable, n. (2)

    Edc1 10.158 25 By your own act you teach the beholder how to do the practicable.
    FRep 11.518 21 We...grope after the practicable and available.

practical, adj. (148)

    Nat 1.4 18 ...to a sound judgment, the most abstract truth is the most practical.
    Nat 1.59 27 [The ideal theory] is...the view which Reason, both speculative and practical...take.
    AmS 1.94 9 The so-called practical men sneer at speculative men...
    MN 1.215 26 ...there is no end to which your practical faculty can aim...that if pursued for itself, will not at last become carrion...
    MR 1.230 16 It cannot be wondered at that this general inquest into abuses should arise in the bosom of society, when one considers the practical impediments that stand in the way of virtuous young men.
    MR 1.250 12 ...the reason of the distrust of the practical man in all theory, is his inability to perceive the means whereby we work.
    LT 1.260 4 [The Times] is very good matter to be handled, if we are skilful; an abundance of important practical questions which it behooves us to understand.
    Con 1.306 4 ...when this great tendency [conservatism] comes to practical encounters, and is challenged by young men...it must needs seem injurious.
    YA 1.385 7 ...many people...are never happier than when difficult practical questions...are to be solved.
    YA 1.394 17 That there are mitigations and practical alleviations to this rigor [of English aristocracy], is not an excuse for the rule.
    SR 2.75 18 ...we see that most natures...have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force...
    SL 2.132 13 Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man...
    SL 2.134 6 Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of nature over will in all practical life.
    Cir 2.309 23 [Idealism] now shows itself ethical and practical.
    Art1 2.354 17 ...[the infant's] individual character and his practical power depend on his daily progress in the separation of things...
    Art1 2.363 9 Art has not yet come to its maturity...if it is not practical and moral...
    Exp 3.59 12 ...the practical wisdom infers an indifferency, from the omnipresence of objection.
    Exp 3.68 25 ...for practical success, there must not be too much design.
    Exp 3.84 9 ...that hankering after an overt or practical effect seems to me an apostasy.
    Exp 3.86 4 ...the true romance which the world exists to realize will be the transformation of genius into practical power.
    Chr1 3.101 23 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform...
    Pol1 3.208 1 ...our institutions...have not any exemption from the practical defects which have discredited other forms.
    Pol1 3.208 10 The same benign necessity and the same practical abuse appear in the parties...of opponents and defenders of the administration of the government.
    Pol1 3.214 14 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. ... Love and nature cannot maintain the assumption; it must be executed by a practical lie, namely by force.
    NR 3.230 2 England, strong, punctual, practical, well-spoken England I should not find if I should go to the island to seek it.
    NER 3.255 1 There was in all the practical activities of New England for the last quarter of a century, a gradual withdrawal of tender consciences from the social organizations.
    UGM 4.4 1 You say, the English are practical;...
    PPh 4.39 9 A discipline [Plato] is in logic, arithmetic, taste, symmetry, poetry, language, rhetoric, ontology, morals or practical wisdom.
    SwM 4.100 5 [Swedenborg]...withdrew from his practical labors...
    SwM 4.100 21 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill...drew to him queens, nobles, clergy...
    SwM 4.112 12 [Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover those secret recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her laboratory; whilst the picture comes recommended by the hard fidelity with which it is based on practical anatomy.
    SwM 4.123 24 What earnestness and weightiness [in Swedenborg]...a theoretic or speculative man, but whom no practical man in the universe could affect to scorn.
    MoS 4.151 21 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world...and the practical world...weigh heavily on the other side.
    MoS 4.152 6 ...to the men of practical power...the man of ideas appears out of his reason.
    MoS 4.157 1 [The skeptic says] Of what use to take the chair and glibly rattle off theories of society, religion and nature, when I know that practical objections lie in the way, insurmountable by me and by my mates?
    MoS 4.157 15 ...there is no practical question on which any thing more than an approximate solution can be had?
    ShP 4.198 26 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes; the crowd of practical and knowing men, who, by correspondence or conversation, are feeding him with evidence, anecdotes and estimates...
    NMW 4.249 21 [Napoleon] delighted in running through the range of practical, of literary and of abstract questions.
    GoW 4.266 5 In this country, the emphasis of conversation and of public opinion commends the practical man;...
    GoW 4.266 17 It is believed...the negotiations of a caucus and the practising on the prejudices and facility of country-people to secure their votes in November,--is practical and commendable.
    GoW 4.267 20 ...in...actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty...there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
    GoW 4.267 25 The Hindoos write in their sacred books, Children only, and not the learned, speak of the speculative and the practical faculties as two.
    GoW 4.268 3 That man seeth, who seeth that the speculative and the practical doctrines are one [say the Hindoos].
    GoW 4.268 10 The robust gentlemen who stand at the head of the practical class, share the ideas of the time...
    GoW 4.281 5 The German intellect wants...the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure;...
    ET3 5.36 4 The practical common-sense of modern society...is the natural genius of the British mind.
    ET4 5.50 26 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter, contemplation and practical skill;...
    ET5 5.80 22 [The English people's] practical vision is spacious...
    ET5 5.85 7 ...[the English] have impressed their directness and practical habit on modern civilization.
    ET5 5.93 3 In every path of practical activity [the English] have gone even with the best.
    ET5 5.100 21 Men [in England] quickly embodied what Newton found out, in Greenwich observatories and practical navigation.
    ET6 5.102 21 ...[the English] hate the practical cowards who cannot in affairs answer directly yes or no.
    ET6 5.114 11 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of clever projects, bits...of practical intervention...
    ET7 5.116 23 [Englishmen's] practical power rests on their national sincerity.
    ET14 5.247 27 The critic [in England] hides his skepticism under the English cant of practical.
    ET14 5.251 19 The bias of Englishmen to practical skill has reacted on the national mind.
    ET14 5.260 6 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise...
    ET18 5.304 21 Such is their tenacity and such their practical turn, that [the English] hold all they gain.
    F 6.3 10 ...the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life.
    F 6.23 18 ...it is wholesome to man to look not at Fate, but the other way: the practical view is the other.
    F 6.31 9 ...[men] think...that it would be a practical blunder to transfer the method and way of working of one sphere into the other.
    Wth 6.93 17 Columbus thinks that the sphere is a problem for practical navigation as well as for closet geometry...
    Wth 6.115 2 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to...unite farming to intellectual pursuits. Many...made the experiment...but all were cured of their faith that scholarship and practical farming...could be united.
    Wth 6.123 3 ...the practical neighbor cavils at the position of the barn;...
    Wth 6.125 25 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. ... It is to invest income; that is to say, to take up particulars into generals; days into integral eras,--literary, emotive, practical,--of its life...
    Ctr 6.158 17 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis. But to give these accessories any value, I must know them as contingent...possessions, which pass for more to the people than to me. We see this abstraction in scholars, as a matter of course; but what a charm it adds when observed in practical men.
    Wsp 6.202 16 The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power...
    Bty 6.296 11 A beautiful woman is a practical poet...
    Ill 6.317 16 'T is the charm of practical men that outside of their practicality are a certain poetry and play...
    Civ 7.19 11 [Civilization] implies the evolution of a highly organized man, brought to supreme delicacy of sentiment, as in practical power, religion, liberty, sense of honor and taste.
    Art2 7.39 26 The useful arts comprehend...navigation, practical chemistry and the construction of all the grand and delicate tools and instruments by which man serves himself;...
    Elo1 7.75 23 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent. They know how...to put things into a practical shape...
    DL 7.116 19 ...many things betoken a revolution of opinion and practice in regard to manual labor that may go far to aid our practical inquiry.
    Farm 7.140 26 The men in cities who are...the driving-wheels of trade, or politics or practical arts...are the children or grandchildren of farmers...
    Boks 7.196 21 The three practical rules [for reading]...which I have to offer, are,--1. Never read any book that is not a year old.
    Boks 7.203 20 ...Pythagoras was eminently a practical person...
    Clbs 7.245 19 It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance.
    Cour 7.254 1 ...there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind:--1. Disinterestedness...2. Practical power...3. courage...
    Cour 7.273 7 ...it is not the means on which we draw, as...practical skill or dexterous talent..that count, but the aims only.
    PI 8.67 14 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys...and these heroic songs or lines are remembered and determine many practical choices which they make later.
    SA 8.103 11 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company: what with a perpetual practical wisdom...
    Elo2 8.130 10 ...such practical chemistry as the conversion of a truth written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer.
    QO 8.179 21 ...the practical activity is a river of supply;...
    PC 8.210 13 Consider...what genius of science...what of practical skill...the railroad, the telegraph...have evoked!...
    PC 8.234 8 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up,-what high personal worth, what love of men, what hope, is joined with rich information and practical power...I cannot distrust this great knighthood of virtue...
    Insp 8.279 23 How many sources of inspiration can we count? As many as our affinities. But to a practical purpose we may reckon a few of these.
    Grts 8.309 16 If we should ask ourselves what is this self-respect, it would carry us to the highest problems. It is our practical perception of the Deity in man.
    Grts 8.318 25 Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most remarkable example of this class [of great style of hero] that we have seen,-a man...with a spirit and a practical vein in the times of terror that commanded the admiration of the wisest.
    Imtl 8.332 22 ...the practical faculties are faster developed than the spiritual.
    Imtl 8.344 23 My idea of heaven is that there is no melodrama in it at all; that it is wholly real. Here is the emphasis of conscience and experience; this is no speculation, but the most practical of doctrines.
    Aris 10.39 21 I wish...men...who would find their fellows in persons of real elevation of whatever kind of speculative or practical ability.
    Aris 10.40 6 In every company one finds the best man; and if there be any question, it is decided the instant they enter into any practical enterprise.
    Aris 10.40 18 It only needs to look at the social aspect of England and America and France, to see the rank which original practical talent commands.
    Edc1 10.129 11 No dollar of property can be created without...some acquisition of knowledge and practical force.
    SovE 10.210 12 I know how delicate this [moral] principle is,-how difficult of adaptation to practical and social arrangements.
    Schr 10.266 24 ...practical people in America give themselves wonderful airs.
    Schr 10.268 3 ...I do not wish...that life should be to you, as it is to many, optical, not practical.
    Schr 10.268 18 ...I prefer no action to misaction, and I reject the abusive application of the term practical to those lower activities.
    Schr 10.268 19 Let us hear no more of the practical men...
    Schr 10.281 6 We have seen to weariness what you [idealists] cannot do; now show us what you can and will do, asks the practical man...
    Schr 10.283 27 ...memory, arithmetic, practical power...are all good things...
    Schr 10.287 9 The practical aim is forever higher than the literary aim.
    Plu 10.298 24 ...upright, practical;...[Plutarch] has a taste for common life...
    Plu 10.308 16 ...true to his practical character, [Plutarch] wishes the philosopher not to hide in a corner...
    LLNE 10.341 21 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a pure idealist, not at all a man...of any practical talent...
    LLNE 10.344 17 [Theodore Parker] stood altogether for practical truth;...
    LLNE 10.356 20 Thoreau was in his own person a practical answer...to the theories of the socialists.
    LLNE 10.362 23 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a man of no employment or practical aims...
    LLNE 10.368 26 ...what various practical wisdom...many of the members owed to [Brook Farm]!
    MMEm 10.408 6 [Mary Moody Emerson] is no statute-book of practical commandments...
    Thor 10.480 15 ...with his energy and practical ability [Thoreau] seemed born for great enterprise and for command;...
    Carl 10.489 5 [Carlyle] is...a practical Scotchman...
    LS 11.23 13 There remain some practical objections to the ordinance [the Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter.
    EWI 11.138 7 ...we are indebted mainly to this movement [for emancipation in the West Indies] and to the continuers of it, for the popular discussion of every point of practical ethics...
    War 11.161 26 That the project of peace should appear visionary to great numbers of sensible men;...should appear to the grave and good-natured to be embarrassed with extreme practical difficulties,-is very natural.
    FSLC 11.210 11 ...grant that the heart of financiers, accustomed to practical figures, shrinks within them at these colossal amounts, and the embarrassments which complicate the problem [abolition];...
    FSLN 11.227 5 ...Vattel, Burke, Jefferson, do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid], and I cite them...because, though lawyers and practical statesmen, the habit of their profession did not hide from them that this truth was the foundation of States.
    TPar 11.289 22 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...
    ACiv 11.299 17 Is [man] not to make his knowledge practical?...
    ALin 11.336 9 Had [Lincoln] not lived long enough to keep the greatest promise that ever man made to his fellow men,-the practical abolition of slavery?
    SMC 11.352 9 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence. But in the necessities of the hour, they...winked at a practical exception to the Bill of Rights they had drawn up.
    EdAd 11.386 5 It is a poor consideration that the country wit is precocious, and, as we say, practical;...
    Wom 11.420 1 ...bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions?
    Wom 11.421 13 Here are two or three objections [to women's voting]: first, a want of practical wisdom; second, a too purely ideal view; and, third, the danger of contamination.
    FRO1 11.477 5 I came [to the Free Religious Association], as I supposed myself summoned, to a little committee meeting, for some practical end...
    FRO1 11.480 2 What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings together to-day so many separated friends...was some practical suggestions by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true Church...
    FRep 11.516 24 The humblest [in America] is daily challenged to give his opinion on practical questions...
    FRep 11.525 6 After every practical mistake out of which any disaster grows, the [American] people wake and correct it with energy.
    FRep 11.526 7 Here is practical democracy;...
    FRep 11.531 16 In this country, with our practical understanding, there is, at present, a great sensualism...
    PLT 12.10 5 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every way forwarded. Practical men, though they could lift the globe, cannot arrive at this.
    PLT 12.44 16 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.
    PLT 12.46 3 All thought is practical.
    PLT 12.56 11 There are two theories of life;... One is activity...the following of that practical talent which we have...
    PLT 12.61 6 Ideal and practical...are never parallel.
    II 12.67 7 To make a practical use of this instinct in every part of life constitutes true wisdom...
    II 12.72 2 No practical rules for the poem, no working-plan was ever drawn up.
    II 12.78 13 ...the practical rules of literature ought to follow from these views, namely, that all writing is by the grace of God;...
    CInt 12.119 8 ...I too am an American, and value practical talent.
    MAng1 12.227 20 ...not only was this discoverer of Beauty [Michelangelo]...rooted and grounded in those severe laws of practical skill, which genius can never teach...but he was one of the most industrious men that ever lived.
    Milt1 12.248 26 ...as writings designed to gain a practical point, [Milton's tracts] fail.
    Milt1 12.251 16 [Milton's Areopagitica] is valuable in history as an argument addressed to a government to produce a practical end...
    Milt1 12.272 11 The events which produced [Milton's tracts on divorce and freedom of the press], the practical issues to which they tend, are mere occasions for this philanthropist to blow his trumpet for human rights.
    MLit 12.335 20 [The Genius of the time] will write in a higher spirit and a wider knowledge and with a grander practical aim than ever yet guided the pen of poet.
    PPr 12.383 2 It requires great courage in a man of letters to handle the contemporary practical questions;...
    PPr 12.387 8 ...if you should ask the contemporary, he would tell you, with pride or with regret (according as he was practical or poetic), that he had [no superstitions].
    Let 12.395 16 The Buddhist is a practical Necessitarian;...
    Let 12.396 13 It is not for nothing...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society. How fantastic and unpresentable soever the theory has hitherto seemed, how swiftly shrinking from the examination of practical men, let us not lose the warning of that most significant dream.

practical, n. (3)

    ET14 5.255 5 The practical and comfortable oppress [the English] with inexorable claims...
    Edc1 10.134 21 If the vast and the spiritual are omitted [in our culture], so are the practical and the moral.
    SlHr 10.445 17 The useful and practical super-abounded in [Samuel Hoar' s] mind...

practicality, n. (2)

    Ill 6.317 16 'T is the charm of practical men that outside of their practicality are a certain poetry and play...
    PLT 12.9 18 What with egotism on one side and levity on the other, we shall have no Olympus. But there is still another hindrance, namely, practicality.

practically, adv. (8)

    Con 1.309 11 I must tell you the truth practically;...
    NR 3.229 20 We are practically skilful in detecting elements for which we have no place in our theory, and no name.
    MoS 4.185 6 The lesson of life is practically to generalize;...
    ShP 4.198 11 It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
    Wth 6.120 25 The rule is...to learn practically the secret spoken from all nature...
    Cour 7.263 14 [The soldier]...knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.
    LLNE 10.356 16 ...Thoreau gave in flesh and blood and pertinacious Saxon belief the purest ethics. He was more real and practically believing in them than any of his company...
    FRep 11.536 12 A man for success must not be pure idealist, then he will practically fail;...

practice, n. (80)

    Nat 1.57 25 ...religion and ethics, which may be fitly called the practice of ideas...have an analogous effect with all lower culture...
    MN 1.222 12 That man shall be learned who reduceth his learning to practice.
    MN 1.222 17 If knowledge, said Ali the Caliph, calleth unto practice, well; if not, it goeth away.
    LT 1.276 9 The impulse [of Reform] is good, and the theory; the practice is less beautiful.
    SL 2.145 17 That mood into which a friend can bring us is his dominion over us. To the thoughts of that state of mind he has a right. All the secrets of that state of mind he can compel. This is a law which statesmen use in practice.
    SL 2.153 14 The argument which has not power to reach my own practice, I may well doubt will fail to reach yours.
    Fdsp 2.206 27 ...I find this law of one to one peremptory for conversation, which is the practice and consummation of friendship.
    Cir 2.313 4 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto] claps wings to the sides of all the solid old lumber of the world, and I am capable once more of choosing a straight path in theory and practice.
    Chr1 3.111 8 The sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the power and the furniture of man, is in that possibility of joyful intercourse with persons, which makes the faith and practice of all reasonable men.
    NR 3.235 2 Homoeopathy is...of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.
    UGM 4.26 8 The shield against the stingings of conscience is the universal practice...
    PPh 4.52 14 The country...of men faithful in doctrine and in practice to the idea of a deaf, unimplorable, immense fate, is Asia;...
    MoS 4.164 5 In 1571...Montaigne...retired from the practice of law at Bordeaux...
    MoS 4.178 20 ...The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearance of reconciliation between the theory and practice of life.
    NMW 4.238 25 It was a whimsical economy of the same kind which dictated [Bonaparte's] practice, when general in Italy, in regard to his burdensome correspondence.
    GoW 4.274 9 ...[Goethe] showed...that, in actions of routine, a thread of mythology and fable spins itself, by tracing the pedigree of every usage and practice...home to its origin in the structure of man.
    ET3 5.35 20 ...an American has more reasons than another to draw him to Britain. In all that is done or begun by the Americans towards right thinking or practice, we are met by a civilization already settled and overpowering.
    ET4 5.72 12 The pastures of Tartary were still remembered by the tenacious practice of the Norsemen to eat horseflesh at religious feasts.
    ET5 5.83 4 This [English] common-sense is a perception...of laws that can be stated, and of laws than cannot be stated, or that are learned only by practice...
    ET5 5.86 24 Lord Collingwood was accustomed to tell his men that if they could fire three well-directed broadsides in five minutes, no vessel could resist them; and from constant practice they came to do it in three minutes and a half.
    ET6 5.110 23 As soon as [the English] have rid themselves of some grievance and settled the better practice, they make haste to fix it as a finality...
    ET6 5.111 4 ...the cockneys stifle the curiosity of the foreigner on the reason of any practice with Lord, sir, it was always so.
    Pow 6.66 26 'T is not very rare, the coincidence of sharp private and political practice with public spirit and good neighborhood.
    Pow 6.78 3 Practice is nine tenths.
    Pow 6.78 4 A course of mobs is good practice for orators.
    Wth 6.86 2 ...the mind acts...in directing the practice of the useful arts...
    Wth 6.92 6 The brave workman, who might betray his feeling of it in his manners, if he do not succumb in his practice, must replace the grace or elegance forfeited, by the merit of the work done.
    Wth 6.119 12 A master in each art is required, because the practice is never with still or dead subjects...
    CbW 6.250 2 What a vicious practice is this of our politicians at Washington pairing off!...
    CbW 6.253 11 There will not be a practice or an usage introduced [wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers], of which [the fools] are not the authors.
    CbW 6.257 13 ...[the gentleman] replied...that he was not alarmed by the dissipation of boys; 't was dangerous water, but he thought they would soon touch bottom, and then swim to the top. This is bold practice...
    SS 7.7 12 ...there is no remedy that can reach the heart of the disease but either habits of self-reliance that should go in practice to making the man independent of the human race, or else a religion of love.
    DL 7.116 18 ...many things betoken a revolution of opinion and practice in regard to manual labor...
    DL 7.128 11 ...the sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the competence of man to elevate and to be elevated is in that desire and power to stand in joyful and ennobling intercourse with individuals, which makes the faith and the practice of all reasonable men.
    DL 7.130 3 ...let [a man] not...seek to turn his house into a museum. Rather let the noble practice of the Greeks find place in our society...
    Clbs 7.225 10 ...thought...pure...soon burns up the bone-house of man, unless tempered with affection and coarse practice in the material world.
    Cour 7.263 2 Knowledge is the encourager...knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice.
    Cour 7.274 5 ...practice never comes up with [the religious sentiment].
    PI 8.37 1 [The poet's] wreath and robe is...escape from the gossip and routine of society, and the allowed right and practice of making better.
    Elo2 8.132 27 ...here [in the United States] are the service of science, the demands of art, and the lessons of religion to be brought home to the instant practice of thirty millions of people.
    Res 8.151 5 ...the subject [the physiology of taste] is so large and exigent that a few particulars, and those the pleasures of the epicure, cannot satisfy. I know many men of taste whose single opinions and practice would interest much more.
    Comc 8.160 14 The presence of the ideal of right and of truth in all action makes the yawning delinquencies of practice remorseful to the conscience...
    PC 8.231 3 We wish to put the ideal rules into practice...
    Insp 8.294 13 I have heard from persons who had practice in rhyming, that it was sufficient to set them on writing verses, to read any original poetry.
    Grts 8.307 27 In morals this [individual bias] is conscience; in intellect, genius; in practice, talent;...
    Aris 10.35 1 We...put faith...in the Republican principle carried out to the extremes of practice in universal suffrage...
    Chr2 10.103 14 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when it...sets [a man] on some asceticism or some practice of self-examinatioon to hold him to obedience...are the homage we render to this sentiment...
    Edc1 10.141 12 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which...teaches by practice the law of conversation...
    Edc1 10.141 17 The obscure youth learns [in solitude] the practice instead of the literature of his virtues;...
    Edc1 10.155 3 ...the correction of this quack practice is to import into Education the wisdom of life.
    Prch 10.230 4 The man of practice or worldly force requires of the preacher a talent, a force, like his own;...
    Prch 10.235 17 The inevitable course of remark for us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty, is not so much the...burning out of our errors of practice...
    Prch 10.235 22 All civil mankind have agreed in leaving one day for contemplation against six for practice.
    MoL 10.256 15 I allow [senators and lawyers] the merit of that reading which appears in their opinions, tastes, beliefs and practice.
    LLNE 10.346 9 I think [the pilgrim] persisted for two years in his brave practice...
    LLNE 10.347 1 ...being asked, Well, Mr. Owen, who is your disciple? How many men are there possessed of your views who will remain after you are gone to put them in practice? Not one, was his reply.
    LLNE 10.365 27 In practice it is always found that virtue is occasional, spotty, and not linear or cubic.
    MMEm 10.432 23 It is frivolous to ask,-And was [Mary Moody Emerson] ever a Christian in practice?
    SlHr 10.438 11 ...[Samuel Hoar] continued the uniform practice of his daily walk in all parts of the city [Charleston].
    SlHr 10.440 17 When I talked with [Samuel Hoar] one day of some inequality of taxes in the town, he said it was his practice to pay whatever was demanded;...
    SlHr 10.446 28 No art or practice of the farm was unknown to [Samuel Hoar]...
    Thor 10.453 1 If [Thoreau] slighted and defied the opinions of others, it was only that he was more intent to reconcile his practice with his own belief.
    Thor 10.454 4 [Thoreau]...wished to settle all his practice on an ideal foundation.
    LS 11.16 13 On every other subject [than the Lord's Supper] succeeding times have learned to form a judgment more in accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the early ages.
    LS 11.21 7 ...every practice is Christian which praises itself...
    LS 11.21 8 ...every practice is Christian which praises itself, and every practice unchristian which condemns itself.
    HDC 11.29 9 You have thought it becoming to commemorate the planting of the first inland town [Concord]. The sentiment is just, and the practice is wise.
    HDC 11.66 11 Mr. [Daniel] Bliss...by his earnest sympathy with [George Whitefield], in opinion and practice, gave offence to a part of his people.
    ACiv 11.300 17 Neither was anything concealed of the theory or practice of slavery.
    SMC 11.353 1 The aim of the hour was to reconstruct the South; but first the North had to be reconstructed. Its own theory and practice of liberty had got sadly out of gear...
    FRO2 11.489 11 Let [the lesson of the New Testament] stand, beautiful and wholesome, with whatever is most like it in the teaching and practice of men;...
    FRep 11.516 23 The mind is always better the more it is used, and here [in America] it is kept in practice.
    FRep 11.518 2 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 not quite of mobs, but in practice of an inferior class of professional politicians...
    PLT 12.48 14 There is some incompatibility of good speculation and practice...
    CInt 12.128 8 This, then, is the theory of Education, the happy meeting of the young soul...with the living teacher who has already made the passage from the centre forth...along the intellectual roads to the theory and practice of special science.
    CL 12.159 12 ...it was the practice of the Orientals, especially of the Persians, to let insane persons wander at their own will out of the towns, into the desert...
    MAng1 12.227 22 ...not only was this discoverer of Beauty [Michelangelo]...rooted and grounded in those severe laws of practical skill, which...must be learned by practice alone, but he was one of the most industrious men that ever lived.
    Milt1 12.256 14 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem;...not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
    ACri 12.298 22 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book holding so many memorable and heroic facts, working directly on practice;...
    MLit 12.335 23 [The Genius of the time] will...record the descent of principles into practice...

Practice, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.152 7 Alas for the cripple Practice when it seeks to come up with the bird Theory, which flies before it.

practices, n. (15)

    MN 1.215 10 ...[the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular practices...
    MR 1.233 22 The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man.
    MR 1.248 17 Let [a man]...put all his practices back on their first thoughts...
    Con 1.318 16 ...we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation or continuance of views and practices injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.
    Chr1 3.100 2 It is much that [the ingenious man] does not accept the conventional opinions and practices.
    ET11 5.195 2 ...[English nobles] were expert in every species of equitation, to the most dangerous practices...
    Insp 8.296 27 I value literary biography for the hints it furnishes from so many scholars...of...what gymnastic, what social practices their experience suggested and approved.
    Aris 10.61 8 The honor of a member consists in an indifferency to the persons and practices about him...
    Chr2 10.103 20 ...the private or social practices we establish in [the moral sentiment's] honor we call religion.
    Chr2 10.107 23 [The clergy] have dropped...many doctrines and practices once esteemed indispensable to their order.
    LS 11.16 3 We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own.
    LS 11.21 3 ...[Christianity]...enjoins practices that are their own justification;...
    HDC 11.43 17 ...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
    War 11.153 26 [Alexander's conquest of the East] weaned the Scythians and Persians from some cruel and licentious practices to a more civil way of life.
    Milt1 12.265 9 ...[Milton] replies to the...calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with...labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render...obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion and our country's liberty, when it shall require firm hearts in sound bodies to stand and cover their stations. These are the morning practices.

practise, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.414 12 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Could [my aunt's] own temper in childhood or age have been subdued, how happy for herself, who had a warm heart; but for me would have prevented those early lessons of fortitude, which her caprices taught me to practise.

practise, v. (4)

    Prd1 2.235 21 Let [a man] practise the minor virtues.
    Boks 7.215 4 ...the player in Consuelo insists that he and his colleagues on the boards have taught princes the fine etiquette and strokes of grace and dignity which they practise with so much effect in their villas...
    Prch 10.233 7 ...as much justice as we can see and practise is useful to men...
    Pray 12.354 15 That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,/ And my life practise more than my tongue saith;/ That my low conduct may not show,/ Nor my relenting lines,/ That I thy purpose did not know,/ Or overrated thy designs./

practised, adj. (4)

    Bhr 6.180 3 When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, a practised man relies on the language of the first.
    WD 7.157 15 The apprentice clings to his foot-rule; a practised mechanic will measure by his thumb and his arm with equal precision;...
    WD 7.157 20 The sympathy of eye and hand by which an Indian or a practised slinger hits his mark with a stone, or a wood-chopper or a carpenter swings his axe to a hair-line on his log, are examples [that the eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose];...
    FSLC 11.196 15 The first execution of the [Fugitive Slave] law, as was inevitable, was a little hesitating; the second was easier; and the glib officials became, in a few weeks, quite practised and handy at stealing men.

practised, v. (6)

    MR 1.245 22 Economy is...a sacrament...when it is practised for freedom...
    Exp 3.57 11 ...each [man] has his special talent, and the mastery of successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practised.
    MoS 4.177 24 There is a painful rumor in circulation that we have been practised upon in all the principal performances of life...
    ET4 5.64 17 In the last session (1848), the House of Commons was listening to the details of flogging and torture practised in the jails.
    PI 8.6 8 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir...does not like to be practised upon...
    Elo2 8.126 12 ...all these are the gymnastics, the education of eloquence, and not itself. They cannot be too much considered and practised as preparation...

practisers, n. (1)

    SovE 10.195 23 Cripples and invalids, we doubt not there are bounding fawns in the forest, and lilies with graceful, springing stem; so neither do we doubt or fail to love the eternal law, of which we are such shabby practisers.

practises, v. (2)

    Clbs 7.234 15 ...the ground of our indignation is our conviction that [yonder man's] dissent is some wilfulness he practises on himself.
    Prch 10.224 19 Now every man...professes this but practises the reverse;...

practising, n. (1)

    AsSu 11.247 15 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...spending his days in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against his slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and dangerous way.

practising, v. (3)

    GoW 4.266 15 It is believed...the negotiations of a caucus and the practising on the prejudices and facility of country-people to secure their votes in November,--is practical and commendable.
    CbW 6.271 1 ...it is [conversation] which all are practising every day while they live.
    SlHr 10.442 7 For a long term of years, [Samuel Hoar] was at the head of the bar in Middlesex, practising, also, in the adjoining counties.

practitioner, n. (1)

    MR 1.233 25 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes...

practitioners, n. (4)

    NMW 4.250 27 Of medicine too [Bonaparte] was fond of talking, and with those of its practitioners whom he most esteemed...
    Pow 6.79 11 It is not question to express our thought, to elect our way, but to overcome resistances of the medium and material in everything we do. Hence the use of drill, and the worthlessness of amateurs to cope with practitioners.
    Elo1 7.75 10 These kinds of public and private speaking have their use and convenience to the practitioners;...
    FSLC 11.192 16 The practitioners [of law] should guard this dogma [that immoral laws are void] well...

praedials, n. (1)

    EWI 11.112 13 ...the praedials [in the West Indies] should owe three fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years...

praedonum, n. (1)

    ET4 5.68 23 ...Robin Hood comes described to us as mitissimus praedonum; the gentlest thief.

Praeds, n. (1)

    ET15 5.262 21 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and Froudes and Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or short essays for a journal, as they make speeches in Parliament and on the hustings...

pragmatical, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.274 2 As long as [the religious sentiment] is cowardly insinuated, as with the wish...to make it affirm some pragmatical tenet which our parish church receives to-day, it is not imparted...

Prahlada [Vishnu Purana], n (2)

    Chr2 10.120 6 But I, father, says the wise Prahlada, in the Vishnu Purana, know neither friends nor foes, for I behold Kesava in all beings as in my own soul.
    Chr2 10.121 1 [Character] indulges no enmity against any, knowing, with Prahlada that the suppression of malignant feeling is itself a reward.

prairie, adj. (2)

    ET6 5.114 24 ...our prevailing equality makes a prairie tameness...
    Koss 11.401 3 You [Kossuth] have got your story told in every palace and log hut and prairie camp, throughout the continent.

prairie, n. (15)

    AmS 1.97 25 Authors we have, in numbers...who...follow the trapper into the prairie...to replenish their merchantable stock.
    YA 1.371 3 A heterogeneous population crowding...to the great gates of North America...and thence proceeding inward to the prairie and the mountains...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    SwM 4.123 7 [Swedenborg's theological writings'] immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie or the desert...
    ET16 5.288 23 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...in the sea-wide, sky-skirted prairie, still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother...
    F 6.7 24 Our western prairie shakes with fever and ague.
    F 6.17 2 [The Germans and Irish] are...carted over America...to lie down prematurely to make a spot of green grass on the prairie.
    Farm 7.146 23 On the prairie you wander a hundred miles and hardly find a stick or a stone.
    Boks 7.219 22 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women. These are Scriptures which the missionary might well carry over prairie, desert and ocean...
    Insp 8.269 22 The hunter on the prairie, at the right season, has no need of choosing his ground;...
    Insp 8.293 23 By sympathy, each [party in good conversation] opens to the eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind. We were all lonely, thoughtless; and now...we see new relations, many truths;...each catches by the mane one of these strong coursers like horses of the prairie...
    PerF 10.72 1 When the rain exceeds on the coast, there is drought on the prairie.
    SMC 11.353 24 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...into the prairie and beyond...
    FRep 11.522 4 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...looks from his coal-fields, his wheat-bearing prairie, his gold-mines, to his two oceans...
    PLT 12.42 17 Each soul...walking in its own path walks firmly; and to the astonishment of all other souls, who see not its path, it goes as softly and playfully on its way as if, instead of being a line...it were a wide prairie.
    CL 12.160 7 I hold all these opinions on the power of the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them;...the patriot on his mountains or his prairie affirms them;...

prairies, n. (2)

    JBB 11.266 18 ...[John Brown] and his brave boys vowed-so might Heaven help and speed 'em-/ They would save those grand old prairies from the curse that blights the land;/...
    FRep 11.530 5 ...if the prosperity of this country has been merely the obedience of man to the guiding of Nature,-of great rivers and prairies,- yet is there fate above fate, if we choose to spread this language;...

praise, n. (97)

    Nat 1.30 4 When...the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of...the desire of...praise...the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    AmS 1.100 23 Flamsteed and Herschel...may catalogue the stars with the praise of all men...
    DSA 1.147 15 Society's praise can be cheaply secured...
    LE 1.173 24 [The scholar's] own estimate must be measure enough, his own praise reward enough for him.
    LE 1.175 24 Have solitary prayer and praise.
    MN 1.195 1 Not exhortation, not argument becomes our lips, but paeans of joy and praise.
    MN 1.198 2 Every earnest glance we give to the realities around us, with intent to learn...is really songs of praise.
    MN 1.204 27 ...seen from the platform of intellection there is nothing for us but praise and wonder.
    MN 1.220 10 Not praise...but the spirit's holy errand through us absorbed the thought.
    LT 1.290 5 ...[the Moral Sentiment] is recognized...in all praise;...
    Hist 2.7 23 Praise is looked...from mute nature...
    SR 2.55 20 There is a mortifying experience in particular...I mean the foolish face of praise...
    SR 2.62 11 ...I am to settle [the picture's] claims to praise.
    Comp 2.118 11 Blame is safer than praise.
    Comp 2.118 14 ...as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
    SL 2.142 24 We like only such actions as have already long had the praise of men...
    SL 2.153 24 ...when the empty book has gathered all its praise...it still needs fuel to make fire.
    Prd1 2.221 19 ...where a man is not vain and egotistic you shall find what he has not by his praise.
    Hsm1. 2.252 25 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...made happy with a little gossip or a little praise...
    Art1 2.362 13 The sweet and sublime face of Jesus [in Raphael's Transfiguration] is beyond praise...
    Art1 2.362 25 Our best praise is given to what [the arts] aimed and promised...
    Pt1 3.31 13 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire...
    Pt1 3.37 12 Dante's praise is that he dared to write his autobiography in colossal cipher...
    Exp 3.57 13 We do what we must...and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.
    Exp 3.74 15 ...all just persons are satisfied with their own praise.
    Exp 3.79 9 ...[the intellect] leaves out praise and blame and all weak emotions.
    Chr1 3.106 26 ...some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise...
    Chr1 3.112 1 ...if we could abstain from asking anything of [men], from asking their praise, or help, or pity, and content us with compelling them through the virtue of the eldest laws!
    SwM 4.144 23 ...in [Swedenborg's] immolation of genius and fame at the shrine of conscience, is a merit sublime beyond praise.
    ShP 4.203 2 [Jonson] no doubt thought the praise he has conceded to [Shakespeare] generous...
    ET1 5.16 4 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig.
    ET2 5.28 14 The conscious ship hears all the praise.
    ET4 5.46 18 Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed...to laws and traditions, nor to fortune; but to superior brain, as it makes the praise more personal to him.
    ET4 5.51 9 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes...nothing can be praised in it without damning exceptions, and nothing denounced without salvos of cordial praise.
    ET7 5.118 9 The phrase of the lowest of the [English] people is honor-bright, and their vulgar praise, His word is as good as his bond.
    ET9 5.145 21 When [the Englishman] adds epithets of praise, his climax is, so English;...
    ET13 5.223 8 ...[the English clergyman] entertains your thought or your project with sympathy and praise.
    ET14 5.252 6 Every one of [the Englishmen] is a thousand years old and lives by his memory: and when you say this, they accept it as praise.
    F 6.36 3 ...the love and praise [man] extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.
    Ctr 6.157 19 The poet, as a craftsman, is only interested in the praise accorded to him...
    Wsp 6.237 25 Honor...him who, by sympathy with the invisible and real, finds support in labor, instead of praise;...
    Bty 6.279 22 While thus to love [Seyd] gave his days/ In loyal worship, scorning praise,/ How spread their lures for him, in vain,/ Thieving Ambition and paltering Gain!/
    Art2 7.46 26 The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us
    Elo1 7.84 2 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness...swept away all the impertinence of private sorrow with his hosannas and songs of praise.
    Suc 7.286 26 Neither do we grudge to each of these benefactors the praise or the profit which accrues from his industry.
    Suc 7.290 26 ...excellence is lost sight of in the hunger for sudden performance and praise.
    OA 7.315 13 ...the transparent good faith of [Josiah Quincy's] praise and blame...gave unusual interest to the College festival.
    OA 7.315 23 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...happiest perhaps in his praise of life on the farm;...
    OA 7.335 4 [John Adams] spoke of the new novels of Cooper...and Saratoga, with praise...
    PI 8.1 2 But over all his crowning grace,/ Wherefor thanks God his daily praise,/ Is the purging of his eye/ To see the people of the sky/...
    PI 8.68 5 The praise we now give to our heroes we shall unsay when we make larger demands.
    SA 8.105 21 ...[sentimentalists] adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise.
    Elo2 8.114 16 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man...whom praise cannot spoil...
    QO 8.178 3 Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.
    Imtl 8.343 15 [The moral sentiment] risks or ruins property, health, life itself, without hesitation, for its thought, and all men justify the man by their praise for this act.
    SovE 10.191 21 Man is always throwing his praise or blame on events...
    MoL 10.253 25 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise...
    MoL 10.254 9 ...now not only all the statues of bronze in the temples of Aegina are destroyed, but...the very walls of the city are utterly gone; whilst the ode of Pindar, in praise of Pytheas, remains entire.
    Schr 10.259 1 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages/...
    Schr 10.286 19 [The scholar] is to eat insult, drink insult, be clothed and shod in insult until he has learned that this bitter bread and shameful dress... is of the same chemistry as praise and fat living;...
    Plu 10.300 3 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure. What better praise has any writer received than he whom Montaigne finds frank in giving things, not words...
    Plu 10.302 9 We sail on [Plutarch's] memory into the ports of every nation, enter into every private property, and do not stop to discriminate owners, but give him the praise of all.
    LLNE 10.364 8 The Founders of Brook Farm should have this praise, that they made what all people try to make, an agreeable place to live in.
    MMEm 10.413 21 A mediocre mind will be deranged in either extreme of... praise or censure...
    HDC 11.77 6 To you [veterans of the battle of Concord] belongs a better badge than stars and ribbons. This prospering country is your ornament, and this expanding nation is multiplying your praise with millions of tongues.
    HDC 11.82 27 Concord has always been noted for its ministers. The living need no praise of mine.
    EWI 11.120 24 Though joy beamed on every countenance, [emancipation day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn thankfulness to God, and the churches and chapels were everywhere filled with these happy people in humble offering of praise.
    FSLC 11.204 27 It is neither praise nor blame to say that [Webster] has no moral perception, no moral sentiment...
    FSLC 11.212 22 It was the praise of Athens, She could not lead countless armies into the field, but she knew how with a little band to defeat those who could.
    JBS 11.277 3 ...the best orators who have added their praise to his fame... have one rival who comes off a little better, and that is JOHN BROWN.
    TPar 11.289 15 One fault [Theodore Parker] had, he...sometimes vexed [his friends] with the importunity of his good opinion, whilst they knew better the ebb which follows unfounded praise.
    TPar 11.290 7 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions...the truth is not in you; and no...praise of John Wesley, or of Jeremy Taylor, can save you from the Satan which you are.
    ACiv 11.310 24 The message [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] has been received throughout the country with praise...
    ALin 11.330 3 ...acclamations of praise for the task [Lincoln] had accomplished burst out into a song of triumph...
    SMC 11.361 13 ...[George Prescott's letters] contain the sincere praise of men whom I now see in this assembly.
    RBur 11.438 5 Praise to the bard! his words are driven,/ Like flower-seeds by the far winds sown,/ Where'er, beneath the sky of heaven,/ The birds of fame have flown./ Halleck.
    FRO2 11.489 6 It is the praise of our New Testament that its teachings go to the honor and benefit of humanity...
    CPL 11.508 14 ...there is no end to the praise of books...
    Mem 12.103 3 I value the praise of Memory.
    CL 12.155 27 I [Linnaeus] saw [Lap] men more than seventy years old put their heel on their own neck, without any exertion. O holy simplicity of diet, past all praise!
    Bost 12.195 25 The universality of an elementary education in New England is her praise and her power in the whole world.
    Bost 12.205 15 ...when within our memory some flippant senator wished to taunt the people of this country by calling them the mudsills of society, he paid them ignorantly a true praise;...
    Bost 12.210 13 This praise [of our ancestors] was a concession of unworthiness in those who had so much to say of it.
    MAng1 12.239 4 ...Michael Angelo's praise on many works is to this day the stamp of fame.
    MAng1 12.239 22 ...the reputation of many works of art now in Italy derives a sanction from the tradition of [Michelangelo's] praise.
    Milt1 12.247 18 ...it is...true that [Milton] has gained, in this age, some increase of permanent praise.
    Milt1 12.252 15 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson...
    Milt1 12.252 18 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson, because it...was...the praise of intimate knowledge and delight;...
    Milt1 12.265 12 [Milton's native honor] is the spirit of Comus, the loftiest song in the praise of chastity that is in any language.
    Milt1 12.275 25 ...in Paradise Regained, we have the most distinct marks of the progress of the poet's mind, in the revision and enlargement of his religious opinions. This may be thought to abridge his praise as a poet.
    ACri 12.292 12 'T is the worst praise you can give a speech that it is as if written.
    ACri 12.299 21 ...the secret interior wits and hearts of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II], not the less surely. They have said nothing lately in praise of the air, or of fire, or of the blessing of love, and yet, I suppose, they are sensible of these...
    MLit 12.319 8 ...[Byron's] praise of Nature is thieving and selfish.
    MLit 12.321 11 [Wordsworth's The Excursion] was the human soul in these last ages striving for a just publication of itself. Add to this, however, the great praise of Wordsworth, that more than any other contemporary bard he is pervaded with a reverence of somewhat higher than (conscious) thought.
    MLit 12.327 9 ...we claim for [Goethe] the praise of truth...
    MLit 12.327 21 Let [Goethe] have the praise of the love of truth.
    AgMs 12.362 7 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth. The good Commissioner [Henry Colman] takes off his hat when he approaches them, distrusts the value of his feeble praise...

Praise of Folly [Desiderius (1)

    CbW 6.253 3 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men have met this obstruction in their times...like Erasmus, with his book, The Praise of Folly;...

Praise of Folly, n. (1)

    Boks 7.211 22 ...[the Germans] take any general topic, as...Praise of Folly, and write and quote without method or end.

Praise of Science, n. (1)

    Boks 7.211 21 ...[the Germans] take any general topic, as...Praise of Science...and write and quote without method or end.

praise, v. (43)

    DSA 1.148 25 You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.
    DSA 1.149 3 The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause. Such souls...are...the dictators of fortune. One needs not praise their courage...
    MN 1.223 6 I praise with wonder this great reality...
    Hist 2.7 14 Books, monuments, pictures, conversations, are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the lineaments he is forming. The silent and the eloquent praise him and accost him...
    Comp 2.94 27 Is it that [the good] are to have leave to pray and praise, to love and serve men? Why, that they can do now.
    SL 2.150 16 Persons approach us, famous for their beauty...with very imperfect result. To be sure it would be ungrateful in us not to praise them loudly.
    Fdsp 2.197 12 I hear what you say of the admirable parts and tried temper of the party you praise...
    OS 2.295 24 Before that heaven which our presentiments foreshow us, we cannot easily praise any form of life we have seen or read of.
    Pt1 3.9 8 I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent writer of lyrics...whose skill and command of language we could not sufficiently praise.
    Exp 3.52 24 ...temperament is a power which no man willingly hears any one praise but himself.
    NR 3.228 15 The acts which you praise, I praise not...
    NR 3.228 16 The acts which you praise, I praise not...
    PPh 4.78 27 ...when we praise the style, or the common sense, or arithmetic [of Plato], we speak as boys...
    ET1 5.8 4 I could not make [Landor] praise Mackintosh...
    ET13 5.224 21 Abroad with my wife, writes Pepys piously, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach; which do make my heart rejoice and praise God...
    ET18 5.305 16 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...the abolition of slavery, of impressment, penal code and entails. They praise this drag...
    ET19 5.312 26 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port...
    Bhr 6.194 6 ...such was the contented spirit of the monk [Basle] that he found something to praise in every place and company...
    CbW 6.258 18 In the high prophetic phrase, He causes the wrath of man to praise him...
    Bty 6.305 25 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns. This is that haughty force of beauty... which the poets praise...
    Civ 7.17 4 We praise the guide, we praise the forest life/...
    Elo1 7.83 25 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness,--Let us praise the Lord,--carried audience, mourners and mourning along with him...
    WD 7.160 25 The old Hebrew king said, He makes the wrath of man to praise him.
    Suc 7.296 11 We should know how to praise Socrates...without impoverishing us.
    Chr2 10.102 13 This steadfastness we indicate when we praise character.
    Edc1 10.125 7 ...I praise New England because it is the country in the world where is the freest expenditure for education.
    Plu 10.307 4 Whilst we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power from the philosopher in his closet, we praise it in the man of the world;...
    LLNE 10.362 10 Many ladies, whom to name were to praise, gave character and varied attraction to the place [Brook Farm].
    MMEm 10.419 13 I [Mary Moody Emerson] praise Him, though when my strength of body falters, it is a trial not easily described.
    Carl 10.491 11 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they praise republics and he likes the Russian Czar;...
    Carl 10.491 20 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they praise moral suasion, he goes for murder, money, capital punishment and other pretty abominations of English law.
    GSt 10.501 4 High virtue has such an air of nature and necessity that to thank its possessor would be to praise the water for flowing...
    HDC 11.34 12 ...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims] sing psalms, pray and praise their God...
    FSLC 11.202 16 Who has not helped to praise [Webster]?
    FSLN 11.224 18 It is remarked of Americans...that they think they praise a man more by saying that he is smart than by saying that he is right.
    TPar 11.291 1 ...whilst I praise this frank speaker [Theodore Parker], I have no wish to accuse the silence of others.
    Mem 12.103 4 I value the praise of Memory. And how does memory praise?
    CL 12.148 21 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... I praise their sportive resistless strength.
    ACri 12.296 21 The Germans praise in Goethe the comfortable stoutness.
    ACri 12.305 1 A clear or natural expression by word or deed is that which we mean when we love and praise the antique.
    MLit 12.316 6 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the wilderness only...the exhibition of a talent which only shines whilst you praise it;...
    MLit 12.328 13 ...that we may not...pay a great man so ill a compliment as to praise him only in the conventional and comparative speech, let us honestly record our thought upon the total worth and influence of this genius [Goethe].
    Pray 12.353 6 If I may not search out and pierce thy thought, so much the more may my living praise thee [My Father].

praised, v. (24)

    MN 1.192 22 That splendid results ensue from the labors of stupid men, is the fruit of higher laws than their will, and the routine is not to be praised for it.
    Fdsp 2.195 22 I feel as warmly when [my friend] is praised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.
    Hsm1 2.261 10 We tell our charities, not because we wish to be praised for them...
    Chr1 3.107 7 I remember the indignation of an eloquent Methodist at the kind admonitions of a Doctor of Divinity,--My friend, a man can neither be praised or insulted.
    Mrs1 3.148 10 Scott is praised for the fidelity with which he painted the demeanor and conversation of the superior classes.
    PNR 4.85 16 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:--Of all whose arguments are left to the men of the present time, no one has ever yet condemned injustice, or praised justice, otherwise than as respects the repute, honors, and emoluments arising therefrom;...
    ET1 5.7 13 [Landor] praised the beautiful cyclamen which grows all about Florence;...
    ET1 5.19 13 ...[Wordsworth] had broken a tooth by a fall, when walking with two lawyers, and had said that he was glad it did not happen forty years ago; whereupon they had praised his philosophy.
    ET4 5.51 7 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes...nothing can be praised in it without damning exceptions...
    ET17 5.296 11 Miss Martineau...praised [Wordsworth] to me not for his poetry, but for thrift and economy;...
    ET17 5.297 8 Landor, always generous, says that [Wordsworth] never praised anybody.
    Ctr 6.155 1 Wordsworth was praised to me in Westmoreland for having afforded to his country neighbors an example of a modest household where comfort and culture were secured without display.
    CbW 6.246 6 We like very well to be praised for our action...
    Suc 7.294 6 Cannot we please ourselves with performing our work... without being praised for it?
    Insp 8.286 8 ...I thank the annoying insect/ For many a golden hour./ Stand, then, for me, ye tormenting creatures,/ Highly praised by the poet/ As the true Musagetes./
    Grts 8.306 4 ...Sir Humphry Davy said, when he was praised for his important discoveries, my best discovery was Michael Faraday.
    Thor 10.479 11 [Thoreau] praised wild mountains and winter forests for their domestic air...
    EWI 11.120 26 The Queen, in her speech to the Lords and Commons, praised the conduct of the emancipated population [of Jamaica]...
    FSLC 11.192 4 Those governors of places who bravely refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous Massacre of St. Bartholomew, have been universally praised;...
    CW 12.178 16 Lord Abercorn, when some one praised the rapid growth of his trees, replied, Sir, they have nothing else to do!
    Bost 12.188 1 The Greeks thought him unhappy who died without seeing the statue of Jove at Olympia. With still more reason, they praised Athens, the Violet City.
    Bost 12.208 15 We are often praised for what is least ours.
    Bost 12.210 8 We praised the Puritans because we did not find in ourselves the spirit to do the like.
    Bost 12.210 10 We praised with a certain adulation the invariable valor of the old war-gods and war-councillors of the Revolution.

praises, n. (7)

    LE 1.167 15 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...
    Nat2 3.176 5 We exaggerate the praises of local scenery.
    NER 3.272 1 How sinks the song in the waves of melody which the universe pours over [the master's] soul! Before that gracious Infinite out of which he drew these few strokes, how mean they look, though the praises of the world attend them.
    ET19 5.310 25 I am...here...to speak of that which I am sure interests these gentlemen more than their own praises;...
    Prch 10.228 25 What sort of respect can these preachers or newspapers inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that they would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter, provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?
    SHC 11.435 3 ...though we make much ado in our praises of Italy or Andes, Nature makes not so much difference.
    Milt1 12.256 13 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem;...not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.

praises, v. (7)

    ET6 5.107 3 All the world praises the comfort and private appointments of an English inn, and of English households.
    Wth 6.124 15 Hotspur lives for the moment, praises himself for it...
    Elo2 8.122 5 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;...like Louis XI. of France, whom Comines praises for the gift of managing all minds by his accent...
    PPo 8.249 27 Hafiz praises wine, roses...to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy;...
    Plu 10.316 22 ...[Plutarch] praises the Romans, who, when the feast was over, dealt well with the lamps...
    LS 11.21 8 ...every practice is Christian which praises itself...
    FSLC 11.204 18 [Webster] praises Adams and Jefferson, but it is a past Adams and Jefferson that his mind can entertain.

praiseworthy, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.256 15 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem;...not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.

praising, n. (1)

    OS 2.292 12 [Men's] highest praising, said Milton, is not flattery...

praising, v. (5)

    OS 2.292 14 ...[men's] plainest advice is a kind of praising.
    PPh 4.42 7 When we are praising Plato, it seems we are praising quotations from Solon and Sophron and Philolaus.
    PPh 4.42 8 When we are praising Plato, it seems we are praising quotations from Solon and Sophron and Philolaus.
    Suc 7.283 2 Our American people cannot be taxed with slowness in performance or in praising their performance.
    PI 8.13 12 Vivacity of expression may indicate this high gift, even when the thought is of no great scope, as when Michel Angelo, praising the terra cottas, said, If this earth were to become marble, woe to the antiques!

prank, n. (1)

    Comp 2.119 26 [The mob] resembles the prank of boys...

pranks, n. (4)

    Art1 2.361 3 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be... a foreign wonder, barbaric pearl and gold, like the spontoons and standards of the militia, which play such pranks in the eyes and imaginations of school-boys.
    Nat2 3.185 25 The child with his sweet pranks...lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    Clbs 7.231 27 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were; they play pranks...
    JBB 11.269 17 It is easy to see what a favorite [John Brown] will be with history, which plays such pranks with temporary reputations.

prate, v. (2)

    MR 1.250 21 As we cannot make a planet...by means of the best... engineers' tools...so neither can we ever construct that heavenly society you prate of out of foolish, sick, selfish men and women, such as we know them to be.
    SR 2.69 24 Why then do we prate of self-reliance?

prates, v. (1)

    GoW 4.267 12 ...although [the Quaker and the Shaker] each prates of spirit, there is no spirit, but repetition, which is anti-spiritual.

prating, n. (1)

    CbW 6.249 5 Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses.

prating, v. (1)

    CL 12.157 22 Every acquisition we make in the science of beauty is so sweet that I think it is cheaply paid for by what accompanies it, of course, the prating and affectation of connoisseurship.

prattle, v. (3)

    SR 2.48 11 ...one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
    Int 2.346 24 ...what marks [Greek philosophers' thought's] elevation and has even a comic look to us, is the innocent serenity with which these babe-like Jupiters...from age to age prattle to each other and to no contemporary.
    SA 8.96 16 When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable.

prattles, v. (2)

    Plu 10.301 15 ...[Plutarch] prattles history.
    MLit 12.318 14 The very child in the nursery prattles mysticism...

pravity, n. (1)

    Exp 3.79 17 ...seen from the conscience or will, [sin] is pravity or bad.

pray, v. (27)

    Hist 2.29 22 Doctor, said his wife to Martin Luther, one day, how is it that whilst subject to papacy we prayed so often and with such fervor, whilst now we pray with utmost coldness and very seldom?
    Comp 2.94 27 Is it that [the good] are to have leave to pray and praise, to love and serve men? Why, that they can do now.
    Exp 3.79 11 If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal?
    Mrs1 3.137 27 I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread...
    UGM 4.27 12 ...[Voltaire] said of the good Jesus, even, I pray you, let me never hear that man's name again.
    MoS 4.174 3 The dull pray; the geniuses are light mockers.
    GoW 4.263 14 ...as the good Luther writes, When I am angry, I can pray well and preach well...
    ET5 5.88 10 Nothing is more in the line of English thought than our unvarnished Connecticut question, Pray, sir, how do you get your living when you are at home?
    ET13 5.221 6 So far is [the English gentleman] from attaching any meaning to the words, that he believes himself to have done almost the generous thing, and that it is very condescending in him to pray to God.
    ET13 5.224 22 Abroad with my wife, writes Pepys piously, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach; which do make my heart rejoice and praise God, and pray him to bless it to me, and continue it.
    ET13 5.227 20 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in their choice [of a Bishop];...
    F 6.40 5 ...what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
    SS 7.7 17 We pray to be conventional.
    DL 7.118 22 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate...
    PI 8.61 15 [Sir Gawaine said to Merlin] I pray you appear before me so that I may be able to recognize you.
    PPo 8.260 11 [Hafiz's ingenuity]...plays in a thousand pretty courtesies:- Fair fall thy soft heart!/ A good work wilt thou do?/ O, pray for the dead/ Whom thy eyelashes slew!/
    PPo 8.261 4 In the midnight of thy locks,/ I renounce the day;/ In the ring of thy rose-lips,/ My heart forgets to pray./
    CSC 10.374 26 ...Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians and Philosophers,-all...seized their moment, if not their hour [at the Chardon Street Convention], wherein to chide, or pray, or preach, or protest.
    EzRy 10.386 24 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer; but the Doctor...ejected his offer with some humor, as with an air that said to all the congregation, This is no time for you young Cambridge men; the affair, sir, is getting serious. I will pray myself.
    EzRy 10.387 15 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain. As soon as the service was over, he went to the petitioner, and said, You Boston ministers, as soon as a tulip wilts under your windows, go to church and pray for rain, until all Concord and Sudbury are under water.
    EzRy 10.388 8 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues. There is none of that large family left but you, and it rests with you to bear up the good name and usefulness of your ancestors. If you fail,-Ichabod, the glory is departed. Let us pray.
    MMEm 10.405 13 ...on her arrival at any new home [Mary Moody Emerson] was likely to steer first to the minister's house and pray his wife to take a boarder;...
    MMEm 10.430 6 I [Mary Moody Emerson] pray to die...
    HDC 11.34 12 ...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims] sing psalms, pray and praise their God...
    HDC 11.52 4 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws apart, the wife of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray when my husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he saith?...
    HDC 11.53 7 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country? The sachem replied that he knew if the Indians dwelt far from the English, they would not so much care to pray...
    LVB 11.96 9 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.

prayed, v. (14)

    Nat 1.74 17 No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
    Con 1.316 5 ...the Friar Bernard went home swiftly...saying...these Romans, whom I prayed God to destroy, are lovers, they are lovers;...
    Hist 2.29 21 Doctor, said his wife to Martin Luther, one day, how is it that whilst subject to papacy we prayed so often and with such fervor, whilst now we pray with utmost coldness and very seldom?
    Elo2 8.127 20 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated...he prayed for Harvard College...
    Elo2 8.127 20 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated...he prayed for the schools...
    Elo2 8.128 4 I should add what is told of [Dr. Charles Chauncy],--that he so disliked the sensation preaching of his time, that he had once prayed that he might never be eloquent;...
    PPo 8.264 26 So remained [the birds], sunk in wonder,/ Thoughtless in deepest thinking,/ And quite unconscious of themselves./ Speechless prayed they to the Highest/ To open this secret,/ And to unlock Thou and We./
    Grts 8.313 18 ...when the Devil appeared to [Barcena the Jesuit] in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.
    Chr2 10.101 12 When Omar prayed and loved,/ Where Syrian waters roll,/ Aloft the ninth heaven glowed and moved/ To the tread of the jubilant soul./
    SovE 10.196 27 I have heard prayers, I have prayed even...
    MMEm 10.397 5 The yesterday doth never smile,/ To-day goes drudging through the while,/ Yet in the name of Godhead, I/ The morrow front and can defy;/ Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed,/ Cannot withhold his conquering aid./
    GSt 10.503 7 ...[George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his own pursuits, but as an earnest of the dedication of his heart and hand to the interests of the sufferers [in Kansas],-a pledge kept until the success he wrought and prayed for was consummated.
    EWI 11.114 26 On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels, and at midnight...on their knees, the silent, weeping assembly became men;...they cried, they sung, they prayed...
    Pray 12.350 24 Let us...have the prayers...of men in all ages and religions who have prayed well.

Prayer, Lord's, n. (3)

    ShP 4.200 11 Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the time of Christ...
    ET8 5.131 6 [The English] are headstrong believers and defenders of their opinion, and not less resolute in maintaining their whim and perversity. Hezekiah Woodward wrote a book against the Lord's Prayer.
    FSLN 11.219 22 [Supporters of the Fugitive Slave Law] had no opinions, they had no memory for what they had been saying like the Lord's Prayer all their lifetime...

prayer, n. (62)

    Nat 1.73 10 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...prayer;...
    Nat 1.74 15 Is not prayer also a study of truth...
    DSA 1.139 15 There is poetic truth concealed in all the commonplaces of prayer and of sermons...
    LE 1.175 23 Have solitary prayer and praise.
    MN 1.194 15 Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the highest or truest name for our communication with the infinite...
    MN 1.216 8 A man adorns himself with prayer and love...
    Con 1.299 1 Conservatism...breathes no prayer...
    Tran 1.346 17 [A man] ought to be...a great influence...so that though absent...if...my last hour were come, his name should be the prayer I should utter to the Universe.
    Hist 2.27 15 When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to [the student]...a prayer of his youth, he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition...
    SR 2.77 11 Prayer looks abroad...
    SR 2.77 15 Prayer that craves a particular commodity...is vicious.
    SR 2.77 17 Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
    SR 2.77 21 ...prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft.
    SR 2.77 25 [Man] will [as soon as he is at one with God] then see prayer in all action.
    SR 2.77 26 The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers...
    SR 2.77 27 The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers...
    Prd1 2.226 13 ...wherever a wild date-tree grows, nature has, without a prayer even, spread a table for [the islander's] morning meal.
    Nat2 3.188 12 Each young and ardent person writes a diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul.
    Pol1 3.216 20 [The wise man] has no personal friends, for he who has the spell to draw the prayer and piety of all men unto him needs not husband and educate a few to share with him a select and poetic life.
    PPh 4.49 8 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being.
    ShP 4.210 27 ...the occasion which gave the saint's meaning the form...of a prayer...is immaterial compared with the universality of its application.
    GoW 4.266 25 ...there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
    ET13 5.218 11 In York minster...I heard the service of evening prayer read and chanted in the choir.
    ET13 5.220 26 When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him...
    ET13 5.224 11 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...
    ET13 5.224 14 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live. And one traces this Jewish prayer in all English private history...
    F 6.47 1 ...what we wish for in youth, comes in heaps on us in old age, too often cursed with the granting of our prayer...
    Pow 6.60 21 ...the torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost...by prayer or by wine.
    Wsp 6.209 4 In creeds never was such levity;... The architecture, the music, the prayer, partake of the madness;...
    Cour 7.261 19 So great a soldier as the old French Marshal Montluc acknowledges that he has often trembled with fear, and recovered courage when he had said a prayer for the occasion.
    OA 7.321 14 The cynical creed or lampoon of the market is refuted by the universal prayer for long life...
    SA 8.86 3 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals.
    Elo2 8.127 18 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated...
    Elo2 8.128 5 ...[Dr. Charles Chauncy] so disliked the sensation preaching of his time, that he had once prayed that he might never be eloquent; and, it appears, his prayer was granted.
    QO 8.186 9 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander, where the prayer of Leander is the same...
    Dem1 10.14 9 The poor ship-master discovered a sound theology, when in the storm at sea he made his prayer to Neptune, O God, thou mayst save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayst destroy me; but, however, I will hold my rudder true.
    Chr2 10.97 11 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us. But the simple and sincere soul makes the contrary prayer: Let no intruder come between thee and me;...
    SovE 10.205 5 To a self-denying, ardent church, delighting in rites and ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race, who analyze the prayer and psalm of their forefathers...
    EzRy 10.386 19 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer;...
    EzRy 10.394 21 Many and many a felicity [Ezra Ripley] had in his prayer...
    EzRy 10.394 24 [Ezra Ripley] did not know when he was good in prayer or sermon...
    MMEm 10.408 17 Was there thought and eloquence, [Mary Moody Emerson] would listen like a child. Her aspiration and prayer would begin...
    MMEm 10.427 22 ...if it were in the nature of things possible He could withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith... that...my death, too, however long and tediously delayed to prayer,-was decreed, was fixed.
    HDC 11.66 26 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied, In the prayer you speak of, Jesus Christ was acknowledged as the only Mediator between God and man;...
    EWI 11.120 15 The First of August, 1838, was observed in Jamaica as a day of thanksgiving and prayer.
    War 11.161 7 ...the fact that [the idea that there can be peace as well as war] has become so distinct to any small number of persons as to become a subject of prayer and hope...that is the commanding fact.
    FSLN 11.236 22 Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is no Church for him but his believing prayer;...then certain aids and allies will promptly appear...
    Wom 11.425 9 The loneliest thought, the purest prayer, is rushing to be the history of a thousand years.
    FRO1 11.476 12 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./
    FRep 11.520 14 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm,-in the old time when the minister was still invited, in the spring, to make a prayer for the blessing of a piece of land,-the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
    FRep 11.520 17 We feel toward [politicians] as the minister about the Cape Cod farm...the good pastor being brought to the spot, stopped short: No, this land does not want a prayer, this land wants manure.
    CInt 12.130 11 Attention is [the intellect's] acceptable prayer.
    Bost 12.211 19 ...in distant ages [Boston's] motto shall be the prayer of millions on all the hills that gird the town, As with our Fathers, so God be with us!
    Pray 12.350 12 If we can overhear the prayer we shall know the man.
    Pray 12.350 14 ...we seldom have the prayer otherwise than it can be inferred from the man and his fortunes...
    Pray 12.350 16 ...we seldom have the prayer otherwise than it can be inferred from the man and his fortunes, which are the answer to the prayer...
    Pray 12.351 1 The prayer of Jesus is (as it deserves) become a form for the human race.
    Pray 12.351 7 Among the remains of Euripides we have this prayer: Thou God of all! infuse light into the souls of men...
    Pray 12.352 3 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries, which attest...the eternity of the sentiment and its equality to itself through all the variety of expression. The first is the prayer of a deaf and dumb boy...
    Pray 12.356 7 ...we must not tie up the rosary on which we have strung these few white beads [prayers], without adding a pearl of great price from that book of prayer, the Confessions of Saint Augustine.
    Trag 12.407 21 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]:...if you spill the salt;...if you say the Lord's prayer backwards;...

Prayer, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.414 7 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things than their individual fault. It was from being early impressed by my poor unpractical aunt, that Providence and Prayer were all in all.

prayer-book, n. (1)

    ET6 5.109 19 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval...to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday, with a large quarto gilt prayer-book under one arm, his wife hanging on the other...

prayer-meeting, n. (2)

    SL 2.163 22 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have an outside badge,--some Gentoo diet...or Calvinistic prayer-meeting...
    SMC 11.363 24 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...wrote a daily or weekly newspaper, called it Stars and Stripes. It advertises, prayer-meeting at 7 o'clock, in cell No. 8, second floor...

prayers, n. (43)

    DSA 1.137 15 We shrink as soon as the prayers begin, which do not uplift...
    DSA 1.139 20 The prayers...of our church are like the zodiac of Denderah...
    MR 1.231 8 ...if [the young man] would thrive in [the employments of commerce]...he must forget the prayers of his childhood...
    LT 1.272 27 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands. ... For some ages, these ideas have been consigned...to the prayers and the sermons of churches;...
    SR 2.77 9 In what prayers do men allow themselves!
    SR 2.78 2 The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers...
    SR 2.78 8 Another sort of false prayers are our regrets.
    SR 2.79 3 ...men's prayers are a disease of the will...
    SL 2.129 1 The living Heaven thy prayers respect/...
    OS 2.294 25 Even [other men's] prayers are hurtful to [a man], until he have made his own.
    Pol1 3.201 13 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day...shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place in turn to new prayers and pictures.
    ShP 4.200 7 The Liturgy...is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations, a translation of the prayers and forms of the Catholic church...
    ShP 4.200 9 The Liturgy...is...a translation of the prayers and forms of the Catholic church,--these collected...from the prayers and meditations of every saint and sacred writer all over the world.
    ET11 5.187 7 Politeness is the ritual of society, as prayers are of the church...
    ET13 5.219 5 From his infancy, every Englishman is accustomed to hear daily prayers for the Queen...
    ET13 5.224 15 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live. And one traces this Jewish prayer in all English private history, from the prayers of King Richard...to those in the diaries of Sir Samuel Romilly and of Haydon the painter.
    Wsp 6.199 19 [Fate] is Jove, who, deaf to prayers,/ Floods with blessings unawares./
    CbW 6.245 9 The priest is glad if his prayers or his sermon meet the condition of any soul;...
    CbW 6.277 4 Our prayers are prophets.
    PI 8.10 7 Sonnets of lovers...are valuable to the philosopher, as are prayers of saints, for their potent symbolism.
    PI 8.53 23 Outside of the nursery the beginning of literature is the prayers of a people...
    PI 8.53 27 The prayers of nations are rhythmic...
    Imtl 8.321 6 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/ Verdict which accumulates/ From lengthening scroll of human fates/ Voice of earth to earth returned,/ Prayers of saints that inly burned,-/...
    Imtl 8.328 5 Sixty years ago...the sermons and prayers heard...were all directed on death.
    Dem1 10.17 6 ...[the belief in luck] is not the power to which we...make liturgies and prayers...
    Chr2 10.107 6 Fifty or a hundred years ago, prayers were said, morning and evening, in all families;...
    SovE 10.196 27 I have heard prayers, I have prayed even...
    Schr 10.265 25 ...if [the poet's] wild prayers are granted...his achievement is the piercing of the brass heavens of use and limitation...
    EzRy 10.383 25 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old...meeting-house... with long prayers...
    EzRy 10.386 7 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers for rain and against the lightning... are well remembered...
    EzRy 10.394 18 This intimate knowledge of families...and still more, his sympathy, made [Ezra Ripley] incomparable...in his exhortations and prayers.
    MMEm 10.431 9 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid her passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;...
    LS 11.17 22 [The Lord's Supper] is an expression of gratitude to Christ, enjoined by Christ. There is an endeavor to keep Jesus in mind, whilst yet the prayers are addressed to God.
    HDC 11.51 27 The questions which the Indians put [to John Eliot] betray their reason and their ignorance. Can Jesus Christ understand prayers in the Indian language?
    HDC 11.61 10 ...the mantle of [Peter Bulkeley's] piety and of the people's affection fell upon his son Edward, the fame of whose prayers, it is said, once saved Concord from an attack of the Indian.
    HDC 11.77 17 The cause of the Colonies was so much in [William Emerson's] heart that he did not cease to make it the subject of his preaching and his prayers...
    HDC 11.86 20 The benediction of [the Concord people's] prayers and of their principles lingers around us.
    Pray 12.350 3 Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,/ Nor gems whose rates are either rich or poor/ As fancy values them; but with true prayers,/...
    Pray 12.350 5 ...with true prayers,/ That shall be up at heaven and enter there/ Ere sunrise; prayers from preserved souls,/ From fasting maids, whose minds are delicate/ To nothing temporal./ Shakspeare..
    Pray 12.350 12 ...prayers are not made to be overheard...
    Pray 12.350 22 Let us not have the prayers of one sect...
    Pray 12.351 5 Many men have contributed a single expression, a single word to the language of devotion, which is immediately caught and stereotyped in the prayers of their church and nation.
    Trag 12.412 16 ...in life, actions are few, opinions even few, prayers few;...

praying, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.54 12 ...in 1676, there were five hundred and sixty-seven praying Indians...

Praying Indians, n. (1)

    HDC 11.61 12 A great defence [of Concord] undoubtedly was the village of Praying Indians...

praying, v. (3)

    Supl 10.163 16 [Those who share the superlative temerpament] go tearing, convulsed through life,-wailing, praying, exclaiming, swearing.
    EzRy 10.387 11 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain.
    HDC 11.66 22 The ninth allegation [against Daniel Bliss] is That in praying for himself...he said, he was a poor vile worm of the dust, that was allowed as Mediator between God and his people.

prays, v. (8)

    LT 1.274 3 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is liberally supped...
    Lov1 2.185 18 Love prays.
    Pol1 3.201 7 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day... shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies;...
    MoS 4.168 25 Montaigne...never shrieks, or protests, or prays...
    ET4 5.63 27 Such is the ferocity of the [English] army discipline that a soldier, sentenced to flogging, sometimes prays that his sentence may be commuted to death.
    ET13 5.221 1 When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him...
    HDC 11.52 5 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws apart, the wife of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray when my husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he saith?...
    ACiv 11.304 2 ...the one [power] strong enough to bring all the civility up to the height of that which is best, prays now at the door of Congress for leave to move.

preach, v. (17)

    Nat 1.42 4 All things with which we deal, preach to us.
    DSA 1.136 2 ...any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.
    DSA 1.139 10 ...when we preach unworthily, it is not always quite in vain.
    Tran 1.355 10 [Our virtue's] representatives are austere; they preach and denounce;...
    Comp 2.120 12 Thus do all things preach the indifferency of circumstances.
    OS 2.287 18 It is of no use to preach to me from without.
    GoW 4.263 14 ...as the good Luther writes, When I am angry, I can pray well and preach well...
    F 6.6 16 The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.
    Cour 7.277 2 ...there is no creed of an honest man, be he Christian, Turk or Gentoo, which does not equally preach it.
    Elo2 8.127 11 ...when once going to preach the Thursday lecture in Boston...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned...
    Aris 10.40 25 ...the conclusion which Roman Senators...and great Americans inculcate,-that which they preach out of their material wealth and glitter...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
    PerF 10.86 7 Violets and grass preach [the moral law];...
    CSC 10.374 26 ...Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians and Philosophers,-all...seized their moment, if not their hour [at the Chardon Street Convention], wherein to chide, or pray, or preach, or protest.
    HDC 11.52 22 Tahattawan and his son-in-law Waban, besought [John] Eliot to come and preach to them at Concord...
    Koss 11.400 27 ...this new crusade which you [Kossuth] preach to willing and to unwilling ears in America is a seed of armed men.
    Milt1 12.273 5 [Milton] would...support preachers by voluntary contributions; requiring that such only should preach as have faith enough to accept so self-denying and precarious a mode of life...
    ACri 12.286 5 Luther said, I preach coarsely; that giveth content to all.

preached, v. (14)

    DSA 1.135 25 The soul is not preached.
    DSA 1.136 3 ...any complaisance would be criminal which told you...that the faith of Christ is preached.
    SR 2.51 23 The doctrine of hatred must be preached...
    Comp 2.109 9 ...this law of laws [Compensation]...is hourly preached in all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs...
    Int 2.332 15 The immortality of man is as legitimately preached from the intellections as from the moral volitions.
    Chr2 10.111 1 These men [Voltaire, Frederic the Great, D'Alembert] preached the true God...
    LLNE 10.347 22 Mr. Owen preached his doctrine of labor and reward, with the fidelity and devotion of a saint...
    HDC 11.51 19 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum;...
    HDC 11.66 8 In 1741, the celebrated Whitfield preached here [in Concord], in the open air, to a great congregation.
    HDC 11.67 14 In 1764, [George] Whitfield preached again at Concord...
    HDC 11.67 16 In 1764, [George] Whitfield preached again at Concord, on Sunday afternoon; Mr. [Daniel] Bliss preached in the morning, and the Concord people thought their minister gave them the better sermon of the two.
    HDC 11.72 11 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in Concord] for the enlisting of minute-men. Reverend William Emerson...preached to the people.
    HDC 11.72 14 On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson] preached to a very full assembly...
    Milt1 12.267 4 [Milton wrote] For notwithstanding the gaudy superstition of some still devoted ignorantly to temples, we may be well assured that he who disdained not to be born in a manger disdains not to be preached in a barn.

preacher, n. (27)

    Nat 1.43 1 What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of Health!
    DSA 1.134 10 The injury to faith throttles the preacher;...
    DSA 1.136 12 This great and perpetual office of the preacher is not discharged.
    DSA 1.137 19 I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to say I would go to church no more.
    DSA 1.137 24 The snow-storm was real, the preacher merely spectral...
    DSA 1.138 15 The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life...
    DSA 1.138 18 ...of the bad preacher, it could not be told from his sermon what age of the world he fell in;...
    SR 2.54 20 I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency of one of the institutions of his church.
    Comp 2.94 4 The preacher...unfolded in the ordinary manner the doctrine of the Last Judgment.
    Comp 2.94 17 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life?
    Comp 2.95 10 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success...
    Elo1 7.83 19 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with more than his usual alacrity...
    Elo1 7.94 12 The preacher enumerates his classes of men and I do not find my place therein; I suspect then that no man does.
    Suc 7.309 12 Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher.
    Elo2 8.120 24 I have heard an eminent preacher say that he learns from the first tones of his voice on a Sunday morning whether he is to have a successful day.
    Grts 8.318 19 A great style of hero draws equally...all the extremes of society, till we say the very dogs believe in him. We have had such examples in this country, in Daniel Webster...and the seamen's preacher, Father Taylor;...
    Prch 10.216 1 The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life...
    Prch 10.230 5 The man of practice or worldly force requires of the preacher a talent, a force, like his own;...
    Prch 10.230 8 [The man of practice or worldly force] does not forgive an application in the preacher to the merchant's things.
    Prch 10.233 15 ...if I had to counsel a young preacher, I should say: When there is any difference felt between the foot-board of the pulpit and the floor of the parlor, you have not yet said that which you should say.
    EzRy 10.382 9 ...[Ezra Ripley] had an ardent desire to be preacher of the gospel.
    MMEm 10.405 10 [Mary Moody Emerson]...now and then in her migrations from town to town in Maine and Massachusetts...discovered some preacher with sense or piety, or both.
    HDC 11.31 20 Among the silenced [English] clergymen was a distinguished minister...Rev. Peter Bulkeley...honored for...his learning and gifts as a preacher...
    EWI 11.125 27 ...[slavery] does not love...a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks;...
    EWI 11.137 8 ...every liberal mind, poet, preacher, moralist, statesman, has had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies].
    TPar 11.284 11 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak,/ You forget the man wholly, you 're thankful to meet/ With a preacher who smacks of the field and the street/...
    TPar 11.289 6 ...it was complained...that [Theodore Parker's] zeal burned with too hot a flame. It is so difficult, in evil times, to escape this charge! for the faithful preacher most of all.

preachers, n. (15)

    DSA 1.133 11 The preachers do not see that they make [Jesus's] gospel not glad...
    DSA 1.141 11 ...the exceptions are not so much to be found in a few eminent preachers...
    Tran 1.339 19 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling...on popish times, made...preachers of Faith against the preachers of Works;...
    Tran 1.339 20 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling...on popish times, made...preachers of Faith against the preachers of Works;...
    Comp 2.93 5 ...it seemed to me when very young that on this subject [Compensation]...the people knew more than the preachers taught.
    Prch 10.228 24 What sort of respect can these preachers or newspapers inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that they would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter, provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?
    GSt 10.507 13 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember that there is... not a Southern State in which the freedmen will not learn to-day from their preachers that one of their most efficient benefactors has departed...
    HDC 11.54 13 ...in 1676, there were five hundred and sixty-seven praying Indians, and in 1689, twenty-four Indian preachers, and eighteen assemblies.
    EWI 11.119 12 ...[Sir Lionel Smith] defended the Baptist preachers and the stipendiary magistrates [in Jamaica]...
    FSLN 11.229 9 The way in which the country was dragged to consent to this [Fugitive Slave Law], and the disastrous defection...of educated men, nay, of some preachers of religion,-was the darkest passage in the history.
    HCom 11.343 24 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States, and now, by her teachers, preachers journalists and books...the diffuser of religious, literary and political opinion;...I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    CPL 11.495 10 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants...still more, if it have...good preachers, good schools...
    Bost 12.196 10 ...New England supplies annually a large detachment of preachers and schoolmasters and private tutors to the interior of the South and West.
    Bost 12.208 25 What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...what eloquent preachers...
    Milt1 12.273 4 [Milton] would...support preachers by voluntary contributions;...

preacher's, n. (1)

    ACri 12.287 25 I remember when a venerable divine [Dr. Osgood] called the young preacher's sermon patty cake.

preaches, v. (7)

    SR 2.76 9 A sturdy lad...who...preaches...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    Exp 3.59 14 The whole frame of things preaches indifferency.
    UGM 4.23 20 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts, destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is nothing. Then he is a...pontiff who preaches the equality of souls...
    ET13 5.223 15 The gospel [the Anglican Church] preaches is By taste are ye saved.
    Art2 7.52 16 Raphael paints wisdom...Luther preaches it...
    Imtl 8.348 5 ...[Jesus] never preaches the personal immortality;...
    Carl 10.494 22 [Carlyle] preaches...the doctrine that every noble nature was made by God...

preaching, n. (14)

    DSA 1.133 9 The injustice of the vulgar tone of preaching is not less flagrant to Jesus than to the souls which it profanes.
    DSA 1.136 12 Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
    DSA 1.141 15 ...tradition characterizes the preaching of this country;...
    DSA 1.141 20 ...thus historical Christianity destroys the power of preaching...
    DSA 1.150 24 ...[Christianity has given us] secondly, the institution of preaching...
    Con 1.321 25 [The sagacious] detect the falsehood of the preaching...
    SR 2.71 20 I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
    Elo2 8.128 3 I should add what is told of [Dr. Charles Chauncy],--that he so disliked the sensation preaching of his time, that he had once prayed that he might never be eloquent;...
    Prch 10.231 17 I do not love sensation preaching...
    LLNE 10.353 2 [Fourier's] mistake is that this particular order and series is to be imposed, by force or preaching and votes, on all men...
    HDC 11.53 23 It was remarkable that the preaching was not wholly new to [the Indians].
    HDC 11.64 23 After the death of Rev. Mr. Estabrook, in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry?
    HDC 11.77 16 The cause of the Colonies was so much in [William Emerson's] heart that he did not cease to make it the subject of his preaching and his prayers...
    PPr 12.380 19 [Carlyle's Past and Present] has the merit which belongs to every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent, and so...as the country people say of good preaching, comes bounce down into every pew.

preaching, v. (7)

    Nat2 3.180 13 It is a long way from granite to the oyster; farther yet to Plato and the preaching of the immortality of the soul.
    NR 3.235 6 ...[Mesmerism, Swedenborgism, Fourierism, and the Millennial Church]...are poor pretensions enough, but good criticism on the science, philosophy and preaching of the day.
    NER 3.267 19 I pass to the indication in some particulars of that faith in man, which the heart is preaching to us in these days...
    ET10 5.154 9 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer. You shall find this sentiment...deeply implied...in the tone of the preaching and in the table-talk.
    ET14 5.249 22 ...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the cant, into the preaching of Fate.
    EzRy 10.382 7 Always inclined to notice ministers, and frequently attempting, when only five or six years old, to imitate them by preaching... [Ezra Ripley] had an ardent desire to be preacher of the gospel.
    PPr 12.386 22 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect, such as the vice of preaching, should appear...

pre-adamite, n. (1)

    SovE 10.188 11 In the pre-adamite [Nature] bred valor only;...

preamble, n. (3)

    AmS 1.94 27 The preamble of thought...is action.
    F 6.23 13 ...nothing is more disgusting than...the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble...by those who have never dared to think or to act...
    Wsp 6.211 27 ...we appeal to the sanctified preamble of the messages and proclamations of the public sinner, as the proof of sincerity.

Prebends, n. (1)

    ET13 5.227 16 The [English] Bishop is elected by the Dean and Prebends of the cathedral.

pre-cantations, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.25 11 The sea...and every flower-bed, pre-exist or super-exist, in pre-cantations...

precarious, adj. (6)

    ET4 5.55 16 [The Celts] have a hidden and precarious genius.
    ET12 5.213 7 Genius exists there [in the college] also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precarious, eccentric and darkling.
    DL 7.108 21 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in...these bloated and shrivelled bodies...puny and precarious healths...
    EWI 11.101 15 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...and would not exchange them for the more intelligent but precarious hired service of whites, I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...
    War 11.152 2 ...in the infancy of society, when a thin population and improvidence make the supply of food and of shelter insufficient and very precarious...the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
    Milt1 12.273 7 [Milton] would...support preachers by voluntary contributions; requiring that such only should preach as have faith enough to accept so self-denying and precarious a mode of life...

precaution, n. (1)

    Cir 2.315 11 ...with every precaution you take against such an evil you put yourself into the power of the evil.

precautions, n. (1)

    Suc 7.304 4 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and his beloved] might somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief that he could elude all guards, precautions, ceremonies, means and delays...

precede, v. (1)

    PI 8.66 14 I have heard that there is a hope which precedes and must precede all science of the visible or the invisible world;...

preceded, v. (4)

    WD 7.164 1 No matter how many centuries of culture have preceded, the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos...
    Imtl 8.323 20 ...we are as ignorant of the state which preceded our present existence as of that which will follow it.
    JBB 11.267 3 Gentlemen who have preceded me have well said that no wall of separation could here exist.
    ChiE 11.473 21 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill... requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same. Well, China has preceded us...

precedence, n. (4)

    SwM 4.93 23 Wherever the sentiment of right comes in, it takes precedence of every thing else.
    SwM 4.94 13 ...the instincts presently teach that the problem of essence must take precedence of all others;...
    War 11.152 3 ...in the infancy of society...when hunger, thirst, ague and frozen limbs universally take precedence of the wants of the mind and the heart, the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
    II 12.81 7 ...the real credentials by which man takes precedence of man... are intellectual and moral.

precedent, adj. (1)

    CL 12.162 20 Sometimes the farmer withstands [the true naturalist] in crossing his lots, but 't is to no purpose; the farmer could as well hope to prevent the sparrows or tortoises. It was their land before it was his, and their title was precedent.

precedent, n. (4)

    ET6 5.110 26 ...[every Englishman's] instinct is to search for a precedent.
    Pow 6.62 20 A Western lawyer of eminence said to me he wished it were a penal offence to bring an English law-book into a court in this country, so pernicious had he found in his experience our deference to English precedent.
    Suc 7.292 15 The gravest and learnedest courts in this country...will wait months and years for a case to occur that can be tortured into a precedent...
    PerF 10.87 25 ...the courts snatch at any precedent...to rule [the moral sentiment] out;...

precedents, n. (3)

    FSLC 11.187 7 It is remarkable how rare in the history of tyrants is an immoral law. Some color, some indirection was always used. If you take up the volumes of the Universal History, you will find it difficult searching. The precedents are few.
    FSLC 11.199 16 There is...not a politician but is watching [slavery's] incalculable energy in the elections; not a jurist but is hunting up precedents;...
    ACiv 11.299 27 ...a literal, slavish following of precedents...is not for those who at this hour lead the destinies of this people.

precedes, v. (2)

    PI 8.45 11 in the history of literature, poetry precedes prose.
    PI 8.66 13 I have heard that there is a hope which precedes and must precede all science of the visible or the invisible world;...

preceding, adj. (7)

    Nat 1.34 24 ...day and night...are what they are by virtue of preceding affections in the world of spirit.
    Nat 1.36 4 This use of the world [as a discipline] includes the preceding uses...
    Mrs1 3.121 2 The word gentleman, which, like the word Christian, must hereafter characterize the present and the few preceding centuries by the importance attached to it, is a homage to personal and incommunicable properties.
    Ctr 6.165 16 We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization.
    Wsp 6.201 2 Some of my friends have complained, when the preceding papers were read, that we discussed Fate, Power and Wealth on too low a platform;...
    Insp 8.290 7 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition exacted,-namely, the slightest irregularity, even to the drinking too much water on the preceding day.
    EzRy 10.382 2 ...when fitted for college, the son [Ezra Ripley] could not be contented with teaching, which he had tried the preceding winter.

preceding, v. (1)

    ShP 4.195 13 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out of 6043 lines, 1771 were written by some author preceding Shakspeare...

precept, n. (7)

    AmS 1.87 8 ...the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
    AmS 1.87 9 ...the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
    SwM 4.116 12 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma, in place of the physical truth or precept...
    SwM 4.116 16 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical... terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...although no mortal would have predicted that any thing of the kind could possibly arise...inasmuch as the one precept, considered separately from the other, appears to have absolutely no relation to it.
    PPo 8.256 19 Cumber thee not for the world, and this my precept forget not,/ 'Tis but a toy that a vagabond sweetheart has left us./
    FSLC 11.190 24 Blackstone admits the sovereignty antecedent to any positive precept, of the law of Nature...
    FRO2 11.486 24 ...every sentiment and precept of Christianity can be paralleled in other religious writings...

preceptor, n. (2)

    Nat 1.37 21 Debt...is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...
    Elo1 7.82 14 The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor...

precepts, n. (5)

    Bhr 6.196 12 Special precepts are not to be thought of;...
    Bhr 6.197 15 What finest hands would not be clumsy to sketch the genial precepts of the young girl's demeanor?
    OA 7.315 22 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...heroic with Stoical precepts...
    Elo2 8.124 16 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
    LS 11.19 11 To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

precession, n. (3)

    ET10 5.157 17 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes...
    F 6.18 17 Mahometan and Chinese know what we know...of the precession of the equinoxes.
    PC 8.214 25 Six hundred years ago Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes and the necessity of reform in the calendar;...

precessions, n. (1)

    F 6.7 15 The planet is liable to...precessions of equinoxes.

precinct, n. (7)

    SR 2.71 22 How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look, begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!
    Lov1 2.172 27 ...to-day [the rude village boy] comes running into the entry and meets one fair child disposing her satchel; he holds her books to help her, and instantly it seems to him as if she...was a sacred precinct.
    Mrs1 3.153 5 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets namely. Out of this precinct they go for nothing;...
    ET3 5.34 22 ...England is a huge phalanstery, where all that man wants is provided within the precinct.
    ET14 5.255 9 No [English] poet dares murmur of beauty out of the precinct of his rhymes.
    CbW 6.247 8 [Fine society] is an exclusion and a precinct.
    DL 7.108 27 Let us come then out of the public square and enter the domestic precinct.

precincts, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.169 24 The knapsack of custom falls off [the man of the world's] back with the first step he takes into these precincts [of the forest].

precious, adj. (32)

    AmS 1.81 13 ...our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more. As such it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct.
    AmS 1.91 13 When [the scholar] can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
    MN 1.192 10 ...I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein.
    SL 2.133 7 What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
    SL 2.147 2 A chemist may tell his most precious secrets to a carpenter, and he shall be never the wiser...
    SL 2.165 21 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart...which on the waves of its love and hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world...these all are his...
    Lov1 2.184 14 Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other...of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
    Int 2.332 23 Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious.
    NR 3.227 22 ...if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral law, he would...do some precious atrocity.
    UGM 4.21 18 If I work in my garden and prune an apple-tree, I am well enough entertained, and could continue indefinitely in the like occupation. But it comes to mind that a day is gone, and I have got this precious nothing done.
    PPh 4.75 3 The fame of this prison [of Socrates], the fame of the discourses there and the drinking of the hemlock are one of the most precious passages in the history of the world.
    MoS 4.156 1 If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits they entertain,--they...spend their days and nights...in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment...
    NMW 4.241 26 ...when allusion was made to the precious blood of centuries...[Napoleon] suggested, Neither is my blood ditch-water.
    ET5 5.94 26 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/ The weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those precious loads are borne,/ And realms commanded which those trees adorn./
    ET9 5.152 11 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...
    ET10 5.162 27 All things precious, or useful...are sucked into this commerce and floated to London.
    Ctr 6.142 4 Good criticism is very rare and always precious.
    Elo1 7.76 2 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union...
    DL 7.112 8 ...if you look at the multitude of particulars, one would say: Good housekeeping is impossible; order is too precious a thing to dwell with men and women.
    DL 7.131 16 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...
    OA 7.322 26 We still feel the force...of Fontenelle, that precious porcelain vase laid up in the centre of France...
    Comc 8.166 5 This precious brother having slain,/ In times of peace, an Indian,/ Not out of malice, but mere zeal/ (Because he was an infidel),/ The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy/...
    PPo 8.242 5 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Kai Kaus, in whose palace...gold and silver and precious stones were used so lavishly that in the brilliancy produced by their combined effect, night and day appeared the same;...
    Aris 10.57 16 It was objected to Gustavus that he...was too prodigal of a blood so precious.
    Supl 10.177 22 ...the Orientals excel...in the cutting of precious stones...
    Plu 10.302 20 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost;...
    AsSu 11.252 4 ...if our arms at this distance cannot defend [Charles Sumner] from assassins, we confide the defence of a life so precious to all honorable men and true patriots...
    FRep 11.519 9 The spirit of our political economy is low and degrading. The precious metals are not so precious as they are esteemed.
    FRep 11.519 10 The spirit of our political economy is low and degrading. The precious metals are not so precious as they are esteemed.
    FRep 11.527 9 The steady improvement of the public schools in the cities and the country enables the farmer or laborer to secure a precious primary education.
    ACri 12.293 15 A list might be made of showy words that tempt young writers...opal and the rest of the precious stones, carcanet, diadem.
    WSL 12.349 3 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean merit. These are not plants and animals, but the genetical atoms of which both are composed. All our great debt to the Oriental world is of this kind, not utensils and statues of the precious metal, but bullion and gold-dust.

precipice, n. (3)

    PPh 4.61 17 [Plato]...slopes his thought, however picturesque the precipice on one side, to an access from the plain.
    ET10 5.165 11 Sir Edward Boynton...on a precipice of incomparable prospect, built a house like a long barn, which had not a window on the prospect side.
    FSLN 11.231 5 [Reasonably men] answered...that they knew Cuba would be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood...as near to monarchy as they could, only to moderate the velocity with which the car was running down the precipice.

precipices, n. (1)

    NMW 4.235 11 There shall be no Alps, [Napoleon] said; and he built his perfect roads, climbing by graded galleries their steepest precipices...

precipitated, v. (2)

    MN 1.197 6 [Pure law] existed already in the mind in solution; now, it has been precipitated, and the bright sediment is the world.
    Nat2 3.196 11 The world is mind precipitated...

precipitates, n. (1)

    PI 8.4 24 It was whispered that the globes of the universe were precipitates of something more subtle;...

precipitation, n. (1)

    CInt 12.128 1 ...I thought...a college was to teach you...chemistry, botany, zoology, the streaming of thought into form, and the precipitation of atoms which Nature is.

precise, adj. (28)

    DSA 1.122 4 ...let me guide your eye to the precise objects of the sentiment [of virtue]...
    Hist 2.13 25 ...a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will. The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it...
    SR 2.54 13 ...under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are...
    SR 2.82 26 ...if the American artist will study...the precise thing to be done by him...he will create a house in which [beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves fitted...
    Pt1 3.32 7 An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
    Mrs1 3.121 11 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...and is somewhat so precise that it is at once felt if an individual lack the masonic sign...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.
    Mrs1 3.140 12 One may be too punctual and too precise.
    PPh 4.46 14 ...[ardent young men and women] sigh and weep, write verses and walk alone,--fault of power to express their precise meaning.
    PPh 4.59 13 [Plato] has that opulence which furnishes, at every turn, the precise weapon he needs.
    PNR 4.84 25 [Plato] saw that the globe of earth was not more lawful and precise than was the supersensible;...
    NMW 4.232 7 [Bonaparte] sees where the matter hinges, throws himself on the precise point of resistance...
    ET4 5.72 3 Add a certain degree of refinement to the vivacity of these [English] riders, and you obtain the precise quality which makes the men and women of polite society formidable.
    ET6 5.104 8 The Englishman is very petulant and precise about his accommodation at inns and on the roads;...
    ET7 5.116 9 Add to this hereditary [German] rectitude the punctuality and precise dealing which commerce creates, and you have the English truth and credit.
    CbW 6.252 8 [The sane man's] existence is a perfect answer to all sentimental cavils. If he is, he is wanted, and has the precise properties that are required.
    Bty 6.305 25 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns. This is that haughty force of beauty... which the poets praise,--under calm and precise outline the immeasurable and divine;...
    Farm 7.138 16 The farmer's office is precise and important...
    Grts 8.312 11 ...the stratification of crusts in geology is not more precise than the degrees of rank in minds.
    Dem1 10.22 23 There is as precise and as describable a reason for every fact occurring to [the so-called lucky man], as for any occurring to any man.
    Edc1 10.140 3 How we envy in later life the happy youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which frames and sets off their school and college tasks...
    LLNE 10.331 11 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...a voice of...such precise and perfect utterance, that...it was the most mellow and beautiful and correct of all the instruments of the time.
    MMEm 10.399 12 ...[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.
    SlHr 10.439 10 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man...of a strong understanding, precise and methodical...
    TPar 11.288 22 ...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story...precise with names and dates, what part was taken by each actor [in Boston];...
    Mem 12.101 1 Apprehension of the whole sentence aids to fix the precise meaning of a particular word...
    Milt1 12.266 7 Few men could be cited who have so well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton], and the precise aid it has brought to men, in being an emphatic affirmation of the omnipotence of spiritual laws...
    WSL 12.338 3 Here [in America] is very good earth and water and plenty of them; that [John Bull] is free to allow; to all other gifts of Nature or man his eyes are sealed by the inexorable demand for the precise conveniences to which he is accustomed in England.
    WSL 12.340 17 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...a keen and precise understanding...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.

precisely, adv. (44)

    Nat 1.42 11 ...the sailor, the shepherd, the miner, the merchant...have each an experience precisely parallel...
    Nat 1.59 25 ...[the ideal theory] presents the world in precisely that view which is most desirable to the mind.
    Nat 1.67 3 ...the problems to be solved are precisely those which the physiologist and the naturalist omit to state.
    AmS 1.88 2 Precisely in proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does [nature] soar...
    MN 1.194 21 I cannot,-nor can any man,-speak precisely of things so sublime...
    LT 1.267 24 To-day always looks mean to the thoughtless, in the face of an uniform experience that all good and great and happy actions are made up precisely of these blank to-days.
    LT 1.276 12 [The Reformers] do not rely on precisely that strength which wins me to their cause;...
    Con 1.309 26 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely...that...it worked well...the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.
    YA 1.370 8 Without looking...into those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction...I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen...
    Hist 2.26 24 The sun and moon, water and fire, met [the Greek's] heart precisely as they meet mine.
    SR 2.46 7 ...to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time...
    SR 2.83 18 The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.
    SR 2.89 1 Not so, O friends! will the God deign to enter and inhabit you, but by a method precisely the reverse.
    Prd1 2.239 14 Though your views are in straight antagonism to [your contemporaries]...assume that you are saying precisely that which all think...
    OS 2.283 18 Men ask concerning...the state of the sinner, and so forth. They even dream that Jesus has left replies to precisely these interrogatories.
    Mrs1 3.121 21 Comme il faut, is the Frenchman's description of good society: as we must be. It is a spontaneous fruit of talents and feelings of precisely that class who have most vigor...
    NER 3.277 17 ...surely the greatest good fortune that could befall me is precisely to be so moved by you that I should say, Take me and all mine...
    NMW 4.225 27 ...precisely what is agreeable to the heart of every man in the nineteenth century, this powerful man [Napoleon] possessed.
    ET3 5.41 23 ...these Britons have precisely the best commercial position in the whole planet...
    ET4 5.54 12 We must use the popular category...for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise we are presently confounded when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.
    ET6 5.113 27 The English dinner is precisely the model on which our own are constructed in the Atlantic cities.
    ET9 5.148 13 A man's personal defects will commonly have, with the rest of the world, precisely that importance which they have to himself.
    ET14 5.240 1 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists, and that the dull men will be Lockists. Then politics and commerce will absorb from the educated class men of talents without genius, precisely because such have no resistance.
    ET14 5.257 13 Tennyson is endowed precisely in points where Wordsworth wanted.
    Pow 6.67 17 [Boniface] led the 'rummies' and radicals in town-meeting with a speech. Meantime, he was civil, fat, and easy, in his house, and precisely the most public-spirited citizen.
    Ctr 6.140 5 ...men are valued precisely as they exert onward or meliorating force.
    Wsp 6.224 6 A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought...
    Art2 7.49 7 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength, but by bringing the weight of the planet to bear on the spade, axe or bar. Precisely analogous to this, in the fine arts, is the manner of our intellectual work.
    Cour 7.262 23 The child is as much in danger from...a cat, as the soldier from...an ambush. Each surmounts the fear as fast as he precisely understands the peril...
    Insp 8.275 26 ...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which [Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of a chain, and the mode precisely as conceivable and familiar to higher intelligence as the index-making of the literary hack.
    Dem1 10.6 5 This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room...
    Dem1 10.6 6 This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room...
    Dem1 10.6 7 This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room, and heard precisely this dialogue...
    Dem1 10.27 16 ...the attraction which this topic [demonology] has had for me and which induces me to unfold its parts before you is precisely because I think the numberless forms in which this superstition has reappeared in every time and every people indicates the inextinguishableness of wonder in man;...
    PerF 10.72 24 The husbandry learned in the economy of heat or light or steam or muscular fibre applies precisely to the use of wit.
    Edc1 10.154 18 ...only to think of using [simple discipline and the following of nature] implies character and profoundness; to enter on this course of discipline is to be good and great. It is precisely analogous to the difference between the use of corporal punishment and the methods of love.
    Supl 10.173 9 ...it would seem the whole human race agree to value a man precisely in proportion to his power of expression;...
    LLNE 10.328 22 The most remarkable literary work of the age has for its hero and subject precisely this introversion: I mean the poem of Faust.
    Carl 10.489 9 If you would know precisely how [Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and Shakspeare...
    LS 11.7 26 Without presuming to fix precisely the purpose in the mind of Jesus, you will see that many opinions may be entertained of his intention, all consistent with the opinion that he did not design a perpetual ordinance [in the Lord's Supper].
    SHC 11.432 24 Certainly the living need [a garden] more than the dead; indeed, to speak precisely, it is given to the dead for the reaction of benefit on the living.
    CInt 12.125 9 ...unless...the professor has a generous sympathy with genius...the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein. 'T is precisely analogous to what befalls in religious societies.
    Bost 12.193 19 [The Massachusetts colonists] were precisely the idealists of England;...
    ACri 12.298 5 ...the revolution wrought by Carlyle is precisely parallel to that going forward in picture, by the stereoscope.

preciseness, n. (1)

    Nat 1.66 19 ...there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility;...

precisian, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.110 18 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences.

precision, n. (21)

    AmS 1.112 23 ...writing with the precision of a mathematician, [Swedenborg] endeavored to engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time.
    MN 1.198 11 In treating a subject so large...I know it is not easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.
    Tran 1.340 10 The extraordinary profoundness and precision of that man's [Kant's] thinking have given vogue to his nomenclature...
    Hsm1 2.254 25 ...without railing or precision [the great man's] living is natural and poetic.
    NR 3.231 3 Proverbs, words and grammar-inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision than the wisest individual.
    PPh 4.57 15 In [Plato] the freest abandonment is united with the precision of a geometer.
    ShP 4.200 16 The nervous language of the Common Law...and the precision and substantial truth of the legal distinctions, are the contribution of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries where these laws govern.
    ShP 4.213 19 ...[Shakespeare] could paint the fine with precision...
    NMW 4.229 2 [Napoleon]...acts with the solidity and the precision of natural agents.
    ET4 5.44 7 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law...nor did he...count with precision the existing races...
    ET14 5.236 7 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental soaring, of which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the writers of two centuries.
    ET14 5.243 26 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws, so deep that the rule is deduced with equal precision from few subjects...
    Art2 7.50 19 ...every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate...
    Elo1 7.74 17 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive...though it be...nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly; without new information, or precision of thought...
    WD 7.157 16 The apprentice clings to his foot-rule; a practised mechanic will measure by his thumb and his arm with equal precision;...
    Clbs 7.226 11 Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts...
    PI 8.72 14 The problem of the poet is to unite freedom with precision;...
    LLNE 10.325 17 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision...
    LLNE 10.326 14 The modern mind believed that the nation existed...for the guardianship and education of every man. This idea...in the mind of the philosopher had far more precision; the individual is the world.
    LLNE 10.342 1 ...the men of talent complained of the want of point and precision in this abstract and religious thinker [Alcott].
    Milt1 12.254 12 If hereby we attain any more precision, we proceed to say that we think no man in these later ages, and few men ever, possessed so great a conception of the manly character [as Milton].

preclude, v. (2)

    Cir 2.308 18 ...we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.
    Exp 3.54 2 Shall I preclude my future by taking a high seat...

precluded, v. (1)

    ACiv 11.303 17 ...there have been days in American history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked...and our recent calamities forever precluded.

precludes, v. (3)

    SL 2.139 17 Certainly there is a possible right for you that precludes the need of balance and wilful election.
    Edc1 10.157 9 The will, the male power...makes that military eye which controls boys as it controls men;...only dangerous when it leads the workman to overvalue and overuse it and precludes him from finer means.
    EdAd 11.390 9 ...the insight which commands the laws and conditions of the true polity precludes forever all interest in the squabbles of parties.

precluding, v. (1)

    QO 8.202 14 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said...

precocious, adj. (1)

    EdAd 11.386 4 It is a poor consideration that the country wit is precocious...

precocity, n. (1)

    Cour 7.256 27 ...the animals have great advantage of us in precocity.

preconceived, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.82 5 ...[Englishmen] want a working plan...and will...reject all preconceived theories.

preconcert, n. (1)

    CbW 6.275 4 ...life would be twice or ten times life if spent with wise and fruitful companions. The obvious inference is, a little useful deliberation and preconcert when one goes to buy house and land.

precursor, n. (1)

    Boks 7.214 2 ...what is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

precursors, n. (1)

    QO 8.180 14 The Paradise Lost had never existed but for these precursors [Virgil and Homer];...

predecessor, n. (5)

    SwM 4.121 25 ...the dictionary of symbols is yet to be written. But the interpreter whom mankind must still expect, will find no predecessor who has approached so near to the true problem [as Swedenborg].
    Wth 6.123 5 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for the sun and wind...
    EzRy 10.384 9 Perhaps I cannot better illustrate this tendency [to believe in a particular providence] than by citing a record from the diary of the father of [Ezra Ripley's] predecessor...
    EzRy 10.386 4 ...[Ezra Ripley] gave me anecdotes of the nine church members who had made a division in the church in the time of his predecessor...
    MAng1 12.239 8 [Michelangelo] said of his predecessor, the architect Bramante, that he laid the first stone of Saint Peter's, clear, insulated, luminous, with fit design for a vast structure.

predecessors, n. (3)

    Hsm1 2.249 4 The violations of the laws of nature by our predecessors and our contemporaries are punished in us also.
    ShP 4.195 14 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out of 6043 lines, 1771 were written by some author preceding Shakspeare, 2373 by him, on the foundation laid by his predecessors...
    EurB 12.370 27 ...[modern painters] copy the technics of their predecessors...

predecessors', n. (1)

    EurB 12.370 27 ...[modern painters]...paint for their predecessors' public.

predestination, n. (2)

    SL 2.132 12 Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like.
    Trag 12.407 13 The same thought [of Fate] is the predestination of the Turk.

predestined, v. (1)

    ET1 5.15 19 [Carlyle's] talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs, and it was very pleasant to learn what was predestined to be a pretty mythology.

predetermined, v. (3)

    F 6.11 3 So [a man] has but one future, and that is already predetermined...
    Wsp 6.219 15 ...the primordial atoms are prefigured and predetermined to moral issues...
    Aris 10.45 7 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism.

predicable, adj. (1)

    MN 1.216 14 The doctrine in vegetable physiology of the presence or the general influence of any substance over and above its chemical influence... is more predicable of man.

predicament, n. (2)

    Con 1.313 4 ...it might temper your indignation at the supposed wrong which society has done you, to keep the question before you, how society got into this predicament?
    CL 12.147 21 ...I recommend [a walk in the woods] to people who are growing old, against their will. A man in that predicament, if he stands before a mirror...is made quite too sensible of the fact;...

predict, v. (17)

    Tran 1.339 10 ...genius and virtue predict in man the same absence of private ends and of condescension to circumstances...
    Tran 1.346 1 We easily predict a fair future to each new candidate who enters the lists...
    Hist 2.36 14 [A man's] faculties...predict the world he is to inhabit...
    Hist 2.37 16 Does not the eye of the human embryo predict the light?...
    Hist 2.37 17 Does not...the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?
    Hist 2.37 19 Do not the constructive fingers of Watt, Fulton, Whittemore, Arkwright, predict the fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals, the properties of stone, water, and wood?
    Hist 2.37 22 Do not the lovely attributes of the maiden child predict the refinements and decorations of civil society?
    Int 2.327 19 The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times...of that spontaneity.
    Chr1 3.97 3 ...[the action's] moral element preexisted in the actor, and its quality as right or wrong it was easy to predict.
    Chr1 3.108 10 When we see a great man we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune;...
    ET15 5.270 4 Who would care for [the London Times], if it surmised...or ventured to predict, etc.?
    F 6.14 6 ...if you could weigh bodily the tonnage of any hundred of the Whig and the Democratic party in a town on the Dearborn balance...you could predict with certainty which party would carry it.
    Pow 6.56 15 One man...is in sympathy with the course of things; can predict it.
    SA 8.80 5 He whose word or deed you cannot predict...that man rules.
    Aris 10.45 4 If we see tools in a magazine...we can predict well enough their destination;...
    FRep 11.521 14 John Quincy Adams was a man of an audacious independence that always kept the public curiosity alive in regard to what he might do. None could predict his word...
    EurB 12.372 6 The poem of all the poetry of the present age for which we predict the longest term is Abou ben Adhem, of Leigh Hunt.

predictable, adj. (1)

    Prch 10.229 12 The opinions of men lose all worth to him who perceives that they are accurately predictable from the ground of their sect.

predicted, v. (16)

    Nat 1.55 12 [Philosophy] proceeds on the faith that a law determines all phenomena, which being known, the phenomena can be predicted.
    AmS 1.115 16 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...to be reckoned in the gross...of the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically...
    SL 2.140 2 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences... the heaven predicted from the beginning of the world...would organize itself...
    SL 2.140 3 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences... the heaven...still predicted from the bottom of the heart, would organize itself...
    Prd1 2.231 15 Genius should be the child of genius and every child should be inspired; but now it is not to be predicted of any child...
    Nat2 3.182 12 ...from any one object the parts and properties of any other may be predicted.
    SwM 4.116 13 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma, in place of the physical truth or precept: although no mortal would have predicted that any thing of the kind could possibly arise by bare literal transposition;...
    ET8 5.131 8 ...one can believe that Burton, the Anatomist of Melancholy, having predicted from the stars the hour of his death, slipped the knot himself round his own neck, not to falsify his horoscope.
    ET8 5.140 24 ...if hereafter the war of races, often predicted...should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles...
    SA 8.79 9 Who does not delight in fine manners? Their charm cannot be predicted or overstated.
    Elo2 8.111 11 ...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is gained...they see...the character and advantages of the ground, so that the result is often predicted by the observer with great certainty before the charge is sounded.
    PC 8.227 9 There is not a person here present to whom omens that should astonish have not predicted his future...
    MoL 10.245 21 A French prophet of our age, Fourier, predicted that one day...the rival portions of humanity would dispute each other's excellence in the manufacture of little cakes.
    EzRy 10.395 11 All [Ezra Ripley's] opinions and actions might be securely predicted by a good observer on short acquaintance.
    War 11.161 3 [The idea that there can be peace as well as war] is expounded, illustrated, defined, with different degrees of clearness; and its actualization...predicted according to the light of each seer.
    Let 12.404 26 Many of the best must die of consumption...and many be stupid and insane, before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty and beneficent existence.

predicting, adj. (1)

    PI 8.11 11 Seas, forests, metals, diamonds and fossils interest the eye, but 't is only with some preparatory or predicting charm.

predicting, v. (1)

    LLNE 10.357 19 I regard these philanthropists as themselves the effects of the age in which we live, and...the efflorescence of the period and predicting a good fruit that ripens.

prediction, n. (8)

    MN 1.196 25 ...this invincible hope of a more adequate interpreter is the sure prediction of his advent.
    Hist 2.18 8 The trivial experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us...
    SwM 4.108 1 A poetic anatomist, in our own day...assumes the hair-worm, the span-worm, or the snake, as the type or prediction of the spine.
    PI 8.42 2 Events or things are only the fulfilment of the prediction of the faculties.
    Insp 8.284 7 Plutarch affirms that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction...
    Plu 10.307 22 [Plutarch] thinks that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction;...
    CL 12.141 8 Plutarch thought [the air] contained the knowledge of the future. If it be true that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction, and that the chief cause that excites that faculty is a certain temperature of the air and winds, etc.
    MLit 12.335 9 Man is not so far lost but that he suffers ever the great Discontent which is the elegy of his loss and the prediction of his recovery.

predictions, n. (3)

    Plu 10.310 9 You may cull from [Plutarch's] record of barbarous guesses of shepherds and travellers, statements that are predictions of facts established in modern science.
    EWI 11.117 6 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...contrary to many sinister predictions, that the new crop of [West Indian] island produce would not fall short of that of the last year.
    II 12.69 16 We believe...that the rudest mind has a Delphi and Dodona- predictions of Nature and history-in itself...

predicts, v. (8)

    LT 1.266 13 Now and then comes...a...soul, more informed and led by God...which...predicts what shall soon be the general fulness;...
    Con 1.326 14 It is much that this old and vituperated system of things has borne so fair a child. It predicts that amidst a planet peopled with conservatives, one Reformer may yet be born.
    MoS 4.184 1 ...every desire predicts its own satisfaction.
    Bty 6.293 4 ...a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.
    Cour 7.254 15 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight, however exhibited, whether it only plays a game of chess, or whether...a cunning mathematician...predicts the planet which eyes had never seen;...
    PI 8.8 26 Each animal or vegetable form remembers the next inferior and predicts the next higher.
    PI 8.56 20 ...[Newton] only predicts, one would say, a grander poetry...
    ChiE 11.473 9 [Confucius's] ideal of greatness predicts Marcus Antoninus.

predilection, n. (3)

    ET8 5.142 25 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence...
    ET11 5.177 20 The [English] aristocracy are marked by their predilection for country-life.
    ET11 5.180 18 The predilection of the patricians for residence in the country...makes the safety of the English hall.

predilections, n. (1)

    Boks 7.209 6 Many men are as tender and irritable as lovers in reference to these predilections [toward favorite books].

predisposed, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.152 24 For the present distress...of those who are predisposed to suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice [of society], there are easy remedies.

predisposer, n. (1)

    Bost 12.183 5 [The old physiologists] believed the air of mountains and the seashore a potent predisposer to rebellion.

predisposing, adj. (2)

    F 6.38 2 ...[every creature] has predisposing power that bends and fits what is near him to his use.
    Insp 8.296 8 The occasions or predisposing circumstances [of inspiration] I could never tabulate;...

predisposition, n. (1)

    MoS 4.150 1 Each man is born with a predisposition to one or the other of these sides of nature [Sensation or Morals];...

predispositions, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.240 19 Man is made of the same atoms as the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions and destiny.

predominance, n. (15)

    Nat 1.54 26 The perception of real affinities between events...enables the poet...to assert the predominance of the soul.
    LE 1.165 8 ...what hinders [men] in the particular is the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth.
    LE 1.165 14 The hero is great by means of the predominance of the universal nature;...
    YA 1.372 19 The census of the population is found to keep an invariable equality in the sexes, with a trifling predominance in favor of the male...
    Cir 2.302 6 Our culture is the predominance of an idea which draws after it this train of cities and institutions.
    Cir 2.317 27 I own I am gladdened by seeing the predominance of the saccharine principle throughout vegetable nature...
    NMW 4.223 4 ...Bonaparte...owes his predominance to the fidelity with which he expresses the tone of thought and belief, the aims of the masses of active and cultivated men.
    NMW 4.227 3 Much more absolute and centralizing was the successor to Mirabeau's popularity and to much more than his predominance in France.
    Elo1 7.82 3 In the assembly, you shall find the orator and the audience in perpetual balance; and the predominance of either is indicated by the choice of topic.
    SovE 10.186 2 ...we exaggerate when we represent these two elements [belief and skepticism] as disunited; every man shares them both; but it is true that men generally are marked by a decided predominance of one or of the other element.
    LLNE 10.329 11 [The new age] marked itself by a certain predominance of the intellect in the balance of powers.
    CSC 10.375 8 The assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was characterized by the predominance of a certain plain, sylvan strength and earnestness...
    JBS 11.280 23 All women are drawn to [John Brown] by their predominance of sentiment.
    FRep 11.527 25 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the predominance of the democratic party in the politics of the Union...
    Mem 12.108 3 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was...but...a possession of the intellect. Then...we put the onus of being remembered on the object, instead of on our will. We shall do as we do with all our studies, prize the fact or the name of the person by that predominance it takes in our mind after near acquaintance.

predominant, adj. (8)

    MN 1.191 13 ...it is a common calamity if [the scholars] neglect their post in a country where the material interest is so predominant as it is in America.
    Hist 2.3 22 Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant...
    Hist 2.25 22 The costly charm of the ancient tragedy...is that the persons... speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it, before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind.
    Art2 7.56 22 In this country, at this time, other interests than religion and patriotism are predominant...
    Aris 10.32 22 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but...so little in sympathy with the predominant politics of nations, that their names and doings are not recorded in any Book of Peerage...
    Edc1 10.135 22 In affirming that the moral nature of man is the predominant element and should therefore be mainly consulted in the arrangements of a school, I am very far from wishing that it should swallow up all the other instincts and faculties of man.
    FSLN 11.230 14 In Massachusetts...there has always existed a predominant conservative spirit.
    Wom 11.405 10 In that race which is now predominant over all the other races of men, it was a cherished belief that women had an oracular nature.

predominate, v. (5)

    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.
    AmS 1.109 2 Historically, there is thought to be a difference in the ideas which predominate over successive epochs...
    Hist 2.22 23 The antagonism of the two tendencies [Nomadism and Agriculture] is not less active in individuals, as the love of adventure or the love of repose happens to predominate.
    Lov1 2.184 7 Cause and effect...the progressive, idealizing instinct, predominate later...
    Dem1 10.7 8 ...in varieties of our own species where organization seems to predominate over the genius of man...we are sometimes pained by the same feeling [of the similarity between man and animal];...

predominated, v. (2)

    ET4 5.45 1 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... So far have the British people predominated.
    ET14 5.239 7 [Idealism] seems an affair of race, or of meta-chemistry;--the vital point being, how far the sense of unity, or instinct for seeking resemblances, predominated.

predominates, v. (11)

    Int 2.342 1 He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed...he meets...
    Int 2.342 6 He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from all moorings, and afloat.
    ET4 5.57 16 ...the solid material interest predominates [in the Norse Sagas]...
    Art2 7.47 20 ...the power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts...
    DL 7.111 6 ...what idea predominates in our houses?
    Comc 8.159 21 ...a prophet, in whom the moral sentiment predominates, or a philosopher...these do not joke...
    Comc 8.159 22 ...a prophet...or a philosopher, in whom the love of truth predominates, these do not joke...
    PLT 12.60 27 These elements [mind and heart] always coexist in every normal individual, but one predominates.
    PLT 12.61 3 ...the soul in which one [mind or heart] predominates is ever watchful and jealous when such immense claims are made for one as seem injurious to the other.
    MLit 12.313 6 [Subjectiveness] is the new consciousness of the one mind, which predominates in criticism.
    MLit 12.319 3 Scott and Crabbe, who formed themselves on the past, had none of this [subjective] tendency; their poetry is objective. In Byron, on the other hand, it predominates;...

predominating, v. (1)

    SR 2.47 20 Great men have always...confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was...predominating in all their being.

preeminence, n. (2)

    MMEm 10.398 15 [Lucy Percy] prefers the conversation of men to that of women; not but she can talk on the fashions with her female friends, but she is too soon sensible...that preeminence shortens all equality.
    Milt1 12.266 23 [Milton] told the bishops that...they seek to prove their high preeminence from human consent and authority.

preeminent, adj. (1)

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

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