Preestablished to President's

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

preestablished, adj. (2)

    AmS 1.92 11 ...we should suppose some preestablished harmony...
    SR 2.46 25 This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablished harmony.

preexist, v. [pre-exist,] (3)

    Nat 1.34 23 ...acid and alkali, preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God...
    Hist 2.3 20 ...all the facts of history preexist in the mind as laws.
    Pt1 3.25 11 The sea...and every flower-bed, pre-exist or super-exist, in pre-cantations...

preexisted, v. (2)

    Chr1 3.97 1 ...[the action's] moral element preexisted in the actor...
    PerF 10.79 26 In each talent is the perception...of an order and series which preexisted in Nature...

preexisting, adj. (1)

    PerF 10.83 10 [The susceptible man]...obeys a preexisting right which he sees.

preexisting, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.194 22 ...if, instead of identifying ourselves with the work, we feel that the soul of the Workman streams through us, we shall find...the fathomless powers of gravity and chemistry, and, over them, of life, preexisting within us in their highest form.

preexists, v. (3)

    Hist 2.18 2 ...every spine and tint in the sea-shell preexists in the secreting organs of the fish.
    Comp 2.103 16 ...means and ends...cannot be severed; for...the end preexists in the means...
    QO 8.180 22 Hegel preexists in Proclus...

preface, n. (2)

    QO 8.188 20 If Lord Bacon appears already in the preface, I go and read the Instauration instead of the new book.
    Plu 10.317 2 I can almost regret that the learned editor of the present republication [of Plutarch's Morals] has not preserved...the preface of Mr. Morgan...

prefer, v. (41)

    Nat 1.70 3 ...we learn to prefer imperfect theories...to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
    DSA 1.138 25 It seemed as if [the people's] houses were very unentertaining, that they should prefer this thoughtless clamor.
    LE 1.157 15 ...men here...prefer any antiquity...to the unproductive service of thought.
    LE 1.165 11 The condition of our incarnation in a private self seems to be a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law...to the exclusion of the law of universal being.
    MR 1.253 17 [The people] inevitably prefer wit and probity.
    Con 1.312 26 ...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert,-acre, if you need land;-acre's worth, if you prefer to draw...to the tilling of the soil.
    Tran 1.341 7 ...[many intelligent and religious persons] prefer to ramble in the country and perish of ennui, to the degradation of such charities and such ambitions as the city can propose to them.
    Tran 1.354 20 In the eternal trinity of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty... [Transcendentalists] prefer to make Beauty the sign and head.
    SR 2.53 6 I much prefer that [my life] should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal...
    Fdsp 2.205 19 I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display...
    Pt1 3.4 5 Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the spiritual meaning...of a city or a contract, but they prefer to come again to the solid ground of historical evidence;...
    Mrs1 3.136 25 I prefer a tendency to stateliness to an excess of fellowship.
    Gts 3.161 2 I can think of many parts I should prefer playing to that of the Furies.
    Pol1 3.207 15 In this country we are very vain of our political institutions... and we ostentatiously prefer them to any other in history.
    NER 3.264 17 ...it may easily be questioned...whether those who have energy will not prefer their chance of superiority and power in the world, to the humble certainties of the association;...
    MoS 4.167 7 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...what meats I eat and what drinks I prefer...
    ET8 5.143 6 [The English] choose that welfare which is compatible with the commonwealth, knowing that such alone is stable; as wise merchants prefer investments in the three per cents.
    ET10 5.166 2 I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the better class to that of any potentate in Europe...
    ET16 5.289 23 I think I prefer this church [Winchester Cathedral] to all I have seen, except Westminster and York.
    ET18 5.307 10 ...retrospectively, we may strike the balance and prefer one Alfred, one Shakspeare, one Milton, one Sidney, one Raleigh, one Wellington, to a million foolish democrats.
    Wth 6.121 15 Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us when we prefer our own way to hers.
    Wsp 6.215 26 What a day dawns when we have taken to heart the doctrine of faith! to prefer, as a better investment, being to doing;...
    CbW 6.278 10 I prefer to say, with the old prophet, Seekest thou great things? seek them not...
    Ill 6.323 1 I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent...
    Boks 7.207 9 In reading history, [the scholar] is to prefer the history of individuals.
    Cour 7.271 19 If opportunity allowed, [Governor Wise and John Brown] would prefer each other's society...
    QO 8.201 7 [The individual] must draw the elements into him for food, and, if they be granite and silex, will prefer them cooked by sun and rain, by time and art, to his hand.
    PC 8.208 5 Who does not prefer the age of steel...
    Insp 8.290 21 ...the experience of some good artists has taught them to prefer the smallest and plainest chamber...
    Grts 8.301 10 I might call [the prize] completeness, but that is later,- perhaps adjourned for ages. I prefer to call it Greatness.
    Grts 8.313 25 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say, with the old Hebrew prophet, Seekest thou great things?-seek them not;...
    Dem1 10.26 6 It is...a most dangerous superstition to raise [Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism] to the lofty place of motives and sanctions. This is to prefer halos and rainbows to the sun and moon.
    Schr 10.268 16 ...I prefer no action to misaction...
    FSLC 11.205 13 [The people] prefer order, and have no taste for misrule and uproar.
    FSLN 11.230 8 ...it is...the essence...of love, to prefer another...
    FSLN 11.242 25 I [Robert Winthrop] am, as you see, a man virtuously inclined, and only corrupted by my profession of politics. I should prefer the right side.
    HCom 11.343 13 It is a principle of war, said Napoleon, that when you can use the thunderbolt you must prefer it to the cannon.
    CPL 11.501 20 There are utilitarians who prefer that Jesus should have wrought as a carpenter...
    FRep 11.528 16 [The American people] prefer order...
    CL 12.140 2 I own I prefer the solar to the polar climates.
    CW 12.172 18 ...our people are vain, when abroad, of having the freedom of foreign cities presented to them in a gold box. I much prefer to have the freedom of a garden presented me.

preferable, adj. (1)

    MN 1.217 5 Is [Love] not a certain admirable wisdom, preferable to all other advantages...

preference, n. (14)

    MN 1.200 27 ...the equal serving of innumerable ends without the least emphasis or preference to any...allows the understanding no place to work.
    MR 1.235 18 ...I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society, if it proceeded from a preference of the agricultural life out of the belief that our primary duties as men could be better discharged in that calling.
    LT 1.290 27 Let it not be recorded in our own memories that in this moment of the Eternity...we...disgraced the fair Day by a pusillanimous preference of our bread to our freedom.
    NR 3.233 27 This preference of the genius to the parts is the secret of that deification of art, which is found in all superior minds.
    NER 3.274 27 The same magnanimity shows itself...in the preference... which each man gives to the society of superiors over that of his equals.
    ET7 5.119 9 [The English] have the...preference for property in land, which is said to mark the Teutonic nations.
    Wsp 6.225 4 Here is a low political economy...by cunning tariffs giving preference to worse wares of ours.
    Cour 7.253 10 Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight, that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own;...
    OA 7.315 14 ...the naivete of [Josiah Quincy's] eager preference of Cicero' s opinions to King David's, gave unusual interest to the College festival.
    SA 8.103 6 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of. I said never was such...good action, combined with...such modesty and persistent preference for others.
    Chr2 10.93 3 ...love is delight in the preference of that benefit redounding to another over the securing of our own share;...
    Thor 10.459 15 [Thoreau's] preference of his country and condition was genuine...
    Thor 10.468 9 [Thoreau]...owned to a preference of the weeds to the imported plants...
    EurB 12.375 24 ...this reward granted [the novels of costume or of circumstance] is property, all-excluding property...a preference and cosseting which is rude and insulting to all but the minion.

preferences, n. (3)

    DSA 1.130 20 [The soul]...will have no preferences but those of spontaneous love.
    CbW 6.250 1 Clay and clay differ in dignity, as we discover by our preferences every day.
    SovE 10.200 1 When we ask simply, What is true in thought? what is just in action? it is the yielding of the private heart to the Divine mind, and all personal preferences, and all requiring of wonders, are profane.

preferment, n. (1)

    ET13 5.226 20 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money...will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. The class certain to be excluded from all preferment are the religious...

preferred, v. (27)

    MR 1.240 25 ...where a man does not yet discover in himself any fitness for one work more than another, [the husbandman's] may be preferred.
    Con 1.311 12 Would you have...preferred your freedom on a heath...to this towered and citied world?...
    YA 1.381 5 These communists preferred the agricultural life as the most favorable condition for human culture;...
    PPh 4.74 25 Crito bribed the jailer; but Socrates would not go out by treachery. Whatever inconvenience ensue, nothing is to be preferred before justice.
    GoW 4.277 27 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is read by very intelligent persons with wonder and delight. It is preferred by some such to Hamlet, as a work of genius.
    ET1 5.23 17 I said Tinturn Abbey appeared to be the favorite poem with the public, but more contemplative readers preferred the first books of the Excursion, and the Sonnets.
    ET1 5.23 19 [Wordsworth] preferred such of his poems as touched the affections, to any others;...
    ET1 5.23 26 [Wordsworth] cited the sonnet, On the feelings of a highminded Spaniard, which he preferred to any other...
    Ctr 6.151 8 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Goethe, who preferred trifling subjects and common expressions in intercourse with strangers...
    Ctr 6.163 8 [The ancients] preferred the noble vessel too late for the tide... to her companion borne into harbor with colors flying and guns firing.
    Ill 6.317 18 'T is the charm of practical men that outside of their practicality are a certain poetry and play, as if they led the good horse Power by the bridle, and preferred to walk...
    Elo1 7.100 2 [Eloquence's] great masters...were grave men, who preferred their integrity to their talent...
    Clbs 7.246 1 A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense preferred on his travels taking his chance at a hotel for company...
    LLNE 10.365 11 Eggs might be hatched in ovens, but the hen on her own account much preferred the old way.
    Thor 10.453 2 ...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him...
    Thor 10.454 26 A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau]. He much preferred a good Indian...
    Thor 10.455 8 When asked at table what dish he preferred, [Thoreau] answered, The nearest.
    LS 11.20 27 ...the reason why [Christianity] is to be preferred over all other systems and is divine is this, that it is a moral system;...
    HDC 11.66 15 I find, in the [Concord] Church Records, the charges preferred against [Daniel Bliss], his answer thereto, and the result of the Council.
    FSLN 11.243 4 You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict clear and prevailing. Had you done so, you would have found me [Robert Winthrop] its glad organ and champion. Abstractly, I should have preferred that side.
    ALin 11.336 7 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim? Far happier this fate than...to have seen mean men preferred.
    Shak1 11.452 27 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it! but... being again preferred to selecter companions, find no obstacle to ruling these as they did their earlier mates;...
    PLT 12.62 13 Knowledge is plainly to be preferred before power...
    Mem 12.103 6 A thought takes its true rank in the memory by surviving other thoughts that were once preferred.
    CL 12.154 26 It was said of [Samuel Johnson] that he preferred the Strand to the Garden of the Hesperides.
    Bost 12.184 26 ...it appears as if some localities of the earth...were preferred before others.
    Milt1 12.269 25 [Milton] preferred his own English...to the Latin...

preferring, v. (6)

    Tran 1.333 15 Although in his action overpowered by the laws of action, and so, warmly co-operating with men, even preferring them to himself, yet when he speaks...after the order of thought, [the idealist] is constrained to degrade persons into representatives of truths.
    Cir 2.309 10 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man... cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth...
    Dem1 10.26 19 [Adepts in occult facts] are...by laws of kind,-dunces seeking dunces in the dark of what they call the spiritual world,-preferring snores and gastric noises to the voice of any muse.
    Chr2 10.100 27 When a man is born...preferring truth, justice and the serving of all men to any honors or any gain, men readily feel the superiority.
    EdAd 11.382 4 The old men studied magic in the flowers,/ And human fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring things to names, for these were men/...
    II 12.67 9 ...we must form the habit of preferring in all cases this guidance [of instinct], which is given as it is used.

prefers, v. (16)

    Nat 1.45 13 When [the human form] appears among so many that surround it, the spirit prefers it to all others.
    LT 1.277 15 [The Reforms] mix the fire of the moral sentiment, with...the blindness that prefers some darling measure to justice and truth.
    Pt1 3.34 26 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith; and, he believes, should stand for the same realities to every reader. But the first reader prefers as naturally the symbol of a mother and child...
    ET1 5.7 24 [Landor] prefers the Venus to everything else...
    ET1 5.7 26 [Landor] prefers John of Bologna to Michael Angelo;...
    ET14 5.233 10 [The Englishman]...prefers his hot chop, with perfect security and convenience in the eating of it...
    CbW 6.258 4 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls... on...some trade or politics of the hour, he prefers it to the universe...
    Bty 6.287 9 Beauty is the form under which the intellect prefers to study the world.
    PI 8.12 25 ...my young scholar does not wish to know what the leopard, the wolf, or Lucia, signify in Dante's Inferno, but prefers to keep their veils on.
    Aris 10.60 13 The solitariest man who shares [a certain order of men's] spirit walks environed by them;...and happy is he who prefers these associates to profane companions.
    Plu 10.301 1 [Plutarch] believes...in demons and ghosts,-but prefers...to talk of these in the morning.
    Plu 10.308 14 Of philosophy he is more interested in the results than in the method. He...prefers to sit as a scholar with Plato, than as a disputant;...
    MMEm 10.398 12 [Lucy Percy] prefers the conversation of men to that of women;...
    Carl 10.496 2 [Carlyle] prefers Cambridge to Oxford...
    PLT 12.56 1 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men, or objects which have a brief importance, prefers it to the universe...
    II 12.83 6 The dream which lately floated before the eyes of the French nation-that every man shall do that which of all things he prefers, and shall have three francs a day for doing that-is the real law of the world;...

prefigured, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.219 15 ...the primordial atoms are prefigured and predetermined to moral issues...

prefiguring, v. (1)

    Dem1 10.10 7 Every man goes through the world attended with innumerable facts prefiguring...his fate...

prefixes, v. (2)

    PPh 4.56 21 To the study of nature [Plato]...prefixes the dogma, Let us declare the cause which led the Supreme Ordainer to produce and compose the universe.
    CL 12.143 9 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice...

pregnant, adj. (9)

    LT 1.270 15 The political questions touching...the Congress of nations; are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...
    Boks 7.207 4 ...in the Elizabethan era [the scholar] is at the richest period of the English mind...and with a pregnant future before him.
    PPo 8.245 10 ...[Hafiz] abounds in pregnant sentences...
    LLNE 10.331 23 Let [Everett] rise to speak on what occasion soever, a fact had always just transpired which composed, with some other fact well known to the audience, the most pregnant and happy coincidence.
    SlHr 10.437 3 ...this is the pregnant season, when our old Roman, Samuel Hoar, has chosen to quit this world.
    HDC 11.77 19 [William Emerson], at least, saw clearly the pregnant consequences of the 19th April [1775].
    EWI 11.104 4 ...if we saw...pregnant women set in the treadmill for refusing to work;...we too should wince.
    ALin 11.333 25 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide fame. What pregnant definitions; what unerring common sense;...
    FRO2 11.487 10 ...every pregnant jest, travels across the line; and you will find it at Cape Town, or among the Tartars.

prehensile, adj. (1)

    Pol1 3.218 22 Like one class of forest animals, [senators and presidents] have nothing but a prehensile tail; climb they must, or crawl.

prehensility, n. (1)

    ET6 5.111 13 All [the Englishmen's] statesmen...have invented many fine phrases to cover this slowness of perception and prehensility of tail.

prejudges, v. (1)

    Exp 3.85 12 ...far be from me the despair which prejudges the law by a paltry empiricism;...

prejudging, v. (1)

    MLit 12.329 23 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...every keen beholder of life will justify my truth [in Wilhelm Meister], and will acquit me of prejudging the cause of humanity by painting it with this morose fidelity.

prejudice, n. (11)

    LE 1.155 13 Neither years nor books have yet availed to extirpate a prejudice then rooted in me...
    MN 1.203 16 Why should not then these messieurs of Versailles strut and plot for tabourets and ribbons, for a season, without prejudice to their faculty to run on better errands by and by?
    Chr1 3.108 13 None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice...
    Bhr 6.176 11 The obstinate prejudice in favor of blood...has some reason in common experience.
    Art2 7.49 11 So much as we can shove aside...our prejudice and will, and bring the omniscience of reason upon the subject before us, so perfect is the work [of art].
    Elo1 7.65 7 That...which eloquence ought to reach, is not a particular skill in...dexterously addressing the prejudice of the company...
    Aris 10.33 18 I observe the inextinguishable prejudice men have in favor of a hereditary transmission of qualities.
    SovE 10.199 7 It is the sturdiest prejudice in the public mind that religion is something by itself;...
    HDC 11.61 14 A great defence [of Concord] undoubtedly was the village of Praying Indians, until this settlement fell a victim to the envenomed prejudice against their countrymen.
    EWI 11.99 21 In this cause [emancipation], no man's weakness is any prejudice;...
    AgMs 12.359 13 [Edmund Hosmer]...has...improved his land in every way year by year, and this without prejudice to himself the landlord...

prejudice, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.211 11 Respect so far the holy laws of this fellowship [of friends] as not to prejudice its perfect flower...

prejudiced, v. (1)

    GoW 4.284 25 ...there is no weapon in the armory of universal genius [Goethe] did not take into his hand, but with peremptory heed that he should not be for a moment prejudiced by his instruments.

prejudices, n. (7)

    GoW 4.266 16 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.
    ET14 5.259 1 I am not surprised...to find an Englishman like Warren Hastings...deprecating the prejudices of his countrymen while offering them a translation of the Bhagvat.
    Aris 10.64 11 No great man has existed who did not rely on the sense and heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people, as correcting the modes and over-refinements and class prejudices of the lettered men of the world.
    LS 11.16 9 We know how inveterately [the primitive Church] were attached to their Jewish prejudices...
    EWI 11.123 9 The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.
    FSLN 11.228 7 [Webster] told the people at Boston they must conquer their prejudices;...
    WSL 12.344 10 [Landor] has the common prejudices of an English landholder;...

prejudicing, v. (1)

    PI 8.32 4 Free trade, [men of the world] concede, is very well as a principle, but it is never quite the time for its adoption without prejudicing actual interests.

prelate, n. (2)

    ShP 4.192 1 ...as we could not hope to suppress newspapers now...neither then [in Shakespeare's time] could king, prelate, or puritan, alone or united, suppress an organ which was ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch and library, at the same time.
    ShP 4.192 4 Probably king, prelate and puritan, all found their own account in [the Elizabethan theatre].

prelates, n. (4)

    ET13 5.217 13 ...the gradation of the clergy [in England],--prelates for the rich and curates for the poor,--with the fact that a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.
    ET13 5.226 23 The [English] curates are ill paid, and the prelates are overpaid.
    HDC 11.40 4 ...the wailing of the tempest in the woods sounded kindlier in [the settlers of Concord's] ear than the smooth voice of the prelates, at home, in England.
    Milt1 12.266 18 His firm grasp of this truth [of Christian humility] is [Milton's] weapon against the prelates.

prelatical, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.339 20 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling...on prelatical times, made Puritans and Quakers;...

preliminary, adj. (4)

    SwM 4.111 20 The admirable preliminary discourses with which Mr. Wilkinson has enriched these volumes [by Swedenborg], throw all the contemporary philosophy of England into shade...
    Imtl 8.329 17 I think all sound minds rest on a certain preliminary conviction, namely, that if it be best that conscious personal life shall continue, it will continue; if not best, then it will not;...
    GSt 10.503 9 In 1862, on the President's first or preliminary Proclamation of Emancipation, [George Stearns] took the first steps for organizing the Freedman's Bureau...
    HDC 11.32 14 The grant of the General Court was but a preliminary step.

premature, adj. (14)

    LE 1.186 20 Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn?
    SL 2.147 6 God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
    Fdsp 2.200 16 Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk in which a delicate organization is protected from premature ripening.
    Pol1 3.220 7 ...let not the most conservative and timid fear anything from a premature surrender of the bayonet and the system of force.
    NMW 4.254 5 ...[Napoleon] sat, in his premature old age...coldly falsifying facts and dates and characters...
    Elo1 7.93 13 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness, which...never utters a premature syllable...and the orator stands before the people as a demoniacal power...
    DL 7.121 14 ...[the eager, blushing boys] sigh...for the theatre and premature freedom and dissipation...
    Clbs 7.234 5 ...men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature...
    Suc 7.310 18 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation, and they...go home with heavier step and premature age.
    OA 7.335 10 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...
    Thor 10.460 22 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come. The Republican Committee, the Abolitionist Committee, sent him word that it was premature, and not advisable.
    LVB 11.92 10 We have looked in the newspapers of different parties and find a horrid confirmation of the tale [of the relocation of the Cherokees]. We are slow to believe it. We hoped...that [the Indians'] remonstrance was premature...
    PLT 12.60 3 This premature stop, I know not how, befalls most of us in early youth;...
    CL 12.151 5 The next day the Hylas were piping in every pool, and a new activity among the hardy birds, the premature arrival of the bluebird...

prematurely, adv. (9)

    F 6.17 1 [The Germans and Irish] are...carted over America...to lie down prematurely to make a spot of green grass on the prairie.
    Elo1 7.62 1 The plight of these phlegmatic brains is better than that of those who prematurely boil...
    Suc 7.293 4 [Your appointed task] by no means consists in rushing prematurely to a showy feat...
    OA 7.316 17 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head...
    GSt 10.506 22 ...the excessive toil and anxieties, into which [George Stearns's] ardent spirit led him...wore out prematurely his constitution.
    GSt 10.506 24 It is sad that such a life [as George Stearns's] should end prematurely;...
    PLT 12.12 2 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he does not interfere with its vast curves by prematurely forcing them into a circle or ellipse...
    PLT 12.25 19 The commonest remark, if the man could only extend it a little, would make him a genius; but the thought is prematurely checked...
    PLT 12.57 8 ...society seems to be in conspiracy to utilize every gift prematurely...

premeditated, adj. (1)

    Elo2 8.129 6 Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...

premises, n. (3)

    Pow 6.67 27 ...[Boniface] introduced the new horse-rake, the new scraper, the baby-jumper, and what not, that Connecticut sends to the admiring citizens. He did this the easier that the peddler stopped at his house, and paid his keeping by setting up his new trap on the landlord's premises.
    Grts 8.314 15 Napoleon commands our respect...by the speed and security of his action in the premises, always new.
    PLT 12.22 23 The robber, as the police reports say, must have been intimately acquainted with the premises.

premising, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.399 17 I have found that I could only bring you this portrait [of Mary Moody Emerson] by selections from the diary of my heroine, premising a sketch of her time and place.

premium, n. (6)

    PNR 4.89 11 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur.
    ET13 5.227 3 ...a bishop [in England] is only a surpliced merchant. Through his lawn I can see the bright buttons of the shopman's coat glitter. A wealth like that of Durham makes almost a premium on felony.
    Bhr 6.189 5 Nature forever puts a premium on reality.
    Aris 10.49 20 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...better than any premium on race;...
    AgMs 12.363 18 These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation, and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very uninviting and inconspicuous to State Commissioners. So with these premiums to farms, and premiums at cattle-shows. The class that I describe must pay the premium which is awarded to the rich.
    AgMs 12.363 20 ...the premium obviously ought to be given for the good management of a poor farm.

premiums, n. (3)

    FRep 11.511 10 The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year, ever since Newton explained to Parliament that the way to improve navigation was to get good watches, and to offer public premiums for a better time-keeper than any then in use.
    AgMs 12.363 16 These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation, and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very uninviting and inconspicuous to State Commissioners. So with these premiums to farms, and premiums at cattle-shows.
    AgMs 12.363 17 These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation, and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very uninviting and inconspicuous to State Commissioners. So with these premiums to farms, and premiums at cattle-shows.

premonitions, n. (1)

    Nat 1.40 16 Sensible objects conform to the premonitions of Reason...

preoccupation, n. (3)

    DSA 1.147 27 Slight [the commanders] by preoccupation of mind...and they instantly feel...that it is in lower places that they must shine.
    NR 3.226 11 ...no one of [the speakers in a debate] hears much that another says, such is the preoccupation of mind of each;...
    GSt 10.503 3 ...[George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his own pursuits...

preoccupied, adj. (6)

    Tran 1.357 12 ...church and old book mumble and ritualize to an unheeding, preoccupied and advancing mind...
    Exp 3.82 7 A preoccupied attention is the only answer to the importunate frivolity of other people;...
    ET1 5.14 20 [Coleridge] was old and preoccupied...
    ET2 5.31 6 ...the inconveniences and terrors of the sea are not of any account to those whose minds are preoccupied.
    FSLC 11.185 8 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime...
    MAng1 12.239 1 It has been the defect of some great men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of others, and so lacked...one of the best elements of humanity. This apathy perhaps happens as often from preoccupied attention as from jealousy.

preoccupied, v. (6)

    LT 1.268 3 Let us not see the foundations...of a new and better order of things laid, with...an attention preoccupied with trifles.
    YA 1.389 14 ...the bold face and tardy repentance permitted to this local mischief [Repudiation] reveal a public mind so preoccupied with the love of gain that the common sentiment of indignation at fraud does not act with its natural force.
    PPh 4.44 22 ...the writings of Plato have preoccupied every school of learning...
    F 6.44 6 The races of men rise out of the ground preoccupied with a thought which rules them...
    FSLN 11.239 18 The national spirit in this country is so...preoccupied with interest...
    II 12.81 13 ...the races of men rise out of the ground preoccupied with a thought which rules them...

preoccupies, v. (1)

    Pow 6.61 8 ...if [children] have the buoyancy and resistance that preoccupies them with new interest in the new moment,--the wounds cicatrize and the fibre is the tougher for the hurt.

preordained, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.220 17 The curve of the flight of the moth is preordained...

preparation, n. (24)

    AmS 1.92 12 ...we should suppose...some foresight of souls that were to be, and some preparation of stores for their future wants...
    AmS 1.101 5 In the long period of his preparation [the scholar] must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts...
    AmS 1.114 9 ...this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs...by all preparation, to the American Scholar.
    LE 1.180 4 ...[Napoleon] neglected never the least particular of preparation...
    Con 1.316 22 ...the plant Man does not require for his most glorious flowering this pomp of preparation and convenience...
    SL 2.146 27 No man can learn what he has not preparation for learning...
    Exp 3.47 15 So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine...that the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
    PNR 4.81 5 ...[nature] is insensible to what you say of tedious preparation.
    GoW 4.263 20 [The writer's] failures are the preparation of his victories.
    Elo1 7.87 27 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation...
    Farm 7.152 23 [The farmer] carries out this cumulative preparation of means to their last effect.
    Elo2 8.111 15 Who knows before the debate begins what the preparation...
    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...
    Grts 8.319 8 What are these [heroes] but the promise and the preparation of a day when the air of the world shall be purified by nobler society...
    Imtl 8.328 24 ...spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it...
    Imtl 8.336 19 We must infer our destiny from the preparation.
    Imtl 8.339 6 Franklin said, Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life.
    Aris 10.61 18 The generous soul, on arriving in a new port, makes instant preparation for a new voyage.
    Schr 10.284 9 ...the sure months are bringing [the scholar] to an examination-day...for which no tutor, no book, no lectures, and almost no preparation can be of the least avail.
    Plu 10.305 22 Many of [Plutarch's discourses] are mere sketches or notes for chapters in preparation...
    MMEm 10.425 27 How grand [the earth's] preparation for souls,-souls who were to feel the Divinity, before Science had dissected the emotions...
    HDC 11.35 26 ...the pilgrims had the preparation of an armed mind...
    AKan 11.257 11 I know people who are making haste to reduce their expenses and pay their debts...in preparation to save and earn for the benefit of the Kansas emigrants.
    JBS 11.279 9 Our farmers...had learned that life was a preparation...for a higher world...

preparations, n. (2)

    ShP 4.191 9 Choose any other thing...out of the national feeling and history, and...[the great man's] powers would be expended in the first preparations.
    Res 8.139 22 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations! dealing with races as merely preparations of somewhat to follow;...

preparatory, adj. (3)

    PI 8.11 11 Seas, forests, metals, diamonds and fossils interest the eye, but 't is only with some preparatory or predicting charm.
    War 11.152 15 The student of history acquiesces the more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals, bloodshed in God's name, too, when he learns that it is a temporary and preparatory state...
    Milt1 12.249 7 There is [in Milton's tracts]...no mediate, no preparatory course suggested...

prepare, v. (6)

    MR 1.246 21 One must have been born and bred with [infirm people] to know how to prepare a meal for their learned stomach.
    NER 3.283 3 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who shall enjoy his connection with a higher life...
    Bhr 6.172 1 When we reflect on...how [manners] recommend, prepare, and draw people together...we see what range the subject has...
    AKan 11.257 5 I think we are to give largely, lavishly, to these [Kansas] men. And we must prepare to do it.
    ACiv 11.305 22 Congress can...abolish slavery, and pay for such slaves as we ought to pay for. Then the slaves near our armies will come to us; those in the interior will know in a week what their rights are, and will, where opportunity offers, prepare to take them.
    FRep 11.525 25 Nature...spends individuals and races prodigally to prepare new individuals and races.

prepared, adj. (2)

    Wth 6.98 14 There is a refining influence from the arts of Design on a prepared mind which is as positive as that of music...
    ALin 11.330 19 How slowly, and yet by happily prepared steps, [Lincoln] came to his place.

prepared, v. (21)

    Nat 1.56 25 When [the Supreme Being] prepared the heavens, [Ideas] were there;...
    Nat 1.74 24 It will not need, when the mind is prepared for study, to search for objects.
    YA 1.394 15 ...[the English] need all and more than all the resources of the past to indemnify a heroic gentleman in that country for the mortifications prepared for him by the system of society...
    Hist 2.19 27 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns, already prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses...
    Lov1 2.187 21 ...the purification of the intellect and the heart from year to year is the real marriage, foreseen and prepared from the first...
    ShP 4.192 20 The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for it. He loses no time in idle experiments. Here is audience and expectation prepared.
    GoW 4.264 19 Nature has dearly at heart the formation of the speculative man, or scholar. It is an end...prepared in the original casting of things.
    GoW 4.264 22 [The scholar] is...one of the estates of the realm, provided and prepared from of old and from everlasting...
    ET1 5.24 5 When I prepared to depart [Wordsworth] said he wished to show me what a common person in England could do...
    Bty 6.293 3 ...a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.
    SA 8.81 19 See how [Nature] has prepared for [manners].
    PC 8.222 3 When the correlation of the sciences was announced by Oersted and his colleagues, it was no surprise; we were found already prepared for it.
    MMEm 10.409 19 ...from the highway hedges where I [Mary Moody Emerson] get lodging...I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.
    Thor 10.484 23 The scale on which [Thoreau's] studies proceeded was so large as to require longevity, and we were the less prepared for his sudden disappearance.
    LS 11.3 15 Without considering the frivolous questions which have been lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's Supper];...the questions have been settled differently in every church, who should be admitted to the feast, and how often it should be prepared.
    LS 11.7 5 Jesus is a Jew, sitting with his countrymen, celebrating their national feast [the Passover]. He thinks of his own impending death, and wishes the minds of his disciples to be prepared for it.
    War 11.175 18 ...the mind, once prepared for the reign of principles, will easily find modes of expressing its will.
    MAng1 12.226 3 [Michelangelo] was charged with rebuilding the Pons Palatinus over the Tiber. He prepared, accordingly, a large quantity of blocks of travertine...
    MAng1 12.226 24 When the Sistine Chapel was prepared for him, that he might paint the ceiling, [Michelangelo] found the platform on which he was to work suspended by ropes which passed through the ceiling.
    EurB 12.369 16 What [Wordsworth] said, [many others] were prepared to hear and confirm.
    Trag 12.413 6 When two strangers meet in the highway, what each demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm mind...prepared alike to give death or to give life, as the emergency of the next moment may require.

prepares, v. (7)

    Nat 1.22 26 ...each [of the intellectual and the active powers] prepares and will be followed by the other.
    DSA 1.119 12 The cool night...prepares [man's] eyes again for the crimson dawn.
    F 6.46 14 ...what their companion prepares to say to [some people], they first say to him;...
    Imtl 8.338 4 Whatever it be which the great Providence prepares for us, it must be something large and generous...
    SovE 10.209 23 [The religious feeling] prepares to rise out of all forms to an absolute justice and healthy perception.
    Prch 10.218 23 ...I see not how the great God prepares to satisfy the heart in the new order of things.
    CL 12.150 26 [The man] went forth again after the rain; in the cold swamp, the buds are swollen, the ictodes prepares its flower...

preparing, v. (17)

    LT 1.275 8 Do you suppose that the reforms which are preparing will be as superficial as those we know?
    SR 2.90 2 ...you think good days are preparing for you.
    Prd1 2.240 7 Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
    OS 2.293 22 You are preparing with eagerness to go and render a service...
    Pt1 3.18 4 ...it is related of Lord Chatham that he was accustomed to read in Bailey's Dictionary when he was preparing to speak in Parliament.
    NER 3.273 1 I cannot help recalling the fine anecdote which Warton relates of Bishop Berkeley, when he was preparing to leave England with his plan of planting the gospel among the American savages.
    ET11 5.195 9 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense.
    ET11 5.195 14 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense. They went from city to city...gathering seeds, gems, coins and divers curiosities, preparing for a private life thereafter...
    ET12 5.206 9 ...these young men [at Oxford] thus happily placed, and paid to read, are impatient of their few checks, and many of them preparing to resign their fellowships.
    Art2 7.57 7 ...as far as [popular institutions] accelerate the end of political freedom and national education, they are preparing the soil of man for fairer flowers and fruits in another age.
    Elo2 8.128 20 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...that I wish [a boy's] guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    Plu 10.321 8 I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in London, charged with the duty of preparing a Critical Dictionary, will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch]...
    LLNE 10.329 16 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...like a mother yielding food from her own breast instead of preparing it through chemic and culinary skill...all gone;...
    EzRy 10.392 11 We remember the remark of a gentleman who listened with much delight to [Ezra Ripley's] conversation at the time when the Doctor was perparing to go to Baltimore and Washington, that a man who could tell a story so well was company for kings and John Quincy Adams.
    HDC 11.83 7 I have been greatly indebted, in preparing this sketch [of Concord], to the printed but unpublished History of this town...
    Milt1 12.268 6 ...[Milton]...devoted much of his time to the preparing of a Latin dictionary.
    Trag 12.405 21 Projects that once we laughed and leapt to execute find us now sleepy and preparing to lie down in the snow.

preponderance, n. (3)

    SL 2.134 5 Not less conspicuous is the preponderance of nature over will in all practical life.
    Ctr 6.137 3 Culture is the suggestion...that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale...
    QO 8.201 12 To all that can be said of the preponderance of the Past, the single word Genius is a sufficient reply.

preponderate, v. (2)

    DSA 1.132 22 ...a great and rich soul, like [Christ's]...does so preponderate, that...it names the world.
    FSLN 11.240 10 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit, but that...age on age, shall cast itself into the opposite scale, and not until liberty has slowly accumulated weight enough to countervail and preponderate against all this, can the sufficient recoil come.

prepossessing, adj. (1)

    ET1 5.19 6 [Wordsworth's] daughters called in their father, a plain, elderly, white-haired man, not prepossessing...

prepossession, n. (3)

    Con 1.304 9 There is a natural sentiment and prepossession in favor of age...
    ET3 5.36 27 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west...
    Elo1 7.83 3 There is always a rivalry between the orator and the occasion, between the demands of the hour and the prepossession of the individual.

preposterous, adj. (4)

    Hist 2.11 9 All inquiry into antiquity...is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then...
    SL 2.164 17 I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.
    Mrs1 3.143 11 ...it is not to be supposed that men have agreed to be the dupes of anything preposterous;...
    Dem1 10.8 23 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in certain actions which seem preposterous...

Pre-Raphaelite, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.290 15 The lesson taught by the study...of antique and of Pre-Raphaelite painting, was worth all the research,--namely, that all beauty must be organic;...

prerogative, n. (7)

    LE 1.176 20 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons... forfeiting the real prerogative of the russet coat...
    Gts 3.165 5 There are persons from whom we always expect fairy-tokens; let us not cease to expect them. This is prerogative, and not to be limited by our municipal rules.
    ET7 5.116 14 When any breach of promise occurred [in English government], in the old days of prerogative, it was resented by the people as an intolerable grievance.
    SS 7.8 27 ...the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs. The cooperation...is put upon us by the Genius of Life, who reserves this as a part of his prerogative.
    Aris 10.51 14 We do not expect [public representatives] to be saints, and it is very pleasing to see the instinct of mankind on this matter,-how much they will forgive to such as pay substantial service and work energetically after their kind; but they do not extend the same indulgence to those who claim and enjoy the same prerogative but render no returns.
    LLNE 10.327 26 Prerogative, government, goes to pieces day by day.
    Milt1 12.253 13 It is the prerogative of this great man [Milton] to stand at this hour foremost of all men in literary history...

prerogatives, n. (4)

    AmS 1.106 12 [Man] has almost lost the light that can lead him back to his prerogatives.
    MN 1.193 3 The weaver should not be bereaved of...his knowledge that the product or the skill is of no value, except so far as it embodies his spiritual prerogatives.
    Aris 10.49 26 The prerogatives of a right physician are determined...by the health he restores to body and mind;...
    Chr2 10.121 19 Goethe...maintained his belief that pure loveliness and right good will are the highest manly prerogatives...

presage, n. (2)

    SwM 4.118 6 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties...a science of such grand presage would absorb all faculties;...
    F 6.46 13 Some people are made up of rhyme, coincidence, omen, periodicity, and presage...

presbytery, n. (2)

    OA 7.321 10 ...the senate of Sparta, the presbytery of the Church, and the like, all signify simply old men.
    Chr2 10.107 3 ...the church-warden or tithing-man was a petty persecutor; the presbytery, a tyrant;...

prescience, n. (1)

    OS 2.268 5 The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment.

Prescott, George L., n. (9)

    SMC 11.361 16 If Marshal Montluc's Memoirs are the Bible of soldiers, as Henry IV. of France said, Colonel Prescott might furnish the Book of Epistles.
    SMC 11.364 22 At this time Captain Prescott was daily threatened with sickness...
    SMC 11.366 26 After the return of the three months' company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of volunteers...
    SMC 11.367 10 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last, under the command of Colonel Prescott, to an excellent reputation...
    SMC 11.368 10 ...at Fredericksburg...Lieutenant-Colonel Prescott loudly expressed his satisfaction at his comrades...
    SMC 11.369 27 After Gettysburg, Colonel Prescott remarks that our [Thirty-second] regiment is highly complimented.
    SMC 11.370 7 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone.
    SMC 11.370 15 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods. This order was communicated to Colonel Prescott...
    SMC 11.373 5 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment]...were ordered to take the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad from the rebels. In this charge, Colonel George L. Prescott was mortally wounded.

Prescott, Mr., n. (1)

    HDC 11.64 25 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, namely, Mr. John Whiting, Mr. Holyoke and Mr. Prescott, shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry?

Prescott's, George L., n. (3)

    SMC 11.366 6 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, lieutenant in this [Forty-seventh] regiment, as he had been already lieutenant in Captain Prescott's company in 1861, went out again in August, 1864...
    SMC 11.368 18 Colonel Prescott's regiment went in [to the battle of Gettysburg] with two hundred and ten men, nineteen officers.
    SMC 11.370 25 Being informed that he misunderstood the order, which was only to inform him how to retire when it became necessary, [George Prescott] was satisfied, and he and his command held their ground manfully. It was said that Colonel Prescott's reply, when reported, pleased the Acting-Brigadier-General Sweitzer mightily.

prescribe, v. (6)

    AmS 1.82 12 ...I accept the topic which not only usage but the nature of our association seem to prescribe to this day...
    SL 2.132 19 These [problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like] are the soul's mumps and measles and whooping-coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe the cure.
    Gts 3.165 1 I fear to breathe any treason against the majesty of love, which is the genius and god of gifts, and to whom we must not affect to prescribe.
    ET14 5.259 3 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all rules drawn from the ancient or modern literature of Europe...
    Cour 7.277 9 If you accept your thoughts as inspirations from the Supreme Intelligence, obey them when they prescribe difficult duties...
    HDC 11.80 10 [The people of Concord] fell into a common error...that the remedy was...to prescribe by law the prices of articles.

prescribed, adj. (2)

    Art2 7.45 21 ...how much is there that is not original...in...whatever is national or usual; as...the prescribed distribution of parts of a theatre...
    LS 11.9 9 It appears that the Jews [at Passover] ate the lamb and the unleavened bread and drank wine after a prescribed manner.

prescribed, v. (2)

    Gts 3.161 5 ...the rule for a gift, which one of my friends prescribed, is that we might convey to some person that which properly belonged to his character...
    SA 8.106 5 ...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming health. A rough realist or a phalanx of realists would be prescribed; but that is like proposing to mend your bad road with diamonds.

prescribes, v. (3)

    CbW 6.245 13 The physician prescribes hesitatingly out of his few resources the same tonic or sedative to this new and peculiar constitution which he has applied with various success to a hundred men before.
    Art2 7.40 13 I hasten to state the principle which prescribes...its firm law to the useful and the beautiful arts.
    Art2 7.42 1 It is the law of fluids that prescribes the shape of the boat...

prescribing, v. (2)

    SA 8.91 6 'T is a defect in our manners that they have not yet reached the prescribing a limit to visits.
    HDC 11.43 2 [The Charter of the Company of Massachusetts Bay]...gave [the freemen] the power of prescribing the manner in which freemen should be elected;...

prescription, n. (4)

    NMW 4.239 14 In his later days [Napoleon] had the weakness of wishing to add to his crowns and badges the prescription of aristocracy;...
    NMW 4.252 17 [Napoleon] was...the destroyer of prescription...
    EWI 11.105 25 [Granville] Sharpe protected the [West Indian] slave. In consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the laws were against him. Sharpe would not believe it; no prescription on earth could ever render such iniquities legal.
    Milt1 12.269 16 Susceptible as Burke to the attractions of historical prescription...[Milton] threw himself...on the side of the reeking conventicle;...

prescriptions, n. (1)

    NMW 4.251 11 Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions [said Bonaparte]...

prescriptive, adj. (1)

    PI 8.52 6 With...the first strain of a song,...we pour contempt on the prose you so magnify; yet the sturdiest Philistine is silent. The like allowance is the prescriptive right of poetry.

Presence, Divine, n. (2)

    ET13 5.220 7 Heats and genial periods arrive in history, or, shall we say, plenitudes of Divine Presence...
    FRO1 11.479 15 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind...then we have a religion that exalts...

presence, n. (167)

    Nat 1.7 10 One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.
    Nat 1.9 6 In the presence of nature a wild delight runs through the man...
    Nat 1.19 21 The presence of a higher, namely, of the spiritual element is essential to [nature's] perfection.
    Nat 1.31 17 [Nature's] light flows into the mind evermore, and we forget its presence.
    Nat 1.49 19 The presence of Reason mars this faith [in the absolute existence of nature].
    Nat 1.56 17 ...in [Ideas'] presence we feel that the outward circumstance is a dream and a shade.
    AmS 1.111 19 ...show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking...in these suburbs and extremities of nature;...
    DSA 1.121 13 The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws.
    DSA 1.127 8 ...the absence of this primary faith is the presence of degradation.
    LE 1.178 12 Believing, as in God, in the presence and favor of the grandest influences, let [the scholar] deserve that favor...
    MN 1.194 24 ...the wit of man...his art, is the grace and presence of God.
    MN 1.216 10 ...what is energetic but the presence of a brave man?
    MN 1.216 11 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.
    MR 1.249 7 I ought not to allow any man, because he has broad lands, to feel that he is rich in my presence.
    LT 1.289 11 [The Moral Sentiment] makes by its presence or absence right and wrong...
    LT 1.289 26 The granite is curiously concealed a thousand formations and surfaces...but it...is always indicating its presence by slight but sure signs.
    Con 1.314 18 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...in the presence of friendly and generous persons, has also his gracious and relenting moments...
    Tran 1.330 23 [The idealist] does not deny the presence of this table...
    YA 1.366 5 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth is not inoperative;...
    SR 2.51 1 A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he.
    SR 2.65 2 [The soul's] presence or its absence is all we can affirm.
    SR 2.70 21 Commerce, husbandry...engage my respect as examples of [virtue's] presence and impure action.
    Comp 2.95 14 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success, instead of... announcing the presence of the soul;...
    Comp 2.114 11 It is best...to buy...in your agent, good sense applied to accounts and affairs. So do you multiply your presence, or spread yourself throughout your estate.
    Comp 2.122 16 Our instinct uses more and less in application to man, of the presence of the soul, and not of its absence;...
    Lov1 2.181 19 ...the man beholding such a [beautiful] person in the female sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form, movement and intelligence of this person, because it suggests to him the presence of that which indeed is within the beauty, and the cause of the beauty.
    Fdsp 2.202 16 [Before a friend] I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought...
    Fdsp 2.208 14 Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and unlikeness that piques each with the presence of power and of consent in the other party.
    Prd1 2.229 11 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
    OS 2.276 22 I live...with persons who...express a certain obedience to the great instincts to which I live. I see its presence to them.
    OS 2.280 19 ...[the soul] also reveals truth. And here we should seek to reinforce ourselves by its very presence...
    OS 2.281 19 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul].
    OS 2.288 7 Among the multitude of scholars and authors we feel no hallowing presence;...
    OS 2.292 26 When we have...ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence.
    OS 2.293 9 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... In the presence of law to his mind he is overflowed with a reliance so universal that it sweeps away all cherished hopes and the most stable projects of mortal condition in its flood.
    OS 2.295 6 When I sit in that presence [of God], who shall dare to come in?
    Pt1 3.28 22 ...the great calm presence of the Creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.
    Exp 3.54 12 When virtue is in presence, all subordinate powers sleep.
    Exp 3.74 24 Why should I fret myself because a circumstance has occurred which hinders my presence where I was expected?
    Exp 3.74 25 If I am not at the meeting, my presence where I am should be as useful to the commonwealth of friendship and wisdom, as would be my presence in that place.
    Exp 3.74 27 If I am not at the meeting, my presence where I am should be as useful to the commonwealth of friendship and wisdom, as would be my presence in that place.
    Exp 3.77 12 The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and at every comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic might. Though not in energy, yet by presence, this magazine of substance cannot be otherwise than felt;...
    Chr1 3.89 24 This is that which we call Character,--a reserved force, which acts directly by presence and without means.
    Chr1 3.95 12 The reason why we feel one man's presence and do not feel another's is as simple as gravity.
    Chr1 3.100 26 The wise man not only leaves out of his thought the many, but leaves out the few. Fountains, the self-moved, the absorbed, the commander because he is commanded, the assured, the primary,--they are good; for these announce the instant presence of supreme power.
    Chr1 3.115 16 Nature is indulged by the presence of this guest [the holy sentiment].
    Mrs1 3.124 15 The courage which girls exhibit is like...a sea-fight. The intellect relies on memory to make some supplies to face these extemporaneous squadrons. But memory is a base mendicant with basket and badge, in the presence of these sudden masters.
    Mrs1 3.132 3 ...the countryman at a city dinner, believes that there is a ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed, or the failing party must be cast out of this presence.
    Mrs1 3.148 27 Once or twice in a lifetime we are permitted to enjoy the charm of noble manners, in the presence of a man or woman who have no bar in their nature...
    Mrs1 3.154 4 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    Nat2 3.178 21 ...nature...serves as a differential thermometer, detecting the presence or absence of the divine sentiment in man.
    Nat2 3.193 9 It is the same among the men and women as among the silent trees;...never a presence and satisfaction.
    Pol1 3.216 24 [The wise man's] relation to men is angelic; his memory is myrrh to them; his presence, frankincense and flowers.
    Pol1 3.217 4 ...as the rightful lord who is to tumble all rulers from their chairs, [character's] presence is hardly yet suspected.
    Pol1 3.217 13 The gladiators in the lists of power feel...the presence of worth.
    NR 3.243 7 ...according to our nature [things and persons] act on us not at once but in succession, and we are made aware of their presence one at a time.
    NR 3.244 5 When [a man] has exhausted for the time the nourishment to be drawn from any one person or thing, that object is withdrawn from his observation, and though still in his immediate neighborhood, he does not suspect its presence.
    NER 3.271 9 The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holydays of a diviner presence.
    NER 3.275 17 ...a naval and military honor...the acknowledgment of eminent merit,--have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    NER 3.276 5 ...instead of avoiding these men who make his fine gold dim, [a man] will cast all behind him and seek their society only, woo and embrace this his humiliation and mortification, until he shall know why... his brilliant talents are paralyzed in this presence.
    NER 3.276 9 If [a man's constitution] cannot carry itself as it ought, high and unmatchable in the presence of any man;...it is time to undervalue what he has valued...
    NER 3.280 1 ...the Church feels the accusation of [the religious man's] presence and belief.
    SwM 4.103 10 [Swedenborg's] stalwart presence would flutter the gowns of an university.
    SwM 4.119 21 [Swedenborg] attempts to give some account of the modus of the new state, affirming that his presence in the spiritual world is attended with a certain separation, but only as to the intellectual part of his mind, not as to the will part;...
    MoS 4.171 2 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive; his presence supposes a well-ordered society...
    NMW 4.226 25 ...Mirabeau...felt that these things which his presence inspired were as much his own as if he had said them...
    NMW 4.229 9 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...and we know how real and solid such men appear in the presence of scholars and grammarians...
    GoW 4.273 26 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks:--His very flight is presence in disguise/...
    ET3 5.42 9 When James the First declared his purpose of punishing London by removing his Court, the Lord Mayor replied that in removing his royal presence from his lieges, they hoped he would leave them the Thames.
    ET11 5.186 23 [The English upper classes] have...the power to command... the presence of the most accomplished men in their festive meetings.
    ET13 5.227 9 Brougham...said...the reverend bishops...solemnly declare in the presence of God that when they are called upon to accept a living, perhaps of 4000 pounds a year, at that very instant they are moved by the Holy Ghost to accept the office and administration thereof, for no other reason whatever?
    ET14 5.259 24 While the constructive talent [in England] seems dwarfed and superficial, the criticism is often in the noblest tone and suggests the presence of the invisible gods.
    F 6.26 22 ...in [the intellectual man's] presence our own mind is roused to activity...
    Pow 6.59 22 ...if [the weaker party] knew all the facts in the encyclopedia, it would not help him; for this is an affair of presence of mind...
    Pow 6.76 13 A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much but can only bring it to light slowly.
    Ctr 6.136 12 Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!
    Ctr 6.157 5 The more I know you [wrote Neander to his sacred friends], the more I dissatisfy and must dissatisfy all my wonted companions. Their very presence stupefies me.
    Ctr 6.160 7 ...the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations...
    Bhr 6.181 14 A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
    Wsp 6.213 12 There is...a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us...
    Wsp 6.242 7 Honor and fortune exist to him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great,--always feels himself in the presence of high causes.
    CbW 6.250 6 What a vicious practice is this of our politicians at Washington pairing off!...as if your presence did not tell in more ways than in your vote.
    CbW 6.273 11 [Friendship] is a serious and majestic affair, like a royal presence...
    Ill 6.320 3 Though the world exist from thought, thought is daunted in presence of the world.
    Civ 7.33 8 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which...elevate the rule of life. In the presence of these agencies it is frivolous to insist on the invention of printing or gunpowder...
    Elo1 7.68 15 Set a New Englander to describe any accident which happened in his presence. What hesitation and reserve in his narrative!
    Elo1 7.98 3 Everything hostile is stricken down in the presence of the [moral] sentiments;...
    DL 7.113 16 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find no invitation to what is good in us, and no receptacle for what is wise:--this is a great price to pay for...being defrauded...of genial culture and the inmost presence of beauty.
    DL 7.127 15 We see on the lip of our companion the presence or absence of the great masters of thought and poetry to his mind.
    Farm 7.153 16 ...the drawing-room heroes put down beside [the farmer] would shrivel in his presence;...
    Farm 7.154 3 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in animals and in young children belongs to...the man who lives in the presence of Nature.
    Clbs 7.227 3 'T is only presence which we want.
    Clbs 7.245 14 A right rule for a club would be,--Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.
    Cour 7.268 15 There is a courage in the treatment of every art by a master in architecture...in painting or in poetry...which yet nowise implies the presence of physical valor in the artist.
    PI 8.17 13 [Poetry] is a presence of mind that gives a miraculous command of all means of uttering the thought and feeling of the moment.
    PI 8.18 27 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes.
    PI 8.29 9 Fancy...is silent in the presence of great passion and action.
    PI 8.36 2 The writer in the parlor has more presence of mind, more wit and fancy, more play of thought, on the incidents that occur at table...than in the politics of Germany or Rome.
    PI 8.69 9 In the presence of Jove, Priapus may be allowed as an offset...
    SA 8.87 12 I know that there go two to this game [of laughter], and, in the presence of certain formidable wits, savage nature must sometimes rush out in some disorder.
    SA 8.93 9 ...[women's] presence and inspiration are essential to [conversation's] success.
    SA 8.96 12 Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity.
    Elo2 8.114 26 ...how every listener gladly consents to be nothing in [the orator's] presence...
    Elo2 8.126 16 If I should make the shortest list of the qualifications of the orator, I should begin with manliness; and perhaps it means here presence of mind.
    Res 8.144 1 The whole history of our civil war is rich in a thousand anecdotes attesting...the presence of mind...of our people.
    Comc 8.157 5 The rocks, the plants, the beasts, the birds, neither do anything ridiculous, nor betray a perception of anything absurd done in their presence.
    Comc 8.160 12 The presence of the ideal of right and of truth in all action makes the yawning delinquencies of practice remorseful to the conscience...
    Comc 8.160 23 ...whilst the presence of the ideal discovers the difference [between rule and fact], the comedy is enhanced whenever that ideal is embodied visibly in a man.
    QO 8.184 16 ...a lady having expressed in his presence a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
    Insp 8.289 9 ...our enlarged powers in the presence, or rather at the approach and at the departure of a friend...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    Grts 8.317 23 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it; and this again casts a shadow in the path of the electric light. So does intellect when brought into the presence of character; character puts out that light.
    Imtl 8.330 24 ...I have in mind the expression of an older believer, who once said to me, The thought that this frail being is never to end is so overwhelming that my only shelter is God's presence.
    Imtl 8.347 6 Let any master simply recite to you the substantial laws of the intellect, and in the presence of the laws themselves you will never ask such primary-school questions [concerning immortality].
    Dem1 10.22 9 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he acts, unheard-of success evinces the presence of rare agents;...
    Aris 10.54 25 The manners of course must have that depth and firmness of tone to attest their centrality in the nature of the man. I mean the things themselves shall be judges, and determine. In the presence of this nobility even genius must stand aside.
    Aris 10.61 2 In the presence of the Chapter it is easy for each member to carry himself royally and well;...
    Aris 10.61 5 In the presence of the Chapter it is easy for each member to carry himself royally and well; but in the absence of his colleagues and in the presence of mean people he is tempted to accept the low customs of towns.
    Aris 10.61 10 The honor of a member consists in...in the pursuing undisturbed the career of a Brother, as if always in their presence...
    PerF 10.69 9 ...man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can...help him in every kind. Each by itself has a certain omnipotence, but all...in the presence of each other, are antagonized and kept polite...
    PerF 10.70 19 What agencies of electricity, gravity, light, affinity combine to make every plant what it is, and in a manner so quiet that the presence of these tremendous powers is not ordinarily suspected.
    Chr2 10.97 25 We affirm that in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and command; that it is the presence of the Eternal in each perishing man;...
    Chr2 10.100 21 It happens now and then, in the ages, that a soul is born which offers no impediment to the Divine Spirit...and all its thoughts are perceptions of things as they are, without any infirmity of earth. Such souls...simply by their presence pass judgment on [men].
    Chr2 10.101 6 In [the man of profound moral sentiment's] presence, or within his influence, every one believes in the immortality of the soul.
    Edc1 10.159 2 According to the depth from which you draw your life, such is the depth not only of your strenuous effort, but of your manners and presence.
    SovE 10.198 5 ...Religion is...the emotion of reverence which the presence of the universal mind ever excites in the individual.
    SovE 10.213 1 ...with what power [innocence] converts evil accidents into benefits; the power of its countenance; the power of its presence!
    Prch 10.222 23 We are in transition...to a worship which recognizes the true eternity of the law, its presence to you and me...
    Prch 10.232 23 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves and rid the world of their presence...
    Schr 10.283 22 [Mother-wit] does not put forth organs, it rests in presence...
    Plu 10.308 14 Of philosophy he is more interested in the results than in the method. He has a just instinct of the presence of a master...
    LLNE 10.351 24 The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and his friends...the indignation they felt and uttered in the presence of so much social misery, commanded our attention and respect.
    LLNE 10.354 1 ...there is an intellectual courage and strength in [Fourierism] which is superior and commanding; it certifies the presence of so much truth in the theory, and in so far is destined to be fact.
    MMEm 10.413 2 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] shall delight to return to God. His name my fullest confidence. His sole presence ineffable pleasure.
    MMEm 10.416 27 If more liberal views of the divine government make me [Mary Moody Emerson] think nothing lost which carries me to His now hidden presence, there may be danger of losing and causing others the loss of that awe and sobriety so indispensable.
    MMEm 10.427 12 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author of her being, assurance of whose direct dealing with her she incessantly invokes: for example, the parenthesis Saving thy presence, Priest and Medium of all this approach for a sinful creature!.
    MMEm 10.430 24 ...one secret sentiment of virtue...will tell, in the world of spirits, of God's immediate presence...
    SlHr 10.443 16 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained, as, for instance, when the county commissioners refused to rebuild the burned court-house...all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature, where his presence and speech, of course, secured the rebuilding;...
    SlHr 10.447 23 When some one said, in his presence, that Chief Justice Marshall was failing in his intellect, Mr. Hoar remarked that Judge Marshall could afford to lose brains enough to furnish three or four common men, before common men would find it out.
    Thor 10.472 19 ...no academy made [Thoreau]...its discoverer, or even its member. Perhaps these learned bodies feared the satire of his presence.
    Thor 10.474 26 [Thoreau] could not be deceived as to the presence or absence of the poetic element in any composition...
    Thor 10.476 1 [Thoreau]...liked to throw every thought into a symbol. The fact you tell is of no value, but only the impression. For this reason his presence was poetic...
    HDC 11.70 25 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other, in the presence of God, to suspend all commercial intercourse with Great Britain...
    HDC 11.76 7 The presence of these aged men who were in arms on that day [battle of Concord] seems to bring us nearer to it.
    HDC 11.85 21 ...[Concord] has been consecrated by the presence and activity of the purest men.
    EWI 11.138 15 Men have become aware, through the emancipation [in the West Indies] and kindred events, of the presence of powers which, in their days of darkness, they had overlooked.
    FSLC 11.193 11 If you starve or beat the orphan, in my presence, and I accuse your cruelty, can I help it?
    FSLN 11.221 24 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that...he was only to say plain and equal things...and the whole occasion was answered by his presence.
    SMC 11.375 17 ...if danger should ever threaten the homes which you [veterans of the Civil War] guard, the knowledge of your presence will be a wall of fire for their protection.
    Wom 11.406 14 [Women]...pass with us not so much by what they say or do, as by their presence.
    Shak1 11.447 20 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
    CPL 11.508 5 Instantly, when the mind itself wakes, all books, all past acts are...huddled aside as impertinent in the august presence of the creator.
    FRep 11.534 27 ...the land and sea educate the people, and bring out presence of mind, self-reliance...
    PLT 12.24 1 ...if one remembers...how much we are braced by the presence and actions of any Spartan soul, it does not need vigor of our own kind...
    PLT 12.41 14 My percipiency affirms the presence and perfection of law, as much as all the martyrs.
    PLT 12.46 19 Will is always miraculous, being the presence of God to men.
    II 12.65 10 We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain...which rests in oversight and presence...
    II 12.71 12 Novelty in the means by which we arrive at the old universal ends is the test of the presence of the highest power...
    II 12.79 7 ...you shall not speak of any work of art except in its presence;...
    Mem 12.100 7 ...men of great presence of mind...do not need to rely on what they have stored for use...
    CInt 12.113 8 ...here in the college we are in the presence of the constituency and the principle [of freedom] itself.
    CW 12.178 22 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire in the animals, and in young children, belongs also to...the man who lives in the presence of Nature.
    MAng1 12.217 20 ...because the understanding in the presence of the beautiful, cannot ask, Why is it beautiful? for that reason it is so.
    MLit 12.313 12 Accustomed always to behold the presence of the universe in every part, the soul will not condescend to look at any new part as a stranger...
    MLit 12.318 1 There are...sentiments...which are soothed...by the pale stars, and the presence of Nature.
    MLit 12.328 5 What [Goethe] said of Lavater, may truelier said of him, that it was fearful to stand in the presence of one before whom all the boundaries within which Nature has circumscribed our being were laid flat.
    Pray 12.352 22 ...O my Father...my heart is cheered and at rest with thy presence...
    EurB 12.374 4 It is implied in all superior culture that a complete man would need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Presence, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.119 11 ...[the infant soul] finds himself face to face with the majestic Presence...

Presence, Real, n. (1)

    LS 11.4 5 ...more important controversies have arisen respecting [the Lord' s Supper's] nature. The famous question of the Real Presence was the main controversy between the Church of England and the Church of Rome.

Presence, Supreme, n. (1)

    MN 1.222 27 The doctrine of this Supreme Presence is a cry of joy and exultation.

present, adj. (199)

    Nat 1.5 6 In inquiries so general as our present one, the inaccuracy [of terminology] is not material;...
    Nat 1.7 20 The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible;...
    Nat 1.31 9 [This imagery] is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind.
    Nat 1.58 6 [Religion and Ethics] are one to our present design.
    Nat 1.63 15 Let [the ideal theory] stand then, in the present state of our knowledge, merely as a useful introductory hypothesis...
    Nat 1.63 23 We learn that the highest is present to the soul of man;...
    Nat 1.64 2 ...behind nature, throughout nature, spirit is present;...
    Nat 1.65 5 [The world] is...the present expositor of the divine mind.
    AmS 1.82 24 ...there is One Man, - present to all particular men only partially...
    AmS 1.105 15 They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought to all nature and all art...
    DSA 1.147 7 Discharge to men the priestly office, and, present or absent, you shall be followed with their love...
    LE 1.162 8 No more will I dismiss, with haste, the visions which flash and sparkle across my sky; but...draw out of the past, genuine life for the present hour.
    MR 1.228 15 ...the doctrine of Reform had never such scope as at the present hour.
    MR 1.234 15 ...to [the saint] the present hour is as sacred and inviolable as any future hour.
    MR 1.256 8 There is a sublime prudence which is the very highest that we know of man, which...postpones always the present hour to the whole life;...
    MR 1.256 17 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to leave...their best means and skill of procuring a present success...
    LT 1.259 1 ...the present aspects of our social state...have their root in an invisible spiritual reality.
    LT 1.269 4 The present age will be marked by its harvest of projects for the reform of domestic, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical institutions.
    LT 1.283 21 The thinker...never invites me to be present with him at his invocation of truth...
    LT 1.285 19 No man can compare the ideas and aspirations of the innovators of the present day with those of former periods, without feeling how great and high this criticism is.
    Con 1.301 2 In nature, each of these elements [Conservatism and Reform] being always present, each theory has a natural support.
    Con 1.301 6 If we read the world historically, we shall say, Of all the ages, the present hour and circumstance is the cumulative result;...
    Con 1.313 12 Consider [the order of things] as the work of a...progressive necessity, which...up to the present high culture of the best nations, has advanced thus far.
    Con 1.319 11 The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and...his total legislation is for the present distress...
    Tran 1.329 3 The first thing we have to say respecting what are called new views here in New England, at the present time, is, that they are not new...
    Tran 1.339 25 ...the Idealism of the present day acquired the name of Transcendental from the use of that term by Immanuel Kant...
    Tran 1.340 14 ...whatever belongs to the class of intuitive thought is popularly called at the present day Transcendental.
    Tran 1.340 21 ...the tendency to respect the intuitions and to give them, at least in our creed, all authority over our experience, has deeply colored the conversation and poetry of the present day;...
    Hist 2.18 19 The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.
    Hist 2.22 20 ...the cumulative values of long residence are the restraints on the itinerancy of the present day.
    SR 2.66 3 It must be that when God speaketh he...should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought;...
    SR 2.66 8 Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom...it... absorbs past and future into the present hour.
    SR 2.69 25 Inasmuch as the soul is present there will be power not confident but agent.
    SR 2.75 7 If any man consider the present aspects of what is called by distinction society, he will see the need of these ethics.
    Comp 2.93 15 It seemed to me...that in [Compensation] might be shown men...the present action of the soul of this world...
    Comp 2.94 18 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life?
    Lov1 2.175 12 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when he became all eye when one was present, and all memory when one was gone;...
    Lov1 2.187 13 [Lovers]...exchange the passion which once could not lose sight of its object, for a cheerful disengaged furtherance, whether present or absent, of each other's designs.
    Fdsp 2.202 8 The gifts of fortune may be present or absent...
    Fdsp 2.207 14 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.
    Prd1 2.222 19 There are all degrees of proficiency in knowledge of the world. It is sufficient to our present purpose to indicate three.
    Prd1 2.236 18 Prudence concerns the present time, persons, property and existing forms.
    Prd1 2.240 26 ...truth, frankness, courage, love, humility and all the virtues range themselves on the side of prudence, or the art of securing a present well-being.
    OS 2.273 12 See how the deep divine thought...makes itself present through all ages.
    OS 2.279 4 As [the soul] is present in all persons, so it is in every period of life.
    OS 2.290 25 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...dwells...in the earnest experience of the common day,--by reason of the present moment and the mere trifle having become porous to thought...
    Cir 2.310 9 The things which are dear to men at this hour are so on account of the ideas which have emerged on their mental horizon, and which cause the present order of things...
    Cir 2.312 4 The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life...
    Int 2.332 17 Every intellection is mainly prospective. Its present value is its least.
    Int 2.343 20 Each new mind we approach seems to require an abdication of all our past and present possessions.
    Int 2.346 15 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems...to be at once poetry and music and dancing and astronomy and mathematics. I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world.
    Pt1 3.4 27 ...this hidden truth, that the fountains whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful, draws us to the consideration of the nature and functions of the Poet, or the man of Beauty;...and to the general aspect of the art in the present time.
    Pt1 3.8 24 ...[the poet] is the only teller of news, for he was present and privy to the appearance which he describes.
    Pt1 3.15 27 ...[the coachman or the hunter] has no definitions, but he is commanded in nature by the living power which he feels to be there present.
    Exp 3.60 22 [Life] is a tempest of fancies, and the only ballast I know is a respect to the present hour.
    Exp 3.64 16 We must set up the strong present tense against all the rumors of wrath...
    Exp 3.73 21 Our life seems not present so much as prospective;...
    Mrs1 3.141 22 England...furnished, in the beginning of the present century, a good model of that genius which the world loves, in Mr. Fox...
    Mrs1 3.145 19 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age...
    Mrs1 3.151 20 Where [Lilla] is present all others will be more than they are wont.
    Mrs1 3.152 23 For the present distress...of those who are predisposed to suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice [of society], there are easy remedies.
    Nat2 3.192 9 There is in woods and waters a certain enticement and flattery, together with a failure to yield a present satisfaction.
    Nat2 3.192 26 The present object [in nature] shall give you this sense of stillness that follows a pageant which has just gone by.
    Nat2 3.195 10 These [universal laws]...stand around us in nature forever embodied, a present sanity to expose and cure the insanity of men.
    Pol1 3.204 7 ...there is an instinctive sense...that the whole constitution of property, on its present tenures, is injurious...
    Pol1 3.207 22 Democracy is better for us, because the religious sentiment of the present time accords better with it.
    NR 3.233 6 Shakspeare's passages of passion...are in the very dialect of the present year.
    NR 3.243 3 As soon as a person is no longer related to our present well-being, he is concealed, or dies, as we say.
    NR 3.243 9 All persons, all things which we have known, are here present...
    NER 3.277 9 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be lifted to some higher platform, that he may see beyond his present fear the transalpine good...
    NER 3.282 21 I am not pained that I cannot frame a reply to the question, What is the operation we call Providence? There lies the unspoken thing, present, omnipresent.
    PPh 4.50 8 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...in time past, present and to come.
    PNR 4.85 15 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;...
    SwM 4.96 26 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all things flow into it: they mix; and he is present and sympathetic with their structure and law.
    SwM 4.117 12 Swedenborg first put the fact [of Correspondence] into a detached and scientific statement, because it was habitually present to him, and never not seen.
    SwM 4.125 17 [To Swedenborg] Bird and beast is...emanation and effluvia of the minds and wills of men there present.
    MoS 4.158 13 Remember the open question between the present order of competition and the friends of attractive and associated labor.
    NMW 4.233 24 ...[Napoleon] never for a moment lost sight of his way onward, in the dazzle and uproar of the present circumstance.
    NMW 4.249 14 When a man has been present in many actions [said Napoleon], he distinguishes that moment [of panic] without difficulty...
    GoW 4.272 26 In the menstruum of this man's [Goethe's] wit, the past and the present ages...are dissolved into archetypes and ideas.
    ET3 5.37 7 ...if we will visit London, the present time is the best time, as some signs portend that it has reached its highest point.
    ET4 5.65 5 The English at the present day have great vigor of body and endurance.
    ET6 5.110 1 [The English] repeated the ceremonies of the eleventh century in the coronation of the present Queen.
    ET8 5.133 19 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man...and would often speak his mind of particular persons then accidentally present...
    ET10 5.154 7 ...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 novels and romances of the present century...
    ET10 5.163 23 The present possessors [in England] are to the full as absolute as any of their fathers in choosing and procuring what they like.
    ET11 5.192 22 Under the present reign the perfect decorum of the Court is thought to have put a check on the gross vices of the [English] aristocracy;...
    ET11 5.198 16 ...the rich Englishman goes over the world at the present day, drawing more than all the advantages which the strongest of his kings could command.
    ET12 5.199 3 At the present day...[Cambridge] has the advantage of Oxford, counting in its alumni a greater number of distinguished scholars.
    ET13 5.214 1 No people at the present day can be explained by their national religion.
    ET13 5.222 20 ...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church.
    ET13 5.229 26 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The features of the assembly were twisted...not an individual present but squinted;...
    ET14 5.250 26 ...a master should inspire a confidence that he will adhere to his convictions and give his present studies always the same high place.
    ET15 5.263 14 [The London Times] has risen, year by year, and victory by victory, to its present authority.
    ET16 5.290 3 [Winchester Cathedral] is very old: part of the crypt into which we went down and saw the Saxon and Norman arches of the old church on which the present stands, was built fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago.
    ET19 5.309 5 A few days after my arrival at Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual Banquet in the Free-Trade Hall. With other guests, I was invited to be present and to address the company.
    ET19 5.313 25 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations...still wise to entertain and swift to execute the policy which the mind and heart of mankind requires in the present hour...
    F 6.13 7 ...[the individual] knows himself to be a party to his present estate.
    Pow 6.64 6 The same elements are always present...
    Wth 6.125 17 ...Best time is present time;...
    Ctr 6.131 1 The word of ambition at the present day is Culture.
    Ctr 6.157 8 Solitude takes off the pressure of present importunities...
    Bhr 6.188 3 ...the thought of the present moment has a greater value than all the past.
    Wsp 6.234 15 Benedict was always great in the present time.
    Wsp 6.240 25 The religion which is to guide and fulfil the present and coming ages...must be intellectual.
    Art2 7.37 1 All departments of life at the present day...seem to feel...the identity of their law.
    Elo1 7.81 16 ...it is not powers of speech that we primarily consider under this word eloquence, but the power that being present, gives them their perfection...
    Elo1 7.83 13 Poor Tom never knew the time when the present occurrence was so trivial that he could tell what was passing in his mind without being checked for unseasonable speech;...
    Elo1 7.85 16 In any knot of men conversing on any subject, the person who knows most about it will...lead the conversation, no matter what genius or distinction other men there present may have;...
    Elo1 7.86 12 In every company the man with the fact is like the guide you hire to lead your party...through a difficult country. He may not compare with any of the party in mind or breeding or courage or possessions, but he is much more important to the present need than any of them.
    DL 7.117 8 ...if we begin by reforming particulars of our present system [of housekeeping]...we shall soon give up in despair.
    WD 7.173 15 This element of illusion lends all its force to hide the values of present time.
    WD 7.175 17 One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour.
    WD 7.177 12 The use of history is to give value to the present hour and its duty.
    WD 7.177 24 [Our ancestors'] merit was...to honor the present moment;...
    Boks 7.203 15 These guides [the Platonists] speak of the gods with such depth and with such pictorial details, as if they had been bodily present at the Olympian feasts.
    Boks 7.209 15 This mania [for rare editions of books] reached its height about the beginning of the present century.
    Boks 7.212 4 There is another class [of books], more needful to the present age...
    Suc 7.303 1 I am always, [Socrates] says, asserting that I happen to know... nothing but a mere trifle relating to matters of love; yet in that kind of learning I lay claim to being more skilled than any one man of the past or present time.
    Suc 7.304 23 When the event is past and remote, how insignificant the greatest compared with the piquancy of the present!
    OA 7.317 1 ...if the essence of age is not present, these signs, whether of Art or Nature, are counterfeit and ridiculous;...
    PI 8.31 23 [The poet] affirms the applicability of the ideal law to...the present knot of affairs.
    SA 8.99 14 When men consult you, it is...that they wish you...to apply your habitual view, your wisdom, to the present question...
    Elo2 8.116 18 When a good man rises in the cold and malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to be silent; why not rest, sir, on your good record? Nobody doubts your talent and power, but for the present business, we know all about it...
    Elo2 8.124 7 In social converse with the mighty dead of ancient days, you will never smart under the galling sense of dependence upon the mighty living of the present age.
    QO 8.175 2 The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both [old and new]. The present moment gives the motion and the color of the flake, Antiquity its form and properties.
    QO 8.193 2 Truth is always present...
    PC 8.211 13 Great strides have been made [in Natural Science] within the present century.
    PC 8.226 8 The benefactors we have indicated were...great because exceptional. The question which the present age urges with increasing emphasis...is, whether the high qualities which distinguished them can be imparted.
    PC 8.227 8 There is not a person here present to whom omens that should astonish have not predicted his future...
    Insp 8.276 7 We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute our plans...the whole armory of means are all present, but a certain heat that once used not to fail, refuses its office...
    Imtl 8.323 4 ...one of [King Edwin's] nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond...reminds me of one of your winter feasts...
    Imtl 8.323 20 ...we are as ignorant of the state which preceded our present existence as of that which will follow it.
    Imtl 8.329 5 A man of thought is willing to die, willing to live; I suppose because he has seen the thread on which the beads are strung, and perceived that it reaches up and down, existing quite independently of the present illusions.
    Imtl 8.342 9 [Said Goethe] If I work incessantly till my death, Nature is bound to give me another form of existence, when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.
    Dem1 10.16 16 [The young man] observes, with pain...that his genius...is no longer present and active.
    Aris 10.54 15 In the fine arts, I find none in the present age who have any popular power...
    Aris 10.60 9 ...out of the vast duration of man's race, [a certain order of men]...are present to every mind in proportion to its likeness to theirs.
    Chr2 10.118 11 In the present tendency of our society...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.
    Supl 10.171 4 ...I had been present, a little before, in the country at a cattle-show dinner...
    SovE 10.189 7 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...though we should fold our arms,-which we cannot do, for out duty requires us to...work in the present moment,-the evils we suffer will at last end themselves through the incessant opposition of Nature to everything hurtful.
    Prch 10.237 6 Truth...is ever present, and insists on being of this age and of this moment.
    MoL 10.243 20 The subtle Hindoo...produced the wonderful epics of which, in the present century, the translations have added new regions to thought.
    Schr 10.261 5 A stranger but yesterday to every person present, I find myself already at home...
    Schr 10.271 20 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that genius and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread, because they have...a first mortgage that takes effect before the right of the present proprietor.
    Plu 10.317 1 I can almost regret that the learned editor of the present republication [of Plutarch's Morals] has not preserved...the preface of Mr. Morgan...
    Plu 10.320 26 In spite of its carelessness and manifold faults, which, I doubt not, have tried the patience of its present learned editor and corrector, I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals]...
    LLNE 10.341 7 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of ladies and gentlemen. I had the honor to be present.
    LLNE 10.349 26 By reason of the isolation of men at the present day, all work is drudgery.
    CSC 10.375 17 ...Edward, Palmer, Jones Very, Maria W. Chapman and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
    MMEm 10.427 15 ...Were it possible that the Creator was not virtually present with the spirits and bodies which He has made...
    MMEm 10.427 19 ...if it were in the nature of things possible He could withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith that, at some moment of His existence, I was present...
    Thor 10.455 19 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose...
    Thor 10.458 18 [Thoreau] coldly and fully stated his opinion without affecting to believe that it was the opinion of the company. It was of no consequence if every one present held the opposite opinion.
    Thor 10.479 1 Such dangerous frankness was in [Thoreau's] dealing that his admirers called him that terrible Thoreau, as if he spoke when silent, and was still present when he had departed.
    LS 11.5 24 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper].
    LS 11.6 8 This material fact, that the occasion [the Last Supper] was to be remembered, is found in Luke alone, who was not present.
    LS 11.6 27 ...we must suppose that the expression, This do in remembrance of me, had come to the ear of Luke from some disciple who was present.
    LS 11.16 23 I proceed to state a few objections that in my judgment lie against [the Lord's Supper's] use in its present form.
    LS 11.18 14 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act... Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.
    LS 11.24 2 My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper].
    HDC 11.64 13 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town...being informed of the great present want of Thomas Pellit, gave order to Stephen Hosmer to deliver a town cow...unto said Pellit, for his present supply.
    HDC 11.64 16 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town...being informed of the great present want of Thomas Pellit, gave order to Stephen Hosmer to deliver a town cow...unto said Pellit, for his present supply.
    HDC 11.68 10 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence...the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the past and present obstinate endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    HDC 11.77 25 I have found within a few days, among some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775...and at the close of the month [April], he writes, This month remarkable for the greatest events of the present age.
    HDC 11.82 9 From that time [1788] to the present hour, this town [Concord] has made a slow but constant progress in population and wealth...
    HDC 11.82 16 The public expenses [of Concord], for the last year, amounted to 4290 dollars; for the present year, 5040 dollars.
    War 11.151 12 War, which to sane men at the present day begins to look like an epidemic insanity...when seen in the remote past...appears a part of the connection of events...
    War 11.164 10 Observe the ideas of the present day,-orthodoxy, skepticism, missions...
    War 11.175 16 The proposition of the Congress of Nations is undoubtedly that at which the present fabric of our society and the present course of events do point.
    FSLC 11.204 20 [Webster] praises Adams and Jefferson, but it is a past Adams and Jefferson that his mind can entertain. A present Adams and Jefferson he would denounce.
    FSLN 11.243 17 Having...professed his adoration for liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day...
    AKan 11.255 6 Mr. Whitman is not here; but knowing, as we all do, why he is not, what duties kept him at home he is more than present.
    AKan 11.259 14 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...one crime always present...
    JBB 11.268 3 ...our Captain John Brown...with his father was present and witnessed the surrender of General Hull.
    JBB 11.272 19 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple as to believe that when a United States Court in Virginia, now, in its present reign of terror, sends to Connecticut...for a witness, it wants him for a witness?
    ALin 11.329 13 ...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement; and this...because of the mysterious hopes and fears which, in the present day, are connected with the name and institutions of America.
    Koss 11.400 26 Sir [Kossuth]...we congratulate you that you have known how to convert...present defeat into lasting victory.
    Shak1 11.449 25 I see, among the lovers of this catholic genius [Shakespeare], here present, a few, whose deeper knowledge invites me to hazard an article of my literary creed;...
    Scot 11.465 6 [Scott] apprehended in advance the immense enlargement of the reading public...which, though until then unheard of, has become familiar to the present time.
    FRep 11.540 8 America should affirm and establish that in no instance shall the guns go in advance of the present right.
    FRep 11.543 15 We shall stand...for vast interests; north and south, east and west will be present to our minds...
    PLT 12.15 13 Thirdly...I...attempt to show the relation of men of thought to the existing religion and civility of the present time.
    PLT 12.21 8 We hold [thoughts] as lanterns to light each other and our present design.
    PLT 12.27 15 These views of the source of thought and the mode of its communication...open to us the tendencies and duties of men of thought in the present time.
    PLT 12.58 11 Present power...requires concentration on the moment...
    II 12.83 25 Life is not quite desirable to [men slow in finding their vocation]. It uniformly suggests in the conversation of men the presumption of continued life, of which the present is only one term.
    Mem 12.98 5 The way in which...any orator surprises us is by his always having a sharp tool that fits the present use.
    ACri 12.303 3 ...this is the ball that is tossed...in the history of every mind by sovereignty of thought to make facts and men obey our present humor or belief.
    MLit 12.311 9 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write.
    MLit 12.311 11 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write. In our present attempt to enumerate some traits of the recent literature, we shall have somewhat to offer on each of these topics...
    WSL 12.338 15 Transfer these traits to a very elegant and accomplished mind, and we shall have no bad picture of Walter Savage Landor, who may stand as a favorable impersonation of the genius of his countrymen at the present day.
    WSL 12.343 20 Whoever writes for the love of truth and beauty...belongs to this sacred class; and among these, few men of the present age have a better claim to be numbered than Mr. Landor.
    AgMs 12.362 10 ...Mr. D. [Elias Phinney], with all his knowledge and present skill, would starve in two years on any one of fifty poor farms in this neighborhood...
    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.
    PPr 12.383 12 ...the truth of the present hour...is unattainable.
    Let 12.393 14 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air to orchards and lone houses...and the total inadequacy of the present system of defence, that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.
    Let 12.397 20 As long as [a man] sleeps in the shade of the present error, the after-nature does not betray its resources.

Present Age, n. (1)

    MLit 12.310 17 In looking at the library of the Present Age, we are first struck with the fact of the immense miscellany.

present, n. (39)

    Nat 1.72 9 At present, man applies to nature but half his force.
    LT 1.268 22 Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes...
    Con 1.300 16 Throughout nature the past combines in every creature with the present.
    Con 1.302 3 For the present...to come at what sum is attainable to us, we must even hear the parties plead as parties.
    SR 2.57 9 It seems to be a rule of wisdom...to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present...
    SR 2.67 15 ...[man] does not live in the present...
    SR 2.67 19 [Man] cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present...
    SR 2.69 13 This which I think and feel underlay every former state of life and circumstances, as it does underlie my present...
    SL 2.135 14 ...whenever we get this vantage-ground of...a wiser mind in the present, we are able to discern that we are begirt with laws which execute themselves.
    OS 2.268 19 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is that great nature in which we rest...
    OS 2.284 11 ...the man in whom [the soul] is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite...
    Cir 2.321 4 Character makes an overpowering present;...
    Chr1 3.103 24 Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
    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.
    Gts 3.159 12 If at any time it comes into my head that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give...
    Gts 3.162 13 Brother, if Jove to thee a present make,/ Take heed that from his hands thou nothing take./
    Nat2 3.170 27 How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape...until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out of the mind, all memory obliterated by the tyranny of the present...
    ShP 4.204 16 [Shakespeare's] mind is the horizon beyond which, at present, we do not see.
    ET10 5.170 6 At present [England] does not rule her wealth.
    SS 7.12 25 'T is said the present and the future are always rivals.
    SS 7.12 27 Animal spirits constitute the power of the present...
    WD 7.184 11 There are people...who are great in the present;...
    Suc 7.296 15 In good hours we...find Shakspeare or Homer...only to have been translators of the happy present...
    Suc 7.302 1 Ah! if one could...live in the happy sufficing present...
    Suc 7.311 25 [The inner life] lives in the great present;...
    Suc 7.311 26 ...[the inner life] makes the present great.
    QO 8.175 5 All things wear a lustre which is the gift of the present, and a tarnish of time.
    PPo 8.239 8 The favor of the climate...allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization,-leaving out of view, at present, the genius of the Hindoos...
    Schr 10.280 23 The objection of men of the world to what they call the morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at present, is...that the idealistic views unfit their children for business in their sense...
    War 11.175 5 ...if the search of the sublime laws of morals and the sources of hope and trust, in man, and not in books, in the present, and not in the past, proceed;...then war has a short day...
    SHC 11.429 7 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...having laid off as many lots as are likely to be wanted at present, have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
    FRep 11.531 17 In this country...there is, at present, a great sensualism...
    Mem 12.91 8 Memory...holds together past and present...
    Mem 12.108 16 You cannot overstate our debt to the past, but has the present no claim?
    MAng1 12.237 19 ...[Michelangelo]...never would receive a present from any person;...
    ACri 12.292 23 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...there being scarce a person of any note in England but what some time or other paid a visit or sent a present to our Lady of Walsingham...
    ACri 12.300 24 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses.
    ACri 12.300 26 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses. When, however, he offered a sufficient present, he composed the poem...
    PPr 12.383 20 The poet cannot descend into the turbid present without injury to his rarest gifts.

Present, n. (4)

    Con 1.301 11 If we see [the world] from the side of Will, or the Moral Sentiment, we shall accuse the Past and the Present...
    QO 8.201 16 The profound apprehension of the Present is Genius...
    QO 8.204 7 ...the sole terms on which [the Past] can become ours are its subordination to the Present.
    SHC 11.433 2 This ground [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] is happily so divided by Nature as to admit of this relation between the Past and the Present.

present, v. (12)

    Nat 1.43 26 In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions...but colors also;...
    LT 1.277 10 [The Reforms]...present no more poetic image to the mind than the evil tradition which they reprobated.
    SR 2.83 7 Your own gift you can present every moment...
    Hsm1 2.253 21 Strangers may present themselves at any hour and in whatever number;...
    PPh 4.55 27 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    Comc 8.169 18 The multiplication of artificial wants and expenses in civilized life, and the exaggeration of all trifling forms, present innumerable occasions for this discrepancy [between the man and his appearance] to expose itself.
    Insp 8.289 15 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness which is not found in staying at home nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible,-these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    LLNE 10.368 6 People cannot live together in any but necessary ways. The only candidates who will present themselves will be those who have tried the experiment of independence and ambition, and have failed;...
    Thor 10.484 2 Only he can be trusted with gifts who can present a face of bronze to expectations.
    FSLN 11.222 14 Though [Webster] knew very well how to present his own personal claims, yet in his argument he was intellectual,-stated his fact pure of all personality...
    MAng1 12.218 17 Every great work of art seems...to present, as it were, a miniature of Nature.
    Pray 12.350 10 Pythagoras said that the time when men were honestest is when they present themselves before the gods.

presentable, adj. (2)

    Ctr 6.164 23 ...I think it a presentable motive to a scholar, that...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined;...
    Grts 8.316 9 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it...sometimes in people not normal, nor educated, nor presentable, nor church-members...as in more orderly examples.

presentation, n. (1)

    ET6 5.105 27 In mixed or in select companies [the English] do not introduce persons; so that a presentation is a circumstance as valid as a contract.

presentation-copies, n. (1)

    SL 2.154 11 ...presentation-copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

presented, v. (13)

    Nat 1.62 13 ...we see that the views already presented do not include the whole circumference of man.
    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...
    NMW 4.246 19 [Napoleon's] army, on the night of the battle of Austerlitz... presented him with a bouquet of forty standards taken in the fight.
    Bty 6.297 8 Walpole says, The concourse was so great, when the Duchess of Hamilton was presented at court, on Friday, that even the noble crowd in the drawing-room clambered on chairs and tables to look at her.
    Prch 10.234 22 That gray deacon or respectable matron with Calvinistic antecedents...could not have presented any obstacle to the march of St. Bernard...
    HDC 11.49 18 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book...
    HDC 11.49 26 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England. I cannot but think that it would be a suitable acknowledgment of this national munificence, if the records of one of our towns...should be printed, and presented to the governments of Europe;...
    EWI 11.110 10 In 1821, according to official documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa.
    EWI 11.127 27 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    FRO2 11.486 11 We have had not long since presented to us by Max Muller a valuable paragraph from St. Augustine...
    CW 12.172 17 ...our people are vain, when abroad, of having the freedom of foreign cities presented to them in a gold box.
    CW 12.172 18 ...our people are vain, when abroad, of having the freedom of foreign cities presented to them in a gold box. I much prefer to have the freedom of a garden presented me.
    MAng1 12.238 5 [Vasari's] servant brought [the candles] after nightfall, and presented them to [Michelangelo].

presentiment, n. (12)

    AmS 1.103 23 ...the deeper [the orator] dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable...
    LE 1.159 7 Every presentiment of the mind is executed somewhere in a gigantic fact.
    Con 1.303 3 We have all a certain intellection or presentiment of reform existing in the mind, which does not yet descend into the character...
    Tran 1.337 17 ...if there is...any presentiment, any extravagance of faith, the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature.
    Tran 1.338 25 Shall we say then that Transcendentalism is...the presentiment of a faith proper to man in his integrity...
    YA 1.370 20 We cannot look on the freedom of this country, in connexion with its youth, without a presentiment that here shall laws and institutions exist on some scale of proportion to the majesty of nature.
    Hist 2.34 15 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.
    Nat2 3.183 20 Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
    QO 8.201 18 Genius believes its faintest presentiment against the testimony of all history;...
    Insp 8.279 5 There are...certain risks in this presentiment of the decisive perception...
    LLNE 10.353 19 Before such a man [as Plato or Christ] the whole world becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized, and in obedience to [a man's] most private being he finds himself, according to his presentiment... acting in strict concert with all others who followed their private light.
    Trag 12.409 7 A low, haggard sprite sits by our side...a sinister presentiment...

presentiments, n. (9)

    LE 1.164 16 ...the soul has assurance, by instincts and presentiments, of all power in the direction of its ray...
    Fdsp 2.215 4 In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the firmament.
    OS 2.295 23 Before that heaven which our presentiments foreshow us, we cannot easily praise any form of life we have seen or read of.
    NMW 4.248 3 I think all men...know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they dare not trust their presentiments.
    NMW 4.250 7 ...[Napoleon] proposed to consider the probability of the destruction of the globe, either by water or by fire: at another time, the truth or fallacy of presentiments...
    GoW 4.264 24 Presentiments, impulses, cheer [the scholar].
    Dem1 10.9 27 It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments should fall out and be prophetic.
    Dem1 10.27 11 ...far be from me the lust of explaining away...the great presentiments which haunt us.
    FSLN 11.237 25 The habit of oppression cuts out the moral eyes, though the intellect goes on simulating the moral as before, its sanity is gradually destroyed. It takes away the presentiments.

presenting, v. (3)

    Nat 1.26 17 ...that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
    ShP 4.197 13 Each romancer was heir and dispenser of all the hundred tales of the world,--Presenting Thebes' and Pelops' line/ And the tale of Troy divine./
    Elo1 7.84 25 Napoleon's tactics of marching on the angle of an army, and always presenting a superiority of numbers, is the orator's secret also.

presently, adv. (104)

    Nat 1.62 26 ...the world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
    AmS 1.85 24 [The young mind] presently learns that since the dawn of history there has been a constant accumulation and classifying of facts.
    LE 1.166 10 Presently [the listener's] own emotion rises to his lips...
    LE 1.174 11 Do not go into solitude only that you may presently come into public.
    MN 1.193 15 ...our literary anniversaries will presently assume a greater importance...
    MN 1.217 21 ...if the object [beloved] be not itself a living and expanding soul, [the lover] presently exhausts it.
    LT 1.275 11 By the books [the Times] reads and translates, judge what books it will presently print.
    Con 1.321 5 ...the priest presently restored order...
    Tran 1.354 3 Presently the clouds shut down again;...
    Tran 1.354 10 When we pass, as presently we shall, into some new infinitude...it will please us to reflect that though we had few virtues or consolations, we bore with our indigence...
    YA 1.374 18 ...we repair commerce with unlimited credit, and are presently visited with unlimited bankruptcy.
    YA 1.392 5 ...after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty, which, when it loses its balance, redresses itself presently...
    SR 2.80 16 If [unbalanced minds] are honest and do well, presently their neat new pinfold will be too strait and low...
    SR 2.89 8 ...thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee.
    SL 2.143 10 What we call obscure condition or vulgar society is that condition and society...which you shall presently make as enviable and renowned as any.
    Lov1 2.188 17 ...in health the mind is presently seen again...
    Fdsp 2.197 24 Is it not that the soul puts forth friends as the tree puts forth leaves, and presently, by the germination of new buds, extrudes the old leaf?
    Fdsp 2.199 23 After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently by baffled blows...in the heydey of friendship and thought.
    Fdsp 2.216 16 If [your companion] is unequal, he will presently pass away;...
    Prd1 2.233 1 A man of genius...self-indulgent, becomes presently unfortunate, querulous...
    Prd1 2.237 2 On the most profitable lie the course of events presently lays a destructive tax;...
    Prd1 2.239 25 ...assume a consent [in a dispute] and it shall presently be granted...
    Cir 2.304 22 Every general law [is] only a particular fact of some more general law presently to disclose itself.
    Cir 2.305 7 The result of to-day...will presently be abridged into a word...
    Cir 2.306 1 ...presently, all its energy spent, [the new statement] pales and dwindles before the revelation of the new hour.
    Art1 2.355 16 Presently we pass to some other object, which rounds itself into a whole...
    Pt1 3.39 8 [Artists] found or put themselves in certain conditions...and each presently feels the new desire.
    Exp 3.67 8 ...presently comes a day...which discomfits the conclusions of nations and of years!
    Nat2 3.188 4 Each prophet comes presently to identify himself with his thought...
    Pol1 3.201 8 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day... shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies;...
    Pol1 3.213 5 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. ... This truth and justice men presently endeavor to make application of to the measuring of land...
    NR 3.226 19 When I meet a pure intellectual force or a generosity of affection, I believe here then is man; and am presently mortified by the discovery that this individual is no more available to his own or to the general ends than his companions;...
    NR 3.235 12 It seems not worth while to execute with too much pains some one intellectual, or aesthetical, or civil feat, when presently the dream will scatter...
    UGM 4.30 5 Presently a dot appears on the animal [the monad], which enlarges to a slit, and it becomes two perfect animals.
    SwM 4.94 12 ...the instincts presently teach that the problem of essence must take precedence of all others;...
    SwM 4.128 8 Do you love me? means [to Swedenborg], Do you see the same truth? If you do, we are happy with the same happiness: but presently one of us passes into the perception of new truth;--we are divorced, and no tension in nature can hold us to each other.
    MoS 4.150 26 The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design?--he will presently undervalue the actual object.
    MoS 4.154 3 We shall be fables presently.
    MoS 4.176 5 Presently a new experience gives a new turn to our thoughts...
    MoS 4.181 15 ...presently the unbeliever, for love of belief, burns the believer.
    MoS 4.183 12 ...I know that [facts] will presently appear to me in that order which makes skepticism impossible.
    ShP 4.212 18 Give a man of talents a story to tell, and his partiality will presently appear.
    ET1 5.10 16 [Coleridge] took snuff freely, which presently soiled his cravat and neat black suit.
    ET2 5.25 8 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which...in 1847 had been linked into a Union, which embraced twenty or thirty towns and cities, and presently extended into the middle counties and northward into Scotland.
    ET4 5.54 10 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.
    ET5 5.74 21 [The Roman] disembarked his legions [in England]...presently he heard bad news from Italy...
    ET10 5.167 12 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently, in a change of industry, whole towns are sacrificed...
    Wth 6.93 7 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth, and, whatever is pretended, it ends in cosseting. But if this were the main use of surplus capital, it would bring us to barricades, burned towns and tomahawks, presently.
    Wth 6.104 22 ...if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad...would not the dollar... presently find it out?
    Wth 6.105 10 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills...landlords are shot down in Ireland. The police-records attest it. The vibrations are presently felt in New York, New Orleans and Chicago.
    Wth 6.110 12 ...in the artificial system of society and of protected labor, which we...have adopted and enlarged, there come presently checks and stoppages.
    Ctr 6.143 8 [The boy] is infatuated for weeks with whist and chess; but presently will find out...that when he rises from the game too long played, he is vacant and forlorn and despises himself.
    Wsp 6.237 14 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of person he is...
    Ill 6.320 25 That story of Thor, who was set to drain the drinking-horn in Asgard and to wrestle with the old woman and to run with the runner Lok, and presently found that he had been drinking up the sea, and wrestling with Time, and racing with Thought,--describes us...
    DL 7.104 11 ...presently begins his use of his fingers, and [the nestler] studies power...
    Cour 7.269 3 The judge...squarely accosts the question, and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.
    OA 7.316 21 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head, which... does deceive his juniors and the public, who presently distinguish him with a most amusing respect;...
    OA 7.317 18 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise...though an infant of only a few days...presently foretells the fate of the by-standers.
    OA 7.318 17 How many men habitually believe that each chance passenger with whom they converse is of their own age, and presently find it was his father and not his brother whom they knew!
    PI 8.60 20 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice of one groaning on his right hand;...
    PI 8.60 25 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard a voice which said, Gawain, Gawain, be not out of heart...
    PI 8.73 16 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of an inspiration, and presently falling back on a low life.
    Elo2 8.111 18 Who knows before the debate begins...what the means are of the combatants? The facts, the reasons, the logic,--above all, the flame of passion and the continuous energy of will which is presently to be let loose on this bench of judges...all are invisible and unknown.
    Elo2 8.118 25 ...deep interest or sympathy...will carry the cold and fearful presently into self-possession and possession of the audience.
    QO 8.183 7 ...the whole cyclopaedia of [a great man's] table-talk is presently believed to be his own.
    PPo 8.257 27 Presently we have [in Hafiz's poetry],-All day the rain/ Bathed the dark hyacinths in vain,/ The flood may pour from morn to night/ Nor wash the pretty Indians white./
    Insp 8.273 22 To-day the electric machine will not work, no spark will pass; then presently the world is all a cat's back, all sparkle and shock.
    Imtl 8.324 10 ...I read in the second book of Herodotus this memorable sentence: The Egyptians are the first of mankind who have affirmed the immortality of the soul. Nor do I read it with less interest that the historian connects it presently with the doctrine of metempsychosis;...
    Imtl 8.343 20 ...wherever man ripens, this audacious belief [in immortality] presently appears...
    Dem1 10.9 25 The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it...
    Aris 10.47 19 I do not pity the misery of a man underplaced: that will right itself presently...
    Edc1 10.132 20 ...presently the aroused intellect finds gold and gems in one of these scorned facts...
    Supl 10.175 26 ...[Nature] brings the most heartless trifler to determined purpose presently.
    SovE 10.185 5 ...presently a mystic change is wrought...and [the man down in Nature] is made a citizen of the world of souls...
    Schr 10.279 8 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character... so that presently all is wrong...
    Plu 10.322 20 ...[Plutarch's] sterling values will presently recall the eye and thought of the best minds...
    LLNE 10.336 22 ...we presently saw also that the religious nature in man was not affected by these errors in his understanding.
    LLNE 10.358 7 One merchant to whom I described the Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that agricultural association must presently fix the price of bread...
    EzRy 10.387 21 We presently arrived [at the funeral], and the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] addressed each of the mourners separately...
    EzRy 10.388 21 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me.
    MMEm 10.406 16 [Mary Moody Emerson] tired presently of dull conversations...
    Thor 10.463 21 [Thoreau] noted what repeatedly befell him, that, after receiving from a distance a rare plant, he would presently find the same in his own haunts.
    Thor 10.470 14 The redstart was flying about, and presently the fine grosbeaks...
    Thor 10.470 18 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler...
    GSt 10.505 13 When one remembers...the wide correspondence, presently enlarged by printed circulars, then by newspapers established wholly or partly at [George Stearns's] own cost;...I think this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    LS 11.6 11 I doubt not, the expression [This do in remembrance of me.] was used by Jesus. I shall presently consider its meaning.
    HDC 11.43 9 ...when, presently, the design of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony began to fulfil itself, by the settlement of new plantations in the vicinity of Boston...the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
    HDC 11.78 24 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British troops, Concord contributed to the relief of the inhabitants...a quantity of meat and wood. When, presently, the poor of Boston were quartered by the Provincial Congress on the neighboring country, Concord received 82 persons to its hospitality.
    War 11.152 24 [Society] presently finds the value of good sense and of foresight...
    War 11.160 25 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This thought is...the rising of the general tide in the human soul,-and rising highest, and first made visible, in the most simple and pure souls, who have therefore announced it to us beforehand; but presently we all see it.
    War 11.173 2 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...and whose appearance is the arrival of so much life and virtue. In dangerous times they are presently tried...
    FSLC 11.209 23 The sun paints; presently we shall organize the echo, as now we do the shadow.
    CPL 11.502 25 If you sprain your foot, you will presently come to think that Nature has sprained hers.
    FRep 11.524 3 ...the people] must take wine at the hotel, first, for the look of it, and second, for the purpose of sending the bottle to two or three gentlemen at the table; and presently because they have got the taste...
    PLT 12.19 3 ...presently, antagonized by other thoughts which [the perceptions of the soul] first aroused, or by thoughts which are sons and daughters of these, the thought buries itself in the new thought of larger scope...
    PLT 12.25 7 In the orchard many trees send out a moderate shoot in the first summer heat, and stop. They look all summer as if they would presently burst into bud again, but they do not.
    PLT 12.58 21 ...[each talent] works for show and for the shop, and the greater it grows the more is the mischief and the misleading, so that presently all is wrong.
    II 12.80 24 Plant the pitch-pine in a sand-bank, where is no food, and it thrives, and presently makes a grove...
    II 12.86 22 See the poor flies, lately so wanton, now fixed to the wall or the tree, exhausted and presently blown away.
    CInt 12.117 17 Two men cannot converse together on any topic without presently finding where each stands in moral judgment;...
    CInt 12.117 20 I presently know whether my companion has more candor or less...
    CInt 12.123 21 ...the greater [talent] grows, the more is the mischief and misleading, so that presently all is wrong...
    MLit 12.331 19 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air...but dares not...lead a man's life in a man's relation to Nature, In that which should be his own place, he feels like a truant, and is scourged back presently to his task and his cell.
    MLit 12.334 6 There is nothing in the heart but comes presently to the lips.

presentment, n. (1)

    MoS 4.156 3 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...

presentments, n. (1)

    Carl 10.489 23 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious tinge you sometimes find in burly people. That, and all his qualities, have a certain virulence, coupled though it be in his case with the utmost impatience of Christendom and Jewdom and all existing presentments of the good old story.

presents, n. (5)

    Gts 3.159 15 Flowers and fruits are always fit presents;...
    Gts 3.161 25 This is...a false state of property, to make presents of gold and silver stuffs, as a kind of symbolical sin-offering...
    SwM 4.143 26 Was [Swedenborg] like Saadi, who, in his vision, designed to fill his lap with the celestial flowers, as presents for his friends;...
    WD 7.168 25 Remember what boys think in the morning...of Thanksgiving or Christmas. The very stars in their courses wink to them of...bonbons, presents and fire-works.
    PPo 8.241 16 On the occasion of Solomon's marriage, all the beasts, laden with presents, appeared before his throne.

presents, v. (9)

    Nat 1.59 24 ...[the ideal theory] presents the world in precisely that view which is most desirable to the mind.
    ET12 5.209 2 The race of English gentlemen presents an appearance of manly vigor and form not elsewhere to be found among an equal number of persons.
    DL 7.104 1 Infancy, said Coleridge, presents body and spirit in unity...
    LS 11.21 2 ...[Christianity] presents men with truths which are their own reason...
    EdAd 11.384 25 The aspect this country presents is a certain maniacal activity...
    EdAd 11.392 4 We have a better opinion of the economy of Nature than to fear that those varying phases which humanity presents ever leave out any of the grand springs of human action.
    Wom 11.412 3 The worm its golden woof presents./ Whatever runs, flies, dives or delves/ All doff for [woman] their ornaments,/ Which suit her better than themselves./
    MAng1 12.216 7 Above all men whose history we know, Michael Angelo presents us with the perfect image of the artist.
    Milt1 12.252 5 It is the aspect which [Milton] presents to this generation, that alone concerns us.

preservation, n. (5)

    Cir 2.319 1 ...there is no sleep, no pause, no preservation...
    ET16 5.279 6 Stonehenge, in virtue of the simplicity of its plan and its good preservation, is as if new and recent;...
    Ctr 6.134 6 The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity that nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the passion...
    EzRy 10.384 22 Part of the shay, as it lay upon one side, went over my wife, and yet she was scarcely anything hurt. How wonderful the preservation.
    HDC 11.70 13 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston, for every rational measure they have taken for the preservation or recovery of our invaluable rights and liberties infringed upon;...

preserve, v. (19)

    Nat 1.7 14 If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men...preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!
    Nat 1.35 4 Material objects...are necessarily kinds of scoriae of the substantial thoughts of the Creator, which must always preserve an exact relation to their first origin;...
    YA 1.388 14 I speak of those organs which can be presumed to speak a popular sense. They recommend...whatever will earn and preserve property;...
    Comp 2.99 14 To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, [the President] is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    SL 2.154 12 ...presentation-copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
    Fdsp 2.202 5 ...he alone is victor who has truth enough in his constitution to preserve the delicacy of his beauty from the wear and tear of [Time, Want, Danger].
    Prd1 2.226 16 [The northerner] must brew, bake, salt and preserve his food...
    OS 2.290 11 The ambitious vulgar...preserve their cards and compliments.
    Mrs1 3.133 1 [A man] should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation which his daily associates draw him to...
    NR 3.235 24 I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake and preserve the due decorum.
    ET14 5.254 6 [Natural science in England] stands in strong contrast with the genius of the Germans, those semi-Greeks, who...by means of their height of view, preserve their enthusiasm and think for Europe.
    Wth 6.99 10 In Europe, where the feudal forms secure the permanence of wealth in certain families, those families buy and preserve these things [works of art] and lay them open to the public.
    CbW 6.249 12 The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
    Bty 6.296 1 ...all masons and carpenters work to repeat and preserve the agreeable forms...
    Res 8.147 7 ...it is the principal thing you are to beg at the hands of Almighty God, to preserve your understanding entire;...
    PC 8.215 9 Even the races that we still call savage or semi-savage, and which preserve their arts from immemorial traditions, vindicate their faculty by the skill with which they make their yam-cloths, pipes, bows...
    MMEm 10.421 9 High, solemn, entrancing noon, prophetic of the approach of the Presiding Spirit of Autumn. God preserve my [Mary Moody Emerson's] reason!
    LS 11.15 18 ...this single expectation of a speedy reappearance of a temporal Messiah...would naturally tend to preserve the use of the rite [the Lord's Supper] when once established.
    EurB 12.373 27 Many of the details of this novel [Zanoni] preserve a poetic truth.

preserved, adj. (1)

    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..

preserved, v. (26)

    YA 1.364 6 ...when...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment... there is no danger that local peculiarities and hostilities should be preserved.
    Pt1 3.23 2 ...[nature] shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless spores, and one of which, being preserved, transmits new billions of spores to-morrow or next day.
    PPh 4.58 6 ...the anecdotes that have come down from the times attest [Plato's] manly interference before the people in his master's behalf, since even the savage cry of the assembly to Plato is preserved;...
    ET4 5.48 2 Race is a controlling influence in the Jew, who, for two millenniums...has preserved the same character and employments.
    ET11 5.188 12 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that... these have preserved Arundel marbles...
    ET11 5.189 27 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the anecdotes preserved by the antiquaries Fuller and Collins;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    ET13 5.218 22 The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved and is preserved.
    Wth 6.94 12 Each of these idealists, working after his thought, would make it tyrannical, if he could. He is met and antagonized by other speculators as hot as he. The equilibrium is preserved by these counteractions...
    Boks 7.195 25 'T is...an economy of time to read old and famed books. Nothing can be preserved which is not good;...
    Clbs 7.243 23 We know well the Mermaid Club...of Shakspeare... Beaumont and Fletcher; its Rules are preserved...
    Cour 7.262 1 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy...
    QO 8.177 14 He who has once known [a book's] satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. Like Plato's disciple who has perceived a truth, he is preserved from harm until another period.
    QO 8.179 13 ...the invention of yesterday of making wood indestructible by means of vapor of coal-oil or paraffine was suggested by the Egyptian method which has preserved its mummy-cases four thousand years.
    Chr2 10.103 2 ...the memory and tradition of such a [steadfast] leader is preserved in some strange way by those who only half understand him...
    Plu 10.302 19 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost;...
    Plu 10.317 1 I can almost regret that the learned editor of the present republication [of Plutarch's Morals] has not preserved...the preface of Mr. Morgan...
    LS 11.9 12 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it, using this formula, which the Talmudists have preserved to us, Blessed be Thou, O Lord, our God, who givest us the fruit of the vine...
    LS 11.11 5 ...it is not a little singular that we should have preserved this rite [the Lord's Supper] and insisted upon perpetuating one symbolical act of Christ whilst we have totally neglected all others...
    HDC 11.41 3 ...the original distribution of the land [in Concord], or an account of the principle on which it was divided, are not preserved.
    HDC 11.60 1 The historian of Concord [Lemuel Shattuck] has preserved an instance of the resolution of one of the daughters of the town.
    EWI 11.145 14 The civility of the world has reached that pitch that...the quality of this [black] race is to be honored for itself. For this, they have been preserved in sandy deserts...
    War 11.151 19 As far as history has preserved to us the slow unfoldings of any savage tribe, it is not easy to see how war could be avoided...
    War 11.159 3 ...our American annals have preserved the vestiges of barbarous warfare down to more recent times.
    War 11.174 7 If peace is sought to be defended or preserved for the safety of the luxurious and the timid, it is a sham...
    JBS 11.280 4 ...the anecdotes preserved [of John Brown] show a far-seeing skill and conduct...
    MAng1 12.221 17 When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made first on paper the skeleton; afterwards, upon another paper, the same figure clothed with muscles. The studies of the statue of Christ in the Church of Minerva in Rome, made in this manner, were long preserved.

preserver, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.340 9 Salt is a good preserver; cold is...

Preserver, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.384 19 In March following [Joseph Emerson] notes: Had a safe and comfortable journey to York. But April 24th, we find: Shay overturned, with my wife and I in it, yet neither of us much hurt. Blessed be our gracious Preserver.

preserves, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.174 4 Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their...parks and preserves, to back their faulty personality with these strong accessories.

preserves, v. (5)

    Hist 2.19 16 The Doric temple preserves the semblance of the wooden cabin in which the Dorian dwelt.
    MoS 4.170 25 We love whatever affirms, connects, preserves;...
    PC 8.228 11 [The moral sentiment] is the fountain of power, preserves its eternal newness...
    Imtl 8.340 10 Salt is a good preserver; cold is: but a truth cures the taint of mortality better, and preserves from harm until another period.
    EWI 11.106 24 Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law, long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its introduction are lost;...

preserving, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.264 21 'T is a Dutch proverb that paint costs nothing, such are its preserving qualities in damp climates.

preserving, v. (7)

    AmS 1.102 1 [The scholar] is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism, by preserving and communicating heroic sentiments...
    Nat2 3.172 11 The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water... these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    CbW 6.249 12 The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
    SA 8.101 16 That method [of hereditary nobility]...gratified the ear with preserving historic names...
    SHC 11.430 15 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never spared,-have impressed on the mind of the age the futility of these old arts of preserving.
    PLT 12.43 9 The conduct of Intellect must respect nothing so much as preserving the sensibility.
    Milt1 12.265 4 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear and not lumpish obedience to the mind...

preside, v. (3)

    ET11 5.185 6 In general, all that is required of [English nobility] is...to preside at public meetings...
    Res 8.148 9 Mr. Marshall, the eminent manufacturer at Leeds, was to preside at a Free Trade festival in that city;...
    Pray 12.351 14 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan! and ye other gods who preside over this place! grant that I may be beautiful within;...

presided, v. (5)

    ET19 5.309 12 Sir Archibald Alison, the historian, presided [at the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet]...
    Dem1 10.7 20 Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.
    Plu 10.304 26 ...asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect, and that the same Daemon that waited on Lysis, presided over him...
    LLNE 10.363 19 There [at Brook Farm] was the accomplished Doctor of Music [John S. Dwight], who has presided over its literature ever since in our metropolis.
    HDC 11.86 5 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Langdon, and the college over which he presided.

Presidency, n. (1)

    OA 7.332 3 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency.

President, Harvard Universi (4)

    Thor 10.458 21 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the loan of books to resident graduates...
    Thor 10.458 27 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University] that the railroad had destroyed the old scale of distances...
    Thor 10.459 2 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that the library was useless, yes, and President and College useless, on the terms of his rules...
    Thor 10.459 9 ...the President [of Harvard University] found the petitioner [Thoreau] so formidable, and the rules [of the Harvard Library] getting to look so ridiculous, that he ended by giving him a privilege which in his hands proved unlimited thereafter.

president, n. (10)

    SL 2.161 7 We call the poet inactive, because he is not a president...
    Wsp 6.211 15 ...if an adventurer...procure himself to be elected to a post of trust, as of senator or president, by the same arts as we detest in the house-thief,-- the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...
    Elo1 7.77 26 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily and with perfect assurance, would confound...poet and president...
    TPar 11.286 15 Such was the largeness of [Theodore Parker's] reception of facts and his skill to employ them that it looked as if he were some president of council to whom a score of telegraphs were ever bringing in reports;...
    EPro 11.316 27 The extreme moderation with which the President [Lincoln] advanced to his design,-his long-avowed expectant policy...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    ALin 11.334 12 [Lincoln's] occupying the chair of state was a triumph...of the public conscience. This middle-class country had got a middle-class president, at last.
    CPL 11.499 1 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel graduated at Harvard in 1659...and his son Joseph was president of the college from 1781 to 1804;...
    FRep 11.529 12 The government...knows the leaders of the humblest class. The President comes near enough to these;...
    ACri 12.287 11 ...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks!
    ACri 12.287 16 ...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks! The whole party were surprised and cheered, except the bank president...

President, n. (32)

    AmS 1.114 6 Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs...to the American Scholar.
    Comp 2.99 11 ...the President has paid dear for his White House.
    Bhr 6.195 13 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus Scaurus, President of the Senate, excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans?
    Bhr 6.195 15 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus, President of the Senate, denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans?
    OA 7.332 11 The old President [John Adams] sat in a large stuffed arm-chair...
    Elo2 8.122 14 It is said that one of the best readers in his time was the late President John Quincy Adams.
    LLNE 10.359 20 Mr. George Ripley was the President [of the West Roxbury Association]...
    HDC 11.71 26 In October [1774], the Provincial Congress met in Concord. John Hancock was President.
    LVB 11.91 17 Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand up and say, This is not our act. Behold us. Here are we. Do not mistake that handful of deserters for us; and the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives, neither hear these men nor see them...
    EWI 11.132 14 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime...
    FSLC 11.193 25 Mr. Webster tells the President that he has been in the North, and he has found no man, whose opinion is of any weight, who is opposed to the [Fugitive Slave] law.
    FSLC 11.194 1 Mr. Webster tells the President that he has been in the North, and he has found no man, whose opinion is of any weight, who is opposed to the [Fugitive Slave] law. Oh, Mr. President, trust not the information!
    FSLN 11.219 15 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts of...men of high station, a President of the United States...but men without self-respect...
    AKan 11.255 21 When pressed to look at the cause of the mischief in the Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion;...
    AKan 11.261 5 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to the courts;...
    AKan 11.261 11 The President told the Kansas Committee that the whole difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people...
    AKan 11.261 16 The President told the Kansas Committee that the whole difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people respecting institutions which they need not have concerned themselves about. A very remarkable speech from a Democratic President to his fellow citizens...
    AKan 11.261 19 The President is a lawyer, and should know the statutes of the land.
    ACiv 11.310 17 [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] marks the happiest day in the political year. The American Executive ranges itself for the first time on the side of freedom. If Congress has been backward, the President has advanced.
    ACiv 11.310 26 If Congress accords with the President, it is not yet too late to begin the emancipation;...
    ACiv 11.311 4 More and better than the President has spoken shall, perhaps, the effect of this message [proposal for gradual abolition] be...
    EPro 11.317 13 ...great as the popularity of the President [Lincoln] has been, we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    EPro 11.318 1 ...it is not long since the President [Lincoln] anticipated the resignation of a large number of officers in the army...
    EPro 11.318 9 ...it became every day more apparent what gigantic and what remote interests were to be affected by the decision of the President [Lincoln]...
    EPro 11.320 5 The President [Lincoln] by this act [the Emancipation Proclamation] has paroled all the slaves in America;...
    EPro 11.322 20 Whilst we have pointed out the opportuneness of the [Emancipation] Proclamation, it remains to be said that the President had no choice.
    ALin 11.329 19 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward on its long march through mourning states...we might well be silent...
    ALin 11.330 7 The President [Lincoln] stood before us as a man of the people.
    ALin 11.332 15 ...[Lincoln] had a vast good nature...affable, and not sensible to the affliction which the innumerable visits paid to him when President would have brought to any one else.
    RBur 11.439 1 Mr. President and Gentlemen: I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced...that...it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].
    FRO2 11.485 3 Friends: I wish I could deserve anything of the kind expression of my friend, the President [of the Free Religious Association], and the kind good will which the audience signifies...
    CL 12.150 24 In March, the thaw...and the splendor of the icicles. On the pond there is a cannonade of a hundred guns, but it is not in honor of election of any President.

President of the Bank, n. (1)

    MoL 10.256 22 ...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge. But the President of the Bank nods to the President of the Insurance Office, and relates that at Virginia Springs this idol of the forum exhausted a trunkful of classic authors.

President of the Insurance (1)

    MoL 10.256 23 ...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge. But the President of the Bank nods to the President of the Insurance Office, and relates that at Virginia Springs this idol of the forum exhausted a trunkful of classic authors.

President's Message, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.217 8 Malthus and Ricardo quite omit [character];...the President's Message, the Queen's Speech, have not mentioned it;...

presidents, n. (10)

    Con 1.321 13 ...if priest and church-member should fail...the presidents of the banks...would muster with fury to [religious institutions'] support.
    Pol1 3.218 14 Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough...
    ET16 5.287 1 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged, I bethought myself...neither of presidents nor of cabinet-ministers...
    Bhr 6.188 12 People masquerade before us...as academic or civil presidents...
    Ill 6.315 4 ...I have known gentlemen of great stake in the community, but whose sympathies were cold,--presidents of colleges and governors and senators...
    SA 8.91 17 ...presidents of the United States are afflicted by rude Western and Southern gossips...
    Chr2 10.118 13 ...in the new importance of the individual, when... presidents and governors are forced every moment to remember their constituencies;...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.
    War 11.170 13 In some of our cities they choose noted duellists as presidents and officers of anti-duelling societies.
    FSLC 11.181 10 It looked as if in the city [Boston] and the suburbs all were involved in one hot haste of terror, presidents of colleges, and professors...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    CInt 12.116 27 ...[the scholars]...played the sycophant to presidents and generals and members of Congress...

Presidents, n. (2)

    OA 7.333 13 ...[John Adams]...remarked that all the Presidents were of the same age...
    GSt 10.505 24 These interests, which [George Stearns] passionately adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication with patriotic persons holding the same views,-with two Presidents...

President's, n. (4)

    Imtl 8.332 3 ...it chanced that [my friend] never met [his colleague] again until, twenty-five years afterwards, they saw each other through open doors at a distance in a crowded reception at the President's house in Washington.
    GSt 10.503 8 In 1862, on the President's first or preliminary Proclamation of Emancipation, [George Stearns] took the first steps for organizing the Freedman's Bureau...
    ACiv 11.310 19 This state-paper [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] is the more interesting that it appears to be the President's individual act...
    EPro 11.325 5 ...the aim of the war on our part is indicated by the aim of the President's [Emancipation] Proclamation...

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