Presides to Privy Council

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

presides, v. (4)

    SL 2.152 25 A like Nemesis presides over all intellectual works.
    Lov1 2.183 8 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages...
    F 6.27 9 He who sees through the design, presides over it...
    Dem1 10.22 21 We may...say of one on whom the sun shines, What luck presides over him!

presiding, adj. (1)

    FRO2 11.485 22 ...as my friend, your presiding officer [of the Free Religious Association], has asked me to take at least some small part in this day's conversation, I am ready to give...the first simple foundation of my belief...

Presiding Spirit of Autumn, (1)

    MMEm 10.421 9 High, solemn, entrancing noon, prophetic of the approach of the Presiding Spirit of Autumn.

press, n. (34)

    YA 1.392 13 We are full of vanity, of which the most signal proof is our sensitiveness to foreign and especially English censure. One cause of this is our immense reading, and that reading chiefly confined to the productions of the English press.
    YA 1.392 24 Would [our youths and maidens] like...licensed press...
    Hsm1 2.247 21 I do not readily remember any poem, play, sermon, novel or oration that our press vents in the last few years, which goes to the same [heroic] tune.
    Chr1 3.108 16 Character...must not...be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs or on few occasions.
    Pol1 3.219 1 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could...make life serene around him by the dignity and sweetness of his behavior, could he afford to circumvent the favor of the caucus and the press, and covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
    PPh 4.53 22 The Roman legion...the steam-mill, steamboat, steam-coach, may all be seen in perspective;...the newspaper and cheap press.
    PNR 4.80 4 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...we esteem one of the chief benefits the cheap press has yielded...
    ShP 4.189 7 The hero is in the press of knights and the thick of events;...
    ShP 4.196 16 There was no literature for the million [in Shakespeare's day]. The universal reading, the cheap press, were unknown.
    NMW 4.254 14 If I were to give the liberty of the press [said Napoleon], my power could not last three days.
    GoW 4.270 27 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no learned man, but learned societies, a cheap press...
    ET8 5.137 21 Compare the tone of the French and of the English press...
    ET8 5.137 23 ...the English press [is] never timorous about French opinion...
    ET11 5.189 11 Against the cry of the old tenantry and the sympathetic cry of the English press, the [English nobility] have rooted out and planted anew...
    ET13 5.229 7 The popular press is flagitious in the exact measure of its sanctimony...
    ET15 5.265 26 The old press [the London Times] were then using printed five or six thousand sheets per hour;...
    ET15 5.272 4 It is usually pretended...that the English press has a high tone...
    Pow 6.81 15 A man hardly knows how much he is a machine until he begins to make telegraph, loom, press and locomotive, in his own image.
    Wth 6.95 27 The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth;...
    Civ 7.24 11 Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge...by the cheap press, bringing the university to every poor man's door...
    Elo1 7.100 6 [Eloquence's] great masters...were grave men, who...esteemed that object for which they toiled, whether the prosperity of their country...or liberty of speech or of the press...as above the whole world, and themselves also.
    Boks 7.196 6 Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour.
    PC 8.231 6 We wish to put the ideal rules into practice...believing that a free press will prove safer than the censorship;...
    MoL 10.254 14 The scholar is bound to stand for...liberty of trade, liberty of the press, liberty of religion...
    Carl 10.491 23 [Young men] wish freedom of the press, and [Carlyle] thinks the first thing he would do, if he got into Parliament, would be to turn out the reporters...
    AKan 11.256 7 ...these details that have come from Kansas are so horrible, that the hostile press have but one word in reply, namely, that it is all exaggeration...
    EPro 11.325 17 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim.
    SMC 11.355 22 ...the common people [in the South], rich or poor, were...as arrogant as the negroes on the Gambia River; and...it looks as if the editors of the Southern press were in all times selected from this class.
    EdAd 11.383 10 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from the expansions effected by public schools, cheap postage and a cheap press...
    Milt1 12.251 6 The other piece is [Milton's] Areopagitica, the discourse... in favor of removing the censorship of the press; the most splendid of his prose works.
    Milt1 12.251 14 This tract [Milton's Areopagitica]...is still a magazine of reasons for the freedom of the press.
    Milt1 12.271 10 Truly [Milton] was an apostle of freedom;...freedom of speech, freedom of the press;...
    Milt1 12.271 27 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of literary liberty, denouncing the censorship of the press...
    EurB 12.373 1 ...the novels, which come to us in every ship from England, have an importance increased by the immense extension of their circulation through the new cheap press...

press, v. (10)

    Int 2.333 27 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the the corn-flags...
    Exp 3.76 25 By love on one part and by forbearance to press objection on the other part, it is for a time settled that we will look at [Jesus] in the centre of the horizon...
    MoS 4.173 24 I do not press the skepticism of the materialist.
    Ctr 6.156 15 ...the wise instructor will press this point of securing to the young soul in the disposition of time and the arrangements of living, periods and habits of solitude.
    OA 7.318 19 ...not to press too hard on these deceits and illusions of Nature...if the question be the felicity of age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
    MMEm 10.430 8 I [Mary Moody Emerson] pray to die, though happier myriads and mine own companions press nearer to the throne.
    Thor 10.469 21 Under his arm [Thoreau] carried an old music-book to press plants;...
    Carl 10.491 5 Young men...press to see [Carlyle]...
    PLT 12.44 11 If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up the block as one.
    II 12.70 15 If you press [those we call great men], they fly to a new topic...
    Wth 6.114 2 Pride is handsome, economical;...
    Wth 6.114 3 ...pride eradicates so many vices...that is seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.
    Wth 6.114 5 ...it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.
    Wth 6.114 5 Pride can go without domestics...
    Bhr 6.182 26 ...it is a point of pride with kings to remember faces and names.
    Bty 6.282 6 The boy had juster views when he gazed at the shells on the beach or the flowers in the meadow, unable to call them by their names, than the man in the pride of his nomenclature.
    Bty 6.299 15 ...we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands...she confers a favor on the world.
    Art2 7.55 18 The leaning towers originated from the civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower. Then it became a point of family pride...
    Art2 7.55 19 The leaning towers originated from the civil discords which induced every lord to build a tower. Then it became a point of family pride,--and for more pride the novelty of a leaning tower was built.
    WD 7.158 5 ...such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them;...
    WD 7.165 23 ...Trade, that pride and darling of our ocean...ends in shameful defaulting, bubble and bankruptcy...
    PI 8.56 8 I know the pride of mathematicians and materialists...
    Insp 8.279 9 Great wits to madness nearly are allied;/ Both serve to make our poverty our pride./
    Prch 10.218 14 Scorn of hypocrisy, pride of personal character...all these [persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have;...
    Schr 10.279 5 The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride.
    LLNE 10.367 6 One would meet also [at Brook Farm] some modest pride in their advanced condition...
    MMEm 10.419 16 True, I [Mary Moody Emerson] must finger the very farthing candle-ends,-the duty assigned to my pride;...
    Thor 10.455 5 [Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties, because...he could not meet the individuals to any purpose. They make their pride, he said, in making their dinner cost much;...
    Thor 10.455 7 [Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties, because...he could not meet the individuals to any purpose. They make their pride, he said, in making their dinner cost much; I make my pride in making my dinner cost little.
    GSt 10.506 11 There [George Stearns] sat in the council...with no pride of opinion...
    HDC 11.56 11 We have among us excess and pride of life [says Peter Bulkeley];...
    HDC 11.56 11 We have among us [says Peter Bulkeley] excess and...pride in apparel, daintiness in diet...
    EWI 11.100 27 In this cause [emancipation], we must renounce...the risings of pride.
    EWI 11.125 18 [The planters] were full of vices; their children were lumps of pride, sloth, sensuality and rottenness.
    EWI 11.129 6 ...an honest tenderness for the poor negro...combined with the national pride, which refused to give the support of English soil or the protection of the English flag to these disgusting violations of nature [slavery in the West Indies].
    FSLC 11.202 1 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...
    FSLN 11.215 3 Of all we loved and honored, naught/ Save power remains,-/ A fallen angel's pride of thought,/ Still strong in chains./
    HCom 11.341 4 ...I think it is not in man to see, without a feeling of pride and pleasure, a tried soldier...
    SHC 11.428 17 ...Prison thy soul from malice, bar out pride,/ Nor these pale flowers nor this still field deride:/...
    SHC 11.432 5 I do not wonder that [parks] are the chosen badge and point of pride of European nobility.
    FRep 11.541 26 I hope America will come to have its pride in being a nation of servants, and not of the served.
    Bost 12.200 8 America is growing like a cloud...and wealth...is piled in every form invented for comfort or pride.
    WSL 12.338 17 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man, with a great deal of knowledge, a great deal of worth, and a great deal of pride;...
    WSL 12.344 15 ...with all this miscellaneous pride there is a noble nature within [Landor] which instructs him that he is so rich that he can well spare all his trappings...
    PPr 12.384 18 It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present], even those whose existence it proscribes. Poor Queen Victoria...poor Primates and Bishops,-poor Dukes and Lords! There is no help in place or pride...
    PPr 12.387 8 ...if you should ask the contemporary, he would tell you, with pride or with regret...that he had [no superstitions].

pride's, n. (1)

    ET11 5.193 21 [English noblemen] will not let [their houses], for pride's sake...

priding, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.211 23 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one; and no amount of evidence of his crimes will prevent them... priding themselves on his acquaintance.

pried, v. (1)

    ET11 5.176 1 ...the duel, which in peace still held [French and English nobles] to the risks of war, diminished the envy that in trading and studious nations would else have pried into their title.

pries, v. (1)

    F 6.22 10 For who and what is this criticism that pries into the matter?

priest, n. (39)

    Nat 1.41 5 Prophet and priest...have drawn deeply from this source [of nature].
    AmS 1.83 2 Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
    AmS 1.84 1 The priest becomes a form;...
    DSA 1.134 26 The man enamored of this excellency [of the soul] becomes its priest or poet.
    MR 1.232 1 In the Spanish islands, every agent or factor of the Americans... has taken oath that he is a Catholic, or has caused a priest to make that declaration for him.
    MR 1.241 11 Neither would I shut my ears to the plea...of the poet, the priest...
    LT 1.265 5 Let us paint the agitator...the priest and reformer...
    Con 1.321 5 ...the priest presently restored order...
    Con 1.321 12 ...if priest and church-member should fail, the chambers of commerce...would muster with fury to [religious institutions'] support.
    Tran 1.347 3 ...if [these youths] only stand fast in this watch-tower, and persist in demanding unto the end, and without end, then are they terrible friends, whereof poet and priest cannot choose but stand in awe;...
    Hist 2.5 6 We, as we read, must become...priest and king...
    Hist 2.27 24 ...men of God have from time to time...made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer. Hence evidently the tripod, the priest, the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus.
    Hist 2.39 11 [Each man] shall be the priest of Pan...
    NER 3.274 22 Caesar, just before the battle of Pharsalia, discourses with the Egyptian priest concerning the fountains of the Nile...
    SwM 4.137 9 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come...
    ShP 4.218 26 ...other men, priest and prophet...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]...
    ET13 5.216 2 The priest [in England] translated the Vulgate...
    ET13 5.216 16 The priest came out of the people and sympathized with his class.
    ET13 5.226 8 If in any manner [the wise legislator] can leave the election and paying of the priest to the people, he will do well.
    ET14 5.255 10 No [English] priest dares hint at a Providence which does not respect English utility.
    ET16 5.289 15 This hospitality of seven hundred years' standing [at the Church of Saint Cross] did not hinder Carlyle from pronouncing a malediction on the priest who receives 2000 pounds a year...
    Wth 6.108 6 We must have joiner, locksmith, planter, priest, poet, doctor, cook, weaver, ostler; each in turn, through the year.
    CbW 6.245 9 The priest is glad if his prayers or his sermon meet the condition of any soul;...
    Art2 7.56 6 The Gothic cathedrals were built when the builder and the priest and the people were overpowered by their faith.
    Cour 7.258 10 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no bigger than a calf-skin.
    PI 8.40 10 The writer, like the priest, must be exempted from secular labor.
    Elo2 8.124 11 ...in your struggles with the world...when priest and Levite shall come and look on you and pass by on the other side, seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
    Aris 10.50 2 ...the powers...of a priest [are determined] by the act of inspiring us with a sentiment which disperses the grief from which we suffered.
    Aris 10.64 3 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy...who abandons his right position of being priest and poet of these impious and unpoetic doers of God's work.
    Chr2 10.90 1 For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/...
    Prch 10.230 11 [The man of practice or worldly force] wishes [the preacher] to be such a one as he himself should have been, had he been priest.
    Prch 10.230 12 [The man of practice or worldly force] is sincere and ardent in his vocation, and plunged in it. Let priest or poet be as good in theirs.
    MoL 10.249 6 A scholar was once a priest.
    Carl 10.491 2 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle, and where an Irish canon had uttered something. Carlyle began to talk, first to the waiters, and then to the walls, and then, lastly, unmistakably to the priest, in a manner that frightened the whole company.
    EWI 11.103 10 ...when [the negro] sank in the furrow...no priest of salvation visited him with glad tidings...
    FSLN 11.218 18 Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb, carry the business men into the city to their...work-yards and warehouses. With them enters the car-the newsboy, that humble priest of politics, finance, philosophy, and religion.
    TPar 11.284 6 ...There [Theodore Parker] stands, looking more like a ploughman than priest,/ If not dreadfully awkward, not graceful at least;/...
    PLT 12.6 22 When [the student] has once known the oracle he will need no priest.
    EurB 12.368 26 ...with a complete satisfaction [Wordsworth]...celebrated his own [life] with the religion of a true priest.

Priest, n. (1)

    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!.

priestcraft, n. (1)

    Hist 2.28 17 The priestcraft of the East and West...is expounded in the individual's private life.

priestess, n. (1)

    Hist 2.27 25 ...men of God have from time to time...made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer. Hence evidently the tripod, the priest, the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus.

priesthood, n. (4)

    NER 3.251 18 ...that the Church, or religious party...is appearing...in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions;...meeting to call in question the authority of the Sabbath, of the priesthood...
    Imtl 8.325 4 ...the polity of the Egyptians...respected burial. It made...the priesthood a senate of sextons.
    Schr 10.271 12 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as in the exemption of a priesthood or bards or artists from taxes and tolls levied on other men;...
    LS 11.3 19 In the Catholic Church, infants were at one time permitted and then forbidden to partake [of the Lord's Supper]; and since the ninth century the laity receive the bread only, the cup being reserved to the priesthood.

Priesthood, n. (1)

    CSC 10.373 18 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention debated, for three days again, the remaining subject of the Priesthood.

Priestleians, n. (1)

    ET1 5.11 13 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul...this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...

Priestley, Joseph, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.330 5 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the English philosophic theologians, Hartley and Priestley and Belsham...

priestly, adj. (2)

    DSA 1.147 7 Discharge to men the priestly office, and...you shall be followed with their love...
    ET4 5.55 15 [The Celts] had...priestly culture and a sublime creed.

priests, n. (16)

    LE 1.186 5 It is this domineering temper of the sensual world that creates the extreme need of the priests of science;...
    MN 1.191 7 The scholars are the priests of that thought which establishes the foundations of the earth.
    Pt1 3.36 13 Certain priests, whom [Swedenborg] describes as conversing very learnedly together, appeared to the children who were at some distance, like dead horses;...
    ET13 5.214 18 In the barbarous days of a nation, some cultus is formed or imported; altars are built...priests ordained.
    ET13 5.226 6 The wise legislator...will shun the enriching of priests.
    ET13 5.226 10 Like the Quakers, [the wise legislator] may resist the separation of a class of priests...
    Bty 6.285 5 Why should not priests, lodged and fed comfortably in the temples, also amuse themselves [said Tisso]?
    Bty 6.285 18 These priests in the temple incessantly meditate on death;...
    Art2 7.55 15 The College of Cardinals were originally the parish priests of Rome.
    Elo1 7.65 24 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in the Pied Piper of Hamelin, whose music...drew soldiers and priests...
    Chr2 10.108 27 When once Selden had said that the priests seemed to him to be baptizing their own fingers, the rite of baptism was getting late in the world.
    Prch 10.229 26 ...once we had wooden chalices and golden priests, now we have golden chalices and wooden priests.
    Prch 10.229 27 ...once we had wooden chalices and golden priests, now we have golden chalices and wooden priests.
    HDC 11.72 17 On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson] preached to a very full assembly, taking for his text, 2 Chronicles xiii.12, And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you.
    CPL 11.502 5 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests... to procure in the temple fire from the sun...
    CInt 12.120 27 Need enough there is of such a band of priests of intellect and knowledge;...

priest's, n. (2)

    DSA 1.137 8 ...now the priest's Sabbath has lost the splendor of nature;...
    Prch 10.230 7 The man of practice or worldly force requires of the preacher a talent, a force...the same as his own, but wholly applied to the priest's things.

prig, n. (1)

    ACri 12.287 22 ...the lowest classifying words outvalue arguments; as... prig, granny, lubber...

prigs, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.233 12 One of those conceited prigs who value Nature only as it feeds and exhibits them is equally a pest with the roysterers.

prim, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.107 15 In [the Quakers'] plain meeting-houses and prim dwellings this dismal agitation [against slavery] got entrance.

prima philosophia, n. (1)

    ET14 5.240 5 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality, or prima philosophia;...

primaeval, adj. (1)

    Plu 10.297 4 ...M. Fustel de Coulanges has explored from its roots in the Aryan race, then in their Greek and Roman descendants, the primaeval religion of the household.

primal, adj. (9)

    Con 1.295 23 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution. ... It is the primal antagonism...
    Pt1 3.8 8 ...whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down...
    Wth 6.83 9 ...well the primal pioneer/ Knew the strong task to it assigned,/ Patient through Heaven's enormous year/ To build in matter home for mind./
    Wsp 6.218 7 ...the redeemer and instructor of souls, as it is their primal essence, is love.
    WD 7.162 9 ...what can [our politics] help or hinder when from time to time the primal instincts are impressed on masses of mankind...
    Insp 8.286 13 ...it is a primal rule to defend your morning...
    FSLC 11.188 8 ...this man who has run the gauntlet of a thousand miles for his freedom, the statute says, you men of Massachusetts shall hunt, and catch, and send back again to the dog-hutch he fled from. It is contrary to the primal sentiment of duty...
    EdAd 11.389 21 ...we are far from believing politics the primal interest of men.
    CInt 12.113 5 The brute noise of cannon has...a most poetic echo in these days when it is an intrument of...the primal sentiments of humanity.

Primal Thought, n. (1)

    PLT 12.12 14 All these exhaustive theories appear indeed a false and vain attempt to introvert and analyze the Primal Thought.

primaries, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.7 27 ...[the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken, reckoning [the hero and the sage], though primaries also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants;...

primarily, adv. (13)

    Nat 1.25 17 Spirit primarily means wind;...
    Nat 1.30 20 Hundreds of writers may be found...who feed unconsciously on the language created by the primary writers of the country, namely, who hold primarily on nature.
    Con 1.324 22 I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods...
    Tran 1.339 2 Nature...exists primarily...
    Hist 2.17 5 By a deeper apprehension, and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills, the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity.
    Pt1 3.7 25 ...as [the hero and the sage] act and think primarily, so [the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken...
    Pt1 3.7 26 ...as [the hero and the sage] act and think primarily, so [the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken...
    Pol1 3.202 3 One man owns his clothes, and another owns a county. This accident, depending primarily on the skill and virtue of the parties...falls unequally, and its rights...are unequal.
    PPh 4.54 14 ...primarily there is not only no presumption against [admirable souls], but the strongest persumption in favor of their appearance.
    Art2 7.43 19 ...being applied primarily to the common necessities of man, [language] is not new-created by the poet for his own ends.
    Elo1 7.81 14 ...it is not powers of speech that we primarily consider under this word eloquence...
    Aris 10.43 14 ...the origin of most of the perversities and absurdities that disgust us is, primarily, the want of health.
    PLT 12.52 25 Such concentration of experiences is in every great work, which, though successive in the mind of the master, were primarily combined in his piece.

primary, adj. (56)

    Nat 1.15 6 ...the primary forms...give us delight in and for themselves;...
    Nat 1.30 19 Hundreds of writers may be found...who feed unconsciously on the language created by the primary writers of the country...
    Nat 1.33 23 In their primary sense these [proverbs] are trivial facts...
    Nat 1.52 2 [The poet] unfixes the land and the sea, makes them revolve around the axis of his primary thought...
    DSA 1.127 7 ...the absence of this primary faith is the presence of degradation.
    LE 1.185 11 ...I thought that...you would not be sorry to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect...
    MN 1.197 2 In the divine order, intellect is primary;...
    MR 1.235 4 ...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part...to put ourselves into primary relations with the soil and nature...
    MR 1.235 19 ...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.
    MR 1.240 27 ...every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work of the world;...
    Hist 2.30 14 Beside its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Europe...[the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion...
    SR 2.53 10 I ask primary evidence that you are a man...
    SR 2.64 7 We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition...
    Prd1 2.224 23 ...our existence...so fond of splendor and so tender to hunger and cold and debt, reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
    OS 2.276 11 In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the centre of the world...
    OS 2.277 2 Persons are supplementary to the primary teaching of the soul.
    Cir 2.301 3 ...throughout nature this primary figure [the circle] is repeated without end.
    Int 2.336 6 ...all men have some access to primary truth...
    Int 2.346 10 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
    Art1 2.368 16 ...[genius] will raise to a divine use...our primary assemblies...
    Pt1 3.9 24 The argument [in modern poetry] is secondary, the finish of the verses is primary.
    Gts 3.161 18 ...it restores society in so far to the primary basis, when a man' s biography is conveyed in his gift...
    NR 3.242 19 The universality being hindered in its primary form, comes in the secondary form of all sides;...
    UGM 4.20 9 These [leaders and law-givers] teach us the qualities of primary nature...
    PPh 4.44 27 [Plato]...has almost impressed language and the primary forms of thought with his name and seal.
    SwM 4.143 19 It is remarkable that this man [Swedenborg], who, by his perception of symbols, saw...the primary relation of mind to matter, remained entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression...
    GoW 4.264 26 There is a certain heat in the breast which attends the perception of a primary truth...
    ET18 5.300 2 English principles means a primary regard to the interests of property.
    F 6.14 18 ...all that the primary power or spasm operates is still vesicles, vesicles.
    Bhr 6.197 21 ...'t is a thousand to one that [the young girl's] air and manner will at once betray that she is not primary...
    Civ 7.34 4 ...if there be...a country...where liberty is attacked in the primary institution of social life;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Art2 7.37 13 On one side in primary communication with absolute truth through thought and instinct, the human mind on the other side tends...to the publication and embodiment of its thought...
    DL 7.129 18 Beyond its primary ends of the conjugal, parental and amicable relations, the household should cherish the beautiful arts and the sentiment of veneration.
    PI 8.11 4 The primary use of a fact is low;...
    PI 8.15 24 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language, uses them representatively, too well pleased with their ulterior to value much their primary meaning.
    PI 8.21 21 A thought...pressed, followed, opened, dwarfs...all but itself. But this second sight does not necessarily impair the primary or common sense.
    Comc 8.159 12 We have a primary association between perfectness and this [human] form.
    MoL 10.251 19 ...it is a primary duty of the man of letters to secure his independence.
    EWI 11.134 24 If the managers of our political parties are too prudent and too cold;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    War 11.155 12 ...whilst this principle [of self-help], necessarily, is inwrought into the fabric of every creature, yet it is but one instinct; and though a primary one, or we may say the very first, yet the appearance of the other instincts immediately modifies and controls this;...
    AKan 11.258 13 I like the primary assembly.
    AKan 11.258 19 Next to the private man, I value the primary assembly...
    AKan 11.258 24 First, the private citizen, then the primary assembly, and the government last.
    SMC 11.354 24 The opinions of masses of men, which the tactics of primary caucuses and the proverbial timidity of trade had concealed, the [Civil] war discovered;...
    Wom 11.407 8 When women engage in any art or trade, it is usually as a resource, not as a primary object.
    Wom 11.407 9 The life of the affections is primary to [women]...
    FRep 11.527 9 The steady improvement of the public schools in the cities and the country enables the farmer or laborer to secure a precious primary education.
    FRep 11.529 14 The government...knows the leaders of the humblest class. The President comes near enough to these; if he does not, the caucus does, the primary ward and town-meeting...
    PLT 12.32 5 ...men are primary or secondary as their opinions and actions are organic or not.
    PLT 12.45 15 The primary rule for the conduct of Intellect is to have control of the thoughts without losing their natural attitudes and action.
    II 12.66 19 There is a singular credulity which no experience will cure us of, that another man has seen or may see somewhat more than we, of the primary facts;...
    Mem 12.90 1 Memory is a primary and fundamental faculty...
    CInt 12.115 18 At this season, the colleges keep their anniversaries, and in this country where education is a primary interest, every family has a representative in their halls...
    CL 12.154 1 ...what strength and fecundity [in the sea], from the sea-monsters, hugest of animals, to the primary forms of which it is the immense cradle...
    CL 12.164 9 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure; and always for this double reason: first, because they are so excellent in their primary fact...
    Milt1 12.271 18 [Milton] proposed to establish a republic, of which...the substantial power should remain with primary assemblies.

primary, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.100 25 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;...

primary-school, adj. (1)

    Imtl 8.347 8 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].

Primate, n. (2)

    Plu 10.317 6 In his dedication of the work [Plutarch's Morals] to the Archbishop of Canterbury...[Morgan] tells the Primate that Plutarch was the wisest man of his age, and, if he had been a Christian, one of the best too;...
    PPr 12.384 17 It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present], even those whose existence it proscribes. Poor Queen Victoria...poor Primates and Bishops,-poor Dukes and Lords!

prime, adj. (6)

    PPh 4.57 1 Exempt from envy, [the Supreme Ordainer] wished that all things should be as much as possible like himself. Whosoever, taught by wise men, shall admit this as the prime cause of the origin and foundation of the world, will be in the truth.
    ET6 5.109 17 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval, prime minister in 1810, to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday...
    GSt 10.503 23 Every important patriotic measure in this region has had [George Stearns's] sympathy, and of many he has been the prime mover.
    EWI 11.104 26 The richest and greatest, the prime minister of England, the king's privy council were obliged to say that [the story of West Indian slaves] was too true.
    Wom 11.411 11 ...how should we better measure the gulf between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or comeliness? Herein woman is the prime genius and ordainer.
    Milt1 12.262 2 ...[Milton] said...I cannot say that I am...unacquainted with those examples which the prime authors of eloquence have written in any learned tongue...

Prime Minister, n. (1)

    EWI 11.128 3 ...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.

prime, n. (5)

    PPh 4.53 10 The understanding was in its health and prime [in Greece].
    OA 7.314 4 As the bird trims her to the gale,/ I trim myself to the storm of time,/ I man the rudder, reef the sail,/ Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime/...
    Imtl 8.335 6 The mind delights in immense time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long,-A house, says Ruskin, is not in its prime until it is five hundred years old...
    Dem1 10.4 4 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows...a delicate creation outdoing the prime and flower of actual Nature...
    Thor 10.477 10 Now chiefly is my natal hour,/ And only now my prime of life;/ I will not doubt the love untold,/ Which not my worth nor want have bought,/ Which wooed me young, and wooes me old,/ And to this evening hath me brought./

primers, n. (2)

    Ill 6.312 2 We fancy that our civilization has got on far, but we still come back to our primers.
    Boks 7.197 7 ...I will venture, at the risk of inditing a list of old primers and grammars, to count the few books which a superficial reader must thankfully use.

primeval, adj. (7)

    Hist 2.23 21 The primeval world...I can dive to it in myself...
    Comp 2.100 24 Under the primeval despots of Egypt, history honestly confesses that man must have been as free as culture could make him.
    ET16 5.276 20 It looked as if the wide margin given in this crowded isle to this primeval temple [Stonehenge] were accorded by the veneration of the British race to the old egg out of which all their ecclesiastical structures and history had proceeded.
    Boks 7.220 3 Is there any geography in these things [sacred thoughts]? We call them Asiatic, we call them primeval;...
    PI 8.49 8 ...the elemental forces have their...their own grand strains of harmony not less exact, up to the primeval apothegm that there is nothing on earth which is not in the heavens in a heavenly form...
    PC 8.212 14 Our towns are still rude...and the whole architecture tent-like when compared with the monumental solidity of medieval and primeval remains in Europe and Asia.
    Trag 12.412 9 The Egyptian sphinxes...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...verifying the primeval sentence of history on the permanency of that people, Their strength is to sit still.

primitive, adj. (10)

    Nat 1.35 16 By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature...
    Hist 2.19 15 By surrounding ourselves with the original circumstances we invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture, as we see how each people merely decorated its primitive abodes.
    ET11 5.179 7 The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land. Older than all epics and histories which clothe a nation, this undershirt sits close to the body. What history too, and what stores of primitive and savage observation it infolds!
    Art2 7.54 3 ...[all the known orders of architecture] were the idealizing of the primitive abodes of each people.
    Farm 7.137 3 All trade rests at last on [the farmer's] primitive activity.
    PI 8.57 6 The metallic force of primitive words makes the superiority of the remains of the rude ages.
    Aris 10.36 3 ...inequalities exist...in the powers of expression and action; a primitive aristocracy;...
    MoL 10.244 7 ...[the Hebrew nation's] poems and histories cling to the soil of this globe like the primitive rocks.
    LS 11.15 1 ...[St. Paul's] mind had not escaped the prevalent error of the primitive Church, the belief, namely, that the second coming of Christ would shortly occur...
    LS 11.16 4 We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own.

primogeniture, n. (5)

    ET11 5.172 10 Many of the [English] halls...are beautiful desolations. The proprietor never saw them, or never lived in them. Primogeniture built these sumptuous piles...
    ET11 5.172 13 Primogeniture is a cardinal rule of English property and institutions.
    ET11 5.196 2 Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before they are men, cause they are so seldom wise men. This cockering justifies Dr. Johnson's bitter apology for primogeniture, that it makes but one fool in a family.
    SA 8.101 10 In Europe...it has been attempted to secure the existence of a superior class by hereditary nobility, with estates transmitted by primogeniture and entail.
    Aris 10.34 14 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...

primordial, adj. (2)

    Wsp 6.219 15 ...the primordial atoms are prefigured and predetermined to moral issues...
    PI 8.4 19 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements...we should...find...spherules of force.

primum mobile, n. (1)

    Bost 12.206 17 ...here [in Boston] was the moving principle itself, the primum mobile...

Prince, David (?), n. (1)

    EzRy 10.382 26 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...the late learned Dr. Prince of Salem.

Prince Hal [Shakespeare, H (1)

    Comc 8.161 7 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute understanding...

Prince Le Boo, n. (1)

    CPL 11.507 20 The imagination...if it has not had...Prince Le Boo...has drawn equal delight and terror from haunts and passages which you will hear of with envy.

prince, n. (26)

    SR 2.62 21 ...[man] is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then...finds himself a true prince.
    OS 2.290 8 The vain traveller attempts to embellish his life by quoting my lord and the prince and the countess...
    Chr1 3.110 7 The virtuous prince confronts the gods, without any misgivings.
    Chr1 3.110 13 ...the virtuous prince moves, and for ages shows empire the way.
    Mrs1 3.136 15 Wherever [Montaigne] goes he pays a visit to whatever prince or gentleman of note resides upon his road...
    Nat2 3.175 26 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road,--a certain haughty favor, as if from patrician genii to patricians, a kind of aristocracy in nature, a prince of the power of the air.
    SwM 4.100 9 [Swedenborg]...devoted himself to the writing and publication of his voluminous theological works, which were printed at his own expense, or at that of the Duke of Brunswick or other prince...
    MoS 4.162 10 ...I will, under the shield of this prince of egotists, offer, as an apology for electing him as the representative of skepticism, a word or two to explain how my love began and grew for this admirable gossip [Montaigne].
    ET8 5.139 16 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England]; Gentlemen, as Charles I. said of Strafford, whose abilities might make a prince rather afraid than ashamed in the greatest affairs of state;...
    ET11 5.176 27 [The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor...became the companion of a foreign prince wrecked on the Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John] Russell lived.
    ET11 5.177 2 [The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor...became the companion of a foreign prince wrecked on the Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John] Russell lived. The prince recommended him to Henry VIII...
    F 6.11 7 ...all the legislation of the world cannot meddle or help to make a poet or a prince of [a man].
    Bhr 6.175 4 A prince who is accustomed every day to be courted and deferred to by the highest grandees, acquires a corresponding expectation...
    Bhr 6.183 1 It is reported of one prince that his head had the air of leaning downwards, in order not to humble the crowd.
    CbW 6.278 13 I prefer to say...what was said of a Spanish prince, The more you took from him the greater he looked.
    Bty 6.285 1 An Indian prince, Tisso, one day riding in the forest, saw a herd of elk sporting.
    Bty 6.285 9 The king...conferred the sovereignty on [Tisso], saying, Prince, administer this empire for seven days;...
    DL 7.114 7 ...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince with our townsmen...
    PPo 8.244 11 Hafiz is the prince of Persian poets...
    PPo 8.254 11 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple.
    Grts 8.313 10 No aristocrat, no prince born to the purple, can begin to compare with the self-respect of the saint.
    Grts 8.314 1 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say...what was said of the Spanish prince, The more you took from him, the greater he appeared...
    Chr2 10.96 12 ...there is no man who will bargain to sell his life, say at the end of a year, for...any rank, as of peer or prince;...
    Plu 10.318 23 That prince [Alexander] kept Homer's poems not only for himself under his pillow in his tent, but carried these for the delight of the Persian youth...
    JBS 11.280 10 ...if [John Brown] traded in wool, he was a merchant prince...
    ACri 12.286 17 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb,-never exchange a word, in the mother tongue of either, with prince or peasant;...

Prince, n. (2)

    Grts 8.317 26 Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of Weimar, does not shine. We can see that the Prince had the advantage of the Olympian genius.
    Dem1 10.21 19 The best are never demoniacal or magnetic; leave this limbo to the Prince of the power of the air.

Prince of Wales, n. (1)

    Bost 12.205 4 [The people of Massachusetts] knew...that the most noble motto was that of the Prince of Wales,-I serve...

Prince Rupert's, n. (2)

    FSLC 11.205 9 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop...
    FRep 11.528 12 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which will snap into atoms is so much as the smallest end be shivered off.

princely, adj. (2)

    SS 7.1 9 ...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in palaces/ Princely women hard to please/...
    SA 8.80 23 I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb cloth woven so fine that it was invisible--woven for the king's garment--must mean manners, which do really clothe a princely nature.

princes, n. (7)

    YA 1.383 20 One man buys with [a dime] a land-title of an Indian, and makes his posterity princes;...
    OS 2.292 1 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes...
    MoS 4.170 2 This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe; and that, too, a circulation somewhat chosen, namely among courtiers, soldiers, princes, men of the world and men of wit and generosity.
    ET6 5.112 9 An Englishman of fashion is like one of those souvenirs...fit for the hands of ladies and princes, but with nothing in it worth reading or remembering.
    ET14 5.232 11 ...[the English] delight in strong earthy expression...and though spoken among princes, equally fit and welcome to the mob.
    Boks 7.215 3 ...the player in Consuelo insists that he and his colleagues on the boards have taught princes the fine etiquette and strokes of grace and dignity which they practise with so much effect in their villas...
    PPo 8.261 23 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/... ...sitt'st thou on the hand of princes,/ And feedest on the grouse's breast,/ Whilst I, who hundred thousand jewels/ Squander in a single tone,/ Lo! I feed myself with worms,/ And my dwelling is the thorn./

princess, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.151 25 ...no princess could surpass [Lilla's] clear and erect demeanor on each occasion.
    UGM 4.9 23 It would seem as if each [creature and quality] waited, like the enchanted princess in fairy tales, for a destined human deliverer.

Princeton University, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.113 14 ...the whole science of theology [is] of great uncertainty, and resting very much on the opinions of who may chance to be the leading doctors...of Princeton or Cambridge, to-day.

principal, adj. (33)

    Nat 1.21 16 Charles II., to intimidate the citizens of London, caused the patriot Lord Russell to be drawn in an open coach through the principal streets of the city...
    Hist 2.19 24 The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock, says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.
    Pt1 3.11 24 ...the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
    Exp 3.49 1 If to-morrow I should be informed of the bankruptcy of my principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a great inconvenience to me, perhaps, for many years; but it would leave me as it found me...
    Exp 3.74 8 ...in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is...the universal impulse to believe, that is...the principal fact in the history of the globe.
    UGM 4.15 24 Shakspeare's principal merit may be conveyed in saying that he of all men best understands the English language...
    PPh 4.75 22 ...[Plato] was able...to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates, to which unquestionably his own debt was great; and these derived again their principal advantage from the perfect art of Plato.
    SwM 4.119 13 The principal powers continued to maintain a healthy action [in Swedenborg]...
    MoS 4.177 25 There is a painful rumor in circulation that we have been practised upon in all the principal performances of life...
    NMW 4.232 12 [Bonaparte's] principal means are in himself.
    NMW 4.241 1 The principal works that have survived [Napoleon] are his magnificent roads.
    ET4 5.45 23 It has been denied that the English have genius. Be it as it may...they have made or applied the principal inventions.
    ET12 5.205 4 ...the principal teaching relied on [at Oxford] is private tuition.
    ET18 5.301 7 [The foreign policy of England] has a principal regard to the interest of trade...
    ET18 5.307 24 The English have given importance to individuals, a principal end and fruit of every society.
    Wth 6.105 3 If a talent is anywhere born into the world, the community of nations is enriched; and much more with a new degree of probity. The expense of crime, one of the principal charges of every nation, is so far stopped.
    Ctr 6.132 10 I saw a man who believed the principal mischiefs in the English state were derived from the devotion to musical concerts.
    Ctr 6.132 14 A freemason, not long since, set out to explain to this country that the principal cause of the success of General Washington was the aid he derived from the freemasons.
    CbW 6.258 16 ...the poisons are our principal medicines...
    Elo1 7.85 7 The several talents which the orator employs...deserve a special enumeration. We must not quite omit to name the principal pieces.
    WD 7.172 20 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes.
    Clbs 7.249 20 A principal purpose also is the hospitality of the club...
    PI 8.38 21 Ben Jonson said, The principal end of poetry is to inform men in the just reason of living.
    Res 8.147 6 ...it is the principal thing you are to beg at the hands of Almighty God, to preserve your understanding entire;...
    PPo 8.240 11 The principal figure in the allusions of Eastern poetry is Solomon.
    CSC 10.374 4 The daily newspapers reported...brief sketches of the course of proceedings [of the Chardon Street Convention], and the remarks of the principal speakers.
    EWI 11.142 6 ...[the negro] is now the principal if not the only mechanic in the West Indies;...
    War 11.154 13 ...[war] has been the principal employment of the most conspicuous men;...
    HCom 11.343 23 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States...I think the little state bigger than I knew
    MAng1 12.229 8 It does not fall within our design to give an account of [Michelangelo's] works, yet for the sake of the completeness of our sketch we will name the principle ones.
    ACri 12.283 8 An enumeration of the few principal weapons of the poet or writer will at once suggest their value.
    ACri 12.299 26 After Low Style and Compression what the books call Metonomy is a principal power of rhetoric.
    ACri 12.303 5 I designed to speak of one point more, the touching a principal question in criticism in recent times-the Classic and Romantic, or what is classic?

principal, n. (2)

    Pol1 3.215 25 The antidote to this abuse of formal government is...the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy;...
    SlHr 10.440 12 Though rich, [Samuel Hoar was] of a plainness and almost poverty of personal expenditure, yet liberal of his money to any worthy use, readily lending it to...industrious men, and by no means eager to reclaim of them either the interest or the principal.

Principia [Emanuel Swedenbo (1)

    SwM 4.102 26 [Swedenborg's] superb speculation...almost realizes his own picture, in the Principia, of the original integrity of man.

Principia [Isaac Newton], n (1)

    Bost 12.204 5 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...not any...equal power of imagination. No Novum Organon;...no Principia;...have we yet contributed.

Principia Mathematica [Isaa (2)

    SwM 4.104 17 Newton, in the year in which Swedenborg was born, published the Principia, and established the universal gravity.
    SS 7.6 15 If [Archimedes and Newton] had been good fellows, fond of dancing, port and clubs, we should have had no Theory of the Sphere and no Principia.

principle, n. (151)

    Nat 1.40 24 ...every change of vegetation from the first principle of growth in the eye of a leaf...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Nat 1.73 4 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...the achievements of a principle...
    AmS 1.98 18 That great principle of Undulation in nature...is known to us under the name of Polarity...
    DSA 1.126 3 The principle of veneration never dies out.
    MN 1.200 5 In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes that...a mysterious principle of life must be assumed...
    MR 1.254 27 The virtue of this principle [Love] in human society in application to great interests is obsolete and forgotten.
    LT 1.276 14 [The Reformers] do not rely on precisely that strength which wins me to their cause; not on love, not on a principle...
    LT 1.276 19 The love which lifted men to the sight of these better ends was...the disposition to trust a principle more than a material force.
    LT 1.279 12 The great majority of men, unable to judge of any principle until its light falls on a fact, are not aware of the evil that is around them...
    LT 1.286 9 The spiritualist wishes this only, that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end...
    Con 1.306 3 ...before this personal appeal, the innovator...must confess that no man is to be found good enough to be entitled to stand champion for the principle.
    Con 1.314 2 A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will. Then the principle of love and truth reappears in the strictest courts of fashion and property.
    Con 1.323 3 The man of principle is known as such [in a state of war or anarchy]...
    Tran 1.335 26 [The Transcendentalist] wishes that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end...
    Tran 1.342 26 ...if any one will take pains to talk with [these separators], he will find that this part is chosen both from temperament and from principle;...
    Tran 1.350 6 Once possessed of the principle, it is equally easy to make four or forty thousand applications of it.
    YA 1.374 7 ...the principle of population is always reducing wages to the lowest pittance on which human life can be sustained.
    YA 1.378 20 ...the historian will see that trade was the principle of Liberty;...
    Hist 2.9 24 I can find...the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.
    Hist 2.12 13 The difference between men is in their principle of association.
    Hist 2.33 10 ...if the man...remains fast by the soul and sees the principle; then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places;...
    Comp 2.95 23 ...our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle...
    Comp 2.119 23 [The mob] persecutes a principle;...
    SL 2.144 4 A man is...a selecting principle...
    SL 2.152 7 There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are;...
    Cir 2.305 8 ...the principle that seemed to explain nature will itself be included as one example of a bolder generalization.
    Cir 2.308 17 ...discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle...
    Cir 2.316 12 For you, O broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic.
    Cir 2.318 1 I own I am gladdened by seeing the predominance of the saccharine principle throughout vegetable nature...
    Cir 2.318 3 I own I am gladdened...not less by beholding in morals that unrestrained inundation of the principle of good...
    Cir 2.318 19 ...this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to us but by contrast to some principle of fixture or stability in the soul.
    Int 2.329 15 If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle over the arithmetical or logical.
    Int 2.332 4 A certain wandering light appears, and is the distinction, the principle, we wanted.
    Int 2.332 25 Every trivial fact in [the writer's] private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle...
    Exp 3.45 21 Did our birth fall in some fit of indigence and frugality in nature, that she was so sparing of her fire and so liberal of her earth that it appears to us that we lack the affirmative principle...
    Chr1 3.97 13 [The feeble souls] never behold a principle until it is lodged in a person.
    Pol1 3.203 16 It was not...found easy to embody the readily admitted principle that property should make law for property...
    Pol1 3.203 23 At last it seemed settled that the rightful distinction was that the proprietors should have more elective franchise than non-proprietors, on the Spartan principle of calling that which is just, equal; not that which is equal, just.
    Pol1 3.203 25 That principle [of calling that which is just, equal; not that which is equal just] no longer looks so self-evident as it appeared in former times...
    Pol1 3.209 6 Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle;...
    Pol1 3.209 12 Parties of principle...degenerate into personalities, or would inspire enthusiasm.
    Pol1 3.221 5 ...there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the principle of right and love.
    NER 3.260 19 I conceive...the indication of growing trust in the private self-supplied powers of the individual, to be the affirmative principle of the recent philosophy...
    NER 3.262 11 Let into it the new and renewing principle of love, and property will be universality.
    SwM 4.113 25 The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails;.../
    MoS 4.175 7 What flutters the Church...may yet be very far from touching any principle of faith.
    MoS 4.176 24 Does the general voice of ages affirm any principle...
    NMW 4.235 25 The grand principle of war, [Bonaparte] said, was that an army ought always to be ready...to make all the resistance it is capable of making.
    NMW 4.257 16 [Napoleon's] attempt was in principle suicidal.
    NMW 4.258 13 [Napoleon] did all that in him lay to live and thrive without moral principle.
    ET1 5.16 16 Landor's principle was mere rebellion; and that [Carlyle] feared was the American principle.
    ET1 5.16 18 Landor's principle was mere rebellion; and that [Carlyle] feared was the American principle.
    ET4 5.47 27 Race avails much, if that be true which is alleged...that Celts love unity of power, and Saxons the representative principle.
    ET5 5.74 9 ...the Norman has come popularly to represent in England the aristocratic, and the Saxon the democratic principle.
    ET5 5.88 18 [The English] cannot well read a principle, except by the light of fagots and of burning towns.
    ET5 5.97 26 Solvency is maintained [in England] by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
    ET10 5.163 21 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...are in the vast auction [in England], and the hereditary principle heaps on the owner of to-day the benefit of ages of owners.
    ET13 5.216 19 The church was the mediator, check and democratic principle, in Europe.
    ET14 5.235 8 Mixture is a secret of the English island; in their dialect, the male principle is the Saxon, the female, the Latin;...
    F 6.34 14 ...sometimes the religious principle would get in and burst the hoops...
    Pow 6.54 10 A belief in causality, or strict connection between every pulse-beat and the principle of being...characterizes all valuable minds...
    Pow 6.70 11 ...when you espouse an Orleans party...or any other but an organic party...you have a personality instead of a principle, which will inevitably drag you into a corner.
    Wsp 6.202 18 The strength of that principle [Faith] is not measured in ounces and pounds;...
    Wsp 6.213 9 There is a principle which is the basis of things...
    Wsp 6.217 24 The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent.
    CbW 6.255 15 Not Antoninus, but a poor washer-woman, said, The more trouble, the more lion; that's my principle.
    Civ 7.30 8 ...when [man's] will leans on a principle...he borrows [its] omnipotence.
    Art2 7.40 13 I hasten to state the principle which prescribes...its firm law to the useful and the beautiful arts.
    Art2 7.49 25 Not [the orator's] will, but the principle on which he is horsed...thunder in the ear of the crowd.
    Elo1 7.79 18 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life and peaceful principle, who are felt wherever they go...
    Elo1 7.89 19 [The orator's] mind has some new principle of order.
    Elo1 7.97 12 There is a principle of resurrection in [the man who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion]...
    Elo1 7.98 17 ...in this dominion of chance we find a principle of permanence.
    WD 7.176 7 'T is the very principle of science that Nature shows herself best in leasts;...
    Clbs 7.231 21 [The lover of letters among the men of wit and learning] could not find that he was helped by so much as one thought or principle...
    Cour 7.271 2 'T is the quiet, peaceable men, the men of principle, that make the best soldiers.
    PI 8.17 23 As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images.
    PI 8.18 9 ...hold [the savans] hard to principle and definition, and they become mute and near-sighted.
    PI 8.32 2 Free trade, [men of the world] concede, is very well as a principle...
    Res 8.149 3 [The good aunt] relies on the same principle that makes the strength of Newton,--alternation of employment.
    Comc 8.173 11 ...what is fitter than that we should espouse and carry a principle against all opposition?
    QO 8.192 12 On the whole, we like the valor of [quotation]. 'T is on Marmontel's principle, I pounce on what is mine, wherever I find it;...
    Insp 8.279 19 It is a principle of war, said Napoleon, that when you can use the lightning it is better than cannon.
    Insp 8.293 20 By sympathy, each [party in good conversation] opens to the eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind. We were all lonely, thoughtless; and now a principle appears to all...
    Dem1 10.19 18 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...
    Aris 10.35 1 We...put faith...in the Republican principle carried out to the extremes of practice in universal suffrage...
    PerF 10.87 12 ...every principle is a war-note...
    Chr2 10.108 10 ...the rally on the principle must arrive as people become intellectual.
    SovE 10.210 11 I know how delicate this [moral] principle is...
    SovE 10.213 26 A man who has accustomed himself...to pierce to the principle and moral law, and everywhere to find that,-has put himself out of the reach of all skepticism;...
    Prch 10.232 12 The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain;...
    MoL 10.250 15 You [scholars] are to imperil your lives and fortunes for a principle.
    Schr 10.262 18 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly overshone by a sympathy of blessing. Beauty...the cheerful festal principle...comes in and puts a new face on the world.
    Schr 10.280 6 ...there is but one defence against this principle of chaos, and that is the principle of order...
    Plu 10.316 20 ...nothing so resembles an animal as fire. It is moved and nourished by itself, and...in its quenching shows some power that seems to proceed from a vital principle...
    MMEm 10.405 1 ...The chief witness which I have had of a Godlike principle of action and feeling is in the disinterested joy felt in others' superiority.
    MMEm 10.416 17 ...the simple principle which made me [Mary Moody Emerson] say...that, should He make me a blot on the fair face of his Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never been equalled...
    MMEm 10.430 11 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] the highest place of acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human sympathy would be too strong for that rapt emotion, that severe delight which I crave;...
    HDC 11.67 20 The planting of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony was the effect of religious principle.
    HDC 11.67 21 The planting of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony was the effect of religious principle. The Revolution was the fruit of another principle,-the devouring thirst for justice.
    HDC 11.85 15 Every moment carries us farther from the two great epochs of public principle, the Planting, and the Revolution of the colony [of Massachusetts Bay].
    HDC 11.86 23 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord]. It brought the fathers hither. In a war of principle, it delivered their sons.
    LVB 11.92 13 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States... forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact.
    EWI 11.107 8 [Lord Mansfield's] decision established the principle that the air of England is too pure for any slave to breathe...
    EWI 11.137 22 Every one of these [arguments against emancipation in the West Indies] was built on the narrow ground...of sordid gain, in opposition to every motive that had reference to humanity, justice, and religion, or to that great principle which comprehended them all.
    EWI 11.143 25 When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea,- that conserves it;...
    War 11.155 1 Is it not manifest that [war] covers a great and beneficent principle...
    War 11.155 2 Is it not manifest that [war] covers a great and beneficent principle, which Nature had deeply at heart? What is that principle?-it is self-help.
    War 11.155 10 ...whilst this principle [of self-help], necessarily, is inwrought into the fabric of every creature, yet it is but one instinct;...
    War 11.167 6 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...his warlike nature is all converted into an active medicinal principle;...
    War 11.167 21 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace] for better, for worse, carry it out to the end, and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle...
    War 11.167 25 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]... and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle...
    War 11.168 5 Will you stick to your principle of non-resistance when your strong-box is broken open...
    War 11.171 12 Nor...is the peace principle to be carried into effect by fear.
    War 11.173 10 [Shakespeare's lords] make what is in their minds the greatest sacrifice. They will, for an injurious word, peril all their state and wealth, and go to the field. Take away that principle of responsibleness, and they become pirates and ruffians.
    War 11.173 20 The man of principle...does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
    War 11.174 15 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero, namely, the will to carry their life in their hand, and stake it at any instant for their principle...
    War 11.174 22 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men...men who have...attained such a perception of their own intrinsic worth that they do not think property or their own body a sufficient good to be saved by such dereliction of principle as treating a man like a sheep.
    FSLC 11.186 23 ...virtue is the very self of every man. It is therefore a principle of law that an immoral contract is void, and that an immoral statute is void.
    FSLC 11.190 11 I had often heard...that it was a principle in law that immoral laws are void.
    FSLC 11.191 18 Lord Mansfield...said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
    FSLC 11.192 19 Against a principle like this [that immoral laws are void], all the arguments of Mr. Webster are the spray of a child's squirt against a granite wall.
    FSLN 11.222 6 ...[Webster] went to the principle or essential...
    FSLN 11.239 19 The national spirit in this country is so...preoccupied with interest, deaf to principle.
    ACiv 11.302 8 In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want, but that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle...
    ACiv 11.304 4 [Emancipation] is a principle; all else is an intrigue.
    ACiv 11.308 22 [Emancipation] is borrowing, as I said, the omnipotence of a principle.
    HCom 11.343 11 It is a principle of war, said Napoleon, that when you can use the thunderbolt you must prefer it to the cannon.
    SMC 11.352 20 This new [Concord] Monument is built to mark the arrival of the nation at the new principle...
    SMC 11.352 22 This new [Concord] Monument is built to mark the arrival of the nation at the new principle,-say, rather, at its new acknowledgment, for the principle is as old as Heaven,-that only that state can live, in which injury to the least member is recognized as damage to the whole.
    SMC 11.353 13 Every principle is a war-note.
    SMC 11.353 21 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...
    SMC 11.357 17 At a halt in the march, a few of our boys were sitting on a rail fence, talking together whether it was right to sacrifice themselves. One of them said...he thought one was never too young to die for a principle.
    SMC 11.373 19 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and comrades...uses these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle.
    Wom 11.424 12 If you do refuse [women] a vote, you will also refuse to tax them,-according to our Teutonic principle, No representation, no tax.
    FRep 11.514 15 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title to [the party's] permanent respect, and to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the real public interest, and to stand for that;-that is a principle...
    FRep 11.515 6 No interest not attaches...to the wars of German, French and Spanish emperors, which were only dynastic wars, but to those in which a principle was involved.
    FRep 11.519 19 We have seen the great party of property and education in the country drivelling and huckstering away...every principle of humanity...
    FRep 11.525 22 ...the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance...from rude to finer organization, the globe of matter thus conspiring with the principle of undying hope in man.
    II 12.80 18 We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. The whole world is nothing but an exhibition of the powers of this principle, which distributes men.
    Mem 12.100 1 ...a principle of the reason will thrill and magnetize and redistribute the whole world.
    CInt 12.113 9 ...here in the college we are in the presence of the constituency and the principle [of freedom] itself.
    CL 12.163 20 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each man. This is that which is the saliency, or principle of levity...
    Bost 12.188 16 [Boston] is...a seat...of men of principle...
    Bost 12.203 3 Boston never wanted a good principle of rebellion in it...
    Bost 12.206 17 ...here [in Boston] was the moving principle itself, the primum mobile...
    Bost 12.209 19 ...the deeper principle will always prevail over whatever material accumulations.
    Milt1 12.272 15 [Milton's tracts] are all varied applications of one principle, the liberty of the wise man.
    ACri 12.304 14 [The classic] does not make a novel to establish a principle of political economy.
    WSL 12.345 11 What is the nature of that subtle and majestic principle which attaches us to a few persons...
    PPr 12.381 14 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the proposition...that the principle of permanence shall be admitted into all contracts of mutual service;...

principles, n. (72)

    Nat 1.63 1 Idealism is a hypothesis to account for nature by other principles than those of carpentry and chemistry.
    AmS 1.89 10 Books are written on [a book]...by men of talent, that is...who set out...not from their own sight of principles.
    AmS 1.114 24 Young men...are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire...
    AmS 1.115 8 ...for work the study and the communication of principles...
    DSA 1.121 16 ...this homely game of life we play, covers...principles that astonish.
    DSA 1.129 16 ...churches are not built on [Jesus's] principles, but on his tropes.
    DSA 1.146 27 ...[all men] love to be caught up into the vision of principles.
    MR 1.250 27 ...the believer not only beholds his heaven to be possible, but already to begin to exist,-not by the men or materials the statesman uses, but by men transfigured and raised above themselves by the power of principles.
    MR 1.250 27 To principles something else is possible that transcends all the power of expedients.
    Con 1.299 12 Conservatism...believes...that for me it avails not to trust in principles...
    Con 1.318 19 The objection to conservatism, when embodied in a party, is that in its love of acts it hates principles;...
    Tran 1.359 8 ...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    SR 2.70 9 ...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities...who are not.
    SR 2.90 5 Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
    Hsm1 2.258 14 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...Hampden, teach us...that we, by the depth of our living, should...act on principles that should interest man and nature in the length of our days.
    Int 2.326 21 The intellect...reduces all things into a few principles.
    Int 2.345 25 ...I cannot recite...laws of the intellect, without remembering... the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.
    Art1 2.359 16 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber...through all forms of beauty cut in the richest materials, is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of which they all sprung...
    PPh 4.51 13 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things...
    PPh 4.55 3 ...[Plato] saved himself by propounding the most popular of all principles, the absolute good...
    SwM 4.105 2 ...the largest application of principles, had been exhibited by Leibnitz and Christian Wolff, in cosmology;...
    SwM 4.112 26 [Swedenborg] noted that in [nature] proceeding from first principles through her several subordinations, there was no state through which she did not pass...
    ET10 5.168 21 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments and their whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.
    ET10 5.170 22 Who can propose to youth poverty and wisdom...when English success has grown out of the very renunciation of principles...
    ET18 5.300 2 English principles means a primary regard to the interests of property.
    ET18 5.308 5 By this general activity and by this sacredness of individuals, [the English] have in seven hundred years evolved the principles of freedom.
    Pow 6.77 4 Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day.
    SS 7.16 2 ...a sound mind will derive its principles from insight...
    Civ 7.30 2 ...all our social and political action leans on principles.
    Art2 7.37 12 [All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity...dissolving man as well as his works in its flowing beneficence. This influence is conspicuously visible in the principles and history of Art.
    Clbs 7.237 4 ...though they know that there is in the speaker a degree...of insincerity and of talking for victory, yet...habitual reverence for principles over talent or learning, is felt by the frivolous.
    Cour 7.269 14 The old principles which books exist to express are more beautiful than any book;...
    Elo2 8.125 27 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.
    Dem1 10.25 8 Of course the inquiry [into Animal Magnetism] is pursued on low principles.
    PerF 10.77 11 My conviction of principles,-that is great part of my possessions.
    Chr2 10.102 6 ...the perpetual supply of new genius...recalls us to principles.
    Chr2 10.108 9 ...the [religious] change is in what is superficial; the principles are immortal...
    Chr2 10.112 2 The constitution and law in America must be written on ethical principles...
    SovE 10.194 13 [Good men] do not see that particulars are sacred to [God]...that these passages of daily life are his work; that in the moment when they desist from interference, these particulars...become the language of mighty principles.
    Prch 10.231 22 We come to church properly...for approach to principles to see how it stands with us...
    Plu 10.308 20 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher...to commend himself to men of public regards and ruling genius: for, if he once possess such a man with principles of honor and religion, he takes a compendious method, by doing good to one, to oblige a great part of mankind.
    LLNE 10.334 19 It was not the intellectual or the moral principles which [Everett] had to teach.
    CSC 10.376 12 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it...in the lofty reliance on principles...
    HDC 11.41 2 ...the original distribution of the land [in Concord], or an account of the principle on which it was divided, are not preserved.
    HDC 11.86 20 The benediction of [the Concord people's] prayers and of their principles lingers around us.
    EWI 11.107 2 ...(tracing the subject to natural principles, the claim of slavery never can be supported).
    EWI 11.136 11 Granville Sharpe filled the ear of the judges with the sound principles that had from time to time been affirmed by the legal authorities...
    War 11.173 17 ...another age comes...and a man puts himself under the dominion of principles.
    War 11.175 18 ...the mind, once prepared for the reign of principles, will easily find modes of expressing its will.
    FSLC 11.184 9 What is the use of courts, if...no judge...recurs to first principles?
    FSLC 11.190 5 I am surprised that lawyers can be so blind as to suffer the principles of Law to be discredited.
    FSLC 11.190 25 Blackstone admits the sovereignty antecedent to any positive precept, of the law of Nature, among whose principles are, that we should live on, should hurt nobody, and should render unto every one his due, etc.
    FSLC 11.200 1 When a moral quality comes into politics...general principles are laid bare...
    FSLN 11.226 4 In the final hour...did [Webster] take the part of great principles...or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
    FSLN 11.229 16 [Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law] showed...that while we reckoned ourselves a highly cultivated nation...the principles of culture and progress did not exist.
    FSLN 11.232 3 In vulgar politics the Whig goes...for the old necessities,- the Musts. The reformer goes for the Better, for the ideal good, the Mays. But each of these parties must of necessity take in, in some measure, the principles of the other.
    FSLN 11.240 27 ...the inconsistency of slavery with the principles on which the world is built guarantees its downfall...
    TPar 11.290 2 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...leaving your principles at home to follow on the high seas or in Europe a supple complaisance to tyrants,-it is a hypocrisy...
    EPro 11.316 19 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...
    EdAd 11.393 19 We entreat the aid of every lover of truth and right, and let these principles entreat for us.
    SHC 11.433 12 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved...for...patriotic eloquence, the utterance of the principles of national liberty to private, social, literary or religious fraternities.
    FRep 11.539 17 It is not by heads reverted...to George Washington, that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time. I believe this...requires docility, sympathy, and religious receiving from higher principles;...
    FRep 11.540 12 We...shall proceed like William Penn...on principles of honest trade and mutual advantage.
    FRep 11.540 15 ...the Constitution and the law in America must be written on ethical principles...
    II 12.88 23 ...there is a religion which...is worshipped and pronounced with emphasis again and again by some holy person;-and men, with their weak incapacity for principles...have run mad for the pronouncer, and forgot the religion.
    Mem 12.110 10 When we live by principles instead of traditions...the Great Mind will enter into us...
    CInt 12.116 10 If the colleges...really...had the power of imparting... creative principles...we should all rush to their gates;...
    Bost 12.203 19 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some champion of first principles of humanity against the rich and luxurious;...
    Bost 12.209 18 ...[Boston] owes its existence and its power to principles not of yesterday...
    Milt1 12.251 24 ...deeply as that peculiar state of society, in which and for which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the world, it shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in Nature; and the accidental facts on which a battle of principles was fought have already passed, or are fast passing, into oblivion.
    ACri 12.284 8 There is, in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.
    MLit 12.335 22 [The Genius of the time] will...record the descent of principles into practice...

print, n. (10)

    AmS 1.87 3 ...nature is the opposite of the soul, answering to it part for part. One is seal and one is print.
    Hist 2.32 14 Every animal...has contrived to get a footing and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright, heaven-facing speakers.
    SwM 4.117 3 Lord Bacon had found that truth and nature differed only as seal and print;...
    GoW 4.262 2 In nature...the narrative is the print of the seal.
    GoW 4.262 5 ...nature strives upward; and, in man, the report is something more than print of the seal.
    ET2 5.28 23 Near the equator you can read small print by [the light of the sea-fire];...
    F 6.40 6 The event is the print of your form.
    FRep 11.511 14 The manufacturers rely on turbines of hydraulic perfection;...the calico print, on designers of genius...
    MAng1 12.220 16 Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.
    ACri 12.285 22 ...much of the raw material of the street-talk is absolutely untranslatable into print...

print, v. (8)

    LT 1.275 11 By the books [the Times] reads and translates, judge what books it will presently print.
    ET14 5.256 2 What did Walter Scott write without stint? a rhymed traveller' s guide to Scotland. And the libraries of verses [the English] print have this Birmingham character.
    ET15 5.266 2 The old press [the London Times] were then using printed five or six thousand sheets per hour; the new machine, for which they were then building an engine, would print twelve thousand per hour.
    ET15 5.271 23 [The London Times's] existence honors the people who dare to print all they know...
    ET19 5.310 14 ...as for Dombey...there is no land where paper exists to print on, where it is not found;...
    Bhr 6.173 23 In the hotels on the banks of the Mississippi they print, or used to print...that No gentleman can be permitted to come to the public table without his coat;...
    Bhr 6.174 8 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution to strangers not to speak loud;...
    HDC 11.31 10 Hindered from speaking, some of these [suspended ministers] dared to print the reasons of their dissent...

printed, adj. (15)

    AmS 1.92 23 ...great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed page.
    SwM 4.110 23 I own with some regret that [Swedenborg's] printed works amount to about fifty stout octavos...
    ET1 5.14 14 ...I...find it impossible to recall the largest part of [Coleridge' s] discourse, which was often like so many printed paragraphs in his book...
    ET1 5.23 8 I told [Wordsworth] how much the few printed extracts had quickened the desire to possess his unpublished poems.
    Boks 7.193 7 In 1858, the number of printed books in the Imperial Library at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand volumes...
    Boks 7.193 11 ...the number of printed books extant to-day may easily exceed a million.
    Plu 10.294 27 ...the first printed edition of the Greek Works [of Plutarch] did not appear until 1572.
    LLNE 10.340 2 ...[Channing's] printed writings are almost a history of the times;...
    LLNE 10.340 6 ...there was no great public interest...on which [Channing] did not leave some printed record of his brave and thoughtful opinion.
    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...
    HDC 11.50 15 ...this design [the conversion of the Indians] is named first in the printed Considerations, that inclined Hampden, and determined Winthrop and his friends, to come hither [to New England].
    HDC 11.83 7 I have been greatly indebted, in preparing this sketch [of Concord], to the printed but unpublished History of this town...
    AKan 11.255 19 The printed letters of border ruffians avow the facts.
    SMC 11.363 25 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...wrote a daily or weekly newspaper, called it Stars and Stripes. It advertises, prayer-meeting at 7 o'clock, in cell No. 8, second floor, and their own printed record is a proud and affecting narrative.
    CPL 11.498 2 The town [Concord] was settled by a pious company of non-conformists from England, and the printed books of their pastor and leader... testify the ardent sentiment which they shared.

printed, v. (19)

    LT 1.275 15 A great deal of the profoundest thinking of antiquity...in twenty years will get all printed anew.
    SwM 4.100 8 [Swedenborg]...devoted himself to the writing and publication of his voluminous theological works, which were printed at his own expense...
    SwM 4.111 3 Swedenborg printed these scientific books in the ten years from 1734 to 1744...
    ET1 5.11 3 ...taking up Bishop Waterland's book, which lay on the table, [Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three pages written by himself in the fly-leaves,--passages, too, which, I believe, are printed in the Aids to Reflection.
    ET1 5.23 14 [Wordsworth] replied he never was in haste to publish;...but what he had written would be printed...
    ET12 5.203 12 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me...the first Bible printed at Mentz...
    ET15 5.265 24 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us that the daily printing [of the London Times] was then 35,000 copies; that on the 1st March, 1848, the greatest number ever printed--54,000--were issued;...
    ET15 5.265 27 The old press [the London Times] were then using printed five or six thousand sheets per hour;...
    Elo1 7.74 23 ...whoever can say off currently, sentence by sentence, matter neither better nor worse than what is there [in the country newspaper] printed, will be very impressive to our easily pleased population.
    Elo1 7.76 3 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union...
    WD 7.183 3 ...his memoir finished and read and printed, [the savant] retreats into his routinary existence...
    Boks 7.219 15 [The communications of the sacred books] are not to be held by letters printed on a page...
    Chr2 10.105 25 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings. No leaf thereof could attain the liberty of being printed (in Berlin) to-day.
    Plu 10.294 22 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated and printed in Latin, thence into Italian, French and English, more than a century before the original Works were yet printed.
    Plu 10.294 24 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated and printed in Latin, thence into Italian, French and English, more than a century before the original Works were yet printed.
    LLNE 10.339 21 [Channing] could never be reported, for his eye and voice could not be printed...
    CSC 10.373 19 This [Chardon Street] Convention never printed any report of its deliberations,
    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;...
    Pray 12.350 13 ...prayers are not made to be overheard, or to be printed...

printer, n. (4)

    ET15 5.264 27 The late Mr. Walter was printer of The [London] Times...
    Plu 10.321 17 there are, no doubt, many vulgar phrases [in the 1718 edition of Plutarch], and many blunders of the printer;...
    LLNE 10.345 15 [The pilgrim] was a poor printer...
    Milt1 12.272 2 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of literary liberty... insisting that a book shall come into the world as freely as a man, so only it bear the name of author or printer...

printing, adj. (1)

    ET15 5.264 19 ...[the London Times] attacks its rivals by perfecting its printing machinery...

printing, n. (9)

    ET11 5.196 7 The tools of our time, namely steam, ships, printing, money and popular education, belong to those who can handle them;...
    ET15 5.265 9 The proprietors [of the London Times], who had already complained that [John Walter's] charges for printing were excessive, found that they were in his power...
    ET15 5.265 22 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us that the daily printing [of the London Times] was then 35,000 copies;...
    Civ 7.33 10 ...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...
    Boks 7.200 8 [The reader] will read in [Plutarch's Morals] the essays On the Daemon of Socrates...On Love; and thank anew the art of printing...
    Aris 10.40 7 If the finders of glass, gunpowder, printing, electricity...should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?
    Plu 10.294 15 ...[Plutarch's] name is never mentioned by any Roman writer. It would seem that the community of letters and of personal news was even more rare at that day than the want of printing...would suggest to us.
    ALin 11.333 18 I am sure if this man [Lincoln] had ruled in a period of less facility of printing, he would have become mythological in a very few years...
    Mem 12.99 17 If writing weakens the memory, we may say as much or more of printing.

printing, v. (7)

    MoS 4.169 27 This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe;...
    ET1 5.23 13 [Wordsworth] replied he never was in haste to publish; partly because he corrected a good deal, and every alteration is ungraciously received after printing;...
    ET15 5.264 21 ...the only limit to the circulation of The [London] Times is the impossibility of printing copies fast enough;...
    Clbs 7.249 10 ...in the sections of the British Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in...the printing and transmission of ponderous reports.
    Imtl 8.345 21 ...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry eyes that run through it will close disappointed;...
    War 11.164 23 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar. You shall see a hundred presses printing a million sheets;...
    EurB 12.365 21 [Wordsworth's] are such verses as in a just state of culture should be vers de societe, such as every gentleman could write but none would think of printing...

printing-house, n. (1)

    ET15 5.263 22 [The London Times] has shown those qualities which are dear to Englishmen...a towering assurance, backed by the perfect organization in its printing-house...

Printing-House Square, Lon (1)

    ET15 5.265 14 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square.

printing-press, n. (1)

    WD 7.158 14 Our century to be sure had inherited a tolerable apparatus. We had the compass, the printing-press, watches, the spiral spring, the barometer, the telescope.

prints, n. (3)

    ET1 5.20 24 [Wordsworth] was against taking off the tax on newspapers in England...for this reason, that they would be inundated with base prints.
    ET4 5.53 4 ...the figures in Punch's drawings of the public men or of the club-houses, the prints in the shop-windows, are distinctive English...
    MAng1 12.230 27 Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming themselves; an incident of the war of Pisa. The wonderful merit of this drawing...is conspicuous even in the coarsest prints.

prints, v. (1)

    GoW 4.261 17 Not a foot steps into the snow...but prints...a map of its march.

prior, adj. (12)

    Hist 2.3 19 ...the thought is always prior to the fact;...
    Int 2.327 21 Long prior to the age of reflection is the thinking of the mind.
    Int 2.337 14 ...a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.
    Pt1 3.10 5 ...in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form.
    Chr1 3.107 13 I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?
    F 6.12 25 It was a poetic attempt...to reconcile this despotism of race with liberty, which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
    Wsp 6.217 19 ...the heart is at once aware of the state of health or disease, which is the controlling state, that is, of sanity or of insanity; prior of course to all question of the ingenuity of arguments...
    Bty 6.294 27 In all design, art lies in making your object prominent, but there is a prior art in choosing objects that are prominent.
    WD 7.171 2 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass,--the secular, refined, composite anatomy of man...which the prior races...existed to ripen;...are given immeasurably to all.
    EPro 11.317 9 ...so fair a mind...so reticent that his decision has taken all parties by surprise, whilst yet it just the sequel of his prior acts,-the firm tone in which he announces it...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.
    PLT 12.17 1 Leaving aside the question which was prior, egg or bird, I believe the mind is the creator of the world...
    PLT 12.40 17 In all healthy souls is an inborn necessity of presupposing for each particular fact a prior Being which compels it to a harmony with all other natures.

priority, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.213 24 ...the enginery at work to draw out these powers [of the senses and the understanding] in priority, no doubt has its office.

prisca, adj. (1)

    PC 8.208 8 Prisca juvent alios, ego me nunc denique natum/ Gratulor./

prism, n. (1)

    Art1 2.368 18 ...[genius] will raise to a divine use...the prism...

prismatic, adj. (3)

    Suc 7.307 7 The edge of every surface is tinged with prismatic rays.
    Supl 10.169 20 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets... wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you, without refraction or prismatic glories...
    SovE 10.188 9 Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops...

prisms, n. (2)

    PI 8.4 20 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements (the supposed little cubes or prisms of which all matter was built up), we should...find...spherules of force.
    PI 8.4 22 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements...we should not find cubes, or prisms, or atoms, at all, but spherules of force.

prison, adj. (1)

    MLit 12.330 24 The vicious conventions, which hem us in like prison walls...stand [in Wilhelm Meister] for all they are worth in the newspaper.

prison, n. (26)

    Hist 2.36 19 Put Napoleon in an island prison...and he would beat the air, and appear stupid.
    SR 2.52 12 There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison if need be;...
    Comp 2.120 4 Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode;...
    Int 2.339 15 Every thought is a prison also.
    Pt1 3.33 18 Every thought is also a prison;...
    Pt1 3.33 19 ...every heaven is also a prison.
    Exp 3.52 1 Temperament...shuts us in a prison of glass which we cannot see.
    NER 3.278 12 We are haunted with a belief that you [reformers] have a secret which it would highliest advantage us to learn, and we would force you to impart it to us, though it should bring us to prison or to worse extremity.
    NER 3.285 3 ...only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.
    PPh 4.74 20 When accused before the judges of subverting the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the soul, the future reward and punishment; and refusing to recant, in a caprice of the popular government was condemned to die, and sent to the prison.
    PPh 4.74 21 Socrates entered the prison and took away all ignominy from the place...
    PPh 4.74 22 Socrates entered the prison and took away all ignominy from the place, which could not be a prison whilst he was there.
    PPh 4.75 1 The fame of this prison [of Socrates], the fame of the discourses there and the drinking of the hemlock are one of the most precious passages in the history of the world.
    ET9 5.152 9 When Julian came, A. D. 361, George [of Cappadocia] was dragged to prison; the prison was burst open by the mob and George was lynched...
    Civ 7.25 9 The skill that pervades complex details;...the very prison compelled to maintain itself...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high civilization.
    DL 7.115 11 [Man] should be visited in this his prison with rebuke to the evil demons...
    Cour 7.272 8 The troop of Virginian infantry that had marched to guard the prison of John Brown ask leave to pay their respects to the prisoner.
    Cour 7.275 12 Poverty, the prison...appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity;...
    PI 8.60 14 ...in Morte d'Arthur, I remember nothing so well as Sir Gawain' s parley with Merlin in his wonderful prison...
    Comc 8.167 2 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar... confessedly...a bivouac for a night...becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison...
    Schr 10.275 2 ...Algernon Sidney wrote to his father from his prison a little before his execution: I have ever had in my mind that when God should cast me into such a condition as that I cannot save my life but by doing an indecent thing he shows me the time has come when I should resign it.
    EzRy 10.388 18 When Put Merriam, after his release from the state prison, had the effrontery to call on the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] as an old acquaintance, in the midst of general conversation Mr. Frost came in...
    SlHr 10.445 23 Nobody cared to speak of thoughts or aspirations to a black-letter lawyer [Samuel Hoar], who only studied to keep men out of prison...
    EWI 11.132 18 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 11.195 14 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America. Off soundings, it is piracy and murder to enslave him. On soundings, it is fine and prison not to reenslave.
    FSLN 11.217 4 I have my own spirits in prison;...

Prison, Parish, New Orlean (1)

    SMC 11.363 20 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they set themselves to use the time to the wisest advantage...

prison, v. (1)

    SHC 11.428 17 ...Prison thy soul from malice, bar out pride,/ Nor these pale flowers nor this still field deride:/...

prison-bars, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.199 4 Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows:/ He to captivity was sold,/ But him no prison-bars would hold/...

prison-cells, n. (1)

    DSA 1.150 19 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first the Sabbath...whose light dawns welcome alike into the closet of the philosopher, into the garret of toil, and into prison-cells...

prisoner, n. (20)

    LE 1.169 1 That is morning, to cease for a bright hour to be a prisoner of this sickly body...
    LE 1.178 24 Not the least instructive passage in modern history seems to me a trait of Napoleon exhibited to the English when he became their prisoner.
    NER 3.257 4 I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury.
    MoS 4.173 2 It turns out that [the wise skeptic] is not the champion of the operative, the pauper, the prisoner, the slave.
    NMW 4.236 22 At Lonato, and at other places, [Napoleon] was on the point of being taken prisoner.
    Ctr 6.131 5 A man is the prisoner of his power.
    Bhr 6.194 9 At last the escorting angel returned with his prisoner [the monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that no phlegethon could be found that would burn him;...
    Bty 6.288 17 ...the beauty which certain objects have for [man] is the friendly fire which expands the thought and acquaints the prisoner that liberty and power await him.
    Cour 7.271 14 Governor Wise of Virginia, in the record of his first interviews with his prisoner [John Brown], appeared to great advantage.
    Cour 7.272 9 The troop of Virginian infantry that had marched to guard the prison of John Brown ask leave to pay their respects to the prisoner.
    Suc 7.289 3 Lord Brougham's single duty of counsel is, to get the prisoner clear.
    OA 7.323 23 ...it will not add a pang to the prisoner marched out to be shot, to assure him that the pain in his knee threatens mortification.
    SA 8.105 5 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love...in the tender-hearted philanthropist to spend and be spent for some romantic charity, as Howard for the prisoner...
    Elo2 8.129 8 Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament in favor of that clause of the bill which allowed the prisoner the benefit of counsel, fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...
    PerF 10.80 10 There was a story in the journals of a poor prisoner in a Western police-court...
    PerF 10.80 17 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money.
    Edc1 10.143 8 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life-Hodson who took prisoner the king of Delhi.
    JBB 11.270 6 It were bold to affirm that there is within that broad commonwealth, at this moment, another citizen as worthy to live, and as deserving of all public and private honor, as this poor prisoner [John Brown].
    JBB 11.271 8 [The judges] assume that the United States can protect its witness or its prisoner.
    SMC 11.374 3 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing. Here Major Shepard was taken prisoner.

prisoners, n. (6)

    Int 2.328 27 We are the prisoners of ideas.
    ET1 5.4 19 The young scholar fancies it happiness enough to live with people who can give an inside to the world; without reflecting that they are prisoners, too, of their own thought...
    Insp 8.297 6 [Scholars] are men whom a book could entertain, a new thought intoxicate and hold them prisoners for years perhaps.
    PerF 10.81 14 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone, but at night or at morning wherever she sits the inevitable circle gathers around her, willing prisoners of that wonderful memory and fancy and spirit of life.
    ACiv 11.299 2 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization: a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy...
    SMC 11.363 19 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they set themselves to use the time to the wisest advantage...

prisoner's, n. (2)

    Elo1 7.86 25 I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room. The prisoner's counsel were the strongest and cunningest lawyers in the commonwealth.
    FSLC 11.198 9 What shall we say of the functionary by whom the recent rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If he has rightly defined his powers, and has no authority to try the case, but only to prove the prisoner's identity, and remand him, what office is this for a reputable citizen to hold?

prisons, n. (9)

    Nat 1.76 23 A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. So fast will disagreeable appearances...mad-houses, prisons, enemies, vanish;...
    MR 1.252 10 The money we spend for courts and prisons is very ill laid out.
    Pow 6.72 10 The men whom in peaceful communities we hold if we can with iron at their legs, in prisons...this man [Napoleon] dealt with hand to hand...
    Wth 6.110 20 The cost of the crime and the expense of courts and of prisons we must bear...
    PC 8.208 27 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the improvement of prisons;...
    SovE 10.191 1 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...the secrets of the prisons of tyranny, the slave and his master, the proud man's scorn...
    Prch 10.234 17 ...the strength of old sects or timorous literalists, since it is not armed with prisons or fagots as in ruder times...is not worth considering [by the young clergyman]...
    EWI 11.130 26 ...the private interference of two excellent citizens of Boston has...rescued several natives of this State from these Southern prisons.
    FSLN 11.217 5 I have...spirits in deeper prisons, whom no man visits if I do not.

prison-uniform, n. (1)

    SR 2.55 14 ...nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

privacies, n. (1)

    SA 8.98 26 Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any portion of the company. Tact...never intrudes...professional privacies;...

privacy, n. (12)

    LE 1.176 21 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons... forfeiting...the privacy, and the true and warm heart of the citizen!
    LT 1.275 6 ...[the spirit of Reform] goes up and down, paving the earth with eyes, destroying privacy and making thorough-lights.
    Con 1.309 20 Yonder sun in heaven you would pluck down from shining on the universe, and make him a property and privacy, if you could;...
    Pt1 3.26 22 ...beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw...
    Pt1 3.40 15 Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy...
    Mrs1 3.138 5 Every natural function can be dignified by deliberation and privacy.
    ET6 5.109 6 The motive and end of [Englishmen's] trade and empire is to guard the independence and privacy of their homes.
    Ctr 6.157 11 The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal...
    Wsp 6.223 21 There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated.
    Ill 6.322 24 ...we must...deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
    LLNE 10.365 4 In the American social communities, the gossip found such vent and sway as to become despotic. The institutions were whispering-galleries, in which the adored Saxon privacy was lost.
    Wom 11.410 27 ...[man] invented...all luxuries and adornments, and the elegance of privacy, to increase the joys of society.

private, adj. (297)

    Nat 1.14 3 The private poor man hath cities, ships, canals, bridges, built for him.
    Nat 1.21 19 In private places...an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple...
    Nat 1.27 11 ...the blue sky in which the private earth is buried...is the type of Reason.
    Nat 1.41 9 Whatever private purpose is answered by any member or part [of nature], [discipline] is its public and universal function...
    Nat 1.68 23 ...head with foot hath private amity/...
    AmS 1.96 26 So is there...no event, in our private history, which shall not... astonish us by soaring from our body into the empyrean.
    AmS 1.100 25 ...[the scholar], in his private observatory...must relinquish display and immediate fame.
    AmS 1.101 24 [The scholar] is one who raises himself from private considerations...
    AmS 1.103 10 ...he who has mastered any law in his private thoughts, is master to that extent of all men whose language he speaks...
    AmS 1.107 24 The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy...than any kingdom in history.
    AmS 1.114 13 Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat.
    LE 1.165 10 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.
    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.
    LE 1.165 12 The condition of our incarnation in a private self seems to be a perpetual tendency...to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of universal being.
    LE 1.174 15 ...[the public] wish the scholar to replace to them those private, sincere, divine experiences of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street.
    LE 1.181 7 Let [the scholar] know that...in the private obedience to his mind;...the secret of the world is to be learned...
    LE 1.185 10 ...I thought that standing...girt and ready to go and assume tasks, public and private, in your country, you would not be sorry to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect...
    MN 1.204 4 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this...that there is in it no private will...
    MR 1.229 22 The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast, should apprize you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a thousand private hearts.
    MR 1.233 9 [The individual] did not create the abuse; he cannot alter it. What is he? an obscure private person who must get his bread.
    MR 1.234 2 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner...a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.
    LT 1.270 3 The Temperance-question, which...is tacitly recalled at every public and at every private table...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.
    LT 1.276 27 I think that the soul of reform;...the feeling that then are we strongest when most most private and alone.
    LT 1.279 6 I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
    Con 1.308 21 ...I am very peaceable, and on my private account could well enough die...
    Con 1.314 22 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...has also his gracious and relenting moments, and espouses for the time the cause of man; and even if this be a shortlived emotion, yet the remembrance of it in private hours mitigates his selfishness...
    Con 1.322 15 ...if it still be asked in this necessity of partial organization, which party, on the whole, has the highest claims on our sympathy,-I bring it home to the private heart...
    Tran 1.336 23 Jacobi, refusing all measure of right and wrong except the determinations of the private spirit, remarks that there is no crime but has sometimes been a virtue.
    Tran 1.339 10 ...genius and virtue predict in man the same absence of private ends and of condescension to circumstances...
    Tran 1.347 27 ...unwillingly [Transcendentalists] bear their part of the public and private burdens;...
    Tran 1.352 9 When I asked them concerning their private experience, [Transcendentalists] answered somewhat in this wise...
    YA 1.371 5 A heterogeneous population crowding...to the great gates of North America...and quickly contributing their private thought to the public opinion...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    YA 1.374 24 ...the existing generation are conspiring with a beneficence... which infatuates the most selfish men to act against their private interest for the public welfare.
    YA 1.384 4 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...setting a higher value on the private family...will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    YA 1.385 18 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen; and this...by...the increasing disposition of private adventurers to assume [government's] fallen functions.
    YA 1.385 20 ...the national Post Office is likely to go into disuse before the private telegraph and the express companies.
    YA 1.385 22 The currency threatens to fall entirely into private hands.
    YA 1.385 24 Justice is continually administered more and more by private reference...
    YA 1.385 27 It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services...
    YA 1.386 6 If any man has a talent...for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
    YA 1.389 21 The timidity of our public opinion is our disease, or, shall I say, the publicness of opinion, the absence of private opinion.
    YA 1.389 24 The private mind has the access to the totality of goodness and truth...
    YA 1.389 26 ...to stand for the private verdict against popular clamor is the office of the noble.
    Hist 2.4 22 Each new fact in [a man's] private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done...
    Hist 2.5 1 Every reform was once a private opinion...
    Hist 2.5 2 Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.
    Hist 2.9 27 We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience...
    Hist 2.10 20 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand before every public and private work;...
    Hist 2.21 10 ...all public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.
    Hist 2.28 19 The priestcraft...of the Magian, Brahmin, Druid, and Inca, is expounded in the individual's private life.
    Hist 2.30 6 One after another [the advancing man] comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Aesop...
    SR 2.45 8 ...to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,-that is genius.
    SR 2.49 21 [The self-reliant individual] would utter opinions on all passing affairs, which being seen to be not private but necessary, would sink like darts into the ear of men...
    SR 2.62 25 ...power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward...
    SR 2.63 4 As great a stake depends on your private act to-day as followed [kings'] public and renowned steps.
    SR 2.63 6 When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
    SR 2.77 22 ...prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft.
    Comp 2.100 14 If the law is too mild, private vengeance comes in.
    Comp 2.104 15 The particular man aims...to truck and higgle for a private good;...
    Comp 2.108 10 That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in it;...
    Lov1 2.169 8 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one...
    Lov1 2.170 15 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges...
    Lov1 2.170 16 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom, caught from a wandering spark out of another private heart, glows and enlarges...
    Prd1 2.234 8 ...as much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire...
    Hsm1 2.248 26 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that book its immense fame. We need books of this tart cathartic virtue more than books...of private economy.
    OS 2.286 8 By virtue of this inevitable nature, private will is overpowered...
    OS 2.293 7 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. He has...the sight, that the best is the true, and may in that thought...adjourn to the sure revelation of time the solution of his private riddles.
    Int 2.327 20 God enters by a private door into every individual.
    Int 2.332 24 Every trivial fact in [the writer's] private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle...
    Pt1 3.1 4 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ Which chose, like meteors, their way,/ And rived the dark with private ray/...
    Exp 3.65 12 Life itself is...a sleep within a sleep. Grant it, and as much more as they will,--but thou, God's darling! heed thy private dream;...
    Exp 3.77 20 All private sympathy is partial.
    Exp 3.81 5 ...we cannot say too little of our constitutional necessity of seeing things under private aspects...
    Exp 3.83 14 Let who will ask, Where is the fruit? I find a private fruit sufficient.
    Chr1 3.92 20 Nature seems to authorize trade, as soon as you see the natural merchant, who appears not so much a private agent as her factor and Minister of Commerce.
    Chr1 3.92 25 ...[the natural merchant] communicates to all his own faith that contracts are of no private interpretation.
    Chr1 3.93 26 [Character] works with most energy in the smallest companies and in private relations.
    Chr1 3.113 25 We shall one day see that the most private is the most public energy...
    Chr1 3.114 24 In society, high advantages are set down to the possessor as disadvantages. It requires the more wariness in our private estimates.
    Mrs1 3.125 6 ...[my gentleman] has the private entrance to all minds...
    Mrs1 3.139 23 ...fashion is...not good sense private, but good sense entertaining company.
    Nat2 3.173 13 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... A holiday...establishes itself on the instant. These sunset clouds, these delicately emerging stars, with their private and ineffable glances, signify it and proffer it.
    Nat2 3.187 6 The lover seeks in marriage his private felicity and perfection...
    Nat2 3.188 10 Each prophet comes presently...to esteem his hat and shoes sacred. However this may discredit such persons with the judicious, it helps them with the people, as it gives heat, pungency and publicity to their words. A similar experience is not infrequent in private life.
    Nat2 3.189 9 ...one may have impressive experience and yet may not know how to put his private fact into literature...
    Pol1 3.214 27 ...all public ends look vague and quixotic beside private ones.
    Pol1 3.215 23 The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character...
    Pol1 3.220 26 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of things, to persuade them...that the private citizen might be reasonable and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.
    NR 3.227 4 I observe a person who makes a good public appearance, and conclude thence the perfection of his private character, on which this is based;...
    NR 3.227 6 I observe a person who makes a good public appearance, and conclude thence the perfection of his private character, on which this is based; but he has no private character.
    NR 3.227 21 ...if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral law, he would...take liberties with private letters...
    NR 3.246 3 ...the least of [our earth's] rational children, the most dedicated to his private affair, works out, though as it were under a disguise, the universal problem.
    NER 3.254 2 ...in each of these [reform] movements emerged...an assertion of the sufficiency of the private man.
    NER 3.260 18 I conceive...the indication of growing trust in the private self-supplied powers of the individual, to be the affirmative principle of the recent philosophy...
    UGM 4.15 20 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed, runs...much higher...
    UGM 4.32 2 Each is uneasy until he has produced his private ray unto the concave sphere...
    PNR 4.83 1 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...discernment of the little in the large and the large in the small; studying the state in the citizen and the citizen in the state; and leaving it doubtful whether he exhibited the Republic as an allegory on the education of the private soul;...
    SwM 4.137 8 [Swedenborg] is...like Dante, who avenged, in vindictive melodies, all his private wrongs;...
    SwM 4.140 10 ...the right examples are private experiences...
    MoS 4.175 2 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century, from Byron, Goethe and other poets of less fame, not to mention many distinguished private observers,--I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination;...
    ShP 4.199 20 Is there at last in [the writer's] breast a Delphi whereof to ask concerning any thought or thing, whether it be verily so, yea or nay? and to have answer, and to rely on that? All the debts which such a man could contract to other wit would never disturb his consciousness of originality; for the ministrations of books and of other minds are a whiff of smoke to that most private reality with which he has conversed.
    ShP 4.207 21 The forest of Arden...the antres vast and desarts idle of Othello's captivity,--where is the...private letter, that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
    ShP 4.209 15 What trait of his private mind has [Shakespeare] hidden in his dramas?
    ShP 4.219 19 ...right is more beautiful than private affection;...
    NMW 4.227 5 ...a man of Napoleon's stamp almost ceases to have a private speech and opinion.
    NMW 4.239 11 To these gifts of nature, Napoleon added the advantage of having been born to a private and humble fortune.
    GoW 4.268 7 The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
    ET1 5.3 17 ...the public and private buildings wore a more native and wonted front.
    ET1 5.6 16 I have a private letter from [Greenough]...
    ET1 5.15 2 ...being intent on delivering a letter which I had brought from Rome, inquired for Craigenputtock. It was a farm in Nithsdale, in the parish of Dunscore, sixteen miles distant. No public coach passed near it, so I took a private carriage from the inn.
    ET2 5.30 5 If [the sea] is capable of these great and secular mischiefs, it is quite as ready at private and local damage;...
    ET4 5.62 9 Konghelle, the town where the kings of Norway, Sweden and Denmark were wont to meet, is now rented to a private English gentleman for a hunting ground.
    ET5 5.90 21 Private persons [in England] exhibit...the same pertinacity as the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against the empire of Bonaparte...
    ET5 5.99 24 These private, reserved, mute family-men [of England] can adopt a public end with all their heat...
    ET6 5.106 4 If [an Englishman] give you his private address on a card, it is like an avowal of friendship;...
    ET6 5.107 4 All the world praises the comfort and private appointments of an English inn, and of English households.
    ET6 5.112 14 When Thalberg the pianist was one evening performing before the Queen at Windsor, in a private party, the Queen accompanied him with her voice.
    ET6 5.113 8 [The English] value themselves...on conciseness and going to the point, in private affairs.
    ET7 5.116 20 Private men [in England] keep their promises...
    ET7 5.119 12 [The English] build of stone: public and private buildings are massive and durable.
    ET7 5.121 13 Whilst I was in London, M. Guizot arrived there on his escape from Paris, in February, 1848. Many private friends called on him.
    ET8 5.128 16 [The English] are proud and private...
    ET8 5.141 24 In Alfred, in the Northmen, one may read the genius of the English society, namely that private life is the place of honor.
    ET8 5.142 25 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence...
    ET10 5.154 3 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks, in reference to a private and scholastic life, of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer.
    ET10 5.163 3 Some English private fortunes reach, and some exceed a million of dollars a year.
    ET10 5.165 19 ...the proudest result of this creation [of English property rights] has been the great and refined forces it has put at the disposal of the private citizen.
    ET11 5.182 5 In the country, the size of private [English] estates is more impressive.
    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 5.205 5 ...the principal teaching relied on [at Oxford] is private tuition.
    ET12 5.205 5 ...the expenses of private tuition [at Oxford] are reckoned at from 50 pounds to 70 pounds a year...
    ET13 5.224 15 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live. And one traces this Jewish prayer in all English private history...
    ET13 5.230 17 But the religion of England...is it the sects? no; they are only perpetuations of some private man's dissent...
    ET14 5.249 14 But for Coleridge, and a lurking taciturn minority uttering itself in occasional criticism, oftener in private discourse, one would say that in Germany and in America is the best mind in England rightly respected.
    ET14 5.250 9 ...where impatience of the tricks of men...builds altars to the negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is...the gallantry of the private heart...
    ET15 5.266 17 [The London Times's] private information is inexplicable...
    ET17 5.293 6 A finer hospitality made many private houses [in London] not less known and dear.
    ET17 5.293 11 ...my recollections of the best hours go back to private conversations in different parts of the kingdom [England]...
    ET18 5.299 14 England is not so public in its bias; private life is its place of honor.
    ET18 5.299 15 Truth in private life, untruth in public, marks these home-loving men [the English].
    F 6.4 20 The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.
    F 6.47 10 A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature...
    Pow 6.66 25 'T is not very rare, the coincidence of sharp private and political practice with public spirit and good neighborhood.
    Pow 6.69 21 The excess of virility has the same importance in general history as in private and industrial life.
    Wth 6.101 16 Political Economy is as good a book wherein to read...the ascendency of laws over all private and hostile influences, as any Bible which has come down to us.
    Wth 6.106 24 The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy; the way in which a house and a private man's methods tally with the solar system and the laws of give and take, throughout nature;...
    Wth 6.109 26 ...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on; which...brought into the country an immense prosperity...private wealth...
    Ctr 6.132 19 ...nature has secured individualism by giving the private person a high conceit of his weight in the system.
    Ctr 6.133 26 ...if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis [egotism]...
    Ctr 6.135 2 Yet is this private interest and self so overcharged that if a man seeks a companion who can look at objects for their own sake and without affection or self-reference, he will find the fewest who will give him that satisfaction;...
    Ctr 6.135 14 ...after a man has discovered that there are limits to the interest which his private history has for mankind, he still converses with his family, or a few companions...
    Ctr 6.157 13 ...it is the secret of culture to interest the man more in his public than in his private quality.
    Bhr 6.173 4 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach: the contradictors and railers at public and private tables...
    Bhr 6.177 5 Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
    Bhr 6.183 22 ...if [the enthusiast] finds the scholar apart from his companions...the scholar has no defence, but must deal on his terms. Now they must fight the battle out on their private strength.
    Wsp 6.204 14 ...the public and the private element...adhere to every soul...
    Wsp 6.211 17 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...
    Wsp 6.211 25 We were not deceived by the professions of the private adventurer...
    Wsp 6.217 9 ...not by our private but by our public force can we share and know the nature of things.
    CbW 6.246 17 ...it is only as [a man]...draws on this most private wisdom, that any good can come to him.
    CbW 6.251 8 The good men are employed for private centres of use...
    CbW 6.251 14 All the marked events of our day...may be traced back to their origin in a private brain.
    CbW 6.257 5 What happens thus to nations befalls every day in private houses.
    Bty 6.303 23 Every natural feature...has in it somewhat which is not private but universal...
    Civ 7.34 2 ...if there be...a country...where public debts and private debts outside of the State are repudiated;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Art2 7.39 1 ...from the simplest expedient of private prudence to the American Constitution;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
    Elo1 7.75 8 These kinds of public and private speaking have their use and convenience to the practitioners;...
    Elo1 7.84 1 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness...swept away all the impertinence of private sorrow with his hosannas and songs of praise.
    DL 7.122 27 The vice of government, the vice of education, the vice of religion, is one with that of private life.
    DL 7.131 1 ...I think the public museum in each town will one day relieve the private house of this charge of owning and exhibiting [statues and pictures].
    DL 7.131 22 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...where it has its proper place among hundreds of such donations from other citizens who have brought thither whatever articles they have judged to be in their nature rather a public than a private property.
    DL 7.132 14 Will [man] not see...that Law prevails for ever and ever; that his private being is a part of it;...
    Boks 7.189 24 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables of Cornelius Agrippa...
    Boks 7.192 27 ...private readers, reading purely for love of the book, would serve us by leaving each the shortest note of what he found.
    Boks 7.193 27 The inspection of the catalogue [of the Cambridge Library] brings me continually back to the few standard writers who are on every private shelf;...
    Boks 7.212 27 What private heavens can we not open, by yielding to all the suggestion of rich music!
    Cour 7.253 8 ...there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind: 1. Disinterestedness, as shown in indifference to the ordinary bribes and influences of conduct,--a purpose so sincere and generous that it cannot be tempted aside by any prospects of wealth or other private advantage.
    Cour 7.267 27 There is...a courage of manners in private assemblies...
    Cour 7.275 22 In the most private life, difficult duty is never far off.
    Suc 7.285 13 ...leaving the coast [of Panama]...the wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
    Suc 7.308 10 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other private opinion;...
    PI 8.34 2 No matter what [your subject] is, grand or gay, national or private, if it has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart of it...
    SA 8.98 22 Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any portion of the company.
    Elo2 8.112 13 There are not only the wants of the intellectual and learned and poetic men and women to be met, but also the vast interests of property, public and private...
    Elo2 8.120 3 ...a man of this talent [of eloquence] sometimes finds himself cold and slow in private company...
    Res 8.137 5 We are...each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart...
    QO 8.178 17 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest or private addition so rare and insignificant...that...one would say there is no pure originality.
    QO 8.189 24 Certainly it only needs two well placed and well tempered for cooperation, to get somewhat far transcending any private enterprise!
    PC 8.210 11 Consider...what variety...of enterprises public and private...the railroad, the telegraph...have evoked!...
    PC 8.218 6 The history of Greece is at one time reduced to two persons,- Philip...and Demosthenes, a private citizen...
    PC 8.228 6 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the Source of events, has...a private despatch...
    Insp 8.272 23 ...not the immortality of the private soul is incredible, after we have experienced an insight...
    Grts 8.308 18 This necessity...of speaking your private thought and experience, few young men apprehend.
    Imtl 8.334 22 ...the naturalist works...for the believing mind, which... receives [his discoveries] as private tokens of the grand good will of the Creator.
    Imtl 8.342 22 [The mind's] goodness is the most generous extension of our private interests to the dignity and generosity of ideas.
    Imtl 8.343 7 The soul stipulates for no private good.
    Imtl 8.343 8 That which is private I see not to be good.
    Imtl 8.348 13 Will you offer empires to such as cannot set a house or private affairs in order?
    Dem1 10.11 12 Head with foot hath private amity,/ And both with moons and tides./
    Dem1 10.19 27 ...[belief in the demonological] extends the popular idea of success to the very gods;...that fortunate men, fortunate youths exist, whose good is not virtue or the public good, but a private good...
    Dem1 10.20 24 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the transfusion of the blood...are of this kind.
    PerF 10.77 9 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources], constituting a supreme prudence. Then the knowledge unutterable of our private strength...
    PerF 10.81 21 See how rich life is; rich in private talents...
    PerF 10.84 18 The effort of men is to use [things] for private ends.
    PerF 10.85 15 I find the survey of these cosmical powers a doctrine of consolation in the dark hours of private or public fortune.
    Chr2 10.92 13 It were an unspeakable calamity if any one should think he had the right to impose a private will on others.
    Chr2 10.92 19 He is immoral who is acting to any private end.
    Chr2 10.92 24 ...we sat it...with Vauvenargues, the mercenary sacrifice of the public good to a private interest is the eternal stamp of vice.
    Chr2 10.94 10 The [interest of the individual] craves a private benefit, which [the dictate of the universal mind] requires him to renounce out of respect to the absolute good.
    Chr2 10.94 15 He that speaks the truth executes no private function of an individual will...
    Chr2 10.94 23 Compare...all our private and personal venture in the world, with this deep of moral nature in which we lie...
    Chr2 10.94 26 Compare...all our private and personal venture in the world, with this deep of moral nature in which we lie, and our private good becomes an impertinence...
    Chr2 10.98 25 We pretend not to define the way of [the moral sentiment's] access to the private heart.
    Chr2 10.103 20 ...the private or social practices we establish in [the moral sentiment's] honor we call religion.
    Edc1 10.129 27 [Is it not true] That...sickness, sorrow, success, all...unlock for us the concealed faculties of the mind? Whatever private or petty ends are frustrated, this end is always answered.
    Edc1 10.143 27 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion:- Would you verily throw up the reins of public and private discipline;...
    Edc1 10.145 20 In London, in a private company, I became acquainted with a gentleman, Sir Charles Fellowes...
    Edc1 10.151 7 What tranquil mind will [the college] have fortified to walk with meekness in private and obscure duties...
    SovE 10.194 3 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical supervision of human life, by which that certain wonderful being whom they call God does take up their affairs where their intelligence leaves them, and somehow knits and coordinates the issues of them in all that is beyond the reach of private faculty.
    SovE 10.194 26 Wondrous state of man! never so happy as when he has lost all private interests and regards...
    SovE 10.199 27 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...
    Prch 10.222 21 We are in transition, from the worship of the fathers which enshrined the law in a private and personal history...
    Prch 10.223 4 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws...and will regard natural history, private fortunes and politics, not for themselves, as we have done, but as illustrations of those laws...
    Prch 10.238 5 The open secret of the world is the art of subliming a private soul with inspirations from the great and public and divine Soul from which we live.
    MoL 10.242 9 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the source of events. He has...a private despatch which relieves him of the terror which presses on the rest of the community.
    Schr 10.267 9 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...
    Schr 10.272 13 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property...
    Schr 10.275 13 The hero rises out of all comparison with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he...will oppose all mankind at the call of that private and perfect Right and Beauty in which he lives.
    Schr 10.285 3 These questions [of life] speak...to Genius...whose private counsels are not tinged with selfishness, but are laws.
    Plu 10.298 13 Plutarch was...a self-respecting, amiable man, who knew how to better a good education...by devotion to affairs private and public;...
    Plu 10.302 7 We sail on [Plutarch's] memory into the ports of every nation, enter into every private property...
    Plu 10.319 20 The guests not invited to a private board by the entertainer, but introduced by a guest as his companions, the Greek called shadows;...
    LLNE 10.339 24 ...[Channing's] cold temperament made him the most unprofitable private companion;...
    LLNE 10.343 10 ...perhaps those persons who were mutually the best friends were the most private...
    LLNE 10.353 18 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...acting in strict concert with all others who followed their private light.
    LLNE 10.353 22 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...acting in strict concert with all others who followed their private light.
    MMEm 10.422 26 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war,-private animosities...
    SlHr 10.438 4 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston]...
    SlHr 10.440 25 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which...after dealing all his life with weighty private and public interests, left an infantile innocence...
    SlHr 10.448 19 Perfect in his private life, husband, father, friend, [Samuel Hoar] was severe only with himself.
    Thor 10.451 15 After leaving the University, [Thoreau] joined his brother in teaching a private school...
    Thor 10.462 23 [Thoreau]...could give judicious counsel in the gravest private or public affairs.
    Thor 10.466 16 The result of the recent survey of the Water Commissioners appointed by the State of Massachusetts [Thoreau] had reached by his private experiments...
    GSt 10.504 27 A man of the people, in strictly private life, girt with family ties;...[George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
    HDC 11.47 20 In these assemblies [New England town-meetings]...every local feeling, every private grudge, every suggestion of petulance and ignorance, were not less faithfully produced.
    HDC 11.48 22 ...I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records]...
    HDC 11.64 8 Some interesting peculiarities in the manners and customs of the time appear in the town's [Concord's] books. Proposals of marriage were made by the parents of the parties, and minutes of such private agreements sometimes entered on the clerk's records.
    HDC 11.82 21 The town [Concord] raises, this year, 1800 dollars for its public schools; besides about 1200 dollars which are paid, by subscription, for private schools.
    HDC 11.86 12 The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history... sheds a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.
    EWI 11.130 23 ...the private interference of two excellent citizens of Boston has, I have ascertained, rescued several natives of this State from these Southern prisons.
    War 11.171 1 This [aspiration towards peace] is not to be carried by public opinion, but by private opinion, by private conviction...
    War 11.171 2 This [aspiration towards peace] is not to be carried by public opinion, but...by private, dear and earnest love.
    War 11.173 24 ...the man who...takes in solitude the right step uniformly, on his private choice and disdaining consequences,-does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
    FSLC 11.213 23 That is the secret of Southern power, that they rest not on meetings, but on private heats and courages.
    FSLN 11.223 6 [Webster]...took very naturally a leading part in large private and in public affairs;...
    AKan 11.256 12 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal catalogue of private tragedies show it?
    AKan 11.256 13 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal catalogue of private tragedies show it? Do the private letters?
    AKan 11.258 16 I esteem [governments] only good in the moment when they are established. I set the private man first.
    AKan 11.258 18 Next to the private man, I value the primary assembly...
    AKan 11.258 24 First, the private citizen, then the primary assembly, and the government last.
    JBB 11.270 6 It were bold to affirm that there is within that broad commonwealth, at this moment, another citizen as worthy to live, and as deserving of all public and private honor, as this poor prisoner [John Brown].
    TPar 11.289 26 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...private intemperance...it is a hypocrisy...
    SMC 11.354 4 As long as we debate in council, both sides may form their private guess what the event may be, or which is the strongest.
    SMC 11.376 3 A duty so severe has been discharged [in the Civil War], and with such immense results of good, lifting private sacrifice to the sublime, that, though the cannon volleys have a sound of funeral echoes, [men] can yet hear through them the benedictions of their country and mankind.
    EdAd 11.389 11 Public affairs are chained in the same law with private;...
    EdAd 11.389 13 ...the retributions of armed states are not less sure and signal than those which come to private felons.
    Koss 11.399 10 We [people of Concord] only see in you [Kossuth] the angel of freedom...crossing parties, nationalities, private interests and self-esteems;...
    SHC 11.433 13 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved...for...patriotic eloquence, the utterance of the principles of national liberty to private, social, literary or religious fraternities.
    FRO1 11.479 23 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind...then we have a religion...that commands all the social and all the private action.
    CPL 11.500 20 In a private letter to a lady, [Thoreau] writes, Do you read any noble verses?
    FRep 11.533 23 Every village, every city, has...its hotel, its private house, its church, from England.
    FRep 11.538 25 ...if the spirit...could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of...faithful...lovers of men, filled...with the simple and sublime purpose of carrying out in private and in public action the desire and need of mankind.
    PLT 12.8 24 ...was there ever prophet burdened with a message to his people who did not cloud our gratitude by a strange confounding in his own mind of private folly with his public wisdom?
    PLT 12.57 19 There is a conflict between a man's private dexterity or talent and his access to the free air and light which wisdom is;...
    PLT 12.61 11 Intellect...runs down into talent, selfish working for private ends...
    II 12.66 9 None of the metaphysicians have prospered in describing this power [consciousness], which...is the corrector of private excesses and mistakes;...
    II 12.76 21 The inexorable Laws...the private Fate...'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...
    II 12.84 19 If you speak to the man, he turns his eyes from his own scene, and, slower or faster, endeavors to comprehend what you say. When you have done speaking, he returns to his private music.
    II 12.84 22 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre;...
    II 12.85 1 ...all parties acquiesce, at last, each in a private box, with the whole play performed before himself solus.
    II 12.87 16 Do not truck for your private immortality.
    CInt 12.124 23 The necessity of a mechanical system [of education] is not to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed...by some available plan that will give weekly and annual results; and a little violence must be done to private genius to accomplish this.
    Bost 12.196 11 ...New England supplies annually a large detachment of preachers and schoolmasters and private tutors to the interior of the South and West.
    Milt1 12.256 7 [Milton] defined the object of education to be, to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
    Milt1 12.267 24 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton...in returning from Italy because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school.
    Milt1 12.270 21 [Milton's] private opinions and private conscience always distinguish him.
    Milt1 12.275 15 The Samson Agonistes is too broad an expression of [Milton's] private griefs to be mistaken...
    MLit 12.314 26 The great man, even whilst he relates a private fact personal to him, is really leading us away from him to an universal experience.
    WSL 12.340 24 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...a scourge like that of Furies for every oppressor, whether public or private...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    EurB 12.367 7 ...Wordsworth...though setting a private and exaggerated value on his compositions;...is really a master of the English language...
    EurB 12.367 18 Early in life, at a crisis it is said in his private affairs, [Wordsworth] made his election between assuming and defending some legal rights, with the chances of wealth and a position in the world, and the inward promptings of his heavenly genius;...
    PPr 12.382 15 A man's diet should be what is simplest and readiest to be had, because it is so private a good.
    Let 12.404 11 As far as our correspondents have entangled their private griefs with the cause of American Literature, we counsel them to disengage themselves as fast as possible.
    Let 12.404 17 A literature is no man's private concern...
    Let 12.404 21 A literature...is the affair of a power which works by a prodigality of life and force very dismaying to behold,-every trait of beauty purchased by hecatombs of private tragedy.
    Trag 12.408 15 After reason and faith have introduced a better public and private tradition, the tragic element is somewhat circumscribed.
    Trag 12.408 18 There must always remain...the hindrance of our private satisfaction by the laws of the world.

private, n. (3)

    SS 7.15 23 ...most men...say good things to you in private, but will not stand to them in public.
    SlHr 10.441 13 ...[Samuel Hoar]...might easily suggest Milton's picture of John Bradshaw, that he...in private seemed ever sitting in judgment on kings.
    FSLC 11.201 20 [Webster] must learn...that the obscure and private who have no voice and care for none, so long as things go well...disown him...

privateer, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.305 12 ...next winter we must begin at the beginning, and conquer [the South] over again. What use then to take a fort, or a privateer...

privately, adv. (2)

    DSA 1.140 18 Will [the poor preacher] invite [people] privately to the Lord' s Supper?
    MAng1 12.225 6 ...[Michelangelo] withdrew privately from the city [Florence] to Ferrara...

privates, n. (2)

    PI 8.9 21 The privates of man's heart/ They speken and sound in his ear/ As tho' they loud winds were;/...
    SMC 11.360 4 ...these [Civil War] colonels, captains and lieutenants, and the privates too, are domestic men...

privatest, adj. (4)

    AmS 1.103 23 ...the deeper [the orator] dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable...
    Elo1 7.83 12 This balance [between the orator and the occasion] is observed in the privatest intercourse.
    SA 8.95 20 ...there are...brave choices enough of taking the part of truth...in privatest circles.
    Grts 8.307 25 ...in this self-respect or hearkening to the privatest oracle, [a man] consults his ease...

privatest, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.222 27 ...gossip is a weapon impossible to exclude from the privatest, highest, selectest.

privation, n. (8)

    DSA 1.124 6 ...[evil] is like cold, which is the privation of heat.
    MN 1.220 6 What a debt is ours to that old religion...teaching privation, self-denial and sorrow!
    MR 1.242 26 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry...that man...respecting the compensations of the Universe, ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    Comp 2.126 15 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius;...
    Edc1 10.141 26 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been...a way, not through plenty and superfluity, but by denial and renunciation, into solitude and privation;...
    Schr 10.281 20 Matter, says Plutarch, is a privation.
    Plu 10.307 17 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist, who does not hesitate to say, like another Berkeley, Matter is itself privation;...
    MMEm 10.404 27 ...wonderfully as [Mary Moody Emerson] varies and poetically repeats that image [of the angel of Death] in every page and day, yet not less fondly and sublimely she returns to the other,-the grandeur of humility and privation...

privations, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.143 10 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life-Hodson who took prisoner the king of Delhi. They teach the same truth,-a trust, against all appearances, against all privations, in your own worth...

privative, adj. (1)

    DSA 1.124 5 Evil is merely privative...

prive, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.29 6 Look who that is most virtuous alway,/ Prive and apert, and most entendeth aye/ To do the gentil dedes that he can,/ And take him for the greatest gentilman./

privet, n. (1)

    SHC 11.431 27 In cultivated grounds one sees the picturesque and opulent effect of the familiar shrubs, barberry, lilac, privet and thorns...

privilege, n. (55)

    Nat 1.39 8 What noble emotions dilate the mortal as he...feels by knowledge the privilege to BE!
    AmS 1.84 20 In life, too often, the scholar...forfeits his privilege.
    AmS 1.90 9 The soul active sees absolute truth and utters truth, or creates. In this action it is...not the privilege of here and there a favorite...
    DSA 1.146 11 ...live with the privilege of the immeasurable mind.
    LE 1.165 25 The vision of genius comes by...giving leave and amplest privilege to the spontaneous sentiment.
    LT 1.283 18 [If poets were ravished by their thought] Society could then manage to release their shoulder from its wheel and grant them for a time this privilege of sabbath.
    Tran 1.344 21 [Transcendentalists] prolong their privilege of childhood in this wise;...
    Tran 1.358 1 What is the privilege and nobility of our nature but its persistency...
    YA 1.395 5 This land...wants no ornament or privilege which nature could bestow.
    SR 2.53 15 I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right.
    Art1 2.349 19 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part/...
    Pt1 3.1 6 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ .../ They overleapt the horizon's edge,/ Searched with Apollo's privilege;/...
    Chr1 3.95 26 ...it is the privilege of truth to make itself believed.
    Mrs1 3.132 22 ...any deference to some eminent man or woman of the world, forfeits all privilege of nobility.
    Mrs1 3.133 15 There will always be in society certain persons...whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods. Accept their coldness as an omen of grace with the loftier deities, and allow them all their privilege.
    Nat2 3.192 14 I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds floating feathery overhead, enjoying, as it seemed, their height and privilege of motion...
    PNR 4.81 20 [Plato] represents the privilege of the intellect...
    PNR 4.89 9 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur.
    SwM 4.95 15 The privilege of this caste [the saints] is an access to the secrets and structure of nature by some higher method than by experience.
    SwM 4.118 26 ...[Swedenborg's] profound mind admitted the perilous opinion...that he was an abnormal person, to whom was granted the privilege of conversing with angels and spirits;...
    ET2 5.32 24 When their privilege was disputed by the Dutch and other junior marines...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main...
    ET5 5.88 13 Nothing is more in the line of English thought than our unvarnished Connecticut question, Pray, sir, how do you get your living when you are at home? The questions of freedom, of taxation, of privilege, are money questions.
    ET11 5.174 16 Piracy and war gave place [in England] to trade, politics and letters; the war-lord to the law-lord; the law-lord to the merchant and the mill-owner; but the privilege was kept, whilst the means of obtaining it were changed.
    ET13 5.217 12 The distribution of land [in England] into parishes enforces a church sanction to every civil privilege;...
    ET14 5.244 20 Milton...used this privilege [of generalization] sometimes in poetry, more rarely in prose.
    ET15 5.261 19 No antique privilege, no comfortable monopoly, but sees surely that its days are counted;...
    ET17 5.293 3 It was my privilege also [in London] to converse with Miss Baillie, with Lady Morgan, with Mrs. Jameson and Mrs. Somerville.
    ET18 5.306 12 The feudal system survives [in England] in the steep inequality of property and privilege...
    F 6.11 5 All the privilege...of the world cannot meddle or help to make a poet or a prince of [a man].
    Wth 6.91 16 ...if [a man] wishes the power and privilege of thought...he must bring his wants within his proper power to satisfy.
    Wth 6.92 9 It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.
    CbW 6.262 22 Life is a boundless privilege...
    Bty 6.287 9 All privilege is that of beauty;...
    PI 8.51 25 Rhyme, being a kind of music, shares this advantage with music, that it has a privilege of speaking truth...
    Grts 8.306 6 In 1848 I had the privilege of hearing Professor Faraday deliver...a lecture on what he called Diamagnetism...
    MoL 10.247 11 The worst times...only relieve and bring out the splendor of [the scholar's] privilege.
    EzRy 10.389 8 [Ezra Ripley] claimed privilege of years, was much addicted to kissing;...
    MMEm 10.432 18 It was the privilege of certain boys to have [Mary Moody Emerson's] immeasurably high standard indicated to their childhood;...
    Thor 10.459 12 ...the President [of Harvard University] found...the rules [of the Harvard Library] getting to look so ridiculous, that he ended by giving [Thoreau] a privilege which in his hands proved unlimited thereafter.
    Thor 10.469 14 It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with [Thoreau].
    GSt 10.507 3 ...when I consider...that [George Stearns]...was never called... to see that others were waiting for his place and privilege...I count him happy among men.
    FSLN 11.223 10 Great is the privilege of eloquence.
    AKan 11.259 22 ...Union is a conspiracy against the Northern States which the Northern States are to have the privilege of paying for;...
    SMC 11.350 6 ...we...believe that our visitors will pardon us if we take the privilege of talking freely about our nearest neighbors as in a family party;...
    Koss 11.397 10 ...it is the privilege of the people of this town [Concord] to keep a hallowed mound which has a place in the story of the country;...
    PLT 12.44 7 ...the gods have guarded this privilege [of sensibility] with costly penalty.
    Mem 12.95 13 This command of old facts...is our splendid privilege.
    Mem 12.106 6 Talk of memory and cite me these fine examples of Grotius and Daguesseau, and I think how awful is that power and what privilege and tyranny it must confer.
    CInt 12.120 25 You, gentlemen, are...set apart through some strong persuasion of your own, or of your friends, that you were capable of the high privilege of thought.
    CInt 12.131 24 ...it is the privilege of the moral sentiment to be every moment new and commanding...
    CL 12.145 1 The privilege of the countryman is the culture of the land...
    Bost 12.188 3 It was said of Rome in its proudest days, looking at the vast radiation of the privilege of Roman citizenship through the then-known world,-the extent of the city and of the world is the same...
    Bost 12.209 15 ...[Boston] is very jealous of any superiority in these, its natural instinct and privilege.
    MLit 12.309 7 When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we truly express the privilege of spiritual nature...
    EurB 12.376 22 ...a probity, a justice was to be [the society in Wilhelm Meister's] element, symbolized by the insisting that each property should be cleared of privilege,

privileged, adj. (5)

    ET17 5.292 13 My visit [to England] fell in the fortunate days when Mr. [George] Bancroft was the American Minister in London, and at his house, or through his good offices, I had easy access to excellent persons and to privileged places.
    SA 8.94 16 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet...
    RBur 11.440 7 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class against the armed and privileged minorities...
    II 12.76 26 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is very certain that these things have been hid...and, at certain privileged moments, emerge unaccountably into light.
    ACri 12.283 21 The decline of the privileged orders, all over the world; the advance of the Third Estate; the transformation of the laborer into reader and writer has compelled the learned and the thinkers to address them.

privileged, v. (1)

    PLT 12.7 24 ...[a plain man] comes to write in his tablets, Avoid the great man as one who is privileged to be an unprofitable companion.

privileges, n. (19)

    MR 1.242 26 For privileges so rare and grand, let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] not stint to pay a great tax.
    YA 1.364 17 ...in this country [the railroad] has...anticipated by fifty years... the choice of water privileges...
    Mrs1 3.152 18 The constitution of our society makes it a giant's castle to the ambitious youth...whom it has excluded from its coveted honors and privileges.
    GoW 4.284 17 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of universal truth, to be his portion: a man...having one test for all men,--What can you teach me? All possessions are valued by him for that only; rank, privileges, health, time, Being itself.
    ET11 5.197 21 Whilst the privileges of nobility are passing to the middle class [in England], the badge is discredited...
    ET17 5.292 15 The privileges of the [London] Athenaeum and of the Reform Clubs were hospitably opened to me...
    ET17 5.293 15 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days, one at Kew, where Sir William Hooker showed me all the riches of the vast botanic garden;...
    CbW 6.253 23 To obtain subsidies, [Edward I] paid in privileges.
    OA 7.315 8 [Josiah Quincy]...gracefully claiming the privileges of a literary society, entered at some length into an Apology for Old Age...
    Aris 10.34 19 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken, the pains incurred. No taxation...no conferring of privileges never so exalted would be a price too large.
    Aris 10.52 21 Genius...has a royal right in all possessions and privileges...
    HDC 11.39 22 Many were [the settlers of Concord's] wants, but more their privileges.
    HDC 11.84 27 ...without any considerable mill privileges, the natural increase of [Concord's] population is drained by the constant emigration of the youth.
    EWI 11.102 22 The prizes of society...the privileges of learning...these were for all, but not for [negro slaves].
    EWI 11.112 10 The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as apprenticed laborers, and to acquire thereby all the rights and privileges of freemen...
    EWI 11.117 12 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed to use their old privileges...
    EWI 11.131 13 ...the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States ordains in terms, that, The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
    ACiv 11.305 3 ...as long as we fight without...any word intimating forfeiture in the rebel states of their old privileges, under the law, [the Southerners] and we fight on the same side, for slavery.
    MLit 12.316 22 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact,- that there is One Mind, and that all the powers and privileges which lie in any, lie in all...literature is far the best expression.

privy, adj. (3)

    Pt1 3.8 25 ...[the poet] is the only teller of news, for he was present and privy to the appearance which he describes.
    EWI 11.104 27 The richest and greatest, the prime minister of England, the king's privy council were obliged to say that [the story of West Indian slaves] was too true.
    EWI 11.127 22 ...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.

Privy Council, n. (1)

    Grts 8.317 2 When Gerald, Earl of Kildare, who was in rebellion against [Henry VII] was brought to London, and examined before the Privy Council, one said, All Ireland cannot govern this Earl. Then let this Earl govern all Ireland, replied the King.

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