Prize to Progressive

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

prize, adj. (2)

    Plu 10.305 25 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay...
    EWI 11.108 10 Thomas Clarkson was a youth at Cambridge, England, when the subject given out for a Latin prize dissertation was, Is it right to make slaves of others against their will?

prize, n. (15)

    ET5 5.74 14 The island [England] was a prize for the best race.
    ET11 5.197 12 All the barriers to rank [in England] only whet the thirst and enhance the prize.
    ET12 5.202 20 In Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection at London were the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo. This inestimable prize was offered to Oxford University for seven thousand pounds.
    Wth 6.118 8 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich.
    CbW 6.267 6 ...the high prize of life...is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds [a man] in employment and happiness...
    DL 7.123 4 In the old fables we used to read of a cloak brought from fairy-land as a gift for the fairest and purest in Prince Arthur's court. It was to be her prize whom it would fit.
    WD 7.185 3 ...Zeus rose, and with one stride cleared the whole distance, and said, Where shall I shoot? there is no space left. So the bowman's prize was adjudged to him who drew no bow.
    Boks 7.192 15 ...it happens in our experience that in this lottery [of books] there are at least fifty or a hundred blanks to a prize.
    Suc 7.294 26 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency. He has thereby...won the prize...but you have raised yourself into a higher school of art...
    Grts 8.301 1 There is a prize which we are all aiming at...
    Aris 10.29 22 ...he that wol have prize of his genterie,/ For he was boren of a gentil house,/ And had his elders noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill hinselven do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He n' is not gentil, be he duke or erl;/...
    EWI 11.108 12 Thomas Clarkson was a youth at Cambridge, England, when the subject given out for a Latin prize dissertation was, Is it right to make slaves of others against their will? He wrote an essay, and won the prize;...
    PLT 12.7 9 Here are learned academies and universities, yet they have not propounded these [questions which really interest men] for any prize.
    II 12.77 25 ...one day, though far off, you will attain the control of these [higher] states;...you will do what now the muses only sing. That is the nobility and high prize of the world.
    CInt 12.127 15 You all well know...the facility with which men renounce their youthful aims and say, the labor is too severe, the prize too high for me;...

prize, v. (25)

    LT 1.290 21 You will absolve me from the charge of flippancy...when you see that reality is all we prize...
    Fdsp 2.215 10 In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the firmament. ... Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own.
    OS 2.276 3 ...whoso dwells in this moral beatitude already anticipates those special powers which men prize so highly.
    Pt1 3.27 26 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize conversation...
    Pt1 3.33 8 There is good reason why we should prize this liberation.
    NER 3.275 6 [A man] aims at such things as his neighbors prize...
    ET5 5.83 17 More than the diamond Koh-i-noor...[the English] prize that dull pebble...whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world...
    ET12 5.210 5 Such knowledge as they prize [at Oxford] they possess and impart.
    Pow 6.53 17 A man should prize events and possessions as the ore in which this fine mineral [power] is found;...
    Bhr 6.172 16 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;...
    Bty 6.283 21 ...we prize very humble utilities...
    Clbs 7.228 7 I prize the mechanics of conversation.
    Clbs 7.229 22 ...I prize the good invention whereby everybody is provided with somebody who is glad to see him.
    QO 8.178 14 We prize books...
    QO 8.178 14 ...they prize [books] most who are themselves wise.
    QO 8.194 23 The passages of Shakspeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century;...
    PPo 8.244 18 He only [Hafiz] says, is fit for company, who knows how to prize earthly happiness at the value of a night-cap.
    Insp 8.276 4 We must prize our own youth.
    Insp 8.295 18 ...read...fact-books, which all geniuses prize as raw material...
    Aris 10.37 20 ...we...prize whatever mark of a central life.
    Aris 10.64 15 There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize.
    PerF 10.79 10 How we prize a good continuer!
    GSt 10.501 1 We do not know how to prize good men until they depart.
    CPL 11.495 1 The people of Massachusetts prize the simple political arrangement of towns...
    Mem 12.108 2 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was...but...a possession of the intellect. Then...we put the onus of being remembered on the object, instead of on our will. We shall do as we do with all our studies, prize the fact or the name of the person by that predominance it takes in our mind after near acquaintance.

prized, adj. (3)

    MoS 4.178 21 Reason, the prized reality...is apprehended, now and then, for a serene and profound moment...
    Thor 10.472 12 ...[Thoreau] would carry you...even to his most prized botanical swamp...
    FRep 11.521 23 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can have all he wants, risking all the prized charters of the human race...

prized, v. (4)

    DSA 1.143 5 I have heard a devout person, who prized the Sabbath, say... On Sundays, it seems wicked to go to church.
    Cir 2.313 17 ...yet was there never a young philosopher whose breeding had fallen into the Christian church by whom that brave text of Paul's was not specially prized...
    Aris 10.60 22 [Self-reliance] is so prized a jewel that it is sure to be tested.
    SMC 11.348 12 These things are dear to every man that lives,/ And life prized more for what it lends than gives./

prizes, n. (16)

    Con 1.320 21 ...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class; inspired with a taste for the same competitions and prizes, they will upset the fair pageant of Judicature...
    SwM 4.142 10 These angels that Swedenborg paints...are all country parsons: their heaven is...an evangelical picnic, or French distribution of prizes to virtuous peasants.
    ShP 4.209 3 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...on the prizes of life and the ways whereby we come at them;...
    NMW 4.242 16 ...brilliant prizes glittered in the eyes of [French] youth and talent.
    ET12 5.210 7 ...whether by cramming tutor or by examiners with prizes and foundational scholarships, education, according to the English notion of it, is arrived at [at Oxford].
    Pow 6.61 4 When [children] are hurt by us...or miss the annual prizes...they have a serious check.
    Pow 6.80 18 ...this force or spirit, being the means relied on by Nature for bringing the work of the day about,--as far as we attach importance to household life and the prizes of the world, we must respect that.
    Bhr 6.171 17 Your manners are always under examination, and by committees little suspected...who are awarding or denying you very high prizes when you least think of it.
    Wsp 6.225 9 The way to conquer the foreign artisan is, not to kill him, but to beat his work. And the Crystal Palaces and World Fairs, with their committees and prizes on all kinds of industry, are the result of this feeling.
    Clbs 7.235 1 All that man can do for man is to be found in that market [of right company]. There are great prizes in this game.
    Aris 10.59 13 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant that we have no prizes offered to the ambition of virtuous young men;...
    MoL 10.254 15 ...[the scholar] should open all the prizes of success and all the roads of Nature to free competition.
    EWI 11.102 21 The prizes of society...these were for all, but not for [negro slaves].
    EdAd 11.390 12 As soon as men have tasted the enjoyment of learning, friendship and virtue, for which the State exists, the prizes of office appear polluted...
    SHC 11.433 10 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 games of education; the distribution of school prizes;...
    CInt 12.124 4 No books, no aids, laboratory apparatus, prizes, can compare with [a good teacher].

prizes, v. (1)

    PPo 8.262 5 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./

Pro Populo Anglicano Defen (1)

    ET12 5.202 1 Here [at Oxford]...John Milton's Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio and Iconoclastes were committed to the flames.

probability, n. (3)

    NMW 4.250 4 ...[Napoleon] proposed to consider the probability of the destruction of the globe...
    Dem1 10.14 3 Euripides said...he is not the wisest man whose guess turns out well in the event, but he who, whatever the event be, takes reason and probability for his guide.
    LLNE 10.353 20 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...though against all sensuous probability, acting in strict concert with all others who followed their private light.

probable, adj. (5)

    Chr1 3.109 22 Plato said it was impossible not to believe in the children of the gods, though they should speak without probable or necessary arguments.
    PNR 4.86 10 ...the fact of knowledge and ideas reveals to [Plato] the fact of eternity; and the doctrine of reminiscence he offers as the most probable particular explication.
    ET1 5.4 25 It is probable you left some obscure comrade at a tavern...when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
    OA 7.329 27 We have an admirable line worthy of Horace...but have searched all probable and improbable books for it in vain.
    LS 11.13 16 It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor...

probably, adv. (32)

    Nat 1.51 19 ...a low degree of the sublime is felt, from the fact, probably, that man is hereby apprized that...something in himself is stable.
    Tran 1.352 21 ...in the space of an hour probably, I was let down from this height;...
    SR 2.68 17 ...the highest truth on this subject...probably cannot be said;...
    Comp 2.96 5 That which [men] hear in schools and pulpits without afterthought, if said in conversation would probably be questioned in silence.
    Chr1 3.108 18 [Character] may not, probably does not, form relations rapidly;...
    ShP 4.192 4 Probably king, prelate and puritan, all found their own account in [the Elizabethan theatre].
    ET12 5.203 3 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, They called on Lord Eldon. ... ...he said, your men have probably already contributed all they can spare; I can as well give the rest...
    ET16 5.277 25 There are ninety-four stones [at Stonehenge], and there were once probably one hundred and sixty.
    ET16 5.282 15 This cup or little boat, in which the magnet was made to float on water and so show the north, was probably [the compass's] first form...
    F 6.14 2 Probably the election goes by avoirdupois weight...
    F 6.18 14 The Roman mile probably rested on a measure of a degree of the meridian.
    Bhr 6.178 1 A cow can bid her calf, by secret signal, probably of the eye, to run away...
    Elo1 7.61 2 ...probably every man is eloquent once in his life.
    Cour 7.265 18 The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.
    Suc 7.305 21 An Englishman of marked character and talent, who had brought with him hither one or two friends and a library of mystics, assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England,--he had brought all that was alive away. I was forced to reply: No, next door to you probably, on the other side of the partition in the same house, was a greater man than any you had seen.
    PC 8.216 2 The founders of nations...were probably martyrs in their own time.
    PC 8.216 10 Probably the men [early geniuses] were so great...that the recognition of them by others was not necessary to them.
    Grts 8.319 4 These may serve as local examples [of real heroes] to indicate a magnetism which is probably known better and finer to each scholar in the little Olympus of his own favorites...
    Aris 10.50 24 ...[the public] forgot to ask the fourth question...without which the others do not avail. Has [the candidate] a will? Can he carry his points against opposition? Probably not.
    LLNE 10.368 23 Some of [the partners] had spent on [Brook Farm] the accumulations of years. I suppose they all, at the moment, regarded it as a failure. I do not think they can so regard it now, but probably as an important chapter in their experience which has been of lifelong value.
    Thor 10.461 27 [Thoreau]...would probably outwalk most countrymen in a day's journey.
    LS 11.8 21 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival. And I admit that this impression might probably be left upon the mind of one who read only the passages under consideration in the New Testament.
    HDC 11.31 27 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him. They arrived in Boston in 1634. Probably there had been a previous correspondence with Governor Winthrop...
    HDC 11.41 18 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge; and to Mr. Spencer, probably for the like reason, 300 acres by the Alewife River.
    JBB 11.268 6 [John Brown] cherishes a great respect for his father, as a man of strong character, and his respect is probably just.
    Scot 11.464 27 [Scott's] good sense probably elected the ballad to make his audience larger.
    FRO1 11.480 11 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands, and the relations of the Pythagorean disciples. Our Masonic institutions probably grew from the like origin.
    FRep 11.512 25 What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered,-every one of the two hundred thousand probably yet to be of utility in the arts.
    CL 12.158 1 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down.
    Milt1 12.259 18 ...probably no traveller ever entered that country of history [Italy] with better right to its hospitality [than Milton]...
    Milt1 12.273 10 ...[Milton] frequented no church; probably from a disgust at the fierce spirit of the pulpits.
    ACri 12.284 9 This [national] style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life...

probation, n. (5)

    Fdsp 2.210 1 Let us buy our entrance to this guild [of friendship] by a long probation.
    Mrs1 3.143 22 Fashion has many classes and many rules of probation and admission...
    Nat2 3.173 4 ...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, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.
    ShP 4.219 7 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became...a probation...
    JBS 11.279 9 Our farmers...had learned that life was...a probation, to use their word, for a higher world...

probationer, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.181 25 The animal is the novice and probationer of a more advanced order.

probes, v. (1)

    MN 1.196 5 ...as soon as [the grand inquisitor] probes the crust, behold gimlet, plumb-line, and philosopher take a lateral direction...

probity, n. (30)

    MR 1.253 17 [The people] inevitably prefer wit and probity.
    Chr1 3.92 21 [The natural merchant's] natural probity combines with his insight into the fabric of society to put him above tricks...
    NER 3.269 11 ...some doubt is felt by good and wise men whether really the happiness and probity of men is increased by the culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education.
    PPh 4.58 9 [Plato] has a probity, a native reverence for justice and honor...
    PPh 4.74 12 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates]...turns out...to have a probity as invincible as his logic...
    SwM 4.139 15 For the anomalous pretension of Revelations of the other world,--only [Swedenborg's] probity and genius can entitle it to any serious regard.
    MoS 4.164 14 ...[Montaigne] was esteemed in the country for his sense and probity.
    MoS 4.165 19 ...with all this really superfluous frankness [in Montaigne], the opinion of an invincible probity grows into every reader's mind.
    ShP 4.211 9 ...[Shakespeare] read the hearts of men and women, their probity...
    GoW 4.280 3 Nature and character assist [Wilhelm Meister's passage from democrat to the aristocracy], and the rank is made real by sense and probity in the nobles.
    GoW 4.281 7 ...[the German intellect] has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance...
    ET7 5.119 21 [The English] confide in each other,--English believes in English. The French feel the superiority of this probity.
    ET7 5.120 3 Wellington discovered the ruin of Bonaparte's affairs, by his own probity.
    ET10 5.168 6 It is not, I suppose, want of probity, so much as the tyranny of trade, which necessitates a perpetual competition of underselling...
    ET13 5.219 24 Good churches are not built by bad men; at least there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society.
    Wth 6.100 17 Probity and closeness to the facts are the basis [of commerce]...
    Wth 6.103 9 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly... for the wit, probity and power which we eat bread and dwell in houses to share and exert.
    Wth 6.105 2 If a talent is anywhere born into the world, the community of nations is enriched; and much more with a new degree of probity.
    SS 7.9 8 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons whose confidence in each other for long years...is at last justified by victorious proof of probity...
    SA 8.89 8 Welfare requires one or two companions of intelligence, probity and grace...
    SovE 10.205 8 It is a sort of mark of probity and sincerity to declare how little you believe...
    SlHr 10.443 26 Such was, in old age, the beauty of [Samuel Hoar's] person and carriage, as if the mind radiated, and made the same impression of probity on all beholders.
    Thor 10.452 19 ...it required rare decision to...keep [Thoreau's] solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends: all the more difficult that he had a perfect probity...
    Thor 10.478 21 Himself of a perfect probity, [Thoreau] required not less of others.
    FSLC 11.197 20 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.211 24 The immense power of rectitude is apt to be forgotten in politics. But they who have brought the great wrong [the Fugitive Slave Law] on the country have not forgotten it. They avail themselves of the known probity and honor of Massachusetts, to endorse the statute.
    PLT 12.45 10 There is indeed this vice about men of thought, that you cannot quite trust them; not as much as other men of the same natural probity, without intellect;...
    II 12.86 25 There is a probity of the Intellect, which demands, if possible, virtues more costly than any Bible has consecrated.
    CInt 12.118 1 ...genius may be known by its probity.
    EurB 12.376 20 ...a probity, a justice was to be [the society in Wilhelm Meister's] element...

problem, n. (62)

    Nat 1.34 12 [The relation between mind and matter] is the standing problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of every fine genius since the world began;...
    Nat 1.55 7 The problem of philosophy...is, for all that exists conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute.
    Nat 1.73 21 The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by the redemption of the soul.
    LE 1.178 9 Let [the scholar] endeavor...cheerfully, to solve the problem of that life which is set before him.
    Hist 2.5 3 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 2.11 18 When [Belzoni] has satisfied himself...that [Thebes] was made by such a person as he...the problem is solved;...
    Comp 2.103 24 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem...
    Fdsp 2.201 16 Not one step has man taken toward the solution of the problem of his destiny.
    Hsm1 2.259 14 [A woman] has a new and unattempted problem to solve...
    Int 2.326 16 He who is immersed in what concerns person or place cannot see the problem of existence.
    Pt1 3.5 1 ...this hidden truth, that the fountains whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful, draws us to the consideration of the nature and functions of the Poet, or the man of Beauty;...and to the general aspect of the art in the present time. The breadth of the problem is great...
    Exp 3.79 8 To [the intellect], the world is a problem in mathematics...
    Chr1 3.100 8 ...the uncivil, unavailable man, who is a problem and a threat to society...he helps;...
    Chr1 3.108 12 None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice...
    NR 3.246 5 ...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.
    PPh 4.45 14 How Plato came thus to be Europe, and philosophy, and almost literature, is the problem for us to solve.
    PPh 4.48 24 These strictly-blended elements [Unity and Variety] it is the problem of thought to separate and to reconcile.
    SwM 4.94 12 ...the instincts presently teach that the problem of essence must take precedence of all others;...
    SwM 4.94 18 ...Moses, Menu, Jesus, work directly on this problem [of essence].
    SwM 4.121 26 ...the dictionary of symbols is yet to be written. But the interpreter whom mankind must still expect, will find no predecessor who has approached so near to the true problem [as Swedenborg].
    SwM 4.123 3 There is no such problem for criticism as [Swedenborg's] theological writings...
    ShP 4.201 24 Elated with success and piqued by the growing interest of the problem, [the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
    ShP 4.213 14 This power...of transferring the inmost truth of things into music and verse, makes [Shakespeare] the type of the poet and has added a new problem to metaphysics.
    GoW 4.287 13 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton. The drawing of the line is, for the time and person, a solution of the formidable problem...
    ET3 5.35 8 The problem of the traveller landing at Liverpool is, Why England is England?
    ET5 5.91 14 The [English] Admiralty sent out the Arctic expeditions year after year, in search of Sir John Franklin, until at last they have threaded their way through polar pack and Behring's Straits and solved the geographical problem.
    ET16 5.281 9 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position. In the silence of tradition, this one relation to science becomes an important clew; but we [Emerson and Carlyle] were content to leave the problem with the rocks.
    Wth 6.93 17 Columbus thinks that the sphere is a problem for practical navigation as well as for closet geometry...
    Wth 6.97 19 ...how to give all access to the masterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.
    Wth 6.100 19 The problem [in commerce] is to combine many and remote operations with the accuracy and adherence to the facts...
    Wth 6.111 9 ...we have to pay, not what would have contented [the immigrants] at home, but what they have learned to think necessary here; so that opinion, fancy and all manner of moral considerations complicate the problem.
    Wsp 6.220 15 Strong men believe in cause and effect. The man was born to do it, and his father was born to be the father of him and of his deed; and by looking narrowly you shall see...it was all a problem in arithmetic...
    Ill 6.324 5 The early Greek philosophers Heraclitus and Xenophanes measured their force on this problem of identity.
    SS 7.5 20 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins, in which he forbade him to insert his name with the solution of the problem in the Philosophical Transactions...
    Elo1 7.77 9 Face to face with a highwayman...can you bring yourself off safe by your wit exercised through speech?--a problem easy enough to Caesar or Napoleon.
    DL 7.114 16 Give us wealth, and the home shall exist. But that is a very imperfect and inglorious solution of the problem, and therefore no solution.
    Cour 7.264 10 ...courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
    Cour 7.264 16 Courage is equality to the problem...
    PI 8.28 4 It is a problem of metaphysics to define the province of Fancy and Imagination.
    PI 8.30 23 See how Shakspeare grapples at once with the main problem of the tragedy...
    PI 8.72 13 The problem of the poet is to unite freedom with precision;...
    PC 8.217 8 I find the single mind equipollent to a multitude of minds...and under this view the problem of culture assumes wonderful interest.
    Insp 8.289 1 I envy the abstraction of some scholars I have known, who could sit on a curbstone in State Street, put up their back, and solve their problem.
    Aris 10.50 2 ...the powers of a geometer [are determined] by solving his problem;...
    Prch 10.218 26 ...when we have extricated ourselves from all the embarrassments of the social problem, the oracle does not yet emit any light on the mode of individual life.
    Carl 10.497 14 [Carlyle] thinks it the only question for wise men, instead of art and fine fancies and poetry and such things, to address themselves to the problem of society.
    HDC 11.46 27 In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered, and the problem solved, how to give every individual his fair weight in the government...
    FSLC 11.210 13 ...grant that the heart of financiers...shrinks within them at...the embarrassments which complicate the problem [abolition];...
    AKan 11.262 27 I think the American Revolution bought its glory cheap. If the problem was new, it was simple.
    ALin 11.334 15 [Lincoln's] mind mastered the problem of the day;...
    ALin 11.334 16 [Lincoln's] mind mastered the problem of the day; and as the problem grew, so did his comprehension of it.
    EdAd 11.391 11 Here is the standing problem of Natural Science, and the merits of her great interpreters to be determined;...
    Shak1 11.449 22 ...we pause expectant before the genius of Shakspeare- as if his biography were not yet written; until the problem of the whole English race is solved.
    Shak1 11.451 15 The unaffected joy of the comedy...contrasted with the grandeur of the tragedy, where...[Shakespeare] flies an eagle at the heart of the problem;...
    PLT 12.34 5 Each man has a feeling that what is done anywhere is done by the same wit as his. All men are his representatives, and he is glad to see that his wit can work at this or that problem as it ought to be done, and better than he could do it.
    II 12.75 10 [The inner mind] is one, it belongs to all: yet how to impart it? This makes the perpetual problem of education.
    CInt 12.122 19 [A man] looks at all men as his representatives, and is glad to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done...
    CW 12.171 17 ...I have a problem long waiting for an engineer,-this-to what height I must build a tower in my garden that shall show me the Atlantic Ocean from its top-the ocean twenty miles away.
    Milt1 12.254 25 Many philosophers in England, France and Germany have formally dedicated their study to this problem [human nature];...
    EurB 12.375 8 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both, and the business of the piece is to provide him suitably. This is the problem to be solved in thousands of English romances...
    EurB 12.376 9 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect; the development of character being the problem, the reader is made a partaker in the whole prosperity.
    PPr 12.383 5 It requires great courage in a man of letters to handle the contemporary practical questions;...because of the infinite entanglements of the problem...

problematical, adj. (1)

    War 11.163 2 There is no good now enjoyed by society that was not once as problematical and visionary as [peace].

problems, n. (24)

    Nat 1.39 17 ...weigh the problems suggested concerning Light, Heat...and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.
    Nat 1.62 16 Three problems are put by nature to the mind...
    Nat 1.67 3 ...the problems to be solved are precisely those which the physiologist and the naturalist omit to state.
    LT 1.287 13 Is there not something comprehensive in the grasp of a society...which explores the subtlest and most universal problems?
    SL 2.132 11 Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like.
    SwM 4.105 9 What was left for a genius of the largest calibre but to go over [his predecessors'] ground and verify and unite? It is easy to see, in these minds, the origin of Swedenborg's studies, and the suggestion of his problems.
    Wsp 6.230 14 I am well assured that the Questioner who brings me so many problems will bring the answers also in due time.
    WD 7.162 3 Another result of our arts is the new intercourse which is surprising us with new solutions of the embarrassing political problems.
    WD 7.179 13 ...we do not listen with the best regard to the verses of a man who is only a poet, nor to his problems if he is only an algebraist;...
    QO 8.179 26 In a hundred years, millions of men, and...not a theory of philosophy that offers a solution of the great problems...
    PC 8.213 11 ...the child is in his playthings working incessantly at problems of natural philosophy...
    PC 8.225 9 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems, which we ponder all our lives through, and leave where we found them;...
    Insp 8.275 9 ...Swedenborg must solve the problems that haunt him, though he be crazed or killed.
    Grts 8.309 15 If we should ask ourselves what is this self-respect, it would carry us to the highest problems.
    Dem1 10.24 19 ...[occult facts] are merely physiological, semi-medical... and no aid on the superior problems why we live, and what we do.
    Edc1 10.126 18 One of the problems of history is the beginning of civilization.
    MoL 10.254 26 ...every age...has problems to solve, insoluble by the last age.
    Thor 10.453 27 [Thoreau] could easily solve the problems of the surveyor...
    War 11.167 17 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty. There are cases frequently put by the curious,-moral problems...
    War 11.167 18 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty. There are cases frequently put by the curious,-moral problems, like those problems in arithmetic which in long winter evenings the rustics try the hardness of their heads in ciphering out.
    EdAd 11.390 16 A journal that would meet the real wants of this time must have a courage and power sufficient to solve the problems which the great groping society around us...is dumbly exploring.
    PLT 12.21 9 Every new thought modifies, interprets old problems.
    II 12.79 12 ...there are certain problems one would not willingly open, except when the irresistible oracles broke silence.
    CInt 12.126 27 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights;...

proceed, v. (45)

    Nat 1.50 1 [Grace and expression] proceed from imagination and affection...
    Nat 1.50 10 Let us proceed to indicate the effects of culture.
    Nat 1.70 22 In the cycle of the universal man, from whom the known individuals proceed, centuries are points...
    AmS 1.86 17 ...to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day, is suggested that he and [nature] proceed from one root;...
    DSA 1.123 22 ...of their own volition, souls proceed into heaven, into hell.
    DSA 1.124 9 ...all things proceed out of this same spirit...
    DSA 1.124 13 All things proceed out of the same spirit...
    MR 1.254 1 Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich...
    Tran 1.342 22 ...this retirement does not proceed from any whim on the part of these separators;...
    SR 2.64 16 ...the sense of being which in calm hours rises...in the soul, is not diverse from things...from man, but...proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed.
    Lov1 2.184 15 Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other...of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
    Cir 2.314 20 Not through subtle subterranean channels need friend and fact be drawn to their counterpart, but...these things proceed from the eternal generation of the soul.
    Chr1 3.109 19 The Yunani sage, on seeing that chief [Zertusht], said, This form and this gait cannot lie, and nothing but truth can proceed from them.
    UGM 4.5 9 If now we proceed to inquire into the kinds of service we derive from others, let us be warned of the danger of modern studies, and begin low enough.
    UGM 4.17 8 ...we thus [through the acts of the intellect]...learn to choose men by their truest marks, taught, with Plato, to choose those who can, without aid from the eyes or any other sense, proceed to truth and to being.
    ET7 5.126 7 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/ And often their own counsels undermine/ By mere infirmity without design;/ From whence, the learned say, it doth proceed,/ That English treasons never can succeed;/...
    ET10 5.156 8 [The English] proceed logically by the double method of labor and thrift.
    ET13 5.217 27 From this slow-grown [English] church important reactions proceed;...
    ET15 5.268 5 Of two men of equal ability, the one who does not write but keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will have the higher judicial wisdom. But...all the articles appear to proceed from a single will.
    Pow 6.65 16 [The Hoosiers and the Suckers] see, against the unanimous declarations of the people, how much crime the people will bear; they proceed from step to step...
    Wth 6.112 1 ...each man's expense must proceed from his character.
    CbW 6.276 22 ...begin at the beginning, proceed in order, step by step.
    Art2 7.48 5 Let us proceed to the consideration of the law stated in the beginning of this essay...
    DL 7.133 4 ...the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.
    Boks 7.217 23 Every good fable...every passage of love, and even philosophy and science, when they proceed from an intellectual integrity... have the imaginative element.
    Elo2 8.129 10 Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...
    PC 8.218 27 Even manners are a distinction which...are not to be overborne...even by other eminent talents, since they too proceed from a certain deep innate perception of fit and fair.
    Dem1 10.9 8 We learn [from dreams] that actions whose turpitude is very differently reputed proceed from one and the same affection.
    Dem1 10.14 24 The augur showed [Masollam] a bird, and told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for them all to remain; if he flew on, they might proceed;...
    Chr2 10.110 19 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity...without offence: since, at bottom, those men mean honestly, their polemics proceed out of a religious striving...
    SovE 10.183 16 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design...
    Schr 10.272 3 ...there was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.
    Schr 10.272 25 I proceed to say that the allusions just now made to the extent of [the scholar's] duties...may show that his place is no sinecure.
    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...
    LS 11.16 22 I proceed to state a few objections that in my judgment lie against [the Lord's Supper's] use in its present form.
    War 11.175 6 ...if the search of the sublime laws of morals and the sources of hope and trust, in man, and not in books, in the present, and not in the past, proceed;...then war has a short day...
    FSLC 11.207 6 What shall we do? First, abrogate this [Fugitive Slave] law; then, proceed to confine slavery to slave states...
    Wom 11.426 17 ...you [advocates of women's rights] may proceed in the faith that whatever the woman's heart is prompted to desire, the man's mind is simultaneously prompted to accomplish.
    CPL 11.501 16 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude. To these objections, which proceed on the cheap notion that nothing but what grinds corn...is anything worth, I have little to say.
    FRep 11.528 6 All this [American] forwardness and self-reliance...proceed on the belief that as the people have made a government they can make another;...
    FRep 11.540 9 We...shall proceed like William Penn...on principles of honest trade and mutual advantage.
    PLT 12.15 10 Thirdly I proceed to the fountains of thought in Instinct and Inspiration...
    PLT 12.46 14 If the thought...does not proceed to an act, the wise are imbecile.
    Milt1 12.254 12 ...we proceed to say that we think no man in these later ages, and few men ever, possessed so great a conception of the manly character [as Milton].
    MLit 12.309 13 Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

proceeded, v. (17)

    MR 1.235 18 ...I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society, if it proceeded from a preference of the agricultural life out of the belief that our primary duties as men could be better discharged in that calling.
    YA 1.380 21 These [Communities] proceeded from a variety of motives...
    Hist 2.36 5 In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded north, south, east, west...
    ET1 5.12 20 ...I proceeded to inquire [of Coleridge] if the extract from the Independent's pamphlet, in the third volume of the Friend, were a veritable quotation.
    ET1 5.21 17 [Wordsworth] proceeded to abuse Goethe's Wilhelm Meister heartily.
    ET16 5.276 23 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 7.210 7 ...the contest [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] proceeded...
    Res 8.150 6 ...the law of light, which Newton said proceeded by fits of easy reflection and transmission...is the law of mind;...
    Thor 10.462 16 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau]...proceeded to examine them...
    Thor 10.484 22 The scale on which [Thoreau's] studies proceeded was so large as to require longevity...
    HDC 11.38 14 [The Puritans] proceeded to build...their first dwellings.
    EWI 11.113 23 The apprenticeship system [in the West Indies] is understood to have proceeded from Lord Brougham...
    FSLN 11.243 15 Having...professed his adoration for liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day...
    SHC 11.429 4 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary, having proceeded so far as to enclose the ground, and cut the necessary roads...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
    Milt1 12.270 12 ...a history of England was one of the three main tasks which [Milton] proposed to himself. He proceeded in it no further than to the Conquest.
    Milt1 12.278 19 ...as many poems have been written upon unfit society... yet have not been proceeded against...so should [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul...is entitled to.
    AgMs 12.363 22 In this strain the Farmer [Edmund Hosmer] proceeded...

proceeding, adj. (2)

    Fdsp 2.193 22 The moment we indulge our affections...nothing fills the proceeding eternity but the forms all radiant of beloved persons.
    ShP 4.195 15 ...the proceeding investigation hardly leaves a single drama of [Shakespeare's] absolute invention.

proceeding, n. (1)

    SwM 4.123 19 There is an invariable method and order in [Swedenborg's] delivery of his truth, the habitual proceeding of the mind from inmost to outmost.

proceeding, v. (22)

    MN 1.198 18 ...one who...beholds the visible as proceeding from the invisible, cannot state his thought without seeming to those who study the physical laws to do them some injustice.
    LT 1.283 23 The thinker...never invites me to be present with him at his invocation of truth, and to enjoy with him its proceeding into his mind.
    YA 1.371 3 A heterogeneous population crowding...to the great gates of North America...and thence proceeding inward...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    Lov1 2.183 22 In the procession of the soul from within outward, it enlarges its circles ever, like...the light proceeding from an orb.
    Art1 2.368 13 Proceeding from a religious heart [genius] will raise to a divine use the railroad...
    PPh 4.46 23 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when, proceeding out of this brute youth, the perceptive powers reach their ripeness...
    PNR 4.81 3 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. ... These were...a good basis for further proceeding.
    PNR 4.84 9 Plato affirms...that the order or proceeding of nature was from the mind to the body...
    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...
    ET12 5.203 18 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Dr. Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order;...
    Art2 7.51 19 Proceeding from absolute mind...the great works [of art] are always attuned to moral nature.
    Imtl 8.333 24 ...proceeding to the enumeration of the few simple elements of the natural faith, the first fact that strikes us is our delight in permanence.
    Imtl 8.348 21 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood...
    Prch 10.236 11 We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...
    Schr 10.264 1 ...[intellect] sees no bound to the eternal proceeding of law forth into nature.
    Schr 10.267 10 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action, proceeding new from the heart of man...
    LLNE 10.351 22 The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and his friends, the comprehensiveness of their theory, its apparent directness of proceeding to the end they would secure...commanded our attention and respect.
    MMEm 10.433 11 Very rightly...the Christian ages, proceeding on a grand instinct, have said: Faith alone, Faith alone.
    LVB 11.91 12 It now appears that the government of the United States choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty, and are proceeding to execute the same.
    FRep 11.517 20 [The American people] are now proceeding...to carry out, not the bill of rights, but the bill of human duties.
    PLT 12.59 15 The habit...of not pausing but proceeding, is a sort of importation and domestication of the divine effort into a man.
    MAng1 12.226 4 [Michelangelo...was proceeding with the work [of rebuilding the Pons Palatinus], when, through the intervention of his rivals, this work was taken from him...

proceedings, n. (1)

    CSC 10.374 3 The daily newspapers reported...brief sketches of the course of proceedings [of the Chardon Street Convention]...

proceeds, v. (30)

    Nat 1.55 10 [Philosophy] proceeds on the faith that a law determines all phenomena...
    Nat 1.64 25 The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man.
    LE 1.173 15 Having thus spoken of the resources and the subject of the scholar, out of the same faith proceeds also the rule of his ambition and life.
    MN 1.198 1 Every earnest glance we give to the realities around us, with intent to learn, proceeds from a holy impulse...
    MN 1.218 4 ...[Genius] proceeds from within outward...
    LT 1.278 25 ...a consent to solitude and inaction which proceeds out of an unwillingness to violate character, is the century which makes the gem.
    LT 1.291 6 You shall be the asylum and patron of...every untried project which proceeds out of good will and honest seeking.
    SR 2.64 14 ...the sense of being which in calm hours rises...in the soul, is not diverse from things...from man, but...proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed.
    SL 2.155 7 ...the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.
    Hsm1 2.246 2 ...Sophocles will not ask his life, although assured that a word will save him, and the execution of both [Sophocles and Dorigen] proceeds...
    Hsm1 2.254 17 The temperance of the hero proceeds from the same wish to do no dishonor to the worthiness he has.
    Hsm1 2.262 13 ...the trial of persecution always proceeds.
    OS 2.281 14 In these communications [of the soul] the power to see is not separated from the will to do, but the insight proceeds from obedience...
    OS 2.281 15 In these communications [of the soul] the power to see is not separated from the will to do, but the insight proceeds from obedience, and the obedience proceeds from a joyful perception.
    Cir 2.318 21 Whilst the eternal generation of circles proceeds, the eternal generator abides.
    Exp 3.70 15 That which proceeds in succession might be remembered...
    ShP 4.214 5 Daguerre learned how to let one flower etch its image on his plate of iodine, and then proceeds at leisure to etch a million.
    NMW 4.249 3 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops...feel inclined to run. That terror proceeds from a want of confidence in their own courage...
    GoW 4.268 6 The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds.
    ET8 5.141 21 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters? The early history shows it, as the musician plays the air which he proceeds to conceal in a tempest of variations.
    Wth 6.122 23 [The citizen from Dock Square] proceeds at once...to fix the spot for his corner-stone.
    Bty 6.290 27 The tint of the flower proceeds from its root...
    Ill 6.324 16 Dispel, O Lord of all creatures! the conceit of knowledge which proceeds from ignorance.
    Cour 7.264 15 The school-boy is daunted before his tutor by a question of arithmetic, because he does not yet command the simple steps of the solution which the boy beside him has mastered. These once seen, he... cheerily proceeds a step farther.
    PI 8.39 7 [The poet's] inspiration is power to carry out and complete the metamorphosis, which, in the imperfect kinds arrested for ages, in the perfecter proceeds rapidly in the same individual.
    PPo 8.259 19 From the plain text-The chemist of love/ Will this perishing mould,/ Were it made out of mire,/ Transmute into gold./-[Hafiz] proceeds to the celebration of his passion;...
    Schr 10.284 27 These questions [of life] speak to Genius, to that power... which proceeds out of the constitution of every man...
    EWI 11.112 21 With these provisions and conditions, the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] proceeds...in the following terms...
    ACri 12.304 7 The democratic, when the power proceeds organically from the people and is responsible to them, are classic politics.
    Let 12.393 5 ...when our correspondent proceeds to flying-machines, we have no longer the smallest taper-light of credible information and experience left...

process, n. (26)

    Nat 1.13 8 Nature, in its ministry to man, is not only the material, but is also the process and the result.
    Nat 1.26 1 Most of the process by which this transformation [from thing to word] is made, is hidden from us...
    Nat 1.41 26 ...every natural process is a version of a moral sentence.
    Nat 1.42 3 [The moral law] is the pith and marrow of...every process.
    AmS 1.88 6 ...it depends on how far the process had gone, of transmuting life into truth.
    AmS 1.96 1 A strange process too, this by which experience is converted into thought...
    Hist 2.12 7 When we have gone through this process, and added thereto the Catholic Church...we have as it were been the man that made the minster;...
    Pol1 3.200 23 Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait, it soon becomes unrecognizable, and in process of time will return to the mint.
    NER 3.254 11 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...the threatened individual immediately excommunicated the church, in a public and formal process.
    SwM 4.108 5 Manifestly, at the end of the spine, Nature puts out smaller spines, as arms; at the end of the arms, new spines, as hands; at the other end, she repeats the process, as legs and feet.
    SwM 4.108 22 Here in the brain is all the process of alimentation repeated...
    SwM 4.109 4 Every thing, at the end of one use, is taken up into the next, each series punctually repeating every organ and process of the last.
    ShP 4.200 26 The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being translation on translation. There never was a time when there was none. All the truly idiomatic and national phrases are kept, and all others successively picked out and thrown away. Something like the same process had gone on, long before, with the originals of these books.
    ET5 5.89 6 At Rogers's mills, in Sheffield, where I was shown the process of making a razor and a penknife, I was told there is no luck in making good steel;...
    OA 7.329 8 In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with delight the little white Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his system.
    PI 8.11 18 ...the saint [sees] an argument for devotion in every natural process;...
    PI 8.16 11 The atomic theory is only an interior process produced...
    Aris 10.44 21 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow; but just as easily he foresees...all the steps of the process...
    SovE 10.189 13 The excellence of men consists in the completeness with which the lower system is taken up into the higher-a process of much time and delicacy...
    EWI 11.105 17 The man [West Indian slave] applied to Mr. William Sharpe, a charitable surgeon, who attended the diseases of the poor. In process of time, he was healed.
    EWI 11.130 22 ...a citizen of Nantucket, walking in New Orleans, found a freeborn [negro] citizen of Nantucket...working chained in the streets of that city, kidnapped by such a process as this.
    PLT 12.14 11 The analytic process is cold and bereaving...
    PLT 12.50 12 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line, so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, and has such scope and so solidly worded, as if it were already a proverb and not hereafter to become one. Well, that millennium in effect is really only a little acceleration in his process of thought.
    PLT 12.60 1 The same course continues itself in the mind which we have witnessed in Nature, namely the carrying-on and completion of the metamorphosis from grub to worm, from worm to fly. In human thought this process is often arrested for years and ages.
    Mem 12.108 23 The acceleration of mental process is equivalent to the lengthening of life.
    ACri 12.294 21 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece; so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, so solidly worded, as if it were already a proverb, and not only hereafter to become one. Well, that millennium is really only a little acceleration in his process of thought;...

processes, n. (5)

    Nat 1.31 2 A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, will find that a material image...arises in his mind...
    Nat 1.66 8 Empirical science is apt...by the very knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of the manly contemplation of the whole.
    Comp 2.115 16 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant...do recommend to him his trade...
    PLT 12.26 10 ...our mental processes go forward even when they seem suspended.
    Mem 12.97 18 We can help ourselves to the modus of mental processes only by coarse material experiences.

procession, n. (16)

    Nat 1.48 16 God...will not compromise the end of nature by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.
    Tran 1.334 3 [The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...
    Lov1 2.183 19 In the procession of the soul from within outward, it enlarges its circles ever...
    Cir 2.314 23 The same law of eternal procession ranges all that we call the virtues...
    Int 2.329 20 Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition;...
    Pt1 3.20 21 ...the poet...shows us all things in their right series and procession.
    UGM 4.32 25 No man, in all the procession of famous men, is reason or illumination or that essence we were looking for;...
    SwM 4.142 21 The warm, many-weathered, passionate-peopled world is to [Swedenborg]...an emblematic freemason's procession.
    Bhr 6.192 8 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the wedding day is fixed, and we follow the gala procession home to the bannered portal...
    Bty 6.291 21 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan that lay rusting under a wall, and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
    Bty 6.291 26 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan...and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
    PI 8.45 26 In society you have this figure [of rhyme]...in a funeral procession, where all wear black...
    Res 8.149 17 In the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the torches which each traveller carries make a dismal funeral procession...
    Dem1 10.4 8 They come, in dim procession led,/ The cold, the faithless, and the dead,/ As warm each hand, each brow as gay,/ As if they parted yesterday./
    EWI 11.116 13 At Grace Bay, [the day following emancipation in the West Indies] the people, all dressed in white, formed a procession...
    CL 12.137 4 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students, and, when they returned, they marched through the streets of Upsala in a festive procession...

processions, n. (3)

    Hist 2.12 9 When we have gone through this process, and added thereto the Catholic Church...its processions...we have as it were been the man that made the minster;...
    Pt1 3.16 17 In the political processions, Lowell goes in a loom...
    ShP 4.190 17 The Church has reared [a great man] amidst rites and pomps, and he carries out the advice which her music gave him, and builds a cathedral needed by her chants and processions.

proclaim, v. (4)

    Tran 1.359 18 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim by silence as well as by speech...shall abide in beauty and strength...
    Edc1 10.152 24 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim martial law...
    Prch 10.225 22 ...there are those to whom the question of what shall be believed is the more interesting because they are to proclaim and teach what they believe.
    MMEm 10.415 2 Oh, if there be a power superior to me,-and that there is, my own dread fetters proclaim,-when will He let my lights go out...

proclaimed, adj. (1)

    YA 1.389 6 I might not set down our most proclaimed offences as the worst.

proclaimed, v. (3)

    ET11 5.196 21 This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs and seas and rains proclaimed [in England],--that intellect and personal force should make the law;...
    OA 7.335 16 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time for any news to arrive. The informer...insisted on repairing to the meeting-house, and proclaimed it aloud to the congregation...
    EWI 11.115 19 The first of August [1834] came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work [in the West Indies] until the next Monday.

proclaims, v. (1)

    EPro 11.326 9 Incertainties now crown themselves assured,/ And Peace proclaims olives of endless age./

Proclamation, Emancipation, (4)

    EPro 11.316 3 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...and now, eminently, President Lincoln's [Emancipation] Proclamation...
    EPro 11.322 19 Whilst we have pointed out the opportuneness of the [Emancipation] Proclamation, it remains to be said that the President had no choice.
    EPro 11.325 6 ...the aim of the war on our part is indication by the aim of the President's [Emancipation] Proclamation...
    EPro 11.326 11 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection sculptured for ages in their bronzed countenance...

proclamation, n. (6)

    SL 2.160 4 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved. One knows it,--himself,--and is pledged by it...to nobleness of aim which will prove in the end a better proclamation of it than the relating of the incident.
    OS 2.295 2 Whenever the appeal is made...to numbers, proclamation is then and there made that religion is not.
    ET5 5.87 19 [The English] have...no French taste for a badge or a proclamation.
    SovE 10.187 16 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...at last came the day when...the nerves of the world were electrified by the proclamation that all men are born free and equal.
    HDC 11.31 5 In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were suspended for contumacy...
    EPro 11.320 27 [The Emancipation Proclamation] must not be a paper proclamation.

Proclamation of Emancipation (1)

    GSt 10.503 9 In 1862, on the President's first or preliminary Proclamation of Emancipation, [George Stearns] took the first steps for organizing the Freedman's Bureau...

Proclamation, Royal, n. (1)

    FRep 11.540 19 [The Constitution and the law in America] should be mankind's...Royal Proclamation of the Intellect ascending the throne...

proclamations, n. (4)

    Wsp 6.212 1 ...we appeal to the sanctified preamble of the messages and proclamations of the public sinner, as the proof of sincerity.
    SovE 10.203 13 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace. But that, be sure, is not the religion of the universal, unsleeping providence, which lurks in trifles...as efficiently as in our proclamations and successes.
    FSLC 11.207 12 No proclamations will put [Slavery] down.
    TPar 11.288 10 It will not be...in the state-house, the proclamations of governors...that coming generations will study what really befell [in Boston];...

proclivity, n. (4)

    Exp 3.53 1 I know the mental proclivity of physicians.
    NR 3.231 9 Our proclivity to details cannot quite degrade our life...
    QO 8.178 24 By necessity, by proclivity and by delight, we all quote.
    EPro 11.324 5 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of... disinfecting us of our habitual proclivity...to follow Southern leading.

Proclus, n. (11)

    Int 2.346 9 This band of grandees...Proclus...and the rest, have somewhat... so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
    Pt1 3.14 22 The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits, in its transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions;...
    Pt1 3.31 12 ...Proclus calls the universe the statue of the intellect;...
    NR 3.233 10 I read Proclus...as I might read a dictionary...
    NR 3.233 14 'T is not Proclus, but a piece of nature and fate that I explore.
    GoW 4.282 22 That a man has spent years on Plato and Proclus, does not afford a presumption that he holds heroic opinions...
    Bty 6.303 3 Proclus says, [Beauty] swims on the light of forms.
    Boks 7.202 15 If we come down a little [in Greek history] by natural steps from the master to the disciples, we have...the Platonists...Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus, Synesius, Jamblichus.
    PI 8.18 14 ...what is life? what is force? Push [the savans] hard and they will not be loquacious. They will come to Plato, Proclus and Swedenborg.
    QO 8.180 22 Hegel preexists in Proclus...
    II 12.74 20 ...the ancient Proclus seems to signify his sense of the same fact, by saying, The parts in us are more the property of wholes, and of things above us, than they are our property.

procreant, adj. (1)

    PI 8.42 16 ...as every faculty and every desire is procreant...there is no limit to [the poet's] hope.

procurable, adj. (2)

    ET16 5.280 21 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only milk for one cup of tea. When we called for more, the girl brought us three drops. My friend [Carlyle] was annoyed...and still more the next morning, by the dog-car, sole procurable vehicle, in which we were to be sent to Wilton.
    F 6.32 27 The plague in the sea-service from scurvy is healed by lemon juice and other diets portable or procurable;...

procure, v. (19)

    MR 1.245 11 How can the man who has learned but one art, procure all the conveniences of life honestly?
    Pt1 3.14 5 So every spirit, as it is more pure,/ And hath in it the more of heavenly light,/ So it the fairer body doth procure/ To habit in, and it more fairly dight,/ With cheerful grace and amiable sight./
    Gts 3.160 18 ...if the man at the door have no shoes, you have not to consider whether you could procure him a paint-box.
    NER 3.268 26 We do not believe that...any influence of genius, will ever give depth of insight to a superficial mind. Having settled ourselves into this infidelity, our skill is expended to procure alleviations...
    PPh 4.72 26 ...it is said that to procure the pleasure, which he loves, of talking at his ease all day with the most elegant and cultivated young men, [Socrates] will now and then return to his shop and carve statues, good or bad, for sale.
    ShP 4.205 23 [Shakespeare] was...an actor and shareholder in the theatre, not in any striking manner distinguished from other actors and managers. I admit the importance of this information. It was well worth the pains that have been taken to procure it.
    GoW 4.266 13 It is believed...the running up and down to procure a company of subscribers to set a-going five or ten thousand spindles...is practical and commendable.
    F 6.21 14 God himself cannot procure good for the wicked, said the Welsh triad.
    Wsp 6.211 14 ...if an adventurer...procure himself to be elected to a post of trust...by the same arts as we detest in the house-thief,--the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...
    CbW 6.275 21 A man of wit was asked, in the train, what was his errand in the city. He replied, I have been sent to procure an angel to do cooking.
    Farm 7.146 27 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has been spared, and every such section has been long occupied. But the farmer manages to procure wood from far, puts up a rail-fence, and at once the seeds sprout and the oaks rise.
    Boks 7.204 12 I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version.
    PI 8.58 1 God himself cannot procure good for the wicked. Welsh Triad.
    Insp 8.271 26 Inspiration is like yeast. 'T is no matter in which of half a dozen ways you procure the infection; you can apply one or the other equally well to your purpose, and get your loaf of bread.
    Dem1 10.23 1 Lord Bacon uncovers the magic when he says, Manifest virtues procure reputation; occult ones, fortune.
    Supl 10.166 12 Think how much pains astronomers and opticians have taken to procure an achromatic lens.
    Thor 10.458 20 On one occasion [Thoreau] went to the University Library to procure some books.
    SMC 11.372 21 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth of June comes at last a respite for a short space, during which...the officers were able to send to the wagons and procure a change of clothes...
    CPL 11.502 6 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests... to procure in the temple fire from the sun...

procured, v. (10)

    MN 1.202 24 None of [the eminent souls] seen by himself...will justify the cost of that enormous apparatus of means by which this spotted and defective person was at last procured.
    MR 1.236 26 The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them...
    NER 3.275 14 ...a naval and military honor...and, anyhow procured, the acknowledgment of eminent merit,--have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    MoS 4.162 19 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy. It remained long neglected, until, after many years...I read the book, and procured the remaining volumes.
    ET10 5.159 10 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule;...
    ET16 5.287 10 ...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance... and procured a kind of hearing for it.
    Edc1 10.146 2 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes...looking about him, observed more blocks and fragments like this. He returned to the spot, procured laborers and uncovered many blocks.
    EzRy 10.394 5 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...and whatever relief to the conscience of both parties plain speech could effect was sure to be procured.
    Thor 10.462 14 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau] said that only a small portion of them would be sound...
    EWI 11.105 18 Granville Sharpe found [the West Indian slave] at his brother's and procured a place for him in an apothecary's shop.

procurers, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.27 22 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct...the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible. This is the reason why bards love wine...the fumes of sandalwood and tobacco, or whatever other procurers of animal exhilaration.

procuring, v. (2)

    MR 1.256 17 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to leave...their best means and skill of procuring a present success...
    ET10 5.163 25 The present possessors [in England] are to the full as absolute as any of their fathers in choosing and procuring what they like.

Prodicus, n. (1)

    Boks 7.199 11 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners...portraits of...Crito, Prodicus...

prodigal, adj. (6)

    Nat 1.12 15 The misery of man appears like childish petulance, when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his support and delight...
    ET15 5.263 20 [The London Times] has shown those qualities which are dear to Englishmen...prodigal intellectual ability...
    Ctr 6.148 2 ...a man who looks...at London, says, If I should be driven from my own home, here at least my thoughts can be consoled by the most prodigal amusement and occupation which the human race in ages could contrive and accumulate.
    QO 8.203 26 Only as braveries of too prodigal power can we pardon it, when the life of genius is so redundant that out of petulance it flings its fire into some old mummy, and, lo! it walks and blushes again here in the street.
    PPo 8.251 25 Timour taxed Hafiz with treating disrepectfully his two cities, to raise and adorn which he had conquered nations. Hafiz replied, Alas, my lord, if I had not been so prodigal, I had not been so poor!
    Aris 10.57 16 It was objected to Gustavus that he...was too prodigal of a blood so precious.

prodigality, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.186 22 ...[the vegetable life] fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds...
    Let 12.404 19 A literature...is the affair of a power which works by a prodigality of life and force very dismaying to behold...

prodigally, adv. (1)

    FRep 11.525 24 Nature...spends individuals and races prodigally to prepare new individuals and races.

prodigies, n. (2)

    Hsm1 2.248 9 ...Simon Ockley's History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor...
    Mem 12.106 2 Nature trains us on to see illusions and prodigies with no more wonder than our toast and omelet at breakfast.

prodigious, adj. (20)

    LE 1.180 18 ...always remained [Napoleon's] total trust in the prodigious revolutions of fortune which his reserved Imperial Guard were capable of working...
    SL 2.134 26 Could ever a man of prodigious mathematical genius convey to others any insight into his methods?
    Mrs1 3.139 13 You must have genius or a prodigious usefulness if you will hide the want of measure.
    NR 3.228 22 The magnetism which arranges tribes and races in one polarity is alone to be respected; the men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly select a particle, and say, O steel-filing number one!...what prodigious virtues are these of thine!...
    NMW 4.255 15 ...[Napoleon] was a prodigious gossip...
    ET16 5.275 23 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that no skill or activity can long compete with the prodigious natural advantages of that country...
    Civ 7.24 26 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts... No use can lessen the wonder of this control by so weak a creature of forces so prodigious.
    Boks 7.205 17 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of civilization...and, I think, will be sure to send the reader to his...Abstracts of my Readings, which will spur the laziest scholar to emulation of his prodigious performance.
    Elo2 8.111 6 ...[an anecdote of eloquence] has a beautiful and prodigious surprise in it.
    Comc 8.164 9 ...the religious sentiment is...capable of the most prodigious effects...
    PC 8.210 7 In this country the prodigious mass of work that must be done has either made new divisions of labor or created new professions.
    Dem1 10.25 21 ...this prodigious promiser [Animal Magnetism] ends always and always will...in a very small and smoky performance.
    LLNE 10.330 8 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg; a man of prodigious mind...
    HDC 11.59 25 The virtues of patriotism and of prodigious courage and address were exhibited [in King Philip's war] on both sides...
    EWI 11.123 1 ...[the civility] of Rome [lay] in military arts and virtues, exalted by a prodigious magnanimity;...
    ALin 11.331 26 ...it turned out that [Lincoln]...had prodigious faculty of performance;...
    PLT 12.24 4 ...the spectacle of vigor of any kind, any prodigious power of performance wonderfully arms and recruits us.
    Milt1 12.255 4 Lord Bacon, who has written much and with prodigious ability on this science [of human nature], shrinks and falters before the absolute and uncourtly Puritan [Milton].
    Milt1 12.275 27 It is true of Homer and Shakspeare...that those prodigious geniuses did cast themselves so totally into their song that their individuality vanishes...
    MLit 12.312 3 ...the prodigious growth and influence of the genius of Shakspeare, in the last one hundred and fifty years, is itself a fact of the first importance.

prodigious, n. (1)

    FRO2 11.489 18 Whoever thinks a story gains by the prodigious...robs it more than he adds.

prodigiously, adv. (1)

    PPh 4.71 13 The young men are prodigiously fond of [Socrates]...

prodigy, n. (2)

    GoW 4.265 21 ...let one man have the comprehensive eye that can replace this isolated prodigy in its right neighborhood and bearings...
    EWI 11.135 13 Here [in emancipation in the West Indies] was no prodigy, no fabulous hero...

produce, n. (7)

    YA 1.378 13 ...[Trade] converts Government into an Intelligence-Office, where every man may find what he wishes to buy, and expose what he has to sell; not only produce and manufactures, but art, skill, and intellectual and moral values.
    HDC 11.55 4 The very great immigration from England made the lands [near Concord] more valuable every year, and supplied a market for the produce.
    HDC 11.55 10 ...in 1640, all immigration [to Concord] ceased, and the country produce and farm-stock depreciated.
    EWI 11.109 24 In 1791, three hundred thousand persons in Britain pledged themselves to abstain from all articles of [West Indian] island produce.
    EWI 11.117 7 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...that the new crop of [West Indian] island produce would not fall short of that of the last year.
    EWI 11.127 6 The House of Commons would destroy the protection of [West Indian] island produce...
    AgMs 12.361 22 Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they will sell their oxen in November; but for me [Edmund Hosmer] to sell my cattle and my produce in the fall would be to sell my farm, for I should have no manure to renew a crop in the spring.

produce, v. (40)

    Nat 1.11 4 ...it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature...
    Nat 1.24 10 The poet...the architect, seek...each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.
    MN 1.203 21 The gardener aims to produce a fine peach or pear...
    OS 2.273 7 ...produce a volume of Plato or Shakspeare...and instantly we come into a feeling of longevity.
    Int 2.333 21 ...notwithstanding our utter incapacity to produce anything like Hamlet and Othello, see the perfect reception this wit and immense knowledge of life and liquid eloquence find in us all.
    Art1 2.353 2 No man can...produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages and arts of his time shall have no share.
    Art1 2.358 14 Since what skill is...shown [in a work of the highest art] is the reappearance of the original soul...it should produce a similar impression to that made by natural objects.
    Art1 2.363 5 The real value of the Iliad or the Transfiguration is as signs of power;...tokens of the everlasting effort to produce...
    Pt1 3.3 9 [The umpires of tastes'] cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire...
    Chr1 3.107 22 [Nature] makes very light of gospels and prophets, as one who has a great many more to produce and no excess of time to spare on any one.
    NR 3.233 24 ...it was easy [at Handel's Messiah] to observe what efforts nature was making, through so many hoarse, wooden and imperfect persons, to produce beautiful voices...
    PPh 4.56 23 To the study of nature [Plato]...prefixes the dogma, Let us declare the cause which led the Supreme Ordainer to produce and compose the universe.
    NMW 4.234 25 In vain several officers and myself were placed on the slope of a hill to produce the effect...
    ET6 5.114 27 ...the usage of a dress-dinner every day at dark has a tendency to hive and produce to advantage every thing good [in table-talk].
    ET8 5.128 21 Meat and wine produce no effect on [the English].
    Bhr 6.176 24 Take a thorn-bush, said the emir Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns. Take a date-tree, leave it without water, without culture, and it will always produce dates.
    SS 7.14 17 ...[people in conversation] separate...each seeking his like; and any interference with the affinities would produce constraint and suffocation.
    Civ 7.25 2 ...I watched, in crossing the sea, the beautiful skill whereby the engine in its constant working was made to produce two hundred gallons of fresh water out of salt water, every hour...
    Civ 7.25 8 The skill that pervades complex details;...the farm made to produce all that is consumed on it;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high civilization.
    Art2 7.47 13 We fear that Allston and Greenough did not foresee and design all the effect they produce on us.
    Art2 7.48 1 ...all the advantages to which I have adverted are such as the artist did not consciously produce.
    Art2 7.48 16 The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired... by all men...must disindividualize himself...
    DL 7.126 2 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in clean and noble relations, notwithstanding our total inexperience of a true society. Certainly this was not the intention of Nature, to produce...so cheap and humble a result.
    Boks 7.195 15 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye. All these are young adventurers, who produce their performance to the wise ear of Time...
    PPo 8.239 26 Such [amatory] verses...will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat...or prove an ample reward on their return from the dangers of the ghazon, or the fight. The excitement they produce exceeds that of the grape.
    Imtl 8.336 17 Will you...educate your children to be adepts in their several arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce a masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers to shoot them down?
    Edc1 10.137 23 A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune; an expectation which the child, if justice is done him, will nobly disappoint. By working on the theory that this resemblance exists, we shall do what in us lies to...produce the ordinary and mediocre.
    LLNE 10.340 10 ...[Channing] is yet one of those men who vindicate the power of the American race to produce greatness.
    Carl 10.490 18 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where he is unknown...
    LS 11.17 6 It has seemed to me that the use of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper] tends to produce confusion in our views of the relation of the soul to God.
    EWI 11.114 10 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them.
    FSLC 11.202 18 Simply [Webster] was the one eminent American of our time, whom we could produce as a finished work of Nature.
    PLT 12.18 7 There are...minds that produce their thoughts complete men...
    PLT 12.24 7 ...the nervous and hysterical and animalized will produce a like series of symptoms in you...
    II 12.72 6 It is as impossible for labor to produce a sonnet of Milton...as Shakspeare's Hamlet...
    CL 12.142 6 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience. For the living out of doors, and simple fare, and gymnastic exercises, and the morals of companions, produce the greatest effect on the way of virtue and of vice.
    Bost 12.196 24 ...the New Englander...lacks that beauty and grace which the habit of living much in the air, and the activity of the limbs not in labor but in graceful exercise, tend to produce in climates nearer to the sun.
    Milt1 12.251 16 [Milton's Areopagitica] is valuable in history as an argument addressed to a government to produce a practical end...
    AgMs 12.362 17 ...as for the Major [Abel Moore], he never got rich by his skill in making land produce, but in making men produce.
    AgMs 12.362 18 ...as for the Major [Abel Moore], he never got rich by his skill in making land produce, but in making men produce.

produced, v. (32)

    Nat 1.15 12 By the mutual action of [the eye's] structure and of the laws of light, perspective is produced...
    LE 1.179 24 The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.
    MN 1.216 24 From the poisonous tree, the world, say the Brahmins, two species of fruit are produced, sweet as the waters of life;...
    SL 2.151 26 [The world] will certainly accept your own measure of your doing and being...whether you see your work produced to the concave sphere of the heavens...
    Int 2.330 12 What you have aggregated in a natural manner surprises and delights when it is produced.
    UGM 4.32 2 Each is uneasy until he has produced his private ray unto the concave sphere...
    PPh 4.70 15 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods are produced to us through mania...
    ShP 4.192 24 At the time when [Shakespeare] left Stratford and went up to London, a great body of stage-plays of all dates and writers...were in turn produced on the boards.
    NMW 4.235 3 The almost perpendicular fall of the heavy projectiles produced the desired effect.
    GoW 4.290 2 ...the highest simplicity of structure is produced...by the highest complexity.
    ET5 5.93 10 There is no department of literature, of science, or of useful art, in which [the English] have not produced a first-rate book.
    ET5 5.98 27 It is the maxim of [English] economists, that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
    ET5 5.100 16 The island [England] has produced two or three of the greatest men that ever existed...
    ET14 5.239 19 Whoever...requires heaps of facts before any theories can be attempted, has no poetic power, and nothing original or beautiful will be produced by him.
    F 6.18 23 In a large city...things whose beauty lies in their casualty, are produced as punctually...as the baker's muffin for breakfast.
    Boks 7.207 3 ...in the Elizabethan era [the scholar] is at the richest period of the English mind, with the chief men of action and of thought which that nation has produced...
    PI 8.16 11 The atomic theory is only an interior process produced...
    PPo 8.239 15 Layard has given some details of the effect which the improvvisatori produced on the children of the desert.
    PPo 8.242 6 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Kai Kaus, in whose palace...gold and silver and precious stones were used so lavishly that in the brilliancy produced by their combined effect, night and day appeared the same;...
    Imtl 8.351 22 The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from any one.
    Imtl 8.351 23 The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from any one. Nor was any produced from it.
    MoL 10.243 19 The subtle Hindoo...produced the wonderful epics of which, in the present century, the translations have added new regions to thought.
    Schr 10.281 18 Body and its properties belong to the region of nonentity, as if more of body was necessarily produced where a defect of being happens in a greater degree.
    LLNE 10.352 16 [Fourier] treats man...as a vegetable, from which, though now a poor crab, a very good peach can by manure and exposure be in time produced...
    HDC 11.47 22 In these assemblies [New England town-meetings]...every local feeling, every private grudge, every suggestion of petulance and ignorance, were not less faithfully produced.
    Wom 11.408 1 ...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece.
    CPL 11.504 26 Montesquieu, one of the greatest minds that France has produced, writes: The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion.
    PLT 12.26 3 ...the blood of two trees being mixed a new and excellent fruit is produced.
    II 12.67 22 A continuous effect cannot be produced by discontinuous thought...
    MAng1 12.218 6 Beauty may be felt. It may be produced. But it cannot be defined.
    Milt1 12.269 3 It is said that no opinion, no civil, religious, moral dogma can be produced that was not broached in the fertile brain of that age [of Milton].
    Milt1 12.272 11 The events which produced [Milton's tracts on divorce and freedom of the press]...are mere occasions for this philanthropist to blow his trumpet for human rights.

producer, n. (3)

    AmS 1.83 2 Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
    Wth 6.85 10 Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer.
    Res 8.143 23 ...every manufacturer and producer in the North has an interest in protecting the negro as the consumer of his wares.

producers, n. (3)

    SwM 4.93 3 Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers...
    EWI 11.102 12 These men [negro slaves], our benefactors, as they are producers of corn and wine...I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.
    EWI 11.102 15 These men [negro slaves]...producers of comfort and luxury for the civilized world...I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.

produces, v. (10)

    Int 2.334 27 The constructive intellect produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems.
    UGM 4.7 13 A sound apple produces seed...
    ET6 5.108 11 England produces...the finest women in the world.
    ET12 5.209 5 The race of English gentlemen presents an appearance of manly vigor and form not elsewhere to be found among an equal number of persons. No other nation produces the stock.
    Art2 7.46 8 The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it...
    Cour 7.265 15 Bodily pain is superficial, seated usually in the skin and the extremities...not in the vitals, where the rupture that produces death is perhaps not felt...
    PI 8.54 24 ...the poem is made up of lines each of which fills the ear of the poet in its turn, so that mere synthesis produces a work quite superhuman.
    Insp 8.280 9 Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces;...
    LS 11.24 20 I am content that [the Lord's Supper] stand to the end of the world...and I shall rejoice in all the good it produces.
    AKan 11.256 3 ...all party spirit produces the incapacity to receive natural impressions from facts;...

producible, adj. (1)

    PI 8.56 3 Perhaps this dainty style of poetry is not producible to-day...

producing, adj. (1)

    Prch 10.230 2 The clergy are always in danger of becoming wards and pensioners of the so-called producing classes.

producing, v. (6)

    Hist 2.28 22 The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child... paralyzing the understanding, and that without producing indignation...is a familiar fact...
    NMW 4.258 1 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes hold of it, producing spasms which contract the muscles of the hand, so that the man can not open his fingers;...
    ET13 5.222 26 The action of the university...is directed more on producing an English gentleman, than a saint or a psychologist.
    ET18 5.307 8 ...we must not play Providence and balance the chances of producing ten great men against the comfort of ten thousand mean men...
    PI 8.19 20 ...Poets are standing transporters, whose employment consists... in producing apparent imitations of unapparent natures...
    PPr 12.386 23 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear,-producing on the reader a feeling of forlornness by the excess of value attributed to circumstances.

product, n. (20)

    AmS 1.88 9 In proportion to the completeness of the distillation, so will the purity and imperishableness of the product be.
    DSA 1.123 25 ...the world is not the product of manifold power, but of one will...
    MN 1.193 2 The weaver should not be bereaved of...his knowledge that the product or the skill is of no value, except so far as it embodies his spiritual prerogatives.
    Tran 1.332 26 In the order of thought, the materialist takes his departure from the external world, and esteems a man as one product of that.
    Int 2.341 12 ...the profound genius will cast the likeness of all creatures into every product of his wit.
    Art1 2.353 25 ...the whole extant product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value, as history;...
    Mrs1 3.121 13 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...cannot be any casual product, but must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.
    NMW 4.229 20 This ciphering operative [Bonaparte] knows what he is working with and what is the product.
    ET5 5.98 14 Man in England submits to be a product of political economy.
    Wth 6.97 3 ...it is each man's interest that...wealth or surplus product should exist somewhere...
    SS 7.13 9 ...we say of animal spirits that they are the spontaneous product of health and of a social habit.
    Farm 7.137 15 If [a man] have not...some product for which the farmer will give him corn, he must himself return into his due place among the planters.
    Farm 7.141 22 ...the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    PI 8.16 24 The bee flies among the flowers, and gets mint and marjoram, and generates a new product...
    PI 8.16 27 ...the chemist mixes hydrogen and oxygen to yield a new product, which is not these, but water;...
    Edc1 10.143 21 Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature.
    LLNE 10.345 19 [The pilgrim] thought every one should labor at some necessary product...
    EWI 11.143 16 Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature; and there too is the germ forever protected, unfolding...a richer fruit, in every period, yet its next product is never to be guessed.
    ACiv 11.297 21 ...a man coins himself into his labor; turns his day, his strength, his thought, his affection into some product which remains as the visible sign of his power;...
    ACri 12.304 1 Classic art is the art of necessity; organic; modern or romantic bears the stamp of caprice or chance. One is the product of inclination, of caprice, of haphazard; the other carries its law and necessity within itself.

production, n. (34)

    Nat 1.23 15 The production of a work of art throws a light upon the mystery of humanity.
    Nat 1.41 20 ...a conspiring of parts and efforts to the production of an end is essential to any being.
    Hist 2.11 26 ...we apply ourselves to the history of [the Gothic cathedral's] production.
    Fdsp 2.196 26 ...I must hazard the production of the bald fact amidst these pleasing reveries...
    Int 2.336 20 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states, without which no production is possible.
    Art1 2.351 3 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.
    Art1 2.358 7 The reference of all production at last to an aboriginal Power explains the traits common to all works of the highest art...
    Art1 2.363 1 He has conceived meanly of the resources of man, who believes that the best age of production is past.
    Pt1 3.24 7 ...nature has a higher end, in the production of new individuals, than security, namely ascension...
    PPh 4.70 1 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be beautiful.
    ShP 4.189 17 There is nothing whimsical and fantastic in [the poet's] production...
    ShP 4.190 21 [A great man] finds two counties groping to bring coal, or flour, or fish, from the place of production to the place of consumption, and he hits on a railroad.
    ShP 4.213 16 This [power of expression] is that which throws [Shakespeare] into natural history, as a main production of the globe...
    ShP 4.214 1 ...[Shakespeare] is the chief example to prove that more or less of production...is a thing indifferent.
    ET3 5.39 1 The constant rain...brings agricultural production [in England] up to the highest point.
    ET5 5.76 21 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls,--a kind of goblin men with vast power of work and skilful production...
    ET10 5.159 22 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men, one man being able by the aid of steam to do the work which required two hundred and fifty men to accomplish fifty years ago. The production has been commensurate.
    ET14 5.251 10 ...much of [English] aesthetic production is antiquarian and manufactured...
    ET14 5.259 5 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude, in estimating the merit of such a production, all rules drawn from the ancient or modern literature of Europe...
    ET18 5.303 6 [The English people's] many-headedness is owing to the advantageous position of the middle class, who are always the source of letters and science. Hence the vast plenty of their aesthetic production.
    F 6.42 20 ...in each town there is some man who is...an explanation of the... production...of that town.
    Wth 6.85 20 Intimate ties subsist between thought and all production;...
    Wth 6.99 19 Property is an intellectual production.
    Art2 7.48 14 ...so in art that aims at beauty must the parts be subordinated to Ideal Nature...so that it shall be the production of the universal soul.
    DL 7.130 9 ...we are...competitors, each one, with Phidias and Raphael in the production of what is graceful or grand.
    WD 7.158 25 ...the vast production and manifold application of iron is new;...
    WD 7.185 11 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done...
    PI 8.43 4 All the parts and forms of Nature are the expression or production of divine faculties...
    Res 8.143 9 It was thought that the immense production of gold would make gold cheap as pewter.
    PerF 10.79 20 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and after many years succeeded in his production of the right article for commerce...
    HCom 11.343 25 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States, and now, by her teachers, preachers journalists and books, as well as by traffic and production, the diffuser of religious, literary and political opinion;...I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    EdAd 11.385 12 One would say there is nothing colossal in the country but its geography and its material activities; that the moral and intellectual effects are not on the same scale with the trade and production.
    EdAd 11.386 22 ...who can see the continent with...its confluence of races so favorable to the highest energy, and the infinite glut of their production, without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
    FRep 11.543 19 ...north and south, east and west will be present to our minds, and our vote will be as if they voted, and we shall know that our vote secures...good will, liberty and security of traffic and of production...

productions, n. (20)

    LE 1.159 17 The sense of spiritual independence is like the lovely varnish of the dew, whereby the old, hard, peaked earth and its old self-same productions are made new every morning...
    LE 1.182 11 ...this twofold merit characterizes ever the productions of great masters.
    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.
    NMW 4.242 16 A market for all the powers and productions of man was opened [in France];...
    Civ 7.23 9 The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy laborers; and they, creating demand by the very temptation of their productions, are rapidly and surely rewarded by good sale...
    Art2 7.43 2 Let us now consider this [natural] law as it affects the works that have beauty for their end, that is, the productions of the Fine Arts.
    WD 7.159 3 ...the immense productions of the laboratory, are new in this century...
    PI 8.15 21 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language...
    Res 8.142 19 ...our arts and productions begin to penetrate both [China and Japan].
    PC 8.213 22 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height.
    Dem1 10.11 17 ...all productions of man are so anthropomorphous that not possibly can he invent any fable that shall not have a deep moral...
    PerF 10.74 21 Look at [man]; you can give no guess at what power is in him. It never appears directly, but follow him and see his effects, see his productions.
    EWI 11.141 1 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro;...
    CL 12.137 6 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students, and, when they returned, they marched through the streets of Upsala in a festive procession...with loads of natural productions collected on the way.
    CL 12.164 3 Nature speaks to the imagination;...because her visible productions and changes are the nouns of language...
    MAng1 12.215 12 ...[Michelangelo's] character and his works...seem rather a part of Nature than arbitrary productions of the human will.
    MAng1 12.215 22 A purity severe and even terrible goes out from the lofty productions of [Michelangelo's] pencil and his chisel...
    Milt1 12.248 27 [Milton's tracts] are not effective, like similar productions of Swift and Burke;...
    MLit 12.325 27 [Says Wieland] The piece [Goethe's journal] is one of the most masterly productions...
    Let 12.397 11 Regrets and Bohemian castles and aesthetic villages are not a very self-helping class of productions...

productive, adj. (3)

    LE 1.157 16 ...men here...prefer...any livery productive of ease or profit, to the unproductive service of thought.
    ACiv 11.304 7 [Emancipation] is a progressive policy, puts the whole people in healthy, productive, amiable position...
    Bost 12.208 19 ...the genius of Boston is seen in her real independence, productive power and northern acuteness of mind...

productiveness, n. (3)

    SL 2.143 24 The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let [a man] scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.
    ET4 5.55 8 ...[the Celts] have endurance and productiveness.
    F 6.43 13 By and by [man] will...have his gardens and vineyards in the beautiful order and productiveness of his thought.

productivity, n. (2)

    ET10 5.157 12 [The English] have reinforced their own productivity by the creation of that marvellous machinery which differences this age from any other age.
    CbW 6.251 17 ...this spawning productivity is not noxious or needless.

products, n. (7)

    AmS 1.95 27 [Action] is the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid products.
    Tran 1.333 19 [The idealist] does not respect...the products of labor, namely property, otherwise than as a manifold symbol...
    ET5 5.96 13 The English trade does not exist for the exportation of native products...
    ET5 5.97 1 [The English] have ransacked Italy to find new forms, to add a grace to the products of their looms, their potteries and their foundries.
    SS 7.11 7 [The scholar's] products are as needful as those of the baker or the weaver.
    EWI 11.113 11 The Ministers, having estimated the slave products of the colonies...at 1,500,000 pounds per annum, estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...
    ChiE 11.474 8 [Asian immigrants] send back to their friends, in China, money, new products of art, new tools...

profanation, n. (6)

    DSA 1.132 18 To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.
    NER 3.278 18 The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation.
    SwM 4.129 25 Whether from a self-inquisitorial habit that he grew into from jealousy of the sins to which men of thought are liable, [Swedenborg] has acquired, in disentangling and demonstrating that particular form of moral disease, an acumen which no conscience can resist. I refer to his feeling of the profanation of thinking to what is good, from scientifics.
    SwM 4.138 14 That pure malignity can exist is the extreme proposition of unbelief. It is not to be entertained by a rational agent;...is it the last profanation.
    DL 7.132 25 Does the consecration of the church confess the profanation of the house?
    Thor 10.477 19 ...[Thoreau] was...a person incapable of any profanation, by act or by thought.

profane, adj. (25)

    DSA 1.135 2 Not any profane man, not any sensual...can teach...
    MN 1.200 16 Away, profane philosopher! seekest thou in nature the cause?
    MN 1.221 16 [The intellect] will burn up all profane literature...as in a moment of time.
    LT 1.281 7 ...in its management and details, [the reforming movement is] timid and profane.
    SR 2.65 25 The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.
    Fdsp 2.210 15 Should not the society of my friend be to me...great as nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane in comparison with yonder bar of cloud...
    OS 2.270 3 ...I desire, even by profane words, if I may not use sacred, to indicate the heaven of this deity...
    OS 2.297 6 ...[man] will learn that there is no profane history;...
    Cir 2.318 14 No facts are to me sacred; none are profane;...
    Nat2 3.172 8 It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.
    NER 3.269 18 [The scholar] was a profane person...
    ShP 4.218 24 ...it must even go into the world's history that the best poet [Shakespeare] led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
    Wth 6.98 23 In the Greek cities it was reckoned profane that any person should pretend a property in a work of art...
    Ctr 6.132 21 There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists.
    QO 8.193 23 Every word in the language has once been used happily. The ear, caught by that felicity, retains it, and it is used again and again, as if the charm belonged to the word and not to the life of thought which so enforced it. These profane uses, of course, kill it, and it is avoided.
    PPo 8.259 10 [Hafiz] has run through the whole gamut of passion,-from the sacred to the borders, and over the borders, of the profane.
    Aris 10.60 13 The solitariest man who shares [a certain order of men's] spirit walks environed by them;...and happy is he who prefers these associates to profane companions.
    Chr2 10.98 11 ...I may easily speak of that adorable nature, there where only I behold it in my dim experiences, in such terms as shall seem to the frivolous...as profane.
    SovE 10.200 2 When we ask simply, What is true in thought? what is just in action? it is the yielding of the private heart to the Divine mind, and all personal preferences, and all requiring of wonders, are profane.
    Plu 10.313 19 [Plutarch] reminds his friends that the Delphic oracles have given several answers the same in substance as that formerly given to Corax the Naxian: It sounds profane impiety/ To teach that human souls e'er die./
    LLNE 10.336 14 Astronomy...showed that our sacred as our profane history had been written in gross ignorance of the laws...
    Thor 10.476 4 [Thoreau] had...an unwillingness to exhibit to profane eyes what was still sacred in his own...
    SMC 11.362 14 One day [George Prescott] writes, I expect to have a time this forenoon with the officer from West Point who drills us. He is very profane...
    Wom 11.412 26 The passion [of love], with all its grace and poetry, is profane to that which follows it.
    MAng1 12.243 5 ...here was a man [Michelangelo] who lived to demonstrate that to the human faculties, on every hand, worlds of grandeur and grace are opened, which no profane eye and no indolent eye can behold...

profane, n. (1)

    Civ 7.33 18 ...a purer morality...casts backward all that we held sacred into the profane...

profane, v. (2)

    Exp 3.53 18 What notions do [physicians] attach to love! what to religion! One would not willingly pronounce these words in their hearing, and give them the occasion to profane them.
    Clbs 7.231 4 Amidst all the gay banter, sentiment cannot profane itself and venture out.

profaned, v. (2)

    Tran 1.344 11 I do not wish to be profaned.
    SovE 10.210 13 I know how delicate this [moral] principle is,-how difficult of adaptation to practical and social arrangements. It cannot be profaned;...

profanely, adv. (1)

    LT 1.277 24 [The work of the reformer] is done in the same way [as other work], it is done profanely, not piously;...

profanes, v. (3)

    DSA 1.133 11 The injustice of the vulgar tone of preaching is not less flagrant to Jesus than to the souls which it profanes.
    Fdsp 2.211 5 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me. It is a spiritual gift, worthy of him to give and of me to receive. It profanes nobody.
    CL 12.142 18 ...a vain talker profanes the river and the forest...

profanity, n. (1)

    SMC 11.362 8 At one time [George Prescott] finds his company unfortunate in having fallen between two companies of quite another class,-'t is profanity all the time;...

profess, v. (3)

    MoS 4.180 22 Some minds are incapable of skepticism. The doubts they profess to entertain are rather a civility or accommodation to the common discourse of their company.
    Chr2 10.91 7 [Morals] is that which all men profess to regard...
    Carl 10.491 10 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt; they profess freedom and he stands for slavery;...

professed, adj. (2)

    PI 8.50 20 ...every good reader will easily recall expressions or passages in works of pure science which have given him the same pleasure which he seeks in professed poets.
    CSC 10.373 22 This [Chardon Street] Convention never printed any report of its deliberations...the professed objects of those persons who felt the greatest interest in its meetings being simply the elucidation of truth through free discussion.

professed, v. (6)

    ET1 5.9 6 ...[Landor] professed never to have heard of Herschel...
    ET1 5.16 5 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig.
    QO 8.190 21 The Comte de Crillon said one day to M. d'Allonville...If the universe and I professed one opinion and M. Necker expressed a contrary one, I should be at once convinced that the universe and I were mistaken.
    Prch 10.223 19 I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait...of faithful service. I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed...
    FSLN 11.243 14 Having...professed his adoration for liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day...
    ACri 12.289 25 Goethe...professed to point his guest to his Walpurgis Sack...in which, he said, he put all his dire hints and images...

professedly, adv. (1)

    Mem 12.98 17 We gathered up what a rolling snow-ball as we came along,-much of it professedly for the future...

professes, v. (2)

    Prch 10.224 18 Now every man...professes this but practises the reverse;...
    Bost 12.202 22 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...spend the salaries. No, but...the men who are never contented and never to be contented with the work actually accomplished, but who from conscience are engaged to what that party professes...

professing, v. (1)

    GoW 4.278 18 We had an English romance here...professing to embody the hope of a new age...in which the only reward of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage.

profession, n. (40)

    AmS 1.97 7 ...profession and party...must also soar and sing.
    DSA 1.138 5 The capital secret of his profession...to convert life into truth, [the preacher] had not learned.
    LE 1.156 13 ...a very different estimate of the scholar's profession prevails in this country...
    MN 1.191 9 No matter what is their special work or profession, [the scholars] stand for the spiritual interest of the world...
    MR 1.240 23 ...the husbandman's is the oldest and most universal profession...
    LT 1.283 25 So little action amidst such audacious and yet sincere profession...
    Tran 1.345 9 Talk with a seaman of the hazards to life in his profession and he will ask you, Where are the old sailors?
    YA 1.366 23 ...beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised the conquering of the soil...
    SR 2.76 14 [A sturdy lad from Vermont]...feels no shame in not studying a profession...
    SL 2.140 18 We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession.
    Hsm1 2.258 25 ...[many extraordinary young men] enter an active profession and the forming Colossus shrinks to the common size of man.
    NER 3.275 11 The consideration...of a man of mark in his profession; a naval and military honor...have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    PPh 4.59 25 Socrates' profession of obstetric art is good philosophy;...
    NMW 4.248 10 What creates great difficulty, [Napoleon] remarks, in the profession of the land-commander, is the necessity of feeding so many men and animals.
    ET2 5.31 26 Among the passengers [on the Washington Irving] there was some variety of talent and profession;...
    ET8 5.142 3 ...for the dignity of a profession...the [English] army and navy may be entered...
    ET10 5.164 13 ...the provisions to lock and transmit [English property] have exercised the cunningest heads in a profession which never admits a fool.
    Pow 6.65 6 Politics is a deleterious profession...
    Farm 7.137 18 ...the profession [of farming] has in all eyes its ancient charm, as standing nearest to God, the first cause.
    Cour 7.268 25 [Courage] gives the cutting edge to every profession.
    Grts 8.305 7 Others find a charm and a profession in the natural history of man and the mammalia or related animals;...
    MoL 10.243 3 All the distinctions of profession and habit ended at the mines [of California].
    MoL 10.247 7 A scholar defending the cause...of the oppressor, is a traitor to his profession.
    MoL 10.252 11 Gentlemen, I am here to commend to you your art and profession as thinkers.
    Schr 10.264 20 The men committed by profession as well as by bias to study...talk hard and worldly...
    SlHr 10.439 11 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man...of a strong understanding, precise and methodical, which gave him great eminence in the legal profession.
    SlHr 10.444 23 Mr. Hoar was distinguished in his profession by the grasp of his mind...
    SlHr 10.446 9 ...whilst [Samuel Hoar's] talent and his profession led him to guard the material wealth of society, a more disinterested person did not exist.
    SlHr 10.447 21 ...[Samuel Hoar's] sincere admiration was commanded by certain heroes of the [legal] profession...
    Thor 10.452 12 ...whilst all his companions were choosing their profession...it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question...
    Thor 10.452 24 [Thoreau] declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession...
    Thor 10.453 21 A natural skill for mensuration...and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    Thor 10.454 6 [Thoreau] was bred to no profession;...
    EWI 11.123 10 The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.
    FSLC 11.192 17 The practitioners [of law] should guard this dogma [that immoral laws are void] well, as the palladium of the profession...
    FSLN 11.227 6 ...Vattel, Burke, Jefferson, do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid], and I cite them...because, though lawyers and practical statesmen, the habit of their profession did not hide from them that this truth was the foundation of States.
    FSLN 11.242 25 I [Robert Winthrop] am, as you see, a man virtuously inclined, and only corrupted by my profession of politics.
    JBB 11.267 15 ...I do not wonder that gentlemen find traits of relation readily between [John Brown] and themselves. One finds a relation in the church, another in the profession...
    Bost 12.186 2 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully generated by the air of that place, in the men of every profession;...
    Milt1 12.268 17 [Milton's] views of choice of profession, and choice in marriage, equally expect a divine leading.

professional, adj. (11)

    SL 2.133 3 ...the years of academical and professional education have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.
    Mrs1 3.130 11 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and through it, a meeting of merchants...a professional association...
    NER 3.256 8 Why should professional labor and that of the counting-house be paid so disproportionately to the labor of the porter and wood-sawyer?
    ET8 5.139 9 Even the scale of expense on which people live, and to which scholars and professional men conform, proves the tension of [English] muscle...
    Ctr 6.144 20 I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither. His easy superiority to multitudes of professional men could never quite countervail to him this imaginary defect.
    WD 7.181 23 We do not want factitious men, who can do any literary or professional feat...for money;...
    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;...
    Grts 8.316 4 I do not wish you to surpass others in any narrow or professional or monkish way.
    Plu 10.311 15 Plutarch is genial; with an endless interest in all human and divine things; Seneca, a professional philosopher...
    FRep 11.518 3 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians...
    CW 12.177 17 ...physicians or naturalists are the only professional men who continue their tasks out of study-hours;...

professionally, adv. (1)

    Pt1 3.28 11 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...

professions, n. (20)

    DSA 1.131 15 One would rather be A pagan, suckled in a creed outworn,/ than to be defrauded of his manly right in coming into nature and finding... not land and professions, but even virtue and truth foreclosed...
    MR 1.233 21 The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man.
    MR 1.241 11 Neither would I shut my ears to the plea of the learned professions...
    Tran 1.349 22 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly compromise...
    YA 1.366 15 This inclination [to cultivate the soil] has appeared...in those connected with the liberal professions.
    SR 2.76 8 A sturdy lad...who in turn tries all the professions...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    ET4 5.48 22 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form.
    ET14 5.240 16 If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied;...
    ET15 5.263 3 [Writing for English journals] comes of the crowded state of the professions...
    Wsp 6.211 24 We were not deceived by the professions of the private adventurer...
    CbW 6.245 8 All the professions are timid and expectant agencies.
    Boks 7.214 4 ...books that treat...our times, places, professions, customs, opinions, histories, with a certain freedom...put us on our feet again...
    Suc 7.311 24 ...we have powers, connection, children, reputations, professions;...
    Elo2 8.115 14 We reckon the bar, the senate, journalism and the pulpit, peaceful professions;...
    Elo2 8.118 5 If the performance of the advocate reaches any high success it is paid in England with dignities in the professions...
    PC 8.210 9 In this country the prodigious mass of work that must be done has either made new divisions of labor or created new professions.
    Schr 10.279 13 ...the young...looking around them at education, at the professions and employments...finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul, are confused...
    HDC 11.85 8 ...[Concord's sons] engage in trade and in all the professions.
    Wom 11.416 26 ...the times are marked by the new attitude of Woman; urging...her rights of all kinds...as the right to education...to the exercise of the professions and of suffrage.
    Bost 12.200 14 There are always men ready for adventures-more in an over-governed, over-peopled country, where all the professions are crowded and all character suppressed...

Professor, Greek, n. (1)

    OA 7.330 20 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...

professor, n. (23)

    AmS 1.83 1 Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all.
    LT 1.265 4 Let us paint the agitator...and the college professor...
    GoW 4.283 1 ...the [German] professor can not divest himself of the fancy that the truths of philosophy have some application to Berlin and Munich.
    ET12 5.210 14 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...(copies of which were kindly given me by a Greek professor)...
    ET14 5.237 27 The manner in which [the English] learned Greek and Latin...by lectures of a professor, followed by their own searchings,-- required a more robust memory, and cooperation of all the faculties;...
    Bty 6.284 19 The boy is not attracted [to science]. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.
    WD 7.180 19 ...you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.
    Boks 7.191 23 ...the colleges, whilst they provide us with libraries, furnish no professor of books;...
    Cour 7.269 26 ...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class...
    Suc 7.304 24 To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric.
    Suc 7.305 1 To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric. Sylvina can't remember, but suggests that Odoacer was defeated; and the professor tartly replies, No, he defeated the Romans.
    Insp 8.292 9 Not Aristotle, not Kant or Hegel, but conversation, is the right metaphysical professor.
    Plu 10.310 3 [Some of Plutarch's works] are...very crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors, some of them jocosely misreporting the dogma of the professor...
    EzRy 10.382 8 ...now that he had become a professor of religion [Ezra Ripley] had an ardent desire to be preacher of the gospel.
    Carl 10.491 6 Young men...press to see [Carlyle], but it strikes me like being hot to see the mathematical or Greek professor before they have got their lesson.
    CPL 11.507 9 ...the book is a sure friend...opens to the very page you desire, and shuts at your first fatigue,-as possibly your professor might not.
    PLT 12.8 11 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor hastens to inform us that he knew it all twenty years ago...
    PLT 12.10 23 The laws and powers of the Intellect have...a stupendous peculiarity, of being at once observers and observed. So that it is difficult to...hinder them from turning the professor out of his chair.
    CInt 12.125 2 ...unless...the professor has a generous sympathy with genius...that will happen which has happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
    CL 12.142 9 The qualifications of a professor [of walking] are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes...
    CW 12.172 24 Linnaeus, who was professor of the Royal Gardens at Upsala, took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has ordered my fate, that I live in this time...
    ACri 12.288 27 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration. I remember an occasion when a proficient in this style came from North Street to Cambridge and drew a crowd of young critics in the college yard, who found his wrath so aesthetic and fertilizing that they...even overstayed the hour of the mathematical professor.
    ACri 12.290 3 Dante is the professor that shall teach both the noble low style...also the sculpture of compression.

Professor, n. (2)

    ET12 5.199 11 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford, where I had introductions to Dr. Daubeny, Professor of Botany, and to the Regius Professor of Divinity [William Jacobson]...
    CL 12.137 1 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students...

Professor of Rhetoric and O (1)

    Elo2 8.122 27 In the early years of this century, Mr. [John Quincy] Adams... was elected Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College.

Professor, Regius, of Divin (1)

    ET12 5.199 12 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford, where I had introductions to Dr. Daubeny...and to the Regius Professor of Divinity [William Jacobson]...

professors, n. (16)

    Chr1 3.104 4 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...two professors recommended to foreign universities; etc., etc.
    MoS 4.153 3 ...the men of the senses revenge themselves on the professors and repay scorn for scorn.
    ET4 5.71 23 Their young boiling clerks and lusty collegians [in England] like the company of horses better than the company of professors.
    ET7 5.122 15 ...[Englishmen] hate the Germans, as professors.
    ET12 5.212 20 Oxford is a library, and the professors must be librarians.
    ET12 5.212 25 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors for not admiring the young neologists who pluck the beards of Euclid and Aristotle...
    Pow 6.79 26 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...university deans and professors...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
    Bhr 6.188 12 People masquerade before us...as...senators, or professors...
    Farm 7.140 3 This hard work [of the farm] will always be done by one kind of man; not...by soldiers, nor professors...
    MoL 10.243 9 ...professors of colleges sold cigars, mince-pies, matches [in California]...
    LLNE 10.337 16 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred secret to a street show. The attempt...felt connection where the professors denied it...
    FSLC 11.181 11 ...presidents of colleges, and professors...not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    EdAd 11.385 20 We have taste, critical talent, good professors, good commentators, but a lack of male energy.
    II 12.73 23 ...when we consider who and what the professors of that art usually are, does it not seem as if music falls accidentally and superficially on its artists?
    CL 12.159 9 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and know... where the noblest landscapes are seen, and are learning all the time;-these we call professors.
    CW 12.177 13 [Walking] is a fine art;-there are degrees of proficiency, and we distinguish the professors of that science from the apprentices.

Professors, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.123 4 When [John Quincy Adams] read his first lectures in 1806... the hall was crowded by the Professors and by unusual visitors.

professor's, n. (2)

    LLNE 10.333 1 In the pulpit...[Everett] made amends to himself and his auditor for the self-denial of the professor's chair, and...he gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy.
    Thor 10.472 16 No college ever offered [Thoreau]...a professor's chair;...

Professors of the Joyous Sc (1)

    Schr 10.262 24 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...Professors of the Joyous Science...

professorships, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.17 7 ...[the belief in luck] is not the power...which we...found college professorships to expound.

proffer, n. (1)

    UGM 4.16 11 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence. This honor...genius perpetually pays; contented if now and then in a century the proffer is accepted.

proffer, v. (2)

    Gts 3.165 12 I find that I am not much to you;...you do not feel me; then am I thrust out of doors, though you proffer me house and lands.
    Nat2 3.173 14 ...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...signify it and proffer it.

proffered, adj. (1)

    Prch 10.226 19 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-...Time,/ Pleased with your triumphs o'er his brother brother Space,/ Accepts from your bold hands the proffered crown/ Of hope and smiles on you with cheer sublime./

proffered, v. (1)

    MLit 12.332 11 [Goethe]...has declined the office proffered to now and then a man in many centuries in the power of his genius, of a Redeemer of the human mind.

proffers, v. (1)

    Hsm1 2.245 9 When any Rodrigo, Pedro or Valerio enters [in the plays of the elder English dramatists]...the duke or governor exclaims, This is a gentleman,--and proffers civilities without end;...

proficiency, n. (4)

    Prd1 2.222 18 There are all degrees of proficiency in knowledge of the world.
    Int 2.340 22 ...an index or mercury of intellectual proficiency is the perception of identity.
    PPh 4.67 6 Such, O Theages, is the association with me [said Socrates]; for, if it pleases the God, you will make great and rapid proficiency...
    CW 12.177 12 [Walking] is a fine art;-there are degrees of proficiency...

proficient, n. (1)

    ACri 12.288 22 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration. I remember an occasion when a proficient in this style came from North Street to Cambridge and drew a crowd of young critics in the college yard...

proficients, n. (3)

    Tran 1.357 16 ...all these [Transcendentalists] of whom I speak are not proficients;...
    Pow 6.72 16 This aboriginal might gives a surprising pleasure when it appears under conditions of supreme refinement, as in the proficients in high art.
    Ctr 6.161 21 ...there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices but for proficients.

profile, n. (3)

    Hist 2.36 25 Transport [Napoleon] to...complex interests and antagonist power, and you shall see that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not the virtual Napoleon.
    Cir 2.299 4 Nature centres into balls,/ And her proud ephemerals,/ Fast to surface and outside,/ Scan the profile of the sphere;/...
    Art2 7.44 20 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.

profit, n. (17)

    Nat 1.13 10 All the parts [of nature] incessantly work into each other's hands for the profit of man.
    LE 1.157 16 ...men here...prefer...any livery productive of ease or profit, to the unproductive service of thought.
    Comp 2.104 27 Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things, profit out of profitable things...as soon as we seek to separate them from the whole.
    Prd1 2.238 19 ...calculation might come to value love for its profit.
    Int 2.326 3 The considerations...of profit and hurt, tyrannize over most men' s minds.
    Chr1 3.97 12 [The feeble souls] look at the profit or hurt of the action.
    PNR 4.83 27 The eye attested that justice was best, as long as it was profitable; Plato affirms that...profit is intrinsic...
    Boks 7.196 26 ...Never read any [books] but what you like;, or, in Shakspeare's phrase, No profit goes where is no pleasure te'en:/ In brief, sir, study what you most affect./
    Suc 7.286 26 Neither do we grudge to each of these benefactors the praise or the profit which accrues from his industry.
    QO 8.194 18 The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader.
    EWI 11.137 19 Every one of these [arguments against emancipation in the West Indies] was built on the narrow ground...of pecuniary profit...
    EWI 11.142 14 The recent testimonies...of Gurney, of Philippo, are very explicit on this point, the capacity and the success of the colored and the black population [in the West Indies] in employments of skill, of profit and of trust;...
    War 11.158 25 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at, I burned and spoiled. And had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantity of treasure. The matter of most profit to me was a great ship of the king's...
    FSLC 11.199 18 There is...not an economist but is computing [slavery's] profit and loss...
    JBS 11.276 10 Then angrily the people cried,/ The loss outweighs the profit far;/ Our goods suffice us as they are:/ We will not have them tried./
    ACiv 11.302 11 In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want, but that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle, believing that Nature...will...more than make good any petty and injurious profit which it may disturb.
    ChiE 11.473 1 [Confucius's] morals...we read with profit to-day.

profit, v. (3)

    ShP 4.218 5 ...when the question is, to life and its materials and its auxiliaries, how does [Shakespeare] profit me?
    LLNE 10.338 3 ...the joy with which [Mesmerism] was greeted was an instinct of the people which no true philosopher would fail to profit by.
    Pray 12.355 8 I know that thou hast not created me and placed me here on earth...and told me to be like thyself when I see so little of thee here to profit by;...

profitable, adj. (11)

    Hist 2.12 21 To the poet...all events [are] profitable...
    Comp 2.105 1 Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things, profit out of profitable things...as soon as we seek to separate them from the whole.
    SL 2.153 27 That only profits which is profitable.
    Prd1 2.237 1 On the most profitable lie the course of events presently lays a destructive tax;...
    PPh 4.67 15 As if [Socrates] had said... ... If there is love between us, inconceivably delicious and profitable will our intercourse be;...
    PNR 4.83 26 The eye attested that justice was best, as long as it was profitable;...
    PNR 4.83 26 The eye attested that justice was best, as long as it was profitable; Plato affirms that it is profitable throughout;...
    ET14 5.240 6 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality, or prima philosophia; the receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special parts of philosophy, but are more common and of a higher stage.
    Clbs 7.247 1 Things which you fancy wrong [manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] know to be right and profitable;...
    Schr 10.279 22 I declare anew from Heaven that truth exists new and beautiful and profitable forevermore.
    MAng1 12.227 11 [Michelangelo] gave this model [of a movable platform] to a carpenter, who made it so profitable as to furnish a dowry for his two daughters.

profited, v. (1)

    Int 2.329 14 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.

profiteth, v. (1)

    LS 11.11 1 [Jesus] closed his discourse [at Capernaum] with these explanatory expressions: The flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life.

Profitloss, Mr., n. (1)

    Pow 6.82 3 Are you so cunning, Mr. Profitloss, and do you expect to swindle your master and employer, in the web you weave?

profits, n. (4)

    LT 1.273 8 A wealthy man, addicted...to his profits, finds religion to be a traffic so entangled...that of all mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock going upon that trade.
    YA 1.373 8 [This Genius or Destiny] may be styled...a terrible communist, reserving all profits to the community...
    Wth 6.110 5 Britain, France and Germany, which our extraordinary profits had impoverished, send out, attracted by the fame of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor people, to share the crop.
    EWI 11.112 13 ...the praedials [in the West Indies] should owe three fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years...

profits, v. (3)

    SL 2.153 27 That only profits which is profitable.
    UGM 4.13 27 [Mental and moral force] goes out from you, whether you will or not, and profits me whom you never thought of.
    NMW 4.258 25 Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open...

profligacy, n. (5)

    NER 3.278 18 The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation.
    ET11 5.172 22 In spite of...the devastation of society by the profligacy of the court, we take sides as we read for the loyal England...
    Pow 6.61 14 A timid man...observing the profligacy of party...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    Wth 6.112 15 Profligacy consists not in spending years of time or chests of money,--but in spending them off the line of your career.
    Trag 12.414 5 If any perversity or profligacy break out in society, [the man who is centred] will join with others to avert the mischief...

profligate, adj. (7)

    MoS 4.159 24 This then is the right ground of the skeptic,--this of consideration, of self-containing;...not at all of universal denying...least of all of scoffing and profligate jeering at all that is stable and good.
    GoW 4.269 25 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must...write conventional criticism, or profligate novels...
    Pow 6.62 4 We prosper with such vigor that...we do not suffer from the profligate swarms that fatten on the national treasury.
    PI 8.38 1 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed, confined...in profligate politics...
    PerF 10.87 5 There is a speedy limit to profligate politics.
    LLNE 10.338 24 The result [of Modern Science] in literature and the general mind was a return to law;...as distinguished from the profligate manners and politics of earlier times.
    EdAd 11.388 11 We see that reckless and destructive fury which characterizes the lower classes of American society, and which is pampered by hundreds of profligate presses.

profound, adj. (58)

    LE 1.172 3 A profound thought, anywhere, classifies all things...
    LE 1.172 5 ...a profound thought will lift Olympus.
    LT 1.275 25 Here is great variety and richness of mysticism, [which]... when it shall be taken up as the garniture of some profound and all-reconciling thinker, will appear the rich and appropriate decoration of his robes.
    Tran 1.344 27 The profound nature will have a savage rudeness;...
    Hist 2.17 10 ...a profound nature awakens in us by its actions and words... the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses.
    SL 2.151 21 [The world] leaves every man, with profound unconcern, to set his own rate.
    OS 2.273 6 ...in languor, give us...a profound sentence, and we are refreshed;...
    OS 2.278 9 We owe many valuable observations to people who are not very acute or profound...
    Cir 2.311 1 O, what truths profound and executable only in ages and orbs, are supposed in the announcement of every truth!
    Int 2.341 11 ...the profound genius will cast the likeness of all creatures into every product of his wit.
    Pt1 3.11 10 We know that the secret of the world is profound...
    Exp 3.71 7 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life.
    Exp 3.71 15 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries of its profound beauty and repose...
    Chr1 3.111 10 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous men...
    NER 3.260 20 I conceive...that [the recent philosophy] is feeling its own profound truth...
    PPh 4.48 3 We unite all things...by perceiving the superficial differences and the profound resemblances.
    PNR 4.87 4 All the gods of the Pantheon are, by their names, [to Plato] significant of a profound sense.
    SwM 4.118 23 ...[Swedenborg's] profound mind admitted the perilous opinion...that he was an abnormal person...
    MoS 4.178 22 Reason...is apprehended, now and then, for a serene and profound moment...
    ET14 5.259 19 ...there is at all times a minority of profound minds existing in the nation [England], capable of appreciating every soaring of intellect...
    F 6.39 20 The times, the age, what is that but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?
    Bhr 6.192 26 That is the charm in all good novels...that the heroes...deal loyally and with a profound trust in each other.
    CbW 6.246 15 That by which a man conquers in any passage is a profound secret to every other being in the world...
    Art2 7.38 5 The more profound the thought, the more burdensome.
    Elo1 7.92 19 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
    Boks 7.205 11 [The student] cannot spare Gibbon...with such wit and continuity of mind, that, though never profound, his book is one of the conveniences of civilization...
    Clbs 7.236 12 Dr. Johnson was a man of no profound mind...
    PI 8.10 4 The poet who plays with [the law of correspondence] with most boldness...is most profound and most devout.
    Elo2 8.123 22 [John Quincy Adams's] last lecture...contained some nervous allusions to the treatment he had received from his old friends... which made a profound impression on the class.
    Res 8.149 5 See how [Newton] refreshed himself, resting from the profound researches of the calculus by astronomy;...
    QO 8.195 21 Hallam, though never profound, is a fair mind...
    QO 8.201 15 The profound apprehension of the Present is Genius...
    PC 8.229 20 The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
    PPo 8.248 6 The other merit of Hafiz is his intellectual liberty, which is a certificate of profound thought.
    Grts 8.313 17 ...when the Devil appeared to [Barcena the Jesuit] in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.
    Imtl 8.331 8 There is a profound melancholy at the base of men of active and powerful talent, seldom suspected.
    Dem1 10.11 23 ...all the bravest tales of Homer and the poets, modern philosophers can explain with profound judgment of law and state and ethics.
    Chr2 10.100 26 When a man is born with a profound moral sentiment... men readily feel the superiority.
    Prch 10.223 10 Every movement of religious opinion is of profound importance to politics and social life;...
    Schr 10.265 22 Like [the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant] [the poet] will joyfully lose days and months...in the profound hope that one restoring, all rewarding, immense success will arrive at last...
    Plu 10.297 18 [Plutarch] is not a profound mind;...
    ALin 11.331 7 The profound good opinion which the people of Illinois and of the West had conceived of [Lincoln]...was not rash...
    EdAd 11.385 25 We hearken in vain for any profound voice speaking to the American heart...
    PLT 12.31 7 Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
    PLT 12.63 20 Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
    Mem 12.99 6 ...there is a sound sleep of children and of savages, profound as the hibernation of bears, which never visits the eyes of civil gentlemen...
    CInt 12.116 13 ...if [colleges] could cause that a mind not profound should become profound,-we should all rush to their gates;...
    CInt 12.127 5 The College should hold the profound thought, and the Church the great heart to which the nation should turn...
    CInt 12.130 14 ...know that, next to being [intellect's] minister...is the profound reception and sympathy, without ambition, which secularizes and trades it.
    MAng1 12.223 6 Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures, improper, says his biographer, for the place, but proper for the exhibition of all the pomp of his profound knowledge.
    MAng1 12.233 14 ...let no man suppose...that this profound soul [Michelangelo] was taken or holden in the chains of superficial beauty.
    Milt1 12.255 7 Bacon's Essays are the portrait of an ambitious and profound calculator...
    Milt1 12.259 9 [Milton's] father's care, seconded by his own endeavor, introduced him to a profound skill in all the treasures of Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Italian tongues;...
    MLit 12.329 25 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] To a profound soul is not austere truth the sweetest flattery??
    WSL 12.338 18 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...with a profound contempt for all that he does not understand;...
    WSL 12.341 5 In these busy days...when there is so little disposition to profound thought...a faithful scholar...is a friend and consoler of mankind.
    WSL 12.343 3 Whatever can make for itself...the most profound and permanent existence in the hearts and heads of millions of men, must have a reason for its being.

profound, n. (2)

    Chr1 3.106 27 ...wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity.
    PPh 4.48 11 The mind is urged to ask for one cause of many effects; then for the cause of that; and again the cause, diving still into the profound...

profounder, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.38 3 ...[property] is hiving...experience in profounder laws.
    ET14 5.240 24 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part of learning [universality] very deficient, the profounder sort of wits drawing a bucket now and then for their own use...
    ET14 5.245 25 [Hallam] passes in silence, or dismisses with a kind of contempt, the profounder masters...
    Boks 7.194 20 ...perhaps, the human mind would be a gainer if all the secondary writers were lost...through the profounder study so drawn to those wonderful minds.

profoundest, adj. (7)

    Nat 1.24 18 Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe.
    LT 1.275 12 A great deal of the profoundest thinking of antiquity...is now re-appearing in extracts and allusions...
    NR 3.247 5 If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words...
    DL 7.107 19 It is what is done and suffered in the house...in the personal history, that has the profoundest interest for us.
    QO 8.194 20 The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
    MoL 10.244 26 Our profoundest philosophy...is skepticism.
    Trag 12.409 20 In those persons who move the profoundest pity, tragedy seems to consist in temperament, not in events.

profoundly, adv. (4)

    Hsm1 2.250 22 ...we must profoundly revere [heroism].
    SwM 4.128 24 Perhaps the true subject of the Conjugal Love [by Swedenborg] is Conversation, whose laws are profoundly set forth.
    Carl 10.490 1 [Carlyle] talks like a very unhappy man,-profoundly solitary...
    Bost 12.199 1 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...which have been so profoundly ventilated, but end in a protracted picnic...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...

profoundness, n. (4)

    Tran 1.340 10 The extraordinary profoundness and precision of that man's [Kant's] thinking have given vogue to his nomenclature...
    Pt1 3.37 6 We do not with sufficient plainness or sufficient profoundness address ourselves to life...
    Elo1 7.66 17 If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence [in the audience] of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them. If new topics are started, graver and higher, these roisters recede; a more chaste and wise attention takes place. You would think the boys slept, and that the men have any degree of profoundness.
    Edc1 10.154 16 ...only to think of using [simple discipline and the following of nature] implies character and profoundness;...

profuse, adj. (3)

    Lov1 2.188 1 ...I do not wonder...at the profuse beauty with which the instincts deck the nuptial bower...
    SwM 4.144 8 In [Swedenborg's] profuse and accurate imagery is no pleasure, for there is no beauty.
    HDC 11.38 26 The little flower which at this season stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms, might attract even eyes as stern as [the settlers of Concord's] with its humble beauty.

profusely, adv. (4)

    SwM 4.130 19 ...this man [Swedenborg], profusely endowed in heart and mind, early fell into dangerous discord with himself.
    ET8 5.135 16 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed, and profusely pouring over the cold mind of his countrymen creations of grace and truth...
    CbW 6.272 16 Here [in conversation] are oracles sometimes profusely given...
    HDC 11.78 11 [Concord] spends profusely, affectionately, in the service [of the American Revolution].

profusion, n. (10)

    Nat 1.32 11 Did it need...this profusion of forms...to furnish man with the dictionary and grammar of his municipal speech?
    Nat2 3.186 27 All things betray the same calculated profusion.
    Bhr 6.190 27 In this country...we have...a profusion of reading and writing and expression.
    Bty 6.300 4 ...petulant old gentlemen...who have seen cut flowers to some profusion...affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    Ill 6.320 7 One after the other we accept the mental laws, still resisting those which follow, which however must be accepted. But all our concessions only compel us to new profusion.
    PI 8.50 2 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see...how rich and lavish their profusion.
    TPar 11.284 13 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak,/ You forget the man wholly, you 're thankful to meet/ With a preacher who smacks of the field and the street,/ And to hear, you 're not over-particular whence,/ Almost Taylor's profusion, quite Latimer's sense./ Lowell, A Fable for Critics.
    Mem 12.106 12 [The bright school-girl] carries [what she has memorized] so carelessly, it seems like the profusion of hair on the shock heads of all the village boys and village dogs;...
    CL 12.146 17 I know a whole district...where the apple-trees strive with and hold their ground against the native forest-trees: the apple growing with profusion that mocks the pains taken by careful cockneys...
    MAng1 12.238 15 ...[Michelangelo] was liberal to profusion to his old domestic Urbino...

progenitors, n. (6)

    Con 1.324 10 ...[the hero] will say, All the meanness of my progenitors shall not bereave me of the power to make this hour and company fair and fortunate.
    UGM 4.25 18 Men resemble their contemporaries even more than their progenitors.
    ET4 5.51 23 ...I fancied I could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as [the Englishman's] lineal progenitors.
    F 6.9 27 It often appears in a family as if all the qualities of the progenitors were potted in several jars...
    SovE 10.201 18 The house in which we were born...is still haunted by parents and progenitors.
    CL 12.148 12 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts...

progeny, n. (5)

    Pt1 3.23 16 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs,--a fearless, sleepless, deathless progeny...
    Nat2 3.187 8 ...nature hides in [the lover's] happiness her own end, namely progeny...
    MMEm 10.415 9 Vital, I feel not: not active, but passive, and cannot aid the creatures which seem my progeny,-myself.
    FSLC 11.211 18 ...Massachusetts is little, but, if true to itself, can be the brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery]. I say Massachusetts, but I mean...Massachusetts...as she sees her progeny scattered over the face of the land...
    PLT 12.18 16 The perceptions of a soul, its wondrous progeny, are born by the conversation, the marriage of souls;...

progessive, adj. (1)

    PI 8.7 27 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind;...

prognostics, n. (1)

    CL 12.139 22 ...among our many prognostics of the weather, the only trustworthy one that I know is that, when it is warm, it is a sign that it is going to be cold.

programme, n. (1)

    ET19 5.310 11 ...when I came to sea, I found the History of Europe, by Sir A. Alison, on the ship's cabin table, the property of the captain;--a sort of programme or play-bill to tell the seafaring New Englander what he shall find on his landing here.

progress, adj. (1)

    ACiv 11.299 14 Is this secular progress we have described...only to give [man] sensibility...

Progress in Virtue, On [Pl (1)

    Boks 7.200 6 [The reader] will read in [Plutarch's Morals] the essays On the Daemon of Socrates...On Progress in Virtue...

progress, n. (86)

    Nat 1.75 21 It were a wise inquiry...to compare...our daily history with the rise and progress of ideas in the mind.
    LE 1.164 3 An intimation of these broad rights is familiar in the sense of injury which men feel in the assumption of any man to limit their possible progress.
    MN 1.196 10 ...if you come month after month to see what progress our reformer has made,-not an inch has he pierced...
    MN 1.214 21 He who aims at progress should aim at an infinite, not at a special benefit.
    MR 1.231 15 ...it is only necessary to ask a few questions as to the progress of the articles of commerce from the fields where they grew, to our houses, to become aware that we eat and drink and wear perjury and fraud...
    LT 1.261 24 In our idea of progress, we do not go out of this personal picture.
    Con 1.321 3 The contractors who were building a road out of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers...refractory to a degree that...seriously interrupted the progress of the work.
    Tran 1.353 26 ...the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead...never meet and measure each other...and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.
    YA 1.363 11 Who has not been stimulated to reflection by the facilities now in progress of construction for travel and the transportation of goods in the United States?
    YA 1.369 7 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will render a service to the whole face of this continent...
    YA 1.376 12 ...the Emperor Nicholas is reported to have said to his council...rely on me, gentlemen, I shall oppose an iron will to the progress of liberal opinions.
    YA 1.385 12 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen;...
    Hist 2.12 17 The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes...
    Hist 2.22 12 In America and Europe the nomadism is of trade and curiosity; a progress, certainly, from the gad-fly of Astaboras to the Anglo and Italomania of Boston Bay.
    Comp 2.122 14 [The soul's] life is a progress, and not a station.
    Lov1 2.188 23 ...we need not fear that we can lose anything by the progress of the soul.
    OS 2.274 17 After its own law...is the rate of [the soul's] progress to be computed.
    OS 2.286 17 The infallible index of true progress is found in the tone the man takes.
    Cir 2.316 19 ...the progress of my character will liquidate all these debts without injustice to higher claims.
    Int 2.330 1 All our progress is an unfolding...
    Int 2.343 12 Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers...
    Art1 2.354 18 ...[the infant's] individual character and his practical power depend on his daily progress in the separation of things...
    Chr1 3.111 24 Those relations to the best men...become, in the progress of the character, the most solid enjoyment.
    Pol1 3.200 10 ...the State must follow and not lead the character and progress of the citizen;...
    Pol1 3.201 15 The history of the State sketches in coarse outline the progress of thought...
    NER 3.255 10 In politics...it is easy to see the progress of dissent.
    UGM 4.34 10 For a time our teachers serve us personally, as metres or milestones of progress.
    PPh 4.46 20 The progress is to accuracy, to skill, to truth, from blind force.
    ShP 4.219 6 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became...a pilgrim's progress...
    NMW 4.228 8 The advocates of liberty and of progress are ideologists;--a word of contempt often in [Napoleon's] mouth;...
    GoW 4.278 26 In the progress of the story, the characters of the hero and heroine [of Sand's Consuelo] expand at a rate that shivers the porcelain chess-table of aristocratic convention...
    ET11 5.185 14 [English nobility's] institution is one step in the progress of society.
    ET14 5.239 1 Where [idealism] goes, is poetry, health and progress.
    F 6.13 14 In England there is always some man of wealth and large connection, planting himself, during all his years of health, on the side of progress...
    Wsp 6.227 8 In the progress of the character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment...
    Civ 7.19 1 A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found...is called Civilization.
    Civ 7.19 5 A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found...a cannibal, and eater of pounded snails, worms and offal,--a certain degree of progress from this extreme is called Civilization.
    Civ 7.20 2 The term [Civilization] imports a mysterious progress.
    Civ 7.20 8 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth...is made by tribes.
    Civ 7.33 21 Not the less the popular measures of progress will ever be the arts and the laws.
    DL 7.111 10 The progress of domestic living has been in cleanliness, in ventilation...
    DL 7.128 16 There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the character which draws them.
    DL 7.129 12 In the progress of each man's character, his relations to the best men...acquire a graver importance;...
    DL 7.132 9 ...the progress of truth will make every house a shrine.
    WD 7.166 23 ...with the material power the moral progress has not kept pace.
    WD 7.185 5 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind; from the works of man and the activity of the hands to a delight in the faculties which rule them;...
    Suc 7.311 19 ...[the inner life] makes no progress;...
    Imtl 8.328 19 A wise man in our time caused to be written on his tomb, Think on living. That inscription describes a progress in opinion.
    Dem1 10.12 3 ...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words, and it stood up and brought him water, and turned a spit, and carried bundles, doing all the work of a slave. What is this but a prophecy of the progress of art?
    Chr2 10.110 5 There is a certain secular progress of opinion, which, in civil countries, reaches everybody.
    Chr2 10.119 17 To nations or to individuals the progress of opinion is not a loss of moral restraint...
    Edc1 10.126 20 The animals that accompany and serve man make no progress as races.
    Edc1 10.127 6 Certain nations...have made such progress as to compare with these [savages] as these compare with the bear and the wolf.
    Edc1 10.152 14 Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher, of a day of love and progress, is often closed at evening by despair.
    SovE 10.208 14 The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.
    Prch 10.218 2 I see in those classes and those persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress...character, but skepticism;...
    Prch 10.219 9 It is certain that...many...periods of inactivity,-solstices when we make no progress...will occur.
    Schr 10.283 12 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...makes no progress, but was wise in youth as in age.
    LLNE 10.352 2 [Fourierism] contained so much truth, and promised in the attempts that shall be made to realize it so much valuable instruction, that we are engaged to observe every step of its progress.
    LLNE 10.361 7 Those who inspired and organized [Brook Farm] were... persons impatient of the routine...of society around them, which was so timid and skeptical of any progress.
    HDC 11.50 1 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 English nation...as a certificate of the progress of the Saxon race;...
    HDC 11.62 17 I turn gladly to the progress of our civil history.
    HDC 11.72 1 This body [the Provincial Congress]...adopted those efficient measures whose progress and issue belong to the history of the nation.
    HDC 11.82 10 From that time [1788] to the present hour, this town [Concord] has made a slow but constant progress in population and wealth...
    EWI 11.147 11 Seen in masses, it cannot be disputed, there is progress in human society.
    War 11.151 2 It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy to indicate the steps of human progress...
    War 11.153 10 New territory, augmented numbers and extended interests call out new virtues and abilities, and the tribe makes long strides. And, finally, when much progress has been made, all its secrets of wisdom and art are disseminated by its invasions.
    War 11.166 26 At a certain stage of his progress, the man fights...
    FSLC 11.207 9 ...shall we, as we are advised on all hands, lie by, and wait the progress of the census? But will Slavery lie by? I fear not.
    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 11.229 19 ...I suppose that liberty is an accurate index, in men and nations, of general progress.
    FSLN 11.241 8 ...when one sees how fast the rot [of slavery] spreads...I think we demand of superior men that they be superior in this,-that the mind and the virtue shall give their verdict in their day, and accelerate so far the progress of civilization.
    FSLN 11.243 20 [Robert Winthrop] denounced every name and aspect under which liberty and progress dare show themselves in this age and country...
    ACiv 11.304 18 On the climbing scale of progress, [the Southerner] is just up to war...
    ACiv 11.310 3 ...there is perpetual march and progress to ideas.
    EPro 11.317 27 When we consider the immense opposition that has been neutralized or converted by the progress of the war...one can hardly say the deliberation [on the Emancipation Proclamation] was too long.
    EPro 11.324 4 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of...in the progress of hostilities, disinfecting us of our habitual proclivity...to follow Southern leading.
    Koss 11.398 4 Sir [Kossuth], we have watched with attention your progress through the land...
    FRep 11.516 20 The new conditions of mankind in America are really favorable to progress...
    FRep 11.524 21 Whilst each cabal...at last brings...men whose names are a knell to all hope of progress, the good and wise are hidden in their active retirements...
    PLT 12.23 11 Every scholar knows that he applies himself coldly and slowly at first to his task, but, with the progress of the work, the mind itself becomes heated, and sees far and wide as it approaches the end...
    PLT 12.56 5 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men...seems inspired and a god-send to those who wish to...carry a point. 'T is the difference between progress by railroad and by walking across the broken country.
    PLT 12.59 13 [A fact] is...only a means now to new sallies of the imagination and new progress of wisdom.
    MAng1 12.234 1 ...as...[Michelangelo] sought to approach the Beautiful by the study of the True, so he failed not to make the next step of progress, and to seek Beauty in its highest form, that of Goodness.
    Milt1 12.275 22 ...in Paradise Regained, we have the most distinct marks of the progress of the poet's mind...
    PPr 12.381 11 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the exposure of the progress of fraud into all parts and social activities;...

Progress, Pilgrim's [John (2)

    DL 7.106 22 ...Pilgrim's Progress,--what mines of thought and emotion... are in this encyclopaedia of young thinking!
    PI 8.28 21 Bunyan, in pain for his soul, wrote Pilgrim's Progress;...

progression, n. (2)

    Cir 2.318 17 ...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.
    ET14 5.240 18 If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied; and this I [Bacon] take to be a great cause that has hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage.

progressive, adj. (15)

    Nat 1.36 22 Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the necessary lessons...of progressive arrangement;...
    Nat 1.61 3 It is essential to a true theory of nature and of man, that it should contain somewhat progressive.
    AmS 1.90 11 In its essence [genius] is progressive.
    Con 1.313 11 Consider [the order of things] as the work of a great and beneficent and progressive necessity...
    SR 2.86 6 Not in time is the race progressive.
    SL 2.144 3 A man is...a progressive arrangement;...
    Lov1 2.184 6 Cause and effect...the progressive, idealizing instinct, predominate later...
    Art1 2.351 1 Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself...
    SwM 4.128 5 ...of progressive souls, all loves and friendships are [to Swedenborg] momentary.
    Bty 6.293 19 All that is a little harshly claimed by progressive parties may easily come to be conceded without question, if this rule [of gradation] be observed.
    PI 8.7 13 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...
    LLNE 10.327 12 The association of the time is accidental and momentary and hypocritical, the detachment intrinsic and progressive.
    ACiv 11.304 5 [Emancipation] is a progressive policy...
    Wom 11.414 21 The action of society is progressive.
    MAng1 12.231 12 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily onward...his poetic conceptions into progressive execution...

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