Prohibition to Propounds

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

prohibition, n. (1)

Civ 7.31 6 What a benefit would the American government...render to itself...if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition!

project, n. (22)

MN 1.215 21 Tell me not how great your project is...

LT 1.291 6 You shall be the asylum and patron of...every untried project which proceeds out of good will and honest seeking.

Con 1.298 2 The project of innovation is the best possible state of things.

YA 1.383 12 ...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs...

YA 1.390 4 If a humane measure is propounded...for the succor of the poor; that sentiment, that project, will have the homage of the hero.

Prd1 2.223 17 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence...a prudence which...asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

NER 3.254 14 Every project in the history of reform...is good when it is the dictate of a man's genius and constitution...

NER 3.278 4 If...we start objections to your project, O friend of the slave... understand well that it is because we wish to drive you to drive us into your measures.

ET13 5.223 7 ...[the English clergyman] entertains your thought or your project with sympathy and praise.

ET16 5.273 4 It had been agreed between my friend Mr. Carlyle and me, that before I left England we should make an excursion together to Stonehenge, which neither of us had seen; and the project pleased my fancy with the double attraction of the monument and the companion.

Wth 6.93 27 [Columbus's] successors inherited his map, and inherited his fury to complete it. So the men of the mine, telegraph, mill, map and survey,--the monomaniacs who talk up their project in marts and offices...

LLNE 10.353 24 ...in a day of small, sour and fierce schemes, one is admonished and cheered by a project of such friendly aims [as Fourier's]...

LLNE 10.358 5 One merchant to whom I described the Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that agricultural association must presently fix the price of bread...

EWI 11.141 11 On sight of these [African artifacts], says Clarkson, many sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into [William Pitt's] mind, some of which he expressed; and hence appeared to arise a project which was always dear to him, of the civilization of Africa...

War 11.161 22 That the project of peace should appear visionary to great numbers of sensible men;...is very natural.

War 11.162 23 ...we never make much account of objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this moment, but which admit the general expediency and permanent excellence of the project.

FSLC 11.207 24 Since it is agreed by all sane men of all parties...that slavery is mischievous, why does the South itself never offer the smallest counsel of her own? I have never heard in twenty years any project except Mr. Clay's.

FSLC 11.207 25 Since it is agreed by all sane men of all parties...that slavery is mischievous, why does the South itself never offer the smallest counsel of her own? I have never heard in twenty years any project except Mr. Clay's. Let us hear any project with candor and respect.

FSLC 11.208 1 [Abolition] is really the project fit for this country to entertain and accomplish.

ACiv 11.304 11 I shall not attempt to unfold the details of the project of emancipation.

II 12.82 15 [A man] is strong by his genius, gets all his knowledge only through that aperture. Society is unanimous against his project.

ACri 12.291 21 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress...might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...

project, v. (3)

DSA 1.149 27 ...all attempts to project and establish a Cultus with new rites and forms, seem to me vain.

Dem1 10.22 13 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts. What more facile than to project this exuberant selfhood into the region where individuality is forever bounded by generic and cosmical laws?

Milt1 12.249 18 Eager to do fit justice to each thought, [Milton] does not subordinate it so as to project the main argument.

projected, v. (3)

ShP 4.194 15 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments, then the relief became bolder and a head or arm was projected from the wall;...

Suc 7.284 6 ...Ojeda could run out swiftly on a plank projected from the top of a tower...

LVB 11.93 5 ...a crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] is projected that confounds our understandings by its magnitude...

projectile, adj. (1)

Nat2 3.193 17 What shall we say of this omnipresent appearance of that first projectile impulse...

projectiles, n. (1)

NMW 4.235 2 The almost perpendicular fall of the heavy projectiles produced the desired effect.

projecting, adj. (2)

Art2 7.54 19 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest.

MAng1 12.224 19 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack, and by means of a bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable space was left between them and the wall.

projection, n. (6)

Nat 1.64 27 [The world] is...a projection of God in the unconscious.

LE 1.162 17 The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see that it is only a projection of his own soul which he admires.

Nat2 3.184 16 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. ... A very unreasonable postulate, said the metaphysicians, and a plain begging of the question. Could you not prevail to know the genesis of projection, as well as the continuation of it?

Wsp 6.219 8 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...

Wsp 6.219 10 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...

Prch 10.234 9 A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

projector, n. (3)

Con 1.304 3 ...plainly the burden of proof must lie with the projector.

Comp 2.104 25 This dividing and detaching is steadily counteracted. Up to this day it must be owned no projector has had the smallest success.

Suc 7.293 18 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector.

projectors, n. (5)

YA 1.382 2 Here are Etzlers and mechanical projectors, who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would make every man rich;...

YA 1.382 10 The science is confident, and surely the poverty is real. If any means could be found to bring these two together! This was one design of the projectors of the Associations which are now making their first feeble experiments.

Wth 6.94 7 This speculative genius is the madness of a few for the gain of the world. The projectors are sacrificed, but the public is the gainer.

LLNE 10.360 16 [Brook Farm] was a noble and generous movement in the projectors...

CL 12.153 25 On the seashore the play of the Atlantic with the coast! What wealth is here! Every wave is a fortune; one thinks of Etzlers and great projectors who will yet turn all this waste strength to account...

projects, n. (17)

LT 1.269 5 The present age will be marked by its harvest of projects for the reform of domestic, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical institutions.

Tran 1.351 15 Your virtuous projects, so called, do not cheer me.

YA 1.371 18 ...[America] is a country...of projects...

OS 2.293 12 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... In the presence of law to his mind he is overflowed with a reliance so universal that it sweeps away all cherished hopes and the most stable projects of mortal condition in its flood.

NER 3.252 6 [The Sabbath and Bible Conventions] defied each other, like a congress of kings, each of whom had...a way of his own that made concert unprofitable. What a fertility of projects for the salvation of the world!

NER 3.266 18 I do not wonder at the interest these projects [of association] inspire.

MoS 4.172 13 The superior mind will find itself equally at odds with the evils of society and with the projects that are offered to relieve them.

MoS 4.181 21 Charitable souls come with their projects and ask [the spiritualist's] co-operation.

NMW 4.246 15 On the shore of Ptolemais, gigantic projects agitated [Napoleon].

ET6 5.114 11 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of clever projects...

ET8 5.132 6 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which creates... petulence and projects in youth.

Pow 6.75 25 If I were to listen to all the projects proposed to me [said Rothschild], I should ruin myself very soon.

Dem1 10.15 17 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success, exists not only among those who take part in political and military projects...

LLNE 10.352 7 ...we could not exempt [Fourierism] from the criticism which we apply to so many projects for reform with which the brain of the age teems.

MAng1 12.231 27 Polini put an end to all the various projects of repairs [to St. Peter's dome], by the satisfying sentence: The cupola does not start, and if it should start, nothing can be done but to pull it down.

Let 12.396 7 It is not for nothing, we assure ourselves, that our people are busied with these projects of a better social state...

Trag 12.405 20 Projects that once we laughed and leapt to execute find us now sleepy and preparing to lie down in the snow.

projects, v. (3)

OA 7.329 4 Linnaeus projects his system...before yet he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes.

PI 8.11 15 The mind, penetrated with its sentiment or its thought, projects it outward on whatever it beholds.

PI 8.71 17 The poet is representative...in him the world projects a scribe's hand and writes the adequate genesis.

Prolegomena, n. (1)

MoS 4.163 13 That Journal of Mr. Sterling's...Mr. Hazlitt has reprinted in the Prolegomena to his edition of the Essays [of Montaigne].

proletaries, n. (1)

CbW 6.251 24 The coxcomb and bully and thief class are allowed as proletaries...

prolific, adj. (9)

LE 1.161 15 I console myself...by...seeing what the prolific soul could beget on actual nature;...

YA 1.379 12 That is the moral of all we learn, that it warrants Hope, the prolific mother of reforms.

Nat2 3.179 22 A little heat...is all that differences the...deadly cold poles of the earth from the prolific tropical climates.

Art2 7.51 10 ...the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature, again in active operation. It differs from the works of Nature in this, that they are organically reproductive. This is not, but spiritually it is prolific by its powerful action on the intellects of men.

PPo 8.238 14 The prolific sun and the sudden and rank plenty which his heat engenders, make subsistence easy [in the East].

Edc1 10.133 8 If I have renounced the search of truth...I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour.

MoL 10.252 17 Thought...is the prolific source of all arts, of all wealth, of all delight, of all grandeur.

MMEm 10.424 13 ...in the weary womb [of Time] are prolific numbers of the same sad hour...

FRep 11.513 1 ...prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant.

prolix, adj. (1)

SL 2.161 3 Common men are apologies for men; they...excuse themselves with prolix reasons...

prolong, v. (3)

Tran 1.344 21 [Transcendentalists] prolong their privilege of childhood in this wise;...

Bty 6.282 17 Alchemy, which sought...to prolong life...that was in the right direction.

MLit 12.314 4 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality. What will help them...to prolong or to sweeten life, is sure of their interest; and nothing else.

prolonged, adj. (2)

Imtl 8.340 5 I know not whence we draw the assurance of prolonged life... by so many claims as from our intellectual history.

Milt1 12.261 1 ...[Milton] scattered, in tones of prolonged and delicate melody, his pastoral and romantic fancies;...

prolonged, v. (5)

PPo 8.257 23 The lilies white prolonged/ Their sworded tongue to the smell;/ The clustering anemones/ Their pretty secrets tell./

Chr2 10.99 13 The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child...but on [a man's] arrival at a certain maturity, it...would be hurtful and ridiculous if prolonged.

Thor 10.463 6 ...[Thoreau] seemed the only man of leisure in town, always ready...for conversation prolonged into late hours.

HDC 11.76 9 The benignant Providence which has prolonged their [veterans of battle of Concord's] lives to this hour gratifies the strong curiosity of the new generation.

Humb 11.456 1 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able to compare older states of knowledge with that which now exists...

Promethean, adj. (1)

PI 8.16 18 Mountains and oceans we think we understand;--yes, so long as they are contented to be such, and are safe with the geologist,--but when they are melted in Promethean alembics and come out men...

Prometheus [Aeschylus], n. (1)

Boks 7.198 6 The Prometheus is a poem of the like dignity and scope as the Book of Job...

Prometheus, n. (4)

Hist 2.30 14 What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Prometheus!

Hist 2.30 20 Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology.

Comp 2.106 15 Prometheus knows one secret which Jove must bargain for; Minerva another.

GoW 4.277 13 ...[Goethe] flung into literature, in his Mephistopheles, the first organic figure that has been added for some ages, and which will remain as long as the Prometheus.

Prometheus Vinctus, n. (1)

Hist 2.31 8 The Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism.

prominence, n. (7)

SwM 4.135 9 The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what...in the great secular Providence, was retiring from its prominence...

ShP 4.212 21 [A man of talents] has certain observations, opinions, topics, which have some accidental prominence...

F 6.3 7 ...the subject [the Spirit of the Times] had the same prominence in some remarkable pamphlets and journals issued in London in the same season.

Boks 7.216 7 We admire...the homage of drawing-rooms and parliaments. They make us skeptical, by giving prominence to wealth and social position.

PI 8.34 3 No matter what [your subject] is...if it has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart of it...

War 11.166 18 ...bayonet and sword must first retreat a little from their ostentatious prominence;...

EurB 12.373 4 We have heard it alleged with some evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England and America.

prominent, adj. (3)

Bty 6.294 27 In all design, art lies in making your object prominent...

Bty 6.295 1 In all design, art lies in making your object prominent, but there is a prior art in choosing objects that are prominent.

Art2 7.43 3 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. Here again the prominent fact is subordination of man.

promiscuous, adj. (1)

ET1 5.22 25 [Wordsworth's] second [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] alludes to the name of the cave, which is Cave of Music; the first to the circumstance of its being visited by the promiscuous company of the steamboat.

promise, n. (34)

AmS 1.114 19 Young men of the fairest promise...turn drudges...

MN 1.202 22 None of [the eminent souls] seen by himself, and his performance compared with his promise or idea, will justify the cost of that enormous apparatus of means by which this spotted and defective person was at last procured.

LT 1.267 27 Let us not inhabit times of wonderful and various promise without divining their tendency.

Con 1.310 24 ...in this institution of credit, which is as universal as honesty and promise in the human countenance, always some neighbor stands ready to be bread and land and tools and stock to the young adventurer.

YA 1.363 17 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch...

Lov1 2.169 1 Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments;...

Lov1 2.181 25 If...from too much conversing with material objects, the soul was gross, and misplaced its satisfaction in the body, it reaped nothing but sorrow; body being unable to fulfil the promise which beauty holds out;...

Exp 3.51 21 Very mortifying is the reluctant experience that some unfriendly excess or imbecility neutralizes the promise of genius.

Exp 3.59 7 Unspeakably sad and barren does life look to those who a few months ago were dazzled with the splendor of the promise of the times.

Mrs1 3.123 22 In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

Nat2 3.190 3 All promise outruns the performance.

Nat2 3.193 26 To the intelligent, nature converts itself into a vast promise...

NR 3.226 3 We are greatly too liberal in our construction of each other's faculty and promise.

NR 3.230 13 It is even worse in America, where, from the intellectual quickness of the race, the genius of the country is more splendid in its promise and more slight in its performance.

UGM 4.6 25 [The great man] must be related to us, and our life receive from him some promise of explanation.

UGM 4.30 17 ...great men:--the word is injurious. Is there caste? is there fate? What becomes of the promise to virtue?

MoS 4.185 1 In every house...this chasm is found,--between the largest promise of ideal power, and the shabby experience.

ET7 5.116 13 When any breach of promise occurred [in English government], in the old days of prerogative, it was resented by the people as an intolerable grievance.

ET14 5.233 9 [The Englishman] must be treated...with muffins, and not the promise of muffins;...

DL 7.115 5 [To give money to a sufferer] is only...a credit system in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation.

SA 8.79 10 [The charm of fine manners] is perpetual promise of more than can be fulfilled.

SA 8.84 21 Every innocent man has in his countenance a promise to pay...

Res 8.141 20 ...we have seen the snowy deserts on the northwest, seats of Esquimaux, become lands of promise.

PC 8.234 15 I read the promise of better times and of greater men.

Grts 8.319 8 What are these [heroes] but the promise and the preparation of a day when the air of the world shall be purified by nobler society...

Imtl 8.339 14 Every really able man...considers his work...as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

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 defeat his proper promise...

MMEm 10.401 8 [Mary Moody Emerson's aunt] would leave the farm to her by will. This promise was kept;...

Thor 10.465 15 [Thoreau's] own dealing with [young men of sensibility] was...didactic, scorning their petty ways,-very slowly conceding, or not conceding at all, the promise of his society at their houses...

ALin 11.336 8 Had [Lincoln] not lived long enough to keep the greatest promise that ever man made to his fellow men,-the practical abolition of slavery?

SHC 11.436 12 ...all great men find eternity affirmed in the promise of their faculties.

PLT 12.56 23 We are continually tempted to sacrifice...the hope and promise of insight to the lust of a freer demonstration of those gifts we have;...

II 12.70 16 If you press [those we call great men], they fly to a new topic, and here, again, open a magnificent promise...

Milt1 12.267 21 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton with great promise and small performance, in returning from Italy because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school.

promise, v. (11)

Exp 3.51 23 We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt;...

NER 3.264 20 ...it may easily be questioned...whether such a retreat [to associations] does not promise to become an asylum to those who have tried and failed...

PPo 8.237 11 The seven masters of the Persian Parnassus...have ceased to be empty names; and others...promise to rise in Western estimation.

Imtl 8.322 5 Mute orator! well skilled to plead,/ And send conviction without phrase,/ Thou dost succor and remede/ The shortness of our days,/ And promise, on thy Founder's truth,/ Long morrow to this mortal youth./ Monadnoc.

Imtl 8.338 27 Most men...promise by their countenance and conversation and by their early endeavor much more than they ever perform...

Edc1 10.136 26 I call our system [of education] a system of despair, and I find all the correction, all the revolution that is needed and that the best spirits of this age, promise, in one word, in Hope.

MMEm 10.417 10 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] could hardly promise herself sympathy in her religious abandonment with any but a rarely-found partner.

EPro 11.320 3 [The Emancipation Proclamation] does not promise the redemption of the black race;...

ALin 11.332 3 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial;...

ACri 12.304 19 The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung deprecates an observatory founded for the benefit of navigation. Nor can we promise that our School of Design will secure a lucrative post to the pupils.

MLit 12.311 14 In our present attempt to enumerate some traits of the recent literature...we cannot promise to set in very exact order what we have to say.

promised, v. (12)

YA 1.366 24 ...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised the conquering of the soil...

Art1 2.362 26 Our best praise is given to what [the arts] aimed and promised...

Exp 3.70 3 [The individual] designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new and very unlike what he promised himself.

NR 3.225 9 Could any man conduct into me the pure stream of that which he pretends to be! Long afterwards I find that quality elsewhere which he promised me.

ET1 5.21 25 ...[Wordsworth] courteously promised to look at [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] again.

WD 7.177 8 How wistfully, when we have promised to attend the working committee, we look at the distant hills and their seductions!

Imtl 8.343 3 ...no prosperity is promised to our self-esteem.

Imtl 8.349 11 Yama, the lord of Death, promised Nachiketas, the son of Gautama, to grant him three boons at his own choice.

LLNE 10.351 26 [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.

MMEm 10.419 4 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked to Captain Dexter's. Sick. Promised never to put that ring on.

MMEm 10.428 8 The sickness of the last week was fine medicine; pain disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual. I [Mary Moody Emerson] rose,-I felt that I...had promised [God] in youth that to be a blot on this fair world, at His command, would be acceptable.

Thor 10.463 5 ...[Thoreau] seemed the only man of leisure in town, always ready for any excursion that promised well...

promiser, n. (2)

WD 7.160 3 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body, as...in the boldest promiser of all,--the transfusion of the blood...

Dem1 10.25 22 ...this prodigious promiser [Animal Magnetism] ends always and always will...in a very small and smoky performance.

promises, n. (12)

LE 1.178 10 Let [the scholar] endeavor...to solve the problem of that life which is set before him. And this...not by promises or dreams.

MN 1.191 2 Let us exchange congratulations on the enjoyments and the promises of this literary anniversary.

LT 1.266 1 ...there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough: bloated promises, which end in nothing or little.

Prd1 2.235 25 How many words and promises are promises of conversation!

Exp 3.58 25 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads...

Nat2 3.174 11 These bribe and invite; not kings, not palaces, not men, not women, but these tender and poetic stars, eloquent of secret promises.

ET7 5.116 20 Private men [in England] keep their promises...

ET7 5.117 17 [The English] are...sparing of promises...

Suc 7.291 4 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to understand that the promises of this world are for the most part vain phantoms...

Prch 10.221 26 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action, warm-hearted... performing their promises,-what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?

MMEm 10.408 10 [Mary Moody Emerson] is...a Bible...wherein are sentences of condemnation, promises and covenants of love that make foolish the wisdom of the world with the power of God.

MMEm 10.424 3 In Eternity, no deceitful promises, no fantastic illusions, no riddles concealed by thy [Time's] shrouds...

promises, v. (9)

Con 1.322 20 Which is that state which promises to edify a great, brave, and beneficent man;...

YA 1.370 13 ...I think we must regard the land as...the sanative and Americanizing influence. which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.

Exp 3.71 22 ...every insight from this realm of thought...promises a sequel.

Pol1 3.219 18 [The movement toward self-government] promises a recognition of higher rights than those of personal freedom...

NMW 4.241 10 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon promises the troops that he will keep his person out of reach of fire.

Ctr 6.150 20 ...[the man of the world]...promises not at all...

Bty 6.300 21 It was said of Hooke, the friend of Newton, He is the most, and promises the least, of any man in England.

Farm 7.150 9 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know, and have found...that Massachusetts has a basement story...that promises to pay a better rent than all the superstructure.

Imtl 8.340 2 ...all our intellectual action, not promises but bestows a feeling of absolute existence.

promising, adj. (2)

Tran 1.344 26 So many promising youths, and never a finished man!

Prch 10.231 7 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. ... The others are very amiable and promising, but they are only neuters in the hive...

promising, v. (1)

WD 7.158 10 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half their human estate. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic...

promissis, n. (1)

FSLC 11.191 19 Even the Canon Law says (in malis promissis non expedit servare fidem), Neither allegiance nor oath can bind to obey that which is wrong.

promontory, n. (1)

Nat 1.54 4 Ariel. The strong based promontory/ Have I made shake.../

promote, v. (4)

MoS 4.185 13 Things seem...to promote rogues...

Civ 7.30 21 Work...for those interests which the divinities honor and promote...

HDC 11.77 26 To promote the same cause [the American Revolution], [William Emerson] asked, and obtained of the town [Concord], leave to accept the commission of chaplain to the Northern army, at Ticonderoga...

FRep 11.523 11 ...[Americans...say, One vote can do no harm! and vote for something which they do not approve, because their party or set votes for it. Of course this puts them in the power of any party having a steady interest to promote which does not conflict manifestly with the pecuniary interest of the voters.

promoted, v. (1)

ET9 5.152 6 [George of Cappadocia] saved his money...and got promoted by a faction to the episcopal throne of Alexandria.

promoters, n. (1)

HDC 11.72 4 The clergy of New England were, for the most part, zealous promoters of the Revolution.

promoting, v. (2)

Elo2 8.129 20 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend it? This happy turn did great service in promoting that excellent bill [regulating trials in cases of high treason].

HDC 11.82 24 Two religious societies, of differing creed, dwell together [in Concord] in good understanding, both promoting, we hope, the cause of righteousness and love.

promotion, n. (4)

ET7 5.122 23 [The English] love stoutness...in declining money or promotion that costs any concession.

ET12 5.205 21 Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself...where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study...

ET18 5.306 14 The feudal system survives [in England]...in the social barriers which confine patronage and promotion to a caste...

AKan 11.259 9 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...until it is notorious that all promotion, power and policy are dictated from one source...

prompt, adj. (12)

LE 1.160 24 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith, by showing me that what high dogmas I had supposed were...only now possible to some recent Kant or Fichte,-were the prompt improvisations of the earliest inquirers;...

MR 1.247 4 Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self...instead of being always prompt to grab?,

NMW 4.232 21 I have gained some advantages over superior forces and when totally destitute of every thing [Bonaparte writes to the Directory], because...my actions were as prompt as my thoughts.

NMW 4.246 6 ...[Napoleon's] prompt invention;...

ET4 5.58 18 These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main, with...wise speech and prompt action.

Wsp 6.210 24 How prompt the suggestion of a low motive!

Wsp 6.222 17 ...[the countryman] makes the discovery that...the censors of action are as numerous and as near in Paris as in Littleton or Portland; that the gossip is as prompt and vengeful.

Elo1 7.74 27 These talkers [who repeat the newspapers] are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil. Add a little sarcasm and prompt allusion to passing occurrences, and you have the mischievous member of Congress.

PI 8.48 22 ...the people liked an overpowering jewsharp tune. Later they like...to detect a melody as prompt and perfect in their daily affairs.

SA 8.97 9 ...there are people...who are not only swainish, but are prompt to take oath that swainishness is the only culture;...

Edc1 10.154 3 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.

AsSu 11.248 1 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of;...

prompt, v. (1)

Edc1 10.151 2 What discoverer of Nature's laws will [the college] prompt to enrich us by disclosing in the mind the statute which all matter must obey?

prompted, v. (6)

MR 1.230 1 There is not the most bronzed and sharpened money-catcher who does not...quail and shake the moment he hears a question prompted by the new ideas.

SR 2.50 14 I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser...

Wom 11.426 18 ...whatever the woman's heart is prompted to desire, the man's mind is simultaneously prompted to accomplish.

Wom 11.426 19 ...whatever the woman's heart is prompted to desire, the man's mind is simultaneously prompted to accomplish.

FRO1 11.477 19 ...[the Free Religious Association] has prompted an equal magnanimity, that thus invites all classes...to unite in a movement of benefit to men...

Milt1 12.279 3 We have offered no apology for expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John Milton;...a man whom labor or danger never deterred from whatever efforts a love of the supreme interests of man prompted.

prompter, n. (2)

ShP 4.193 9 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know. All the mass has been treated, with more or less skill, by every playwright, and the prompter has the soiled and tattered manuscripts.

Pow 6.74 27 The poet Campbell said...that, for himself, necessity, not inspiration, was the prompter of his muse.

prompters, n. (1)

QO 8.199 12 ...does it not look...as if we stood, not in a coterie of prompters...but in a circle of intelligences...

prompting, n. (1)

SA 8.106 18 Listen to every prompting of honor.

prompting, v. (3)

DL 7.127 25 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw from man suggest... a household equal to the beauty and grandeur of this world, especially we learn the same lesson from those best relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to form.

PI 8.67 7 [A good poem] affects the characters of its readers by...inevitably prompting their daily action.

Bost 12.197 9 As an antidote to the spirit of commerce and of economy, the religious spirit-always...prompting the pursuit of the vast, the beautiful, the unattainable-was especially necessary to the culture of New England.

promptings, n. (2)

Bost 12.194 7 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Milton, of Bunyan even, without feeling how rich and expansive a culture... they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...

EurB 12.367 21 Early in life...[Wordsworth] made his election between assuming and defending some legal rights, with the chances of wealth and a position in the world, and the inward promptings of his heavenly genius;...

promptly, adv. (3)

MMEm 10.402 5 [Mary Moody Emerson's] good will to serve in time of sickness or of pressure was known to [her brothers and sisters], and promptly claimed...

SlHr 10.439 4 ...when the votes of the Free States...had...betrayed the cause of freedom, [Samuel Hoar]...promptly withdrew...

FSLN 11.236 25 Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is...no liberty but his invincible will to do right,-then certain aids and allies will promptly appear...

promptness, n. (2)

Pow 6.63 11 ...the necessity of balancing and keeping at bay the snarling majorities of German, Irish and of native millions, will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter...

Wth 6.99 20 Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness and patience in the players.

prompts, v. (2)

AmS 1.103 6 ...the instinct is sure, that prompts [the scholar] to tell his brother what he thinks.

Tran 1.347 13 ...it is really...the wish to find society for their hope and religion,-which prompts [Transcendentalists] to shun what is called society.

promulgate, v. (1)

AmS 1.102 11 ...whatsoever new verdict Reason...pronounces on the passing men and events of to-day, - this [the scholar] shall hear and promulgate.

promulgation, n. (1)

EPro 11.318 3 ...it is not long since the President [Lincoln] anticipated...the secession of three states, on the promulgation of this policy [Emancipation]...

promulgator, n. (1)

II 12.68 4 One often sees in the embittered acuteness of critics snuffing heresy from afar, their own unbelief, that they pour forth on the innocent promulgator of new doctrine their anger at that which they vainly resist in their own bosom.

promulged, v. (1)

MMEm 10.416 8 I [Mary Moody Emerson] felt, till above twenty yeard old, as though Christianity were as necessary to the world as existence;- was ignorant that it was lately promulged, or partially received.

prone, adj. (13)

NER 3.256 14 ...I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person whom I pay with money;...

ET8 5.128 9 As compared with the Americans, I think [the English] cheerful and contented. Young people in this country are much more prone to melancholy.

ET8 5.133 23 The common Englishman is prone to forget a cardinal article in the bill of social rights, that every man has a right to his own ears.

ET15 5.272 7 ...as with other empires, [the English press's] tone is prone to be official, and even officinal.

CbW 6.252 20 ...in the passing moment the quadruped interest is very prone to prevail;...

CbW 6.260 11 Human nature is prone to indulgence...

Cour 7.275 24 Scholars and thinkers are prone to an effeminate habit...

Imtl 8.331 3 ...what is called great and powerful life...is prone to develop narrow and special talent;...

PerF 10.85 21 ...[a survey of cosmical powers] warns us out of that despair into which Saxon men are prone to fall...

Plu 10.300 19 I do not know where to find a book-to borrow a phrase of Ben Jonson's-so rammed with life [as Plutarch], and this in chapters chiefly ethical, which are so prone to be heavy and sentimental.

Plu 10.306 22 ...the danger is that, when the Muse is wanting, the student is prone to supply its place with microscopic subtleties and logomachy.

PD 12.307 1 The tongue is prone to lose the way;/ Not so the pen, for in a letter/ We have not better things to say,/ But surely say them better./

WSL 12.338 21 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...prone to indulge a sort of ostentation of coarse imagery and language.

proneness, n. (1)

Tran 1.359 1 Amidst the downward tendency and proneness of things...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?

prongs, n. (1)

EWI 11.111 11 ...iron collars were riveted on [West Indian slaves'] necks with iron prongs ten inches long;...

pronounce, v. (20)

Hist 2.18 5 A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

Hsm1 2.263 9 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...and inquire how fast he can fix his sense of duty, braving such penalties, whenever it may please the next newspaper and a sufficient number of his neighbors to pronounce his opinions incendiary.

Exp 3.53 16 What notions do [physicians] attach to love! what to religion! One would not willingly pronounce these words in their hearing...

Exp 3.66 11 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near...and pronounce them failures...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.

GoW 4.266 21 If I were to compare action of a much higher strain with a life of contemplation, I should not venture to pronounce with much confidence in favor of the former.

ET6 5.111 25 'T is in bad taste, is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

ET8 5.138 23 Our swifter Americans, when they first deal with English, pronounce them stupid;...

Pow 6.78 13 The way to learn German is to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you...can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

Bty 6.288 7 We fancy, could we pronounce the solving word and disenchant [beridden people]...the little rider would be discovered and unseated...

SS 7.15 9 One would think that the affinities would pronounce themselves with a surer reciprocity.

Cour 7.275 20 We have little right in piping times of peace to pronounce on these rare heights of character;...

Suc 7.294 16 I pronounce that young man happy who is content with having acquired the skill which he had aimed at...

QO 8.194 8 ...you can easily pronounce, from the use and relevancy of the sentence, whether it had not done duty many times before...

Plu 10.314 25 [Plutarch] thinks that the inhabitants of Asia came to be vassals to one, only for not having been able to pronounce one syllable; which is, No.

ACiv 11.297 16 ...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and to pronounce labor disgraceful...

SHC 11.436 9 I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man, we pronounce the belief of immortality.

SHC 11.436 10 I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man, we pronounce the belief of immortality.

II 12.83 17 Him we account the fortunate man whose determination to his aim is sufficiently strong to leave him no doubt. I am aware that Nature does not always pronounce early on this point.

WSL 12.341 10 When we pronounce the names of Homer and Aeschylus;... we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature.

WSL 12.346 14 [Landor] was one of the first to pronounce Wordsworth the great poet of the age...

pronounced, adj. (4)

ET14 5.248 20 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a mistake. Bacon occupies it... as an effect of the same cause which showed itself more pronounced afterwards in Hooke, Boyle and Halley.

QO 8.201 4 Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.

Plu 10.307 15 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist...

GSt 10.506 4 ...this sudden association now with the leaders of parties and persons of pronounced power and influence in the nation...never altered... one trait of [George Stearns's] manners.

pronounced, v. (15)

DSA 1.129 22 ...the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression;...

DSA 1.136 25 Where shall I hear these august laws of moral being so pronounced as to fill my ear...

Cir 2.305 1 Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere.

NMW 4.226 16 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration], pronounced it admirable...

ET12 5.200 7 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals...

CbW 6.267 11 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness,--whether it be to make baskets...or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

OA 7.322 13 We still feel the force of Socrates, whom well-advised the oracle pronounced wisest of men;...

PI 8.7 12 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...

SA 8.101 13 ...in the last age, this system [of hereditary nobility] has been on its trial, and the verdict of mankind is pretty nearly pronounced.

QO 8.187 6 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were pronounced...

Dem1 10.11 26 ...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words...

JBB 11.269 3 The governor of Virginia has pronounced [John Brown's] eulogy in a manner that discredits the moderation of our timid parties.

EPro 11.317 5 ...[Lincoln's] long-avowed expectant policy, as if he chose to be strictly the executive of the best public sentiment of the country, waiting only till it should be unmistakably pronounced...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of

II 12.88 21 ...there is a religion which...is worshipped and pronounced with emphasis again and again by some holy person;...

Milt1 12.257 14 Aubrey adds a sharp trait, [Milton] pronounced the letter R very hard, a certain sign of satirical genius.

pronouncer, n. (1)

II 12.88 25 ...there is a religion which...is worshipped and pronounced with emphasis again and again by some holy person;-and men...have run mad for the pronouncer, and forgot the religion.

pronounces, v. (5)

AmS 1.102 9 ...whatsoever new verdict Reason...pronounces on the passing men and events of to-day, - this [the scholar] shall hear and promulgate.

LE 1.170 20 The moment a man of genius pronounces the name of the Pelasgi...we see their state under a new aspect.

SwM 4.95 8 The Koran makes a distinct class of those...whose goodness has an influence on others, and pronounces this class to be the aim of creation...

Comc 8.157 7 The Reason pronounces its omniscient yea and nay...

EWI 11.147 22 The sentiment of Right...ever more articulate, because it is the voice of the universe, pronounces Freedom.

pronouncing, v. (3)

SR 2.77 20 [Prayer] is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good.

ET16 5.289 14 This hospitality of seven hundred years' standing [at the Church of Saint Cross] did not hinder Carlyle from pronouncing a malediction on the priest who receives 2000 pounds a year...

F 6.34 24 Who likes to have a dapper phrenologist pronouncing on his fortunes?

proof, n. (45)

DSA 1.126 22 ...the unique impression of Jesus upon mankind...is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion [of Eastern thought].

Con 1.304 2 ...plainly the burden of proof must lie with the projector.

YA 1.392 10 We are full of vanity, of which the most signal proof is our sensitiveness to foreign and especially English censure.

OS 2.279 26 ...It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases;...

Pt1 3.3 14 It is a proof of the shallowness of the doctrine of beauty as it lies in the minds of our amateurs, that men seem to have lost the perception of the instant dependence of form upon soul.

SwM 4.142 3 A man should not tell me that he has walked among the angels; his proof is that his eloquence makes me one.

MoS 4.161 16 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have...proof that he has played with skill and success;...

ShP 4.192 11 The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field;...

ShP 4.204 26 The Shakspeare Society have...offered money for any information that will lead to proof,--and with what result?

ET4 5.63 1 Alfieri said the crimes of Italy were the proof of the superiority of the stock;...

ET5 5.81 23 There is on every question [in England] an appeal from the assertion of the parties to the proof of what is asserted.

ET5 5.93 26 A proof of the energy of the British people is the highly artificial construction of the whole fabric.

ET6 5.106 9 It was an odd proof of this impressive [English] energy, that in my lectures I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin...

ET10 5.165 9 [The English] delight in a freak as the proof of their sovereign freedom.

ET12 5.200 11 It is a curious proof of the English use and wont...that these young men [at Oxford] are locked up every night at nine o'clock...

ET12 5.210 3 ...I found here [at Oxford]...proof of the national fidelity and thoroughness.

ET12 5.210 19 ...in general, here [at Oxford] was proof of a more searching study in the appointed directions...

F 6.42 7 ...a man likes better to be complimented on his position, as the proof of the last or total excellence, than on his merits.

Wsp 6.210 1 What proof of infidelity like the toleration and propagandism of slavery?

Wsp 6.210 7 What proof of skepticism like the base rate at which the highest mental and moral gifts are held?

Wsp 6.212 2 ...we appeal to the sanctified preamble of the messages and proclamations of the public sinner, as the proof of sincerity.

CbW 6.252 9 That we are here, is proof we ought to be here.

Bty 6.294 23 ...in general, it is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Bty 6.298 15 ...we see faces every day which have a good type but have been marred in the casting; a proof that we are all entitled to beauty...

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...

Civ 7.34 21 ...the highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

Art2 7.46 21 It is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist does not feel himself to be the parent of his work...that we are so unwilling to impute our best sense of any work of art to the author.

Boks 7.190 7 ...there are...books which are the work and the proof of faculties so comprehensive...that though one shuts them with meaner ones, he feels his exclusion from them to accuse his way of living.

PC 8.207 9 The heart still beats with the public pulse of joy that the country has withstood the rude trial which threatened its existence, and thrills with the vast augmentation of strength which it draws from this proof.

PPo 8.251 4 Every song of Hafiz affords new proof of the unimportance of your subject to success...

PPo 8.263 21 From this poem [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], written five hundred years ago, we cite the following passage, as a proof of the identity of mysticism in all periods.

Imtl 8.324 15 ...I know well that where this belief [in immortality] once existed it would necessarily take a base form for the savage and a pure form for the wise;-so that I only look on the counterfeit as a proof that the genuine faith had been there.

Imtl 8.340 25 ...Van Helmont...drew his sufficient proof [of immortality] purely from the action of the intellect.

Imtl 8.344 5 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality...

Plu 10.320 23 One proof of Plutarch's skill as a writer is that he bears translation so well.

Carl 10.496 7 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education indurates the young men...so that when they come forth of them, they say, Now we are proof; we have gone through all the degrees, and are case-hardened against the veracities of the Universe;...

HDC 11.48 24 ...I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records], as proof that justice was done;...

EWI 11.121 26 The legislature [of Jamaica]...say, The peaceful demeanor of the emancipated population...affords a proof of their continued comfort and prosperity.

HCom 11.342 10 The proof that war also is within the highest right...is its morale.

Mem 12.96 3 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already, and in proof set himself to recite it from end to end.

MAng1 12.221 26 There needs no better proof of our instinctive feeling of the immense expression of which the human figure is capable than the uniform tendency which the religion of every country has betrayed towards Anthropomorphism...

Milt1 12.258 13 [Milton's] sensibility to impressions from beauty needs no proof from his history;...

WSL 12.345 27 It is a sufficient proof of the extreme delicacy of this element [character]...that it has so seldom been employed in the drama and in novels.

EurB 12.377 3 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] watched each candidate vigilantly...and when he had given proof that he was a faithful man, all doors, all houses, all relations were open to him;...

PPr 12.384 1 It is a costly proof of character that the most renowned scholar of England [Carlyle] should take his reputation in his hand and should descend into the [political] ring;...

proofs, n. (7)

Prd1 2.224 3 Cultivated men always feel and speak...as if a great fortune...a graceful and commanding address, had their value as proofs of the energy of the spirit.

ET11 5.175 12 The Middle Age adorned itself with proofs of manhood and devotion.

ET13 5.215 13 ...plainly there has been great power of sentiment at work in this island [England], of which these [religious] buildings are the proofs;...

ET16 5.275 13 I told Carlyle that...I saw everywhere in the country [England] proofs of sense and spirit...

Suc 7.284 24 It is recorded of Linnaeus, among many proofs of his beneficent skill, that when the timber in the shipyards of Sweden was ruined by rot, Linnaeus was desired by the government to find a remedy.

CW 12.173 11 Here [in the Academy Garden] I [Linnaeus] admire the wisdom of the Supreme Artist, disclosing Himself by proofs of every kind...

Let 12.403 13 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;...

propagandism, n. (1)

Wsp 6.210 2 What proof of infidelity like the toleration and propagandism of slavery?

propagandist, adj. (1)

ET4 5.46 5 ...[the English] are still aggressive and propagandist...

propagate, v. (1)

Nat 1.27 3 Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

propagated, v. (1)

Grts 8.302 24 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet; a vibration propagated over Asia and Africa?

propagates, v. (1)

Nat2 3.184 23 That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system...

propagating, v. (1)

Bost 12.209 6 ...thus our little city [Boston] thrives and enlarges... propagating itself like a banyan over the continent.

propelling, v. (1)

Milt1 12.261 19 ...Milton was conscious of possessing this intellectual voice...propelling its melodious undulations forward through the coming world...

propensities, n. (2)

Hist 2.22 2 ...in these late and civil countries of England and America these propensities [Nomadism and Agriculture] still fight out the old battle...

CL 12.152 22 ...[man's] old propensities will stir at midsummer, and send him, like an Indian, to the sea.

proper, adj. (92)

Nat 1.29 23 A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol... depends on the simplicity of his character...

Nat 1.31 9 [This imagery] is proper creation.

MN 1.213 22 It is not proper, said Zoroaster, to understand the Intelligible with vehemence...

MR 1.236 13 ...there are reasons proper to every individual why he should not be deprived of [manual labor].

Tran 1.338 26 Shall we say then that Transcendentalism is...the presentiment of a faith proper to man in his integrity...

YA 1.390 14 We have our own affairs, our own genius, which chains each to his proper work.

Hist 2.7 6 We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

Hist 2.30 10 The beautiful fables of the Greeks, being proper creations of the imagination and not of the fancy, are universal verities.

Hist 2.32 19 As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx...

SR 2.54 15 ...under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life.

Comp 2.122 4 There is no penalty to virtue; no penalty to wisdom; they are proper additions of being.

Comp 2.125 21 We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence.

SL 2.150 20 ...a person of related mind...comes to us...so nearly and intimately, as if it were the blood in our proper veins, that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having come;...

Prd1 2.225 2 [Prudence] takes the laws of the world...as they are, and keeps these laws that it may enjoy their proper good.

Prd1 2.236 22 ...the proper administration of outward things will always rest on a just apprehension of their cause and origin;...

Hsm1 2.248 12 ...Simon Ockley's History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor, with admiration all the more evident on the part of the narrator that he seems to think that his place in Christian Oxford requires of him some proper protestations of abhorrence.

Hsm1 2.251 17 ...every man must be supposed to see a little farther on his own proper path than any one else.

OS 2.291 17 Souls such as these treat you as gods would...accepting without any admiration...your virtue even,--say rather your act of duty, for your virtue they own as their proper blood...

Art1 2.360 6 In proportion to his force, the artist will find in his work an outlet for his proper character.

Pt1 3.13 26 ...a perception of beauty should be sympathetic, or proper only to the good.

Exp 3.77 15 The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and at every comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic might. Though not in energy, yet by presence, this magazine of substance cannot be otherwise than felt; nor can any force of intellect attribute to the object the proper deity which sleeps or wakes forever in every subject.

Chr1 3.98 14 Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person...

Mrs1 3.120 2 Again, the Bornoos have no proper names;...

Nat2 3.185 3 Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.

Nat2 3.185 6 ...to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path...

Pol1 3.205 18 ...the attributes of a person, his wit and his moral energy, will exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper force...

Pol1 3.207 7 The same necessity which secures the rights of person and property against the malignity or folly of the magistrate, determines the form and methods of governing, which are proper to each nation...

NR 3.223 10 Not less are summer mornings dear/ To every child they wake,/ And each with novel life his sphere/ Fills for his proper sake./

PNR 4.88 16 ...'t is the magnitude only of Shakspeare's proper genius that hinders him from being classed as the most eminent of this [Platonic] school.

SwM 4.111 23 The admirable preliminary discourses with which Mr. Wilkinson has enriched these volumes [by Swedenborg]...leave me nothing to say on their proper grounds.

ET4 5.45 11 The British census proper reckons twenty-seven and a half millions in the home countries.

ET4 5.72 22 ...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to foot-service, as pure and proper manhood...

ET10 5.167 21 ...in these crises [of political enconomy] all are ruined except such as are proper individuals...

ET11 5.187 5 [English noblemen] have been a social church proper to inspire sentiments mutually honoring the lover and the loved.

ET13 5.221 11 A great duke said on the occasion of a victory, in the House of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had not been well used by them, and that it would become their magnanimity, after so great successes, to take order that a proper acknowledgement be made.

ET13 5.223 23 [The Anglican Church]...is perfectly well-bred, and can shut its eyes on all proper occasions.

F 6.37 9 The long sleep...is regulated by the supply of food proper to the animal.

F 6.40 8 What each does is proper to him.

F 6.46 3 ...if the soule of proper kind/ Be so parfite as men find,/ That it wot what is to come/...

Wth 6.91 18 ...if [a man] wishes...having society on his own terms, he must bring his wants within his proper power to satisfy.

Wth 6.107 19 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can reduce the rent, but so he incapacitates himself from making proper repairs...

Wth 6.112 9 [Each man] wants an equipment of means and tools proper to his talent.

Wth 6.113 8 ...it is a large stride to independence, when a man, in the discovery of his proper talent, has sunk the necessity for false expenses.

Wth 6.114 21 ...if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he...should not...fetter himself with duties which will...spoil him for his proper work.

Bhr 6.187 2 A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is native and proper to him...

Art2 7.43 6 A great deduction is to be made before we can know [a man's] proper contribution to [his work of art].

Elo1 7.64 12 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians...when a proper opportunity offers, this same person, like a skilful jaculator, will hurl a sentence worthy of attention...

DL 7.112 13 If the children...are...kept in proper company...then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...

DL 7.126 11 One is struck in every company...with the riches of Nature, when he...sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm...

DL 7.131 19 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...where it has its proper place among hundreds of such donations from other citizens...

WD 7.167 18 [Hesiod's Works and Days] is full of economies for Grecian life, noting the proper age for marriage...

Boks 7.194 9 Let [each student] read what is proper to him...

Cour 7.261 23 I knew a young soldier...who confided to his sister that he had made up his mind to volunteer for the war. I have not, he said, any proper courage, but I shall never let any one find it out.

Cour 7.276 26 There is scope and cause and resistance enough for us in our proper work and circumstance.

OA 7.327 9 Every faculty new to each man thus...drives him out into doleful deserts until it finds proper vent.

PI 8.46 24 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres...you can easily believe these metres to be...derived from the human pulse, and to be therefore not proper to one nation, but to mankind.

PI 8.47 12 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought, believing...that for every thought its proper melody or rhyme exists...

Elo2 8.127 1 If [some men] are to put a thing in proper shape...their mind is a blank.

QO 8.197 24 ...James Hogg...is but a third-rate author, owing his fame to his effigy colossalized through the lens of John Wilson,-who, again, writes better under the domino of Christopher North than in his proper clothes.

QO 8.203 5 Our pleasure in seeing each mind take the subject to which it has a proper right is seen in mere fitness in time.

QO 8.204 12 ...thought has its own proper motion...

PC 8.231 5 We wish...to offer liberty instead of chains, and see whether liberty will not disclose its proper checks;...

PPo 8.247 17 An air...of incompetence to their proper aims, belongs to many who have both experience and wisdom.

Grts 8.307 18 [A man's bias] is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path...

Grts 8.308 21 Set ten men to write their journal for one day, and nine of them will leave out their thought, or proper result...

Imtl 8.337 15 The love of life...seems to indicate...a conviction of immense resources and possibilities proper to us...

Aris 10.39 1 ...to [aristocracy] belongs without assertion a proper influence.

PerF 10.69 13 Never was any man too strong for his proper work.

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 defeat his proper promise...

Supl 10.177 14 ...the diamond and the pearl, which are only accidental and secondary in their use and value to us, are proper to the Oriental world.

Schr 10.289 6 ...if I could prevail to communicate the incommunicable mysteries, you [scholars] should see...that ever as you ascend your proper and native path, you receive the keys of Nature and history...

Plu 10.308 2 [Plutarch] thinks that he who has ideas of his own is a bad judge of another man's, it being true that the Eleans would be most proper judges of the Olympic games, were no Eleans gamesters.

Plu 10.320 8 [Plutarch] thought it wonderful that a man having a muse in his own breast...would have pipes and harps play, and by that external noise destroy all the sweetness that was proper and his own.

LLNE 10.369 23 I please myself with the thought that our American mind... is beginning to show a quiet power, drawn from wide and abundant sources, proper to a Continent and to an educated people.

MMEm 10.410 1 ...we lose sight of the first necessity,-here too amid works red with default in all great and grand and infinite aims. Yet with intentions disinterested, though uncontrolled by proper reverence for others.

Thor 10.459 8 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that, at this moment, not only his want of books was imperative, but he wanted a large number of books, and assured him that he, Thoreau, and not the librarian, was the proper custodian of these.

Thor 10.464 11 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau], proper to a rare class of men...

HDC 11.28 10 I cause from every creature/ His proper good to flow:/ As much as he is and doeth,/ So much he shall bestow./

EWI 11.139 17 A man is to make himself felt by his proper force.

EdAd 11.387 9 Every foot of soil has its proper quality;...

Scot 11.464 24 ...[Scott] had the skill proper to vers de societe...

FRep 11.520 24 ...the grasshopper on the turret of Faneuil Hall gives a proper hint of the men below.

PLT 12.30 2 ...our deep conviction of the riches proper to every mind does not allow us to admit of much looking over into one another's virtues.

PLT 12.30 26 When, moved by love, a man...rushes at immense personal sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.

PLT 12.37 12 ...the feet have lost, by our distrust, their proper virtue;...

PLT 12.61 7 Ideal and practical...are never parallel. Each has...its proper dangers...

MAng1 12.221 25 Man is the highest, and indeed the only proper object of plastic art.

MAng1 12.223 5 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.

MLit 12.310 14 ...they say every man walks environed by his proper atmosphere...

Let 12.399 3 ...[a stay in Europe] is only a postponement of [American youths'] proper work...

Trag 12.408 27 After we have enumerated...mutilation, rack, madness and loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror...

Trag 12.413 18 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...

properest, adj. (1)

Exp 3.69 1 There is a certain magic about [a man's] properest action which stupefies your powers of observation...

properly, adv. (25)

Hist 2.10 2 ...there is properly no history, only biography.

SR 2.69 5 In the hour of vision there is nothing that can be called gratitude, nor properly joy.

Comp 2.122 5 In a virtuous action I properly am;...

Fdsp 2.216 2 [My friends] shall give me that which properly they cannot give, but which emanates from them.

Prd1 2.231 21 ...society is officered by men of parts, as they are properly called...

Mrs1 3.144 25 Another mode [of winning a place in fashion] is to pass through all the degrees...being...perfumed, and dined, and introduced, and properly grounded in all the biography and politics and anecdotes of the boudoirs.

Gts 3.161 6 ...we might convey to some person that which properly belonged to his character...

PPh 4.65 11 In the Timaeus [Plato] indicates the highest employment of the eyes. By us it is asserted that God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,--that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...

ShP 4.215 21 One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet.

ET10 5.158 15 The Life of Sir Robert Peel...very properly has, for a frontispiece, a drawing of the spinning-jenny...

ET12 5.207 2 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam, whether the Maud man or the Brasenose man be properly ranked or not;...

Bty 6.303 4 [Beauty] is properly not in the form, but in the mind.

Elo1 7.94 12 ...a pause in the speaker's own character is very properly a loss of attraction.

Supl 10.167 23 The people of English stock...are a solid people...owners of land whose title-deeds are properly recorded.

Prch 10.231 21 We come to church properly for self-examination...

Carl 10.495 25 [Carlyle] says, There is properly no religion in England.

LS 11.11 27 That rite [washing of the feet] is used...by the Sandemanians. It has been very properly dropped by other Christians.

LVB 11.89 9 Each has the highest right to call your [Van Buren's] attention to such subjects as are of a public nature, and properly belong to the chief magistrate;...

AsSu 11.247 19 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...spending his days in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against his slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and dangerous way. Such people...have properly no future...

Humb 11.458 4 [Humboldt] was properly a man of the world;...

PLT 12.19 12 Our eating, trading, marrying, and learning are mistaken by us for ends and realities, whilst they are properly symbols only;...

PLT 12.24 11 ...the nervous and hysterical and animalized will produce a like series of symptoms in you...though you are conscious that they do not properly belong to you...

PLT 12.40 25 ...a thought, properly speaking...is of inestimable value.

PLT 12.62 20 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes.

Trag 12.408 8 Destiny properly is not a will at all...

propero, v. (1)

QO 8.186 11 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander, where the prayer of Leander is the same:-Parcite dum propero, mergite dum redeo.

properties, n. (27)

Hist 2.4 21 Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation. All its properties consist in him.

Hist 2.37 21 Do not the constructive fingers of Watt, Fulton, Whittemore, Arkwright, predict the fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals, the properties of stone, water, and wood?

Lov1 2.185 13 ...adding up costly advantages, friends, opportunities, properties, [lovers] exult in discovering that...they would give all as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head...

Prd1 2.225 11 Here is a planted globe...fenced and distributed externally with civil partitions and properties...

Prd1 2.230 25 We do not know the properties of plants and animals and the laws of nature, through our sympathy with the same;...

Hsm1 2.257 5 All these great and transcendent properties are ours.

Art1 2.355 24 ...it is the right and property...of all native properties whatsoever, to be for their moment the top of the world.

Exp 3.77 1 By love on one part and by forbearance to press objection on the other part, it is for a time settled that we will look at [Jesus] in the centre of the horizon, and ascribe to him the properties that will attach to any man so seen.

Chr1 3.102 13 These are properties of life, and another trait is the notice of incessant growth.

Mrs1 3.121 4 The word gentleman...is a homage to personal and incommunicable properties.

Mrs1 3.121 7 ...the steady interest of mankind in [the name gentleman] must be attributed to the valuable properties which it designates.

Nat2 3.181 5 Compound it how [nature] will, star, sand, fire, water, tree, man, it is still one stuff, and betrays the same properties.

Nat2 3.182 12 ...from any one object the parts and properties of any other may be predicted.

NR 3.229 26 ...we are very sensible of an atmospheric influence in men and in bodies of men, not accounted for in an arithmetical addition of all their measurable properties.

NER 3.277 24 ...we hold on to our little properties...for the bread which they have in our experience yielded us...

SwM 4.103 2 A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm.

NMW 4.229 21 [Bonaparte] knew the properties of gold and iron...

ET4 5.57 23 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are substantial farmers whom the rough times have forced to defend their properties.

Wth 6.99 4 If properties of this kind [works of art] were owned by states, towns and lyceums, they would draw the bonds of neighborhood closer.

CbW 6.252 8 [The sane man's] existence is a perfect answer to all sentimental cavils. If he is, he is wanted, and has the precise properties that are required.

WD 7.164 13 ...we must look deeper for our salvation than to steam, photographs, balloons or astronomy. These tools have some questionable properties.

QO 8.175 4 The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both [old and new]. The present moment gives the motion and the color of the flake, Antiquity its form and properties.

PPo 8.265 15 What you see is He not;/ What you hear is He not./ The valleys which you traverse,/ The actions which you perform,/ They lie under our treatment/ And among our properties./

PerF 10.71 19 [The winds, the clouds, the fire] all have certain properties which adhere to them...

Edc1 10.128 6 Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions and properties...

Schr 10.281 16 Body and its properties belong to the region of nonentity...

Wom 11.409 24 [Women's] genius delights...in decorating life...with properties, order and grace.

property, n. (216)

Nat 1.8 18 There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts...

Nat 1.20 3 ..the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Nat 1.27 10 This universal soul [man] calls Reason...we are its property and men.

Nat 1.36 9 Every property of matter is a school for the understanding...

DSA 1.119 21 ...what invitation from every property [the world] gives to every faculty of man!

LE 1.186 25 Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread...such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions...

MN 1.215 25 Tell me not how great your project is...laws of love for laws of property;...

MR 1.229 15 It will afford no security from the new ideas, that...the property and institutions of a hundred cities, are built on other foundations.

MR 1.234 4 ...the evil custom [of trade] reaches into the whole institution of property...

MR 1.238 5 Consider further the difference between the first and second owner of property.

MR 1.238 6 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies...

MR 1.248 2 ...the idea which now begins to agitate society has a wider scope than...the institutions of property.

MR 1.254 1 Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich...

LT 1.286 1 The revolutions that impend over society are...from new modes of thinking...which shall destroy the value of many kinds of property and replace all property within the dominion of reason and equity.

LT 1.287 11 Is there not something comprehensive in the grasp of a society which to great mechanical invention and the best institutions of property adds the most daring theories;...

LT 1.291 4 Have you leisure, power, property, friends?

Con 1.304 5 The system of property and law goes back for its origin to barbarous and sacred times;...

Con 1.308 16 I find this vast network, which you call property, extended over the whole planet.

Con 1.309 20 Yonder sun in heaven you would pluck down from shining on the universe, and make him a property and privacy, if you could;...

Con 1.310 20 [Existing institutions] really have so much flexibility as to afford your talent and character...the same chance of demonstration and success which they might have if there was no law and no property.

Con 1.314 4 A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will. Then the principle of love and truth reappears in the strictest courts of fashion and property.

Con 1.321 11 [Religious institutions] have already acquired a market value as conservators of property;...

Tran 1.333 20 [The idealist] does not respect...the products of labor, namely property, otherwise than as a manifold symbol...

YA 1.388 15 I speak of those organs which can be presumed to speak a popular sense. They recommend...whatever will earn and preserve property;...

Hist 2.6 3 Property also holds of the soul...

Hist 2.29 25 The advancing man discovers how deep a property he has in literature...

SR 2.77 7 It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men;...in their property;...

SR 2.84 22 What a contrast between the...American...and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club...

SR 2.87 23 Men...have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property...

SR 2.87 25 Men...have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property.

SR 2.88 1 ...a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...

SR 2.88 10 ...what the man acquires, is living property...

Comp 2.111 20 ...all unjust accumulations of property and power, are avenged in the same manner.

Comp 2.111 27 Our property is timid, our laws are timid...

Comp 2.112 3 Fear for ages has boded and mowed and gibbered over government and property.

Fdsp 2.195 21 I must feel pride in my friends's accomplishments...and a property in his virtues.

Fdsp 2.208 3 We talk sometimes of a great talent for conversation, as if it were a permanent property in some individuals.

Fdsp 2.209 24 Leave it to girls and boys to regard a friend as property...

Prd1 2.229 13 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.

Prd1 2.229 15 This property [which gives life to the figures in a painting] is the hitting, in all the figures we draw, the right centre of gravity.

Prd1 2.230 5 ...beside all the resistless beauty of form, [the Raphael in the Dresden gallery] possesses in the highest degree the property of the perpendicularity of all the figures.

Prd1 2.236 18 Prudence concerns the present time, persons, property and existing forms.

OS 2.277 15 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer.

OS 2.278 1 ...the best minds, who love truth for its own sake, think much less of property in truth.

Cir 2.311 14 The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday,-- property, climate...and the like, have strangely changed their proportions.

Art1 2.355 23 ...it is the right and property of all natural objects...to be for their moment the top of the world.

Exp 3.49 1 If to-morrow I should be informed of the bankruptcy of my principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a great inconvenience to me, perhaps, for many years; but it would leave me as it found me...

Exp 3.65 5 Right to hold land, right of property, is disputed...and before the vote is taken, dig away in your garden...

Gts 3.161 25 This is...a false state of property, to make presents of gold and silver stuffs, as a kind of symbolical sin-offering...

Pol1 3.201 21 The theory of politics...which [men] have expressed the best they could in their laws and in their revolutions, considers persons and property as the two objects for whose protection government exists.

Pol1 3.202 1 Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal.

Pol1 3.202 9 ...property demands a government framed on the ratio of owners and of owning.

Pol1 3.203 5 ...so long as it comes to the owners in the direct way, no other opinion would arise in any equitable community than that property should make the law for property, and persons the law for persons.

Pol1 3.203 7 ...property passes through donation or inheritance to those who do not create it.

Pol1 3.203 16 It was not...found easy to embody the readily admitted principle that property should make law for property...

Pol1 3.203 17 It was not...found easy to embody the readily admitted principle that property should make law for property...

Pol1 3.203 18 ...persons and property mixed themselves in every transaction.

Pol1 3.204 1 ...doubts have arisen whether too much weight had not been allowed in the laws to property...

Pol1 3.204 6 ...there is an instinctive sense...that the whole constitution of property, on its present tenures, is injurious...

Pol1 3.204 10 ...there is an instinctive sense...that property will always follow persons;...

Pol1 3.205 4 Property will be protected.

Pol1 3.205 8 Under any forms, persons and property must and will have their just sway.

Pol1 3.206 7 ...to every particle of property belongs its own attraction.

Pol1 3.206 13 The law may do what it will with the owner of property;...

Pol1 3.206 16 The law may in a mad freak say that all shall have power except the owners of property;...

Pol1 3.206 18 ...by a higher law, the property will, year after year, write every statute that respects property.

Pol1 3.206 19 ...by a higher law, the property will, year after year, write every statute that respects property.

Pol1 3.206 22 What the owners wish to do, the whole power of property will do...

Pol1 3.206 24 What the owners wish to do, the whole power of property will do, either through the law or else in defiance of it. Of course I speak of all the property, not merely of the great estates.

Pol1 3.207 2 Every man owns something...and so has that property to dispose of.

Pol1 3.207 5 The same necessity which secures the rights of person and property against the malignity or folly of the magistrate, determines the form and methods of governing, which are proper to each nation...

Pol1 3.210 18 ...the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able and cultivated part of the population, is...merely defensive of property.

Pol1 3.213 8 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. ... This truth and justice men presently endeavor to make application of to...the protection of life and property.

Pol1 3.219 20 [The movement toward self-government] promises a recognition of higher rights than those of personal freedom, or the security of property.

Pol1 3.220 15 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure the code of force they will be wise enough to see how these public ends...of commerce and the exchange of property...can be answered.

NR 3.231 20 Property keeps the accounts of the world, and is always moral.

NR 3.231 21 The property will be found where the labor, the wisdom and the virtue have been in nations...

NR 3.238 4 ...our economical mother...gathering up into some man every property in the universe, establishes thousand-fold occult mutual attractions among her offspring...

NER 3.262 10 Do you complain of the laws of Property? It is a pedantry to give such importance to them. Can we not play the game of life...in the institution of property, as well as out of it?

NER 3.262 12 Let into it the new and renewing principle of love, and property will be universality.

NER 3.262 20 No man deserves to be heard against property.

NER 3.262 21 Only Love, only an Idea, is against property as we hold it.

NER 3.264 10 The scheme [of the new communities] offers...to make every member rich, on the same amount of property that, in separate families, would leave every member poor.

UGM 4.13 4 We are as much gainers by finding a new property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.

SwM 4.96 1 If one should ask the reason of this intuition, the solution would lead us into that property which Plato denoted as Reminiscence...

MoS 4.152 11 No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

MoS 4.152 13 In England...property stands for more, compared with personal ability, than in any other.

MoS 4.172 16 The wise skeptic is a bad citizen; no conservative, he sees the selfishness of property and the drowsiness of institutions.

ShP 4.193 12 [Elizabethan plays] have been the property of the Theatre so long...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers.

ShP 4.198 15 Thought is the property of him who can entertain it...

ShP 4.205 2 ...[the Shakspeare Society] have gleaned a few facts touching the property, and dealings in regard to property, of the poet [Shakespeare].

ShP 4.205 3 ...[the Shakspeare Society] have gleaned a few facts touching the property, and dealings in regard to property, of the poet [Shakespeare].

NMW 4.256 20 ...both parties [democrat and conservative] stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property...

NMW 4.258 21 As long as our civilization is essentially one of property...it will be mocked by delusions.

GoW 4.276 7 ...what [Goethe] says...of property...refuses to be forgotten.

GoW 4.280 19 What distinguishes Goethe for French and English readers is a property which he shares with his nation...

GoW 4.285 1 [Goethe] lays a ray of light under every fact, and between himself and his dearest property.

ET2 5.32 27 When their privilege was disputed by the Dutch and other junior marines, on the plea that you could never...hold property in what was always flowing, the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main...

ET4 5.46 26 ...we look to find in the son every mental and moral property that existed in the ancestor.

ET5 5.87 15 It is not usually a point of honor...and never any whim, that [the English] will shed their blood for; but usually property, and right measured by property, that breeds revolution.

ET5 5.87 16 It is not usually a point of honor...and never any whim, that [the English] will shed their blood for; but usually property, and right measured by property, that breeds revolution.

ET5 5.97 5 The nearer we look, the more artificial is [the Englishmen's] social system. Their law is a network of fictions. Their property, a scrip or certificate of right to interest on money that no man ever saw.

ET7 5.119 9 [The English] have the...preference for property in land, which is said to mark the Teutonic nations.

ET7 5.122 6 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven all voting like sheep...all but four voting the income tax,--which was an ill-judged concession of the government, relieving Irish property from the burdens charged on English.

ET9 5.144 3 Property is so perfect [in England] that it seems the craft of that race...

ET10 5.153 4 In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits the evidences of large property...

ET10 5.160 8 ...when, to this labor and trade and these native resources [of England] was added this goblin of steam...the amassing of property has run out of all figures.

ET10 5.164 8 With this power of creation and this passion of independence, property [in England] has reached an ideal perfection.

ET10 5.164 10 The laws [of England] are framed to give property the securest possible basis...

ET10 5.164 14 The rights of property [in England] nothing but felony and treason can override.

ET11 5.172 4 The inequality of power and property [in England] shocks republican nerves.

ET11 5.172 14 Primogeniture is a cardinal rule of English property and institutions.

ET11 5.182 12 The Marquis of Breadalbane rides out of his house a hundred miles in a straight line to the sea, on his own property.

ET11 5.184 14 ...the existence of the House of Peers as a branch of the government entitles them to fill half the Cabinet; and their weight of property and station gives them a virtual nomination of the other half;...

ET16 5.284 12 [Wilton Hall] is now the property of the Earl of Pembroke...

ET17 5.291 7 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons, except...in one or two cases where the fame of the parties seemed to have given the public a property in all that concerned them.

ET18 5.300 3 English principles means a primary regard to the interests of property.

ET18 5.306 12 The feudal system survives [in England] in the steep inequality of property and privilege...

ET19 5.310 10 ...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;...

Pow 6.74 2 ...the one evil [in life] is dissipation; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are...property and its cares...or music, or feasting.

Wth 6.98 24 In the Greek cities it was reckoned profane that any person should pretend a property in a work of art...

Wth 6.99 18 Property is an intellectual production.

Wth 6.105 25 Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property, and you need not give alms.

Wth 6.106 1 Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

Wth 6.106 3 In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.

Wth 6.119 14 You think farm buildings and broad acres a solid property;...

Ctr 6.158 8 We must have an intellectual quality in all property and in all action, or they are naught.

Wsp 6.226 21 This reaction, this sincerity is the property of all things.

CbW 6.273 23 ...who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all,--friends?

Ill 6.320 11 ...what avails it that...our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest...

Elo1 7.97 24 [The moral sentiment]...has the property of invigorating the hearer;...

DL 7.109 13 There should be...the genius and love of the man so conspicuously marked in all his estate that the eye that knew him should read his character in his property...

DL 7.129 26 ...let [a man] not think that a property in beautiful objects is necessary to his apprehension of them...

DL 7.131 15 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...

DL 7.131 22 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...where it has its proper place among hundreds of such donations from other citizens who have brought thither whatever articles they have judged to be in their nature rather a public than a private property.

DL 7.131 23 A collection of this kind [a library and museum], the property of each town, would dignify the town...

Cour 7.259 2 ...the protection which a house...neighborhood and property... gives, go in all times to generate this taint of the respectable classes.

PI 8.13 5 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property...

PI 8.14 27 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence,--is only phenomenal. Youth, age, property, condition, events, persons,--self, even,-- are successive maias (deceptions) through which Vishnu mocks and instructs the soul.

Elo2 8.112 12 There are not only the wants of the intellectual and learned and poetic men and women to be met, but also the vast interests of property, public and private...

Elo2 8.117 20 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression...all the great interests, whether of state or property, crowd to him to be their spokesman...

QO 8.187 13 ...now it appears that [English and American nursery-tales]... are the property of all the nations descended from the Aryan race...

QO 8.192 16 [Quotation] betrays the consciousness that truth is the property of no individual...

PC 8.208 20 Now that by the increased humanity of law she controls her property, [woman] inevitably takes the next step to her share in power.

Imtl 8.343 13 [The moral sentiment] risks or ruins property, health, life itself, without hesitation, for its thought...

Dem1 10.17 28 ...every demoniacal property can manifest itself in the corporeal and incorporeal...

Aris 10.65 9 There is no need that [a man of generous spirit] should count the pounds of property or the numbers of agents whom his influence touches;...

PerF 10.76 4 ...the wise merchant by truth in his dealings finds his credit unlimited,-he can use in turn, as he wants it, all the property in the world...

PerF 10.79 11 I knew a manufacturer who found his property invested in chemical works which were depreciating in value.

PerF 10.83 2 ...the mighty Intellect did not stoop to [the susceptible man] and become property...

PerF 10.84 12 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God. Thus is the world delivered into your hand, but on two conditions,-not for property... and...not for self-indulgence.

PerF 10.84 20 [Men] wish to pocket land and water and fire and air and all fruits of these, for property...

Edc1 10.129 8 No dollar of property can be created without some direct communication with Nature...

Edc1 10.131 8 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena, of...subordinating them to a bright reason of its own, and so giving to man a sort of property... in every district and particle of the globe.

Edc1 10.131 9 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena, of...subordinating them to a bright reason of its own, and so giving to man a sort of property,-yea, the very highest property in every district and particle of the globe.

Supl 10.177 20 A bag of sequins...a single horse, constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property.

SovE 10.189 20 Savage war gives place to that of Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code. This war again gives place to the finer quarrel of property, where the victory is wealth and the defeat poverty.

SovE 10.190 7 Community of property is tried...

SovE 10.190 11 ...it is found at last that some establishment of property...is best for all.

Schr 10.272 13 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property...

Schr 10.281 3 [Idealistic views] threaten the validity of contracts, but do not prevail so far as to establish the new kingdom which shall supersede contracts, oaths and property.

Plu 10.302 7 We sail on [Plutarch's] memory into the ports of every nation, enter into every private property...

Plu 10.302 10 We sail on [Plutarch's] memory into the ports of every nation, enter into every private property, and do not stop to discriminate owners, but give him the praise of all. 'T is all Plutarch...and all property vests in this emperor.

Plu 10.312 4 Seneca...by...his own skill...of living with men of business and emulating their address in affairs by great accumulation of his own property, learned to temper his philosophy with facts.

LLNE 10.355 18 In our free institutions...fortunes are easily made by thousands, as in no other country. Then property proves too much for the man...

MMEm 10.401 9 [Mary Moody Emerson's aunt] would leave the farm to her by will. This promise was kept; she came into possession of the property many years after...

MMEm 10.417 25 My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has been the means of lessening my property.

LS 11.12 21 ...[the disciples] threw all their property into a common stock;...

EWI 11.100 7 The subject [emancipation] is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

EWI 11.103 3 For the negro, was the slave-ship to begin with...no property in the rags that covered him;...

EWI 11.107 18 [The Quakers] were rich: they owned, for debt or by inheritance, [West Indian] island property;...

EWI 11.113 13 The Ministers...estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...

EWI 11.128 22 The extent of the [British] empire, and the magnitude and number of other questions crowding into court, keep this one [slavery] in balance, and prevent it from...being urged with that intemperance which a question of property tends to acquire.

War 11.157 1 Wherever there is no property, the people will put on the knapsack for bread;...

War 11.174 20 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men...men who have...attained such a perception of their own intrinsic worth that they do not think property or their own body a sufficient good to be saved by such dereliction of principle as treating a man like a sheep.

FSLC 11.181 24 The very convenience of property, the house and land we occupy, have lost their best value...

FSLC 11.189 19 I thought it was this fair mystery, whose foundations are hidden in eternity, which made the basis of human society, and of law; and that to pretend anything else, as that the acquisition of property was the end of living, was to confound all distinctions...

FSLC 11.204 2 ...[Webster's] finely developed understanding only works truly and with all its force, when it stands for animal good; that is, for property.

FSLC 11.204 4 [Webster] believes...that government exists for the protection of property.

FSLC 11.208 19 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property [slaves] of the planters...

AsSu 11.248 3 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of; Mr. Webster's life was the property of his friends and of the whole country...

AKan 11.263 3 ...now, vast property, gigantic interests...cover the land with a network that immensely multiplies the dangers of war.

ACiv 11.301 13 Here is a woman who has no other property [but slaves]...

Koss 11.400 22 Sir [Kossuth], whatever obstruction from selfishness, indifference, or from property...you may encounter, we congratulate you that you have known how to convert calamities into powers...

Wom 11.416 25 ...the times are marked by the new attitude of Woman; urging...her rights of all kinds...as the right to education...to equal rights of property...

Wom 11.419 18 [Women] have an unquestionable right to their own property.

Wom 11.424 8 ...let [women] have and hold and give their property as men do theirs;...

SHC 11.432 14 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...making together a large block of public ground, permanent property of the town and county...

RBur 11.443 19 [Burns's songs] are the property and the solace of mankind.

CPL 11.497 1 If you consider what has befallen you when reading...a tragedy, or a novel, even, that deeply interested you...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...

FRep 11.513 3 There is not a property in Nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

FRep 11.519 16 We have seen the great party of property and education in the country drivelling and huckstering away...every principle of humanity...

FRep 11.524 16 [The election of a rogue and a brawler] was done by the very men you know,-the mildest, most sensible, best-natured people. The only account of this is, that they have been scared or warped into some association in their mind of the candidate with the interest of their trade or of their property.

PLT 12.15 22 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes. To this sea every human house has a water front. But this force...is no fee or property of man or angel.

PLT 12.31 20 There is no property or relation in that immense arsenal of forces which the earth is, but some man is at last found who affects this...

PLT 12.38 24 This is the first property of the Intellect I am to point out; the mind detaches.

II 12.67 2 [Instinct's] property is absolute science and an implicit reliance is due to it.

II 12.74 22 ...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.

II 12.74 23 ...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.

II 12.78 2 ...it is the curious property of truth to be uncontainable and ever enlarging.

Mem 12.93 23 ...in addition to this [photographic] property [the memory] has one more, this, namely, that of all the million images that are imprinted, the very one we want reappears in the centre of the plate in the moment when we want it.

Mem 12.101 17 ...all the facts in this chest of memory are property at interest.

CInt 12.119 3 The hater of property and of government takes care to have his warranty-deed recorded;...

CL 12.145 24 Yonder pear has every property which should belong to a tree.

CW 12.178 3 I admire in trees the creation of property so clean of tears, or crime, or even care.

Bost 12.184 10 [Howell] compares [Indian society] to the geologic phenomenon which the black soil of the Dhakkan offers,-the property, namely, of assimilating to itself every foreign substance introduced into its bosom.

Bost 12.185 2 There is great testimony of discriminating persons to the effect that Rome is endowed with the enchanting property of inspiring a longing in men there to live and there to die.

Bost 12.187 13 In...the farthest colonies...a middle-aged gentleman is just embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and spend his old age in Paris;...

Bost 12.189 12 The [Massachusetts Bay] territory-conferred on the patentees in absolute property...extended from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude...

Bost 12.198 7 It is the property of the religious sentiment to be the most refining of all influences.

MLit 12.321 15 There is in [Wordsworth] that property common to all great poets, a wisdom of humanity, which is superior to any talents which they exert.

EurB 12.375 22 ...this reward granted [the novels of costume or of circumstance] is property, all-excluding property...

EurB 12.376 21 ...a probity, a justice was to be [the society in Wilhelm Meister's] element, symbolized by the insisting that each property should be cleared of privilege,

PPr 12.382 13 ...let [a man] see whether he so holds his property that a benefit goes from it to all.

PPr 12.382 18 A man's diet should be what is simplest and readiest to be had, because it is so private a good. His house should be better, because that...is the property of the traveller.

Let 12.393 4 When a railroad train shoots through Europe every day...it cannot stop every twenty or thirty miles at a German custom-house, for examination of property and passports.

Property, n. (6)

Nat 1.37 15 The same good office is performed by Property...

Nat 1.37 24 ...Property...is the surface action of internal machinery...

LT 1.269 11 ...the agitators on the system of Education and the laws of Property, are the right successors of Luther, Knox...

LT 1.274 27 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform] looks into the law of Property...

SR 2.87 18 ...the reliance on Property...is the want of self-reliance.

NER 3.262 6 Do you complain of the laws of Property?

property-holder, n. (1)

EPro 11.322 17 ...this taxation, which makes the land wholesome and habitable...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.

property-man, n. (1)

ET13 5.229 11 ...the religion of the day is a theatrical Sinai, where the thunders are supplied by the property-man.

prophecies, n. (1)

Cir 2.305 16 Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

prophecy, n. (22)

Nat 1.70 16 I shall...conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature...which...may be both history and prophecy.

AmS 1.114 8 ...this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs...by all prophecy...to the American Scholar.

DSA 1.127 23 Miracles, prophecy...exist as ancient history merely;...

Fdsp 2.211 8 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... ... In these warm lines the heart will...pour out the prophecy of a godlier existence than all the annals of heroism have yet made good.

OS 2.269 21 ...by yielding to the spirit of prophecy which is innate in every man, we can know what [the soul] saith.

Chr1 3.113 12 A divine person is the prophecy of the mind;...

Chr1 3.113 22 ...we have never seen a man: that divine form we do not yet know, but only the dream and prophecy of such...

UGM 4.8 2 Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men; direct giving of material or metaphysical aid, as of health, eternal youth, fine senses, arts of healing, magical power and prophecy.

PPh 4.58 13 ...[Plato] believes that poetry, prophecy and the high insight are from a wisdom of which man is not master;...

Wsp 6.227 25 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy...

PI 8.48 25 Omen and coincidence show the rhythmical structure of man; hence the taste for signs, sortilege, prophecy and fulfilment, anniversaries...

Elo2 8.109 16 Self-centred; when [the patriot] launched the genuine word/ It shook or captivated all who heard/ Ran from his mouth to mountains and the sea,/ And burned in noble hearts proverb and prophecy./

Elo2 8.117 2 ...[the orator] gains his victory by prophecy, where [the people] expected repetition.

Insp 8.272 14 Every youth should know the way to prophecy...

Dem1 10.8 25 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in certain actions which seem...out of all fitness. He is hostile...he is a poltroon. It turns out prophecy a year later.

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?

SovE 10.202 13 In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference of opinion in regard to inspiration, prophecy...

LLNE 10.337 21 On the heels of this intruder [Phrenology] came Mesmerism, which...attempted the explanation of miracle and prophecy...

MMEm 10.424 15 ...in the weary womb [of Time] are prolific numbers of the same sad hour, colored...by the prophecy of others, more dreary, blind and sickly.

Shak1 11.448 25 [Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous prophecy of Socrates, that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be most excellent in comedy...

II 12.69 11 We ought to know the way to insight and prophecy as surely as the plant knows its way to the light;...

Milt1 12.250 13 There is little poetry or prophecy in this mean and ribald scolding [Milton's Defence of the English People].

prophesied, v. (3)

MN 1.211 9 We too could have gladly prophesied standing in [the poet's] place.

Hist 2.37 10 One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind.

ET1 5.21 2 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans...never to call into action the physical strength of the people, as had just now been done in England in the Reform Bill,--a thing prophesied by Delolme.

prophesies, v. (1)

Lov1 2.187 27 ...I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...

prophesy, v. (4)

MR 1.230 13 ...Wall Street doubts, and begins to prophesy'

F 6.25 26 ...we prophesy and divine.

Cour 7.266 17 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who tried to prophesy without command in the Temple at Delphi...fell into convulsions and died.

Insp 8.278 13 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/...

prophesying, adj. (2)

NER 3.283 1 If the auguries of the prophesying heart shall make themselves good in time, the man who shall be born...is one who shall enjoy his connection with a higher life...

Insp 8.294 16 What is best in literature is the affirming, prophesying, spermatic words of men-making poets.

prophesying, v. (1)

OS 2.287 12 The great distinction...between men of the world who are reckoned accomplished talkers...and a fervent mystic, prophesying half insane under the infinitude of his thought,--is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...

prophet, n. (49)

Nat 1.34 18 There sits the Sphinx at the road-side, and...as each prophet comes by, he tries his fortune at reading her riddle.

Nat 1.41 5 Prophet and priest...have drawn deeply from this source [of nature].

LE 1.176 5 We...talk of muse and prophet...

Con 1.298 11 ...conservatism...must...suspect and stone the prophet;...

Con 1.313 22 [This manner of living] nourished you with care and love on its breast, as it had nourished many a lover of the right and many a... prophet...

Hist 2.27 13 When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to [the student] a sentiment of his infancy...he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition...

Fdsp 2.214 22 [A friend] is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come...

OS 2.268 19 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must be, is that great nature in which we rest...

Chr1 3.109 16 ...the beloved of Yezdam, the prophet Zertusht, advanced into the midst of the assembly.

Nat2 3.183 18 Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore is [man] the prophet and discoverer of her secrets.

Nat2 3.187 22 The poet, the prophet, has a higher value for what he utters than any hearer...

Nat2 3.188 3 Each prophet comes presently to identify himself with his thought...

Pol1 3.216 14 [The wise man] needs...no church, for he is a prophet;...

NR 3.247 5 If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words...

NR 3.247 8 If...the hearer who is ready to sell all and join the crusade could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

PNR 4.81 19 [Plato] is more than...the prophet of a peculiar message.

SwM 4.131 10 A vampyre sits in the seat of the prophet [in Swedenborg's universe]...

SwM 4.136 13 Locke said, God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.

SwM 4.146 5 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him, and which no infirmities of the prophet are suffered to obscure;...

ShP 4.218 26 ...other men, priest and prophet...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]...

NMW 4.225 2 God has granted, says the Koran, to every people a prophet in its own tongue.

NMW 4.225 5 Paris and London and New York, the spirit...of money and material power, were also to have their prophet;...

GoW 4.270 25 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no prophet or saint, but colleges of divinity;...

ET13 5.225 21 [Religion] is endogenous, like the skin and other vital organs. A new statement every day. The prophet and apostle knew this...

ET13 5.225 25 Prophet and apostle can only be rightly understood by prophet and apostle.

ET13 5.225 26 Prophet and apostle can only be rightly understood by prophet and apostle.

CbW 6.249 25 In old Egypt it was established law that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands.

CbW 6.269 2 When joy or calamity or genius shall show [the youth his purpose]...then city shopmen and cabdrivers, indifferently with prophet or friend, will mirror back to him its unfathomable heaven...

CbW 6.278 11 I prefer to say, with the old prophet, Seekest thou great things? seek them not...

Art2 7.48 25 [The artist] must work in the spirit in which we conceive a prophet to speak...

PI 8.11 1 [Goethe] was himself conscious of [imagination's] help, which made him a prophet among the doctors.

Elo2 8.112 5 It is an old proverb that Every people has its prophet;...

Comc 8.159 20 ...a prophet...or a philosopher...these do not joke...

Grts 8.313 26 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke, If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to say, with the old Hebrew prophet, Seekest thou great things?-seek them not;...

Dem1 10.13 25 Euripides said, He is not the best prophet who guesses well...

Edc1 10.134 12 If [a man] is jovial...if he is...prophet, diviner,-society has need of all these.

Prch 10.223 2 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws-as mankind begins to see them in this age...needing no voucher, no prophet and no miracle besides their own irresistibility...

MoL 10.242 13 [The inviolate soul] is...a prophet surrendered with self-abandoning sincerity to the Heaven which pours through him its will to mankind.

MoL 10.245 20 A French prophet of our age, Fourier, predicted that one day...the rival portions of humanity would dispute each other's excellence in the manufacture of little cakes.

Schr 10.282 12 [Truth]...diminishes and annihilates everybody, and the prophet so gladly feels his personality lost in this victorious life.

Plu 10.315 21 The Arcadian prophet, of whom Herodotus speaks, was obliged to make a wooden foot in place of that which had been chopped off.

MMEm 10.433 10 ...every banker, shopkeeper and wood-sawer has a stake in the elevation of the moral code by saint and prophet.

Thor 10.478 10 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a friend...almost worshipped by those few persons who resorted to him as their confessor and prophet...

LS 11.2 1 The word unto the prophet spoken/ Was writ on tables yet unbroken;/...

SMC 11.351 23 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...becomes a sentiment, a poet, a prophet, an orator...

ChiE 11.471 14 We had said of China, as the old prophet said of Egypt, Her strength is to sit still.

PLT 12.8 21 ...was there ever prophet burdened with a message to his people who did not cloud our gratitude by a strange confounding in his own mind of private folly with his public wisdom?

CInt 12.126 18 ...all the youth come out [of Harvard College] decrepit citizens; not a prophet, not a poet, not a daimon, but is gagged and stifled or driven away.

Let 12.398 8 [American youths] are in the state of the young Persians, when that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and said, Behold the signs of evil days are come;...

Prophet, n. (1)

Aris 10.51 18 The day is darkened...when genius grows...reckless of its fine duties of being Saint, Prophet, Inspirer to its humble fellows...

prophetess, n. (2)

Wom 11.414 16 ...in the East...in the Mohammedan faith, Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess, that she has among the ancient Greeks...

PLT 12.50 17 The Delphian prophetess, when the spirit possesses her, is herself a victim.

prophetic, adj. (18)

OS 2.281 22 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration...to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion...

Pol1 3.201 6 The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic.

SwM 4.110 17 These grand rhymes or returns in nature...delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...

Wsp 6.205 7 In all ages, souls out of time, extraordinary, prophetic, are born...

CbW 6.258 17 In the high prophetic phrase, He causes the wrath of man to praise him...

Cour 7.273 1 The statue, the architecture, were the later and inferior creation of the same [Greek] genius. In view of this moment of history, we recognize a certain prophetic instinct, better than wisdom.

QO 8.179 16 The highest statement of new philosophy complacently caps itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest learning.

PC 8.223 22 ...the universe at last is only prophetic...

Dem1 10.8 16 A prophetic character in all ages has haunted [dreams].

Dem1 10.10 1 It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments should fall out and be prophetic.

Edc1 10.156 15 Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs. But you must have the believing and prophetic eye.

MoL 10.242 1 ...[the scholar's] function is prophetic.

CSC 10.376 13 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it...in...the prophetic dignity and transfiguration which accompanies...a man whose mind is made up to obey the great inward Commander...

MMEm 10.421 8 High, solemn, entrancing noon, prophetic of the approach of the Presiding Spirit of Autumn.

LS 11.6 27 ...we must suppose that the expression, This do in remembrance of me, had come to the ear of Luke from some disciple who was present. What did it really signify? It is a prophetic and affectionate expression.

LS 11.12 11 These views of the original account of the Lord's Supper lead me to esteem it an occasion full of solemn and prophetic interest...

Mem 12.92 24 Memory is...a living instructor, with a prophetic sense of the values which he guards;...

MLit 12.319 21 ...[Shelley] is a character full of noble and prophetic traits;...

prophetic, n. (1)

CPL 11.503 9 ...if you can kindle the imagination by a new thought... instantly you expand...and become wise, and even prophetic.

prophetically, adv. (1)

ET11 5.180 21 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy...

Prophets [Michelangelo], n. (1)

MAng1 12.230 9 [Michelangelo's paintings are in the Sistine Chapel, of which he first covered the ceiling with the story of the Creation, in successive compartments, with the great series of the Prophets and Sibyls in alternate tablets...

prophets, n. (24)

DSA 1.128 20 Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets.

DSA 1.129 26 [Jesus] felt respect for Moses and the prophets...

DSA 1.136 15 In how many churches, by how many prophets...is man made sensible that he is an infinite Soul;...

MN 1.195 21 If [great men] are prophets they are egotists;...

MR 1.227 11 ...prophets and poets...we are not now...

Tran 1.338 4 ...we know of none but prophets and heralds of such a philosophy [Transcendendalism];...

Tran 1.339 17 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling on superstitious times, made prophets and apostles;...

Int 2.345 23 ...I cannot recite...laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class who have been its prophets and oracles...

Pt1 3.17 19 The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness.

Chr1 3.107 21 [Nature] makes very light of gospels and prophets...

PPh 4.76 8 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which the screams of prophets...possess.

Pow 6.72 25 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow, mixed them with glue and water with his own hands, and having after many trials at last suited himself, climbed his ladders, and painted away...month after month, the sibyls and prophets.

CbW 6.277 5 Our prayers are prophets.

DL 7.131 6 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo...

PI 8.36 18 [The poet] is very well convinced that the great moments of life are those in which...the tritest and nearest ways and words and things have been illuminated into prophets and teachers.

Chr2 10.96 3 Before [the moral sentiment] what are persons, prophets, or seraphim...

LLNE 10.357 22 ...[the Fourierists] were unconscious prophets of a true state of society;...

Thor 10.478 2 Thoreau...might fortify the convictions of prophets in the ethical laws by his holy living.

CPL 11.506 21 With [books] many of us spend the most of our life...these tractable prophets, historians, and singers...

PLT 12.45 19 ...the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

PLT 12.45 20 ...the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

MAng1 12.234 5 [Michelangelo] did not only build a divine temple, and paint and carve saints and prophets. He lived out the same inspiration.

MAng1 12.234 17 [Michelangelo] saw clearly that if the corrupt and vulgar eyes that could see nothing but indecorum in his terrific prophets and angels could be purified as his own were pure, they would only find occasion for devotion in the same figures.

Milt1 12.276 11 Like prophets, [Homer and Shakespeare] seem but imperfectly aware of the import of their own utterances.

Prophets, n. (1)

DSA 1.145 24 Friends enough you shall find who will hold up to your emulation...Saints and Prophets.

prophet's, n. (1)

Supl 10.163 22 We talk, sometimes, with people whose conversation would lead you to suppose that they had lived in a museum, where all the objects were monsters and extremes. Their good people are phoenixes; their naughty are like the prophet's figs.

propitiated, v. (1)

GoW 4.281 2 ...in all these countries [England, America and France], men of talent write from talent. It is enough if...the taste [is] propitiated...

propitious, adj. (3)

NR 3.238 24 When afterwards [the recluse] comes to unfold [his endowment] in propitious circumstance, it seems the only talent;...

ET3 5.36 12 The American is only the continuation of the English genius into new conditions, more or less propitious.

EdAd 11.392 12 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know his religious constitution...

proportion, n. (98)

Nat 1.20 9 In proportion to the energy of his thought and will, [man] takes up the world into himself.

AmS 1.88 2 Precisely in proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does [nature] soar...

AmS 1.88 7 In proportion to the completeness of the distillation, so will the purity and imperishableness of the product be.

AmS 1.105 10 ...in proportion as a man has any thing in him divine, the firmament flows before him...

DSA 1.126 8 ...all the expressions of this [moral] sentiment are...permanent in proportion to their purity.

MN 1.214 27 To every reform, in proportion to its energy, early disgusts are incident...

MR 1.245 5 ...we shall dwell like the ancient Romans in narrow tenements, whilst our public edifices, like theirs, will be worthy for their proportion of the landscape in which we set them...

YA 1.370 22 ...here shall laws and institutions exist on some scale of proportion to the majesty of nature.

Hist 2.37 3 [Talbot's] substance is not here./ For what you see is but the smallest part/ And least proportion of humanity;/...

SR 2.75 18 ...we see that most natures...have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force...

SR 2.79 16 In proportion to the depth of the thought...is [the pupil's] complacency.

Comp 2.124 27 In proportion to the vigor of the individual these revolutions are frequent...

SL 2.133 21 We love characters in proportion as they are impulsive and spontaneous.

SL 2.142 11 Until he can manage to communicate himself to others in his full stature and proportion, [a man] does not yet find his vocation.

SL 2.144 25 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards.

SL 2.148 3 The visions of the night bear some proportion to the visions of the day.

Lov1 2.172 1 The strong bent of nature is seen in the proportion which this topic of personal relations usurps in the conversation of society.

OS 2.280 25 ...in proportion to that truth [a man] receives, [the soul] takes him to itself.

Art1 2.360 4 In proportion to his force, the artist will find in his work an outlet for his proper character.

Art1 2.360 11 ...through his necessity of imparting himself the adamant will be wax in [the artist's] hands, and will allow an adequate communication of himself, in his full stature and proportion.

Exp 3.65 24 Human life is made up of the two elements, power and form, and the proportion must be invariably kept if we would have it sweet and sound.

Mrs1 3.138 14 To the leaders of men, the brain as well as the flesh and the heart must furnish a proportion.

Mrs1 3.139 9 The love of beauty is mainly the love of measure or proportion.

Gts 3.160 12 If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit him and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.

Pol1 3.206 4 A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom or conquest can easily...achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means;...

NR 3.234 2 Art, in the artist, is proportion...

NR 3.234 6 Proportion is almost impossible to human beings.

NER 3.267 8 Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished in his proportion;...

PPh 4.39 22 Even the men of grander proportion suffer some deduction from the misfortune (shall I say?) of coming after this exhausting generalizer [Plato].

PPh 4.44 17 ...in proportion to the culture of men they become [Plato's] scholars;...

PPh 4.61 5 [Plato] is a great average man; one who, to the best thinking, adds a proportion and equality in his faculties...

PPh 4.78 15 Men, in proportion to their intellect, have admitted [Plato's] transcendent claims.

PNR 4.87 7 The gods are [to Plato] the ideas. ... Venus is proportion;...

SwM 4.130 13 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion, hard to hit, of moral and mental power...

SwM 4.130 15 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion...of moral and mental power, which perhaps obeys the law of those chemical ratios which make a proportion in volumes necessary to combination...

MoS 4.156 3 If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits they entertain,--they...spend their days and nights...in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment...

ET1 5.19 17 [Wordsworth] had much to say of America, the more that it gave occasion for his favorite topic,--that society is being enlightened by a superficial tuition, out of all proportion to its being restrained by moral culture.

ET7 5.122 11 The ruling passion of Englishmen in these days is a terror of humbug. In the same proportion they value honesty, stoutness, and adherence to your own.

ET10 5.153 18 [The English] are under the Jewish law, and read with sonorous emphasis that...they shall have sons and daughters, flocks and herds, wine and oil. In exact proportion is the reproach of poverty.

F 6.35 23 The direction of the whole and of the parts is...in proportion to the health.

Wth 6.94 18 ...the supply in nature of railroad-presidents...fire-annihilators, etc., is limited by the same law which keeps the proportion in the supply of carbon, of alum, and of hydrogen.

Wth 6.110 17 ...it turns out that the largest proportion of crimes are committed by foreigners.

Ctr 6.142 2 ...in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the assimilating power.

Wsp 6.205 3 Heaven always bears some proportion to earth.

Bty 6.295 13 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper...in proportion to the beauty of the lines drawn, will be kept for centuries.

Bty 6.306 3 ...I find...the beauty ever in proportion to the depth of thought.

Art2 7.38 6 Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does [the thought] knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.

Art2 7.48 19 The artist who is to produce a work...which is to be more beautiful to the eye in proportion to its culture, must disindividualize himself...

Art2 7.50 18 ...every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate...

Suc 7.301 13 We bring a welcome to the highest lessons of religion and of poetry out of all proportion beyond our skill to teach.

OA 7.331 20 It must be believed that there is a proportion between the designs of a man and the length of his life...

PI 8.33 13 In proportion always to [the writer's] possession of his thought is his defiance of his readers.

PI 8.68 18 In proportion as a man's life comes into union with truth, his thoughts approach to a parallelism with the currents of natural laws...

PI 8.68 24 By successive states of mind all the facts of Nature are for the first time interpreted. In proportion as [a man's] life departs from this simplicity, he uses circumlocution...

PI 8.73 2 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments. It teaches the enormous force of a few words, and in proportion to the inspiration checks loquacity.

SA 8.84 25 ...just in proportion to the morality of a people will be the expansion of the credit system.

QO 8.178 6 ...in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the assimilating power.

PC 8.214 8 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius...which men in proportion to their wisdom still cherish...

Insp 8.278 6 The depth of the notes which we accidentally sound on the strings of Nature is out of all proportion to our taught and ascertained faculty...

Imtl 8.337 12 The love of life is out of all proportion to the value set on a single day...

Imtl 8.341 18 Montesquieu said, The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruin.

Imtl 8.342 14 ...the one doctrine in which all religions agree is that new light is added to the mind in proportion as it uses that which it has.

Aris 10.39 7 I wish...men of universal politics, who are interested in things in proportion to their truth and magnitude;...

Aris 10.60 9 ...out of the vast duration of man's race, [a certain order of men]...are present to every mind in proportion to its likeness to theirs.

PerF 10.77 25 In proportion to the depth of the insight is the power and reach of the kingdom [a man] controls.

Edc1 10.153 9 A sure proportion of rogue and dunce finds its way into every school...

Supl 10.170 26 Men of the world value truth, in proportion to their ability;...

Supl 10.173 9 ...it would seem the whole human race agree to value a man precisely in proportion to his power of expression;...

Supl 10.174 26 Nor is there in Nature itself any swell, any brag, any strain or shock, but...a true proportion between her means and her performance.

Supl 10.178 4 ...all nations in proportion to their civilization, understand the manufacture of iron.

Prch 10.220 5 In proportion to a man's want of goodness, it seems to him another and not himself;...

Prch 10.234 7 A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

Schr 10.261 13 Literary men gladly acknowledge these ties which find for the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for. But in proportion as we are conversant with the laws of life, we have seen the like.

Schr 10.269 13 ...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but truth...

Plu 10.308 9 ...[Plutarch] chiefly liked that proportion which teaches us to account that which is just, equal; and not that which is equal, just.

LLNE 10.341 25 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a man...who...inspired his companions only in proportion as they were intellectual...

LLNE 10.343 8 As these persons became in the common chances of society acquainted with each other, there resulted certainly strong friendships, which of course were exclusive in proportion to their heat...

LLNE 10.353 26 ...in a day of small, sour and fierce schemes, one is admonished and cheered by a project of such friendly aims and of such bold and generous proportion [as Fourier's];...

LLNE 10.365 24 ...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm]... were sure to avail themselves of every means of instruction; their knowledge was increased, their manners refined,-but they became in that proportion averse to labor...

Carl 10.495 9 In proportion to the peals of laughter amid which [Carlyle] strips the plumes of a pretender...does he worship whatever enthusiasm, fortitude, love or other sign of a good nature is in a man.

HDC 11.78 9 The number of [Concord's] troops constantly in service [in the American Revolution] is very great. Its pecuniary burdens are out of all proportion to its capital.

FSLC 11.188 9 ...all men that are born are, in proportion to their power of thought and their moral sensibility, found to be the natural enemies of this [Fugitive Slave] law.

AsSu 11.248 20 ...men's bodily strength, or skill with knives and guns, is not usually in proportion to their knowledge and mother-wit...

JBS 11.280 19 ...all people, in proportion to their sensibility and self-respect, sympathize with [John Brown].

CPL 11.504 5 ...in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the assimilating power.

CPL 11.505 2 Montesquieu...writes: The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which gives them to us approaches its ruin.

FRep 11.522 12 In proportion to the personal ability of each man, [the American] feels the invitation and career which the country opens to him.

PLT 12.12 23 ...just in proportion to the activity of thoughts on the study of outward objects...in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth;...

PLT 12.12 27 ...just in proportion to the activity of thoughts on the study of outward objects...in that proportion the faculties of the mind had a healthy growth;...

PLT 12.37 2 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health. Then it requires a proportion between a man's acts and his condition...

PLT 12.38 26 A man is intellectual in proportion as he can make an object of every sensation, perception and intuition;...

Mem 12.110 1 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint...that there must be a proportion between the power of memory and the amount of knowables;...

CW 12.178 12 ...I am always glad to remember that in proportion to the foliation is the addition of wood.

MAng1 12.216 27 ...in proportion as man rises above the servitude to wealth and a pursuit of mean pleasures, he perceives that what is most real is most beautiful...

MAng1 12.219 4 ...Beauty is thus an abstraction of the harmony and proportion that reigns in all Nature...

Milt1 12.273 18 [Milton] thought he could be famous only in proportion as he enjoyed the approbation of the good.

Milt1 12.274 4 ...by the proportion of his powers;...[Milton] would reascend to the height from which our nature is supposed to have descended.

Let 12.396 25 To live solitary and unexpressed is...painful in proportion to one's consciousness of ripeness and equality to the offices of friendship.

proportion, v. (1)

ET10 5.156 19 [In England] An economist, or a man who can proportion his means and his ambition...without embarrassing one day of his future, is already a master of life, and a freeman.

proportional, adj. (2)

PI 8.41 27 The attractions are proportional to the destinies.

Elo2 8.118 9 ...the great and daily growing interests at stake in this country must pay proportional prices to their spokesmen and defenders.

proportionally, adv. (1)

F 6.10 5 ...sometimes...the family vice is drawn off in a separate individual and the others are proportionally relieved.

proportionate, adj. (5)

Nat 1.57 4 [Ideas'] influence is proportionate.

SR 2.47 3 [The divine idea] may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues...

Int 2.329 20 Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition;...

Mrs1 3.137 20 Proportionate is our disgust at those invaders who fill a studious house with blast and running...

MLit 12.332 1 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers is not...merely a circumstance...

proportionately, adv. (1)

SlHr 10.448 1 [Samuel Hoar] had a huge respect for Mr. Webster's ability... and a proportionately deep regret at Mr. Webster's political course in his later years.

proportioned, v. (16)

Nat 1.3 12 Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life...invite us...to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past...

Nat 1.37 2 Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed, is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided...

LE 1.158 7 The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the Intellect.

SL 2.141 12 [A man's] ambition is exactly proportioned to his powers.

Prd1 2.239 23 The thought...[in dispute]...does not show itself proportioned and in its true bearings...

Mrs1 3.131 15 There is almost no kind of self-reliance, so it be sane and proportioned, which fashion does not occasionally adopt and give it the freedom of its saloons.

PPh 4.79 7 The great-eyed Plato proportioned the lights and shades after the genius of our life.

MoS 4.183 27 Charles Fourier announced that the attractions of man are proportioned to his destinies;...

MoS 4.184 25 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him. He was an emperor deserted by his states...and still the sirens sang, The attractions are proportioned to the destinies.

ET1 5.6 21 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure...an emphasis of features proportioned to their gradated importance in function; color and ornament to be decided and arranged and varied by strictly organic laws...

ET3 5.43 15 [Nature made] An island,--but not so large, the people [of England] not so many as to glut the great markets and depress one another, but proportioned to the size of Europe and the continents.

Aris 10.47 16 Let a man's social aims be proportioned to his means and power.

SlHr 10.440 19 ...[Samuel Hoar] said it was his practice to pay whatever was demanded; for, though he might think the taxation large and very unequally proportioned, yet he thought the money might as well go in this way as in any other.

HDC 11.79 12 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will...fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns.

FSLN 11.223 23 If [Webster's] moral sensibility had been proportioned to the force of his understanding, what limits could have been set to his genius and beneficent power?

Mem 12.91 17 ...a piece of news I hear, has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.

proportions, n. (24)

Nat 1.68 20 Man is all symmetry,/ Full of proportions.../

Nat 1.76 19 As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.

AmS 1.86 6 The chemist finds proportions and intelligible method throughout matter;...

Hist 2.21 7 The mountain of granite [the Gothic cathedral] blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty.

Cir 2.311 16 The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday... have strangely changed their proportions.

Int 2.337 14 ...a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

NR 3.226 26 All persons exist to society by some shining trait of beauty or utility which they have. We borrow the proportions of the man from that one fine feature...

PNR 4.85 2 [Plato] saw...that the world was throughout mathematical; the proportions are constant of oxygen, azote and lime;...

PNR 4.85 4 [Plato] saw...that the world was throughout mathematical;... there is just so much water and slate and magnesia; not less are the proportions constant of the moral elements.

GoW 4.275 22 ...[Goethe]...considered that every color was the mixture of light and darkness in new proportions.

ET14 5.242 18 ...the very announcement...even of Dalton's doctrine of definite proportions, finds a sudden response in the mind...

Pow 6.62 16 As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

Wsp 6.204 6 Nature has self-poise in all her works; certain proportions in which oxygen and azote combine...

DL 7.123 17 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model.

Farm 7.142 14 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions;...

Farm 7.147 26 The roots that shot deepest, and the stems of happiest exposure, drew the nourishment from the rest, until the less thrifty perished and manured the soil for the stronger, and the mammoth Sequoias rose to their enormous proportions.

Boks 7.206 20 If now the relations of England to European affairs bring [the scholar] to British ground, he is arrived at the very moment when modern history takes new proportions.

Clbs 7.239 1 It happened many years ago that an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England, the author of the theory of atomic proportions...

Aris 10.42 18 The ancients were fond of ascribing to their nobles gigantic proportions and strength.

GSt 10.503 12 In 1862...[George Stearns] took the first steps for organizing the Freedman's Bureau,-a department which has since grown to great proportions.

ACiv 11.300 3 The evil you contend with has taken alarming proportions...

Shak1 11.452 17 ...Shakspeare...simply by his colossal proportions, dwarfs the geniuses of Elizabeth...

MAng1 12.217 26 What other standard of the beautiful exists than the entire circuit of all harmonious proportions of the great system of Nature?

MAng1 12.218 4 All particular beauties scattered up and down in Nature are only so far beautiful as they suggest more or less in themselves this entire circuit of harmonious proportions.

proportions, v. (1)

Trag 12.415 2 Nature proportions her defence to the assault.

proposal, n. (2)

ET2 5.25 18 ...the proposal [to lecture in England] offered an excellent opportunity of seeing the interior of England and Scotland...

MMEm 10.417 5 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man...whom she respected. The proposal gave her pause and much to think...

proposals, n. (1)

HDC 11.64 7 Some interesting peculiarities in the manners and customs of the time appear in the town's [Concord's] books. Proposals of marriage were made by the parents of the parties...

propose, v. (11)

DSA 1.135 14 To this holy office [of priest] you propose to devote yourselves.

DSA 1.140 9 ...[the poor preacher's] face is suffused with shame, to propose to his parish that they should send money a hundred or a thousand miles...

Tran 1.341 10 ...[many intelligent and religious persons] prefer to ramble in the country and perish of ennui, to the degradation of such charities and such ambitions as the city can propose to them.

Tran 1.348 27 On the part of these children it is replied that life and their faculty seem to them gifts too rich to be squandered on such trifles as you propose to them.

Pol1 3.210 7 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...for facilitating in every manner the access of the young and the poor to the sources of wealth and power. But he can rarely accept the persons whom the so-called popular party propose to him as representatives of these liberalities.

ET10 5.170 19 [England's] success strengthens the hands of base wealth. Who can propose to youth poverty and wisdom, when mean gain has arrived at the conquest of letters and arts;...

Grts 8.309 23 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for.

Aris 10.59 21 A grand style of culture, which, without injury, an ardent youth can propose to himself...does not exist...

MMEm 10.404 21 I used to propose that [Mary Moody Emerson's] epitaph should be: Here lies the angel of Death.

Bost 12.199 23 What should hinder that this America...the firm shore hid until science and art should be ripe to propose it as a fixed aim...should have its happy ports...

Let 12.395 3 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood not to propose the Indian mode of giving decrepit relatives as much of the mud of holy Ganges as they can swallow, and more...

proposed, adj. (2)

LVB 11.95 3 Our counsellors and old statesmen here say that ten years ago they would have staked their lives on the affirmation that the proposed Indian measures could not be executed;...

ACri 12.301 24 When Samuel Dexter...argued the claims of South Boston Bridge, he had to meet loud complaints of the shutting out of the coasting-trade by the proposed improvements.

proposed, v. (27)

Con 1.316 8 The reformer concedes...that if he proposed comfort, he should take sides with the establishment.

YA 1.382 13 [The Associations] proposed...that all men should take a part in the manual toil...

YA 1.382 15 [The Associations]...proposed to amend the condition of men by substituting harmonious for hostile industry.

YA 1.383 6 ...it is proposed to plant corn and to bake bread by companies.

NMW 4.250 4 ...[Napoleon] proposed to consider the probability of the destruction of the globe...

NMW 4.253 14 ...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of wealth, that it...is bought by the breaking or weakening of the sentiments; and it is inevitable that we should find the same fact in the history of this champion [Napoleon], who proposed to himself simply a brilliant career...

ET2 5.26 5 I wanted a change and a tonic, and England was proposed to me.

ET7 5.121 15 Whilst I was in London, M. Guizot arrived there on his escape from Paris, in February, 1848. Many private friends called on him. His name was immediately proposed as an honorary member of the Athenaeum.

ET10 5.154 24 When Sir S. Romilly proposed his bill forbidding parish officers to bind children apprentices at a greater distance than forty miles from their home, Peel opposed...

ET15 5.261 7 The celebrated Lord Somers knew of no good law proposed and passed in his time, to which the public papers had not directed his attention.

Pow 6.75 26 If I were to listen to all the projects proposed to me [said Rothschild], I should ruin myself very soon.

OA 7.319 18 We had a judge in Massachusetts who at sixty proposed to resign...

PC 8.209 23 Men are now to be astonished by seeing acts of...Christian charity proposed by statesmen...

Aris 10.62 12 ...to every gentleman grave and dangerous duties are proposed.

LLNE 10.338 11 The German poet Goethe...declared war against the great name of Newton, proposed his own new and simple optics;...

LS 11.23 21 ...I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the use of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper]...

HDC 11.82 1 In 1780, a constitution of the State [Massachusetts], proposed by the Convention chosen for that purpose, was accepted by the town [Concord]...

EWI 11.112 6 The scheme of the Minister, with such modification as it received in the legislature, proposed gradual emancipation [in the West Indies];...

EWI 11.113 14 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters, as a compensation for so much of the slaves' time as the act [of emancipation] took from them, 20,000,000 pounds sterling...

ACiv 11.310 10 ...President Lincoln has proposed to Congress that the government shall cooperate with any state that shall enact a gradual abolishment of slavery.

Wom 11.419 3 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this:...that, if the laws and customs were modified in the manner proposed, it would embarrass and pain gentle and lovely persons with duties which they would find irksome and distasteful.

CInt 12.127 1 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights; the noblest tasks to the Muse proposed...

CInt 12.131 9 ...'t is very certain that an examination is yonder before us and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived, that every scholar...must hear the questions proposed, and answer them by himself...

MAng1 12.232 25 The things proposed to [Michelangelo] in his imagination were such that, for not being able with his hands to express so grand and terrible conceptions, he often abandoned his work.

Milt1 12.270 12 ...a history of England was one of the three main tasks which [Milton] proposed to himself.

Milt1 12.271 15 [Milton] proposed to establish a republic, of which the federal power was weak and loosely defined...

Let 12.396 1 But to be...prudent to secure to ourselves an injurious society, temptations to folly and despair, degrading examples, and enemies; and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!

proposes, v. (9)

Nat 1.55 3 ...[the poet] differs from the philosopher only herein, that the one proposes Beauty as his main end; the other Truth.

Fdsp 2.202 2 He [who offers himself a candidate for the covenant of friendship] proposes himself for contests where Time, Want, Danger, are in the lists...

Pol1 3.210 19 ...[the conservative party] proposes no generous policy;...

ET14 5.257 27 [Tennyson] contents himself with describing the Englishman as he is, and proposes no better.

Wsp 6.237 13 In the Shakers...I find one piece of belief, in the doctrine which they faithfully hold that encourages them to open their doors to every wayfaring man who proposes to come among them;...

Aris 10.35 24 ...every man confesses that the highest good which the universe proposes to him is the highest society.

Prch 10.232 16 Man proposes, but God disposes.

Carl 10.496 15 Edwin Chadwick is one of [Carlyle's] heroes,-who proposes to provide every house in London with pure water...

Milt1 12.249 5 Milton seldom deigns a glance at the obstacles that are to be overcome before that which he proposes can be done.

proposing, v. (9)

MN 1.212 2 Is it [man's] work in the world to study nature, or the laws of the world? Let him beware of proposing to himself any end.

SwM 4.136 6 Of all absurdities, this of some foreigner proposing to take away my rhetoric and substitute his own...seems the most needless.

ET7 5.122 3 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven all voting like sheep, never proposing any thing...

Ctr 6.143 22 Provided always the boy is teachable (for we are not proposing to make a statue out of punk), football, cricket...are lessons in the art of power...

CbW 6.276 6 If you are proposing only your own, the other party must deal a little hardly by you.

SA 8.106 5 ...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming health. A rough realist or a phalanx of realists would be prescribed; but that is like proposing to mend your bad road with diamonds.

Plu 10.312 25 Plutarch...thought it the top of wisdom...to reach in mirth the same ends which the most serious are proposing.

FSLN 11.226 10 Mr. Webster decided for Slavery, and that, when the aspect of the institution was...no longer feeble and apologetic and proposing soon to end itself...

FSLN 11.230 25 [Reasonably men] answered...that...each was vying with his neighbor to lead the [Democratic] party, by proposing the worst measure...

proposition, n. (22)

Nat 1.59 5 ...there is something ungrateful in expanding too curiously the particulars of the general proposition, that all culture tends to imbue us with idealism.

SL 2.157 14 It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to articulate a proposition which they did not believe;...

NR 3.245 18 All the universe over, there is but one thing, this old Two-Face... right-wrong, of which any proposition may be affirmed or denied.

NER 3.278 17 The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation.

SwM 4.138 12 That pure malignity can exist is the extreme proposition of unbelief.

MoS 4.158 15 The generous minds embrace the proposition of labor shared by all;...

NMW 4.249 25 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it.

ET5 5.80 21 [The English] love men who, like Samuel Johnson...would jump out of his syllogism the instant his major proposition was in danger...

ET5 5.80 26 All the steps [the English] orderly take; but with the high logic of never confounding the minor and major proposition;...

ET16 5.276 1 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 England...must one day be contented...to be strong only in her children. But this was a proposition which no Englishman of whatever condition can easily entertain.

Elo1 7.88 21 [Lord Mansfield's] sentences are involved, but a solid proposition is set forth...

Elo2 8.131 12 Your argument is ingenious...but your major proposition palpably absurd. Will you establish a lie?

QO 8.199 5 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his bed, alternately sleeping and waking,-sleeping, he was surrounded by persons disputing and offering opinions on the one side and on the other side of a proposition;...

QO 8.199 6 ...[Swedenborg] noticed that, when in his bed, alternately sleeping and waking,-sleeping, he was surrounded by persons disputing and offering opinions on the one side and on the other side of a proposition; waking, the like suggestions occurred for and against the proposition as his own thoughts;...

Schr 10.283 15 [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. More or less clouded it yet resides the same in all, saying Ay, ay, or No, no to every proposition.

LLNE 10.356 25 [Thoreau]...brought every day a new proposition, as revolutionary as that of yesterday, but different...

Thor 10.456 7 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it...

Thor 10.462 27 If [Thoreau] brought you yesterday a new proposition, he would bring you to-day another not less revolutionary.

War 11.175 14 The proposition of the Congress of Nations is undoubtedly that at which the present fabric of our society and the present course of events do point.

PLT 12.40 20 The game of Intellect is the perception that whatever befalls or can be stated is a universal proposition;...

MAng1 12.219 11 [The French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de beau que le vrai] has a much wider application than to Rhetoric; as wide, namely, as the terms of the proposition admit.

PPr 12.381 12 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the proposition that the laborer must have a greater share in his earnings;...

propositions, n. (14)

Nat 1.33 8 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, the whole is greater than its part;...and many the like propositions...

Nat 1.33 10 These propositions [in physics] have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life...

Nat 1.62 6 That essence [God] refuses to be recorded in propositions...

SL 2.152 11 ...your propositions run out of one ear as they ran in at the other.

Int 2.329 22 ...the moment [logic] would appear as propositions and have a separate value, it is worthless.

SwM 4.117 4 ...[Lord Bacon] instanced some physical propositions, with their translation into a moral or political sense.

Wsp 6.227 10 In the progress of the character, there is...a decreasing faith in propositions.

DL 7.122 13 ...[Lord Falkland's] house was a university in a less volume, whither [the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] came...to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.

Suc 7.291 9 ...I am by no means sure that the reader will assent to all my propositions...

Suc 7.301 3 If we follow this hint [of correspondence] into our intellectual education, we shall find that it is not propositions...that are our first need;...

Suc 7.309 13 Omit the negative propositions.

Imtl 8.346 5 The real evidence [of immortality]...is higher than we can write down in propositions...

PLT 12.38 15 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published in set propositions...

MLit 12.314 19 ...a man may recite passages of his life with no feeling of egotism. Nor need a man have a vicious subjectiveness because he deals in abstract propositions.

propound, v. (2)

LT 1.259 20 Nature itself seems to propound to us this topic, and to invite us to explore the meaning of the conspicuous facts of the day.

Suc 7.301 20 Aristotle or Bacon or Kant propound some maxim which is the key-note of philosophy thenceforward.

propounded, v. (7)

YA 1.390 1 If a humane measure is propounded in behalf of the slave...that sentiment...will have the homage of the hero.

Pt1 3.36 23 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me, and perchance to themselves appear upright men; and whether I appear as a man to all eyes. The Brahmins and Pythagoras propounded the same question...

CbW 6.263 4 ...I will not here repeat the first rule of economy, already propounded once and again...

HDC 11.52 4 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws apart, the wife of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray when my husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he saith?...

HDC 11.53 1 [The Indians] requested to have a town given them within the bounds of Concord, near unto the English. When this question was propounded by Tahattawan, he was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country?

HDC 11.64 21 After the death of Rev. Mr. Estabrook, in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry?

PLT 12.7 9 Here are learned academies and universities, yet they have not propounded these [questions which really interest men] for any prize.

propounding, v. (3)

PPh 4.55 2 ...[Plato] saved himself by propounding the most popular of all principles, the absolute good...

F 6.47 8 ...one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists; the propounding, namely, of the double consciousness.

Clbs 7.235 23 The life of Socrates is a propounding and a solution of these [conundrums].

propounds, v. (3)

Int 2.344 27 ...whosoever propounds to you a philosophy of the mind, is only a more or less awkward translator of things in your consciousness...

ET5 5.79 13 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life.

ET5 5.85 24 [The Englishmen's] military science propounds that if the weight of the advancing column is greater than that of the resisting, the latter is destroyed.

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