Proprietary to Puberty
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
proprietary, adj. (1)
SwM 4.129 5 So far from there being anything divine in
the low and
proprietary sense of Do you love me? it is only when you leave and lose
me
by casting yourself on a sentiment which is higher than both of us,
that I
draw near and find myself at your side;...
proprietary, n. (1)
ET15 5.265 3 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small
share in the
proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you
please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office
when you
will;...
proprieties, n. (5)
ET6 5.111 21 The keeping of the proprieties is [in
England] as
indispensable as clean linen.
Bhr 6.177 17 It almost violates the proprieties if we
say above the breath
here what the confessing eyes do not hesitate to utter to every street
passenger.
Wsp 6.222 24 ...it is of importance to keep the angels
in their proprieties.
MMEm 10.432 16 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's] friends feared
they might, at her funeral, not dare to look at each other, lest they
should forget the
serious proprieties of the hour.
AsSu 11.250 17 ...beyond this charge...that he broke
over the proprieties of
debate, I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the
Nebraska
conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States...
proprietor, n. (8)
SR 2.63 15 The joyful loyalty with which men have
everywhere suffered... the great proprietor to walk among them by a law
of his own...was the
hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every
man.
Pol1 3.206 20 The non-proprietor will be the scribe of
the proprietor.
ET11 5.172 8 Many of the [English] halls...are
beautiful desolations. The
proprietor never saw them...
Pow 6.66 7 The pious and charitable proprietor has a
foreman not quite so
pious and charitable.
Wth 6.117 26 I remember in Warwickshire to have been
shown a fair
manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time. The rent-roll I
was
told is some fourteen thousand pounds a year; but when the second son
of
the late proprietor was born, the father was perplexed how to provide
for
him.
Ctr 6.164 25 ...in an old community a well-born
proprietor is usually
found, after the first heats of youth, to be a careful husband...
Bhr 6.189 20 ...go into the house; if the proprietor is
constrained and
deferring, 't is of no importance how large his house...
Schr 10.271 20 There could always be traced...some
vestiges of a faith in
genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that
genius
and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread, because
they have...a first mortgage that takes effect before the right of the
present
proprietor.
proprietors, n. (14)
Pol1 3.203 1 In the earliest society the proprietors
made their own wealth...
Pol1 3.203 21 At last it seemed settled that the
rightful distinction was that
the proprietors should have more elective franchise than
non-proprietors...
ET10 5.162 2 The introduction of these elements [steam
and money] gives
new resources to existing [English] proprietors.
ET11 5.183 4 In 1786 the soil of England was owned by
250,000
corporations and proprietors;...
ET15 5.265 8 The proprietors [of the London Times], who
had already
complained that [John Walter's] charges for printing were excessive,
found
that they were in his power...
ET16 5.283 23 ...we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in
our dog-cart over
the downs for Wilton, Carlyle not suppressing some threats and evil
omens
on the proprietors...
Wth 6.96 11 Ages derive a culture from the wealth
of...Townleys, Vernons
and Peels, in England; or whatever great proprietors.
Wth 6.97 13 They should own who can administer...not
they who, the
greater proprietors they are, are only the greater beggars...
Wth 6.99 14 ...in America...the public should step into
the place of these [European] proprietors, and provide this culture and
inspiration for the
citizen.
Wsp 6.210 20 It is believed by well-dressed proprietors
that there is no
more virtue than they possess;...
PI 8.37 10 Malthus is the right organ of the English
proprietors;...
PC 8.230 19 Here you are set down, scholars and
idealists...among violent
proprietors, to check self-interest...
SovE 10.193 6 All the tyrants and proprietors and
monopolists of the world
in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar [of Divine justice].
HDC 11.48 13 In 1795, several town-meetings are called
[in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for
land taken in
making a bridle-road;...
propriety, n. (18)
LE 1.158 1 The want of the times and the propriety of
this anniversary
concur to draw attention to the doctrine of Literary Ethics.
SL 2.160 9 ...with sublime propriety God is described
as saying, I AM.
Cir 2.321 23 The one thing which we seek with
insatiable desire is...to be
surprised out of our propriety...
Mrs1 3.127 11 ...a fine sense of propriety is
cultivated with the more heed
that it becomes a badge of social and civil distinctions.
Mrs1 3.131 13 ...the habit even in little and the least
matters of not
appealing to any but our own sense of propriety, constitutes the
foundation
of all chivalry.
ET6 5.107 9 A certain order and complete propriety is
found in [the
Englishman's] dress and in his belongings.
ET6 5.112 4 In this Gibraltar of propriety [England],
mediocrity gets
intrenched...
ET14 5.259 9 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to
prescribe bounds to
the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all references to such
sentiments
or manners as are become the standards of propriety for opinion and
action
in our own modes...
WD 7.172 8 ...with great propriety, Humboldt entitles
his book, which
recounts the last results of science, Cosmos.
Elo2 8.118 2 A worthy gentleman...went to [Dr. Hugh
Blair] and offered
him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with
propriety in public.
Elo2 8.126 9 ...there is a conversation above grossness
and below
refinement, where propriety resides.
LS 11.12 27 ...[the disciples] were bound together by
the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that
what was done with peculiar
propriety by them, his personal friends, with less propriety should
come to
be extended to their companions also.
LS 11.13 1 ...[the disciples] were bound together by
the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that
what was done with peculiar
propriety by them, his personal friends, with less propriety should
come to
be extended to their companions also.
FSLN 11.222 22 [Webster] had a great and everywhere
equal propriety.
FSLN 11.223 1 After [Webster's] talents have been
described, there
remains that perfect propriety which animated all the details of the
action or
speech with the character of the whole...
Humb 11.457 14 With great propriety, [Humboldt] named
his sketch of the
results of science Cosmos.
ACri 12.287 17 ...when a great bank president was
expounding the virtues
of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank
pensioners, a
grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks! The whole party were surprised
and cheered...though it would be difficult to explain the propriety of
the
expression...
MLit 12.323 5 ...[Goethe] has a perfect propriety and
taste...
proprium, n. (1)
Grts 8.307 10 ...none of us will ever accomplish
anything excellent or
commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him
alone. Swedenborg called it the proprium...
prosaic, adj. (9)
Art1 2.367 11 [Men] reject life as prosaic...
SwM 4.144 7 ...[Swedenborg's] books have...no relief to
the dead prosaic
level.
ShP 4.215 13 Cultivated men often attain a good degree
of skill in writing
verses; but it is easy to read, through their poems, their personal
history: any one acquainted with the parties can name every figure;
this is Andrew
and that is Rachel. The sense thus remains prosaic.
GoW 4.280 8 The ardent and holy Novalis characterized
the book [Goethe'
s Wilhelm Meister] as thoroughly modern and prosaic;...
ET14 5.256 9 The poetry [of England] of course is low
and prosaic;...
Insp 8.295 4 ...I find a mitigation or solace by
providing always a good
book for my journeys...some book which lifts me quite out of prosaic
surroundings...
Edc1 10.132 18 Day creeps after day, each full of
facts...that we cannot
enough despise,-call heavy, prosaic and desert.
LLNE 10.351 11 Aladdin and his magician, or the
beautiful Scheherezade
can alone, in these prosaic times before the [Fourierist] sight,
describe the
material splendors collected there [in the Golden Horn].
CInt 12.128 24 When you say the times, the persons are
prosaic...you
expose your atheism.
proscribe, v. (1)
Wsp 6.207 25 Here are know-nothing religions, or
churches that proscribe
intellect;...
proscribes, v. (1)
PPr 12.384 15 It is plain that...all the great classes
of English society must
read [Carlyle's Past and Present], even those whose existence it
proscribes.
prose, adj. (12)
Cir 2.311 7 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by
mighty symbols
which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys.
PNR 4.85 22 Ethical science was new and vacant when
Plato could write
thus:...no one has yet sufficiently investigated, either in poetry or
prose
writings,--how, namely, that injustice is the greatest of all the evils
that the
soul has within it, and justice the greatest good.
PNR 4.88 19 Swedenborg, throughout his prose poem of
Conjugal Love, is
a Platonist.
Boks 7.197 23 Of Homer, George Chapman's is the heroic
translation, though the most literal prose version is the best of all.
PI 8.12 21 Imaginative minds...do not wish [their
images] rashly rendered
into prose reality...
PI 8.50 9 There are also prose poets.
PI 8.52 20 ...we have not done with music, no, nor with
rhyme, nor must
console ourselves with prose poets so long as boys whistle and girls
sing.
Plu 10.297 13 [Plutarch] is, among prose writers, what
Chaucer is among
English poets...
Plu 10.304 6 ...[Plutarch]...cleaves to the security of
prose narrative...
Milt1 12.248 20 [Milton's] prose writings...seem to
have been read with
avidity.
Milt1 12.251 6 The other piece is [Milton's]
Areopagitica...the most
splendid of his prose works.
ACri 12.291 5 In architecture the beauty is increased
in the degree in which
the material is safely diminished; as when you break up a prose wall,
and
leave all the strength in the poetry of columns.
prose, n. (38)
Fdsp 2.199 15 We are armed all over with subtle
antagonisms, which, as
soon as we meet...translate all poetry into stale prose.
Art1 2.351 10 The details, the prose of nature [the
painter] should omit...
Chr1 3.106 15 They are a relief from literature,--these
fresh draughts from
the sources of thought and sentiment; as we read...the first lines of
written
prose and verse of a nation.
NR 3.231 17 Money, which represents the prose of
life...is, in its effects
and laws, as beautiful as roses.
ShP 4.210 24 ...[Shakespeare] is like some saint whose
history is to be
rendered...into verse and prose...
GoW 4.273 24 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and
prose we ascribe to
the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...
ET1 5.22 7 ...[Wordsworth] never writes prose...
ET6 5.108 25 The romance does not exceed the height of
noble passion in
Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, or in Lady Russell, or even as one discerns
through
the plain prose of Pepys's Diary, the sacred habit of an English wife.
ET6 5.111 26 There is a prose in certain Englishmen
which exceeds in
wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen.
ET14 5.239 21 Locke is as surely the influx of
decomposition and of prose, as Bacon and the Platonists of growth.
ET14 5.244 21 Milton...used this privilege [of
generalization] sometimes in
poetry, more rarely in prose.
ET14 5.256 21 The English have lost sight of the fact
that poetry exists to
speak the spiritual law, and that no wealth of description or of fancy
is yet
essentially new and out of the limits of prose, until this condition is
reached.
Ill 6.312 13 Even the prose of the streets is full of
refractions.
Boks 7.218 3 The Greek fables...and even the prose of
Bacon and Milton... have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
Boks 7.218 5 ...in our time the Ode of Wordsworth, and
the poems and the
prose of Goethe, have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
PI 8.12 7 God himself does not speak prose...
PI 8.32 13 ...the poet affirms the laws, prose busies
itself with exceptions...
PI 8.45 11 in the history of literature, poetry
precedes prose.
PI 8.52 4 With...the first strain of a song,...we pour
contempt on the prose
you so magnify;...
PI 8.52 7 You shall not speak ideal truth in prose
uncontradicted...
PI 8.52 12 ...we talk of our work, our tools and
material necessities, in
prose;...
PI 8.54 19 In reading prose, I am sensitive as soon as
a sentence drags;...
QO 8.194 25 ...Milton's prose, and Burke even, have
their best fame within [this century].
Insp 8.295 14 You may read Chaucer, Shakspeare, Ben
Jonson, Milton,- and Milton's prose as his verse;...
Dem1 10.18 8 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in
the moral world...a
transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the
latter the
woof. For the phenomena which hence originate there are countless
names, since all philosophies and religions have attempted in prose or
in poetry to
solve this riddle...
Edc1 10.149 5 Not less delightful is the mutual
pleasure of teaching and
learning the secret...of good reading and good recitation of poetry or
of
prose...
Supl 10.169 2 'T is a good rule of rhetoric which
Schlegel gives,-In good
prose, every word is underscored;...
Plu 10.299 5 A poet in verse or prose must have a
sensuous eye...
Plu 10.302 20 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a
multitude of precious
sentences, in prose or verse, of authors whose books are lost;...
Plu 10.318 10 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the
legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or
verse,-there will Plutarch...sit
as...laureate of the ancient world.
Thor 10.475 6 ...[Thoreau] would have detected every
live stanza or line in
a volume [of poetry] and knew very well where to find an equal poetic
charm in prose.
Scot 11.464 2 Critics have found [Scott's books] to be
only rhymed prose.
Scot 11.466 22 In the number and variety of his
characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare. Other painters in verse or
prose have thrown into
literature a few type-figures; as Cervantes, De Foe...
CL 12.156 4 ...a view from a cliff over a wide country
undoes a good deal
of prose...
Milt1 12.277 22 The lover of Milton reads one sense in
his prose and in his
metrical compositions;...
Milt1 12.277 25 Of [Milton's] prose in general, not the
style alone but the
argument also is poetic;...
MLit 12.331 8 Goethe...must be set down as...the
poet...of this world, and
not of religion and hope; in short, if we may say so, the poet of
prose, and
not of poetry.
Let 12.392 9 ...we have thought that we might clear our
account [of
correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter to all and
several who
have honored us, in verse or prose, with their confidence...
prose, v. (1)
MoS 4.167 3 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite
the title-page, I
seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I
certainly know...
prosecuted, v. (4)
MN 1.214 26 The reforms whose fame now fills the
land...are poor bitter
things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.
YA 1.384 12 ...aims so generous and so forced on [the
Communities] by the
times...will be prosecuted until they succeed.
FSLN 11.228 5 ...by Mr. Webster the opposition to the
[Fugitive Slave] law
was sharply called treason, and prosecuted so.
FSLN 11.243 18 Having...professed his adoration for
liberty in the time of
his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded with his work of
denouncing
freedom and freemen at the present day, much in the tone and spirit in
which Lord Bacon prosecuted his benefactor Essex.
prosecutes, v. (1)
DL 7.107 2 ...by beautiful traits...the little pilgrim
prosecutes the journey
through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
prosecuting, v. (2)
MoS 4.163 5 ...in prosecuting my correspondence [with
John Sterling], I
found that, from a love of Montaigne, he had made a pilgrimage to his
chateau...
Elo1 7.91 18 ...we...might well go round the world, to
see...a man who, in
prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of
representing his ideas...
prosecution, n. (1)
MR 1.239 27 ...we have now a puny, protected person,
guarded by walls
and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them,
that
he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him...to
the
prosecution of his love;...
prosecutor, n. (1)
SlHr 10.447 7 ...under the Maine Law [Samuel Hoar] was a
prosecutor of
the liquor dealers.
proselyte, v. (2)
ET8 5.137 5 [The English] proselyte, and are not
proselyted.
FRO2 11.485 19 I have no wish to proselyte any
reluctant mind...
proselyted, v. (1)
ET8 5.137 5 [The English] proselyte, and are not
proselyted.
Proserpine, n. (1)
Milt1 12.263 22 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres, according
to the fable, ever
seek her daughter Proserpine with such unceasing solicitude as I have
sought this tou kalou idean, this perfect model of the beautiful in all
forms
and appearances of things.
prose-writers, n. (1)
ET14 5.244 17 ...[the English] draw only a bucketful at
the fountain of the
First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not go to the spring-head.
Bacon, who said this, is almost unique among his countrymen in that
faculty; at least among the prose-writers.
pro-slavery, adj. (1)
ACiv 11.300 23 [People] bring their opinion [of slavery]
into the world. If
they have a comatose tendency in the brain, they are pro-slavery while
they
live;...
prospect, adj. (1)
ET10 5.165 13 Sir Edward Boynton...on a precipice of
incomparable
prospect, built a house like a long barn, which had not a window on the
prospect side.
prospect, n. (8)
MR 1.235 14 I see no instant prospect of a virtuous
revolution;...
SR 2.58 15 ...let me record day by day my honest
thought without prospect
or retrospect...
Cir 2.305 19 Step by step we scale this mysterious
ladder; the steps are
actions, the new prospect is power.
ET5 5.78 27 ...in a bargain, no prospect of advantage
is so dear to the [English] merchant as the thought of being tricked is
mortifying.
ET10 5.165 11 Sir Edward Boynton...on a precipice of
incomparable
prospect, built a house like a long barn, which had not a window on the
prospect side.
ET12 5.206 11 [The young men at Oxford] shuddered at
the prospect of
dying a Fellow...
MMEm 10.418 16 Not a prospect but is dark on earth, as
to knowledge and
joy from externals...
MMEm 10.418 18 Not a prospect but is dark on earth, as
to knowledge and
joy from externals: but the prospect of a dying bed reflects lustre on
all the
rest.
prospecting, v. (1)
ET14 5.254 11 No hope, no sublime augury cheers the
[English] student... but only a casual dipping here and there, like
diggers in California
prospecting for a placer that will pay.
prospective, adj. (10)
MR 1.255 12 The mediator between the spiritual and the
actual world
should have a great prospective prudence.
YA 1.375 8 ...we make prospective laws...for remote
generations.
Lov1 2.187 17 At last [lovers] discover that all which
at first drew them
together...had a prospective end...
Int 2.332 17 Every intellection is mainly prospective.
Exp 3.73 22 Our life seems not present so much as
prospective;...
Nat2 3.187 7 The lover seeks in marriage his private
felicity and perfection, with no prospective end;...
Nat2 3.190 5 Every end is prospective of some other
end...
UGM 4.34 21 All that respects the individual is
temporary and
prospective...
Imtl 8.334 16 ...never to know the Cause, the Giver,
and infer his character
and will! Of what import this vacant sky...these insignificant lives
full of
selfish loves and quarrels and ennui? Everything is prospective, and
man is
to live hereafter.
AsSu 11.247 11 In [the free state], [life] is adorned
with education...with
long prospective interests...
prospectively, adv. (1)
PNR 4.80 17 [The human being's] arts and sciences...look
glorious when
prospectively beheld from the distant brain of ox...
prospects, n. (2)
Cour 7.253 7 ...there are three qualities which
conspicuously attract the
wonder and reverence of mankind: 1. Disinterestedness, as shown in
indifference to the ordinary bribes and influences of conduct,--a
purpose so
sincere and generous that it cannot be tempted aside by any prospects
of
wealth or other private advantage.
Elo2 8.124 1 In the vain and foolish exultation of the
heart, which the
brighter prospects of life will sometimes excite, the pensive portress
of
Science shall call you to the sober pleasures of her holy cell.
Prospects of Culture, n. (1)
Let 12.394 1 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and
the Prospects of
Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer?
prosper, v. (13)
Tran 1.356 7 These persons [Transcendentalists] are of
unequal strength, and do not all prosper.
SL 2.139 6 [The soul] has so infused its strong
enchantment into nature that
we prosper when we accept its advice...
GoW 4.286 6 Though [the intellectual man] wishes to
prosper in affairs, he
wishes more to know the history and destiny of man;...
ET1 5.6 6 ...[Greenough] thought art would never
prosper until we left our
shy jealous ways and worked in society as [the Greeks].
Pow 6.62 1 We prosper with such vigor that...we do not
suffer from the
profligate swarms that fatten on the national treasury.
Wth 6.112 24 ...society can never prosper but must
always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to
do.
Elo1 7.74 25 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.
Insp 8.288 12 I have found my advantage in going...in
winter to a city
hotel, with a task which would not prosper at home.
Aris 10.38 11 ...they only prosper or they prosper best
who have a military
mind...
Aris 10.47 10 ...we prosper or fail by what we are.
GSt 10.507 4 ...when I consider...that [George
Stearns]...beheld his work
prosper for the joy and benefit of all mankind,-I count him happy among
men.
War 11.169 15 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace
embraced by a
nation, we may be assured it will...be...one against which no weapon
can
prosper;...
Bost 12.211 15 ...[Boston] can only prosper by adhering
to her faith.
prospered, v. (5)
ET13 5.225 18 No chemist has prospered in the attempt to
crystallize a
religion.
MMEm 10.414 12 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] prospered in
life, what a
proud, excited being, even to feverishness, I might have been.
II 12.66 8 None of the metaphysicians have prospered in
describing this
power [consciousness], which constitutes sanity;...
CInt 12.125 26 ...how often we have had repeated the
trials of the young
man who made no figure at college because his own methods were new and
extraordinary, and who only prospered at last because he forsook theirs
and
took his own.
Let 12.403 9 ...after five years [my friend] has just
been [to Illinois] to visit
the young farmer and see how he prospered...
prospering, adj. (2)
GSt 10.506 2 [George Stearns] had been...through all his
years devoted to
the growing details of his prospering manufactory.
HDC 11.77 4 To you [veterans of the battle of Concord]
belongs a better
badge than stars and ribbons. This prospering country is your
ornament...
prospering, v. (1)
Wsp 6.235 1 [Benedict said] My race may not be
prospering;...
prosperities, n. (5)
Hist 2.6 25 We sympathize...in the great resistances,
the great prosperities
of men; because there law was enacted...for us...
Chr1 3.99 9 That exultation [in events] is only to be
checked by the
foresight of an order of things so excellent as to throw all our
prosperities
into the deepest shade.
Boks 7.216 12 I remember when some peering eyes of boys
discovered that
the oranges hanging on the boughs of an orange-tree in a gay piazza
were
tied to the twigs by thread. I fear 't is so with the novelist's
prosperities.
PI 8.1 8 ...From blue mount and headland dim/ Friendly
hands stretch forth
to him,/ Him they beckon, him advise/ Of heavenlier prosperities/ And a
more excelling grace/ And a truer bosom-glow/ Than the wine-fed
feasters
know./
Prch 10.231 27 ...it is impossible to pay no
regard...to the calamities and
prosperities of our town and country;...
prosperity, n. (54)
AmS 1.101 27 [The scholar] is to resist the vulgar
prosperity that
retrogrades ever to barbarism...
MN 1.220 7 A [New England] man was born not for
prosperity, but to
suffer for the benefit of others...
Comp 2.112 9 The terror of cloudless noon...the awe of
prosperity...are the
tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.
Comp 2.113 14 If you are wise you will dread a
prosperity which only
loads you with more.
Comp 2.124 20 The changes which break up at short
intervals the
prosperity of men are advertisements of a nature whose law is growth.
Hsm1 2.251 22 All prudent men see that the [heroic]
action is clean
contrary to a sensual prosperity;...
Art1 2.366 17 Art makes the same effort which a sensual
prosperity
makes;...
Chr1 3.97 25 ...prosperity belongs to a certain mind,
and will introduce that
power and victory which is its natural fruit, into any order of events.
Mrs1 3.149 15 I have seen an individual whose manners,
though wholly
within the conventions of elegant society, were...original and
commanding, and held out protection and prosperity;...
MoS 4.170 18 A book or statement which goes to show
that there is no line, but...a prosperity and no account of
it...dispirits us.
MoS 4.171 13 ...though the town and state and way of
living, which our
counsellor contemplated, might be a very modest or musty prosperity,
yet
men rightly go for him...
ET4 5.53 22 ...there is no prosperity that seems more
to depend on the kind
of man than British prosperity.
ET4 5.53 24 ...there is no prosperity that seems more
to depend on the kind
of man than British prosperity.
ET7 5.120 7 If war do not bring in its sequel new
trade, better agriculture
and manufactures, but only games, fireworks and spectacles,--no
prosperity
could support it;...
ET7 5.121 10 [The English] are like ships with too much
head on to come
quickly about, nor will prosperity or even adversity be allowed to
shake
their habitual view of conduct.
ET10 5.169 2 In the culmination of national
prosperity...it was found [in
England] that bread rose to famine prices...
ET10 5.170 14 [England's] prosperity...is the very
argument of materialism.
ET19 5.312 23 ...I was given to understand in my
childhood...that in
prosperity [Englishmen] were moody and dumpish...
Wth 6.109 25 ...we charged threepence a pound for
carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on; which...brought into
the country an
immense prosperity...
Wth 6.110 9 Britain, France and Germany...send
out...their millions of poor
people, to share the crop. At first we employ them, and increase our
prosperity;...
Wsp 6.233 22 [The faithful student] learns that
adversity is the prosperity
of the great.
CbW 6.256 1 California gets peopled and subdued,
civilized in this
immoral way, and on this fiction a real prosperity is rooted and grown.
CbW 6.262 8 As we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be
played upon by the
stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism, so is...national
bankruptcy or revolution more rich in the central tones than languid
years
of prosperity.
Civ 7.31 21 I see the immense material prosperity...
Elo1 7.64 1 No man has a prosperity so high or firm but
two or three words
can dishearten it.
Elo1 7.100 4 [Eloquence's] great masters...were grave
men, who...esteemed
that object for which they toiled, whether the prosperity of their
country, or
the laws...as above the whole world, and themselves also.
Suc 7.297 1 There is no prosperity, trade...but if you
trace it home, you will
find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
Suc 7.306 22 All beauty...is a sign of health,
prosperity and the favor of
God.
PI 8.40 13 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his
condition. In that
prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception of means and
materials...hitherto utterly unknown to him...
PC 8.207 4 No good citizen but shares the wonderful
prosperity of the
Federal Union.
Insp 8.272 17 A rush of thoughts is the only
conceivable prosperity that
can come to us.
Imtl 8.343 3 ...no prosperity is promised to our
self-esteem.
Aris 10.58 6 Prosperity and pound-cake are for very
young gentlemen, whom such things content;...
SovE 10.189 23 The inevitabilities are always sapping
every seeming
prosperity built on a wrong.
MoL 10.242 18 ...nothing has been able to resist the
tide with which the
material prosperity of America in years past has beat down the hope of
youth...
Schr 10.288 1 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's
altar] must
relinquish...prosperity and convenience;...
LLNE 10.326 8 The former generations acted under the
belief that a
shining social prosperity was the beatitude of man...
EWI 11.121 27 The legislature [of Jamaica]...say, The
peaceful demeanor
of the emancipated population...affords a proof of their continued
comfort
and prosperity.
FSLC 11.180 18 ...Boston, spoiled by prosperity, must
bow its ancient
honor in the dust...
FSLC 11.185 27 The greatest prosperity will in vain
resist the greatest
calamity.
FSLC 11.186 6 ...of the corrupt society that exists we
have never been able
to combine any pure prosperity.
FSLN 11.229 10 The way in which the country was dragged
to consent to
this [Fugitive Slave Law]...was the darkest passage in the history. It
showed
that our prosperity had hurt us...
ACiv 11.309 12 An unprecedented material prosperity has
not tended to
make us Stoics or Christians.
ALin 11.337 14 The ancients believed in a serene and
beautiful Genius... which...carried forward the fortunes of certain
chosen houses...securing at
last the firm prosperity of the favorites of Heaven.
Koss 11.399 14 We [people of Concord] are afraid that
you [Kossuth] are
growing popular, Sir; you may be called to the dangers of prosperity.
CPL 11.496 1 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and
lasting prosperity to
this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...
FRep 11.516 13 We are in these days settling for
ourselves and our
descendants questions which...will make the peace and prosperity or the
calamity of the next ages.
FRep 11.530 2 ...if the prosperity of this country has
been merely the
obedience of man to the guiding of Nature...yet is there fate above
fate, if
we choose to spread this language;...
Bost 12.204 24 The seed of prosperity was planted [in
Massachusetts].
Bost 12.210 6 In an age of trade and material
prosperity, we have stood a
little stupefied by the elevation of our ancestors.
ACri 12.284 18 ...there is a conversation above
grossness and below
refinement where prosperity resides...
EurB 12.376 10 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm
Meister is the best
specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect;
the
development of character being the problem, the reader is made a
partaker
in the whole prosperity.
Let 12.401 9 On earth all is imperfect! is an old
proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these
God-forsaken...that with them nothing
prospers because the godlike nature which is the root of all prosperity
they
do not revere;...
Trag 12.409 26 There are people who have an appetite
for grief...natures so
doomed that no prosperity can soothe their ragged and dishevelled
desolation.
Prospero, n. (1)
PI 8.67 8 If [the readers of a good poem] build ships,
they write Ariel or
Prospero or Ophelia on the ship's stern...
Prospero [Shakespeare, The (1)
Nat 1.54 7 Prospero calls for music to soothe the
frantic Alonzo...
prosperous, adj. (7)
LE 1.169 27 Undoubtedly the changes of geology have a
relation to the
prosperous sprouting of the corn and peas in my kitchen garden;...
Wth 6.90 19 The English are prosperous and peaceable...
Farm 7.150 27 There has been a nightmare bred in
England of indigestion
and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma...that men
multiply in a geometrical ratio, whilst corn multiplies only in an
arithmetical; and hence that, the more prosperous we are, the faster we
approach these frightful limits...
Dem1 10.7 12 ...in varieties of our own species where
organization seems
to predominate over the genius of man...we are sometimes pained by the
same feeling [of the similarity between man and animal]; and sometimes
too the sharpwitted prosperous white man awakens it.
Thor 10.478 24 [Thoreau] detected paltering as readily
in dignified and
prosperous persons as in beggars...
FSLC 11.186 12 ...America, the most prosperous country
in the Universe, has the greatest calamity in the Universe, negro
slavery.
FRep 11.532 19 ...as soon as the success stops and the
admirable man
blunders, [our people] quit him;...and they transfer the repute of
judgment
to the next prosperous person who has not yet blundered.
prosperously, adv. (2)
Con 1.321 6 ...the work went on prosperously.
Clbs 7.248 22 ...it was when things went prosperously,
and the company
was full of honor, at the banquet of the Cid, that the guests all were
joyful...
prospers, v. (5)
Exp 3.59 27 Under the oldest mouldiest conventions a man
of native force
prospers just as well as in the newest world...
Exp 3.68 12 ...the mind...never prospers but by fits.
ET10 5.155 17 From the Exchequer and the East India
House to the
huckster's shop, every thing [in England] prospers because it is
solvent.
Aris 10.59 2 [A grand interest] prospers as well in
mistake as in luck...
Let 12.401 8 On earth all is imperfect! is an old
proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these
God-forsaken...that with them nothing
prospers because the godlike nature which is the root of all prosperity
they
do not revere;...
prostitutes, n. (1)
ET11 5.191 10 Prostitutes taken from the theatres were
made duchesses [in
England]...
prostitution, n. (1)
Fdsp 2.205 17 I hate the prostitution of the name of
friendship to signify
modish and worldly alliances.
prostrate, adj. (1)
Insp 8.280 14 A man is spent by his work, starved,
prostrate;...
prostrate, v. (1)
PPh 4.61 21 [Plato] could prostrate himself on the earth
and cover his eyes
whilst he adored that which cannot be numbered...
prostration, n. (1)
LVB 11.93 27 ...to us the questions upon which the
government and the
people have been agitated during the past year, touching the
prostration of
the currency and of trade, seem but motes in comparison [with the
relocation of the Cherokees].
Protagoras, n. (1)
Boks 7.199 12 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the
best persons, sentiments
and manners...portraits of...Protagoras, Anaxagoras and Socrates...
Protagoras [Plato], n. (1)
Boks 7.199 18 ...who can overestimate the images [in
Plato]...which pass
like bullion in the currency of all nations? Read...the Protagoras...
protect, v. (25)
MR 1.234 5 ...our laws which establish and protect
[property] seem not to
be the issue of love and reason...
Con 1.325 9 I cannot thank your law for my protection.
I protect it.
Con 1.325 9 It is not in [the law's] power to protect
me.
SR 2.87 19 ...the reliance on Property, including the
reliance on the
governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
Comp 2.118 21 The same guards which protect us from
disaster, defect and
enmity, defend us, if we will, from selfishness and fraud.
NR 3.228 1 The men of fine parts protect themselves by
solitude, or by
courtesy...
UGM 4.28 23 ...whilst every individual strives...to
impose the law of its
being on every other creature, Nature steadily aims to protect each
against
every other.
ET11 5.188 6 ...[the English nobility] are they...who
gather and protect
works of art...
ET16 5.280 14 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound
[Stonehenge] in
the twilight...and coming back two miles to our inn we were met by
little
showers, and late as it was, men and women were out attempting to
protect
their spread windrows.
Bhr 6.180 27 There are eyes...that give no more
admission into the man
than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep...others...require crowded
Broadways and the security of millions to protect individuals against
them.
SS 7.7 15 Now [a man who has fine traits] hardly seems
entitled to marry; for how can he protect a woman, who cannot protect
himself?
SS 7.7 16 Now [a man who has fine traits] hardly seems
entitled to marry; for how can he protect a woman, who cannot protect
himself?
Cour 7.260 11 One heard much cant of peace-parties long
ago in Kansas
and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their
wrongs... But
were their wrongs greater than the negro's? And what kind of strength
did
they ever give him? It was always invitation to the tyrant, and bred
disgust
in those who would protect the victim.
PI 8.62 25 Now then go in the name of God [said
Merlin], who will protect
and save the King Arthur...
SovE 10.212 24 What armor [innocence] is to protect the
good from
outward or inward harm...
FSLN 11.230 8 ...it is...the essence...of love...to
protect another from
oneself.
FSLN 11.233 19 You relied on State sovereignty in the
Free States to
protect their citizens.
JBB 11.271 8 [The judges] assume that the United States
can protect its
witness or its prisoner.
JBB 11.272 5 If judges cannot find law enough to
maintain the sovereignty
of the state, and to protect the life and freedom of every inhabitant
not a
criminal, it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable.
JBS 11.281 6 ...what is the oath of gentle blood and
knighthood? What but
to protect the weak and lowly against the strong oppressor?
JBS 11.281 14 The sentiment of mercy is the natural
recoil which the laws
of the universe provide to protect mankind from destruction by savage
passions.
ACiv 11.297 22 ...a man coins himself into his
labor;...and to protect that... is the object of all government.
ACiv 11.298 3 There is no interest in any country so
imperative as that of
labor; it covers all, and constitutions and goverments exist for
that,-to
protect and insure it to the laborer.
ACiv 11.305 24 Instantly, the armies that now confront
you must run home
to protect their estates...
Milt1 12.264 11 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that
every free and
gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a
knight; nor
needed to expect the gilt spur...to stir him up, by his counsel and his
arm, to
secure and protect attempted innocence.
protected, adj. (8)
AmS 1.104 10 It is a shame to [the scholar] if his
tranquillity...arise from
the presumption that...his is a protected class;...
MR 1.239 19 ...we have now a puny, protected person...
SR 2.47 23 ...we are...not minors and invalids in a
protected corner...
Wth 6.110 10 ...in the artificial system of society and
of protected labor, which we...have adopted and enlarged, there come
presently checks and
stoppages.
Elo2 8.128 22 In England they send the most delicate
and protected child
from his luxurious home to learn to rough it with boys in the public
schools.
PerF 10.78 21 ...on the signal occasions in our career
[our mental forces'] inspirations...make the selfish and protected and
tenderly bred person
strong for his duty...
PerF 10.87 13 ...the most quiet and protected life is
at any moment exposed
to incidents which test your firmness.
Prch 10.236 18 The calmest and most protected life
cannot save us.
protected, v. (7)
Fdsp 2.200 15 Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk in
which a delicate
organization is protected from premature ripening.
Pt1 3.42 1 ...thou [O poet] must pass for a fool and a
churl for a long
season. This is the screen and sheath in which Pan has protected his
well-beloved
flower...
Pol1 3.205 4 Property will be protected.
NER 3.256 22 Am I not too protected a person?...
CbW 6.261 1 ...he who is to be wise for many must not
be protected.
EWI 11.105 22 Granville Sharpe found [the West Indian
slave] at his
brother's and procured a place for him in an apothecary's shop. The
master
accidentally met his recovered slave, and instantly endeavored to get
possession of him again. Sharpe protected the slave.
EWI 11.143 14 Eaters and food are in the harmony of
Nature; and there too
is the germ forever protected...
protecting, adj. (2)
CbW 6.267 21 ...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling
to that bell-astronomy
of a protecting domestic horizon.
Pray 12.355 23 I know that thou wilt deal with me as I
deserve. I place
myself therefore in thy hand, knowing that thou wilt keep me from harm
so
long as I consent to live under thy protecting care.
protecting, v. (3)
MoS 4.163 21 ...the duplicate copy of Florio, which the
British Museum
purchased with a view of protecting the Shakspeare autograph...turned
out
to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.
ET11 5.175 22 The war-lord earned his honors, and no
donation of land
was large, as long as it brought the duty of protecting it...
Res 8.143 24 ...every manufacturer and producer in the
North has an
interest in protecting the negro as the consumer of his wares.
protection, n. (43)
Con 1.325 8 I cannot thank your law for my protection.
Con 1.325 17 ...if I...become idle and dissolute, I
quickly come to love the
protection of a strong law...
Mrs1 3.149 15 I have seen an individual whose manners,
though wholly
within the conventions of elegant society, were...original and
commanding, and held out protection and prosperity;...
Pol1 3.201 22 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 23 ...if question arise whether additional
officers or watch-towers
should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must
sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better
of this, and
with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?
Pol1 3.213 7 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.
NER 3.253 4 ...a society for the protection of
ground-worms, slugs and
mosquitos was to be incorporated without delay.
PNR 4.89 14 It was a high scheme, his absolute
privilege for the best...as
the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts
of two kinds: first, those who by demerit have put themselves below
protection,--outlaws;...
ET10 5.165 22 [The Englishman] goes with the most
powerful protection...
Cour 7.259 1 ...the protection which a house, a
family...gives, go in all
times to generate this taint of the respectable classes.
OA 7.325 2 ...these temporary stays and shifts for the
protection of the
young animal are shed as fast as they can be replaced by nobler
resources.
SA 8.81 7 The perfect defence and isolation which
[manners] effect makes
an insuperable protection.
Comc 8.162 2 The perception of the Comic is...a
protection from those
perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects
sometimes lose themselves.
Grts 8.303 23 There is something...in Samuel Johnson
that needs no
protection.
Dem1 10.16 4 We do not think the young will be
forsaken; but he is fast
approaching the age when the sub-miraculous external protection and
leading are withdrawn and he is committed to his own care.
Aris 10.47 15 The best lightning-rod for your
protection is your own spine.
Aris 10.48 8 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb
Dodington in his
Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;
I
earnestly wished it might be under his protection...
EzRy 10.385 5 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well
to get me a shay? Have I not been proud or too fond of this
convenience? Do I exercise the
faith in the Divine care and protection which I ought to do?
Thor 10.472 9 ...[Thoreau]...took the foxes under his
protection from the
hunters.
EWI 11.127 5 The House of Commons would destroy the
protection of [West Indian] island produce...
EWI 11.129 7 ...an honest tenderness for the poor
negro...combined with
the national pride, which refused to give the support of English soil
or the
protection of the English flag to these disgusting violations of nature
[slavery in the West Indies].
EWI 11.131 7 The poorest fishing-smack that...hunts
whale in the Southern
ocean, should be encompassed by [Massachusetts's] laws with comfort and
protection...
War 11.171 27 The attractiveness of war shows one
thing...this namely, the
conviction of man universally, that...that [a man] should not ask of
the state
protection;...
FSLC 11.184 13 ...what is the use of constitutions, if
all the guaranties
provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made
of no
effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?
FSLC 11.204 4 [Webster] believes...that government
exists for the
protection of property.
FSLN 11.230 3 ...where...[liberty] becomes in a degree
matter of
concession and protection from their stronger neighbors, the
incompatibility
and offensiveness of the wrong will of course be most evident to the
most
cultivated.
FSLN 11.235 10 ...no man has a right to hope that the
laws of New York
will defend him from the contamination of slaves another day until he
has
made up his mind that he will not owe his protection to the laws of New
York, but to his own sense and spirit.
JBB 11.271 11 [The judges] assume that the United
States can protect its
witness or its prisoner. And in Massachusetts that is true, but the
moment
he is carried out of the bounds of Massachusetts, the United States, it
is
notorious, afford no protection at all;...
JBB 11.271 13 ...the government, the judges...give such
protection as they
give in Utah to honest citizens...
JBB 11.271 15 ...the government, the
judges...give...such protection as they
gave to their own Commodore Paulding, when he was simple enough to
mistake the formal instructions of his government for their real
meaning.
JBB 11.272 14 ...a Wisconsin judge, who knows that laws
are for the
protection of citizens against kidnappers, is worth a court-house full
of
lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.
JBB 11.272 26 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in
which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance, and
not a protection;...
JBS 11.280 11 ...if [John Brown] traded in wool, he was
a merchant prince, not in the amount of wealth, but in the protection
of the interests confided
to him.
EPro 11.319 11 ...all men of African descent who have
faculty enough to
find their way to our lines are assured of the protection of American
law.
ALin 11.333 8 ...[good humor]...is the protection of
the overdriven brain
against rancor and insanity.
SMC 11.350 12 ...the virtues we are met to honor...were
exerted for the
protection of our common country...
SMC 11.365 6 [George Prescott] had the satisfaction to
see the whole
regiment enjoying the protection of these tents.
SMC 11.375 17 ...if danger should ever threaten the
homes which you [veterans of the Civil War] guard, the knowledge of
your presence will be a
wall of fire for their protection.
EdAd 11.389 14 The facility of majorities is no
protection from the natural
sequence of their own acts.
SHC 11.435 26 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not
displace the old
tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the
less...red-eyed
warbler, the heron, the bittern, will find out the hospitality and
protection
from the gun of this asylum...
PLT 12.22 1 If man has organs...for digesting, for
protection by house-building... you shall find all the same in the
muskrat.
CL 12.137 14 [Linnaeus] discovered that the arundo
arenaris, or beach-grass, had long firm roots, and he taught [the
people of Oland] to plant it for
the protection of their shores.
CL 12.151 20 In August, when the corn is grown to be a
resort and
protection to woodcocks and small birds...we observe already that the
leaf
is sere...
protectionist, n. (1)
Carl 10.491 13 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with
contempt;...they admire
Cobden and free trade and he is a protectionist in political
economy;...
protections, n. (1)
CbW 6.261 13 What tests of manhood could [the rich man]
stand? Take
him out of his protections.
Protector, Lord, n. (1)
Milt1 12.258 22 ...foreigners came to England, we are
told, to see the Lord
Protector and Mr. Milton.
protector, n. (3)
Wsp 6.203 17 A self-poise belongs to every particle, and
a rectitude to
every mind, and is the Nemesis and protector of every society.
AsSu 11.251 27 Let [Charles Sumner] hear...that every
mother thinks of
him as the protector of families;...
CL 12.149 9 The Hindoos called fire Agni...protector of
people in
villages;...
protects, v. (11)
Con 1.325 27 ...The law...makes [the intemperate,
covetous person] worse
the longer it protects him.
SL 2.149 16 Every society protects itself.
Nat2 3.187 3 The excess of fear with which the animal
frame is hedged
round...protects us...from some one real danger at last.
ET8 5.138 20 A saving stupidity masks and protects
[Englishmen's] perception...
Ctr 6.162 26 Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character
about with
ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
Wsp 6.224 17 ...the universe protects itself by
pitiless publicity.
SS 7.6 10 Nature protects her own work.
SS 7.7 6 One protects himself [from society] by
solitude...
Edc1 10.142 16 Heaven often protects valuable souls
charged with great
secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
SovE 10.190 3 ...every wish, appetite and passion
rushes into act and... protects itself with laws.
FSLN 11.235 12 ...no man has a right to hope that the
laws of New York
will defend him from the contamination of slaves another day until he
has
made up his mind that he will not owe his protection to the laws of New
York, but to his own sense and spirit. Then he protects New York.
protest, n. (15)
Hist 2.29 9 ...in that protest which each considerate
person makes against
the superstition of his times, he repeats step for step the part of old
reformers...
Nat2 3.178 19 ...our hunting of the picturesque is
inseparable from our
protest against false society.
NER 3.251 21 The spirit of protest and of detachment
drove the members
of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the
Church...
NER 3.260 25 ...in this, as in every period of
intellectual activity, there has
been a noise of denial and protest;...
F 6.19 13 The force with which we resist these torrents
of tendency... amounts to little more than a criticism or protest made
by a minority of
one...
PI 8.74 4 Poetry is inestimable as...a lonely protest
in the uproar of atheism.
QO 8.178 17 Our debt to tradition through reading and
conversation is so
massive, our protest or private addition so rare and
insignificant...that...one
would say there is no pure originality.
Imtl 8.333 7 When Bonaparte insisted...that it is the
pit of the stomach that
moves the world,-do we thank him for the gracious instruction? Our
disgust is the protest of human nature against a lie.
Chr2 10.104 22 The moral sentiment is the perpetual
critic on these [religious] forms, thundering its protest...
Chr2 10.105 19 Christianity was once a schism and
protest against the
impieties of the time...
Prch 10.217 3 In the history of opinion, the pinch of
falsehood shows itself
first, not in argument and formal protest, but in insincerity,
indifference and
abandonment of the Church...
Thor 10.458 13 In 1847, not approving some uses to
which the public
expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was
put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he was released. The
like
annoyance was threatened the next year. But as his friends paid the
tax, notwithstanding his protest, I believe he ceased to resist.
EWI 11.110 6 The [English] assailants of slavery had
early agreed to limit
their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade,
but
Granville Sharpe...felt constrained to record his protest against the
limitation...
TPar 11.290 27 [Theodore Parker] took away the reproach
of silent consent
that would otherwise have lain against the indignant minority, by
uttering in
the hour and place wherein these outrages were done, the stern protest.
FRep 11.520 11 You rally to the support of old
charities and the cause of
literature, and there, to be sure, are these brazen faces [of
politicians]. In
this innocence you are puzzled how to meet them; must shake hands with
them, under protest.
Protest of One of the Indep (1)
ET1 5.12 24 ...I proceeded to inquire [of Coleridge] if
the extract from the
Independent's pamphlet, in the third volume of the Friend, were a
veritable
quotation. He replied that it was really taken from a pamphlet in his
possession entitled A Protest of one of the Independents, or something
to
that effect.
protest, v. (1)
CSC 10.374 26 ...Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists,
Unitarians and
Philosophers,-all...seized their moment, if not their hour [at the
Chardon
Street Convention], wherein to chide, or pray, or preach, or protest.
Protestant, adj. (2)
Prch 10.217 12 ...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in
the religious world
marks that we are in a moment of transition; as when the Roman Church
broke into Protestant and Catholic...
LLNE 10.325 22 It is not easy to date these eras of
activity with any
precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and
the
twenty years following. It seemed...a crack in Nature, which split
every
church in Christendom into Papal and Protestant;...
protestant, n. (4)
Pol1 3.219 25 We must not imagine that all things are
lapsing into
confusion if every tender protestant be not compelled to bear his part
in
certain social conventions;...
Thor 10.452 22 [Thoreau] was a born protestant.
Thor 10.454 5 [Thoreau] was a protestant a outrance...
Bost 12.203 22 ...there is always [in Boston]...always
a heresiarch, whom
the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new
light... some noble protestant, who will not stoop to infamy when all
are gone
mad...
protestants, n. (1)
Tran 1.339 18 This [Transcendental] way of
thinking...falling...on popish
times, made protestants and ascetic monks...
Protestants, n. (1)
ET4 5.47 25 Race avails much, if that be true which is
alleged, that all
Celts are Catholics and all Saxons are Protestants;...
protestations, n. (3)
SL 2.157 5 If [the lawyer] does not believe [his
client's innocence] his
unbelief will appear to the jury, despite all his protestations...
Lov1 2.185 26 Not always can...protestations...content
the awful soul that
dwells in clay.
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.
protested, v. (1)
LVB 11.91 9 ...out of eighteen thousand souls composing
the [Cherokee] nation, fifteen thousand six hundred and sixty-eight
have protested against
the so-called treaty.
protester, n. (1)
Bost 12.203 10 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a
heresiarch, whom
the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new
light... some protester against the cruelty of the magistrates to the
Quakers;...
protesting, n. (1)
NER 3.253 23 ...there was sincere protesting against
existing evils...
protests, n. (2)
Chr2 10.105 20 Christianity was once a schism and
protest against the
impieties of the time, which had originally been protests against
earlier
impieties, but had lost their truth.
HDC 11.48 9 Individual protests are frequent [at
Concord town-meetings].
protests, v. (1)
MoS 4.168 25 Montaigne...never shrieks, or protests, or
prays...
Proteus, adj. (1)
Hist 2.5 15 Each new law and political movement has a
meaning for you. Stand before each of its tablets and say, Under this
mask did my Proteus
nature hide itself.
Proteus, n. (10)
Nat 1.43 10 The fable of Proteus has a cordial truth.
Hist 2.31 24 The philosophical perception of identity
through endless
mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus.
Hist 2.32 1 ...what see I on any side but the
transmigrations of Proteus?
Nat2 3.179 14 ...let us not longer omit our homage to
the Efficient Nature... itself secret, its works driven before it in
flocks and multitudes (as the
ancients represented nature by Proteus, a shepherd,)...
PPh 4.49 1 ...each [Unity and Variety] so fast slides
into the other that we
can never say what is one, and what it is not. The Proteus is as nimble
in the
highest as in the lowest grounds;...
SwM 4.121 8 [Swedenborg...poorly tethers every symbol
to a several
ecclesiastic sense. The slippery Proteus is not so easily caught.
MoS 4.157 7 [The skeptic says] Why pretend that life is
so simple a game, when we know how subtle and elusive the Proteus is?
GoW 4.273 22 Amid littleness and detail, [Goethe]
detected the Genius of
life, the old cunning Proteus, nestling close beside us...
Ill 6.308 10 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../
...out of endeavor/ To
change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/
Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the
world,--/Then
first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the
Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
Ill 6.313 14 Yoganidra, the goddess of illusion,
Proteus, or Momus, or
Gylfi's Mocking,--for the Power has many names,--is stronger than the
Titans...
protoplasm, n. (1)
PI 8.7 15 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a
hundred years
ago, arrested and progressive development, indicating the way upward
from
the invisible protoplasm to the highest organisms, gave the poetic key
to
Natural Science...
protract, v. (1)
Aris 10.57 3 I will not protract this discourse by
describing the duties of the
brave and generous.
protracted, adj. (1)
Bost 12.199 2 When one thinks of the enterprises that
are attempted in the
heats of youth...which have been so profoundly ventilated, but end in a
protracted picnic...we see with new increased respect the solid,
well-calculated
scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...
protuberances, n. (1)
YA 1.372 13 The sphere is flattened at the poles and
swelled at the
equator;...the form...required to prevent the protuberances of the
continent... from continually deranging the axis of the earth.
proud, adj. (43)
Tran 1.332 22 ...[the materialist] will perceive that
his mental fabric is built
up on just as strange and quaking foundations as his proud edifice of
stone.
YA 1.393 13 It is a questionable compensation to the
embittered feeling of
a proud commoner, the reflection that a fop...is himself also an
aspirant
excluded with the same ruthlessness from higher circles...
Hist 2.35 14 ...Ravenswood Castle [is] a fine name for
proud poverty...
Hsm1 2.259 23 The fair girl who repels interference by
a decided and
proud choice of influences...inspires every beholder with somewhat of
her
own nobleness.
OS 2.289 27 ...[the energy of the soul] comes to
whomsoever will put off
what is foreign and proud;...
Cir 2.299 2 Nature centres into balls,/ And her proud
ephemerals,/ Fast to
surface and outside,/ Scan the profile of the sphere;/...
Gts 3.159 15 ...flowers...are a proud assertion that a
ray of beauty outvalues
all the utilities of the world.
NR 3.230 6 In the parliament, in the play-house, at
dinner-tables [in
England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read,
conventional, proud men...
MoS 4.150 17 The literary class is usually proud and
exclusive.
ET8 5.128 15 [The English] are proud and private...
ET11 5.173 24 The taste of the [English] people is
conservative. They are
proud of the castles, and of the language and symbol of chivalry.
ET11 5.177 27 Some of [the English aristocracy] are too
old and too proud
to wear titles...
ET11 5.191 1 Castles are proud things, but 't is safest
to be outside of them.
ET15 5.272 19 ...[if the London Times would cleave to
the right] its proud
function, that of being the voice of Europe...would be more effectually
discharged;...
ET18 5.302 21 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in
Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years!
F 6.23 27 I cited the instinctive and heroic races as
proud believers in
Destiny.
Wth 6.114 14 ...proud people are intolerably selfish...
SS 7.13 13 If solitude is proud, so is society vulgar.
WD 7.170 24 'T is pitiful the things by which we are
rich or poor...the
fashion of a cloak or hat; like the luck of naked Indians, of whom one
is
proud in the possession of a glass bead or a red feather...
Boks 7.191 2 ...read Plutarch, and the world is a proud
place...
Clbs 7.228 18 How sweet those hours when the day was
not long enough to
communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...the proud anecdotes
of
our heroes...
PI 8.65 12 [Nature] is not proud of the sea...
SA 8.103 2 ...I have seen examples of new grace and
power in address that
honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago...to fall in with an
American to be proud of.
QO 8.198 17 [The man] carried the journal [containing
the review of his
pamphlet] with haste to the sympathizing Cousin Matilda, who is so
proud
of all we do.
PPo 8.257 15 [The rose] was of her beauty proud,/ And
prouder of her
youth,/ The while unto her flaming heart/ The bulbul gave his truth./
SovE 10.191 2 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's
pernicious
elements...the secrets of the prisons of tyranny, the slave and his
master, the
proud man's scorn...
Schr 10.270 22 Genius is a poor man and has no house,
but see, this proud
landlord who has built the palace...opens it to him...
EzRy 10.385 3 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well
to get me a shay? Have I not been proud or too fond of this
convenience?
MMEm 10.414 13 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] prospered in
life, what a
proud, excited being, even to feverishness, I might have been.
GSt 10.507 8 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners
[of George
Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief...
HDC 11.27 9 Earth laughs in flowers, to see her
boastful boys/ Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs.
HDC 11.81 15 In 1787, the admirable instructions given
by the town [Concord] to its representative are a proud monument to the
good sense and
good feeling that prevailed.
EWI 11.145 3 I esteem the occasion of this jubilee [of
emancipation in the
West Indies] to be the proud discovery that the black race can contend
with
the white...
FSLC 11.180 11 Boston, of whose fame for spirit and
character we have all
been so proud;...Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
FSLN 11.239 20 The Anglo-Saxon race is proud and strong
and selfish.
HCom 11.340 24 Where faith made whole with deed/
Breathes its
awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and
mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look
proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
HCom 11.344 15 One mother said, when her son was
offered the command
of the first negro regiment, If he accepts it, I shall be as proud as
if I had
heard that he was shot.
SMC 11.349 13 We are glad and proud that we have no
monopoly of merit.
SMC 11.361 5 ...the words [of Civil War letters] are
proud and tender...
SMC 11.363 26 When, afterwards, five of [George
Prescott's] men were
prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...wrote a daily or
weekly newspaper, called it Stars and Stripes. It advertises,
prayer-meeting
at 7 o'clock, in cell No. 8, second floor, and their own printed record
is a
proud and affecting narrative.
RBur 11.441 19 ...[Burns] has endeared...the dear
society of weans and
wife, of brothers and sisters, proud of each other...
CW 12.173 19 ...without going into the proud niceties
of an European
garden, there is happiness all the year round to be had from the square
fruit-gardens
which we plant in the front or rear of every farmhouse.
WSL 12.338 5 Add to this proud blindness [of John Bull]
the better quality
of great downrightness in speaking the truth...
proud, n. (2)
YA 1.389 23 ...we want justice, with heart of steel, to
fight down the proud.
Exp 3.76 10 The street is full of humiliations to the
proud.
prouder, adj. (5)
Prd1 2.240 16 Undoubtedly we...can easily whisper names
prouder, and
that tickle the fancy more.
GoW 4.272 19 Still [Goethe] is a poet,--poet of a
prouder laurel than any
contemporary...
PPo 8.257 16 [The rose] was of her beauty proud,/ And
prouder of her
youth,/ The while unto her flaming heart/ The bulbul gave his truth./
Aris 10.40 21 Every survey of the dignified
classes...establishes a nobility
of a prouder creation.
HDC 11.85 20 Humble as is our village [Concord] in the
circle of later and
prouder towns that whiten the land, it has been consecrated by the
presence
and activity of the purest men.
proudest, adj. (7)
YA 1.394 11 The English have...the proudest history of
the world;...
Mrs1 3.152 21 [Youth] have yet to learn that [ our
society's] seeming
grandeur is shadowy and relative...its proudest gates will fly open at
the
approach of their courage and virtue.
Nat2 3.173 8 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our
little river, and with
one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and
moonlight... A holiday...the proudest, most heart-rejoicing festival
that
valor and beauty, power and taste, ever decked and enjoyed, establishes
itself on the instant.
ET10 5.165 17 ...the proudest result of this creation
[of English property
rights] has been the great and refined forces it has put at the
disposal of the
private citizen.
Aris 10.62 21 The English House of Commons is the
proudest assembly of
gentlemen in the world...
FSLC 11.201 9 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by
the hundred, we could
have spared. But [Webster], our best and proudest...
Bost 12.188 2 It was said of Rome in its proudest
days...the extent of the
city and of the world is the same...
proudly, adv. (6)
Suc 7.285 24 There is a mode of reckoning, [Columbus]
proudly adds, derived from astronomy, which is sure and safe to any one
who understands
it.
PI 8.40 8 ...a new verse comes once in a hundred years;
therefore Pindar, Hafiz, Dante, speak so proudly of what seems to the
clown a jingle.
Schr 10.288 19 ...[the scholar] should read a little
proudly, as one who
knows the original, and cannot therefore very highly value the copy.
FSLC 11.180 15 ...The Boston of the American
Revolution, which figures
so proudly in John Adams's Diary...Boston...must bow its ancient honor
in
the dust...
CPL 11.508 9 ...read proudly;...
MLit 12.329 1 All great men have written proudly...
prove, v. (39)
YA 1.377 2 ...when peace comes, the nobles prove very
whimsical and
uncomfortable masters;...
YA 1.384 5 Whether...the objection almost universally
felt by such women
in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...will not prove
insuperable, remains to be determined.
SR 2.79 12 If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon
activity and
power...it imposes its classification on other men...
Comp 2.116 24 ...disasters of all kinds, as sickness,
offence, poverty, prove
benefactors...
Comp 2.126 25 [The death of a friend] permits or
constrains...the reception
of new influences that prove of the first importance to the next
years;...
SL 2.160 4 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold
the avowal of a just and
brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved. One knows
it,--himself,--and
is pledged by it...to nobleness of aim which will prove in the end a
better
proclamation of it than the relating of the incident.
Fdsp 2.197 1 ...I must hazard the production of the
bald fact amidst these
pleasing reveries, though it should prove an Egyptian skull at our
banquet.
Hsm1 2.246 23 ...Thou thyself must part/ At last from
all thy garlands, pleasures, triumphs,/ And prove thy fortitude what
then 't will do./
Exp 3.50 6 Life is a train of moods like a string of
beads, and as we pass
through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world
their own hue...
UGM 4.32 19 The reputations of the nineteenth century
will one day be
quoted to prove its barbarism.
MoS 4.182 6 The generosities of the day prove an
intractable element for [the spiritualist].
MoS 4.184 19 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.
ShP 4.213 27 ...[Shakespeare] is the chief example to
prove that more or
less of production...is a thing indifferent.
ET4 5.44 2 An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has
written a book to
prove that races are imperishable...
ET6 5.103 8 ...the machines [in England] require
punctual service, and as
they never tire, they prove too much for their tenders.
ET10 5.162 16 ...old energy of the Norse race [in
England] arms itself with
these magnificent powers [of steam]; new men prove an overmatch for the
land-owner...
ET12 5.210 17 I looked over the Examination Papers of
the year 1848, for
the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...and I believed
they
would prove too severe tests for the candidates for a Bachelor's degree
in
Yale or Harvard.
Wsp 6.232 25 Napoleon, says Goethe, visited those sick
of the plague, in
order to prove that the man who could vanquish fear could vanquish the
plague also;...
Bty 6.286 22 The crowd in the street oftener furnishes
degradations than
angels or redeemers, but they all prove the transparency.
Bty 6.302 3 The lives of the Italian artists...prove
how loyal men in all
times are to a finer brain, a finer method than their own.
Elo1 7.96 19 [The sturdy countryman] has not only the
documents in his
pocket to answer all cavils and to prove all his positions...
Farm 7.135 5 ...[Farmers] prove the virtues of each bed
of rock/...
PC 8.231 6 We wish to put the ideal rules into
practice...believing that a
free press will prove safer than the censorship;...
PPo 8.239 24 Such [amatory] verses...will drive
[Persian] warriors to the
combat...or prove an ample reward on their return from the dangers of
the
ghazon, or the fight.
Grts 8.306 11 ...[Faraday] showed us various
experiments on certain gases, to prove that whilst ordinarily magnetism
of steel is from north to south, in
other substances, gases, it acts from east to west.
Imtl 8.345 13 ...it is not my duty to prove to myself
the immortality of the
soul.
Imtl 8.346 8 We cannot prove our faith [in immortality]
by syllogisms.
Aris 10.49 23 The verdict of battles will best prove
the general;...
Chr2 10.91 14 Surely it is not to prove or show the
truth of things...no, it is
for benefit, that all subsists.
LLNE 10.334 16 ...boys filled their mouths with
arguments to prove that
the orator [Everett] had a heart.
HDC 11.80 12 The operation of a new government was
dreaded [in
Concord], lest it should prove expensive...
FSLC 11.198 8 What shall we say of the functionary by
whom the recent
rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If he has rightly
defined
his powers, and has no authority to try the case, but only to prove the
prisoner's identity, and remand him, what office is this for a
reputable
citizen to hold?
FSLN 11.238 13 The masters of slaves seem generally
anxious to prove
that they are not of a race superior in any noble quality to the
meanest of
their bondsmen.
PLT 12.8 12 ...is it pretended discoveries of new
strata that are before the
meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor...is ready to prove
that he
knew so much [twenty years ago] that all further investigation was
quite
superfluous;...
PLT 12.31 16 ...[a man's] aptitude, if he would obey
it, would prove a
telescope to bring under his clear vision what was blur to everybody
else.
II 12.67 26 Objection and loud denial not less prove
the reality and
conquests of an idea than the friends and advocates it finds.
Bost 12.196 4 The universality of an elementary
education in New England
is her praise and her power in the whole world. To the schools succeeds
the
village lyceum...where every week through the winter, lectures are read
and
debates sustained which prove a college for the young rustic.
Milt1 12.266 22 [Milton] told the bishops that...they
seek to prove their
high preeminence from human consent and authority.
Milt1 12.271 23 One of [Milton's] tracts is writ to
prove that no power on
earth can compel in matters of religion.
proved, v. (28)
Nat 1.16 4 ...almost all the individual forms [in
nature] are agreeable to the
eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them...
Int 2.346 18 The truth and grandeur of [the Greek
philosophers'] thought is
proved by its scope and applicability...
Gts 3.165 15 When I have attempted to join myself to
others by services, it
proved an intellectual trick,--no more.
Pol1 3.197 6 Boded Merlin wise,/ Proved Napoleon
great,--/ Nor kind nor
coinage buys/ Aught above its rate./
NMW 4.250 17 To the philosophers [Napoleon] readily
yielded all that was
proved against religion as the work of men and time...
ET3 5.41 8 The sea, which, according to Virgil's famous
line, divided the
poor Britons utterly from the world, proved to be the ring of marriage
with
all nations.
ET10 5.168 10 The machinery has proved, like the
balloon, unmanageable...
ET10 5.168 17 The machinist has wrought and watched,
engineers and
firemen without number have been sacrificed in learning to tame and
guide
the monster [steam]. But harder still it has proved to resist and rule
the
dragon Money...
ET14 5.237 18 The unique fact in literary history, the
unsurprised reception
of Shakspeare;--the reception proved by his making his fortune;...seems
to
demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the people.
ET14 5.237 19 The unique fact in literary history, the
unsurprised reception
of Shakspeare;...and the apathy proved by the absence of all
contemporary
panegyric,--seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the
people.
F 6.7 25 The cholera, the small-pox, have proved as
mortal to some tribes
as a frost to the crickets...
Wsp 6.239 17 [Immortality] must be proved, if at all,
from our own activity
and designs...
Cour 7.253 12 ...when [men] see [the preference to the
general good] proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life
itself, there is no limit
to their admiration.
PI 8.46 3 The universality of this taste [for rhyme] is
proved by our habit of
casting our facts into rhyme to remember them better...
Imtl 8.342 6 To me, said Goethe, the eternal existence
of my soul is proved
from my idea of activity.
Dem1 10.16 1 I have a lucky hand, sir, said
Napoleon...those on whom I lay
it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form...that
children and
young persons come off safe from casualties that would have proved
dangerous to wiser people.
PerF 10.80 14 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of
his pocket and began to
play, to the surprise, and, as it proved, to the delight of all the
company;...
MMEm 10.432 26 ...it is easy to believe that Cassandra
domesticated in a
lady's house would have proved a troublesome boarder.
MMEm 10.433 4 Shall we not keep Flamsteed and Herschel
in the
observatory, though it should even be proved that they neglected to
rectify
their own kitchen clock?
Thor 10.459 12 ...the President [of Harvard University]
found...the rules [of the Harvard Library] getting to look so
ridiculous, that he ended by
giving [Thoreau] a privilege which in his hands proved unlimited
thereafter.
HDC 11.36 19 [The Indians'] physical powers...before
yet the English
alcohol had proved more fatal to them than the English sword,
astonished
the white men.
EWI 11.106 4 [Granville] Sharpe instantly...gave
himself to the study of
English law...until he had proved that the opinions relied on, of
Talbot and
Yorke, were incompatible with the former English decisions...
EWI 11.126 4 ...[slavery] does not increase the white
population; it does
not improve the soil; everything goes to decay. For these reasons the
islands [of the West Indies] proved bad customers to England.
SMC 11.347 2 They have shown what men may do,/ They
have proved
how men may die,-/ Count, who can, the fields they have pressed,/ Each
face to the solemn sky! Brownell.
Koss 11.398 25 As you [Kossuth] see, the love you win
[from Americans] is worth something; for it has been argued
through;...it has proved sound
and whole;...
ChiE 11.471 19 ...the wars and revolutions that occur
in [China's] annals
have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her
history...
FRep 11.516 1 At every moment some one country more
than any other
represents the sentiment and the future of mankind. None will doubt
that
America occupies this place in the opinion of nations, as is proved by
the
fact of the vast immigration into this country...
EurB 12.373 5 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.
proven, adj. (3)
Exp 3.54 6 But, sir, medical history; the report of the
Institute; the proven
facts!--I distrust the facts and the inferences.
ET7 5.125 2 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be
heard of in
England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank,
and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers
and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should
have
the money. He let it lie there six months...and he said, Now let me
never be
bothered more with this proven lie.
FRep 11.519 4 The partisan on moral...questions, will
choose a proven
rogue who can answer the tests, over an honest, affectionate, noble
gentleman;...
Provencal, adj. (2)
AmS 1.111 10 I ask not for...what is...Provencal
minstrelsy;...
ShP 4.197 27 ...Petrarch, Boccaccio and the Provencal
poets are [Chaucer'
s] benefactors...
Provence, n. (1)
Insp 8.287 15 Do you want...Helvellyn, or Plinlimmon,
dear to English
song, in your closet? Caerleon, Provence, Ossian and Cadwallon?
proverb, n. (45)
AmS 1.91 21 The Arabian proverb says, A fig tree,
looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
AmS 1.92 26 As the proverb says, He that would bring
home the wealth of
the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies.
Comp 2.111 3 The vulgar proverb, I will get it from his
purse or get it from
his skin, is sound philosophy.
Fdsp 2.211 15 There is at least this satisfaction in
crime, according to the
Latin proverb;--you can speak to your accomplice on even terms.
Prd1 2.237 16 The Latin proverb says, In battles the
eye is first overcome.
Prd1 2.238 17 It is a proverb that courtesy costs
nothing;...
OS 2.271 23 A wise old proverb says, God comes to see
us without bell;...
OS 2.294 3 Every proverb...that belongs to thee for aid
or comfort, will
surely come home through open or winding passages.
Exp 3.84 1 I say to the Genius, if he will pardon the
proverb, In for a mill, in for a million.
ShP 4.203 6 If it need wit to know wit, according to
the proverb, Shakspeare's time should be capable of recognizing it.
NMW 4.228 12 An Italian proverb...declares that if you
would succeed, you must not be too good.
ET4 5.59 16 Odin died in his bed, in Sweden; but it was
a proverb of ill
condition to die the death of old age.
ET4 5.73 12 It is a proverb in England that it is safer
to shoot a man than a
hare.
ET6 5.102 17 ...Sydney Smith had made it a proverb that
little Lord John
Russell, the minister, would take command of the Channel fleet
to-morrow.
ET8 5.133 11 There are multitudes of rude young
English...who...have
made the English traveller a proverb for uncomfortable and offensive
manners.
ET11 5.178 4 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles
from London, a
family will last a hundred years;...
ET18 5.300 15 The [English] game-laws are a proverb of
oppression.
Pow 6.65 22 The messages of the governors and the
resolutions of the
legislatures are a proverb for expressing a sham virtuous indignation,
which, in the course of events, is sure to be belied.
Pow 6.66 12 Of the Shaker society it was formerly a
sort of proverb in the
country that they always sent the devil to market.
Wsp 6.209 24 In Italy, Mr. Gladstone said of the late
King of Naples, It has
been a proverb that he has erected the negation of God into a system of
government.
Wsp 6.218 5 As much love, so much mind, said the Latin
proverb.
CbW 6.264 20 'T is a Dutch proverb that paint costs
nothing...
CbW 6.265 7 It is an old commendation of right
behavior, Aliis laetus, sapiens sibi, which our English proverb
translates, Be merry and wise.
PI 8.14 17 ...our proverb of the courteous soldier
reads: An iron hand in a
velvet glove.
PI 8.61 6 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] You were wont
to know me well, but...thus the proverb says true, Leave the court and
the court will leave you.
PI 8.74 11 One man sees a spark or shimmer of the truth
and reports it, and
his saying becomes a legend or golden proverb for ages...
SA 8.89 19 Either death or a friend, is a Persian
proverb.
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 8.112 5 It is an old proverb that Every people has
its prophet;...
QO 8.180 27 Rabelais is the source of many a proverb,
story and jest...
Insp 8.280 27 ...another Arabian proverb has its coarse
truth: When the
belly is full, it says to the head, Sing, fellow!
Insp 8.286 10 The French have a proverb to the effect
that not the day only, but all things have their morning...
Imtl 8.342 11 It is a proverb of the world that good
will makes
intelligence...
Dem1 10.18 28 ...[demonic individuals] are not to be
conquered save by the
universe itself, against which they have taken up arms. Out of such
experiences doubtless arose the strange, monstrous proverb, Nobody
against God but God.
MoL 10.253 9 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the
Mameluke
cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the
front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square.
EWI 11.138 3 This moral force perpetually reinforces
and dignifies the
friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that
superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which...has made it a
proverb in Massachusetts, that eloquence is dog-cheap at the
anti-slavery
chapel.
War 11.158 5 Only in Elizabeth's time, out of the
European waters, piracy
was all but universal. The proverb was,-No peace beyond the line;...
FRO2 11.487 9 Every proverb...travels across the line;
and you will find it
at Cape Town, or among the Tartars.
FRep 11.521 18 General Jackson was a man of will, and
his phrase on one
memorable occasion, I will take the responsibility, is a proverb ever
since.
PLT 12.50 9 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been
a thousand
years old when he wrote his first line, so thoroughly is his thought
familiar
to him, and has such scope and so solidly worded, as if it were already
a
proverb and not hereafter to become one.
Bost 12.210 21 It is almost a proverb that a great man
has not a great son.
Milt1 12.257 6 Handsome to a proverb, [Milton] was
called the lady of his
college.
ACri 12.294 19 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand
years old when he
wrote his first piece; so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him, so
solidly
worded, as if it were already a proverb...
ACri 12.298 1 What [Carlyle] has said shall be
proverb...
Let 12.401 2 On earth all is imperfect! is an old
proverb of the German.
proverbial, adj. (5)
ET7 5.116 3 The German name has a proverbial
significance of sincerity
and honest meaning.
SovE 10.186 7 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech
of scholars...that...of
Nathaniel Carpenter... It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly
so
much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and
mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
ALin 11.336 5 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy
[death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the
massacre are already burning
into glory around the victim? Far happier this fate than...to have
seen...the
proverbial ingratitude of statesmen;...
SMC 11.354 25 The opinions of masses of men, which the
tactics of
primary caucuses and the proverbial timidity of trade had concealed,
the [Civil] war discovered;...
II 12.77 3 We call genius, in all our popular and
proverbial language, divine;...
proverbially, adv. (1)
YA 1.371 16 From Washington, proverbially the city of
magnificent
distances...through all its cities...[America] is a country of
beginnings...
proverbs, n. (23)
Nat 1.33 14 ...the proverbs of nations consist usually
of a natural fact...
Nat 1.33 25 What is true of proverbs, is true of all
fables...
Comp 2.106 8 The human soul is true to these facts [of
Compensation] in
the painting...of proverbs...
Comp 2.108 27 Still more striking is the expression of
this fact [of
Compensation] in the proverbs of all nations...
Comp 2.109 2 Proverbs...are the sanctuary of the
intuitions.
Comp 2.109 7 That which the droning world...will not
allow the realist to
say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without
contradiction.
Comp 2.109 10 ...this law of laws [Compensation]...is
hourly preached in
all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs...
Prd1 2.223 10 The world is filled with the proverbs and
acts and winkings
of a base prudence...
Cir 2.315 24 Blessed be nothing and The worse things
are, the better they
are are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.
NR 3.231 1 Proverbs, words and grammar-inflections
convey the public
sense with more purity and precision than the wisest individual.
ShP 4.199 8 ...there were fountains around Homer, Menu,
Saadi, or Milton, from which they drew;--friends, lovers, books,
traditions, proverbs,--all
perished...
ShP 4.210 25 ...[Shakespeare] is like some saint whose
history is to be...cut
up into proverbs;...
NMW 4.254 4 The official paper, [Napoleon's] Moniteur,
and all his
bulletins, are proverbs for saying what he wished to be believed;...
ET7 5.118 2 The mottoes of [English] families are
monitory proverbs, as
Fare fac,--Say, do,--of the Fairfaxes;...
ET14 5.236 19 There is a hygienic simpleness...in the
common style of the [English] people, as one finds it...in proverbs and
forms of speech.
Bhr 6.173 20 ...these [bad manners] are social
inflictions...which must be
entrusted to the restraining force of custom and proverbs...
PI 8.46 5 The universality of this taste [for rhyme] is
proved by our habit of
casting our facts into rhyme to remember them better, as so many
proverbs
may show.
QO 8.178 25 We quote not only books and proverbs...
QO 8.185 10 Many of the historical proverbs have a
doubtful paternity.
Plu 10.302 23 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a
multitude of precious
sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed
fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind.
FSLC 11.194 18 This dreadful English Speech is
saturated with songs, proverbs and speeches that flatly contradict and
defy every line of Mr. Mason's statute [the Fugitive Slave Law].
FSLN 11.238 26 Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but
comes surely. The
proverbs of the nations affirm these delays, but affirm the arrival.
ALin 11.333 21 I am sure if this man [Lincoln] had
ruled in a period of less
facility of printing, he would have become mythological in a very few
years...by his fables and proverbs.
proves, v. (16)
Lov1 2.186 14 ...as life wears on, it proves a game of
permutation and
combination of all possible positions of the parties...
Pt1 3.15 9 The beauty of the fable proves the
importance of the sense;...
PPh 4.77 21 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the world.
This is the
ambition of individualism. But the mouthful proves too large.
ET8 5.139 10 Even the scale of expense on which people
live...proves the
tension of [English] muscle...
CbW 6.260 7 Charles James Fox said of England, The
history of this
country proves that we are not to expect from men in affluent
circumstances
the vigilance, energy and exertion without which the House of Commons
would lose its greatest force and weight.
Elo1 7.70 21 Scheherezade tells these stories [in the
Arabian Nights] to
save her life, and the delight of young Europe and young America in
them
proves that she fairly earned it.
Clbs 7.230 4 [Men] kindle each other; and such is the
power of suggestion
that each sprightly story calls out more; and sometimes a fact that had
long
slept in the recesses of memory hears the voice, is welcomed to
daylight, and proves of rare value.
Cour 7.255 21 ...the immense esteem in which [courage]
is held proves it
to be rare.
PI 8.25 10 When people tell me they do not relish
poetry, and bring me
Shelley...to show that it has no charm, I am quite of their mind. But
this
dislike of the books only proves their liking of poetry.
LLNE 10.355 19 In our free institutions...fortunes are
easily made by
thousands, as in no other country. Then property proves too much for
the
man...
FSLC 11.184 20 Nothing proves the want of all
thought...more than the
dominion of party.
PLT 12.8 4 Go into the scientific club and harken. Each
savant proves in
his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did
know
anything on the subject...
II 12.73 16 But how, cries my reformer, is this to be
done? How could I do
it, who have wife and family to keep? The question is most reasonable,-
yet proves that you are not the man to do the feat.
CL 12.138 19 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible
distemper which
sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an
animalcule...
MLit 12.317 2 Of the perception now fast becoming a
conscious fact...that
Moses and Confucius, Montaigne and Leibnitz, are not so much
individuals
as they are parts of man and parts of me, and my intelligence proves
them
my own,-literature is far the best expression.
WSL 12.344 24 [Landor]...serenely enjoys the victory of
Nature over
fortune. Not only the elaborated story of Normanby, but the whimsical
selection of his heads proves this taste.
provide, v. (25)
Fdsp 2.217 4 [Friendship] must not surmise or provide
for infirmity.
Hsm1 2.253 14 ...the soul of a better quality...says, I
will obey the God, and
the sacrifice and the fire he will provide.
ET2 5.31 12 'T is a good rule in every journey to
provide some piece of
liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company and
taverns steal from the best economist.
ET6 5.113 17 ...[the English] would sooner give five or
six ducats to
provide an entertainment for a person, than a groat to assist him in
any
distress.
Wth 6.99 14 ...in America...the public should step into
the place of these [European] proprietors, and provide this culture and
inspiration for the
citizen.
Wth 6.117 27 I remember in Warwickshire to have been
shown a fair
manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time. The rent-roll I
was
told is some fourteen thousand pounds a year; but when the second son
of
the late proprietor was born, the father was perplexed how to provide
for
him.
Ctr 6.141 8 ...I think it the part of good sense to
provide every fine soul
with such culture that it shall not, at thirty or forty years, have to
say, This
which I might do is made hopeless through my want of weapons.
CbW 6.273 19 ...we do not provide for the greatest good
of life.
SS 7.4 22 All [my new friend] wished of his tailor was
to provide that sober
mean of color and cut which would never detain the eye for a moment.
Boks 7.191 22 ...the colleges, whilst they provide us
with libraries, furnish
no professor of books;...
Imtl 8.337 26 ...I have enjoyed the benefits of all
this complex machinery
of arts and civilization, and its results of comfort. The good Power
can
easily provide me millions more as good.
Chr2 10.117 12 There will always be a class of
imaginative youths...and
these will provide [the moral sentiment] with new historic forms and
songs.
Carl 10.492 13 [Carlyle says] I think if [Parliament]
would give [the
money] to me, to provide the poor with labor, and with authority to
make
them work or shoot them,-and I to be hanged if I did not do it,-I could
find them in plenty of Indian meal.
Carl 10.496 15 Edwin Chadwick is one of [Carlyle's]
heroes,-who
proposes to provide every house in London with pure water...
HDC 11.34 7 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of
abode, they burrow
themselves in the earth for their first shelter, under a hillside, and
casting
the soil aloft upon timbers, they make a fire against the earth, at the
highest
side. And thus these poor servants of Christ provide shelter for
themselves...
HDC 11.34 13 ...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims]
sing psalms, pray
and praise their God, till they can provide them houses...
HDC 11.34 23 ...the Lord is pleased to provide for [the
pilgrims] great store
of fish in the spring-time...
HDC 11.71 21 It was...voted [in Concord], to raise one
or more companies
of minute-men...to provide arms and ammunition...
HDC 11.84 12 ...for the most part, [our
fathers]...provide well for the
schools and the poor.
JBS 11.281 14 The sentiment of mercy is the natural
recoil which the laws
of the universe provide to protect mankind from destruction by savage
passions.
ACiv 11.305 17 Congress can...as a part of the military
defence which it is
the duty of Congress to provide, abolish slavery...
CL 12.138 2 When the shipyards were infested with rot,
Linnaeus was sent
to provide some remedy.
EurB 12.375 8 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of
circumstance] is
greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both, and the
business of the piece is to provide him suitably.
PPr 12.381 16 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
state shall provide at least schoolmaster's education for all the
citizens;...
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!
provided, v. (30)
Nat 1.37 5 Proportioned to the importance of the organ
to be formed, is the
extreme care with which its tuition is provided...
LE 1.170 19 Thucydides, Livy, have only provided
materials.
Con 1.307 13 [The youth says] Nature has sufficiently
provided me with
rewards and sharp penalties, to bind me not to transgress.
Tran 1.338 22 The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee
gathers honey, without
knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without
selfishness or
disgrace.
Hsm1. 2.252 15 What joys has kind nature provided for
us dear creatures!
Hsm1 2.253 23 ...the master has amply provided for the
reception of the
men and their animals...
Pol1 3.202 22 ...if question arise whether additional
officers or watch-towers
should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must
sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better
of this, and
with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?
GoW 4.264 22 [The scholar] is...one of the estates of
the realm, provided
and prepared from of old and from everlasting...
ET3 5.34 22 ...England is a huge phalanstery, where all
that man wants is
provided within the precinct.
Pow 6.69 1 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood's]
friends and
governors must see that some vent for their explosive complexion is
provided.
Pow 6.72 1 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy
in carrying on the
world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of
commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it
dangerous and
destructive,--yet it...must be had in that form, and absorbents
provided to
take off its edge.
Ctr 6.142 26 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod,
horse and boat, are all
educators, liberalizers; and so are dancing, dress and the street talk;
and
provided only the boy has resources...these will not serve him less
than the
books.
Ctr 6.143 21 Provided always the boy is
teachable...football, cricket...are
lessons in the art of power...
CbW 6.252 5 Nature provided for real needs.
DL 7.123 14 ...every man is provided in his thought
with a measure of man
which he applies to every passenger.
WD 7.161 20 The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton,
the very fuel he
wants for his balloon.
Clbs 7.229 23 ...I prize the good invention whereby
everybody is provided
with somebody who is glad to see him.
Elo2 8.131 8 [Eloquence] is...the unmistakable sign,
never so casually
given, in tone of voice, or manner, or word, that a greater spirit
speaks from
you than is spoken to in him. But I say, provided your cause is really
honest.
Res 8.138 18 ...if you tell me...that every man is
provided, in the new bias
of his faculty, with a key to Nature...I am invigorated...
QO 8.177 12 He who has once known [a book's]
satisfactions is provided
with a resource against calamity.
PPo 8.251 5 Every song of Hafiz affords new proof of
the unimportance of
your subject to success, provided only the treatment be cordial.
Edc1 10.149 7 Nature provided for the communication of
thought...
Supl 10.165 7 Horace Walpole relates that in the
expectation, current in
London a century ago, of a great earthquake, some people provided
themselves with dresses for the occasion.
Prch 10.229 1 What sort of respect can these preachers
or newspapers
inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that
they
would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter,
provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?
MMEm 10.429 1 ...as [Mary Moody Emerson] never
travelled without
being provided for this dear and indispensable contingency [death], I
believe she wore out a great many [shrouds].
EWI 11.118 25 The child will sit in your arms
contented, provided you do
nothing.
FSLC 11.184 12 ...what is the use of constitutions, if
all the guaranties
provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made
of no
effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?
FSLC 11.193 22 The very defence which the God of Nature
has provided
for the innocent against cruelty is the sentiment of indignation and
pity in
the bosom of the beholder.
FSLN 11.243 9 I [Robert Winthrop] go then for such
parties and opinions
as have provided me with a working apparatus.
CL 12.147 13 Evelyn quotes Lord Caernarvon's saying,
Wood is an
excrescence of the earth provided by God for the payment of debts.
Providence, Divine, n. (16)
F 6.28 10 Always one man more than another represents
the will of Divine
Providence to the period.
Wsp 6.202 2 If the Divine Providence has hid from men
neither disease nor
deformity nor corrupt society...let us not be so nice that we cannot
write
these facts down coarsely as they stand...
Imtl 8.330 3 Plutarch, in Greece, has a deep faith that
the doctrine of the
Divine Providence and that of the immortality of the soul rest on one
and
the same basis.
Edc1 10.135 15 [The great object of Education] should
be a moral one...to
acquaint [the youthful man] with the resources of his mind...and to
inflame
him with a piety towards the Grand Mind in which he lives. Thus would
education conspire with the Divine Providence.
SovE 10.201 11 ...up comes a man with...a knotty
sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of
your tree. ... He interrupts for
the moment your peaceful trust in the Divine Providence.
Plu 10.313 22 [Plutarch] believes that the doctrine of
the Divine
Providence, and that of the immortality of the soul, rest on one and
the
same basis.
ACiv 11.299 25 Our whole history appears like a last
effort of the Divine
Providence in behalf of the human race;...
EPro 11.317 15 ...great as the popularity of the
President [Lincoln] has
been, we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the
capacity
and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of
benefit
so vast.
HCom 11.341 8 ...in these last years all opinions have
been affected by the
magnificent and stupendous spectacle which Divine Providence has
offered
us of the energies that slept in the children of this country...
HCom 11.342 1 Even Divine Providence...always seems to
work after a
certain military necessity.
HCom 11.342 12 The proof that war...is a marked
benefactor in the hands
of the Divine Providence, is its morale.
SMC 11.354 19 The [Civil] war made the Divine
Providence credible to
many who did not believe the good Heaven quite honest.
FRep 11.544 2 Such and so potent is this high method by
which the Divine
Providence sends the chiefest benefits under the mask of calamities,
that I
do not think we shall by any perverse ingenuity prevent the blessing.
CL 12.144 24 ...'t is a commonplace, which I have
frequently heard spoken
in Illinois, that it was a manifest leading of the Divine Providence
that the
New England states should have been first settled before the Western
country was known, or they would never have been settled at all.
Let 12.397 1 To live solitary and unexpressed
is...painful in proportion to
one's consciousness of ripeness and equality to the offices of
friendship. But herein we are never quite forsaken by the Divine
Providence.
Trag 12.415 12 A tender American girl doubts of Divine
Providence whilst
she reads the horrors of the middle passage;...
Providence, Eternal, n. (1)
DL 7.132 19 Will [man] not see...that his economy, his
labor, his good and
bad fortune, his health and manners are all a curious and exact
demonstration in miniature of the Genius of the Eternal Providence?
providence, n. (10)
Nat 1.42 26 Who can guess...how much industry and
providence and
affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
LT 1.275 1 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform]...accuses
men of driving a
trade in the great boundless providence which had given the air, the
water, and the land to men...
SR 2.47 13 Accept the place the divine providence has
found for you...
Comp 2.106 5 How secret art thou who dwellest in the
highest heavens in
silence, O thou only great God, sprinkling with an unwearied providence
certain penal blindnesses upon such as have unbridled desires!
DL 7.103 1 The perfection of the providence for
childhood is easily
acknowledged.
SovE 10.203 10 [Our religion] visits us only on some
exceptional and
ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace.
But
that, be sure, is not the religion of the universal, unsleeping
providence...
EzRy 10.382 11 ...through a kind providence and the
patronage of Dr. Forbes, [Ezra Ripley] entered Harvard University,
July, 1772.
EzRy 10.384 3 [Ezra Ripley] and his
contemporaries...were believers in
what is called a particular providence...
EzRy 10.384 4 [Ezra Ripley] and his
contemporaries...were believers in
what is called a particular providence,-certainly, as they held it, a
very
particular providence......
MAng1 12.224 14 On the 24th of October, 1529, the
Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills
surrounding the city [Florence], and his first operation was to throw
up a rampart to storm the
bastion of San Miniato. His design was frustrated by the providence of
Michael Angelo.
Providence, n. (43)
DSA 1.123 4 By [the moral sentiment] a man is made the
Providence to
himself...
Con 1.312 20 Providence takes care that you shall have
a place...
Con 1.322 3 Every honest fellow...must patronize
Providence and piety...
Comp 2.96 6 If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on
Providence and
the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough
to
an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to
make his
own statement.
NR 3.243 19 ...the divine Providence which keeps the
universe open in
every direction to the soul, conceals all the furniture and all the
persons that
do not concern a particular soul, from the senses of that individual.
NER 3.282 20 I am not pained that I cannot frame a
reply to the question, What is the operation we call Providence?
PNR 4.89 25 Plato plays Providence a little with the
baser sort...
SwM 4.135 8 The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself in
the endeavor to
reanimate and conserve what...in the great secular Providence, was
retiring
from its prominence...
MoS 4.182 12 Even the doctrines dear to the hope of
man, of the divine
Providence and of the immortality of the soul, [the spiritualist's]
neighbors
can not put the statement so that he shall affirm it.
MoS 4.184 5 [Young and ardent minds] accuse the divine
Providence of a
certain parsimony.
ET5 5.85 23 In war, the Englishman looks to his means.
He is of the
opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are
on the
side of the strongest;--a sentence which Bonaparte unconsciously
translated, when he said that he had noticed that Providence always
favored
the heaviest battalion.
ET12 5.203 24 On proceeding afterwards to examine his
purchase, [Bulkeley Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his
Mentz Bible, in
perfect order; brought them to Oxford with the rest of his purchase,
and
placed them in the volume; but has too much awe for the Providence that
appears in bibliography also, to suffer the reunited parts to be
re-bound.
ET13 5.224 8 [England] believes in a Providence which
does not treat with
levity a pound sterling.
ET14 5.255 10 No [English] priest dares hint at a
Providence which does
not respect English utility.
ET18 5.307 7 ...we must not play Providence and balance
the chances of
producing ten great men against the comfort of ten thousand mean men...
F 6.7 3 The way of Providence is a little rude.
F 6.8 11 Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable
road to its end...
F 6.31 16 To a certain point, [men] believe themselves
the care of a
Providence.
Pow 6.70 7 ...[the people's] instincts are a
finger-pointing of Providence...
DL 7.103 9 ...[the nestler's] tiny beseeching weakness
is compensated
perfectly by the happy patronizing look of the mother, who is a sort of
high
reposing Providence toward it.
SA 8.92 2 It may happen that each hears from the other
a better wisdom
than any one else will ever hear from either. But these ties are taken
care of
by Providence to each of us.
Imtl 8.338 4 Whatever it be which the great Providence
prepares for us, it
must be something large and generous...
Dem1 10.17 18 I believed that I discovered in
nature...somewhat which
manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be
grasped
by a conception, much less by a word. ... It resembled Providence,
since it
pointed at connection.
PerF 10.85 18 [A survey of cosmical powers] shows us
the long
Providence...
Chr2 10.101 21 ...to every serious mind Providence
sends from time to
time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to
him...
Edc1 10.153 12 ...the gentle teacher, who wished to be
a Providence to
youth, is grown a martinet...
Edc1 10.156 5 Can you not baffle the impatience and
passion of the child
by your tranquillity? Can you not wait for him, as Nature and
Providence
do?
Supl 10.164 15 ...we may challenge Providence to send a
fact so tragical
that we cannot contrive to make it a little worse in our gossip.
Plu 10.303 9 ...it is in reading the fragments
[Plutarch] has saved from lost
authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care
which...has
drawn attention to what an ancient might call the politeness of
Fate,-we
will say, more advisedly, the benign Providence...
LLNE 10.336 18 Astronomy...compelled a certain
extension and uplifting
of our views of the Deity and his Providence.
EzRy 10.384 27 [Joseph Emerson wrote] I desire (I hope
I desire it) that the
Lord would teach me suitably to resent this Providence...
MMEm 10.414 6 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I
remember with great
satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt
that it was
rather the order of things than their individual fault. It was from
being early
impressed by my poor unpractical aunt, that Providence and Prayer were
all
in all.
LS 11.21 18 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is
its reality...the
perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation
of
God and His Providence;...
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.
EWI 11.108 24 The facts [of the slave trade] confirmed
[Thomas Clarkson'
s] sentiment, that Providence had never made that to be wise which was
immoral...
EWI 11.124 17 [The negroes] seemed created by
Providence to bear the
heat and the whipping, and make these fine articles.
FSLN 11.240 5 ...that is the stern edict of Providence,
that liberty shall be
no hasty fruit...
FSLN 11.244 25 ...I hope we...have come to a belief
that there is a divine
Providence in the world...
ALin 11.337 17 There is a serene Providence which rules
the fate of
nations...
Wom 11.419 6 Providence is always surprising us with
new and unlikely
instruments.
PLT 12.31 9 The temptation is to patronize Providence,
to fall into the
accepted ways of talking and acting of the good sort of people.
PLT 12.45 12 There is indeed this vice about men of
thought, that you
cannot quite trust them;...because they have a hankering to play
Providence...
PLT 12.55 14 There is in all students a distrust of
truth, a timidity about
affirming it; a wish to patronize Providence.
Providence, Rhode Island, n (1)
Hist 2.10 26 We must in ourselves see the necessary
reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So
stand...before...the Animal Magnetism in
Paris, or in Providence.
Providence [Synesius], n. (1)
Boks 7.202 24 If any one who had read with interest the
Isis and Osiris of
Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he
will
find it one of the majestic remains of literature...
Providences, n. (1)
ET11 5.194 2 [English noblemen] might be little
Providences on earth, said
my friend, and they are, for the most part, jockeys and fops.
providential, adj. (2)
Exp 3.76 22 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which
makes this or that man
a type or representative of humanity, with the name of hero or saint.
Jesus, the providential man, is a good man on whom many people are
agreed that
these optical laws shall take effect.
Edc1 10.152 27 Whatever becomes of our method [of
teaching], the
conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and
fifty
pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress
the
wisest are tempted...to proclaim...main strength and ignorance, in lieu
of
that wise genial providential influence they had hoped...to adopt.
provider, n. (2)
Wth 6.114 19 ...if a man have a genius for painting,
poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and
an ill provider...
Wth 6.124 18 Hotspur of course is poor, and Furlong a
good provider.
provides, v. (4)
YA 1.386 20 We must have kings, and we must have nobles.
Nature
provides such in every society...
CbW 6.273 22 ...who provides wisely that he shall not
be wanting in the
best property of all,--friends?
DL 7.103 4 The care which covers the seed of the tree
under tough husks
and stony cases provides for the human plant the mother's breast and
the
father's house.
PI 8.33 17 There is no choice of words for him who
clearly sees the truth. That provides him with the best word.
providing, v. (6)
Wth 6.97 24 The socialism of our day has done good
service in setting men
on thinking how certain civilizing benefits...can be enjoyed by all.
For
example, the providing to each man the means and apparatus of science
and
of the arts.
Insp 8.295 2 ...I find a mitigation or solace by
providing always a good
book for my journeys...
Prch 10.221 24 To see men pursuing in faith their
varied action, warm-hearted, providing for their children...what are
they to...the man who hears
only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?
HDC 11.65 5 The charges of education and of
legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord];
for they vote to petition the
General Court to be eased of the law relating to providing a
school-master;...
HDC 11.79 17 For these men [in the Continental army]
[Concord] was
continually providing shoes, stockings, shirts, coats, blankets and
beef.
Bost 12.197 1 ...the necessity, which always presses
the Northerner, of
providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against
the
long winter, makes him anxiously frugal...
province, n. (16)
Hist 2.36 6 In old Rome the public roads beginning at
the Forum
proceeded...to the centre of every province of the empire...
Pt1 3.7 20 Criticism is infested with a cant of
materialism, which... confounds [poets] with those whose province is
action but who quit it to
imitate the sayers.
ET5 5.98 21 A landlord who owns a province [in England]
says, The
tenantry are unprofitable; let me have sheep.
ET9 5.151 14 Coarse local distinctions, as those of
nation, province or
town, are useful in the absence of real ones;...
OA 7.322 25 We still feel the force...of Bacon, who
took all knowledge to
be his province;...
PI 8.28 5 It is a problem of metaphysics to define the
province of Fancy
and Imagination.
QO 8.192 14 On the whole, we like the valor of
[quotation]. 'T is on
Marmontel's principle...and on Bacon's broader rule, I take all
knowledge
to be my province.
PC 8.210 14 Consider...what masters, each in his
several province, the
railroad, the telegraph...have evoked!...
PC 8.213 25 ...each European nation...had its romantic
era, and the
productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for
an
example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain, or in the
opposite
province of Britanny; the Chanson de Roland, in France;...
Grts 8.308 5 Clinging to Nature, or to that province of
Nature which he
knows, [the commander] makes no mistakes...
PerF 10.76 10 ...[man] draws on all knowledge as his
province...
HDC 11.63 15 In 1689, Concord partook of the general
indignation of the
province against Andros.
HDC 11.70 4 ...if any person or persons, inhabitants of
this province...shall
import any tea from the India House, in England...we will treat
them...as
enemies to their country...
FRep 11.542 15 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does
not stand in the
universe. They are all toiling...in the province assigned to them...
Bost 12.187 22 Demand and supply run [in Paris] into
every invisible and
unnamed province of whim and passion.
Bost 12.203 17 ...there is always [in Boston]...always
a heresiarch, whom
the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new
light... some John Adams and Josiah Quincy and Governor Andrew to
undertake
and carry the defence of patriots in the courts against the uproar of
all the
province;...
Province, n. (1)
FSLC 11.212 26 Every Roman reckoned himself at least a
match for a
Province.
provinces, n. (1)
HDC 11.68 22 ...it gives life and strength to every
attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of
this, but the neighboring
provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting
opposition...
provincial, adj. (7)
GoW 4.271 24 ...there is no trace of provincial
limitation in [Goethe's] muse.
ET4 5.53 13 In Scotland...a provincial eagerness and
acuteness appear;...
Pow 6.77 27 John Kemble said that the worst provincial
company of actors
would go through a play better than the best amateur company.
Ctr 6.161 5 A man who stands on a good footing with the
heads of parties
at Washington, reads...the guesses of provincial politicians with a key
to the
right and wrong in each statement, and sees well enough where all this
will
end.
Carl 10.490 25 Forster of Rawdon described to me a
dinner at the table d'
hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle...
FRep 11.533 18 America is provincial.
Bost 12.187 8 I think the Potomac water is a little
acrid, and should be
corrected by copious infusions of these provincial streams.
Provincial Committee of Saf (1)
HDC 11.72 22 A large amount of military stores had been
deposited in this
town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety.
Provincial Congress, n. (4)
HDC 11.71 24 In October [1774], the Provincial Congress
met in Concord.
HDC 11.72 10 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in
Concord] for the
enlisting of minute-men. Reverend William Emerson, the chaplain of the
Provincial Congress, preached to the people.
HDC 11.78 26 When...the poor of Boston were quartered
by the Provincial
Congress on the neighboring country, Concord received 82 persons to its
hospitality.
HDC 11.86 4 On the village green [of Concord] have been
the steps...of
Hancock, and his compatriots of the Provincial Congress;...
proving, v. (5)
SwM 4.105 15 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or
other of whom had
introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of
the
difficulty...of proving originality...
Ctr 6.157 22 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to
[praise], and rejects the
censure as proving incapacity in the critic.
Comc 8.169 23 ...the painter Astley...going out of Rome
one day with a
party for a ramble in the Campagna and the weather proving hot, refused
to
take off his coat...
EWI 11.105 8 Humane persons who were informed of the
reports [on West
Indian slavery] insisted on proving them.
Mem 12.98 6 [The orator] has an old story, an odd
circumstance, that
illustrates the point he is now proving, and is better than an
argument.
provision, n. (13)
Nat 1.12 15 The misery of man appears like childish
petulance, when we
explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his
support and delight...
Con 1.311 24 ...for thee...fleets of floating palaces
with every...provision
for luxury, swim by sail and by steam through all the waters of this
world.
Mrs1 3.134 12 I may easily go into a great household
where there is... excellent provision for comfort, luxury and taste,
and yet not encounter
there any Amphitryon who shall subordinate these appendages.
GoW 4.261 1 I find a provision in the constitution of
the world for the
writer, or secretary, who is to report the doings of the miraculous
spirit of
life that everywhere throbs and works.
DL 7.119 19 There was...never any [country in the
world] where the state
has made such efficient provision for popular education...
Insp 8.269 8 ...every reasonable man would give any
price of house and
land and future provision, for condensation, concentration and the
recalling
at will of high mental energy.
Aris 10.60 25 The Golden Table never lacks members; all
its seats are kept
full; but with this strange provision, that the members are carefully
withdrawn into deep niches...
Edc1 10.125 21 ...the poor man...is allowed to put his
hand into the pocket
of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...not alone in the elements,
but, by further provision, in the languages...
Edc1 10.137 8 ...jealous provision seems to have been
made in [the new
man's] constitution that you shall not invade and contaminate him with
the
worn weeds of your language and opinions.
HDC 11.60 17 ...his piles of meal and other provision
wasted by the
English, it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow and
opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor followers to come at
the
ground-nuts, else they had starved.
EWI 11.114 2 ...every provision of the bill [for
emancipation in the West
Indies] was criticised with severity.
FSLC 11.204 15 Not the smallest municipal provision, if
it were new, would receive [Webster's] sanction.
Wom 11.425 14 Let us have the true woman...and no
lawyer need be called
in to write...the cunning clauses of provision...
provisional, adj. (1)
PI 8.4 27 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear that
dwindled astronomy
into a toy;--that too was no finality; only provisional...
provisioning, v. (1)
AmS 1.110 26 That which had been negligently trodden
under foot by
those who were harnessing and provisioning themselves for long journeys
into far countries, is suddenly found to be richer than all foreign
parts.
provisions, n. (6)
MR 1.238 8 Every species of property is preyed on by its
own enemies, as... provisions by mould, putridity, or vermin;...
MR 1.238 25 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods
he has year after
year collected, in one estate to his son,-house...provisions...the son
finds
his hands full...
NR 3.232 5 How wise the world appears, when...the
completeness of the
municipal system is considered! Nothing is left out. If you go
into...the
offices of sealers of weights and measures, of inspection of
provisions,--it
will appear as if one man had made it all.
ET10 5.164 11 ...the provisions to lock and transmit
[English property] have exercised the cunningest heads in a profession
which never admits a
fool.
EWI 11.112 20 With these provisions and conditions, the
bill [for
emancipation in the West Indies] proceeds...in the following terms...
FSLN 11.233 8 You relied on the constitution. It has
not the word slave in
it; and very good argument has shown...that, with provisions so vague
for
an object not named...the robbing of a man and of all his posterity is
effected.
proviso, n. (2)
SovE 10.195 3 The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot on
this fair world, the
obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one proviso,-that I know it is
his
agency.
MMEm 10.428 12 Constantly offer myself [Mary Moody
Emerson] to
continue the obscurest and loneliest thing ever heard of, with one
proviso,- [God's] agency.
provocation, n. (9)
DSA 1.127 3 ...it is not instruction, but provocation,
that I can receive from
another soul.
LE 1.162 10 To feel the full value of these lives, as
occasions of hope and
provocation, you must come to know that each admirable genius is but a
successful diver in that sea whose floor of pearls is all your own.
Nat2 3.174 13 ...we knew of [the rich man's] villa, his
grove, his wine and
his company, but the provocation and point of the invitation came out
of
these beguiling stars.
GoW 4.289 22 This cheerful laborer [Goethe], with no
external popularity
or provocation...tasked himself with stints for a giant...
Clbs 7.229 15 [The student] seeks intelligent
persons...who will give him
provocation...
Insp 8.292 21 For provocation of thought, we use
ourselves and use each
other.
Aris 10.38 21 The existence of an upper class is not
injurious, so long as it
is dependent on merit. For so long it is provocation to the bold and
generous.
LS 11.20 6 A passage read from [Christ's] discourses, a
moving
provocation to works like his...I call a worthy, a true commemoration.
CPL 11.506 19 In books I have the history or the energy
of the past. Angels
they are to us of entertainment, sympathy and provocation.
provocations, n. (3)
DSA 1.132 13 Noble provocations go out from [the divine
bards]...
MMEm 10.417 24 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] did overcome
and return
kindness for the repeated provocations.
PLT 12.14 4 I observe with curiosity...[the
Intellect's] obstructions and its
provocations, that I may learn to live with it wisely...
provoke, v. (10)
Int 2.345 15 I will not, though the subject might
provoke it, speak to the
open question between Truth and Love.
Mrs1 3.129 9 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger
in the least
favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the
excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new
class
finds itself at the top...
CbW 6.266 24 ...who provoke pity like that excellent
family party just
arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any
honest
end as ever?
Bty 6.287 7 ...the varied power in all that well-known
company that escort
us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke,
inspire
and enlarge us.
Res 8.146 10 [Tissenet] assured [the Indians] that if
they should provoke
him he would burn up their rivers and their forests;...
EPro 11.316 8 These measures [for liberty] provoke no
noisy joy...
FRep 11.516 27 Cant is good to provoke common sense.
II 12.69 8 The whole art of man has been...to provoke,
to extort speech
from the drowsy genius.
MAng1 12.240 18 [Michelangelo's sonnets] are founded on
the thought... that a beautiful person is sent into the world...not to
provoke but to purify
the sensual into an intellectual and divine love.
Let 12.394 22 By the slightest possible concert,
persevered in through four
or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be
formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity.
provoked, v. (6)
ET7 5.117 4 Nature has endowed some animals with
cunning...but it has
provoked the malice of all others...
CbW 6.252 22 ...this beast-force...has provoked in
every age the satire of
wits...
War 11.175 7 ...if the rising generation can be
provoked to think it
unworthy to nestle into every abomination of the past...then war has a
short
day...
JBB 11.267 9 ...this sudden interest in the hero of
Harper's Ferry has
provoked an extreme curiosity in all parts of the Republic, in regard
to the
details of his history.
EdAd 11.391 1 Will [a journal] measure itself with the
chapter on Slavery, in some sort the special enigma of the time, as it
has provoked against it a
sort of inspiration and enthusiasm singular in modern history?
MLit 12.325 15 We are provoked with [Goethe's] Olympian
self-complacency...
provokes, v. (1)
Civ 7.20 21 The occasion of one of these starts of
growth is always some
novelty that astounds the mind and provokes it to dare to change.
provoking, adj. (2)
GoW 4.278 9 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister is] A very
provoking book to the
curiosity of young men of genius...
ET15 5.269 7 [The London Times] attacks a duke as
readily as a
policeman, and with the most provoking airs of condescension.
provoking, v. (5)
GoW 4.278 3 I suppose no book of this century can
compare with [Goethe'
s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the
mind...
Elo1 7.95 2 The power of Chatham, of Pericles, of
Luther, rested on this
strength of character, which...became sometimes exquisitely provoking
and
sometimes terrific to [their antagonists].
DL 7.106 27 ...by beautiful traits...provoking the love
that watches and
educates him, the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature
which he has thus gayly begun.
PPo 8.248 15 [The mind] indicates this respect to
absolute truth by the use
it makes of the symbols that are most stable and reverend, and
therefore is
always provoking the accusation of irreligion.
LLNE 10.339 15 I attribute much importance to two
papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were
the first
specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had
given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review. They were...immediately
fruitful in provoking emulation which lifted the style of Journalism.
provokingly, adv. (2)
Cir 2.303 16 Nature looks provokingly stable and
secular...
ET9 5.144 23 [The Englishman's] confidence in the power
and
performance of his nation makes him provokingly incurious about other
nations.
prow, n. (1)
Res 8.147 13 ...when fear has once possessed you, God ye
good even! You
think you are flying towards the poop when you are running towards the
prow...
prowess, n. (5)
Tran 1.357 19 ...all these [Transcendentalists] of whom
I speak...are
novices; they only show the road in which man should travel, when the
soul
has greater health and prowess.
Hist 2.34 21 The preternatural prowess of the hero, the
gift of perpetual
youth, and the like, are alike the endeavor of the human spirit to bend
the
shows of things to the desires of the mind.
ET11 5.194 24 When every noble was a soldier, they were
carefully bred to
great personal prowess.
SS 7.12 23 The recluse witnesses what others perform by
their aid, with a
kind of fear. It is as much out of his possibility as the prowess of
Coeur-de-Lion...
Milt1 12.273 20 [Milton] admonished his friend not to
admire military
prowess, or things in which force is of most avail.
prowling, adj. (1)
Bhr 6.181 4 There are...prowling eyes; and eyes full of
fate...
prowling, v. (1)
Lov1 2.183 10 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer
unfolding in opposition
and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages
with
words that take hold of the upper world, whilst one eye is prowling in
the
cellar;...
proxies, n. (3)
UGM 4.12 16 ...in good faith, we are multiplied by our
proxies.
ET11 5.184 8 ...why need [English peers] sit out the
debate? Has not the
Duke of Wellington, at this moment, their proxies--the proxies of fifty
peers...
Boks 7.220 15 In comparing the number of good books
with the shortness
of life, many might well be read by proxy, if we had good proxies;...
proximate, adj. (1)
SwM 4.94 16 ...the instincts presently teach that the
problem of essence
must take precedence of all others;--the questions of Whence? What? and
Whither? and the solution of these must be in a life, and not in a
book. A
drama or poem is a proximate or oblique reply;...
proximities, n. (1)
SR 2.73 2 I will have no covenants but proximities.
proximity, n. (2)
SwM 4.105 11 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or
other of whom had
introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of
the
difficulty...of proving originality...
Pow 6.71 11 The triumphs of peace have been in some
proximity to war.
proxy, n. (3)
Hist 2.11 4 ...we aim to master intellectually the steps
and reach the same
height or the same degradation that our fellow, our proxy has done.
Pol1 3.215 25 The antidote to this abuse of formal
government is...the
growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede
the
proxy;...
Boks 7.220 14 In comparing the number of good books
with the shortness
of life, many might well be read by proxy, if we had good proxies;...
prudence, n. (77)
AmS 1.97 23 Authors we have, in numbers...who, moved by
a
commendable prudence, sail for Greece...to replenish their merchantable
stock.
DSA 1.149 9 There are...men to whom a
crisis...demanding not the faculties
of prudence and thrift...comes graceful and beloved as a bride.
LE 1.180 1 ...whilst he...omitted no part of prudence,
[Napoleon] believed
also in the freedom...of the soul.
LE 1.185 14 You will hear every day the maxims of a low
prudence.
MR 1.245 21 Economy is...a sacrament...when it is the
prudence of simple
tastes...
MR 1.255 12 The mediator between the spiritual and the
actual world
should have a great prospective prudence.
MR 1.256 5 There is a sublime prudence which is the
very highest that we
know of man...
LT 1.278 23 ...a brave and cold neglect of the offices
which prudence
exacts, so it be done in a deep upper piety;...is the century which
makes the
gem.
Con 1.299 3 Reform has...no prudence...
Tran 1.345 18 In looking at the class of counsel...and
at the matronage of
the land, amidst all the prudence and all the triviality, one asks,
Where are
they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world,
to
these?
Tran 1.355 3 In politics, it has often sufficed, when
they treated of justice, if they kept the bounds of selfish
calculation. If they granted restitution, it
was prudence which granted it.
Comp 2.113 7 A wise man will...know that it is the part
of prudence to face
every claimant...
Lov1 2.183 8 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer
unfolding in opposition
and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages...
Prd1 2.221 3 My prudence consists in avoiding and going
without...
Prd1 2.221 12 ...I have the same title to write on
prudence that I have to
write on poetry or holiness.
Prd1 2.222 1 Prudence is the virtue of the senses.
Prd1 2.222 10 ...a true prudence or law of shows
recognizes the co-presence
of other laws...
Prd1 2.222 14 Prudence is false when detached.
Prd1 2.223 11 The world is filled with the proverbs and
acts and winkings
of a base prudence...
Prd1 2.223 14 The world is filled with the proverbs and
acts and winkings
of a base prudence...a prudence which adores the Rule of Three...
Prd1 2.223 23 [Culture] sees prudence not to be a
several faculty...
Prd1 2.224 8 The spurious prudence...is the god of sots
and cowards...
Prd1 2.224 11 The true prudence limits this
sensualism...
Prd1 2.224 25 Prudence does not go behind nature and
ask whence it is.
Prd1 2.228 6 ...nature punishes any neglect of
prudence.
Prd1 2.230 22 We must call the highest prudence to
counsel...
Prd1 2.231 1 Poetry and prudence should be coincident.
Prd1 2.233 4 The scholar shames us by his bifold life.
Whilst something
higher than prudence is active, he is admirable; when common sense is
wanted, he is an encumbrance.
Prd1 2.234 14 There is nothing [a man] will not be the
better for knowing, were it only...the State-Street prudence of buying
by the acre to sell by the
foot;...
Prd1 2.234 17 There is nothing [a man] will not be the
better for knowing, were it only...the the prudence which consists in
husbanding little strokes of
the tool...
Prd1 2.234 20 The eye of prudence may never shut.
Prd1 2.235 5 Our Yankee trade is reputed to be very
much on the extreme
of this prudence.
Prd1 2.235 14 Let [a man] learn a prudence of a higher
strain.
Prd1 2.236 14 The prudence which secures an outward
well-being is not to
be studied by one set of men, while heroism and holiness are studied by
another...
Prd1 2.236 17 Prudence concerns the present time,
persons, property and
existing forms.
Prd1 2.237 10 ...in regard to disagreeable and
formidable things, prudence
does not consist in evasion or in flight, but in courage.
Prd1 2.240 26 ...truth, frankness, courage, love,
humility and all the virtues
range themselves on the side of prudence...
Hsm1 2.249 2 Seen from the nook and chimney-side of
prudence, [life] wears a ragged and dangerous front.
Hsm1 2.250 10 [Heroism] is a self-trust which slights
the restraints of
prudence...
Hsm1. 2.252 8 That false prudence which dotes on health
and wealth is the
butt and merriment of heroism.
Cir 2.314 26 ...all [the great man's] prudence will be
so much deduction
from his grandeur.
Cir 2.315 2 ...it behooves each to see, when he
sacrifices prudence, to what
god he devotes it;...
Cir 2.315 13 ...the highest prudence is the lowest
prudence.
Cir 2.315 14 ...the highest prudence is the lowest
prudence.
Nat2 3.177 22 I would not be frivolous before the
admirable reserve and
prudence of time...
SwM 4.145 6 Do not rely...on prudence, on common
sense...
MoS 4.152 10 Things always bring their own philosophy
with them, that is, prudence.
NMW 4.230 18 That common-sense which no sooner respects
any end than
it finds the means to effect it;...the prudence with which all was
seen...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost
call, from its
extent, the modern party.
NMW 4.237 7 [Napoleon's] vigor was guarded and tempered
by the
coldest prudence and punctuality.
NMW 4.238 15 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte
thought...a great deal
about what he should do in case of a reverse of fortune. The same
prudence
and good sense mark all his behavior.
NMW 4.247 9 I should cite [Napoleon], in his earlier
years, as a model of
prudence.
ET13 5.217 8 All maxims of prudence or shop or farm are
fixed and dated
by the [English] church.
Pow 6.73 26 The one prudence in life is
concentration;...
Art2 7.39 2 ...from the simplest expedient of private
prudence to the
American Constitution;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and
combination
of things to serve its end.
Elo1 7.74 10 There is the glib tongue and cool
self-possession of the
salesman in a large shop, which...overpower the prudence and resolution
of
housekeepers of both sexes.
DL 7.111 22 A house kept to the end of prudence is
laborious without joy;...
WD 7.167 20 The poem [Hesiod's Works and Days] is full
of piety as well
as prudence...
Clbs 7.240 26 Every variety of gift--science, religion,
politics, letters, art, prudence, war or love--has its vent and
exchange in conversation.
OA 7.333 3 ...[John Adams]...added, My son has more
political prudence
that any man that I know who has existed in my time;...
SA 8.84 27 There is even a little rule of prudence for
the young
experimenter which Dr. Franklin omitted to set down...
QO 8.189 2 In common prudence there is an early limit
to this leaning on
an original.
PPo 8.250 5 Hafiz praises wine, roses...to give vent to
his immense hilarity
and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy; and lays the emphasis
on
these to mark his scorn of sanctimony and base prudence.
Insp 8.286 17 I remember a capital prudence of old
President Quincy, who
told me that he never went to bed at night until he had laid out the
studies
for the next morning.
Insp 8.291 10 ...the wise student will remember the
prudence of Sir
Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who...took care to fight in the hours when
his
strength increased;...
Insp 8.291 16 What prudence again does every artist,
every scholar need in
the security of his easel or his desk!
Dem1 10.15 26 I have a lucky hand, sir, said
Napoleon...those on whom I
lay it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form,-that
often a
certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of
success;...
Aris 10.65 6 ...for the day that now is, a man of
generous spirit...will use a
high prudence in the conduct of life to guard himself from being
dissipated
on many things.
PerF 10.77 8 A few moral maxims confirmed by much
experience would
stand high on the list [of resources], constituting a supreme prudence.
SovE 10.204 12 A sleep creeps over the great functions
of man. Enthusiasm
goes out. In its stead a low prudence seeks to hold society stanch...
EzRy 10.391 1 In [Ezra Ripley's] house dwelt order and
prudence and
plenty.
Thor 10.463 7 [Thoreau!s] trenchant sense was never
stopped by his rules
of daily prudence...
HDC 11.80 27 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the
person who should
be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per
day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring
to the
town, and if it should be that the General Court should resolve, that,
their
pay should be more than 6s., then the representative shall be hereby
directed to pay the overplus into the town treasury. This was securing
the
prudence of the
EWI 11.109 19 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are
instructive, as
they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended.
Everything
generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come to the attack. On the
other part
are found cold prudence, bare-faced selfishness and silent votes.
ChiE 11.473 11 ...[Confucius]...met the ingrained
prudence of his nation by
saying always, Bend one cubit to straighten eight.
PLT 12.29 11 [Man's] equipment, though new, is
complete; his prudence is
his own;...
Milt1 12.266 1 [Milton] said, he had learned the
prudence of the Roman
soldier, not to stand breaking of legs, when the breath was quite out
of the
body.
Milt1 12.273 8 [Milton] would...support preachers by
voluntary
contributions; requiring that such only should preach as have faith
enough
to accept so self-denying and precarious a mode of life, scorning to
take
thought for the aspects of prudence and expediency.
Prudence, n. (2)
Prd1 2.221 1 What right have I to write on Prudence...
DL 7.111 9 Take off all the roofs...and we shall seldom
find the temple of
any higher god than Prudence.
prudent, adj. (26)
MN 1.217 3 Never self-possessed or prudent, [Love] is
all abandonment.
YA 1.365 8 ...prudent men have begun to see that every
American should
be educated with a view to the values of land.
SR 2.56 14 It is easy enough for a firm man who knows
the world to brook
the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and
prudent...
Prd1 2.230 15 Who is prudent?
Hsm1 2.251 20 All prudent men see that the [heroic]
action is clean
contrary to a sensual prosperity;...
Hsm1 2.260 16 If you would serve your brother, because
it is fit for you to
serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent
people
do not commend you.
Cir 2.314 26 The great man will not be prudent in the
popular sense;...
Cir 2.315 3 ...it behooves each to see, when he
sacrifices prudence, to what
god he devotes it; if to ease and pleasure, he had better be prudent
still;...
Art1 2.366 27 As soon as beauty is sought...for
pleasure, it degrades the
seeker. ...an effeminate, prudent, sickly beauty, which is not beauty,
is all
that can be formed;...
Chr1 3.115 18 There are many eyes that can detect and
honor the prudent
and household virtues;...
NMW 4.231 4 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and
such a man was
born;...compact, instant, selfish, prudent...
ET13 5.214 22 ...when wealth, refinement, great men,
and ties to the world
supervene, [a nation's] prudent men say, Why fight against Fate, or
lift
these absurdities [of religion] which are now mountainous?
Wth 6.94 4 ...how did North America get netted with
iron rails, except by
the importunity of these orators who dragged all the prudent men in?
Bhr 6.188 15 ...it is a point of prudent good manners
to treat these
reputations tenderly...
Bty 6.283 22 ...we prize very humble utilities, a
prudent husband, a good
son...
Elo1 7.72 3 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove,
This is the wise
Ulysses...knowing all wiles and wise counsels. To her the prudent
Antenor
replied again: O woman, you have spoken truly.
Elo1 7.72 8 I [Antenor] became acquainted with the
genius and the prudent
judgments of [Ulysses and Menelaus].
Elo1 7.81 4 Does [any one] think that not possibly a
man may come to him
who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?--for
example...if he is a prudent, industrious person, to forsake his
work...
Boks 7.210 9 Earl Spencer bethought him like a prudent
general of useless
bloodshed and waste of powder...
Suc 7.288 23 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is
victory, without
regard to the cause;...the way of the Talleyrands, prudent people,
whose
watches go faster than their neighbors'...
Elo2 8.116 16 When a good man rises in the cold and
malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to
be silent;...
Elo2 8.124 9 ...in your struggles with the world,
should a crisis ever occur
when even friendship may deem it prudent to desert you...seek
refuge...in
the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
HDC 11.65 17 Captain Minott seems to have served our
prudent fathers in
the double capacity of teacher and representative.
EWI 11.134 15 If the managers of our political parties
are too prudent and
too cold;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up
[the
negroes'] cause on this very ground...
Let 12.395 23 But to be prudent in all the particulars
of life, and in this one
thing alone religiously forbearing;...and only abstinent when it is
proposed
to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!
Let 12.395 25 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!
prudent, n. (6)
Comp 2.114 2 Cheapest, say the prudent, is the dearest
labor.
Hsm1 2.251 25 ...[every heroic act] finds its own
success at last, and then
the prudent also extol.
MoS 4.159 27 [The skeptic] is the considerer, the
prudent...
CbW 6.257 25 We see those who surmount...obstacles from
which the
prudent recoil.
Dem1 10.21 11 Animal magnetism inspires the prudent and
moral with a
certain terror;...
PLT 12.55 24 We see those who surmount by dint of
egotism or infatuation
obstacles from which the prudent recoil.
prudential, adj. (1)
Boks 7.213 10 Whilst the prudential and economical tone
of society starves
the imagination, affronted Nature gets such indemnity as she may.
prudently, adv. (1)
LLNE 10.335 22 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had
already made us
acquainted, if prudently, with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic
criticism.
prudery, n. (1)
ET1 5.5 14 ...I have copied the few notes I made of
visits to persons, as
they respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole
world to
make it needful to affect any prudery of suppression about a few hints
of
those bright personalities.
prune, v. (3)
UGM 4.21 15 If I work in my garden and prune an
apple-tree, I am well
enough entertained...
ET12 5.207 16 The great silent crowd of thoroughbred
Grecians always
known to be around him, the English writer cannot ignore. They prune
his
orations and point his pen.
Pow 6.60 9 Here is question, every spring...whether to
whitewash, or to
potash, or to prune;...
pruned, v. (1)
PerF 10.75 14 [Labor] surprises in the perfect form and
condition of trees... rightly pruned...
prunella, n. (1)
Nat2 3.195 3 All over the wide fields of earth grows the
prunella or self-heal.
prunes, v. (1)
MoS 4.176 10 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we
say...look you,--on
the whole, selfishness plants best, prunes best...
pruning, n. (2)
Pow 6.73 20 ...the gardener, by severe pruning, forces
the sap of the tree
into one or two vigorous limbs...
Let 12.404 22 The pruning in the wild gardens of Nature
is never forborne.
pruning, v. (1)
Pow 6.60 12 A good tree that agrees with the soil will
grow in spite...of
pruning, or neglect...
pruning-shears, n. (1)
CW 12.174 3 [A thoughtful man] can spend the entire day
therein [in his
wood-lot], with hatchet or pruning-shears, making paths, without
remorse
of wasting time.
prurient, adj. (2)
PI 8.69 9 Faust abounds in the disagreeable. The vice is
prurient, learned, Parisian.
LLNE 10.354 16 [The Fourier marriage] was false and
prurient...
Prussia, n. (3)
Grts 8.318 2 Goethe, in his correspondence with his
Grand Duke of
Weimar, does not shine. We can see that the Prince had the advantage of
the Olympian genius. It is more plainly seen in the correspondence
between
Voltaire and Frederick of Prussia.
Chr2 10.105 22 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia
in 1848, says: The
Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings.
Humb 11.459 4 ...we have lived to see now, for the
second time in the
history of Prussia, a statesman of the first class [Humboldt]...
prussic, adj. (1)
OA 7.319 3 ...prussic acid, strychnine, are weak
dilutions: the surest poison
is time.
pry, v. (3)
MR 1.232 11 ...I will not pry into the usages of our
retail trade.
SR 2.65 1 ...if we seek to pry into the soul that
causes, all philosophy is at
fault.
Wom 11.416 13 There was nothing [antagonism to Slavery]
did not pry
into...
prying, adj. (1)
NER 3.256 5 A restless, prying, conscientious criticism
broke out in
unexpected quarters.
prying, v. (4)
SL 2.137 16 All our manual labor and works of strength,
as prying, splitting, digging, rowing and so forth, are done by dint of
continual
falling...
SwM 4.99 8 Such a boy [as Swedenborg]...goes...prying
into chemistry and
optics...
Dem1 10.24 20 While the dilettanti have been prying
into the humors and
muscles of the eye, simple men will have helped themselves and the
world
by using their eyes.
FSLC 11.199 17 There is...not a moralist but is prying
into [slavery's] quality;...
Prytaneum, n. (1)
Hsm1 2.256 5 Socrates's condemnation of himself to be
maintained in all
honor in the Prytaneum, during his life, and Sir Thomas More's
playfulness
at the scaffold, are of the same strain.
psalm, n. (4)
WD 7.169 18 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour
dawns out of the
deep...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to
our
solitude.
SovE 10.205 5 To a self-denying, ardent church,
delighting in rites and
ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race, who analyze the
prayer
and psalm of their forefathers...
HDC 11.54 7 Wilson relates that, at their meetings, the
Indians sung a
psalm, made Indian by [John] Eliot...
HDC 11.72 20 It is said that all the services of that
day [March 13, 1775] made a deep impression on the people [of Concord],
even to the singing of
the psalm.
psalmist, n. (1)
Nat 1.68 16 A perception of this mystery inspires the
muse of George
Herbert, the beautiful psalmist of the seventeenth century.
psalmody, n. (1)
Bost 12.201 23 There is a little formula...I 'm as good
as you be, which
contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the
American Declaration of Independence. And this...was said and rung in
every tone of the psalmody of the Puritans;...
psalms, n. (3)
DL 7.101 8 Five rosy boys with morning light/ Had leaped
from one fair
mother's arms,/ Fronted the sun with hope as bright,/ And greeted God
with
childhood's psalms./
QO 8.182 5 ...the psalms and liturgies of churches,
are...of this slow
growth...
HDC 11.34 12 ...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims]
sing psalms, pray
and praise their God...
psalm-tune, n. (1)
ET11 5.179 21 Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red
cliff; and so on,--a
sincerity and use in naming very striking to an American, whose country
is
whitewashed all over by unmeaning names, the cast-off clothes of the
country from which its emigrants came; or named at a pinch from a
psalm-tune.
psaltery, n. (1)
Wsp 6.241 14 There will be a new church founded on moral
science;...the
church of men to come, without shawms, or psaltery, or sackbut;...
pseudo-spiritualists, n. (1)
Dem1 10.21 13 Animal magnetism inspires the prudent and
moral with a
certain terror; so...the alleged second-sight of the
pseudo-spiritualists.
Psyche, n. (2)
Bty 6.295 22 How many copies are there of the Belvedere
Apollo...the
Psyche...
SovE 10.185 1 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by
yielding itself to
Nature, goes blameless through its low part...expands into a beautiful
form
with rainbow wings, and makes a part of the summer day. The Greeks
called it Psyche, a manifest emblem of the soul.
psychologist, n. (1)
ET13 5.222 27 The action of the university...is directed
more on producing
an English gentleman, than a saint or a psychologist.
psychology, n. (3)
Nat2 3.179 4 Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology;
psychology, mesmerism...
SwM 4.119 12 When [Swedenborg] attempted to announce
the law most
sanely, he was forced to couch it in parable. Modern psychology offers
no
similar example of a deranged balance.
MMEm 10.426 3 How grand [the earth's] preparation for
souls,-souls
who were to feel the Divinity, before Science had...applied its steely
analysis to that state of being which recognizes neither psychology nor
element.
pterodactyl, n. (1)
CL 12.165 2 Agassiz studies year after year fishes and
fossil anatomy of
saurian, and lizard, and pterodactyl. But whatever he says, we know
very
well what he means.
Ptolemaic, adj. (4)
Nat2 3.180 1 Geology has...taught us to...exchange our
Mosaic and
Ptolemaic schemes for her large style.
UGM 4.18 13 Especially when a mind of powerful method
has instructed
men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of Aristotle, the
Ptolemaic astronomy...are in point.
ET12 5.202 8 I do not know...whether [at Oxford] the
Ptolemaic astronomy
does not still hold its ground against the novelties of Copernicus.
LLNE 10.349 12 [Brisbane's plan]...wove its large
Ptolemaic web of cycle
and epicycle, of phalanx and phalanstery, with laudable assiduity.
Ptolemais, Palestine, n. (1)
NMW 4.246 15 On the shore of Ptolemais, gigantic
projects agitated [Napoleon].
Ptolemy, n. (1)
WD 7.179 19 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar,
not who can unearth
for me the buried dynasties of Sesostris and Ptolemy...
puberty, n. (4)
SR 2.48 13 So God has armed youth and puberty and
manhood no less with
its own piquancy and charm...
ET4 5.62 19 Many a mean, dastardly boy is, at the age
of puberty, transformed into a serious and generous youth.
DL 7.123 27 To each occurs, soon after the age of
puberty, some event or
society...which becomes the crisis of life...
FRep 11.516 9 ...[immigrants] find this country just
passing through a great
crisis in its history, as necessary as lactation or dentition or
puberty to the
human individual.
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