Purple to Pythoness

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

purple, adj. (11)

    Nat 1.21 3 When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America;...the purple mountains of the Indian Archipelago around, can we separate the man from the living picture?
    MN 1.214 10 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship,-those purple skies and lovely waters the amphitheatre dressed and garnished only for the exchange of thought and love of the purest souls? It is that.
    Lov1 2.170 2 The delicious fancies of youth reject the least savor of a mature philosophy, as chilling with age and pedantry their purple bloom.
    Lov1 2.175 6 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...which made the face of nature radiant with purple light...
    Fdsp 2.197 13 ...I see well that, for all his purple cloaks, I shall not like [the party you praise], unless he is at least a poor Greek like me.
    PC 8.225 1 ...the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.
    PPo 8.263 3 I read on the porch of a palace bold/ In a purple tablet letters cast,-/ A house though a million winters old,/ A house of earth comes down at last;/...
    HDC 11.29 18 Who can tell how many thousand years, every day, the clouds have shaded these fields with their purple awning?
    SHC 11.435 24 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...the oriole, robin, purple finch, bluebird, thrush...will find out the hospitality and protection from the gun of this asylum...
    ACri 12.287 4 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk...
    PPr 12.389 27 Plato is the purple ancient...

purple, n. (4)

    Nat 1.19 5 In July, the blue pontederia...swarms with yellow butterflies in continual motion. Art cannot rival this pomp of purple and gold.
    SwM 4.123 26 Plato is a gownsman; his garment, though of purple, and almost sky-woven, is an academic robe...
    Grts 8.313 10 No aristocrat, no prince born to the purple, can begin to compare with the self-respect of the saint.
    Wom 11.412 1 For [woman] the seas their pearls reveal,/ Art and strange lands her pomp supply/ With purple, chrome and cochineal,/ Ochre and lapis lazuli./

purple-piled, adj. (1)

    OA 7.313 2 Once more, the old man cried, ye clouds,/ Airy turrets purple-piled,/ Which once my infancy beguiled,/ Beguile me with the wonted spell./

purport, n. (1)

    GoW 4.269 16 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person... Every word was carved before his eyes into the earth and the sky; and the sun and stars were only letters of the same purport and of no more necessity.

purporting, v. (1)

    LVB 11.91 23 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting...to drag [the Cherokees]...to a wilderness at a vast distance beyond the Mississippi. And a paper purporting to be an army order fixes a month from this day as the hour for this doleful removal.

purpose, n. (129)

    Nat 1.41 9 Whatever private purpose is answered by any member or part [of nature], [discipline] is its public and universal function...
    Nat 1.67 12 ...it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
    LE 1.181 1 Let the scholar appreciate this combination of gifts, which, applied to better purpose, make true wisdom.
    Con 1.319 3 The conservative party in the universe concedes that the radical would talk sufficiently to the purpose, if we were still in the garden of Eden;...
    Hist 2.9 4 ...the purpose of nature, betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history.
    SR 2.48 6 ...that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, [children, babes, and brutes] have not.
    SR 2.75 5 ...it demands something godlike in him who...has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart...that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!
    SL 2.149 15 Introduce a base person among gentlemen, it is all to no purpose;...
    SL 2.156 3 ...the intimated purpose, expresses character.
    Prd1 2.222 20 There are all degrees of proficiency in knowledge of the world. It is sufficient to our present purpose to indicate three.
    Hsm1 2.257 5 ...the power of a romance over the boy who grasps the forbidden book under his bench at school, our delight in the hero, is the main fact to our purpose.
    Int 2.331 6 At last comes the era of reflection...when we of set purpose sit down to consider an abstract truth;...
    Pt1 3.18 16 ...we use defects and deformities to a sacred purpose...
    Nat2 3.186 7 The child...delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic.
    Nat2 3.194 11 ...a beneficent purpose lies in wait for us.
    NR 3.234 16 The eye must not lose sight for a moment of the purpose [of the artist].
    NER 3.279 7 ...in spite of selfishness and frivolity, the general purpose in the great number of persons is fidelity.
    UGM 4.7 16 Is a man in his place, he is constructive, fertile, magnetic, inundating armies with his purpose, which is thus executed.
    UGM 4.15 6 What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us? ... We are piqued to some purpose...
    PPh 4.43 10 Plato...mainly is not a poet because he chose to use the poetic gift to an ulterior purpose.
    PPh 4.65 10 In the Timaeus [Plato] indicates the highest employment of the eyes. By us it is asserted that God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,--that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...
    SwM 4.106 2 [Swedenborg] had studied spars and metals to some purpose.
    SwM 4.136 2 I say, with the Spartan, Why do you speak so much to the purpose, of that which is nothing to the purpose?
    SwM 4.136 3 I say, with the Spartan, Why do you speak so much to the purpose, of that which is nothing to the purpose?
    SwM 4.144 23 [Swedenborg] lived to purpose...
    MoS 4.169 20 ...[Montaigne] says, might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me, but 't is to much purpose to evade it, the common custom and use of life will have it so.
    MoS 4.173 21 I shall not take Sunday objections, made up on purpose to be put down.
    MoS 4.179 7 ...readings, writings, are nothing to the purpose;...
    ShP 4.219 2 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose?
    NMW 4.249 23 [Napoleon] delighted in running through the range of practical, of literary and of abstract questions. His opinion is always original and to the purpose.
    NMW 4.255 8 ...men should be firm in heart and purpose [said Napoleon], or they should have nothing to do with war and government.
    GoW 4.290 21 The secret of genius is...to exact good faith, reality and a purpose;...
    ET3 5.42 6 When James the First declared his purpose of punishing London by removing his Court, the Lord Mayor replied that in removing his royal presence from his lieges, they hoped he would leave them the Thames.
    ET10 5.158 9 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs. And it was to little purpose that [the English] had pit-coal, or that looms were improved...
    ET13 5.218 19 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848, to the decorous English audience...listening with all the devotion of national pride. That was binding old and new to some purpose.
    ET14 5.257 1 ...if this religion is in the poetry, it raises us to some purpose...
    F 6.24 11 Let [man] hold his purpose as with the tug of gravitation.
    F 6.39 12 ...the purpose beyond itself...will not stop but will work into finer particulars...
    Pow 6.65 9 Men in power...may be had cheap for any opinion, for any purpose;...
    Wth 6.99 7 If properties of this kind [works of art] were owned by states, towns and lyceums, they would draw the bonds of neighborhood closer. A town would exist to an intellectual purpose.
    Wth 6.100 15 [The right merchant] knows...that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
    Wth 6.114 26 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to...unite farming to intellectual pursuits. Many effected their purpose and made the experiment...
    Ctr 6.155 7 ...a tender boy who wears his rusty cap and outgrown coat, that he may secure the coveted place in college and the right in the library, is educated to some purpose.
    Ctr 6.159 26 ...[a cheerful intelligent face] indicates the purpose of nature and wisdom attained.
    Wsp 6.208 14 After [the people's] pepper-corn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together, and not any worthy purpose.
    Wsp 6.215 14 I can best indicate by examples those reactions by which every part of nature replies to the purpose of the actor...
    Wsp 6.224 2 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat, and usually know what he conceals. Is it otherwise if there be some belief or some purpose he would bury in his breast?
    CbW 6.264 1 ...if people were sick and dying to any purpose, we would leave all and go to them...
    CbW 6.268 25 [The youth is] Slow, slow to learn the lesson that there is but one depth, but one interior, and that is--his purpose.
    Bty 6.284 15 Science in England, in America...hates the name of love and moral purpose.
    Bty 6.294 7 One more text from the mythologists is to the same purpose...
    SS 7.12 13 A cold sluggish blood thinks it has not facts enough to the purpose...
    Art2 7.56 10 The Madonnas of Raphael and Titian were made to be worshipped. Tragedy was instituted for the like purpose...
    Art2 7.56 14 Now [the arts] languish, because their purpose is merely exhibition.
    Elo1 7.81 3 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 penurious, to squander money for some purpose he now least thinks of...
    Elo1 7.97 13 There is a principle of resurrection in [the man who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion], an immortality of purpose.
    Boks 7.219 6 All these [sacred] books...are more to our daily purpose than this year's almanac or this day's newspaper.
    Clbs 7.243 1 There was a time when in France...the houses of the nobility, which, up to that time, had been constructed on feudal necessities, in a hollow square...were rebuilt with new purpose.
    Clbs 7.249 20 A principal purpose also is the hospitality of the club...
    Cour 7.253 6 ...there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind: 1. Disinterestedness, as shown in indifference to the ordinary bribes and influences of conduct,--a purpose so sincere and generous that it cannot be tempted aside by any prospects of wealth or other private advantage.
    Cour 7.254 25 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end; whispers to this friend, argues down that adversary, moulds society to his purpose...
    OA 7.324 17 [With age] The passions have answered their purpose...
    PI 8.5 1 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose...
    PI 8.5 2 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom.
    PI 8.35 12 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason, till he sees it to have a purpose and beauty...
    Elo2 8.116 13 The silence and coldness after the meeting is opened and the purpose of it stated, are not encouraging.
    Res 8.149 17 In the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the torches which each traveller carries...serve no purpose but to see the ground.
    QO 8.193 4 ...the moment there is the purpose of display, the fraud is exposed.
    QO 8.197 9 We...could express ourselves in other people's phrases to finer purpose than they knew.
    PC 8.231 19 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering. It was walled round with iron tube with that purpose...
    Insp 8.272 1 Inspiration is like yeast. 'T is no matter in which of half a dozen ways you procure the infection; you can apply one or the other equally well to your purpose, and get your loaf of bread.
    Insp 8.279 24 How many sources of inspiration can we count? As many as our affinities. But to a practical purpose we may reckon a few of these.
    Insp 8.283 6 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert] signalizes his delight in this skill [of writing verse], and his pain that the Herricks, Lovelaces and Marlowes, or whoever else, should use the like genius in language to sensual purpose...
    Grts 8.319 27 ...any man filled with an idea or a purpose will find examples and illustrations and coadjutors wherever he goes.
    Dem1 10.5 14 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem...like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer;...and if it served no other purpose would show us how accurately Nature fits man awake.
    Dem1 10.17 9 ...[the belief in luck] is not the power...which we...found college professorships to expound. Goethe has said in his Autobiography what is much to the purpose...
    Dem1 10.20 5 The demonologic is only a fine name for egotism; an exaggeration namely of the individual, whom it is Nature's settled purpose to postpone.
    Aris 10.58 21 ...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which...changes never...
    Chr2 10.95 12 The moral element invites man...to find his satisfaction...but in the purpose and tendency;...
    Edc1 10.136 16 The old man thinks the young man has no distinct purpose...
    Supl 10.175 25 ...[Nature] brings the most heartless trifler to determined purpose presently.
    Prch 10.222 9 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him.
    Prch 10.227 25 [Cudworth's, More's, Bunyan's] purpose is as real as Dante's sentiment and hatred of vice.
    Prch 10.237 19 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose to be disabused of appearances...
    MoL 10.256 13 Reading!-do you mean that this senator or this lawyer, who stood by and allowed the passage of infamous laws, was a reader of Greek books? That is not the question; but to what purpose did they read?
    Schr 10.288 10 I had perhaps wiselier adhered to my first purpose of confining my illustration [of the scholar] to a single topic...
    Plu 10.309 13 ...Plutarch thought, with Ariston, that neither a bath nor a lecture served any purpose, unless they were purgative.
    LLNE 10.340 16 Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with George Ripley, to the point whether it were possible to bring cultivated, thoughtful people together, and make society that deserved the name. He had earlier talked with Dr. John Collins Warren on the like purpose...
    LLNE 10.359 9 ...the architect, acting under a necessity to build the house for its purpose, finds himself helped, he knows not how, into all these merits of detail...
    LLNE 10.360 27 There was no doubt great variety of character and purpose in the members of the community [Brook Farm].
    MMEm 10.426 20 Number the waste places of the journey...the bitter dregs of the cup,-and all are sweetened by the purpose of Him I [Mary Moody Emerson] love.
    Thor 10.449 6 ...[Nature] to her son will treasures more,/ And more to purpose, freely pour/ In one wood walk, than learned men/ Will find with glass in ten times ten./
    Thor 10.455 5 [Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties, because...he could not meet the individuals to any purpose.
    Thor 10.455 20 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose...
    Carl 10.496 1 [Carlyle] says, There is properly no religion in England. These idle nobles at Tattersall's-there is no work or word of serious purpose in them;...
    GSt 10.504 1 [George Stearns's] transparent singleness of purpose... disarmed...all gainsayers.
    GSt 10.505 16 When one remembers...the celerity with which his purpose took form;...I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    LS 11.7 26 Without presuming to fix precisely the purpose in the mind of Jesus, you will see that many opinions may be entertained of his intention, all consistent with the opinion that he did not design a perpetual ordinance [in the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.8 9 [Jesus] may have foreseen that his disciples would meet to remember him, and that with good effect. It may have crossed his mind that this would be easily continued a hundred or a thousand years...and yet have been altogether out of his purpose to fasten it upon men in all times and all countries.
    LS 11.8 20 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.
    LS 11.22 26 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose;...
    LS 11.23 25 ...I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the use of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], and have suggested a mode in which a meeting for the same purpose might be held, free of objection.
    HDC 11.36 25 ...standing on the seashore, [the Indians] often told of the coming of a ship at sea, sooner by one hour, yea, two hours' sail, than any Englishman that stood by, on purpose to look out.
    HDC 11.69 10 ...the British parliament have empowered the East India Company to export their tea into America, for the sole purpose of raising a revenue from hence;...
    HDC 11.82 2 In 1780, a constitution of the State [Massachusetts], proposed by the Convention chosen for that purpose, was accepted by the town [Concord]...
    EWI 11.133 10 To what purpose have we clothed each of those representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons...if they are to sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and sold;...
    War 11.168 22 A man does not come the length of the spirit of martyrdom without some active purpose...
    War 11.175 13 ...if the rising generation...shall feel the generous darings of austerity and virtue, then war has a short day, and human blood will cease to flow. It is of little consequence in what manner...this purpose of mercy and holiness is effected.
    JBS 11.277 10 ...as soon as [people] read [John Brown's] own speeches and letters they are heartily contented,-such is the singleness of purpose which justifies him to the head and the heart of all.
    ACiv 11.300 18 Neither was anything concealed of the theory or practice of slavery. To what purpose make more big books of these statistics?
    EPro 11.314 19 Come, East and West and North,/ By races, as snow-flakes,/ And carry my purpose forth,/ Which neither halts nor shakes./
    ALin 11.333 3 [Lincoln's good humor] enabled him...to mask his own purpose and sound his companion;...
    EdAd 11.385 5 At least as far as the purpose and genius of America is yet reported in any book, it is a sterility and no genius.
    EdAd 11.386 23 ...who can see the continent...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
    FRep 11.524 2 ...the people] must take wine at the hotel, first, for the look of it, and second, for the purpose of sending the bottle to two or three gentlemen at the table;...
    FRep 11.538 24 ...if the spirit...could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of...faithful...lovers of men, filled...with the simple and sublime purpose of carrying out in private and in public action the desire and need of mankind.
    CInt 12.119 24 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows how...to enchant men so that their will and purpose is in abeyance...
    CL 12.139 12 We have the finest climate in the world, for this purpose [listening to Nature], in Massachusetts.
    CL 12.160 21 ...[the earthquake] wrought to purpose in craters, and we borrowed the hint in crucibles.
    CL 12.162 17 Sometimes the farmer withstands [the true naturalist] in crossing his lots, but 't is to no purpose;...
    CL 12.166 17 ...the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive persons. Sometimes a parlor in which fine persons are found...answers our purpose still better.
    CW 12.170 12 The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of color and of sounds,/ The innumerable tenements of beauty,/ the miracle of generative force,/ Far-reaching concords of astronomy/ Felt in the plants and in the punctual birds;/ Better, the linked purpose of the whole./
    Bost 12.198 22 The religious sentiment gave the iron purpose and arm.
    ACri 12.286 21 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...condemned to the company of a courier and of the padrone when they cannot take refuge in the society of countrymen. A well-chosen series of stereoscopic views would have served a better purpose...
    MLit 12.324 11 ...[Goethe]...pierced the purpose of a thing and studied to reconcile that purpose with his own being.
    MLit 12.324 12 ...[Goethe]...pierced the purpose of a thing and studied to reconcile that purpose with his own being.
    Pray 12.353 17 Let the purpose for which I live be always before me;...
    Pray 12.354 18 That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,/ And my life practise more than my tongue saith;/ That my low conduct may not show,/ Nor my relenting lines,/ That I thy purpose did not know,/ Or overrated thy designs./
    EurB 12.370 22 A critical friend of ours affirms that the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition...to equal the masters in their exquisite finish, instead of their religious purpose.

purposed, v. (1)

    SwM 4.140 2 Socrates's Genius did not advise him to act or to find, but if he purposed to do somewhat not advantageous, it dissuaded him.

purposely, adv. (1)

    SwM 4.103 18 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;-- being some curiosity or oddity...purposely framed to excite surprise...

purposes, n. (21)

    Nat 1.52 15 Shakspeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression...
    MR 1.245 8 We shall be rich to great purposes; poor only for selfish ones.
    SR 2.81 12 I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe for the purposes of art...
    Lov1 2.178 1 [The lover] is a new man, with...new and keener purposes...
    Pt1 3.18 6 The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought.
    Exp 3.65 9 Right to hold land, right of property, is disputed...and before the vote is taken, dig away in your garden, and spend your earnings as a waif or godsend to all serene and beautiful purposes.
    NMW 4.228 19 It is an advantage, within certain limits, to have renounced the dominion of the sentiments of piety, gratitude and generosity; since what was an impassable bar to us, and still is to others, becomes a convenient weapon for our purposes;...
    ET16 5.274 21 In these days, [Carlyle] thought, it would become an architect to...say, I can build you a coffin for such dead persons as you are, and for such dead purposes as you have, but you shall have no ornament.
    Wth 6.115 15 [The pale scholar]...by and by wakes up from his idiot dream of chickweed and red-root, to remember his morning thought, and to find that with his adamantine purposes he has been duped by a dandelion.
    CbW 6.255 22 Some of [the people] went [to California] with honest purposes...
    CbW 6.266 19 ...we shall not always traverse seas and lands with light purposes...
    SS 7.9 13 ...though there be for heroes this moral union, yet they too are as far off as ever from an intellectual union, and the moral union is for comparatively low and external purposes...
    Suc 7.310 11 There is not a joyful boy or an innocent girl buoyant with fine purposes of duty...but a cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
    Dem1 10.20 25 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language, used to serve only low or political purposes, the transfusion of the blood...are of this kind.
    LLNE 10.331 27 ...all [Everett's] learning was available for purposes of the hour.
    MMEm 10.425 4 When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds, and he adores the eternal purposes of Him who lifteth up and casteth down...
    HDC 11.44 5 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court...to certain purposes, sovereign powers.
    EWI 11.112 27 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes free...
    SHC 11.433 8 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved for secular purposes;...
    CL 12.150 9 All [the Indian's] knowledge is for use...whilst white men have theirs also for talking purposes.
    MAng1 12.231 13 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years...surmounting by the dignity of his purposes all obstacles and all enmities...

purring, n. (1)

    EWI 11.118 21 It is vain to get rid of [spoiled children] by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech;...

purse, n. (9)

    MR 1.241 3 ...every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work of the world; ought...not to suffer the accident of his having a purse in his pocket...to sever him from those duties;...
    YA 1.381 1 These [Communities] proceeded...in great part from a feeling... that in the scramble of parties for the public purse the main duties of government were omitted...
    YA 1.392 1 After all the deductions which are to be made for our pitiful politics, which stake every gravest national question on the silly die whether James or whether Robert shall sit in the chair and hold the purse;... there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...
    Comp 2.111 4 The vulgar proverb, I will get it from his purse or get it from his skin, is sound philosophy.
    Chr1 3.104 14 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold.
    ET7 5.121 1 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge;...
    DL 7.115 23 The great depend on their heart, not on their purse.
    Grts 8.303 7 The porter or truckman refuses a reward for finding your purse, or for pulling you drowning out of the river. Thereby, with the service, you have got a moral lift.
    FSLC 11.184 24 Here are humane people who have tears for misery, an open purse for want; who should have been the defenders of the poor man, are found his embittered enemies...merely from party ties.

purslain, n. (2)

    Wth 6.114 8 Pride...can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn...
    Wth 6.115 7 [The pale scholar] stoops to pull up a purslain or a dock that is choking the young corn, and finds there are two;...

pursue, v. (4)

    Fdsp 2.214 7 We are sure that we have all in us. We go to Europe, or we pursue persons...in the instinctive faith that these will call it out...
    ET14 5.259 15 [Warren Hasting] goes to bespeak indulgence to...passages elevated to a tract of sublimity into which our habits of judgment will find it difficult to pursue them.
    Grts 8.318 9 ...degrees of intellect interest only classes of men who pursue the same studies...
    FSLC 11.202 9 I will not pursue [Webster's] bitter history.

pursued, v. (14)

    MN 1.216 1 ...there is no end to which your practical faculty can aim...that if pursued for itself, will not at last become carrion...
    Cir 2.314 15 ...the goods which belong to you gravitate to you and need not be pursued with pains and cost?
    Pt1 3.1 2 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes/...
    Pt1 3.23 24 The songs, thus flying immortal from their mortal parent, are pursued by clamorous flights of censures...
    Nat2 3.193 14 [The maiden] was heaven whilst [the lover] pursued her as a star...
    ET11 5.194 27 When every noble was a soldier, they were carefully bred to great personal prowess. ... And this was very seriously pursued;...
    Wth 6.104 15 An apple-tree, if you take out every day for a number of days a load of loam and put in a load of sand about its roots, will find it out. An apple-tree is a stupid kind of creature, but if this treatment be pursued for a short time I think it would begin to mistrust something.
    Cour 7.278 24 The boy turned round with screams,/ And ran with terror wild;/ One of the pair of savage beasts/ Pursued the shrieking child./
    PI 8.60 18 ...many knights set out in search of [Merlin]. Among others was Sir Gawain, who pursued his search till it was time to return to the court.
    Grts 8.310 18 ...there is for each a Best Counsel which enjoins the fit word and the fit act for every moment. And the path of each, pursued, leads to greatness.
    Dem1 10.8 9 If I strike, I am struck; if I chase, I am pursued.
    Dem1 10.25 8 Of course the inquiry [into Animal Magnetism] is pursued on low principles.
    MAng1 12.215 5 [Michelangelo] lived one life; he pursued one career.
    EurB 12.368 14 [Wordsworth] once for all forsook the styles and standards and modes of thinking of London and Paris, and the books read there and the aims pursued...

pursuer, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.190 16 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer.

pursues, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.39 13 [The artist] pursues a beauty, half seen, which flies before him.

pursuing, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.279 1 The hunter raised his gun,--/ He knew one charge was all,--/ And through the boy's pursuing foe/ He sent his only ball./

pursuing, v. (9)

    SwM 4.113 8 ...it is necessary to take science as a guide in pursuing [nature' s] steps.
    SwM 4.113 9 The pursuing the inquiry under the light of an end or final cause gives wonderful animation, a sort of personality to the whole writing [of Swedenborg].
    Aris 10.61 9 The honor of a member consists in...in the pursuing undisturbed the career of a Brother...
    Aris 10.61 13 Give up, once for all, the hope of approbation from the people in the street, if you are pursuing great ends.
    Prch 10.221 23 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action...what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?
    MMEm 10.411 20 What a rich day, so fully occupied in pursuing truth that I [Mary Moody Emerson] scorned to touch a novel which for so many years I have wanted.
    LS 11.25 6 ...I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising [the pastoral office's] highest functions.
    CPL 11.499 20 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes in her diary...perhaps a greater variety of internal emotions would be felt by remaining with books in one place than pursuing the waves which are ever the same.
    CW 12.177 20 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches in the sea, in the ground, in barren moors, in the night even...

pursuit, n. (26)

    Nat 1.23 3 Therefore does beauty, which...comes unsought...remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect;...
    NR 3.225 18 The least hint sets us on the pursuit of a character which no man realizes.
    PPh 4.44 1 [Plato]...is said to have had an early inclination for war, but, in his twentieth year, meeting with Socrates, was easily dissuaded from this pursuit...
    NMW 4.228 2 Bonaparte wrought...for power and wealth,--but Bonaparte, specially, without any scruple as to the means. All the sentiments which embarrass men's pursuit of these objects, he set aside.
    NMW 4.253 10 ...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of wealth, that it is treacherous...
    ET5 5.90 20 [The English] have a wonderful heat in the pursuit of a public aim.
    Ctr 6.131 3 Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power...culture corrects the theory of success.
    Ctr 6.154 22 A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.
    CbW 6.267 7 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness...
    DL 7.111 4 [The citizen] brings home whatever commodities and ornaments have for years allured his pursuit...
    Boks 7.194 7 [The best rule of reading] holds each student to a pursuit of his native aim...
    Clbs 7.234 23 ...when we find [good company] it is worth the pursuit...
    OA 7.328 21 We leave one pursuit for another...
    SA 8.105 1 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love...of the scholar for his pursuit;...
    Grts 8.301 5 ...in the pursuit [of greatness] we do not stand in each other's way.
    Grts 8.301 8 ...every aspirant, by his success in the pursuit [of greatness], does not hinder but helps his competitors.
    Edc1 10.146 22 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by iconoclast Christians, then by savage Turks. But mark that in the task he had...become associated with distinguished scholars whom he had interested in his pursuit;...
    Prch 10.218 15 ...elegance of taste and of manners and pursuit, a boundless ambition of intellect...all these [persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have;...
    SlHr 10.445 28 [Samuel Hoar] had an affinity for mathematics, but it was a taste rather than a pursuit...
    HDC 11.76 2 Captain Charles Miles, who was wounded in the pursuit of the enemy [at Concord bridge] told my venerable friend who sits by me, that he went to the services of that day, with the same seriousness and acknowledgment of God, which he carried to church.
    EWI 11.110 22 In attempting to make its escape from the pursuit of a man-of- war, one ship flung five hundred slaves alive into the sea.
    HCom 11.342 22 It is easy to recall the mood in which our young men, snatched from every peaceful pursuit, went to the war.
    PLT 12.13 3 Metaphysics is dangerous as a single pursuit.
    CW 12.178 1 ...no pursuit has more breath of immortality in it [than that of the naturalist]..
    Bost 12.197 9 As an antidote to the spirit of commerce and of economy, the religious spirit-always...prompting the pursuit of the vast, the beautiful, the unattainable-was especially necessary to the culture of New England.
    MAng1 12.217 1 ...in proportion as man rises above the servitude to wealth and a pursuit of mean pleasures, he perceives that what is most real is most beautiful...

pursuits, n. (14)

    LE 1.156 10 ...the fact of [the scholar's] existence and pursuits would be a happy omen.
    SR 2.77 6 It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men;...in their pursuits;...
    Cir 2.310 12 A new degree of culture would instantly revolutionize the entire system of human pursuits.
    Pt1 3.5 13 [The poet] is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his art, but with this consolation in his pursuits, that they will draw all men sooner or later.
    GoW 4.289 26 This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...without relaxation or rest, except by alternating his pursuits, worked on for eighty years...
    Wth 6.114 25 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to...unite farming to intellectual pursuits.
    CbW 6.247 1 We have a debt...to those who have refined life by elegant pursuits.
    Bty 6.285 22 ...the clergy are not victims of their pursuits more than others.
    MMEm 10.419 10 It was His will that gives my [Mary Moody Emerson's] superiors to shine in wisdom, friendship, and ardent pursuits...
    GSt 10.503 4 ...[George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his own pursuits...
    Wom 11.423 20 ...when I read the list of men of intellect, of refined pursuits...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
    CInt 12.114 11 Michael Angelo gave himself to art, despising all meaner pursuits.
    CL 12.139 7 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...and following what is usually the natural suggestion of these pursuits, ponder the moral secrets which, in her solitudes, Nature has to whisper to us, we were better patriots and happier men.
    Let 12.396 16 How joyfully we have felt the admonition of larger natures which despised our aims and pursuits...

pursuivants, n. (1)

    Bost 12.202 7 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] London is a long way off, with beadles and pursuivants and horse-guards.

pursy, adj. (1)

    ET9 5.144 17 The pursy man [in England] means by freedom the right to do as he pleases...

purveiance, n. (1)

    F 6.6 1 The Destinee.../ That executeth in the world over al,/ The purveiance that God hath seen beforne,/ So strong it is/...Yet sometime it shall fallen on a day/ That falleth not oft in a thousand yeer;/...

purview, n. (1)

    Insp 8.273 18 A glimpse, a point of view that by its brightness excludes the purview is granted, but no panorama.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie, n. (1)

    MoL 10.245 7 We run...to Mesmerism, Spiritualism, to Pusey, to the Catholic Church, as if for the want of thought...

push, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.184 20 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls rolled. It was no great affair, a mere push, but the astronomers were right in making much of it...
    Nat2 3.184 23 That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system...
    CW 12.177 26 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in winter, because, remove the snow a little...and there is a perpetual push of buds...

push, v. (9)

    MR 1.247 9 I do not wish to push my criticism on the state of things around me to that extravagant mark that shall compel me to suicide...
    Comp 2.95 4 The legitimate inference the disciple would draw was...to push it to its extreme import,--You sin now, we shall sin by and by;...
    Mrs1 3.137 16 It is easy to push this deference to a Chinese etiquette;...
    ET1 5.12 10 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...talked of trinism and tetrakism and much more, of which I only caught this, that the will was that by which a person is a person; because, if one should push me in the street, and so I should force the man next me into the kennel, I should at once exclaim I did not do it, sir, meaning it was not my will.
    Wsp 6.219 25 Those [natural] laws...push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life...
    Farm 7.145 15 The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly. It is almost inevitable to push the generalization up into higher parts of Nature...
    PI 8.18 12 ...what is life? what is force? Push [the savans] hard and they will not be loquacious.
    War 11.168 4 ...if you go for no war, then be consistent, and give up self-defence in the highway, in your own house. Will you push it thus far?
    PLT 12.53 23 Don't fear to push these individualities to their farthest divergence.

pushed, v. (17)

    Comp 2.117 27 When [a great man] is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something;...
    Exp 3.80 10 The partial action of each strong mind in one direction is a telescope for the objects on which it is pointed. But every other part of knowledge is to be pushed to the same extravagance, ere the soul attains her due sphericity.
    ET9 5.144 2 Individual right is pushed [in England] to the uttermost bound compatible with public order.
    F 6.43 8 Everything is pusher or pushed;...
    Elo1 7.87 5 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court, thus pushed, tried words...
    WD 7.167 22 ...[Hesiod] has not pushed his study of days into such inquiry and analysis as they invite.
    Clbs 7.239 5 ...an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...and was coolly enough received by the doctor in the laboratory where he was engaged. Only Dr. Dalton scratched a formula on a scrap of paper and pushed it towards the guest,--Had he seen that?
    Clbs 7.239 8 ...Dr. Dalton scratched a formula on a scrap of paper and pushed it towards the guest,--Had he seen that? The visitor scratched on another paper a formula describing some results of his own with sulphuric acid, and pushed it across the table,--Had he seen that?
    Elo2 8.116 20 When a good man rises in the cold and malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to be silent; why not rest, sir, on your good record? Nobody doubts your talent and power, but...we are tired of being pushed into patriotism by people who stay at home.
    Elo2 8.119 4 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do. It only needs that they should be once well pushed off into the water...
    Grts 8.306 18 I do not know how far [Faraday's] experiments and others have been pushed in this matter [of Diamagnetism]...
    LLNE 10.348 25 Mr. Brisbane pushed his doctrine with all the force of memory, talent, honest faith and importunacy.
    LLNE 10.349 14 Mechanics were pushed so far [by Brisbane] as fairly to meet spiritualism.
    Bost 12.208 16 Boston too is sometimes pushed into a theatrical attitude of virtue...
    Milt1 12.271 14 [Milton] pushed, as far as any in that democratic age, his ideas of civil liberty.
    Milt1 12.271 21 [Milton] maintained that a nation may try, judge and slay their king, if he be a tyrant. He pushed as far his views of ecclesiastical liberty.
    Let 12.403 21 Perhaps the adversities of our commerce have not yet been pushed to the wholesomest degree of severity.

pusher, n. (1)

    F 6.43 8 Everything is pusher or pushed;...

pushes, v. (1)

    ET9 5.144 10 Every individual [in England] has his particular way of living, which he pushes to folly...

pushing, n. (2)

    MR 1.254 23 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...by its...inconceivably gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    EWI 11.142 21 [West Indian negroes] receive hints and advances from the whites that they will be gladly received...as members of this or that committee of trust. They hold back, and say to each other that social position is not to be gained by pushing.

pushing, v. (4)

    ET9 5.148 12 [This little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain]... encourages a frank and manly bearing, so that each man...loses no opportunity for want of pushing.
    F 6.43 6 History is the action and reaction of these two,-Nature and Thought; two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement.
    Pow 6.80 4 Indifferent hacks and mediocrities tower, by pushing their forces to a lucrative point...
    TPar 11.286 7 Theodore Parker was...a man of study...rapidly pushing his studies so far as to leave few men qualified to sit as his critics.

pusillanimity, n. (4)

    MN 1.224 5 Pusillanimity and fear [the soul] refuses with a beautiful scorn;...
    Con 1.309 5 ...as I am born to the Earth, so the Earth is given to me, what I want of it to till and to plant; nor could I, without pusillanimity, omit to claim so much.
    Pt1 3.38 1 Our log-rolling...the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men...are yet unsung.
    Wsp 6.240 3 You shall not wish for death out of pusillanimity.

pusillanimous, adj. (3)

    LT 1.290 27 Let it not be recorded in our own memories that in this moment of the Eternity...we...disgraced the fair Day by a pusillanimous preference of our bread to our freedom.
    SL 2.164 13 It is a pusillanimous desertion of our work to gaze after our neighbors.
    Insp 8.278 24 Bonaparte said: There is no man more pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan.

puss, n. (2)

    Exp 3.80 18 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many up and downs of fate,--and meantime it is only puss and her tail.
    Exp 3.80 26 What imports it whether it is...a reader and his book, or puss with her tail?

put, v. (343)

    Nat 1.3 14 ...why should we...put the living generation into masquerade out of [the past's] faded wardrobe?
    Nat 1.4 3 Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put.
    Nat 1.32 5 ...with these forms...the keys of power are put into [the poet's] hands.
    Nat 1.32 16 Whilst we use this grand cipher to expedite the affairs of our pot and kettle, we feel that we have not yet put it to its use...
    Nat 1.46 10 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends...whom we lack power to put at such focal distance from us, that we can mend or even analyze them.
    Nat 1.58 6 [Religion and Ethics] both put nature under foot.
    Nat 1.62 16 Three problems are put by nature to the mind...
    AmS 1.96 18 In some contemplative hour [the new deed] detaches itself...to become a thought of the mind. Instantly it is raised, transfigured; the corruptible has put on incorruption.
    AmS 1.97 10 ...he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom.
    DSA 1.140 22 If no heart warm this rite [the Lord's Supper], the hollow, dry, creaking formality is too plain, than that [the poor preacher] can face a man of wit and energy and put the invitation without terror.
    DSA 1.147 18 ...the instant effect of conversing with God will be to put [society's easy merits] away.
    DSA 1.149 16 ...[Massena] put on terror and victory as a robe.
    DSA 1.149 18 So it is...in aims which put sympathy out of question, that the angel is shown.
    LE 1.160 8 ...we will put our own interpretation on things...
    LE 1.163 26 Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.
    LE 1.166 1 Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in.
    MN 1.208 4 [A man] need not study where to stand, nor to put things in favorable lights;...
    MN 1.214 14 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship... It is that. All other meanings which base men have put on it are conjectural and false.
    MR 1.235 4 ...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part...to put ourselves into primary relations with the soil and nature...
    MR 1.235 13 ...will you...set every man to make his own shoes, bureau, knife, wagon, sails, and needle? This would be to put men back into barbarism by their own act.
    MR 1.238 18 A man...who builds a raft or boat to go a-fishing, finds it easy to...put in a thole-pin...
    MR 1.244 21 [Our friend] is accustomed to carpets, and we have not sufficient character to put floor cloths out of his mind while he stays in the house...
    MR 1.248 17 Let [a man]...put all his practices back on their first thoughts...
    MR 1.254 9 Love would put a new face on this weary old world in which we dwell as pagans and enemies too long...
    LT 1.284 17 ...before the young American is put into jacket and trowsers, he says, I want something which I never saw before...
    Con 1.296 18 ...if I put forth my hands, I shall not do, but undo.
    Con 1.305 4 ...you cannot...put out the boat to sea without shoving from the shore...
    Con 1.312 23 ...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert...
    Con 1.313 4 Who put things on this false basis?
    Tran 1.332 14 One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...if I put a gold eagle in my safe, I find it again to-morrow;...
    YA 1.378 16 This is the good and this the evil of trade, that it would put everything into market;...
    YA 1.386 8 If any man has a talent...for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
    Hist 2.11 27 ...we apply ourselves to the history of [the Gothic cathedral's] production. We put ourselves into the place and state of the builder.
    Hist 2.32 21 As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx, who was said to sit in the road-side and put riddles to every passenger.
    Hist 2.36 18 Put Napoleon in an island prison...and he would beat the air, and appear stupid.
    SR 2.47 6 A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best;...
    SR 2.48 15 So God has...made [youth, puberty, and manhood] enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by...
    SR 2.49 22 [The self-reliant individual] would utter opinions on all passing affairs, which...would sink like darts into the ear of men and put them in fear.
    SR 2.52 5 ...do not tell me...of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations.
    SR 2.55 21 There is a mortifying experience in particular...I mean...the forced smile which we put on in company...
    SR 2.56 8 ...the...faces of the multitude...are put on and off as the wind blows...
    SR 2.71 16 Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his genius admonished to stay at home to put itself in communication with the internal ocean...
    Comp 2.98 10 Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse.
    Comp 2.101 25 So do we put our life into every act.
    Comp 2.109 24 If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
    Comp 2.118 1 When [a great man] is pushed, tormented, defeated...he has been put on his wits, on his manhood;...
    Comp 2.119 8 Put God in your debt.
    Comp 2.119 27 [The mob] resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.
    SL 2.139 23 Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom...and you are without effort impelled...to right and a perfect contentment. Then you put all gainsayers in the wrong.
    SL 2.156 16 Doth not Wisdom cry and Understanding put forth her voice?
    Lov1 2.175 10 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when...the most trivial circumstance associated with one form is put in the amber of memory;...
    Lov1 2.188 5 Thus are we put in training for a love which knows not sex, nor person, nor partiality...
    Fdsp 2.202 19 [Before a friend] I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off...
    Fdsp 2.213 20 [By persisting in your path] You demonstrate yourself, so as to put yourself out of the reach of false relations...
    Prd1 2.235 18 ...let [a man] put the bread he eats at his own disposal...
    Prd1 2.239 9 ...neither should you put yourself in a false position with your contemporaries by indulging a vein of hostility and bitterness.
    Hsm1 2.254 3 ...they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger... do, as it were, put God under obligation to them...
    Hsm1 2.256 20 Simple hearts put all the history and customs of this world behind them...
    Hsm1 2.259 2 ...the tough world had its revenge the moment [many extraordinary young men] put their horses of the sun to plough in its furrow.
    OS 2.268 15 When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see...that I desire and look up and put myself in the attitude of reception...
    OS 2.285 12 In that man, though he knew no ill of him, [one] put no trust.
    OS 2.289 26 ...[the energy of the soul] comes to whomsoever will put off what is foreign and proud;...
    Cir 2.309 9 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man... cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.
    Cir 2.313 18 Then shall also the Son be subject unto Him who put all things under him...
    Cir 2.315 12 ...with every precaution you take against such an evil you put yourself into the power of the evil.
    Int 2.331 12 I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth...
    Int 2.341 2 ...the poet...is one whom Nature cannot deceive, whatsoever face of strangeness she may put on.
    Art1 2.363 7 Art has not yet come to its maturity if it do not put itself abreast with the most potent influences of the world...
    Pt1 3.3 19 We were put into our bodies, as fire is put into a pan to be carried about;...
    Pt1 3.3 20 We were put into our bodies, as fire is put into a pan to be carried about;...
    Pt1 3.10 21 We sat in the aurora of a sunrise which was to put out all the stars.
    Pt1 3.11 13 We know that the secret of the world is profound, but who or what shall be our interpreter, we know not. A mountain ramble...a new person, may put the key into our hands.
    Pt1 3.20 1 The world being thus put under the mind for verb and noun, the poet is he who can articulate it.
    Pt1 3.39 3 [Artists] found or put themselves in certain conditions...and each presently feels the new desire.
    Chr1 3.90 12 What others effect by talent or by eloquence, this man [of character] accomplishes by some magnetism. Half his strength he put not forth.
    Chr1 3.92 23 [The natural merchant's] natural probity combines with his insight into the fabric of society to put him above tricks...
    Mrs1 3.148 15 Certainly, kings and queens, nobles and great ladies, had some right to complain of the absurdity that had been put in their mouths before the days of Waverley;...
    Nat2 3.185 6 ...to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way;...
    Nat2 3.189 9 ...one may have impressive experience and yet may not know how to put his private fact into literature...
    Pol1 3.215 2 If I put myself in the place of my child, and we stand in one thought and see that things are thus or thus, that perception is law for him and me.
    NR 3.247 12 ...the most sincere and revolutionary doctrine, put as if the ark of God were carried forward some furlongs, and planted there for the succor of the world, shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside...
    NER 3.256 17 ...if I had not that commodity [money], I should be put on my good behavior in all companies...
    NER 3.263 13 ...wherever...a just and heroic soul finds itself...by the new quality of character it shall put forth it shall abrogate that old condition, law, or school in which it stands...
    UGM 4.3 24 We travel into foreign parts...if possible, to get a glimpse of [the great man]. But we are put off with fortune instead.
    UGM 4.4 10 ...if there were any magnet that would point to the countries and houses where are the persons who are intrinsically rich and powerful, I would sell all and buy it, and put myself on the road to-day.
    UGM 4.7 2 ...there are persons who, in their character and actions, answer questions which I have not skill to put.
    UGM 4.7 3 One man answers some question which none of his contemporaries put, and is isolated.
    PNR 4.86 18 [Plato] put in all the past, without weariness...
    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;...
    SwM 4.111 27 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was written...to put science and the soul...at one again.
    SwM 4.117 10 Swedenborg first put the fact [of Correspondence] into a detached and scientific statement...
    SwM 4.118 5 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
    SwM 4.137 5 [Swedenborg] is like Michael Angelo, who, in his frescoes, put the cardinal who had offended him to roast under a mountain of devils;...
    MoS 4.158 3 ...to put any of the questions which touch mankind nearest,-- shall the young man aim at a leading part in law, in politics, in trade? It will not be pretended that a success in either of these kinds is quite coincident with what is best and inmost in his mind.
    MoS 4.158 10 Shall [the young man] then, cutting the stays that hold him fast to the social state, put out to sea with no guidance but his genius?
    MoS 4.173 21 I shall not take Sunday objections, made up on purpose to be put down.
    MoS 4.182 13 Even the doctrines dear to the hope of man...[the spiritualist' s] neighbors can not put the statement so that he shall affirm it.
    NMW 4.235 16 [Napoleon] put out all his strength.
    NMW 4.243 23 I have only to put some gold-lace on the coat of my virtuous republicans [said Napoleon] and they immediately become just what I wish them.
    GoW 4.267 21 ...in...actions that...put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.
    GoW 4.273 27 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...that he had put off a gay uniform for a fatigue dress...
    ET1 5.14 8 ...Montague, still talking with his back to the canvas, put up his hand and touched it...
    ET1 5.15 17 [Carlyle's] talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs...
    ET4 5.54 1 We say, in a regatta or yacht-race, that if the boats are anywhere nearly matched, it is the man that wins. Put the best sailing-master into either boat, and he will win.
    ET4 5.56 6 As [the Northmen] put out to sea again, the emperor [Charlemagne] gazed long after them...
    ET4 5.68 13 Clarendon says the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on him...
    ET5 5.82 5 In politics [the English] put blunt questions, which must be answered;...
    ET5 5.84 27 [The English] put the expense in the right place...
    ET5 5.86 9 ...the English can put more men into the rank, on the day of action, on the field of battle, than any other army.
    ET5 5.89 16 When Thor and his companions arrive at Utgard, he is told that nobody is permitted to remain here, unless he understand some art, and excel in it all other men. The same question is still put to the posterity of Thor.
    ET5 5.95 16 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass.
    ET6 5.105 22 [Englishmen] have all been trained in one severe school of manners, and never put off the harness.
    ET8 5.132 19 ...at Naples [young Englishmen] put St. Januarius's blood in an alembic;...
    ET8 5.133 27 No man can claim...to put upon the company with the loud statement of his crotchets or personalities.
    ET8 5.140 22 Half [the Englishmen's] strength they put not forth.
    ET9 5.149 22 [The English] tell you daily in London the story of the Frenchman and Englishman who quarrelled. Both were unwilling to fight, but their companions put them up to it;...
    ET9 5.149 25 ...at last it was agreed that [the Frenchman and the Englishman] should fight alone, in the dark, and with pistols: the candles were put out...
    ET10 5.154 6 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer. You shall find this sentiment, if not so frankly put, yet deeply implied in the novels and romances of the present century...
    ET10 5.164 25 Every whim of exaggerated egotism is put into stone and iron [in England]...
    ET10 5.165 2 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds...
    ET10 5.165 18 ...the proudest result of this creation [of English property rights] has been the great and refined forces it has put at the disposal of the private citizen.
    ET11 5.192 23 Under the present reign the perfect decorum of the Court is thought to have put a check on the gross vices of the [English] aristocracy;...
    ET13 5.215 19 The power of the religious sentiment [in England] put an end to human sacrifices, checked appetite...
    ET13 5.220 26 When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him...
    ET13 5.224 10 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...
    ET13 5.225 13 The chatter of French politics...and the noise of embarking emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind;...
    ET14 5.239 9 ...wherever the mind takes a step, it is to put itself at one with a larger class...
    ET14 5.255 25 Pope and his school wrote poetry fit to put round frosted cake.
    ET15 5.267 1 I was told of the dexterity of one of [the London Times's] reporters, who, finding himself...where the magistrates had strictly forbidden reporters, put his hands into his coat-pocket, and with pencil in one hand and tablet in the other, did his work.
    ET15 5.269 19 ...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title, late a member of Parliament, into any county jail in England...
    ET16 5.279 11 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked in and out and took again and again a fresh look at the uncanny stones [of Stonehenge]. The old sphinx put our petty differences of nationality out of sight.
    ET16 5.289 2 ...I put off my [English] friends with very inadequate details [about America], as best I could.
    ET17 5.297 15 [A London gentleman] said he once showed [Milton's watch] to Wordsworth, who took it in one hand, then drew out his own watch and held it up with the other, before the company, but no one making the expected remark, he put back his own in silence.
    ET18 5.301 15 [The English] have...put an end to human sacrifices in the East.
    F 6.14 9 ...it would be rather the speediest way of deciding the vote, to put the selectmen or the mayor and aldermen at the hay-scales.
    F 6.20 22 When the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris Wolf with steel...they put round his foot a limp band...and this held him;...
    F 6.41 21 In age we put out another sort of perspiration...
    F 6.43 3 Each of these men, if they were transparent, would seem to you... walking cities, and wherever you put them they would build one.
    Pow 6.55 20 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric and put in a stronger and bolder man...and the ships will...sail six hundred... miles further...
    Pow 6.63 14 Men expect from good whigs put into office by the respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with Mexico...than from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson...
    Pow 6.68 10 The rule for this whole class of [natural] agencies is,--all plus is good; only put it in the right place.
    Wth 6.86 14 Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago; but is put to better use.
    Wth 6.104 1 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital, the rates of insurance will indicate it;...
    Wth 6.104 12 An apple-tree, if you take out every day for a number of days a load of loam and put in a load of sand about its roots, will find it out.
    Wth 6.104 18 ...if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad...would not the dollar... presently find it out?
    Ctr 6.134 26 Our student must...be a master in his own speciality. But having this, he must put it behind him.
    Ctr 6.143 21 Landor said, I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
    Ctr 6.147 10 ...nature has put fruits apart in latitudes...
    Ctr 6.149 17 Fuller says that William, Earl of Nassau, won a subject from the King of Spain, every time he put off his hat.
    Ctr 6.154 11 Let these triflers [who scream and bewail] put us out of conceit with petty comforts.
    Bhr 6.184 25 ...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle] fancied...that all the talkers were brained and exhausted by the deoxygenated air; it spoiled the best persons; it put all on stilts.
    Wsp 6.202 11 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out in passions, in war...let us not be so nice that we cannot...doubt but there is a counter-statement as ponderous...which, being put, will make all square.
    Wsp 6.205 22 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly...
    Wsp 6.205 26 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which burst asunder. Wilt thou now, Eyvind, believe in Christ? asks Olaf, in excellent faith. Another argument was an adder put into the mouth of the reluctant disciple Raud, who refused to believe.
    Wsp 6.210 16 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce...that after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.
    Wsp 6.210 23 It is believed by well-dressed proprietors...that life is an affair to put somewhat between the upper and lower mandibles.
    Wsp 6.221 1 ...[a man] does not see...that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always;...method, and an even web; and what comes out, that was put in.
    Wsp 6.223 6 From these low external penalties the scale ascends. Next come the resentments, the fears which injustice calls out; then the false relations in which the offender is put to other men;...
    Wsp 6.235 24 [Benedict said] I could not stoop to be a circumstance, as they did who put their life into their fortune and their company.
    Wsp 6.237 4 [Benedict said] Is it a question whether to put [the sick woman] into the street?
    CbW 6.246 25 We have a debt...to those who have put life and fortune on the cast of an act of justice;...
    CbW 6.265 26 When the political economist reckons up the unproductive classes, he should put at the head this class of pitiers of themselves...
    Bty 6.284 23 [The collector] has got all snakes and lizards in his phials, but science...has put the man into a bottle.
    Bty 6.285 11 The king...conferred the sovereignty on [Tisso], saying, Prince, administer this empire for seven days; at the termination of that period I shall put thee to death.
    Bty 6.285 17 Thou hast ceased to take recreation, saying to thyself, In seven days I shall be put to death.
    Bty 6.295 12 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper...is put in portfolio...
    Bty 6.298 5 [Women]...teach [the most serious student] to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.
    Bty 6.298 22 ...short legs which constrain us to short, mincing steps are a kind of personal insult and contumely to the owner; and long stilts again put him at perpetual disadvantage...
    Bty 6.303 7 If I could put my hand on the North Star, would it be as beautiful?
    Ill 6.310 13 On arriving at what is called the Star-Chamber [in the Mammoth Cave], our lamps were taken from us by the guide and extinguished or put aside...
    Ill 6.325 3 It would be hard to put more mental and moral philosophy than the Persians have thrown into a sentence...
    SS 7.4 9 ...the sun and moon put [my new friend] out.
    SS 7.5 7 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting to...put diameters of the solar system and sidereal orbits between me and all souls...
    SS 7.8 26 ...the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs. The cooperation...is put upon us by the Genius of Life...
    SS 7.14 10 Put any company of people together with freedom for conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place into sets and pairs.
    SS 7.14 23 Put Stubbs and Coleridge, Quintilian and Aunt Miriam, into pairs, and you make them all wretched.
    SS 7.15 12 ...nature delights to put us between extreme antagonisms...
    Civ 7.22 16 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran and picked him up... and put him and his plough and his oxen into her apron...
    Civ 7.22 20 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran...and carried them to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort of a beetle is this that I found wriggling in the sand? But the mother said, Put it away, my child; we must begone out of this land, for these people will dwell in it.
    Civ 7.27 21 The farmer had much ill temper, laziness and shirking to endure from his hand-sawyers, until one day he bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall;...
    Civ 7.29 12 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second...
    Art2 7.48 1 ...all the advantages to which I have adverted are such as the artist did not consciously produce. He...put himself in the way to receive aid from some of them;...
    Art2 7.55 5 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle...and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills, and so make a cup of which the object of attention occupies the hollow area. The architect put benches in this, and enclosed the cup with a wall,--and behold a Coliseum!
    Elo1 7.75 23 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent. They know how...to put things into a practical shape...
    Elo1 7.76 8 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union, and he...takes the lead in the public mind over all these executive men, who, of course, are full of indignation to find one who has no tact or skill and knows he has none, put over them by means of this talking-power which they despise.
    Elo1 7.78 7 It was said of Sir William Pepperell...that, put him where you might, he commanded, and saw what he willed come to pass.
    Elo1 7.78 12 Julius Caesar said to Metellus, when that tribune interfered to hinder him from entering the Roman treasury, Young man, it is easier for me to put you to death than to say that I will;...
    Elo1 7.86 19 ...it is the certainty with which...the truth stares us in the face through all the disguises that are put upon it...that makes the interest of a court-room to the intelligent spectator.
    Elo1 7.90 15 Put the argument into a concrete shape...and the cause is half won.
    Elo1 7.97 12 Let [the man who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion] look on opposition as opportunity. He cannot be defeated or put down.
    DL 7.106 17 The first ride into the country...the first time the skates are put on...are new chapters of joy [to the child].
    DL 7.114 5 ...we desire at least to put no stint or limit on our parents, relatives, guests or dependents;...
    DL 7.117 1 ...[the reform that applies itself to the household] must...put domestic service on another foundation.
    Farm 7.153 7 Put [the farmer] on a new planet and he would know where to begin;...
    Farm 7.153 15 ...the drawing-room heroes put down beside [the farmer] would shrivel in his presence;...
    WD 7.160 11 What of this dapper caoutchouc and gutta-percha, which make...rain-proof coats for all climates, which teach us to defy the wet, and put every man on a footing with the beaver and the crocodile?
    Boks 7.214 9 ...books that...distribute things...with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again...
    Clbs 7.237 20 Odin comes to the threshold of the Jotun Wafthrudnir in disguise...is invited into the hall, and told that he cannot go out thence unless he can answer every question Wafthrudnir shall put.
    Clbs 7.245 10 There are those who have the instinct of a bat to fly against any lighted candle and put it out...
    Clbs 7.246 13 I knew a scholar...who said that he liked, in a barroom, to tell a few coon stories and put himself on a good footing with the company;...
    Clbs 7.250 5 There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time...
    Cour 7.260 23 ...the only title I can have to your help is when I have manfully put forth all the means I possess to keep me...
    Cour 7.265 14 Bodily pain is superficial, seated usually in the skin and the extremities, for the sake of giving us warning to put us on our guard;...
    Cour 7.273 17 There is a persuasion in the soul of man...that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him...
    Cour 7.274 25 Sacred courage indicates...that [a man]...will venture all to put in act the invisible thought in his mind.
    Cour 7.276 22 I do not wish to put myself or any man into a theatrical position...
    Suc 7.292 27 Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause...
    Suc 7.310 4 The painter Giotto...renewed art because he put more goodness into his heads.
    Suc 7.311 11 There is an external life, which is...taught to grasp all the boy can get, urging him to put himself forward...
    OA 7.333 5 ...[John Adams]...added, My son has more political prudence that any man that I know who has existed in my time; he never was put off his guard;...
    PI 8.37 9 There is no subject that does not belong to [the poet],--politics, economy, manufactures and stock-brokerage...only these things...displaced, or put in kitchen order, they are unpoetic.
    PI 8.61 11 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] Whilst I served King Arthur, I was well known by you, and by other barons, but because I have left the court, I am...put in forgetfulness...
    SA 8.82 26 An intellectual man...is instantly reinforced by being put into the company of scholars...
    SA 8.83 2 We think a man unable and desponding. It is only that he is misplaced. Put him with new companions, and they will find in him excellent qualities...
    SA 8.87 22 [The young European emigrant's] good and becoming clothes put him on thinking that he must behave like people who are so dressed;...
    SA 8.89 16 ...now and then we say things to our mates, or hear things from them, which seem to put it out of the power of the parties to be strangers again.
    Elo2 8.117 8 [The orator] is put together like a Waltham watch...
    Elo2 8.127 1 If [some men] are to put a thing in proper shape...their mind is a blank.
    Res 8.138 21 ...if you tell me...that man only rightly knows himself as far as he has experimented on things,--I am...put into a genial and working temper;...
    Res 8.141 9 Here in America are all the wealth of soil, of timber, of mines and of the sea, put into the possession of a people who wield all these wonderful machines...
    Res 8.144 8 The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild the road. Many men stepped forward, searched in the water, found the hidden rails, laid the track, put the disabled engine together and continued their journey.
    Comc 8.170 14 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun...of the gay Rameau of Diderot, who believes...that the sole end of art, virtue and poetry is to put something for mastication between the upper and lower mandibles.
    QO 8.175 1 Old and new put their stamp to everything in Nature.
    QO 8.197 8 Our best thought came from others. We heard in their words a deeper sense than the speakers put into them...
    PC 8.231 3 We wish to put the ideal rules into practice...
    Insp 8.275 2 Like bees, [the artists] must put their lives into the sting they give.
    Insp 8.288 27 I envy the abstraction of some scholars I have known, who could sit on a curbstone in State Street, put up their back, and solve their problem.
    Insp 8.293 27 ...it is not [the fact] which signifies, but the use we put it to...
    Insp 8.296 20 ...I can never remember the circumstances to which I owe [a generalization], so as to repeat the experiment or put myself in the conditions...
    Imtl 8.326 18 ...to keep the body still more sacredly safe for resurrection, it was put into the walls of the church;...
    Imtl 8.333 17 Here is this wonderful thought. But whence came it? Who put it in the mind?
    Dem1 10.20 26 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the steam battery, so fatal as to put an end to war by the threat of universal murder;...are of this kind.
    Aris 10.34 27 We likewise put faith in Democracy;...
    Aris 10.50 11 ...we venture to put any man in any place.
    Aris 10.51 4 ...if [Will] is not in you, you had better not put yourself in places where not to have it is to be a public enemy.
    PerF 10.75 5 [The farmer] put his days into carting from the distant swamp the mountain of muck which has been trundled about until it now makes the cover of fruitful soil.
    PerF 10.82 10 Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people in gay or mournful or martial mood.
    Chr2 10.109 4 ...when once it is perceived that the English missionaries in India put obstacles in the way of schools...it is seen at once how wide of Christ is English Christianity.
    Chr2 10.114 10 Men will learn to put back the emphasis peremptorily on pure morals...
    Chr2 10.116 6 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church. Mankind cannot long suffer this loss, and the office of this age is to put all these writings on the eternal footing of equality of origin in the instincts of the human mind.
    Edc1 10.125 18 ...the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Edc1 10.128 6 Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions and properties, which all put new restraints on the young inhabitant.
    Edc1 10.142 26 Do not spare to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday and experiment;...
    Edc1 10.145 11 ...[the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
    Edc1 10.155 16 These creatures [in nature] have no value for their time, and [the naturalist] must put as low a rate on his.
    Edc1 10.158 2 ...if one [pupil] has brought in a Plutarch or Shakspeare or Don Quixote or Goldsmith or any other good book, and understands what he reads, put him at once at the head of the class.
    Edc1 10.159 9 Consent yourself to be an organ of your highest thought, and lo! suddenly you put all men in your debt...
    Supl 10.172 19 At the Bank of England they put a scrap of paper that is worth a million pounds sterling into the hands of the visitor to touch.
    Supl 10.175 17 Sow grain, and it does not come up; put lime into the soil and try again, and this time [Nature] says yea.
    SovE 10.196 17 ...when we have conversed with navigators who know the coast, we may begin to put out an oar and trim a sail.
    SovE 10.203 1 Mere morality means-not put into a personal master of morals.
    SovE 10.213 20 SovE 10.213 27 A man who has accustomed himself...to pierce to the principle and moral law, and everywhere to find that,-has put himself out of the reach of all skepticism;...
    Prch 10.227 27 Always put the best interpretation on a tenet.
    Prch 10.228 21 I fear that what is called religion, but is perhaps pew-holding, not obeys but conceals the moral sentiment. I put it to this simple test: Is a rich rogue made to feel his roguery among divines or literary men? No? Then 't is rogue again under the cassock.
    Prch 10.236 22 That should be the use of the Sabbath,-to...put us in possession of ourselves once more...
    MoL 10.246 14 Napoleon knows the art of war, but should not be put on picket duty.
    MoL 10.256 6 Very little reliance must be put on the common stories that circulate of this great senator's or that great barrister's learning...
    Schr 10.267 23 All the best of this [busy] class, all who have any insight or generosity of spirit are frequently disgusted, and fain to put it behind them.
    Schr 10.283 21 [Mother-wit] does not put forth organs, it rests in presence...
    Plu 10.295 17 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast.
    LLNE 10.347 1 ...being asked, Well, Mr. Owen, who is your disciple? How many men are there possessed of your views who will remain after you are gone to put them in practice? Not one, was his reply.
    LLNE 10.348 1 Fourier...has put men under the obligation which a generous mind always confers...
    LLNE 10.352 11 [Fourier] treats man as...something that may be put up or down...at the will of the leader;...
    LLNE 10.366 7 It was very gently said [at Brook Farm] that people on whom beforehand all persons would put the utmost reliance were not responsible.
    MMEm 10.419 4 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked to Captain Dexter's. Sick. Promised never to put that ring on.
    MMEm 10.425 13 The wonderful inhabitant of the building to which unknown ages were the mechanics, is left out [of Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology] as to that part where the Creator had put his own lighted candle...
    Thor 10.458 9 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.
    Thor 10.462 18 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau]...proceeded to...select the sound ones. But finding this took time, he said, I think if you put them all into water the good ones will sink;...
    Thor 10.479 6 The habit of a realist to find things the reverse of their appearance inclined [Thoreau] to put every statement in a paradox.
    Thor 10.482 24 I put on some hemlock-boughs, and the rich salt crackling of their leaves was like mustard to the ear...
    Carl 10.497 4 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
    HDC 11.51 25 The questions which the Indians put [to John Eliot] betray their reason and their ignorance.
    HDC 11.59 18 A nameless Wampanoag who was put to death by the Mohicans, after cruel tortures, was asked by his butchers, during the torture, how he liked the war?-he said, he found it as sweet as sugar was to Englishmen.
    HDC 11.63 23 ...nothing would satisfy [the country people] but that the governor must be bound in chains or cords, and put in a more secure place...
    HDC 11.67 10 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was soon uneasy that I had used the word, lest some would put a wrong meaning thereupon.
    HDC 11.81 19 It was put to the town of Concord, in October, 1776, by the Legislature, whether the existing house of representatives should enact a constitution for the State?
    LVB 11.91 19 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting to put this active nation [the Cherokees] into carts and boats, and to drag them over mountains and rivers...
    LVB 11.94 9 ...[the question of currency and trade] is the chirping of grasshoppers beside the immortal question...whether all the attributes of reason, of civility, of justice, and even of mercy, shall be put off by the American people...
    LVB 11.95 5 Our counsellors and old statesmen here say that ten years ago they would have staked their lives on the affirmation that the proposed Indian measures could not be executed; that the unanimous country would put them down.
    EWI 11.115 3 Some American captains left the shore and put to sea [at the announcement of emancipation in the West Indies]...
    EWI 11.139 19 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely, to put every man on his merits...
    War 11.156 11 Put [the man concerned with pugnacity] into a circle of cultivated men...and he would be dumb and unhappy...
    War 11.156 27 Not only the moral sentiment, but trade, learning and whatever makes intercourse, conspire to put [war] down.
    War 11.157 2 Wherever there is no property, the people will put on the knapsack for bread;...
    War 11.163 6 ...it is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas...
    War 11.167 17 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty. There are cases frequently put by the curious,-moral problems...
    FSLC 11.181 2 The only haste in Boston, after the rescue of Shadrach, last February, was, who should first put his name on the list of volunteers in aid of the marshal.
    FSLC 11.183 2 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law]...showed...that the resolutions of public bodies, or the pledges never so often given and put on record of public men, will not bind them.
    FSLC 11.200 15 The hands that put the chain on the slave are in that moment manacled.
    FSLC 11.207 12 No proclamations will put [Slavery] down.
    FSLC 11.212 7 The behavior of Boston was the reverse of what it should have been: it was supple and officious, and it put itself into the base attitude of pander to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLN 11.234 5 I fear there is no reliance to be put on any kind or form of covenant...
    FSLN 11.241 18 We should not forgive...the Bench, if it put itself on the side of the culprit;...
    FSLN 11.243 25 ...I put it to every noble and generous spirit...that not so is our learning...to be declared.
    AKan 11.259 12 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...illustrating the fatal effects of a false position to...put the best people always at a disadvantage;...
    JBB 11.270 23 [John Brown] believed in his ideas to that extent that he existed to put them all into action;...
    TPar 11.284 2 Here comes Parker, the Orson of parsons, a man/ Whom the Church undertook to put under her ban.-/
    ACiv 11.299 10 The times put this question, Why cannot the best civilization be extended over the whole country...
    ACiv 11.306 6 We fancy that the endless debate...has brought the free states to some conviction...that by concert or by might we must put an end to [slavery].
    EPro 11.325 24 It was well to delay the steamers at the wharves until this edict [the Emancipation Proclamation] could be put on board.
    HCom 11.341 21 It is not the Government, but the War, that has...sifted out the pedants, put in the new and vigorous blood.
    SMC 11.375 2 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay. But those also who went through the same fields, and returned alive, put just as much at hazard as those who died...
    EdAd 11.388 14 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully...
    Wom 11.426 6 ...there are always a certain number of passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.
    SHC 11.429 10 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together, to show you the ground...and to put it at your disposition.
    Humb 11.457 8 Humboldt was one of those wonders of the world...who appear from time to time...a universal man, not only possessed of great particular talents, but they were symmetrical, his parts were well put together.
    Humb 11.458 1 You could not put [Humboldt] on any sea or shore but his instant recollection of every other sea or shore illuminated this.
    CPL 11.500 24 In a private letter to a lady, [Thoreau] writes, Do you read any noble verses? For my part, they have been the only things I remembered...when all things else were blurred and defaced. All things have put on mourning but they...
    CPL 11.505 6 [Montesquieu writes] Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against the disgusts of life, never having had a chagrin which an hour of reading has not put to flight.
    CPL 11.508 9 ...read proudly; put the duty of being read invariably on the author.
    FRep 11.513 22 As if the earth, water, gases, lightning and caloric had not a million energies, the discovery of any one of which could...put an end to war by the exterminating forces man can apply.
    FRep 11.514 11 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that he must often face and resist the party, and abide by his resistance, and put them in fear;...
    FRep 11.517 3 The wilder the paradox, the more sure is Punch to put it in the pillory.
    FRep 11.531 6 If we never put on the liberty-cap until we were freemen by love and self-denial, the liberty-cap would mean something.
    FRep 11.538 16 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...
    FRep 11.539 9 Let the good citizen perform the duties put on him here and now.
    PLT 12.5 22 Every object in Nature is a word to signify some fact in the mind. But when that fact is not yet put into English words...they are by no means unimpressive.
    PLT 12.27 18 There is no permanent wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company or other favorable conditions, become wise...
    PLT 12.33 1 A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it...
    PLT 12.41 20 [A perception] is impatient to put on its sandals and be gone on its errand...
    II 12.65 9 We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain, which has not yet put forth organs...
    II 12.68 22 ...what is Inspiration? It is this Instinct, whose normal state is passive, at last put in action.
    II 12.86 23 See the poor flies, lately so wanton, now fixed to the wall or the tree, exhausted and presently blown away. Men likewise, they put their lives into their deed.
    Mem 12.97 23 A knife with a good spring...a watch, the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
    Mem 12.107 26 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was...but...a possession of the intellect. Then...we put the onus of being remembered on the object...
    CInt 12.113 18 You shall not put up in your Academy the statue of Caesar or Pompey...
    CInt 12.117 5 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear;...
    CInt 12.130 2 My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the heart of Nature.
    CInt 12.131 8 ...'t is very certain that an examination is yonder before us and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived, that every scholar is to be put fairly on his own powers...
    CL 12.155 25 I [Linnaeus] saw [Lap] men more than seventy years old put their heel on their own neck, without any exertion.
    CL 12.163 11 [Conversation with Nature] is the lesson we were put hither to learn.
    Bost 12.194 21 ...how much more attractive and true that this [Christian] piety should be the central trait and the stern virtues follow than that Stoicism should face the gods and put Jove on his defence.
    MAng1 12.231 26 Polini put an end to all the various projects of repairs [to St. Peter's dome], by the satisfying sentence: The cupola does not start, and if it should start, nothing can be done but to pull it down.
    MAng1 12.238 12 ...just here [said Vasari's servant to Michelangelo], before your door, is a spot of soft mud, and [the candles] will stand upright in it very well, and there I will light them all. Put them down, then, returned Michael, since you shall not make a bonfire at my gate.
    ACri 12.289 27 Goethe...professed to point his guest to his...Acherontian Bag, in which, he said, he put all his dire hints and images...
    MLit 12.327 14 In these days and in this country...it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...
    WSL 12.339 18 Montaigne assigns as a reason for his license of speech that he is tired of seeing his Essays on the work-tables of ladies, and he is determined they shall for the future put them out of sight.
    WSL 12.340 10 ...we...have no wish...to put an argument in the mouth of [Landor's] critics.
    Pray 12.352 16 When I go to visit my friends, I must put on my best garments...
    PPr 12.389 2 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing; with his expedient for expressing those unproven opinions which he entertains but will not endorse, by summoning one of his men of straw from the cell,-and the respectable Sauerteig...says what is put into his mouth, and disappears.
    Let 12.393 18 When children come into the library, we put the inkstand and the watch on the high shelf...
    Trag 12.411 2 A panic such as frequently in ancient or savage nations put a troop or an army to flight without an enemy; a fear of ghosts...are no tragedy...

putat, v. (1)

    SwM 4.113 22 Ex aurique putat micis consistere posse/ Aurum, et de terris terram concrescere parvis;/...

putrefaction, n. (1)

    PNR 4.82 23 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His perception of the generation of contraries, of death out of life and life out of death,--that law by which, in nature...putrefaction and cholera are only signals of a new creation;...

putrid, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.143 5 Our planet, before the age of written history, had its races of savages, like...the animalcules that wiggle and bite in a drop of putrid water.

putridity, n. (1)

    MR 1.238 8 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as... provisions by mould, putridity, or vermin;...

puts, v. (101)

    Nat 1.58 9 [Religion] puts an affront upon nature.
    Nat 1.64 6 ...spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us...
    Nat 1.64 7 ...the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old.
    AmS 1.104 6 ...fear is a thing which a scholar by his very function puts behind him.
    DSA 1.122 15 He who puts off impurity, thereby puts on purity.
    DSA 1.122 16 He who puts off impurity, thereby puts on purity.
    MN 1.224 7 Pusillanimity and fear [the soul] refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who puts on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.
    MR 1.231 12 ...nothing is left [the young man] but to begin the world anew, as he does who puts the spade into the ground for food.
    MR 1.232 25 [The general system of our trade] is not that which a man... meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour of love and aspiration; but rather what he then puts out of sight...
    LT 1.261 2 I wish to consider well this affirmative side [Reform]...which encroaches on [Conservatism] every day, puts it out of countenance...
    Con 1.299 6 Conservatism never puts the foot forward;...
    Con 1.317 26 ...[man] takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore...
    Con 1.323 3 A state of war or anarchy...is so far valuable that it puts every man on trial.
    SR 2.89 2 It is only as a man puts off all foreign support...that I see him to be strong...
    Comp 2.98 18 If the gatherer gathers too much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest;...
    Comp 2.98 24 There is always some levelling circumstance that puts down the overbearing...substantially on the same ground with all others.
    Comp 2.99 8 Thus [Nature]...takes the boar out and puts the lamb in...
    Lov1 2.182 7 ...by this love [of beauty] extinguishing the base affection, as the sun puts out fire by shining on the hearth, [the lovers] become pure and hallowed.
    Lov1 2.186 2 [The soul]...at last...puts on the harness and aspires to vast and universal aims.
    Fdsp 2.197 23 Is it not that the soul puts forth friends as the tree puts forth leaves...
    Fdsp 2.197 24 Is it not that the soul puts forth friends as the tree puts forth leaves...
    Prd1 2.237 3 ...frankness...puts the parties on a convenient footing...
    Cir 2.304 25 The man finishes his story...how it puts a new face on all things!
    Pt1 3.20 14 The poet...puts eyes and a tongue into every dumb and inanimate object.
    Pt1 3.32 25 That also is the best success in conversation, the magic of liberty, which puts the world like a ball in our hands.
    Exp 3.52 27 Temperament puts all divinity to rout.
    Chr1 3.100 13 ...[the uncivil, unavailable man] puts America and Europe in the wrong...
    Chr1 3.107 19 ...however pertly our sermons and disciplines would...teach that the laws fashion the citizen, [Nature] goes her own gait and puts the wisest in the wrong.
    Mrs1 3.126 13 ...the politics of this country, and the trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers, who have...a broad sympathy which puts them in fellowship with crowds...
    Mrs1 3.139 11 The person who...converses with heat, puts whole drawing-rooms to flight.
    Gts 3.164 7 After you have served [a magnanimous person] he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.
    NER 3.271 15 ...[every man] he puts himself on the side of his enemies...
    PPh 4.42 13 ...this grasping inventor [Plato] puts all nations under contribution.
    SwM 4.108 2 Manifestly, at the end of the spine, Nature puts out smaller spines, as arms;...
    SwM 4.108 6 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine...
    MoS 4.153 25 My neighbor, a jolly farmer, in the tavern bar-room, thinks that the use of money is sure and speedy spending. For his part, he says, he puts his down his neck and gets the good of it.
    ShP 4.197 6 [The poet] knows the sparkle of the true stone, and puts it in high place, wherever he finds it.
    ET4 5.47 21 It is race, is it not, that puts the hundred millions of India under the dominion of a remote island in the north of Europe?
    ET4 5.59 4 The sight of a tent-cord or a cloak-string puts [Norsemen] on hanging somebody...
    ET12 5.207 27 ...[English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills... and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture.
    ET13 5.231 3 Electricity cannot be made fast...it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret, which perplexes [the English] and puts them out.
    ET14 5.253 11 ...English science puts humanity to the door.
    ET14 5.254 26 ...having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, [the English] are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will sweep their system away. The artists say, Nature puts them out; the scholars have become unideal.
    ET18 5.301 10 [The foreign policy of England] has a principal regard to the interest of trade, checked however by the aristocratic bias of the ambassador, which usually puts him in sympathy with the continental Courts.
    ET18 5.302 8 ...this perfunctory hospitality puts no sweetness into [Englishmen's] unaccommodating manners...
    F 6.39 7 ...the world throws its life into a hero or a shepherd, and puts him where he is wanted.
    F 6.41 15 Each creature puts forth from itself its own condition and sphere...
    Ctr 6.137 5 Culture...puts [a man] among his equals and superiors...
    Bhr 6.189 5 Nature forever puts a premium on reality.
    Wsp 6.229 10 When the parent...puts them off with a traditional or a hypocritical answer, the children perceive that it is traditional or hypocritical.
    Wsp 6.233 1 ...[the will] penetrates the body and puts it in a state of activity which repels all hurtful influences;...
    CbW 6.245 23 The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter...
    CbW 6.247 13 There are other measures of self-respect for a man than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
    CbW 6.260 17 ...what we ask daily, is to be conventional. Supply, most kind gods! this defect...in my fortunes, which puts me a little out of the ring...
    CbW 6.265 20 ...hope puts us in a working mood...
    SS 7.12 17 Heat puts you in right relation with magazines of facts.
    Civ 7.31 1 ...a wise government puts fines and penalties on pleasant vices.
    Elo1 7.80 20 To talk of an overpowering mind rouses the same jealousy and defiance which one may observe round a table where anybody is recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism. Each auditor puts a final stroke to the discourse by exclaiming, Can he mesmerize me?
    DL 7.104 4 All day, between his three or four sleeps, [the nestler]...puts on his faces of importance;...
    Farm 7.141 9 He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside... makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.
    Farm 7.146 27 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has been spared, and every such section has been long occupied. But the farmer manages to procure wood from far, puts up a rail-fence, and at once the seeds sprout and the oaks rise.
    Boks 7.188 2 That book is good/ Which puts me in a working mood./
    Clbs 7.238 1 At last [Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer...
    Clbs 7.247 26 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it...puts pedantry and business to the door.
    Cour 7.256 6 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men.
    Cour 7.268 26 The judge puts his mind to the tangle of contradictions in the case...and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.
    Suc 7.295 19 ...talent confines, but the central life puts us in relation to all.
    OA 7.316 25 Nature...now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters.
    OA 7.319 5 ...the surest poison is time. This cup which Nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue...
    PI 8.10 18 We use semblances of logic until experience puts us in possession of real logic.
    PI 8.44 5 This force of representation so plants [the poet's] figures before him that he...puts words in their mouth such as they should have spoken...
    PI 8.52 23 Let Poetry then pass, if it will, into music and rhyme. That is the form which itself puts on.
    SA 8.87 20 When the young European emigrant, after a summer's labor, puts on for the first time a new coat, he puts on much more.
    SA 8.87 21 When the young European emigrant, after a summer's labor, puts on for the first time a new coat, he puts on much more.
    Res 8.138 1 A low, hopeless spirit puts out the eyes;...
    Res 8.145 11 The boat is full of water, and resists all your strength to drag it ashore and empty it. The fisherman looks about him, puts a round stick of wood underneath, and it rolls as on wheels at once.
    Res 8.146 19 What a new face courage puts on everything!
    Res 8.146 21 A determined man...puts a stop to defeat...
    Grts 8.317 24 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it; and this again casts a shadow in the path of the electric light. So does intellect when brought into the presence of character; character puts out that light.
    Imtl 8.333 3 All laughter at man...puts us out of good activity.
    Imtl 8.348 19 The youth puts off the illusions of the child...
    Imtl 8.348 20 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth;...
    Imtl 8.348 22 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood...
    Aris 10.43 7 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers.
    PerF 10.74 1 ...each of a thousand petty accidents puts [man] to death every day...
    Chr2 10.94 12 Every hour puts the individual in a position where his wishes aim at something which the sentiment of duty forbids him to seek.
    Chr2 10.95 18 [The moral sentiment] puts us in place.
    Chr2 10.95 19 [The moral sentiment] puts us at the heart of Nature, where we belong...
    Schr 10.262 20 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly overshone by a sympathy of blessing. Beauty...comes in and puts a new face on the world.
    EWI 11.136 4 Lord Chancellor Northington is the author of the famous sentence, As soon as any man puts his foot on English ground, he becomes free.
    War 11.173 16 ...another age comes...and a man puts himself under the dominion of principles.
    ACiv 11.304 6 [Emancipation] is a progressive policy, puts the whole people in healthy, productive, amiable position...
    ACiv 11.304 7 [Emancipation] is a progressive policy...puts every man in the South in just and natural relations with every man in the North...
    ACiv 11.308 21 ...this action [emancipation]...rids the world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery], the cause of war and ruin to nations. This measure at once puts all parties right.
    Wom 11.420 21 If new power is here, of a character...which puts me and all the rest in the wrong...you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.
    FRep 11.523 9 ...[Americans...say, One vote can do no harm! and vote for something which they do not approve, because their party or set votes for it. Of course this puts them in the power of any party having a steady interest to promote which does not conflict manifestly with the pecuniary interest of the voters.
    PLT 12.14 17 ...the metaphysician, dealing as it were with the mathematics of the mind, puts himself out of the way of inspiration;...
    PLT 12.15 6 First I wish to speak of the excellence of that element [Intellect], and the great auguries that come from it, notwithstanding the impediments which our sensual civilization puts in the way.
    PLT 12.20 7 Not only man puts things in a row, but things below in a row.
    PLT 12.59 19 ...wit...puts together what belongs together...
    Trag 12.413 13 A man should try Time, and his face should wear the expression of a just judge...who puts Nature and fortune on their merits...

putting, v. (25)

    LE 1.173 17 ...[the scholar] must possess [the world] by putting himself into harmony with the constitution of things.
    LE 1.179 2 Napoleon...putting aside the guns of those nearest him, walked up to a soldier, took his gun, and himself went through the motions in the French mode.
    LT 1.271 9 The conscience of the Age demonstrates itself in this effort to raise the life of man by putting it in harmony with his idea of the Beautiful and the Just.
    Hist 2.32 26 In splendid variety these changes come, all putting questions to the human spirit.
    SR 2.78 16 We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company, instead of...putting them once more in communication with their own reason.
    Comp 2.125 11 ...such should be the outward biography of man in time, a putting off of dead circumstances day by day...
    Lov1 2.174 13 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis or comparison and putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years...
    Fdsp 2.203 15 No man would think...of putting [a man I knew] off with any chat of markets...
    GoW 4.274 17 [Goethe] writes in the plainest and lowest tone...putting ever a thing for a word.
    ET4 5.70 13 [The English] eat and drink, and live jolly in the open air, putting a bar of solid sleep between day and day.
    ET10 5.170 25 A civility of trifles...takes place [in England], and the putting as many impediments as we can between the man and his objects.
    ET12 5.202 26 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, they called on Lord Eldon. Instead of a hundred pounds, he surprised them by putting down his name for three thousand pounds.
    Ctr 6.133 15 Eminent spiritualists shall have an incapacity of putting their act or word aloof from them...
    Civ 7.30 24 If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by putting our works in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also evil agents...
    WD 7.162 13 ...German, Chinese, Turk, Russ and Kanaka were putting out to sea, and intermarrying race with race;...
    Grts 8.304 9 A sensible man...is content with putting his fact or theme simply on its ground.
    Edc1 10.138 21 I like...boys...putting nobody on his guard, but seeing the inside of the show...
    SlHr 10.441 24 ...a plain way [Samuel Hoar] had of putting his statement with all his might...
    HDC 11.81 13 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas. But they found no countenance here. The same people who had been active in a County Convention to consider grievances, condemned the rebellion, and joined the authorities in putting it down.
    JBB 11.270 24 ...[John Brown] said he did not believe in moral suasion, he believed in putting the thing through.
    EPro 11.320 10 The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves right.
    EdAd 11.386 23 ...who can see the continent...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
    ChiE 11.473 4 [Confucius's] rare perception appears in...his unerring insight,-putting always the blame of our misfortunes on ourselves;...
    Let 12.395 9 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood...to propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!-so heedless is our correspondent of putting all the dough into one pan, and all the leaven into another.
    Trag 12.416 21 The intellect is a consoler, which delights in detaching or putting an interval between a man and his fortune...

puzzle, n. (3)

    AmS 1.112 2 ...there is no trifle, there is no puzzle...
    Plu 10.317 13 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of ignorance, which, 't is a favorable opinion to hope that the Almighty will sometime wink at; that our souls may be with these philosophers together in the same state of bliss. The puzzle in the worthy translator's mind between his theology and his reason well reappears in the puzzle of his sentence.
    Plu 10.317 15 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of ignorance, which, 't is a favorable opinion to hope that the Almighty will sometime wink at; that our souls may be with these philosophers together in the same state of bliss. The puzzle in the worthy translator's mind between his theology and his reason well reappears in the puzzle of his sentence.

puzzle, v. (2)

    Mrs1 3.155 21 Minerva said...there was no one person or action among [men] which would not puzzle her owl...to know whether it was fundamentally bad or good.
    ET4 5.50 3 It need not puzzle us that Malay and Papuan...should mix...

puzzled, adj. (2)

    Exp 3.43 16 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Little man, least of all,/ Among the legs of his guardians tall,/ Walked about with puzzled look:--/...
    PPo 8.260 1 And since round lines are drawn/ My darling's lips about,/ The very Moon looks puzzled on,/ And hesitates in doubt/ If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth/ Be not her true way to the South./

puzzled, v. (6)

    SL 2.162 5 ...the eye of the beholder is puzzled...
    Gts 3.159 13 If at any time it comes into my head that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give...
    F 6.42 23 ...in each town there is some man who is...an explanation of the... ways of living and society of that town. If you do not chance to meet him, all that you see will leave you a little puzzled; if you see him it will become plain.
    Elo1 7.87 10 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court..tried words...like a schoolmaster puzzled by a hard sum...
    Aris 10.57 2 The wise man takes all for granted until he sees the parallelism of that which puzzled him with his own view.
    FRep 11.520 9 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;...

puzzles, n. (1)

    PI 8.51 18 Time...is now dominant and...looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semi-somnous on a pyramid... making puzzles of Titanian erections...

Pylades, n. (1)

    Tran 1.337 3 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would lie and deceive, as Pylades when he personated Orestes;...

Pym, John, n. (3)

    ShP 4.203 15 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Charles Cotton, John Pym...
    Ctr 6.152 26 Mr. Pitt, like Mr. Pym, thought the title of Mister good against any king in Europe.
    MMEm 10.398 21 Lucy Percy...the friend of Strafford and of Pym, is thus described by Sir Toby Matthews.

pyramid, n. (9)

    Wth 6.83 25 What oldest star the fame can save/ Of races perishing to pave/ The planet with a floor of lime?/ Dust is their pyramid and mole:/...
    SS 7.13 1 ...[animal spirits'] feats are like the structure of a pyramid.
    Art2 7.44 19 Just as much better as is the polished statue of dazzling marble than the clay model, or as much more impressive as is the granite cathedral or pyramid than the ground-plan or profile of them on paper, so much more beauty owe they to Nature than to Art.
    DL 7.104 15 Out of blocks, thread-spools, cards and checkers, [the child] will build his pyramid...
    PI 8.51 17 Time...is now dominant and...looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semi-somnous on a pyramid...
    Imtl 8.325 6 Every [Egyptian] palace was a door to a pyramid...
    Dem1 10.11 2 Belzoni describes the three marks which led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh.
    ACri 12.297 24 ...I think of [Carlyle] when I read the famous inscription on the pyramid, I King Saib built this pyramid. I, when I had built it, covered it with satin. Let him who cometh after me, and says he is equal to me, cover it with mats.
    ACri 12.297 25 ...I think of [Carlyle] when I read the famous inscription on the pyramid, I King Saib built this pyramid. I, when I had built it, covered it with satin. Let him who cometh after me, and says he is equal to me, cover it with mats.

pyramidaire, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.325 7 Every [Egyptian] palace was a door to a pyramid: a king or rich man was a pyramidaire.

Pyramids, Egypt, n. (2)

    PPo 8.242 1 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Karun (the Persian Croesus)...who, with all his treasures, lies buried not far from the Pyramids...
    Imtl 8.335 7 The mind delights in immense time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long...and here are the Pyramids, which have as many thousands [of years], and cromlechs and earth-mounds much older than these.

pyramids, n. (5)

    LE 1.159 26 Say to such doctors, We are thankful to you, as we are...to the pyramids;...
    Hist 2.11 12 Belzoni digs and measures in the mummy-pits and pyramids of Thebes until he can see the end of the difference between the monstrous work and himself.
    UGM 4.5 2 The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets. He fancies he has a new article. If he go to the factory, he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes which are found on the interior walls of the pyramids of Thebes.
    NMW 4.246 12 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...drawing up his army for battle in sight of the Pyramids, and saying to his troops, From the tops of those pyramids, forty centuries look down on you;...
    ET16 5.279 4 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance... which leaves its own Stonehenge...to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.

Pyramids, n. (5)

    Nat 1.53 13 In the strength of his constancy, the Pyramids seem to [Shakspeare] recent and transitory.
    YA 1.392 21 ...it is one thing to visit the Pyramids, and another to wish to live there.
    Hist 2.11 6 ...all curiosity respecting the Pyramids...is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then...
    Hist 2.29 4 The fact teaches [the child]...how the Pyramids were built...
    NMW 4.246 11 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...drawing up his army for battle in sight of the Pyramids...

pyrotechny, n. (1)

    ShP 4.217 21 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind. Is it not as if one should have...the comets given into his hand...and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night, and advertise in all towns, Very superior pyrotechny this evening?

Pyrrhonism, n. (2)

    SL 2.138 8 One sees very well how Pyrrhonism grew up.
    Cir 2.317 21 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you have arrived at a fine Pyrrhonism...

Pyrrhus, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.384 21 ...we cannot stave off the ulterior question,-the famous question of Cineas to Pyrrhus,-the WHERE TO of all this [American] power and population...

Pythagoras, Life of [Jambli (1)

    Boks 7.203 18 Jamblichus's Life of Pythagoras works more directly on the will than the others [of the Platonists];...

Pythagoras, n. (18)

    Nat 1.34 16 [The relation between mind and matter] is the standing problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of every fine genius since the world began; from the era of the Egyptians...to that of Pythagoras...
    SR 2.57 27 Pythagoras was misunderstood...
    Pt1 3.32 16 All the value which attaches to Pythagoras...is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
    Pt1 3.36 23 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me, and perchance to themselves appear upright men; and whether I appear as a man to all eyes. The Brahmins and Pythagoras propounded the same question...
    NER 3.280 13 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws...
    PPh 4.42 20 Plato absorbed the learning of his time...and finding himself still capable of a larger synthesis...he travelled into Italy, to gain what Pythagoras had for him;...
    PNR 4.89 3 [Plato] did not, like Pythagoras, break himself with an institution.
    F 6.18 9 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not...a new kind of men, but that Thales... Pythagoras...had anticipated them;...
    Ctr 6.156 6 In the morning,--solitude; said Pythagoras;...
    Boks 7.203 20 ...Pythagoras was eminently a practical person...
    Clbs 7.236 1 ...in the hagiology of each nation, the lawgiver was in each case some man...whose sympathy brought him face to face with the extremes of society. Jesus, Menu, the first Buddhist, Mahomet, Zertusht, Pythagoras, are examples.
    Insp 8.286 23 ...eminently thoughtful men, from the time of Pythagoras down, have insisted on an hour of solitude every day...
    Chr2 10.111 21 Pythagoras, Socrates...these speak originally;...
    Edc1 10.131 25 ...[man] is to be the stalwart...Pythagoras...of the physic, metaphysic and ethics of the design of the world.
    MoL 10.249 14 ...let us have masculine and divine men, formidable lawgivers, Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle...
    Plu 10.297 22 [Plutarch] is...not the founder of any sect or community, like Pythagoras or Zeno;...
    II 12.80 10 It was the saying of Pythagoras, Remember to be sober, and to be disposed to believe; for these are the nerves of wisdom.
    Pray 12.350 9 Pythagoras said that the time when men were honestest is when they present themselves before the gods.

Pythagoras's, n. (1)

    PI 8.12 14 A figurative statement...is remembered and repeated. How often has a phrase of this kind made a reputation. Pythagoras's Golden Sayings were such...

Pythagorean, adj. (2)

    LE 1.176 10 Let us sit with our hands on our mouths, a long, austere, Pythagorean lustrum.
    FRO1 11.480 10 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands, and the relations of the Pythagorean disciples.

Pytheas, n. (4)

    Civ 7.20 22 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement...
    MoL 10.253 22 Pytheas of Aegina was victor in the Pancratium of the boys...
    MoL 10.254 1 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise, and inquired what was the price of a poem. Pindar replied that he should give him one talent, about a thousand dollars of our money. A talent! cried Pytheas, why, for so much money I can erect a statue of bronze in the temple.
    MoL 10.254 9 ...now not only all the statues of bronze in the temples of Aegina are destroyed, but...the very walls of the city are utterly gone; whilst the ode of Pindar, in praise of Pytheas, remains entire.

Pythian Oracle, n. (1)

    Plu 10.304 10 In treating of the style of the Pythian Oracle, [Plutarch] says:-Do you not observe, some one will say, what a grace there is in Sappho's measures...

Pythoness, n. (1)

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

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