Quack to Questions
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
quack, adj. (1)
Edc1 10.155 3 ...the correction of this quack practice
is to import into
Education the wisdom of life.
quack, n. (1)
F 6.45 24 Such an one [a strong, astringent, billious
nature] has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him
first...then a quack...
quackery, n. (2)
Tran 1.349 15 ...the philanthropies and charities have a
certain air of
quackery.
ET1 5.12 3 He (Coleridge) knew all about Unitarianism
perfectly well, because he had once been a Unitarian and knew what
quackery it was.
quacks, n. (1)
Exp 3.66 12 You who see the artist, the orator, the
poet, too near...and
pronounce them failures, not heroes, but quacks,--conclude very
reasonably
that these arts are not for man, but are disease.
quadrangle, adj. (1)
ET16 5.284 24 ...though there were some good pictures
[at Wilton Hall], and a quadrangle cloister full of antique and modern
statuary...yet the eye
was still drawn to the windows...
quadrangle, n. (1)
ET12 5.202 3 I saw the school-court or quadrangle [at
Oxford] where, in
1683, the Convocation caused the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes to be
publicly burnt.
quadrant, n. (1)
SwM 4.107 25 A poetic anatomist, in our own day, teaches
that a snake, being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect line,
constitute a right
angle; and between the lines of this mystical quadrant all animated
beings
find their place...
quadrumanous, adj. (1)
F 6.22 16 [Man] betrays his relation to what is below
him...quadrumanous, quadruped ill-disguised...
quadruped, adj. (6)
MoS 4.173 25 I know the quadruped opinion will not
prevail.
Ctr 6.165 17 We still carry sticking to us some remains
of the preceding
inferior quadruped organization.
Bhr 6.172 18 We prize [manners] for their
rough-plastic, abstergent force; to get people out of the quadruped
state;...
CbW 6.252 19 ...in the passing moment the quadruped
interest is very
prone to prevail;...
FSLN 11.227 18 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for
the application to
these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law.
PLT 12.23 1 How lately the hunter was the poor
creature's organic enemy; a presumption inflamed, as the lawyers say,
by observing how many faces
in the street still remind us of visages in the forest,-the escape from
the
quadruped type not yet perfectly accomplished.
quadruped, n. (7)
Nat2 3.180 10 Now we learn what patient periods must
round themselves
before the rock is formed;... How far off yet is the trilobite! how far
the
quadruped! how inconceivably remote is man!
UGM 4.11 14 ...the chemic lump...arrives at the
quadruped, and walks;...
SwM 4.118 17 ...there is no comet...quadruped...that,
for itself, does not
interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of
the
frame of things.
F 6.14 26 Lodged in the parent animal...[the vesicle]
unlocks itself to fish, bird, or quadruped...
F 6.22 17 [Man] betrays his relation to what is below
him...quadrumanous, quadruped ill-disguised...
Ctr 6.166 3 The age of the quadruped is to go out...
PI 8.72 4 One would say of the force in the works of
Nature, all depends on
the battery. If it give one shock, we shall get to the fish form, and
stop;...if
three, to the quadruped;...
quadrupeds, n. (2)
PLT 12.49 26 The same functions which are perfect in our
quadrupeds are
seen slower performed in palaeontology.
CL 12.138 26 [Linnaeus]...examined fishes, insects,
birds, quadrupeds;...
quadruple, adj. (2)
Pt1 3.4 12 ...the highest minds of the world have never
ceased to explore
the double meaning, or shall I say the quadruple or centuple or much
more
manifold meaning, of every sensuous fact;...
Farm 7.148 17 The high wall reflecting the heat back on
the soil gives that
acre a quadruple share of sunshine...
quadrupled, v. (1)
Wth 6.126 20 The bread [a man] eats is first strength
and animal spirits; it
becomes...in still higher results, courage and endurance. This is the
right
compound interest; this is capital doubled, quadrupled, centupled;...
quadruples, v. (1)
ET10 5.162 6 ...the engineer [in England] sees that
every stroke of the
steam-piston...doubles, quadruples, centuples the duke's capital...
quail, n. (1)
ET5 5.84 7 You dine with a gentleman [in England] on
venison, pheasant, quail, pigeons, poultry, mushrooms and pine-apples,
all the growth of his
estate.
quail, v. (1)
MR 1.229 27 There is not the most bronzed and sharpened
money-catcher
who does not...quail and shake the moment he hears a question prompted
by the new ideas.
quails, n. (2)
PPh 4.72 1 [Socrates]...affected low phrases, and
illustrations from cocks
and quails...
ET3 5.39 5 The land [in England] naturally abounds with
game; immense
heaths and downs are paved with quails, grouse and woodcock...
quaint, adj. (8)
SR 2.82 24 Beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought and
quaint
expression are as near to us as to any...
Exp 3.72 22 Fortune, Minerva, Muse, Holy Ghost,--these
are quaint names, too narrow to cover this unbounded substance.
ET14 5.240 21 [Bacon] explained himself by giving
various quaint
examples of the summary or common laws of which each science has its
own illustration.
ET16 5.289 6 Just before entering Winchester we stopped
at the Church of
Saint Cross, and after looking through the quaint antiquity, we
demanded a
piece of bread and a draught of beer...
Chr2 10.109 22 ...we paint over the bareness of ethics
with the quaint
grotesques of theology.
LLNE 10.333 3 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins
to his florid, quaint
and affluent fancy.
EurB 12.371 8 [Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who
collects quaint
staircases and groined ceilings.
EurB 12.372 1 Perhaps Tennyson is too quaint and
elegant. What then?
quaintly, adv. (1)
LE 1.163 21 ...the more quaintly you inspect its
evanescent beauties...so
much the more you master the biography of this hero...
quake, v. (4)
Chr1 3.98 9 What have I gained...that I do not tremble
before...the
Calvinistic Judgment-day,--if I quake at opinion, the public opinion as
we
call it;...
Chr1 3.98 13 If I quake, what matters it what I quake
at?
Chr1 3.98 14 If I quake, what matters it what I quake
at?
Bty 6.279 15 [Seyd] heard a voice none else could hear/
From centred and
from errant sphere./ The quaking earth did quake in rhyme,/ Seas ebbed
and
flowed in epic chime./
Quaker, adj. (2)
SL 2.163 21 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be
any thing unless it
have an outside badge,--some Gentoo diet, or Quaker coat...
Bost 12.206 24 From...the Quaker women who for a
testimony walked
naked into the streets...down to Abner Kneeland...there never was
wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to
prick the
sides of conservatism.
Quaker, n. (5)
PPh 4.71 27 [Socrates] was plain as a Quaker in habit
and speech...
GoW 4.267 10 The Quaker has established Quakerism...
Wsp 6.222 6 In a new nation and language, [the
countryman's] sect, as
Quaker, or Lutheran, is lost.
LLNE 10.346 13 These [19th Century] reformers were a
new class. Instead
of the fiery souls of the Puritans, bent on hanging the Quaker...these
were
gentle souls...
FRO2 11.488 22 George Fox, the Quaker, said that,
though he read of
Christ and God, he knew them only from the like spirit in his own soul.
Quaker Society, n. (1)
DL 7.125 8 In each the circumstance signalized differs,
but in each it is
made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to
sea;... in a fourth, his coming out of the Quaker Society;...
Quakerism, n. (4)
SR 2.61 17 An institution is the lengthened shadow of
one man; as... Quakerism, of Fox;...
SR 2.79 23 ...[creeds and churches] are also
classifications of some
powerful mind acting on the elemental thought of...man's relation to
the
Highest. Such is...Quakerism...
GoW 4.267 10 The Quaker has established Quakerism...
LLNE 10.325 23 It is not easy to date these eras of
activity with any
precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and
the
twenty years following. It seemed...a crack in Nature, which split...
Quakerism into Old and New;...
Quakers, History of the [Wi (1)
Cour 7.274 11 There are ever appearing in the world men
who, almost as
soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant,
like...Jesus
and Socrates. Look at...Sewel's History of the Quakers...
Quakers, n. (19)
MR 1.228 16 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks,
Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something...
Tran 1.339 21 This [Transcendental] way of
thinking...falling...on
prelatical times, made Puritans and Quakers;...
OS 2.282 6 A certain tendency to insanity has always
attended the opening
of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess
of
light. The trances of Socrates...the convulsions of George Fox and his
Quakers...are of this kind.
SwM 4.140 7 The illuminated Quakers explained their
Light, not as
somewhat which leads to any action...
ET4 5.48 20 The Methodists have acquired a face; the
Quakers, a face;...
ET13 5.226 9 Like the Quakers, [the wise legislator]
may resist the
separation of a class of priests...
SA 8.86 1 It is an excellent custom of the
Quakers...the silent prayer before
meals.
Grts 8.309 19 If you have ever known a good mind among
the Quakers, you will have found [self-respect] is the element of their
faith.
SovE 10.203 23 The Church of Rome had its saints, and
inspired the
conscience of Europe...the Quakers, Fox and James Naylor.
CSC 10.374 23 ...Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists,
Unitarians and
Philosophers,-all came successively to the top [at the Chardon Street
Convention]...
HDC 11.84 3 I find [in Concord annals]...no whipping of
Quakers...
EWI 11.107 14 Public attention...was drawn that way [to
the West Indies], and the methods of the stealing and the
transportation [of slaves] from
Africa became noised abroad. The Quakers got the story.
EWI 11.107 20 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of
July, 1783...to
consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of
the negro
slaves in the West Indies...
EWI 11.108 3 [The English Quakers] made friends and
raised money for
the slave; they interested their Yearly Meeting; and all English and
all
American Quakers.
EWI 11.108 16 [Thomas Clarkson] left Cambridge; he fell
in with the six [English] Quakers.
EWI 11.111 16 ...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and
Wesleyan and
Baptist missionaries...had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and
cheer the poor victim...these missionaries were persecuted by the
planters...
Wom 11.415 12 After the deification of Woman in the
Catholic Church, in
the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of
having
first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.
Wom 11.419 21 ...if a woman demand votes, offices and
political equality
with men, as among the Shakers an Elder and Elderess are of equal
power,-and among the Quakers,-it must not be refused.
Bost 12.203 12 ...there is always [in Boston]...always
a heresiarch, whom
the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new
light... some protester against the cruelty of the magistrates to the
Quakers;...
Quakers, Society of, n. (1)
LS 11.4 17 ...it is now near two hundred years since the
Society of Quakers
denied the authority of the rite [the Lord's Supper] altogether...
quaking, adj. (2)
Tran 1.332 22 ...[the materialist] will perceive that
his mental fabric is built
up on just as strange and quaking foundations as his proud edifice of
stone.
Bty 6.279 15 [Seyd] heard a voice none else could hear/
From centred and
from errant sphere./ The quaking earth did quake in rhyme,/ Seas ebbed
and
flowed in epic chime./
qualification, n. (4)
Comp 2.109 2 Still more striking is the expression of
this fact [of
Compensation] in the proverbs of all nations, which are always...the
statements of an absolute truth without qualification.
PPh 4.61 9 A great common-sense is [Plato's] warrant
and qualification to
be the world's interpreter.
Wom 11.422 6 For the other point, of [women]...aiming
at abstract right
without allowance for circumstances,-that is not a disqualification,
but a
qualification [for voting].
EurB 12.376 17 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] was
founded on power
to do what was necessary, each person finding it an indispensable
qualification of membership that he could do something useful...
qualifications, n. (5)
Pow 6.76 25 The good lawyer is not the man who has an
eye to every side
and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications...
Elo2 8.126 14 If I should make the shortest list of the
qualifications of the
orator, I should begin with manliness;...
Aris 10.50 13 It is curious how negligent the public is
of the essential
qualifications of its representatives.
ChiE 11.473 20 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear
in mind the bill... requiring that candidates for public offices shall
first pass examinations on
their literary qualifications for the same.
CL 12.142 9 The qualifications of a professor [of
walking] are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes...
qualified, adj. (2)
Prch 10.231 4 There are always plenty of young, ignorant
people...wanting
peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only
one
person that is qualified to give it.
TPar 11.286 8 Theodore Parker was...a man of
study...rapidly pushing his
studies so far as to leave few men qualified to sit as his critics.
qualified, v. (11)
Pol1 3.207 24 Born democrats, we are nowise qualified to
judge of
monarchy...
NMW 4.225 5 Paris and London and New York...were also
to have their
prophet; and Bonaparte was qualified and sent.
Boks 7.220 23 ...let each scholar associate himself to
such persons as he
can rely on, in a literary club, in which each shall undertake a single
work
or series for which he is qualified.
Comc 8.161 11 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute
understanding, who sees
the Right, and sympathizes with it, and in the heyday of youth feels
also the
full attractions of pleasure, and is thus eminently qualified to enjoy
the joke.
EzRy 10.381 15 Ezra Ripley followed the business of
farming till sixteen
years of age, when his father wished him to be qualified to teach a
grammar
school...
EzRy 10.385 23 Trained in this [New England] church,
and very well
qualified by his natural talent to work in it, it was never out of
[Ezra Ripley'
s] mind.
LS 11.24 27 [The pastoral office] has many duties for
which I am feebly
qualified.
FSLN 11.235 13 He only who is able to stand alone is
qualified for society.
FSLN 11.243 23 [Robert Winthrop] denounced every name
and aspect
under which liberty and progress dare show themselves in this age and
country, but with a lingering conscience which qualified each sentence
with
a recommendation to mercy.
AKan 11.258 17 He only who is able to stand alone is
qualified to be a
citizen.
PPr 12.388 13 If the good heaven have any good word to
impart to this
unworthy generation, here is one scribe [Carlyle] qualified and clothed
for
its occasion.
qualifies, v. (7)
Exp 3.79 2 ...the intellect qualifies in our own case
the moral judgments.
ShP 4.204 22 ...there is in all cultivated minds a
silent appreciation of [Shakespeare's] superlative power and beauty,
which, like Christianity, qualifies the period.
Pow 6.76 25 The good lawyer is not the man who has an
eye to every side
and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications...
Ctr 6.145 16 An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea
of a girl's education
is, whatever qualifies her for going to Europe.
Cour 7.265 3 ...we do not exhaust the subject [Courage]
in the slight
analysis; we must not forget the variety of temperaments, each of which
qualifies this power of resistance.
QO 8.190 17 There is none so eminent and wise but he
knows minds whose
opinion confirms or qualifies his own...
Bost 12.204 10 When [Nature] has work to do, she
qualifies men for that...
qualify, v. (5)
ET18 5.304 8 [The English] are expiating the wrongs of
India by benefits;... in the instruction of the people, to qualify them
for self-government...
QO 8.189 11 ...there are certain considerations which
go far to qualify a
reproach too grave [to quotation].
Schr 10.280 26 The objection of men of the world to
what they call the
morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at present, is...that the
idealistic views unfit their children for business in their sense, and
do not
qualify them for any complete life of a better kind.
SlHr 10.441 21 ...[Samuel Hoar] sometimes wearied his
audience with the
pains he took to qualify and verify his statements...
LS 11.22 21 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify
and send forth a
man to teach men that they must serve him with the heart;...
qualifying, v. (3)
SwM 4.127 17 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] is a fine
Platonic
development of the science of marriage; teaching that sex is universal,
and
not local; virility in the male qualifying every organ, act, and
thought; and
the feminine in woman.
Elo1 7.86 2 ...in the examination of witnesses there
usually leap out...three
or four stubborn words or phrases...which sink into the ear of all
parties, and stick there, and determine the cause. All the rest is
repetition and
qualifying;...
Imtl 8.328 2 These truths, passing out of
[Swedenborg's] system into
general circulation, are now met with every day, qualifying the views
and
creeds of all churches and of men of no church.
qualis, adj. (1)
ET1 5.16 12 ...[Carlyle] liked Nero's death, Qualis
artifex pereo! better
than most history.
qualities, n. (60)
Nat 1.66 19 ...there are far more excellent qualities in
the student than
preciseness and infallibility;...
MN 1.223 14 I cannot tell if these wonderful qualities
which house to-day
in this mortal frame shall ever re-assemble in equal activity in a
similar
frame...
MN 1.223 19 ...these qualities did not now begin to
exist...
Hist 2.24 20 The reverence exhibited [in the Grecian
period] is for personal
qualities;...
Prd1 2.221 15 We paint those qualities which we do not
possess.
Cir 2.314 4 These manifold tenacious qualities...are
means and methods
only...
Pt1 3.15 23 The writer wonders what the coachman or the
hunter values in
riding, in horses and dogs. It is not superficial qualities.
Mrs1 3.137 18 ...coolness and absence of heat and haste
indicate fine
qualities.
Mrs1 3.138 26 Moral qualities rule the world...
NR 3.228 9 Our native love of reality joins with this
[disillusioning] experience...to dissuade a too sudden surrender to the
brilliant qualities of
persons.
UGM 4.9 21 The mass of creatures and of qualities are
still hid and
expectant.
UGM 4.20 9 These [leaders and law-givers] teach us the
qualities of
primary nature...
UGM 4.27 7 Ah! yonder in the horizon is our
help;--other great men, new
qualities...
UGM 4.32 9 ...[the heroes of the hour] are such in
whom, at the moment of
success, a quality is ripe which is then in request. Other days will
demand
other qualities.
UGM 4.33 26 The genius of humanity is the right point
of view of history. The qualities abide; the men who exhibit them have
now more, now less, and pass away;...
UGM 4.34 1 The genius of humanity is the right point of
view of history. The qualities abide; the men who exhibit them have now
more, now less, and pass away; the qualities remain on another brow.
PPh 4.62 20 As there is...a science of qualities,
called chemistry; so there is
a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect
discriminating the false and the true.
PPh 4.76 15 The qualities of sugar remain with sugar...
SwM 4.121 13 The central identity enables any one
symbol to express
successively all the qualities and shades of real being.
MoS 4.152 20 After dinner...a man comes to be valued by
his athletic and
animal qualities.
MoS 4.161 19 The terms of admission to this spectacle
[of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have...proof...that he has
evinced the temper, stoutness
and the range of qualities which...entitle him to fellowship and trust.
MoS 4.162 7 ...some stark and sufficient man...is the
fit person to occupy
this ground of speculation. These qualities meet in the character of
Montaigne.
NMW 4.225 15 The man in the street finds in [Napoleon]
the qualities and
powers of other men in the street.
NMW 4.227 21 Bonaparte was the idol of common men
because he had in
transcendent degree the qualities and powers of common men.
ET2 5.28 13 ...that wonderful esprit du corps by which
we adopt into our
self-love every thing we touch, makes us all champions of [a ship's]
sailing
qualities.
ET4 5.67 18 This union of qualities is fabled in [the
Englishmen's] national
legend of Beauty and the Beast...
ET5 5.92 16 [The English] have approved their Saxon
blood, by their sea-going
qualities;...
ET8 5.130 6 ...these [lower] classes are the right
English stock, and may
fairly show the national qualities...
ET11 5.176 17 The new age brings new qualities into
request;...
ET14 5.234 25 Even in its elevations materialistic,
[England's] poetry is
common sense inspired; or iron raised to white heat. The marriage of
the
two qualities is in their speech.
ET15 5.263 18 [The London Times] has shown those
qualities which are
dear to Englishmen...
F 6.9 27 It often appears in a family as if all the
qualities of the progenitors
were potted in several jars...
Ctr 6.162 11 When the state is unquiet, personal
qualities are more than
ever decisive.
CbW 6.264 21 'T is a Dutch proverb that paint costs
nothing, such are its
preserving qualities in damp climates.
Bty 6.289 8 I am warned by the ill fate of many
philosophers not to attempt
a definition of Beauty. I will rather enumerate a few of its qualities.
Bty 6.300 12 We love any forms, however ugly, from
which great qualities
shine.
Civ 7.26 3 Where the banana grows the animal system
is...pampered at the
cost of higher qualities...
Civ 7.32 23 ...when I see how much each virtuous and
gifted person, whom
all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people
who
are not known far from home, and perhaps with great reason reckons
these
people his superiors in virtue and in the symmetry and force of their
qualities,--I see what cubic values America has...
Art2 7.43 22 The basis of music is the qualities of the
air and the vibrations
of sonorous bodies.
Elo1 7.67 16 Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities
of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a
certain robust and radiant
physical health...
Elo1 7.69 16 ...in every constitution some large degree
of animal vigor is
necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art
[of
eloquence].
Elo1 7.73 16 In these examples [of eloquence], higher
qualities have
already entered...
Boks 7.217 2 Money, and killing, and the Wandering Jew,
and persuading
the lover that his mistress is betrothed to another, these are the
main-springs [of the novel]; new names, but no new qualities in the men
and women.
Cour 7.253 1 I observe that there are three qualities
which conspicuously
attract the wonder and reverence of
mankind...disinterestedness...practical
power...courage...
SA 8.83 4 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...
Comc 8.159 6 Separate any object...and contemplate it
alone, standing
there in absolute nature, it becomes at once comic;...no respectable
qualities
can rescue it from the ludicrous.
PC 8.226 10 The benefactors we have indicated
were...great because
exceptional. The question which the present age urges...is whether the
high
qualities which distinguished them can be imparted.
PPo 8.237 14 Many qualities go to make a good
telescope...
Aris 10.33 20 I observe the inextinguishable prejudice
men have in favor of
a hereditary transmission of qualities.
Aris 10.33 21 Some qualities [Nature] carefully fixes
and transmits...
Aris 10.36 11 Every mark and scutcheon of [Nature's]
indicates
constitutional qualities.
Aris 10.38 26 Aristocracy is the class eminent by
personal qualities...
PerF 10.74 7 ...[man] seems to have as many talents as
there are qualities
in Nature.
Plu 10.298 2 ...though [Plutarch] never used verse, he
had many qualities of
the poet...
Carl 10.489 20 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious
tinge you sometimes
find in burly people. That, and all his qualities, have a certain
virulence...
HDC 11.59 24 The only compensation which war offers for
its manifold
mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope
and
occasions.
ALin 11.331 16 [Lincoln] offered no shining qualities
at the first
encounter;...
SMC 11.359 23 ...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George
Prescott]...the
moral qualities of a commander...
PLT 12.33 13 In reckoning the sources of our mental
power it were fatal to
omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge
have
their fountains, and which, by its qualities and structure, determines
both
the nature of the waters and the direction in which they flow.
II 12.65 5 In reckoning the sources of our mental
power, it were fatal to
omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge
have
their fountains, which by its qualities and structure determines both
the
nature of the waters, and the direction in which they flow.
quality, n. (117)
LE 1.164 9 ...deny to [the man of letters] any quality
of literary or
metaphysical power...and he is piqued.
MR 1.255 24 ...we have seen a few scattered up and down
in time for the
blessing of the world; men who have in the gravity of their nature a
quality
which answers to the fly-wheel in a mill...
LT 1.265 18 Could we indicate the indicators...we
should have a series of
sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of
ours.
Tran 1.350 21 It is the quality of the moment...that
imports.
YA 1.369 23 The vast majority of the people of this
country live by the
land, and carry its quality in their manners and opinions.
Comp 2.96 21 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet
in every part of
nature;...in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the
animal
body;...
SL 2.143 26 A man's genius, the quality that
differences him from every
other...determines for him the character of the universe.
SL 2.148 17 Every quality of [a man's] mind is
magnified in some one
acquaintance...
Prd1 2.228 3 There is more difference in the quality of
our pleasures than
in the amount.
Hsm1 2.251 5 [Heroism] is the avowal of the unschooled
man that he finds
a quality in him that is negligent of expense...
Hsm1 2.253 11 ...the soul of a better quality thrusts
back the unreasonable
economy into the vaults of life...
OS 2.265 9 ...A spell is laid on sod and stone,/ Night
and Day 've been
tampered with/ Every quality and pith/ Surcharged and sultry with a
power/
That works its will on age and hour./
Pt1 3.13 23 All form is an effect of character; all
condition, of the quality
of the life;...
Pt1 3.34 7 ...the quality of the imagination is to
flow, and not to freeze.
Exp 3.66 1 ...every good quality is noxious if
unmixed...
Exp 3.66 20 ...what are these millions who read and
behold, but incipient
writers and sculptors? Add a little more of that quality which now
reads and
sees, and they will seize the pen and chisel.
Exp 3.75 1 I exert the same quality of power in all
places.
Exp 3.78 16 The act looks very differently on the
inside and on the outside; in its quality and in its consequences.
Chr1 3.96 6 With what quality is in him [a man] infuses
all nature that he
can reach;...
Chr1 3.97 2 ...[the action's] moral element preexisted
in the actor, and its
quality as right or wrong it was easy to predict.
Chr1 3.99 26 ...[the ingenious man] shall stand stoutly
in his place and let
me...know that I have encountered a new and positive quality;...
Chr1 3.101 5 All things work exactly according to their
quality and
according to their quantity;...
Chr1 3.113 26 We shall one day see...that quality
atones for quantity...
Chr1 3.114 9 The ages have exulted in the manners of a
youth...who, by
the pure quality of his nature, shed an epic splendor around the facts
of his
death...
Mrs1 3.120 4 Again, the Bornoos have no proper names;
individuals are
called after their height, thickness, or other accidental quality...
Mrs1 3.122 9 The word gentleman has not any correlative
abstract to
express the quality.
Mrs1 3.132 16 All that fashion demands is composure and
self-content. ... If the fashionist have not this quality, he is
nothing.
Mrs1 3.138 12 The flower of courtesy does not very well
bide handling, but if we dare to open another leaf and explore what
parts go to its
conformation, we shall find also an intellectual quality.
Mrs1 3.149 8 ...by the moral quality radiating from his
countenance [a
man] may abolish all considerations of magnitude...
Nat2 3.185 3 Nature sends no creature, no man into the
world, without
adding a small excess of his proper quality.
NR 3.225 8 Could any man conduct into me the pure
stream of that which
he pretends to be! Long afterwards I find that quality elsewhere which
he
promised me.
NR 3.225 15 ...a society of men will cursorily
represent well enough a
certain quality and culture...
NR 3.228 12 ...as we grow older we value total powers
and effects, as the
impression, the quality, the spirit of men and things.
NER 3.263 12 ...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...
NER 3.266 6 ...the force which moves the world is a new
quality...
UGM 4.5 22 Each man seeks those of different quality
from his own...
UGM 4.5 25 Let us have the quality pure.
UGM 4.6 19 It costs no more for a wise soul to convey
his quality to other
men.
UGM 4.8 17 Men have a pictorial or representative
quality...
UGM 4.11 23 Animated chlorine knows of chlorine, and
incarnate zinc, of
zinc. Their quality makes [man's] career;...
UGM 4.20 6 Mankind have in all ages attached themselves
to a few
persons who...by the quality of that idea they embodied...were entitled
to
the position of leaders and law-givers.
UGM 4.32 7 ...[the heroes of the hour] are such in
whom, at the moment of
success, a quality is ripe which is then in request.
UGM 4.33 9 A new quality of mind travels by night and
by day...
UGM 4.34 19 ...at last we shall cease to look in men
for completeness, and
shall content ourselves with their social and delegated quality.
PPh 4.75 26 ...the defect of Plato in power is only
that which results
inevitably from his quality.
PPh 4.77 9 [Plato's Platonism] shall be the world
passed through the mind
of Plato,--nothing less. Every atom shall have the Platonic tinge;
every
atom, every relation or quality you knew before, you shall know again
and
find here, but now ordered;...
SwM 4.97 22 Must the highest good drag after it a
quality which
neutralizes and discredits it?
SwM 4.106 11 In the atom of magnetic iron [Swedenborg]
saw the quality
which would generate the spiral motion of sun and planet.
SwM 4.125 24 [To Swedenborg] Such as have deprived
themselves of
charity, wander and flee: the societies which they approach discover
their
quality and drive them away.
MoS 4.161 27 ...some condition between the extremes,
and having, itself, a
positive quality; some stark and sufficient man...is the fit person to
occupy
this ground of speculation.
NMW 4.253 10 ...that is the fatal quality which we
discover in our pursuit
of wealth, that it is treacherous...
GoW 4.281 15 There must be a man behind the book; a
personality which
by birth and quality is pledged to the doctrines there set forth...
ET4 5.45 13 The British census proper reckons
twenty-seven and a half
millions in the home countries. What makes this census important is the
quality of the units that compose it.
ET4 5.63 18 The [English] public schools are charged
with being bear-gardens
of brutal strength, and are liked by the people for that cause. The
fagging is a trait of the same quality.
ET4 5.72 3 Add a certain degree of refinement to the
vivacity of these [English] riders, and you obtain the precise quality
which makes the men
and women of polite society formidable.
ET6 5.102 11 ...the one thing the English value is
pluck. The word is not
beautiful, but on the quality they signify by it the nation is
unanimous.
ET9 5.150 22 In a tract on Corn, a most
amiable...gentleman [William
Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's
idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height,
still she
would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does
both in
this secondary quality...
F 6.10 1 It often appears in a family as if all the
qualities of the progenitors
were potted in several jars,-some ruling quality in each son or
daughter of
the house;...
F 6.44 9 The quality of the thought differences the
Egyptian and the
Roman...
Wth 6.90 12 The Saxons are the merchants of the world;
now, for a
thousand years, the leading race, and by nothing more than their
quality of
personal independence...
Wth 6.117 12 ...the eating quality of debt does not
relax its voracity.
Ctr 6.147 12 ...knowledge and fine moral quality
[nature] lodges in distant
men.
Ctr 6.157 13 ...it is the secret of culture to interest
the man more in his
public than in his private quality.
Ctr 6.158 7 We must have an intellectual quality in all
property and in all
action, or they are naught.
Ctr 6.164 17 ...I observe that [scholars] lost on ruder
companions those
years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a
religious
and infinite quality in their esteem.
Bhr 6.175 15 ...Nature and Destiny...never fail...to
hang out a sign for each
and for every quality.
Wsp 6.227 13 As we grow older we value total powers and
effects, as the
spirit or quality of the man.
Bty 6.289 13 It is the most enduring quality, and the
most ascending quality.
Bty 6.295 4 Beauty is the quality which makes to
endure.
Bty 6.303 18 The new virtue which constitutes a thing
beautiful is a certain
cosmical quality...
Ill 6.313 25 We wake from one dream into another dream.
The toys to be
sure...are graduated in refinement to the quality of the dupe.
Ill 6.323 25 ...we transcend the circumstance
continually and taste the real
quality of existence;...
Elo1 7.88 14 Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of
common sense. It is the
same quality we admire in Aristotle...
Farm 7.135 21 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/
Ascends as gladly in
a single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
WD 7.183 16 ...in seeking to find what is the heart of
the day, we come to
the quality of the moment...
WD 7.185 13 ...this is the progress of every earnest
mind;...from local skills
and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the
finer economy which respects the quality of what is done...
Boks 7.191 3 ...read Plutarch, and the world is a proud
place, peopled with
men of positive quality...
Suc 7.308 1 The searching tests to apply to every new
pretender are amount
and quality...
PI 8.9 10 ...[all things in Nature's] growths, decays,
quality and use so
curiously resemble [the student], in parts and in wholes, that he is
compelled to speak by means of them.
PI 8.64 19 Bring us...poetry...that shall...mould
itself into religions and
mythologies, and impart its quality to centuries;...
SA 8.93 14 Shenstone gave no bad account of this
influence [of women] in
his description of the French woman: There is a quality in which no
woman
in the world can compete with her,--it is the power of intellectual
irritation.
PC 8.208 15 Observe the marked ethical quality of the
innovations urged or
adopted [in America].
PC 8.220 13 ...power obeys reality, and not appearance;
according to
quality, and not quantity.
PC 8.221 14 The first quality we know in matter is
centrality,-we call it
gravity...
PPo 8.247 27 The difference is not so much in the
quality of men's
thoughts as in the power of uttering them.
Imtl 8.347 9 Is immortality only an intellectual
quality...
Dem1 10.9 13 A skilful man reads his dreams for his
self-knowledge; yet
not the details, but the quality.
Aris 10.46 24 ...the constitution of things has
distributed a new quality or
talent to each mind...
Aris 10.50 10 When old writers are consulted by young
writers who have
written their first book, they say, Publish it by all means; so only
can you
certainly know its quality.
Supl 10.164 19 From want of skill to convey quality, we
hope to move
admiration by quantity.
SovE 10.184 19 I see the unity of thought and of morals
running through all
animated Nature; there is no difference of quality...
SovE 10.197 27 ...every act is not hereafter but
instantaneously rewarded
according to its quality.
Schr 10.272 13 Union Pacific stock is not quite private
property, but the
quality and essence of the universe is in that also.
MMEm 10.402 21 Nobody can...recall the conversation of
old-school
people, without seeing that Milton and Young had a religious authority
in
their mind, and nowise the slight, merely entertaining quality of
modern
bards.
EWI 11.145 12 The civility of the world has reached
that pitch that...the
quality of this [black] race is to be honored for itself.
FSLC 11.199 17 There is...not a moralist but is prying
into [slavery's] quality;...
FSLC 11.199 26 When a moral quality comes into
politics...general
principles are laid bare...
FSLN 11.238 14 The masters of slaves seem generally
anxious to prove
that they are not of a race superior in any noble quality to the
meanest of
their bondsmen.
ALin 11.332 1 ...everybody has some disabling quality.
EdAd 11.387 9 Every foot of soil has its proper
quality;...
EdAd 11.387 16 ...though it may not be easy to define
[America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality...
PLT 12.10 26 The wonder of the science of Intellect is
that the substance
with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it
intoxicates all
who approach it.
PLT 12.28 16 No quality in Nature's vast magazines
[each man] cannot
touch...
II 12.75 18 ...Nature is stronger than your will, and
were you never so
vigilant, you may rely on it, your nature and genius will certainly
give your
vigilance the slip though it had delirium tremens, and will educate the
children by the inevitable infusions of its quality.
II 12.76 11 That is the quality of [the moral sense],
that it commands...
Mem 12.96 11 This is the high difference, the quality
of the association by
which a man remembers.
Mem 12.107 6 ...the true river Lethe is the body of
man, with its belly and
uproar of appetite and mountains of indigestion and bad humors and
quality
of darkness.
CW 12.170 2 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/
Ascends as gladly in
the single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
Bost 12.183 14 ...from every stratum a different aroma
and air according to
its quality.
Bost 12.183 15 According to quality and according to
temperature, [the air] must have effect on manners.
Milt1 12.255 15 Addison, Pope, Hume and Johnson,
students...of the same
subject [human nature], cannot, taken together, make any pretension to
the
amount or the quality of Milton's inspirations.
ACri 12.305 16 Criticism is an art when it...looks
at...the essential quality
of [the poet's] mind.
MLit 12.322 6 ...the quality and energy of [Carlyle's]
influence on the
youth of this country will require at our hands, ere long, a distinct
and
faithful acknowledgment.
MLit 12.323 5 ...[Goethe] has a perfect propriety and
taste,-a quality by
no means common to the German writers.
WSL 12.338 5 Add to this proud blindness [of John Bull]
the better quality
of great downrightness in speaking the truth...
WSL 12.345 13 What is the quality of the persons
who...have a certain
salutary omnipresence in all our life's history...
WSL 12.345 18 What is the quality of the persons
who...have a certain
salutary omnipresence in all our life's history, almost giving their
own
quality to the atmosphere and the landscape?
quantitative, adj. (1)
ET14 5.242 15 In England these [generalizations]...do
all have a kind of
filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the
identity-philosophy
of Schelling, couched in the statement that all difference is
quantitative.
quantities, n. (11)
Nat 1.66 15 ...the best read naturalist who lends an
entire and devout
attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his
relation to
the world, and that it is not to be learned by any...other comparison
of
known quantities...
MR 1.237 7 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite
quantities of sugar...by
simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise
to my
faculties by that act which nature intended me...
Tran 1.349 10 Each cause as it is called...becomes
speedily a little shop, where the article...is now made up into
portable and convenient cakes, and
retailed in small quantities to suit purchasers.
Chr1 3.91 2 Man...in these examples [of men of
character] appears...to be
an expression of the same laws which control the tides and the sun,
numbers and quantities.
Mrs1 3.122 6 There is something equivocal in all the
words in use to
express the excellence of manners and social cultivation, because the
quantities are fluxional...
NER 3.266 8 ...the force which moves the world is a new
quality, and can
never be furnished by adding whatever quantities of a different kind.
UGM 4.27 23 Every genius is defended from approach by
quantities of
unavailableness.
PPh 4.62 19 As there is...a science of quantities,
called mathematics;...so
there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the
Intellect
discriminating the false and the true.
ET8 5.132 9 [Young Englishmen]...cannot expend their
quantities of waste
strength on riding, hunting, swimming and fencing...
CbW 6.248 13 What quantities of fribbles, paupers,
invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves and triflers of
both sexes might be
advantageously spared!
CbW 6.248 20 A person seldom falls sick but the
bystanders are animated
with a faint hope that he will die,--quantities of poor lives...
quantity, n. (21)
Comp 2.96 21 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet
in every part of
nature;...in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the
animal
body;...
Exp 3.79 8 To [the intellect], the world is a problem
in mathematics or the
science of quantity...
Chr1 3.101 6 All things work exactly according to their
quality and
according to their quantity;...
Chr1 3.113 27 We shall one day see...that quality
atones for quantity...
Nat2 3.196 18 That power which does not respect
quantity...distils its
essence into every drop of rain.
Pol1 3.206 9 A cent is the representative of a certain
quantity of corn or
other commodity.
Farm 7.150 1 ...in this very year, a large quantity of
land has been
discovered and added to the town [of Concord] without a murmur of
complaint from any quarter.
WD 7.173 12 Hume's doctrine was that...the girl
equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from
the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant
excitement.
Cour 7.268 17 A certain quantity of power belongs to a
certain quantity of
faculty.
Cour 7.268 18 A certain quantity of power belongs to a
certain quantity of
faculty.
PC 8.220 13 ...power obeys reality, and not appearance;
according to
quality, and not quantity.
Aris 10.47 20 A certain quantity of power belongs to a
certain quantity of
faculty.
Aris 10.47 21 A certain quantity of power belongs to a
certain quantity of
faculty.
Supl 10.164 20 From want of skill to convey quality, we
hope to move
admiration by quantity.
HDC 11.78 24 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British
troops, Concord
contributed to the relief of the inhabitants...a quantity of meat and
wood.
War 11.158 24 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast
of Chili, Peru, and
New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of
ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed
at, I
burned and spoiled. And had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had
taken great quantity of treasure.
ACiv 11.297 12 ...for two or three ages [slavery] has
lasted, and has yielded
a certain quantity of rice, cotton and sugar.
CInt 12.121 7 A certain quantity of power belongs to a
certain quantity of
truth.
CInt 12.121 8 A certain quantity of power belongs to a
certain quantity of
truth.
MAng1 12.226 3 [Michelangelo] was charged with
rebuilding the Pons
Palatinus over the Tiber. He prepared, accordingly, a large quantity of
blocks of travertine...
ACri 12.293 8 Every age gazettes a quantity of words
which it has used up.
quantum, n. (1)
Mem 12.95 26 Quintilian reckoned [memory] the measure of
genius. Tantum ingenii quantum memoriae.
quantus, adj. (1)
PLT 12.61 24 Quantus amor tantus animus.
quarantine, adj. (1)
Nat2 3.171 19 There are all degrees of natural
influence, from these
quarantine powers of nature, up to her dearest and gravest
ministrations to
the imagination and the soul.
Quarantine, Board of, n. (1)
Farm 7.140 19 ...[the farmer] is the Board of
Quarantine.
quarantine, n. (2)
Con 1.319 22 ...society has resolved itself into a
Hospital Committee, and
all its laws are quarantine.
FSLN 11.240 24 ...mountains of difficulty must be
surmounted...dangers, healed by a quarantine of calamities to measure
his strength, before [man] dare say, I am free.
Quarles, Francis, n. (1)
PI 8.28 21 ...Quarles, after he was quite cool, wrote
Emblems.
quarrel, n. (12)
Con 1.295 5 This quarrel [between Conservatism and
Innovation] is the
subject of civil history.
Tran 1.344 18 [The Transcendentalists'] quarrel with
every man they meet
is not with his kind, but with his degree.
Pol1 3.208 22 Our quarrel with [political parties]
begins when they quit this
deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader...
UGM 4.10 12 ...solid, liquid, and gas...by their
agreeable quarrel, beguile
the day of life.
ET4 5.59 12 If [the Northman] cannot pick any other
quarrel, he will get
himself comfortably gored by a bull's horns...
Ill 6.314 16 ...I remember the quarrel of another youth
with the
confectioners, that when he racked his wit to choose the best comfits
in the
shops, in all the endless varieties of sweetmeat he could find only
three
flavors, or two.
Cour 7.266 23 Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood,
which...does not feel
itself except in a quarrel...
SovE 10.189 20 Savage war gives place to that of
Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code. This war
again gives place to the finer
quarrel of property, where the victory is wealth and the defeat
poverty.
Schr 10.268 16 I have no quarrel with action...
Schr 10.285 9 ...[men of talent] nourish a small
difference into a loud
quarrel.
EWI 11.117 23 The governors [of Jamaica]...were at
constant quarrel with
the angry and bilious island legislature.
SMC 11.352 6 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution]
began, the
Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence.
quarrel, v. (5)
Con 1.304 24 You who quarrel with the arrangements of
society...live, move, and have your being in this...
Con 1.305 17 You quarrel with my conservatism, but it
is to build up one
of your own;...
Hist 2.25 10 [Xenophon's army] quarrel for plunder...
PPh 4.45 27 In adult life, while the perceptions are
obtuse, men and
women...blunder and quarrel...
EurB 12.371 27 ...let us not quarrel with our
benefactors.
quarrelled, v. (5)
Exp 3.69 26 [The individual] designed many things, and
drew in other
persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all, blundered much, and
something is done;...
ET9 5.149 21 [The English] tell you daily in London the
story of the
Frenchman and Englishman who quarrelled.
ET19 5.312 19 ...I was given to understand in my
childhood...that [Englishmen's] virtues did not come out until they
quarrelled;...
LLNE 10.368 11 People cannot live together in any but
necessary ways. The only candidates who will present themselves will be
those who have
tried the experiment of independence and ambition, and have failed; and
none others will barter for the most comfortable equality the chance of
superiority. Then all communities have quarrelled.
EzRy 10.393 25 Was a man a sot...or had he quarrelled
with his wife, or
collared his father...the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way
straight to
that point...
quarrelling, v. (3)
ET11 5.192 10 The sycophancy and sale of votes and
honor, for place and
title;...the sneer at the childish indiscretion of quarrelling with ten
thousand
a year;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in
England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
ET12 5.212 22 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling
with the janitor for
not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of
quarrelling
with the professors for not admiring the young neologists who pluck the
beards of Euclid and Aristotle...
ET12 5.212 25 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling
with the janitor for
not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of
quarrelling
with the professors for not admiring the young neologists who pluck the
beards of Euclid and Aristotle...
quarrels, n. (6)
Hsm1. 2.252 13 What shall [heroism] say then...to the
toilet, compliments, quarrels, cards and custard, which rack the wit of
all society?
OS 2.285 23 The intercourse of society...its
friendships, its quarrels, is one
wide judicial investigation of character.
Int 2.345 20 The gods shall settle their own quarrels.
Boks 7.215 10 ...when one observes how ill and ugly
people make their
loves and quarrels, 't is pity they should not read novels a little
more...
Imtl 8.334 16 ...never to know the Cause, the Giver,
and infer his character
and will! Of what import this vacant sky...these insignificant lives
full of
selfish loves and quarrels and ennui?
HDC 11.45 25 The disputes between that forbearing man
[John Winthrop] and the deputies are like the quarrels of girls...
quarrel's, n. (1)
HCom 11.339 11 We grudge them not, our dearest, bravest,
best,-/ Let
but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is Earth's old slave-God
battling
for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with her visor down./ Holmes.
quarrels, v. (1)
WSL 12.338 10 Add to this proud blindness [of John
Bull]...the peculiarity
which is alleged of the Englishman, that his virtues do not come out
until he
quarrels.
quarrelsome, adj. (3)
Con 1.321 1 The contractors who were building a road out
of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers quarrelsome...
Mrs1 3.139 25 [Society]...hates quarrelsome,
egotistical, solitary and
gloomy people;...
ET10 5.159 8 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether
it were not possible
to make a spinner that would not rebel...nor emigrate? At the
solicitation of
the masters...Mr. Roberts of Manchester undertook to create this
peaceful
fellow, instead of the quarrelsome fellow God had made.
quarriable, adj. (1)
ET3 5.34 17 The long habitation of a powerful and
ingenious race has
turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use, has found all
the
capabilities...the quarriable rock...
quarried, adj. (1)
Wth 6.84 3 ...when the quarried means were piled,/ All
is waste and
worthless, till/ Arrives the wise selecting will/...
quarried, v. (1)
ET13 5.215 3 [Prudent men say] Better find some niche or
crevice in this
mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried and carved...than
attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above your strength, like
removing it.
quarries, n. (3)
PPh 4.42 11 ...every house is a quotation out of all
forests and mines and
stone quarries;...
SwM 4.101 23 The genius [of Swedenborg] which
was...to...attempt to
establish a new religion in the world,--began its lessons in quarries
and
forges...
ET4 5.46 16 Every body likes to know that his
advantages cannot be
attributed to air, soil, sea, or to local wealth, as mines and
quarries...
quarry, n. (6)
AmS 1.98 11 Life lies behind us as the quarry from
whence we get tiles and
copestones for the masonry of to-day.
LT 1.259 14 The Times are...the quarry out of which the
genius of to-day is
building up the Future.
F 6.35 15 If Fate is ore and quarry...we are
reconciled.
Farm 7.142 24 Who are the farmer's servants? Not the
Irish...but...the
quarry of the air, the water of the brook...
Edc1 10.131 18 In some sort the end of life is that the
man should take up
the universe into himself, or out of that quarry leave nothing
unrepresented.
FSLN 11.220 21 There is always...men who calculate on
the immense
ignorance of the masses; that is their quarry and farm...
quarry, v. (1)
PPo 8.263 6 ...quarry thy stones from the crystal All,/
And build the dome
that shall not fall./
quarrying, v. (1)
SL 2.129 3 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House
at once and
architect,/ Quarrying man's rejected hours,/ Builds there with eternal
towers;/...
quartan ague, n. (1)
Elo2 8.122 3 ...there are persons of natural
fascination, with...winning
manners, almost endearments in their style; like Bouillon, who could
almost persuade you that a quartan ague was wholesome;...
quarter, n. (28)
Hist 2.18 23 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad
cloud, which might
extend a quarter of a mile parallel to the horizon...
Cir 2.309 13 Valor consists in the power of
self-recovery, so that a man... cannot be out-generalled, but put him
where you will, he stands. This can
only be by...his alert acceptance of [truth] from whatever quarter;...
Pol1 3.214 23 ...when a quarter of the human race
assume to tell me what I
must do, I may be too much disturbed by the circumstances to see so
clearly
the absurdity of their command.
NER 3.255 2 There was in all the practical activities
of New England for
the last quarter of a century, a gradual withdrawal of tender
consciences
from the social organizations.
UGM 4.32 27 No man, in all the procession of famous
men, is reason or
illumination or that essence we were looking for; but is an exhibition,
in
some quarter, of new possibilities.
UGM 4.33 16 ...the smallest acquisition of truth or of
energy, in any
quarter, is so much good to the commonwealth of souls.
NMW 4.238 8 This [Austrian] cavalry...required a
quarter of an hour to
arrive on the field of action...
ET5 5.86 18 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of
breaking the line of
sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling, or stationing his ships one
on the
outer bow and another on the outer quarter of each of the enemy's, were
only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of
concentration.
ET15 5.268 16 No writer is suffered to claim the
authorship of any paper [in the London Times]; everything good, from
whatever quarter, comes out
editorially;...
ET16 5.290 10 Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried
at Winchester, in
the Abbey he had founded there, but his remains were removed by Henry
I. to the new Abbey in the meadows at Hyde, on the northern quarter of
the
city...
Pow 6.61 24 A timid man...might easily believe that he
and his country
have seen their best days, and he hardens himself the best he can
against the
coming ruin. But after this has been foretold with equal confidence
fifty
times, and government six per cents have not declined a quarter of a
mill, he discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are
here in play
make our politics unimportant.
Farm 7.150 3 ...in this very year, a large quantity of
land has been
discovered and added to the town [of Concord] without a murmur of
complaint from any quarter.
WD 7.162 6 Our selfishness...would have excluded from a
quarter of the
planet all that are not born on the soil of that quarter.
WD 7.162 7 Our selfishness...would have excluded from a
quarter of the
planet all that are not born on the soil of that quarter.
Boks 7.210 10 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a
minute, when Lord
Althorp with long steps came to his side...
Clbs 7.240 11 You may condemn [the eloquent man's]
book, but can you
fight against his thought? That is always too nimble for you...and
breaks out
victorious in some other quarter.
Insp 8.278 2 [Behmen said] In one quarter of an hour I
saw and knew more
than if I had been many years together at an university.
LLNE 10.337 6 ...there was, in the first quarter of our
nineteenth century, a
certain sharpness of criticism...
LLNE 10.337 9 ...there was, in the first quarter of our
nineteenth century... an eagerness for reform, which showed itself in
every quarter.
LLNE 10.343 17 From that time meetings were held for
conversation...of
people...watchful of all the intellectual light from whatever quarter
it
flowed.
HDC 11.42 4 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the
North quarter are to
keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river,
in
their quarter...
HDC 11.42 6 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the
North quarter are to
keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river,
in
their quarter...
HDC 11.42 9 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the
North quarter are to
keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river,
in
their quarter, and...in regard of the ease of the East quarter above
the rest, in
their highways, they are to allow the North quarter 3 pounds.
HDC 11.42 10 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the
North quarter are to
keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river,
in
their quarter, and...in regard of the ease of the East quarter above
the rest, in
their highways, they are to allow the North quarter 3 pounds.
HDC 11.75 7 The militia and minute-men...ran...into the
east quarter of the
town [Concord]...
EWI 11.116 1 In every quarter [of Antigua], we were
assured, the day [after emancipation] was like a Sabbath.
PLT 12.32 16 White huckleberries are so rare that in
miles of pasture you
shall not find a dozen. But a girl who understands it will find you a
pint in a
quarter of an hour.
CW 12.176 23 A man...should know...the quarter of the
moon and the daily
tides.
quarter-deck, n. (1)
CL 12.161 9 The college is not so wise as the mechanic's
shop, nor the
quarter-deck as the forecastle.
quartered, v. (3)
ET4 5.58 8 A [Norse] king was maintained, much as in
some of our
country districts a winter-schoolmaster is quartered...
HDC 11.61 3 Concord suffered little from the [King
Philip's] war. This is
to be attributed no doubt, in part, to the fact that troops were
generally
quartered here...
HDC 11.78 25 When...the poor of Boston were quartered
by the Provincial
Congress on the neighboring country, Concord received 82 persons to its
hospitality.
quarterly, adj. (2)
LLNE 10.343 23 ...the intelligence and character and
varied ability of the
company...perhaps waked curiosity as to its aims and results. Nothing
more
serious came of it than the modest quarterly journal called The Dial...
Let 12.392 7 ...we have thought that we might clear our
account [of
correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter...
Quarterly Review, Massachus (1)
EdAd 11.393 13 The name [Massachusetts Quarterly Review]
might
convey the impression...that nothing is to be found here which was not
written expressly for the Review;...
quarters, n. (15)
YA 1.366 13 This inclination [to cultivate the soil] has
appeared in the most
unlooked-for quarters...
Hist 2.16 2 [Nature]...delights in startling us with
resemblances in the most
unexpected quarters.
Pol1 3.217 19 I find the like unwilling homage [to
character] in all quarters.
NER 3.256 6 A restless, prying, conscientious criticism
broke out in
unexpected quarters.
NMW 4.238 10 ...[Napoleon said] I have observed that it
is always these
quarters of an hour that decide the fate of a battle.
ET10 5.160 14 The yield of wheat [in England] has gone
on from 2,000, 000 quarters in the time of the Stuarts, to 13,000,000
in 1854.
Ill 6.309 13 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...paddled three
quarters of a mile in
the deep Echo River...
LLNE 10.338 7 Unexpected aid from high quarters came to
inconoclasts.
GSt 10.502 24 ...[George Stearns's] interest [in
Kansas] was so manifestly
pure and sincere that he easily obtained eager offerings in quarters
where
other petitioners failed.
HDC 11.42 4 ...the town [Concord] having divided itself
into three
districts, called the North, South and East quarters, ordered that the
North
quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over
the
great river, in their quarter...
War 11.160 16 The sublime question has startled one and
another happy
soul in different quarters of the globe,-Cannot love be, as well as
hate?
War 11.176 2 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of
benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of
hope; but in this
broad America...where the forest is only now falling, or yet to fall,
and the
green earth opened to the inundation of emigrant men from all quarters
of
oppression and guilt;...
FSLC 11.180 6 Every hour brings us from distant
quarters of the Union the
expression of mortification at the late events in Massachusetts...
FSLC 11.211 16 ...Massachusetts is little, but, if true
to itself, can be the
brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery]. I say Massachusetts,
but I
mean Massachusetts in all the quarters of her dispersion;...
SMC 11.371 10 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second
Regiment saw hard
service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a
few
days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and
run
in circles to keep themselves from being frozen. On the third of
December, they went into winter quarters.
quarto, adj. (1)
ET6 5.109 19 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity
of Perceval...to
the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday, with a large
quarto
gilt prayer-book under one arm, his wife hanging on the other...
quartz, adj. (1)
UGM 4.12 3 Shall we say that quartz mountains will
pulverize into
innumerable Werners, Von Buchs and Beaumonts...
quartz, n. (1)
Clbs 7.228 10 I prize the mechanics of conversation. 'T
is pulley and lever
and screw. To fairly disengage the mass, and send it jingling down, a
good
boulder,--a block of quartz and gold...is a wonderful relief.
quartz-mountains, n. (1)
Civ 7.31 23 I see the immense material
prosperity...California quartz-mountains
dumped down in New York to be repiled architecturally
alongshore from Canada to Cuba...
quasi, adj. (2)
UGM 4.12 8 ...we sit by the fire and take hold on the
poles of the earth. This quasi omnipresence supplies the imbecility of
our condition.
SwM 4.102 21 A colossal soul,
[Swedenborg]...suggests...that a certain... quasi omnipresence of the
human soul in nature, is possible.
quasi-mechanical, adj. (1)
Pt1 3.28 3 All men avail themselves of such means as
they can, to add this
extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize
conversation...animal intoxication,--which are several coarser or finer
quasi-mechanical
substitutes for the true nectar...
quasi-omniscience, n. (1)
Edc1 10.126 13 ...when one and the same
man...leaves...the stupor of the
senses, to enter into the quasi-omniscience of high thought...all
limits
disappear.
quaternity, n. (1)
ET4 5.54 24 ...the Roman has implanted his dark
complexion in the trinity
or quaternity of bloods [in England].
Quatorze, Louis, of France, (1)
Aris 10.62 1 ...[the true man] is to know...that not
Louis Quatorze, not
Chesterfield, nor Byron, nor Bonaparte is the model of the Century...
quatrain, n. (1)
PI 8.46 20 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the
common English
metres,--of the decasyllabic quatrain...you can easily believe these
metres to
be organic...
quaver, v. (2)
MMEm 10.424 8 [Time] Hasten to finish thy motley work,
on which
frightful Gorgons are at play, spite of holy ghosts. 'T is already
moth-eaten
and its shuttles quaver, as the beams of the loom are shaken.
CL 12.152 6 ...[in October] all the trees are
wind-harps, filling the air with
music; and all men...walk to the measure of rhymes they make or
remember. The dullest churl begins to quaver.
quays, n. (1)
ET4 5.69 1 ...the animal ferocity of the quays and
cockpits...[the English] know how to wake up.
Queen Dowager, n. (1)
ET10 5.165 1 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager
wishes to
establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his
grounds...
queen, n. (6)
ET4 5.67 23 I apply to Britannia, queen of seas and
colonies, the words in
which her latest novelist portrays his heroine; She is as mild as she
is game, and as game as she is mild.
ET11 5.192 20 ...the rotten debauchee [George IV] let
down from a
window by an inclined plane into his coach to take the air, was a
scandal to
Europe which the ill fame of his queen and of his family did nothing to
retrieve.
PI 8.62 20 ...said Merlin...salute for me the king and
the queen and all the
barons...
SA 8.93 1 In this art of conversation, Woman, if not
the queen and victor, is
the lawgiver.
Thor 10.449 1 A queen rejoices in her peers,/ And wary
Nature knows her
own,/ By court and city, dale and down,/ And like a lover
volunteers/...
AKan 11.262 21 ...the Saxon man, when he is well awake,
is...a citizen... and links himself naturally to his brothers, as bees
hook themselves to one
another and to their queen in a loyal swarm.
Queen, n. (8)
ET6 5.110 2 They repeated the ceremonies of the eleventh
century in the
coronation of the present Queen.
ET6 5.112 13 When Thalberg the pianist was one evening
performing
before the Queen at Windsor, in a private party, the Queen accompanied
him with her voice.
ET6 5.112 14 When Thalberg the pianist was one evening
performing
before the Queen at Windsor, in a private party, the Queen accompanied
him with her voice.
ET13 5.219 6 From his infancy, every Englishman is
accustomed to hear
daily prayers for the Queen...
ET13 5.227 17 The [English] Bishop is elected by the
Dean and Prebends
of the cathedral. The Queen sends these gentlemen a conge d'elire, or
leave
to elect;...
ET13 5.227 24 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the
cathedral, chant and
pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in their choice [of a
Bishop]; and...invariably find that the dictates of the Holy Ghost
agree with
the recommendations of the Queen.
SA 8.95 6 Madame de Tesse said, If I were Queen, I
should command
Madame de Stael to talk to me every day.
EWI 11.120 25 The Queen, in her speech to the Lords and
Commons, praised the conduct of the emancipated population [of
Jamaica]...
Queen of Heaven, n. (1)
ET16 5.286 10 Whilst we listened to the organ [at
Salisbury Cathedral], my
friend [Carlyle] remarked, the music is...somewhat as if a monk were
panting to some fine Queen of Heaven.
Queen of Sheba, n. (2)
PPo 8.241 9 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit
Solomon, he had
built, against her arrival, a palace...
PPo 8.241 13 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit
Solomon, he had
built...a palace, of which the floor or pavement was of glass, laid
over
running water, in which fish were swimming. The Queen of Sheba was
deceived thereby...
queen-bee, n. (1)
CbW 6.252 2 The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near
chimpanzee. But
the units whereof this mass is composed, are neuters, every one of
which
may be grown to a queen-bee.
Queen's Counsel, n. (1)
ET7 5.122 25 The [English] barrister refuses the silk
gown of Queen's
Counsel, if his junior have it one day earlier.
queens, n. (4)
Mrs1 3.148 13 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 3.174 27 A boy hears a military band play on the
field at night, and he
has kings and queens and famous chivalry palpably before him.
SwM 4.100 23 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical
skill, and the
added fame...of extraordinary religious knowledge and gifts, drew to
him
queens, nobles, clergy...
Elo1 7.70 25 ...who does not remember in childhood some
white or black
or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of
fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful
to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?
Queen's, n. (1)
ET13 5.224 12 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer,
much less any
saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...
Queen's Speech, n. (1)
Pol1 3.217 8 Malthus and Ricardo quite omit
[character];...the President's
Message, the Queen's Speech, have not mentioned it;...
queer, adj. (1)
MMEm 10.409 23 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my
queer way
with joy...
quench, v. (2)
WD 7.163 21 Tantalus, who in old times was seen vainly
trying to quench
his thirst with a flowing stream which ebbed whenever he approached it,
has been seen again lately.
PPo 8.245 6 The rapidity of [Hafiz's] turns is always
surprising us:-See
how the roses burn!/ Bring wine to quench the fire!/ Alas! the flames
come
up with us,/ We perish with desire./
quenched, adj. (1)
DSA 1.149 24 ...now let us do what we can to rekindle
the smouldering, nigh quenched fire on the altar.
quenched, v. (2)
DSA 1.120 13 What am I? and What is? asks the human
spirit with a
curiosity...never to be quenched.
PPo 8.258 10 O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/
To rasp and to
polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear
hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
quenching, n. (1)
Plu 10.316 19 ...nothing so resembles an animal as fire.
It is moved and
nourished by itself, and...in its quenching shows some power that seems
to
proceed from a vital principle...
queries, n. (4)
Tran 1.352 6 [Transcendentalists] are exercised in their
own spirit with
queries which acquaint them with all adversity...
ET4 5.53 21 These queries concerning ancestry and blood
may be well
allowed...
ET16 5.288 13 On the way to Winchester...my friends
asked many
questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses,--my house,
for
example. It is not easy to answer these queries well.
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?
querulous, adj. (4)
Prd1 2.233 1 A man of genius...self-indulgent, becomes
presently
unfortunate, querulous...
Exp 3.47 2 ...my neighbor has fertile meadow, but my
field, says the
querulous farmer, only holds the world together.
ET8 5.137 22 Compare the tone of the French and of the
English press: the
first querulous, captious, sensitive about English opinion;...
Trag 12.410 27 A querulous habit is not tragedy.
query, n. (1)
ET16 5.285 5 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge
[at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones, over a stream of which the
gardener did not know the
name (Qu. Alph);...
quest, n. (4)
Lov1 2.181 7 ...[the ancient writers] said that the soul
of man, embodied
here on earth, went roaming up and down in quest of that other world of
its
own out of which it came into this...
ET11 5.191 10 Grammont, Pepys and Evelyn show the
kennels to which
the king and court went in quest of pleasure.
ET12 5.212 6 ...the rich libraries collected at every
one of many thousands
of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth
in
this country, when one thinks how much more and better may be learned
by
a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a book, can consult it, than
by
one who is on the quest, for years, and reads inferior books because he
cannot find the best.
JBS 11.276 14 And since they could not so avail/ To
check his unrelenting
quest,/ They seized him, saying, Let him test/ How real is our jail!/
questing, adj. (1)
Cour 7.278 16 One day as through the cleft/ Between two
mountains
steep,/ Shut in both right and left,/ Their questing way they keep,/...
question, n. (200)
Nat 1.32 20 ...we cannot avoid the question whether the
characters are not
significant of themselves.
Nat 1.49 5 ...whilst we acquiesce entirely in the
permanence of natural
laws, the question of the absolute existence of nature still remains
open.
Nat 1.75 16 Whilst the abstract question occupies your
intellect, nature
brings it in the concrete to be solved by your hands.
AmS 1.102 21 The odds are that the whole question is
not worth the
poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the
controversy.
DSA 1.149 18 So it is...in aims which put sympathy out
of question, that
the angel is shown.
DSA 1.149 26 The question returns, What shall we do?
LE 1.183 22 Hence the temptation to the scholar...to
hear the question, to
sit upon it, to make an answer of words in lack of the oracle of
things.
MR 1.230 1 There is not the most bronzed and sharpened
money-catcher
who does not...quail and shake the moment he hears a question prompted
by the new ideas.
LT 1.261 19 ...the subject of the Times is not an
abstract question.
LT 1.264 2 ...there is [no fact] that will not change
and pass away before a
person whose nature is broader than the person which the fact in
question
represents.
LT 1.269 19 How can such a question as the Slave-trade
be agitated for
forty years...without throwing great light on ethics into the general
mind?
Con 1.302 9 There is the question not only what the
conservative says for
himself, but, why must he say it?
Con 1.302 16 Here is the fact which men call
Fate...necessitating the
question whether the faculties of man will play him true in resisting
the
facts of universal experience?
Con 1.307 6 We wrought for others under this law, and
got our lands so. I
repeat the question, Is your law just?
Con 1.313 3 ...it might temper your indignation at the
supposed wrong
which society has done you, to keep the question before you, how
society
got into this predicament?
Tran 1.331 18 ...how easy it is to show [the
materialist]...that he need only
ask a question or two beyond his daily questions to find his solid
universe
growing dim and impalpable before his sense.
Tran 1.341 19 ...every one must do after his kind, be
he asp or angel, and
these [Transcendentalists] must. The question which a wise man and a
student of modern history will ask, is, what that kind is?
Tran 1.356 27 [The Transcendentalist] is braced-up and
stilted;...all sallies
of wit and frolic nature are quite out of the question;...
YA 1.391 26 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...
SR 2.85 18 ...it may be a question whether machinery
does not encumber;...
SL 2.133 16 ...the question is everywhere vexed when a
noble nature is
commended, whether the man is not better who strives with temptation.
SL 2.158 10 What has he done? is the divine question
which searches men...
Prd1 2.223 17 The world is filled with the proverbs and
acts and winkings
of a base prudence...a prudence which...asks but one question of any
project,--Will it bake bread?
Prd1 2.230 21 There is a certain fatal dislocation in
our relation to nature... which seems at last to have aroused all the
wit and virtue in the world to
ponder the question of Reform.
OS 2.284 7 ...in the adoration of humility, there is no
question of
continuance.
OS 2.284 8 No inspired man ever asks this question
[concerning the
immortality of the soul]...
OS 2.284 16 No answer in words can reply to a question
of things.
OS 2.285 2 ...all unawares the advancing soul has built
and forged for itself
a new condition, and the question and the answer are one.
Int 2.328 15 You cannot with your best deliberation and
heed come so
close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you...
Int 2.345 16 I will not...speak to the open question
between Truth and Love.
Pt1 3.9 8 ...the question arose whether [a recent
writer of lyrics] was not
only a lyrist but a poet...
Pt1 3.36 24 ...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...
Exp 3.56 15 The child asks, Mamma, why don't I like the
story as well as
when you told it me yesterday? Alas! child, it is even so with the
oldest
cherubim of knowledge. But will it answer thy question to say, Because
thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular?
Exp 3.59 19 [Life's] chief good is for well-mixed
people who can enjoy
what they find, without question.
Exp 3.72 18 ...the question ever is, not what you have
done or forborne, but
at whose command you have done or forborne it.
Chr1 3.94 16 What means did you employ? was the
question asked of the
wife of Concini, in regard to her treatment of Mary of Medici;...
Mrs1 3.122 21 The point of distinction in all this
class of names, as
courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that the flower and
fruit, not the
grain of the tree, are contemplated. It is beauty which is the aim this
time, and not worth. The result is now in question...
Nat2 3.184 14 The astronomers said, Give us matter and
a little motion and
we will construct the universe. ... A very unreasonable postulate, said
the
metaphysicians, and a plain begging of the question.
Pol1 3.202 20 ...if question arise whether additional
officers or watch-towers
should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must
sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better
of this, and
with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?
Pol1 3.204 17 If it be not easy to settle the equity of
this question [of
property], the peril is less when we take note of our natural defenses.
NER 3.251 17 ...that the Church, or religious
party...is appearing...in very
significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions;...meeting
to
call in question the authority of the Sabbath...
NER 3.282 19 I am not pained that I cannot frame a
reply to the question, What is the operation we call Providence?
UGM 4.7 2 One man answers some question which none of
his
contemporaries put, and is isolated.
UGM 4.7 5 One man answers some question which none of
his
contemporaries put, and is isolated. The past and passing religions and
philosophies answer some other question.
PPh 4.41 9 This range of Plato instructs us what to
think of the vexed
question concerning his reputed works...
PPh 4.78 6 ...admirable texts can be quoted on both
sides of every great
question from [Plato].
MoS 4.157 15 ...there is no practical question on which
any thing more than
an approximate solution can be had?
MoS 4.157 17 Is not marriage an open question...
MoS 4.157 24 Is not the State a question?
MoS 4.158 12 Remember the open question between the
present order of
competition and the friends of attractive and associated labor.
MoS 4.172 6 Society does not like to have any breath of
question blown on
the existing order.
MoS 4.181 5 Others there are to whom the heaven is
brass, and it shuts
down to the surface of the earth. It is a question of temperament, or
of more
or less immersion in nature.
ShP 4.203 4 [Jonson] no doubt thought the praise he has
conceded to [Shakespeare] generous, and esteemed himself, out of all
question, the
better poet of the two.
ShP 4.207 2 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed
performer...and all
I then heard and all I now remember of the tragedian was that in which
the
tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost...
ShP 4.211 22 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of
human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind as truly but as softly as the
landscape lies on the eye. And the importance of this wisdom of life
sinks the form...out of notice. 'T is like making a question concerning
the paper on which a king's message
is written.
ShP 4.218 1 As long as the question is of talent and
mental power, the
world of men has not [Shakespeare's] equal to show.
ShP 4.218 3 ...when the question is, to life and its
materials and its
auxiliaries, how does [Shakespeare] profit me?
GoW 4.268 15 It is not from men excellent in any kind
that disparagement
of any other is to be looked for. With such, Talleyrand's question is
ever
the main one;...Is he anybody? does he stand for something?
ET1 5.19 21 [Wordsworth] thinks more of the education
of circumstances
than of tuition. 'T is not question whether there are offences of which
the
law takes cognizance, but whether there are offences of which the law
does
not take cognizance.
ET4 5.51 18 In the impossibility of arriving at
satisfaction on the historical
question of race, and...the indisputable Englishman before me...I
fancied I
could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as his lineal
progenitors...
ET5 5.81 22 There is on every question [in England] an
appeal from the
assertion of the parties to the proof of what is asserted.
ET5 5.88 10 Nothing is more in the line of English
thought than our
unvarnished Connecticut question, Pray, sir, how do you get your living
when you are at home?
ET5 5.89 15 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.
ET8 5.140 25 ...if hereafter the war of races, often
predicted, and making
itself a war of opinions also (a question of despotism and liberty
coming
from Eastern Europe), should menace the English civilization, these
sea-kings
may take once again to their floating castles...
ET10 5.169 16 Such a wealth has England earned, ever
new, bounteous and
augmenting. But the question recurs, does she take the step beyond...
ET13 5.214 14 A youth marries in haste; afterwards...he
is asked what he
thinks...of the right relations of the sexes? I should have much to
say, he
might reply, if the question were open...
ET13 5.214 16 A youth marries in haste; afterwards...he
is asked what he
thinks...of the right relations of the sexes? I should have much to
say, he
might reply, if the question were open, but I have a wife and children,
and
all question is closed for me.
ET15 5.264 14 [The London Times] has entered into each
municipal, literary and social question...
F 6.3 10 ...the question of the times resolved itself
into a practical question
of the conduct of life.
F 6.3 11 ...the question of the times resolved itself
into a practical question
of the conduct of life.
F 6.5 9 The Spartan, embodying his religion in his
country, dies before its
majesty without a question.
F 6.30 23 ...when the boy grows to man...he pulls down
that wall and builds
a new and bigger. 'T is only a question of time.
Pow 6.59 27 ...when [the weaker party] himself is
matched with some other
antagonist, his own shafts fly well and hit. 'T is a question of
stomach and
constitution.
Pow 6.60 7 Here is question, every spring, whether to
graft with wax, or
whether with clay;...
Pow 6.65 10 Men in power...may be had cheap for any
opinion, for any
purpose; and if it be only a question between the most civil and the
most
forcible, I lean to the last.
Pow 6.79 6 It is not question to express our thought,
to elect our way, but to
overcome resistances of the medium and material in everything we do.
Ctr 6.135 18 In Boston the question of life is the
names of some eight or
ten men.
Ctr 6.135 26 In New York the question [of life] is of
some other eight, or
ten, or twenty [men].
Bhr 6.197 8 As respects the delicate question of
culture I do not think that
any other than negative rules can be laid down.
Wsp 6.204 21 In the last chapters we treated some
particulars of the
question of culture.
Wsp 6.209 21 When Paul Leroux offered his article Dieu
to the conductor
of a leading French journal, he replied, La question de Dieu manque d'
actualite.
Wsp 6.212 13 ...the official men can in no wise help
you in any question of
to-day...
Wsp 6.217 20 ...the heart is at once aware of the state
of health or disease, which is the controlling state, that is, of
sanity or of insanity; prior of course
to all question of the ingenuity of arguments...
Wsp 6.225 16 I look on that man as happy, who, when
there is a question
of success, looks into his work for a reply...
Wsp 6.237 3 [Benedict said] Is it a question whether to
put [the sick
woman] into the street?
Wsp 6.239 11 Higher than the question of our duration
is the question of
our deserving.
Wsp 6.239 12 Higher than the question of our duration
is the question of
our deserving.
Wsp 6.240 9 ...as far as [immortality] is a question of
fact respecting the
government of the universe, Marcus Antoninus summed the whole in a
word, It is pleasant to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there
be none.
CbW 6.267 2 ...who provoke pity like that excellent
family party just
arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any
honest
end as ever? Each nation has asked successively, What are they here
for? until at last the party...anticipate the question at the gates of
each town.
Bty 6.288 18 The question of Beauty takes us out of
surfaces to thinking of
the foundations of things.
Bty 6.293 20 All that is a little harshly claimed by
progressive parties may
easily come to be conceded without question, if this rule [of
gradation] be
observed.
SS 7.8 3 If I stay, said Dante, when there was question
of going to Rome, who will go? and if I go, who will stay?
SS 7.10 4 [The ends of thought] reach down to that
depth...where the
question is, Which is first, man or men?...
Art2 7.40 10 We find that the question, What is Art?
leads us directly to
another,--Who is the Artist?
Boks 7.215 18 What made the popularity of Jane Eyre,
but that a central
question was answered in some sort?
Boks 7.215 19 The question there [in Jane Eyre]
answered in regard to a
vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the
party.
Clbs 7.229 1 We remember the time...on a long journey
in the old stage-coach, where, each passenger being forced to know
every other, and other
employments being out of question, conversation naturally flowed...
Clbs 7.235 17 He that can define, he that can answer a
question so as to
admit of no further answer, is the best man.
Clbs 7.237 19 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 7.238 2 At last [Odin] puts a question which none
but himself could
answer...
Clbs 7.239 12 To answer a question so as to admit of no
reply, is the test of
a man...
Clbs 7.242 3 Even Montesquieu confessed that in
conversation, if he
perceived he was listened to by a third person, it seemed to him from
that
moment the whole question vanished from his mind.
Cour 7.264 11 The school-boy is daunted before his
tutor by a question of
arithmetic...
Cour 7.269 1 The judge...squarely accosts the question,
and by not being
afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common
methods apply to this affair.
Suc 7.292 13 The gravest and learnedest courts in this
country shudder to
face a new question...
OA 7.318 23 ...if the question be the felicity of age,
I fear the first popular
judgments will be unfavorable.
PI 8.16 4 ...the sole question is...how many diameters
are drawn quite
through from matter to spirit;...
SA 8.99 14 When men consult you, it is...that they wish
you...to apply your
habitual view, your wisdom, to the present question...
Elo2 8.129 15 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no
personal concern in
the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could
not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose
life
depended on his own abilities to defend it?
Elo2 8.131 9 There is [in eloquence] always the
previous question: How
came you on that side?
Res 8.138 5 A philosophy...which says...life is eating
us up, 't is only
question who shall be last devoured,--dispirits us;...
QO 8.192 22 The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less
imports the
question of authorship.
PC 8.226 8 The benefactors we have indicated
were...great because
exceptional. The question which the present age urges with increasing
emphasis...is, whether the high qualities which distinguished them can
be
imparted.
PPo 8.238 12 Favor of the Sultan, or his displeasure,
is [in the East] a
question of Fate.
Insp 8.274 4 In June the morning is noisy with birds;
in August they are
already getting old and silent. Hence arises the question, Are these
moods
in any degree within control?
Insp 8.286 16 ...it is a primal rule to defend your
morning...and...to relieve
it from any jangle of affairs-even from the question, Which task?
Imtl 8.349 27 Yama said, For this question [of
immortality], it was inquired
of old, even by the gods;...
Imtl 8.350 23 [Yama said to Nachiketas] All those
desires that are difficult
to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy
pleasure;-those
fair nymphs of heaven...for the like of them are not to be gained by
men. I
will give them to thee, but do not ask the question of the state of the
soul
after death.
Dem1 10.22 4 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a
feudal baron may
fancy...that the one question for history is the pedigree of his
house...
Aris 10.40 5 In every company one finds the best man;
and if there be any
question, it is decided the instant they enter into any practical
enterprise.
Aris 10.50 21 ...[the public] forgot to ask the fourth
question...
Aris 10.63 3 Pay [money], and you may play the tyrant
at discretion and
never look back to the fatal question,-where had you the money that you
paid?
Chr2 10.91 11 ...in the question between truth and
goodness, the moral
cause of the world lies behind all else in the mind.
Chr2 10.108 20 ...all the dogmas rest on morals,
and...it is only a question
of youth or maturity...
Supl 10.175 18 To every question an abstemious but
absolute reply.
Supl 10.179 8 If it come back...to the question of
final superiority, it is too
plain that there is no question that the star of empire rolls West...
Supl 10.179 10 ...there is no question that the star of
empire rolls West...
Prch 10.225 20 ...there are those to whom the question
of what shall be
believed is the more interesting because they are to proclaim and teach
what they believe.
MoL 10.246 1 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a
Highland
gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain
could support. After some time the question was, to know how many great
cattle it would feed.
MoL 10.256 12 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?
MoL 10.256 26 There is always the previous question,
How came you on
that side?
Plu 10.314 14 ...Plutarch always addresses the question
[of immortality] on
the human side...
Plu 10.319 23 The guests not invited to a private board
by the entertainer, but introduced by a guest as his companions, the
Greek called shadows; and
the question is debated whether it was civil to bring them...
LLNE 10.342 10 ...a sympathizing
Englishman...interrupted with the
question, Mr. Alcott, a lady near me desires to inquire whether
omnipotence
abnegates attribute?
LLNE 10.347 27 Fourier...turned a truly vast arithmetic
to the question of
social misery...
LLNE 10.367 9 The question which occurs to you had
occurred much
earlier to Fourier: How in this charming Elysium is the dirty work to
be
done?
SlHr 10.439 1 ...when the votes of the Free
States...had...betrayed the cause
of freedom, [Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and
liberty, for his age, lost...
Thor 10.452 14 ...whilst all his companions
were...eager to begin some
lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts
should be
exercised on the same question...
Carl 10.497 11 [Carlyle] thinks it the only question
for wise men...to
address themselves to the problem of society.
GSt 10.507 22 ...there is to my mind somewhat so
absolute in the action of
a good man that we do not, in thinking of him, so much as make any
question of the future.
LS 11.4 4 ...more important controversies have arisen
respecting [the Lord'
s Supper's] nature. The famous question of the Real Presence was the
main
controversy between the Church of England and the Church of Rome.
LS 11.13 12 Many persons consider this fact, the
observance of such a
memorial feast [the Lord's Supper] by the early disciples, decisive of
the
question whether it ought to be observed by us.
LS 11.16 7 If it could be satisfactorily shown that
[the primitive Church] esteemed [the Lord's Supper] authorized and to
be transmitted forever, that
does not settle the question for us.
LS 11.16 20 But it is said: Admit that the rite [the
Lord's Supper] was not
designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it? Here it stands...the
undoubted
occasion of much good; is it not better it should remain? This is the
question of expediency.
HDC 11.46 25 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns
learned...to
exercise the right of expressing an opinion on every question before
the
country.
HDC 11.52 4 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws
apart, the wife
of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray when my
husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he
saith?...
HDC 11.53 1 [The Indians] requested to have a town
given them within the
bounds of Concord, near unto the English. When this question was
propounded by Tahattawan, he was asked, why he desired a town so near,
when there was more room for them up in the country?
LVB 11.94 5 ...[the question of currency and trade] is
the chirping of
grasshoppers beside the immortal question whether justice shall be done
by
the race of civilized to the race of savage man...
LVB 11.94 17 One circumstance lessens the reluctance
with which I
intrude at this time on your [Van Buren's] attention my conviction that
the
government ought to be admonished of a new historical fact, which the
discussion of this question [the relocation of the Cherokees] has
disclosed...
LVB 11.94 21 On the broaching of this question [of the
moral character of
government], a general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any
good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery,
appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel.
EWI 11.99 9 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the
settlement, as far
as a great Empire was concerned, of a question on which almost every
leading citizen in it had taken care to record his vote;...
EWI 11.106 17 Very unwilling had that great lawyer
[Lord Mansfield] been to reverse the late decisions [on slavery]; he
suggested twice from the
bench, in the course of the trial [of George Somerset], how the
question
might be got rid of...
EWI 11.128 14 ...England has the advantage of trying
the question [of
slavery] at a wide distance from the spot where the nuisance exists;...
EWI 11.128 21 The extent of the [British] empire, and
the magnitude and
number of other questions crowding into court, keep this one [slavery]
in
balance, and prevent it from...being urged with that intemperance which
a
question of property tends to acquire.
EWI 11.128 27 There are causes in the composition of
the British
legislature...which exclude much that is pitiful and injurious in other
legislative assemblies. From these reasons, the question [of slavery]
was
discussed with a rare independence and magnanimity.
EWI 11.135 26 The lives of the advocates [of
emancipation in the West
Indies] are pages of greatness, and the connection of the eminent
senators
with this question constitutes the immortalizing moments of those men's
lives.
EWI 11.138 8 ...we are indebted mainly to this movement
[for
emancipation in the West Indies] and to the continuers of it,
for...reference
of every question to the absolute standard.
EWI 11.147 7 I am sure that the good and wise elders,
the ardent and
generous youth, will not permit what is incidental and exceptional to
withdraw their devotion from the essential and permanent characters of
the
question [of emancipation].
War 11.160 15 The sublime question has startled one and
another happy
soul in different quarters of the globe,-Cannot love be, as well as
hate?
War 11.161 20 ...a universal peace is as sure as is the
prevalence...of liberal
governments over feudal forms. The question for us is only How soon?
War 11.167 13 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.
War 11.170 1 The question naturally arises, How is this
new aspiration of
the human mind [towards peace] to be made visible and real?
FSLC 11.179 3 Fellow Citizens: I accepted your
invitation to speak to you
on the great question of these days, with very little consideration of
what I
might have to offer...
FSLC 11.204 17 In Massachusetts, in 1776, [Webster]
would, beyond all
question, have been a refugee.
FSLC 11.206 22 I pass to say a few words to the
question, What shall we
do?
FSLC 11.210 21 ...granting...that these evils [of
slavery] are to be relieved
only by the wisdom of God working in ages,-and by what instrument...
none can tell...still the question recurs, What must we do?
FSLN 11.225 9 ...though I have my own opinions on
[Webster's] seventh
of March discourse and those others, and think them very transparent
and
very open to criticism,-yet the secondary merits of a speech, namely,
its
logic, its illustrations, its points, etc., are not here in question.
FSLN 11.225 13 Nobody doubts that there were good and
plausible things
to be said on the part of the South. But this is not a question of
ingenuity, not a question of syllogisms, but of sides. How came
[Webster] there?
FSLN 11.225 27 ...the question which History will ask
is broader. In the
final hour...did [Webster] take the part of great principles...or the
side of
abuse and oppression and chaos?
FSLN 11.226 25 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like
the doleful
speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed
thee
through life, and I find thee but a shadow. Here was a question of an
immoral law;...
FSLN 11.226 26 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like
the doleful
speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed
thee
through life, and I find thee but a shadow. Here was a question of an
immoral law; a question agitated for ages...
FSLN 11.227 9 Here [in the Fugitive Slave Law] was the
question, Are you
for man and for the good of man; or are you for the hurt and harm of
man?
FSLN 11.227 11 [The Fugitive Slave Law] was the
question whether man
shall be treated as leather?...
FSLN 11.228 12 ...when allusion was made to the
question of duty and the
sanctions of morality, [Webster] very frankly said...Some higher law,
something existing somewhere between here and the third heaven,-I do
not know where.
FSLN 11.238 1 ...if you have a nice question of right
and wrong, you
would not go with it to Louis Napoleon...
TPar 11.287 6 'T is sometimes a question, shall we not
leave [the old
religions] to decay without rude shocks?
ACiv 11.299 10 The times put this question, Why cannot
the best
civilization be extended over the whole country...
SMC 11.357 19 One of our later volunteers...in reply to
my question, How
can you be spared from your farm...said, I go because I shall always be
sorry if I did not go when the country called me.
EdAd 11.384 20 ...we cannot stave off the ulterior
question...the WHERE
TO of all this [American] power and population...
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...
EdAd 11.390 19 Let [a journal] now show its astuteness
by dodging each
difficult question...
EdAd 11.390 23 Can [a journal] front this matter of
Socialism...and dispose
of that question?
EdAd 11.391 24 What will easily seem to many a far
higher question than
any other is that which respects the embodying of the Conscience of the
period.
Wom 11.419 27 ...bring together a cultivated society of
both sexes, in a
drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste
or on
a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical
difficulty in
obtaining their authentic opinions?
FRep 11.516 18 ...the nature and habits of the
American, may well occupy
us, and more the question of Religion.
FRep 11.524 22 Whilst each cabal...at last brings...men
whose names are a
knell to all hope of progress, the good and wise are hidden in their
active
retirements, and are quite out of question.
FRep 11.538 8 It is not a question whether we shall be
a multitude of
people.
PLT 12.17 1 Leaving aside the question which was prior,
egg or bird, I
believe the mind is the creator of the world...
PLT 12.47 6 There is a meter which determines the
constructive power of
man,-this, namely, the question whether the mind possesses the control
of
its thoughts, or they of it.
II 12.73 15 But how, cries my reformer, is this to be
done? How could I do
it, who have wife and family to keep? The question is most reasonable,-
yet proves that you are not the man to do the feat.
II 12.88 2 These studies [of the Intellect] seem to me
to derive an
importance from their bearing on the universal question of modern
times, the question of Religion.
CInt 12.116 6 ...[the college] deals with a force which
It cannot
monopolize or confine;... I have no doubt of the force, and for me the
only
question is, whether the force is inside.
Milt1 12.250 19 What under heaven had...the manner of
living of
Saumaise...or his niceties of diction, to do with the solemn question
whether Charles Stuart had been rightly slain?
ACri 12.303 5 I designed to speak of one point more,
the touching a
principal question in criticism in recent times-the Classic and
Romantic, or what is classic?
ACri 12.305 17 Criticism is an art when it...looks
at...the essential quality
of [the poet's] mind. Then the critic is poet. 'T is a question not of
talents
but of tone;...
MLit 12.316 19 Another element of the modern poetry
akin to this
subjective tendency, or rather the direction of that same on the
question of
resources, is the Feeling of the Infinite.
MLit 12.328 12 ...that we may not seem to dodge the
question which all
men ask...let us honestly record our thought upon the total worth and
influence of this genius [Goethe].
EurB 12.369 5 ...the spirit of literature and the modes
of living and the
conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question
[by
Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...
EurB 12.377 6 ...high behavior fraternized with high
behavior [in the
society in Wilhelm Meister], without question of heraldry...
PPr 12.389 23 [Carlyle] does not dodge the question...
question, v. (5)
LT 1.284 11 I question if care and doubt ever wrote
their names so legibly
on the faces of any population.
PI 8.28 1 [Blake wrote] I question not my corporeal eye
any more than I
would question a window concerning a sight.
PI 8.28 2 [Blake wrote] I question not my corporeal eye
any more than I
would question a window concerning a sight.
Aris 10.35 21 ...not the hardest utilitarian will
question the value of an
aristocracy if he love himself.
FSLC 11.183 20 I question the value of our
civilization, when I see that the
public mind had never less hold of the strongest of all truths.
questionable, adj. (4)
YA 1.393 12 It is a questionable compensation to the
embittered feeling of
a proud commoner, the reflection that a fop...is himself also an
aspirant
excluded with the same ruthlessness from higher circles...
Pt1 3.32 19 All the value which attaches to...Oken, or
any other who
introduces questionable facts into his cosmogony...is the certificate
we have
of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
Bty 6.284 11 The invention is of use to the inventor,
of questionable help to
any other.
WD 7.164 13 ...we must look deeper for our salvation
than to steam, photographs, balloons or astronomy. These tools have
some questionable
properties.
questioned, v. (5)
Comp 2.96 5 That which [men] hear in schools and pulpits
without
afterthought, if said in conversation would probably be questioned in
silence.
Fdsp 2.204 1 Almost every man we meet...has...some whim
of religion or
philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils
all
conversation with him.
Exp 3.64 27 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is
questioned;...
NER 3.264 14 ...it may easily be questioned whether
such a community
will draw, except in its beginnings, the able and the good;...
WD 7.166 8 'T is sometimes questioned whether morals
have not declined
as the arts have ascended.
Questioner, n. (1)
Wsp 6.230 14 I am well assured that the Questioner who
brings me so
many problems will bring the answers also in due time.
Questiones Romanae [Plutarc (1)
Plu 10.309 24 Except as historical curiosities, little
can be said in behalf of
the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the
Questions and the Symposiacs.
questions, n. (102)
Nat 1.3 20 Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which
are
unanswerable.
Nat 1.62 18 The first of these questions only [What is
matter?], the ideal
theory answers.
AmS 1.104 12 It is a shame to [the scholar]...if he
seek a temporary peace
by the diversion of his thoughts from politics or vexed questions...
LE 1.157 9 I will not lose myself in the desultory
questions, what are the
limitations, and what the causes of the fact.
MN 1.202 26 To questions of this sort, Nature replies,
I grow.
MR 1.231 15 ...it is only necessary to ask a few
questions as to the progress
of the articles of commerce from the fields where they grew, to our
houses, to become aware that we eat and drink and wear perjury and
fraud...
LT 1.260 5 [The Times] is very good matter to be
handled, if we are
skilful; an abundance of important practical questions which it
behooves us
to understand.
LT 1.270 10 The political questions touching the
Banks;...are all pregnant
with ethical conclusions;...
LT 1.270 21 The student of history will hereafter
compute the singular
value of our endless discussion of questions to the mind of the period.
LT 1.287 25 The main interest which any aspects of the
Times can have for
us, is...the light which they can shed on the wonderful questions, What
we
are? and Whither we tend?
Con 1.322 15 ...if it still be asked in this necessity
of partial organization, which party, on the whole, has the highest
claims on our sympathy,-I
bring it home to the private heart, where all such questions must have
their
final arbitrament.
Tran 1.331 19 ...how easy it is to show [the
materialist]...that he need only
ask a question or two beyond his daily questions to find his solid
universe
growing dim and impalpable before his sense.
YA 1.385 7 ...many people...are never happier than when
difficult practical
questions...are to be solved.
Hist 2.32 26 In splendid variety these changes come,
all putting questions
to the human spirit.
Hist 2.33 1 Those men who cannot answer by a superior
wisdom these facts
or questions of time, serve them.
SL 2.136 20 ...it is time enough to answer questions
when they are asked.
SL 2.136 22 Do not shut up the young people against
their will in a pew
and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their
will.
OS 2.277 13 ...in groups where debate is earnest, and
especially on high
questions, the company become aware that the thought rises to an equal
level in all bosoms...
OS 2.282 22 [Revelations] are solutions of the soul's
own questions.
OS 2.282 23 [Revelations] do not answer the questions
which the
understanding asks.
OS 2.283 4 In past oracles of the soul the
understanding seeks to find
answers to sensual questions...
OS 2.283 10 An answer in words is delusive; it is
really no answer to the
questions you ask.
OS 2.284 13 These questions which we lust to ask about
the future are a
confession of sin.
OS 2.284 23 The only mode of obtaining an answer to
these questions of
the senses is to forego all low curiosity...
Int 2.325 15 The first questions are always to be
asked...
Exp 3.62 14 If we will take the good we find, asking no
questions, we shall
have heaping measures.
NER 3.263 20 Doubts such as those I have intimated
drove many good
persons to agitate the questions of social reform.
NER 3.282 18 What if I cannot answer your questions?
UGM 4.7 1 ...there are persons who, in their character
and actions, answer
questions which I have not skill to put.
SwM 4.94 14 ...the instincts presently teach that the
problem of essence
must take precedence of all others;--the questions of Whence? What? and
Whither?...
MoS 4.158 4 ...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 4.182 7 the people's questions are not [the
spiritualist's];...
ShP 4.208 27 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded
convictions on those
questions which knock for answer at every heart...
NMW 4.249 22 [Napoleon] delighted in running through
the range of
practical, of literary and of abstract questions.
NMW 4.249 27 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked,
after dinner, to
fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to
oppose
it. He gave a subject, and the discussions turned on questions of
religion, the different kinds of government, and the art of war.
NMW 4.252 3 In intervals of leisure...Napoleon appears
as a man of genius
directing on abstract questions the native appetite for truth...he was
wont to
show in war.
GoW 4.270 1 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when
he must...write
conventional criticism, or profligate novels, or at any rate
write...without
recurrence...to the sources of inspiration? Some reply to these
questions
may be furnished by looking over the list of men of literary genius in
our
age.
ET5 5.82 6 In politics [the English] put blunt
questions, which must be
answered;...
ET5 5.87 26 ...Popery, Plymouth colony, American
Revolution, are all
questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner...
ET5 5.88 12 Nothing is more in the line of English
thought than our
unvarnished Connecticut question, Pray, sir, how do you get your living
when you are at home? The questions of freedom, of taxation, of
privilege, are money questions.
ET5 5.88 13 Nothing is more in the line of English
thought than our
unvarnished Connecticut question, Pray, sir, how do you get your living
when you are at home? The questions of freedom, of taxation, of
privilege, are money questions.
ET11 5.185 3 For the rest, the [English] nobility have
the lead...in
questions of taste, in social usages...
ET16 5.288 11 On the way to Winchester...my friends
asked many
questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses...
Wth 6.85 2 As soon as a stranger is introduced into any
company, one of
the first questions which all wish to have answered, is, How does that
man
get his living?
Wth 6.123 21 The farmer affects to take his orders; but
the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an opinion
concerning the mode
of...laying out my acre, but the ball will rebound to you. These are
matters
on which I neither know nor need to know anything. These are questions
which you and not I shall answer.
Wsp 6.229 8 Even children are not deceived by the false
reasons which
their parents give in answer to their questions...
Wsp 6.239 2 [The soul] asks no questions of the Supreme
Power.
CbW 6.272 25 What questions we ask of [a friend]!...
Ill 6.318 23 What terrible questions we are learning to
ask!
Boks 7.191 16 Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to
be heard on the
questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is familiar with the
books of
Plato, where all his pert objections have once for all been disposed
of.
Boks 7.215 16 In novels the most serious questions are
beginning to be
discussed.
Clbs 7.235 4 Yonder is a man who can answer the
questions which I cannot.
Clbs 7.237 15 In the Norse legends, The gods of
Valhalla when they meet
the Jotuns, converse on the perilous terms that he who cannot answer
the
other's questions forfeits his own life.
Clbs 7.249 5 I need only hint the value of the club for
bringing masters in
their several arts to compare and expand their views, to come to an
understanding on these points, and so that their united opinion shall
have its
just influence on public questions of education and politics.
PI 8.36 25 [The poet's] wreath and robe
is...emancipation from other men's
questions and glad study of his own;...
SA 8.95 22 Courage to ask questions; courage to expose
our ignorance.
Elo2 8.112 16 ...the political questions...find or form
a class of men by
nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these measures...
Elo2 8.117 25 A worthy gentleman...listening to the
debates of the General
Assembly of the Scottish Kirk in Edinburgh, and eager to speak to the
questions...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand
pounds
sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
Insp 8.292 5 The moth must fly to the lamp, and you
must solve those
questions though you die.
Imtl 8.331 23 [One of the men] said that when he
entered the Senate he
became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues, and...they
daily... spent much time in conversation on the immortality of the soul
and other
intellectual questions...
Imtl 8.347 1 You shall not say, O my bishop, O my
pastor, is there any
resurrection? What do you think? Did Dr. Channing believe that we
should
know each other? Did Wesley? did Butler? did Fenelon? What questions
are these!
Imtl 8.347 8 Let any master simply recite to you the
substantial laws of the
intellect, and in the presence of the laws themselves you will never
ask such
primary-school questions [concerning immortality].
Imtl 8.347 20 ...when we are living in the sentiments
we ask no questions
about time.
Aris 10.62 25 In America [the gentleman] shall find
deprecation of purism
on all questions touching the morals of trade and of social customs...
SovE 10.210 5 ...there are the new conventions of
social science, before
which the questions of the rights of women...come for a hearing.
MoL 10.257 4 It is impossible to extricate oneself from
the questions in
which our age is involved.
Schr 10.272 23 [The scholar] is the attorney of the
world, and can never be
superfluous where so vast a variety of questions are ever coming up to
be
solved...
Schr 10.284 10 [The scholar] will have to answer
certain questions, which... cannot be staved off.
Schr 10.284 18 [The scholar] will have to answer
certain questions, which... cannot be staved off. For all men, all
women...are the interrogators:...Can
you help any soul? Can he answer these questions?...
Schr 10.284 25 These questions [of life] speak to
Genius...
Plu 10.310 27 ...though curious in the questions of the
schools on the nature
and genesis of things, [Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of
character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly to Morals...
Thor 10.454 2 [Thoreau] could easily solve the problems
of the surveyor, but he was daily beset with graver questions, which he
manfully confronted.
Thor 10.474 5 ...[Thoreau] well knew that asking
questions of Indians is
like catechizing beavers and rabbits.
Carl 10.490 14 ...though no mortal in America could
pretend to talk with
Carlyle...yet neither would he in any manner satisfy us (Americans), or
begin to answer the questions which we ask.
LS 11.3 8 Without considering the frivolous questions
which have been
lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the
Lord's
Supper];...the questions have been settled differently in every
church...
LS 11.3 13 Without considering the frivolous questions
which have been
lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the
Lord's
Supper];...the questions have been settled differently in every
church...
HDC 11.51 25 The questions which the Indians put [to
John Eliot] betray
their reason and their ignorance.
HDC 11.52 7 At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws
apart, the wife
of Wampooas propounded the question, Whether do I pray when my
husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he
saith?- which questions were accounted of by some, as part of the
whitenings of
the harvest toward.
LVB 11.93 25 ...to us the questions upon which the
government and the
people have been agitated during the past year...seem but motes in
comparison [with the relocation of the Cherokees].
EWI 11.128 18 The extent of the [British] empire, and
the magnitude and
number of other questions crowding into court, keep this one [slavery]
in
balance...
War 11.156 12 Put [the man concerned with pugnacity]
into a circle of
cultivated men, where the conversation broaches the great questions
that
besiege the human reason, and he would be dumb and unhappy...
FSLC 11.179 21 [Massachusetts laws] never came near me
to any
discomfort before. I find the like sensibility...in that class who take
no
interest in the ordinary questions of party politics.
FSLN 11.217 1 I do not often speak to public
questions;...
AKan 11.255 11 ...it is impossible for the most recluse
to extricate himself
from the questions of the times.
SMC 11.369 8 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had
several holes made, and were badly torn. One bullet hit the staff which
the bearer had in his
hand. The color-bearer is brave as a lion; he will go anywhere you say,
and
no questions asked;...
EdAd 11.389 2 ...we have seen the best understandings
of New England... persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is
called a New England
sentiment any longer. Rely on us for commercial representatives, but
for
questions of ethics,-who knows what markets may be opened?
EdAd 11.390 24 Will [a journal] cope with the allied
questions of
Government, Nonresistance, and all that belongs under that category?
Wom 11.405 20 ...Coleridge was wont to apply to a lady
for her judgment
in questions of taste...
Wom 11.420 7 On the questions that are
important...[women] would give, I
suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
Wom 11.420 21 If new power is here, of a character
which solves old tough
questions...you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.
FRep 11.516 11 We are in these days settling for
ourselves and our
descendants questions which...will make the peace and prosperity or the
calamity of the next ages.
FRep 11.516 15 The questions of Education, of Society,
of Labor...may
well occupy us...
FRep 11.516 25 The humblest [in America] is daily
challenged to give his
opinion on practical questions...
FRep 11.519 4 The partisan on moral, even on religious
questions, will
choose a proven rogue who can answer the tests, over an honest,
affectionate, noble gentleman;...
FRep 11.523 18 The people are right-minded enough on
ethical questions...
FRep 11.527 14 The facility with which clubs are formed
by young men
for discussion of social, political and intellectual topics secures the
notoriety of the questions.
FRep 11.539 8 It is not possible to extricate yourself
from the questions in
which your age is involved.
PLT 12.7 4 ...these questions which really interest
men, how few can
answer.
PLT 12.7 6 ...these questions which really interest
men, how few can
answer. Here are learned faculties of law and divinity, but would
questions
like these come into mind when I see them?
CInt 12.131 9 ...'t is very certain that an examination
is yonder before us
and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived, that
every
scholar...must hear the questions proposed, and answer them by
himself...
Milt1 12.269 4 Questions that involve all social and
personal rights were
hasting to be decided by the sword...
PPr 12.383 2 It requires great courage in a man of
letters to handle the
contemporary practical questions;...
Questions [Plutarch], n. (1)
Plu 10.309 24 Except as historical curiosities, little
can be said in behalf of
the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the
Questions and the Symposiacs.
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