Quetelet to Quoting

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

Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe, (1)

    F 6.9 16 ...ask Quetelet if temperaments decide nothing?...

quibbles, n. (1)

    PPh 4.74 11 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates], whose strange conceits, drollery and bonhommie diverted the young patricians, whilst the rumor of his sayings and quibbles gets abroad every day,--turns out...to have a probity as invincible as his logic...

quibbles, v. (1)

    PPh 4.60 16 ...[Plato] paints and quibbles;...

quick, adj. (30)

    AmS 1.87 27 [Nature] was dead fact; now, it is quick thought.
    Hsm1 2.247 4 Treacherous heart,/ My hand shall cast thee quick into my urn,/ Ere thou transgress this knot of piety./
    Hsm1 2.263 12 It may calm the apprehension of calamity in the most susceptible heart to see how quick a bound Nature has set to the utmost infliction of malice.
    OS 2.265 6 ...Yonder masterful cuckoo/ Crowds every egg out of the nest,/ Quick or dead, except its own;/...
    Cir 2.304 12 ...if the soul is quick and strong it bursts over that boundary on all sides...
    Mrs1 3.140 10 Accuracy is essential to beauty, and quick perceptions to politeness...
    Mrs1 3.140 11 Accuracy is essential to beauty, and quick perceptions to politeness, but not too quick perceptions.
    Nat2 3.179 11 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature... the quick cause before which all forms flee as the driven snows;...
    ET10 5.157 11 Everything in England is at a quick pace.
    ET14 5.237 10 ...these [English poets] were so quick and vital that they could charm and enrich by mean and vulgar objects.
    F 6.46 1 If the threads are there, thought can follow and show them. Especially when a soul is quick and docile...
    Bhr 6.193 10 Between simple and noble persons there is always a quick intelligence;...
    Art2 7.41 19 You cannot build your house or pagoda as you will, but as you must. There is a quick bound set to your caprice.
    Elo1 7.91 5 If you...give [a man] a grasp of facts, learning, quick fancy, sarcasm, splendid allusion, interminable illustration,--all these talents...have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
    Farm 7.145 5 [Nature]...deals never with dead, but ever with quick subjects.
    SA 8.100 24 ...[there is in America the general belief that] if [the young American] have...quick eye for the opportunities which are always offering for investment, he can come to wealth...
    Elo2 8.126 24 ...it costs a great heat to enable a heavy man to come up with those who have a quick sensibility.
    Elo2 8.127 27 The doctor [Charles Chauncy]...had lost some natural relation to men, and quick application of his thought to the course of events.
    QO 8.193 25 ...a quick wit can at any time reinforce [a word]...
    PPo 8.247 19 ...quick perception and corresponding expression...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
    Insp 8.273 12 ...this quick ebb of power...tantalizes us.
    Grts 8.305 4 There are to each function and department of Nature supplementary men: to geology...men, with a taste for mountains and rocks, a quick eye for differences and for chemical changes.
    Edc1 10.139 9 [Boys] know truth from counterfeit as quick as the chemist does.
    GSt 10.504 19 I have heard something of [George Stearns's] quick temper...
    LVB 11.95 7 ...the steps of this crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other...at such fatally quick time, that the millions of virtuous citizens...have no place to interpose...
    AsSu 11.248 18 If...Massachusetts could send to the Senate a better man than Mr. Sumner, his death would be only so much the more quick and certain.
    PLT 12.57 27 ...there are quick limits to our interest in the personality of people.
    Mem 12.97 24 A knife with a good spring, a forceps...the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
    Milt1 12.257 17 [Milton's] eye was quick...
    Trag 12.409 16 ...it is natures...not of quick and steady perceptions, but imperfect characters from which somewhat is hidden that all others see, who suffer most from these causes.

quick, adv. (5)

    LE 1.171 17 Shut the shutters never so quick to keep all the light in, it is all in vain;...
    Edc1 10.139 13 [Boys] detect weakness in your eye and behavior a week before you open your mouth, and have given you the benefit of their opinion quick as a wink.
    Mem 12.94 13 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza. But where I have them, or what becomes of them when I am not thinking of them...never any man was so sharp-sighted, or could turn himself inside out quick enough to find.
    CL 12.153 10 At Niagara, I have noticed, that, as quick as I got out of the wetting of the Fall, all the grandeur changed into beauty.
    WSL 12.337 9 When Mr. Bull rides in an American coach, he speaks quick and strong;...

quick, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.6 11 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses have sufficient force to arrive at the senses, but not enough to reach the quick...
    UGM 4.14 22 ...it is hard for departed men to touch the quick like our own companions...

quickened, v. (5)

    ET1 5.23 9 I told [Wordsworth] how much the few printed extracts had quickened the desire to possess his unpublished poems.
    Boks 7.203 12 [In the Platonists] The acolyte has mounted the tripod over the cave at Delphi; his heart dances, his sight is quickened.
    Edc1 10.129 16 ...if the higher faculties of the individual be from time to time quickened, he will gain wisdom and virtue from his business.
    Schr 10.260 3 The sun and moon shall fall amain/ Like sowers' seeds into his brain,/ There quickened to be born again./
    HDC 11.74 13 The English beginning to pluck up some of the planks of the [Concord] bridge, the Americans quickened their pace...

quickening, v. (1)

    ALin 11.335 16 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before [the American people]; slow with their slowness, quickening his march by theirs...

quickens, v. (1)

    PC 8.223 15 Nature is brute but as this soul quickens it;...

quicker, adj. (1)

    Lov1 2.182 11 By conversation with that which is in itself excellent, magnanimous, lowly, and just, the lover comes to a warmer love of these nobilities, and a quicker apprehension of them.

quicker, adv. (2)

    Ill 6.312 19 [The dreariest alderman] pays a debt quicker to a rich man than to a poor man.
    Res 8.140 4 See...how...every impatient boss who sharply shortens the phrase or the word to give his order quicker...improves the national tongue.

quickly, adv. (41)

    LT 1.277 9 [The Reforms] are quickly organized in some low, inadequate form...
    Con 1.309 22 ...the moon and the north star you would quickly have occasion for in your closet and bed-chamber.
    Con 1.325 16 ...if I...become idle and dissolute, I quickly come to love the protection of a strong law...
    YA 1.371 4 A heterogeneous population crowding...to the great gates of North America...and quickly contributing their private thought to the public opinion...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    YA 1.377 10 ...as quickly as men go to foreign parts in ships or caravans, a new order of things springs up;...
    YA 1.395 11 ...we shall quickly enough advance out of all hearing of others' censures...
    SR 2.70 12 ...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities...who are not. This is the ultimate fact, which we so quickly reach on this, as on every topic...
    Comp 2.113 27 Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.
    Hsm1 2.248 14 ...if we explore the literature of Heroism we shall quickly come to Plutarch...
    Pt1 3.26 18 It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect he is capable of a new energy...by abandonment to the nature of things;...
    Exp 3.55 14 Dedication to one thought is quickly odious.
    Exp 3.67 17 To-morrow again every thing looks real and angular...and experience is hands and feet to every enterprise;--and yet, he who should do his business on this understanding would be quickly bankrupt.
    Pol1 3.200 11 ...the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of;...
    NER 3.272 22 In the circle of the rankest tories...let...a man of great heart and mind act on them, and very quickly these frozen conservators will yield to the friendly influence...
    PPh 4.67 25 There is no thought in any mind but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power and organizes a huge instrumentality of means.
    PPh 4.77 3 The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.
    ShP 4.207 8 That imagination which dilates the closet [Shakespeare] writes in to the world's dimension...as quickly reduces the big reality to be the glimpses of the moon.
    ET1 5.10 3 The criticism [of Landor] may be right or wrong, and is quickly forgotten;...
    ET1 5.23 22 [Wordsworth] preferred such of his poems as touched the affections, to any others; for whatever is didactic...might perish quickly;...
    ET5 5.100 19 Men [in England] quickly embodied what Newton found out, in Greenwich observatories...
    ET7 5.121 9 [The English]...cannot easily change their opinions to suit the hour. They are like ships with too much head on to come quickly about...
    F 6.6 15 The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies...
    Wth 6.118 13 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.
    Bhr 6.189 23 ...go into the house; if the proprietor is constrained and deferring, 't is of no importance...how beautiful his grounds,--you quickly come to the end of all...
    CbW 6.257 18 ...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one erect; the gratifications of the passions are so quickly seen to be damaging...
    CbW 6.274 7 It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether you...have been carried in a neat equipage or in a ridiculous truck: these things are forgotten so quickly...
    DL 7.123 23 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model. Neither does the measurer himself;...neither do...the heroes of the race. When he inspects them critically, he discovers...that they are too quickly satisfied.
    Suc 7.310 19 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation, and they...go home with heavier step and premature age. They will themselves quickly enough give the hint he wants to the cold wretch.
    Comc 8.174 1 Mirth quickly becomes intemperate...
    QO 8.188 22 The mischief [of quotation] is quickly punished in general and in particular.
    PC 8.232 17 ...wherever high society exists it is very well able to exclude pretenders. The intruder finds himself uncomfortable, and quickly departs to his own gang.
    Insp 8.280 12 ...we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies.
    Grts 8.311 15 There is so much to be done that we ought to begin quickly to bestir ourselves.
    PerF 10.88 10 ...[wrath and petulance] quickly reach their brief date and decompose...
    Supl 10.175 22 Nature is always serious,-does not jest with us. Where we have begun in folly, we are brought quickly to plain dealing.
    SovE 10.192 19 Nothing is allowed to exceed or absorb the rest; if it do, it is disease, and is quickly destroyed.
    Plu 10.302 4 In [Plutarch's] immense quotation and allusion we quickly cease to discriminate between what he quotes and what he invents.
    MMEm 10.405 14 ...the minister found quickly that [Mary Moody Emerson] knew all his books and many more...
    Carl 10.493 13 If a scholar goes into a camp of lumbermen or a gang of riggers, those men will quickly detect any fault of character.
    CL 12.153 12 At Niagara, I have noticed, that, as quick as I got out of the wetting of the Fall, all the grandeur changed into beauty. You cannot keep it grand, 't is so quickly beautiful;...
    Milt1 12.247 9 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided...

quickness, n. (2)

    NR 3.230 11 It is even worse in America, where, from the intellectual quickness of the race, the genius of the country is more splendid in its promise and more slight in its performance.
    PI 8.17 12 [Poetry's] essential mark is that it betrays in every word instant activity of mind, shown...in preternatural quickness or perception of relations.

quicksand, n. (1)

    Exp 3.55 6 Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorage is quicksand.

quick-set, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.115 25 ...every hill of melons, row of corn, or quick-set hedge [on a man's land]...stand in his way...when he would go out of his gate.

quicksilver, n. (1)

    Wth 6.89 21 ...ledges of rock, mines of iron, lead, quicksilver, tin and gold;...are [man's] natural playmates...

quiddle, n. (1)

    ET6 5.104 10 The Englishman is very petulant and precise about his accommodation at inns and on the roads; a quiddle about his toast and his chop and every species of convenience...

quiddling, adj. (1)

    Ctr 6.154 18 The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated. Neither will we be driven into a quiddling abstemiousness.

quiescent, adj. (1)

    Mem 12.107 1 When the body is in a quiescent state...it yields itself a willing medium to the intellect.

quiet, adj. (32)

    Hsm1 2.263 17 ...Let them rave:/ Thou art quiet in thy grave./
    Pt1 3.29 17 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts...comes forth to the poor and hungry...
    Chr1 3.93 2 ...[the natural merchant] inspires respect and the wish to deal with him...for the quiet spirit of honor which attends him...
    Nat2 3.191 7 ...wealth was good as it...brought friends together in a warm and quiet room...
    NER 3.282 13 This open channel to the highest life is the first and last reality, so subtle, so quiet...
    SwM 4.101 11 [Swedenborg] is described, when in London, as a man of a quiet, clerical habit...
    ET8 5.128 22 [The English] are just as cold, quiet and composed, at the end, as at the beginning of dinner.
    ET10 5.165 26 ...[the Englishman's] English name and accidents are like a flourish of trumpets announcing him. This, with his quiet style of manners, gives him the power of a sovereign without the inconveniences which belong to that rank.
    ET16 5.279 16 In this quiet house of destiny [Stonehenge] [Carlyle] happened to say, I plant cypresses wherever I go, and if I am in search of pain, I cannot go wrong.
    Wth 6.92 14 The mechanic at his bench carries a quiet heart and assured manners...
    Ctr 6.150 15 I wish cities could teach their best lesson,--of quiet manners.
    Wsp 6.213 12 There is...a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us...
    CbW 6.269 25 ...a virulent, aggressive fool taints the reason of a household. I have seen a whole family of quiet, sensible people unhinged and beside themselves, victims of such a rogue.
    Ill 6.310 20 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars...and even what seemed a comet flaming among them. ... Our musical friends sung with much feeling a pretty song, The stars are in the quiet sky...
    Clbs 7.245 8 There are people...whom you must keep down and quiet if you can.
    Cour 7.271 1 'T is the quiet, peaceable men, the men of principle, that make the best soldiers.
    Suc 7.311 17 [The inner life] is a quiet, wise perception.
    Insp 8.285 2 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./
    PerF 10.70 19 What agencies of electricity, gravity, light, affinity combine to make every plant what it is, and in a manner so quiet that the presence of these tremendous powers is not ordinarily suspected.
    PerF 10.87 13 ...the most quiet and protected life is at any moment exposed to incidents which test your firmness.
    Edc1 10.141 20 ...because of the disturbing effect of passion and sense, which by a multitude of trifles impede the mind's eye from the quiet search of that fine horizon-line which truth keeps,-the way to knowledge and power has ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and possessions;...
    Edc1 10.144 26 This is the perpetual romance of new life, the invasion of God into the old dead world, when he sends into quiet houses a young soul with a thought which is not met...
    MoL 10.246 18 A shrewd broker out of State Street visited a quiet countryman possessed of all the virtues...
    MoL 10.257 10 War, seeking for the roots of strength, comes upon the moral aspects at once. In quiet times, custom stifles this discussion as sentimental...
    Plu 10.307 5 Whilst we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power from the philosopher in his closet, we praise it in...the man who lives on quiet terms with existing institutions...
    LLNE 10.369 22 I please myself with the thought that our American mind... is beginning to show a quiet power...
    SlHr 10.448 9 ...I find an elegance in [Samuel Hoar's] quiet but firm withdrawal from all business in the courts which he could drop without manifest detriment to the interests involved...
    FSLC 11.196 20 But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited. The scowl of the community is attempted to be averted by the mischievous whisper, Tariff and Southern market, if you will be quiet: no tariff and loss of Southern market, if you dare to murmur.
    FSLN 11.222 25 [Webster] worked with...the same quiet and sure feeling of right to his place that an oak or a mountain have to theirs.
    JBS 11.279 18 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...quiet and gentle as a child in the house.
    SMC 11.350 25 I shall say of this obelisk [the Concord Monument], planted here in our quiet plains, what Richter says of the volcano in the fair landscape of Naples: Vesuvius stands in this poem of Nature, and exalts everything, as war does the age.
    SHC 11.434 9 Sleepy Hollow. In this quiet valley...we shall sleep well when we have finished our day.

quiet, n. (5)

    LE 1.163 3 ...in the quiet of these gray fields...behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
    Supl 10.168 6 All our manner of life is on a secure and moderate pattern, such as can last. Violence and extravagance are...distasteful; competence, quiet, comfort, are the agreed welfare.
    MMEm 10.431 12 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid her passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;...I cowering in the nest of quiet for so many years;...
    War 11.162 9 You forget that the quiet which now sleeps in cities and in farms...rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there...
    Trag 12.412 24 There is a fire in some men which demands an outlet in some rude action; they betray their impatience of quiet by an irregular Catilinarian gait;...

quieted, v. (2)

    SA 8.97 7 ...there are...swainish, morose people, who must be kept down and quieted as you would those who are a little tipsy;...
    CL 12.159 20 In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts, especially gazelles, collect around an insane person, and live with him on a friendly footing. The patient found something curative in that intercourse, by which he was quieted, and sometimes restored.

quietest, adj. (1)

    Prd1 2.229 26 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine;...

Quietist, n. (1)

    OS 2.282 13 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist; the opening of the eternal sense of the Word, in the language of the New Jerusalem Church... are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.

quietly, adv. (10)

    NER 3.268 16 A man of good sense but of little faith...said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on. I am afraid the remark...comes from the same origin as the maxim of the tyrant, If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.
    ET3 5.35 4 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...and reads quietly the Times newspaper...
    Bhr 6.186 5 Society is very swift in its instincts, and, if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.
    Wsp 6.228 26 If we will sit quietly, what [people] ought to say is said...
    Boks 7.210 17 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford].
    Res 8.152 12 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that they quietly expand in the warmer days...
    QO 8.188 10 People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own, quietly and happily...
    Dem1 10.3 23 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should resign so quietly this deifying Reason...
    Chr2 10.116 20 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly.
    ACiv 11.306 25 Neither do I doubt, is such a composition should take place, that the Southerners will come back quietly and politely...

quietness, n. (1)

    CPL 11.507 1 You say, [reading] is a languid pleasure. Yes, but its tractableness...compensates the quietness...

quill, n. (2)

    Bty 6.294 11 ...the bone or the quill of the bird gives the most alar strength with the least weight.
    PPo 8.251 3 ...Hafiz is a poet for poets, whether he write, as sometimes, with a parrot's, or, as at other times, with an eagle's quill.

quincunx, n. (1)

    SL 2.148 20 [A man] is like a quincunx of trees, which counts five,--east, west, north, or south;...

Quincy, Edmund, n. (1)

    CSC 10.373 9 The [Chardon Street] Convention organized itself by the choice of Edmund Quincy as Moderator...

Quincy, Josiah, n. (4)

    OA 7.315 3 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy...was received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.
    Insp 8.286 17 I remember a capital prudence of old President Quincy, who told me that he never went to bed at night until he had laid out the studies for the next morning.
    Bost 12.203 14 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some John Adams and Josiah Quincy and Governor Andrew to undertake and carry the defence of patriots in the courts against the uproar of all the province;...
    Bost 12.211 4 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./

Quincy, Massachusetts, adj. (2)

    Tran 1.331 22 The sturdy capitalist, no matter how deep and square on blocks of Quincy granite he lays the foundations of his banking-house or Exchange, must set it ...on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
    OA 7.334 12 I...saw [George Whitefield], [John Adams] said, through a window, and distinctly heard all. He had a voice such as I never heard before or since. He cast it out so that you might hear it at the meeting-house (pointing towards the Quincy meeting-house)...

Quincy, Massachusetts, n. (2)

    OA 7.332 9 --,February, 1825 To-day at Quincy, with my brother, by invitation of Mr. [John] Adams's family.
    OA 7.333 19 We inquired when [John Adams] expected to see Mr. [John Quincy] Adams.--He said: Never: Mr. Adams will not come to Quincy but to my funeral.

quinsy, n. (1)

    MoS 4.169 13 Montaigne died of a quinsy, at the age of sixty, in 1592.

Quintilian, n. (3)

    SS 7.14 23 Put Stubbs and Coleridge, Quintilian and Aunt Miriam, into pairs, and you make them all wretched.
    Plu 10.294 9 ...though the contemporary...of Quintilian, Martial, Tacitus, Suetonius...[Plutarch] does not cite them...
    Mem 12.95 25 Quintilian reckoned [memory] the measure of genius.

Quintinie [Quintinye], Jean (1)

    ET11 5.188 27 George Loudon, Quintinye, Evelyn, had taught [British dukes] to make gardens.

Quintinye [Quintinie], Jean (1)

    ET11 5.188 27 George Loudon, Quintinye, Evelyn, had taught [British dukes] to make gardens.

Quintus Curtius, n. (1)

    Cour 7.253 20 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown of the heroes of Greece and Rome...of Quintus Curtius, Cato and Regulus;...

Quirites, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.195 17 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans? Utri creditis, Quirites?

quit, v. (25)

    AmS 1.102 23 Let [the scholar] not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun...
    AmS 1.107 17 Wake [men] and they shall quit the false good and leap to the true...
    MN 1.209 8 ...there is a mischievous tendency in [man]...to quit his agency and rest in his acts...
    MN 1.220 17 Shall we not quit our companions...
    Fdsp 2.215 14 It would...give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking...
    Hsm1 2.262 20 Let [a man] quit too much association...
    Pt1 3.7 21 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which... confounds [poets] with those whose province is action but who quit it to imitate the sayers.
    Nat2 3.170 18 The incommunicable trees begin to persuade us to...quit our life of solemn trifles.
    Pol1 3.208 23 Our quarrel with [political parties] begins when they quit this deep natural ground at the bidding of some leader...
    NER 3.274 24 Caesar, just before the battle of Pharsalia...offers to quit the army, the empire, and Cleopatra, if [the Egyptian priest] will show him those mysterious sources [of the Nile].
    NER 3.285 20 May [the heart] not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul...
    GoW 4.279 2 ...[the hero and heroine of Sand's Consuelo] quit the society and habits of their rank...
    ET13 5.230 13 ...when the hierarchy is afraid of science and education, afraid of piety, afraid of tradition and afraid of theology, there is nothing left but to quit a church which is no longer one.
    WD 7.175 14 [That flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn;...the populous, all-loving solitude which men quit for the tattle of towns.
    PI 8.52 2 With...the first strain of a song, we quit the world of common sense...
    Comc 8.173 16 We do nothing that is not laughable whenever we quit our spontaneous sentiment.
    Imtl 8.341 18 Montesquieu said, The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruin.
    SlHr 10.437 5 ...this is the pregnant season, when our old Roman, Samuel Hoar, has chosen to quit this world.
    HDC 11.76 23 ...having quit you like men in the battle, you [veterans of the battle of Concord] have quit yourselves like men in your virtuous families;...
    HDC 11.76 24 ...you [veterans of the battle of Concord] have quit yourselves like men in your virtuous families;...
    HDC 11.85 11 I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past.
    Wom 11.407 11 ...there is usually no employment or career which [women] will not with their own applause and that of society quit for a suitable marriage.
    CPL 11.505 1 Montesquieu...writes: The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which gives them to us approaches its ruin.
    FRep 11.532 16 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him;...
    PPr 12.389 17 ...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd, quit his temptestuous key, and lance at him in clear level tone the very word...

quite, adv. (254)

    Nat 1.24 3 Nothing is quite beautiful alone;...
    Nat 1.51 4 What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the railroad car!
    AmS 1.88 9 ...[no work of art] is quite perfect.
    AmS 1.93 16 Of course there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man.
    AmS 1.96 10 [The actions and events of our childhood] lie like fair pictures in the air. Not so...with the business which we now have in hand. On this we are quite unable to speculate.
    AmS 1.108 6 The books which once we valued more than the apple of the eye, we have quite exhausted.
    DSA 1.126 5 Man fallen...into sensuality, is never quite without the visions of the moral sentiment.
    DSA 1.139 11 ...when we preach unworthily, it is not always quite in vain.
    DSA 1.140 1 In a large portion of the community, the religious service gives rise to quite other thoughts and emotions.
    LE 1.180 2 ...[Napoleon] believed...in the...quite incalculable force of the soul.
    MN 1.194 16 Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the highest or truest name for our communication with the infinite...
    MN 1.197 7 We can never be quite strangers or inferiors in nature.
    MN 1.202 15 ...one can hardly help asking if this planet is a fair specimen of the so generous astronomy...and whether it be quite worth while to make more...
    MR 1.236 10 ...quite apart from the emphasis which the times give to the doctrine that the manual labor of society ought to be shared among all the members, there are reasons proper to every individual why he should not be deprived of it.
    MR 1.239 26 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him to his ends...
    MR 1.241 26 I would not quite forget the venerable counsel of the Egyptian mysteries...
    MR 1.242 13 Better that the book should not be quite so good, and the book-maker abler and better...
    LT 1.266 8 ...how many [men] seem not quite available for that idea which they represent?
    LT 1.266 13 Now and then comes...a...soul, more informed and led by God...which is much in advance of the rest, quite beyond their sympathy...
    Con 1.307 7 We wrought for others under this law, and got our lands so. I repeat the question, Is your law just? Not quite just, but necessary.
    Tran 1.356 21 ...[these old guardians] have but one mood on the subject, namely, that Antony is very perverse,-that it is quite as much as Antony can do to assert his rights...
    Tran 1.356 27 [The Transcendentalist] is braced-up and stilted;...all sallies of wit and frolic nature are quite out of the question;...
    Tran 1.357 6 [The strong spirits'] thought and emotion...quite withdraws them from all notice of these carping critics;...
    YA 1.368 7 A little grove, which any farmer can find or cause to grow near his house, will in a few years make...chains of mountains quite unnecessary to his scenery;...
    YA 1.377 15 [Traders'] information, their wealth, their correspondence, have made them quite other men than left their native shore.
    YA 1.391 6 ...the wise and just man will always feel...that if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.
    Hist 2.14 1 Nothing is so fleeting as form; yet never does it quite deny itself.
    Hist 2.18 24 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches...
    Hist 2.27 10 The student interprets...the days of maritime adventure and circumnavigation by quite parallel miniature experiences of his own.
    SR 2.50 14 I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser...
    SR 2.55 10 [Conformists'] every truth is not quite true.
    Comp 2.107 2 Achilles is not quite invulnerable;...
    Comp 2.107 4 Siegfried, in the Nibelungen, is not quite immortal...
    Comp 2.110 4 We aim at a petty end quite aside from the public good...
    SL 2.132 20 It is quite another thing that [a man] should be able to give account of his faith...
    SL 2.137 7 [Our society] is a graduated, titled, richly appointed empire, quite superfluous when town-meetings are found to answer just as well.
    SL 2.152 10 There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are;...then is a teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.
    Lov1 2.174 13 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis or comparison and putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years...
    Lov1 2.179 13 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization. Nor does it point to any relations of friendship or love known and described in society, but...to a quite other and unattainable sphere...
    Lov1 2.184 15 Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other...of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
    Fdsp 2.198 18 ...my moods are quite attainable...
    Fdsp 2.200 11 The valiant warrior famoused for fight,/ After a hundred victories, once foiled,/ Is from the book of honor razed quite/ And all the rest forgot for which he toiled./
    Fdsp 2.205 6 I wish [friendship] to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.
    Fdsp 2.205 10 We chide the citizen because he makes love a commodity. It...quite loses sight of the delicacies and nobility of the relation.
    Fdsp 2.206 20 [Friendship] cannot subsist in its perfection...betwixt more than two. I am not quite so strict in my terms...
    Fdsp 2.207 17 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. No partialities of friend to friend...are there pertinent, but quite otherwise.
    OS 2.276 5 The lover has no talent, no skill, which passes for quite nothing with his enamored maiden...
    Int 2.334 14 Our history, we are sure, is quite tame...
    Art1 2.351 2 Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself...
    Art1 2.352 26 No man can quite exclude this element of Necessity from his labor.
    Art1 2.353 1 No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country...
    Pt1 3.8 18 Words and deeds are quite indifferent modes of the divine energy.
    Exp 3.58 21 At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest figures of young men and maidens, quite powerless and melancholy.
    Exp 3.67 18 Power keeps quite another road than the turnpikes of choice and will;...
    Exp 3.74 19 [Just persons] believe...that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends...
    Exp 3.78 21 ...[murder] is an act quite easy to be contemplated;...
    Chr1 3.101 13 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were quite equal to what they attempted, and did it;...
    Chr1 3.103 15 We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscription to soup-societies.
    Mrs1 3.135 6 It were unmerciful, I know, quite to abolish the use of these screens...
    Mrs1 3.138 18 It is not quite sufficient to good-breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
    Gts 3.162 5 We do not quite forgive a giver.
    Nat2 3.169 19 The solitary places do not seem quite lonely.
    Nat2 3.187 12 No man is quite sane;...
    Nat2 3.192 5 Quite analogous to the deceits in life, there is...a similar effect on the eye from the face of external nature.
    Pol1 3.214 19 This undertaking for another is the blunder which stands in colossal ugliness in the governments of the world. It is the same thing in numbers, as in a pair, only not quite so intelligible.
    Pol1 3.217 6 Malthus and Ricardo quite omit [character];...
    Pol1 3.220 9 ...according to the order of nature, which is quite superior to our will, it stands thus; there will always be a government of force where men are selfish;...
    NR 3.225 4 Each [man] is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us.
    NR 3.231 10 Our proclivity to details cannot quite degrade our life...
    NR 3.234 23 Anomalous facts, as the never quite obsolete rumors of magic and demonology...are of ideal use.
    NER 3.259 1 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high and dry on the beach...
    NER 3.260 5 ...in a few months the most conservative circles of Boston and New York had quite forgotten who of their gownsmen was college-bred, and who was not.
    UGM 4.17 22 ...we are entitled to these enlargements [of the imagination], and once having passed the bounds shall never again be quite the miserable pedants we were.
    UGM 4.19 17 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear;...
    PPh 4.67 18 Quite above us, beyond the will of you or me, is this secret affinity or repulsion laid.
    SwM 4.118 11 Why hear I the same sense from countless differing voices, and read one never quite expressed fact in endless picture-language?
    SwM 4.132 25 Genius is ever haunted by similar dreams [to those of Swedenborg], when the hells and the heavens are opened to it. But these pictures are to be held...as a quite arbitrary and accidental picture of the truth,--not as the truth.
    MoS 4.158 7 ...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 4.166 20 [Montaigne] makes no hesitation to entertain you with the records of his disease, and his journey to Italy is quite full of that matter.
    MoS 4.173 3 It stands in [the wise skeptic's] mind that our life in this world is not of quite so easy interpretation as churches and school-books say.
    ShP 4.215 15 In the poet's mind the fact has gone quite over into the new element of thought, and has lost all that is exuvial.
    GoW 4.270 10 I described Bonaparte as a representative of the popular external life and aims of the nineteenth century. Its other half, its poet, is Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century...
    GoW 4.288 13 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's] tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture. It was the infirmity of an admirable scholar...who did not quite trust the compensations of poverty and nakedness.
    ET1 5.5 12 ...I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons, as they respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world to make it needful to affect any prudery of suppression about a few hints of those bright personalities.
    ET2 5.30 5 If [the sea] is capable of these great and secular mischiefs, it is quite as ready at private and local damage;...
    ET4 5.51 22 ...I fancied I could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as [the Englishman's] lineal progenitors.
    ET4 5.62 22 The mildness of the following ages has not quite effaced these traits of Odin;...
    ET6 5.111 22 The keeping of the proprieties is [in England] as indispensable as clean linen. No merit quite countervails the want of this whilst this sometimes stands in lieu of all.
    ET6 5.115 4 ...[at an English dress-dinner] one meets now and then with polished men who know every thing, have tried every thing, and can do every thing, and are quite superior to letters and science.
    ET13 5.225 12 The chatter of French politics...and the noise of embarking emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind;...
    ET14 5.239 24 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists...
    ET15 5.262 26 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and Froudes and Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or short essays for a journal...as they shoot and ride. It is a quite accidental and arbitrary direction of their general ability.
    ET15 5.265 21 The statistics [on the London Times] are now quite out of date...
    ET16 5.286 9 Whilst we listened to the organ [at Salisbury Cathedral], my friend [Carlyle] remarked, the music is good, and yet not quite religious...
    ET16 5.288 26 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother, long since driven away from the trim hedge-rows and over-cultivated garden of England. And, in England, I am quite too sensible of this.
    Pow 6.58 10 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency...then quite easily...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
    Pow 6.59 15 The weaker party finds that none of his information or wit quite fits the occasion.
    Pow 6.59 18 Nothing that [the weaker party] knows will quite hit the mark...
    Pow 6.66 8 The pious and charitable proprietor has a foreman not quite so pious and charitable.
    Pow 6.70 2 The people lean on this [aboriginal source], and the mob is not quite so bad an argument as we sometimes say, for it has this good side.
    Wth 6.107 9 The manufacturer says he will furnish you with just that thickness or thinness [of paper] you want; the pattern is quite indifferent to him;...
    Ctr 6.141 25 The best heads that ever existed...were...quite too wise to undervalue letters.
    Ctr 6.144 18 I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither.
    Ctr 6.144 21 I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither. His easy superiority to multitudes of professional men could never quite countervail to him this imaginary defect.
    Ctr 6.148 10 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws...
    Ctr 6.160 23 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order will never quite lose sight of this...
    Bhr 6.174 4 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly undertook the reformation of our American manners in unspeakable particulars. I think the lesson was not quite lost;...
    Bhr 6.174 15 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to persons who look at marble statues that they shall not smite them with canes. But even in the perfect civilization of this city [Boston] such cautions are not quite needless in the Athenaeum and City Library.
    Bhr 6.191 25 The novels used to be all alike, and had a quite vulgar tone.
    CbW 6.258 9 Better, certainly, if we could secure the strength and fire which rude, passionate men bring into society, quite clear of their vices.
    CbW 6.263 26 I once asked a clergyman in a retired town...what men of ability he saw? He replied that he spent his time with the sick and the dying. I said he seemed to me to need quite other company...
    CbW 6.270 4 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that nature and gravitation are quite wrong, and he only is right.
    CbW 6.273 17 With the first class of men our friendship or good understanding goes quite behind all accidents of estrangement...
    Bty 6.304 25 The poets are quite right in decking their mistresses with the spoils of the landscape...
    Ill 6.311 6 ...rainbows and Northern Lights are not quite so spheral as our childhood thought them...
    Ill 6.315 15 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I...affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary;...
    Ill 6.322 3 A sudden rise in the road shows us...all the summits, which have been just as near us all the year, but quite out of mind.
    Civ 7.26 12 These feats are measures or traits of civility; and temperate climate is an important influence, though not quite indispensable...
    Art2 7.40 8 When we reflect on the pleasure we receive from a ship, a railroad, a dry-dock; or from a picture, a dramatic representation, a statue, a poem,--we find that these have not a quite simple, but a blended origin.
    Art2 7.42 25 ...in all our operations we seek not to use our own, but to bring a quite infinite force to bear.
    Art2 7.44 12 In sculpture and in architecture the material...and in architecture the mass, are sources of great pleasure quite independent of the artificial arrangement.
    Art2 7.55 10 It would be easy to show of many fine things in the world... the origin in quite simple local necessities.
    Elo1 7.80 14 ...among our cool and calculating people...where heats and panics and abandonments are quite out of the system, there is a good deal of skepticism as to extraordinary influence.
    Elo1 7.80 24 ...each man inquires if any orator can change his convictions. But does any one suppose himself to be quite impregnable?
    Elo1 7.85 6 The several talents which the orator employs...deserve a special enumeration. We must not quite omit to name the principal pieces.
    Elo1 7.85 24 ...in the examination of witnesses there usually leap out, quite unexpectedly, three or four stubborn words or phrases which are the pith and fate of the business...
    Elo1 7.88 16 Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of common sense. It is the same quality we admire in...Franklin. Its application to law seems quite accidental.
    Elo1 7.91 13 ...these talents [of oratory] are quite something else when they are subordinated and serve [the man];...
    DL 7.126 24 ...beauty is never quite absent from our eyes.
    WD 7.165 19 I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers...have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of crime.
    WD 7.183 5 ...his memoir finished and read and printed, [the savant] retreats into his routinary existence, which is quite separate from his scientific.
    Boks 7.213 26 [The imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance, like planets; and once so liberated...they never quite subside to their old stony state.
    Cour 7.255 10 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will...which...is never quite itself until the hazard is extreme;...
    Cour 7.257 13 The terrors of the child are quite reasonable...
    Suc 7.287 1 Here are already quite different degrees of moral merit in these examples.
    OA 7.321 26 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely old...
    OA 7.325 5 We live in youth amidst this rabble of passions, quite too tender, quite too hungry and irritable.
    OA 7.325 6 We live in youth amidst this rabble of passions, quite too tender, quite too hungry and irritable.
    OA 7.326 6 If [the old lawyer] should on a new occasion rise quite beyond his mark...that, of course, would instantly tell;...
    PI 8.12 5 ...nothing but great weight in things can afford a quite literal speech.
    PI 8.16 6 ...the sole question is...how many diameters are drawn quite through from matter to spirit;...
    PI 8.19 13 ...poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight, looking through [things], and using them as types or words for thoughts which they signify. Or is this belief a metaphysical whim of modern times, and quite too refined?
    PI 8.25 9 When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me Shelley...to show that it has no charm, I am quite of their mind.
    PI 8.28 22 ...Quarles, after he was quite cool, wrote Emblems.
    PI 8.32 3 Free trade, [men of the world] concede, is very well as a principle, but it is never quite the time for its adoption without prejudicing actual interests.
    PI 8.54 25 ...the poem is made up of lines each of which fills the ear of the poet in its turn, so that mere synthesis produces a work quite superhuman.
    SA 8.80 11 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates, quite sure and compact...
    SA 8.87 25 ...quite another class of our own youth I should remind, of dress in general, that some people need it and others need it not.
    Elo2 8.120 1 ...this is quite as true of the action of the mind itself, that a man of this talent [of eloquence] sometimes finds himself cold and slow in private company...
    Comc 8.171 5 ...among the women in the street, you shall see one whose bonnet and dress are one thing, and the lady herself quite another...
    Comc 8.172 10 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite too ugly.
    QO 8.197 13 ...Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan.
    PC 8.212 22 The oldest empires...now that we have true measures of duration [in Geology], show like creations of yesterday. It is yet quite too early to draw sound conclusions.
    PPo 8.243 12 [The Persian poets] use an inconsecutiveness quite alarming to Western logic...
    PPo 8.252 9 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy.
    PPo 8.263 22 The tone [of Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations] is quite modern.
    PPo 8.264 2 The bird-soul was ashamed;/ [The birds'] body was quite annihilated;/ They had cleaned themselves from the dust,/ And were by the light ensouled./ What was, and was not,-the Past,-/ Was wiped out from their breast./
    PPo 8.264 25 So remained [the birds], sunk in wonder,/ Thoughtless in deepest thinking,/ And quite unconscious of themselves./ Speechless prayed they to the Highest/ To open this secret,/ And to unlock Thou and We./
    Insp 8.278 28 Bonaparte said: There is no man more pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan. I magnify...all the possible mischances. I am in an agitation utterly painful. That does not prevent me from appearing quite serene to the persons who surround me.
    Insp 8.295 4 ...I find a mitigation or solace by providing always a good book for my journeys...some book which lifts me quite out of prosaic surroundings...
    Grts 8.301 21 ...that which invites all, belongs to us all,-to which we are all sometimes untrue, cowardly, faithless, but of which we never quite despair...
    Grts 8.303 15 ...what a bitter-sweet sensation when we have gone to pour out our acknowledgment of a man's nobleness, and found him quite indifferent to our good opinion!
    Imtl 8.325 13 The Greek, with his perfect senses and perceptions, had quite another philosophy [of immortality].
    Imtl 8.329 4 A man of thought is willing to die, willing to live; I suppose because he has seen the thread on which the beads are strung, and perceived that it reaches up and down, existing quite independently of the present illusions.
    Imtl 8.344 3 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent...
    Imtl 8.344 6 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality, and quite spontaneously.
    Dem1 10.7 6 What keeps those wild tales [of Ovid and Kalidasa] in circulation for thousands of years? What but the wild fact to which they suggest some approximation of theory? Nor is the fact quite solitary...
    Dem1 10.8 11 Wise and sometimes terrible hints shall in [dreams] be thrown to the man out of a quite unknown intelligence.
    Dem1 10.13 11 For Spiritism, it shows that no man, almost, is fit to give evidence. Then I say to the amiable and sincere among them, these matters are quite too important than that I can rest them on any legends.
    Aris 10.37 24 What is the meaning of this invincible respect for war...that we can never quite smother the trumpet and the drum?
    Aris 10.60 3 ...there is an order of men, never quite absent, who enroll no names in their archives but such as are capable of truth.
    Chr2 10.95 17 Not by adding...does the moral sentiment help us; no, but in quite another manner.
    Chr2 10.99 2 God sends his message, if not by one, then quite as well by another.
    Edc1 10.138 18 I like...boys...quite unsuspected, coming in as naturally as the janitor...
    Edc1 10.139 7 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails, and will coax the engineer to let them ride with him and pull the handles when it goes to the engine-house. They are there only for fun, and not knowing that they are at school...quite as much and more than they were, an hour ago, in the arithmetic class.
    SovE 10.201 17 The house in which we were born is not quite mere timber and stone;...
    SovE 10.210 19 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another in whom he discovers absolute honesty;...
    SovE 10.210 23 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another...the respect he feels for one who thinks life is quite too coarse and frivolous...
    Prch 10.219 12 We never do quite nothing, or never need.
    Prch 10.232 6 ...we are...allied to men around us, as really though not quite so visibly as the Siamese brothers.
    Schr 10.272 12 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property...
    Plu 10.309 21 ...[Plutarch]...despises the Epicharmian disputations: as, that...he that was yesterday invited to supper, the next night comes an unbidden guest, for that he is quite another person.
    Plu 10.319 17 [Plutarch] knew the laws of conversation and the laws of good-fellowship quite as well as Horace...
    LLNE 10.335 17 ...[Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results. It is...becoming a national institution. I am quite certain that this purely literary influence was of the first importance to the American mind.
    LLNE 10.341 22 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a man quite too cold and contemplative for the alliances of friendship...
    LLNE 10.342 18 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to...inaugurate some movement in literature, philosophy and religion, of which design the supposed conspirators were quite innocent;...
    LLNE 10.345 10 The clergyman who would live in the city may have piety, but must have taste, whilst there was often coming, among these, some John the Baptist, wild from the woods...quite scornful of the etiquette of cities.
    LLNE 10.364 1 Hawthorne drew some sketches [of Brook Farm]...quite unworthy of his genius.
    EzRy 10.392 3 ...often, though quite unconscious of it, [Ezra Ripley's] speech was a satire on the loose, voluminous, draggle-tail periods of other speakers.
    MMEm 10.411 5 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] was...a quite clannish instrument...
    Thor 10.458 1 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond, and lived there two years alone, a life of labor and study. This action was quite native and fit for him.
    Thor 10.465 25 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost...to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or considered than his refusals, they remind one, in quite new relations, of that fop Brummel's reply to the gentleman who offered him his carriage in a shower, But where will you ride, then?...
    Thor 10.479 9 A certain habit of antagonism defaced [Thoreau's] earlier writings,-a trick of rhetoric not quite outgrown in his later, of substituting for the obvious word and thought its diametrical opposite.
    Carl 10.490 7 [Carlyle]...understands his own value quite as well as Webster...
    LS 11.6 3 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially...has quite omitted such a notice.
    LS 11.19 12 To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
    HDC 11.53 27 Their forefathers, the Indians told [John] Eliot, did know God, but after this, they fell into a deep sleep, and when they did awake, they quite forgot him.
    EWI 11.118 17 We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them...
    War 11.166 18 ...bayonet and sword must first retreat a little from their ostentatious prominence; then quite hide themselves...
    War 11.168 16 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact. They look only at the passive side of the friend of peace...they quite omit to consider his activity.
    War 11.172 2 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...quite willing to use the opportunities and advantages that good government throw in his way, but nothing daunted, and not really poorer if government, law and order went by the board;...
    FSLC 11.196 15 The first execution of the [Fugitive Slave] law, as was inevitable, was a little hesitating; the second was easier; and the glib officials became, in a few weeks, quite practised and handy at stealing men.
    FSLC 11.203 23 I suppose [Webster's] pledges were not quite natural to him.
    FSLC 11.205 12 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which, if so much as the smallest end be shivered off, the whole will snap into atoms. Now the fact is quite different from this.
    FSLN 11.217 20 [Intellectual people who take their ideas from others] say what they would have you believe, but what they do not quite know.
    AsSu 11.249 13 His friends, I remember, were told that they would find Sumner a man of the world like the rest; 't is quite impossible to be at Washington and not bend;...
    AKan 11.255 7 For quite other reasons, I had been wiser to have stayed at home, unskilled as I am to address a political meeting...
    JBB 11.271 1 We fancy, in Massachusetts, that we are free; yet it seems the government is quite unreliable.
    TPar 11.284 13 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak,/ You forget the man wholly, you 're thankful to meet/ With a preacher who smacks of the field and the street,/ And to hear, you 're not over-particular whence,/ Almost Taylor's profusion, quite Latimer's sense./ Lowell, A Fable for Critics.
    ALin 11.330 11 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...a quite native, aboriginal man...
    SMC 11.354 21 The [Civil] war made the Divine Providence credible to many who did not believe the good Heaven quite honest.
    SMC 11.362 8 At one time [George Prescott] finds his company unfortunate in having fallen between two companies of quite another class...
    EdAd 11.383 3 The material basis [of America] is of such extent that no folly of man can quite subvert it;...
    EdAd 11.386 9 It is a poor consideration...that political interests on so broad a scale as ours are administered...by...strict economists, quite empty of all superstition.
    Wom 11.418 18 ...there are multitudes of men who live to objects quite out of them...
    Shak1 11.453 3 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...I suppose because they have more humanity than talent, whilst they have quite as much of the last as any of the company.
    ChiE 11.474 16 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China. I am quite sure that I heard from Mr. Burlingame in New York...that the whole merit of it belonged to Sir Frederic Bruce.
    FRO2 11.485 6 ...quite against my design and my will, I shall have to request the attention of the audience to a few written remarks...
    CPL 11.496 4 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library, which adds...a quite new attraction...
    CPL 11.508 11 ...read proudly; put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed,- but I shall not make believe I am charmed.
    FRep 11.518 2 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government not quite of mobs, but in practice of an inferior class of professional politicians...
    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 11.525 2 ...we know, all over this country, men of integrity...quite capable of any sacrifice except of their honor.
    FRep 11.528 15 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which will snap into atoms is so much as the smallest end be shivered off. Now the fact is quite different from this.
    FRep 11.543 23 ...the course of events is quite too strong for any helmsman...
    PLT 12.8 14 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor...is ready to prove that he knew so much [twenty years ago] that all further investigation was quite superfluous;...
    PLT 12.8 16 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor hastens to inform us that he knew it all twenty years ago...and poor Nature and the sublime law...are quite omitted in this triumphant vindication.
    PLT 12.31 7 ...[intellectual persons who believe in the ideas of others] say what they would have you believe, but what they do not quite know.
    PLT 12.45 9 There is indeed this vice about men of thought, that you cannot quite trust them;...
    PLT 12.49 22 ...I speak of [Talent] in quite another sense, namely, in the habitual speed of combination of thought.
    PLT 12.54 23 ...[a man's] genius leads him one way, but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another.
    PLT 12.55 8 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism; a certain recognition of the simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern. You will say this is quite axiomatic and a little too true.
    PLT 12.63 3 I may well say this [identification of the Ego with the universe] is...the continuation of the divine effort. Alas! it seems...to be quite independent of us.
    II 12.83 22 Many men are very slow in finding their vocation. It does not at once appear what they were made for. Nature has not made up her mind in regard to her young friend, and when this happens, we feel life to be some failure. Life is not quite desirable to themselves.
    II 12.84 5 [Men slow in finding their vocation] ripen too slowly than that the determination should appear in this brief life. As with our Catawbas and Isabellas at the eastward, the season is not quite long enough for them.
    Mem 12.100 24 A man would think twice about...reading a new paragraph, if he believed...that he lost a word or a thought for every word he gained. But the experience is not quite so bad.
    CInt 12.114 3 ...[Archimedes] was willing to show [the king] that he was quite able in rude matters, if he could condescend to them...
    CL 12.147 22 ...I recommend [a walk in the woods] to people who are growing old, against their will. A man in that predicament, if he stands... among young people, is made quite too sensible of the fact;...
    Bost 12.206 11 A house in Boston was worth as much again as a house just as good in a town of timorous people...quite naturally house-rents rose in Boston.
    Milt1 12.247 13 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided, and left the poet to the enjoyment of his permanent fame, or to such increase or abatement of it as is incidental to a sublime genius, quite independent of the momentary challenge of universal attention to his claims.
    Milt1 12.266 3 [Milton] said, he had learned the prudence of the Roman soldier, not to stand breaking of legs, when the breath was quite out of the body.
    Milt1 12.276 3 It is true of Homer and Shakspeare...that...the poet towers to the sky, whilst the man quite disappears.
    ACri 12.283 6 The secondary services of literature...are quite as important in letters as iron is in war.
    ACri 12.292 2 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...quite a number;...
    MLit 12.317 13 Perhaps no considerable minority, no one man, leads a quite clean and lofty life.
    MLit 12.330 22 The limits of artificial society are never quite out of sight [in Wilhelm Meister].
    WSL 12.338 25 [Landor's] partialities and dislikes...often whimsical and amusing; yet they are quite sincere...
    Pray 12.354 4 The next [prayer] is in a metrical form. It is the aspiration of a different mind, in quite other regions of power and duty...
    Let 12.392 11 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter to all and several who have...expressed a curiosity to know our opinion. We shall be compelled to dispose very rapidly of quite miscellaneous topics.
    Let 12.393 10 ...we think the population is not yet quite fit for [flying-machines]...
    Let 12.396 27 To live solitary and unexpressed is...painful in proportion to one's consciousness of ripeness and equality to the offices of friendship. But herein we are never quite forsaken by the Divine Providence.
    Let 12.399 13 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class, who...use all possible endeavors to secure to [their children] the same result. Certainly we are not insensible to this calamity, as...witnessed by ourselves. It is not quite new and peculiar;...

quits, v. (3)

    Lov1 2.186 12 ...that which drew [lovers] to each other was signs of loveliness, signs of virtue; and these virtues are there, however eclipsed. They appear and reappear and continue to attract; but the regard...quits the sign and attaches to the substance.
    Exp 3.46 23 Embark, and the romance quits our vessel...
    EdAd 11.383 24 At the screams of the steam-whistle, the train quits city and suburbs...

quitted, v. (3)

    Tran 1.347 16 [Transcendentalists] feel that they are never so fit for friendship as when they have quitted mankind...
    II 12.68 11 ...long after we have quitted the place [the art gallery], the objects begin to take a new order;...
    WSL 12.341 16 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature. We have quitted all beneath the moon...

quitting, v. (5)

    LT 1.268 19 It is...the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain [of conservatism]...who engages our interest.
    LT 1.281 19 Quitting now the class of actors, let us turn to see how it stands with the other class of which we spoke, namely, the students.
    Comp 2.124 22 Every soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things...
    ET12 5.202 12 It is usual for a nobleman, or indeed for almost every wealthy student [at Oxford], on quitting college to leave behind him some article of plate;...
    LS 11.16 1 One general remark before quitting this branch of this subject [the Lord's Supper].

quiver, n. (2)

    YA 1.364 21 The railroad is but one arrow in our quiver...
    QO 8.202 25 Pindar uses this haughty defiance, as if it were impossible to find his sources: There are many swift darts within my quiver which have a voice for those with understanding;...

quivering, adj. (1)

    War 11.165 24 He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

quivering, v. (1)

    ET2 5.26 24 The good ship darts through the water...quivering with speed...

Quixote, Don [M. de Cervan (1)

    Edc1 10.157 27 ...if one [pupil] has brought in a Plutarch or Shakspeare or Don Quixote or Goldsmith or any other good book, and understands what he reads, put him at once at the head of the class.

quixotic, adj. (1)

    Pol1 3.214 27 ...all public ends look vague and quixotic beside private ones.

quiz, v. (1)

    EurB 12.377 17 [The Vivian Greys] would quiz their father and mother and lover and friend.

quoits, n. (1)

    SMC 11.363 14 [George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men] cheerful. 'T is better than medicine. He has games of baseball, and pitching quoits, and euchre...

quota, n. (1)

    MoL 10.257 24 I learn with joy and with deep respect that this college has sent its full quota to the field.

quotation, n. (17)

    PPh 4.42 9 Every book is a quotation;...
    PPh 4.42 10 ...every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries;...
    PPh 4.42 12 ...every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
    ET1 5.12 22 ...I proceeded to inquire [of Coleridge] if the extract from the Independent's pamphlet, in the third volume of the Friend, were a veritable quotation.
    ET1 5.13 4 I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's pamphlet in The Friend] and how much I wished to see the entire work. Yes, he said, the man was a chaos of truths, but lacked the knowledge that God was a God of order. Yet the passage would no doubt strike you more in the quotation than in the original, for I have filtered it.
    ET13 5.221 21 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain. Their religion is a quotation;...
    Art2 7.46 20 The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.
    Suc 7.292 22 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia...life is theatrical and literature a quotation;...
    QO 8.176 1 Every book is a quotation;...
    QO 8.176 1 ...every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone-quarries;...
    QO 8.176 3 ...every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
    QO 8.188 15 Quotation confesses inferiority.
    QO 8.189 4 In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way...
    QO 8.194 14 We read the quotation with [the writer's] eyes, and find a new and fervent sense;...
    Plu 10.302 4 In [Plutarch's] immense quotation and allusion we quickly cease to discriminate between what he quotes and what he invents.
    LLNE 10.333 10 [Everett] abounded...in splendid allusion, in quotation impossible to forget...
    FSLC 11.190 20 ...no reasonable person needs a quotation from Blackstone to convince him that white cannot be legislated to be black...

quotations, n. (7)

    Chr1 3.98 27 ...[the capitalist] is satisfied to read in the quotations of the market that his stocks have risen.
    PPh 4.42 8 When we are praising Plato, it seems we are praising quotations from Solon and Sophron and Philolaus.
    QO 8.190 27 ...we value in Coleridge his excellent knowledge and quotations perhaps as much, possibly more, than his original suggestions.
    QO 8.194 7 Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were...drawn...from previous quotations in English books;...
    LLNE 10.332 8 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...enriched with so many excellent digressions and significant quotations, that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    LLNE 10.333 19 Especially beautiful were [Everett's] poetic quotations.
    EPro 11.321 22 What if the brokers' quotations show our stocks discredited...

quote, v. (25)

    MN 1.211 10 We too could have gladly prophesied standing in [the poet's] place. We so quote our Scriptures;...
    Exp 3.47 3 I quote another man's saying; unluckily that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.
    ET12 5.206 26 ...it is certain that a Senior Classic [at Eton] can quote correctly from the Corpus Poetarum...
    ET16 5.287 27 ...I insisted...that as to our secure tenure of our mutton-chop and spinach in London or in Boston, the soul might quote Talleyrand, Monsieur, je n'en vois pas la necessite.
    Pow 6.62 15 As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.
    Pow 6.62 27 As long as our people quote English standards they will miss the sovereignty of power;...
    Boks 7.211 22 ...[the Germans] take any general topic...and write and quote without method or end.
    Suc 7.292 8 We do not believe our own thought;...we must quote somebody;...
    Suc 7.292 11 ...we import the religion of other nations; we quote their opinions;...
    QO 8.178 21 All minds quote.
    QO 8.178 24 By necessity, by proclivity and by delight, we all quote.
    QO 8.178 25 We quote not only books and proverbs...
    QO 8.178 27 ...we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs by imitation.
    QO 8.188 12 As they do by books, so [people] quote the sunset and the star...
    QO 8.188 14 ...[people]...quote thoughts, and thus disown them.
    QO 8.193 26 ...people quote so differently...
    QO 8.196 12 ...Cardinal de Retz...described himself in an extemporary Latin sentence, which he pretended to quote from a classic author...
    QO 8.200 17 Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair...we but quote them.
    QO 8.203 7 He that comes second must needs quote him that comes first.
    SlHr 10.448 6 ...I have heard that the only verse that [Samuel Hoar] was ever known to quote was the Indian rule: When the oaks are in the gray,/ Then, farmers, plant away./
    LS 11.14 4 We quote [St. Paul's] passage nowadays as if it enjoined attendance upon the [Lord's] Supper;...
    HDC 11.66 21 The charges seem to have been made by the lovers of order and moderation against Mr. [Daniel] Bliss, as a favorer of religious excitements. His answer to one of the counts breathes such true piety that I cannot forbear to quote it.
    FSLC 11.184 7 What is the use of courts, if judges only quote authorities...
    FSLN 11.234 11 Of course [slave-owners] will not dare to read the Bible? Won't they? They quote the Bible, quote Paul, quote Christ, to justify slavery.
    FSLN 11.234 12 Of course [slave-owners] will not dare to read the Bible? Won't they? They quote the Bible, quote Paul, quote Christ, to justify slavery.

quoted, v. (19)

    MN 1.211 11 We too could have gladly prophesied standing in [the poet's] place. We so quote our Scriptures; and the Greeks so quoted Homer, Theognis, Pindar, and the rest.
    Hsm1 2.255 8 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides...
    Chr1 3.95 24 ...whatever instances can be quoted of unpunished theft, or of a lie which somebody credited, justice must prevail...
    UGM 4.32 19 The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism.
    PPh 4.78 5 ...admirable texts can be quoted on both sides of every great question from [Plato].
    ET1 5.23 27 [Wordsworth]...quoted, with evident pleasure, the verses addressed To the Skylark.
    ET9 5.151 2 America is the paradise of the [English] economists; is the favorable exception invariably quoted to the rules of ruin;...
    F 6.26 21 We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man.
    Ctr 6.145 8 I have been quoted as saying captious things about travel;...
    QO 8.191 18 Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
    QO 8.194 24 The passages of Shakspeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century;...
    QO 8.202 12 Plato, Cicero and Plutarch cite the poets in the manner in which Scripture is quoted in our churches.
    Imtl 8.343 26 ...[the belief in immortality] cannot be quoted from one to another;...
    Dem1 10.14 14 Let me add one more example of the same good sense in a story quoted out of Hecateus of Abdera...
    Chr2 10.111 12 I am not sure that the English religion is not all quoted.
    Plu 10.310 11 Usually, when Thales, Anaximenes or Anaximander are quoted [by Plutarch], it is really a good judgment.
    LLNE 10.333 22 ...whatever [Everett] has quoted will be remembered by any who heard him...
    EWI 11.115 12 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua. It has been quoted in every newspaper...
    EurB 12.366 20 In the debates on the Copyright Bill, in the English Parliament, Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision...

quoter, n. (2)

    QO 8.191 16 Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
    TPar 11.286 27 ...[Theodore Parker's] scholarship had made him a reader and quoter of verses.

quotes, v. (11)

    SR 2.67 3 Man...quotes some saint or sage.
    Exp 3.47 5 I quote another man's saying; unluckily that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.
    QO 8.183 3 A great man quotes bravely...
    QO 8.183 5 What [a great man] quotes, he fills with his own voice and humor...
    QO 8.190 10 The child quotes his father, and the man quotes his friend.
    QO 8.201 15 The divine never quotes, but is, and creates.
    Plu 10.294 7 ...[Plutarch]...with one or two doubtful exceptions, never quotes a Latin book;...
    Plu 10.302 5 In [Plutarch's] immense quotation and allusion we quickly cease to discriminate between what he quotes and what he invents.
    Plu 10.310 22 [Plutarch] quotes Thucydides's saying that not the desire of honor only never grows old, but much less also the inclination to society and affection to the State...
    CL 12.147 11 Evelyn quotes Lord Caernarvon's saying, Wood is an excrescence of the earth provided by God for the payment of debts.
    MLit 12.311 10 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write.

quoth, v. (1)

    Comp 2.109 18 What will you have? quoth God; pay for it and take it.

quoting, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.111 18 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using their fine fancy to emblazon their memory. 'T is Judaea, not England, which is the ground. So with the mordant Calvinism of Scotland and America. But this quoting distances and disables them...

quoting, v. (7)

    OS 2.290 7 The vain traveller attempts to embellish his life by quoting my lord and the prince and the countess...
    ET13 5.225 23 [Religion] is endogenous, like the skin and other vital organs. A new statement every day. The prophet and apostle knew this, and the nonconformist confutes the conformists, by quoting the texts they must allow.
    DL 7.121 24 Nor can I resist the temptation of quoting so trite an instance as the noble housekeeping of Lord Falkland in Clarendon...
    QO 8.191 17 Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage.
    LLNE 10.333 20 [Everett] delighted in quoting Milton...
    EWI 11.115 14 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua. It has been quoted in every newspaper, and Dr. Channing has given it additional fame. But I must be indulged in quoting a few sentences from the pages that follow it...
    MLit 12.311 24 Our presses groan every year with new editions of all the select pieces of the first of mankind...which the age adopts by quoting them.

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