Rabbinical to Ranks

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

Rabbinical, adj. (2)

    ShP 4.200 13 Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the time of Christ, in the Rabbinical forms.
    LLNE 10.333 13 [Everett] abounded...even in a sort of defying experiment of his own wit and skill in giving an oracular weight to Hebrew or Rabbinical words;...

rabbit, n. (4)

    Bty 6.295 8 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together, simply because the tallow-man gave it the form of a rabbit;...
    Res 8.153 1 ...the cow, the rabbit, the insect, bite the sweet and tender bark [of the willow];...
    Edc1 10.156 8 Can you not keep for [the child's] mind and ways, for his secret, the same curiosity you give to the squirrel, snake, rabbit...
    PLT 12.54 19 All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits.

rabbits, n. (4)

    ET16 5.279 3 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance... which leaves its own Stonehenge...to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.
    Res 8.148 23 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the rabbits, the mino bird...
    Thor 10.474 6 ...[Thoreau] well knew that asking questions of Indians is like catechizing beavers and rabbits.
    PLT 12.54 19 All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits.

rabble, n. (6)

    SR 2.71 7 Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble...by a simple declaration of the divine fact.
    NMW 4.243 6 ...Napoleon said...Gentlemen, in the situation in which I stand, my only nobility is the rabble of the Faubourgs.
    Wth 6.111 23 The rabble are corrupted by their means;...
    CbW 6.251 18 You would say this rabble of nations might be spared.
    OA 7.325 5 We live in youth amidst this rabble of passions...
    EWI 11.146 26 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when...names which should be the alarums of liberty and the watchwords of truth, are mixed up with all the rotten rabble of selfishness and tyranny.

Rabelais, Francois, adj. (1)

    QO 8.181 3 ...if we knew Rabelais's reading we should see the rill of the Rabelais river.

Rabelais, Francois, n. (11)

    PPh 4.39 19 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation,--Boethius, Rabelais...is some reader of Plato...
    SwM 4.132 2 Except Rabelais and Dean Swift nobody ever had such science of filth and corruption [as did Swedenborg].
    CbW 6.253 3 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men have met this obstruction in their times...like Rabelais, with his satire rending the nations.
    Boks 7.208 25 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Rabelais;...
    QO 8.180 24 Whoso knows Plutarch, Lucian, Rabelais, Montaigne and Bayle will have a key to many supposed originalities.
    QO 8.180 26 Rabelais is the source of many a proverb, story and jest...
    PC 8.218 17 Some...Rabelais, Hafiz, Cervantes...is always allowed.
    Plu 10.295 22 ...Rabelais cites [Plutarch] with due respect.
    Wom 11.417 4 ...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences. But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this subject; from Aristophanes... to Rabelais...
    RBur 11.441 3 ...I find [Burns's] grand plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters,-Rabelais, Shakspeare in comedy, Cervantes, Butler, and Burns.
    ACri 12.285 24 Rabelais and Montaigne are masters of this Romany...

Rabelais's, Francois, n. (2)

    QO 8.181 2 ...if we knew Rabelais's reading we should see the rill of the Rabelais river.
    QO 8.185 12 Rabelais's dying words...only repeats the IF inscribed on the portal of the temple at Delphi.

rabid, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.71 7 Now, the world would be insane and rabid, if these disorganizations should last for hundreds of years.
    NR 3.246 8 The rabid democrat, as soon as he is senator and rich man, has ripened beyond the possibility of sincere radicalism...

Raby Castle, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.182 9 From Barnard Castle I rode on the highway twenty-three miles...towards Darlington, past Raby Castle, through the estate of the Duke of Cleveland.

raccoons, n. (1)

    HDC 11.35 1 For flesh, [the pilgrims] looked not for any, in those times, unless they could barter with the Indians for venison and raccoons.

race, n. (284)

    Nat 1.14 5 [The private poor man] goes to the post-office, and the human race run on his errands;...
    Nat 1.14 6 [The private poor man] goes...to the book-shop, and the human race read and write of all that happens, for him;...
    Nat 1.14 10 [The private poor man] sets his house upon the road, and the human race go forth every morning, and shovel out the snow, and cut a path for him.
    DSA 1.128 19 Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets.
    MN 1.207 19 ...the union of foreign constitutions in him enables [a man] to do gladly and gracefully what the assembled human race could not have sufficed to do.
    MN 1.210 15 Are there not moments in the history of heaven when the human race was not counted by individuals, but was only the Influenced...
    MN 1.219 20 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement] was the growth and expansion of the human race...
    MN 1.220 25 And what is to replace for us the piety of that race [the Puritans]?
    LT 1.262 7 They indicate,-these...figures of the only race in which there are individuals or changes, how far on the Fate has gone...
    LT 1.289 20 ...in all the details of our domestic or civil life is hidden the elemental reality, which ever and anon comes to the surface, and forms the grand men, who are the leaders...of the race.
    Con 1.296 11 Saturn...created an oyster. Then he would act again, but he... went on creating the race of oysters.
    Tran 1.347 5 ...what if [these youths] eat clouds, and drink wind, they have not been without service to the race of man.
    YA 1.365 23 ...it now appears that we must estimate the native values of this broad region to...appreciate the advantages opened to the human race in this country...
    YA 1.371 15 ...[America] should speak for the human race.
    YA 1.371 21 ...there is a sublime and friendly Destiny by which the human race is guided...
    YA 1.371 22 ...there is a sublime and friendly Destiny by which the human race is guided,-the race never dying, the individual never spared...
    YA 1.383 23 One man...with [a dime]...buys...pen, ink, and paper, or a painter's brush, by which he can communicate himself to the human race as if he were fire;...
    Hist 2.30 23 [Prometheus] stands between the unjust justice of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals...
    Hist 2.33 9 ...if the man...refuses the dominion of facts, as one that comes of a higher race;...then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places;...
    SR 2.86 6 Not in time is the race progressive.
    Lov1 2.169 12 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... unites him to his race...
    Lov1 2.186 20 ...it is the nature and end of this relation [love], that [lovers] should represent the human race to each other.
    Hsm1 2.256 24 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together...
    Int 2.347 2 ...[the Greek philosophers] add thesis to thesis, without a moment's heed of the universal astonishment of the human race below...
    Art1 2.353 18 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand to inscribe a line in the history of the human race.
    Exp 3.43 21 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Dearest Nature, strong and kind,/ Whispered, Darling, never mind!/ To-morrow they will wear another face,/ The founder thou! these are thy race!/
    Mrs1 3.120 8 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into countries where the purchaser and consumer can hardly be ranked in one race with these cannibals and man-stealers;...
    Nat2 3.180 6 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken, and the first lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil...
    Nat2 3.180 11 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! All duly arrive, and then race after race of men.
    Nat2 3.187 9 ...nature hides in [the lover's] happiness her own end, namely...the perpetuity of the race.
    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.
    Pol1 3.219 18 [The movement toward self-government] separates the individual from all party, and unites him at the same time to the race.
    NR 3.230 12 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.
    NR 3.239 19 Jesus would absorb the race;...
    NER 3.264 27 ...a grand phalanx of the best of the human race, banded for some catholic object; yes, excellent;...
    NER 3.278 6 If...we start objections to your project, O friend of the slave, or friend of the poor or of the race, understand well that it is because we wish to drive you to drive us into your measures.
    UGM 4.4 12 The race goes with us on [great men's] credit.
    UGM 4.22 20 Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first.
    UGM 4.23 2 ...I like...Scourges of God, and Darlings of the human race.
    PPh 4.44 16 We are to account for the supreme elevation of this man [Plato] in the intellectual history of our race...
    PPh 4.62 5 Having paid his homage, as for the human race, to the Illimitable, [Plato] then stood erect, and for the human race affirmed, And yet things are knowable!...
    PPh 4.62 7 Having paid his homage, as for the human race, to the Illimitable, [Plato] then stood erect, and for the human race affirmed, And yet things are knowable!...
    SwM 4.93 8 A higher class, in the estimation and love of this city-building market-going race of mankind, are the poets...
    SwM 4.104 9 The robust Aristotelian method...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    SwM 4.106 1 ...the Economy of the Animal Kingdom is one of those books which...is an honor to the human race.
    SwM 4.132 12 The wise people of the Greek race were accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian mysteries...
    ShP 4.191 2 The human race has gone out before [the great man]...
    ShP 4.202 15 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass without a single valuable note...the man who carries the Saxon race in him by the inspiration which feeds him...
    ShP 4.202 21 A popular player;--nobody suspected [Shakespeare] was the poet of the human race;...
    GoW 4.279 7 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo], who is the centre and fountain of an association for the rendering of the noblest benefits to the human race, no longer answers to his own titled name;...
    ET2 5.27 6 ...they say at sea a stern chase is a long race...
    ET2 5.29 25 ...'t is no wonder that the history of our race is so recent...
    ET3 5.34 15 The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use...
    ET3 5.43 1 Nature held counsel with herself and said, My Romans are gone. To build my new empire, I will choose a rude race, all masculine, with brutish strength.
    ET4 5.44 11 The individuals at the extremes of divergence in one race of men are as unlike as the wolf to the lapdog.
    ET4 5.44 14 ...you cannot draw the line where a race begins or ends.
    ET4 5.45 25 The spawning force of the [English] race has sufficed to the colonization of great parts of the world;...
    ET4 5.46 12 Is this [English] power due to their race...
    ET4 5.46 14 Men hear gladly of the power of blood or race.
    ET4 5.46 20 We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law of physiology that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the same place in its congener;...
    ET4 5.46 27 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit.
    ET4 5.47 21 It is race, is it not, that puts the hundred millions of India under the dominion of a remote island in the north of Europe?
    ET4 5.47 23 Race avails much, if that be true which is alleged, that all Celts are Catholics and all Saxons are Protestants;...
    ET4 5.47 27 Race is a controlling influence in the Jew...
    ET4 5.48 3 Race in the negro is of appalling importance.
    ET4 5.48 13 ...whilst race works immortally to keep its own, it is resisted by other forces.
    ET4 5.49 9 It is easy to add to the counteracting forces to race.
    ET4 5.49 16 These limitations of the formidable doctrine of race suggest others which threaten to undermine it...
    ET4 5.51 11 Neither do this people [the English] appear to be of one stem, but collectively a better race than any from which they are derived.
    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...
    ET4 5.52 19 The Scandinavians in [the English] race still hear in every age the murmurs of their mother, the ocean;...
    ET4 5.52 23 Again, as if to intensate the influences that are not of race, what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district.
    ET4 5.53 20 In Ireland are the same climate and soil as in England, but... small tenantry and an inferior or misplaced race.
    ET4 5.54 11 We must use the popular category...for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise we are presently confounded when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.
    ET4 5.57 15 Individuals are often noticed [in the Norse Sagas] as very handsome persons, which trait only brings the story nearer to the English race.
    ET4 5.61 19 The power of the race migrated and left Norway void.
    ET4 5.66 3 ...in all ages [the English] are a handsome race.
    ET4 5.66 14 Both branches of the Scandinavian race are distinguished for beauty.
    ET4 5.66 25 When it is considered...what resources of mental and moral power the traits of the blonde race betoken, its accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch...
    ET4 5.67 2 [The blonde race] is not a final race...
    ET4 5.67 3 [The blonde race] is not a final race...but a race with a future.
    ET4 5.71 12 If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed...
    ET4 5.72 8 [The English] come honestly by their horsemanship, with Hengst and Horsa for their Saxon founders. The other branch of their race had been Tartar nomads.
    ET5 5.74 14 The island [England] was a prize for the best race.
    ET5 5.75 14 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...step by step, got all the essential securities of civil liberty invented and confirmed. The genius of the race and the genius of the place conspired to this effect.
    ET5 5.75 17 The [Saxon] race was so intellectual that a feudal or military tenure [of England] could not last longer than the war.
    ET5 5.77 5 If the [English] race is good, so is the place.
    ET5 5.77 21 All the admirable expedients or means hit upon in England must be looked at as growths or irresistible offshoots of the expanding mind of the race.
    ET5 5.78 12 King Ethelwald spoke the language of his race when he planted himself at Wimborne and said he would do one of two things, or there live, or there lie.
    ET5 5.86 26 ...conscious that no race of better men exists, [the English] rely most on the simplest means...
    ET5 5.88 22 This highly destined race [the English], if it had not somewhere added the chamber of patience to its brain, would not have built London.
    ET5 5.93 20 ...it is [Englishmen's] commercial advantage that whatever light appears in better method or happy invention, breaks out in their race.
    ET5 5.99 16 Is it the smallness of the country, or is it the pride and affection of race,--[the English] have solidarity, or responsibleness...
    ET6 5.106 15 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin, about poor, thin, unable mortals;--so much had the fine physique and the personal vigor of this robust race worked on my imagination.
    ET7 5.117 22 Alfred, whom the affection of the nation makes the type of [the English] race, is called by a writer at the Norman Conquest, the truth-speaker;...
    ET8 5.127 1 The English race are reputed morose.
    ET8 5.134 3 ...it is in the deep traits of race that the fortunes of nations are written...
    ET8 5.134 19 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...a race to which their fortunes flow, as if they alone had the elastic organization at once fine and robust enough for dominion;...
    ET8 5.136 22 This [English] race has added new elements to humanity and has a deeper root in the world.
    ET8 5.137 10 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race;...
    ET8 5.141 5 If the English race were as mutable as the French, what reliance?
    ET9 5.144 5 Property is so perfect [in England] that it seems the craft of that race...
    ET10 5.159 23 England already had this laborious race, rich soil, water, wood, coal, iron...
    ET10 5.162 14 ...old energy of the Norse race arms itself with these magnificent powers [of steam];...
    ET11 5.185 15 ...a race yields a nobility in some form...as surely as it yields women.
    ET11 5.198 7 A multitude of English...are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality, and outstripping them, as often, in the race of honor and influence.
    ET12 5.209 1 The race of English gentlemen presents an appearance of manly vigor and form not elsewhere to be found among an equal number of persons.
    ET13 5.215 10 In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say...This was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.
    ET14 5.239 5 [Idealism] seems an affair of race, or of meta-chemistry;...
    ET14 5.259 17 ...I know that a retrieving power lies in the English race which seems to make any recoil possible;...
    ET16 5.275 22 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that there and not here is the seat and centre of the British race;...
    ET16 5.275 25 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that no skill or activity can long compete with the prodigious natural advantages of that country, in the hands of the same race;...
    ET16 5.276 22 It looked as if the wide margin given in this crowded isle to this primeval temple [Stonehenge] were accorded by the veneration of the British race to the old egg out of which all their ecclesiastical structures and history had proceeded.
    ET18 5.304 22 ...we say that only the English race can be trusted with freedom...
    ET18 5.305 2 [English] culture...is thorough and secular in families and the race.
    ET18 5.305 25 ...personality is the token of this race [the English].
    ET19 5.311 2 That which lures a solitary American in the woods with the wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race...
    ET19 5.314 5 ...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen, the old race are all gone...
    F 6.7 11 You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed...there is...race living at the expense of race.
    F 6.7 12 You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed...there is...race living at the expense of race.
    F 6.12 23 It was a poetic attempt...to reconcile this despotism of race with liberty, which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
    F 6.15 26 ...when a race has lived its term, it comes no more again.
    F 6.16 7 We know in history what weight belongs to race.
    F 6.16 19 Nature respects race, and not hybrids.
    F 6.16 20 Every race has its own habitat.
    F 6.16 21 Detach a colony from the race, and it deteriorates to the crab.
    F 6.21 25 Thus we trace Fate...in race...
    F 6.32 14 Cold and sea will train an imperial Saxon race...
    F 6.34 27 Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his...pelvis, all the vices of a...Celtic race...
    F 6.36 1 In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception... are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.
    F 6.39 27 The same fitness must be presumed between a man and the time and event, as...between a race of animals and the food it eats...
    F 6.47 19 ...when a man...is ground to powder by the vice of his race;-he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
    F 6.47 24 To offset the drag of temperament and race...learn this lesson...
    Pow 6.53 7 There are men who by their sympathetic attractions...lead the activity of the human race.
    Pow 6.69 22 Strong race or strong individual rests at last on natural forces...
    Wth 6.90 9 ...[the human being] is successful, or his education is carried on just so far, as...the degree in which he takes up things into himself. The strong race is strong on these terms.
    Wth 6.90 11 The Saxons are the merchants of the world; now, for a thousand years, the leading race...
    Wth 6.94 21 To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the master-works and chief men of each race.
    Ctr 6.148 4 ...a man who looks...at London, says, If I should be driven from my own home, here at least my thoughts can be consoled by the most prodigal amusement and occupation which the human race in ages could contrive and accumulate.
    Ctr 6.153 18 Mirmidons, race feconde,/ Mirmidons,/ Enfin nous commandons/...
    Ctr 6.156 2 He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men...
    Ctr 6.165 14 Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men.
    Ctr 6.166 12 ...if one shall read the future of the race hinted in the organic effort of nature to mount and meliorate, and the corresponding impulse to the Better in the human being, we shall dare affirm that there is nothing he will not overcome and convert...
    Wsp 6.235 1 [Benedict said] My race may not be prospering;...
    Wsp 6.238 19 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely, the terror of its being taken away;...
    CbW 6.277 16 The race is great...but the men whiffling and unsure.
    Bty 6.281 13 ...does [the geologist] know...what effect on the race that inhabits a granite shelf?...
    Bty 6.295 16 Burns writes a copy of verses and sends them to a newspaper, and the human race take charge of them that they shall not perish.
    SS 7.7 13 ...there is no remedy that can reach the heart of the disease but either habits of self-reliance that should go in practice to making the man independent of the human race, or else a religion of love.
    Civ 7.23 17 The skilful combinations of civil government, though they usually follow natural leadings, as the lines of race, language, religion and territory, yet require wisdom and conduct in the rulers...
    Elo1 7.68 14 Climate has much to do with [eloquence],--climate and race.
    DL 7.104 12 ...presently begins his use of his fingers, and [the nestler] studies power, the lesson of his race.
    DL 7.123 21 ...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.
    Farm 7.137 11 ...every man has an exceptional respect for tillage, and a feeling that this is the original calling of his race...
    WD 7.162 14 ...German, Chinese, Turk, Russ and Kanaka were putting out to sea, and intermarrying race with race;...
    WD 7.163 17 [Man] sees the skull of the English race changing from its Saxon type under the exigencies of American life.
    Boks 7.199 5 [Plato] would suffice for the tuition of the race;...
    Clbs 7.223 1 Yet Saadi loved the race of men,--/ No churl, immured in cave or den;/...
    Cour 7.266 26 Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood, which...does not feel itself except in a quarrel, as one sees in...cats. The like vein appears in certain races of men and in individuals of every race.
    Suc 7.287 3 I don't know but we and our race elsewhere set a higher value on wealth, victory and coarse superiority of all kinds, than other men...
    Suc 7.295 22 How often it seems the chief good to be born...well adjusted to the tone of the human race.
    Suc 7.302 15 This sensibility appears...when we see eyes that are a compliment to the human race...
    OA 7.324 24 To insure the existence of the race, [Nature] reinforces the sexual instinct...
    PI 8.41 10 ...roses and violets renew their race like oaks...
    PI 8.65 24 ...in so many alcoves of English poetry I can count only nine or ten authors who are still inspirers and lawgivers to their race.
    SA 8.101 19 ...wealth and ease corrupted the race [of the hereditary nobility].
    Elo2 8.115 23 [The orator's] speech must be just ahead of the assembly, ahead of the whole human race, or it is superfluous.
    Res 8.140 14 The marked events in history...the arrival among an old stationary nation of a more instructed race...each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
    Res 8.140 26 By his machines man...can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature...has involuntarily dropped of its existence;...
    Res 8.154 4 The healthy, the civil, the industrious, the learned, the moral race,--Nature herself only yields her secret to these.
    QO 8.187 14 ...now it appears that [English and American nursery-tales]... are the property of all the nations descended from the Aryan race...
    QO 8.188 6 A more subtle and severe criticism might suggest that some dislocation has befallen the race;...
    QO 8.200 7 The old animals have given their bodies to the earth to furnish through chemistry the forming race...
    PC 8.211 18 The correlation of forces and the polarization of light...have affected an imaginative race like poetic inspirations.
    Imtl 8.324 16 The credence of men, more than race or climate, makes their manners and customs;...
    Aris 10.31 4 There is an attractive topic, which...is impertinent in no community,-the permanent traits of the Aristocracy. It is an interest of the human race...
    Aris 10.40 15 If the finders of glass, gunpowder, printing, electricity... should keep their secrets, or only communicate them to each other, must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?
    Aris 10.49 20 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...better than any premium on race;...
    Aris 10.60 8 ...out of the vast duration of man's race, [a certain order of men] tower like mountains...
    Chr2 10.114 15 Men will learn to put back the emphasis peremptorily on pure morals...with...no stigma on race;...
    Edc1 10.125 4 The use of the world is that man may learn its laws. And the human race have wisely signified their sense of this, by calling wealth, means,-Man being the end.
    Edc1 10.126 23 Those [animals] called domestic are capable of learning of man a few tricks of utility or amusement, but they cannot communicate the skill to their race.
    Edc1 10.151 1 What poet will [the college] breed to sing to the human race?
    Supl 10.173 9 ...it would seem the whole human race agree to value a man precisely in proportion to his power of expression;...
    SovE 10.205 4 To a self-denying, ardent church, delighting in rites and ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race...
    Prch 10.224 11 The human race are afflicted with a St. Vitus's dance;...
    Prch 10.225 25 All positive rules, ceremonial, ecclesiastical, distinctions of race or of person, are perishable;...
    MoL 10.241 21 ...[the scholar] is in advance of his race;...
    MoL 10.250 14 [Nature says to the American] Other things you have begun to do,-to strike off the chains which snuffling hypocrites had bound on a weaker race.
    MoL 10.258 15 Who would not, if it could be made certain that the new morning of universal liberty should rise on our race by the perishing of one generation, who would not consent to die?
    Schr 10.270 10 ...all the human race have agreed to value a man according to his power of expression.
    Plu 10.297 3 ...M. Fustel de Coulanges has explored from its roots in the Aryan race, then in their Greek and Roman descendants, the primaeval religion of the household.
    Plu 10.306 27 Plato and Plotinus are enthusiasts, who honor the race;...
    LLNE 10.327 2 The new race is stiff, heady and rebellious;...
    LLNE 10.340 10 ...[Channing] is yet one of those men who vindicate the power of the American race to produce greatness.
    HDC 11.30 10 ...the race survives whilst the individual dies.
    HDC 11.42 19 The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.
    HDC 11.50 2 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England. I cannot but think that it would be a suitable acknowledgment of this national munificence, if the records of one of our towns...should be printed, and presented...to the English nation...as a certificate of the progress of the Saxon race;...
    HDC 11.53 15 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new hope they had conceived...
    HDC 11.77 3 You [veterans of the battle of Concord] are set apart...for the esteem and gratitude of the human race.
    LVB 11.90 12 ...we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees] to redeem their own race from the doom of eternal inferiority...
    LVB 11.90 14 ...we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees]...to borrow and domesticate in the tribe the arts and customs of the Caucasian race.
    LVB 11.94 6 ...[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 7 ...[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...
    EWI 11.101 1 If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of his own comfort...I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.
    EWI 11.101 25 From the earliest monuments it appears that one race was victim and served the other races.
    EWI 11.122 23 There have been nations elevated by great sentiments. Such was the civility of Sparta and the Dorian race...
    EWI 11.123 22 It was, or it seemed the dictate of trade, to keep the negro down. We had found a race who were less warlike, and less energetic shopkeepers than we;...
    EWI 11.141 24 It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization.
    EWI 11.143 25 When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea,- that conserves it;...
    EWI 11.144 2 If the black man is...not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve, and be exterminated.
    EWI 11.144 10 ...now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint... or of the leaders of [the negro] race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, utweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.
    EWI 11.145 3 I esteem the occasion of this jubilee [of emancipation in the West Indies] to be the proud discovery that the black race can contend with the white...
    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.
    EWI 11.145 20 ...the civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
    EWI 11.145 21 ...the civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
    EWI 11.146 24 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes the men of conscience and intellect...hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...
    EWI 11.147 15 The genius of the Saxon race, friendly to liberty; the enterprise, the very muscular vigor of this nation, are inconsistent with slavery.
    War 11.154 5 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought different families of the human race together...
    War 11.160 2 For ages...the human race has gone on under the tyranny...of this first brutish form of their effort to be men;...
    War 11.169 17 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will...be...one which is looked upon as the asylum of the human race...
    FSLC 11.197 12 Nothing remains in this race of roguery but to coax Connecticut or Maine to outbid us all by adopting slavery into its constitution.
    FSLC 11.210 19 ...granting...that these evils [of slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in ages,-and by what instrument, whether Liberia, whether flax-cotton, whether the working out this race by Irish and Germans, none can tell...still the question recurs, What must we do?
    FSLN 11.230 1 ...where there is any weakness in a race, and [liberty] becomes in a degree matter of concession and protection from their stronger neighbors, the incompatibility and offensiveness of the wrong will of course be most evident to the most cultivated.
    FSLN 11.238 11 The plea in the mouth of a slave-holder that the negro is an inferior race sounds very oddly in my ear.
    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.
    FSLN 11.239 19 The Anglo-Saxon race is proud and strong and selfish.
    AKan 11.256 24 ...the people of Kansas ask for bread, clothes, arms and men, to...enable them to stand against these enemies of the human race.
    ACiv 11.299 26 Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race;...
    ACiv 11.302 17 We want men...who can open their eyes...to considerations of benefit to the human race...
    ACiv 11.308 1 Why should not America be capable of a second stroke for the well-being of the human race...
    EPro 11.314 13 Up! and the dusky race/ That sat in darkness long,-/ Be swift their feet as antelopes,/ And as behemoth strong./
    EPro 11.315 15 [Liberty] comes, like religion...in rare conditions, as if awaiting a culture of the race which shall make it organic and permanent.
    EPro 11.320 4 [The Emancipation Proclamation] does not promise the redemption of the black race;...
    EPro 11.320 8 ...[the Emancipation Proclamation] relieves our race once for all of its crime and false position.
    EPro 11.325 9 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race...
    EPro 11.326 10 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection sculptured for ages in their bronzed countenance...
    EPro 11.326 14 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a race naturally benevolent, docile, industrious...
    ALin 11.328 26 Here [in Lincoln] was a type of the true elder race,/ And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face./ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
    ALin 11.332 21 ...how [Lincoln's] good nature became a noble humanity, in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him, every one will remember; and with what increasing tenderness he dealt when a whole race was thrown on his compassion.
    ALin 11.337 19 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which makes little account of time, little of one generation or race...
    ALin 11.337 24 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...obtains the ultimate triumph of the best race by the sacrifice of everything which resists the moral laws of the world.
    ALin 11.338 1 [Providence] has given every race its own talent...
    ALin 11.338 2 [Providence]...ordains that only that race which combines perfectly with the virtues of all shall endure.
    EdAd 11.383 7 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power from the new arts...
    Wom 11.405 10 In that race which is now predominant over all the other races of men, it was a cherished belief that women had an oracular nature.
    Wom 11.419 15 ...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women' s rights] have been deprived of...opportunities, such as they wished...that they have been stung to say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.
    Wom 11.424 16 All events of history are to be regarded as growths and offshoots of the expanding mind of the race...
    SHC 11.430 12 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never spared,-have impressed on the mind of the age the futility of these old arts of preserving.
    RBur 11.439 16 At the first announcement...that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival.
    RBur 11.440 1 I can only explain this singular unanimity [to celebrate Burns's anniversary] in a race which rarely acts together...by the fact that Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...
    Shak1 11.449 23 ...we pause expectant before the genius of Shakspeare- as if his biography were not yet written; until the problem of the whole English race is solved.
    Scot 11.463 5 If only as an eminent antiquary who has shed light on the history of Europe and of the English race, [Scott] had high claims to our regard.
    ChiE 11.471 17 ...by some wonderful force of race and national manners, the wars and revolutions that occur in [China's] annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history...
    ChiE 11.471 22 ...in [China's] immovability this race has claims.
    FRO2 11.486 19 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion...never did not exist from the planting of the human race until Christ came in the flesh...
    FRep 11.521 23 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can have all he wants, risking all the prized charters of the human race...
    FRep 11.526 7 ...here is the human race poured out over the continent to do itself justice;...
    FRep 11.537 4 We want men...who can open their eyes...to considerations of benefit to the human race...
    FRep 11.540 5 Let us realize that this country...is the great charity of God to the human race.
    FRep 11.541 20 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of wealth; doors wide open. If I could have it,-free trade with all the world without toll or custom-houses, invitation as we now make...to every race and skin...
    PLT 12.45 14 There is indeed this vice about men of thought, that you cannot quite trust them;...because they...make a distinction in favor of themselves from the rules they apply to the human race.
    PLT 12.15 26 Not having enough [thought] to support all the powers of a race, [Nature] thins all her stock...
    PLT 12.53 10 I must think...that we have in the race the sketch of a man which no individual comes up to.
    PLT 12.62 21 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes.
    CL 12.135 1 The Teutonic race have been marked in all ages by a trait which has received the name of Earth-hunger...
    CL 12.152 27 Its power on the mind in sharpening the perceptions has made the sea the famous educator of our race.
    Bost 12.205 20 The power of labor which belongs to the English race fell here into a climate which befriended it...
    MAng1 12.215 17 Every line in [Michelangelo's] biography might be read to the human race with wholesome effect.
    MAng1 12.216 19 It is a happiness to find, amid the falsehood and griefs of the human race, a soul at intervals born to behold and create only Beauty.
    MAng1 12.238 22 Michael Angelo was of that class of men who are too superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect sympathy. They stand in the attitude rather of appeal from their contemporaries to their race.
    MAng1 12.244 20 [Michelangelo] was not a citizen of any country; he belonged to the human race;...
    Milt1 12.253 8 The opposition to [a masterpiece of art]...at last ends; and a new race grows up in the taste and spirit of the work...
    Milt1 12.254 2 Milton...reads the laws of the moral sentiment to the new-born race.
    Milt1 12.254 11 [Milton] is identified in the mind...with the supreme interests of the human race.
    Milt1 12.274 18 The tone of [Adam's] thought and passion is as healthful, as even and as vigorous as befits the new and perfect model of a race of gods.
    ACri 12.300 23 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses.
    MLit 12.312 2 If we should designate favorite studies in which the age delights more than in the rest of this great mass of the permanent literature of the human race, one or two instances would be conspicuous.
    MLit 12.315 14 The great never hinder us; for their activity is coincident... with all the activity and well-being of the race.
    Pray 12.351 2 The prayer of Jesus is (as it deserves) become a form for the human race.
    PPr 12.382 6 It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae, that men are to be helped...
    PPr 12.382 20 ...let [a man's speech] always side with the race...
    PPr 12.382 25 ...[a man's] acts should be representative of the human race...
    Trag 12.408 20 The law which establishes nature and the human race, continually thwarts the will of ignorant individuals...

Race, n. (1)

    MoS 4.177 13 What can I do against the influence of Race, in my history?

racer, n. (3)

    Nat 1.33 18 ...A cripple in the right way will beat a racer in the wrong;...
    ET4 5.73 17 The [English] gentlemen...have brought horses to an ideal perfection; the English racer is a factitious breed.
    ET18 5.306 8 [The English]...are like a dull good horse which lets every nag pass him, but with whip and spur will run down every racer in the field.

Races, Fragment of [Robert (1)

    F 6.16 17 Look at the unpalatable conclusions of Knox, in his Fragment of Races...

races, n. (78)

    Nat 1.4 11 We have theories of races and of functions...
    Nat 1.32 10 Did it need such noble races of creatures...to furnish man with the dictionary and grammar of his municipal speech?
    DSA 1.145 2 See how nations and races flit by on the sea of time...
    Hist 2.14 4 In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races;...
    Cir 2.302 20 ...the new races [are] fed out of the decomposition of the foregoing.
    Pt1 3.1 9 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ .../ Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times/ Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes./
    Nat2 3.184 25 That famous aboriginal push propagates itself...through all the races of creatures...
    NR 3.228 18 The magnetism which arranges tribes and races in one polarity is alone to be respected;...
    UGM 4.10 17 The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on things,--He saw that they were good. We know where to find them; and these performers are relished all the more, after a little experience of the pretending races.
    PNR 4.80 12 Modern science...has learned to indemnify the student of man for the defects of individuals by tracing growth and ascent in races;...
    PNR 4.81 11 ...as of races, so the succession of individual men is fatal and beautiful...
    ET4 5.44 2 An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has written a book to prove that races are imperishable...
    ET4 5.44 5 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law...
    ET4 5.44 8 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law...nor did he...count with precision the existing races...
    ET4 5.44 16 Blumenbach reckons five races;...
    ET4 5.49 18 The fixity or inconvertibleness of races as we see them is a weak argument for the eternity of these frail boundaries...
    ET4 5.49 27 ...we flatter the self-love of men and nations by the legend of pure races...
    ET4 5.50 2 ...all our experience is of the gradation and resolution of races...
    ET4 5.50 7 It need not puzzle us that...Saxon and Tartar should mix, when we...know that the barriers of races are not so firm but that some spray sprinkles us from the antediluvian seas.
    ET4 5.51 14 Who can call by right names what races are in Britain?
    ET4 5.51 24 Defoe said in his wrath, the Englishman was the mud of all races.
    ET4 5.73 22 Every [English] inn-room is lined with pictures of races;...
    ET5 5.74 15 The island [England] was a prize for the best race. Each of the dominant races tried its fortune in turn.
    ET5 5.81 19 Into this English logic...an infusion of justice enters, not so apparent in other races;...
    ET7 5.116 3 The Teutonic tribes have a national singleness of heart, which contrasts with the Latin races.
    ET7 5.117 7 In the nobler kinds [of animals], where strength could be afforded, [Nature's] races are loyal to truth...
    ET8 5.137 2 More intellectual than other races, when [the English] live with other races they do not take their language, but bestow their own.
    ET8 5.137 6 [The English] assimilate other races to themselves, and are not assimilated.
    ET8 5.140 24 ...if hereafter the war of races...should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles...
    ET13 5.216 6 [The priest...translated the sanctities of old hagiology into English virtues on English ground. It was a certain affirmative or aggressive state of the Caucasian races.
    ET14 5.243 11 ...history reckons epochs in which the intellect of famed races became effete.
    ET18 5.299 12 [The English] are well marked and differing from other leading races.
    ET19 5.311 23 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes...which stands in strong contrast with the superficial attachments of other races...
    F 6.7 11 You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed...there is complicity, expensive races...
    F 6.9 3 So is the scale of races...imprisoning the vital power in certain directions.
    F 6.15 25 ...the races meliorate...
    F 6.19 3 Famine, typhus, frost, war, suicide and effete races must be reckoned calculable parts of the system of the world.
    F 6.23 26 I cited the instinctive and heroic races as proud believers in Destiny.
    F 6.35 26 The first and worse races are dead.
    F 6.35 27 The second and imperfect races are dying out...
    F 6.40 1 The same fitness must be presumed between a man and the time and event, as...between a race of animals and...the inferior races it uses.
    F 6.44 5 The races of men rise out of the ground preoccupied with a thought which rules them...
    Wth 6.83 23 What oldest star the fame can save/ Of races perishing to pave/ The planet with a floor of lime?/
    Wsp 6.220 1 ...look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.
    CbW 6.254 18 Wars, fires, plagues...clear the ground of rotten races and dens of distemper...
    Civ 7.20 7 In other races [than the Indian and the negro] the growth is not arrested...
    Civ 7.26 7 ...some of our grandest examples of men and of races come from the equatorial regions...
    Civ 7.33 7 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
    WD 7.171 2 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass,--the secular, refined, composite anatomy of man...which the prior races...existed to ripen;...are given immeasurably to all.
    Cour 7.266 25 Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood, which...does not feel itself except in a quarrel, as one sees in...cats. The like vein appears in certain races of men and in individuals of every race.
    Res 8.139 21 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations! dealing with races as merely preparations of somewhat to follow;...
    PC 8.207 15 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in time and place as in America to-day?-the fusion of races and religions;...
    PC 8.215 8 Even the races that we still call savage or semi-savage... vindicate their faculty by the skill with which they make their yam-cloths, pipes, bows...
    Insp 8.270 26 In the best races [thought] is rare and imperfect.
    Grts 8.302 23 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races-torpid for ages-by Mahomet;...
    Imtl 8.325 7 The labor of races was spent [in Egypt] on the excavation of catacombs.
    Imtl 8.325 21 [The Greek]...made [death] bright with games of strength and skill, and chariot races.
    Edc1 10.126 20 The animals that accompany and serve man make no progress as races.
    Edc1 10.126 26 ...Man himself in many races retains almost the unteachableness of the beast.
    Supl 10.179 14 ...there is no question...that the warm sons of the Southeast have bent the neck under the yoke of the cold temperament and the exact understanding of the Northwestern races.
    Plu 10.303 14 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which...allows us to witness the upturning of the alphabets of old races...
    EWI 11.101 26 From the earliest monuments it appears that one race was victim and served the other races.
    EWI 11.143 3 Our planet, before the age of written history, had its races of savages...
    EWI 11.143 26 ...ideas only save races.
    EWI 11.144 1 If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races...the black man must serve, and be exterminated.
    War 11.154 26 What does all this war, beginning from the lowest races and reaching up to man, signify?
    EPro 11.314 18 Come, East and West and North,/ By races, as snow-flakes,/ And carry my purpose forth,/ Which neither halts nor shakes./
    EdAd 11.386 21 ...who can see the continent with...its confluence of races so favorable to the highest energy...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
    Wom 11.405 11 In that race which is now predominant over all the other races of men, it was a cherished belief that women had an oracular nature.
    FRep 11.525 24 Nature...spends individuals and races prodigally to prepare new individuals and races.
    FRep 11.525 25 Nature...spends individuals and races prodigally to prepare new individuals and races.
    FRep 11.526 2 The history of civilization, or the refining of certain races to wonderful power of performance, is analogous;...
    FRep 11.542 26 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...as if dressing the globe for happier races.
    PLT 12.26 4 ...not less in human history aboriginal races are incapable of improvement;...
    PLT 12.50 1 The same functions which are perfect in our quadrupeds are seen slower performed in palaeontology. Many races it cost them to achieve the completion that is now in the life of one.
    II 12.81 12 ...the races of men rise out of the ground preoccupied with a thought which rules them...
    CL 12.154 12 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and builds new;-forever redistributing the solid matter of the globe; and performs an analogous office in perpetual new transplanting of the races of men over the surface...
    Bost 12.199 19 What should hinder that this America, so long kept in reserve from the intellectual races until they should grow to it...should have its happy ports...

Rachel, n. (1)

    ShP 4.215 13 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses; but it is easy to read, through their poems, their personal history: any one acquainted with the parties can name every figure; this is Andrew and that is Rachel.

racing, n. (1)

    Prch 10.236 22 That should be the use of the Sabbath,-to check this headlong racing...

racing, v. (2)

    ET11 5.192 25 ...gaming, racing, drinking and mistresses bring [the English aristocracy] down...
    Ill 6.320 27 That story of Thor, who was set to drain the drinking-horn in Asgard and to wrestle with the old woman and to run with the runner Lok, and presently found that he had been drinking up the sea, and wrestling with Time, and racing with Thought,--describes us...

rack, n. (7)

    NR 3.236 4 ...[the divine man] sees [persons] as a rack of clouds...
    ET4 5.64 10 The torture of criminals, and the rack for extorting evidence, were slowly disused [in England].
    ET8 5.131 23 [The English] are good at storming redoubts...but not, I think, at enduring the rack...
    Cour 7.274 8 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to the rack of the inquisitor...
    Cour 7.274 18 ...the rack is not frightful...
    Cour 7.275 12 ...the rack, the fire...appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity;...
    Trag 12.408 26 After we have enumerated...mutilation, rack, madness and loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror...

rack, v. (1)

    Hsm1. 2.252 14 What shall [heroism] say then...to the toilet, compliments, quarrels, cards and custard, which rack the wit of all society?

racked, v. (2)

    Ill 6.314 17 ...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.
    Schr 10.276 18 There is plenty of wild wrath, but it steads not until we can get it racked off...and bottled into persons;...

Radcliffe, Castle, n. (1)

    LE 1.172 25 Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other; Ivanhoe and Waverley compared with Castle Radcliffe and the Porter novels;...

Radcliffe, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.179 15 Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red cliff; and so on...

Radcliffe, G., n. (1)

    QO 8.184 3 ...we find in Southey's Commonplace Book this said of the Earl of Strafford: I learned one rule of him, says Sir G. Radcliffe, which I think worthy to be remembered.

radiance, n. (5)

    Nat 1.24 8 The poet...the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point...
    SL 2.166 6 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and...to sweep and scour will instantly appear... the top and radiance of human life...
    Lov1 2.181 1 ...we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it. It is not you, but your radiance.
    Pt1 3.29 26 If thou...wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine woods.
    Bty 6.302 17 The radiance of the human form, though sometimes astonishing, is only a burst of beauty for a few years or a few months at the perfection of youth...

radiancy, n. (1)

    QO 8.191 11 ...the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence.

radiant, adj. (9)

    LE 1.161 19 ...the most hopeless, in view of these radiant facts [Plato, Milton, Shakspeare], may now theorize and hope.
    Lov1 2.175 6 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...which made the face of nature radiant with purple light...
    Fdsp 2.193 23 The moment we indulge our affections...nothing fills the proceeding eternity but the forms all radiant of beloved persons.
    Prd1 2.233 9 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. ... Yesterday, radiant with the light of an ideal world in which he lives, the first of men; and now oppressed by wants and by sickness, for which he must thank himself.
    Elo1 7.67 18 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...
    Boks 7.212 22 The child asks you for a story, and is thankful for the poorest. It is not poor to him, but radiant with meaning.
    Clbs 7.233 16 How delightful after these disturbers is the radiant, playful wit of--one whom I need not name...
    LLNE 10.331 7 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...
    MLit 12.335 2 A charm as radiant as beauty ever beamed...is new to-day.

radiate, n. (1)

    PI 8.8 3 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms, the higher to the highest, from the fluid in an elastic sack, from radiate, mollusk, articulate, vertebrate, up to man;...

radiate, v. (1)

    ET3 5.43 18 With [England's] fruits, and wares, and money, must its civil influence radiate.

radiated, v. (1)

    SlHr 10.443 25 Such was, in old age, the beauty of [Samuel Hoar's] person and carriage, as if the mind radiated, and made the same impression of probity on all beholders.

radiates, v. (1)

    Nat 1.42 1 The moral law lies at the centre of nature and radiates to the circumference.

radiating, adj. (3)

    F 6.38 25 Do you suppose [the new-born man]...is contained in his skin,- this reaching, radiating, jaculating fellow?
    OA 7.330 17 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched in our mind...by its sequence...which gives it instantly radiating power...
    CInt 12.115 24 [The college] is essentially the most radiating and public of agencies...

radiating, v. (5)

    Mrs1 3.149 8 ...by the moral quality radiating from his countenance [a man] may abolish all considerations of magnitude...
    Mrs1 3.151 14 Was it Hafiz or Firdousi that said of his Persian Lilla, She... astonished me by her amount of life, when I saw her day after day radiating, every instant, redundant joy and grace on all around her?
    ShP 4.196 19 A great poet who appears in illiterate times, absorbs into his sphere all the light which is any where radiating.
    Art2 7.46 10 The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it,--to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.
    CL 12.143 7 The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes]...under favorable accidents...is more truly entitled to be held the light that never was on land or sea, a light radiating from some far spiritual world, than any that can be named.

radiation, n. (4)

    Art1 2.358 25 The best of beauty is...a radiation from the work of art, of human character...
    Nat2 3.175 22 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road...
    SwM 4.104 4 The robust Aristotelian method...shaming our sterile and linear logic by its genial radiation...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    Bost 12.188 3 It was said of Rome in its proudest days, looking at the vast radiation of the privilege of Roman citizenship through the then-known world,-the extent of the city and of the world is the same...

radiations, n. (2)

    Ill 6.318 22 What if you shall come to discern that the play and playground of all this pompous history are radiations from yourself...
    CL 12.157 15 The landscape is vast, complete, alive. We step about...and attempt in poor linear ways to hobble after those angelic radiations.

radical, adj. (9)

    Nat 1.29 3 Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts, savages...converse in figures.
    Nat 1.44 12 Each creature is only a modification of the other;...and their radical law is one and the same.
    Comp 2.123 18 The radical tragedy of nature seems to be the distinction of More and Less.
    NER 3.280 24 ...all frank and searching conversation, in which a man lays himself open to his brother, apprises each of their radical unity.
    ET7 5.123 8 The radical mob at Oxford cried after the tory Lord Eldon, There's old Eldon; cheer him; he never ratted.
    ET12 5.206 19 The effect of this drill [at Oxford] is the radical knowledge of Greek and Latin and of mathematics...
    Comc 8.160 11 [The disparity between the rule and the fact] is the radical joke of life...
    Aris 10.41 1 ...the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
    Edc1 10.125 13 We have already taken...the initial step, which for its importance might have been resisted as the most radical of revolutions... this, namely, that the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...

radical, n. (5)

    Con 1.319 2 The conservative party in the universe concedes that the radical would talk sufficiently to the purpose, if we were still in the garden of Eden;...
    NER 3.272 11 Is not every man sometimes a radical in politics?
    NMW 4.252 18 [Napoleon] was...the liberal, the radical...
    ET11 5.183 25 The hardest radical [in England] instantly uncovers and changes his tone to a lord.
    MLit 12.322 22 ...chemist, king, radical...all worked for [Goethe]...

Radical, n. (1)

    Con 1.297 16 This [fable of Saturn and Uranus] may stand for the earliest account of a conversation on politics between a Conservative and a Radical which has come down to us.

radicalism, n. (3)

    Pol1 3.210 11 The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless...
    NR 3.246 10 The rabid democrat, as soon as he is senator and rich man, has ripened beyond the possibility of sincere radicalism...
    Pow 6.64 23 ...conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

radically, adv. (2)

    Nat 1.23 22 Nature is a sea of forms radically alike...
    Nat 1.42 13 ...all organizations are radically alike.

radicals, n. (4)

    Tran 1.342 6 ...whoso knows...these admirable radicals...will believe that this heresy cannot pass away without leaving its mark.
    NER 3.272 18 ...they hear music, or when they read poetry, [men] are radicals.
    Pow 6.67 15 [Boniface] led the 'rummies' and radicals in town-meeting with a speech.
    PC 8.217 2 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...the radicals of the hour...

Radicals, n. (1)

    MoL 10.251 27 At that time [of the Reform Bill], Earl Grey, who was leader of Reform, was asked, in Parliament, his policy on the measures of the Radicals.

Radici, Signor, n. (2)

    MAng1 12.241 8 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper by Signor Radici in the London Retrospective Review...
    MAng1 12.241 13 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper...by the Italian scholar, in the Discourse of Benedetto Varchi upon one sonnet of Michael Angelo...from which, in substance, the views of Radici are taken.

radicle, n. (1)

    SwM 4.107 13 In the plant, the eye or germinative point opens to a leaf, then to another leaf, with a power of transforming the leaf into radicle, stamen, pistil, petal, bract, sepal, or seed.

radius, n. (1)

    Thor 10.458 26 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the loan of books...to clergymen who were alumni, and to some others resident within a circle of ten miles' radius from the College.

radius vector, n. (1)

    PI 8.23 17 The staff in [man's] hand is the radius vector of the sun.

Raffaelle [Raphael Sanzio], [Raffaelle] (15)

    LE 1.174 27 Pindar, Raphael, Angelo, Dryden, De Stael, dwell in crowds it may be...
    MN 1.206 18 Raphael must be born...
    Prd1 2.229 24 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine;...
    Art1 2.361 20 [At Naples] I saw that nothing was changed with me but the place... That fact I saw again in the Academmia at Naples...and yet again when i came to Rome and to the paintings of Raphael...
    Art1 2.362 8 The Transfiguration, by Raphael, is an eminent example of this peculiar merit [simplicity].
    Pt1 3.41 1 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael, have obviously no limits to their works except the limits of their lifetime...
    PPh 4.41 14 ...wherever we find a man higher by a whole head than any of his contemporaries, it is sure to come into doubt what are his real works. Thus Homer, Plato, Raffaelle, Shakspeare.
    ET1 5.7 27 [Landor] prefers John of Bologna to Michel Angelo; in painting, Raffaelle...
    ET12 5.202 19 In Sir Thomas Lawrences's collection at London were the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo.
    Art2 7.52 13 Raphael paints wisdom...
    Art2 7.56 8 The Madonnas of Raphael and Titian were made to be worshipped.
    DL 7.130 9 ...we are...competitors, each one, with Phidias and Raphael in the production of what is graceful or grand.
    DL 7.131 4 I go to Rome and see on the walls of the Vatican the Transfiguration, painted by Raphael...
    OA 7.321 19 We have, it is true, examples of an accelerated pace by which young men achieved grand works; as...in Raffaelle, Shakspeare...
    PC 8.219 18 Michel Angelo is thinking of Da Vinci, and Raffaelle is thinking of Michel Angelo.

Raffaelle's [Raphael Sanzio (1)

    Comc 8.170 23 In Raphael's Angel driving Heliodorus from the Temple, the crest of the helmet is so remarkable, that but for the extraordinary energy of the fact, it would draw the eye too much;...

raft, n. (2)

    MR 1.238 17 A man...who builds a raft or boat to go a-fishing, finds it easy to caulk it...
    Pol1 3.211 22 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely... saying that...a republic is a raft, which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water.

rafters, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.241 15 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...it will have heaven and earth for its beams and rafters;...
    Elo1 7.98 14 It is only to these simple strokes [of the moral sentiment] that the highest power belongs,--when a weak human hand touches...the eternal beams and rafters on which the whole structure of Nature and society is laid.

rag, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.16 24 Some stars...on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood tingle...
    ET13 5.228 26 The English...cling to the last rag of form, and are dreadfully given to cant.

ragamuffin, n. (1)

    Let 12.400 22 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius, who love and foster the Beautiful. The Good! They...are like the patient Ulysses whilst he sat in the guise of a beggar at his own door, whilst shameless rioters shouted in the hall and asked, Who brought the ragamuffin here?

rage, n. (16)

    LT 1.283 20 Thinking, which was a rage, is become an art.
    YA 1.363 14 This rage of road building is beneficent for America...
    SR 2.56 13 It is easy enough for a firm man who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes.
    SR 2.56 14 It is easy enough for a firm man who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and prudent...
    SR 2.56 16 ...when to [the cultivated classes'] feminine rage the indignation of the people is added...it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
    SR 2.82 7 ...the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness...
    Lov1 2.169 10 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...like a certain divine rage and enthusiasm, seizes on man at one period...
    Pt1 3.40 12 Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own;...
    GoW 4.263 10 [The writer] draws his rents from rage and pain.
    ET5 5.88 2 ...Popery, Plymouth colony, American Revolution, are all questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner, and except as touching that, would not have lashed the British nation to rage and revolt.
    ET8 5.138 15 [The English] are subject to panics of credulity and of rage...
    ET18 5.303 13 In the island [England]...there is no Berserker rage....
    Cour 7.258 12 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no bigger than a calf-skin.
    HDC 11.63 20 ...the country people came armed into Boston, on the afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April) in such rage and heat, as made us all tremble to think what would follow;...
    EWI 11.137 12 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. On the other part, appeared...all manner of rage and stupidity;...
    SMC 11.356 13 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers.

raged, v. (2)

    OA 7.323 26 When the pleuro-pneumonia of the cows raged, the butchers said that...there never was a time when this disease did not occur among cattle.
    PerF 10.70 25 ...the lightning fell and the storm raged...to create and flavor the fruit on your table to-day.

rages, v. (2)

    Con 1.295 12 The war [between Conservatism and Innovation] rages not only in battle-fields...
    War 11.154 19 ...[war] is exhibited to us continually in the dumb show of brute nature, where war between tribes, and between individuals of the same tribe, perpetually rages.

rag-fair, n. (1)

    Boks 7.212 16 ...in this rag-fair neither the Imagination...nor the Morals... are addressed.

ragged, adj. (10)

    MN 1.208 23 ...darest thou think meanly of thyself whom the stalwart Fate brought forth to unite his ragged sides...
    Prd1 2.233 15 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople, who skulk about all day, yellow, emaciated, ragged, sneaking; and at evening...slink to the opium-shop, swallow their morsel and become tranquil and glorified seers.
    Prd1 2.235 6 [Our Yankee trade] takes bank-notes, good, bad, clean, ragged, and saves itself by the speed with which it passes them off.
    Hsm1 2.249 2 Seen from the nook and chimney-side of prudence, [life] wears a ragged and dangerous front.
    ET11 5.176 10 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV. Few esteemed themselves in the mode, whose heads were not adorned with the black ragged staff, his badge.
    ET13 5.221 17 ...gentlemen lately testified in the House of Commons that in their lives they never saw a poor man in a ragged coat inside a church.
    DL 7.118 13 The rich, as we reckon them...in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.
    Chr2 10.117 27 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities,-as in creating... ragged schools...
    HDC 11.33 10 ...[the pilgrims] meet a scorching plain, yet not so plain but that the ragged bushes scratch their legs foully...
    Trag 12.409 26 There are people who have an appetite for grief...natures so doomed that no prosperity can soothe their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

raging, adj. (3)

    NER 3.274 12 ...Rousseau...Byron,--and I could easily add names nearer home, of raging riders, who drive their steeds so hard, in the violence of living to forget its illusion: they would know the worst...
    MoS 4.184 8 [The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child and filled him with a desire for the whole; a desire raging, infinite;...
    PerF 10.70 15 ...the marble column, the brazen statue...would soon decompose if their molecular structure, disturbed by the raging sunlight, were not restored by the darkness of the night.

raging, v. (3)

    ShP 4.190 17 [A great man] finds a war raging: it educates him, by trumpet, in barracks, and he betters the instruction.
    ET7 5.124 10 The old Italian author of the Relation of England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when the war is actually raging most furiously, [the English] will seek for good eating and all their other comforts, without thinking what harm might befall them.
    Imtl 8.323 11 The hearth blazes in the middle and a grateful heat is spread around, while storms of rain and snow are raging without.

rag-merchant, n. (1)

    CbW 6.262 18 Nature is a rag-merchant...

rags, n. (6)

    Cir 2.319 3 Why should we import rags and relics into the new hour?
    Mrs1 3.119 20 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres, among the corpses and rags of an ancient nation which they know nothing of.
    NER 3.263 6 When we see...a special reformer, we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your one virtue? Is virtue piecemeal? This is a jewel amidst the rags of a beggar.
    PI 8.12 23 ...children resent your showing them that their doll Cinderella is nothing but pine wood and rags;...
    EWI 11.103 3 For the negro, was the slave-ship to begin with...no property in the rags that covered him;...
    EPro 11.314 9 O North! give [the slave] beauty for rags,/ And honor, O South! for his shame;/ Nevada! coin thy golden crags/ With freedom's image and name./

Rahel, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.399 9 [Mary Moody Emerson's life] has to me a value like that which many readers find in Madame Guyon, in Rahel, in Eugenie de Guerin...

raids, n. (1)

    SMC 11.356 9 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers.

rail, adj. (1)

    SMC 11.357 13 At a halt in the march, a few of our boys were sitting on a rail fence...

rail, n. (3)

    Wth 6.87 6 ...coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta;...
    Farm 7.147 8 There is a great deal of enchantment in a chestnut rail or picketed pine boards.
    Bost 12.210 1 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...her mechanics repair the broken rail;...

rail, v. (1)

    MoS 4.166 26 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...you may rail and exaggerate...

railers, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.173 3 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach: the contradictors and railers at public and private tables...

rail-fence, n. (1)

    Farm 7.147 1 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has been spared, and every such section has been long occupied. But the farmer manages to procure wood from far, puts up a rail-fence, and at once the seeds sprout and the oaks rise.

railing, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.254 25 ...without railing or precision [the great man's] living is natural and poetic.

raillery, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.405 23 When [Mary Moody Emerson] met a young person who interested her, she made herself acquainted and intimate with him or her at once, by sympathy, by flattery, by raillery...

railroad, adj. (12)

    Nat 1.51 5 What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the railroad car!
    YA 1.364 18 Railroad iron is a magician's rod...
    Wth 6.119 9 Now, the farmer buys almost all he consumes,--tinware, cloth, sugar, tea, coffee, fish, coal, railroad tickets and newspapers.
    Wsp 6.210 12 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him;...
    CbW 6.276 12 When I asked an ironmaster about the slag and cinder in railroad iron,--O, he said, there's always good iron to be had: if there's cinder in the iron it is because there was cinder in the pay.
    Elo1 7.80 5 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons.
    Farm 7.146 4 The railroad dirt-cars are good excavators...
    Elo2 8.119 27 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice, and exulted in the opportunity given her in the great halls she found sometimes built over a railroad depot.
    Elo2 8.132 19 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech, in our commercial, manufacturing, railroad and educational conventions; that of political advice and persuasion...
    FRep 11.522 17 [The American] is easily fed with wheat and game, with Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts, by political power and by the power in the railroad board, in the mills, or the banks.
    Bost 12.188 13 [Boston] is...not...a railroad station...grown up by time and luck to a place of wealth;...
    Let 12.392 23 When a railroad train shoots through Europe every day...it cannot stop every twenty or thirty miles at a German custom-house...

railroad, n. (26)

    YA 1.364 9 An unlooked-for consequence of the railroad is the increased acquaintance it has given the American people with the boundless resources of their own soil.
    YA 1.364 21 The railroad is but one arrow in our quiver...
    Art1 2.368 15 ...[genius] will raise to a divine use the railroad...
    UGM 4.4 14 The knowledge that in the city is a man who invented the railroad, raises the credit of all the citizens.
    UGM 4.15 7 What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us? ... We are piqued to some purpose, and the industry of the diggers on the railroad will not again shame us.
    MoS 4.151 5 Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind...
    ShP 4.190 22 [A great man] finds two counties groping to bring coal, or flour, or fish, from the place of production to the place of consumption, and he hits on a railroad.
    GoW 4.265 12 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo, whether tariff, Texas, railroad..and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...
    Pow 6.73 10 There is no way to success in our art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
    Ctr 6.146 20 ...boys and men of that condition [who have grown up on a farm, which they have never left] look upon work on a railroad...as opportunity.
    SS 7.12 24 The recluse witnesses what others perform by their aid, with a kind of fear. It is as much out of his possibility as...an Irishman's day's work on the railroad.
    Art2 7.40 6 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.
    Boks 7.205 12 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of civilization, like the new railroad from ocean to ocean...
    Suc 7.283 10 Our eyes run approvingly along the lengthened lines of railroad and telegraph.
    Res 8.141 17 We have seen the railroad and telegraph subdue our enormous geography;...
    Res 8.144 4 At Annapolis a regiment, hastening to join the army, found the locomotives broken, the railroad destroyed, and no rails.
    PC 8.210 14 Consider...what masters, each in his several province, the railroad, the telegraph...have evoked!...
    Thor 10.455 18 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose...
    Thor 10.458 27 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University] that the railroad had destroyed the old scale of distances...
    Thor 10.463 14 [Thoreau] said,-You can sleep near the railroad, and never be disturbed...
    EWI 11.125 25 ...[slavery] does not love the whistle of the railroad;...
    FSLC 11.183 25 I cannot accept the railroad and telegraph in exchange for reason and charity.
    SMC 11.373 6 After driving the enemy from the railroad...[George Prescott] was struck...by a musket-ball...
    EdAd 11.383 11 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from the telescope, the telegraph, the railroad, steamship, steam-ferry, steam-mill;...
    PLT 12.56 5 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men...seems inspired and a god-send to those who wish to...carry a point. 'T is the difference between progress by railroad and by walking across the broken country.
    CInt 12.129 4 Is a railroad, or a shoe-factory...further from God than a sheep-pasture or a clam-bank?

Railroad, Norfolk and Peter (1)

    SMC 11.373 3 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment]...were ordered to take the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad from the rebels.

Railroad, Pacific, n. (1)

    Art2 7.38 26 ...from [the child's] first pile of toys or chip bridge to the masonry of Minot Rock Lighthouse or the Pacific Railroad;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.

Railroad, Western, n. (1)

    Wth 6.122 4 Mr. Stephenson...believing that the river knows the way, followed his valley as implicitly as our Western Railroad follows the Westfield River...

railroad-car, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.383 19 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys with journals still wet from Liverpool and Havre...

railroad-presidents, n. (1)

    Wth 6.94 15 ...the supply in nature of railroad-presidents, copper-miners... is limited by the same law which keeps the proportion in the supply of carbon, of alum, and of hydrogen.

railroads, n. (17)

    YA 1.374 25 We build railroads, we know not for what or for whom;...
    Pol1 3.212 17 Human nature expresses itself in [laws] as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads;...
    ET6 5.103 10 ...railroads, steam-pump, steam-plough...have operated [in England] to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of men.
    ET6 5.114 13 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of... political, literary and personal news; railroads, horses, diamonds, agriculture, horticulture, pisciculture and wine.
    Pow 6.62 24 The commerce of rivers, the commerce of railroads...must add an American extension to the pond-hole of admiralty.
    Wth 6.102 24 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston. Now it will buy a great deal more in our old town, thanks to railroads...
    Ctr 6.148 6 ...the aesthetic value of railroads is to unite the advantages of town and country life...
    CbW 6.256 17 The benefaction derived in Illinois and the great West from railroads is inestimable...
    WD 7.161 1 The chain of Western railroads from Chicago to the Pacific has planted cities and civilization in less time than it costs to bring an orchard into bearing.
    Boks 7.203 26 The respectable and sometimes excellent translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse.
    PI 8.42 4 Better men saw heavens and earths; saw noble instruments of noble souls. We see railroads, mills and banks...
    Elo2 8.112 14 There are not only the wants of the intellectual and learned and poetic men and women to be met, but also the vast interests of property, public and private, of mining, of manufactures, of trade, of railroads, etc.
    Prch 10.226 11 The poet Wordsworth greeted even the steam-engine and railroads;...
    Prch 10.226 22 ...we can keep our religion, despite of the violent railroads of generalization...
    Plu 10.294 15 ...[Plutarch's] name is never mentioned by any Roman writer. It would seem that the community of letters and of personal news was even more rare at that day than the want of printing, of railroads and telegraphs, would suggest to us.
    PLT 12.57 25 Peter is the mould into which everything is poured like warm wax, and be it astronomy or railroads or French revolution or theology or botany, it comes out Peter.
    ACri 12.301 11 After Chicago had secured the confluence of the railroads to itself, I chanced to meet my founder [of New City] again...

Railroads, n. (1)

    Let 12.392 14 ...in regard to the writer who has given us his speculations on Railroads and Air-roads, our correspondent shall have his own way.

railroad-whistle, n. (1)

    Thor 10.463 17 [Thoreau] said...Nature knows very well what sounds are worth attending to, and has made up her mind not to hear the railroad-whistle.

rails, n. (4)

    Wth 6.94 3 ...how did North America get netted with iron rails, except by the importunity of these orators who dragged all the prudent men in?
    Res 8.144 4 At Annapolis a regiment, hastening to join the army, found the locomotives broken, the railroad destroyed, and no rails.
    Res 8.144 7 The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild the road. Many men stepped forward, searched in the water, found the hidden rails, laid the track...
    Edc1 10.139 2 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails...

railway, adj. (2)

    Ill 6.311 20 ...the fisherman dripping all day over a cold pond, the switchman at the railway intersection...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
    Ill 6.317 21 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty...

railway, n. (9)

    MN 1.192 7 ...I value the railway;...
    Pt1 3.19 2 Readers of poetry see the factory-village and the railway, and fancy that the poetry of the landscape is broken up by these;...
    Pt1 3.19 23 A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for the first time, and the complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder. It is not that he does not see all the fine houses...but he disposes of them as easily as the poet finds place for the railway.
    Mrs1 3.127 7 [Manners] aid our dealing and conversation as a railway aids travelling...
    NER 3.249 2 In the suburb, in the town,/ On the railway, in the square,/ Came a beam of goodness down/ Doubling daylight everywhere/...
    ET10 5.162 11 Of course [steam] draws the [English] nobility into the competition, as stockholders in the mine, the canal, the railway...
    QO 8.179 5 ...movable types, the kaleidoscope, the railway, the power-loom, etc., have been many times found and lost...
    II 12.72 9 It is as impossible for labor to produce...a song of Burns, as...the Iliad. There is much loss, as we say on the railway, in the stops, but the running time need be but little increased, to add great results.
    Let 12.392 16 To the railway, we must say,-like the courageous lord mayor at his first hunting, when told the hare was coming,-Let it come, in Heaven's name, I am not afraid on 't.

Railway, South Western, En (1)

    ET16 5.273 17 On Friday, 7th July, we [Emerson and Carlyle] took the South Western Railway through Hampshire to Salisbury...

railways, n. (5)

    Cir 2.302 24 See the investment of capital in aqueducts, made useless by hydraulics;...roads and canals, by railways;...
    Art1 2.368 22 Is not the selfish and even cruel aspect which belongs to our great mechanical works, to mills, railways, and machinery, the effect of the mercenary impulses which these works obey?
    ET10 5.160 19 In 1848, Lord John Russell stated that the people of this country [England] had laid out 300,000,000 pounds of capital in railways, in the last four years.
    ET10 5.167 16 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of linen, or railways of turnpikes...
    Wth 6.121 22 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight from terminus to terminus...

raiment, n. (1)

    Comp 2.125 13 ...such should be the outward biography of man in time, a putting off of dead circumstances day by day, as he renews his raiment day by day.

rain, n. (55)

    Nat 1.13 13 ...the ice, on the other side of the planet, condenses rain on this;...
    Nat 1.13 14 ...the rain feeds the plant;...
    Nat 1.42 6 ...blight, rain, insects, sun, - [a farm] is a sacred emblem...
    DSA 1.129 25 ...the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with...the falling rain.
    LE 1.168 8 ...the fall of swarms of flies...pattering down on the leaves like rain; the angry hiss of the wood-birds;...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
    LE 1.169 17 ...this beauty...which the sun and the moon, the snow and the rain, repaint and vary, has never been recorded by art...
    LE 1.175 22 ...welcome falls the imprisoning rain...
    MN 1.218 18 Behold! there is the sun, and the rain, and the rocks;...
    MR 1.238 12 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as...a road by rain and frost;...
    MR 1.239 7 ...rust, mould, vermin, rain, sun, freshet, fire, all seize their own...
    MR 1.239 17 ...instead of...that mighty and prevailing heart, which the father had...whom snow and rain...seemed all to know and to serve,-we have now a puny, protected person...
    LT 1.278 2 We...want...not a chemical drop of water, but rain;...
    Prd1 2.226 4 ...we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.
    Prd1 2.238 24 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan...meet on what common ground remains,--if only that the sun shines and the rain rains for both;...
    Pt1 3.16 3 ...[the coachman or the hunter] loves the earnest of the north wind, of rain...
    Pt1 3.42 9 ...this is the reward; that the ideal shall be real to thee [O poet], and the impressions of the actual world shall fall like summer rain...
    Pt1 3.42 23 ...wherever is danger, and awe, and love,--there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee [O poet]...
    Chr1 3.87 7 He spoke, and words more soft than rain/ Brought the Age of Gold again:/...
    Mrs1 3.119 11 The house [of the inhabitants of Gournou], namely a tomb, is ready without rent or taxes. No rain can pass through the roof...
    Nat2 3.196 21 That power...which makes the whole and the particle its equal channel...distils its essence into every drop of rain.
    ET3 5.38 26 The constant rain--a rain with every tide, in some parts of the island--keeps [England's] multitude of rivers full...
    ET5 5.99 2 ...three or four days' rain will reduce hundreds to starving in London.
    ET6 5.105 10 An Englishman walks in a pouring rain, swinging his closed umbrella like a walking-stick;...and no remark is made.
    ET10 5.161 6 In Egypt, [steam] can plant forests, and bring rain after three thousand years.
    Wth 6.87 17 Wealth begins in a tight roof that keeps the rain and wind out;...
    Wth 6.101 26 [The farmer] knows how much land [his dollar] represents;-- how much rain, frost and sunshine.
    Ctr 6.154 13 To a man at work...the rain, the wind, he forgot them when he came in.
    Wsp 6.218 23 We have learned the manners...of the rivers and the rain...
    CbW 6.271 10 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...a legacy and the like. With these objects, their conversation deals with surfaces... exaggerated bad news and the rain.
    Art2 7.41 25 It is only within narrow limits that the discretion of the architect may range: gravity, wind, sun, rain...have more to say than he.
    DL 7.105 25 ...the rain, the ice, the frost, make epochs in [the child's] life.
    Farm 7.149 18 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation, and allows the warm rain to bring down into the roots the temperature of the air and of the surface soil;...
    WD 7.160 21 Egypt, where no rain fell for three thousand years, now, it is said, thanks Mehemet Ali's irrigations and planted forests for late-returning showers.
    Cour 7.252 2 Peril around, all else appalling,/ Cannon in front and leaden rain,/ Him duty, through the clarion calling/ To the van, called not in vain./
    QO 8.201 7 [The individual] must draw the elements into him for food, and, if they be granite and silex, will prefer them cooked by sun and rain, by time and art, to his hand.
    PPo 8.242 11 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Afrasiyab...whose heart was bounteous as the ocean and his hands like the clouds when rain falls to gladden the earth.
    PPo 8.243 18 The rain it raineth every day/...
    PPo 8.258 1 Presently we have [in Hafiz's poetry],-All day the rain/ Bathed the dark hyacinths in vain,/ The flood may pour from morn to night/ Nor wash the pretty Indians white./
    Insp 8.282 20 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert] says:-And now in age I bud again,/ After so many deaths I live and write;/ I once more smell the dew and rain,/ And relish versing/...
    Insp 8.288 22 In the hotel...I command an astronomic leisure. I forget rain, wind, cold and heat.
    Imtl 8.323 10 The hearth blazes in the middle and a grateful heat is spread around, while storms of rain and snow are raging without.
    PerF 10.71 13 ...a gardener knows that [the loam] is full of peaches, full of oranges, and he drops in a few seeds by way of keys to unlock and combine its virtues; lets it lie in sun and rain...
    PerF 10.71 27 When the rain exceeds on the coast, there is drought on the prairie.
    PerF 10.75 19 ...[labor] keeps the cow out of the garden, the rain out of the library...
    PerF 10.86 7 ...rain and snow, wind and tides, every change, every cause in Nature is nothing but a disguised missionary.
    MoL 10.249 19 As certainly as water falls in rain on the tops of mountains and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first on the best minds, and run down...
    LLNE 10.356 8 ...a pent-house to fend the sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts...
    EzRy 10.386 7 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers for rain and against the lightning... are well remembered...
    EzRy 10.387 11 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain.
    EzRy 10.387 15 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain. As soon as the service was over, he went to the petitioner, and said, You Boston ministers, as soon as a tulip wilts under your windows, go to church and pray for rain, until all Concord and Sudbury are under water.
    RBur 11.442 1 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East, but in the homely landscape which the poor see around them...ice and sleet and rain and snow-choked brooks;...
    CL 12.149 1 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... The lightning roars like a parent cow that bellows for its calf, and the rain is set free by the Maruts.
    CL 12.150 25 [The man] went forth again after the rain; in the cold swamp, the buds are swollen...
    EurB 12.370 15 ...amidst velvet and glory, we long for rain and frost.
    EurB 12.374 10 ...[the complete man] would be obeyed as naturally as the rain and the sunshine are.

rain, v. (1)

    MoS 4.166 10 ...[Montaigne] has stayed in-doors till he is deadly sick; he will to the open air, though it rain bullets.

rainbow, adj. (3)

    Lov1 2.179 19 [Beauty's] nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character...
    ShP 4.206 11 It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible...
    SovE 10.184 27 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...expands into a beautiful form with rainbow wings...

rainbow, n. (11)

    Nat 1.19 10 The shows of day...the rainbow...if too eagerly hunted...mock us with their unreality.
    Nat2 3.194 5 [Nature's] mighty orbit vaults like the fresh rainbow into the deep...
    F 6.48 13 ...the rainbow and the curve of the horizon and the arch of the blue vault are only results from the organism of the eye.
    Bty 6.303 21 Every natural feature--sea, sky, rainbow, flowers, musical tone--has in it somewhat which is not private but universal...
    Farm 7.153 24 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime...would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature, comparable to... rainbow and flood;...
    PI 8.26 4 ...a cow does not gaze at the rainbow...
    Comc 8.170 2 ...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat a gay cascade was thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow...
    Supl 10.165 26 ...there is an inverted superlative...which...finds the rainbow a discoloration;...
    Plu 10.310 12 The explanation of the rainbow, of the floods of the Nile, and of the remora, etc. [in Plutarch], are just;...
    MMEm 10.424 20 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather...
    CW 12.169 4 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/ Nor the red rainbow of a summer's eve,/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./

rainbow-bubbles, n. (1)

    PI 8.53 3 The poet, like a delighted boy, brings you heaps of rainbow-bubbles... instead of a few drops of soap and water.

rainbows, n. (10)

    Lov1 2.179 2 [The lover's] friends find in [his mistress] a likeness to her mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except...to rainbows and the song of birds.
    Fdsp 2.200 21 Respect the naturlangsamkeit which...works in duration in which Alps and Andes come and go as rainbows.
    SwM 4.141 5 [The scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must be fresher than rainbows...
    F 6.41 20 In youth we clothe ourselves with rainbows...
    Bty 6.304 27 The poets are quite right in decking their mistresses with the spoils of the landscape, flower-gardens, gems, rainbows...
    Ill 6.311 5 ...rainbows and Northern Lights are not quite so spheral as our childhood thought them...
    Boks 7.217 6 [In the novel] A thousand thoughts awoke; great rainbows seemed to span the sky...
    Imtl 8.321 2 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/
    Dem1 10.26 7 It is...a most dangerous superstition to raise [Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism] to the lofty place of motives and sanctions. This is to prefer halos and rainbows to the sun and moon.
    SovE 10.191 6 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows...

rainbow-tints, n. (1)

    Thor 10.483 14 How did these beautiful rainbow-tints get into the shell of the fresh-water clam...

rain-drop, n. (1)

    PI 8.2 8 ...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that ' s just begun;/ Making free with time and size,/ Dwindles here, there magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/...

rained, v. (1)

    NMW 4.236 3 [Bonaparte]...on a hostile position, rained a torrent of iron...

raineth, v. (1)

    PPo 8.243 18 The rain it raineth every day/...

rain-gauges, n. (1)

    Tran 1.358 11 In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only...baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,-rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes;...

rain-proof, adj. (1)

    WD 7.160 10 What of this dapper caoutchouc and gutta-percha, which make...rain-proof coats for all climates...

rain-retaining, adj. (1)

    CL 12.148 24 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... They drive before them in their course the long, vast, uninjurable, rain-retaining cloud.

rains, n. (6)

    ET11 5.196 21 This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs and seas and rains proclaimed [in England],--that intellect and personal force should make the law;...
    ET14 5.235 27 For two centuries England was philosophic, religious, poetic. The mental furniture seemed of larger scale: the memory capacious like the storehouse of the rains.
    ET16 5.288 19 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping...too much by half for man in the picture, and so giving a certain tristesse, like the rank vegetation of swamps and forests seen at night, steeped in dews and rains, which it loves;...
    PerF 10.71 1 The winds and the rains come back a thousand and a thousand times.
    HDC 11.34 9 ...thus these poor servants of Christ provide shelter for themselves...keeping off the short showers from their lodgings, but the long rains penetrate through...
    SMC 11.360 25 After the first marches [in the Civil War] there is no letter-paper, there are no envelopes, no postage-stamps, for these were wetted into a solid mass in the rains and mud.

rains, v. (3)

    Prd1 2.238 24 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan...meet on what common ground remains,--if only that the sun shines and the rain rains for both;...
    Farm 7.152 4 ...[the first planter] learns...that the earth...works for him when he is asleep, when it rains...
    Supl 10.169 25 The common people diminish: a cold snap; it rains easy; good haying weather.

rainy, adj. (8)

    Hist 2.22 8 The nomads of Africa were constrained to wander, by the attacks of the gad-fly, which drives the cattle mad, and so compels the tribe to emigrate in the rainy season...
    Prd1 2.227 16 In the rainy day [the good husband] builds a work-bench...
    ET5 5.94 10 This foggy and rainy country [England] furnishes the world with astronomical observations.
    ET16 5.286 23 On Sunday we had much discourse, on a very rainy day.
    Ctr 6.152 21 ...I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo the street was in a blaze with scarlet umbrellas.
    Wsp 6.213 2 You say there is no religion now. 'T is like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun...
    Clbs 7.233 25 Diderot said of the Abbe Galiani: He was a treasure in rainy days;...
    EurB 12.377 25 [The Vivian Greys]...could write an Iliad any rainy morning, if fame were not such a bore.

raise, v. (38)

    AmS 1.100 18 The office of the scholar is...to raise...
    MR 1.243 22 Is our housekeeping sacred and honorable? Does it raise and inspire us...
    MR 1.250 1 [The Americans] think you may talk the north wind down as easily as raise society;...
    MR 1.253 19 To use an Egyptian metaphor, it is not [the people's] will for any long time, to raise the nails of wild beasts and to depress the heads of the sacred birds.
    LT 1.271 9 The conscience of the Age demonstrates itself in this effort to raise the life of man by putting it in harmony with his idea of the Beautiful and the Just.
    LT 1.271 27 Why should [the manner of life we lead] not...invite and raise us?
    LT 1.281 8 These benefactors [the reformers] hope to raise man by improving his circumstances...
    SR 2.70 4 Who has more obedience than I masters me, though he should not raise his finger.
    Fdsp 2.210 18 Should not the society of my friend be to me...great as nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane in comparison with...that clump of waving grass that divides the brook? Let us not vilify, but raise it to that standard.
    Prd1 2.232 1 ...no gifts can raise intemperance.
    Hsm1 2.254 9 These [magnanimous] men...raise the standard of civil virtue among mankind.
    Cir 2.306 7 Does the fact look crass and material, threatening to degrade thy theory of spirit? Resist it not; it goes to refine and raise thy theory of matter just as much.
    Cir 2.307 4 The continual effort to raise himself above himself...betrays itself in a man's relations.
    Art1 2.368 14 ...[genius] will raise to a divine use the railroad...
    Pt1 3.17 21 The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
    SwM 4.93 11 A higher class...are the poets, who...feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures which raise men out of the world of corn and money...
    ET10 5.155 6 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders. Better take [the children] away from those who might deprave them. And it was highly injurious to trade to stop binding to manufacturers, as it must raise the price of labor and of manufactured goods.
    ET12 5.203 1 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, they called on Lord Eldon. Instead of a hundred pounds, he surprised them by putting down his name for three thousand pounds. They told him they should now very easily raise the remainder.
    Wth 6.108 10 If a St. Michael's pear sells for a shilling, it costs a shilling to raise it.
    Ctr 6.161 12 ...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty.
    Bty 6.300 15 If command...exist in the most deformed person, all the accidents that usually displease...raise esteem and wonder higher.
    Bty 6.301 3 If a man can raise a small city to be a great kingdom...'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
    SS 7.12 20 [Animal spirits] seem a power incredible, as if God should raise the dead.
    DL 7.117 12 ...our social forms are very far from truth and equity. But the way to set the axe at the root of the tree is to raise our aim.
    Suc 7.310 6 To awake in man and to raise the sense of worth...that is the only aim.
    PPo 8.251 23 Timour taxed Hafiz with treating disrepectfully his two cities, to raise and adorn which he had conquered nations.
    Dem1 10.26 5 It is...a most dangerous superstition to raise [Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism] to the lofty place of motives and sanctions.
    Edc1 10.158 24 By simple living, by an illimitable soul...you raise...all.
    MoL 10.246 15 Linnaeus or Robert Brown must not be set to raise gooseberries and cucumbers...
    MoL 10.246 20 A shrewd broker out of State Street visited a quiet countryman possessed of all the virtues, and...said, With your character now I could raise all this money at once, and make an excellent thing of it.
    LLNE 10.349 19 [Genius] must now set itself to raise the social condition of man...
    HDC 11.57 15 In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics...
    HDC 11.71 18 It was...voted [in Concord], to raise one or more companies of minute-men...
    HDC 11.79 5 In June [1776], the General Assembly of Massachusetts resolved to raise 5000 militia for six months...
    EWI 11.140 2 [The timid and base persons] would raise mobs, for fear is very cruel.
    FSLC 11.190 1 ...all men are beloved as they raise us to [the spiritual element];...
    PLT 12.48 22 Most men's minds do not grasp anything. All slips through their fingers, like the paltry brass grooves that in most country houses are used to raise or drop the curtain...
    Milt1 12.254 17 Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of every great man, namely, to raise the idea of Man in the minds of his contemporaries and of posterity...

raised, v. (33)

    Nat 1.28 16 ...[The human corpse] is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.
    Nat 1.57 6 Yet all men are capable of being raised by piety or by passion, into [ideas'] region.
    AmS 1.96 18 In some contemplative hour [the new deed] detaches itself...to become a thought of the mind. Instantly it is raised, transfigured;...
    MR 1.250 26 ...the believer not only beholds his heaven to be possible, but already to begin to exist,-not by the men or materials the statesman uses, but by men transfigured and raised above themselves by the power of principles.
    Tran 1.359 2 ...when every voice is raised for a new road or another statute...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    YA 1.377 23 Trade was the strong man that...raised a new and unknown power in [Feudalism's] place.
    SR 2.69 5 The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation...
    Exp 3.46 5 We are like millers on the lower levels of a stream, when the factories above them have exhausted the water. We too fancy that the upper people must have raised their dams.
    NER 3.269 16 In [scholars'] experience the scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt...
    NER 3.275 19 Having raised himself to this rank...[a man] still finds certain others before whom he cannot possess himself...
    NMW 4.245 4 Seventeen men in [Napoleon's] time were raised from common soldiers to the rank of king, marshal, duke, or general;...
    ET14 5.234 24 Even in its elevations materialistic, [England's] poetry is common sense inspired; or iron raised to white heat.
    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...man raised to his highest power.
    Bhr 6.182 18 Palaces interest us mainly in the exhibition of manners, which, in the idle and expensive society dwelling in them, are raised to a high art.
    Bhr 6.192 1 The boy [in earlier novels] was to be raised from a humble to a high position.
    Ill 6.312 18 [The dreariest alderman] imitates the air and actions of people whom he admires, and is raised in his own eyes.
    DL 7.132 22 When [man] perceives the Law, he ceases to despond. Whilst he sees it, every thought and act is raised...
    Cour 7.278 25 The hunter raised his gun,--/ He knew one charge was all,--/ And through the boy's pursuing foe/ He sent his only ball./
    Suc 7.294 27 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency. He has thereby...got the appointment; but you have raised yourself into a higher school of art...
    PPo 8.241 14 ...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...raised her robes, thinking she was to pass through the water.
    PPo 8.265 18 You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./
    Grts 8.316 1 A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him... came with it in his poverty to Diderot, and Diderot, pitying the creature, wrote the dedication for him, and so raised five-and-twenty louis to save his famishing lampooner alive.
    MoL 10.243 3 America at large exhibited such a confusion as California showed in 1849, when the cry of gold was first raised.
    Plu 10.295 25 Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had been lost, had not this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt.
    HDC 11.43 23 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf was to be killed;...corn to be raised;...
    HDC 11.79 1 In the year 1775, [Concord] raised 100 minute-men, and 74 soldiers to serve at Cambridge.
    HDC 11.79 3 In March, 1776, 145 men were raised by this town [Concord] to serve at Dorchester Heights.
    EWI 11.108 1 [The English Quakers] made friends and raised money for the slave;...
    EWI 11.124 11 The sugar [the negroes] raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
    EWI 11.124 15 The sugar [the negroes] raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it. The coffee was fragrant;...the cotton clothed the world. What! all raised by these men, and no wages?
    SMC 11.366 27 After the return of the three months' company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of volunteers...
    Wom 11.410 16 [Man] is as much raised above the beast by this creative faculty [taste] as by any other.
    PLT 12.21 22 ...the lowest only means incipient form, and over it is a higher class in which its rudiments are...raised to higher powers;...

raiser, n. (1)

    JBB 11.267 23 [John Brown's] father, largely interested as a raiser of stock, became a contractor to supply the army with beef, in the war of 1812...

raises, v. (17)

    AmS 1.101 23 [The scholar] is one who raises himself from private considerations...
    Tran 1.350 15 Every moment of a hero so raises and cheers us that a twelvemonth is an age.
    SR 2.90 1 ...the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event raises your spirits...
    Int 2.326 23 The making a fact the subject of thought raises it.
    Mrs1 3.150 17 The wonderful generosity of her sentiments raises [woman] at times into heroical and godlike regions...
    NR 3.236 21 ...when each person...would conquer all things to his poor crochet, [Nature] raises up against him another person...
    UGM 4.4 14 The knowledge that in the city is a man who invented the railroad, raises the credit of all the citizens.
    ET14 5.256 27 ...if this religion is in the poetry, it raises us to some purpose...
    DL 7.111 19 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are imitations of these to the extent of their ability. With these ends...[housekeeping] cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child;...
    PC 8.217 13 [Culture] raises a rival royalty in a monarchy.
    Aris 10.52 24 Genius...has a royal right in all possessions and privileges. being itself representative and accepted by all men as their delegate. It has indeed the best right, because it raises men above themselves...
    SovE 10.188 13 In the pre-adamite [Nature] bred valor only; by and by she gets on to man, and adds tenderness, and thus raises virtue piecemeal.
    HDC 11.82 18 The town [Concord] raises, this year, 1800 dollars for its public schools;...
    Humb 11.458 18 One of [Germany's] writers warns his countrymen that it is not the Battle of Leipsic, but the Leipsic Fair Catalogue, which raises them above the French.
    PLT 12.15 26 Not having enough [thought] to support all the powers of a race, [Nature] thins all her stock, and raises a few individuals, or only a pair.
    ACri 12.297 19 ...[Carlyle] talks flexibly...in loud emphasis, in undertones, then laughs till the walls ring, then calmly moderates, then hints, or raises an eyebrow.
    PPr 12.383 9 Time stills the loud noise of opinions, sinks the small, raises the great...

raiseth, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.425 6 When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds, and he adores the eternal purposes of Him who...bringeth to dust, and raiseth to the skies.

raising, v. (5)

    Nat 1.25 19 ...supercilious [means] the raising of the eyebrow.
    Boks 7.216 23 [The novel] is only confectionery, not the raising of new corn.
    HDC 11.69 10 ...the British parliament have empowered the East India Company to export their tea into America, for the sole purpose of raising a revenue from hence;...
    HDC 11.69 15 ...we will not, in this town [Concord]...buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea, or any other tea, whilst there is a duty for raising a revenue thereon in America;...
    SMC 11.350 15 The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square.

rake, n. (3)

    Prd1 2.235 2 ...keep the rake, says the haymaker, as nigh the scythe as you can...
    Prd1 2.235 4 ...keep the rake, says the haymaker, as nigh the scythe as you can, and the cart as nigh the rake.
    EzRy 10.387 4 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay. He...looked at the cloud, and said, We are in the Lord's hand; mind your rake, George! We are in the Lord's hand;...

rake, v. (3)

    Exp 3.58 22 At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest figures of young men and maidens, quite powerless and melancholy. It would not rake or pitch a ton of hay;...
    Dem1 10.4 17 ...[in dreams] we seem...cheated by spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter...to rake with confusion in memory among the gibbering nonsense to find the motive of this contemptible cachinnation.
    EzRy 10.386 26 One August afternoon, when I was in [Ezra Ripley's] hayfield helping him...to rake up his hay, I well remember his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay.

raked, v. (2)

    EzRy 10.387 2 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay. He raked very fast...
    EWI 11.102 9 Language must be raked...to tell what negro slavery has been.

raking, v. (1)

    Cour 7.264 6 ...the farmer is skilful to fight [the forest fire]. The neighbors run together;...and by raking with the hoe a long but little trench, confine to a patch the fire which would easily spread over a hundred acres.

Raleigh, Walter, n. (11)

    Chr1 3.89 11 Sir Philip Sidney, the Earl of Essex, Sir Walter Raleigh, are men of great figure and of few deeds.
    UGM 4.14 5 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch.
    MoS 4.172 22 [The wise skeptic's] politics are those of the Soul's Errand of Sir Walter Raleigh;...
    ShP 4.203 13 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Lord Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh...
    ET4 5.47 10 How came such men as...William of Wykeham, Walter Raleigh...
    ET18 5.307 12 ...retrospectively, we may strike the balance and prefer one Alfred, one Shakspeare, one Milton, one Sidney, one Raleigh, one Wellington, to a million foolish democrats.
    Boks 7.207 5 Here [in the Elizabethan era the scholar] has Shakspeare... Raleigh...
    QO 8.197 27 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits,-by Sir Walter Raleigh, Lord Bacon and others...had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...
    Grts 8.311 11 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh.
    Shak1 11.449 18 ...we have already seen the most fantastic theories plausibly urged, that Raleigh and Bacon were the authors of [Shakespeare' s] plays.
    Shak1 11.452 15 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God, when Shakspeare and Galileo were born within a few months of each other...and, in short space before and after, Montaigne, Bacon, Spenser, Raleigh and Jonson.

rallies, n. (1)

    Insp 8.280 13 ...we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies.

rallies, v. (1)

    ET18 5.300 6 England rallies at home to check Scotland.

rally, n. (2)

    Chr2 10.108 10 ...the rally on the principle must arrive as people become intellectual.
    SMC 11.360 6 ...these [Civil War] colonels, captains and lieutenants, and the privates too, are domestic men, just wrenched away from their families and their business by this rally of all the manhood in the land.

rally, v. (8)

    Mrs1 3.135 20 Cardinal Caprara...defended himself from the glances of Napoleon by an immense pair of green spectacles. Napoleon remarked them, and speedily managed to rally them off...
    NER 3.273 6 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that the members of the Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner, they agreed to rally Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.
    F 6.47 19 ...when a man...is ground to powder by the vice of his race;-he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
    Elo2 8.126 27 ...we have all of us known men who lose...their fancy, at any sudden call. Some men, on such pressure, collapse, and cannot rally.
    Aris 10.59 27 The youth...having got into decent society, is left to himself, and falls abroad with too much freedom. But in the hours of insight we rally against this skepticism.
    EPro 11.320 24 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...all rally to its support.
    FRep 11.520 6 You rally to the support of old charities and the cause of literature, and there, to be sure, are these brazen faces [of politicians].
    Bost 12.202 23 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...spend the salaries. No, but the theorists and extremists...these men will work and watch and rally...

rallying, n. (2)

    PLT 12.58 17 There must be perpetual rallying and self-recovery.
    CInt 12.123 13 There must be the perpetual rallying and self-recovery;...

rallying, v. (1)

    EPro 11.323 25 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of drawing a line and rallying the free states to fix it impassably...

rallyings, n. (1)

    FRep 11.539 20 ...liberty...like all power subsists only by new rallyings on the source of inspiration.

ram, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.71 26 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast. ... He seems to me like a stately ram, who goes as a master of the flock.

Ram, n. (1)

    PI 8.46 10 Who would hold the order of the almanac so fast but for the ding-dong,--Thirty days hath September, etc.;--or of the Zodiac, but for The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, etc.?

Ramayana, n. (1)

    PC 8.214 13 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius...which men in proportion to their wisdom still cherish,-as...the grand scriptures...of...the poems of the Mahabarat and the Ramayana?

ramble, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.11 12 We know that the secret of the world is profound, but who or what shall be our interpreter, we know not. A mountain ramble...may put the key into our hands.
    Comc 8.169 22 ...the painter Astley...going out of Rome one day with a party for a ramble in the Campagna and the weather proving hot, refused to take off his coat...

ramble, v. (3)

    AmS 1.97 25 Authors we have, in numbers...who...ramble round Algiers, to replenish their merchantable stock.
    Tran 1.341 8 ...[many intelligent and religious persons] prefer to ramble in the country and perish of ennui, to the degradation of such charities and such ambitions as the city can propose to them.
    Prd1 2.226 10 The islander may ramble all day at will.

rambles, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.206 2 [Friendship] is fit for...country rambles...
    Milt1 12.249 20 ...the piece [a tract by Milton] shows all the rambles and resources of indignation...

rambles, v. (1)

    LE 1.168 14 The man...who rambles in the woods, seems to be the first man that ever...entered a grove.

rambling, adj. (1)

    Res 8.153 14 I have not, in all these rambling sketches, gone beyond the beginning of my list [of Resources].

rambling, v. (2)

    MR 1.241 23 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual...is better taught by a moderate and dainty exercise, such as rambling in the fields...than by the downright drudgery of the farmer and the smith.
    Pt1 3.10 14 I remember when I was young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table. He had left his work and gone rambling none knew whither...

Rambouillet, Hotel de, n. (1)

    Wom 11.415 22 A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil; the change of sentiment from a rude to a polite character, in the age of Louis XIV,-commonly dated from the building of the Hotel de Rambouillet.

Rambouillet, Hotel, Paris, (1)

    Clbs 7.243 11 The history of the Hotel Rambouillet and its brilliant circles makes an important date in French civilization.

Rambouillet, Marquise de [C (1)

    Clbs 7.243 2 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first got the horses out of and the scholars into the palaces...

Rameau [Diderot, Le Neveu (1)

    Comc 8.170 12 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun...of the gay Rameau of Diderot...

ramify, v. (1)

    EdAd 11.384 10 [The traveller] reflects on...how far these chains of intercourse and travel [in America] reach, interlock and ramify;...

rammed, v. (2)

    Plu 10.300 17 I do not know where to find a book-to borrow a phrase of Ben Jonson's-so rammed with life [as Plutarch]...
    MLit 12.330 16 ...to use a phrase of Ben Jonson's, [Wilhelm Meister] is rammed with life.

rampart, n. (2)

    Bost 12.203 1 The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which... fed the party and carried it, over every rampart and obstacle, to victory.
    MAng1 12.224 12 On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city [Florence], and his first operation was to throw up a rampart to storm the bastion of San Miniato.

ramparts, n. (1)

    PPo 8.256 11 O high-flying falcon! the Tree of Life is thy perch;/ This nook of grief fits thee ill for a nest./ Hearken! they call to thee down from the ramparts of heaven;/ I cannot divine what holds thee here in a net./

ramrod, n. (1)

    JBB 11.266 22 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Said, Boys, the Lord will aid us! and he shoved his ramrod down./ Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Brown.

ran, v. (26)

    Hist 2.31 27 The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus. What else am I who laughed or wept yesterday, who slept last night like a corpse, and this morning stood and ran?
    SL 2.133 25 Timoleon's victories are the best victories, which ran and flowed like Homer's verses, Plutarch said.
    SL 2.152 12 ...your propositions run out of one ear as they ran in at the other.
    Exp 3.59 3 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough...but soon became narrow and narrower and ended in a squirrel-track and ran up a tree.
    PPh 4.72 10 ...the rumor ran that on one or two occasions, in the war with Boeotia, [Socrates] had shown a determination which had covered the retreat of a troop;...
    ET4 5.55 25 The English come mainly from the Germans...a people about whom in the old empire the rumor ran there was never any that meddled with them that repented it not.
    ET10 5.158 7 Two centuries ago...the carriage wheels ran on wooden axles;...
    Wth 6.84 13 ...The storm-wind wove, the torrent span,/ Where they were bid the rivers ran;/...
    Wsp 6.201 6 Some of my friends have complained...that we ran Cudworth' s risk of making...the argument of atheism so strong that he could not answer it.
    Wsp 6.228 16 Philip [Neri] ran out of doors, mounted his mule and returned instantly to the Pope;...
    Civ 7.22 14 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran and picked him up with her finger and thumb...
    Farm 7.148 12 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps. The planter took the hint of the Sequoias...surrounded the orchard with a nursery of birches and evergreens. Thus he had the mountain basin in miniature; and his pears grew to the size of melons, and the vines beneath them ran an eighth of a mile.
    Cour 7.278 22 The boy turned round with screams,/ And ran with terror wild;/ One of the pair of savage beasts/ Pursued the shrieking child./
    Elo2 8.109 15 Self-centred; when [the patriot] launched the genuine word/ It shook or captivated all who heard/ Ran from his mouth to mountains and the sea,/ And burned in noble hearts proverb and prophecy./
    Elo2 8.131 21 ...in the Elizabethan Age there was a dramatic zymosis, when all the genius ran in that direction...
    QO 8.184 11 ...[the Earl of Strafford] drew all that ran in the author more strictly...
    QO 8.185 4 A pleasantry which ran through all the newspapers a few years since...was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a hundred years ago...
    Plu 10.309 17 ...[Plutarch]...despises the Epicharmian disputations: as, that he who ran in debt yesterday owes nothing to-day, as being another man;...
    EzRy 10.389 5 [Ezra Ripley's] hospitality obeyed Charles Lamb's rule, and ran fine to the last.
    Thor 10.478 16 [Thoreau's] virtues...sometimes ran into extremes.
    Carl 10.497 2 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe, when...every one ran away in a coucou, with his head shaved, through the Barriere de Passy, one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
    HDC 11.45 18 The bands of love and reverence, held fast the little state [the Massachusetts Bay Colony], whilst [the settlers] untied the great cords of authority to examine their soundness and learn on what wheels they ran.
    HDC 11.75 5 The militia and minute-men...ran over the hills opposite the battle-field...
    EWI 11.104 22 ...a good man or woman...once in a while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the indiscretion to tell of them. The horrid story ran and flew;...
    AsSu 11.251 23 I wish that [Charles Sumner] may know the shudder of terror which ran through all this community on the first tidings of this brutal attack.
    Milt1 12.263 5 [Milton's] virtues remind us of what Plutarch said of Timoleon's victories, that they resembled Homer's verses, they ran so easy and natural.

ranches, n. (1)

    Grts 8.317 13 Bret Harte has pleased himself with noting and recording the sudden virtue blazing in the wild reprobates of the ranches and mines of California.

rancor, n. (3)

    Pow 6.62 6 ...the rancor of the disease attests the strength of the constitution.
    ALin 11.333 9 ...[good humor]...is the protection of the overdriven brain against rancor and insanity.
    Bost 12.202 26 The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which consumed all opposition...

Randall, Alexander (?), Ben (1)

    ACri 12.292 7 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short and graphic.

Randolph Gallery, Oxford, (1)

    ET12 5.199 18 My new friends [at Oxford] showed me...the Randolph Gallery...

Randolph, John, n. (3)

    HDC 11.62 25 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English government, concerning the country towns; The farmers are numerous and wealthy...
    HDC 11.63 11 ...I am sorry to find that the servile Randolph speaks of [Peter Bulkeley 2nd] with marked respect.
    FSLC 11.200 18 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate.

random, adj. (3)

    MoS 4.168 1 The Essays...are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into [Montaigne's] head;...
    F 6.48 19 How idle to choose a random sparkle here or there...
    Imtl 8.337 4 ...the wish for sleep, for society, for knowledge, are not random whims...

random, n. (4)

    Gts 3.164 16 ...our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation.
    MoS 4.170 17 A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line, but random and chaos...dispirits us.
    ShP 4.206 8 We tell the chronicle of parentage...celebrity, death; and when we have come to an end of this gossip...it seems as if, had we dipped at random into the Modern Plutarch and read any other life there, it would have fitted [Shakespeare's] poems as well.
    ET4 5.65 10 I suppose a hundred English taken at random out of the street weigh a fourth more than so many Americans.

Range, Allegheny [Alleghany (1)

    Con 1.308 19 I cannot occupy the bleakest crag of the White Hills or the Alleghany Range, but some man or corporation steps up to me to show me that it is his.

range, n. (41)

    Nat 1.38 18 The foolish have no range in their scale...
    Con 1.311 13 Would you have...preferred...the range of a planet which had no shed or boscage to cover you from sun and wind,-to this towered and citied world?...
    Hist 2.23 3 At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow, [a man of rude health and flowing spirits]...associates as happily as beside his own chimneys. Or perhaps his facility is deeper seated, in the increased range of his faculties of observation...
    Hist 2.30 12 What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Prometheus!
    Hist 2.40 9 ...every history should be written in a wisdom which divined the range of our affinities...
    Mrs1 3.124 19 The rulers of society must be...men of the right Caesarian pattern, who have great range of affinity.
    Mrs1 3.151 18 [Lilla] was...like air or water, an element of such a great range of affinities that it combines readily with a thousand substances.
    PPh 4.39 10 There was never such range of speculation [as in Plato].
    PPh 4.41 8 This range of Plato instructs us what to think of the vexed question concerning his reputed works...
    MoS 4.160 11 ...skepticism] is [a position] of more opportunity and range...
    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.
    ShP 4.189 2 Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.
    NMW 4.249 21 [Napoleon] delighted in running through the range of practical, of literary and of abstract questions.
    ET4 5.52 12 The English derive their pedigree from such a range of nationalities that there needs sea-room and land-room to unfold the varieties of talent and character.
    ET6 5.114 20 ...the range of nations from which London draws, and the steep contrasts of condition, create the picturesque in society...
    ET8 5.129 16 ...[the English] have great range and variety of character.
    ET8 5.134 9 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...best for depth, range and equability;...
    ET8 5.134 10 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...great range and many moods...
    ET8 5.136 24 [The English] have great range of scale...
    Ctr 6.137 1 Culture is the suggestion...that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale...
    Ctr 6.139 4 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...
    Ctr 6.152 13 In an English party a man...with a face like red dough, unexpectedly discloses wit, learning, a wide range of topics...
    Bhr 6.172 11 ...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of character [manners] convey...we see what range the subject has...
    Elo1 7.66 1 [Eloquence] is a power...requiring in the orator a great range of faculty and experience...
    Elo1 7.67 12 This range of many powers in the consummate speaker...leads us to consider the successive stages of oratory.
    WD 7.172 2 Kinde was the old English term, which...filled only half the range of our fine Latin word, with its delicate future tense,--natura, about to be born...
    Clbs 7.249 24 We need range and alternation of topics and variety of minds.
    PI 8.53 25 Outside of the nursery the beginning of literature is the prayers of a people, and they are always hymns, poetic,--the mind allowing itself range...
    Elo2 8.120 16 The voice...soon indicates what is the range of the speaker's mind.
    Elo2 8.121 10 What character, what infinite variety belong to the voice!... what range of force!
    QO 8.198 7 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. What range he gave his imagination!
    PPo 8.238 6 [Life in the East's] elements are few and simple, not exhibiting the long range and undulation of European existence...
    Aris 10.59 9 ...we can only indicate [grand interests] to show how high is the range of the realm of Honor.
    Supl 10.163 12 There is a superlative temperament which has no medium range...
    Supl 10.170 10 The farmers in the region do not call particular summits... mountains, but only them 'ere rises, and reserve the word mountains for the range.
    Plu 10.298 21 The range of mind makes the glad writer.
    Humb 11.457 5 Humboldt was one of those wonders of the world...who appear from time to time, as if to show us the possibilities of the human mind, the force and the range of the faculties...
    FRO2 11.489 23 Whoever thinks a story gains...by adding something out of nature, robs it more than he adds. It is no longer an example...but an exhibition...removed out of the range of influence with thoughtful men.
    PLT 12.36 23 ...[Instinct] has a range as wide as human nature...
    Bost 12.185 7 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes...
    ACri 12.298 26 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with a range...of thought and wisdom so large, so colloquially elastic, that we not so much read a stereotype page as we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours...

range, v. (5)

    Prd1 2.240 25 ...truth, frankness, courage, love, humility and all the virtues range themselves on the side of prudence...
    Art2 7.41 25 It is only within narrow limits that the discretion of the architect may range...
    PerF 10.87 21 ...we shrink to speak of [our moral sentiment] or to range ourselves by its side.
    SovE 10.193 9 Settles for evermore the ponderous equator [of Divine justice] to its line, and man and mote and star and sun must range with it...
    EPro 11.319 18 The force of the act [the Emancipation Proclamation] is... that it compels the innumerable officers...of the Republic to range themselves on the line of this equity.

ranged, v. (4)

    MoS 4.160 5 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing...that we cannot give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict, with powers so vast and unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited vulnerable popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every danger, on the other.
    ET16 5.281 1 I stood on the last [the sacrificial stone at Stonehenge], and [Mr. Brown] pointed to the upright, or rather, inclined stone, called the astronomical, and bade me notice that its top ranged with the sky-line.
    EWI 11.137 2 All the great geniuses of the British senate...Grenville, Sheridan, Grey, Canning, ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...
    EWI 11.146 23 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes the men of conscience and intellect...hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...

Rangers, n. (1)

    JBB 11.266 7 ...There [John Brown] spoke aloud for Freedom, and the Border strife grew warmer/ Till the Rangers fired his dwelling, in his absence, in the night;/...

ranges, n. (1)

    ET19 5.314 7 ...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen...the elasticity and hope of mankind must henceforth remain on the Alleghany ranges, or nowhere.

ranges, v. (6)

    AmS 1.111 23 ...let me see every trifle bristling with the polarity that ranges it instantly on an eternal law;...
    Cir 2.314 23 The same law of eternal procession ranges all that we call the virtues...
    Bty 6.293 17 I need not say how wide the same law [of gradation] ranges...
    Cour 7.269 5 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. Perseverance...ranges it on the same ground as other business.
    ACiv 11.310 15 [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] marks the happiest day in the political year. The American Executive ranges itself for the first time on the side of freedom.
    Bost 12.185 5 Who lives one year in Boston ranges through all the climates of the globe.

ranging, adj. (1)

    Insp 8.270 25 In the savage man, thought is infantile; and, in the civilized, unequal and ranging up and down a long scale.

rank, adj. (7)

    ET9 5.147 9 ...I am afraid that English nature is so rank and aggressive as to be a little incompatible with every other.
    ET16 5.280 15 The grass grows rank and dark in the showery England.
    ET16 5.288 17 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping...too much by half for man in the picture, and so giving a certain tristesse, like the rank vegetation of swamps and forests seen at night...
    F 6.10 3 ...sometimes...the rank unmitigated elixir...is drawn off in a separate individual...
    Comc 8.161 6 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy...cooly ignoring the Reason, whilst he invokes its name...only to make the fun perfect by enjoying the confusion betwixt Reason and the negation of Reason,--in other words, the rank rascaldom he is calling by its name.
    PPo 8.238 14 The prolific sun and the sudden and rank plenty which his heat engenders, make subsistence easy [in the East].
    FSLC 11.178 11 ...Fate's grass grows rank in valley clods,/ And rankly on the castled steep,-/ Speak it firmly, these [Eternal Rights] are gods,/ Are all ghosts beside./

rank, n. (67)

    Tran 1.333 8 The idealist has another measure...namely, the rank which things themselves take in his consciousness;...
    SL 2.133 2 My will never gave the images in my mind the rank they now take.
    Fdsp 2.202 23 Sincerity is the luxury allowed...only to the highest rank;...
    Mrs1 3.130 20 Each man's rank in that perfect graduation [of fashion] depends on some symmetry in his structure or some agreement in his structure to the symmetry of society.
    Mrs1 3.130 27 A natural gentleman finds his way in [to fashionable society], and will keep the oldest patrician out who has lost his intrinsic rank.
    NER 3.275 19 Having raised himself to this rank...[a man] still finds certain others before whom he cannot possess himself...
    UGM 4.20 3 Between rank and rank of our great men are wide intervals.
    PPh 4.63 4 [Dialectic] is of that rank [said Plato] that no intellectual man will enter on any study for its own sake...
    PNR 4.87 14 [Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light, had appeared often to pious and to poetic souls; but this well-bred, all-knowing Greek geometer... gathers them all up into rank and gradation...
    ShP 4.207 8 That imagination which dilates the closet [Shakespeare] writes in to the world's dimension, crowds it with agents in rank and order, as quickly reduces the big reality to be the glimpses of the moon.
    NMW 4.242 27 ...even when the majority of the people had begun to ask whether they had really gained any thing under the exhausting levies of men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the whole talent of the country, in every rank and kindred, took his part...
    NMW 4.245 4 Seventeen men in [Napoleon's] time were raised from common soldiers to the rank of king, marshal, duke, or general;...
    NMW 4.245 9 When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field [said Napoleon], they have all one rank in my eyes.
    GoW 4.265 3 There is a certain heat in the breast...which is the shining of the spiritual sun down into the shaft of the mine. Every thought which dawns on the mine, in the moment of its emergence announces its own rank...
    GoW 4.279 3 ...[the hero and heroine of Sand's Consuelo] quit the society and habits of their rank...
    GoW 4.280 2 Nature and character assist [Wilhelm Meister's passage from democrat to the aristocracy], and the rank is made real by sense and probity in the nobles.
    GoW 4.284 17 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of universal truth, to be his portion: a man...having one test for all men,--What can you teach me? All possessions are valued by him for that only; rank, privileges, health, time, Being itself.
    GoW 4.286 13 This idea [that a man exists for culture] reigns in [Goethe's] Dichtung und Wahrheit and directs the selection of incidents; and nowise... the rank of the personages...
    ET5 5.86 9 ...the English can put more men into the rank, on the day of action, on the field of battle, than any other army.
    ET5 5.99 27 The difference of rank [in England] does not divide the national heart.
    ET5 5.101 4 ...[the English] are more bound in character than differenced in ability or in rank.
    ET9 5.152 21 Amerigo Vespucci...whose highest naval rank was boatswain' s mate in an expedition that never sailed, managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus...
    ET10 5.166 2 ...[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.
    ET11 5.184 5 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848 (the day of the Chartist demonstration), that...men of rank were sworn special constables with the rest.
    ET11 5.185 27 ...when it happens that the spirit of the earl meets his rank and duties, we have the best examples of behavior.
    ET11 5.197 11 All the barriers to rank [in England] only whet the thirst and enhance the prize.
    ET11 5.198 15 [The English] cannot shut their eyes to the fact that an untitled nobility possess all the power without the inconveniences that belong to rank...
    ET12 5.208 11 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank and to the child of upstart wealth, an evenhanded justice...
    ET15 5.272 14 If only [the London Times] dared to cleave to the right...it might not have so many men of rank among its contributors, but genius would be its cordial and invincible ally;...
    F 6.12 3 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain... which skill nowise alters rank in the scale of nature...
    Ctr 6.131 11 A topical memoray makes [a man] an almanac;...a skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers.
    Ctr 6.163 15 ...mere amiableness must not take rank with high aims and self-subsistency.
    Bhr 6.175 2 A keen eye...will see nice gradations of rank...
    Bhr 6.179 2 [Eyes]...ask no leave of age, or rank;...
    Bhr 6.181 11 ...each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men...
    Bhr 6.187 5 A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is native and proper to him,--an immunity from all the observances, yea, and duties, which society so tyrannically imposes on the rank and file of its members.
    CbW 6.257 20 ...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, and--what men like least--seriously lowering them in social rank.
    Ill 6.318 3 Since our tuition is through emblems and indirections, it is well to know that there is method in it, a fixed scale and rank above rank in the phantasms.
    Farm 7.145 16 The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly. It is almost inevitable to push the generalization up into higher parts of Nature, rank over rank into sentient beings.
    Boks 7.190 4 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables...of the old Orpheus of Thrace,--books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences...
    Clbs 7.235 11 However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and spiritual power that are compared;...
    Clbs 7.243 8 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first...broke through the morgue of etiquette by inviting to her house men of wit and learning as well as men of rank...
    Cour 7.253 13 ...when [men] see [the preference to the general good] proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.
    Cour 7.256 1 I need not show how much [courage] is esteemed, for the people give it the first rank.
    PI 8.15 18 The endless passing of one element into new forms...explains the rank which the imagination holds in our catalogue of mental powers.
    Comc 8.171 19 A lady of high rank...had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure...
    PC 8.218 26 Even manners are a distinction which...are not to be overborne by rank or official power...
    Grts 8.312 9 The day will come...when the eye...will indicate rank fast enough by exerting power.
    Grts 8.312 12 ...the stratification of crusts in geology is not more precise than the degrees of rank in minds.
    Aris 10.31 23 It is not to be a man of rank, but a man of honor...which seems to [the best young men] the right mark and the true chief of our modern society.
    Aris 10.40 17 It only needs to look at the social aspect of England and America and France, to see the rank which original practical talent commands.
    Aris 10.41 18 In simple communities, in the heroic ages, a man was chosen for his knack; got his name, rank and living for that;...
    Aris 10.45 6 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism.
    Chr2 10.96 11 ...there is no man who will bargain to sell his life, say at the end of a year, for...any rank...
    Schr 10.266 15 ...for the moment it appears as if in former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to the possessor greater rank and authority.
    Plu 10.291 2 The soul/ Shall have society of its own rank/...
    MMEm 10.413 13 Ah! were virtue, and that of dear heavenly meekness attached by any necessity to a lower rank of genteel people, who would sympathize with the exalted with satisfaction?
    HDC 11.45 8 Members of a church before whose searching covenant all rank was abolished, [the settlers of Concord] stood in awe of each other, as religious men.
    War 11.152 25 [Society] presently finds the value of good sense and of foresight, and Ulysses takes rank next to Achilles.
    EPro 11.326 18 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a race...whose very miseries sprang from their great talent for usefulness, which, in a more moral age, will not only defend their independence, but will give them a rank among nations.
    ALin 11.333 1 [Lincoln's good humor] enabled him...to meet every kind of man and every rank in society;...
    SMC 11.371 8 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...
    II 12.81 9 ...the real credentials by which man...lays his hand on those advantages which confirm and consolidate rank, are intellectual and moral.
    II 12.88 8 The Buddhist who...reads the issue of the conflict beforehand in the rank of the actors, is calm.
    Mem 12.95 17 The memory plays a great part in settling the intellectual rank of men.
    Mem 12.103 5 A thought takes its true rank in the memory by surviving other thoughts that were once preferred.
    CInt 12.121 18 [A larger angle of vision] reverses all rank;...

rank, v. (7)

    Nat 1.12 7 Under the general name of commodity, I rank all those advantages which our senses owe to nature.
    Nat2 3.185 27 The child...without any power to compare and rank his sensations...lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    SwM 4.117 16 [Correspondence] required an insight that could rank things in order and series;...
    ET12 5.205 20 Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm;...
    Imtl 8.338 19 As a hint of endless being, we may rank that novelty which perpetually attends life.
    FSLC 11.198 13 [Under the Fugitive Slave Law, the bench] is the extension of the planter's whipping-post; and its incumbents must rank with a class from which the turnkey, the hangman and the informer are taken...
    CL 12.157 26 The facts disclosed by...Greenough, Ruskin, Garbett, Penrose, are joyful possessions...which we rank close beside the disclosures of natural history.

ranked, v. (5)

    Nat 1.5 1 ...all which Philosophy distinguishes as the NOT ME...must be ranked under this name, NATURE.
    Chr1 3.97 8 Will is the north, action the south pole. Character may be ranked as having its natural place in the north.
    Mrs1 3.120 8 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into countries where the purchaser and consumer can hardly be ranked in one race with these cannibals and man-stealers;...
    ET12 5.207 3 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam, whether the Maud man or the Brasenose man be properly ranked or not;...
    Elo2 8.132 4 ...it was said that no member of either house of the British Parliament will be ranked among the orators, whom Lord North did not see, or who did not see Lord North.

rankest, adj. (2)

    NER 3.272 19 In the circle of the rankest tories...let a powerful and stimulating intellect...act on them, and very quickly these frozen conservators will yield to the friendly influence...
    II 12.81 17 [Men] all share, to the rankest Philistines, the same belief.

rankly, adv. (1)

    FSLC 11.178 12 ...Fate's grass grows rank in valley clods,/ And rankly on the castled steep,-/ Speak it firmly, these [Eternal Rights] are gods,/ Are all ghosts beside./

ranks, n. (12)

    DSA 1.149 14 ...then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke [Massena's] powers of combination...
    MR 1.235 24 Who could regret to see...a purer taste...thinning the ranks of competition in the labors of commerce...
    UGM 4.15 10 Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day...
    NMW 4.236 12 To a regiment of horse-chasseurs at Lobenstein...Napoleon said, My lads, you must not fear death; when soldiers brave death, they drive him into the enemy's ranks.
    ET10 5.155 1 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders.
    Wsp 6.223 1 Nature created a police of many ranks.
    Res 8.144 5 The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild the road.
    HDC 11.74 5 ...the men of Acton, Bedford, Lincoln and Carlisle...arrived [at Concord] and fell into the ranks so fast, that Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge.
    HCom 11.342 18 [The war] charged with power, peaceful, amiable men, to whose life war and discord were abhorrent. What an infusion of character went out from this and other colleges! What an infusion of character down to the ranks!
    SMC 11.368 2 [George Prescott's] next note is, cracker for a day and a half,-but all right. Another day, had not left the ranks for thirty hours...
    MLit 12.333 16 What is Austria? What is England? What is our graduated and petrified social scale of ranks and employments?
    PPr 12.379 15 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a powerful and accomplished thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years, has conversed much on these topics with such wise men of all ranks and parties as are drawn to a scholar's house...

ranks, v. (3)

    Exp 3.72 12 ...there is that in us which...ranks all sensations and states of mind.
    Bhr 6.195 7 Here is a lesson...which ranks with the best of Roman anecdotes.
    MoL 10.252 15 Thought...ranks us;...

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