Read [Best-Read] to Reality

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

read [best-read], adj. (1)

    Nat 1.66 10 ...the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world...

read, v. (465)

    Nat 1.7 3 I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me.
    Nat 1.14 7 [The private poor man] goes...to the book-shop, and the human race read and write of all that happens, for him;...
    AmS 1.82 13 Year by year we come up hither to read one more chapter of [the American Scholar's] biography.
    AmS 1.91 13 When [the scholar] can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
    AmS 1.91 26 We read the verses of one of the great English poets...with the most modern joy...
    AmS 1.92 26 One must be an inventor to read well.
    AmS 1.93 4 ...the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion.
    AmS 1.93 11 The discerning will read, in his Plato...only that least part...
    AmS 1.110 14 I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming days...
    DSA 1.121 23 ...we read [these divine laws] hourly in each other's faces...
    DSA 1.138 10 This man...had read books;...
    LE 1.162 21 ...[the youth] has read the story of Emperor Charles the Fifth...
    LE 1.167 3 ...to have written a book that is read, satisfies us.
    LE 1.168 17 Whilst I read the poets, I think that nothing new can be said about morning and evening.
    LE 1.177 25 Why should [the scholar] read [human life] as an Arabian tale...
    MN 1.201 23 Read alternately in natural and in civil history...
    MN 1.206 23 England, France, and America read Parliamentary Debates, which no high genius now enlivens;...
    MN 1.206 24 ...nobody will read [Parliamentary Debates] who trusts his own eye...
    MN 1.207 21 [a man] cannot read, or think, or look but he unites the hitherto separated strands into a perfect cord.
    LT 1.264 5 ...I find the Age walking about...in strong eyes and pleasant thoughts, and think I read it nearer and truer so, than in the statute-book...
    LT 1.282 23 We are so sharp-sighted that we can...neither read Plato nor not read him.
    LT 1.282 24 We are so sharp-sighted that we can...neither read Plato nor not read him.
    LT 1.290 1 I read [the Moral Sentiment] in glad and in weeping eyes;...
    LT 1.290 2 ...I read [the Moral Sentiment] in the pride and in the humility of people;...
    Con 1.301 5 If we read the world historically, we shall say, Of all the ages, the present hour and circumstance is the cumulative result;...
    Con 1.307 12 [The youth says] I cannot understand, or so much as spare time to read that needless library of your laws.
    Tran 1.344 7 If you do not need to hear my thought, because you can read it in my face and behavior, then I will tell it you from sunrise to sunset.
    Hist 2.4 8 This human mind wrote history, and this must read it.
    Hist 2.5 5 We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks...
    Hist 2.6 13 ...involuntarily we always read as superior beings.
    Hist 2.8 1 The student is to read history actively and not passively;...
    Hist 2.8 6 I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age...has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.
    Hist 2.8 23 ...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history is commonly read...to himself...
    Hist 2.35 11 I read the Bride of Lammermoor.
    Hist 2.38 15 ...in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history is to be read and written.
    Hist 2.38 24 You shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read.
    Hist 2.41 4 The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.
    SR 2.45 1 I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original...
    SR 2.58 11 A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;-read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
    SL 2.137 25 The simplicity of nature is not that which may easily be read...
    SL 2.138 16 We side with the hero, as we read or paint, against the coward and the robber;...
    SL 2.149 3 [A man] may read what he writes.
    SL 2.149 8 Take the book into your two hands and read your eyes out, you will never find what I find.
    SL 2.154 19 There are not in the world at any time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato...
    SL 2.164 9 How dare I read Washington's campaigns when I have not answered the letters of my own correspondents?
    SL 2.164 18 I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.
    Lov1 2.185 9 Does that other [lover]...read the same book...that now delights me?
    Fdsp 2.191 10 Read the language of these wandering eye-beams.
    Fdsp 2.214 7 We are sure that we have all in us. We go to Europe...or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will call it out...
    Hsm1 2.248 7 In the Harleian Miscellanies there is an account of the battle of Lutzen which deserves to be read.
    OS 2.269 19 Only by the vision of that Wisdom [the soul] can the horoscope of the ages be read...
    OS 2.280 4 In the book I read, the good thought returns to me...the image of the whole soul.
    OS 2.284 19 ...the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect.
    OS 2.286 1 Against their will [men] exhibit those decisive trifles by which character is read.
    OS 2.286 3 We do not read [men] by learning or craft.
    OS 2.295 25 Before that heaven which our presentiments foreshow us, we cannot easily praise any form of life we have seen or read of.
    Int 2.330 21 The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
    Int 2.331 9 At last comes the era of reflection...when we keep the mind's eye open...whilst we read...
    Int 2.340 18 ...all the laws of nature may be read in the smallest fact.
    Pt1 3.12 1 With what joy I begin to read a poem which I confide in as an inspiration!
    Pt1 3.18 3 ...it is related of Lord Chatham that he was accustomed to read in Bailey's Dictionary when he was preparing to speak in Parliament.
    Pt1 3.32 14 If a man is inflamed and carried away by his thought...let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments and histories and criticism.
    Pt1 3.34 9 The poet did not stop at the color or the form, but read their meaning;...
    Exp 3.52 20 I thus express the law as it is read from the platform of ordinary life...
    Exp 3.63 10 ...for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet...
    Exp 3.63 12 I think I will never read any but the commonest books...
    Exp 3.66 18 ...what are these millions who read and behold, but incipient writers and sculptors?
    Exp 3.71 13 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...
    Chr1 3.89 1 I have read that those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man than anything which he said.
    Chr1 3.98 27 ...[the capitalist] is satisfied to read in the quotations of the market that his stocks have risen.
    Chr1 3.101 9 I read in a book of English memoirs, Mr. Fox (afterwards Lord Holland) said, he must have the Treasury; he had served up to it, and would have it.
    Chr1 3.106 13 They are a relief from literature,--these fresh draughts from the sources of thought and sentiment; as we read...the first lines of written prose and verse of a nation.
    Chr1 3.106 23 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...as feeling that they have a stake in that book;...and especially the total solitude of the critic, the Patmos of thought from which he writes, in unconsciousness of any eyes that shall ever read this writing.
    Chr1 3.109 1 How easily we read in old books...of the smallest action of the patriarchs.
    Mrs1 3.143 14 ...the curiosity with which the details of high life are read, betray[s] the universality of the love of cultivated manners.
    Gts 3.163 1 ...if the gift pleases me overmuch, then I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity, and not him.
    NR 3.233 9 I read Proclus...as I might read a dictionary...
    NR 3.233 10 I read Proclus...as I might read a dictionary...
    NR 3.233 12 I read Proclus...for a mechanical help to the fancy and the imagination. I read for the lustres...
    NR 3.237 16 ...if we saw the real from hour to hour, we should not be here to write and to read...
    NER 3.255 19 ...the motto of the Globe newspaper is so attractive to me that I can seldom find much appetite to read what is below it in its columns...
    NER 3.259 12 ...the persons who, at forty years, still read Greek, can all be counted on your hand.
    NER 3.259 14 Four or five persons I have seen who read Plato.
    NER 3.259 26 ...[some intelligent persons] jumped the Greek and Latin, and read law, medicine, or sermons, without it.
    NER 3.272 18 ...they hear music, or when they read poetry, [men] are radicals.
    NER 3.280 14 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws...
    UGM 4.5 21 Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
    UGM 4.14 14 We cannot read Plutarch without a tingling of the blood;...
    UGM 4.20 20 ...if persons and things are scores of a celestial music, let us read off the strains.
    UGM 4.34 5 The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery;...
    UGM 4.34 7 The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery; but the sense of the pictures is sacred, and you may still read them transferred to the walls of the world.
    UGM 4.34 15 Happy, if a few names remain so high that we have not been able to read them nearer...
    PPh 4.58 24 One would say [Plato] had read the inscription on the gates of Busyrane,--Be bold; and on the second gate,--Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold; and then again had paused well at the third gate,--Be not too bold.
    SwM 4.105 22 Not every man can read [Swedenborg's books]...
    SwM 4.114 19 What was too small for the eye to detect was read by the aggregates;...
    SwM 4.118 11 Why hear I the same sense from countless differing voices, and read one never quite expressed fact in endless picture-language?
    SwM 4.126 18 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as nature descends. And the truly poetic account of the writing in the inmost heaven, which, as it consists of inflexions according to the form of heaven, can be read without instruction.
    SwM 4.132 19 An ardent and contemplative young man...might read once these books of Swedenborg...and then throw them aside for ever.
    SwM 4.143 24 [Swedenborg] knew the grammar and rudiments of the Mother-Tongue,--how could he not read off one strain into music?
    SwM 4.144 15 I think, sometimes, [Swedenborg] will not be read longer.
    MoS 4.150 13 Read the haughty language in which Plato and the Platonists speak of all men who are not devoted to their own shining abstractions...
    MoS 4.158 27 ...once let [the savage] read in the book, and he is no longer able not to think of Plutarch's heroes.
    MoS 4.162 19 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy. It lay long neglected, until, after many years...I read the book...
    MoS 4.163 26 Leigh Hunt relates of Lord Byron, that Montaigne was the only great writer of past times whom he read with avowed satisfaction.
    MoS 4.166 15 [Montaigne] likes his saddle. You may read theology, and grammar, and metaphysics elsewhere.
    ShP 4.206 9 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.
    ShP 4.208 10 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me if they match;...
    ShP 4.208 12 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me if they match;...
    ShP 4.209 9 Who ever read the volume of [Shakespeare's] Sonnets without finding that the poet had there revealed...the lore of friendship and of love;...
    ShP 4.211 8 ...[Shakespeare] read the hearts of men and women...
    ShP 4.215 10 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses; but it is easy to read, through their poems, their personal history...
    ShP 4.219 3 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished; they read commandments...
    NMW 4.226 16 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration], pronounced it admirable...
    NMW 4.248 26 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained.
    GoW 4.277 26 [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is read by very intelligent persons with wonder and delight.
    GoW 4.278 14 ...those who begin [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] with the higher hope to read in it a worthy history of genius...have also reason to complain.
    ET1 5.10 26 ...taking up Bishop Waterland's book, which lay on the table, [Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three pages written by himself in the fly-leaves...
    ET1 5.16 15 At one time [Carlyle] had inquired and read a good deal about America.
    ET1 5.16 20 [Carlyle] had read in Stewart's book that when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots, he had been shown across the street and had found Mungo in his own house dining on roast turkey.
    ET1 5.16 25 Plato [Carlyle] does not read...
    ET1 5.21 15 I inquired if [Wordsworth] had read Carlyle's critical articles and translations.
    ET2 5.25 10 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which...in 1847 had been linked into a Union, which embraced twenty or thirty towns and cities, and presently extended into the middle counties and northward into Scotland. I was invited, on liberal terms, to read a series of lectures in them all.
    ET2 5.28 21 The sea-fire shines in [the ship's] wake and far around wherever a wave breaks. I read the hour, 9h. 45', on my watch by this light.
    ET2 5.28 23 Near the equator you can read small print by [the light of the sea-fire];...
    ET2 5.31 16 Classics which at home are drowsily read, have a strange charm in a country inn...
    ET3 5.36 14 Every book we read...is still English history and manners.
    ET3 5.39 17 The only drawback on this industrial conveniency [in England] is the darkness of its sky. The night and day are too nearly of a color. It strains the eyes to read and to write.
    ET4 5.48 7 I chanced to read Tacitus On the Manners of the Germans, not long since...
    ET5 5.88 18 [The English] cannot well read a principle, except by the light of fagots and of burning towns.
    ET6 5.106 10 ...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...
    ET7 5.119 5 [The English] read gladly in old Fuller that a lady in the reign of Elizabeth, would have as patiently digested a lie, as the wearing of false stones...
    ET7 5.121 19 ...the Englishman is not fickle. He had really made up his mind now for years as he read his newspaper, to hate and despise M. Guizot;...
    ET8 5.141 23 In Alfred, in the Northmen, one may read the genius of the English society...
    ET10 5.153 15 [The English] are under the Jewish law, and read with sonorous emphasis that their days shall be long in the land...
    ET11 5.172 23 In spite of...the devastation of society by the profligacy of the court, we take sides as we read for the loyal England...
    ET11 5.175 5 He shall have the book, said the mother of Alfred, who can read it;...
    ET11 5.196 16 English history, wisely read, is the vindication of the brain of that people.
    ET12 5.206 8 ...these young men [at Oxford] thus happily placed, and paid to read, are impatient of their few checks...
    ET12 5.211 14 I should readily concede these [physical] advantages...if I did not find also that [Oxford men] read better than we, and write better.
    ET12 5.211 23 ...pamphleteer or journalist...reading to write...must read meanly and fragmentarily.
    ET13 5.218 11 In York minster...I heard the service of evening prayer read and chanted in the choir.
    ET13 5.218 14 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848...
    ET13 5.225 14 The chatter of French politics...and the noise of embarking emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind; so that when you came to read the liturgy to a modern congregation, it was almost absurd in its unfitness...
    ET14 5.232 5 A strong common sense...marks the English mind for a thousand years; a rude strength newly applied to thought, as of sailors and soldiers who had lately learned to read.
    ET14 5.249 18 It is the surest sign of national decay, when the Bramins can no longer read or understand the Braminical philosophy.
    ET15 5.263 10 What you read in the morning in that journal [London Times], you shall hear in the evening in all society.
    ET15 5.269 17 ...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title, late a member of Parliament, into any county jail in England...
    ET16 5.278 8 The sacrificial stone [at Stonehenge]...as I read in the books, must have been brought one hundred and fifty miles.
    ET18 5.304 16 ...[the English] read with good intent...
    ET19 5.309 17 Mr. Dickens's letter of apology for his absence [from the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] was read.
    ET19 5.310 15 ...as for Dombey...there is...no man who can read, that does not read it...
    ET19 5.310 16 ...as for Dombey...there is...no man who can read, that does not read it...
    F 6.9 18 Read the description in medical books of the four temperaments...
    F 6.10 15 At the corner of the street you read the possibility of each passenger in the facial angle...
    F 6.18 5 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not new men...
    Pow 6.68 13 Men of this surcharge of arterial blood...cannot read novels and play whist;...
    Pow 6.78 10 The way to learn German is to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times...
    Pow 6.81 3 If these forces [of spirit] and this husbandry are within reach of our will, and the laws of them can be read, we infer that all success and all conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his reach...
    Wth 6.87 23 Wealth begins...in tools to work with, in books to read;...
    Wth 6.101 15 Political Economy is as good a book wherein to read the life of man...as any Bible which has come down to us.
    Wth 6.112 14 Do your work, respecting the excellence of the work, and not its acceptableness. This is so much economy that, rightly read, it is the sum of economy.
    Wth 6.115 17 A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of every month in the newspapers, which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand and draw in his arm, his leg and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
    Ctr 6.166 11 ...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...
    Bhr 6.177 5 Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
    Bhr 6.180 5 You can read in the eyes of your companion whether your argument hits him...
    Bhr 6.181 13 ...each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it.
    Bhr 6.184 27 ...here [in dress circles] are the secret biographies written and read.
    Bhr 6.190 7 ...they who cannot yet read English, can read this [dialect of behavior].
    Wsp 6.201 2 Some of my friends have complained, when the preceding papers were read, that we discussed Fate, Power and Wealth on too low a platform;...
    Wsp 6.230 26 I have read somewhere that none is accomplished so long as any are incomplete;...
    Ill 6.316 25 I, who have all my life...read poems and miscellaneous books... am still the victim of any new page;...
    SS 7.10 22 When a young barrister said to the late Mr. Mason, I keep my chamber to read law,--Read law! replied the veteran, 't is in the court-room you must read law.
    SS 7.10 23 When a young barrister said to the late Mr. Mason, I keep my chamber to read law,--Read law! replied the veteran, 't is in the court-room you must read law.
    SS 7.10 24 When a young barrister said to the late Mr. Mason, I keep my chamber to read law,--Read law! replied the veteran, 't is in the court-room you must read law.
    Civ 7.23 27 Poverty and industry with a healthy mind read very easily the laws of humanity...
    Elo1 7.76 3 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union...
    Elo1 7.87 17 ...[the court] read away piteously the decisions of the Supreme Court...
    Elo1 7.87 18 ...[the court] read away piteously the decisions of the Supreme Court, but read to those who had no pity.
    Elo1 7.88 24 ...I read without surprise that the black-letter lawyers of the day sneered at [Lord Mansfield's] equitable decisions...
    Elo1 7.89 10 A crowd of men go up to Faneuil Hall; they are all pretty well acquainted with the object of the meeting; they have all read the facts in the same newspapers.
    DL 7.108 6 Is it not plain that...in the dwelling-house must the true character and hope of the time be consulted? These facts are, to be sure, harder to read.
    DL 7.108 10 It is easier...to criticise [a territory's] polity, books, art, than to come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their character...
    DL 7.109 13 There should be...the genius and love of the man so conspicuously marked in all his estate that the eye that knew him should read his character in his property...
    DL 7.119 3 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read your heart and earnessness...
    DL 7.120 3 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys...stealing time to read one chapter more of the novel hardly smuggled into the tolerance of father and mother...
    DL 7.123 1 In the old fables we used to read of a cloak brought from fairy-land as a gift for the fairest and purest in Prince Arthur's court.
    DL 7.127 16 We read in [our companion's] brow, on meeting him after many years, that he is where we left him...
    DL 7.132 26 Does the consecration of the church confess the profanation of the house? Let us read the incantation backward.
    WD 7.183 3 ...his memoir finished and read and printed, [the savant] retreats into his routinary existence...
    Boks 7.187 1 O Day of days when we can read!
    Boks 7.191 1 ...read Plutarch, and the world is a proud place...
    Boks 7.191 12 ...in geometry, if you have read Euclid and Laplace,--your opinion has some value;...
    Boks 7.193 3 There are books; and it is practicable to read them, because they are so few.
    Boks 7.193 13 It is easy to count the number of pages which a diligent man can read in a day...
    Boks 7.193 16 It is easy...to demonstrate that though [a man] should read from dawn till dark, for sixty years, he must die in the first alcoves [of the libraries].
    Boks 7.194 9 Let [each student] read what is proper to him...
    Boks 7.194 22 With this pilot of his own genius, let the student read one, or let him read many, he will read advantageously.
    Boks 7.194 23 With this pilot of his own genius, let the student read one, or let him read many, he will read advantageously.
    Boks 7.194 25 Dr. Johnson said: Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both...
    Boks 7.194 26 Dr. Johnson said...read anything five hours a day, and you will soon be learned.
    Boks 7.195 14 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye.
    Boks 7.195 25 'T is...an economy of time to read old and famed books.
    Boks 7.196 5 Be sure...to read no mean books.
    Boks 7.196 7 Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.
    Boks 7.196 22 ...Never read any book that is not a year old.
    Boks 7.196 23 ...Never read any but famed books.
    Boks 7.196 24 ...Never read any [books] but what you like;...
    Boks 7.197 5 ...I find certain books vital and spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was: he shuts the book a richer man. I would never willingly read any others than such.
    Boks 7.199 17 ...who can overestimate the images [in Plato]...which pass like bullion in the currency of all nations? Read the Phaedo...
    Boks 7.200 4 [The reader] will read in [Plutarch's Morals] the essays On the Daemon of Socrates, On Isis and Osiris...
    Boks 7.201 18 The valuable part [of Greek history] is the age of Pericles and the next generation. And here we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes...
    Boks 7.202 22 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he will find it one of the majestic remains of literature...
    Boks 7.202 23 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he will find it one of the majestic remains of literature...
    Boks 7.203 27 I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named...in translations.
    Boks 7.204 10 I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian...book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version.
    Boks 7.204 22 If [the student] can read Livy, he has a good book;...
    Boks 7.205 3 ...Martial must be read, if read at all, in his own tongue.
    Boks 7.206 3 When we come to Michel Angelo, his Sonnets and Letters must be read...
    Boks 7.207 11 [The scholar] will not repent the time he gives to Bacon,-- not if he read the Advancement of Learning...
    Boks 7.211 3 Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy is a book of great learning. To read it is like reading in a dictionary.
    Boks 7.211 9 Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read.
    Boks 7.211 18 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time. Like the modern Germans, they read a literature while other mortals read a few books.
    Boks 7.211 19 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time. Like the modern Germans, they read a literature while other mortals read a few books.
    Boks 7.211 19 [The Germans] read voraciously...
    Boks 7.211 27 ...one cannot afford to read for a few sentences;...
    Boks 7.214 15 ...Jeanne and Consuelo, of George Sand, are great steps from the novel of one termination, which we all read twenty years ago.
    Boks 7.215 11 ...when one observes how ill and ugly people make their loves and quarrels, 't is pity they should not read novels a little more...
    Boks 7.219 8 ...[the sacred books] are...to be read on the bended knee.
    Boks 7.219 17 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...
    Boks 7.220 14 In comparing the number of good books with the shortness of life, many might well be read by proxy, if we had good proxies;...
    Clbs 7.236 11 ...it is not [Luther's] theologic works...but his Table-Talk, which is still read by men.
    Clbs 7.249 19 If...[l'homme de lettres] dare not speak of fairy gold, he will yet tell...what men write and read abroad.
    Cour 7.256 15 How short a time since this whole nation rose every morning to read or hear the traits of courage of its sons and brothers in the field...
    Cour 7.269 24 When a confident man comes into a company magnifying this or that author he has freshly read, the company grow silent and ashamed of their ignorance.
    Cour 7.270 2 ...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class, when we asked if he had read this or that shining novelty, No, I have never read that book;...
    Cour 7.270 3 ...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class, when we asked if he had read this or that shining novelty, No, I have never read that book;...
    Suc 7.283 7 ...we read our growing valuations...
    Suc 7.286 10 We have seen an American woman write a novel...which... was read with equal interest to three audiences, namely, in the parlor, in the kitchen and in the nursery of every house.
    Suc 7.296 17 ...a good head cannot read amiss...
    Suc 7.297 19 ...[the youth] can read Plato, covered to his chin with a cloak in a cold upper chamber...
    Suc 7.311 9 There is an external life, which is...taught to read, write, cipher and trade;...
    OA 7.330 26 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...ever... assuring himself he should retire from the University and read the authors.
    OA 7.331 11 Bentley thought himself likely to live till fourscore,--long enough to read everything that was worth reading...
    OA 7.333 2 I asked [John Adams] if Mr. [John Quincy] Adams's letter of acceptance had been read to him.
    PI 8.8 23 Natural objects...are really parts of a symmetrical universe, like words of a sentence; and if their true order is found, the poet can read their divine significance orderly as in a Bible.
    PI 8.15 6 I think Hindoo books the best gymnastics for the mind, as showing treatment. All European libraries might almost be read without the swing of this gigantic arm being suspected.
    PI 8.22 21 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he. ... It is easier to read Sanscrit...than to interpret these familiar sights.
    PI 8.25 14 ...read to [people] from Chaucer, and they reckon him an honest fellow.
    PI 8.34 13 The...measure of poetic genius is the power to read the poetry of affairs...
    PI 8.42 23 [Everything] suggests that there is higher poetry than we write or read.
    PI 8.67 1 A good poem...goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men, who read it with joy...
    PI 8.69 5 To know the merit of Shakspeare, read Faust.
    SA 8.84 6 ...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our countenance and carriage, as the lapse of time tells itself on the face of a clock. We may be too obtuse to read it, but the record is there.
    SA 8.84 7 ...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our countenance and carriage, as the lapse of time tells itself on the face of a clock. We may be too obtuse to read it, but the record is there. Some men may be obtuse to read it, but some men are not obtuse and do read it.
    SA 8.84 8 ...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our countenance and carriage, as the lapse of time tells itself on the face of a clock. We may be too obtuse to read it, but the record is there. Some men may be obtuse to read it, but some men are not obtuse and do read it.
    SA 8.84 15 When a stranger comes to buy goods of you, do you not look in his face and answer according to what you read there?
    SA 8.89 6 We want...a more inward existence to read the history of each other.
    Elo2 8.121 3 In the church I call him only a good reader who can read sense and poetry into any hymn in the hymn-book.
    Elo2 8.121 23 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his monthly stipend. He answered, Nothing at all. But why then do you take so much trouble? He replied, I read for the sake of God.
    Elo2 8.121 24 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his monthly stipend. He answered, Nothing at all. But why then do you take so much trouble? He replied, I read for the sake of God. The other rejoined, For God's sake, do not read; for if you read the Koran in this manner you will destroy the splendor of Islamism.
    Elo2 8.121 25 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his monthly stipend. He answered, Nothing at all. But why then do you take so much trouble? He replied, I read for the sake of God. The other rejoined, For God's sake, do not read; for if you read the Koran in this manner you will destroy the splendor of Islamism.
    Elo2 8.122 15 I have heard that no man could read the Bible with such powerful effect [as John Quincy Adams].
    Elo2 8.123 1 When [John Quincy Adams] read his first lectures in 1806, not only the students heard him with delight...
    Elo2 8.127 8 Something which any boy would tell with color and vivacity [some men] can only...say it in the very words they heard, and no other. This fault is very incident to men of study,--as if the more they had read the less they knew.
    QO 8.178 5 If we encountered a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.
    QO 8.180 9 Read Tasso, and you think of Virgil;...
    QO 8.180 10 Read Tasso, and you think of Virgil; read Virgil, and you think of Homer...
    QO 8.180 20 Read in Plato and you shall find Christian dogmas...
    QO 8.181 6 ...[Swedenborg's, Behmen's, Spinoza's] originality will disappear to such as are either well read or thoughtful;...
    QO 8.183 27 ...when [Webster] opened a new book, he turned to the table of contents, took a pen, and sketched a sheet of matters and topics...before he read the book.
    QO 8.184 8 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument, inventing and disposing what seemed fit to be said upon that subject, before he read the book;...
    QO 8.188 20 If Lord Bacon appears already in the preface, I go and read the Instauration instead of the new book.
    QO 8.191 16 Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage.
    QO 8.193 3 Truth is always present: it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.
    QO 8.193 15 We admire that poetry which no man wrote...which is to be read in a mythology...
    QO 8.194 5 Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals...
    QO 8.194 14 We read the quotation with [the writer's] eyes, and find a new and fervent sense;...
    QO 8.198 3 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...
    PC 8.211 21 The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity.
    PC 8.221 10 He understood what he read.
    PC 8.234 14 I read the promise of better times and of greater men.
    PPo 8.263 2 I read on the porch of a palace bold/ In a purple tablet letters cast,-/ A house though a million winters old,/ A house of earth comes down at last;/...
    Insp 8.274 12 ...where is...a Franklin who can draw off electricity from Jove himself, and convey it into the arts of life, inspire men...and make the world transparent, so that they can read the symbols of Nature?
    Insp 8.289 19 ...Montaigne travelled with his books, but did not read in them.
    Insp 8.294 15 I have heard from persons who had practice in rhyming, that it was sufficient to set them on writing verses, to read any original poetry.
    Insp 8.295 9 You shall not read newspapers, nor politics, nor novels...
    Insp 8.295 11 You may read Plutarch, Plato, Plotinus, Hindoo mythology and ethics.
    Insp 8.295 13 You may read Chaucer, Shakspeare, Ben Jonson, Milton...
    Insp 8.295 14 ...read Collins and Gray;...
    Insp 8.295 15 ...read Hafiz and the Trouveurs;...
    Insp 8.296 3 Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
    Grts 8.302 1 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to hear or read? Only the best.
    Grts 8.304 16 You shall not...tell me by their titles what books you have read.
    Grts 8.311 8 The world was created as an audience for [the scholar]; the atoms of which it is made are opportunities. Read the performance of Bentley, Gibbon...
    Grts 8.313 14 I have read in an old book that Barcena the Jesuit confessed to another of his order that when the Devil appeared to him in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.
    Grts 8.315 7 ...he may read any book who reads all books...
    Grts 8.315 10 ...the English judge in old times...forgave a culprit who could read and write.
    Imtl 8.324 5 ...I read in the second book of Herodotus this memorable sentence...
    Imtl 8.324 9 ...I read in the second book of Herodotus this memorable sentence: The Egyptians are the first of mankind who have affirmed the immortality of the soul. Nor do I read it with less interest that the historian connects it presently with the doctrine of metempsychosis;...
    Imtl 8.324 18 ...the history of religion may be read in the forms of sepulture.
    Imtl 8.326 19 I read at Melrose Abbey the inscription on the ruined gate...
    Imtl 8.328 5 Sixty years ago, the books read...were all directed on death.
    Imtl 8.347 1 You shall not say, O my bishop, O my pastor, is there any resurrection? What do you think? Did Dr. Channing believe that we should know each other? Did Wesley? did Butler? did Fenelon? What questions are these! Go read Milton, Shakspeare or any truly ideal poet.
    Imtl 8.347 2 Read Plato, or any seer of the interior realities.
    Imtl 8.347 3 Read Plato, or any seer of the interior realities. Read St. Augustine, Swedenborg, Immanuel Kant.
    Dem1 10.10 21 We doubt not a man's fortune may be read in the lines of his hand...
    Dem1 10.24 8 Read a page of Cudworth or of Bacon, and we are exhilarated...
    Dem1 10.24 10 Read demonology or Colquhoun's Report, and we are bewildered...
    Chr2 10.105 8 ...we read with surprise the horror of Athens when, one morning, the statues of Mercury in the temples were found broken...
    Edc1 10.143 5 Let [the youth] read Tom Brown at Rugby...
    Edc1 10.143 6 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford...
    Edc1 10.143 7 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life...
    Edc1 10.146 5 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied ancient art to explain his stones;...
    Edc1 10.147 21 Letter by letter, syllable by syllable, the child learns to read...
    SovE 10.192 5 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven.
    SovE 10.202 16 It is simply impossible to read the old history of the first century as it was read in the ninth;...
    SovE 10.202 17 It is simply impossible to read the old history of the first century as it was read in the ninth;...
    Prch 10.229 17 It was said: [The clergy] have bronchitis because they read from their papers sermons with a near voice, and then, looking at the congregation, they try to speak with their far voice, and the shock is noxious.
    Prch 10.231 20 I do not love sensation preaching...the review of our appearances and what others say of us! That you may read in the gazette.
    Prch 10.235 25 A wise man advises that we should see to it that we read and speak two or three reasonable words, every day...
    MoL 10.251 23 'T is some thirty years since the days of the Reform Bill in England, when on the walls in London you read everywhere placards, Down with the Lords.
    MoL 10.256 13 Reading!-do you mean that this senator or this lawyer, who stood by and allowed the passage of infamous laws, was a reader of Greek books? That is not the question; but to what purpose did they read?
    MoL 10.256 15 [Senators and lawyers] read that they might know, did they not?
    Schr 10.281 23 As we read the newspapers...patriotism and religion seem to shriek like ghosts.
    Schr 10.288 19 ...[the scholar] should read a little proudly, as one who knows the original, and cannot therefore very highly value the copy.
    Plu 10.294 4 ...though [Plutarch] found or made friends at Rome, and read lectures to some friends or scholars, he did not know or learn the Latin language there;...
    Plu 10.295 27 Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had been lost, had not this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt. By this favor of his we dare now speak and write. The ladies are able to read to schoolmasters.
    Plu 10.296 6 Saint-Evremond read Plutarch to the great Conde under a tent.
    Plu 10.296 14 In England, Sir Thomas North translated [Plutarch's] Lives in 1579, and Holland the Morals in 1603, in time to be...read by Bacon, Dryden and Cudworth.
    Plu 10.298 14 ...a master of ancient culture, [Plutarch] read books with a just criticism;...
    Plu 10.302 13 ...[Plutarch] is read to the neglect of more careful historians.
    Plu 10.302 15 ...[Plutarch] is read to the neglect of more careful historians. Yet he inspires a curiosity...to read them.
    Plu 10.305 14 [Plutarch's] chapter On Fortune should be read by poets, and other wise men;...
    Plu 10.322 6 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read the Laconic Apothegms [of Plutarch]...
    Plu 10.322 22 ...[Plutarch's] books will be reprinted and read anew by coming generations.
    LLNE 10.339 14 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review. They were widely read...
    LLNE 10.341 24 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a man...who read Plato as an equal...
    LLNE 10.342 20 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity.
    LLNE 10.346 19 ...Robert Owen...read lectures or held conversations wherever he found listeners;...
    EzRy 10.395 9 [Ezra Ripley] was a man very easy to read...
    MMEm 10.401 25 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford)...to those who may hereafter read her letters, will make its obscure acres amiable.
    MMEm 10.402 17 Nobody can read in [Mary Moody Emerson's] manuscript, or recall the conversation of old-school people, without seeing that Milton and Young had a religious authority in their mind...
    MMEm 10.402 25 When I read Dante, the other day, and his paraphrases to signify with more adequateness Christ or Jehovah, whom do you think I was reminded of? Whom but Mary Emerson and her eloquent theology?
    MMEm 10.405 18 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] would easily rouse [the minister's] curiosity, as a person who could read his secret and tell him his fortune.
    MMEm 10.406 17 [Mary Moody Emerson] tired presently of dull conversations, and asked to be read to...
    MMEm 10.411 27 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...read Butler's Analogy;...
    MMEm 10.412 1 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...read in a little book,-Cicero's Letters,-a few...
    SlHr 10.445 24 Had you read Swedenborg or Plotinus to [Samuel Hoar], he would have waited till you had done, and answered you out of the Revised Statutes.
    SlHr 10.445 28 ...of the modern sciences [Samuel Hoar] liked to read popular books on geology.
    Thor 10.457 2 I said [to Thoreau], Who would not like to write something which all can read, like Robinson Crusoe?...
    Thor 10.470 7 [Thoreau] drew out of his breast-pocket his diary, and read the names of all the plants that should bloom on this day...
    Thor 10.479 17 The tendency...to read all the laws of Nature in the one object or one combination under your eye, is...comic to those who do not share the philosopher's perception of identity.
    Carl 10.489 12 If you would know precisely how [Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and Shakspeare...
    LS 11.8 22 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival. And I admit that this impression might probably be left upon the mind of one who read only the passages under consideration in the New Testament.
    LS 11.11 16 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels...
    LS 11.17 3 You say, every time you celebrate the rite [the Lord's Supper], that Jesus enjoined it; and the whole language you use conveys that impression. But if you read the New Testament as I do, you do not believe he did.
    LS 11.20 5 A passage read from [Christ's] discourses...I call a worthy, a true commemoration.
    HDC 11.39 24 The light struggled in through windows of oiled paper, but [the settlers of Concord] read the word of God by it.
    HDC 11.49 16 ...in the clock on the church, [the people of Concord] read their own power...
    HDC 11.51 16 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
    HDC 11.57 2 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    HDC 11.83 17 ...I have read with care the [Concord] Town Records themselves.
    LVB 11.90 7 We have read [the Cherokees'] newspapers.
    EWI 11.102 18 These men [negro slaves]...producers of comfort and luxury for the civilized world,-there seated in the finest climates of the globe, children of the sun,-I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.
    EWI 11.115 1 I have never read anything in history more touching than the moderation of the negroes [at the news of emancipation in the West Indies].
    EWI 11.118 27 The child will sit in your arms contented, provided you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.
    EWI 11.128 5 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    EWI 11.129 12 ...in the last few days that my attention has been occupied with this history [of emancipation in the West Indies], I have not been able to read a page of it without the most painful comparisons.
    EWI 11.129 13 ...in the last few days that my attention has been occupied with this history [of emancipation in the West Indies], I have not been able to read a page of it without the most painful comparisons. Whilst I have read of England, I have thought of New England.
    War 11.158 2 ...we read with astonishment of the beastly fighting of the old times.
    War 11.159 5 I read in Williams's History of Maine, that Assacombuit, the Sagamore of the Anagunticook tribe, was remarkable for his turpitude and ferocity...
    FSLC 11.181 19 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame. I cannot read longer even the local good news.
    FSLC 11.214 5 ...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and past, in either of which, if one man had...read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of Massachusetts had been prevented...
    FSLN 11.225 22 There was the same law in England for Jeffries and Talbot and Yorke to read slavery out of, and for Lord Mansfield to read freedom.
    FSLN 11.225 23 There was the same law in England for Jeffries and Talbot and Yorke to read slavery out of, and for Lord Mansfield to read freedom.
    FSLN 11.225 26 ...in this country one sees that there is always margin enough in the statute for a liberal judge to read one way and a servile judge another.
    FSLN 11.234 10 Of course [slave-owners] will not dare to read the Bible?
    AsSu 11.251 21 ...I wish, sir, that the high respects of this meeting shall be expressed to Mr. Sumner; that a copy of the resolutions that have been read may be forwarded to him.
    JBS 11.277 8 ...as soon as [people] read [John Brown's] own speeches and letters they are heartily contented...
    TPar 11.288 17 ...[it will be] in the plain lessons of Theodore Parker...that the true temper and the authentic record of these days will be read.
    TPar 11.288 20 ...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story...what part was taken by each actor [in Boston];...
    ACiv 11.303 11 There are Scriptures written invisibly on men's hearts, whose letters do not come out until they are enraged. They can be read by war-fires...
    EPro 11.321 11 What right has any one to read in the journals tidings of victories, if he has not bought them by his own valor, treasure, personal sacrifice...
    EPro 11.324 23 ...granting the truth, rightly read, of the historical aphorism, that the people always conquer, it is to be noted that, in the Southern States, the tenure of land and the local laws, with slavery, give the social system not a democratic but an aristocratic complexion;...
    HCom 11.339 8 These boys we talk about like ancient sages/ Are the same men we read of in old pages-/ The bronze recast of dead heroic ages!/
    SMC 11.375 21 There are people who can hardly read the names on yonder bronze tablet [Concord Monument], the mist so gathers in their eyes.
    EdAd 11.386 11 Conceding these unfavorable appearances, it would yet be a poor pedantry to read the fates of this country from these narrow data.
    Wom 11.418 14 Men taunt [women] that, whatever they do, say, read or write, they are thinking of themselves...
    Wom 11.423 19 ...when I read the list of men of intellect, of refined pursuits...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
    SHC 11.430 23 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature, but, at the same time...wishing to make one spot tender to our children, who shall come hither in the next century to read the dates of these lives.
    Shak1 11.450 8 The student finds the solitariest place not solitary enough to read [Shakespeare];...
    Shak1 11.451 25 [Shakespeare's] mind has a superiority such that the universities should read lectures on him...
    Shak1 11.453 17 Had [Shakespeare's plays] been published earlier, our forefathers, or the most poetical among them, might have stayed at home to read them.
    Scot 11.464 3 ...I believe that many of those who read [Scott's books] in youth...will make some fond exception for Scott as for Byron.
    ChiE 11.473 1 [Confucius's] morals...we read with profit to-day.
    ChiE 11.474 12 ...I have read in the journals a statement from an English source, that Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China.
    FRO1 11.479 6 Read in Michelet, that in Europe, for twelve or fourteen centuries, God the Father had no temple and no altar.
    FRO2 11.488 23 George Fox, the Quaker, said that, though he read of Christ and God, he knew them only from the like spirit in his own soul.
    FRO2 11.489 25 ...in sound frame of mind, we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other men...only for friendship...
    CPL 11.496 6 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...making scholars of those who only read newspapers or novels until now;...
    CPL 11.498 19 The religious bias of our founders had its usual effect to secure an education to read their Bible and hymn-book...
    CPL 11.500 20 In a private letter to a lady, [Thoreau] writes, Do you read any noble verses?
    CPL 11.500 27 [Thoreau writes] It is a relief to read some true books wherein all are equally dead, equally alive.
    CPL 11.504 21 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte...tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them...
    CPL 11.506 12 [Kepler writes] ...I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice;...the book is written; to be read either now or by posterity.
    CPL 11.507 10 It is a tie between men to have read the same book...
    CPL 11.507 11 ...it is a disadvantage not to have read the book your mates have read...
    CPL 11.507 12 ...it is a disadvantage not to have read the book your mates have read...
    CPL 11.507 13 ...it is a disadvantage not to have read the book your mates have read, or not to have read it at the same time...
    CPL 11.508 9 ...read proudly;...
    CPL 11.508 10 ...read proudly; put the duty of being read invariably on the author.
    CPL 11.508 11 ...read proudly; put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it?
    CPL 11.508 17 ...there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write?
    FRep 11.515 7 No interest not attaches...to the wars of German, French and Spanish emperors, which were only dynastic wars, but to those in which a principle was involved. These are read with passionate interest...
    FRep 11.527 11 It is rare to find a born American who cannot read and write.
    PLT 12.4 13 ...at last, it is only that exceeding and universal part [of Nature] which interests us, when we shall read in a true history what befalls in that kingdom where a thousand years is as one day...
    PLT 12.13 14 I think metaphysics a grammar to which, once read, we seldom return.
    PLT 12.23 21 ...what a modern experimenter calls the contagious influence of chemical action is so true of mind that I have only to read the law that its application may be evident...
    II 12.69 18 We believe...that the rudest mind has a Delphi and Dodona- predictions of Nature and history-in itself, though now dim and hard to read.
    II 12.86 18 Michael Angelo must paint Sistine ceilings till he can no longer read, except by holding the book over his head.
    II 12.88 18 Our books are full of generous biographies...of men and of women who lived for the benefit and healing of nature. But one fact I read in them all,-that there is a religion which survives immutably all persons and fashions...
    Mem 12.91 16 ...a book I read...has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.
    Mem 12.101 25 Who can judge the new book? He who has read many books.
    Mem 12.102 18 ...I would rather have a perfect recollection of all I have thought and felt in a day or a week of high activity than read all the books that have been published in a century.
    CInt 12.131 19 ...it were a good rule to read some lines at least every day that shall not be of the day's occasion or task...
    CL 12.136 15 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country...
    CW 12.174 13 In the arboretum you should have things...which people who read of them are hungry to see.
    Bost 12.193 16 [The Massachusetts colonists] read Milton, Thomas a Kempis, Bunyan and Flavel with religious awe and delight...
    Bost 12.194 2 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Thomas a Kempis...without feeling how rich and expansive a culture...they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...
    Bost 12.194 10 Who can read the pious diaries of the Englishmen in the time of the Commonwealth and later, without a sigh that we write no diaries to-day?
    Bost 12.195 18 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    Bost 12.196 3 The universality of an elementary education in New England is her praise and her power in the whole world. To the schools succeeds the village lyceum...where every week through the winter, lectures are read and debates sustained...
    MAng1 12.215 16 Every line in [Michelangelo's] biography might be read to the human race with wholesome effect.
    MAng1 12.241 5 [Michelangelo's] poems themselves cannot be read without awakening sentiments of virtue.
    Milt1 12.248 22 [Milton's] prose writings...seem to have been read with avidity.
    Milt1 12.251 13 This tract [Milton's Areopagitica] is far the best known and the most read of all...
    Milt1 12.264 27 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors...
    Milt1 12.265 1 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read...
    Milt1 12.268 16 ...the invocations of the Eternal Spirit in the commencement of [Milton's] books are not poetic forms, but are thoughts, and so are still read with delight.
    ACri 12.285 4 ...when I read of various extraordinary polyglots...who can understand fifty languages, I answer that I shall be glad and surprised to find that they know one.
    ACri 12.285 26 Rabelais and Montaigne are masters of this Romany, but cannot be read aloud, and so far fall short.
    ACri 12.291 7 As soon as you read aloud, you will find what sentences drag.
    ACri 12.291 8 As soon as you read aloud, you will find what sentences drag. Blot them out, and read again, you will find the words that drag.
    ACri 12.295 8 My friend thinks the reason why the French mind is so shallow...is because they do not read Shakspeare;...
    ACri 12.295 9 ...the English and Germans, who read Shakspeare and the Bible, have a great onward march.
    ACri 12.297 23 ...I think of [Carlyle] when I read the famous inscription on the pyramid, I King Saib built this pyramid. I, when I had built it, covered it with satin. Let him who cometh after me, and says he is equal to me, cover it with mats.
    ACri 12.298 27 ...[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...
    ACri 12.304 22 When I read Plutarch, or look at a Greek vase, I incline to accept the common opinion of scholars, that the Greeks had clearer wits than any other people.
    MLit 12.309 19 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo! the air swims with life...
    MLit 12.320 1 When we read poetry, the mind asks,-Was this verse one of twenty which the author might have written as well;...
    MLit 12.323 14 To read [Goethe's] record is a frugality of time...
    MLit 12.325 21 There is a good letter from Wieland to Merck, in which Wieland relates that Goethe read to a select party his journal of a tour in Switzerland with the Grand Duke...
    MLit 12.327 13 In these days and in this country...where men read easy books and sleep after dinner, it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...
    MLit 12.327 19 [Goethe's letters] cannot be read without shaming us into an emulating industry.
    Pray 12.350 19 ...there are scattered about in the earth a few records of these devout hours [of prayer], which it would edify us to read...
    EurB 12.365 9 We have learned how to read [Wordsworth].
    EurB 12.368 14 [Wordsworth] once for all forsook the styles and standards and modes of thinking of London and Paris, and the books read there and the aims pursued...
    EurB 12.372 14 Locksley Hall and The Two Voices are meditative poems, which were slowly written to be slowly read.
    EurB 12.373 16 ...we have read Mr. Bulwer enough to see that the story is rapid and interesting;...
    EurB 12.374 1 We read Zanoni with pleasure, because the magic is natural.
    EurB 12.374 24 ...Mr. Bulwer's recent stories have given us who do not read novels occasion to think of this department of literature...
    PPr 12.380 21 The scholar shall read and write, the farmer and mechanic shall toil, with new resolution, nor forget the book [Carlyle's Past and Present] when they resume their labor.
    PPr 12.384 14 It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present]...
    PPr 12.384 22 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] which will be read...

readable, adj. (3)

    Elo1 7.69 18 The virtue of books is to be readable...
    Boks 7.199 21 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library; first because he is so readable...
    Boks 7.206 7 For the Church and the Feudal Institution, Mr. Hallam's Middle Ages will furnish, if superficial, yet readable and conceivable outlines.

Reade, Charles, n. (1)

    Boks 7.213 16 The novel is that allowance and frolic the imagination finds. Everything else pins it down, and men flee for redress to...Dickens, Thackeray and Reade.

reader, n. (74)

    Hist 2.7 8 ...all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea...
    Hist 2.35 2 In the story of the Boy and the Mantle even a mature reader may be surprised with a glow of virtuous pleasure at the triumph of the gentle Genelas;...
    SL 2.149 9 If any ingenious reader would have a monopoly of the wisdom or delight he gets, he is as secure now the book is Englished, as if it were imprisoned in the Pelews' tongue.
    Cir 2.317 20 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you have arrived at a fine Pyrrhonism...
    Cir 2.318 9 ...let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.
    Pt1 3.34 26 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith; and, he believes, should stand for the same realities to every reader.
    Pt1 3.34 26 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith; and, he believes, should stand for the same realities to every reader. But the first reader prefers as naturally the symbol of a mother and child...
    Exp 3.80 25 What imports it whether it is...a reader and his book, or puss with her tail?
    NR 3.234 18 Lively boys write to their ear and eye, and the cool reader finds nothing but sweet jingles in it.
    PPh 4.39 20 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato...
    PPh 4.41 5 ...Plato seems to a reader in New England an American genius.
    PPh 4.59 11 [Plato] has finished his thinking before he brings it to the reader...
    SwM 4.119 15 ...to a reader who can make due allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's] peculiarities, the results are still instructive...
    SwM 4.135 17 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with jasper and sardonyx...
    MoS 4.168 7 ...[Montaigne]...has the genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for.
    ShP 4.211 27 A good reader can, in a sort, nestle into Plato's brain and think from thence; but not into Shakspeare's.
    ShP 4.213 9 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air, and likes as well to do the one as the other. This makes that equality of power in farce, tragedy, narrative, and love-songs; a merit so incessant that each reader is incredulous of the perception of other readers.
    ET4 5.60 7 ...the reader of the Norman history must steel himself by holding fast the remote compensations which result from animal vigor.
    ET11 5.192 13 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the splendor of the titles, and the apathy of the nation; are instructive, and make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    ET12 5.205 3 The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of ordinary college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year. But this plausible statement may deceive a reader unacquainted with the fact that the principal teaching relied on is private tuition.
    Wth 6.94 25 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated...
    Ctr 6.142 1 We look that a great man should be a good reader...
    Bhr 6.192 10 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the wedding day is fixed, and we follow the gala procession home to the bannered portal, when the doors are slammed in our face and the poor reader is left outside in the cold...
    Wsp 6.221 19 If any reader tax me with using vague and traditional phrases, let me suggest to him by a few examples what kind of a trust this is [in the moral sentiment], and how real.
    Boks 7.187 1 The reader and the book,--either without the other is naught.
    Boks 7.197 3 ...I find certain books vital and spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was...
    Boks 7.197 8 ...I will venture...to count the few books which a superficial reader must thankfully use.
    Boks 7.200 3 ...such a reader as I am writing to can as ill spare [Plutarch's Morals] as the Lives.
    Boks 7.203 16 The reader of these books [of the Platonists] makes new acquaintance with his own mind;...
    Boks 7.205 14 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of civilization...and, I think, will be sure to send the reader to his Memoirs of Himself...
    Suc 7.291 8 ...I am by no means sure that the reader will assent to all my propositions...
    Suc 7.296 2 'T is the fulness of man that...makes his Bibles and Shakspeares and Homers so great. The joyful reader borrows of his own ideas to fill their faulty outline...
    Suc 7.296 16 'T is the good reader that makes the good book;...
    PI 8.15 20 The endless passing of one element into new forms...explains the rank which the imagination holds in our catalogue of mental powers. The imagination is the reader of these forms.
    PI 8.33 13 ...We detect at once by [style]...whether [the writer] has one eye apologizing, deprecatory, turned on his reader.
    PI 8.50 17 ...every good reader will easily recall expressions or passages in works of pure science which have given him the same pleasure which he seeks in professed poets.
    Elo2 8.121 2 ...[a singer] will make any words glorious. I think the like rule holds of the good reader.
    Elo2 8.121 3 In the church I call him only a good reader who can read sense and poetry into any hymn in the hymn-book.
    QO 8.178 6 We expect a great man to be a good reader;...
    QO 8.194 3 ...people quote so differently: one finding only what is gaudy and popular; another, the heart of the author, the report of his select and happiest hour; and the reader sometimes giving more to the citation than he owes to it.
    QO 8.194 20 The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader.
    PPo 8.249 8 His complete intellectual emancipation [Hafiz] communicates to the reader.
    Insp 8.287 7 ...[from Nature] are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, the October woods! I confide that my reader knows these delicious secrets...
    Insp 8.294 12 [Another source of inspiration is] New poetry; by which I mean chiefly, old poetry that is new to the reader.
    Insp 8.296 3 Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
    Dem1 10.10 24 We doubt not a man's fortune may be read...in the outlines of the skull, by craniology: the lines are all there, but the reader waits.
    Chr2 10.115 13 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament...
    MoL 10.256 11 Reading!-do you mean that this senator or this lawyer, who stood by and allowed the passage of infamous laws, was a reader of Greek books?
    Schr 10.270 18 I, said the great-hearted Kepler, may well wait a hundred years for a reader, since God Almighty has waited six thousand years for an observer like myself.
    Schr 10.288 27 [The scholar] is here to know the secret of Genius; to become, not a reader of poetry, but Homer, Dante, Milton...
    Plu 10.299 23 [Plutarch] perpetually suggests Montaigne, who was the best reader he has ever found...
    Plu 10.301 25 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch, page on page. No doubt, this superior suggestion for the modern reader owes much to the foreign air...
    Plu 10.304 1 ...in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars, and carry a faint memory of the argument or general design of the chapter; but...he leaves the reader with a relish and a necessity for completing his studies.
    EzRy 10.389 13 ...[Ezra Ripley] was no reader of books or journals...
    Thor 10.474 24 [Thoreau] was a good reader and critic...
    EWI 11.134 6 ...the reader of Congressional debates, in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the minority of slave-holders.
    EWI 11.136 2 The lives of the advocates [of emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness, and the connection of the eminent senators with this question constitutes the immortalizing moments of those men's lives. The bare enunciation of the theses at which the lawyers and legislators arrived, gives a glow to the heart of the reader.
    TPar 11.286 27 ...[Theodore Parker's] scholarship had made him a reader and quoter of verses.
    Scot 11.465 15 The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances, up to the Bride of Lammermoor, which almost goes back to Aeschylus for a counterpart as a painting of Fate-leaving on every reader the impression of the highest and purest tragedy.
    CPL 11.500 18 [Thoreau]...was an excellent reader.
    CPL 11.504 4 We expect a great man to be a good reader...
    CPL 11.506 14 [Kepler writes] [The book] may well wait a century for a reader...
    II 12.71 26 The poet works to an end above his will, and by means, too, which are out of his will. Every part of the poem is therefore a true surprise to the reader...
    Milt1 12.249 22 The reader [of a tract by Milton] is fatigued with admiration...
    Milt1 12.268 12 The memorable covenant, which in his youth...[Milton] makes with God and his reader, expressed the faith of his old age.
    ACri 12.283 23 ...the transformation of the laborer into reader and writer has compelled the learned and the thinkers to address them.
    MLit 12.329 3 [All great men] knew that the intelligent reader would come at last...
    EurB 12.375 19 Had...one sentiment from the heart of God been spoken by [the novel of costume or of circumstance] the reader had been made a participator of their triumph;...
    EurB 12.376 8 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect;...
    EurB 12.376 10 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect; the development of character being the problem, the reader is made a partaker in the whole prosperity.
    EurB 12.376 12 Everything good in such a story [novel of character] remains with the reader when the book is closed.
    PPr 12.380 20 Every reader [of Carlyle's Past and Present] shall carry away something.
    PPr 12.385 12 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by...impressing the reader with the conviction that the satirist himself has the truest love for everything old and excellent in English land and institutions...
    PPr 12.386 23 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear,-producing on the reader a feeling of forlornness by the excess of value attributed to circumstances.

readers, n. (47)

    SL 2.154 5 They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears...
    Pt1 3.19 1 Readers of poetry see the factory-village and the railway, and fancy that the poetry of the landscape is broken up by these;...
    Nat2 3.176 23 ...it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive.
    PPh 4.43 16 If you would know [great geniuses'] tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.
    MoS 4.165 8 ...though a biblical plainness coupled with a most uncanonical levity may shut [Montaigne's] pages to many sensitive readers, yet the offence is superficial.
    ShP 4.193 18 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers. Happily, no man wishes to. They are not yet desired in that way. We have few readers, many spectators and hearers.
    ShP 4.204 13 It was not until the nineteenth century...that the tragedy of Hamlet could find such wondering readers.
    ShP 4.213 10 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air, and likes as well to do the one as the other. This makes that equality of power in farce, tragedy, narrative, and love-songs; a merit so incessant that each reader is incredulous of the perception of other readers.
    NMW 4.225 7 Every one of the million readers of anecdotes or memoirs or lives of Napoleon, delights in the page, because he studies in it his own history.
    GoW 4.279 24 ...the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] remains ever so new and unexhausted, that we must...be willing to get what good from it we can, assured that it has...millions of readers yet to serve.
    GoW 4.280 19 What distinguishes Goethe for French and English readers is a property which he shares with his nation...
    ET1 5.12 19 I took advantage of a pause to say that [Coleridge] had many readers of all religious opinions in America...
    ET1 5.15 7 Carlyle was...an author who did not need to hide from his readers...
    ET1 5.23 17 I said Tinturn Abbey appeared to be the favorite poem with the public, but more contemplative readers preferred the first books of the Excursion, and the Sonnets.
    ET5 5.100 3 The Danish poet Oehlenschlager complains that who writes in Danish writes to two hundred readers.
    ET7 5.119 27 Madame de Stael says that the English irritated Napoleon, mainly because they have found out how to unite success with honesty. She was not aware how wide an application her foreign readers would give to the remark.
    ET14 5.242 25 Not these particulars, but the mental plane or the atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and element of the writers and readers in what we loosely call the Elizabethan age...
    ET17 5.295 22 I said, if Plato's Republic were published in England as a new book to-day, do you think it would find any readers?--[Wordsworth] confessed it would not...
    Ctr 6.157 17 Here is a new poem, which elicits a good many comments in the journals and in conversation. From these it is easy at last to gather the verdict which readers passed upon it;...
    Farm 7.140 3 This hard work [of the farm] will always be done by one kind of man; not...by soldiers...nor readers of Tennyson;...
    Boks 7.192 27 ...private readers, reading purely for love of the book, would serve us by leaving each the shortest note of what he found.
    Boks 7.209 8 ...tender readers have a great pudency in showing their books to a stranger.
    Boks 7.211 17 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time.
    Boks 7.216 17 ...the novelist plucks this event here and that fortune there, and ties them rashly to his figures, to tickle the fancy of his readers with a cloying success...
    PI 8.32 27 Later, the thought, the happy image which expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to mind, and sends me back in search of the book. And I wish that the poet should foresee this habit of readers, and omit all but the important passages.
    PI 8.33 15 In proportion always to [the writer's] possession of his thought is his defiance of his readers.
    PI 8.54 27 ...the masters sometimes rise above themselves to strains which charm their readers...
    PI 8.67 5 [A good poem] affects the characters of its readers by formulating their opinions and feelings...
    SA 8.102 10 I often hear the business of a little town...discussed with a clearness and thoroughness...that would have satisfied me had it been in one of the larger capitals. I am sure each one of my readers has a parallel experience.
    Elo2 8.122 13 It is said that one of the best readers in his time was the late President John Quincy Adams.
    Grts 8.306 3 Many readers remember that Sir Humphry Davy said...my best discovery was Michael Faraday.
    Aris 10.32 12 In the sketches which I have to offer [on Aristocracy] I shall not be surprised if my readers should fancy that I am giving them...a chapter on Education.
    Plu 10.299 16 [Plutarch] is...sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of his readers, now and then, at a long distance behind him...
    Plu 10.302 17 ...I suppose [Plutarch] has a hundred readers where Thucydides finds one...
    Plu 10.320 12 I cannot close these notes without expressing my sense of the valuable service which the Editor [of Plutarch's Morals] has rendered to his Author and to his readers.
    LLNE 10.331 5 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...
    LLNE 10.344 3 Perhaps [The Dial's] writers were its chief readers...
    MMEm 10.399 8 [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...
    Thor 10.476 6 All readers of Walden will remember [Thoreau's] mythical record of his disappointments...
    FSLN 11.218 10 ...who are the readers and thinkers of 1854?
    EdAd 11.393 13 ...good readers know that inspired pages are not written to fill a space...
    Scot 11.463 14 ...no modern writer has inspired his readers with such affection to his own personality [as Scott].
    CPL 11.496 4 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...making readers of those who are not readers...
    CPL 11.496 5 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...making readers of those who are not readers...
    Mem 12.106 10 ...I come to a bright school-girl who...carries thousands of nursery rhymes and all the poetry in all the readers, hymn-books, and pictorial ballads in her mind;...
    WSL 12.347 8 [Landor] has commented on a wide variety of writers, with a closeness and extent of view which has enhanced the value of those authors to his readers.
    EurB 12.377 14 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey. Young men were and still are the readers and victims.

reader's, n. (5)

    Nat 1.14 15 ...the examples [of the useful arts are] so obvious, that I shall leave them to the reader's reflection...
    Hist 2.34 1 ...[Goethe's Helena]...awakens the reader's invention and fancy by the wild freedom of the design...
    UGM 4.15 22 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed...is the secret of the reader's joy in literary genius.
    MoS 4.165 19 ...with all this really superfluous frankness [in Montaigne], the opinion of an invincible probity grows into every reader's mind.
    Prch 10.227 12 [The theologian] sees that what is most effective in the writer is what is dear to his, the reader's, mind.

readiest, adj. (1)

    PPr 12.382 15 A man's diet should be what is simplest and readiest to be had...

readily, adv. (60)

    YA 1.375 15 The patriarchal form of government readily becomes despotic...
    Hist 2.20 19 In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window...in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.
    Hist 2.30 23 [Prometheus] stands between the unjust justice of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals, and readily suffers all things on their account.
    Hist 2.30 27 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude, objective form...
    SR 2.50 25 Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this;...
    SR 2.65 13 Thoughtless people contradict as readily the statement of perceptions as of opinions...
    SR 2.65 15 Thoughtless people contradict as readily the statement of perceptions as of opinions, or rather much more readily;...
    SL 2.155 24 Our philosophy...readily accepts the testimony of negative facts...
    Prd1 2.238 2 In the occurrence of unpleasant things among neighbors, fear comes readily to heart and magnifies the consequence of the other party;...
    Hsm1 2.247 20 I do not readily remember any poem, play, sermon, novel or oration that our press vents in the last few years, which goes to the same [heroic] tune.
    Exp 3.51 23 We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt;...
    Chr1 3.98 17 Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.
    Mrs1 3.123 19 The competition is transferred from war to politics and trade, but the personal force appears readily enough in these new arenas.
    Mrs1 3.131 2 ...good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other.
    Mrs1 3.151 19 [Lilla] was...like air or water, an element of such a great range of affinities that it combines readily with a thousand substances.
    Nat2 3.182 15 If we had eyes to see it, a bit of stone from the city wall would certify us of the necessity that man must exist, as readily as the city.
    Pol1 3.203 16 It was not...found easy to embody the readily admitted principle that property should make law for property...
    NER 3.260 22 I readily concede that in this, as in every period of intellectual activity, there has been a noise of denial and protest;...
    SwM 4.97 11 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind.
    SwM 4.97 12 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind. But what as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease.
    SwM 4.131 12 ...a bird does not more readily weave its nest...than this seer of the souls [Swedenborg] substructs a new hell and pit..round every new crew of offenders.
    MoS 4.171 7 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive; his presence supposes a well-ordered society, agriculture, trade, large institutions and empire. ... Therefore he cheers and comforts men, who feel all this in him very readily.
    NMW 4.250 16 To the philosophers [Napoleon] readily yielded all that was proved against religion as the work of men and time...
    ET1 5.14 16 ...I...find it impossible to recall the largest part of [Coleridge' s] discourse, which was often like so many printed paragraphs in his book... so readily did he fall into certain commonplaces.
    ET7 5.124 17 ...as [Englishmen's] own belief in guineas is perfect, they readily, on all occasions, apply the pecuniary argument as final.
    ET11 5.186 1 Power of any kind readily appears in the manners;...
    ET12 5.211 12 I should readily concede these [physical] advantages...if I did not find also that [Oxford men] read better than we, and write better.
    ET14 5.256 26 ...the grave old [English] poets...heeded their designs, and less considered the finish. It was their office to lead to the divine sources, out of which all this, and much more readily springs;...
    ET15 5.269 6 [The London Times] attacks a duke as readily as a policeman...
    ET16 5.275 11 I told Carlyle that I...was accustomed to concede readily all that an Englishman would ask;...
    ET18 5.299 19 [Englishmen] cannot readily see beyond England.
    Elo1 7.92 7 The listener cannot hide from himself that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see; and as he cannot dispose of it, it disposes of him. The history of public men and affairs in America will readily furnish tragic examples of this fatal force.
    Clbs 7.234 3 ...men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates...
    Suc 7.310 14 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine.
    PI 8.18 2 ...[as soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it] he can now find symbols of universal significance, which are readily rendered into any dialect;...
    PPo 8.247 12 [Hafiz's] was the fluent mind in which every thought and feeling came readily to the lips.
    Aris 10.44 21 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow; but just as easily he...could lay his hand as readily on one as on another point in that series which opens the capability to the last point.
    Chr2 10.101 2 When a man is born with a profound moral sentiment...men readily feel the superiority.
    Prch 10.218 12 ...[those persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] will not mask their convictions; they hate cant; but more than this I do not readily find.
    Prch 10.234 21 That gray deacon or respectable matron with Calvinistic antecedents, you can readily see, could not have presented any obstacle to the march of St. Bernard...
    EzRy 10.391 14 The late Dr. Gardiner, in a funeral sermon on some parishioner whose virtues did not readily come to mind, honestly said, He was good at fires.
    SlHr 10.440 10 Though rich, [Samuel Hoar was] of a plainness and almost poverty of personal expenditure, yet liberal of his money to any worthy use, readily lending it to young men...
    Thor 10.453 25 [Thoreau's] accuracy and skill in this work [surveying] were readily appreciated...
    Thor 10.478 23 [Thoreau] detected paltering as readily in dignified and prosperous persons as in beggars...
    Carl 10.492 17 [Carlyle] throws himself readily on the other side.
    LS 11.7 17 ...I can readily imagine that [Jesus] was willing and desirous, when his disciples met, his memory should hallow their intercourse;...
    LS 11.13 4 [Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the Jewish converts...
    LS 11.13 8 [Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the Jewish converts...and also by the Pagan converts, whose idolatrous worship had been made up of sacred festivals, and who very readily abused these to gross riot...
    HDC 11.31 22 Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
    War 11.152 13 The student of history acquiesces the more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals...when he learns that it is a temporary and preparatory state...
    AsSu 11.247 20 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...spending his days in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against his slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and dangerous way. Such people...readily risk on every passion a life which is of small value to themselves or to others.
    JBB 11.267 13 ...I do not wonder that gentlemen find traits of relation readily between [John Brown] and themselves.
    TPar 11.291 9 I can readily forgive [silence], only not the other, the false tongue which makes the worse appear the better cause.
    SHC 11.432 17 I suppose all of us will readily admit the value of parks and cultivated grounds to the pleasure and education of the people...
    FRep 11.525 17 In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive. It is ever an inspiration...a sudden, undated perception of eternal right...a perception that passes through thousands as readily as through one.
    FRep 11.532 23 It seems as if history gave no account of any society in which despondency came so readily to heart as we see it and feel it in ours.
    CL 12.166 9 [Man] can dispose in his thought of more worlds, just as readily as of few, or one.
    MLit 12.322 4 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor,-a man... whose genius and accomplishments deserve a wiser criticism than we have yet seen applied to them, and the rather that his name does not readily associate itself with any school of writers.
    MLit 12.322 25 [Goethe] learned as readily as other men breathe.
    Trag 12.406 8 ...one would say that history gave no record of any society in which despondency came so readily to heart as we see it and feel it in ours.

readiness, n. (12)

    DSA 1.149 10 There are...men to whom a crisis...demanding...the readiness of sacrifice, - comes graceful and beloved as a bride.
    Gts 3.164 10 The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him...
    ET4 5.49 3 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...readiness of combination among themselves for politics or for business;...
    ET4 5.63 11 The brutality of the manners in the [English] lower class appears in the boxing, bear-baiting...and in the readiness for a set-to in the streets...
    SS 7.15 27 It is not the circumstance of seeing more or fewer people, but the readiness of sympathy, that imports;...
    Cour 7.261 1 ...with this pacific education we have no readiness for bad times.
    Elo2 8.128 7 ...it would be easy to point to many masters [of eloquence] whose readiness is sure;...
    LS 11.10 2 Remember the readiness which [Jesus] always showed to spiritualize every occurrence.
    FRep 11.527 22 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the readiness for reforms...
    PLT 12.53 7 I must think...this thrill of awe with which we watch the performance of genius, a sign of our own readiness to exert the like power.
    PLT 12.62 1 Sensibility is the secret readiness to believe in all kinds of power...
    Trag 12.412 20 All that life demands of us through the greater part of the day is an equilibrium, a readiness...

reading, adj. (11)

    Con 1.320 20 ...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class;...they will upset the fair pageant of Judicature...
    SR 2.84 19 What a contrast between the...reading...American...and the naked New Zealander...
    ET12 5.204 17 The reading men [at Oxford] are kept, by hard walking, hard riding and measured eating and drinking, at the top of their condition...
    Ctr 6.149 22 ...it requires a great many cultivated women,--saloons of bright, elegant, reading women...in order that you should have one Madame de Stael.
    Clbs 7.230 22 ...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he tells me...that he has no companion.
    OA 7.330 1 We have an admirable line worthy of Horace...but have searched all probable and improbable books for it in vain. We consult the reading men: but, strangely enough, they who know everything know not this.
    Plu 10.293 3 It is remarkable that of an author so familiar as Plutarch, not only to scholars, but to all reading men...not even the dates of his birth and death, should have come down to us.
    Thor 10.466 8 Mr. Thoreau dedicated his genius with such entire love to the fields, hills and waters of his native town, that he made them known and interesting to all reading Americans...
    Scot 11.465 2 [Scott] apprehended in advance the immense enlargement of the reading public...
    CL 12.141 23 In the English universities, the reading men are daily performing their punctual training in the boat-clubs...
    WSL 12.340 26 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.

reading, n. (54)

    AmS 1.93 2 There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
    AmS 1.93 16 Of course there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man.
    AmS 1.93 18 History and exact science [the wise man] must learn by laborious reading.
    LT 1.275 16 See how daring is the reading...of the time.
    Tran 1.353 12 Much of our reading, much of our labor, seems mere waiting;...
    YA 1.392 12 We are full of vanity, of which the most signal proof is our sensitiveness to foreign and especially English censure. One cause of this is our immense reading, and that reading chiefly confined to the productions of the English press.
    SR 2.62 22 Our reading is mendicant and sycophantic.
    SL 2.164 12 How dare I read Washington's campaigns when I have not answered the letters of my own correspondents? Is not that a just objection to much of our reading?
    Pt1 3.19 5 Readers of poetry see the factory-village and the railway, and fancy that the poetry of the landscape is broken up by these; for these works of art are not yet consecrated in their reading;...
    Mrs1 3.148 20 ...[Scott's] dialogue is in costume, and does not please on the second reading...
    ShP 4.196 15 There was no literature for the million [in Shakespeare's day]. The universal reading, the cheap press, were unknown.
    GoW 4.278 11 Lovers of light reading, those who look in [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] for the entertainment they find in a romance, are disappointed.
    GoW 4.280 16 ...[Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] remained [Novalis's] favorite reading to the end of his life.
    ET1 5.4 2 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, DeQuincey...
    ET1 5.17 2 [Carlyle's] own reading had been multifarious.
    ET12 5.211 17 English wealth falling on their school and university training, makes a systematic reading of the best authors...
    Pow 6.78 14 No genius can recite a ballad at first reading so well as mediocrity can at the fifteenth or twentieth reading.
    Pow 6.78 16 No genius can recite a ballad at first reading so well as mediocrity can at the fifteenth or twentieth reading.
    Boks 7.205 9 [The student] cannot spare Gibbon, with his vast reading...
    OA 7.329 19 An old scholar finds keen delight in verifying the impressive anecdotes and citations he has met with in miscellaneous reading and hearing, in all the years of youth.
    PI 8.20 13 A symbol always stimulates the intellect; therefore is poetry ever the best reading.
    Elo2 8.120 19 ...every one has an ear for skilful reading.
    QO 8.178 16 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive...that...one would say there is no pure originality.
    QO 8.178 19 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest or private addition so rare and insignificant,-and this commonly on the ground of other reading or hearing,-that...one would say there is no pure originality.
    QO 8.181 2 ...if we knew Rabelais's reading we should see the rill of the Rabelais river.
    QO 8.194 27 Every one...remembers his friends by their favorite poetry or other reading.
    Grts 8.304 19 I am...to infer your reading from the wealth and accuracy of your conversation.
    Edc1 10.140 18 If [a boy] can turn his books to such picturesque account in his fishing and hunting, it is easy to see how his reading and experience... will interpenetrate each other.
    Edc1 10.149 4 Not less delightful is the mutual pleasure of teaching and learning the secret...of good reading and good recitation of poetry or of prose...
    Edc1 10.157 15 I assume that you [teachers] will keep the grammar, reading, writing and arithmetic in order;...
    MoL 10.256 9 Reading!-do you mean that this senator or this lawyer, who stood by and allowed the passage of infamous laws, was a reader of Greek books?
    MoL 10.256 14 I allow [senators and lawyers] the merit of that reading which appears in their opinions, tastes, beliefs and practice.
    Plu 10.295 12 King Henry IV. wrote to his wife...you could not have sent me anything which could be more agreeable than the news of the pleasure you have taken in this reading [of Plutarch].
    Plu 10.301 15 It is for his pleasure that [Plutarch] recites all that is best in his reading...
    Plu 10.312 12 Seneca, says L'Estrange, was a pagan Christian, and is very good reading for our Christian pagans.
    Plu 10.319 19 [Plutarch] knew the laws of conversation and the laws of good-fellowship...and has set them down with such candor and grace as to make them good reading to-day.
    Plu 10.320 16 ...in recent reading of the old text [of Plutarch's Morals], on coming on anything absurd or unintelligible, I referred to the new text and found a clear and accurate statement in its place.
    LLNE 10.332 13 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys...with their unripe Latin and Greek reading...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    LLNE 10.340 1 We could not then spare a single word [Channing] uttered in public, not so much as the reading a lesson in Scripture...
    LLNE 10.342 25 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity. Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon Coleridge and Wordsworth and Goethe, then on Carlyle, with pleasure and sympathy. Otherwise, their education and reading were not marked...
    LLNE 10.363 13 [Charles Newcomb's] reading lay in Aeschylus, Plato, Dante, Calderon, Shakspeare...
    LLNE 10.364 15 It is certain that...variety of work, variety of means of thought and instruction, art, music, poetry, reading, masquerade, did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
    MMEm 10.402 12 [Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards...
    MMEm 10.406 18 [Mary Moody Emerson] tired presently of dull conversations, and asked to be read to, and so disposed of the visitor. If the voice or the reading tired her, she would ask the friend if he or she would do an errand for her, and so dismiss them.
    SlHr 10.448 3 There was no elegance in [Samuel Hoar's] reading or tastes beyond the crystal clearness of his mind.
    Scot 11.465 19 By nature, by his reading and taste an aristocrat, in a time and country which easily gave him that bias, [Scott] had the virtues and graces of that class...
    Scot 11.465 27 [Scott] saw...in his own reading and research such store of legend and renown as won his imagination to their cause.
    FRO2 11.487 5 When I find in people narrow religion, I find also in them narrow reading.
    CPL 11.499 11 [Mary Moody Emerson] was much addicted to journeying, and not less to reading...
    CPL 11.503 19 Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of the man...
    CPL 11.504 22 Napoleon's reading could not be large, but his criticism is sometimes admirable...
    CPL 11.505 6 [Montesquieu writes] Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against the disgusts of life, never having had a chagrin which an hour of reading has not put to flight.
    CPL 11.505 11 A man, that strives to make himself a different thing from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.
    AgMs 12.359 24 ...[Edmund Hosmer] is a man...of much reading...

reading, v. (81)

    Nat 1.34 19 There sits the Sphinx at the road-side, and...as each prophet comes by, he tries his fortune at reading her riddle.
    AmS 1.91 9 Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading...
    LE 1.185 1 ...you shall get your lesson out of the hour, and the object...even in reading a dull book...
    Hist 2.26 18 I admire the love of nature in the Philoctetes. In reading those fine apostrophes to sleep...I feel time passing away as an ebbing sea.
    SL 2.149 5 You have observed a skilful man reading Virgil.
    Hsm1 2.258 9 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...teach us how needlessly mean our life is;...
    Cir 2.301 8 We are all our lifetime reading the copious sense of this first of forms [the circle].
    Art1 2.357 17 When I have seen fine statues and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.
    Pt1 3.38 9 If I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries of English poets.
    Exp 3.66 17 You love the boy reading in a book...
    Chr1 3.101 27 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love he took in hand. He adopted it by ear and by the understanding from the books he had been reading.
    Mrs1 3.136 8 I have just been reading...Montaigne's account of his journey into Italy...
    NR 3.233 8 I find the most pleasure in reading a book in a manner least flattering to the author.
    PPh 4.45 2 I am struck, in reading him, with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit.
    PPh 4.59 6 In reading logarithms one is not more secure than in following Plato in his flights.
    ShP 4.195 27 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where instead of the metre of Shakspeare, whose secret is that the thought constructs the tune, so that reading for the sense will best bring out the rhythm,--here the lines are constructed on a given tune...
    NMW 4.227 18 Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
    ET1 5.21 13 Of Cousin (whose lectures we had all been reading in Boston), [Wordsworth] knew only the name.
    ET1 5.22 6 [Wordsworth's] eyes are much inflamed. This is no loss except for reading...
    ET6 5.112 10 An Englishman of fashion is like one of those souvenirs...fit for the hands of ladies and princes, but with nothing in it worth reading or remembering.
    ET8 5.127 20 Religion, the theatre and the reading the books of [the Englishman's] country all feed and increase his natural melancholy.
    ET12 5.211 20 ...pamphleteer or journalist, reading for an argument for a party...must read meanly and fragmentarily.
    ET12 5.211 21 ...pamphleteer or journalist...reading to write...must read meanly and fragmentarily.
    ET15 5.262 1 So your grace likes the comfort of reading the newspapers, said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;... these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
    ET15 5.267 16 The daily paper [London Times] is the work...chiefly, it is said, of young men recently from the University, and perhaps reading law in chambers in London.
    ET15 5.269 1 When I see [the English] reading [the London Times's] columns, they seem to me becoming every moment more British.
    F 6.3 4 ...four or five noted men were each reading a discourse...on the Spirit of the Times.
    F 6.9 20 Read the description in medical books of the four temperaments and you will think you are reading your own thoughts which you had not yet told.
    F 6.29 13 Does the reading of history make us fatalists?
    Wth 6.116 11 The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic...
    Ctr 6.148 22 In the country [a man] can find solitude and reading...
    Ctr 6.156 4 He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended... from living, breathing, reading and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of [other men's] opinions.
    Ctr 6.159 6 ...if in travelling in the dreary wildernesses of Arkansas or Texas we should observe on the next seat a man reading Horace...we should wish to hug him.
    Bhr 6.172 10 ...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of character [manners] convey, and what divination is required in us for the reading of this fine telegraph,--we see what range the subject has...
    Bhr 6.190 27 In this country...we have...a profusion of reading and writing and expression.
    Boks 7.189 18 ...after reading to weariness the lettered backs [of books], we leave the shop with a sigh...
    Boks 7.191 8 College education is the reading of certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will represent the science already accumulated.
    Boks 7.192 27 ...private readers, reading purely for love of the book, would serve us by leaving each the shortest note of what he found.
    Boks 7.193 15 It is easy to count...the number of years which human life in favorable circumstances allows to reading;...
    Boks 7.194 5 The best rule of reading will be a method from Nature...
    Boks 7.196 18 If you should transfer the amount of your reading day by day from the newspaper to the standard authors----But who dare speak of such a thing?
    Boks 7.204 17 I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
    Boks 7.207 9 In reading history, [the scholar] is to prefer the history of individuals.
    Boks 7.211 4 Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy is a book of great learning. To read it is like reading in a dictionary.
    Clbs 7.230 19 There is plenty of intelligence, reading, curiosity;...
    OA 7.331 11 Bentley thought himself likely to live till fourscore,--long enough to read everything that was worth reading...
    OA 7.335 6 [John Adams] likes to have a person always reading to him...
    PI 8.28 8 [Imagination] is the vision of an inspired soul reading arguments and affirmations in all Nature of that which it is driven to say.
    PI 8.54 19 In reading prose, I am sensitive as soon as a sentence drags;...
    Elo2 8.121 19 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud...
    Comc 8.168 17 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind... learning languages and reading books to the end of a better acquaintance with man, stops in the languages and books;...
    QO 8.184 8 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument, inventing and disposing what seemed fit to be said upon that subject, before he read the book; then, reading, compared his own with the author's...
    QO 8.197 1 In hours of high mental activity we sometimes do the book too much honor, reading out of it better things than the author wrote...
    QO 8.197 2 In hours of high mental activity we sometimes do the book too much honor, reading out of it better things than the author wrote,-reading, as we say, between the lines.
    SovE 10.198 12 ...spontaneous graces and forces elevate [life] in every domestic circle, which are overlooked while we are reading something less excellent in old authors.
    Schr 10.265 12 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the reading in solitude of some moving image of a wise poet, this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    Plu 10.303 2 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which has unrolled in our times, and still searches and unrolls papyri from ruined libraries...
    Plu 10.303 24 ...in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars...
    LLNE 10.362 17 I recall one youth...I believe I must say the subtlest observer and diviner of character I ever met, living, reading, writing, talking there [at Brook Farm]...
    MMEm 10.408 3 As by seeing a high tragedy, reading a true poem...by society with [Mary Moody Emerson], one's mind is electrified and purged.
    Thor 10.476 18 [Thoreau's] riddles were worth the reading...
    Carl 10.491 8 It needs something more than a clean shirt and reading German to visit [Carlyle].
    GSt 10.504 7 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading...
    LS 11.8 24 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival. ... But this impression is removed by reading any narrative of the mode in which the ancient or the modern Jews have kept the Passover.
    FSLC 11.180 17 ...The Boston of the American Revolution, which figures so proudly in John Adams's Diary, which the whole country has been reading; Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
    FSLC 11.190 22 I...shall content myself with reading a single passage.
    ACiv 11.300 27 Can you convince...the iron interest, or the cotton interest, by reading passages from Milton or Montesquieu?
    EdAd 11.383 16 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...
    Humb 11.458 15 A German reads a literature whilst we are reading a book.
    CPL 11.496 23 If you consider what has befallen you when reading a poem, or a history...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...
    CPL 11.505 22 One curious witness [to the value of reading] was that of a Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.
    Mem 12.98 22 The facts of the last two or three days or weeks are all you have with you,-the reading of the last month's books.
    Mem 12.100 20 A man would think twice about learning a new science or reading a new paragraph, if he believed...that he lost a word or a thought for every word he gained.
    Mem 12.100 24 In reading a foreign language, every new word mastered is a lamp lighting up related words...
    CInt 12.114 22 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed,-they reasoning, reading, inventing, discoursing, even to a rarity and admiration, things not before discoursed or written...
    CL 12.164 16 A farmer's boy finds delight in reading the verses under the Zodiacal vignettes in the Almanac.
    MLit 12.310 5 I have just been reading poems which now in memory shine with a certain steady, warm, autumnal light.
    MLit 12.330 14 In reading [Wilhelm] Meister, I am charmed with the insight;...
    WSL 12.342 14 ...this sweet asylum of an intellectual life [a library] must appear to have the sanction of Nature, as long as so many men are born with so decided an aptitude for reading and writing.
    AgMs 12.360 4 [Edmund Hosmer] had been reading the report of the Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth...
    PPr 12.384 25 What pains, what hopes, what vows, shall come of the reading [of Carlyle's Past and Present]!

reading-men, n. (1)

    ET12 5.211 5 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic.

reading-room, n. (3)

    Bhr 6.174 8 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution to strangers not to speak loud;...
    Art2 7.56 26 Popular institutions...the reading-room...are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings.
    MLit 12.323 8 ...since the earth as we said had become a reading-room, the new opportunities seem to have aided [Goethe] to be that resolute realist he is...

reading-rooms, n. (4)

    Fdsp 2.203 16 No man would think...of putting [a man I knew] off with any chat of markets or reading-rooms.
    GoW 4.270 27 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no learned man, but...reading-rooms and book-clubs without number.
    LLNE 10.351 3 ...fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side...what dormitories, what reading-rooms...
    LLNE 10.358 14 Society in England and in America is trying the [Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces, in cooperative associations, in cheap eating-houses, as well as in the economies of club-houses and in cheap reading-rooms.

Readings, Abstracts of my [ (1)

    Boks 7.205 16 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of civilization...and, I think, will be sure to send the reader to his...Abstracts of my Readings...

readings, n. (4)

    AmS 1.89 22 Hence the restorers of readings...
    AmS 1.91 15 When [the scholar] can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
    MoS 4.179 6 ...readings...are nothing to the purpose;...
    CPL 11.505 16 I have found several humble men and women who gave as affectionate, if not as judicious testimony to their readings.

reads, v. (45)

    Nat 1.1 3 The eye reads omens where it goes,/ And speaks all languages the rose;/...
    AmS 1.91 26 [The best books] impress us with the conviction that one nature wrote and the same reads.
    LE 1.184 19 [The scholar] will learn that it is not much matter what he reads...
    LT 1.275 10 By the books [the Times] reads and translates, judge what books it will presently print.
    Hist 2.6 22 All that Shakspeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.
    Prd1 2.224 23 ...our existence...so fond of splendor and so tender to hunger and cold and debt, reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
    OS 2.286 6 ...[the wise man] lets [men] judge themselves, and merely reads and records their own verdict.
    Exp 3.53 7 ...[physicians] esteem each man the victim of another, who...by such cheap signboards as the color of his beard or the slope of his occiput, reads the inventory of his fortunes and character.
    Exp 3.66 21 ...what are these millions who read and behold, but incipient writers and sculptors? Add a little more of that quality which now reads and sees, and they will seize the pen and chisel.
    Nat2 3.188 14 Each young and ardent person writes a diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul. The pages thus written are to him burning and fragrant; he reads them on his knees by midnight...
    PPh 4.40 27 An Englishman reads [Plato] and says, how English!...
    ET3 5.35 4 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...and reads quietly the Times newspaper...
    ET12 5.212 6 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a book, can consult it, than by one who is on the quest, for years, and reads inferior books because he cannot find the best.
    ET13 5.225 9 The new age...reads the Scriptures with new eyes.
    ET13 5.229 18 Lord Shaftesbury calls the poor thieves together and reads sermons to them, and they call it gas.
    ET13 5.229 21 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany.
    ET13 5.230 6 If a bishop [in England] meets an intelligent gentleman and reads fatal interrogations in his eyes, he has no resource but to take wine with him.
    ET16 5.279 23 ...[Carlyle] reads little, he says, in these last years, but Acta Sanctorum;...
    ET16 5.279 27 [Carlyle] can see, as he reads [the Acta Sanctorum], the old Saint of Iona sitting there and writing, a man to men.
    ET17 5.297 18 Who reads [Wordsworth] well will know that in following the strong bent of his genius, he was careless of the many, careless also of the few...
    Pow 6.59 13 Each reads his fate in the other's eyes.
    Wth 6.124 1 ...'t is very well that the poor husband reads in a book of a new way of living...let him go home and try it, if he dare.
    Ctr 6.161 4 A man who stands on a good footing with the heads of parties at Washington, reads the rumors of the newspapers...with a key to the right and wrong in each statement, and sees well enough where all this will end.
    Bhr 6.189 2 A man who is sure of his point, carries a broad and contented expression, which everybody reads.
    Elo1 7.87 11 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court..tried words...like a schoolmaster puzzled by a hard sum, who reads the context with emphasis.
    DL 7.119 12 Honor to the house where they are simple to the verge of hardship, so that there the intellect is awake and reads the laws of the universe...
    DL 7.126 12 One is struck in every company...with the riches of Nature, when he...reads new expressions of face.
    Suc 7.303 24 ...[the lover] reads omens on the flower...
    Suc 7.303 26 ...[the lover] reads omens on the flower, and cloud, and face, and form, and gesture, and reads them aright.
    PI 8.14 18 ...our proverb of the courteous soldier reads: An iron hand in a velvet glove.
    PI 8.22 1 This union of first and second sight reads Nature to the end of delight and of moral use.
    PI 8.39 3 [The poet] reads in the word or action of the man its yet untold results.
    PC 8.227 26 To know in each social crisis how men feel in Kansas, in California, the wise man waits for no mails, reads no telegrams.
    Grts 8.315 8 ...he may read any book who reads all books...
    Dem1 10.9 11 A skilful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge;...
    PerF 10.80 4 Bonaparte...reads the geography of Europe as if his eyes were telescopes;...
    Chr2 10.119 11 ...[the infant soul]...reads the original of the Ten Commandments...
    Edc1 10.158 2 ...if one [pupil] has brought in a Plutarch or Shakspeare or Don Quixote or Goldsmith or any other good book, and understands what he reads, put him at once at the head of the class.
    Plu 10.304 9 ...I cannot forbear to cite one or two sentences [from Plutarch] which none who reads them will forget.
    Humb 11.458 15 A German reads a literature whilst we are reading a book.
    FRO1 11.479 3 One wonders sometimes that the churches still retain so many votaries, when he reads the histories of the Church.
    II 12.88 7 The Buddhist who...reads the issue of the conflict beforehand in the rank of the actors, is calm.
    Milt1 12.254 1 Milton...reads the laws of the moral sentiment to the new-born race.
    Milt1 12.277 21 The lover of Milton reads one sense in his prose and in his metrical compositions;...
    Trag 12.415 13 A tender American girl doubts of Divine Providence whilst she reads the horrors of the middle passage;...

ready, adj. (67)

    Nat 1.32 19 ...we see that [nature] always stands ready to clothe what we would say...
    LE 1.185 9 ...I thought that standing...girt and ready to go and assume tasks...in your country, you would not be sorry to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect...
    Con 1.310 26 ...in this institution of credit...always some neighbor stands ready to be bread and land and tools and stock to the young adventurer.
    Tran 1.343 5 Like the young Mozart, [Transcendentalists] are rather ready to cry ten times a day, But are you sure you love me?
    Pt1 3.41 4 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael... resemble a mirror carried through the street, ready to render an image of every created thing.
    Exp 3.53 25 I carry the keys of my castle in my hand, ready to throw them at the feet of my lord...
    Exp 3.72 4 I am ready to die out of nature...
    Mrs1 3.119 11 The house [of the inhabitants of Gournou], namely a tomb, is ready without rent or taxes.
    NR 3.247 6 If...the hearer who is ready to sell all and join the crusade could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!
    PPh 4.62 1 [Plato] even stood ready...to demonstrate that it was so,--that this Being exceeded the limits of intellect.
    MoS 4.167 22 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon? So, at least, I...keep myself ready for action...
    ShP 4.191 24 ...extemporaneous enclosures at country fairs were the ready theatres of strolling players.
    NMW 4.235 27 The grand principle of war, [Bonaparte] said, was that an army ought always to be ready...to make all the resistance it is capable of making.
    NMW 4.247 1 We can not, in the universal imbecility, indecision and indolence of men, sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon]...
    ET2 5.30 5 If [the sea] is capable of these great and secular mischiefs, it is quite as ready at private and local damage;...
    ET3 5.41 21 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off...a territory...so near that it can see the harvests of the continent, and so far that who would cross the strait must be an expert mariner, ready for tempests.
    ET4 5.56 26 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ... As soon as the shores are sufficiently peopled to make piracy a losing business, the same skill and courage are ready for the service of trade.
    ET5 5.77 25 A man of that [English] brain thinks and acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of brain...is ready to allow the justice of the thought and act in his retainer or tenant...
    ET7 5.123 27 A slow temperament makes [the English] less rapid and ready than other countrymen...
    ET8 5.142 21 [The English] are ready for leisure...
    ET11 5.188 2 Everybody who is real is open and ready for that which is also real.
    ET14 5.237 26 The manner in which [the English] learned Greek and Latin, before our modern facilities were yet ready;...required a more robust memory, and cooperation of all the faculties;...
    F 6.30 3 ...no man has a right perception of any truth who has not been reacted on by it so as to be ready to be its martyr.
    F 6.37 12 [The animal]...regains its activity when its food is ready.
    F 6.43 15 Every solid in the universe is ready to become fluid on the approach of the mind...
    Pow 6.66 23 It is an esoteric doctrine of society...that public spirit and the ready hand are as well found among the malignants.
    Ctr 6.142 11 ...books are good only as far as a boy is ready for them. He sometimes gets ready very slowly.
    Ctr 6.152 18 Can it be that the American forest has refreshed some weeds of old Pictish barbarism just ready to die out...
    Bty 6.292 11 Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.
    Elo1 7.66 23 [Every audience] are ready to be beatified.
    DL 7.118 26 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate, nor a bed-chamber made ready at too great a cost.
    Cour 7.262 8 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was ready to faint away.
    OA 7.336 8 ...the inference from the working of intellect...at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.
    PI 8.4 8 ...whilst we deal with this [existence of matter] as finality, early hints are given that we are not to stay here; that we must be making ready to go;...
    PI 8.31 19 To the poet...the men are ready for virtue;...
    Elo2 8.124 10 ...in your struggles with the world...when even your country may seem ready to abandon herself and you...seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
    Res 8.152 19 ...long before anything else is ready, these osiers hang out their joyful flowers in contrast to all the woods.
    Insp 8.282 1 The wealth of the mind in this respect of seeing is like that of a looking-glass, which is never tired or worn by any multitude of objects which it reflects. You may carry it all round the world, it is ready and perfect as ever for new millions.
    Imtl 8.336 17 Will you...educate your children to be adepts in their several arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce a masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers to shoot them down?
    Aris 10.38 18 ...we wish to see those to whom existence is most adorned and attractive...ready to answer for their actions with their life.
    SovE 10.199 10 It is the sturdiest prejudice in the public mind that religion is...a department...to which the tests and judgment men are ready enough to show on other things, do not apply.
    MoL 10.251 13 I chanced lately to be at West Point, and, after attending the examination in scientific classes, I went into the barracks. The chamber was in perfect order; the mattress on the iron camp-bed rolled up, as if ready for removal.
    Schr 10.286 7 The scholar must be ready for bad weather...
    CSC 10.375 22 ...there was no want of female speakers [at the Chardon Street Convention];...that flea of Conventions, Mrs. Abigail Folsom, was but too ready with her interminable scroll.
    SlHr 10.445 2 [Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the clear apprehension and the powerful statement of the material points of his case. He soon possessed it, and he never possessed it better, and he was equally ready at any moment to state the facts.
    Thor 10.456 24 ...[Thoreau] was always ready to lead a huckleberry-party...
    Thor 10.463 4 ...[Thoreau] seemed the only man of leisure in town, always ready for any excursion that promised well...
    GSt 10.507 7 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief...
    HDC 11.52 20 ...said [Tahattawan], all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they care for you? They took away your skins, your kettles and your wampum...and this was all they regarded. But you may see the English...instead of taking away, are ready to give to you.
    HDC 11.53 7 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country? The sachem replied that he knew if the Indians dwelt far from the English, they would not so much care to pray, nor could they be so ready to hear the word of God...
    War 11.162 13 You forget that the quiet...which lets the wagon go unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there, ready to punish any disturber of it.
    FSLC 11.185 1 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law.
    SMC 11.355 1 ...it was found, contrary to all popular belief, that the country was at heart abolitionist, and for the Union was ready to die.
    SMC 11.370 19 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods. This order was communicated to Colonel Prescott, whose regiment was then under the hottest fire. Understanding it to be a peremptory order to retire then, he replied...I am not ready to retire;...
    FRO2 11.486 2 ...I am ready to give...the first simple foundation of my belief...
    CPL 11.507 6 ...the book is a sure friend, always ready at your first leisure...
    CPL 11.508 11 ...read proudly; put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed,- but I shall not make believe I am charmed.
    FRep 11.535 4 ...the land and sea educate the people, and bring out presence of mind, self-reliance, and hundred-handed activity. These are the people for an emergency. They...can find a way out of any peril. This rough and ready force becomes them...
    PLT 12.8 12 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor...is ready to prove that he knew so much [twenty years ago] that all further investigation was quite superfluous;...
    PLT 12.18 9 There are...minds that produce their thoughts complete men, like armed soldiers, ready and swift to go out to resist and conquer all the armies of error...
    II 12.70 1 Here are we with...the spontaneous impressions of Nature and men, and original oracles,-all ready to be uttered, if only we could be set aglow.
    Mem 12.106 17 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge, heaped together in a huge hamper, without method, yet securely held, and ready to come at call;...
    Bost 12.186 22 ...New Bedford is not nearer to the whales than New London or Portland, yet they have all the equipments for a whaler ready...
    Bost 12.200 12 There are always men ready for adventures...
    WSL 12.337 10 When Mr. Bull rides in an American coach...he is very ready to confess his ignorance of everything about him...
    WSL 12.340 18 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...an affluent and ready memory familiar with all chosen books...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    Trag 12.413 5 When two strangers meet in the highway, what each demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm mind, ready for any event of good or ill...

ready, adv. (3)

    ET16 5.278 15 I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another.
    F 6.44 7 The races of men rise out of the ground...and divides into parties ready armed...
    II 12.81 15 ...the races of men rise out of the ground...divided beforehand into parties ready armed and angry to fight for they know not what.

ready-made, adj. (1)

    QO 8.200 16 Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair,-all these we never made, we found them ready-made;...

re-agent, n. (2)

    ET4 5.48 15 Civilization is a re-agent, and eats away the old traits.
    II 12.78 6 Truth indeed! We talk as if we...knew anything about it,-that terrified re-agent.

reagents, n. (1)

    WD 7.164 14 ...we must look deeper for our salvation than to steam, photographs, balloons or astronomy. These tools have some questionable properties. They are reagents.

real, adj. (221)

    Nat 1.9 7 In the presence of nature a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
    Nat 1.46 16 When much intercourse with a friend...has increased our respect for the resources of God who thus sends a real person to outgo our ideal;...it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    Nat 1.54 22 The perception of real affinities between events...enables the poet...to assert the predominance of the soul.
    Nat 1.54 24 The perception of real affinities between events (that is to say, of ideal affinities, for those only are real), enables the poet...to assert the predominance of the soul.
    Nat 1.59 17 Culture...brings the mind to call that apparent which it uses to call real...
    Nat 1.59 18 Culture...brings the mind to call...that real which it uses to call visionary.
    Nat 1.75 8 ...when the fact is seen under the light of an idea, the gaudy fable fades and shrivels. We behold the real higher law.
    DSA 1.124 7 Benevolence is absolute and real.
    DSA 1.137 24 The snow-storm was real, the preacher merely spectral...
    DSA 1.138 14 Not a line did [the preacher] draw out of real history.
    DSA 1.146 26 ...all men value the few real hours of life;...
    LE 1.176 20 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons... forfeiting the real prerogative of the russet coat...
    MN 1.217 11 ...[Love] is that in which the individual...is wrapped round with awe of the object, blending for the time that object with the real and only good...
    MR 1.241 9 ...he only can become a master, who...by real cunning extorts from nature its sceptre.
    LT 1.264 20 I think that only is real which men love and rejoice in;...
    LT 1.273 2 ...the thought that [these ideas] can ever have any footing in real life, seems long since to have been exploded by all judicious persons.
    Con 1.301 14 ...this bifold fact [Conservatism and Reform] lies thus united in real nature...
    Con 1.314 10 Under the richest robes...the strong heart will beat...with the desire to achieve its own fate and make every ornament it wears authentic and real.
    Tran 1.334 17 Everything real is self-existent.
    Tran 1.347 21 A picture...can give [Transcendentalists] often forms so vivid that these for the time shall seem real, and society the illusion.
    YA 1.369 12 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life...
    YA 1.382 8 ...surely the poverty is real.
    YA 1.386 21 We must have kings, and we must have nobles. Nature provides such in every society,-only let us have the real instead of the titular.
    YA 1.390 27 ...as if the Union had any other real basis than the good pleasure of a majority of the citizens to be united.
    Hist 2.33 19 These figures, [Goethe] would say, these Chirons, Griffins, Phorkyas, Helen and Leda, are somewhat, and do exert a specific influence on the mind. So far then are they...as real to-day as in the first Olympiad.
    SR 2.55 10 [Conformists'] two is not the real two...
    SR 2.55 11 [Conformists'] two is not the real two, their four not the real four;...
    SR 2.70 18 All things real are so by so much virtue as they contain.
    Comp 2.99 16 ...[the President] is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Comp 2.103 1 Every act rewards itself...in a twofold manner; first in the thing, or in real nature; and secondly in the circumstance, or in apparent nature.
    Comp 2.114 16 ...the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue...
    Comp 2.114 22 These ends of labor cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind...
    Comp 2.118 4 When [a great man] is pushed, tormented, defeated...he...has got moderation and real skill.
    Comp 2.121 1 Under all this running sea of circumstance...lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being.
    Comp 2.123 15 ...the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
    SL 2.144 13 Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in [a man's] memory without his being able to say why, remain because they have a relation to him not less real for being as yet unapprehended.
    SL 2.158 18 Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness.
    SL 2.160 27 Shine with real light and not with the borrowed reflection of gifts.
    SL 2.161 10 ...real action is in silent moments.
    Lov1 2.181 11 ...[the ancient writers] said that the soul of man, embodied here on earth...was soon stupefied by the light of the natural sun, and unable to see any other objects than those of this world, which are but shadows of real things.
    Lov1 2.184 4 Cause and effect, real affinities...predominate later...
    Lov1 2.187 20 ...the purification of the intellect and the heart from year to year is the real marriage...
    Fdsp 2.196 19 Shall I not be as real as the things I see?
    Fdsp 2.201 11 When [friendships] are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork...
    Fdsp 2.202 17 [Before a friend] I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought...
    Fdsp 2.208 17 Let me be alone to the end of the world, rather than that my friend should overstep...his real sympathy.
    Prd1 2.221 23 ...it would be hardly honest in me...whilst my debt to my senses is real and constant, not to own it in passing.
    Prd1 2.224 13 The true prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.
    OS 2.270 12 If we consider what happens...in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element and forcing it on our distant notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    OS 2.272 16 ...the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable;...
    OS 2.289 16 ...we...feel that the splendid works which [Shakspeare] has created...take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock.
    Art1 2.363 2 The real value of the Iliad or the Transfiguration is as signs of power;...
    Art1 2.364 3 The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect.
    Pt1 3.42 7 ...this is the reward; that the ideal shall be real to thee [O poet]...
    Exp 3.49 11 I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.
    Exp 3.60 18 Let us treat the men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.
    Exp 3.67 12 To-morrow again every thing looks real and angular...
    Chr1 3.100 5 There is nothing real or useful that is not a seat of war.
    Mrs1 3.123 2 Beyond this fact of truth and real force, the word [gentleman] denotes good-nature or benevolence;...
    Mrs1 3.141 25 England...furnished, in the beginning of the present century, a good model of that genius which the world loves, in Mr. Fox, who added to his great abilities the most social disposition and real love of men.
    Mrs1 3.145 13 Real service will not lose its nobleness.
    Nat2 3.179 1 The stream of zeal sparkles with real fire...
    Nat2 3.187 5 The excess of fear with which the animal frame is hedged round...protects us...from some one real danger at last.
    Pol1 3.208 17 [Parties]...rudely mark some real and lasting relation.
    Pol1 3.210 19 ...[the conservative party] aspires to no real good...
    Pol1 3.218 16 Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth...
    NR 3.230 17 We conceive distinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German genius, and it is not the less real that perhaps we should not meet in either of those nations a single individual who corresponded with the type.
    NER 3.278 23 ...each man's innocence and his real liking of his neighbor have kept [the proposition of depravity] a dead letter.
    UGM 4.17 19 ...this benefit [of the imagination] is real...
    UGM 4.31 3 It is as real a loss that others should be low as that we should be low; for we must have society.
    UGM 4.32 20 The genius of humanity is the real subject whose biography is written in our annals.
    PPh 4.41 13 ...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.
    PPh 4.45 12 This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art; since the author of it...abode by real and abiding traits.
    PPh 4.54 26 ...the union of impossibilities, which reappears in every object;, its real and its ideal power,--was now also transferred entire to the consciousness of a man [Plato].
    PPh 4.64 15 [Plato] secures a position not to be commanded, by his passion for reality; valuing philosophy only as it is the pleasure of conversing with real being.
    PNR 4.86 13 ...the connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real...
    SwM 4.98 15 This man [Swedenborg]...no doubt led the most real life of any man then in the world...
    SwM 4.121 14 The central identity enables any one symbol to express successively all the qualities and shades of real being.
    SwM 4.124 13 ...what is real and universal cannot be confined to the circle of those who sympathize strictly with [Swedenborg's] genius...
    SwM 4.127 19 ...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total;...
    MoS 4.159 17 Let us have to do with real men and women...
    MoS 4.166 17 [Montaigne] likes his saddle. You may read theology, and grammar, and metaphysics elsewhere. Whatever you get here shall smack of the earth and of real life...
    MoS 4.170 21 Talent makes counterfeit ties; genius finds the real ones.
    ShP 4.212 12 ...few real men have left such distinct characters as [Shakespeare's] fictions.
    NMW 4.229 8 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...and we know how real and solid such men appear in the presence of scholars and grammarians...
    NMW 4.241 19 [Napoleon's] real strength lay in [the people's] conviction that he was their representative in his genius and aims...
    NMW 4.248 22 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is then firm...and there is nothing to fear from avalanches, the real and only danger to be apprehended in the Alps.
    GoW 4.268 22 Be real and admirable, not as we know, but as you know.
    GoW 4.276 18 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this imp [the Devil]. He shall be real;...
    GoW 4.280 3 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.
    ET8 5.142 14 ...the calm, sound and most British Briton...respects an economy founded on agriculture, coal-mines, manufactures or trade, which secures an independence through the creation of real values.
    ET9 5.151 15 Coarse local distinctions...are useful in the absence of real ones;...
    ET11 5.188 2 Everybody who is real is open and ready for that which is also real.
    ET11 5.188 3 Everybody who is real is open and ready for that which is also real.
    ET13 5.214 5 [People's] loyalty to truth and their labor and expenditure rest on real foundations, and not on a national church.
    ET16 5.285 27 I know not why in real architecture the hunger of the eye for length of line is so rarely gratified.
    ET17 5.293 25 The like frank hospitality, bent on real service, I found among the great and the humble, wherever I went [in England];...
    ET17 5.298 6 [Wordsworth's] adherence to his poetic creed rested on real inspirations.
    ET19 5.312 1 ...I have not the smallest interest in any holiday except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys;...
    F 6.28 20 All great force is real and elemental.
    Pow 6.70 7 ...[the people's] instincts are a finger-pointing of Providence, always turned toward real benefit.
    Wth 6.102 6 I wish the farmer held [the dollar] dearer, and would spend it only for real bread;...
    Bhr 6.170 6 ...in real life, Talma taught Napoleon the arts of behavior.
    Bhr 6.188 26 Manners impress as they indicate real power.
    Bhr 6.195 26 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty;...and in memorable experiences they are suddenly better than beauty, and make that superfluous and ugly. But they must be marked by...the acquaintance with real beauty.
    Wsp 6.213 27 ...we are never without a hint...that we are one day to deal with real being...
    Wsp 6.215 5 The true meaning of spiritual is real;...
    Wsp 6.221 22 ...let me suggest to [the reader] by a few examples what kind of a trust this is [in the moral sentiment], and how real.
    Wsp 6.223 24 Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character...
    Wsp 6.225 5 ...the real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
    Wsp 6.226 23 To make our word or act sublime, we must make it real.
    CbW 6.252 5 Nature provided for real needs.
    CbW 6.255 27 California gets peopled and subdued, civilized in this immoral way, and on this fiction a real prosperity is rooted and grown.
    CbW 6.256 3 California gets peopled and subdued, civilized in this immoral way, and on this fiction a real prosperity is rooted and grown. 'T is a decoy-duck; 't is tubs thrown to amuse the whale; but real ducks, and whales that yield oil, are caught.
    CbW 6.256 5 ...out of Sabine rapes, and out of robbers' forays, real Romes and their heroisms come in fulness of time.
    CbW 6.272 27 What questions we ask of [a friend]! what an understanding we have! how few words are needed! It is the only real society.
    Bty 6.290 12 ...in the construction of any fabric or organism any real increase of fitness to its end is an increase of beauty.
    Bty 6.291 6 ...our taste in building...allows the real supporters of the house honestly to show themselves.
    Ill 6.312 13 [The boy] has no better friend or influence than Scott, Shakspeare, Plutarch and Homer. The man lives to other objects, but who dare affirm that they are more real?
    Ill 6.323 25 ...we transcend the circumstance continually and taste the real quality of existence;...
    Civ 7.32 5 ...it is not New York streets...that make the real estimation.
    Elo1 7.71 4 These legends [of story-tellers] are only exaggerations of real occurrences...
    Elo1 7.86 15 That is what we go to the court-house for...the real relation of all the parties;...
    Elo1 7.88 1 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real...
    DL 7.107 13 If a man wishes to acquaint himself with the real history of the world...he must not go first to the state-house or the court-room.
    DL 7.107 23 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy who could tell straight on the real fortunes of the man;...
    DL 7.115 3 [To give money to a sufferer] is only a postponement of the real payment...
    WD 7.175 24 Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes...
    WD 7.179 1 I am of the opinion of the poet Wordsworth, that there is no real happiness in this life but in intellect and virtue.
    Boks 7.204 3 What is really best in any book is translatable,--any real insight or broad human sentiment.
    Boks 7.214 19 These stories [novels] are to the plots of real life what the figures in La Belle Assemblee...are to portraits.
    Boks 7.217 11 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry...
    Cour 7.253 17 Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grew.
    Cour 7.277 17 I am permitted to enrich my chapter by adding an anecdote of pure courage from real life...
    Suc 7.293 7 So far from the performance being the real success, it is clear that the success was much earlier than that, namely, when all the feats that make our civility were the thoughts of good heads.
    Suc 7.294 24 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency.
    Suc 7.295 2 ...a few years will show the advantage of the real master over the short popularity of the showman.
    Suc 7.299 20 Is...the house in which your dearest friend lived, only a piece of real estate...
    Suc 7.308 8 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success.
    Suc 7.311 18 [The inner life] loves truth, because it is itself real;...
    PI 8.10 19 We use semblances of logic until experience puts us in possession of real logic.
    PI 8.11 6 ...the secondary use [of a fact], as it is a figure or illustration of my thought, it the real worth.
    PI 8.14 26 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence...
    PI 8.19 8 Whilst common sense looks at things or visible Nature as real and final facts, poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight...
    PI 8.29 4 ...imagination [is] a perception and affirming of a real relation between a thought and some material fact.
    PI 8.31 10 The poet writes from a real experience...
    PI 8.44 4 This force of representation so plants [the poet's] figures before him that he treats them as real;...
    PI 8.48 27 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...
    SA 8.89 3 We want real relations of the mind and the heart;...
    Comc 8.164 18 ...the religious sentiment is the most real and earnest thing in nature...
    QO 8.180 18 ...if we find in India or Arabia a book out of our horizon of thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new researches in its native country to discover...its latent, but real connection with our own Bibles.
    PC 8.218 23 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von Arnim...is always allowed. Kings feel that this is that which they themselves represent; this is no red-kerchiefed, red-shirted rebel, but loyalty, kingship. This is real kingship, and their own only titular.
    Insp 8.271 20 Every real step is by what a poet called lyrical glances...
    Insp 8.272 19 ...villa, park, social considerations, cannot cover up real poverty and insignificance...
    Imtl 8.340 7 I know not whence we draw the assurance...of a life which shoots the gulf we call death and takes hold of what is real and abiding, by so many claims as from our intellectual history.
    Imtl 8.344 21 My idea of heaven is that there is no melodrama in it at all; that it is wholly real.
    Imtl 8.346 4 The real evidence [of immortality] is too subtle...
    Aris 10.32 17 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing a real aristocracy...
    Aris 10.33 9 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation... and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man...
    Aris 10.35 14 The manners, the pretension, which annoy me so much, are... built on a real distinction in the nature of my companion.
    Aris 10.38 25 ...the power and excellence we describe are real.
    Aris 10.39 20 I wish...men...who would find their fellows in persons of real elevation of whatever kind of speculative or practical ability.
    Aris 10.41 7 An aristocracy is composed of simple and sincere men...who say what they mean and go straight to their objects. It is essentially real.
    Aris 10.42 1 In the heroic ages, as we call them, the hero uniformly has some real talent.
    Aris 10.47 8 All spiritual or real power makes its own place.
    Aris 10.59 17 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant...that there is no...stern exclusive Legion of Honor, to be entered only by long and real service...
    Aris 10.61 21 ...by secret obedience, [the generous soul] has made a place for himself in the world; stands there a real, substantial, unprecedented person...
    PerF 10.77 2 Our stock in life, our real estate, is that amount of thought which we have had...
    PerF 10.85 12 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will...make me Chancellor or Foreign Secretary. But this perversion is punished with instant loss of true wisdom and real power.
    Chr2 10.91 8 [Morals] is that which all men profess to regard, and by their real respect for which recommend themselves to each other.
    Chr2 10.107 17 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...but only...that they see that they can omit the form without loss of real ground;...
    Chr2 10.112 9 Romanism in Europe does not represent the real opinion of enlightened men.
    Edc1 10.141 27 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been...a way, not through plenty and superfluity, but by denial and renunciation, into solitude and privation; and, the more is taken away, the more real and inevitable wealth of being is made known to us.
    Supl 10.166 20 I...am content that [my eyes] should see the real world...
    Supl 10.172 23 Our travelling is a sort of search for the superlatives or summits of art,-much more the real wonders of power in the human form.
    Supl 10.174 16 All rests at last on the simplicity of nature, or real being.
    SovE 10.191 22 Man...does not see that he only is real...
    SovE 10.207 11 It becomes us to consider whether we cannot have a real faith and real objects in lieu of these false ones.
    Prch 10.227 15 Be not betrayed into undervaluing the churches which annoy you by their bigoted claims. They too were real churches.
    Prch 10.227 26 [Cudworth's, More's, Bunyan's] purpose is as real as Dante's sentiment and hatred of vice.
    Prch 10.237 2 The forms [of the creeds] are flexible, but the uses not less real.
    MoL 10.252 11 ...I am here to commend to you your art and profession as thinkers. It is real.
    Schr 10.265 2 The poet with poets betrays no amiable weakness. They all chime in, and are as inexorable as bankers on the subject of real life.
    Schr 10.272 6 We have...a real relation to markets and brokers and currency and coin.
    Schr 10.285 15 ...[Genius]...flings itself on real elemental things...
    Plu 10.293 16 [Plutarch] has been represented...as having been appointed by [Trajan] the governor of Greece. He was a man whose real superiority had no need of these flatteries.
    LLNE 10.356 16 ...Thoreau gave in flesh and blood and pertinacious Saxon belief the purest ethics. He was more real and practically believing in them than any of his company...
    MMEm 10.399 3 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life.
    MMEm 10.430 6 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion? The vulture and crow...would...make no grimace of affected sympathy, nor suffer any real compassion.
    Thor 10.480 24 ...these foibles [of Thoreau], real or apparent, were fast vanishing in the incessant growth of a spirit so robust and wise...
    Carl 10.493 15 If a scholar goes into a camp of lumbermen or a gang of riggers, those men will quickly detect any fault of character. Nothing will pass with them but what is real and sound.
    Carl 10.496 11 Wellington [Carlyle] respects as real and honest...
    GSt 10.503 18 ...there are few men with real or supposed influence, North or South, with whom [George Stearns] has not at some time communicated.
    HDC 11.45 14 [The settlers of Concord] bore to John Winthrop, the Governor, a grave but hearty kindness. For the first time, men examined the powers of the chief whom they loved and revered. For the first time, the ideal social compact was real.
    War 11.170 3 The question naturally arises, How is this new aspiration of the human mind [towards peace] to be made visible and real?
    FSLC 11.182 5 ...real estate, every kind of wealth, every branch of industry, every avenue to power, suffers injury [from the Fugitive Slave Law]...
    FSLC 11.205 19 The union of this people is a real thing...
    FSLC 11.205 22 The union of this people is a real thing, an alliance of men of one flock, one language, one religion, one system of manners and ideas. I hold it to be a real and not a statute union.
    FSLC 11.205 27 I suppose the Union can be left to take care of itself. As much real union as there is, the statutes will be sure to express;...
    FSLN 11.235 24 Why have the minority no influence? Because they have not a real minority of one.
    JBB 11.271 18 ...the government, the judges...give...such protection as they gave to their own Commodore Paulding, when he was simple enough to mistake the formal instructions of his government for their real meaning.
    JBS 11.276 16 And since they could not so avail/ To check his unrelenting quest,/ They seized him, saying, Let him test/ How real is our jail!/
    EdAd 11.390 14 A journal that would meet the real wants of this time must have a courage and power sufficient to solve the problems which the great groping society around us...is dumbly exploring.
    Wom 11.410 15 The spiritual force of man is as much shown...in his fancy and imagination,-attaching deep meanings to things and to arbitrary inventions of no real value,-as in his perception of truth.
    Shak1 11.451 7 There are...no Bolingbrokes, no Cardinals, no Harry Fifth, in real Europe, like [Shakespeare's].
    Shak1 11.451 8 The real Elizabeths, Jameses and Louises were painted sticks before this magician [Shakespeare].
    Scot 11.466 9 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...came with these into real ties of mutual help and good will.
    FRep 11.514 9 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns that it is by no means by obeying the vulgar weathercock of his party...that real power is gained...
    FRep 11.514 13 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title to [the party's] permanent respect, and to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the real public interest, and to stand for that;...
    FRep 11.519 27 Our great men succumb so far to the forms of the day as to peril their integrity for the sake of...making a real government titular.
    PLT 12.5 15 I believe in the existence of the material world as the expression of the spiritual or the real...
    PLT 12.42 4 ...this one thread [perception], fine as gassamer, is yet real;...
    II 12.81 6 ...the real credentials by which man takes precedence of man... are intellectual and moral.
    II 12.83 7 The dream which lately floated before the eyes of the French nation-that every man shall do that which of all things he prefers, and shall have three francs a day for doing that-is the real law of the world;...
    Mem 12.105 8 The Persians say, A real singer will never forget the song he has once learned.
    CL 12.135 15 The avarice of real estate native to us all covers instincts of great generosity...
    Bost 12.192 19 ...the awe [of the Massachusetts colonists] was real and overpowering in the superstition with which every new object was magnified.
    Bost 12.208 19 ...the genius of Boston is seen in her real independence, productive power and northern acuteness of mind...
    MAng1 12.217 2 ...in proportion as man rises above the servitude to wealth and a pursuit of mean pleasures, he perceives that what is most real is most beautiful...
    EurB 12.367 27 ...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be a poet, and sat down...with coarse clothing and plain fare to obey the heavenly vision. The choice he had made in his will manifested itself in every line to be real.
    Let 12.402 17 Superficialness is the real distemper.

real, n. (15)

    LE 1.182 19 The [infinite Reason] yokes [the man of genius] to the real; [the crowd], to the apparent.
    Pt1 3.12 15 This day shall be better than my birthday: then I became an animal; now I am invited into the science of the real.
    Exp 3.55 10 Our love of the real draws us to permanence...
    NR 3.237 15 ...if we saw the real from hour to hour, we should not be here to write and to read...
    PPh 4.63 27 ...all virtue and all felicity depend on this science of the real...
    PNR 4.85 7 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...delighted in revealing the real at the base of the accidental;...
    Wsp 6.237 25 Honor...him who, by sympathy with the invisible and real, finds support in labor, instead of praise;...
    PI 8.20 26 Poetry, if perfected...is the speech of man after the real, and not after the apparent.
    SA 8.96 3 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. ... Then you can see the real and the counterfeit...
    SA 8.97 18 Here is...strong understanding, and the higher gifts, the insight of the real, or from the real...
    SA 8.97 19 Here is...strong understanding, and the higher gifts, the insight of the real, or from the real...
    Grts 8.308 17 This necessity of resting on the real...few young men apprehend.
    Aris 10.33 10 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man...
    Supl 10.176 6 The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real;...
    Schr 10.264 9 [The scholar] is here to be the beholder of the real;...

Real, n. (1)

    MoS 4.149 23 This head and this tail [Sensation and Morals] are called, in the language of philosophy...Apparent and Real;...

Real Presence, n. (1)

    LS 11.4 5 ...more important controversies have arisen respecting [the Lord' s Supper's] nature. The famous question of the Real Presence was the main controversy between the Church of England and the Church of Rome.

realism, n. (6)

    ET1 5.12 6 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining: The Trinitarian doctrine was realism; the idea of God was not essential, but super-essential;...
    Wsp 6.215 17 Let us replace sentimentalism by realism...
    Imtl 8.327 6 ...Swedenborg...described the moral faculties and affections of man, with the hard realism of an astronomer describing the suns and planets of our system...
    PLT 12.55 5 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism;...
    CInt 12.120 13 In Demosthenes is this realism of genius.
    MLit 12.324 18 This is the secret of that deep realism, which went about among all objects [Goethe] beheld, to find the cause why they must be what they are.

realist, n. (10)

    LE 1.157 23 ...when [the scholar] comprehends his duties he above all men is a realist...
    Comp 2.109 6 That which the droning world...will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.
    Mrs1 3.135 13 ...if perchance a searching realist comes to our gate...then again we run to our curtain, and hide ourselves...
    PPh 4.74 2 The tyrannous realist [is Socrates]!...
    NMW 4.232 5 [Bonaparte] is a realist...
    Wth 6.113 22 Let the realist not mind appearances.
    Bhr 6.188 17 ...the sad realist knows these fellows [of position] at a glance...
    SA 8.106 4 ...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming health. A rough realist or a phalanx of realists would be prescribed; but that is like proposing to mend your bad road with diamonds.
    Thor 10.479 5 The habit of a realist to find things the reverse of their appearance inclined [Thoreau] to put every statement in a paradox.
    MLit 12.323 9 ...since the earth as we said had become a reading-room, the new opportunities seem to have aided [Goethe] to be that resolute realist he is...

realistic, adj. (4)

    ET5 5.82 24 Their self-respect...and their realistic logic...have given [the English] the leadership of the modern world.
    ET14 5.234 4 How realistic or materialistic in treatment of his subject is Swift.
    Plu 10.300 22 [Plutarch's] style is realistic, picturesque and varied;...
    FRO2 11.485 14 I am glad that a more realistic church is coming to be the tendency of society...

realists, n. (3)

    GoW 4.289 18 I join Napoleon with [Goethe], as being...two stern realists, who, with their scholars, have severally set the axe at the root of the tree of cant and seeming, for this and for all time.
    Civ 7.33 5 ...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...
    SA 8.106 5 ...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming health. A rough realist or a phalanx of realists would be prescribed; but that is like proposing to mend your bad road with diamonds.

Realists, n. (1)

    NR 3.231 6 In the famous dispute with the Nominalists, the Realists had a good deal of reason.

realities, n. (25)

    Nat 1.58 16 ...seek the realities of religion.
    MN 1.197 27 Every earnest glance we give to the realities around us... proceeds from a holy impulse...
    SR 2.50 5 [Society] loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
    Pt1 3.34 25 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith; and, he believes, should stand for the same realities to every reader.
    UGM 4.20 16 In lucid intervals we say, Let there be an entrance opened for me into realities;...
    SwM 4.146 3 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him...
    MoS 4.181 8 The last class must needs have a reflex or parasite faith; not a sight of realities, but an instinctive reliance on the seers and believers of realities.
    MoS 4.181 9 The last class must needs have a reflex or parasite faith;...an instinctive reliance on the seers and believers of realities.
    ET11 5.173 11 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself with heraldic names...was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by a few offensive realities...
    CbW 6.261 27 Aesop, Saadi, Cervantes, Regnard...know the realities of human life.
    Clbs 7.241 20 Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities...
    Clbs 7.241 21 Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions;...
    PI 8.20 11 ...[Swedenborg said]: Names, countries, nations and the like are not at all known to those who are in heaven; they have no idea of such things, but of the realities signified thereby.
    PI 8.38 10 A poet comes who...shows that Nature is only a language to express the laws, which are grand and beautiful;--and lets [mortal men], by his songs, into some of the realities.
    PI 8.38 16 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols, and not as ends. With such guides [men] begin to see that what they had called pictures are realities...
    Insp 8.272 21 Thoughts let us into realities.
    Imtl 8.347 3 Read Plato, or any seer of the interior realities.
    Imtl 8.348 25 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul. He is...rising to realities;...
    Edc1 10.142 24 Culture makes [the youth's] books realities to him...
    Supl 10.167 20 ...long nights and frost hold us pretty fast to realities.
    Prch 10.237 20 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see realities...
    Plu 10.309 14 Plutarch has such a keen pleasure in realities that he has none in verbal disputes;...
    Carl 10.494 17 Great is [Carlyle's] reverence for realities...
    FSLN 11.236 4 ...we are in this world...to be instructed in realities...
    PLT 12.19 11 Our eating, trading, marrying, and learning are mistaken by us for ends and realities...

reality, n. (82)

    Nat 1.59 2 It appears that motion...and religion, all tend to affect our convictions of the reality of the external world.
    DSA 1.135 17 [The office of priest] is of that reality that it cannot suffer the deduction of any falsehood.
    MN 1.223 7 I praise with wonder this great reality...
    LT 1.259 5 ...the present aspects of our social state...have their root in an invisible spiritual reality.
    LT 1.271 1 ...the [reform] movements are in reality all parts of one movement.
    LT 1.289 4 This ever renewing generation of appearances rests on a reality, and a reality that is alive.
    LT 1.289 9 That reality, that causing force is moral.
    LT 1.289 17 ...in all the details of our domestic or civil life is hidden the elemental reality...
    LT 1.290 12 For that reality let us stand;...
    LT 1.290 20 You will absolve me from the charge of flippancy...when you see that reality is all we prize...
    Tran 1.333 10 Mind is the only reality...
    Tran 1.335 15 I do not wish to overlook or to gainsay any reality;...
    Hist 2.5 8 We, as we read, must...fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience...
    SR 2.61 3 Character, reality, reminds you of nothing else;...
    SL 2.139 18 For you there is a reality...
    SL 2.152 1 The same reality pervades all teaching.
    Lov1 2.174 26 In looking backward [many men] may find that several things which were not the charm have more reality to this groping memory than the charm itself which embalmed them.
    OS 2.267 6 ...there is a depth in those brief moments [of faith] which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
    OS 2.268 27 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that overpowering reality which confutes our tricks and talents...
    Int 2.334 21 ...we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.
    Art1 2.356 6 A dog, drawn by a master...is a reality not less than the frescoes of Angelo.
    Exp 3.48 11 There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here at least we shall find reality...
    Exp 3.48 16 [Grief], like all the rest...never introduces me into the reality...
    Exp 3.49 18 We look to [death] with a grim satisfaction, saying, There at least is reality that will not dodge us.
    Exp 3.62 7 I find my account in sots and bores also. They give a reality to the circumjacent picture...
    Chr1 3.101 19 It is only on reality that any power of action can be based.
    Chr1 3.110 16 He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.
    Mrs1 3.123 16 ...in the moving crowd of good society the men of valor and reality are known...
    Mrs1 3.131 7 To say what good of fashion we can, it rests on reality...
    Mrs1 3.133 2 [A man] should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation which his daily associates draw him to...
    Mrs1 3.133 24 ...the first thing man requires of man is reality...
    Nat2 3.170 1 Here [in the forest] is...reality which discredits our heroes.
    Nat2 3.172 3 The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality meet.
    Nat2 3.196 6 The reality is more excellent than the report.
    NR 3.228 6 Our native love of reality joins with this [disillusioning] experience to teach us a little reserve...
    NER 3.274 1 We crave a sense of reality...
    NER 3.282 13 This open channel to the highest life is the first and last reality...
    UGM 4.16 19 These [new fields of activity] are at once accepted as the reality...
    PPh 4.60 25 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato];...
    PPh 4.63 24 ...the supreme good is reality;...
    PPh 4.63 25 ...the supreme beauty is reality;...
    PPh 4.64 13 [Plato] secures a position not to be commanded, by his passion for reality;...
    PPh 4.69 22 ...there is another, which is as much more beautiful than beauty as beauty is than chaos; namely, wisdom...which, could it be seen, would ravish us with its perfect reality.
    MoS 4.178 21 Reason, the prized reality...is apprehended, now and then, for a serene and profound moment...
    ShP 4.199 20 Is there at last in [the writer's] breast a Delphi whereof to ask concerning any thought or thing, whether it be verily so, yea or nay? and to have answer, and to rely on that? All the debts which such a man could contract to other wit would never disturb his consciousness of originality; for the ministrations of books and of other minds are a whiff of smoke to that most private reality with which he has conversed.
    ShP 4.207 9 That imagination which dilates the closet [Shakespeare] writes in to the world's dimension...as quickly reduces the big reality to be the glimpses of the moon.
    GoW 4.277 3 ...[Goethe]...looked for [the Devil]...in every shade of coldness, selfishness and unbelief that...darkens over the human thought,-- and found that the portrait gained reality and terror by every thing he added...
    GoW 4.280 4 No generous youth can escape this charm of reality in the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]...
    GoW 4.290 21 The secret of genius is...to exact good faith, reality and a purpose;...
    ET1 5.5 6 I have...found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my first belief that a strong head will...give one the satisfaction of reality...
    ET7 5.119 1 [The English] love reality in wealth, power, hospitality...
    ET7 5.121 26 [The English] require the same adherence, thorough conviction and reality, in public men.
    ET11 5.187 22 The jealousy of every class to guard itself is a testimony to the reality they have found in life.
    ET14 5.233 9 [The Englishman] must be treated with sincerity and reality;...
    ET18 5.302 24 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years! What dignity resting on what reality and stoutness!
    F 6.19 22 We cannot trifle with this reality...
    Bhr 6.187 24 ...through this lustrous varnish the reality is ever shining.
    Bhr 6.189 6 Nature forever puts a premium on reality.
    Ill 6.322 11 When we break the laws, we lose our hold on the central reality.
    Ill 6.323 5 I prefer...to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry and art.
    Elo1 7.88 1 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real: he was there to represent a great reality...
    Elo1 7.99 2 All the chief orators of the world have been grave men, relying on this [moral] reality.
    WD 7.175 16 [That flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn;...the populous, all-loving solitude which men quit for the tattle of towns. HE lurks, he hides, he who is success, reality, joy and power.
    Cour 7.269 16 ...out of love of the reality [the scholar] is an expert judge how far the book has approached it...
    OA 7.326 24 The youth suffers...from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality.
    PI 8.12 21 Imaginative minds...do not wish [their images] rashly rendered into prose reality...
    PI 8.44 11 Vast is the difference between writing clean verses for magazines, and creating these new persons and situations,--new language with emphasis and reality.
    PC 8.220 12 ...power obeys reality, and not appearance;...
    Imtl 8.343 5 We have our indemnity only in the moral and intellectual reality to which we aspire.
    Aris 10.36 19 ...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman...is a secret homage to reality and love...
    Aris 10.41 23 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages, and in reality each to adopt from the other a first-rate man...
    Aris 10.42 8 The English nation down to a late age inherited the reality of the Northern stock.
    SovE 10.191 24 [Man] imputes the stroke to fortune, which in reality himself strikes.
    SovE 10.211 2 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another...the respect he feels for another who, underneath his compliances with artificial society, would dearly like...to test his own reality by making himself useful and indispensable?
    EzRy 10.390 5 ...I am not sure that [Ezra Ripley] did not die in the belief in the reality of Major Downing.
    LS 11.21 14 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...
    War 11.173 4 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...and whose appearance is the arrival of so much life and virtue. In dangerous times they are presently tried, and therefore their name is a flourish of trumpets. They, at least, affect us as a reality.
    Scot 11.466 14 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...came with these into real ties of mutual help and good will. From these originals he drew so genially his... Meg Merrilies, and Jenny Rintherouts, full of life and reality;...
    II 12.67 27 Objection and loud denial not less prove the reality and conquests of an idea than the friends and advocates it finds.
    CInt 12.115 9 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us to enthrone it, obey it;...
    CL 12.166 26 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons...must...have manners that speak of reality and great elements...
    Milt1 12.277 14 [Milton's] own conviction it is which gives such authority to his strain. Its reality is its force.

Reality, n. (3)

    Exp 3.82 26 Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are threads on the loom of time...
    SovE 10.213 21 [The man of this age]
    LLNE 10.363 10 [Charles Newcomb] lived and thought, in 1842, such worlds of life; all hinging on the thought of Being or Reality as opposed to consciousness;...

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