Recitals to Reflex

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

recitals, n. (1)

    PC 8.212 7 ...if any one say we have had enough of these boastful recitals, then I say, Happy is the land wherein benefits like these have grown trite and commonplace.

recitation, n. (7)

    AmS 1.81 5 We do not meet...for the recitation of histories...
    ShP 4.206 20 The recitation [of Shakespeare] begins; one golden word leaps out immortal from all this painted pedantry and sweetly torments us with invitations to its own inaccessible homes.
    ET1 5.22 27 This recitation [of his sonnets by Wordsworth] was so unlooked for and surprising...that I at first was near to laugh;...
    QO 8.196 23 ...it is not rare to find great powers of recitation, without the least original eloquence...
    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...
    Milt1 12.252 22 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say;...
    Milt1 12.252 24 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation which told, in the diamond sharpness of every articulation, that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible;...

recitation-rooms, n. (1)

    NER 3.257 13 ...we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind...

recite, v. (18)

    Nat 1.67 12 ...it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
    MN 1.204 12 ...what has [man] to recite but the fact that there is a Life not to be described or known otherwise than by possession?
    Comp 2.101 18 ...each [occupation, trade, art, transaction] must somehow accommodate the whole man and recite all his destiny.
    Int 2.345 21 ...I cannot recite...laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class who have been its prophets and oracles...
    ET10 5.160 1 The Norman historians recite that in 1067, William carried with him into Normandy, from England, more gold and silver than had ever before been seen in Gaul.
    Pow 6.78 14 No genius can recite a ballad at first reading so well as mediocrity can at the fifteenth or twentieth reading.
    Wth 6.88 2 ...here we must recite the iron law which nature thunders in these northern climates.
    PI 8.67 12 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys, who recite the rhymes to their hoops or their skates if alone...
    SA 8.99 4 Don't recite other people's opinions.
    Imtl 8.347 5 Let any master simply recite to you the substantial laws of the intellect, and in the presence of the laws themselves you will never ask such primary-school questions [concerning immortality].
    PerF 10.81 11 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone...
    Prch 10.236 27 We no longer recite the old creeds of Athanasius or Arius...
    LLNE 10.334 3 ...every young scholar could recite brilliant sentences from [Everett's] sermons...
    HDC 11.68 4 It would be impossible on this occasion to recite all these patriotic papers [of Concord].
    FSLC 11.190 17 ...the great jurists...Mackintosh, Jefferson, do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void]. I have no intention to recite these passages I had marked:-such citation indeed seems to be something cowardly...
    Mem 12.96 4 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already, and in proof set himself to recite it from end to end.
    Mem 12.99 14 The Rhapsodists in Athens it seems could recite at once any passage of Homer that was desired.
    MLit 12.314 16 ...a man may recite passages of his life with no feeling of egotism.

recited, v. (4)

    ET1 5.13 9 ...[Coleridge] recited with strong emphasis, standing, ten or twelve lines beginning,--Born unto God in Christ--/
    QO 8.194 16 ...a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering...
    SMC 11.353 14 When the rights of man are recited under any old government, every one of them is a declaration of war.
    Mem 12.95 27 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already...

recites, v. (6)

    SR 2.79 10 Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he...recites fables merely of his brother's...God.
    Hsm1 2.261 13 We tell our charities...for our justification. It is a capital blunder; as you discover when another man recites his charities.
    SwM 4.108 17 Within [the skull], on a higher plane, all that was done in the trunk repeats itself. Nature recites her lesson once more in a higher mood.
    Plu 10.301 14 It is for his pleasure that [Plutarch] recites all that is best in his reading...
    FSLC 11.199 13 There is not a clerk but recites [slavery's] statistics;...
    Mem 12.97 13 Is [Memory] some old aunt who goes in and out of the house, and occasionally recites anecdotes of old times and persons...

reciting, v. (3)

    ET1 5.8 13 [Landor] entertained us at once with reciting half a dozen hexameter lines of Julius Caesar's!...
    ET1 5.23 2 This recitation [of his sonnets by Wordsworth] was so unlooked for and surprising,--he, the old Wordsworth, standing apart, and reciting to me in a garden-walk, like a school-boy declaiming,--that I at first was near to laugh;...
    MLit 12.314 13 Nor is the distinction between these two habits [of subjectiveness] to be found in the circumstance of...reciting facts and feelings of personal history.

reck, v. (1)

    NR 3.233 3 What is well done [in books] I feel as if I did; what is ill done I reck not of.

reckless, adj. (10)

    Prd1 2.232 26 A man of genius...reckless of physical laws...becomes presently unfortunate, querulous...
    GoW 4.269 21 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public;...
    Ctr 6.138 19 Nature is reckless of the individual.
    Suc 7.289 8 Rien ne reussit mieux que le succes. And we Americans are tainted with this insanity, as our...reckless politics may show.
    Aris 10.51 17 The day is darkened...when genius grows...reckless of its fine duties of being Saint, Prophet, Inspirer to its humble fellows...
    PerF 10.86 19 ...it begins to be doubtful whether our corruption in this country has not gone a little over the mark of safety, so that when canvassed we shall be found to be made up of a majority of reckless self-seekers.
    EdAd 11.387 19 ...though it may not be easy to define [America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality...even in the reckless and sinister politics, not less than in purer expressions.
    EdAd 11.388 9 We see that reckless and destructive fury which characterizes the lower classes of American society...
    ChiE 11.473 23 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill... requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same. Well, China has preceded us...in this essential correction of a reckless usage;...
    FRep 11.521 21 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can have all he wants, risking all the prized charters of the human race...

recklessness, n. (2)

    SMC 11.359 4 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... not a trace of fierceness, much less of recklessness...
    FRep 11.522 25 When we are most disturbed by [the American people's] rash and immoral voting, it is not malignity, but recklessness.

reckon, v. (19)

    MN 1.201 13 When we behold the landscape in a poetic spirit, we do not reckon individuals.
    MR 1.242 22 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry...that man ought to reckon early with himself, and, respecting the compensations of the Universe, ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    Hsm1 2.253 9 Citizens...consider the inconvenience of receiving strangers at their fireside, reckon narrowly the loss of time and the unusual display;...
    Cir 2.317 11 ...when these waves of God flow into me I no longer reckon lost time.
    Exp 3.84 7 When I receive a new gift, I do not macerate my body to make the account square, for if I should die I could not make the account square. The benefit overran the merit the first day, and has overrun the merit ever since. The merit itself, so-called, I reckon part of the receiving.
    ET4 5.45 3 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America, which reckon...exclusive of slaves, 20,000,000...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
    ET5 5.80 10 [The English]...cannot conceal their contempt for sallies of thought...whose steps they cannot count by their wonted rule. Neither do they reckon better a syllogism that ends in syllogism.
    ET17 5.295 9 [Wordsworth] had thought an elder brother of Tennyson at first the better poet, but must now reckon Alfred the true one.
    Pow 6.55 1 We must reckon success a constitutional trait.
    Wth 6.114 1 A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.
    Ctr 6.165 4 ...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined;...
    CbW 6.247 17 Now we reckon [days] as bank-days...
    Bty 6.283 24 ...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good son...and perhaps reckon only his money value...
    DL 7.118 11 The rich, as we reckon them...in a true scale would be found very indigent...
    WD 7.179 17 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar...who can unfold the theory of this particular Wednesday.
    Clbs 7.247 1 Things which you fancy wrong [manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] know to be right and profitable; things which you reckon superstitious they know to be true.
    PI 8.25 14 ...read to [people] from Chaucer, and they reckon him an honest fellow.
    Elo2 8.115 13 We reckon the bar, the senate, journalism and the pulpit, peaceful professions;...
    Insp 8.279 24 How many sources of inspiration can we count? As many as our affinities. But to a practical purpose we may reckon a few of these.

reckoned, v. (42)

    AmS 1.115 11 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...not to be reckoned one character;...
    AmS 1.115 14 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...to be reckoned in the gross...
    SR 2.53 14 ...for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent.
    SR 2.86 26 We reckoned the improvements of the art of war among the triumphs of science...
    SL 2.165 20 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...and a heart...which on the waves of its love and hope can uplift all that is reckoned solid and precious in the world...these all are his...
    Fdsp 2.204 11 ...a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
    OS 2.287 10 The great distinction...between men of the world who are reckoned accomplished talkers...and a fervent mystic...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    Cir 2.308 12 Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools.
    Cir 2.311 16 All that we reckoned settled shakes and rattles;...
    Chr1 3.111 23 Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of the character, the most solid enjoyment.
    Mrs1 3.125 15 A plentiful fortune is reckoned necessary...to the completion of this man of the world;...
    NR 3.231 11 The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale...
    SwM 4.110 18 ...[Swedenborg] must be reckoned a leader in that revolution, which, by giving to science an idea, has given to an aimless accumulation of experiments, guidance and form and a beating heart.
    MoS 4.181 17 Great believers are always reckoned infidels...
    GoW 4.286 15 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...
    ET2 5.31 1 Jack [Tar] has a life of risks, incessant abuse and the worst pay. It is a little better with the mate, and not very much better with the captain. A hundred dollars a month is reckoned high pay.
    ET2 5.32 11 Reckoned from the time when we left soundings, our speed was such that the captain [of the Washington Irving] drew the line of his course in red ink on his chart...
    ET4 5.44 20 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848) 222,000, 000 souls...
    ET10 5.171 6 A large family is reckoned a misfortune [in England].
    ET12 5.205 6 ...the expenses of private tuition [at Oxford] are reckoned at from 50 pounds to 70 pounds a year...
    F 6.19 3 Famine, typhus, frost, war, suicide and effete races must be reckoned calculable parts of the system of the world.
    Wth 6.98 23 In the Greek cities it was reckoned profane that any person should pretend a property in a work of art...
    Wth 6.108 19 All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services.
    CbW 6.249 25 In old Egypt it was established law that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands.
    Bty 6.301 12 If a man...can enlarge knowledge...his deformities will come to be reckoned ornamental and advantageous on the whole.
    SS 7.12 3 A backwoodsman...told me that when he heard the best-bred young men at the law-school talk together, he reckoned himself a boor; but whenever he caught them apart, and had one to himself alone, then they were the boors and he the better man.
    Civ 7.24 20 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship...longitude reckoned by lunar observation and by chronometer...
    DL 7.131 4 I go to Rome and see on the walls of the Vatican the Transfiguration, painted by Raphael, reckoned the first picture in the world;...
    WD 7.158 19 ...Leibnitz said of Newton, that if he reckoned all that had been done by mathematicians from the beginning of the world down to Newton, and what had been done by him, his would be the better half...
    PI 8.74 15 Poems!--we have no poem. Whenever that angel shall be organized and appear on earth, the Iliad will be reckoned a poor ballad-grinding.
    Comc 8.171 16 [Personal appearance] is the butt of those jokes of the Paris drawing-rooms, which Napoleon reckoned so formidable...
    PC 8.220 21 ...wherever a true man appears, everything usually reckoned great dwarfs itself;...
    SlHr 10.442 9 ...[Samuel Hoar's] influence was reckoned despotic...
    FSLC 11.190 7 A few months ago, in my dismay at hearing that the Higher Law was reckoned a good joke in the courts, I took pains to look into a few law-books.
    FSLC 11.212 25 Every Roman reckoned himself at least a match for a Province.
    FSLN 11.229 14 [Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law] showed...that while we reckoned ourselves a highly cultivated nation, our bellies had run away with our brains...
    AsSu 11.249 7 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it. He would not so much as go up to the state house to shake hands with this or that person whose good will was reckoned important by his friends.
    TPar 11.288 3 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind...they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed them, and so sunk into...a feeling of loneliness and hostility to what was reckoned respectable.
    FRep 11.512 22 ...what is cotton? One plant out of some two hundred thousand known to the botanist, vastly the larger part of which are reckoned weeds.
    PLT 12.11 21 I cannot myself use that systematic form which is reckoned essential in treating the science of the mind.
    Mem 12.95 25 Quintilian reckoned [memory] the measure of genius.
    Bost 12.185 9 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility, causing them to exhibit equal dexterity in what are elsewhere reckoned incompatible works, perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes...

reckoning, n. (1)

    NR 3.241 23 If you criticise a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning...

reckoning, v. (7)

    LT 1.278 8 You have set your heart and face against society when you thought it wrong, and returned it frown for frown. Excellent: now can you afford to forget it, reckoning all your action no more than the passing of your hand through the air...
    Pt1 3.7 26 ...[the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken, reckoning [the hero and the sage], though primaries also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants;...
    Pow 6.79 20 ...to have learned the arts of reckoning, by endless adding and dividing, is the power of...the clerk.
    Suc 7.285 23 There is a mode of reckoning, [Columbus] proudly adds, derived from astronomy, which is sure and safe to any one who understands it.
    PLT 12.33 9 In reckoning the sources of our mental power it were fatal to omit that one which pours all the others into its mould;...
    II 12.65 1 In reckoning the sources of our mental power, it were fatal to omit that one which pours all the others into mould...
    MLit 12.324 24 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation of the Italian mode of reckoning the hours of the day, as growing out of the Italian climate;...

reckonings, n. (1)

    Nat 1.37 11 ...what disputing of prices, what reckonings of interest...

reckons, v. (14)

    Tran 1.333 1 The idealist takes his departure from his consciousness, and reckons the world an appearance.
    MoS 4.164 21 Gibbon reckons, in these bigoted times, but two men of liberality in France,--Henry IV. and Montaigne.
    ET4 5.44 16 Blumenbach reckons five races;...
    ET4 5.45 11 The British census proper reckons twenty-seven and a half millions in the home countries.
    ET14 5.243 10 ...history reckons epochs in which the intellect of famed races became effete.
    CbW 6.265 25 When the political economist reckons up the unproductive classes, he should put at the head this class of pitiers of themselves...
    Civ 7.32 21 ...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person, whom all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people who are not known far from home, and perhaps with great reason reckons these people his superiors in virtue...I see what cubic values America has...
    WD 7.185 11 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done...
    Suc 7.303 12 The keen statist reckons by tens and hundreds;...
    PPo 8.256 18 ...Seek not for faith or for truth in a world of light-minded girls;/ A thousand suitors reckons this dangerous bride./
    Aris 10.45 16 He who understands the art of war, reckons the hostile battalions and cities, opportunities and spoils.
    Aris 10.59 4 ...[a grand interest] reckons fortunes mere paint;...
    Supl 10.164 9 Controvert [the man with the superlative temperament's] opinion and he cries Persecution! and reckons himself with Saint Barnabas, who was sawn in two.
    FRep 11.513 17 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound...and reckons Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times.

reclaim, v. (1)

    SlHr 10.440 11 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...industrious men, and by no means eager to reclaim of them either the interest or the principal.

reclaims, v. (1)

    Farm 7.141 8 He who...reclaims a swamp...makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.

recline, v. (1)

    QO 8.186 15 Hafiz...furnished Moore with the original of the piece,- When in death I shall calm recline,/ Oh, bear my heart to my mistress dear,/ etc.

reclineth, v. (1)

    PI 8.51 17 Time...is now dominant and...looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semi-somnous on a pyramid...

recluse, adj. (1)

    AKan 11.255 11 ...it is impossible for the most recluse to extricate himself from the questions of the times.

recluse, n. (4)

    AmS 1.94 7 There goes in the world a notion that the scholar should be a recluse...
    NR 3.238 15 The recluse thinks of men as having his manner, or as not having his manner;...
    NR 3.241 11 A recluse sees only two or three persons, and allows them all their room;...
    SS 7.12 21 The recluse witnesses what others perform by their aid, with a kind of fear.

Recluse [William Wordsworth (1)

    PI 8.33 22 I find [great design] in the poems of Wordsworth,--Laodamia... and the plan of The Recluse.

recognition, n. (10)

    Nat 1.67 23 ...we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
    Prd1 2.224 13 The true prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world. This recognition once made...will reward any degree of attention.
    Hsm1 2.245 3 In the elder English dramatists...there is a constant recognition of gentility...
    OS 2.280 16 ...beyond this recognition of its own in particular passages of the individual's experience, [the soul] also reveals truth.
    Pol1 3.219 18 [The movement toward self-government] promises a recognition of higher rights than those of personal freedom...
    GoW 4.269 3 ...men are cordial in their recognition and welcome of the intellectual accomplishments.
    PC 8.216 11 Probably the men [early geniuses] were so great, so self-fed, that the recognition of them by others was not necessary to them.
    Grts 8.303 11 You say of some new person, That man will go far,-for you see in his manners that the recognition of him by others is not necessary to him.
    EWI 11.141 16 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to the House of Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have obtained for these poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition of their human nature...
    PLT 12.55 6 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism; a certain recognition of the simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern.

recognizable, adj. (1)

    WD 7.167 3 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun, still recognizable through the modifications of our vernacular words...

recognize, v. (26)

    MN 1.213 21 ...we have...in the oracles ascribed to the half fabulous Zoroaster, a statement of this fact which every lover and seeker of truth will recognize.
    LT 1.265 14 Could we indicate the indicators...so that all witnesses should recognize a spiritual law as each well-known form flitted for a moment across the wall, we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    Hist 2.14 15 How many are the acts of one man in which we recognize the same character!
    SR 2.45 23 In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts;...
    Fdsp 2.209 3 Let [friendship] be an alliance of two large, formidable natures, mutually beheld, mutually feared, before yet they recognize the deep identity which...unites them.
    Prd1 2.238 22 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines...
    Int 2.342 8 He [in whom the love of truth predominates] will...recognize all the opposite negations between which, as walls, his being is swung.
    Chr1 3.92 15 In the new objects we recognize the old game...
    Chr1 3.103 13 People always recognize this difference. We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscription to soup-societies.
    NER 3.267 10 ...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul;...
    NER 3.270 16 I do not recognize...a permanent class of sceptics...
    Bhr 6.188 8 ...nothing is more charming than to recognize the great style which runs through the actions of such [persons of character].
    Bhr 6.193 11 ...[simple and noble persons] recognize at sight...
    Bty 6.287 23 The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him;... ... We recognize obscurely the same fact...
    Cour 7.268 8 Merchants recognize as much gallantry, well judged too, in the conduct of a wise and upright man of business in difficult times, as soldiers in a soldier.
    Cour 7.272 27 The statue, the architecture, were the later and inferior creation of the same [Greek] genius. In view of this moment of history, we recognize a certain prophetic instinct, better than wisdom.
    PI 8.61 16 [Sir Gawaine said to Merlin] I pray you appear before me so that I may be able to recognize you.
    PI 8.71 25 ...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias or a rest on to-day's forms. Hence the shudder of joy with which in each clear moment we recognize the metamorphosis, because it is always a conquest, a surprise from the heart of things.
    QO 8.181 7 ...scholars will recognize [Swedenborg's, Behmen's, Spinoza' s] dogmas as reappearing in men of a similar intellectual elevation throughout history.
    QO 8.188 10 People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own...
    Insp 8.275 17 Socrates, Menu, Confucius, Zertusht,-we recognize in all of them this ardor to solve the hints of thought.
    SovE 10.213 6 Now science and philosophy recognize the parallelism, the approximation, the unity of the two [Spirit and Matter]...
    LLNE 10.364 3 No friend who knew Margaret Fuller could recognize her rich and brilliant genius under the dismal mask which the public fancied was meant for her in that disagreeable story [Blithedale Romance].
    FRO2 11.488 20 ...[miraculous dispensation] is contrary to that law of Nature which all wise men recognize;...
    Mem 12.97 14 Is [Memory] some old aunt who goes in and out of the house, and occasionally recites anecdotes of old times and persons which I recognize as having heard before...
    MLit 12.313 9 [Subjectiveness] is founded on...the need to recognize one nature in all the variety of objects...

recognized, adj. (2)

    ET15 5.267 4 The influence of this journal [London Times] is a recognized power in Europe...
    Dem1 10.17 1 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons...this supposed power runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.

recognized, v. (8)

    Nat 1.55 24 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles]...that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul, and recognized itself in their harmony...
    MN 1.210 20 ...the wish to be recognized as individuals,-is finite, comes of a lower strain.
    LT 1.290 3 ...[the Moral Sentiment] is recognized in every bargain...
    PPh 4.64 18 [Plato] saw the institutions of Sparta and recognized...the hope of education.
    Chr2 10.99 21 In its companions [the soul] sees other truths honored, and successively finds their foundation also in itself. Then it...no longer believes because of thy saying, but because it has recognized them in itself.
    MMEm 10.425 10 'T is a strange deficiency in Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology, when the moral constitution of the being for whom these contrivances were made is not recognized.
    SMC 11.352 24 ...only that state can live, in which injury to the least member is recognized as damage to the whole.
    EurB 12.377 7 ...high behavior fraternized with high behavior [in the society in Wilhelm Meister], without question of heraldry, and the only power recognized is the force of character.

recognizes, v. (10)

    LT 1.265 26 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear;...men of...an apprehension which looks over all history and everywhere recognizes its own.
    Comp 2.125 9 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him... Then there can be enlargement, and the man of to-day scarcely recognizes the man of yesterday.
    Prd1 2.222 11 ...a true prudence or law of shows recognizes the co-presence of other laws...
    Nat2 3.183 25 Common sense...recognizes the fact at first sight in chemical experiment.
    PPh 4.48 5 ...every mental act...recognizes the difference of things.
    Wsp 6.242 6 Honor and fortune exist to him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great,--always feels himself in the presence of high causes.
    QO 8.202 3 ...if the thinker...recognizes the perpetual suggestion of the Supreme Intellect, the oldest thoughts become new and fertile whilst he speaks them.
    Dem1 10.5 22 In sleep one shall travel certain roads in stage-coaches or gigs, which he recognizes as familiar...
    Prch 10.222 22 We are in transition, from the worship of the fathers which enshrined the law in a private and personal history, to a worship which recognizes the true eternity of the law...
    MMEm 10.426 3 How grand [the earth's] preparation for souls,-souls who were to feel the Divinity, before Science had...applied its steely analysis to that state of being which recognizes neither psychology nor element.

recognizing, v. (4)

    Nat2 3.183 22 A man does not tie his shoe without recognizing laws which bind the farthest regions of nature...
    ShP 4.203 7 If it need wit to know wit, according to the proverb, Shakspeare's time should be capable of recognizing it.
    Art2 7.39 12 ...recognizing the Spirit which informs Nature, Plato rightly said, Those things which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art.
    Art2 7.51 6 ...the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature...

recoil, n. (11)

    SL 2.129 9 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ And, by the famous might that lurks/ In reaction and recoil,/ Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;/...
    ET4 5.61 27 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when, in 1801, the British government sent Nelson to bombard the Danish forts in the Sound...
    ET14 5.250 8 ...where impatience of the tricks of men...builds altars to the negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is to heroism...
    ET14 5.259 18 ...I know that a retrieving power lies in the English race which seems to make any recoil possible;...
    F 6.25 5 If there be omnipotence in the stroke, there is omnipotence of recoil.
    Imtl 8.332 26 Where there is depravity there is a slaughter-house style of thinking. One argument of future life is the recoil of the mind in such company...
    SovE 10.193 10 Settles for evermore the ponderous equator [of Divine justice] to its line, and man and mote and star and sun must range with it, or be pulverized by the recoil.
    MoL 10.250 3 Nature says to the American: I understand mensuration and numbers; I compute...the balance of attraction and recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
    FSLN 11.240 11 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit, but that...age on age, shall cast itself into the opposite scale, and not until liberty has slowly accumulated weight enough to countervail and preponderate against all this, can the sufficient recoil come.
    JBS 11.281 13 The sentiment of mercy is the natural recoil which the laws of the universe provide to protect mankind from destruction by savage passions.
    II 12.78 7 [Truth] is a gun with a recoil which will knock down the most nimble artillerists...

recoil, v. (4)

    Comp 2.109 23 Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them.
    CbW 6.257 25 We see those who surmount...obstacles from which the prudent recoil.
    LVB 11.96 2 However feeble the sufferer and however great the oppressor, it is in the nature of things that the blow should recoil upon the aggressor.
    PLT 12.55 24 We see those who surmount by dint of egotism or infatuation obstacles from which the prudent recoil.

recoiled, v. (1)

    EWI 11.125 16 The oppression of the slave recoiled on [the planters].

recoils, v. (2)

    PC 8.221 24 To this material essence [centrality] answers Truth, in the intellectual world,-Truth...the soundness and health of things, against which no blow can be struck but it recoils on the striker;...
    Aris 10.63 13 ...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the standard of Chartist and outlaw? No, for these...are full of murder, and the student recoils,-and joins the rich.

re-collect, v. [recollect,] (3)

    LE 1.175 23 Re-collect the spirits.
    SwM 4.96 10 The soul having been often born...having beheld the things which are here, those which are in heaven and those which are beneath, there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge: no wonder that she is able to recollect, in regard to any one thing, what formerly she knew.
    WSL 12.346 11 We do not recollect an example of more complete independence in literary history [than Landor].

recollected, v. (1)

    ET1 5.22 15 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire sonnets with great animation.

recollecting, v. [re-collecting,] (4)

    SR 2.68 2 We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of...tutors... painfully recollecting the exact words they spoke;...
    ET1 5.23 4 ...recollecting myself, that I had come thus far to see a poet and he was chanting poems to me, I saw that [Wordsworth] was right and I was wrong...
    Insp 8.287 24 Did you never observe, says Gray, while rocking winds are piping loud, that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself...
    PPr 12.386 17 One can hardly credit, whilst under the spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us-as of a failed world just re-collecting its old withered forces to begin again and try to do a little business.

recollection, n. (15)

    Tran 1.350 17 All that the brave Xanthus brings home from his wars is the recollection that at the storming of Samos, in the heat of the battle, Pericles smiled on me, and passed on to another detachment.
    Lov1 2.176 1 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days when happiness was not happy enough...
    Lov1 2.181 14 ...the Deity sends the glory of youth before the soul, that it may avail itself of beautiful bodies as aids to its recollection of the celestial good and fair;...
    Prd1 2.225 23 ...an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains, and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,-- these eat up the hours.
    Nat2 3.170 24 How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape...until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out of the mind...
    UGM 4.21 21 I go to Boston or New York and run up and down on my affairs: they are sped, but so is the day. I am vexed by the recollection of this price I have paid for a trifling advantage.
    Elo2 8.116 27 [the orator]...surprises [the people]...with...his steady gaze at the new and future event whereof they had not thought, and they are... carried off out of all recollection of their malignant considerations...
    Thor 10.455 11 [Thoreau] said,-I have a faint recollection of pleasure derived from smoking dried lily-stems, before I was a man.
    LS 11.25 2 ...whilst the recollection of [the pastoral office's] claim oppresses me with a sense of my unworthiness, I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising its highest functions.
    FSLC 11.181 13 ...presidents of colleges...importers, manufacturers...not a liberal recollection, not so much as a snatch of an old song for freedom, dares intrude on their passive obedience [to the Fugitive Slave Law].
    TPar 11.285 3 At the death of a good and admirable person [Theodore Parker] we meet to console and animate each other by the recollection of his virtues.
    Humb 11.458 2 You could not put [Humboldt] on any sea or shore but his instant recollection of every other sea or shore illuminated this.
    Mem 12.94 17 'T is because of the believed incompatibility of the affirmative and advancing attitude of the mind with tenacious acts of recollection that people are often reproached with living in their memory.
    Mem 12.102 16 ...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.
    MLit 12.321 25 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor...

recollections, n. (4)

    LE 1.161 14 I console myself...in the malignity and dulness of the nations, by falling back on these sublime recollections...
    Lov1 2.176 7 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when the day was not long enough, but the night too must be consumed in keen recollections;...
    Int 2.334 16 ...our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood...
    ET17 5.293 10 ...my recollections of the best hours go back to private conversations in different parts of the kingdom [England].

re-collects, v. [recollects,] (2)

    Mem 12.93 17 The memory collects and re-collects.
    Mem 12.95 7 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters. The difference between men is that in one the memory with inconceivable swiftness flies after and recollects the flying leaves...

recommenced, v. (1)

    CbW 6.267 24 ...'t is strange how tenaciously we cling to that bell-astronomy of a protecting domestic horizon. I find the same illusion in the search after happiness which I observe every summer recommenced in this neighborhood...

recommencement, n. (1)

    AmS 1.81 1 I greet you on the recommencement of our literary year.

re-commencer, n. (1)

    PI 8.31 21 [The poet] is a true re-commencer...

recommend, v. (13)

    YA 1.388 13 I speak of those organs which can be presumed to speak a popular sense. They recommend conventional virtues...
    Comp 2.115 21 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant...do recommend to him his trade...
    NR 3.237 1 Everything must have its flower or effort at the beautiful, coarser or finer according to its stuff. They relieve and recommend each other...
    ET11 5.174 1 The superior education and manners of the [English] nobles recommend them to the country.
    Ctr 6.147 8 One use of travel is to recommend the books and works of home...
    Bhr 6.172 1 When we reflect on...how [manners] recommend, prepare, and draw people together...we see what range the subject has...
    CbW 6.270 14 For remedy, while the case [of the blockhead] is yet mild, I recommend phlegm and truth;...
    WD 7.166 15 Every victory over matter ought to recommend to man the worth of his nature.
    WD 7.179 8 He only can enrich me who can recommend to me the space between sun and sun.
    Dem1 10.18 16 [Demonic individuals] seldom recommend themselves through goodness of heart.
    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.
    LLNE 10.330 19 Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820, when Edward Everett...brought to Cambridge his rich results, which no one was so fitted by natural grace and the splendor of his rhetoric to introduce and recommend.
    CL 12.147 19 ...I recommend [a walk in the woods] to people who are growing old, against their will.

recommendation, n. (4)

    LT 1.286 17 The excellence of this class [spiritualists] consists in this... that, affirming the need of new and higher modes of living and action, they have abstained from the recommendation of low methods.
    FSLN 11.243 23 [Robert Winthrop] denounced every name and aspect under which liberty and progress dare show themselves in this age and country, but with a lingering conscience which qualified each sentence with a recommendation to mercy.
    PLT 12.40 27 ...a thought, properly speaking,-that is a truth held not from...any accidental benefit or recommendation it has in our trade or circumstance...is of inestimable value.
    AgMs 12.361 2 ...why this recommendation [in the Agricultural Survey] of stone houses?

recommendations, n. (1)

    ET13 5.227 24 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in their choice [of a Bishop]; and...invariably find that the dictates of the Holy Ghost agree with the recommendations of the Queen.

recommended, v. (9)

    Chr1 3.104 5 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...two professors recommended to foreign universities; etc., etc.
    SwM 4.112 11 [Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover those secret recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her laboratory; whilst the picture comes recommended by the hard fidelity with which it is based on practical anatomy.
    ET1 5.3 10 ...I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground... to a house in Russell Square, whither we had been recommended to good chambers.
    ET9 5.147 25 ...[the Englishman] thinks every circumstance belonging to him comes recommended to you.
    ET11 5.177 2 [The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor...became the companion of a foreign prince wrecked on the Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John] Russell lived. The prince recommended him to Henry VIII...
    Elo1 7.96 27 ...the best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
    LS 11.24 1 My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper].
    CL 12.140 1 ...thick coats and shoes must be recommended to walkers [in Massachusetts].
    PPr 12.379 21 ...the topic of English politics becomes the best vehicle for the expression of [Carlyle's] recent thinking, recommended to him by the desire to give some timely counsels...

recommends, v. (2)

    Farm 7.137 14 If [a man] have not some skill which recommends him to the farmer...he must himself return into his due place among the planters.
    Supl 10.171 14 ...whilst thus everything recommends simplicity and temperance of action; the utmost directness, the positive degree, we mean thereby that rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument.

recompose, v. (1)

    LT 1.285 25 The revolutions that impend over society are...from new modes of thinking, which shall recompose society after a new order...

recomposed, v. (1)

    PLT 12.19 9 ...presently, antagonized by other thoughts which [the perceptions of the soul] first aroused, or by thoughts which are sons and daughters of these, the thought buries itself in the new thought of larger scope, whilst the old instrumentalities and incarnations are decomposed and recomposed into new.

recomposes, v. (1)

    SHC 11.430 11 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never spared,-have impressed on the mind of the age the futility of these old arts of preserving.

recomposition, n. (5)

    PNR 4.82 22 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His perception of the generation of contraries, of death out of life and life out of death,--that law by which, in nature, decomposition is recomposition...
    QO 8.204 20 The divine gift is ever the instant life, which...can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.
    PC 8.213 5 ...the rocks of Nahant or the dikes of the White Hills disclose that...the soil of the valleys and plains [is] a continual decomposition and recomposition.
    MoL 10.248 4 All decomposition is recomposition.
    PPr 12.390 15 We have been civilizing very fast...and it has not appeared in literature; there has been no analogous expansion and recomposition in books.

recompounded, v. (1)

    Schr 10.276 1 We cannot eat the granite nor drink hydrogen. They must be decompounded and recompounded into corn and water before they can enter our flesh.

reconcilable, adj. (1)

    Prd1 2.236 17 The prudence which secures an outward well-being is not to be studied by one set of men, while heroism and holiness are studied by another, but they are reconcilable.

reconcile, v. (24)

    MN 1.208 24 ...darest thou think meanly of thyself whom the stalwart Fate brought forth...to reconcile the irreconcilable?
    Tran 1.353 27 ...the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead...never meet and measure each other...and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.
    Hist 2.27 27 Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people. They cannot unite him to history, or reconcile him with themselves.
    Hsm1 2.260 8 ...when you have chosen your part...do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.
    Pt1 3.12 7 That will reconcile me to life and renovate nature, to see trifles animated by a tendency...
    Mrs1 3.151 16 [Lilla] was a solvent powerful to reconcile all heterogeneous persons into one society...
    NR 3.245 6 We must reconcile the contradictions [between the end and the means] as we can...
    PPh 4.48 25 These strictly-blended elements [Unity and Variety] it is the problem of thought to separate and to reconcile.
    PPh 4.61 13 [Plato] has reason, as all the philosophic and poetic class have: but he has also what they have not,--this strong solving sense to reconcile his poetry with the appearances of the world...
    MoS 4.177 1 ...is no community of sentiment discoverable in distant times and places? And when it shows the power of self-interest, I accept that as part of the divine law and must reconcile it with aspiration the best I can.
    ET1 5.21 11 Lucretius [Wordsworth] esteems a far higher poet than Virgil; not in his system, which is nothing, but in his power of illustration. Faith is necessary...to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.
    ET14 5.249 10 ...Coleridge narrowed his mind in the attempt to reconcile the Gothic rule and dogma of the Anglican Church, with eternal ideas.
    F 6.3 15 Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return and reconcile their opposition.
    F 6.4 10 ...our geometry cannot span these extreme points and reconcile them.
    F 6.12 23 It was a poetic attempt...to reconcile this despotism of race with liberty, which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
    F 6.41 14 ...as we do in dreams, with equanimity, the most absurd acts, so a drop more of wine in our cup of life will reconcile us to strange company and work.
    Bty 6.293 13 I suppose the Parisian milliner...will know how to reconcile the Bloomer costume to the eye of mankind...by interposing the just gradations.
    DL 7.107 24 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy...who could reconcile your moral character and your natural history;...
    Prch 10.226 8 We must reconcile ourselves to the new order of things.
    Thor 10.453 1 If [Thoreau] slighted and defied the opinions of others, it was only that he was more intent to reconcile his practice with his own belief.
    ACiv 11.308 9 Men reconcile themselves very fast to a bold and good measure when once it is taken...
    MLit 12.324 12 ...[Goethe]...pierced the purpose of a thing and studied to reconcile that purpose with his own being.
    MLit 12.324 13 ...[Goethe]...pierced the purpose of a thing and studied to reconcile that purpose with his own being. What he could so reconcile was good; what he could not, was false.
    EurB 12.368 17 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least attempt to reconcile these with the spirit of fashion and selfishness...

reconciled, v. (5)

    Cir 2.308 16 ...discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle...
    F 6.35 18 ...if calamities, oppositions, and weights are wings and means,- we are reconciled.
    Ctr 6.161 27 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--Get him the time's long grudge, the court's ill-will,/ And, reconciled, keep him suspected still./ Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
    CInt 12.111 4 ...Merlin's mighty line/ Extremes of nature reconciled-/ Bereaved a tyrant of his will,/ And made the lion mild./
    Pray 12.353 22 ...let every thought and word go to confirm and illuminate that end; namely, that I must become near and dear to thee [My Father]; that now I am beyond the reach of all but thee. How can we not be reconciled to thy will?

reconciler, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.37 11 Time and nature yield us many gifts, but not yet the timely man...the reconciler, whom all things await.
    SwM 4.94 9 The human mind stands ever in perplexity, demanding intellect, demanding sanctity, impatient equally of each without the other. The reconciler has not yet appeared.
    ShP 4.219 14 The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler...

reconciles, v. (1)

    Cir 2.308 10 Each new step we take in thought reconciles twenty seemingly discordant facts...

reconciliation, n. (2)

    MoS 4.178 19 ...The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearance of reconciliation between the theory and practice of life.
    ChiE 11.472 10 ...China...thirty centuries before New York, had the custom of New Year's calls of comity and reconciliation.

reconciliations, n. (1)

    HDC 11.45 27 The disputes between that forbearing man [John Winthrop] and the deputies are like the quarrels of girls, so much do they turn into complaints of unkindness, and end in such loving reconciliations.

reconciling, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.31 20 [The best young men] do not yet covet political power...nor do they wish to be saints; for fear of partialism; but...the reconciling element...they find in the idea of gentleman.

reconciling, v. (2)

    OA 7.331 18 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments, and all old men in...reconciling enmities...
    Milt1 12.253 4 ...every masterpiece of art goes on for some ages reconciling the world into itself...

recondite, adj. (1)

    Int 2.345 11 ...you will find [your consciousness] is no recondite, but a simple, natural, common state which the writer restores to you.

reconnoitring, v. (1)

    SS 7.8 19 ...all our youth is a reconnoitring and recruiting of the holy fraternity [friendships] shall combine for the salvation of men.

reconquered, v. (1)

    Koss 11.399 24 We [people of Concord] know the austere condition of liberty-that it must be reconquered over and over again;...

reconstruct, v. (2)

    Edc1 10.146 13 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...
    SMC 11.352 26 The aim of the hour was to reconstruct the South;...

reconstructed, v. (1)

    SMC 11.352 27 The aim of the hour was to reconstruct the South; but first the North had to be reconstructed.

reconstruction, n. (1)

    EPro 11.325 10 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis.

record, n. (56)

    AmS 1.88 22 The sacredness which attaches to...the act of thought, is transferred to the record.
    AmS 1.93 10 ...as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months, so is its record, perhance, the least part of his volume.
    LE 1.184 18 ...[the scholar] can easily think that in a society of perfect sympathy, no word, no act, no record, would be.
    MN 1.219 8 What is all history but...a record of the incomputable energy which his infinite aspirations infuse into man?
    YA 1.375 13 The history of commerce is the record of this beneficent tendency.
    Hist 2.3 13 Of the works of this [universal] mind history is the record.
    Hist 2.39 27 Hear the rats in the wall, see the lizard on the fence, the fungus under foot, the lichen on the log. ... As old as the Caucasion man,--perhaps older,--these creatures have kept their counsel beside him, and there is no record of any word or sign that has passed from one to the other.
    OS 2.296 1 we have...no record of any character or mode of living that entirely contents us.
    Int 2.327 8 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal.
    Art1 2.364 5 [Sculpture] was originally...a savage's record of gratitude or devotion...
    Exp 3.75 10 ...the elements already exist in many minds around you of a doctrine of life which shall transcend any written record we have.
    Chr1 3.89 9 The Gracchi, Agis, Cleomenes, and others of Plutarch's heroes, do not in the record of facts equal their own fame.
    UGM 4.32 23 The genius of humanity is the real subject whose biography is written in our annals. We must infer much, and supply many chasms in the record.
    MoS 4.176 22 As far as [the power of moods] asserts rotation of states of mind, I suppose it suggests its own remedy, namely in the record of larger periods.
    GoW 4.262 7 ...nature strives upward; and, in man, the report is something more than print of the seal. It is a new and finer form of the original. The record is alive...
    ET5 5.91 9 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the southern heaven, came home, and redacted it in eight years more;.--a work whose value does not begin until thirty years have elapsed, and thenceforward a record to all ages of the highest import.
    ET12 5.201 19 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses...is a lively record of English manners and merits...
    Bhr 6.191 21 Novels are the journal or record of manners...
    CbW 6.256 19 The benefaction derived in Illinois and the great West from railroads is inestimable, and vastly exceeding any intentional philanthropy on record.
    Bty 6.281 19 The want of sympathy makes [the ornithologist's] record a dull dictionary.
    Bty 6.299 3 Faces...are a record in sculpture of a thousand anecdotes of whim and folly.
    Elo1 7.95 8 Some of [the eloquent men] were writers, like Burke; but most of them were not, and no record at all adequate to their fame remains.
    Boks 7.207 25 ...what with...the gossiping record of his opinions in his conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden, [Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time...
    Cour 7.267 5 Swedenborg has left this record of his king...
    Cour 7.271 13 Governor Wise of Virginia, in the record of his first interviews with his prisoner [John Brown], appeared to great advantage.
    Suc 7.285 13 ...leaving the coast [of Panama]...the wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
    Suc 7.300 23 ...every change in [the world] writes a record in the mind.
    OA 7.332 1 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825...
    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.
    Elo2 8.116 17 When a good man rises in the cold and malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to be silent; why not rest, sir, on your good record?
    PC 8.219 11 Literary history and all history is a record of the power of minorities...
    PPo 8.237 21 ...the essential value [in books] is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts...
    Insp 8.282 11 One of the best facts I know in metaphysical science is Niebuhr's joyful record that after his genius for interpreting history had failed him for several years, this divination returned to him.
    Chr2 10.97 8 In all ages, to all men, [the moral force] saith, I am; and he who hears it feels the impiety of wandering from this revelation to any record or to any rival.
    SovE 10.196 6 Shall we attach ourselves violently to our teachers and historical personalities, and think the foundation shaken if any fault is shown in their record?
    Prch 10.228 2 [Christianity] is the record of a pure and holy soul...
    Plu 10.297 12 Whatever is eminent in fact or in fiction...came to [Plutarch' s] pen with more or less fulness of record.
    Plu 10.310 7 You may cull from [Plutarch's] record of barbarous guesses of shepherds and travellers, statements that are predictions of facts established in modern science.
    LLNE 10.340 6 ...there was no great public interest...on which [Channing] did not leave some printed record of his brave and thoughtful opinion.
    EzRy 10.384 9 Perhaps I cannot better illustrate this tendency [to believe in a particular providence] than by citing a record from the diary of the father of [Ezra Ripley's] predecessor...
    EzRy 10.385 14 And at last we have this record [from Joseph Emerson], June 4th [1735]: Disposed of my shay to Rev. Mr. White.
    Thor 10.476 7 All readers of Walden will remember [Thoreau's] mythical record of his disappointments...
    HDC 11.41 25 The first record [of Concord] now remaining is that of a reservation of land for the minister...
    War 11.157 13 ...[all history] is the record of the mitigation and decline of war.
    FSLC 11.183 2 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law]...showed...that the resolutions of public bodies, or the pledges never so often given and put on record of public men, will not bind them.
    TPar 11.288 16 ...[it will be] in the plain lessons of Theodore Parker...that the true temper and the authentic record of these days will be read.
    EPro 11.315 3 In so many arid forms which states encrust themselves with, once in a century...a poetic act and record occur.
    SMC 11.363 25 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...wrote a daily or weekly newspaper, called it Stars and Stripes. It advertises, prayer-meeting at 7 o'clock, in cell No. 8, second floor, and their own printed record is a proud and affecting narrative.
    CPL 11.501 22 ...literature is the record of the best thoughts.
    FRep 11.524 6 The record of the election now and then alarms people by the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler.
    PLT 12.13 10 Metaphysics...must be biography,-the record of some law whose working was surprised by the observer in natural action.
    Bost 12.206 25 From...the Quaker women who for a testimony walked naked into the streets, and as the record tells us were arrested and publicly whipped,-the baggages that they were;...down to Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.
    MLit 12.323 14 To read [Goethe's] record is a frugality of time...
    AgMs 12.364 5 ...so much wisdom seemed to lie under all [Edmund Hosmer's] statement that it deserved a record.
    Let 12.399 15 ...we should not know where to find in literature any record of so much unbalanced intellectuality...as our young men pretend to.
    Trag 12.406 7 ...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.

record, v. (16)

    Con 1.324 17 Whosoever hereafter shall name my name, shall not record a malefactor but a benefactor in the earth.
    Hist 2.40 4 ...what does history yet record of the metaphysical annals of man?
    SR 2.58 14 ...let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect...
    Comp 2.96 12 I shall attempt...to record some facts that indicate the path of the law of Compensation;...
    Fdsp 2.198 10 ...if [a man] should record his true sentiment, he might write a letter like this to each new candidate for his love...
    Exp 3.46 25 Our life looks trivial, and we shun to record it.
    ET11 5.190 6 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the details which Ben Jonson's masques... record or suggest;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    Art2 7.49 15 The wonders of Shakspeare are things which he saw whilst he stood aside, and then returned to record them.
    MMEm 10.431 11 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid her passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;-I who never made a sacrifice to record...
    EWI 11.99 11 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the settlement, as far as a great Empire was concerned, of a question on which almost every leading citizen in it had taken care to record his vote;...
    EWI 11.110 6 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade, but Granville Sharpe...felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation...
    SMC 11.349 12 ...we can hardly expect a wide sympathy for the names and anecdotes which we delight to record.
    Mem 12.92 26 Memory is...a guardian angel set there within you to record your life;...
    Bost 12.210 5 [Boston's] genius will write the laws and her historians record the fate of nations.
    MLit 12.328 15 ...let us honestly record our thought upon the total worth and influence of this genius [Goethe].
    MLit 12.335 22 [The Genius of the time] will...record the descent of principles into practice...

recorded, adj. (6)

    Hist 2.39 13 [Each man] shall...bring with him into humble cottages...all the recorded benefits of heaven and earth.
    ShP 4.208 27 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...
    ET6 5.114 16 English stories, bon-mots and the recorded table-talk of their wits, are as good as the best of the French.
    HDC 11.42 11 ...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their civil history...
    ALin 11.334 3 ...[Lincoln's] brief speech at Gettysburg will not easily be surpassed by words on any recorded occasion.
    Milt1 12.252 15 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson...

recorded, v. (36)

    Nat 1.62 6 That essence [God] refuses to be recorded in propositions...
    AmS 1.103 16 The poet...is found to have recorded that which men...find true for them also.
    LE 1.169 18 ...this beauty...which the sun and the moon, the snow and the rain, repaint and vary, has never been recorded by art...
    LT 1.281 16 ...Pestalozzi...recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
    LT 1.290 23 Let it not be recorded in our own memories that in this moment of the Eternity...we were afraid of any fact...
    YA 1.395 14 ...we shall quickly enough advance...into a new and more excellent social state than history has recorded.
    Comp 2.108 1 [The poets] recorded that when the Thasians erected a statue to Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night and endeavored to throw it down...
    Chr1 3.108 25 Every trait which the artist recorded in stone he had seen in life...
    Chr1 3.109 5 We require that a man should be so large and columnar in the landscape, that it should deserve to be recorded that he arose, and girded up his loins, and departed to such a place.
    GoW 4.262 7 ...nature strives upward; and, in man, the report is something more than print of the seal. It is a new and finer form of the original. The record is alive, as that which it recorded is alive.
    ET4 5.63 5 The crimes recorded in [English] calendars leave nothing to be desired in the way of cold malignity.
    ET7 5.123 16 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe what stands recorded in the gravest books, that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners...
    ET10 5.159 26 Eight hundred years ago...it was recorded, England is the richest of all the northern nations.
    ET17 5.294 12 ...as I have recorded a visit to Wordsworth, many years before, I must not forget this second interview.
    ET19 5.309 11 In looking over recently a newspaper-report of my remarks [at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I incline to reprint it, as fitly expressing the feeling with which I entered England, and which agrees well enough with the more deliberate results of better acquaintance recorded in the foregoing pages.
    Boks 7.189 3 ...the best [books] are but records, and not the things recorded;...
    Clbs 7.237 9 One of the best records of the great German master who towered over all his contemporaries in the first thirty years of this century, is his conversations as recorded by Eckermann;...
    Cour 7.275 26 Scholars and thinkers...shrink if...a brutal act is recorded in the journals.
    Suc 7.284 24 It is recorded of Linnaeus...that when the timber in the shipyards of Sweden was ruined by rot, Linnaeus was desired by the government to find a remedy.
    OA 7.328 8 ...a man does not live long and actively without costly additions of experience, which, though not spoken, are recorded in his mind.
    SA 8.95 9 What a good trait is that recorded of Madame de Maintenon, that, during dinner, the servant slipped to her side, Please, madame, one anecdote more, for there is no roast to-day.
    Aris 10.32 23 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but so few...that their names and doings are not recorded in any Book of Peerage...
    Supl 10.167 23 The people of English stock...are a solid people...owners of land whose title-deeds are properly recorded.
    SovE 10.209 14 ...the inspirations we catch of this [moral] law are... recorded for their beauty, for the delight they give...
    LS 11.5 10 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples...
    LS 11.5 14 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples, but no expression occurs intimating that this feast was hereafter to be commemorated. In St. Mark...the same words are recorded...
    LS 11.6 1 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially...who has recorded with minuteness the conversation and the transactions of that memorable evening, has quite omitted such a notice.
    HDC 11.48 10 Individual protests are frequent [at Concord town-meetings]. Peter Wright [1705] desired his dissent might be recorded from the town's grant to John Shepard.
    EWI 11.137 4 All the great geniuses of the British senate...ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, in this country, all recorded their votes.
    SHC 11.433 18 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted, by the taste of every citizen, one tree, with its name recorded in a book;...
    PLT 12.4 7 [These higher laws]...may be numbered and recorded...
    CInt 12.119 4 The hater of property and of government takes care to have his warranty-deed recorded;...
    MAng1 12.215 4 ...all things recorded of Michael Angelo Buonarotti agree together.
    MAng1 12.220 13 Michael Angelo dedicated himself...to a toilsome observation of Nature. The first anecdote recorded of him shows him to be already on the right road.
    Milt1 12.260 23 ...Milton's mind seems to have no thought or emotion which refused to be recorded.
    Milt1 12.270 17 ...once in the History, and once again in the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] has recorded his judgment of the English genius.

recorder, n. (2)

    ShP 4.201 13 ...the generic catholic genius who is not afraid or ashamed to owe his originality to the originality of all, stands with the next age as the recorder and embodiment of his own.
    ShP 4.207 15 Did Shakspeare confide to any notary or parish recorder...the genesis of that delicate creation [A Midsummer Night's dream]?

Recorder, n. (1)

    HDC 11.53 21 It is piteous to see [the Indians'] self-distrust in...their unanimous entreaty to Captain Willard, to be their Recorder...

recording, v. (4)

    AmS 1.103 15 The poet...remembering his spontaneous thoughts and recording them, is found to have recorded that which men...find true for them also.
    Grts 8.317 11 Bret Harte has pleased himself with noting and recording the sudden virtue blazing in the wild reprobates of the ranches and mines of California.
    PLT 12.11 25 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows a system also...
    Mem 12.92 26 Memory is...a guardian angel set there within you to record your life; and by recording to animate you to uplift it.

record-office, n. (1)

    ET5 5.92 24 [The English] have made...London a shop, a law-court, a record-office and scientific bureau...

Records, Church, n. (1)

    HDC 11.66 15 I find, in the [Concord] Church Records, the charges preferred against [Daniel Bliss], his answer thereto, and the result of the Council.

records, n. (26)

    AmS 1.101 3 ...[the scholar]...correcting still his old records; must relinquish display and immediate fame.
    PPh 4.47 5 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from Asia...
    MoS 4.166 19 [Montaigne] makes no hesitation to entertain you with the records of his disease...
    ET4 5.55 12 [The Celts] are favorably remembered in the oldest records of Europe.
    Ctr 6.141 20 Books, as containing the finest records of human wit, must always enter into our notion of culture.
    WD 7.165 21 I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers...have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of crime.
    Boks 7.189 2 ...the best [books] are but records...
    Clbs 7.237 6 One of the best records of the great German master who towered over all his contemporaries in the first thirty years of this century, is his conversations as recorded by Eckermann;...
    Clbs 7.244 4 ...we have records of the brilliant society that Edinburgh boasted in the first decade of this century.
    Res 8.152 3 When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/ he must...go to wooded uplands...
    Imtl 8.324 1 In the first records of a nation in any degree thoughtful and cultivated, some belief in the life beyond life would...be suggested.
    Thor 10.482 7 I subjoin a few sentences taken from [Thoreau's] unpublished manuscripts, not only as records of his thought and feeling, but for their power of description and literary excellence...
    HDC 11.40 24 We have records of marriages and deaths, beginning nineteen years after the settlement [of Concord];...
    HDC 11.49 21 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England.
    HDC 11.49 24 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England. I cannot but think that it would be a suitable acknowledgment of this national munificence, if the records of one of our towns...should be printed, and presented to the governments of Europe;...
    HDC 11.64 9 Some interesting peculiarities in the manners and customs of the time appear in the town's [Concord's] books. Proposals of marriage were made by the parents of the parties, and minutes of such private agreements sometimes entered on the clerk's records.
    HDC 11.64 18 From the beginning to the middle of the eighteenth century, our records indicate no interruption of the tranquility of the inhabitants [of Concord]...
    HDC 11.76 16 We...confirm from living lips the sealed records of time.
    HDC 11.78 13 ...say the plaintive records, General Washington, at Cambridge, is not able to give but 24s. per cord for wood, for the army;...
    EWI 11.111 2 There is no end to the tragic anecdotes in the municipal records of the [West Indian] colonies.
    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.
    ChiE 11.472 15 ...[China] has...historic records of forgotten time...
    CPL 11.497 24 The chairman of Mr. [William] Munroe's trustees has told you how old is the foundation of our village library, and we think we can trace in our modest records a correspondent effect of culture amidst our citizens.
    CPL 11.508 19 It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.
    Mem 12.93 2 [Memory] is a scripture written day by day from the birth of the man; all its records full of meanings which open as he lives on...
    Pray 12.350 18 ...there are scattered about in the earth a few records of these devout hours [of prayer]...

Records, n. (2)

    HDC 11.37 24 Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw Sachem, Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to the English...
    HDC 11.47 27 Not a complaint occurs in all the volumes of our Records [of Concord], of any inhabitant being hindered from speaking...

Records, Town, n. (8)

    HDC 11.40 23 The original [Concord] Town Records, for the first thirty years, are lost.
    HDC 11.47 7 He is ill informed who expects, on running down the [New England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find a church of saints...
    HDC 11.48 20 The matters there debated [in Concord town-meetings] are such as to invite very small considerations. The ill-spelled pages of the Town Records contain the result.
    HDC 11.63 26 ...the [Concord] Town Records of that day [April 18, 1689] confine themselves to descriptions of lands...
    HDC 11.67 27 From...1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
    HDC 11.79 27 The Town Records show how slowly the inhabitants [of Concord] recovered from the strain of excessive exertion [during the Revolution].
    HDC 11.83 18 ...I have read with care the [Concord] Town Records themselves.
    HDC 11.84 4 The tone of the [Concord Town] Records rises with the dignity of the event.

records, v. (7)

    OS 2.286 7 ...[the wise man] lets [men] judge themselves, and merely reads and records their own verdict.
    ET11 5.195 24 Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before they are men, cause they are so seldom wise men.
    Thor 10.472 3 [Thoreau's] intimacy with animals suggested what Thomas Fuller records of Butler the apiologist, that either he had told the bees things or the bees had told him.
    EWI 11.101 23 The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
    SMC 11.374 22 Fellow citizens: The obelisk [at Concord] records only the names of the dead.
    FRep 11.515 19 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then gods join in the combat; then poets are born, and the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    Mem 12.107 11 ...'t is an old rule of scholars, that which Fuller records, 'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning.

recount, v. (2)

    Lov1 2.174 6 ...the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love...
    Plu 10.301 19 ...[Plutarch]...would be welcome to the sages and warriors he reports, as one having a native right to admire and recount these stirring deeds and speeches.

recounted, v. (2)

    ET1 5.17 12 [Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums paid in one year by the great booksellers for puffing.
    Comc 8.171 18 [Personal appearance] is the butt of those jokes of the Paris drawing-rooms...which are copiously recounted in the French Memoires.

recounting, v. (2)

    Elo1 7.68 20 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of hers.
    Elo1 7.80 18 To talk of an overpowering mind rouses the same jealousy and defiance which one may observe round a table where anybody is recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism.

recounts, v. (3)

    Hsm1 2.248 8 ...Simon Ockley's History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor...
    WD 7.172 9 ...with great propriety, Humboldt entitles his book, which recounts the last results of science, Cosmos.
    Plu 10.301 6 I admire [Plutarch's] rapid and crowded style, as if he had such store of anecdotes of his heroes that he is forced to suppress more than he recounts...

recourse, n. (2)

    Supl 10.169 11 It seems as if inflation were a disease incident to too much use of words, and the remedy lay in recourse to things.
    II 12.88 6 It seems to me, as if men stood craving a more stringent creed than any of the pale and enervating systems to which they have had recourse.

recover, v. (10)

    MN 1.220 21 Shall we not...betake ourselves to...some unvisited recess in Moosehead Lake, to bewail our innocency and to recover it...
    Cir 2.310 26 When each new speaker [in a conversation] strikes a new light...we seem to recover our rights, to become men.
    SwM 4.96 17 ...the soul having heretofore known all, nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind...one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge...
    Bhr 6.171 9 The power of a woman of fashion to lead and also to daunt and repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that she knows resources and behaviors not known to them; but when these have mastered her secret they...recover their self-possession.
    Bty 6.292 23 This is the theory of dancing, to recover continually in changes the lost equilibrium...
    Cour 7.262 11 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so;...
    Elo2 8.113 10 After Sheridan's speech in the trial of Warren Hastings, Mr. Pitt moved an adjournment, that the House might recover from the overpowering effect of Sheridan's oratory.
    Res 8.140 25 By his machines man...can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature...has involuntarily dropped of its existence;...
    Chr2 10.112 25 Every age, says Varnhagen, has another sieve for the religious tradition, and will sift it out again. Something is continually lost by this treatment, which posterity cannot recover.
    Thor 10.476 16 I have met one or two who have heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud; and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.

recovered, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.105 20 Granville Sharpe found [the West Indian slave] at his brother's and procured a place for him in an apothecary's shop. The master accidentally met his recovered slave, and instantly endeavored to get possession of him again.

recovered, v. (6)

    Clbs 7.249 19 If...[l'homme de lettres] dare not speak of fairy gold, he will yet tell what new books he has found, what old ones recovered...
    Cour 7.261 18 So great a soldier as the old French Marshal Montluc acknowledges that he has often trembled with fear, and recovered courage when he had said a prayer for the occasion.
    Elo2 8.129 10 ...having recovered his spirits and the command of his faculties, [Lord Ashley] drew such an argument from his own confusion as more advantaged his cause that all the powers of eloquence could have done.
    HDC 11.80 1 The Town Records show how slowly the inhabitants [of Concord] recovered from the strain of excessive exertion [during the Revolution].
    EPro 11.320 10 The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves right. We have recovered ourselves from our false position...
    Mem 12.109 9 You know what is told of the experience of some persons who have been recovered from drowning. They relate that their whole life's history seemed to pass before them in review.

recovering, v. (1)

    SR 2.71 1 The genesis and maturation of a planet...the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind...are demonstrations of the...self-relying soul.

recovers, v. (2)

    ET14 5.232 20 The [English] poet nimbly recovers himself from every sally of the imagination.
    Milt1 12.250 26 ...when [Milton] comes to speak of the reason of the thing [Defence of the English People], then he always recovers himself.

recovery, n. (7)

    SR 2.89 26 ...the recovery of your sick...or some other favorable event raises your spirits...
    WD 7.174 19 History of ancient art, excavated cities, recovery of books and inscriptions,--yes, the works were beautiful, and the history worth knowing;...
    Insp 8.274 15 What metaphysician has undertaken to enumerate...the rules for the recovery of inspiration?
    SovE 10.195 8 The new saint gloried in infirmities. Who or what was he? His rise and his recovery were vicarious.
    MMEm 10.412 25 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden]. Ah! mortifying sight! instinct perhaps triumphs over reason, and every dignified respect to herself, in her anxiety about recovery...
    HDC 11.70 14 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston, for every rational measure they have taken for the preservation or recovery of our invaluable rights and liberties infringed upon;...
    MLit 12.335 9 Man is not so far lost but that he suffers ever the great Discontent which is the elegy of his loss and the prediction of his recovery.

recreate, v. (1)

    Comp 2.125 23 We do not believe there is any force in to-day to rival or recreate that beautiful yesterday.

re-created, v. (1)

    ET9 5.147 5 ...the fact that British commerce was to be re-created by the independence of America, took [the English] all by surprise.

recreation, n. (2)

    ET8 5.128 16 [The English]...even if disposed to recreation, will avoid an open garden.
    Bty 6.285 16 Thou hast ceased to take recreation, saying to thyself, In seven days I shall be put to death.

recreations, n. (1)

    ET11 5.195 16 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense. They went from city to city...gathering seeds, gems, coins and divers curiosities, preparing for a private life thereafter, in which they should take pleasure in these recreations.

recriminate, v. (1)

    SA 8.80 19 ...we chide, lament, cavil and recriminate.

recruit, n. (1)

    SR 2.89 5 [A man] is weaker by every recruit to his banner.

recruit, v. (3)

    MR 1.229 8 It is when your facts and persons grow unreal and fantastic by too much falsehood, that the scholar flies for refuge to the world of ideas, and aims to recruit and replenish nature from that source.
    ET4 5.72 1 The horse has more uses than Buffon noted. If you go into the streets, every driver in 'bus or dray is a bully, and if I wanted a good troop of soldiers, I should recruit among the stables.
    GSt 10.503 13 In 1863 [George Stearns] began to recruit colored soldiers in Buffalo...

recruited, v. (6)

    Mrs1 3.128 27 The city is recruited from the country.
    ET11 5.174 7 There was this advantage of Western over Oriental nobility, that this was recruited from below.
    Farm 7.138 13 Poisoned by town life and town vices, the sufferer resolves: Well, my children, whom I have injured, shall go back to the land, to be recruited and cured by that which should have been my nursury...
    Farm 7.140 24 The city is always recruited from the country.
    Boks 7.200 14 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited by lyric verses...
    SMC 11.365 26 This [old artillery] company, chiefly recruited here [in Concord], was later embodied in the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers...

recruiting, n. (1)

    ET11 5.197 7 ...the analysis of the [English] peerage and gentry shows the rapid decay and extinction of old families, the continual recruiting of these from new blood.

recruiting, v. (2)

    NMW 4.224 10 The second [democratic] class is selfish also...always outnumbering the other [conservative class] and recruiting its numbers every hour by births.
    SS 7.8 19 ...all our youth is a reconnoitring and recruiting of the holy fraternity [friendships] shall combine for the salvation of men.

recruits, n. (4)

    ET18 5.301 2 During the Russian war, few of those that offered as recruits [in England] were found up to the medical standard...
    Cour 7.270 22 As for the bullying drunkards of which armies are usually made up, [John Brown] thought cholera, small-pox and consumption as valuable recruits.
    SMC 11.356 17 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers. And the first events of the war of the Rebellion gave the like training to the new recruits.
    SMC 11.367 2 After the return of the three months' company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of volunteers, and Captain Bowers another. Each of these companies included recruits from this town [Concord]...

recruits, v. (2)

    PLT 12.24 5 ...the spectacle of vigor of any kind, any prodigious power of performance wonderfully arms and recruits us.
    II 12.71 1 In the healthy mind, the thought...expands, varies, recruits itself with relations to all Nature...

rectangular, adj. (1)

    FSLN 11.218 21 [The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a head his bread of knowledge costs-and instantly the entire rectangular assembly [in the railway car], fresh from their breakfast, are bending as one man to their second breakfast.

rectify, v. (2)

    LT 1.276 5 ...[these reforms] only name the relation which subsists between us and the vicious institutions which they go to rectify.
    MMEm 10.433 5 Shall we not keep Flamsteed and Herschel in the observatory, though it should even be proved that they neglected to rectify their own kitchen clock?

rectilinear, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.115 13 The form above [the circular] is the spiral...its diameters are not rectilinear...

rectitude, n. (25)

    DSA 1.125 26 In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted...
    DSA 1.148 11 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude...
    MN 1.215 17 You shall love rectitude...
    Con 1.302 21 Wisdom does not seek a literal rectitude...
    Tran 1.355 11 [Our virtue's] representatives are austere;...their rectitude is not yet a grace.
    Comp 2.122 2 Neither can it be said...that the gain of rectitude must be bought by any loss.
    Hsm1 2.250 1 ...let [a man]...with perfect urbanity dare the gibbet and the mob by...the rectitude of his behavior.
    Chr1 3.98 20 ...rectitude is a perpetual victory...
    Gts 3.164 23 ...rectitude scatters favors on every side without knowing it...
    Pol1 3.221 3 ...there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the principle of right and love.
    SwM 4.145 9 ...nothing can keep you,--not fate, nor health, nor admirable intellect; none can keep you, but rectitude only...
    SwM 4.145 10 ...nothing can keep you,--not fate, nor health, nor admirable intellect; none can keep you, but rectitude only, rectitude for ever and ever!
    ET7 5.116 8 Add to this hereditary [German] rectitude the punctuality and precise dealing which commerce creates, and you have the English truth and credit.
    Wsp 6.203 16 A self-poise belongs to every particle, and a rectitude to every mind...
    Wsp 6.216 18 ...genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude;...
    SA 8.97 19 Here is...strong understanding, and the higher gifts, the insight of the real, or from the real, and the moral rectitude which belongs to it...
    PerF 10.85 19 [A survey of cosmical powers] shows us...the safeguards of rectitude.
    SovE 10.208 8 We are thrown back on rectitude forever and ever, only rectitude,-to mend one;...
    SovE 10.208 9 We are thrown back on rectitude forever and ever, only rectitude,-to mend one;...
    FSLC 11.188 25 ...whilst animals have to do with eating the fruits of the ground, men have to to with rectitude, with benefit, with truth...
    FSLC 11.211 21 The immense power of rectitude is apt to be forgotten in politics.
    FSLC 11.212 13 Let us respect the Union to all honest ends. But also respect an older and wider union, the law of Nature and rectitude.
    EPro 11.318 23 The virtues of a good magistrate...because Nature works with rectitude, seem vastly more potent than the acts of bad governors...
    PLT 12.47 2 A man tries to speak [the truth] and his voice is...rude and chiding. The truth is not spoken but injured. The same thing happens in power to do the right. His rectitude is ridiculous.
    II 12.75 22 Our teaching is indeed hazardous and rare. Our only security is in our rectitude...

Rectitude, n. (1)

    Schr 10.268 11 Love, Rectitude, everlasting Fame, will come to each of you in loneliest places...

rectorship, n. (2)

    ET13 5.226 13 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards...
    Wth 6.118 3 The eldest son must inherit the [English] manor; what to do with this supernumerary? [The father] was advised to breed him for the Church and to settle him in the rectorship which was in the gift of the family;...

recumbent, adj. (1)

    ET16 5.290 16 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately...

recuperative, adj. (2)

    Pow 6.61 1 We watch in children with pathetic interest the degree in which they possess recuperative force.
    Let 12.397 17 ...though the recuperative force in every man may be relied on infinitely, it must be relied on before it will exert itself.

recurred, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.403 22 ...certain expressions, when they marked a memorable state of mind in [Mary Moody Emerson's] experience, recurred to her afterwards...

recurrence, n. (5)

    GoW 4.269 26 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must...write conventional criticism, or profligate novels, or at any rate write...without recurrence...to the sources of inspiration?
    PC 8.227 16 ...the recurrence to high sources is rare.
    Chr2 10.107 19 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...but only...perhaps that they find some violence, some cramping of their freedom of thought, in the constant recurrence of the form.
    SovE 10.205 1 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds. I will not now explore the causes of the result, but the fact must be conceded as of frequent occurrence...
    II 12.67 11 To indicate a few examples of our recurrence to instinct instead of to the understanding: we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces...

recurring, v. (1)

    Supl 10.165 13 ...the secrets of death, judgment and eternity are tedious when recurring as minute-guns.

recurs, v. (4)

    ET10 5.169 16 Such a wealth has England earned, ever new, bounteous and augmenting. But the question recurs, does she take the step beyond...
    PI 8.32 24 Later, the thought, the happy image which expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to mind...
    FSLC 11.184 8 What is the use of courts, if...no judge...recurs to first principles?
    FSLC 11.210 21 ...granting...that these evils [of slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in ages,-and by what instrument... none can tell...still the question recurs, What must we do?

red, adj. (32)

    MR 1.251 24 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel...
    Fdsp 2.189 12 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ Through thee the rose is red,/...
    Hsm1. 2.252 21 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...
    Nat2 3.183 6 The cool disengaged air of natural objects makes them enviable to us, chafed and irritable creatures with red faces...
    ET2 5.32 13 Reckoned from the time when we left soundings, our speed was such that the captain [of the Washington Irving] drew the line of his course in red ink on his chart...
    ET4 5.69 7 The old [English] men are as red as roses...
    ET9 5.147 26 If one of [the English] have a bald, or a red, or a green head... he has persuaded himself that there is something modish and becoming in it...
    ET11 5.179 16 Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red cliff; and so on...
    ET12 5.204 5 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles of books contained in the library of that college...
    Pow 6.64 18 In politics...red republicanism in the father is a spasm of nature to engender an intolerable tyrant in the next age.
    Pow 6.72 21 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...
    Ctr 6.152 12 In an English party a man...with a face like red dough, unexpectedly discloses wit, learning, a wide range of topics...
    Ctr 6.152 20 The Italians are fond of red clothes...
    Ctr 6.165 21 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...can set his dull nerves throbbing...make way and sing paean!
    Ill 6.318 6 The red men told Columbus they had an herb which took away fatigue;...
    DL 7.105 15 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the furniture of the house, the red tin horse...
    DL 7.106 4 St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.
    WD 7.170 25 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...the fashion of a cloak or hat; like the luck of naked Indians, of whom one is proud in the possession of a glass bead or a red feather...
    Suc 7.303 19 Lofn is as puissant a divinity in the Norse Edda as Camadeva in the red vault of India...
    PI 8.24 16 [The intellect] knows that these transfigured results are not the brute experiences, just as souls in heaven are not the red bodies they once animated.
    MMEm 10.409 26 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] have gone on my queer way with joy, saying, Shall the clay interrogate? But in every actual case, 't is hard, and we lose sight of the first necessity,-here too amid works red with default in all great and grand and infinite aims.
    Thor 10.468 6 [Thoreau] found red snow in one of his walks...
    HDC 11.58 8 From Narragansett to the Connecticut River, the scene of war was shifted as fast as these red hunters could traverse the forest.
    HDC 11.59 8 The red man may destroy here and there a straggler, as a wild beast may;...
    LVB 11.90 11 ...we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees] to redeem their own race from the doom of eternal inferiority...
    AsSu 11.246 4 His erring foe,/ Self-assured that he prevails,/ Looks from his victim lying low,/ And sees aloft the red right arm/ Redress the eternal scales./
    ACiv 11.308 27 ...justice satisfies everybody,-white man, red man, yellow man and black man.
    FRep 11.541 21 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of wealth; doors wide open. If I could have it,-free trade with all the world without toll or custom-houses, invitation as we now make...to every race and skin, white men, red men, yellow men, black men;...
    CL 12.149 9 The Hindoos called fire Agni...lord of red coursers;...
    CL 12.150 12 ...I admire that perennial four-petalled flower, which has one gray petal, one green, one red, and one white.
    CL 12.151 9 ...the oak and maple are red with the same colors on the new leaf which they will resume in autumn when it is ripe.
    CW 12.169 4 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/ Nor the red rainbow of a summer's eve,/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./

Red Jacket, n. (2)

    WD 7.178 12 A poor Indian chief of the Six Nations of New York made a wiser reply than any philosopher, to some one complaining that he had not enough time. Well, said Red Jacket, I suppose you have all there is.
    OA 7.328 14 The Indian Red Jacket, when the young braves were boasting their deeds, said, But the sixties have all the twenties and forties in them.

red, n. (3)

    Art1 2.357 8 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with...beggars and fine ladies, draped in red and green and blue and gray;...
    ACiv 11.296 5 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/ Up with it once more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The white, blue and red which the nations adore!/
    CL 12.151 13 ...the oak and maple are red with the same colors on the new leaf which they will resume in autumn when it is ripe. In June, the miracle works faster, Painting with white and red the moors/ To draw the nations out of doors./

Red Revolution, n. (1)

    Aris 10.63 11 ...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the standard of Chartist and outlaw? No, for these have been dragged in their ignorance by furious chiefs to the Red Revolution;...

Red Sea, n. (2)

    NMW 4.246 13 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...fording the Red Sea;...
    Dem1 10.14 15 As I was once travelling by the Red Sea, there was one among the horsemen that attended us named Masollam...

redact, v. (1)

    ET15 5.266 7 ...I saw the reporters' room [of the London Times], in which they redact their hasty stenographs...

redacted, v. (1)

    ET5 5.91 6 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the southern heaven, came home, and redacted it in eight years more;...

reddened, v. (1)

    HDC 11.39 3 The maple...reddened over those houseless men [the settlers of Concord].

redeem, v. (8)

    MN 1.211 14 Whenever [poets] appear, they will redeem their own credit.
    LT 1.263 12 There is no interest or institution so poor and withered, but if a new strong man could be born into it, he would immediately redeem and replace it.
    YA 1.375 7 ...we redeem the waste...for remote generations.
    Prd1 2.236 8 ...let [a man]...feel the admonition to...keep a slender human word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and thither, and, by persistency, make the paltry force of one man reappear to redeem its pledge after months and years in the most distant climates.
    Suc 7.311 4 ...to redeem defeat by new thought...that is not easy...
    LS 11.22 16 ...that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified;...was to redeem us from a formal religion...
    LVB 11.90 11 ...we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees] to redeem their own race from the doom of eternal inferiority...
    MLit 12.333 16 What is Austria? What is England? What is our graduated and petrified social scale of ranks and employments? Shall not a poet redeem us from these idolatries...

redeemed, v. (3)

    Hsm1 2.254 6 In some way the time [the magnanimous] seem to lose is redeemed...
    ET2 5.25 14 The request [to lecture in England] was urged...by friendliest parties in Manchester, who, in the sequel, amply redeemed their word.
    MAng1 12.231 4 [Michelangelo] said he would hang the Pantheon in the air; and he redeemed his pledge by suspending that vast cupola [of St. Peter' s], without offence to grace or to stability, over the astonished beholder.

redeemer, n. (2)

    Cir 2.310 26 When each new speaker [in a conversation]...emancipates us from the oppression of the last speaker to oppress us with the greatness and exclusiveness of his own thought, then yields us to another redeemer, we seem to recover our rights, to become men.
    Wsp 6.218 6 ...the redeemer and instructor of souls, as it is their primal essence, is love.

Redeemer, n. (2)

    Con 1.324 16 Cannot I too descend a Redeemer into nature?
    MLit 12.332 13 [Goethe]...has declined the office proffered to now and then a man in many centuries in the power of his genius, of a Redeemer of the human mind.

redeemers, n. (2)

    SR 2.47 25 ...we are...guides, redeemers and benefactors...
    Bty 6.286 22 The crowd in the street oftener furnishes degradations than angels or redeemers...

redeeming, adj. (1)

    MoL 10.251 4 A redeeming trait of the Sophists of Athens...is that they made their own clothes and shoes.

redeems, v. (1)

    OS 2.273 4 The least activity of the intellectual powers redeems us in a degree from the conditions of time.

redemption, n. (6)

    Nat 1.73 22 The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by the redemption of the soul.
    DSA 1.144 5 In the soul then let the redemption be sought.
    Boks 7.189 14 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...certainly knowing that his passengers are the same and in no respect better than when he took them on board. So is it with books, for the most part; they work no redemption in us.
    LS 11.12 8 ...the Passover was local too, and does not concern us, and its bread and wine...do not help us to understand the redemption which they signified.
    EPro 11.320 3 [The Emancipation Proclamation] does not promise the redemption of the black race;...
    Pray 12.355 14 Wilt thou give me strength to persevere in this great work of redemption.

redeo, v. (1)

    QO 8.186 11 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander, where the prayer of Leander is the same:-Parcite dum propero, mergite dum redeo.

red-eyed, adj. (1)

    SHC 11.435 25 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...red-eyed warbler, the heron, the bittern, will find out the hospitality and protection from the gun of this asylum...

red-hot, adj. (2)

    Tran 1.331 27 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity, red-hot or white-hot perhaps at the core...
    NMW 4.252 27 The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave, who in their despair...would cling to red-hot iron...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.

rediscovered, v. (1)

    Plu 10.322 24 ...Plutarch will be perpetually rediscovered from time to time as long as books last.

redistribute, v. (1)

    Mem 12.100 2 ...a principle of the reason will thrill and magnetize and redistribute the whole world.

redistributing, v. (1)

    CL 12.154 10 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and builds new;-forever redistributing the solid matter of the globe;...

red-kerchiefed, adj. (1)

    PC 8.218 22 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.

redness, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.62 8 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms,--redness in the face...

redolent, adj. (1)

    ET12 5.201 22 On every side, Oxford is redolent of age...

redoubted, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.251 27 We have lost all interest in Milton as the redoubted disputant of a sect;...

redoubts, n. (3)

    LT 1.260 9 Here is this great fact of Conservatism, entrenched in its immense redoubt...
    ET8 5.131 20 [The English] are good at storming redoubts...
    ET14 5.244 8 ...a bad general wants myriads of men and miles of redoubts to compensate the inspirations of courage and conduct.

redounding, v. (2)

    Aris 10.32 9 A reference to society is part of the idea of culture; science of a gentleman; art of a gentleman; poetry in a gentleman: intellectually held, that is, for their own sake...not for economy...but not over-intellectually, that is, not to ecstasy, entrancing the man, but redounding to his beauty and glory.
    Chr2 10.93 3 ...love is delight in the preference of that benefit redounding to another over the securing of our own share;...

redounds, v. (1)

    EWI 11.121 25 The legislature [of Jamaica]...say, The peaceful demeanor of the emancipated population redounds to their own credit...

redress, n. (5)

    Cir 2.305 3 Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere. Then already is our first speaker not man, but only a first speaker. His only redress is forthwith to draw a circle outside of his antagonist.
    Ctr 6.164 6 The high virtues...have their redress in being illustrious at last.
    DL 7.117 6 [The reform that applies itself to the household] must come in connection with a true acceptance by each man of his vocation,--not chosen by his parents or friends, but by his genius, with earnestness and love. Nor is this redress so hopeless as it seems.
    Boks 7.213 15 The novel is that allowance and frolic the imagination finds. Everything else pins it down, and men flee for redress to Byron, Scott...
    Trag 12.414 9 [The man who is centred] sees already in the ebullition of sin the simultaneous redress.

redress, v. (6)

    YA 1.365 21 ...it now appears that we must estimate the native values of this broad region to redress the balance of our own judgments...
    Elo1 7.64 3 There is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress.
    LLNE 10.349 20 [Genius] must now set itself to raise the social condition of man and to redress the disorders of the planet he inhabits.
    FSLN 11.230 10 That is the distinction of the gentleman, to defend the weak and redress the injured...
    AsSu 11.246 5 His erring foe,/ Self-assured that he prevails,/ Looks from his victim lying low,/ And sees aloft the red right arm/ Redress the eternal scales./
    Let 12.402 16 The balance of mind and body will redress itself fast enough.

redressed, v. (5)

    MR 1.236 4 ...when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law, state], their abuses will be redressed...
    LT 1.279 18 ...magnifying the importance of that wrong, [men] fancy that if that abuse were redressed all would go well...
    Comp 2.102 19 Every secret is told...every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty.
    LLNE 10.350 14 All these [the hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] shall be redressed by human culture...
    EdAd 11.387 19 ...though it may not be easy to define [America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality...in the direct roads by which grievances are reached and redressed...

redresses, v. (3)

    YA 1.392 4 ...after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty, which, when it loses its balance, redresses itself presently...
    Ctr 6.137 5 Culture redresses [a man's] balance...
    EdAd 11.392 26 The health which we call Virtue is an equipoise which easily redresses itself...

red-root, n. (1)

    Wth 6.115 13 [The pale scholar]...by and by wakes up from his idiot dream of chickweed and red-root, to remember his morning thought...

red-shirted, adj. (1)

    PC 8.218 22 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.

redstart, n. (1)

    Thor 10.470 13 The redstart was flying about...

reduce, v. (11)

    Nat 1.39 27 ...[man] is learning the secret that he can reduce under his will not only particular events but great classes...
    Nat 1.67 10 It is not so pertinent to man to know all the individuals of the animal kingdom, as it is to know whence and whereto is this tyrannizing unity in his constitution, which evermore separates and classifies things, endeavoring to reduce the most diverse to one form.
    Hist 2.36 11 ...out of the human heart go as it were highways to the heart of every object in nature, to reduce it under the dominion of man.
    ShP 4.199 9 ...there were fountains around Homer, Menu, Saadi, or Milton, from which they drew;...which, if seen, would go to reduce the wonder.
    ET5 5.99 2 ...three or four days' rain will reduce hundreds to starving in London.
    ET19 5.312 7 I seem to hear you say, that for all that is come and gone yet, we will not reduce by one chaplet or one oak-leaf the braveries of our annual feast.
    Pow 6.77 3 Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day.
    Wth 6.107 18 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can reduce the rent...
    PI 8.40 18 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception...of fairy machineries and funds of power hitherto utterly unknown to him, whereby he can...reduce [his visions] into iambic or trochaic, into lyric or heroic rhyme.
    HDC 11.57 16 In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics...
    AKan 11.257 9 I know people who are making haste to reduce their expenses and pay their debts...in preparation to save and earn for the benefit of the Kansas emigrants.

reduced, v. (18)

    LT 1.267 4 How great were once Lord Bacon's dimensions! he is now reduced almost to the middle height;...
    YA 1.364 13 ...this invention [the railroad] has reduced England to a third of its size...
    Exp 3.53 12 The physicians say they are not materialists; but they are:-- Spirit is matter reduced to an extreme thinness: O so thin!
    Nat2 3.187 17 ...the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partisans...
    SwM 4.113 27 The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails; bone, of smallest bone;/ Blood, of small sanguine drops reduced to one;/...
    ShP 4.215 2 [Shakespeare] is not reduced to dismount and walk because his horses are running off with him in some distant direction...
    NMW 4.240 6 When the expenses...of his palaces, had accumulated great debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself...and reduced the claims by considerable sums.
    ET11 5.180 24 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy: their chateaux will be reduced to ashes and their blood be spilt in torrents.
    ET11 5.191 20 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced...
    ET18 5.301 4 During the Russian war, few of those that offered as recruits [in England] were found up to the medical standard, though it had been reduced.
    Bty 6.282 1 ...the skin or skeleton you show me is no more a heron than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.
    Elo1 7.82 23 ...[Columbus] can say nothing to one party or to the other, but he can show how all Europe can be diminished and reduced under the king, by annexing to Spain a continent as large as six or seven Europes.
    PC 8.218 4 The history of Greece is at one time reduced to two persons,- Philip...and Demosthenes...
    Aris 10.55 19 If you deal with the vulgar, life is reduced to beggary indeed.
    HDC 11.36 9 Tahattawan, the Sachem [of the Massachusetts Indians]... lived near Nashawtuck, now Lee's Hill. Their tribe, once numerous, the epidemic had reduced.
    FSLC 11.182 8 ...real estate, every kind of wealth, every branch of industry, every avenue to power, suffers injury [from the Fugitive Slave Law], and the value of life is reduced.
    ACri 12.291 1 In the Hindoo mythology, Viswaharman placed the sun on his lathe to grind off some of his effulgence, and in this manner reduced it to an eighth,-more was inseparable.
    AgMs 12.363 9 The true men of skill, the poor farmers, who...have... reduced a stubborn soil to a good farm...are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...

reduces, v. (12)

    Nat 1.40 13 [Man's] victorious thought comes up with and reduces all things...
    AmS 1.86 10 The ambitious soul...one after another reduces all strange consitutions...
    Comp 2.124 1 ...see the facts nearly and these mountainous inequalities vanish. Love reduces them as the sun melts the iceberg in the sea.
    OS 2.273 11 See how the deep divine thought reduces centuries and millenniums...
    Int 2.326 21 The intellect...reduces all things into a few principles.
    Nat2 3.182 16 That identity [in nature]...reduces to nothing great intervals on our customary scale.
    Nat2 3.190 15 The hunger for wealth, which reduces the planet to a garden, fools the eager pursuer.
    PPh 4.51 12 The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces.
    SwM 4.94 20 The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a region of grandeur which reduces all material magnificence to toys...
    ShP 4.207 8 That imagination which dilates the closet [Shakespeare] writes in to the world's dimension...as quickly reduces the big reality to be the glimpses of the moon.
    ET4 5.52 26 ...what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district. It...reduces itself at last to London...
    Ctr 6.131 8 A topical memoray makes [a man] an almanac;...a skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent...

reduceth, v. (1)

    MN 1.222 12 That man shall be learned who reduceth his learning to practice.

reducible, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.109 22 ...the terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios.

reducing, v. (8)

    YA 1.374 7 ...the principle of population is always reducing wages to the lowest pittance on which human life can be sustained.
    Fdsp 2.210 20 ...that scornful beauty of [your friend's] mien and action, do not pique yourself on reducing, but rather fortify and enhance.
    ET4 5.60 11 ...the old fossil world shows that the first steps of reducing the chaos were confided to saurians and other huge and horrible animals...
    ET14 5.247 25 It was a curious result, in which the civility and religion of England for a thousand years ends in denying morals and reducing the intellect to a sauce-pan.
    Elo1 7.87 2 I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room. ... [The prisoner's counsel] drove the attorney for the state from corner to corner... reducing him to silence...
    OA 7.331 17 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments, and all old men in...reducing tangled interests to order...
    Res 8.140 4 See...how...every impatient boss who sharply shortens the phrase or the word to give his order quicker, reducing it to the lowest possible terms...improves the national tongue.
    EPro 11.324 3 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of... preventing the whole force of Southern connection and influence throughout the North from distracting every city with endless confusion, detaching that force and reducing it to handfuls...

reductio, n. (1)

    JBB 11.269 25 ...it is the reductio ad absurdum of Slavery, when the governor of Virginia is forced to hang a man [John Brown] whom he declares to be a man of the most integrity, truthfulness and courage he has ever met.

reduction, n. (2)

    Comp 2.97 22 A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature.
    PLT 12.20 27 This reduction to a few laws, to one law, is not a choice of the individual...

redundancy, n. (1)

    MN 1.204 6 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that...the whole...obeys that redundancy or excess of life which in conscious beings we call ecstasy.

redundant, adj. (3)

    Mrs1 3.151 15 Was it Hafiz or Firdousi that said of his Persian Lilla, She... astonished me by her amount of life, when I saw her day after day radiating, every instant, redundant joy and grace on all around her?
    QO 8.203 27 Only as braveries of too prodigal power can we pardon it, when the life of genius is so redundant that out of petulance it flings its fire into some old mummy, and, lo! it walks and blushes again here in the street.
    PPr 12.389 15 ...in all this glad and needful venting of his redundant spirits, [Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...

Reed, Sampson, n. (1)

    Mem 12.104 23 Sampson Reed says, The true way to store the memory is to develop the affections.

reef, n. (1)

    QO 8.199 26 ...[the individual] is no more to be credited with the grand result [of language] than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

reef, v. (2)

    OA 7.314 3 As the bird trims her to the gale,/ I trim myself to the storm of time,/ I man the rudder, reef the sail,/ Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime/...
    Edc1 10.150 21 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals; you must lower your flag and reef your sails to wait for the dull sailors;...

reeking, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.269 20 ...[Milton] threw himself, the flower of elegancy, on the side of the reeking conventicle;...

reel, v. (2)

    PI 8.73 7 The high poetry which shall...dissipate the dreams under which men reel and stagger...is deeper hid...
    Supl 10.167 25 [People of English stock's] houses are...not designed to reel in earthquakes...

reeled, v. (1)

    ACri 12.292 1 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb -reeled some;...

reeling, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.83 20 What smiths, and in what furnace, rolled/ (In dizzy aeons dim and mute/ The reeling brain can ill compute)/ Copper and iron, lead, and gold?/

reeling, adv. (1)

    Bost 12.192 8 ...Biorn and Thorfinn, Northmen...ate so many grapes from the wild vines that they were reeling drunk.

reeling, v. (1)

    Boks 7.213 25 [The imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance, like planets; and once so liberated, the whole man reeling drunk to the music, they never quite subside to their old stony state.

reenslave, v. (2)

    FSLC 11.195 14 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America. Off soundings, it is piracy and murder to enslave him. On soundings, it is fine and prison not to reenslave.
    FSLC 11.195 20 ...it is a greater crime to reenslave a man who has shown himself fit for freedom, than to enslave him at first, when it might be pretended to be a mitigation of his lot as a captive in war.

reenslaving, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.195 11 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America.

reestablish, v. (1)

    SS 7.15 1 A higher civility will reestablish in our customs a certain reverence which we have lost.

reestablishment, n. (1)

    Schr 10.271 24 This reverence [for genius and virtue] is the reestablishment of natural order;...

re-exist, v. (1)

    MN 1.212 24 ...[the stars] would have such poets as Newton, Herschel and Laplace, that they may re-exist and re-appear in the finer world of rational souls...

refectories, n. (2)

    Con 1.319 27 If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has entertained as good against the general despair, Society...shuts him out of...her refectories...
    LLNE 10.351 2 ...fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side,-what tillage, what architecture, what refectories...

Refectory, Christ Church C (1)

    ET12 5.201 9 Albert Alaskie...was entertained with stage-plays in the Refectory of Christ-Church [College, Oxford] in 1583.

refectory, n. (1)

    DL 7.118 4 The diet of the house does not create its order, but knowledge, character, action, absorb so much life and yield so much entertainment that the refectory has ceased to be so curiously studied.

refer, v. (12)

    Hist 2.4 24 ...the crises of [a man's] life refer to national crises.
    Hist 2.36 14 [A man's] faculties refer to natures out of him...
    Lov1 2.179 10 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization.
    OS 2.273 20 In common speech we refer all things to time...
    OS 2.273 21 ...we habitually refer the immensely sundered stars to one concave sphere.
    Exp 3.60 25 ...we should not postpone and refer and wish...
    SwM 4.129 25 Whether from a self-inquisitorial habit that he grew into from jealousy of the sins to which men of thought are liable, [Swedenborg] has acquired, in disentangling and demonstrating that particular form of moral disease, an acumen which no conscience can resist. I refer to his feeling of the profanation of thinking to what is good, from scientifics.
    ET3 5.38 1 I reply to all the urgencies that refer me to this and that object indispensably to be seen,--Yes, to see England well needs a hundred years;...
    Insp 8.282 27 I understand The Harbingers to refer to the signs of age and decay which [Herbert] detects in himself...
    Schr 10.262 9 I do not now refer to that intellectual conscience which forms itself in tender natures...
    MLit 12.314 15 A man may say I, and never refer to himself as an individual;...
    Let 12.404 7 We must refer our clients back to themselves, believing that every man knows in his heart the cure for the disease he so ostentatiously bewails.

referee, n. (1)

    SwM 4.142 18 [Swedenborg] goes up and down the world of men...and with nonchalance and the air of a referee, distributes souls.

reference, n. (41)

    Nat 1.40 19 All things...have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
    AmS 1.84 21 Let us...consider [the scholar] in reference to the main influences he receives.
    AmS 1.108 26 I ought not to delay longer to add what I have to say of nearer reference to the time and to this country.
    Tran 1.354 25 A reference to Beauty in action sounds...a little hollow and ridiculous in the ears of the old church.
    Tran 1.358 5 Society also has its duties in reference to this class [Transcendentalists]...
    YA 1.385 24 Justice is continually administered more and more by private reference...
    SR 2.67 5 These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones;...
    OS 2.277 9 In all conversation between two persons tacit reference is made...to a common nature.
    Int 2.326 5 Intellect separates the fact considered...from all local and personal reference...
    Art1 2.358 7 The reference of all production at last to an aboriginal Power explains the traits common to all works of the highest art...
    Exp 3.46 27 Men seem to have learned of the horizon the art of perpetual retreating and reference.
    Chr1 3.92 26 The habit of [the natural merchant's] mind is a reference to standards of natural equity and public advantage;...
    Mrs1 3.147 18 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference...
    ShP 4.194 17 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments, then the relief became bolder and a head or arm was projected from the wall; the groups being still arranged with reference to the building...
    ShP 4.194 23 As soon as the statue was begun for itself, and with no reference to the temple or palace, the art began to decline...
    GoW 4.280 20 What distinguishes Goethe for French and English readers is...a habitual reference to interior truth.
    GoW 4.289 1 In this aim of culture, which is the genius of [Goethe's] works, is their power. The idea of absolute, eternal truth, without reference to my own enlargement by it, is higher.
    ET6 5.104 26 Each man [in England]...in every manner acts and suffers without reference to the bystanders, in his own fashion...
    ET10 5.154 2 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks, in reference to a private and scholastic life, of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer.
    ET17 5.291 4 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons...
    Art2 7.40 20 ...to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind. In the first place let us consider this in reference to the useful arts.
    Art2 7.50 17 The whole language of men...in reference to this subject, points at the belief that every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate...
    Boks 7.209 6 Many men are as tender and irritable as lovers in reference to these predilections [toward favorite books].
    Cour 7.269 19 In all applications [courage] is the same power,--the habit of reference to one's own mind...
    OA 7.316 4 Cicero makes no reference to the illusions which cling to the element of time...
    PC 8.219 14 Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million.
    Aris 10.32 2 A reference to society is part of the idea of culture;...
    Aris 10.61 15 All reference to models...is the road to mediocrity.
    SovE 10.203 27 There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world...
    Thor 10.477 16 Whilst [Thoreau] used in his writings a certain petulance of remark in reference to churches or churchmen, he was a person of a rare, tender and absolute religion...
    EWI 11.137 21 Every one of these [arguments against emancipation in the West Indies] was built on the narrow ground...of sordid gain, in opposition to every motive that had reference to humanity, justice, and religion...
    EWI 11.138 8 ...we are indebted mainly to this movement [for emancipation in the West Indies] and to the continuers of it, for...reference of every question to the absolute standard.
    War 11.163 9 The reference to any foreign register will inform us of the number of thousand or million men that are now under arms in the vast colonial system of the British Empire...
    FSLC 11.186 16 Let me remind you a little in detail how the natural retribution acts in reference to the statute [Fugitive Slave Law] which Congress passed a year ago.
    SMC 11.351 19 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...having no reference to utilities...mixes with surrounding nature...
    CPL 11.499 26 ...in reference to her favorite authors, [Mary Moody Emerson] adds, The delight in others' superiority is my best gift from God.
    CInt 12.117 13 Few men wish to know how the thing really stands, what is the law of it without reference to persons.
    ACri 12.286 23 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...condemned to the company of a courier and of the padrone when they cannot take refuge in the society of countrymen. A well-chosen series of stereoscopic views would have served a better purpose, which they can explore at home, sauced...with reference to all the books in your library.
    MLit 12.316 15 ...[the noble natural man] yields himself to your occasion and use, but his act expresses a reference to universal good.
    MLit 12.317 10 ...the street seems to be built, and the men and women in it moving, not in reference to pure and grand ends, but rather to very short and sordid ones.
    MLit 12.333 2 The criticism, which is not so much spoken as felt in reference to Goethe, instructs us directly in the hope of literature.

references, n. (1)

    ET14 5.259 7 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all references to such sentiments or manners as are become the standards of propriety for opinion and action in our own modes...

referred, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.193 8 It is the same among the men and women as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence...

referred, v. (5)

    AmS 1.111 25 ...let me see...the shop, the plough, and the ledger referred to the like cause by which light undulates...
    Lov1 2.180 14 Concerning [poetry] Landor inquires whether it is not to be referred to some purer state of sensation and existence.
    SwM 4.134 16 Though the agency of the Lord is in every line referred to by name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive.
    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.
    Thor 10.479 23 [Thoreau] referred every minute fact to cosmical laws.

referring, v. (1)

    Thor 10.468 23 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord did not grow out of any ignorance or depreciation of other longitudes or latitudes...

refers, v. (3)

    Nat 1.5 8 Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man;...
    MN 1.200 17 This refers to that, and that to the next, and the next to the third, and everything refers.
    MN 1.200 19 This refers to that, and that to the next, and the next to the third, and everything refers.

refine, v. (12)

    Prd1 2.231 22 ...society is officered by men of parts, as they are properly called, and not by divine men. These use their gift to refine luxury, not to abolish it.
    Cir 2.306 7 Does the fact look crass and material, threatening to degrade thy theory of spirit? Resist it not; it goes to refine and raise thy theory of matter just as much.
    MoS 4.168 21 It is Cambridge men who correct themselves and begin again at every half sentence, and...will pun, and refine too much...
    ET6 5.108 14 ...as the [English] men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.
    F 6.20 7 As we refine, our checks become finer.
    F 6.20 15 The limitations refine as the soul purifies...
    Bhr 6.195 22 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty; that...refine us like that;...
    Bty 6.298 4 [Women] refine and clear [the most serious student's] mind;...
    DL 7.122 12 ...[Lord Falkland's] house was a university in a less volume, whither [the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] came...to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.
    Wom 11.419 24 Educate and refine society to the highest point,-bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions?
    Wom 11.425 18 Improve and refine the men, and you do the same by the women...
    MAng1 12.240 20 [Michelangelo] enthrones his mistress as a benignant angel, who is to refine and perfect his own character.

refined, adj. (15)

    NMW 4.225 25 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...the refined enjoyments of pictures, statues...
    ET10 5.165 18 ...the proudest result of this creation [of English property rights] has been the great and refined forces it has put at the disposal of the private citizen.
    Elo1 7.65 15 Bring [the master orator] to his audience, and, be they...coarse or refined...he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses;...
    WD 7.170 27 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass,--the secular, refined, composite anatomy of man...are given immeasurably to all.
    Clbs 7.242 19 ...there was liberal and refined conversation in the Greek, in the Roman and in the Middle Age.
    Clbs 7.243 15 ...a history of clubs...tracing the efforts to secure liberal and refined conversation...would be an important chapter in history.
    PI 8.7 11 One of these vortices or self-directions of thought is the impulse to search resemblance, affinity, identity, in all its objects, and hence our science, from its rudest to its most refined theories.
    QO 8.198 12 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. ... How it seemed the very voice of the refined and discerning public...
    LLNE 10.344 13 Highly refined persons might easily miss in [Theodore Parker] the element of beauty.
    LLNE 10.369 10 The yeoman [at Brook Farm] saw refined manners in persons who were his friends;...
    FSLN 11.229 21 The theory of personal liberty must always appeal to the most refined communities...
    FSLN 11.240 12 ...all the refined circles...are sure to be found befriending liberty with their words, and crushing it with their votes.
    Wom 11.409 12 ...a refined and accomplished woman was a being almost new to [Burns]...
    Wom 11.422 27 ...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote, representing the wants and desires of honest and refined persons.
    Wom 11.423 20 ...when I read the list of men of intellect, of refined pursuits...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.

refined, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.144 12 Each class fixes its eyes on the advantages it has not; the refined, on rude strength;...
    CInt 12.122 4 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...are more vicious and malignant than the rude country people...

refined, v. (15)

    Nat 1.66 4 That which seems faintly possible, it is so refined, is often faint and dim because it is deepest seated in the mind among the eternal verities.
    Hsm1 2.260 3 Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. Not in vain you live, for every passing eye is cheered and refined by the vision.
    Art1 2.364 8 [Sculpture] was originally a useful art...and among a people possessed of a wonderful perception of form this childish carving was refined to the utmost splendor of effect.
    ET18 5.305 4 [The English] are oppressive with their temperament, and all the more that they are refined.
    F 6.36 14 The whole circle of animal life...until at last...the whole chemical mass is mellowed and refined for higher use-pleases at a sufficient perspective.
    Ctr 6.165 6 ...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined;...
    Wsp 6.203 4 Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a web. If they were more refined, it would be less formal...
    CbW 6.246 27 We have a debt...to those who have refined life by elegant pursuits.
    Farm 7.152 24 This crust of soil which ages have refined [the farmer] refines again for the feeding of a civil and instructed people.
    OA 7.328 13 [The veteran] beholds the feats of the juniors with complacency, but as one who having long ago known these games, has refined them into results and morals.
    PI 8.19 13 ...poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight, looking through [things], and using them as types or words for thoughts which they signify. Or is this belief a metaphysical whim of modern times, and quite too refined?
    PI 8.73 18 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of an inspiration, and presently falling back on a low life. The drop of ichor that tingles in their veins has not yet refined their blood...
    LLNE 10.365 23 ...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm]... were sure to avail themselves of every means of instruction; their knowledge was increased, their manners refined...
    FRO2 11.488 3 All our sects have refined the point of difference between them.
    Milt1 12.265 14 [Milton's native honor] refined his amusements...

refinement, n. (23)

    SR 2.85 20 ...it may be a question...whether we have not lost by refinement some energy...
    GoW 4.290 19 The secret of genius is...in the high refinement of modern life...to exact good faith, reality and a purpose;...
    ET4 5.66 11 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...please by...an expression blending good-nature, valor and refinement...which is daily seen in the streets of London.
    ET4 5.72 2 Add a certain degree of refinement to the vivacity of these [English] riders, and you obtain the precise quality which makes the men and women of polite society formidable.
    ET8 5.136 25 [The English] have great range of scale, from ferocity to exquisite refinement.
    ET8 5.142 21 ...not creators in art, [the English] value its refinement.
    ET11 5.183 9 All over England...are the paradises of the nobles, where the livelong repose and refinement are heightened by the contrast with the roar of industry and necessity...
    ET13 5.214 21 ...when wealth, refinement, great men, and ties to the world supervene, [a nation's] prudent men say, Why fight against Fate, or lift these absurdities [of religion] which are now mountainous?
    Pow 6.65 4 ...churchmen and men of refinement, it seems agreed, are not fit persons to send to Congress.
    Pow 6.72 16 This aboriginal might gives a surprising pleasure when it appears under conditions of supreme refinement...
    Pow 6.72 27 [Michel Angelo] surpassed his successors in rough vigor, as much as in purity of intellect and refinement.
    Ctr 6.149 23 ...it requires a great many cultivated women...accustomed to ease and refinement...in order that you should have one Madame de Stael.
    Bhr 6.182 3 What refinement and what limitations the teeth betray!
    Ill 6.313 24 We wake from one dream into another dream. The toys to be sure...are graduated in refinement to the quality of the dupe.
    Civ 7.21 13 ...the effect of a framed or stone house is immense on the tranquillity, power and refinement of the builder.
    SA 8.102 16 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools, of public grounds, works of taste and refinement.
    Elo2 8.112 8 Our community runs through a long scale of mental power, from the highest refinement to the borders of savage ignorance and rudeness.
    Elo2 8.126 8 ...there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement, where propriety resides.
    Plu 10.318 19 The union in Alexander of sublime courage with the refinement of his pure tastes...endeared him to Plutarch.
    MMEm 10.413 23 The feverish lust of notice perhaps in all these cases would injure the heart of common refinement and virtue.
    Bost 12.197 17 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...
    ACri 12.284 18 ...there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement where prosperity resides...
    ACri 12.287 2 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk...

refinements, n. (8)

    Hist 2.37 23 Do not the lovely attributes of the maiden child predict the refinements and decorations of civil society?
    ET14 5.257 18 Through all his refinements...[Tennyson] has reached the public...
    Civ 7.32 26 In strictness, the vital refinements are the moral and intellectual steps.
    SovE 10.187 1 'T is a long scale...from the gorilla...to the sanctities of religion, the refinements of legislation...
    LLNE 10.348 7 [Fourier] took his measure of that which all should and might enjoy...from the refinements of palaces, the wealth of universities and the triumphs of artists.
    Thor 10.454 27 A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau]. He...considered these refinements as impediments to conversation...
    Thor 10.481 27 [Thoreau]...became very jealous of cities and the sad work which their refinements and artifices made with man and his dwelling.
    FRep 11.536 8 The felon is the logical extreme of the epicure and coxcomb. Selfish luxury is the end of both, though in one it is decorated with refinements, and in the other brutal.

refines, v. (5)

    Nat 1.39 9 [Man's] insight refines him.
    ET12 5.207 8 The English nature takes culture kindly. So Milton thought. It refines the Norseman.
    Farm 7.152 24 This crust of soil which ages have refined [the farmer] refines again for the feeding of a civil and instructed people.
    PI 8.48 18 ...rhyme soars and refines with the growth of the mind.
    PI 8.52 16 ...when we rise into the world of thought...speech refines into order and harmony.

refining, adj. (3)

    Wth 6.98 13 There is a refining influence from the arts of Design on a prepared mind which is as positive as that of music...
    Civ 7.32 14 ...when I...see...the refining influence of women...I see what cubic values America has...
    Bost 12.198 8 It is the property of the religious sentiment to be the most refining of all influences.

refining, n. (1)

    Con 1.299 19 ...[reform] runs...to unnatural refining and elevation...

refining, v. (7)

    ET1 5.12 5 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...
    ET13 5.217 20 The English Church has many certificates to show of humble effective service...in cheering and refining men...
    PI 8.24 21 ...the beholding and co-energizing mind sees the same refining and ascent to the third, the seventh or the tenth power of the daily accidents which the senses report...
    PC 8.224 24 Nature is sanative, refining, elevating.
    Aris 10.54 18 Elevation of sentiment, refining and inspiring the manners, must really take the place of every distinction...
    FRep 11.526 2 The history of civilization, or the refining of certain races to wonderful power of performance, is analogous;...
    II 12.76 6 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power.

reflect, v. (15)

    Nat 1.18 17 The heavens...reflect their glory or gloom on the plains beneath.
    Nat 1.40 17 Sensible objects...reflect the conscience.
    DSA 1.131 20 ...you shall not dare and live...in company with the infinite Beauty which heaven and earth reflect to you...
    Tran 1.354 12 ...it will please us to reflect that though we had few virtues or consolations, we bore with our indigence...
    SL 2.134 21 ...there was less in [men of extraordinary success] on which they could reflect than in another;...
    Pol1 3.218 8 ...we are constrained to reflect on our splendid moment with a certain humiliation...
    Bhr 6.171 27 When we reflect on [manners'] persuasive and cheering force;...we see what range the subject has...
    Art2 7.40 5 When we reflect on the pleasure we receive from a ship, a railroad, a dry-dock; or from a picture, a dramatic representation, a statue, a poem,--we find that these have not a quite simple, but a blended origin.
    WD 7.178 1 ...we might reflect that though many creatures eat from one dish, each, according to its constitution, assimilates from the elements what belongs to it...
    Cour 7.277 5 ...reflect that the best use of fate is to teach us courage...
    QO 8.180 12 ...Milton forces you to reflect how narrow are the limits of human invention.
    Edc1 10.137 16 ...there is a perpetual hankering to violate this individuality, to warp [the new man's] ways of thinking and behavior to resemble or reflect your thinking and behavior.
    Prch 10.232 20 It is a comfort to reflect that the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves...
    Humb 11.459 1 I know that we have been accustomed to think...that because [the Germans] reflect, they never resolve...
    Pray 12.356 8 And being admonished to reflect upon myself, I entered into the very inward parts of my soul, by thy conduct;...

reflected, v. (10)

    Nat 1.8 5 The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of [the wise spirit's] best hour...
    Nat 1.42 22 Who can guess...how much tranquillity has been reflected to man from the azure sky...
    Int 2.341 10 ...the truth was in us before it was reflected to us from natural objects;...
    Pt1 3.25 8 ...as the form of the thing is reflected by the eye, so the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody.
    Pt1 3.25 9 ...the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody.
    Chr1 3.96 26 Impure men consider life as it is reflected in opinions, events and persons.
    PI 8.45 17 ...no matter what objects are near [water]...they become beautiful by being reflected.
    Wom 11.407 23 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson...who wrote the life of her husband...says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than she in herself could have deserved...she only reflected his own glories upon him.
    CL 12.165 10 ...Nature is only a mirror in which man is reflected colossally.
    MLit 12.319 7 In Byron...[the subjective tendency] predominates; but in Byron...it sees not its true end...a life...descending into Nature to behold itself reflected there.

reflecting, adj. (3)

    Fdsp 2.216 14 It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet.
    PC 8.230 6 I know well to what assembly of educated, reflecting, successful and powerful persons I speak.
    HDC 11.33 15 ...in time of summer, the sun casts such a reflecting heat from the sweet fern, whose scent is very strong, that some [pilgrims] nearly fainted.

reflecting, v. (3)

    ET1 5.4 19 The young scholar fancies it happiness enough to live with people who can give an inside to the world; without reflecting that they are prisoners, too, of their own thought...
    Ill 6.310 23 Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead [in the Mammoth Cave], reflecting the light of a half-hid lamp, yielded this magnificent effect.
    Farm 7.148 16 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine...

reflection, adj. (1)

    Int 2.328 2 ...this native law remains over [the mind] after it has come to reflection or conscious thought.

Reflection, Aids to [S. T. (1)

    ET1 5.11 3 ...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,--passages, too, which, I believe, are printed in the Aids to Reflection.

reflection, n. (30)

    Nat 1.14 15 ...the examples [of the useful arts are] so obvious, that I shall leave them to the reader's reflection...
    AmS 1.98 25 ...these fits of easy transmission and reflection...are the law of nature...
    YA 1.363 11 Who has not been stimulated to reflection by the facilities now in progress of construction for travel and the transportation of goods in the United States?
    YA 1.393 13 It is a questionable compensation to the embittered feeling of a proud commoner, the reflection that a fop...is himself also an aspirant excluded with the same ruthlessness from higher circles...
    SL 2.131 1 When the act of reflection takes place in the mind...we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.
    SL 2.160 27 Shine with real light and not with the borrowed reflection of gifts.
    Fdsp 2.212 23 ...love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.
    Int 2.327 22 Long prior to the age of reflection is the thinking of the mind.
    Int 2.331 4 At last comes the era of reflection...
    Nat2 3.192 22 This or this [in nature] is but outskirt and a far-off reflection and echo of the triumph that has passed by...
    SwM 4.98 26 ...it is easier to see the reflection of the great sphere in large globes...than in drops of water...
    ET8 5.127 17 The Englishman finds no relief from reflection, except in reflection.
    ET8 5.127 18 The Englishman finds no relief from reflection, except in reflection.
    Wth 6.111 21 ...we can only give [means] any beauty by a reflection of the glory of the end.
    Bty 6.285 7 Why should not priests, lodged and fed comfortably in the temples, also amuse themselves [said Tisso]? Returning home, he imparted this reflection to the king.
    OA 7.318 12 ...if we did not find the reflection of ourselves in the eyes of the young people, we could not know that the century-clock had struck seventy instead of twenty.
    PI 8.46 12 We are lovers of...period and musical reflection.
    SA 8.84 18 Credit is to be abolished? Can't you abolish faces and character, of which credit is the reflection?
    SA 8.86 4 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals. It has the effect to...introduce a moment of reflection.
    Res 8.146 8 ...[Tissenet] opened his shirt a little and showed to each of the savages in turn the reflection of his own eyeball in a small pocket-mirror which he had hung next to his skin.
    Res 8.150 6 ...the law of light, which Newton said proceeded by fits of easy reflection and transmission...is the law of mind;...
    Dem1 10.27 4 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. ...a droll bedlam, where...the actors and spectators have no conscience or reflection...
    Chr2 10.98 15 In the ever-returning hour of reflection, [a man] says: I stand here glad at heart of all the sympathies I can awaken and share...
    EzRy 10.391 10 ...it is no reflection on others to say that [Ezra Ripley] was the most public-spirited man in the town.
    CPL 11.503 2 ...when you sprain your mind, by gloomy reflection on your failures and vexations, you come to have a bad opinion of life.
    CPL 11.503 15 There is no hour of vexation which on a little reflection will not find diversion and relief in the library.
    MAng1 12.221 22 ...reflection discloses evermore a closer analogy between the finite [human] form and the infinite inhabitant.
    Let 12.403 23 Apathies and total want of work, and reflection on the imaginative character of American life...are like seasickness...
    Trag 12.407 26 ...this terror of contravening an unascertained and unascertainable will cannot co-exist with reflection...
    Trag 12.414 3 If a man is centred, men and events appear to him a fair image or reflection of that which he knoweth beforehand in himself.

reflections, n. (5)

    Int 2.327 9 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal.
    Nat2 3.172 16 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes;...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    PPh 4.68 26 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images, that is, both shadows and reflections;...
    FSLC 11.205 5 The scraps of morality to be gleaned from [Webster's] speeches are reflections of the mind of others;...
    PLT 12.52 17 ...to arrange general reflections in their natural order...this continuity is for the great.

reflective, adj. (7)

    Nat 1.48 26 ...so long as the active powers predominate over the reflective, we resist...any hint that nature is more short-lived or mutable than spirit.
    AmS 1.109 11 The boy is a Greek; the youth, romantic; the adult, reflective.
    Hist 2.25 22 The costly charm of the ancient tragedy...is that the persons... speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it, before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind.
    Hist 2.25 25 The Greeks are not reflective...
    GoW 4.272 17 This reflective and critical wisdom makes the poem [Goethe's Helena] more truly the flower of this time.
    PerF 10.73 17 ...as the reflective faculties open, [temperament] subsides.
    LLNE 10.326 5 Men grew reflective and intellectual.

Reflective age, n. (1)

    AmS 1.109 5 ...there are data for marking the genius of the Classic, of the Romantic, and now of the Reflective or Philosophical age.

reflectors, n. (1)

    Tran 1.333 11 Mind is the only reality, of which men and all other natures are better or worse reflectors.

reflects, v. (9)

    PPh 4.69 7 ...every pool reflects the image of the sun...
    SwM 4.133 12 The universe, in [Swedenborg's] poem, suffers under a magnetic sleep, and only reflects the mind of the magnetizer.
    ET8 5.130 18 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep; and suspect any poetic insinuation or any hint for the conduct of life which reflects on this animal existence...
    Insp 8.281 27 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.
    SovE 10.213 8 Now science and philosophy recognize...how each [Spirit and Matter] reflects the other as face answers to face in a glass...
    MMEm 10.418 18 Not a prospect but is dark on earth, as to knowledge and joy from externals: but the prospect of a dying bed reflects lustre on all the rest.
    EWI 11.127 16 ...the whole transaction [emancipation in the West Indies] reflects infinite honor on the people and parliament of England.
    EdAd 11.384 7 [The traveller] reflects on the power which each of these plain republicans can employ;...
    CL 12.152 7 The forest in its coat of many colors reflects its varied splendor through the softest haze.

reflex, adj. (5)

    SR 2.74 14 You may fulfil your round of duties by clearing yourself in the direct, or in the reflex way.
    SR 2.74 18 ...I may also neglect this reflex standard...
    Nat2 3.179 2 The stream of zeal sparkles with real fire, and not with reflex rays of sun and moon.
    MoS 4.181 7 The last class must needs have a reflex or parasite faith;...
    QO 8.196 13 It is a curious reflex effect of this enhancement of our thought by citing it from another, that many men can write better under a mask than for themselves;...

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