Reform to Relative

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

reform, adj. (1)

    Civ 7.25 11 The skill that pervades complex details;...the very prison compelled to maintain itself...and better still, made a reform school...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high civilization.

Reform Bill, n. (4)

    ET1 5.21 2 [Wordsworth] said he talked on political aspects, for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans...never to call into action the physical strength of the people, as had just now been done in England in the Reform Bill...
    PC 8.232 6 In England, it was the game-laws which exasperated the farmers to carry the Reform Bill.
    MoL 10.251 22 'T is some thirty years since the days of the Reform Bill in England...
    EPro 11.315 22 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the passage of the Reform Bill...

Reform Clubs, n. (1)

    ET17 5.292 16 The privileges of the [London] Athenaeum and of the Reform Clubs were hospitably opened to me...

reform, n. (54)

    MN 1.214 27 To every reform, in proportion to its energy, early disgusts are incident...
    MR 1.229 17 The demon of reform has a secret door into the heart of every lawmaker...
    MR 1.236 3 ...when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law, state], their abuses will be redressed...
    MR 1.247 9 I do not wish to be absurd and pedantic in reform.
    MR 1.248 27 The power which is at once spring and regulator in all efforts of reform is the conviction that there is an infinite worthiness in man...
    LT 1.269 5 The present age will be marked by its harvest of projects for the reform of domestic, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical institutions.
    LT 1.271 11 The history of reform is always identical...
    LT 1.272 12 ...the origin of all reform is in that mysterious fountain of the moral sentiment in man...
    LT 1.276 20 The love which lifted men to the sight of these better ends was...the disposition to trust a principle more than a material force. I think that the soul of reform;...
    Con 1.298 14 Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations, reform on his indisputable infinitude;...
    Con 1.298 19 ...reform is individual and imperious.
    Con 1.298 23 Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative;...
    Con 1.298 24 ...conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.
    Con 1.298 26 ...reform [is] more disposed to maintain and increase its own [worth].
    Con 1.299 2 Reform has no gratitude...
    Con 1.299 8 Conservatism never puts the foot forward; in the hour when it does that, it is not establishment, but reform.
    Con 1.299 15 Reform in its antagonism inclines to asinine resistance...
    Con 1.303 3 We have all a certain intellection or presentiment of reform existing in the mind, which does not yet descend into the character...
    Con 1.303 14 Reform converses with possibilities...
    Hist 2.5 1 Every reform was once a private opinion...
    OS 2.271 14 All reform aims in some one particular to let the soul have its way through us;...
    Cir 2.312 22 In my daily work I...do not believe...in the power of change and reform.
    Cir 2.317 1 The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues...
    Exp 3.58 13 Our young people have thought and written much on labor and reform...
    Chr1 3.101 23 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform...
    NER 3.253 19 ...the fertile forms of antinomianism among the elder puritans seemed to have their match in the plenty of the new harvest of reform.
    NER 3.254 14 Every project in the history of reform...is good when it is the dictate of a man's genius and constitution...
    NER 3.257 8 The same insatiable criticism may be traced in the efforts for the reform of Education.
    NER 3.263 20 Doubts such as those I have intimated drove many good persons to agitate the questions of social reform.
    ET7 5.116 20 ...any slipperiness in the [English] government of political faith...would bring the whole nation to a committee of inquiry and reform.
    ET10 5.157 19 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes, the consequent necessity of the reform of the calendar;...
    ET15 5.261 22 No antique privilege, no comfortable monopoly, but sees surely that its days are counted; the people are familiarized with the reason of reform...
    ET15 5.272 19 [If the London Times would cleave to the right] It would be the natural leader of British reform;...
    ET18 5.305 12 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...
    F 6.4 2 We must begin our reform earlier still,-at generation...
    DL 7.114 26 Our whole use of wealth needs revision and reform.
    DL 7.116 24 ...the reform that applies itself to the household must not be partial.
    Boks 7.198 25 Every new crop in the fertile harvest of reform...is there [in Plato].
    PI 8.66 18 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy...
    PC 8.214 26 Six hundred years ago Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes and the necessity of reform in the calendar;...
    PerF 10.77 20 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise,-is it...the reform of some public abuse, or some effort of patriotism,-what he chiefly brings...is...his thoughts...
    PerF 10.79 23 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and after many years... brought up the stock of his mills to par, and then sold out his interest, having accomplished the reform that was required.
    Chr2 10.103 16 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when it...sets [a man] on...some zeal to unite men to...establish some reform or charity which it commands-are the homage we render to this sentiment...
    Chr2 10.118 7 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies...to the reform of convicts and harlots...
    Chr2 10.119 20 No evil can come from reform which a deeper thought will not correct.
    LLNE 10.337 8 ...there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century... an eagerness for reform...
    LLNE 10.346 17 It was a time when the air was full of reform.
    LLNE 10.348 20 [Fourier's] ciphering goes...into stars, atmospheres and animals, and men and women, and classes of every character. It...could not but suggest vast possibilities of reform to the coldest and least sanguine.
    LLNE 10.352 7 ...we could not exempt [Fourierism] from the criticism which we apply to so many projects for reform with which the brain of the age teems.
    War 11.174 23 If the universal cry for reform of so many inveterate abuses, with which society rings...be an omen to be trusted;...then war has a short day...
    SMC 11.352 25 Reform must begin at home.
    ChiE 11.474 14 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China.
    FRep 11.529 3 We...are are defended from shocks now for a century by the facility with which through popular assemblies every necessary measure of reform can instantly be carried.
    Bost 12.206 21 ...here [in Boston] was...a living mind...always afflicting the conservative class with some odious novelty or other;...a reform in education, a philanthropy.

Reform, n. (6)

    MR 1.228 14 ...the doctrine of Reform had never such scope as at the present hour.
    LT 1.260 24 Meantime, on the other part, arises Reform...
    LT 1.277 5 The young men who have been vexing society for these last years with regenerative methods...all failed to see that the Reform of Reforms must be accomplished without means.
    LT 1.284 1 ...we begin to doubt if that great revolution in the art of war, which has made it a game of posts instead of a game of battles, has not operated on Reform;...
    Prd1 2.230 21 There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature... which seems at last to have aroused all the wit and virtue in the world to ponder the question of Reform.
    MoL 10.251 25 At that time [of the Reform Bill], Earl Grey, who was leader of Reform, was asked, in Parliament, his policy on the measures of the Radicals.

Reform of 1832, n. (1)

    ET11 5.182 24 ...before the Reform of 1832, one hundred and fifty-four persons sent three hundred and seven members to Parliament.

Reform, Universal, Friends (1)

    CSC 10.373 2 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled in the Chardon Street Chapel in Boston...

re-form, v. [reform,] (8)

    Nat 1.18 2 Was there no meaning in the live repose of the valley behind the mill, and which...Shakspeare could not re-form for me in words?
    Con 1.315 3 ...[Friar Bernard]...set forth to go to Rome to reform the corruption of mankind.
    NER 3.262 14 No one gives the impression of superiority to the institution, which he must give who will reform it.
    F 6.3 21 We are fired with the hope to reform men.
    Elo1 7.98 27 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth, in such sort that he can hold up before the eyes of men the fact of to-day steadily to that standard, thereby making the great great, and the small small, which is the true way to astonish and reform mankind.
    Comc 8.164 3 ...the very jests and merry talk of true philosophers move those that are not altogether insensible, and unusually reform.
    MAng1 12.234 13 When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves.
    MAng1 12.234 14 When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves.

reformation, n. (5)

    Hist 2.29 16 A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.
    Hist 2.40 21 Broader and deeper we must write our annals,--from an ethical reformation...
    Bhr 6.174 2 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly undertook the reformation of our American manners in unspeakable particulars.
    Elo1 7.100 5 [Eloquence's] great masters...were grave men, who...esteemed that object for which they toiled, whether the prosperity of their country...or a reformation...as above the whole world, and themselves also.
    ACri 12.289 5 Burns took [the Devil] into compassion and expressed a blind wish for his reformation.

Reformation, n. (3)

    Hist 2.39 9 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the Reformation...
    SR 2.61 17 An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as...the Reformation, of Luther;...
    ET16 5.290 12 The building [Abbey, Hyde, England] was destroyed at the Reformation...

Reform-bill, n. (1)

    ET5 5.97 9 The last Reform-bill [in England] took away political power from a mound, a ruin and a stone wall...

Reformed Church, n. (1)

    SovE 10.203 21 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe...the Reformed Church, Scougal;...

reformed, v. (5)

    Cir 2.303 26 [A man] can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
    ET8 5.138 4 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman...
    Edc1 10.133 20 I have hope, said the great Leibnitz, that society may be reformed, when I see how much education may be reformed.
    Edc1 10.133 21 I have hope, said the great Leibnitz, that society may be reformed, when I see how much education may be reformed.
    CInt 12.114 22 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...

reformer, n. (27)

    MN 1.196 10 ...if you come month after month to see what progress our reformer has made,-not an inch has he pierced...
    MR 1.227 3 I wish to offer to your consideration some thoughts on the particular and general relations of man as a reformer.
    MR 1.228 5 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a reformer...
    MR 1.255 10 Will you suffer me to add one trait more to this portrait of man the reformer?
    LT 1.265 5 Let us paint the agitator...the priest and reformer...
    LT 1.277 21 I think the work of the reformer as innocent as other work that is done around him;...
    Con 1.301 5 As we take our stand on Necessity, or on Ethics, shall we go for the conservative, or for the reformer.
    Con 1.302 24 The reformer, the partisan, loses himself in driving to the utmost some specialty of right conduct...
    Con 1.308 11 Now you touch the heart of the matter, replies the reformer.
    Con 1.314 12 ...we have already shown that there is no pure reformer...
    Con 1.316 7 The reformer concedes that these mitigations exist...
    Tran 1.355 16 ...we are tempted to smile, and we flee from the working to the speculative reformer, to escape that same slight ridicule.
    Mrs1 3.144 9 ...here is...Mr. Hobnail, the reformer;...
    Mrs1 3.150 13 Certainly let [woman] be as much better placed in the laws and in social forms as the most zealous reformer can ask...
    NER 3.261 1 Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish;...
    NER 3.263 3 When we see...a special reformer, we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your one virtue?
    MoS 4.171 15 ...men rightly...reject the reformer so long as he comes only with axe and crowbar.
    MoS 4.172 26 [The wise skeptic] is a reformer;...
    GoW 4.267 7 The fiery reformer embodies his aspiration in some rite or covenant...
    ET6 5.111 7 Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer;...
    DL 7.113 19 It...certainly ought to open our ear to every good-minded reformer, that our idea of domestic well-being now needs wealth to execute it.
    Edc1 10.152 3 Every mind should be allowed to make its own statement in action, and its balance will appear. In these judgments one needs that foresight which was attributed to an eminent reformer...
    FSLN 11.231 27 In vulgar politics the Whig goes...for the old necessities,- the Musts. The reformer goes for the Better, for the ideal good...
    TPar 11.289 20 [Theodore Parker's] commanding merit as a reformer is this, that he insisted beyond all men in pulpits...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...
    RBur 11.441 1 [Burns] is so substantially a reformer that I find his grand plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters...
    II 12.72 22 The reformer comes with many plans of melioration...
    II 12.73 13 But how, cries my reformer, is this to be done? How could I do it, who have wife and family to keep? The question is most reasonable,- yet proves that you are not the man to do the feat.

Reformer, n. (4)

    MR 1.248 9 What is a man born for but to be a Reformer...
    Con 1.326 15 ...amidst a planet peopled with conservatives, one Reformer may yet be born.
    Edc1 10.150 26 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...you grow departmental, routinary, military almost with your discipline and college police. But what doth such a school to form a great and heroic character? What abiding Hope can it inspire? What Reformer will it nurse?
    LLNE 10.344 10 Theodore Parker was...the stout Reformer to urge and defend every cause of humanity with and for the humblest of mankind.

reformers, n. (12)

    MR 1.229 2 What if...the reformers tend to idealism?
    Con 1.298 20 We are reformers in spring and summer...
    Con 1.298 22 We are...reformers in the morning, conservers at night.
    Hist 2.29 12 ...in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times, he repeats step for step the part of old reformers...
    SR 2.88 25 ...the reformers summon conventions and vote and resolve in multitude.
    Pol1 3.221 6 ...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. All those who have pretended this design have been partial reformers...
    ET1 5.20 22 [Wordsworth] was against taking off the tax on newspapers in England,--which the reformers represent as a tax upon knowledge...
    PC 8.217 1 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...reformers...
    LLNE 10.346 11 These [19th Century] reformers were a new class.
    Thor 10.460 11 ...idealist as he was...[Thoreau] found himself not only unrepresented in actual politics, but almost equally opposed to every class of reformers.
    CL 12.148 5 Some English reformers thought the cattle made all this wide space necessary between house and house...
    WSL 12.342 26 It is vain to call [the literary spirit] a luxury, and as saints and reformers are apt to do, decry it as a species of day-dreaming.

Reformers, n. (2)

    LT 1.276 10 The Reformers affirm the inward life, but they do not trust it...
    Tran 1.341 24 ...in ecclesiastical history we take so much pains to know... what the Reformers believed...

reforming, adj. (1)

    LT 1.281 5 ...the reforming movement is sacred in its origin;...

reforming, v. (1)

    DL 7.117 7 ...if we begin by reforming particulars of our present system [of housekeeping]...we shall soon give up in despair.

reforms, n. (17)

    MN 1.214 22 The reforms whose fame now fills the land...are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.
    MR 1.249 3 The power which is at once spring and regulator in all efforts of reform is the conviction...that all particular reforms are the removing of some impediment.
    LT 1.271 3 There is a perfect chain,-see it, or see it not,-of reforms emerging from the surrounding darkness...
    LT 1.275 8 Do you suppose that the reforms which are preparing will be as superficial as those we know?
    LT 1.276 1 These reforms are our contemporaries;...
    LT 1.279 2 ...I desire to express the respect and joy I feel before this sublime connection of reforms now in their infancy around us...
    YA 1.379 13 That is the moral of all we learn, that it warrants Hope, the prolific mother of reforms.
    OS 2.273 25 ...we say...that a day of certain political, moral, social reforms is at hand...
    Ctr 6.140 27 What we call our root-and-branch reforms...is only medicating the symptoms.
    Elo1 7.95 20 The natural connection by which [the resistance to slavery] drew to itself a train of moral reforms...reinforced the city with new blood from the woods and mountains.
    Edc1 10.156 24 I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching.
    SlHr 10.447 11 It seemed as if the New England church had formed [Samuel Hoar] to be...the lover and assured friend...of its ministers, its rites, and its social reforms.
    FRep 11.527 23 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the readiness for reforms...
    FRep 11.529 8 As the globe keeps its identity by perpetual change, so our civil system, by perpetual appeal to the people and acceptance of its reforms.
    Bost 12.200 21 The American idea, Emancipation, appears in our freedom of intellection, in our reforms and in our bad politics;...
    WSL 12.343 1 It is vain to call [the literary spirit] a luxury, and as saints and reformers are apt to do, decry it as a species of day-dreaming. What else are sanctities, and reforms, and all other things?
    Let 12.394 15 [The correspondents] do not wish to force society into hated reforms...

Reforms, n. (2)

    LT 1.277 5 The young men who have been vexing society for these last years with regenerative methods...all failed to see that the Reform of Reforms must be accomplished without means.
    LT 1.277 7 The Reforms have their high origin in an ideal justice...

re-forms, v. [reforms,] (2)

    Nat 1.23 7 The beauty of nature re-forms itself in the mind...
    ET8 5.143 2 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence, and however this inclination may have been disturbed by the bribes with which their vast colonial power has warped men out of orbit, the inclination endures, and forms and reforms the laws, letters, manners and occupations.

refraction, n. (2)

    Supl 10.169 20 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets... wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you, without refraction or prismatic glories...
    PPr 12.386 9 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes...under the refraction of this wonderful humorist;...

refractions, n. (2)

    Ill 6.312 14 Even the prose of the streets is full of refractions.
    Ill 6.314 5 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy whose eyes lack the requisite refractions to clothe the show in due glory...

refractory, adj. (5)

    Nat 1.52 9 To [the poet], the refractory world is ductile and flexible;...
    AmS 1.86 9 The ambitious soul sits down before each refractory fact;...
    Con 1.321 1 The contractors who were building a road out of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers...refractory...
    ET1 5.6 4 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities... This was necessary in so refractory a material as stone;...
    Edc1 10.131 5 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena...

refrain, n. (2)

    PI 8.48 12 So in our songs and ballads the refrain skilfully used, and deriving some novelty or better sense in each of many verses...
    PPo 8.243 15 ...the connection between the stanzas of [the Persians'] longer odes is much like that between the refrain of our old English ballads...

refrain, v. (1)

    TPar 11.292 1 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who... says one thing...always...because he sees that, whether he speak or refrain from speech, this is said over him;...

refrains, n. (1)

    PPr 12.391 18 ...[Carlyle] is full of rhythm, not only in the perpetual melody of his periods, but in the burdens, refrains, and grand returns of his sense and music.

refresh, v. (4)

    Tran 1.346 12 [A man] ought to be...a great influence, which should... refresh old merits continually with new ones;...
    UGM 4.26 23 ...we feed on genius, and refresh ourselves from too much conversation with our mates...
    Insp 8.289 5 Novelty, surprise, change of scene, refresh the artist...
    Prch 10.236 5 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us...refresh the sentiment;...

refreshed, v. (11)

    DSA 1.149 6 There are men who rise refreshed on hearing a threat;...
    SL 2.150 23 ...a person of related mind...comes to us...so nearly and intimately, as if it were the blood in our proper veins, that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having come; we are utterly relieved and refreshed;...
    OS 2.273 7 ...in languor, give us...a profound sentence, and we are refreshed;...
    PPh 4.62 11 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored...and now, refreshed and empowered by this worship, the instinct of Europe... returns;...
    ET11 5.175 8 ...I make no doubt that...baron, knight and tenant often had their memories refreshed, in regard to the service by which they held their lands.
    ET13 5.216 7 [The priest...translated the sanctities of old hagiology into English virtues on English ground. It was a certain affirmative or aggressive state of the Caucasian races. Man awoke refreshed by the sleep of ages.
    Ctr 6.152 17 Can it be that the American forest has refreshed some weeds of old Pictish barbarism just ready to die out...
    Wsp 6.199 2 This is he, who, felled by foes,/ Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows/...
    Res 8.149 4 See how [Newton] refreshed himself, resting from the profound researches of the calculus by astronomy;...
    Insp 8.280 23 Sleep is like death, and after sleep/ The world seems new begun;/ White thoughts stand luminous and firm,/ Like statues in the sun;/ Refreshed from supersensuous founts,/ The soul to clearer vision mounts./
    Supl 10.179 1 The Northern genius finds itself singularly refreshed and stimulated by the breadth and luxuriance of Eastern imagery and modes of thinking...

refreshing, adj. (3)

    Mrs1 3.140 2 ...[society] values all peculiarities as in the highest degree refreshing, which can consist with good fellowship.
    CbW 6.269 22 ...Talleyrand said, I find nonsense singularly refreshing;...
    Supl 10.166 2 The exaggeration of which I complain makes plain fact the more welcome and refreshing.

refreshing, v. (2)

    Clbs 7.226 24 ...opinion native to the speaker is sweet and refreshing...
    Comc 8.170 2 ...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat a gay cascade was thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow, very refreshing in so sultry a day;...

refreshment, n. (6)

    OS 2.292 4 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes, for they confront them...and give a high nature the refreshment and satisfaction of resistance...
    Chr1 3.99 27 ...[the ingenious man] shall stand stoutly in his place and let me...know that I have encountered a new and positive quality;--great refreshment for both of us.
    NMW 4.233 5 Here was a man who in each moment and emergency knew what to do next. It is an immense comfort and refreshment to the spirits, not only of kings, but of citizens.
    PI 8.22 10 Charles James Fox thought Poetry the great refreshment of the human mind...
    Comc 8.173 26 ...explore the whole of Nature, the farce and buffoonery in the yard below, as well as the lessons of poets and philosophers upstairs in the hall, and get the rest and refreshment of the shaking of the sides.
    Chr2 10.117 19 [The Sunday] invites...to whatever means and aids of spiritual refreshment.

refuge, n. (4)

    MR 1.229 7 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...
    SwM 4.94 11 If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.
    Elo2 8.124 13 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
    ACri 12.286 19 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.

refugee, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.204 18 In Massachusetts, in 1776, [Webster] would, beyond all question, have been a refugee.

refugees, n. (1)

    ET5 5.92 26 [The English] have made...London...a sanctuary to refugees of every political and religious opinion;...

refulgent, adj. (1)

    DSA 1.119 1 In this refulgent summer, it has been a luxury to draw the breath of life.

refusals, n. (1)

    Thor 10.465 25 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost...to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or considered than his refusals, they remind one...of that fop Brummel's reply to the gentleman who offered him his carriage in a shower, But where will you ride, then?...

refuse, adj. (1)

    CL 12.146 5 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...

refuse, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.245 10 When any Rodrigo, Pedro or Valerio enters [in the plays of the elder English dramatists]...the duke or governor exclaims, This is a gentleman,--and proffers civilities without end; but all the rest are slag and refuse.

refuse, v. (34)

    DSA 1.121 20 These [divine] laws refuse to be adequately stated.
    DSA 1.145 19 ...refuse the good models...
    LE 1.181 23 The good scholar will not refuse to bear the yoke in his youth;...
    SR 2.53 11 I...refuse this appeal from the man to his actions.
    Comp 2.100 7 Things refuse to be mismanaged long.
    Prd1 2.240 2 We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy and intimacy to come.
    Int 2.344 9 ...he [in whom the love of truth predominates] is to refuse himself to that which draws him not...
    Exp 3.74 15 [Just persons] refuse to explain themselves...
    Mrs1 3.132 6 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment, and...take wine or refuse it..in a new and aboriginal way;...
    Mrs1 3.154 8 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;... What is vulgar but to refuse the claim on acute and conclusive reasons?
    Pol1 3.205 3 ...things refuse to be trifled with.
    NR 3.240 11 A new poet has appeared; a new character approached us; why should we refuse to eat bread until we have found his regiment and section in our old army-files?
    NER 3.284 25 We wish to escape from subjection and a sense of inferiority, and we make self-denying ordinances...we refuse the laws...
    PPh 4.73 10 Nobody can refuse to talk with [Socrates], he is so honest and really curious to know;...
    ShP 4.206 13 It is the essence of poetry...to abolish the past and refuse all history.
    ET4 5.54 6 ...it is fine for us to speculate in face of unbroken traditions, though vague and losing themselves in fable. The traditions have got footing, and refused to be disturbed.
    F 6.27 16 [Our thought] apprises us of its sovereignty and godhead, which refuse to be severed from it.
    F 6.28 14 The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.
    Wth 6.110 13 ...in the artificial system of society and of protected labor, which we...have adopted and enlarged, there come presently checks and stoppages. Then we refuse to employ these poor [immigrant] men.
    Wth 6.110 15 [Immigrants] go into the poor-rates, and though we refuse wages, we must now pay the same amount in the form of taxes.
    Wth 6.110 26 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute. But the gross amount of these costs will begin to pay back what we thought was a net gain from our transatlantic customers of 1800. It is vain to refuse this payment.
    Wth 6.120 26 The rule is...to learn practically the secret...that things themselves refuse to be mismanaged...
    Elo1 7.62 15 Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men;...
    WD 7.176 27 Do not refuse the employment which the hour brings you...
    Cour 7.267 23 The llama that will carry a load if you caress him, will refuse food and die if he is scourged.
    PI 8.51 6 It would not be easy to refuse to Sir Thomas Browne's Fragment on Mummies the claim of poetry...
    PC 8.229 21 The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
    Plu 10.320 2 ...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I myself am invited as a shadow, I assure you I refuse to go.
    MMEm 10.427 27 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then...honors, pleasures, labors, I always refuse...
    Thor 10.452 15 ...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question, and it required rare decision to refuse all the accustomed paths...
    EWI 11.101 16 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...
    War 11.161 16 ...it is not a great matter how long men refuse to believe the advent of peace...
    Wom 11.424 11 If you do refuse [women] a vote, you will also refuse to tax them...
    CInt 12.116 4 ...[the college]...cannot give to those who come to it and refuse to those outside.

refused, v. (31)

    NER 3.270 23 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which Philip refused...
    ET5 5.90 2 Sir Samuel Romilly refused to speak in popular assemblies...
    ET15 5.265 4 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small share in the proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office when you will;...
    ET16 5.288 3 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked.
    Wsp 6.205 27 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which burst asunder. Wilt thou now, Eyvind, believe in Christ? asks Olaf, in excellent faith. Another argument was an adder put into the mouth of the reluctant disciple Raud, who refused to believe.
    Wsp 6.228 15 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots. The young nun...refused the office...
    Comc 8.169 23 ...the painter Astley...going out of Rome one day with a party for a ramble in the Campagna and the weather proving hot, refused to take off his coat...
    SovE 10.200 21 Jesus was better than others, because he refused to listen to others and listened at home.
    LLNE 10.356 19 [Thoreau]...fortified you at all times with an affirmative experience which refused to be set aside.
    MMEm 10.417 7 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man...whom she respected. The proposal gave her pause...but after consideration she refused it...
    SlHr 10.438 6 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends. He...refused the offers...
    SlHr 10.442 21 ...[Samuel Hoar]...refused very large sums offered him to undertake the defence of criminal persons.
    SlHr 10.443 12 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained, as, for instance, when the county commissioners refused to rebuild the burned court-house...all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...
    SlHr 10.445 3 [Samuel Hoar] saw what was essential, and refused whatever was not...
    Thor 10.454 8 ...[Thoreau] refused to pay a tax to the State;...
    Thor 10.458 8 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail.
    Thor 10.458 20 On one occasion [Thoreau] went to the University Library to procure some books. The librarian refused to lend them.
    Thor 10.478 4 Thoreau...might fortify the convictions of prophets in the ethical laws by his holy living. It was an affirmative experience which refused to be set aside.
    HDC 11.48 16 In 1795, several town-meetings are called [in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for land taken in making a bridle-road; and one of them demanding large damages, many offers were made him in town-meeting, and refused;...
    HDC 11.65 6 The charges of education and of legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord]; for they vote to petition the General Court to be eased of the law relating to providing a school-master; happily, the Court refused;...
    EWI 11.104 6 ...if we saw...pregnant women set in the treadmill for refusing to work; when, not they, but the eternal law of animal nature refused to work;...we too should wince.
    EWI 11.129 6 ...an honest tenderness for the poor negro...combined with the national pride, which refused to give the support of English soil or the protection of the English flag to these disgusting violations of nature [slavery in the West Indies].
    FSLC 11.192 1 Those governors of places who bravely refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous Massacre of St. Bartholomew, have been universally praised;...
    AsSu 11.249 3 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it.
    AKan 11.257 15 We must have aid [for Kansas] from individuals,-we must also have aid from the state. I know that the last legislature refused that aid.
    Wom 11.419 22 ...if a woman demand votes, offices and political equality with men...it must not be refused.
    MAng1 12.234 20 As [Michelangelo] refused to undo his work [The Last Judgment], Daniel di Volterra was employed to clothe the figures;...
    MAng1 12.235 13 Michael Angelo, who...distrusted his capacity as an architect, at first refused [to build St. Peter's] and then reluctantly complied.
    MAng1 12.238 6 [Vasari's] servant brought [the candles] after nightfall, and presented them to [Michelangelo]. Michael Angelo refused to receive them.
    Milt1 12.260 23 ...Milton's mind seems to have no thought or emotion which refused to be recorded.
    MLit 12.332 16 ...the ambition of creation [Goethe] refused.

refuses, v. (29)

    Nat 1.62 5 That essence [God] refuses to be recorded in propositions...
    MN 1.224 6 Pusillanimity and fear [the soul] refuses with a beautiful scorn;...
    Hist 2.33 8 ...if the man...refuses the dominion of facts...then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places;...
    Comp 2.103 18 Whilst thus the world...refuses to be disparted, we seek to act partially...
    Comp 2.122 12 The soul refuses limits...
    Hsm1 2.255 26 Scipio, charged with peculation, refuses to do himself so great a disgrace as to wait for justification...
    Cir 2.304 16 ...the heart refuses to be imprisoned;...
    Int 2.339 24 The world refuses to be analyzed by addition and subtraction.
    Exp 3.72 25 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this cause, which refuses to be named...
    Nat2 3.185 16 ...when now and then comes along some sad, sharp-eyed man, who sees how paltry a game is played, and refuses to play but blabs the secret;--how then?
    NER 3.279 9 The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion...is in you...
    NER 3.279 10 The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion... is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because...he feels that you have it not.
    GoW 4.276 9 ...what [Goethe] says of religion...or whatever else, refuses to be forgotten.
    GoW 4.287 26 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal refuses to incorporate...
    ET7 5.122 24 The [English] barrister refuses the silk gown of Queen's Counsel, if his junior have it one day earlier.
    ET9 5.144 6 The king cannot step on an acre [in England] which the peasant refuses to sell.
    ET10 5.161 12 ...[the Bank of England] refuses loans, and emigration empties the country;...
    ET16 5.279 20 The spot, the gray blocks [of Stonehenge] and their rude order, which refuses to be disposed of, suggested to [Carlyle] the flight of ages...
    Wth 6.103 23 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote...he makes so much more equity in Massachusetts;...
    Wth 6.105 14 Rothschild refuses the Russian loan, and there is peace and the harvests are saved.
    Ctr 6.142 18 ...[your boy]...refuses any companions but of his own choosing.
    Bty 6.291 4 ...our taste in building...refuses pilasters and columns that support nothing...
    PI 8.7 2 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...
    Insp 8.276 8 We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute our plans...the whole armory of means are all present, but a certain heat that once used not to fail, refuses its office...
    Grts 8.303 6 The porter or truckman refuses a reward for finding your purse, or for pulling you drowning out of the river. Thereby, with the service, you have got a moral lift.
    Imtl 8.346 9 We cannot prove our faith [in immortality] by syllogisms. The argument refuses to form in the mind.
    PLT 12.63 7 ...[identification of the Ego with the universe's] communication from one to another...refuses our intrusion.
    II 12.75 8 ...[the inner mind's] communication from one to another...refuses our intrusion.
    Mem 12.97 8 It sometimes occurs that Memory...volunteers or refuses its informations at its will...

refusing, v. (11)

    Tran 1.336 21 Jacobi, refusing all measure of right and wrong except the determinations of the private spirit, remarks that there is no crime but has sometimes been a virtue.
    PPh 4.74 18 When accused before the judges of subverting the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the soul, the future reward and punishment; and refusing to recant, in a caprice of the popular government was condemned to die...
    PNR 4.84 16 ...the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay [affirms Plato], is, to be governed by a worse man;...
    ET11 5.191 24 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and the linen-draper and the stationer were out of pocket and refusing to trust him...
    Imtl 8.338 10 I have a house, a closet which holds my books, a table, a garden, a field: are these...a reason for refusing the angel who beckons me away...
    MMEm 10.428 22 [Mary Moody Emerson] made up her shroud, and death still refusing to come...wore it as a night-gown, or a day-gown...
    EWI 11.104 5 ...if we saw...pregnant women set in the treadmill for refusing to work;...we too should wince.
    AsSu 11.250 1 I have heard that some of [Charles Sumner's] political friends tax him with indolence or negligence in refusing to make electioneering speeches...
    JBS 11.279 17 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...abstemious, refusing luxuries...
    TPar 11.292 27 ...refusing to spare himself, [Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave...
    PLT 12.36 3 [Pan's] habit was to dwell in mountains...refusing to speak...

refutation, n. (3)

    Hsm1 2.248 19 Each of [Plutarch's] Lives is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists.
    LLNE 10.356 20 Thoreau was in his own person a practical answer, almost a refutation, to the theories of the socialists.
    Bost 12.194 22 That [Christian] piety is a refutation of every skeptical doubt.

refute, v. (2)

    MoS 4.157 5 [The skeptic says] Why so talkative in public, when each of my neighbors can pin me to my seat by arguments I cannot refute?
    Milt1 12.251 2 ...the peroration [of Milton's Defence of the English People], in which he implores his countrymen to refute this adversary [Saumaise] by their great deeds, is in a just spirit.

refuted, v. (1)

    OA 7.321 14 The cynical creed or lampoon of the market is refuted by the universal prayer for long life...

regain, v. (2)

    Fdsp 2.208 11 A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. ... Among those who enjoy his thought he will regain his tongue.
    Bty 6.288 10 We fancy, could we pronounce the solving word and disenchant [beridden people]...they would regain their freedom.

Regained, Paradise [John M (1)

    Milt1 12.275 20 ...in Paradise Regained, we have the most distinct marks of the progress of the poet's mind...

regained, v. (1)

    Mem 12.99 4 ...there is strength in the wild horse which is never regained when he is once broken by training...

regaining, v. (1)

    Boks 7.198 3 ...in these days, when it is found...that we need not be alarmed though we should find it not dull, [Herodotus's history] is regaining credit.

regains, v. (1)

    F 6.37 11 [The animal]...regains its activity when its food is ready.

regal, adj. (4)

    SL 2.133 27 When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are...
    Hsm1 2.258 13 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...Hampden, teach us...that we, by the depth of our living, should deck [our life] with more than regal or national splendor...
    UGM 4.3 3 If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal it would not surprise us.
    PNR 4.87 6 The gods are [to Plato] the ideas. Pan is speech, or manifestation; Saturn, the contemplative; Jove, the regal soul;...

regaled, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.418 12 Could I [Mary Moody Emerson] at times be regaled with music, it would remind me that there are sounds.

regard, n. (68)

    Nat 1.59 12 I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man...
    Nat 1.67 24 ...we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
    MN 1.211 16 This ecstatical state seems to direct a regard to the whole, and not to the parts;...
    Con 1.325 7 Sooner or later all men will be my friends, and will testify in all methods the energy of their regard.
    SL 2.144 21 ...I will go to the man who knocks at my door, whilst a thousand persons as worthy go by it, to whom I give no regard.
    Lov1 2.186 12 ...that which drew [lovers] to each other was signs of loveliness, signs of virtue; and these virtues are there, however eclipsed. They appear and reappear and continue to attract; but the regard changes...
    Lov1 2.187 5 [Lovers'] once flaming regard is sobered by time in either breast...
    Prd1 2.237 9 ...in regard to disagreeable and formidable things, prudence does not consist in evasion or in flight, but in courage.
    Int 2.344 25 I were a fool not to sacrifice a thousand Aeschyluses to my intellectual integrity. Especially take the same ground in regard to abstract truth...
    Pt1 3.3 23 We were put into our bodies...but there is no accurate adjustment between the spirit and the organ, much less is the latter the germination of the former. So in regard to other forms, the intellectual men do not believe in any essential dependence of the material world on thought and volition.
    Pt1 3.15 8 No wonder then, if these waters be so deep, that we hover over them with a religious regard.
    Exp 3.56 20 ...thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular? The reason of the pain this discovery causes us...is the plaint of tragedy which murmurs from it in regard to persons, to friendship and love.
    Chr1 3.94 17 What means did you employ? was the question asked of the wife of Concini, in regard to her treatment of Mary of Medici;...
    NER 3.267 21 I pass to the indication in some particulars of that faith in man...which engages the more regard, from the consideration that the speculations of one generation are the history of the next following.
    PPh 4.69 22 [Plato] has the same regard to [wisdom] as the source of excellence in works of art.
    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.
    SwM 4.100 20 In Sweden [Swedenborg] appears to have attracted a marked regard.
    SwM 4.102 7 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century;...anticipated the views of modern astronomy in regard to the generation of earths by the sun;...
    SwM 4.139 16 For the anomalous pretension of Revelations of the other world,--only [Swedenborg's] probity and genius can entitle it to any serious regard.
    SwM 4.139 27 The teachings of the high Spirit are...in regard to particulars, negative.
    MoS 4.162 8 ...the personal regard which I entertain for Montaigne may be unduly great...
    ShP 4.195 10 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI....
    ShP 4.202 27 Ben Jonson, though we have strained his few words of regard and panegyric, had no suspicion of the elastic fame whose first vibrations [Shakespeare] was attempting.
    ShP 4.205 3 ...[the Shakspeare Society] have gleaned a few facts touching the property, and dealings in regard to property, of the poet [Shakespeare].
    NMW 4.238 25 It was a whimsical economy of the same kind which dictated [Bonaparte's] practice, when general in Italy, in regard to his burdensome correspondence.
    NMW 4.244 1 [Napoleon's] impatience at levity was...an oblique tribute of respect to those able persons who commanded his regard...
    ET11 5.175 8 ...I make no doubt that...baron, knight and tenant often had their memories refreshed, in regard to the service by which they held their lands.
    ET18 5.300 2 English principles means a primary regard to the interests of property.
    ET18 5.301 7 [The foreign policy of England] has a principal regard to the interest of trade...
    ET19 5.313 4 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so... I feel in regard to this aged England...
    DL 7.116 18 ...many things betoken a revolution of opinion and practice in regard to manual labor...
    Farm 7.143 22 Nature...has a forelooking tenderness and equal regard to the next and the next, and the fourth and the fortieth age.
    WD 7.179 11 ...we do not listen with the best regard to the verses of a man who is only a poet...
    Boks 7.215 20 The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party.
    Suc 7.288 21 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...
    SA 8.87 16 ...one word or two in regard to dress...
    QO 8.181 23 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology...
    Insp 8.289 22 ...in regard to some apparent trifles there is great agreement as to their annoyance.
    Grts 8.320 19 The man...in whom no regard of self degraded the adorer of the laws...he it is whom we seek...
    Chr2 10.102 15 Character denotes...habitual regard to interior and constitutional motives...
    Chr2 10.103 19 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests...are the homage we render to this sentiment, as compared with the lower regard we pay to other thoughts...
    Supl 10.175 6 In all the years that I have sat in town and forest, I never saw...a talking fish, but ever the strictest regard to rule...
    SovE 10.186 6 ...in mature life the moral element steadily rises in the regard of all reasonable men.
    SovE 10.202 12 In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference of opinion in regard to inspiration, prophecy...
    SovE 10.205 24 Worship is the regard for what is above us.
    SovE 10.207 25 If theology shows that opinions are fast changing, it is not so with the convictions of men with regard to conduct.
    Prch 10.231 25 ...it is impossible to pay no regard to the day's events...
    MoL 10.241 15 ...let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...in regard to the career of letters...
    Plu 10.314 20 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him...to...a regard for truth;...
    MMEm 10.431 7 That greatest of all gifts, however small my [Mary Moody Emerson's] power of receiving,-the capacity, the element to love the All-perfect, without regard to personal happiness:-happiness?-'t is itself.
    Thor 10.460 15 One man [John Brown], whose personal acquaintance he had formed, [Thoreau] honored with exceptional regard.
    Thor 10.481 14 [Thoreau] honored certain plants with special regard...
    HDC 11.40 27 We have records of marriages and deaths, beginning nineteen years after the settlement [of Concord]; and copies of some of the doings of the town in regard to territory, of the same date.
    HDC 11.42 8 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter, and...in regard of the ease of the East quarter above the rest, in their highways, they are to allow the North quarter 3 pounds.
    LVB 11.90 3 The interest always felt in the aboriginal population...has been heightened in regard to this tribe [Cherokee].
    LVB 11.92 14 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States, if only in its coarsest form, a regard to the speech of men,-forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact.
    JBB 11.267 10 ...this sudden interest in the hero of Harper's Ferry has provoked an extreme curiosity in all parts of the Republic, in regard to the details of his history.
    Koss 11.398 8 Sir [Kossuth], we have watched with attention...the unvarying tone and countenance which you have maintained. We wish to discriminate in our regard.
    SHC 11.432 26 Certainly the living need [a garden] more than the dead; indeed...it is given to the dead for the reaction of benefit on the living. But if the direct regard to the living be thought expedient, that is also in your power.
    Scot 11.463 6 If only as an eminent antiquary who has shed light on the history of Europe and of the English race, [Scott] had high claims to our regard.
    FRO2 11.487 15 ...we all agree that the health and integrity of man is...a regard to natural conscience.
    CPL 11.508 25 ...the whole assembly to whom I speak entirely sympathize in the feeling of this town [Concord] in regard to the new Library...
    FRep 11.521 13 John Quincy Adams was a man of an audacious independence that always kept the public curiosity alive in regard to what he might do.
    II 12.83 20 Many men are very slow in finding their vocation. It does not at once appear what they were made for. Nature has not made up her mind in regard to her young friend...
    CL 12.165 13 Swedenborg or Behman or Plato tried...to explain what rock, what sand, what wood, what fire signified in regard to man.
    MAng1 12.240 12 [Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome repeatedly to see [Michelangelo]. To her his sonnets are addressed; and they all breathe a chaste and divine regard, unparalleled in any amatory poetry except that of Dante and Petrarch.
    Milt1 12.249 11 ...[Milton] demands, on the instant, an ideal justice. Therein [his tracts] are discriminated from modern writings, in which a regard to the actual is all but universal.
    Let 12.392 13 ...in regard to the writer who has given us his speculations on Railroads and Air-roads, our correspondent shall have his own way.

regard, v. (23)

    Nat 1.49 10 It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind...to lead us to regard nature as phenomenon...
    Tran 1.334 6 [The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...and necessitating him to regard all things as having a subjective or relative existence...
    YA 1.370 10 ...I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen...
    SL 2.143 19 Let [a man] regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature...
    Fdsp 2.209 24 Leave it to girls and boys to regard a friend as property...
    Prd1 2.226 3 ...we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.
    Prd1 2.240 10 We are too old to regard fashion...
    Hsm1 2.260 24 A simple manly character...should regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion...
    Chr1 3.110 2 John Bradshaw, says Milton, appears like a consul...so that not on the tribunal only, but throughout his life, you would regard him as sitting in judgment upon kings.
    ET9 5.145 6 Swedenborg...notes...[the English] regard foreigners as one looking through a telescope from the top of a palace regards those who dwell or wander about out of the city.
    Dem1 10.17 6 ...[the belief in luck] is not the power...which we regard in passing laws...
    Chr2 10.91 7 [Morals] is that which all men profess to regard...
    Edc1 10.151 19 Is it not manifest...that...children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue? So to regard the young child, the young man, requires, no doubt, a rare patience...
    Prch 10.223 3 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws...and will regard natural history, private fortunes and politics, not for themselves, as we have done, but as illustrations of those laws...
    Prch 10.225 18 All wise men regard [the moral sentiment] as the voice of the Creator himself.
    LLNE 10.357 16 I regard these philanthropists as themselves the effects of the age in which we live...
    LLNE 10.368 22 Some of [the partners] had spent on [Brook Farm] the accumulations of years. I suppose they all, at the moment, regarded it as a failure. I do not think they can so regard it now...
    LVB 11.95 22 I will at least...show you [Van Buren] how plain and humane people, whose love would be honor, regard the policy of the government...
    War 11.174 2 I regard no longer those names that so tingled in my ear. [The man of principle] is a baron of a better nobility and a stouter stomach.
    Bost 12.201 8 The future historian will regard the detachment of the Puritans without aristocracy the supreme fortune of the colony;...
    Milt1 12.254 4 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton] who died a hundred and sixty years ago...
    ACri 12.289 9 ...George Sand finds a whole nation who regard [the Devil] as a personage who has been greatly wronged...
    Let 12.399 6 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class, who, whilst they regard these young Athenians with suspicion and dislike, educate their own children in the same courses...

regarded, v. (10)

    Nat 1.41 16 ...the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid.
    PPh 4.50 21 The whole world is but a manifestation of Vishnu [said Krishna], who...is to be regarded by the wise as not differing from, but as the same as themselves.
    CbW 6.278 20 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be regarded;...
    LLNE 10.368 21 Some of [the partners] had spent on [Brook Farm] the accumulations of years. I suppose they all, at the moment, regarded it as a failure.
    HDC 11.52 17 ...said [Tahattawan], all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they care for you? They took away your skins, your kettles and your wampum...and this was all they regarded.
    EWI 11.136 9 I was a slave, said the counsel of [George] Somerset, speaking for his client, for I was in America: I am now in a country where the common rights of mankind are known and regarded.
    Wom 11.424 14 All events of history are to be regarded as growths and offshoots of the expanding mind of the race...
    CInt 12.125 21 Piety comes to be regarded as a spy and a rebel.
    Milt1 12.267 10 [Wrote Milton] Albeit I must confess to be half in doubt whether I should bring it forth or no, it being so contrary to the eye of the world, that I shall endanger either not to be regarded, or not to be understood. For who is there, almost, that measures wisdom by simplicity...
    Milt1 12.278 15 [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] is to be regarded as a poem on one of the griefs of man's condition...

regarding, v. (1)

    PNR 4.80 19 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result.

regards, n. (10)

    Lov1 2.169 6 Nature...anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light.
    Lov1 2.185 6 The lovers delight...in comparisons of their regards.
    Fdsp 2.200 25 Let us not have this childish luxury in our regards...
    OS 2.296 25 [The soul saith] More and more the surges of everlasting nature enter into me, and I become public and human in my regards...
    Chr1 3.96 10 ...at how long a curve soever, all [a man's] regards return to his own good at last.
    ET18 5.301 14 Some public regards [the English] have.
    Chr2 10.108 4 ...So far the religion is now where it should be. Persons are discriminated...as helpful, as having public and universal regards, or otherwise;...
    SovE 10.194 26 Wondrous state of man! never so happy as when he has lost all private interests and regards...
    Plu 10.308 18 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher...to commend himself to men of public regards and ruling genius...
    II 12.66 10 None of the metaphysicians have prospered in describing this power [consciousness], which...is the corrector of private excesses and mistakes; public in all its regards...

regards, v. (4)

    Comp 2.101 6 ...the naturalist...regards a horse as a running man...
    Int 2.326 14 The intellect...floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact...
    ET9 5.145 8 Swedenborg...notes...[the English] regard foreigners as one looking through a telescope from the top of a palace regards those who dwell or wander about out of the city.
    ACri 12.300 2 Idealism regards the world as symbolic...

regatta, n. (2)

    ET4 5.53 26 We say, in a regatta or yacht-race, that if the boats are anywhere nearly matched, it is the man that wins.
    PerF 10.81 26 ...if we go to the regatta, we forget the bowler for the stroke oar;...

regenerated, v. (1)

    EdAd 11.392 23 The conscience of man is regenerated as is the atmosphere...

regenerates, v. (1)

    PC 8.211 24 ...a new and healthful air regenerates the human mind...

regeneration, n. (3)

    NER 3.261 24 It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and to conduct that in the best manner, than to make a sally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.
    LLNE 10.352 5 ...in spite of the assurances of [Fourierism's] friends that it was new and widely discriminated from all other plans for the regeneration of society, we could not exempt it from the criticism which we apply to so many project for reform...
    MLit 12.329 11 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] That all shall right itself in the long Morrow, I may well allow, and my novel [Wilhelm Meister] may wait for the same regeneration.

regenerative, adj. (1)

    LT 1.277 2 The young men who have been vexing society for these last years with regenerative methods seem to have made this mistake;...

regia, Victoria, n. (1)

    Thor 10.468 7 [Thoreau]...told me that he expected to find yet the Victoria regia in Concord.

regicide, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.159 1 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill; as when we learn...of the French regicide Carnot, his sublime genius in mathematics;...

regicides, n. (1)

    CbW 6.254 14 Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely...as the fanaticism of the French regicides of 1789.

regime, n. (1)

    ET18 5.307 19 France has abolished its suffocating old regime, but is not recently marked by any more wisdom or virtue.

regimen, n. (2)

    Wth 6.125 12 ...the estate of a man is only a larger kind of body, and admits of regimen analogous to his bodily circulations.
    DL 7.125 9 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea;... in a fifth, his new diet and regimen;...

Regiment, Fifth Massachuset (1)

    SMC 11.365 15 It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost unofficered.

Regiment, Fifty-ninth, n. (1)

    SMC 11.366 8 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, Lieutenant in this [Forty-seventh] regiment...went out again in August, 1864, a captain in the Fifty-ninth Massachustts...

Regiment, Fortieth, n. (1)

    SMC 11.366 21 In August, 1862...twelve men...were enlisted for three years, and, being soon after enrolled in the Fortieth Massachusetts, went to the war;...

Regiment, Forty-seventh, n. (1)

    SMC 11.365 27 This [old artillery] company, chiefly recruited here [in Concord], was later embodied in the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers...

Regiment, Massachusetts, Fo (1)

    HCom 11.344 7 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard.

Regiment, Massachusetts, Th (1)

    SMC 11.376 13 ...I do not like to omit the testimony to the character of the Commander of the Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment [George Prescott]...

regiment, n. (31)

    Con 1.323 8 In the civil wars of France, Montaigne alone, among all the French gentry...made his personal integrity as good at least as a regiment.
    NR 3.240 12 A new poet has appeared; a new character approached us; why should we refuse to eat bread until we have found his regiment and section in our old army-files?
    NMW 4.234 11 Sire, every regiment that approaches the heavy artillery is sacrificed: Sire, what orders?
    NMW 4.236 8 To a regiment of horse-chasseurs at Lobenstein...Napoleon said, My lads, you must not fear death;...
    PI 8.46 1 In society you have this figure [of rhyme]...in a regiment of soldiers in uniform.
    SA 8.83 15 One man can, by his voice, lead the cheer of a regiment; another will have no following.
    SA 8.105 17 [Sentimentalists] have, they tell you, an intense love of Nature; poetry,--O, they adore poetry...and the cavalry regiment and the governor;...
    Res 8.144 2 At Annapolis a regiment, hastening to join the army, found the locomotives broken, the railroad destroyed, and no rails.
    War 11.166 13 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...the marching regiment would be a caravan of emigrants...
    ACiv 11.305 13 ...next winter we must begin at the beginning, and conquer [the South] over again. What use then...to capture a regiment of rebels?
    HCom 11.344 14 One mother said, when her son was offered the command of the first negro regiment, If he accepts it, I shall be as proud as if I had heard that he was shot.
    SMC 11.363 27 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching orders came.
    SMC 11.364 26 [George Prescott writes] I told Lieutenant Bowers, this morning, that I could afford to be sick from bringing the tent-poles, for it saved the whole regiment from sleeping out-doors;...
    SMC 11.365 6 [George Prescott] had the satisfaction to see the whole regiment enjoying the protection of these tents.
    SMC 11.366 5 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, lieutenant in this [Forty-seventh] regiment...went out again in August, 1864...
    SMC 11.366 10 The regiment [Fifty-ninth Massachusetts] being formed of veterans, and in fields requiring great activity and exposure, suffered extraordinary losses;...
    SMC 11.366 23 ...a very good account has been heard, not only of the [Fortieth] regiment, but of the talents and virtues of these men.
    SMC 11.368 7 ...the [Thirty-second] regiment did good service at Harrison' s Landing...
    SMC 11.368 18 Colonel Prescott's regiment went in [to the battle of Gettysburg] with two hundred and ten men, nineteen officers.
    SMC 11.369 3 I feel, [George Prescott] writes, I have much to be thankful for that my life is spared, although I would willingly die to have the regiment do as well as they have done.
    SMC 11.370 1 After Gettysburg, Colonel Prescott remarks that our [Thirty-second] regiment is highly complimented.
    SMC 11.370 5 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment: it always was a good regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone.
    SMC 11.370 16 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods. This order was communicated to Colonel Prescott, whose regiment was then under the hottest fire.
    SMC 11.371 17 On the twelfth [of May], at Laurel Hill, the [Thirty-second] regiment had twenty-one killed and seventy-five wounded...
    SMC 11.371 19 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and centre since the battle begun...
    SMC 11.372 5 On the thirtieth, we learn, our regiment [the Thirty-second] has never been in the second line since we crossed the Rapidan, on the third.
    SMC 11.372 25 ...from these incessant labors there was now to be rest for one head,-the honored and beloved commander [George Prescott] of the [Thirty-second] regiment.
    SMC 11.373 16 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and comrades, a sergeant in his regiment, writing to his own family, uses these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle.
    SMC 11.373 22 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and comrades...uses these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle. He did not fight for glory, honor, nor money, but because he thought it his duty. These are not my feelings only, but of the whole regiment.
    SMC 11.374 7 On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry...
    SMC 11.374 18 ...the [Thirty-second] regiment was mustered out in the field, at Washington, on the twenty-eighth of June...

Regiment, Ninth, n. (1)

    SMC 11.370 2 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone.

Regiment, Thirty-second, n. (6)

    SMC 11.367 3 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], and they formed part of the Thirty-second Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers.
    SMC 11.368 15 At the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863, the brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part, was in line of battle seventy-two hours...
    SMC 11.370 5 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone.
    SMC 11.371 1 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service at Rappahannock Station;...
    SMC 11.373 24 On the first of January, 1865, the Thirty-second Regiment made itself comfortable in log huts...
    SMC 11.374 15 The brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed part was detailed to receive the formal surrender of the rebel arms.

regimental, adj. (1)

    SMC 11.365 9 ...the regimental officers believed...that the misfortunes of the day [battle of Bull Run] were not so much owing to the fault of the troops as to the insufficiency of the combinations by the general officers.

regiments, n. (4)

    ET6 5.103 11 ...drill of regiments, drill of police...have operated [in England] to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of men.
    Thor 10.482 26 I put on some hemlock-boughs, and the rich salt crackling of their leaves was like mustard to the ear, the crackling of uncountable regiments.
    ACiv 11.303 7 Better the war...should...punish us with burned capitals and slaughtered regiments, and so...exasperate our nationality.
    SMC 11.365 18 It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost unofficered. The colonel was, early in the day, disabled by a casualty; the lieutenant-colonel, the major and the adjutant were already transferred to new regiments...

region, n. (39)

    Nat 1.56 22 We ascend into their region, and know that these are the thoughts of the Supreme Being.
    Nat 1.57 7 Yet all men are capable of being raised by piety or by passion, into [ideas'] region.
    YA 1.365 20 ...it now appears that we must estimate the native values of this broad region to redress the balance of our own judgments...
    YA 1.386 15 Where is he who seeing a thousand men...making the whole region forlorn by their inaction...does not hear his call to go and be their king?
    YA 1.392 7 ...after all the deduction is made for our frivolities and insanities, there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...which offers opportunity to the human mind not known in any other region.
    SR 2.74 4 ...all persons have their moments...when they look out into the region of absolute truth;...
    OS 2.275 12 This is the law of moral and of mental gain. The simple rise as by specific levity not into a particular virtue, but into the region of all the virtues.
    Pt1 3.8 7 ...whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down...
    Exp 3.62 16 The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.
    Exp 3.71 12 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life.
    Exp 3.71 13 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...
    UGM 4.33 4 The study of many individuals leads us to an elemental region wherein the individual is lost...
    SwM 4.93 20 ...there is a class who lead us into another region,--the world of morals and of will.
    SwM 4.93 21 What is singular about this region of thought [the world of morals and of will] is its claim.
    SwM 4.94 19 The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a region of grandeur which reduces all material magnificence to toys...
    ET14 5.251 4 ...if, going out of the region of dogma, we pass into that of general culture, there is no end to the graces and amenities, wit, sensibility and erudition of the learned class [in England].
    F 6.27 21 I know not whether there be...in the upper region of our atmosphere, a permanent westerly current...
    Wth 6.114 22 We had in this region, twenty years ago, among our educated men, a sort of Arcadian fanaticism...
    Ill 6.316 3 Too pathetic, too pitiable, is the region of affection...
    Boks 7.204 15 I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
    PI 8.66 16 I have heard that there is a hope which precedes and must precede all science of the visible or the invisible world; and that science is the realization of that hope in either region.
    Dem1 10.9 5 We are let by this experience [of dreams] into the high region of Cause...
    Dem1 10.21 21 The best are never demoniacal or magnetic; leave this limbo to the Prince of the power of the air. The lowest angel is better. It is the height of the animal; below the region of the divine.
    Dem1 10.22 14 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts. What more facile than to project this exuberant selfhood into the region where individuality is forever bounded by generic and cosmical laws?
    Supl 10.166 16 I hear without sympathy the complaint of young and ardent persons that they find life no region of romance...
    Supl 10.170 6 The farmers in the region do not call particular summits... mountains, but only them 'ere rises...
    Schr 10.281 16 Body and its properties belong to the region of nonentity...
    LLNE 10.325 18 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following.
    LLNE 10.335 14 By a series of lectures largely and fashionably attended for two winters in Boston [Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results.
    Thor 10.467 14 As [Thoreau] knew the river, so the ponds in this region.
    GSt 10.503 22 Every important patriotic measure in this region has had [George Stearns's] sympathy...
    HDC 11.85 3 [Concord's] sons have settled the region around us, and far from us.
    War 11.167 4 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...
    FSLC 11.205 2 It is neither praise nor blame to say that [Webster] has no moral perception, no moral sentiment, but in that region-to use the phrase of the phrenologists-a hole in the head.
    EdAd 11.384 5 ...the train...shows our traveller what tens of thousands of powerful and weaponed men...sit at large in this ample region...
    WSL 12.341 15 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature.
    Pray 12.357 5 ...thou [God] didst beat back my weak sight upon myself... and I found myself to be far off, and even in the very region of dissimilitude from thee.
    Trag 12.410 9 ...all sorrow dwells in a low region.
    Trag 12.417 5 ...the intellect in its purity and the moral sense in its purity... both ravish us into a region whereunto these passionate clouds of sorrow cannot rise.

regions, n. (19)

    Nat 1.70 8 A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought...
    Hist 2.22 9 The nomads of Africa were constrained to wander, by the attacks of the gad-fly, which drives the cattle mad, and so compels the tribe...to drive off the cattle to the higher sandy regions.
    Hist 2.39 10 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the opening of new sciences and new regions in man.
    SR 2.84 5 Abide in the simple and noble regions of thy life...
    Fdsp 2.213 6 ...a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal power, souls are now acting... which can love us and which we can love.
    OS 2.268 11 When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I am a pensioner;...
    Mrs1 3.120 6 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into countries where the purchaser and consumer can hardly be ranked in one race with these cannibals and man-stealers;...
    Mrs1 3.150 18 The wonderful generosity of her sentiments raises [woman] at times into heroical and godlike regions...
    Nat2 3.183 23 A man does not tie his shoe without recognizing laws which bind the farthest regions of nature...
    UGM 4.16 16 Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions...
    PPh 4.58 17 Horsed on these winged steeds [poetry, prophecy, high insight], [Plato] sweeps the dim regions...
    Civ 7.26 8 ...some of our grandest examples of men and of races come from the equatorial regions...
    Boks 7.203 17 The reader of these books [of the Platonists] makes new acquaintance with his own mind; new regions of thought are opened.
    Insp 8.267 1 That flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me.
    MoL 10.243 21 The subtle Hindoo...produced the wonderful epics of which, in the present century, the translations have added new regions to thought.
    LLNE 10.349 24 The Desert of Sahara, the Campagna di Roma, the frozen Polar circles, which by their pestilential or hot or cold airs poison the temperate regions, accuse man.
    SlHr 10.446 11 ...if there were regions of knowledge not open to [Samuel Hoar], he did not pretend to them.
    FSLN 11.218 26 There is, no doubt, chaff enough in what [the newsboy] brings; but there is fact, thought, and wisdom in the crude mass, from all regions of the world.
    Pray 12.354 4 The next [prayer] is in a metrical form. It is the aspiration of a different mind, in quite other regions of power and duty...

Register, Annual, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.217 6 Malthus and Ricardo quite omit [character]; the Annual Register is silent;...

Register [Luke Hansard], n. (1)

    ET12 5.201 21 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses...is...as much a national monument as Purchas's Pilgrims or Hansard's Register.

register, n. (4)

    ET8 5.140 21 The wrath of London...has a long memory, and, in its hottest heat, a register and rule.
    Ctr 6.154 7 What is odious but...people...who toast their feet on the register...
    Thor 10.471 17 ...[Thoreau's] memory was a photographic register of all he saw and heard.
    War 11.163 10 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...

registered, adj. (1)

    ET2 5.29 21 ...the registered observations of a few hundred years find [the land] in a perpetual tilt...

registered, v. (4)

    MoS 4.173 18 [Doubts and negations] will never be so formidable when once they have been identified and registered.
    ET2 5.28 1 Our ship was registered 750 tons...
    EWI 11.112 9 The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as apprenticed laborers...
    PLT 12.41 7 Every new impression on the mind is...to be accounted for, and, until accounted for, registered as an indisputable addition to our catalogue of natural facts.

registers, n. (1)

    WSL 12.341 26 A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers of the House of Fame...

registers, v. (1)

    ShP 4.202 9 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses the object on which...all eyes are turned; the care with which it registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth and King James...

registration, n. (1)

    QO 8.195 19 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in...Hallam, or other historian of literature. Their registration of his book...carries the sentimental value of a college diploma.

Regius Professor of Divinit (1)

    ET12 5.199 12 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford, where I had introductions to Dr. Daubeny...and to the Regius Professor of Divinity [William Jacobson]...

regnancy, n. (1)

    PPh 4.76 7 ...[Plato's] writings have not,--what is no doubt incident to this regnancy of intellect in his work,--the vital authority which the screams of prophets...possess.

regnant, adj. (2)

    Elo1 7.93 12 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness...and the orator stands before the people as a demoniacal power...
    Farm 7.135 17 So, year by year,/ [Farmers] fight the elements with elements,/ And by the order in the field disclose/ The order regnant in the yeoman's brain./

Regnar, King, Lodbrok, n. (1)

    PI 8.57 26 An intrepid magniloquence appears in all the bards, as:--The whole ocean flamed as one wound. King Regnar Lodbrok.

Regnard, Jean Francois, n. (1)

    CbW 6.261 25 Aesop, Saadi, Cervantes, Regnard...know the realities of human life.

regret, n. (10)

    Exp 3.82 16 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold. The face of the god expresses a shade of regret and compassion, but is calm with the conviction of the irreconcilableness of the two spheres.
    SwM 4.110 23 I own with some regret that [Swedenborg's] printed works amount to about fifty stout octavos...
    Elo1 7.62 17 ...the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
    Imtl 8.329 25 A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he said;...
    SlHr 10.448 1 [Samuel Hoar] had a huge respect for Mr. Webster's ability... and a proportionately deep regret at Mr. Webster's political course in his later years.
    Thor 10.457 3 I said [to Thoreau]...who does not see with regret that his page is not solid with a right materialistic treatment, which delights everybody?
    FSLN 11.243 11 I [Robert Winthrop] give you my word, not without regret, that I was first for you;...
    SMC 11.348 9 Felt they no pang of passionate regret/ For those unsolid goods that seem so much our own?/
    Milt1 12.276 6 Shall we say that in our admiration and joy in these wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have even a feeling of regret that the men knew not what they did;...
    PPr 12.387 8 ...if you should ask the contemporary, he would tell you, with pride or with regret...that he had [no superstitions].

regret, v. (17)

    AmS 1.110 2 I look upon the discontent of the literary class as a mere announcement of the fact that they...regret the coming state as untried;...
    MR 1.235 21 Who could regret to see a high conscience...exercising a sensible effect on young men in their choice of occupation...
    SR 2.78 10 Regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer;...
    Fdsp 2.215 20 ...next week I shall have languid moods...then I shall regret the lost literature of your mind...
    Hsm1 2.260 26 A simple manly character...should regard its past action with the calmness of Phocion, when he admitted that the event of the battle was happy, yet did not regret his dissuasion from the battle.
    ET12 5.199 5 I regret that I had but a single day wherein to see King's College Chapel [Cambridge]...
    CbW 6.259 22 The wise workman will not regret the poverty or the solitude which brought out his working talents.
    SA 8.107 11 We have much to regret, much to mend, in our society;...
    Plu 10.316 27 I can almost regret that the learned editor of the present republication [of Plutarch's Morals] has not preserved...the preface of Mr. Morgan...
    Plu 10.317 26 If I do not lament that a work not [Plutarch's] should be ascribed to him, I regret that he should have suffered such destruction of his own.
    EzRy 10.388 23 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me. I regret very much the causes (which you know very well) which make it impossible for me to ask you to stay and break bread with us.
    Thor 10.480 17 ...I so much regret the loss of [Thoreau's] rare powers of action, that I cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition.
    FSLC 11.201 15 The fairest American fame ends in this filthy [Fugitive Slave] law. Mr. Webster cannot choose but regret his law.
    AKan 11.255 1 I regret, with all this company, the absence of Mr. Whitman of Kansas...
    Shak1 11.447 21 We [The Saturday Club] regret also the absence of our members Sumner and Motley.
    Bost 12.201 3 European critics regret the detachment of the Puritans to this country without aristocracy;...
    Milt1 12.250 8 The lover of [Milton's] genius will always regret that he should [when writing the Defence of the English People] not have taken counsel of his own lofty heart at this, as at other times...

regrets, n. (7)

    LE 1.163 9 ...in the regrets at want of vigor;...behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
    YA 1.395 12 ...we shall quickly enough advance out of all hearing of others' censures, out of all regrets of our own...
    SR 2.78 8 Another sort of false prayers are our regrets.
    Fdsp 2.216 10 Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver [of friendship] is not capacious?
    UGM 4.22 22 ...a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.
    Let 12.397 9 Regrets and Bohemian castles and aesthetic villages are not a very self-helping class of productions...
    Trag 12.405 6 The conversation of men is a mixture of regrets and apprehensions.

regrets, v. (2)

    LE 1.183 18 The scholar regrets to damp the hope of ingenuous boys;...
    ET14 5.257 9 One regrets that [Wordsworth's] temperament was not more liquid and musical.

regretted, v. (2)

    Thor 10.477 23 ...the same isolation which belonged to his original thinking and living detached [Thoreau] from the social religious forms. This is neither to be censured nor regretted.
    MAng1 12.229 9 Sculpture, [Michelangelo] called his art, and to it he regretted he had not singly given himself.

regular, adj. (6)

    Hist 2.33 24 ...although that poem [Goethe's Helena] be as vague and fantastic as a dream, yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author...
    SL 2.133 2 The regular course of studies...have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.
    NER 3.260 2 ...the self-made men took even ground at once with the oldest of the regular graduates...
    GoW 4.280 24 In England and in America there is a respect for talent; if it is exerted in support of any ascertained or intelligible interest or party, or in regular opposition to any, the public is satisfied.
    Pow 6.78 2 Basil Hall likes to show that the worst regular troops will beat the best volunteers.
    SMC 11.371 27 Every day, for the last eight days, there has been a terrible battle the whole length of the line. One day they drove us; but it has been regular bull-dog fighting.

regularity, n. (1)

    ET6 5.103 13 ...rule of court and shop-rule have operated [in England] to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of men.

regulate, v. (2)

    Clbs 7.245 20 It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance.
    EWI 11.121 14 ...every man's position [in Jamaica] is settled by the same circumstances which regulate that point in other free countries...

regulated, adj. (1)

    PPo 8.246 11 Harems and wine-shops only give [Hafiz] a new ground of observation, whence to draw sometimes a deeper moral than regulated sober life affords...

regulated, v. (2)

    F 6.37 8 The long sleep...is regulated by the supply of food proper to the animal.
    EWI 11.113 21 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters...20,000,000 pounds sterling...to be distributed to the owners of slaves by commissioners, whose appointment and duties were regulated by the Act [of emancipation].

regulates, v. (1)

    SL 2.138 23 ...a higher law than that of our will regulates events;...

regulating, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.129 4 Lord Ashley, in 1696, while the bill for regulating trials in cases of high treason was pending, attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...

regulation, n. (2)

    NR 3.247 21 ...if there could be any regulation...that a man should never leave his point of view without sound of trumpet.
    SovE 10.210 6 ...there are the new conventions of social science, before which the questions of...regulation of labor, come for a hearing.

regulative, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.36 22 The action of the Instinct is for the most part...regulative...

regulator, n. (3)

    MR 1.248 26 The power which is at once spring and regulator in all efforts of reform is the conviction that there is an infinite worthiness in man...
    Wsp 6.204 8 Nature has...certain proportions in which oxygen and azote combine, and not less a harmony in faculties, a fitness in the spring and the regulator.
    CbW 6.259 9 Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Regulus, n. (1)

    Cour 7.253 21 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown of the heroes of Greece and Rome...of Quintus Curtius, Cato and Regulus;...

rehabilitation, n. (1)

    PLT 12.28 5 In this eternal resurrection and rehabilitation of transitory persons, who and what are they?

rehearse, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.42 4 ...thou [O poet] shalt not be able to rehearse the names of thy friends in thy verse, for an old shame before the holy ideal.

rehearsed, v. (3)

    DL 7.120 12 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...the school declamation faithfully rehearsed at home...
    Res 8.148 27 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire. The children never suspect...that this unfailing fertility has been rehearsed a hundred times...
    II 12.84 15 Men go through the world each musing on a great fable dramatically pictured and rehearsed before him.

reign, n. (12)

    ET7 5.119 6 [The English] read gladly in old Fuller that a lady in the reign of Elizabeth, would have as patiently digested a lie, as the wearing of false stones...
    ET11 5.192 4 The Selwyn correspondence, in the reign of George III., discloses a rottenness in the aristocracy which threatened to decompose the state.
    ET11 5.192 15 In the reign of the Fourth George, things do not seem to have mended [in England]...
    ET11 5.192 22 Under the present reign the perfect decorum of the Court is thought to have put a check on the gross vices of the [English] aristocracy;...
    ET12 5.200 23 In the reign of Edward I., it is pretended, here [at Oxford] were thirty thousand students;...
    CbW 6.253 24 In the twenty-fourth year of his reign [Edward I] decreed that no tax should be levied without consent of Lords and Commons;...
    PC 8.233 23 ...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society,-not a believer within the Church, and almost not a theist out of it. In England the like spiritual disease affected the upper class in the time of Charles II., and down into the reign of the Georges.
    PPo 8.242 3 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Jamschid, the binder of demons, whose reign lasted seven hundred years;...
    LLNE 10.351 16 ...it is not to be doubted but that in the reign of Attractive Industry all men will speak in blank verse.
    EWI 11.137 11 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. On the other part, appeared the reign of pounds and shillings...
    War 11.175 18 ...the mind, once prepared for the reign of principles, will easily find modes of expressing its will.
    JBB 11.272 20 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple as to believe that when a United States Court in Virginia, now, in its present reign of terror, sends to Connecticut...for a witness, it wants him for a witness?

Reign of Terror, n. (1)

    Hist 2.10 24 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before a French Reign of Terror...

reign, v. (2)

    Nat 1.9 26 Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign...
    SA 8.106 12 Would we codify the laws that should reign in households...we must learn to adorn every day with sacrifices.

reigned, v. (2)

    PI 8.61 12 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] Whilst I served King Arthur, I was well known by you, and by other barons, but because I have left the court, I am...put in forgetfulness, which I ought not to be if faith reigned in the world.
    AKan 11.262 17 Every man throughout the country [California] was armed with knife and revolver, and it was known that instant justice would be administered to each offence, and perfect peace reigned.

reigning, adj. (4)

    LE 1.159 20 ...a complaisance to reigning schools...must not defraud me of supreme possession of this hour.
    Tran 1.350 10 A great man will be content to have indicated in any the slightest manner his perception of the reigning Idea of his time...
    ET14 5.256 16 ...if I should count the poets who have contributed to the Bible of existing England sentences of guidance and consolation which are still glowing and effective,--how few! Shall I find my heavenly bread in the reigning poets?
    MLit 12.320 13 The fame of Wordsworth is a leading fact in modern literature, when it is considered how hostile his genius at first seemed to the reigning taste...

reigning, v. (2)

    War 11.164 17 Observe the ideas of the present day...see...how timber, brick, lime and stone have flown into convenient shape, obedient to the master-idea reigning in the minds of many persons.
    AKan 11.260 20 Is it to be supposed that there are no men in Carolina who dissent from the popular sentiment now reigning there?

reigns, n. (1)

    Cour 7.258 24 The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity...

reigns, v. (6)

    GoW 4.286 10 This idea [that a man exists for culture] reigns in [Goethe's] Dichtung und Wahrheit...
    Art2 7.51 14 ...a certain analogy reigns throughout the wonders of both [Nature and works of art];...
    Art2 7.52 22 Herein we have an explanation of the necessity that reigns in all the kingdom of Art. Arising out of eternal Reason...whatever is beautiful rests on the foundation of the necessary.
    WD 7.174 13 An everlasting Now reigns in Nature...
    Schr 10.263 4 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...expressors themselves of that firm and cheerful temper...which reigns through the kingdoms of chemistry, vegetation and animal life.
    MAng1 12.219 4 ...Beauty is thus an abstraction of the harmony and proportion that reigns in all Nature...

reimburse, v. (1)

    LE 1.156 23 Men looked...that nature...should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans...

reinforce, v. (11)

    MN 1.193 13 ...the scholar...must reinforce man against himself.
    SR 2.54 16 Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
    OS 2.280 19 ...[the soul] also reveals truth. And here we should seek to reinforce ourselves by its very presence...
    Ctr 6.160 16 ...culture must reinforce from higher influx the empirical skills of eloquence, or of politics...
    Bhr 6.193 2 It is sublime to feel and say of another...we need not reinforce ourselves...
    SS 7.13 25 The remedy is to reinforce each of these moods from the other.
    QO 8.193 25 ...a quick wit can at any time reinforce [a word]...
    Aris 10.66 4 ...the American who would serve his country...must reinforce himself by the power of character...
    PerF 10.69 16 Art is long, and life short, and [a man] must supply this disproportion by borrowing and applying to his task the energies of Nature. Reinforce his self-respect...
    Supl 10.178 26 ...Nature...makes these two tendencies [of the East and the West] necessary each to the other, and delights to reinforce each peculiarity by imparting the other.
    HDC 11.79 6 In June [1776], the General Assembly of Massachusetts resolved to raise 5000 militia for six months, to reinforce the Continental army.

reinforced, v. (7)

    LT 1.281 12 By new infusions alone of the spirit by which he is made and directed, can [man] be re-made and reinforced.
    Mrs1 3.129 4 The city would have died out, rotted and exploded, long ago, but that it was reinforced from the fields.
    ET10 5.157 12 [The English] have reinforced their own productivity by the creation of that marvellous machinery which differences this age from any other age.
    Elo1 7.95 22 ...the slight yet sufficient party organization [the resistance to slavery] offered, reinforced the city with new blood from the woods and mountains.
    SA 8.82 26 An intellectual man...is instantly reinforced by being put into the company of scholars...
    Insp 8.270 27 In happy moments [thought] is reinforced...
    PLT 12.13 8 Metaphysics must be perpetually reinforced by life;...

reinforcement, n. (1)

    HDC 11.73 23 This little battalion [of minute-men]...retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river, to wait for reinforcement.

reinforces, v. (3)

    OA 7.324 25 To insure the existence of the race, [Nature] reinforces the sexual instinct...
    SA 8.105 8 [This flame of desire] reinforces the heart that feels it...
    EWI 11.137 24 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies].

reinforcing, v. (2)

    Elo1 7.92 10 For the triumphs of the art [of eloquence] somewhat more must still be required, namely a reinforcing of man from events...
    Prch 10.224 5 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent...from self-activity of talents...to the controlling and reinforcing of talents...

reins, n. (6)

    SL 2.142 2 Somewhere, not only every orator but every man should let out all the length of all the reins;...
    Pt1 3.27 11 ...the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse's neck...
    ET18 5.303 13 In the island [England], they never let out all the length of all the reins...
    Edc1 10.143 27 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion:- Would you verily throw up the reins of public and private discipline;...
    LLNE 10.333 3 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy.
    Trag 12.411 22 [A man...should keep as much as possible the reins in his own hands...

reinstated, v. (2)

    Exp 3.67 13 To-morrow again...the habitual standards are reinstated...
    PC 8.214 18 It is one of our triumphs to have reinstated [the Middle Ages].

reinstates, v. (1)

    CL 12.156 4 ...a view from a cliff over a wide country...reinstates us wronged men in our rights.

re-invented, v. (1)

    QO 8.179 3 The Patent-Office Commissioner knows that all machines in use have been invented and re-invented over and over;...

reiterate, v. (1)

    Art1 2.368 10 It is in vain that we look for genius to reiterate its miracles in the old arts;...

reiterated, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.204 10 A friend...is a sort of paradox in nature. I...who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being...reiterated in a foreign form;...

reiterates, v. (1)

    Tran 1.333 23 ...[the idealist] does not respect government, except as far as it reiterates the law of his mind;...

reject, v. (16)

    DSA 1.127 5 What [another soul] announces, I must find true in me, or reject;...
    Tran 1.357 9 ...[the strong spirits]...only by implication reject the clamorous nonsense of the hour.
    Hist 2.39 16 [Each man] shall...bring with him into humble cottages...all the recorded benefits of heaven and earth. Is there somewhat overweening in this claim? Then I reject all I have written...
    SL 2.145 1 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards. ... Let them have their weight, and do not reject them...
    Lov1 2.170 1 The delicious fancies of youth reject the least savor of a mature philosophy...
    Art1 2.367 11 [Men] reject life as prosaic...
    NER 3.276 22 Dear to us are those who love us;...but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy...
    MoS 4.171 14 ...men rightly...reject the reformer so long as he comes only with axe and crowbar.
    MoS 4.171 18 ...we...reject a sour, dumpish unbelief...
    ET5 5.82 4 ...[Englishmen] want a working plan...and will...reject all preconceived theories.
    Wsp 6.237 18 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of person he is, and whether he belongs among them. They do not receive him, they do not reject him.
    SS 7.14 2 Conversation will not corrupt us if we come to the assembly... with the energy of health to select what is ours and reject what is not.
    Aris 10.60 18 That highest good of rational existence is always coming to such as reject mean alliances.
    SovE 10.205 6 To a self-denying, ardent church, delighting in rites and ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race...and the more intellectual reject every yoke of authority and custom with a petulance unprecedented.
    Prch 10.235 9 ...emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject;...
    Schr 10.268 17 ...I prefer no action to misaction, and I reject the abusive application of the term practical to those lower activities.

rejected, adj. (2)

    SR 2.45 23 In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts;...
    SL 2.129 3 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ Quarrying man's rejected hours,/ Builds there with eternal towers;/...

rejected, v. (9)

    GoW 4.275 19 In optics again [Goethe] rejected the artificial theory of seven colors...
    ET18 5.300 26 During the Australian emigration [from England], multitudes were rejected by the commissioners as being too emaciated for useful colonists.
    Suc 7.293 27 ...Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected;...
    Plu 10.317 18 I know that the chapter of Apothegms of Noble Commanders is rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of Plutarch;...
    EzRy 10.386 20 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer; but the Doctor...ejected his offer with some humor...
    SlHr 10.438 5 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends. He rejected the advice...
    EWI 11.114 13 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In the island of Antigua...these objections had such weight that the legislature rejected the apprenticeship system...
    TPar 11.287 17 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when, to the irresistible march of opinion, the forms still retained by the most advanced sects showed loose and lifeless, and he, with something less of affectionate attachment to the old, or with more vigorous logic, rejected them.
    MLit 12.323 23 All conventions, all traditions [Goethe] rejected.

rejecting, v. (3)

    Con 1.305 6 ...you cannot...attain liberty without rejecting obligation...
    PI 8.66 5 In poetry, said Goethe, only the really great and pure advances us, and this exists as a second nature, either elevating us to itself, or rejecting us.
    LS 11.6 10 This material fact, that the occasion [the Last Supper] was to be remembered, is found in Luke alone, who was not present. There is no reason, however, that we know, for rejecting the account of Luke.

rejection, n. (9)

    LT 1.282 9 Our Religion assumes the negative form of rejection.
    Tran 1.357 3 [The Transcendentalist's] strength and spirits are wasted in rejection.
    SR 2.74 6 The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard...
    SR 2.74 7 The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard...
    SL 2.144 1 A man's genius...the selection of what is fit for him, the rejection of what is unfit, determines for him the character of the universe.
    Suc 7.309 14 Don't waste yourself in rejection...
    Prch 10.227 16 Be not betrayed into undervaluing the churches which annoy you by their bigoted claims. They too were real churches. They answered to their times the same need as your rejection of them does to ours.
    CInt 12.124 13 ...there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges, which is as old as the rejection of Moliere by the French Academy...
    CInt 12.124 16 ...there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges, which is as old as the rejection...of Bentley by the pedants of his time, and only the other day, of Arago; in Oxford, the recent rejection of Max Muller.

rejects, v. (3)

    AmS 1.93 14 The discerning will read, in his...Shakspeare...only the authentic utterances of the oracle; - all the rest he rejects...
    Ctr 6.157 22 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic.
    Bty 6.291 3 ...our taste in building rejects paint, and all shifts...

rejoice, v. (12)

    MR 1.252 21 We do not greet [the laborers'] talents, nor rejoice in their good fortune...
    LT 1.264 20 I think that only is real which men love and rejoice in;...
    Comp 2.123 10 ...there is no tax on the knowledge that the compensation exists, and that it is not desirable to dig up treasure. Herein I rejoice with a serene eternal peace.
    Fdsp 2.191 9 How many we...sit with in church, whom, though silently, we warmly rejoice to be wth!
    Gts 3.162 23 Some violence I think is done, some degradation borne, when I rejoice or grieve at a gift.
    ET13 5.224 21 Abroad with my wife, writes Pepys piously, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach; which do make my heart rejoice and praise God...
    PI 8.68 14 The poet should rejoice if he has taught us to despise his song;...
    MMEm 10.416 12 Later [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: Could I have those hours in which in fresh youth I said, To obey God is joy, though there were no hereafter, I should rejoice, though returning to dust.
    MMEm 10.416 20 ...the simple principle which made me [Mary Moody Emerson] say...that, should He make me a blot on the fair face of his Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never been equalled...
    LS 11.24 19 I am content that [the Lord's Supper] stand to the end of the world...and I shall rejoice in all the good it produces.
    CPL 11.506 11 [Kepler writes] ...I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice;...
    Pray 12.352 5 When my long-attached friend comes to me...I rejoice to pass my eyes over his countenance;...

rejoiced, v. (3)

    OA 7.332 17 [John Adams]...said: I am rejoiced, because the nation is happy.
    Insp 8.282 14 One of the best facts I know in metaphysical science is Neibuhr's joyful record that after his genius for interpreting history had failed him for several years, this divination returned to him. As this rejoiced me, so does Herbert's poem The Flower.
    CPL 11.500 18 No man would have rejoiced more than [Thoreau] in the event of this day [the opening of the Concord Library].

rejoices, v. (5)

    AmS 1.106 24 What a testimony, full of grandeur, full of pity, is borne to the demands of his own nature, by...the poor partisan, who rejoices in the glory of his chief.
    SR 2.73 14 ...I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me...
    Ctr 6.147 25 ...a man witnessing the admirable effect of ether to lull pain... rejoices in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery...
    Thor 10.449 1 A queen rejoices in her peers,/ And wary Nature knows her own,/ By court and city, dale and down,/ And like a lover volunteers/...
    WSL 12.343 7 If rhyme rejoices us, there should be rhyme...

rejoicing, v. (4)

    Nat 1.37 9 ...what rejoicing over us of little men;...
    Pt1 3.21 22 ...the poet is the Namer or Language-maker...giving to every [thing] its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect...
    FSLC 11.184 26 Here are humane people who have tears for misery, an open purse for want; who should have been the defenders of the poor man, are found his embittered enemies, rejoicing in his rendition,-merely from party ties.
    Milt1 12.258 11 [Milton says] In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out...and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

rejoicings, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.242 12 ...a nobler sentiment, uttered by [Michelangelo], is contained in his reply to a letter of Vasari, who had informed him of the rejoicings made at the house of his nephew Lionardo, at Florence, over the birth of another Buonarotti.

rejoin, v. (2)

    Fdsp 2.193 25 Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
    ET6 5.114 5 The company [at an English dinner] sit one or two hours before the ladies leave the table. The gentlemen...rejoin the ladies in the drawing-room and take coffee.

rejoined, v. (3)

    Bty 6.285 15 At the end of the seventh day the king inquired [of Tisso], From what cause hast thou become so emaciated? He answered, From the horror of death. The monarch rejoined, Live, my child, and be wise.
    Elo2 8.121 24 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his monthly stipend. He answered, Nothing at all. But why then do you take so much trouble? He replied, I read for the sake of God. The other rejoined, For God's sake, do not read; for if you read the Koran in this manner you will destroy the splendor of Islamism.
    HDC 11.75 9 The British, as soon as they were rejoined by the plundering detachment, began that disastrous retreat to Boston...

rejoins, v. (2)

    Con 1.296 27 I see, rejoins Saturns [to Uranus], thou art in league with Night...
    Con 1.297 22 That which is was made by God, saith Conservatism. He is leaving that, he is entering this other, rejoins Innovation.

rekindle, v. (3)

    DSA 1.149 23 ...now let us do what we can to rekindle the smouldering, nigh quenched fire on the altar.
    Wth 6.96 3 ...if men should...leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
    EPro 11.323 13 If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels... the slaves on the border...were an incessant fuel to rekindle the fire.

rekindled, v. (1)

    EWI 11.111 25 ...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted by the planters...and the negroes furiously forbidden to go near them. These outrages rekindled the flame of British indignation.

relapse, n. (1)

    MoS 4.180 27 Once admitted to the heaven of thought, [some minds] see no relapse into night...

relate, v. (9)

    Con 1.296 6 There is a fragment of old fable...which may deserve attention, as it appears to relate to this subject.
    SL 2.144 27 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards. They relate to your gift.
    SwM 4.110 8 ...the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens.
    ET16 5.287 6 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged... ...I said, Certainly yes;--but those who hold it are fanatics of a dream which I should hardly care to relate to your English ears, to which it might be only ridiculous...
    Cour 7.258 8 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no bigger than a calf-skin.
    SA 8.94 20 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix, on the way to Coppet. The first coach had many rueful accidents to relate...
    QO 8.184 14 I remember to have heard Mr. Samuel Rogers...relate...that a lady having expressed...a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
    Mem 12.109 10 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.
    MLit 12.332 2 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers is not...merely a circumstance, as we might relate of a man that he had or had not the sense of tune...

related, adj. (12)

    Nat 1.62 15 We must add some related thoughts.
    LT 1.261 16 The reason and influence of wealth...the fuller development and the freer play of Character as a social and political agent;-these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    Comp 2.95 21 I find a similar base tone in the popular religious works of the day and the same doctrines assumed by the literary men when occasionally they treat the related topics.
    SL 2.150 17 ...a person of related mind...comes to us so softly and easily... that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having come;...
    OS 2.276 6 The lover has no talent, no skill, which passes for quite nothing with his enamored maiden, however little she may possess of related faculty;...
    Chr1 3.112 9 Need we be so eager to seek [our friend]? If we are related, we shall meet.
    UGM 4.20 22 ...there have been sane men, who enjoyed a rich and related existence.
    Ctr 6.137 18 [Man's] excellence is facility...of transition, through many related points, to wide contrasts and extremes.
    Clbs 7.230 7 Every metaphysician must have observed...that...thoughts commonly go in pairs; though the related thoughts first appeared in his mind at long distances of time.
    OA 7.330 17 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched in our mind...by its sequence, or next related analogy...
    Grts 8.305 8 Others find a charm and a profession in the natural history of man and the mammalia or related animals;...
    Mem 12.100 26 In reading a foreign language, every new word mastered is a lamp lighting up related words...

related, v. (48)

    Nat 1.43 12 A leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time, is related to the whole...
    Nat 1.45 5 A right action seems...to be related to all nature.
    AmS 1.89 19 Hence the book-learned class, who value books...not as related to nature and the human constitution...
    AmS 1.112 14 A man is related to all nature.
    MN 1.195 2 ...we are too nearly related in the deep of the mind to that we honor.
    Hist 2.17 18 There is nothing but is related to us...
    Comp 2.107 21 The poets related that stone walls and iron swords and leathern thongs had an occult sympathy with the wrongs of their owners;...
    Fdsp 2.192 19 Having imagined and invested [the commended stranger], we ask how we should stand related in conversation and action with such a man...
    Fdsp 2.206 24 I please my imagination more with a circle of godlike men and women variously related to each other...
    OS 2.269 9 ...within man is...the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related;...
    OS 2.276 8 ...the heart which abandons itself to the Supreme Mind finds itself related to all its works...
    Pt1 3.18 2 ...it is related of Lord Chatham that he was accustomed to read in Bailey's Dictionary when he was preparing to speak in Parliament.
    Chr1 3.100 11 ...the uncivil, unavailable man...to whom all parties feel related...he helps;...
    Nat2 3.182 10 Things are so strictly related, that according to the skill of the eye, from any one object the parts and properties of any other may be predicted.
    Nat2 3.182 23 The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace...is directly related...to Himmaleh mountain-chains and the axis of the globe.
    NR 3.243 3 As soon as a person is no longer related to our present well-being, he is concealed, or dies, as we say.
    NR 3.243 5 Really, all things and persons are related to us...
    UGM 4.6 24 [The great man] must be related to us...
    PPh 4.41 4 ...they say that Helen of Argos had that universal beauty that every body felt related to her...
    PPh 4.46 16 In a month or two, through the favor of their good genius, [ardent young men and women] meet some one so related as to assist their volcanic estate, and, good communication being once established, they are thenceforward good citizens.
    SwM 4.96 12 ...all things in nature being linked and related...nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind...one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge...
    MoS 4.149 1 Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and on the other morals.
    MoS 4.162 1 ...some stark and sufficient man, who is...sufficiently related to the world to do justice to Paris or London...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    ET4 5.50 17 The best nations are those most widely related;...
    F 6.44 12 The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other.
    Wth 6.88 24 [A man] is thoroughly related; and is tempted out by his appetites and fancies to the conquest of this and that piece of nature, until he finds his well-being in the use of his planet...
    Bhr 6.193 18 It is related by the monk Basle, that being excommunicated by the Pope, he was, at his death, sent in charge of an angel, to find a fit place of suffering in hell;...
    Wsp 6.205 8 In all ages, souls...are born, who are rather related to the system of the world than to their particular age and locality.
    Wsp 6.233 4 It is related of William of Orange, that whilst he was besieging a town on the continent, a gentleman sent to him on public business came to his camp...
    Bty 6.289 11 We ascribe beauty to that...which stands related to all things;...
    Bty 6.297 25 Women stand related to beautiful nature around us...
    PI 8.23 15 ...there is nothing to which man is not related;...
    PI 8.29 11 Fancy is related to color; imagination, to form.
    PI 8.35 12 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason, till he sees it...to be related to astronomy and history and the eternal order of the world.
    PI 8.69 13 The book [Goethe's Faust]...stands unhappily related to the whole modern world;...
    PI 8.71 6 Facts are not foreign, as they seem, but related.
    PPo 8.241 8 It is related that when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built, against her arrival, a palace...
    Dem1 10.24 16 ...[occult facts] are merely physiological, semi-medical, related to the machinery of man...
    MoL 10.252 13 All superiority is [thought], or related to this.
    MMEm 10.412 14 ...when Nature beams with such excess of beauty, when the heart thrills with hope in its Author, feels that it is related to him more than by any ties of Creation,-it exults, too fondly perhaps for a state of trial.
    LS 11.5 20 St. Luke...after relating the breaking of the bread [at the Last Supper], has these words: This do in remembrance of me. In St. John, although other occurrences of the same evening are related, this whole transaction is passed over without notice.
    HDC 11.35 17 The hardships of the journey and of the first encampment are certainly related by [the pilgrims'] contemporary with some air of romance...
    FSLN 11.218 3 It is to [students and scholars] I am beforehand related and engaged...
    PLT 12.21 5 [A thought] comes single like a foreign traveller,-but find out its name, and it is related to a powerful and numerous family.
    PLT 12.47 26 The various talents are...each related to that part of nature it is to explore and utilize.
    II 12.81 25 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them, and one related to yours.
    CL 12.163 24 [The principle of levity] is related to the purest of the world...
    MAng1 12.218 11 The Italian artists sanction this view of Beauty by describing it as il piu nell' uno...or multitude in unity, intimating that what is truly beautiful seems related to all Nature.

relatedness, n. (1)

    Suc 7.302 8 We are not strong by our power to penetrate, but by our relatedness.

relates, v. (20)

    NER 3.272 27 I cannot help recalling the fine anecdote which Warton relates of Bishop Berkeley...
    MoS 4.152 21 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day...
    MoS 4.163 24 Leigh Hunt relates of Lord Byron, that Montaigne was the only great writer of past times whom he read with avowed satisfaction.
    ShP 4.216 1 Epicurus relates that poetry hath such charms that a lover might forsake his mistress to partake of them.
    NMW 4.226 9 Dumont relates that he sat in the gallery of the Convention and heard Mirabeau make a speech.
    ET4 5.63 19 Medwin, in the Life of Shelley, relates that at a military school they rolled up a young man in a snowball, and left him in his room...
    ET16 5.281 14 Was [Stonehenge] the Giants' Dance, which Merlin brought from Killaraus, in Ireland, to be Uther Pendragon's monument to the British nobles whom Hengist slaughtered here, as Geoffrey of Monmouth relates?...
    Cour 7.266 16 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who tried to prophesy without command in the Temple at Delphi...fell into convulsions and died.
    PI 8.28 24 Fancy relates to surface...
    PI 8.43 22 ...the poet creates his persons, and then watches and relates what they do and say.
    Comc 8.172 1 The Persians have a pleasant story of Tamerlane which relates to the same particulars [of the comedy of personal appearance]...
    Supl 10.165 5 Horace Walpole relates that in the expectation, current in London a century ago, of a great earthquake, some people provided themselves with dresses for the occasion.
    MoL 10.256 24 ...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge. But the President of the Bank...relates that at Virginia Springs this idol of the forum exhausted a trunkful of classic authors.
    LS 11.6 6 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially...has quite omitted such a notice. Neither does it appear to have come to the knowledge of Mark, who...relates the other facts.
    LS 11.14 10 To make [his friends'] enormity plainer, [St. Paul] goes back to the origin of this religious feast [the Lord's Supper] to show what sort of feast that was, out of which this riot of theirs came, and so relates the transactions of the Last Supper.
    HDC 11.54 6 Wilson relates that, at their meetings, the Indians sung a psalm, made Indian by [John] Eliot...
    EWI 11.102 3 ...Herodotus, our oldest historian, relates that the Troglodytes hunted the Ethiopians in four-horse chariots.
    Milt1 12.257 11 Wood, [Milton's] political opponent, relates that his deportment was affable...
    MLit 12.314 26 The great man, even whilst he relates a private fact personal to him, is really leading us away from him to an universal experience.
    MLit 12.325 21 There is a good letter from Wieland to Merck, in which Wieland relates that Goethe read to a select party his journal of a tour in Switzerland with the Grand Duke...

relating, v. (6)

    SL 2.160 5 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved. One knows it,--himself,--and is pledged by it...to nobleness of aim which will prove in the end a better proclamation of it than the relating of the incident.
    Suc 7.302 25 I am always, [Socrates] says, asserting that I happen to know... nothing but a mere trifle relating to matters of love;...
    PI 8.20 6 ...Swedenborg [expressed the same sense], when he said, There is nothing existing in human thought, even though relating to the most mysterious tenet of faith, but has combined with it a natural and sensuous image.
    LS 11.5 17 St. Luke...after relating the breaking of the bread [at the Last Supper], has these words: This do in remembrance of me.
    HDC 11.33 24 Johnson, relating undoubtedly what he had himself heard from the pilgrims, intimates that they consumed many days in exploring the country, to select the best place for the town.
    HDC 11.65 5 The charges of education and of legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord]; for they vote to petition the General Court to be eased of the law relating to providing a school-master;...

relation, n. (147)

    Nat 1.3 6 Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
    Nat 1.10 23 The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable.
    Nat 1.22 16 Beside the relation of things to virtue, they have a relation to thought.
    Nat 1.23 1 Therefore does beauty, which, in relation to actions...comes unsought...remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect;...
    Nat 1.27 14 That which intellectually considered we call Reason, considered in relation to nature, we call Spirit.
    Nat 1.27 25 ...a ray of relation passes from every other being to [man].
    Nat 1.28 25 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from [the ant] to man...then all its habits...become sublime.
    Nat 1.33 2 The visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible.
    Nat 1.33 27 This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet...
    Nat 1.35 4 Material objects...are necessarily kinds of scoriae of the substantial thoughts of the Creator, which must always preserve an exact relation to their first origin;...
    Nat 1.42 2 [The moral law] is the pith and marrow of...every relation...
    Nat 1.51 1 ...the beggar, the boys, the dogs, are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach], or, at least, wholly detached from all relation to the observer...
    Nat 1.66 13 ...the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world...
    Nat 1.67 17 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is no hint to explain the relation between things and thoughts;...
    Nat 1.67 19 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is...no ray...to show the relation of the forms of flowers, shells, animals, architecture, to the mind...
    Nat 1.70 27 We own and disown our relation to [nature]...
    Nat 1.72 15 [Man's] relation to nature...is through the understanding...
    AmS 1.86 18 ...to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day, is suggested that he and [nature] proceed from one root;...relation, sympathy, stirring in every vein.
    DSA 1.139 7 When [the good hearer] listens to these vain words, he comforts himself by their relation to his remembrance of better hours...
    LE 1.169 26 Undoubtedly the changes of geology have a relation to the prosperous sprouting of the corn and peas in my kitchen garden;...
    LE 1.170 2 ...not less is there a relation of beauty between my soul and the dim crags of Agiochook up there in the clouds.
    LE 1.179 22 [Napoleon] believed that the great captains of antiquity performed their exploits...by justly comparing the relation between means and consequences...
    LT 1.261 27 We do not think the sky will be bluer...but only that our relation to our fellows will be simpler and happier.
    LT 1.273 4 Milton...describes a relation between religion and the daily occupations...
    LT 1.276 3 ...[these reforms] only name the relation which subsists between us and the vicious institutions which they go to rectify.
    Tran 1.335 18 ...if you ask me, Whence am I? I feel like other men my relation to that Fact which cannot be spoken...
    Tran 1.353 22 ...the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, really show very little relation to each other;...
    YA 1.369 17 Any relation to the land...generates the feeling of patriotism.
    Hist 2.4 11 There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.
    Hist 2.12 16 Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance; others by...the relation of cause and effect.
    SR 2.66 9 All things are made sacred by relation to [divine wisdom]...
    SR 2.79 22 ...[creeds and churches] are also classifications of some powerful mind acting on the elemental thought of...man's relation to the Highest.
    Comp 2.113 1 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or money? ... The transaction remains in the memory of himself and his neighbor; and every new transaction alters according to its nature their relation to each other.
    Comp 2.121 2 Essence, or God, is not a relation or a part, but the whole.
    SL 2.144 13 Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in [a man's] memory without his being able to say why, remain because they have a relation to him not less real for being as yet unapprehended.
    SL 2.149 20 What avails it to fight with the eternal laws of mind, which adjust the relation of all persons to each other by the mathematical measure of their havings and beings?
    Lov1 2.169 8 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one...
    Lov1 2.185 23 The union which is thus effected [by love] and which adds a new value to every atom in nature--for it transmutes every thread throughout the whole web of relation into a golden ray...is yet a temporary state.
    Lov1 2.186 19 ...it is the nature and end of this relation [love], that [lovers] should represent the human race to each other.
    Fdsp 2.194 22 ...by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find [my friends], or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance...
    Fdsp 2.195 5 ...my relation to [my friends] is so pure that we hold by simple affinity...
    Fdsp 2.198 16 ...Dear Friend, If I was...sure to match my mood with thine, I should never think again of trifles in relation to thy comings and goings.
    Fdsp 2.200 1 I ought to be equal to every relation.
    Fdsp 2.201 6 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship], to speak of that select and sacred relation which is a kind of absolute...
    Fdsp 2.201 25 Happy is the house that shelters a friend! ... Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation and honor its law!
    Fdsp 2.205 11 We chide the citizen because he makes love a commodity. It...quite loses sight of the delicacies and nobility of the relation.
    Fdsp 2.208 4 Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.
    Fdsp 2.211 19 ...the least defect of self-possession vitiates...the entire relation [of friendship].
    Fdsp 2.217 2 ...these things may hardly be said without a sort of treachery to the relation [of friendship].
    Prd1 2.230 17 There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature...
    Hsm1 2.261 4 There is no weakness or exposure for which we cannot find consolation in the thought--this is...part of my relation and office to my fellow-creature.
    Int 2.335 26 The relation between [a thought] and you first makes you, the value of you, apparent to me.
    Art1 2.363 25 Art should exhilarate...awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist...
    Art1 2.365 11 The oratorio has already lost its relation to the morning...
    Pt1 3.18 14 Every new relation is a new word.
    Exp 3.56 10 A deduction must be made from the opinion which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence. Their opinion...is nowise to be trusted as the lasting relation between that intellect and that thing.
    Chr1 3.102 25 ...[the hero] is again on his road, adding...new claims on your heart, which will bankrupt you if you...have not kept your relation to him by adding to your wealth.
    Chr1 3.112 19 [Friends'] relation is not made, but allowed.
    Mrs1 3.127 18 There exists a strict relation between the class of power and the exclusive and polished circles.
    Mrs1 3.133 2 [A man] should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation which his daily associates draw him to...
    Pol1 3.208 17 [Parties]...rudely mark some real and lasting relation.
    Pol1 3.216 23 [The wise man's] relation to men is angelic;...
    NER 3.258 20 Once...Latin and Greek had a strict relation to all the science and culture there was in Europe...
    NER 3.280 11 The familiar experiment called the hydrostatic paradox, in which a capillary column of water balances the ocean, is a symbol of the relation of one man to the whole family of men.
    UGM 4.9 10 A man is a centre for nature, running out threads of relation through every thing...
    UGM 4.9 14 ...every organ, function, acid, crystal, grain of dust, has its relation to the brain.
    UGM 4.22 10 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body,--that man liberates me; I forget the clock. I pass out of the sore relation to persons.
    PPh 4.68 17 After [Plato] has illustrated the relation between the absolute good and true and the forms of the intelligible world, he says: Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts.
    PPh 4.77 9 [Plato's Platonism] shall be the world passed through the mind of Plato,--nothing less. Every atom shall have the Platonic tinge; every atom, every relation or quality you knew before, you shall know again and find here, but now ordered;...
    SwM 4.94 5 I have sometimes thought that he would render the greatest service to modern criticism, who should draw the line of relation that subsists between Shakspeare and Swedenborg.
    SwM 4.116 17 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical... terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...although no mortal would have predicted that any thing of the kind could possibly arise...inasmuch as the one precept, considered separately from the other, appears to have absolutely no relation to it.
    SwM 4.134 6 [Swedenborg's] heavens and hells are dull; fault of want of individualism. The thousand-fold relation of men is not there.
    SwM 4.141 19 [Swedenborg's] spiritual world bears the same relation to the generosities and joys of truth of which human souls have already made us cognizant, as a man's bad dreams bear to his ideal life.
    SwM 4.143 19 It is remarkable that this man [Swedenborg], who, by his perception of symbols, saw...the primary relation of mind to matter, remained entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression...
    MoS 4.172 1 Skepticism is the attitude assumed by the student in relation to the particulars which society adores, but which he sees to be reverend only in their tendency and spirit.
    ShP 4.206 6 We tell the chronicle of parentage...celebrity, death; and when we have come to an end of this gossip, no ray of relation appears between it and the goddess-born;...
    NMW 4.241 8 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz...
    GoW 4.287 7 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself;...
    ET4 5.53 18 In Ireland are the same climate and soil as in England, but...no right relation to the land...
    ET10 5.166 7 I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the better class to that of any potentate in Europe,--whether for travel...or for mere comfort and easy healthy relation to people at home.
    ET14 5.251 12 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men, whose relation to literature was purely accidental...
    ET14 5.253 16 [English science] isolates the reptile or mullusk it assumes to explain; whilst reptile or mollusk only exists in system, in relation.
    ET16 5.281 7 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position. In the silence of tradition, this one relation to science becomes an important clew;...
    F 6.22 15 [Man] betrays his relation to what is below him...
    F 6.23 18 [Man's] sound relation to these facts is to use and command...
    F 6.31 18 ...relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes...
    F 6.37 3 The web of relation is shown in habitat...
    F 6.47 20 ...when a man...is ground to powder by the vice of his race;-he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
    Wth 6.107 21 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can reduce the rent...and the tenant gets not the house he would have, but a worse one; besides that a relation a little injurious is established between landlord and tenant.
    Wth 6.117 5 The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo;...
    Ctr 6.133 2 The [egotistical] man...falls into an admiration of [his own talent], and loses relation to the world.
    Wsp 6.216 7 It is certain that worship stands in some commanding relation to the health of man...
    Wsp 6.220 24 ...[a man] does not see...that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always;...
    Wsp 6.238 15 If there ever was a good man, be certain there was another and will be more. And so in relation to that future hour...
    CbW 6.273 6 ...few writers have said anything better to this point [of friendship] than Hafiz, who indicates this relation as the test of mental health...
    CbW 6.278 23 The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear...and that these few are alone to be regarded;... independence and cheerful relation...
    Bty 6.286 6 ...though we are aware of a perfect law in nature, it has fascination for us only through its relation to [man]...
    Bty 6.303 19 The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is...a power to suggest relation to the whole world...
    SS 7.12 17 Heat puts you in right relation with magazines of facts.
    SS 7.13 19 So many men whom I know are degraded by their sympathies; their native aims being high enough, but their relation all too tender to the gross people about them.
    Elo1 7.86 15 That is what we go to the court-house for...the real relation of all the parties;...
    DL 7.124 13 In men, it is their...removal to the East or to the West, or some other magnified trifle which makes the meridian movement, and all the after years and actions only derive interest from their relation to that.
    Farm 7.143 16 You cannot...strip off from [an atom]...the relation to light and heat...
    WD 7.178 22 Moments...of fine personal relation...what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
    Suc 7.295 19 ...talent confines, but the central life puts us in relation to all.
    PI 8.9 9 ...[the student] observes that all things in Nature...have a mysterious relation to his thoughts and his life;...
    PI 8.10 13 Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.
    PI 8.17 24 As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images.
    PI 8.29 4 ...imagination [is] a perception and affirming of a real relation between a thought and some material fact.
    SA 8.107 5 Any other affection between men than this geometric one of relation to the same thing, is a mere mush of materialism.
    Elo2 8.127 27 The doctor [Charles Chauncy]...had lost some natural relation to men...
    Comc 8.169 14 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance;... It affects us oddly, as...to see a man in a high wind run after his hat, which is always droll. The relation of the parties is inverted,--the hat being for the moment master, the bystanders cheering the hat.
    Aris 10.33 12 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man...
    Aris 10.53 13 [The eloquent man] has established relation, representativeness.
    Chr2 10.98 22 If all things are taken away, I have still all things in my relation to the Eternal.
    Chr2 10.120 4 [Character] compels right relation to every other man...
    Edc1 10.131 23 Yonder magnificent astronomy [man] is at last to import, fetching away...solstice, period, comet and binal star, by comprehending their relation and law.
    Schr 10.272 6 We have...a real relation to markets and brokers and currency and coin.
    Schr 10.272 17 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property, but the quality and essence of the universe is in that also. Have we less interest...in any relation of life or custom of society?
    Plu 10.309 4 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for instruction.
    LLNE 10.330 23 The novelty of the learning lost nothing in the skill and genius of [Everett's] relation...
    MMEm 10.404 17 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I scarcely feel the sympathies of this life enough to agitate the pool. This in general, one case or so excepted, and even this is a relation to God through you.
    Thor 10.462 2 ...the relation of body to mind [in Thoreau] was still finer than we have indicated.
    LS 11.17 7 It has seemed to me that the use of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper] tends to produce confusion in our views of the relation of the soul to God.
    LS 11.23 16 There remain some practical objections to the ordinance [the Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter. There is one on which I had intended to say a few words; I mean the unfavorable relation in which it places that numerous class of persons who abstain from it merely from disinclination to the rite.
    LVB 11.89 1 Sir [Van Buren]: The seat you fill places you in a relation of credit and nearness to every citizen.
    EWI 11.114 3 ...every provision of the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] was criticised with severity. The new relation between the master and the apprentice, it was feared, would be mischievous;...
    EWI 11.115 25 The clergy and missionaries throughout the island [Antigua] were actively engaged, seizing the opportunity to enlighten the people on all the duties and responsibilities of their new relation...
    EWI 11.128 24 There are causes in the composition of the British legislature, and the relation of its leaders to the country and to Europe, which exclude much that is pitiful and injurious in other legislative assemblies.
    FSLC 11.206 24 I pass to say a few words to the question, What shall we do? 1. What in our federal capacity is our relation to the nation? 2. And what as citizens of a state?
    JBB 11.267 13 ...I do not wonder that gentlemen find traits of relation readily between [John Brown] and themselves.
    JBB 11.267 14 ...I do not wonder that gentlemen find traits of relation readily between [John Brown] and themselves. One finds a relation in the church...
    SHC 11.433 2 This ground [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] is happily so divided by Nature as to admit of this relation between the Past and the Present.
    Scot 11.466 6 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class, with whom he established the best relation...
    FRO1 11.477 22 ...[the Free Religious Association] has prompted an equal magnanimity, that thus invites...all religious men...in whatever relation they stand to the Christian Church, to unite in a movement of benefit to men...
    PLT 12.15 12 Thirdly...I...attempt to show the relation of men of thought to the existing religion and civility of the present time.
    PLT 12.21 6 Wonderful is [thoughts'] working and relation each to each.
    PLT 12.31 20 There is no property or relation in that immense arsenal of forces which the earth is, but some man is at last found who affects this...
    Mem 12.109 18 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...every relation and suggestion...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
    CL 12.166 9 [Man] can dispose in his thought of more worlds, just as readily as of few, or one. It is his relation to one, to the first, that imports.
    MAng1 12.218 18 In relation to this element of Beauty, the minds of men divide themselves into two classes.
    MAng1 12.223 10 There is a closer relation than is commonly thought between the fine arts and the useful arts;...
    MLit 12.313 27 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality.
    MLit 12.331 17 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air...but dares not...lead a man's life in a man's relation to Nature.
    WSL 12.345 25 ...though [character] may be resisted at any time, yet resistance to it is a suicide. For the person who stands in this lofty relation to his fellow men is always the impersonation to them of their conscience.
    EurB 12.378 13 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is...to invert the relation in which our sex stand to women, so that they appear the attacking, and he the passive or defensive party.

Relation of England, n. (2)

    ET7 5.124 8 The old Italian author of the Relation of England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when the war is actually raging most furiously, [the English] will seek for good eating and all their other comforts, without thinking what harm might befall them.
    ET9 5.145 10 A much older traveller, the Venetian who wrote the Relation of England, in 1500, says:--The English are great lovers of themselves and of every thing belonging to them.

relations, n. (134)

    Nat 1.27 23 ...man...studies relations in all objects.
    Nat 1.39 12 ...Time and Space relations vanish as laws are known.
    Nat 1.47 20 The relations of parts and the end of the whole remaining the same, what is the difference, whether land and sea interact...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?
    Nat 1.48 3 ...what is the difference, whether...worlds revolve and intermingle without number or end...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?
    Nat 1.55 6 ...the philosopher...postpones the apparent order and relations of things to the empire of thought.
    Nat 1.57 21 ...we learn that time and space are relations of matter;...
    Nat 1.74 19 ...when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations...shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew...
    DSA 1.120 16 Behold these infinite relations, so like, so unlike;...
    LE 1.173 12 ...the thing whereon [thought] shines...is a new subject with countless relations.
    LE 1.175 5 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant thought comes...they spurn personal relations;...
    MN 1.211 27 There is...nothing that is not noxious to [man] if detached from [this divine method's] universal relations.
    MR 1.227 2 I wish to offer to your consideration some thoughts on the particular and general relations of man as a reformer.
    MR 1.235 4 ...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part...to put ourselves into primary relations with the soil and nature...
    MR 1.240 27 ...every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work of the world;...
    LT 1.267 18 What further relations we sustain...is now unknown.
    Con 1.325 3 ...these dispositions establish their relations to me.
    YA 1.366 3 The land...is to...bring us into just relations with men and things.
    YA 1.376 20 The king is compelled to call in the aid of his brothers and cousins and remote relations...
    Hist 2.36 12 A man is a bundle of relations...
    SR 2.65 24 The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.
    SR 2.73 5 ...these [family] relations I must fill after a new and unprecedented way.
    SR 2.74 15 Consider whether you have satisfied your relations to father...
    SR 2.77 5 It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men;...
    Comp 2.93 11 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn...are the tools in our hands...greetings, relations, debts and credits...
    Comp 2.111 7 All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished.
    Comp 2.111 8 Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him.
    Comp 2.121 5 Being is the vast affirmative...swallowing up all relations, parts and times within itself.
    Comp 2.125 2 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him...
    SL 2.164 24 I can think of nothing to fill my time with, and I find the Life of Brant. It is a very extravagant compliment to pay to Brant...or to General Washington. My time should be as good as their time...my net of relations, as good as theirs...
    Lov1 2.169 13 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... pledges him to the domestic and civic relations...
    Lov1 2.171 12 Let any man go back to those delicious relations which make the beauty of his life...he will shrink and moan.
    Lov1 2.172 2 The strong bent of nature is seen in the proportion which this topic of personal relations usurps in the conversation of society.
    Lov1 2.173 16 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations;...
    Lov1 2.174 2 I have been told that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal relations.
    Lov1 2.179 11 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization. Nor does it point to any relations of friendship or love known and described in society...
    Lov1 2.179 14 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization. Nor does it point to any relations of friendship or love known and described in society, but...to relations of transcendent delicacy and sweetness...
    Lov1 2.184 8 ...the step backward from the higher to the lower relations is impossible.
    Lov1 2.188 25 That which is so beautiful and attractive as these relations [of love], must be succeeded and supplanted only by what is more beautiful, and so on for ever.
    Fdsp 2.194 12 Nor is Nature so poor but she gives me this joy [of friendship] several times, and thus we weave...a new web of relations;...
    Fdsp 2.198 6 The soul invirons itself with friends that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season that it may exalt its conversation or society. This method betrays itself along the whole history of our personal relations.
    Fdsp 2.203 13 I knew a man who...spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered, and that with great insight and beauty. At first...all men agreed he was mad. But persisting...he attained to the advantage of bringing every man of his acquaintance into true relations with him.
    Fdsp 2.203 22 To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
    Fdsp 2.205 27 [Friendship] is for aid and comfort through all the relations and passages of life and death.
    Fdsp 2.207 25 No two men but being left alone with each other enter into simpler relations.
    Fdsp 2.210 3 Why insist on rash personal relations with your friend?
    Fdsp 2.212 18 Late,--very late,--we perceive that...no consuetudes or habits of society would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with [the noble] as we desire...
    Fdsp 2.213 20 [By persisting in your path] You demonstrate yourself, so as to put yourself out of the reach of false relations...
    Fdsp 2.216 4 [My friends] shall give me that which properly they cannot give, but which emanates from them. But they shall not hold me by any relations less subtile and pure.
    Prd1 2.235 20 ...let [a man] put the bread he eats at his own disposal, that he may not stand in bitter and false relations to other men;...
    Prd1 2.240 21 If not the Deity but our ambition hews and shapes the new relations, their virtue escapes...
    Cir 2.307 6 The continual effort...to work a pitch above his last height, betrays itself in a man's relations.
    Cir 2.309 14 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man... cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by...the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society... may at any time be superseded...
    Int 2.325 7 ...the intellect dissolves...the subtlest unnamed relations of nature in its resistless menstruum.
    Art1 2.359 27 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist, who...created his work without other model save life...and the sweet and smart of personal relations...
    Pt1 3.12 7 ...from the heaven of truth I shall see and comprehend my relations.
    Pt1 3.28 10 ...[these stimulants] help [man] to escape the custody...of that jail-yard of individual relations in which he is enclosed.
    Pt1 3.31 23 ...Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;...
    Exp 3.50 1 Our relations to each other are oblique and casual.
    Exp 3.78 23 ...in its sequel [murder] turns out to be a horrible jangle and confounding of all relations.
    Chr1 3.93 26 [Character] works with most energy in the smallest companies and in private relations.
    Chr1 3.108 19 [Character] may not, probably does not, form relations rapidly;...
    Chr1 3.111 3 What is so excellent as strict relations of amity, when they spring from this deep root?
    Chr1 3.111 22 Those relations to the best men...become, in the progress of the character, the most solid enjoyment.
    Chr1 3.111 26 If it were possible to live in right relations with men!...
    Chr1 3.113 11 The moment is all, in all noble relations.
    Pol1 3.214 9 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him.
    Pol1 3.218 24 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could enter into strict relations with the best persons...could he...covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
    Pol1 3.219 1 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could...make life serene around him by the dignity and sweetness of his behavior, could he...covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
    NER 3.256 13 This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men;...
    NER 3.274 27 The same magnanimity shows itself in our social relations...
    NER 3.275 3 All that a man has will he give for right relations with his mates.
    UGM 4.6 13 I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought...he has but to open his eyes to see things...in large relations...
    UGM 4.13 3 We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations.
    GoW 4.265 10 Society has, at all times, the same want, namely of one sane man with adequate powers of expression to hold up each object of monomania in its right relations.
    GoW 4.265 14 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and, by detaching the object from its relations, easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...
    GoW 4.286 26 ...especially his relations to remarkable minds and to critical epochs of thought:--these [Goethe] magnifies.
    ET5 5.80 4 [The English] are jealous of minds that have much facility of association, from an instinctive fear that the seeing many relations to their thought might impair this serial continuity and lucrative concentration.
    ET5 5.92 9 The commercial relations of the world are so intimately drawn to London, that every dollar on earth contributes to the strength of the English government.
    ET13 5.214 13 A youth marries in haste; afterwards...he is asked what he thinks...of the right relations of the sexes?
    ET14 5.250 16 Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann, has brought to metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor, with a catholic perception of relations, equal to the highest attempts...
    Ctr 6.157 10 Solitude takes off the pressure of present importunities, that more catholic and humane relations may appear.
    Bhr 6.172 11 ...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of character [manners] convey...we see what range the subject has, and what relations to convenience, power and beauty.
    Wsp 6.223 5 From these low external penalties the scale ascends. Next come the resentments, the fears which injustice calls out; then the false relations in which the offender is put to other men;...
    Bty 6.281 21 The bird is not in its ounces and inches, but in its relations to nature;...
    Bty 6.282 12 However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders in [astrology], the hint was true and divine, the soul's avowal of its large relations...
    Ill 6.316 17 Teague and his jade get some just relations of mutual respect...
    Civ 7.24 2 ...place the sexes in right relations of mutual respect, and a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which educates all that is delicate, poetic and self-sacrificing;...
    Elo1 7.94 17 ...whilst [the preacher] speaks things, I feel that he is touching some of my relations, and I am uneasy;...
    DL 7.125 26 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in clean and noble relations...
    DL 7.127 24 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw from man suggest... a household equal to the beauty and grandeur of this world, especially we learn the same lesson from those best relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to form.
    DL 7.127 26 Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character;...
    DL 7.129 13 In the progress of each man's character, his relations to the best men...acquire a graver importance;...
    DL 7.129 19 Beyond its primary ends of the conjugal, parental and amicable relations, the household should cherish the beautiful arts and the sentiment of veneration.
    Boks 7.206 17 If now the relations of England to European affairs bring [the scholar] to British ground, he is arrived at the very moment when modern history takes new proportions.
    PI 8.17 12 [Poetry's] essential mark is that it betrays in every word instant activity of mind, shown...in preternatural quickness or perception of relations.
    SA 8.89 3 We want real relations of the mind and the heart;...
    Insp 8.293 20 By sympathy, each [party in good conversation] opens to the eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind. We were all lonely, thoughtless; and now...we see new relations, many truths;...
    Insp 8.297 3 ...political relations...would have been impediments to [scholars].
    Imtl 8.348 25 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul. He is...rising to realities; the outer relations and circumstances dying out, he entering deeper into God...
    Dem1 10.6 23 You may catch the glance of a dog sometimes which lays a kind of claim to sympathy and brotherhood. What! somewhat of me down there? Does he know it? Can he too, as I...perceive relations?
    Dem1 10.18 3 ...[the demonaical property] stands specially in wonderful relations with men...
    Dem1 10.27 27 [Man] is sure that intimate relations subsist between his character and his fortunes...
    Aris 10.35 3 The young adventurer finds that the relations of society...irk and sting him...
    Aris 10.55 14 ...the thought has...no low obligations or relations...
    PerF 10.70 22 Faraday said, A grain of water is known to have electric relations equivalent to a very powerful flash of lightning.
    PerF 10.82 19 By this wondrous susceptibility to all the impressions of Nature the man finds himself the receptacle...of happy relations to all men.
    Chr2 10.98 12 How can [a man] exist to weave relations of joy and virtue with other souls...
    Edc1 10.128 8 Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions and properties, which all put new restraints on the young inhabitant. He too must come into this magic circle of relations...
    Edc1 10.128 15 Here [in the household] is the sincere thing, the wondrous composition for which day and night go round. In that routine are the sacred relations, the passions that bind and sever.
    Edc1 10.153 4 ...[the teacher] cannot delight in personal relations with young friends, when his eye is always on the clock...
    SovE 10.213 24 A man who has accustomed himself...to carry his possessions, his relations to persons, and even his opinions, in his hand... has put himself out of the reach of all skepticism;...
    MoL 10.252 22 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men, is master of all other men so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.
    Schr 10.276 16 There is plenty of wild azote and carbon unappropriated, but it is nought till we have made it up into loaves and soup. So we find it in higher relations.
    LLNE 10.326 27 People grow philosophical about native land and parents and relations.
    Thor 10.456 14 ...no equal companion stood in affectionate relations with one so pure and guileless [as Thoreau].
    Thor 10.465 26 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost...to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or considered than his refusals, they remind one, in quite new relations, of that fop Brummel's reply to the gentleman who offered him his carriage in a shower, But where will you ride, then?...
    GSt 10.501 21 Known until that time in no very wide circle as a man... happy in his domestic relations,-[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
    EWI 11.128 7 For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated, with some consciousness of the extent of its relations...
    War 11.166 20 ...bayonet and sword must...quite hide themselves...inviting the attendance only of relations and friends;...
    TPar 11.286 21 [Theodore Parker] had...a love for facts, a rapid eye for their historic relations...
    ACiv 11.304 8 [Emancipation] is a progressive policy...puts every man in the South in just and natural relations with every man in the North...
    ChiE 11.474 15 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China.
    FRO1 11.480 10 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands, and the relations of the Pythagorean disciples.
    PLT 12.39 12 To us [a fact] had economic, but to the universe it has poetic relations...
    II 12.71 2 In the healthy mind, the thought...expands, varies, recruits itself with relations to all Nature...
    Mem 12.91 25 Once [the active mind] joined its facts by color and form and sensuous relations.
    CInt 12.121 11 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men is master of all other men, so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.
    CL 12.156 25 The mountains in the horizon acquaint us with finer relations to our friends than any we sustain.
    Bost 12.196 18 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year...defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to external nature;...
    Milt1 12.254 6 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton]...who, respect to personal relations, is to us as the wind...
    MLit 12.313 15 Accustomed always to behold the presence of the universe in every part, the soul will not condescend to look at any new part as a stranger, but saith,-I know all already and what art thou? Show me thy relations to me, to all, and I will entertain thee also.
    MLit 12.336 1 [The Genius of the time] will describe...the now unbelieved possibility...of clean and noble relations with men.
    EurB 12.377 4 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] watched each candidate vigilantly...and when he had given proof that he was a faithful man, all doors, all houses, all relations were open to him;...
    PPr 12.383 13 ...the truth of the present hour, except in particulars and single relations, is unattainable.

relative, adj. (12)

    Nat 1.52 23 We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative...
    Tran 1.334 7 [The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...and necessitating him to regard all things as having a subjective or relative existence...
    Tran 1.334 8 [The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...and necessitating him to regard all things as having a subjective or relative existence, relative to that aforesaid Unknown Centre of him.
    Exp 3.77 5 The great and crescive self...supplants all relative existence...
    Chr1 3.95 3 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L' Ouverture: let us fancy, under these swarthy masks he has a gang of Washingtons in chains. When they arrive at Cuba, will the relative order of the ship's company be the same?
    Mrs1 3.139 22 ...fashion is not good sense absolute, but relative;...
    Mrs1 3.152 20 [Youth] have yet to learn that [ our society's] seeming grandeur is shadowy and relative...
    NR 3.225 2 ...a man is only a relative and representative nature.
    ShP 4.198 20 ...originality is relative.
    ET1 5.18 16 ...[Carlyle]...saw how every event affects all the future. Christ died on the tree; that built Dunscore kirk yonder; that brought you and me together. Time has only a relative existence.
    ET16 5.281 6 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position.
    Wom 11.409 25 [Women] are, in their nature, more relative;...

relative, n. (3)

    Nat 1.57 18 ...we learn the difference between the absolute and the conditional or relative.
    AmS 1.97 7 ...friend and relative...must also soar and sing.
    F 6.10 9 We sometimes see a change of expression in our companion and say his...mother comes to the windows of his eyes, and sometimes a remote relative.

Relative, n. (1)

    MoS 4.149 22 This head and this tail [Sensation and Morals] are called, in the language of philosophy...Relative and Absolute;...

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