Remedies to Replying

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

remedies, n. (8)

    Con 1.320 6 [Conservatism's] religion is just as bad;...always mitigations, never remedies;...
    Mrs1 3.152 25 For the present distress...of those who are predisposed to suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice [of society], there are easy remedies.
    NMW 4.251 4 Believe me, [Bonaparte] said...we had better leave off all these remedies...
    ET13 5.228 24 Religious persons are driven out of the Established Church into sects, which instantly rise to credit and hold the Establishment in check. Nature has sharper remedies, also
    Res 8.147 23 ...in earlier stages of the disorder [good sense] applies milder and nobler remedies.
    Res 8.148 6 If a good story will not answer, still milder remedies sometimes serve to disperse a mob.
    FRep 11.525 5 Faults in the working appear in our system...but they suggest their own remedies.
    CL 12.138 11 [Linnaeus] found that the gout...was cured by wood-strawberries. He had other remedies.

remedies, v. (1)

    Hist 2.5 16 This [identification with history] remedies the defect of our too great nearness to ourselves.

remedy, n. (31)

    AmS 1.114 26 Young men...die of disgust, some of them suicides. What is the remedy?
    DSA 1.144 2 The remedy is already declared in the ground of our complaint of the Church.
    DSA 1.150 11 The remedy to [the old forms'] deformity is first, soul, and second, soul, and evermore, soul.
    MR 1.252 4 [Love] is the one remedy for all ills...
    YA 1.365 24 The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture.
    Chr1 3.102 8 It is not enough that the intellect should see the evils and their remedy.
    NER 3.270 10 When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be...sensualized by unbelief. What remedy?
    UGM 4.19 7 Rotation is [nature's] remedy.
    UGM 4.19 24 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman...then a buffalo-hunting explorer, or a semi-savage Western general. Thus we make a stand against our rougher masters; but against the best there is a finer remedy.
    MoS 4.176 21 As far as [the power of moods] asserts rotation of states of mind, I suppose it suggests its own remedy, namely in the record of larger periods.
    ET5 5.81 14 ...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced. Calm, patient, his weapon of defence from year to year is the obstinate reproduction of the grievance, with calculations and estimates. But, meantime, he is drawing numbers and money to his opinion, resolved that if all remedy fails, right of revolution is at the bottom of his charter-box.
    ET13 5.228 20 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot heads could breathe...and the alienation of such men [the educated class] from the church became complete. Nature, to be sure, had her remedy.
    ET14 5.258 20 For a self-conceited modish life...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness.
    Pow 6.68 4 Whilst thus the energy for originating and executing work deforms itself by excess, and so our axe chops off our own fingers,--this evil is not without remedy.
    Ctr 6.147 21 ...as a medical remedy, travel seems one of the best.
    Wsp 6.218 2 ...the remedy for all blunders...is love.
    CbW 6.270 13 For remedy, while the case [of the blockhead] is yet mild, I recommend phlegm and truth;...
    Bty 6.288 11 The remedy seems never to be far off, since the first step into thought lifts this mountain of necessity.
    SS 7.7 10 ...there is no remedy that can reach the heart of the disease but either habits of self-reliance that should go in practice to making the man independent of the human race, or else a religion of love.
    SS 7.13 25 The remedy is to reinforce each of these moods from the other.
    Elo1 7.74 3 I know no remedy against [an oiled tongue] but cotton-wool...
    Suc 7.284 27 ...when the timber in the shipyards of Sweden was ruined by rot, Linnaeus was desired by the government to find a remedy.
    Comc 8.174 8 When Carlini was convulsing Naples with laughter, a patient waited on a physician in that city, to obtain some remedy for excessive melancholy...
    Imtl 8.333 14 I know...that there is a remedy for every wrong...
    Supl 10.169 11 It seems as if inflation were a disease incident to too much use of words, and the remedy lay in recourse to things.
    HDC 11.80 8 [The people of Concord] fell into a common error...that the remedy was, to forbid the great importation of foreign commodities...
    CPL 11.505 4 [Montesquieu writes] Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against the disgusts of life...
    PLT 12.55 1 The natural remedy against this miscellany of knowledge and aim...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism;...
    CL 12.138 2 When the shipyards were infested with rot, Linnaeus was sent to provide some remedy.
    PPr 12.381 1 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds the calamity of the times, not in bad bills of Parliament, nor the remedy in good bills, but the vice in false and superficial aims of the people...
    PPr 12.381 2 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds...the vice [of the times] in false and superficial aims of the people, and the remedy in honesty and insight.

remedy, v. (2)

    Tran 1.334 24 Do not cumber yourself with fruitless pains to mend and remedy remote effects;...
    PI 8.61 18 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine], you will never see me more, and that grieves me, but I cannot remedy it...

remember, v. (160)

    DSA 1.149 20 ...these are heights that we can scarce remember...without contrition and shame.
    MN 1.212 4 Is [man's work in the world] for use? nature is debased, as if one looking at the ocean can remember only the price of fish.
    LT 1.263 5 I do not wonder at the miracles which poetry attributes to the music of Orpheus, when I remember what I have experienced from the varied notes of the human voice.
    LT 1.263 14 I remember...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man...would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
    Con 1.300 12 ...the superior beauty is with...the man who has subsisted for years amid the changes of nature, yet has distanced himself, so that when you remember what he was, and see what he is, you say, What strides! what a disparity is here!
    Hist 2.12 1 We remember the forest-dwellers...
    Hist 2.18 20 I remember one summer day in the fields my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...
    SR 2.50 13 I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser...
    Fdsp 2.204 25 I find very little written directly to the heart of this matter [of friendship] in books. And yet I have one text which I cannot choose but remember.
    Prd1 2.230 10 Let [the figures in this picture of life] discriminate between what they remember and what they dreamed...
    Hsm1 2.247 20 I do not readily remember any poem, play, sermon, novel or oration that our press vents in the last few years, which goes to the same [heroic] tune.
    Hsm1 2.255 2 John Eliot...said of wine,--It is a noble, generous liquor and we should be humbly thankful for it, but, as I remember, water was made before it.
    Int 2.338 18 ...I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.
    Art1 2.360 24 I remember when in my younger days I had heard of the wonders of Italian painting, I fancied the great pictures would be great strangers;...
    Pt1 3.10 11 I remember when I was young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table.
    Pt1 3.22 20 ...nature...does not leave another to baptize her but baptizes herself; and this through the metamorphosis again. I remember that a certain poet described it to me thus...
    Pt1 3.24 11 I knew in my younger days the sculptor who made the statue of the youth which stands in the public garden. He was, as I remember, unable to tell directly what made him happy or unhappy, but by wonderful indirections he could tell.
    Exp 3.68 3 You will not remember, [God] seems to say, and you will not expect.
    Chr1 3.107 4 I remember the indignation of an eloquent Methodist at the kind admonitions of a Doctor of Divinity...
    Chr1 3.107 9 I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?...
    Chr1 3.110 27 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and... the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;...and there are persons he cannot choose but remember, who gave a transcendent expansion to his thought...
    Mrs1 3.154 7 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; to make such feel that they were greeted with a voice which made them both remember and hope?
    Pol1 3.199 1 In dealing with the State we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal...
    NER 3.265 1 ...remember that no society can ever be so large as one man.
    NER 3.270 20 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice...
    NER 3.278 24 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors...
    UGM 4.21 23 I remember the peau d'ane on which whoso sat should have his desire, but a piece of the skin was gone for every wish.
    SwM 4.125 19 [To Swedenborg] The ghosts are tormented with the fear of death and cannot remember that they have died.
    MoS 4.158 12 Remember the open question between the present order of competition and the friends of attractive and associated labor.
    MoS 4.162 20 I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with [Montaigne's Essays].
    ShP 4.206 24 I remember I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...
    ShP 4.206 27 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...and all I then heard and all I now remember of the tragedian was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost...
    ET1 5.3 6 ...I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground...
    ET2 5.31 18 I remember that some of the happiest and most valuable hours I have owed to books, passed, many years ago, on shipboard.
    ET5 5.84 23 [The English] think him the best dressed man whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
    ET9 5.148 18 I remember a shrewd politician...told me that he had known several successful statesmen made by their foible.
    ET15 5.265 21 ...I remember [Mowbray Morris] told us that the daily printing [of the London Times] was then 35,000 copies;...
    ET15 5.266 6 I remember I saw the reporters' room [of the London Times]...
    Pow 6.61 5 When [children] are hurt by us...or are beaten in the game,--if they lose heart and remember the mischance in their chamber at home, they have a serious check.
    Pow 6.68 22 I remember a poor Malay cook on board a Liverpool packet...
    Wth 6.115 13 [The pale scholar]...by and by wakes up from his idiot dream of chickweed and red-root, to remember his morning thought...
    Wth 6.117 21 I remember in Warwickshire to have been shown a fair manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time.
    Wth 6.121 16 How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position;...
    Ctr 6.150 6 ...we must remember the high social possibilities of a million of men.
    Ctr 6.152 21 ...I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo the street was in a blaze with scarlet umbrellas.
    Ctr 6.162 19 [The finished man of the world] must...not remember spite.
    Bhr 6.182 27 ...it is a point of pride with kings to remember faces and names.
    Bhr 6.195 5 How tenaciously we remember [those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners]!
    Ill 6.310 9 ...I...still chiefly remember that the best thing which the [Mammoth] cave had to offer was an illusion.
    Ill 6.314 15 ...I remember the quarrel of another youth with the confectioners, that when he racked his wit to choose the best comfits in the shops, in all the endless varieties of sweetmeat he could find only three flavors, or two.
    Civ 7.24 27 I remember I watched, in crossing the sea, the beautiful skill whereby the engine in its constant working was made to produce two hundred gallons of fresh water out of salt water, every hour...
    Elo1 7.70 6 ...[the right eloquence] holds the hearer fast; steals away...his memory, that he shall not remember the most pressing affairs;...
    Elo1 7.70 22 ...who does not remember in childhood some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?
    Elo1 7.86 22 I remember long ago being attracted, by the distinction of the counsel...into the court-room.
    WD 7.162 20 The science of power is forced to remember the power of science.
    WD 7.164 4 Can anybody remember when the times were not hard...
    WD 7.164 5 Can anybody remember when sensible men...were plentiful?
    WD 7.168 21 Remember what boys think in the morning of Election day...
    WD 7.181 2 I remember well the foreign scholar who made a week of my youth happy by his visit.
    Boks 7.216 8 I remember when some peering eyes of boys discovered that the oranges hanging on the boughs of an orange-tree in a gay piazza were tied to the twigs by thread.
    Clbs 7.226 13 Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember;...
    Clbs 7.228 22 We remember the time when the best gift we could ask of fortune was to fall in with a valuable companion in a ship's cabin...
    Clbs 7.247 8 I remember a social experiment in this direction, wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself unpresentable.
    Clbs 7.247 20 ...I remember it was explained to me...that it was impossible to set any public charity on foot unless through a tavern dinner.
    Cour 7.258 14 ...I remember when a pair of Irish girls who had been run away with in a wagon by a skittish horse, said that when he began to rear, they were so frightened that they could not see the horse.
    Cour 7.269 26 ...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class...
    Suc 7.297 25 We remember when in early youth the earth spoke and the heavens glowed;...
    Suc 7.298 10 Remember what befalls a city boy who goes for the first time into the October woods.
    Suc 7.304 26 To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric. Sylvina can't remember, but suggests that Odoacer was defeated;...
    OA 7.330 19 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...
    PI 8.7 2 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...
    PI 8.46 4 The universality of this taste [for rhyme] is proved by our habit of casting our facts into rhyme to remember them better...
    PI 8.60 12 ...in Morte d'Arthur, I remember nothing so well as Sir Gawain' s parley with Merlin in his wonderful prison...
    SA 8.88 12 Remember George Herbert's maxim, This coat with my discretion will be brave.
    Elo2 8.115 8 ...I think every one of us can remember when our first experiences made us for a time the victim and worshipper of the first master of this art [of eloquence] whom we happened to hear in the court-house or in the caucus.
    Elo2 8.119 22 I remember that Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice...
    Elo2 8.123 4 I remember, when, long after, I entered college, hearing the story of the numbers of coaches in which his friends came from Boston to hear [John Quincy Adams].
    Elo2 8.124 17 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him...who taught us to remember injuries only to forgive them.
    QO 8.183 21 In our own college days we remember hearing other pieces of Mr. Webster's advice to students...
    QO 8.184 13 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.
    QO 8.189 10 ...it is necessary to remember there are certain considerations which go far to qualify a reproach too grave [to quotation].
    PC 8.211 3 Every one who was in Italy thirty-five years ago will remember the caution with which his host or guest in any house looked around him, if a political topic were broached.
    PPo 8.252 9 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry...
    Insp 8.286 16 I remember a capital prudence of old President Quincy, who told me that he never went to bed at night until he had laid out the studies for the next morning.
    Insp 8.288 23 At home, I remember in my library the wants of the farm...
    Insp 8.290 3 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition exacted...
    Insp 8.290 9 some of us may remember, years ago...the petition...against the license of the organ-grinders...
    Insp 8.291 10 ...the wise student will remember the prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who...took care to fight in the hours when his strength increased;...
    Insp 8.296 19 ...I can never remember the circumstances to which I owe [a generalization]...
    Grts 8.306 3 Many readers remember that Sir Humphry Davy said...my best discovery was Michael Faraday.
    Grts 8.316 12 ...we must remember that in the lives of soldiers, sailors and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household life are wanting...
    Imtl 8.349 18 Yama said [to Nachiketas], Through my favor, Gautama will remember thee with love as before.
    Aris 10.52 15 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they...express their unequivocal indignation and contempt? He eats their bread...and after breakfast he cannot remember that there are human beings.
    Aris 10.65 16 ...it suffices...that...[the man of generous spirit] has an elevation of habit which ministers of empires will be forced to see and to remember.
    Chr2 10.99 26 Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought.
    Chr2 10.118 14 ...in the new importance of the individual, when... presidents and governors are forced every moment to remember their constituencies;...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.
    Supl 10.167 2 ...I remember that [William Ellery Channing's] best friend... said...I believe him capable of virtue.
    Supl 10.170 20 ...the great official...declared that he should remember this honor to the latest moment of his existence.
    LLNE 10.331 6 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...
    EzRy 10.383 20 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old, cold, unpainted, uncarpeted, square-pewed meeting-house...
    EzRy 10.385 26 I remember, when a boy, driving about Concord with [Ezra Ripley]...
    EzRy 10.386 16 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity...
    EzRy 10.386 26 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay.
    EzRy 10.388 9 I can remember a little speech [Ezra Ripley] made to me, when the last tie of blood which held me and my brothers to his house was broken by the death of his daughter.
    EzRy 10.390 7 ...[Ezra Ripley] was...as I well remember, a great browbeater of the poor old fathers who still survived from the 19th of April, to the end that they should testify to his history as he had written it.
    EzRy 10.390 17 We remember the remark made by the old farmer who used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern country would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate.
    EzRy 10.391 16 ...all will remember that even in [Ezra Ripley's] old age, if the firebell was rung, he was instantly on horseback with his buckets, and bag.
    EzRy 10.392 8 We remember the remark of a gentleman...that a man who could tell a story so well [as Ezra Ripley] was company for kings and John Quincy Adams.
    MMEm 10.414 1 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...
    MMEm 10.419 23 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been needy...
    SlHr 10.442 3 ...a plain way [Samuel Hoar] had of putting his statement with all his might, and now and then borrowing the aid of...a farmer's phrase, whose force had imprinted it on his memory, and, by the same token, his hearers were bound to remember his point.
    Thor 10.466 4 ...what accusing silences, and what searching and irresistible speeches, battering down all defences, [Thoreau's] companions can remember!
    Thor 10.476 7 All readers of Walden will remember [Thoreau's] mythical record of his disappointments...
    GSt 10.507 8 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember that there is not a town in the remote State of Kansas that will not weep with you at the loss of its founder;...
    LS 11.8 4 [Jesus] may have foreseen that his disciples would meet to remember him...
    LS 11.10 2 Remember the readiness which [Jesus] always showed to spiritualize every occurrence.
    LS 11.13 14 There was good reason for [Christ's] personal friends to remember their friend and repeat his words.
    EWI 11.137 5 All men remember the subtlety and the fire of indignation which the Edinburgh Review contributed to the cause [of emancipation in the West Indies];...
    FSLC 11.189 14 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a law...constituted the explanation of life, the excuse and indemnity for the errors and calamities which sadden it. In long years consumed in trifles, they remember these moments, and are consoled.
    FSLN 11.221 17 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill.
    AsSu 11.249 11 His friends, I remember, were told that they would find Sumner a man of the world like the rest;...
    JBB 11.269 8 You remember [John Brown's] words: If I had interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful...it would all have been right.
    JBB 11.273 6 I hope...that, in administering relief to John Brown's family, we shall remember all those whom his fate concerns...
    TPar 11.287 7 I remember that I found some harshness in [Theodore Parker's] treatment both of Greek and of Hebrew antiquity...
    ACiv 11.303 13 We cannot but remember that there have been days in American history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked...
    ALin 11.330 20 All of us remember...the surprise and disappointment of the country at [Lincoln's] first nomination by the convention at Chicago.
    ALin 11.332 19 ...how [Lincoln's] good nature became a noble humanity, in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him, every one will remember;...
    HCom 11.339 2 Old classmate, say/ Do you remember our Commencement Day?/
    SMC 11.358 24 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott] at school, at play and at work...
    SMC 11.360 3 You will remember that these [Civil War] colonels, captains and lieutenants, and the privates too, are domestic men...
    SMC 11.368 25 Here [at the battle of Gettysburg] Francis Buttrick, whose manly beauty all of us remember, and Sergeant Appleton...were fatally wounded.
    Koss 11.399 18 ...remember, Sir [Kossuth], that everything great and excellent in the world is in minorities.
    Humb 11.458 19 I remember Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants;...
    Scot 11.463 15 I can well remember as far back as whenThe Lord of the Isles was first republished in Boston...
    ChiE 11.472 13 ...I must remember that [China] has respectable remains of astronomic science...
    FRO2 11.489 25 ...in sound frame of mind, we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other men...only for friendship...
    CPL 11.497 17 ...I always remember with satisfaction that I saw that venerable plant [Papyrus] in 1833...
    CPL 11.500 9 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man of genius...
    FRep 11.532 17 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him; already they remember that they long ago suspected his judgment...
    II 12.80 10 It was the saying of Pythagoras, Remember to be sober, and to be disposed to believe; for these are the nerves of wisdom.
    Mem 12.98 9 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees; he seems to remember all he ever knew;...
    Mem 12.100 11 ...if [men of great presence of mind] cannot remember the rule they can make one.
    Mem 12.101 19 Shall we not on higher stages of being remember and understand our early history better?
    Mem 12.104 25 Remember me means, Do not cease to love me.
    Mem 12.105 1 We remember those things which we love and those things which we hate.
    Mem 12.105 5 The memory of all men is robust on the subject...of an insult inflicted on them. They can remember, as Johnson said, who kicked them last.
    Mem 12.105 11 Michael Angelo, after having once seen a work of any other artist, would remember it so perfectly that if it pleased him to make use of any portion thereof, he could do so...
    Mem 12.105 15 We remember what we understand...
    Mem 12.106 26 ...we remember best when the head is clear...
    CL 12.144 18 One more inconveniency [to walking], I remember, they showed me in Illinois, that, in the bottom lands, the grass was fourteen feet high.
    CL 12.146 27 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in Downing or Loudon. The Tartaric variety, and Cow-apple...and Beware-of-this. Apples of a kind which I remember in boyhood...
    CL 12.152 5 ...[in October] all the trees are wind-harps, filling the air with music; and all men...walk to the measure of rhymes they make or remember.
    CL 12.152 21 We must remember that man is a natural nomad...
    CW 12.178 12 ...I am always glad to remember that in proportion to the foliation is the addition of wood.
    ACri 12.287 23 I remember when a venerable divine [Dr. Osgood] called the young preacher's sermon patty cake.
    ACri 12.288 22 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration. I remember an occasion when a proficient in this style came from North Street to Cambridge and drew a crowd of young critics in the college yard...
    WSL 12.337 17 [John Bull]...is astonished to learn that a wooden house may last a hundred years; nor will he remember the fact as many minutes after it has been told him...
    WSL 12.340 15 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    WSL 12.349 5 Of many of Mr. Landor's sentences we are fain to remember what was said of those of Socrates; that they are cubes, which will stand firm, place them how or where you will.
    AgMs 12.358 12 I still remember with some shame that in some dealing we had together a long time ago, I found that [Edmund Hosmer] had been looking to my interest in the affair, and I had been looking to my interest, and nobody had looked to his part.

remembered, adj. (1)

    Lov1 2.185 7 When alone, [the lovers] solace themselves with the remembered image of the other.

remembered, v. (40)

    DSA 1.139 19 ...each [poetic truth] is some select expression that broke out in a moment of piety from some stricken or jubilant soul, and its excellency made it remembered.
    Exp 3.70 16 That which proceeds in succession might be remembered...
    SwM 4.128 18 The Eden of God is bare and grand: like the out-door landscape remembered from the evening fireside, it seems cold and desolate...
    ShP 4.202 14 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass without a single valuable note the founder of another dynasty, which alone will cause the Tudor dynasty to be remembered...
    ShP 4.210 2 What office, or function, or district of man's work, has [Shakespeare] not remembered?
    ET4 5.55 11 [The Celts] are favorably remembered in the oldest records of Europe.
    ET4 5.72 11 The pastures of Tartary were still remembered by the tenacious practice of the Norsemen to eat horseflesh at religious feasts.
    ET8 5.133 3 ...[young Englishmen]...measure their own strength by the terror they cause. These travellers are of every class...and it may easily happen that those of rudest behavior are taken notice of and remembered.
    ET18 5.308 8 ...if the ocean out of which it emerged should wash it away, [England] will be remembered as an island famous for immortal laws...
    DL 7.130 7 ...let the creations of the plastic arts be...yielded as freely as the sunlight to all. Meantime, be it remembered, we are artists ourselves...
    Farm 7.147 27 The traveller who saw [the Sequoias] remembered his orchard at home...
    OA 7.333 23 [John Adams] spoke of Mr. Lechmere, whom he well remembered to have seen come down daily, at great age, to walk in the old town-house...
    OA 7.334 4 [John Adams] talked of Whitefield, and remembered when he was a Freshman in College to have come into town to the Old South church (I think) to hear him...
    PI 8.12 12 A figurative statement...is remembered and repeated.
    PI 8.13 25 The Vedas, the Edda, the Koran, are each remembered by their happiest figure.
    PI 8.60 11 There is in every poem a height which...is best remembered.
    PI 8.67 14 The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys...and these heroic songs or lines are remembered and determine many practical choices which they make later.
    QO 8.184 4 ...we find in Southey's Commonplace Book this said of the Earl of Strafford: I learned one rule of him, says Sir G. Radcliffe, which I think worthy to be remembered.
    Dem1 10.4 21 Dreams are jealous of being remembered;...
    Supl 10.176 12 ...the expression of character, it must be remembered, is, in great degree, a matter of climate.
    LLNE 10.325 7 I recall the remark of a witty physician who remembered the hardships of his own youth;...
    LLNE 10.333 23 ...whatever [Everett] has quoted will be remembered by any who heard him...
    EzRy 10.386 12 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers...are well remembered...
    LS 11.5 16 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples, but no expression occurs intimating that this feast was hereafter to be commemorated. In St. Mark...the same words are recorded, and still with no intimation that the occasion was to be remembered.
    LS 11.6 7 This material fact, that the occasion [the Last Supper] was to be remembered, is found in Luke alone, who was not present.
    LS 11.12 24 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than that this eventful evening [of the Last Supper] should be affectionately remembered by them;...
    LS 11.14 15 I have received of the Lord, [St. Paul] says, that which I delivered to you. By this expression it is often thought that a miraculous communication is implied; but certainly without good reason, if it is remembered that St. Paul was living in the lifetime of all the apostles who could give him an account of the transaction [the Last Supper];...
    HDC 11.77 8 The agitating events of those days [of the battle of Concord] were duly remembered in the church.
    HDC 11.84 15 ...it is to be remembered that a town is, in many respects, a financial corporation.
    Wom 11.410 7 ...it is to be remembered that [women] create [easy circumstances] with all their might.
    Wom 11.411 16 There is...no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman, who charmed beholders by this new expression, and made it remembered and copied.
    FRO1 11.480 15 The soul of our late war, which will always be remembered as dignifying it, was, first, the desire to abolish slavery in this country...
    FRO1 11.480 24 I wish that the various beneficent institutions which are springing up...all over this country, should all be remembered as within the sphere of this committee [of the Free Religious Association]...
    CPL 11.500 22 In a private letter to a lady, [Thoreau] writes, Do you read any noble verses? For my part, they have been the only things I remembered...when all things else were blurred and defaced.
    Mem 12.99 21 ...only what the affection animates can be remembered.
    Mem 12.103 7 Plato remembered Anaxagoras by one of his sayings.
    Mem 12.107 27 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was...but...a possession of the intellect. Then...we put the onus of being remembered on the object...
    Mem 12.109 12 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. They remembered in a moment all that they ever did.
    Bost 12.193 21 An old lady who remembered these pious people [the Massachusetts colonists] said of them that they had to hold on hard to the huckleberry bushes to hinder themselves from being translated.
    ACri 12.301 15 [The founder of New City] had transferred to that city [Chicago] the magnificent dreams which he had once communicated to me, and no longer remembered his first emporium.

remembering, adj. (2)

    Wth 6.84 19 ...though light-headed man forget,/ Remembering Matter pays her debt/...
    Schr 10.280 11 When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular function, as...his remembering...skill, the advance of his character and genius pauses;...

remembering, n. (1)

    SR 2.68 18 ...all that we say is the far-off remembering of the intuition.

remembering, v. (12)

    AmS 1.103 14 The poet...remembering his spontaneous thoughts...is found to have recorded that which men...find true for them also.
    Int 2.345 22 ...I cannot recite...laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class who have been its prophets and oracles...
    MoS 4.151 10 It is not strange that these men [predisposed to morals], remembering what they have seen and hoped of ideas, should affirm disdainfully the superiority of ideas.
    NMW 4.238 17 [Bonaparte's] instructions to his secretary at the Tuileries are worth remembering.
    ET6 5.112 10 An Englishman of fashion is like one of those souvenirs...fit for the hands of ladies and princes, but with nothing in it worth reading or remembering.
    ET19 5.313 13 I see [England]...well remembering that she has seen dark days before;...
    MoL 10.253 1 The exertions of this force [intellect] are the eminent experiences,-out of a long life all that is worth remembering.
    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 suddenly remembering the season, rejected his offer with some humor...
    MMEm 10.406 9 ...no intelligent youth or maiden could have once met [Mary Moody Emerson] without remembering her with interest...
    HDC 11.74 3 ...the men of Acton, Bedford, Lincoln and Carlisle... remembering their parent town in the hour of danger, arrived [at Concord] and fell into the ranks so fast, that Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge.
    Mem 12.96 22 This thread or order of remembering, this classification, distributes men...
    Mem 12.96 23 This thread or order of remembering, this classification, distributes men, one remembering by shop-rule or interest; one by passion;...

remembers, v. (17)

    SR 2.67 14 ...man postpones or remembers;...
    Exp 3.66 22 ...if one remembers how innocently he began to be an artist, he perceives that nature joined with his enemy.
    ShP 4.217 24 One remembers again the trumpet-text in the Koran,--The heavens and the earth and all that is between them, think ye we have created them in jest?
    ET4 5.55 23 The English come mainly from the Germans, whom the Romans found hard to conquer in two hundred and ten years,--say impossible to conquer, when one remembers the long sequel;...
    ET9 5.151 5 America is the paradise of the [English] economists;...but when he speaks directly of the Americans the islander forgets his philosophy and remembers his disparaging anecdotes.
    PI 8.8 25 Each animal or vegetable form remembers the next inferior and predicts the next higher.
    QO 8.194 26 Every one...remembers his friends by their favorite poetry or other reading.
    Dem1 10.16 8 As [the young man] comes into manhood he remembers passages and persons that seem...to have been supernaturally deprived of injurious influence on him.
    Carl 10.492 18 [Carlyle] throws himself readily on the other side. If you urge free trade, he remembers that every laborer is a monopolist.
    GSt 10.505 9 When one remembers [George Stearns's] incessant service;... I think this this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    EPro 11.324 18 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers Europe of the last seventy years...
    PLT 12.23 25 ...if one remembers how contagious are the moral states of men, how much we are braced by the presence and actions of any Spartan soul, it does not need vigor of our own kind...
    Mem 12.90 16 The lowest life remembers.
    Mem 12.95 18 We estimate a man by how much he remembers.
    Mem 12.96 12 This is the high difference, the quality of the association by which a man remembers.
    Mem 12.106 8 ...I come to a bright school-girl who remembers all she hears...
    CW 12.174 7 ...[a man in his wood-lot] remembers that Allah in his allotment of life does not count the time which the Arab spends in the chase.

remembrance, n. (19)

    Nat 1.7 15 If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men...preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!
    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...
    Con 1.314 22 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...has also his gracious and relenting moments, and espouses for the time the cause of man; and even if this be a shortlived emotion, yet the remembrance of it in private hours mitigates his selfishness...
    YA 1.387 14 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society; but it is...to guide and adorn life for the multitude...by perseverance, self-devotion, and the remembrance of the humble old friend...
    Lov1 2.174 3 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. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words.
    Lov1 2.174 15 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis or comparison and putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years, yet the remembrance of these visions outlasts all other remembrances...
    Wth 6.109 2 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm, with its hard fare still fresh in his remembrance, boards at a first-class hotel...
    Bhr 6.193 2 It is sublime to feel and say of another...we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance;...
    DL 7.105 5 The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance...
    MMEm 10.415 22 This morning rich in existence; the remembrance of past destitution in the deep poverty of my [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt...
    LS 11.5 18 St. Luke...after relating the breaking of the bread [at the Last Supper], has these words: This do in remembrance of me.
    LS 11.6 25 ...we must suppose that the expression, This do in remembrance of me, had come to the ear of Luke from some disciple who was present.
    LS 11.8 12 ...though the words, Do this in remembrance of me, do not occur in Matthew, Mark or John...yet many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.
    HDC 11.38 11 The Puritans, to keep the remembrance of their unity one with another...named their forest settlement CONCORD.
    HDC 11.85 11 I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past.
    FSLC 11.179 12 I wake in the morning with a painful sensation...which, when traced home, is the odious remembrance of that ignominy which has fallen on Massachusetts...
    SMC 11.375 8 I hope the disuse of such medals or badges in this country only signifies that everybody knows these men [veterans of the Civil War], and carries their deeds in such lively remembrance that they require no badge or reminder.
    Milt1 12.251 21 ...deeply as that peculiar state of society, in which and for which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the world, it shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in Nature;...
    Milt1 12.279 4 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of the bravery...of this man [Milton]...

remembrancer, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.100 3 It is much that [the ingenious man] does not accept the conventional opinions and practices. That non-conformity will remain a goad and remembrancer...

remembrances, n. (4)

    Lov1 2.171 17 ...infinite compunctions embitter in mature life the remembrances of budding joy...
    Lov1 2.174 16 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis or comparison and putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years, yet the remembrance of these visions outlasts all other remembrances...
    LS 11.20 1 ...I choose that my remembrances of [Jesus] should be pleasing, affecting, religious.
    Pray 12.351 24 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries...

remind, v. (22)

    OS 2.273 8 ...produce a volume of Plato or Shakspeare, or remind us of their names, and instantly we come into a feeling of longevity.
    Cir 2.318 9 ...let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.
    Cir 2.321 17 People say sometimes, See what I have overcome;...see how completely I have triumphed over these black events. Not if they still remind me of the black event.
    Pt1 3.22 10 ...language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.
    CbW 6.277 12 ...when you tax [men] with treachery, and remind them of their high resolutions, they have forgotten that they made a vow.
    Art2 7.52 7 ...[the ancient sculptures in Naples and Rome] surprise you with a moral admonition, as they...remind you of the fragrant thoughts and the purest resolutions of your youth.
    Art2 7.57 15 ...that Eternal Spirit whose triple face [beauty, truth and goodness] are, moulds from them forever, for his mortal child, images to remind him of the Infinite and Fair.
    Boks 7.211 5 [Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy] is an inventory to remind us how many classes and species of facts exist...
    SA 8.87 26 ...quite another class of our own youth I should remind, of dress in general, that some people need it and others need it not.
    Elo2 8.114 3 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier days by the torrent in the gloom of the pine-woods...
    Dem1 10.6 17 Our thoughts in a stable or in a menagerie...may well remind us of our dreams.
    Aris 10.33 20 I observe the inextinguishable prejudice men have in favor of a hereditary transmission of qualities. It is in vain to remind them that Nature appears capricious.
    MMEm 10.418 13 Could I [Mary Moody Emerson] at times be regaled with music, it would remind me that there are sounds.
    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?...
    LS 11.7 9 When hereafter, [Jesus] says to [his disciples], you shall keep the Passover, it will have an altered aspect to your eyes. It is now a historical covenant of God with the Jewish nation. Hereafter it will remind you of a new covenant sealed with my blood.
    HDC 11.85 22 Why need I remind you of our own Hosmers, Minotts...the departed benefactors of the town [Concord]?
    FSLC 11.186 15 Let me remind you a little in detail how the natural retribution acts in reference to the statute [Fugitive Slave Law] which Congress passed a year ago.
    SMC 11.359 27 [George Prescott] was a Puritan in the army, with traits that remind one of John Brown...
    PLT 12.22 27 How lately the hunter was the poor creature's organic enemy; a presumption inflamed, as the lawyers say, by observing how many faces in the street still remind us of visages in the forest...
    CL 12.137 8 Let me remind you what this walker [Linnaeus] found in his walks.
    Milt1 12.263 3 [Milton's] virtues remind us of what Plutarch said of Timoleon's victories, that they resembled Homer's verses, they ran so easy and natural.
    Let 12.396 19 ...it would be unjust not to remind our younger friends that whilst this aspiration [to improve society] has always made its mark in the lives of men of thought, in vigorous individuals it does not remain a detached object...

reminded, v. (10)

    Nat 1.27 1 Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
    LE 1.168 20 ...when I see the daybreak I am not reminded of these Homeric...pictures.
    MN 1.195 12 We are forcibly reminded of the old want.
    Hist 2.16 3 I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit...
    Hist 2.37 24 Here also we are reminded of the action of man on man.
    Prd1 2.229 6 I have seen a criticism on some paintings, of which I am reminded when I see the shiftless and unhappy men who are not true to their senses.
    ET12 5.200 1 [The Oxford students'] affectionate and gregarious ways reminded me at once of the habits of our Cambridge men...
    Elo1 7.62 5 Our county conventions often exhibit a small-pot-soon-hot style of eloquence. We are too much reminded of a medical experiment where a series of patients are taking nitrous-oxide gas.
    MMEm 10.403 1 When I read Dante...and his paraphrases to signify with more adequateness Christ or Jehovah, whom do you think I was reminded of? Whom but Mary Emerson and her eloquent theology?
    Thor 10.454 18 I am often reminded, [Thoreau] wrote in his journal, that if I had bestowed on me the wealth of Croesus, my aims must be still the same, and my means essentially the same.

reminder, n. (3)

    SMC 11.375 9 I hope the disuse of such medals or badges in this country only signifies that everybody knows these men [veterans of the Civil War], and carries their deeds in such lively remembrance that they require no badge or reminder.
    Mem 12.107 24 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was...but a reminder of its law...
    Mem 12.109 24 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...so that what one had painfully held by strained attention and recapitulation...is now clamped and locked by inevitable connection as a planet in its orbit (every other orb, or the law or system of which it is a part, being a perpetual reminder),-we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an

reminders, n. (1)

    PI 8.11 16 The lover sees reminders of his mistress in every beautiful object;...

reminding, v. (2)

    CPL 11.496 18 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many admirable examples...of benefactors who have not waited to bequeath colleges and hospitals, but have themselves built them, reminding us of Sir Isaac Newton's saying, that they who give nothing before their death, never in fact give at all.
    Mem 12.104 16 ...when late in autumn we hear rarely a bluebird's notes they are sweet by reminding us of the spring.

reminds, v. (17)

    SR 2.61 2 Ordinarily, every body in society reminds us of somewhat else...
    SR 2.61 3 Character, reality, reminds you of nothing else;...
    Chr1 3.106 5 ...I never listened to your people's law...and wasted my time. I was content with the simple rural poverty of my own; hence this sweetness; my work never reminds you of that, is pure of that.
    Mrs1 3.155 7 ...[society] reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology, in any attempt to settle its character.
    UGM 4.6 22 He is great...who never reminds us of others.
    Imtl 8.323 6 ...one of [King Edwin's] nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond...reminds me of one of your winter feasts...
    Plu 10.313 16 [Plutarch] reminds his friends that the Delphic oracles have given several answers the same in substance as that formerly given to Corax the Naxian: It sounds profane impiety/ To teach that human souls e'er die./
    Plu 10.316 11 [Plutarch's] excessive and fanciful humanity reminds one of Charles Lamb...
    Carl 10.490 8 [Carlyle]...understands his own value quite as well as Webster, of whom his behavior sometimes reminds me...
    Carl 10.493 26 [Carlyle's] talk often reminds you of what was said of Johnson: If his pistol missed fire, he would knock you down with the butt-end.
    II 12.77 27 ...this reminds me to add one more trait of the inspired state, namely, incessant advance...
    Bost 12.201 5 European critics regret the detachment of the Puritans to this country without aristocracy; which a little reminds one of the pity of the Swiss mountaineers when shown a handsome Englishman: What a pity he has no goitre!
    MAng1 12.235 23 [Michelangelo] required...that he should be absolute master of the whole design [of St. Peter's], free to depart from the plans of San Gallo and to alter what had been already done. This disinterestedness and spirit-no fee and no interference-reminds one of the reward named by the ancient Persian.
    ACri 12.288 15 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies. The better the worse, you will say; and I own it reminds one of Vathek's collection of monstrous men with humps of a picturesque peak...
    AgMs 12.359 15 [Edmund Hosmer]...reminds us of the hero of the Robin Hood ballad...
    PPr 12.382 2 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;... These things strike us with a force which reminds us of the morals of the Oriental or early Greek masters...
    PPr 12.385 26 In this work [Past and Present], as in his former labors, Mr. Carlyle reminds us of a sick giant.

reminiscence, n. (3)

    PNR 4.83 14 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...doctrine of reminiscence;...
    PNR 4.86 9 ...the fact of knowledge and ideas reveals to [Plato] the fact of eternity; and the doctrine of reminiscence he offers as the most probable particular explication.
    SwM 4.96 20 ...inquiry and learning is reminiscence all.

Reminiscence, n. (1)

    SwM 4.96 2 If one should ask the reason of this intuition, the solution would lead us into that property which Plato denoted as Reminiscence...

remiss, adj. (1)

    Cir 2.316 5 One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty...

remission, n. (1)

    Suc 7.282 2 But if thou do thy best,/ Without remission, without rest,/ And invite the sunbeam,/ And abhor to feign or seem/ Even to those who thee should love/ And thy behavior approve;/...

remit, v. (1)

    MR 1.239 6 [Property's] enemies will not remit;...

remits, v. (1)

    SMC 11.361 23 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men...

remitted, v. (2)

    Bhr 6.194 13 The legend says [the monk Basle's] sentence was remitted...
    Schr 10.284 7 ...the sure months are bringing [the scholar] to an examination-day in which nothing is remitted or excused...

remnants, n. (1)

    HDC 11.53 11 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new hope they had conceived...

remodelled, v. (1)

    ShP 4.201 22 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.

remonstrance, n. (3)

    LVB 11.92 10 We have looked in the newspapers of different parties and find a horrid confirmation of the tale [of the relocation of the Cherokees]. We are slow to believe it. We hoped...that [the Indians'] remonstrance was premature...
    LVB 11.93 19 You [Van Buren] will not do us the injustice of connecting this remonstrance [against the relocation of the Cherokees] with any sectional and party feeling.
    LVB 11.94 23 On the broaching of this question [of the moral character of government], a general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel.

remora, n. (1)

    Plu 10.310 13 The explanation of the rainbow, of the floods of the Nile, and of the remora, etc. [in Plutarch], are just;...

remorse, n. (7)

    DSA 1.121 25 ...we read [these divine laws] hourly...in our own remorse.
    MN 1.204 22 Self-accusation, remorse...are in the view we are constrained by our constitution to take of the fact seen from the platform of action;...
    OS 2.270 9 If we consider what happens...in remorse...we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    PPh 4.76 2 ...expounding...the remorse of crime...[Plato] is literary, and never otherwise.
    SS 7.5 11 [My friend] had a remorse running to despair of his social gaucheries...
    Farm 7.138 7 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum...or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society. And who knows how many glances of remorse are turned this way from the bankrupts of trade...
    CW 12.174 3 [A thoughtful man] can spend the entire day therein [in his wood-lot], with hatchet or pruning-shears, making paths, without remorse of wasting time.

remorseful, adj. (1)

    Comc 8.160 14 The presence of the ideal of right and of truth in all action makes the yawning delinquencies of practice remorseful to the conscience...

remote, adj. (50)

    Nat 1.4 12 We have...scarcely yet a remote approach to an idea of creation.
    Nat 1.26 3 Most of the process by which this transformation [from thing to word] is made, is hidden from us in the remote time when language was framed;...
    AmS 1.85 23 ...[the young mind] goes on...discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.
    AmS 1.86 8 ...science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
    AmS 1.88 15 ...neither can any artist entirely...write a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient...to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries...
    AmS 1.112 12 Man is surprised to find that things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote.
    DSA 1.124 19 In so far as [a man] roves from these [good] ends...his being shrinks out of all remote channels...
    LE 1.162 19 ...in a remote village, the ardent youth loiters and mourns.
    MN 1.203 5 ...remote aims are in active accomplishment.
    Tran 1.334 24 Do not cumber yourself with fruitless pains to mend and remedy remote effects;...
    YA 1.375 9 ...we found colleges and hospitals, for remote generations.
    YA 1.376 20 The king is compelled to call in the aid of his brothers and cousins and remote relations...
    Hist 2.8 7 I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age...has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.
    SR 2.80 7 ...the walls of the system blend to [unbalanced mind's] eye in the remote horizon with the walls of the universe;...
    SL 2.146 19 We are always reasoning from the seen to the unseen. Hence the perfect intelligence that subsists between wise men of remote ages.
    OS 2.276 12 In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the centre of the world...
    Int 2.326 20 The intellect...detects intrinsic likeness between remote things...
    Pt1 3.33 16 The inaccessibleness of every thought but that we are in, is wonderful. What if you come near to it; you are as remote when you are nearest as when you are farthest.
    Chr1 3.93 17 I see [in the natural merchant], with the pride of art and skill of masterly arithmetic and power of remote combination, the consciousness of being an agent and playfellow of the original laws of the world.
    Chr1 3.110 14 ...there is no need to seek remote examples [of character].
    Nat2 3.177 5 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity: he goes...to fetch a plant or a mineral from a remote locality...
    Nat2 3.180 8 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken, and the first lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil, and opened the door for the remote Flora, Fauna, Ceres, and Pomona to come in.
    Nat2 3.180 10 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed;... How far off yet is the trilobite! how far the quadruped! how inconceivably remote is man!
    MoS 4.166 1 ...I, [says Montaigne,]...am afraid that Plato, in his purest virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, would have heard some jarring sound of human mixture; but faint and remote...
    GoW 4.279 9 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo]...no longer answers to his own titled name; it sounds foreign and remote in his ear.
    ET4 5.47 22 It is race, is it not, that puts the hundred millions of India under the dominion of a remote island in the north of Europe?
    ET4 5.55 7 ...the Celts or Sidonides are an old family, of whose beginning there is no memory, and their end is likely to be still more remote in the future;...
    ET4 5.60 8 ...the reader of the Norman history must steel himself by holding fast the remote compensations which result from animal vigor.
    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.
    Wth 6.100 20 The problem [in commerce] is to combine many and remote operations with the accuracy and adherence to the facts...
    Bty 6.282 13 However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders in [astrology], the hint was true and divine...that climate, century, remote natures as well as near, are part of [the soul's] biography.
    Cour 7.267 10 Of [Charles XII, of Sweden] we may say that he led a life more remote from death, and in fact lived more, than any other man.
    Suc 7.304 22 When the event is past and remote, how insignificant the greatest compared with the piquancy of the present!
    PI 8.12 17 Genius thus [through figurative speech] makes the transfer from one part of Nature to a remote part...
    PI 8.36 9 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects;...
    PI 8.71 7 Facts are not foreign, as they seem, but related. Wait a little and we see the return of the remote hyperbolic curve.
    Res 8.145 2 ...no matter how remote from camp or city, [the old forester] carries Bangor with him.
    PPo 8.259 21 ...nothing in [Hafiz's] religious or in his scientific traditions is too sacred or too remote to afford a token of his mistress.
    Insp 8.291 18 What prudence again does every artist, every scholar need in the security of his easel or his desk! These must be remote from the work of the house...
    Insp 8.296 5 The deep book, no matter how remote the subject, helps us best.
    LLNE 10.337 26 ...[Mesmerism] affirmed unity and connection between remote points...
    EzRy 10.393 16 ...[Ezra Ripley's] mark was never remote.
    GSt 10.507 9 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember that there is not a town in the remote State of Kansas that will not weep with you at the loss of its founder;...
    HDC 11.85 4 [Concord's sons'] wagons have rattled down the remote western hills.
    War 11.151 16 War...when seen in the remote past...appears a part of the connection of events...
    EPro 11.318 8 ...it became every day more apparent what gigantic and what remote interests were to be affected by the decision of the President [Lincoln]...
    SHC 11.435 11 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century, this mute green bank [Sleepy Hollow] will be full of history...
    FRep 11.532 7 See how fast [our people] extend the fleeting fabric of their trade,-not at all considering the remote reaction and bankruptcy...
    PLT 12.12 5 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he... only draws that arc which he clearly sees, or perhaps at a later observation a remote curve of the same orbit...
    PLT 12.20 22 ...mind, our mind, or mind like ours, reappears to us in our study of Nature, Nature being everywhere formed after a method which we can well understand, and all the parts, to the most remote, allied or explicable...

remote, n. (1)

    AmS 1.111 8 I ask not for...the remote...

remotely, adv. (2)

    Mrs1 3.138 8 The compliments and ceremonies of our breeding should recall, however remotely, the grandeur of our destiny.
    SovE 10.183 17 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design...

remoteness, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.196 16 In strict science all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness.
    LLNE 10.349 10 [Brisbane's plan] was not daunted by...remoteness of any sort...

remoter, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.64 26 [The world] is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God...
    SS 7.8 21 ...the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light...
    PPo 8.236 5 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/...

remotest, adj. (5)

    Nat 1.40 21 ...every globe in the remotest heaven...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Nat 1.52 19 The remotest spaces of nature are visited [by Shakspeare's muse]...
    Nat2 3.172 2 ...we receive glances from the heavenly bodies, which... foretell the remotest future.
    PI 8.21 5 The poet contemplates the central identity, sees it undulate and roll this way and that, with divine flowings, through remotest things;...
    Dem1 10.11 5 Secret analogies tie together the remotest parts of Nature...

removable, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.35 7 ...[the young adventurer] lends himself to each malignant party that assails what is eminent. He will one day know that this is not removable...

removal, n. (5)

    NER 3.261 1 Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish;...
    DL 7.124 9 In men, it is their...removal to the East or to the West, or some other magnified trifle which makes the meridian movement...
    MoL 10.251 13 I chanced lately to be at West Point, and, after attending the examination in scientific classes, I went into the barracks. The chamber was in perfect order; the mattress on the iron camp-bed rolled up, as if ready for removal.
    LVB 11.91 25 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting...to drag [the Cherokees]...to a wilderness at a vast distance beyond the Mississippi. And a paper purporting to be an army order fixes a month from this day as the hour for this doleful removal.
    FRep 11.516 20 The new conditions of mankind in America are really favorable to...the removal of absurd restrictions and antique inequalities.

remove, v. (14)

    Mrs1 3.152 25 For the present distress...of those who are predisposed to suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice [of society], there are easy remedies. To remove your residence a couple of miles, or at most four, will commonly relieve the most extreme susceptibility.
    Nat2 3.191 2 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual! Could it not be had as well by beggars on the highway? No, all these things came from successive efforts of these beggars to remove friction from the wheels of life...
    Nat2 3.191 14 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these inconveniences, the main attention has been diverted to this object;...
    Nat2 3.191 16 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these inconveniences...to remove friction has come to be the end.
    MoS 4.180 3 There are these, and more than these diseases of thought, which our ordinary teachers do not attempt to remove.
    Bhr 6.194 4 The angel that was sent to find a place of torment for [the monk Basle] attempted to remove him to a worse pit...
    DL 7.113 6 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?--to go from chamber to chamber and see no beauty;...
    SlHr 10.438 16 ...when...a deputation of gentlemen waited upon him in the hall to say they had come with the unanimous voice of the State to remove him by force...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
    HDC 11.55 21 ...whilst many of the colonists at Boston thought to remove, or did remove to England, the Concord people became uneasy, and looked around for new seats.
    HDC 11.55 22 ...whilst many of the colonists at Boston thought to remove, or did remove to England, the Concord people became uneasy, and looked around for new seats.
    SHC 11.431 23 ...there is no ornament, no architecture alone, so sumptuous as well disposed woods and waters, where art has been employed only to remove superfluities...
    CW 12.177 24 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in winter, because, remove the snow a little, a multitude of plants live and grow...
    Milt1 12.273 3 [Milton] would remove hirelings out of the church...
    AgMs 12.361 10 ...our [New England] people...will remove from town to town as a new market opens...

removed, v. (27)

    Lov1 2.172 26 ...to-day [the rude village boy] comes running into the entry and meets one fair child disposing her satchel; he holds her books to help her, and instantly it seems to him as if she removed herself from him infinitely...
    NMW 4.245 23 As soon as we are removed out of the reach of local and accidental partialities, Man feels that Napoleon fights for him;...
    ET5 5.76 17 ...to set [the Saxon] at work and to begin to draw his monstrous values out of barren Britain, all dishonor, fret and barrier must be removed...
    ET16 5.290 8 Sharon Turner...says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there, but his remains were removed by Henry I. to the new Abbey in the meadows at Hyde, on the northern quarter of the city...
    CbW 6.260 14 ...the most meritorious public services have always been performed by persons in a condition of life removed from opulence.
    Bty 6.295 25 In our cities an ugly building is soon removed and is never repeated...
    Aris 10.49 16 I think that the community-every community, if obstructing laws and usages are removed-will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...
    PerF 10.77 15 Certain thoughts, certain observations...would be my capital if I removed to Spain or China...
    Prch 10.236 13 We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...infinitely removed from all vaporing and bravado...
    MoL 10.246 10 Bowditch translated Laplace, and when he removed to Boston, the Hospital Life Assurance Company insisted that he should make their tables of annuities.
    Schr 10.263 3 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...expressors themselves of that firm and cheerful temper, infinitely removed from sadness, which reigns through the kingdoms of chemistry, vegetation and animal life.
    EzRy 10.382 16 In 1775, in [Ezra Ripley's] senior year, the college [Harvard] was removed from Cambridge to this town.
    SlHr 10.444 4 [Samuel Hoar's] beauty was pathetic and touching in these latest days, and, as now appears, it awakened a certain tender fear in all who saw him, that the costly ornament of our homes and halls and streets was speedily to be removed.
    LS 11.8 24 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival. ... But this impression is removed by reading any narrative of the mode in which the ancient or the modern Jews have kept the Passover.
    HDC 11.43 6 ...the Company [of Massachusetts Bay] removed to New England;...
    HDC 11.58 24 A still more formidable enemy [of Concord] was removed... by the capture of Canonchet, the faithful ally of Philip...
    HDC 11.80 14 ...the country towns thought it would be cheaper if [the government] were removed from the capital.
    EPro 11.321 15 With this blot [slavery] removed from our national honor... we shall not fear henceforward to show our faces among mankind.
    EPro 11.321 22 In the light of this event [the Emancipation Proclamation] the public distress begins to be removed.
    EPro 11.322 2 The cause of disunion and war has been reached and begun to be removed [by the Emancipation Proclamation].
    EPro 11.325 13 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis. Then...the cause of war being removed, Nature and trade may be trusted to establish a lasting peace.
    FRO2 11.489 22 Whoever thinks a story gains...by adding something out of nature, robs it more than he adds. It is no longer an example...but an exhibition...removed out of the range of influence with thoughtful men.
    CPL 11.499 8 I possess the manuscript journal of a lady [Mary Moody Emerson]...who removed into Maine...
    PLT 12.47 20 Sometimes the patience and love [of intellectual men] are rewarded by the chamber of power being at last opened; but sometimes they pass away dumb, to find it where all obstruction is removed.
    MAng1 12.227 5 Michael [Angelo] removed the whole, and constructed a movable platform to rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine Chapel]...
    ACri 12.301 12 After Chicago had secured the confluence of the railroads to itself, I chanced to meet my founder [of New City] again, but now removed to Chicago.
    PPr 12.388 1 ...we at this distance are not so far removed from any of the specific evils [of the English State], and are deeply participant in too many, not to share the gloom and thank the love and courage of the counsellor [Carlyle].

removes, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.4 20 ...we are...children of the fire, made of it, and only the same divinity transmuted and at two or three removes, when we know least about it.

removes, v. (3)

    UGM 4.19 14 When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor;...
    Wth 6.104 24 Every man who removes into this city with any purchasable talent or skill in him, gives to every man's labor in the city a new worth.
    ACiv 11.307 20 ...whilst Slavery makes and keeps disunion, Emancipation removes the whole objection to union.

removing, v. (9)

    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.
    YA 1.381 15 All this drudgery...to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse.
    ET3 5.42 7 When James the First declared his purpose of punishing London by removing his Court, the Lord Mayor replied that in removing his royal presence from his lieges, they hoped he would leave them the Thames.
    ET3 5.42 8 When James the First declared his purpose of punishing London by removing his Court, the Lord Mayor replied that in removing his royal presence from his lieges, they hoped he would leave them the Thames.
    ET8 5.135 18 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...removing the reproach of sterility from English art...
    ET13 5.215 5 [Prudent men say] Better find some niche or crevice in this mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried and carved...than attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above your strength, like removing it.
    OA 7.323 11 ...the chief evil of life is taken away in removing the grounds of fear.
    HDC 11.56 3 Mr. Bulkeley dissuaded his people from removing...
    Milt1 12.251 5 The other piece is [Milton's] Areopagitica, the discourse... in favor of removing the censorship of the press; the most splendid of his prose works.

remunerate, v. (1)

    Hsm1 2.254 7 In some way...the pains [the magnanimous] seem to take remunerate themselves.

remuneration, n. (3)

    ET2 5.25 15 The remuneration [for lectures in England] was equivalent to the fees at that time paid in this country for the like services.
    Wsp 6.231 5 Where is the service which can escape its remuneration?
    SovE 10.193 2 If you love and serve men, you cannot by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.

renaissance, n. (1)

    FRep 11.512 4 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood]; sent boxes of these as gifts to every court of Europe, and formed the taste of the world. It was a renaissance of the breakfast-table and china-closet.

Renan, Ernest, n. (1)

    MoL 10.245 17 Ernest Renan finds that Europe has thrice assembled for exhibitions of industry, and not a poem graced the occasion;...

Renard the Fox, n. (1)

    QO 8.181 14 Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century, was long supposed to be the original work...

rencontre, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.135 5 Does it not seem as if man...dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

rend, v. (3)

    Nat 1.65 12 ...the bear and tiger rend us.
    NR 3.246 18 There is nothing we cherish and strive to draw to us but in some hour we turn and rend it.
    Trag 12.410 19 [Grief] is so distributed as not to destroy. That which would rend you falls on tougher textures.

rended, v. (1)

    War 11.171 9 ...[peace] is to hear the voice of God, which bids the devils that have rended and torn [the man] come out of him...

render, v. (38)

    AmS 1.85 14 ...Nature hastens to render account of herself to the mind.
    DSA 1.121 3 He ought. [Man] knows the sense of that grand word, though his analysis fails to render account of it.
    Con 1.307 21 [The youth says] I shall seek those whom I love, and shun those whom I love not, and what more can all your laws render me?
    YA 1.369 10 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will render a service to the whole face of this continent...
    SR 2.43 2 ...the soul that can/ Render an honest and a perfect man,/ Commands all light.../
    Comp 2.113 20 He is base...to receive favors and render none.
    Comp 2.113 21 In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them...
    OS 2.293 22 You are preparing with eagerness to go and render a service...
    OS 2.297 13 [Man] will...be content with all places and with any service he can render.
    Int 2.330 5 Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
    Pt1 3.6 1 There is no man who does not anticipate a supersensual utility in the sun and stars, earth and water. These stand and wait to render him a peculiar service.
    Pt1 3.41 4 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael... resemble a mirror carried through the street, ready to render an image of every created thing.
    Chr1 3.110 20 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and the graves of the memory render up their dead;...
    Gts 3.164 14 Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.
    Nat2 3.170 9 ...we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their bosom. How willingly we would escape the barriers which render them comparatively impotent...
    UGM 4.29 18 Serve the great. ... Grudge no office thou canst render.
    PPh 4.64 9 ...[said Plato] the persuasion that we must search that which we do not know, will render us, beyond comparison, better, braver and more industrious than if we thought it impossible to discover what we do not know, and useless to search for it.
    PPh 4.68 7 Plato...attempted as if on the part of human intellect, once for all to do it adequate homage,--homage fit for the immense soul to receive, and yet homage becoming the intellect to render.
    PNR 4.84 12 Plato affirms...that the order or proceeding of nature was from the mind to the body, and, though a sound body cannot restore an unsound mind, yet a good soul can, by its virtue, render the body the best possible.
    SwM 4.94 4 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.
    ET19 5.311 21 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes...which is alike lovely and honorable to those who render and those who receive it;...
    Civ 7.31 4 What a benefit would the American government...render to itself...if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition!
    WD 7.159 23 Lord Chancellor Thurlow thought [steam] might be made to draw bills and answers in chancery. If that were satire, yet it is coming to render many higher services of a mechanico-intellectual kind...
    WD 7.180 24 You must hear the bird's song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.
    Boks 7.204 6 ...in our Bible...it seems easy and inevitable to render the rhythm and music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
    Suc 7.299 12 Does that deep-toned bell...render to you nothing but acoustic vibrations?
    OA 7.327 2 Michel Angelo's head is full of masculine and gigantic figures as gods walking, which make him savage until his furious chisel can render them into marble;...
    Comc 8.166 15 ...The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy,/ Complaining loudly of the breach/ Of league held forth by Brother Patch,/ Against the articles in force/ Between both churches, his and ours,/ For which he craved the saints to render/ Into his hands, or hang the offender;/...
    Aris 10.45 25 [The blood royal] obtains service, gifts, supplies, furtherance of all kinds from the love and joy of those who feel themselves honored by the service they render.
    Aris 10.51 14 We do not expect [public representatives] to be saints, and it is very pleasing to see the instinct of mankind on this matter,-how much they will forgive to such as pay substantial service and work energetically after their kind; but they do not extend the same indulgence to those who claim and enjoy the same prerogative but render no returns.
    PerF 10.76 23 We define Genius to be...a sensibility so equal that it receives accurately all impressions, and can truly report them, without excess or loss, as it received. It must not only receive all, but it must render all.
    Chr2 10.103 18 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests...are the homage we render to this sentiment...
    MMEm 10.430 9 I [Mary Moody Emerson] pray to die, though happier myriads and mine own companions press nearer to the throne. His coldest beam will purify and render me forever holy.
    HDC 11.69 11 ...the British parliament have empowered the East India Company to export their tea into America, for the sole purpose of raising a revenue from hence; to render the design abortive, we will not, in this town [Concord]...buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea...
    EWI 11.105 25 [Granville] Sharpe protected the [West Indian] slave. In consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the laws were against him. Sharpe would not believe it; no prescription on earth could ever render such iniquities legal.
    FSLC 11.190 27 Blackstone admits the sovereignty antecedent to any positive precept, of the law of Nature, among whose principles are, that we should live on, should hurt nobody, and should render unto every one his due, etc.
    ACiv 11.302 3 ...by the dislike of people to pay out a direct tax, governments are forced to render life costly by making them pay twice as much, hidden in the price of tea and sugar.
    Milt1 12.265 5 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear and not lumpish obedience to the mind...

rendered, v. (21)

    SR 2.45 12 ...our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
    Comp 2.112 19 Has a man gained any thing who has received a hundred favors and rendered none?
    Comp 2.113 23 ...the benefit we receive must be rendered again...
    UGM 4.21 11 How to illustrate...the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the general mind?...
    SwM 4.145 19 Swedenborg has rendered a double service to mankind...
    ShP 4.210 23 ...[Shakespeare] is like some saint whose history is to be rendered into all languages...
    ET11 5.185 10 If one asks...what service this class [English nobility] have rendered?--uses appear, or they would have perished long ago.
    CbW 6.262 25 You buy much that is not rendered in the bill.
    Boks 7.204 18 I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
    PI 8.11 24 ...the aptness with which a river, a flower, a bird, fire, day or night, can express [man's] fortunes, is as if the world...with a change of form, rendered to him all his experience.
    PI 8.12 20 Imaginative minds...do not wish [their images] rashly rendered into prose reality...
    PI 8.18 2 ...[as soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it] he can now find symbols of universal significance, which are readily rendered into any dialect;...
    Chr2 10.110 7 One service which this age has rendered is, to make the life and wisdom of every past man accessible and available to all.
    SovE 10.192 25 The law is: To each shall be rendered his own.
    Plu 10.320 11 I cannot close these notes without expressing my sense of the valuable service which the Editor [of Plutarch's Morals] has rendered to his Author and to his readers.
    HDC 11.27 2 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./
    CPL 11.502 9 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests... to procure in the temple fire from the sun, and thence distribute it as a sacred gift to every hearth in the nation. It is a just type of the service rendered to mankind by wise men.
    MAng1 12.225 17 By the treachery...of the general of the Republic, Malatesta Baglioni, all [Michelangelo's] skill was rendered unavailing...
    MAng1 12.235 26 When importuned to claim some compensation of the empire for the important services he had rendered it, [the ancient Persian] demanded that he and his should neither command nor obey, but should be free.
    ACri 12.284 26 ...many of [Goethe's] poems are so idiomatic...that they are the terror of translators, who say they cannot be rendered into any other language without loss of vigor...
    ACri 12.297 12 The best service Carlyle has rendered is to rhetoric...

rendering, n. (2)

    QO 8.194 17 ...a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering...
    Plu 10.321 24 We owe to these translators [of Plutarch] many sharp perceptions of the wit and humor of their author, sometimes even to the adding of the point. I notice one, which, although the translator has justified his rendering in a note, the severer criticism of the Editor has not retained.

rendering, v. (5)

    MN 1.208 11 Hereto was [a man] born...to do an office which nature could not forego, nor he be discharged from rendering...
    Int 2.345 6 ...[the philosopher] has not succeeded in rendering back to you your consciousness.
    GoW 4.279 6 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo], who is the centre and fountain of an association for the rendering of the noblest benefits to the human race, no longer answers to his own titled name;...
    Aris 10.52 26 [Men] are honored by rendering [Genius] honor...
    Schr 10.277 5 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them trained: this memory carrying in its caves the pictures of all the past, and rendering them in the instant when they can serve the possessor;...

renders, v. (7)

    Nat 1.43 14 Each particle...faithfully renders the likeness of the world.
    Pt1 3.32 5 An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
    Gts 3.164 8 The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him...
    SwM 4.146 6 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him, and which no infirmities of the prophet are suffered to obscure; and he renders a second passive service to men...
    Bhr 6.187 1 A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is native and proper to him...
    CbW 6.247 6 [Fine society] renders the service of a perfumery or a laundry...
    Grts 8.314 24 ...one fights with cannon as with fists; when once the fire is begun, the least want of ammunition renders what you have done already useless.

rending, v. (1)

    CbW 6.253 4 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men have met this obstruction in their times...like Rabelais, with his satire rending the nations.

rendings, n. (1)

    F 6.7 13 The planet is liable to...rendings from earthquake and volcano...

rendition, n. (3)

    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.
    FSLC 11.198 6 What shall we say of the functionary by whom the recent rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made?
    TPar 11.290 16 Two days...the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses.

rends, v. (1)

    OS 2.275 3 With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite...

rendu, v. (1)

    Chr2 10.104 10 Si Dieu a fait l'homme a son image, l'homme l' a bien rendu.

Rene, of Sicily, n. (1)

    Shak1 11.452 20 ...Shakspeare...simply by his colossal proportions, dwarfs the geniuses of Elizabeth as easily as...the poor slipshod troubadours of King Rene.

renew, v. (7)

    Nat 1.57 10 Like a new soul, [ideas] renew the body.
    Cir 2.319 2 ...all things renew, germinate and spring.
    Boks 7.210 13 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side, as if to bring his father a fresh lance to renew the fight.
    PI 8.41 10 ...roses and violets renew their race like oaks...
    PI 8.60 8 [The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century, when] Pons de Capdeuil declares,--Since the air renews itself and softens, so must my heart renew itself...
    II 12.89 5 The joy of knowledge, the late discovery that the veil which hid all things from him is really transparent...renew life for [a man].
    AgMs 12.361 24 Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they will sell their oxen in November; but for me [Edmund Hosmer] to sell my cattle and my produce in the fall would be to sell my farm, for I should have no manure to renew a crop in the spring.

renewed, adj. (1)

    Insp 8.280 16 A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;...he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth...

renewed, v. (8)

    Tran 1.359 16 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...these cities rotted...all gone, like the shells which sprinkle the sea-beach with a white colony to-day, forever renewed to be forever destroyed.
    Hist 2.31 16 ...every time [Antaeus] touched his mother-earth his strength was renewed.
    Mrs1 3.126 22 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. ... By swift consent...everything graceful is renewed.
    ET5 5.90 26 Private persons [in England] exhibit...the same pertinacity as the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against the empire of Bonaparte, one after the other defeated, and still renewed...
    ET14 5.256 4 How many volumes of well-bred metre we must jingle through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed!
    Suc 7.310 4 The painter Giotto...renewed art because he put more goodness into his heads.
    SovE 10.189 16 ...the warfare of beasts should be renewed in a finer field, for more excellent victories.
    EWI 11.109 12 During the next sixteen years, ten times, year after year, the attempt [to abolish West Indian slavery] was renewed by Mr. Wilberforce...

renewing, adj. (2)

    LT 1.289 3 This ever renewing generation of appearances rests on a reality, and a reality that is alive.
    NER 3.262 11 Let into it the new and renewing principle of love, and property will be universality.

renewing, v. (1)

    Boks 7.193 22 ...I can seldom go there [to the Cambridge Library] without renewing the conviction that the best of it all is already within the four walls of my study at home.

renews, v. (7)

    LE 1.173 9 ...by virtue of the Deity, thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day...
    Con 1.295 17 ...now [Conservatism], now [Innovation] gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time...
    SR 2.88 13 ...what the man acquires, is living property, which...perpetually renews itself wherever the man breathes.
    Comp 2.125 13 ...such should be the outward biography of man in time, a putting off of dead circumstances day by day, as he renews his raiment day by day.
    Prd1 2.237 26 ...[the drover's, the sailor's] health renews itself at as vigorous a pulse under the sleet as under the sun of June.
    ET14 5.238 12 'T is a very old strife between those who elect to see identity and those who elect to see discrepancies; and it renews itself in Britain.
    PI 8.60 7 [The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century, when] Pons de Capdeuil declares,--Since the air renews itself and softens, so must my heart renew itself...

renounce, v. (16)

    LE 1.185 21 When you shall say...I renounce, I am sorry for it, my early visions;...then dies the man in you;...
    LE 1.186 19 Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth...
    MR 1.235 3 If the accumulated wealth of the past generation is thus tainted...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part to renounce it...
    MR 1.248 16 Let [a man] renounce everything which is not true to him...
    OS 2.279 12 ...if I renounce my will and act for the soul...out of [my child' s] young eyes looks the same soul;...
    Cir 2.319 18 ...the man and woman of seventy...renounce aspiration...
    Nat2 3.177 23 ...I cannot renounce the right of returning often to this old topic [nature].
    NER 3.268 5 We renounce all high aims.
    ET14 5.247 3 Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the poor thing in his universe,--more's the pity, he thinks,--but 't is not for us to be wiser; we must renounce ideals and accept London.
    Pow 6.68 7 All the elements whose aid man calls in will sometimes become his masters, especially those of most subtle force. Shall he then renounce steam, fire and electricity...
    PPo 8.261 2 In the midnight of thy locks,/ I renounce the day;/ In the ring of thy rose-lips,/ My heart forgets to pray./
    Imtl 8.330 15 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... Independently of revealed ideas, metaphysical ideas give me a vigorous hope of my eternal well-being, which I would never renounce.
    Chr2 10.94 11 The [interest of the individual] craves a private benefit, which [the dictate of the universal mind] requires him to renounce out of respect to the absolute good.
    Schr 10.282 21 ...it is the end of eloquence...to persuade a multitude of persons to renounce their opinions, and change the course of life.
    EWI 11.100 26 In this cause [emancipation], we must renounce our temper...
    CInt 12.127 14 You all well know...the facility with which men renounce their youthful aims and say, the labor is too severe, the prize too high for me;...

renounced, v. (5)

    NMW 4.228 15 It is an advantage, within certain limits, to have renounced the dominion of the sentiments of piety, gratitude and generosity;...
    NMW 4.228 22 Napoleon renounced, once for all, sentiments and affections...
    Elo1 7.78 3 It was said that a man has at one step attained vast power, who has renounced his moral sentiment...
    Edc1 10.133 3 If I have renounced the search of truth...I have died to all use of these new events...
    Thor 10.451 15 After leaving the University, [Thoreau] joined his brother in teaching a private school, which he soon renounced.

renouncer, n. (1)

    MR 1.248 10 What is a man born for but to be...a renouncer of lies;...

renounces, v. (3)

    DSA 1.122 24 The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
    Elo1 7.96 21 This man [the sturdy countryman] scornfully renounces your civil organizations...
    PPo 8.256 6 I declare myself the slave of that masculine soul/ Which ties and alliance on earth once forever renounces./

renouncing, v. (3)

    LE 1.165 23 The vision of genius comes by renouncing the too officious activity of the understanding...
    PPo 8.261 8 Plunge in yon angry waves,/ Renouncing doubt and care;/ The flowing of the seven broad seas/ Shall never wet thy hair./
    Dem1 10.21 25 Great men feel that they are so by...falling back on what is humane; in renouncing family, clan, country and each exclusive and local connection...

renovate, v. (3)

    SR 2.75 15 We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state...
    Pt1 3.12 8 That will reconcile me to life and renovate nature, to see trifles animated by a tendency...
    NER 3.261 15 ...society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him;...

renovated, v. (1)

    NER 3.261 15 ...society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him;...

renovating, v. (1)

    Pol1 3.221 4 ...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.

renovation, n. (3)

    Con 1.320 8 [Conservatism's] religion is just as bad;...never self-help, renovation, and virtue.
    Insp 8.282 6 ...there is this daily renovation of sensibility...
    WSL 12.342 21 Let us not be so illiberal with our schemes for the renovation of society and Nature as to disesteem or deny the literary spirit.

renown, n. (12)

    ET4 5.47 3 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit. Then the miracle and renown begin.
    ET5 5.77 4 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of...Gibbon, Brindley, Watt, Wedgwood, dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain, and turn the sweat of their face to power and renown.
    ET15 5.266 15 The staff of The [London] Times has always been made up of able men. Old Walter...Jones Lloyd, John Oxenford, Mr. Mosely, Mr. Bailey, have contributed to its renown...
    Clbs 7.248 9 No doubt the suppers of wits and philosophers acquire much lustre by time and renown.
    Cour 7.253 18 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown of the heroes of Greece and Rome...
    Dem1 10.22 6 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that the one question for history is the pedigree of his house, and future ages will be busy with his renown;...
    Aris 10.62 3 ...[the true man] is to know...that...wherever found, the old renown attaches to the virtues of simple faith and stanch endurance and clear perception and plain speech...
    Chr2 10.121 21 Goethe...maintained his belief that pure loveliness and right good will are the highest manly prerogatives, before which all energetic heroism, with its lustre and renown, must recede.
    Plu 10.321 12 I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in London...will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch], which show the wealth of their tongue to greater advantage than many books of more renown as models.
    CSC 10.375 17 ...Edward, Palmer, Jones Very, Maria W. Chapman and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
    Scot 11.466 1 [Scott] saw...in his own reading and research such store of legend and renown as won his imagination to their cause.
    Milt1 12.247 15 ...if the new and temporary renown of the poet is silent again, it is nevertheless true that [Milton] has gained, in this age, some increase of permanent praise.

renowned, adj. (8)

    SR 2.63 6 As great a stake depends on your private act to-day as followed [kings'] public and renowned steps.
    SL 2.143 10 What we call obscure condition or vulgar society is that condition and society...which you shall presently make as enviable and renowned as any.
    ET5 5.78 1 The island [England] was renowned in antiquity for its breed of mastiffs...
    ET16 5.284 4 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall,--the renowned seat of the Earls of Pembroke...
    WD 7.176 24 In daily life, what distinguishes the master is the using of those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned...
    LVB 11.93 13 You [Van Buren], sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this intrument of perfidy [the relocation of the Cherokees];...
    PPr 12.384 2 It is a costly proof of character that the most renowned scholar of England [Carlyle] should take his reputation in his hand and should descend into the [political] ring;...
    PPr 12.389 13 ...in all his fun of...playing of tunes with a whiplash like some renowned charioteers...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...

rent, n. (11)

    Con 1.325 20 To the intemperate and covetous person...mankind would pay no rent, no dividend, if force were once relaxed;...
    Prd1 2.234 26 ...money, if kept by us, yields no rent and is liable to loss;...
    Exp 3.71 5 Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is...the heaven without rent or seam.
    Mrs1 3.119 11 The house [of the inhabitants of Gournou], namely a tomb, is ready without rent or taxes.
    ET5 5.95 14 Chat Moss and the fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire are unhealthy and too barren to pay rent.
    Wth 6.107 18 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can reduce the rent...
    SS 7.11 7 ...the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is [the scholar's] rent and ration.
    Farm 7.150 10 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know, and have found...that Massachusetts has a basement story...that promises to pay a better rent than all the superstructure.
    PC 8.228 12 [The moral sentiment]...draws its own rent out of every novelty in science.
    CL 12.145 23 One [apple] tree yields the rent of an acre of land.
    CL 12.147 8 According to the common estimate of farmers, the wood-lot yields its gentle rent of six per cent....

rent, v. (3)

    MoS 4.160 22 An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters in this storm of many elements.
    Wth 6.107 16 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap.
    SS 7.1 22 ...[Seyd] shared the life of the element,/ The tie of blood and home was rent/...

rentable, adj. (1)

    Supl 10.168 1 [People of English stock's] houses are...designed...to stand as commodious, rentable tenements for a century or two.

rented, v. (1)

    ET4 5.62 8 Konghelle, the town where the kings of Norway, Sweden and Denmark were wont to meet, is now rented to a private English gentleman for a hunting ground.

renting, v. (1)

    ET11 5.189 9 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced...the renting of game-preserves.

rent-roll, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.136 3 No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation;...
    Wth 6.117 24 I remember in Warwickshire to have been shown a fair manor, still in the same name as in Shakspeare's time. The rent-roll I was told is some fourteen thousand pounds a year;...

rents, n. (5)

    SR 2.89 26 ...a rise of rents...or some other favorable event raises your spirits...
    GoW 4.263 10 [The writer] draws his rents from rage and pain.
    GoW 4.290 6 We shall learn to draw rents and revenues from the immense patrimony of the old and the recent ages.
    SS 7.11 5 Never his lands or his rents, but the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is [the scholar's] rent and ration.
    FSLC 11.186 3 [The devil] was never known to abate a penny of his rents.

renunciation, n. (2)

    ET10 5.170 22 Who can propose to youth poverty and wisdom...when English success has grown out of the very renunciation of principles...
    Edc1 10.141 25 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been...a way, not through plenty and superfluity, but by denial and renunciation, into solitude and privation;...

renunciations, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.41 25 The world is full of renunciations and apprenticeships...
    Thor 10.454 6 [Thoreau] was a protestant a outrance, and few lives contain so many renunciations.
    Wom 11.411 3 [Man] invented marriage; and surrounded by religion...by all manner of dignities and renunciations, the union of the sexes.

reopen, v. (1)

    Scot 11.463 23 ...when we reopen these old books [of Scott's] we all consent to be boys again

reorganize, v. (3)

    Tran 1.359 21 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim... shall abide in beauty and strength, to reorganize themselves in nature...
    MoL 10.248 5 War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.
    FRO1 11.480 3 What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings together to-day so many separated friends...was some practical suggestions by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true Church...

reorganized, v. (1)

    SMC 11.365 23 In the fall of 1861, the old artillery company of this town [Concord] was reorganized...

repaid, v. (2)

    Comp 2.119 9 Every stroke shall be repaid.
    NR 3.241 10 ...our affections and our experience urge that every individual is entitled to honor, and a very generous treatment is sure to be repaid.

repaint, v. (2)

    LE 1.169 17 ...this beauty...which the sun and the moon, the snow and the rain, repaint and vary, has never been recorded by art...
    PI 8.34 18 'T is easy to repaint the mythology of the Greeks...

repainting, v. (1)

    Aris 10.33 26 ...I notice also that [the finer qualities] may become fixed and permanent in any stock, by painting and repainting them on every individual...

repair, n. (3)

    MR 1.238 15 ...whoever takes any of these things [species of property] into his possession, takes the charge of...keeping them in repair.
    ET13 5.223 17 [The Anglican Church] keeps the old structures in repair...
    WD 7.164 20 A man builds a fine house; and now he has...a task for life: he is to...keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

repair, v. (21)

    Nat 1.10 5 There [in the woods] I feel that nothing can befall me in life... which nature cannot repair.
    Nat 1.14 8 [The private poor man] goes...to the court-house, and nations repair his wrongs.
    AmS 1.91 17 ...when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, - we repair to the lamps...to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is.
    Tran 1.354 14 ...it will please us to reflect that though we had few virtues or consolations, we bore with our indigence, nor once strove to repair it with hypocrisy or false heat of any kind.
    YA 1.366 2 The land...is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education...
    YA 1.374 17 ...we repair commerce with unlimited credit, and are presently visited with unlimited bankruptcy.
    Hsm1 2.250 11 [Heroism] is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer.
    Chr1 3.98 1 No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
    ET10 5.169 25 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with; and a part to repair the wrongs of this intemperate weaving, by hospitals, savings-banks, Mechanics' Institutes, public grounds, and other charities and amenities.
    Res 8.150 17 In this country we have not learned how to repair the exhaustions of our climate.
    Comc 8.170 4 ...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat a gay cascade was thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow...a picture of his own, with which the poor painter had been fain to repair the shortcomings of his wardrobe.
    SovE 10.210 1 Here is contribution of money on a more extended and systematic scale than ever before to repair public disasters at a distance...
    LLNE 10.363 4 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment...with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...yet was he the chosen counsellor to whom the guardians [at Brook Farm] would repair on any hitch or difficulty that occurred...
    EPro 11.319 2 ...one midsummer day seems to repair the damage of a year of war.
    SHC 11.435 17 ...hither [to Sleepy Hollow] shall repair...every sweet and friendly influence;...
    PLT 12.24 25 The plant absorbs much nourishment from the ground in order to repair its own waste by exhalation...
    Bost 12.209 25 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better; she will repair mischief;...
    Bost 12.210 1 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...her mechanics repair the broken rail;...
    MAng1 12.227 9 Michael [Angelo]...constructed a movable platform to rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine Chapel], which is believed to be the same simple contrivance which is used in Rome, at this day, to repair the walls of churches.
    MAng1 12.231 24 ...[St. Peter's dome] is said to have been injured by unskilful attempts to repair it.
    ACri 12.291 24 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress and writers of books might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...

repaired, v. (9)

    LE 1.180 8 ...[Napoleon] had a sublime confidence...in the sallies of courage...which, at the right moment, repaired all losses...
    SR 2.78 12 ...attend your own work and already the evil begins to be repaired.
    Prd1 2.225 19 A door is to be painted, a lock to be repaired.
    Pow 6.67 19 [Boniface] was active in getting the roads repaired and planted with shade-trees;...
    LLNE 10.340 19 Dr. Channing repaired to Dr. Warren's house on the appointed evening, with large thoughts which he wished to open.
    Thor 10.458 21 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the loan of books to resident graduates...
    HDC 11.46 2 It was on doubts concerning their own power, that, in 1634, a committee repaired to [John Winthrop] for counsel...
    EPro 11.320 1 [The Emancipation Proclamation] makes a victory of our defeats. Our hurts are healed; the health of the nation is repaired.
    MAng1 12.227 2 Michael [Angelo] demanded of San Gallo, the pope!s architect, how these holes [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling] were to be repaired in the picture.

repairers, n. (1)

    CbW 6.270 7 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into...repairers of this one malefactor;...

repairing, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.221 6 My prudence consists...not in gentle repairing.

repairing, v. (2)

    Int 2.337 2 Not by any conscious imitation of particular forms are the grand strokes of the painter executed, but by repairing to the fountain-head of all forms in his mind.
    OA 7.335 15 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time for any news to arrive. The informer, something damped in his heart, insisted on repairing to the meeting-house...

repairs, n. (7)

    Nat 1.72 19 [Man's] relation to nature, his power over it, is through the understanding, as by...the repairs of the human body by the dentist and surgeon.
    ET18 5.299 3 ...[England] is an old pile built in different ages, with repairs, additions and makeshifts;...
    Wth 6.107 19 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can reduce the rent, but so he incapacitates himself from making proper repairs...
    Cour 7.263 24 The terrific chances which make the hours and the minutes long to the passenger, [the sailor] whiles away by incessant application of expedients and repairs.
    SovE 10.183 13 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design...
    SHC 11.431 12 The life of a tree is a hundred and a thousand years;...its repairs self-made;...
    MAng1 12.231 27 Polini put an end to all the various projects of repairs [to St. Peter's dome], by the satisfying sentence: The cupola does not start, and if it should start, nothing can be done but to pull it down.

repairs, v. (4)

    MR 1.248 14 What is a man born for but to be...a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature which...every hour repairs herself...
    Lov1 2.186 13 ...that which drew [lovers] to each other was signs of loveliness, signs of virtue; and these virtues are there, however eclipsed. They appear and reappear and continue to attract; but the regard...quits the sign and attaches to the substance. This repairs the wounded affection.
    Pt1 3.22 22 Genius is the activity which repairs the decays of things...
    ET12 5.205 24 This aristocracy [at Oxford]...repairs its own losses;...

reparation, n. (1)

    EWI 11.111 20 ...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries...had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and cheer the poor victim with the hope of some reparation, in a future world, of the wrongs he suffered in this, these missionaries were persecuted by the planters...

repass, v. (2)

    MoS 4.170 14 We are persuaded that a thread runs through all things...and men, and events, and life...pass and repass only that we may know the direction and continuity of that line.
    DL 7.127 3 ...let the hearts [our friends] have agitated witness what power has lurked in the traits of these structures of clay that pass and repass us!

repay, v. (4)

    Fdsp 2.214 4 Whatever correction of our popular views we make from insight, nature...though it seem to rob us of some joy, will repay us with a greater.
    MoS 4.153 4 ...the men of the senses revenge themselves on the professors and repay scorn for scorn.
    F 6.48 2 ...whatever lames or paralyzes you draws in with it the divinity...to repay.
    Clbs 7.232 25 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei equals, and then...listen badly or do not listen to the comment or to the thought by which the company strive to repay them;...

repaying, v. (1)

    Mem 12.103 26 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not; the plants are still drinking their accustomed life and repaying it with their beautiful forms.

repeal, n. (3)

    Ctr 6.140 24 ...we begin the uphill agitation for repeal of that of which we ought to have prevented the enacting.
    TPar 11.290 14 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on the years when Southern slavery...wrung from the weakness or treachery of Northern people fatal concessions in...the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
    EPro 11.315 22 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the repeal of the Corn-Laws...

repeal, v. (1)

    FRep 11.523 3 [Americans] believe that what they have enacted they can repeal if they do not like it.

repealed, v. (2)

    HDC 11.70 27 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other...to suspend all commercial intercourse with Great Britain, until the act for blocking the harbor of Boston be repealed;...
    FSLC 11.182 9 Just now a friend came into my house and said, If this [Fugitive Slave] law shall be repealed I shall be glad that I have lived; if not I shall be sorry that I was born.

repeat, v. (31)

    Nat 1.33 24 ...we repeat [proverbs] for the value of their analogical import.
    Con 1.307 6 We wrought for others under this law, and got our lands so. I repeat the question, Is your law just?
    SR 2.67 26 We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames...
    SR 2.84 1 Not possibly will the soul...with thousand-cloven tongue, deign to repeat itself;...
    SL 2.157 10 That which we do not believe we cannot adequately say, though we may repeat the words never so often.
    Cir 2.312 20 In my daily work I incline to repeat my old steps...
    Int 2.329 6 [Ideas]...so fully engage us that we...gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own. By and by we fall out of that rapture...and repeat as truly as we can what we have beheld.
    Art1 2.368 6 Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece.
    SwM 4.107 15 The whole art of the plant is still to repeat leaf on leaf without end...
    ET1 5.13 7 When I rose to go, [Coleridge] said...I will repeat some verses I lately made on my baptismal anniversary...
    Pow 6.78 13 The way to learn German is to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you...can pronounce and repeat them by heart.
    CbW 6.263 3 ...I will not here repeat the first rule of economy...
    Bty 6.296 1 ...all masons and carpenters work to repeat and preserve the agreeable forms...
    WD 7.181 7 The savages in the islands...delight to play with the surf, coming in on the top of the rollers, then swimming out again, and repeat the delicious manoeuvre for hours.
    PI 8.2 9 ...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that ' s just begun;/ Making free with time and size,/ Dwindles here, there magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/ So to repeat/ No word or feat/ Crowds in a day the sum of ages,/ And blushing Love outwits the sages./
    PI 8.59 12 Another bard in like tone says,--I am possessed of songs such as no son of man can repeat;...
    QO 8.189 26 Our very abstaining to repeat and credit the fine remark of our friend is thievish.
    Insp 8.296 13 ...it is impossible to detect and wilfully repeat the fine conditions to which we have owed our happiest frames of mind.
    Insp 8.296 20 ...I can never remember the circumstances to which I owe [a generalization], so as to repeat the experiment or put myself in the conditions...
    Edc1 10.137 18 A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune;...
    Supl 10.168 22 [The old head thinks] I will be as moderate as the fact, and will use the same expression, without color, which I received; and rather repeat it several times, word for word, than vary it ever so little.
    LS 11.10 14 The reason why St. John does not repeat [Jesus's] words on this occasion [the Last Supper] seems to be that he had reported a similar discourse of Jesus to the people of Capernaum more at length already...
    LS 11.13 15 There was good reason for [Christ's] personal friends to remember their friend and repeat his words.
    HDC 11.30 26 I shall not be expected...to repeat the details of that oppression which drove our fathers out hither.
    EWI 11.115 7 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua.
    FSLC 11.182 18 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] ended a good deal of nonsense we had been wont to hear and to repeat...
    EPro 11.321 5 Not only will [Lincoln] repeat and follow up his stroke [the Emancipation Proclamation], but the nation will add its irresistible strength.
    HCom 11.341 15 The old Greek Heraclitus said, War is the Father of all things. He said it, no doubt, as science, but we of this day can repeat it as political and social truth.
    SMC 11.358 11 I doubt not many of our soldiers could repeat the confession of a youth whom I knew in the beginning of the [Civil] war...
    Wom 11.425 6 I need not repeat to you...that a masculine woman is not strong, but a lady is.
    RBur 11.443 18 ...the hand-organs of the Savoyards in all cities repeat [Burns's songs]...

repeated, adj. (3)

    Comp 2.108 4 ...when the Thasians erected a statue to Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night and endeavored to throw it down by repeated blows...
    ET12 5.199 9 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford...
    MMEm 10.417 24 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] did overcome and return kindness for the repeated provocations.

repeated, v. (26)

    LE 1.168 1 Further inquiry will discover...that [these chanting poets]... listlessly looked at sunsets, and repeated idly these few glimpses in their song.
    Comp 2.97 16 The reaction, so grand in the elements, is repeated within these small boundaries.
    Cir 2.301 3 ...throughout nature this primary figure [the circle] is repeated without end.
    Mrs1 3.126 20 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. The association of these masters with each other and with men intelligent of their merits, is mutually agreeable and stimulating. The good forms, the happiest expressions of each, are repeated and adopted.
    NER 3.254 12 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...the threatened individual immediately excommunicated the church, in a public and formal process. This has been several times repeated...
    SwM 4.108 22 Here in the brain is all the process of alimentation repeated...
    SwM 4.108 25 Here again [in the brain] is the mystery of generation repeated.
    ET1 5.22 16 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire sonnets with great animation.
    ET2 5.26 2 ...the invitation [to lecture in England] was repeated and pressed at a moment of more leisure...
    ET6 5.109 27 [The English] repeated the ceremonies of the eleventh century in the coronation of the present Queen.
    ET6 5.112 17 When Thalberg the pianist was one evening performing before the Queen at Windsor, in a private party, the Queen accompanied him with her voice. The circumstance took air, and all England shuddered from sea to sea. The indecorum was never repeated.
    ET18 5.306 16 The feudal system survives [in England]...in the submissive ideas pervading these people. The fagging of the schools is repeated in the social classes.
    Wth 6.124 27 It is a doctrine of philosophy...that there is nothing in the world which is not repeated in [a man's] body...
    Wth 6.125 2 It is a doctrine of philosophy...that there is nothing in [a man' s] body which is not repeated as in a celestial sphere in his mind;...
    Wth 6.125 5 ...there is nothing in [a man's] brain which is not repeated in a higher sphere in his moral system.
    Bhr 6.169 21 Manners are the happy way of doing things; each, once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
    Bty 6.295 26 In our cities an ugly building is soon removed and is never repeated...
    PI 8.12 12 A figurative statement...is remembered and repeated.
    SA 8.82 3 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs. ... Are they encroaching? he is dignified and inexorable. And this scene is daily repeated in hovels as well as in high houses.
    PerF 10.85 2 A man...has the fancy and invention of a poet, and says, I will write a play that shall be repeated in London a hundred nights;...
    Edc1 10.148 24 The joy of our childhood in hearing beautiful stories from some skilful aunt who loves to tell them, must be repeated in youth.
    LLNE 10.334 2 The smallest anecdote of [Everett's] behavior or conversation was eagerly caught and repeated...
    EzRy 10.389 22 ...[Ezra Ripley] repeated to me at table some of the particulars of that gentleman's [Jack Downing's] intimacy with General Jackson, in a manner which betrayed to me at once that he took the whole for fact.
    HDC 11.74 22 Major Buttrick leaped from the ground, and gave the command to fire, which was repeated in a simultaneous cry by all his men.
    CInt 12.125 23 ...how often we have had repeated the trials of the young man who made no figure at college because his own methods were new and extraordinary...
    EurB 12.376 4 ...there is but one standard English novel, like the one orthodox sermon, which with slight variation is repeated every Sunday from so many pulpits.

repeatedly, adv. (6)

    WD 7.170 10 There are days which are the carnival of the year. The angels assume flesh, and repeatedly become visible.
    SlHr 10.437 24 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina... he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him to appear in public...
    Thor 10.463 20 [Thoreau] noted what repeatedly befell him, that, after receiving from a distance a rare plant, he would presently find the same in his own haunts.
    Thor 10.465 7 I have repeatedly known young men of sensibility converted in a moment to the belief that this [Thoreau] was the man they were in search of...
    LS 11.10 13 [Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed, declaring that it was for his interment. He washed the feet of his disciples. These are admitted to be symbolical actions and expressions. Here [at the Last Supper], in like manner, he calls the bread his body, and bids the disciples eat. He had used the same expression repeatedly before.
    MAng1 12.240 10 [Vittoria Colonna]...came to Rome repeatedly to see [Michelangelo].

repeater, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.111 19 ...with every repeater something of creative force is lost...

repeating, n. (1)

    Schr 10.267 13 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends. Yes, but not...a senseless repeating of yesterday's fingering and running;...

repeating, v. (13)

    LT 1.287 14 At the manifest risk of repeating what every other Age has thought of itself, we might say we think the Genius of this Age more philosophical than any other has been...
    SwM 4.109 3 Every thing, at the end of one use, is taken up into the next, each series punctually repeating every organ and process of the last.
    SwM 4.109 10 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...
    NMW 4.248 16 An example of [Napoleon's] common-sense is what he says of the passage of the Alps in winter, which all writers, one repeating after the other, had described as impracticable.
    ET1 5.13 14 ...on learning that I had been in Malta and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other, repeating what he had said to the Bishop of London when he returned from that country, that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy;...
    Wth 6.126 26 Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation;...
    Civ 7.29 11 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second...
    WD 7.174 11 ...every man in moments of deeper thought is apprised that he is repeating the experiences of the people in the streets of Thebes or Byzantium.
    Suc 7.290 17 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through...a packed jury or caucus, bribery and repeating votes...
    QO 8.181 25 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society,-that every talker helps a story in repeating it...the same growth befalls mythology...
    ACiv 11.304 14 I will only advert to some leading points of the argument [for emancipation], at the risk of repeating the reasons of others.
    ALin 11.328 4 Nature, they say, doth dote,/ And cannot make a man/ Save on some worn-out plan,/ Repeating us by rote/...
    PLT 12.57 22 There is a conflict...between wisdom and the habit and necessity of repeating itself which belongs to every mind.

repeats, v. (14)

    MN 1.206 4 The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child.
    Hist 2.29 11 ...in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times, he repeats step for step the part of old reformers...
    Comp 2.101 9 Each new form repeats not only the main character of the type...
    SL 2.151 4 ...only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul [which]...native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.
    Art1 2.351 2 Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself...
    UGM 4.4 27 The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets. He fancies he has a new article. If he go to the factory, he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes which are found on the interior walls of the pyramids of Thebes.
    UGM 4.10 13 The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on things,--He saw that they were good.
    SwM 4.108 4 Manifestly, at the end of the spine, Nature puts out smaller spines, as arms; at the end of the arms, new spines, as hands; at the other end, she repeats the process, as legs and feet.
    SwM 4.108 17 Within [the skull], on a higher plane, all that was done in the trunk repeats itself.
    QO 8.185 14 Rabelais's dying words...only repeats the IF inscribed on the portal of the temple at Delphi.
    MMEm 10.404 24 ...wonderfully as [Mary Moody Emerson] varies and poetically repeats that image [of the angel of Death] in every page and day, yet not less fondly and sublimely she returns to the other,-the grandeur of humility and privation...
    PLT 12.24 19 What happens here in mankind is matched by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat. This curious resemblance repeats, in the mental function...all the accidents of the plant.
    II 12.71 7 The divine energy never rests or repeats itself...
    AgMs 12.362 7 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth. The good Commissioner [Henry Colman]...repeats his compliments as often as their names are introduced.

repel, v. (8)

    Tran 1.342 12 ...[Transcendentalists] repel influences;...
    Fdsp 2.212 13 We see the noble afar off and they repel us;...
    Ctr 6.148 10 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws...
    Bhr 6.171 5 The power of a woman of fashion to lead and also to daunt and repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that she knows resources and behaviors not known to them;...
    Dem1 10.17 23 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... Only in the impossible it seemed to delight, and the possible to repel with contempt.
    Chr2 10.112 5 The constitution and law in America must be written on ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world can be enlisted...to repel every enemy as by force of Nature.
    War 11.167 2 At a certain stage of his progress, the man fights, if he be of sound body and mind. At a certain higher stage, he...is alert to repel injury...
    FRep 11.540 17 ...the Constitution and the law in America must be written on ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world shall... repel the enemy as by force of nature.

repelled, v. (6)

    Tran 1.347 9 With this passion for what is great and extraordinary, it cannot be wondered at that [Transcendentalists] are repelled by vulgarity and frivolity in people.
    UGM 4.27 27 The more we are drawn [to geniuses], the more we are repelled.
    SwM 4.129 10 ...I am repelled if you fix your eye on me and demand love.
    Elo2 8.120 21 Every one of us has at some time...perhaps been repelled once for all by a harsh, mechanical speaker.
    LVB 11.89 5 Before any acts contrary to his own judgment or interest have repelled the affections of any man, each may look with trust and living anticipation to your [Van Buren's] government.
    FRO2 11.489 3 If you are childish, and exhibit your saint as a worker of wonders, a thaumaturgist, I am repelled.

repels, v. (6)

    LT 1.270 26 ...each of these aspirations and attempts of the people for the Better is magnified by the natural exaggeration of its advocates, until it... repels discreet persons by the unfairness of the plea...
    Comp 2.97 2 If the south attracts, the north repels.
    Hsm1 2.259 22 The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and proud choice of influences...inspires every beholder with somewhat of her own nobleness.
    SwM 4.143 6 Swedenborg...with all his accumulated gifts, paralyzes and repels.
    Wsp 6.233 2 ...[the will] penetrates the body and puts it in a state of activity which repels all hurtful influences;...
    Chr2 10.92 15 ...all that is dreary and repels, is not power but the absence of power.

repent, v. (5)

    LT 1.272 19 The new voices in the wilderness, crying Repent, have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands.
    MoS 4.157 24 ...the reply of Socrates, to him who asked whether he should choose a wife, still remains reasonable, that whether he should choose one or not, he would repent it.
    Boks 7.207 10 [The scholar] will not repent the time he gives to Bacon...
    SovE 10.186 10 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter, an Oxford Fellow. It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
    SlHr 10.446 23 ...[Samuel Hoar's] countenance had an unalterable tranquillity and sweetness; he had nothing to repent of...

repentance, n. (7)

    YA 1.389 13 ...the bold face and tardy repentance permitted to this local mischief [Repudiation] reveal a public mind so preoccupied with the love of gain that the common sentiment of indignation at fraud does not act with its natural force.
    Exp 3.59 24 To fill the hour,--that is happiness; to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
    ShP 4.216 8 ...Saadi says, It was rumored abroad that I was penitent; but what had I to do with repentance?
    EWI 11.135 18 Other revolutions have been the insurrection of the oppressed; [emancipation in the West Indies] was the repentance of the tyrant.
    Wom 11.408 25 Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is...the best result which life has to offer us,-a cup for gods, which has no repentance.
    Shak1 11.449 6 ...[Shakespeare] is...pleasure without repentance;...
    II 12.79 18 All men are inspirable. Whilst they say only the beautiful and sacred words of necessity, there is no weakness, and no repentance.

repented, v. (1)

    ET4 5.55 26 The English come mainly from the Germans...a people about whom in the old empire the rumor ran there was never any that meddled with them that repented it not.

repertory, n. (2)

    Boks 7.201 3 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of every kind,--being a repertory of the wisdom of the ancients on the subject of love;...
    Plu 10.297 14 [Plutarch] is, among prose writers, what Chaucer is among English poets, a repertory for those who want the story without searching for it at first hand...

repetition, n. (10)

    MN 1.192 14 There is in each of these works...an intellectual step...taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.
    MN 1.206 26 ...nobody will read [Parliamentary Debates] who trusts his own eye: only they who are deceived by the popular repetition of distinguished names.
    Hist 2.15 23 Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws.
    GoW 4.267 13 ...although [the Quaker and the Shaker] each prates of spirit, there is no spirit, but repetition, which is anti-spiritual.
    ET10 5.167 9 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...
    Art2 7.55 12 Heraldry...and the ceremonies of a coronation, are a dignified repetition of the occurrences that might befall a dragoon and his footboy.
    Elo1 7.86 2 ...in the examination of witnesses there usually leap out...three or four stubborn words or phrases...which sink into the ear of all parties, and stick there, and determine the cause. All the rest is repetition and qualifying;...
    PI 8.45 20 Architecture gives the like pleasure [of rhyme] by the repetition of equal parts in a colonnade...
    Elo2 8.117 2 ...[the orator] gains his victory by prophecy, where [the people] expected repetition.
    Let 12.393 16 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air to orchards and lone houses...that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.

repetitions, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.143 22 Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions.

repiled, v. (1)

    Civ 7.31 24 I see the immense material prosperity...California quartz-mountains dumped down in New York to be repiled architecturally alongshore from Canada to Cuba...

repine, v. (2)

    PPo 8.254 7 O Hafiz! speak not of thy need;/ Are not these verses thine?/ Then all the poets are agreed,/ No man can less repine./
    Chr2 10.96 18 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/ There came a voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/ When for the truth he ought to die./

replace, v. (12)

    LE 1.174 14 ...[the public] wish the scholar to replace to them those private, sincere, divine experiences of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street.
    MN 1.220 24 And what is to replace for us the piety of that race [the Puritans]?
    LT 1.263 12 There is no interest or institution so poor and withered, but if a new strong man could be born into it, he would immediately redeem and replace it.
    LT 1.286 1 The revolutions that impend over society are...from new modes of thinking, which shall...replace all property within the dominion of reason and equity.
    Nat2 3.186 26 ...[the vegetable life] fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds...that at least one may replace the parent.
    NMW 4.232 1 Again [Bonaparte] said, speaking of his son, My son can not replace me; I could not replace myself.
    GoW 4.265 20 ...let one man have the comprehensive eye that can replace this isolated prodigy in its right neighborhood and bearings...
    ET5 5.92 14 ...if all the wealth in the planet should perish by war or deluge, [the English] know themselves competent to replace it.
    Wth 6.92 6 The brave workman...must replace the grace or elegance forfeited, by the merit of the work done.
    Wsp 6.215 16 Let us replace sentimentalism by realism...
    GSt 10.501 8 ...on the instant of [good men's] death, we wonder at our past insensibility, when we see how impossible it is to replace them.
    SMC 11.353 20 ...when you replace the love of family or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the state-line...

replaced, v. (3)

    OA 7.325 4 ...these temporary stays and shifts for the protection of the young animal are shed as fast as they can be replaced by nobler resources.
    Plu 10.315 21 There is no treasure, [Plutarch] says, parents can give to their children, like a brother; 't is...a gift nothing can supply; once lost, not to be replaced.
    EPro 11.318 14 ...[Lincoln] has replaced government in the good graces of mankind.

replaces, v. (1)

    Schr 10.265 15 ...at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the poet replaces all this cowardly Self-denial and God-denial of the literary class with the conviction that to one poetic success the world will surrender on its knees.

replacing, v. (2)

    Wth 6.121 17 How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position;...
    PPr 12.381 27 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the assumption throughout the book, that a new chivalry and nobility, namely, the dynasty of labor, is replacing the old nobilities.

replenish, v. (3)

    AmS 1.97 26 Authors we have, in numbers...who...ramble round Algiers, to replenish their merchantable stock.
    MR 1.229 8 It is when your facts and persons grow unreal and fantastic by too much falsehood, that the scholar flies for refuge to the world of ideas, and aims to recruit and replenish nature from that source.
    PI 8.41 8 These fine fruits of judgment, poesy and sentiment...know as well as coarser how to feed and replenish themselves;...

replenished, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.25 1 Men...who had thought it the most natural thing in the world that they should exist in this orderly and replenished world, have been unable to suppress their amazement at the disclosures of the somnambulist.

replenishment, n. (1)

    ET11 5.189 8 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced...the artificial replenishment of lakes and ponds with fish...

repletion, n. (1)

    Thor 10.466 23 ...the shad-flies which fill the air on a certain evening once a year, and which are snapped at by the fishes so ravenously that many of these die of repletion;...were all known by [Thoreau]...

replied, v. (68)

    Con 1.296 14 Saturn replied, I fear.
    Con 1.296 22 O Saturn, replied Uranus, thou canst not hold thine own but by making more.
    Tran 1.340 1 ...Immanuel Kant...replied to the skeptical philosophy of Locke...by showing that there was a very important class of ideas or imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which experience was acquired;...
    Tran 1.348 25 On the part of these children it is replied that life and their faculty seem to them gifts too rich to be squandered on such trifles as you propose to them.
    YA 1.393 27 [Philip II's] ambassador replied, Your Majesty's self is but a ceremony.
    SR 2.50 21 ...my friend suggested,--But these impulses may be from below, not from above. I replied, They do not seem to me to be such;...
    Exp 3.73 9 I fully understand language, [Mencius] said, and nourish well my vast-flowing vigor. I beg to ask what you call vast-flowing vigor? said his companion. The explanation, replied Mencius, is difficult.
    NER 3.270 25 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which Philip refused: the woman exclaimed, I appeal: the king, astonished, asked to whom she appealed: the woman replied, From Philip drunk to Philip sober.
    SwM 4.126 2 [To Swedenborg] They who place merit in good works seem to themselves to cut wood. I asked such, if they were not wearied? They replied, that they have not yet done work enough to merit heaven.
    ET1 5.12 23 ...I proceeded to inquire [of Coleridge] if the extract from the Independent's pamphlet, in the third volume of the Friend, were a veritable quotation. He replied that it was really taken from a pamphlet in his possession entitled A Protest of one of the Independents, or something to that effect.
    ET1 5.23 10 [Wordsworth] replied he never was in haste to publish;...
    ET3 5.42 8 When James the First declared his purpose of punishing London by removing his Court, the Lord Mayor replied that in removing his royal presence from his lieges, they hoped he would leave them the Thames.
    ET7 5.123 6 When Castlereagh dissuaded Lord Wellington from going to the king's levee until the unpopular Cintra business had been explained, he replied, You furnish me a reason for going.
    ET11 5.183 22 ...with such interests at stake, how can these men [English peers] afford to neglect them? O, replied my friend, why should they work for themselves when every man in England works for them...
    ET16 5.274 26 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.
    ET17 5.296 21 [Harriet Martineau] said that in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare; if they wanted anything more, they must pay him for their board. It was the rule of the house. I replied that it evinced English pluck more than any anecdote I knew.
    Wsp 6.209 21 When Paul Leroux offered his article Dieu to the conductor of a leading French journal, he replied, La question de Dieu manque d' actualite.
    Wsp 6.233 14 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners, and...the king said, Do you not know, sir, that every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life? I run no more risk, replied the gentleman, than your Majesty.
    Wsp 6.239 5 The son of Antiochus asked his father when he would join battle. Dost thou fear, replied the king, that thou only in all the army wilt not hear the trumpet?
    CbW 6.257 8 ...[the gentleman] replied that he knew so much mischief when he was a boy...that he was not alarmed by the dissipation of boys;...
    CbW 6.263 24 I once asked a clergyman in a retired town...what men of ability he saw? He replied that he spent his time with the sick and the dying.
    CbW 6.275 20 A man of wit was asked, in the train, what was his errand in the city. He replied, I have been sent to procure an angel to do cooking.
    SS 7.10 23 When a young barrister said to the late Mr. Mason, I keep my chamber to read law,--Read law! replied the veteran, 't is in the court-room you must read law.
    Elo1 7.72 3 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses...knowing all wiles and wise counsels. To her the prudent Antenor replied again: O woman, you have spoken truly.
    Elo1 7.73 5 ...Thucydides, when Archidamus, king of Sparta, asked him which was the best wrestler, Pericles or he, replied, When I throw him, he says he was never down, and he persuades the very spectators to believe him.
    Farm 7.151 8 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among the landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that... the land is ever yielding less returns to enlarging hosts of eaters. Henry Carey of Philadelphia replied: Not so, Mr. Malthus...
    Clbs 7.239 17 Hyde, Earl of Rochester, asked Lord-Keeper Guilford, Do you not think I could understand any business in England in a month? Yes, my lord, replied the other, but I think you would understand it better in two months.
    Clbs 7.239 21 When Edward I. claimed to be acknowledged by the Scotch (1292) as lord paramount, the nobles of Scotland replied, No answer can be made while the throne is vacant.
    OA 7.315 6 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy...was received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect. He replied to these compliments in a speech...
    OA 7.319 22 At seventy it was hinted to [the Massachusetts judge] that it was time to retire; but he now replied that he thought his judgment as robust and all his faculties as good as ever they were.
    OA 7.325 20 When I chanced to meet the poet Wordsworth, then sixty-three years old, he told me that he had just had a fall and lost a tooth, and when his companions were much concerned for the mischance, he had replied that he was glad it had not happened forty years before.
    OA 7.332 25 The world does not know, [John Adams] replied, how much toil, anxiety and sorrow I have suffered.
    OA 7.334 3 E[dward] said [to John Adams]: I suppose, sir, you would not have taken [Mr. Lechmere's] place, even to walk as well as he. No, he replied, that was not what I wanted.
    PI 8.61 3 ...when [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice which thus called him by his right name, he replied, Who can this be who hath spoken to me?
    PI 8.62 12 ...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that whereby she hath imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me free. Certes, Merlin, replied Sir Gawain, of that I am right sorrowful...
    Elo2 8.121 22 ...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.
    Comc 8.174 12 The physician endeavored to cheer [his melancholy patient' s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre and see Carlini. He replied, I am Carlini.
    QO 8.184 17 ...a lady having expressed in his presence a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
    QO 8.192 9 If De Quincey said, That is what I told you, [Wordsworth] replied, No: that is mine,-mine and not yours.
    PPo 8.251 24 Timour taxed Hafiz with treating disrepectfully his two cities, to raise and adorn which he had conquered nations. Hafiz replied, Alas, my lord, if I had not been so prodigal, I had not been so poor!
    PPo 8.262 21 A painter in China once painted a hall;/ Such a web never hung on an emperor's wall;-/ One half from his brush with rich colors did run,/ The other he touched with a beam of the sun;/ So that all which delighted the eye in one side,/ The same, point for point, in the other replied./
    Grts 8.317 4 When Gerald, Earl of Kildare, who was in rebellion against [Henry VII] was brought to London, and examined before the Privy Council, one said, All Ireland cannot govern this Earl. Then let this Earl govern all Ireland, replied the King.
    Imtl 8.332 9 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert.
    Imtl 8.332 10 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert. Any light, Lewis? None, replied he.
    Dem1 10.15 2 The Jew [Masollam]...bent his bow and shot the bird to the ground. This act offended the augur and some others, and they began to utter imprecations against the Jew. But he replied, Wherefore? Why are you so foolish as to take care of this unfortunate bird?
    SovE 10.199 19 When I talked with an ardent missionary, and pointed out to him that his creed found no support in my experience, he replied, It is not so in your experience, but is so in the other world.
    MoL 10.251 27 At that time [of the Reform Bill], Earl Grey, who was leader of Reform, was asked, in Parliament, his policy on the measures of the Radicals. He replied, I shall stand by my order.
    MoL 10.253 26 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise, and inquired what was the price of a poem. Pindar replied that he should give him one talent...
    Thor 10.452 2 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence...he returned home contented. His friends congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune. But he replied that he should never make another pencil.
    Thor 10.460 23 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come. The Republican Committee, the Abolitionist Committee, sent him word that it was premature, and not advisable. He replied,-I did not send to you for advice, but to announce that I am to speak.
    Thor 10.463 26 One day, walking with a stranger, who inquired where Indian arrow-heads could be found, [Thoreau] replied, Everywhere...
    Thor 10.480 4 ...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular botanical variety, had failed to describe the seeds or count the sepals. That is to say, we replied, the blockheads were not born in Concord;...
    HDC 11.53 5 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country? The sachem replied that he knew if the Indians dwelt far from the English, they would not so much care to pray...
    HDC 11.66 26 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied, In the prayer you speak of, Jesus Christ was acknowledged as the only Mediator between God and man;...
    FSLC 11.181 6 I met the smoothest of Episcopal Clergymen the other day, and allusion being made to Mr. Webster's treachery, he blandly replied, Why, do you know I think that the great action of his life.
    SMC 11.370 18 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods. This order was communicated to Colonel Prescott, whose regiment was then under the hottest fire. Understanding it to be a peremptory order to retire then, he replied , I don't want to retire;...
    II 12.74 9 When a young man asked old Goethe about Faust, he replied, What can I know of this?
    CInt 12.131 17 When the great painter was told by a dauber, I have painted five pictures whilst you have made one, he replied, Pingo in aeternitatem.
    CW 12.178 17 Lord Abercorn, when some one praised the rapid growth of his trees, replied, Sir, they have nothing else to do!
    Bost 12.181 3 ...I, replied the artist, if I were not Florentine- You would wish to be Genoese, said the other. No, replied the artist, I should wish to be Florentine.
    Bost 12.181 5 ...I, replied the artist, if I were not Florentine- You would wish to be Genoese, said the other. No, replied the artist, I should wish to be Florentine.
    MAng1 12.220 23 Cardinal Farnese one day found [Michelangelo], when an old man, walking alone in the Coliseum, and expressed his surprise at finding him solitary amidst the ruins; to which he replied, I go yet to school, that I may continue to learn.
    MAng1 12.225 3 [Michelangelo] replied that it was useless for him to take care of the walls, if [the Florentines] were determined not to take care of themselves...
    MAng1 12.227 3 Michael [Angelo] demanded of San Gallo, the pope!s architect, how these holes [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling] were to be repaired in the picture. San Gallo replied: That was for him to consider, for the platform could be constructed in no other way..
    MAng1 12.234 12 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 25 When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine] chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold, Michael Angelo replied, In those days, gold was not worn; and the characters I have painted were neither rich nor desirous of wealth...
    MAng1 12.238 7 [Vasari's] servant brought [the candles] after nightfall, and presented them to [Michelangelo]. Michael Angelo refused to receive them. Look you, Messer Michael Angelo, replied the man, these candles have well-nigh broken my arm, and I will not carry them back;...
    MAng1 12.242 6 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration. No, replied Michael, it is nothing;...

replies, n. (2)

    Hsm1 2.256 13 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./ These replies are sound and whole.
    OS 2.283 18 Men ask concerning...the state of the sinner, and so forth. They even dream that Jesus has left replies to precisely these interrogatories.

replies, v. (19)

    MN 1.202 26 To questions of this sort, Nature replies, I grow.
    Con 1.307 22 With equal earnestness and good faith, replies to this plaintiff an upholder of the establishment...
    Con 1.308 10 Now you touch the heart of the matter, replies the reformer.
    Tran 1.336 17 Afterwards, when Emilia charges him with the crime, Othello exclaims, You heard her say herself it was not I./ Emilia replies, The more angel she, and thou the blacker devil./
    SR 2.78 5 Caratach...when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate, replies,--His hidden meaning lies in our endeavours;/...
    Ctr 6.163 17 Bettine replies to Goethe's mother, who chides her disregard of dress,--If I cannot do as I have a mind in our poor Frankfort, I shall not carry things far.
    Bhr 6.194 21 I am sorry, replies Napoleon [to his brother Joseph], you think you shall find your brother again only in the Elysian Fields.
    Wsp 6.215 14 I can best indicate by examples those reactions by which every part of nature replies to the purpose of the actor...
    Clbs 7.238 5 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies: None of the gods knows what in the old time Thou saidst in the ear of thy son...
    Cour 7.251 4 So nigh is grandeur to our dust,/ So near is God to man,/ When Duty whispers low, Thou must,/ The youth replies, I can./
    Suc 7.305 1 To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric. Sylvina can't remember, but suggests that Odoacer was defeated; and the professor tartly replies, No, he defeated the Romans.
    OA 7.323 18 When the old wife says, Take care of that tumor in your shoulder, perhaps it is cancerous,--[the man of sixty] replies, I am yielding to a surer decomposition.
    QO 8.191 22 When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: Yet he was more original than his originals.
    Dem1 10.13 23 When Hector is told that the omens are unpropitious, he replies,-One omen is the best, to fight for one's country./
    Edc1 10.143 25 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion:- Would you verily throw up the reins of public and private discipline;...
    Carl 10.493 5 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.
    II 12.75 13 How shall I educate my children? Shall I indulge, or shall I control them? Philosophy replies, Nature is stronger than your will...
    MAng1 12.236 17 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies that to leave Saint Peter's in the state in which it now was would be to ruin the structure, and thereby be guilty of a great sin;...
    Milt1 12.264 20 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...

reply, n. (29)

    Tran 1.336 21 Of this fine incident, Jacobi, the Transcendental moralist, makes use, with other parallel instances, in his reply to Fichte.
    Exp 3.85 10 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. ... Worse, I observe that in the history of mankind there is never a solitary example of success,--taking their own tests of success. I say this...in reply to the inquiry, Why not realize your world?
    Chr1 3.111 5 The sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the power and the furniture of man, is in that possibility of joyful intercourse with persons, which makes the faith and practice of all reasonable men.
    NER 3.282 19 I am not pained that I cannot frame a reply to the question, What is the operation we call Providence?
    UGM 4.31 5 Is it a reply to these suggestions to say, Society is a Pestalozzian school: all are teachers and pupils in turn?
    PPh 4.76 12 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which...the sermons of unlettered Arabs and Jews possess. There is an interval; and to cohesion, contact is necessary. I know not what can be said in reply to this criticism but that we have come to a fact in the nature of things: an oak is not an orange.
    SwM 4.94 17 ...the instincts presently teach that the problem of essence must take precedence of all others;--the questions of Whence? What? and Whither? and the solution of these must be in a life, and not in a book. A drama or poem is a proximate or oblique reply;...
    MoS 4.157 21 ...the reply of Socrates, to him who asked whether he should choose a wife, still remains reasonable...
    GoW 4.270 1 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must...write conventional criticism, or profligate novels, or at any rate write...without recurrence...to the sources of inspiration? Some reply to these questions may be furnished by looking over the list of men of literary genius in our age.
    Pow 6.75 4 One of the high anecdotes of the world is the reply of Newton to the inquiry how he had been able to achieve his discoveries?--By always intending my mind.
    Wsp 6.225 17 I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply...
    DL 7.128 7 ...the sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the competence of man to elevate and to be elevated is in that desire and power to stand in joyful and ennobling intercourse with individuals...
    WD 7.178 10 A poor Indian chief of the Six Nations of New York made a wiser reply than any philosopher, to some one complaining that he had not enough time. Well, said Red Jacket, I suppose you have all there is.
    Clbs 7.231 4 The reply of old Isocrates comes so often to mind,--The things which are now seasonable I cannot say; and for the things which I can say it is not now the time.
    Clbs 7.239 13 To answer a question so as to admit of no reply, is the test of a man...
    Clbs 7.239 25 When Henry III. (1217) plead duress against his people demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If this were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of one of the contending parties.
    QO 8.201 14 To all that can be said of the preponderance of the Past, the single word Genius is a sufficient reply.
    Chr2 10.96 19 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/ There came a voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/ When for the truth he ought to die./
    Supl 10.175 19 To every question an abstemious but absolute reply.
    LLNE 10.347 2 ...being asked, Well, Mr. Owen, who is your disciple? How many men are there possessed of your views who will remain after you are gone to put them in practice? Not one, was his reply.
    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...of that fop Brummel's reply to the gentleman who offered him his carriage in a shower, But where will you ride, then?...
    EWI 11.121 23 The legislature [of Jamaica], in their reply, echo the governor's statement...
    War 11.168 11 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact.
    AKan 11.256 8 ...these details that have come from Kansas are so horrible, that the hostile press have but one word in reply, namely, that it is all exaggeration...
    SMC 11.357 19 One of our later volunteers...in reply to my question, How can you be spared from your farm...said, I go because I shall always be sorry if I did not go when the country called me.
    SMC 11.370 26 Being informed that he misunderstood the order, which was only to inform him how to retire when it became necessary, [George Prescott] was satisfied, and he and his command held their ground manfully. It was said that Colonel Prescott's reply, when reported, pleased the Acting-Brigadier-General Sweitzer mightily.
    PLT 12.29 14 [Man] has his own defences and his own fangs; his perception and his own mode of reply to sophistries.
    MAng1 12.242 10 ...a nobler sentiment, uttered by [Michelangelo], is contained in his reply to a letter of Vasari...
    Milt1 12.258 24 ...in reply apparently to some compliment on his powers of conversation, [Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed no marks of sublimity or genius.

reply, v. (12)

    MN 1.203 18 ...Nature seems further to reply, I have ventured so great a stake as my success, in no single creature.
    SR 2.84 3 ...if you can hear what these patriarchs say, surely you can reply to them in the same pitch of voice;...
    OS 2.284 15 No answer in words can reply to a question of things.
    NER 3.255 25 ...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of resistance to the government, solitary nullifiers...who reply to the assessor and to the clerk of court that they do not know the State...
    SwM 4.139 23 If a man say that the Holy Ghost has informed him...that the Dutch, in the other world, live in a heaven by themselves, and the English in a heaven by themselves; I reply that the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.
    ET3 5.38 1 I reply to all the urgencies that refer me to this and that object indispensably to be seen,--Yes, to see England well needs a hundred years;...
    ET13 5.214 14 A youth marries in haste; afterwards...he is asked what he thinks...of the right relations of the sexes? I should have much to say, he might reply, if the question were open...
    Wsp 6.234 22 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal people to whom I have no skill to reply.
    Suc 7.305 21 An Englishman of marked character and talent, who had brought with him hither one or two friends and a library of mystics, assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England,--he had brought all that was alive away. I was forced to reply: No, next door to you probably, on the other side of the partition in the same house, was a greater man than any you had seen.
    LS 11.9 24 ...still it may be asked, Why did Jesus make expressions so extraordinary and emphatic as these-This is my body which is broken for you. Take; eat. This is my blood which is shed for you. Drink it?-I reply they are not extraordinary expressions from him.
    PLT 12.60 11 That wonderful oracle [the divine soul] will reply when it is consulted...
    Let 12.396 3 We shall hardly trust ourselves to reply to arguments by which we would gladly be persuaded.

replying, v. (2)

    Bhr 6.175 8 A prince who is accustomed every day to be courted and deferred to by the highest grandees, acquires...a becoming mode of receiving and replying to this homage.
    WD 7.171 7 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...and the answering brain and nervous structure replying to these;...are given immeasurably to all.

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