Reside to Restraints

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

reside, v. (7)

    Nat 1.11 5 ...it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature...
    Int 2.343 6 ...a true and natural man contains and is the same truth which an eloquent man articulates; but in the eloquent man, because he can articulate it, it seems something the less to reside...
    Aris 10.36 20 ...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman...is a secret homage to reality and love which ought to reside in every man.
    LLNE 10.351 10 There, in the Golden Horn, will the Arch-Phalanx be established; there will the Omniarch reside.
    War 11.157 18 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to... come and reside in the towns.
    War 11.172 7 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...really poorer if government, law and order went by the board; because in himself reside infinite resources;...
    II 12.82 12 Every man comes into Nature impressed with his own polarity or bias, in obeying which his power, opportunity and happiness reside.

resided, v. (1)

    Chr1 3.89 19 ...somewhat resided in these men which begot an expectation that outran all their performance.

residence, n. (12)

    Hist 2.22 19 ...the cumulative values of long residence are the restraints on the itinerancy of the present day.
    Mrs1 3.152 26 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.
    ET5 5.74 4 ...from the residence of a portion of these [Scandinavian] people in France...the Norman has come popularly to represent in England the aristocratic, and the Saxon the democratic principle.
    ET11 5.177 21 [The English aristocracy] have often no residence in London...
    ET11 5.180 18 The predilection of the patricians for residence in the country...makes the safety of the English hall.
    ET12 5.204 22 Seven years' residence [at Oxford] is the theoretic period for a master's degree.
    ET12 5.204 24 Seven years' residence [at Oxford] is the theoretic period for a master's degree. In point of fact, it has long been three years' residence, and four years more of standing.
    ET16 5.284 13 [Wilton Hall] is now the property of the Earl of Pembroke, and the residence of his brother, Sidney Herbert Esq....
    Aris 10.45 6 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism.
    HDC 11.61 4 Concord suffered little from the [King Philip's] war. This is to be attributed no doubt, in part, to the fact that...it was the residence of many noted soldiers.
    CPL 11.501 6 Nathaniel Hawthorne's residence in the Manse gave new interest to that house...
    MAng1 12.237 13 ...[Michelangelo]...in old age speaks with extreme pleasure of his residence with the hermits in the mountains of Spoleto;...

residences, n. (2)

    LLNE 10.364 11 All comers...found [Brook Farm] the pleasantest of residences.
    GSt 10.505 10 When one remembers...[George Stearns's] journeys and residences in many states;...I think this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...

resident, adj. (2)

    Thor 10.458 23 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...
    Thor 10.458 25 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the loan of books...to clergymen who were alumni, and to some others resident within a circle of ten miles' radius from the College.

resident, n. (3)

    ET8 5.129 19 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of Englishmen]. The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot, the bilious resident in the East or West Indies, are wide of the perfect behavior of the educated and dignified man of family [in England].
    HDC 11.83 10 I have been greatly indebted, in preparing this sketch [of Concord], to the printed but unpublished History of this town, furnished me by the unhesitating kindness of its author [Lemuel Shattuck], long a resident in this place.
    Mem 12.97 11 One sometimes asks himself, Is it possible that [Memory] is only a visitor, not a resident?

residents, n. (1)

    ET12 5.205 10 The number of students and of residents [at English universities]...justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America...

resides, v. (16)

    LT 1.272 17 [The moral sentiment] alone can make a man other than he is. Here or nowhere resides unbounded energy, unbounded power.
    SR 2.46 19 The power which resides in [man] is new in nature...
    SR 2.69 16 Power...resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state...
    Pt1 3.15 15 I find that the fascination resides in the symbol.
    Mrs1 3.136 15 Wherever [Montaigne] goes he pays a visit to whatever prince or gentleman of note resides upon his road...
    ShP 4.217 10 [Shakespeare]...never took the step which seemed inevitable to such genius, namely to explore the virtue which resides in these [natural] symbols and imparts this power:--what is that which they themselves say?
    ET6 5.110 18 The English power resides also in their dislike of change.
    ET8 5.138 13 ...nothing mean resides in the English heart.
    Art2 7.44 13 The art [in sculpture and architecture] resides in the model, in the plan;...
    Elo2 8.126 9 ...there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement, where propriety resides.
    QO 8.201 14 The divine resides in the new.
    PPo 8.246 5 There resides in the grieving/ A poison to kill;/ Beware to go near them/ 'T is pestilent still./
    PerF 10.74 26 [Man] is a planter...a lawgiver, a builder of towns;-and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material elements.
    Schr 10.283 14 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...makes no progress, but was wise in youth as in age. More or less clouded it yet resides the same in all...
    CL 12.143 2 The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes] is at no time a superficial light...
    ACri 12.284 19 ...there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement where prosperity resides...

residue, n. (1)

    Scot 11.462 3 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty every sheet of water... he looked upon...

residuum, n. (2)

    OS 2.268 2 In [philosophy's] experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve.
    Cir 2.306 15 The last chamber, the last closet, [every man] must feel was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable.

resign, v. (8)

    Lov1 2.187 8 [Lovers] resign each other without complaint to the good offices which man and woman are severally appointed to discharge in time...
    ET12 5.206 10 ...these young men [at Oxford] thus happily placed, and paid to read, are impatient of their few checks, and many of them preparing to resign their fellowships.
    OA 7.319 18 We had a judge in Massachusetts who at sixty proposed to resign...
    Dem1 10.3 23 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should resign so quietly this deifying Reason...
    Schr 10.275 7 ...Algernon Sidney wrote to his father...I have ever had in my mind that when God should cast me into such a condition as that I cannot save my life but by doing an indecent thing he shows me the time has come when I should resign it.
    LS 11.24 24 As it is the prevailing opinion and feeling in our religious community that it is an indispensable part of the pastoral office to administer this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], I am about to resign into your hands that office which you have confided to me.
    AKan 11.258 4 ...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas], or else should resign their seats to those who can.
    CInt 12.115 2 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not. If it be, then resign your charter to the Legislature, turn your college into barracks and warehouses...

resignation, n. (4)

    F 6.24 1 I cited the instinctive and heroic races as proud believers in Destiny. They conspire with it; a loving resignation is with the event.
    MMEm 10.416 1 ...joy, hope and resignation unite me [Mary Moody Emerson] to Him whose mysterious Will adjusts everything...
    HDC 11.69 6 ...the purchasing commodities subject to such illegal taxation is an explicit, though an impious and sordid resignation of the liberties of this free and happy people.
    EPro 11.318 1 ...it is not long since the President [Lincoln] anticipated the resignation of a large number of officers in the army...

resigned, adj. (2)

    NER 3.284 7 ...the good globe...carries us securely through the celestial spaces anxious or resigned, we need not interfere to help it on;...
    MMEm 10.429 24 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] am resigned to being nothing...

resigned, v. (4)

    SwM 4.100 10 Later, [Swedenborg] resigned his office of Assessor...
    Clbs 7.242 26 There was a time when in France...the houses of the nobility, which, up to that time, had been constructed on feudal necessities, in a hollow square,--the ground-floor being resigned to offices and stables, and the floors above to rooms of state and to lodging-rooms,--were rebuilt with new purpose.
    Elo2 8.123 17 In 1809 [John Quincy Adams]...resigned his chair in the University.
    MMEm 10.432 5 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson]...resigned...to the memory of long years of slavery passed in labor and ignorance...

resigning, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.26 15 The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.

resigns, v. (2)

    LT 1.273 19 To [some divine, the wealthy man] adheres, resigns the whole warehouse of his religion...into his custody;...
    Pt1 3.24 22 The poet also resigns himself to his mood...

resinous, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.116 12 The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity.

resist, v. (71)

    Nat 1.48 26 ...we resist with indignation any hint that nature is more short-lived or mutable than spirit.
    AmS 1.101 27 [The scholar] is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism...
    DSA 1.132 14 Noble provocations go out from [the divine bards], inviting me to resist evil;...
    DSA 1.148 14 ...we shall resist for truth's sake the freest flow of kindness...
    LT 1.278 17 [the youth] must resist the degradation of a man to a measure.
    Con 1.296 21 ...I hold what I have got; and so I resist Night and Chaos.
    Con 1.302 26 The reformer, the partisan, loses himself in driving to the utmost some specialty of right conduct, until his own nature and all nature resist him;...
    Con 1.319 23 If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has entertained as good against the general despair, Society frowns on him...
    Tran 1.356 15 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect...to some vocation...or morning or evening call, which they resist as what does not concern them.
    YA 1.394 16 ...[the English] need all and more than all the resources of the past to indemnify a heroic gentleman in that country for the mortifications prepared for him by the system of society, and which seem to impose the alternative to resist or to avoid it.
    SR 2.72 16 ...let us at least resist our temptations;...
    Comp 2.118 20 ...we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
    Prd1 2.231 26 ...[the finer souls] find beauty in rites and bounds that resist [appetite].
    Cir 2.306 6 Does the fact look crass and material, threatening to degrade thy theory of spirit? Resist it not;...
    Art1 2.366 8 The old tragic Necessity, which...furnishes the sole apology for the intrusion of such anomalous figures [as Venuses and Cupids] into nature,--namely...that the artist was drunk with a passion for form which he could not resist...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
    Exp 3.52 11 Men resist the conclusion in the morning, but adopt it as the evening wears on, that temper prevails over everything of time, place and condition...
    Exp 3.52 25 On the platform of physics we cannot resist the contracting influences of so-called science.
    Pol1 3.205 14 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...it will always attract and resist other matter by the full virtue of one pound weight...
    NR 3.240 6 ...in the State and in the schools [democracy] is indispensable to resist the consolidation of all men into a few men.
    NR 3.246 10 The rabid democrat, as soon as he is senator and rich man, has ripened beyond the possibility of sincere radicalism, and unless he can resist the sun, he must be conservative the remainder of his days.
    NER 3.254 25 ...we are very easily disposed to resist the same generosity of speech when we miss originality and truth to character in it.
    NER 3.270 13 I resist the scepticism of our education and of our educated men.
    SwM 4.125 11 [To Swedenborg] Nothing can resist states...
    SwM 4.129 25 Whether from a self-inquisitorial habit that he grew into from jealousy of the sins to which men of thought are liable, [Swedenborg] has acquired, in disentangling and demonstrating that particular form of moral disease, an acumen which no conscience can resist.
    MoS 4.185 8 The lesson of life is practically...to resist the usurpation of particulars;...
    ET3 5.36 1 ...[England] has, in the last centuries...stamped the knowledge, activity and power of mankind with its impress. Those who resist it do not feel it or obey it less.
    ET3 5.36 27 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west...
    ET5 5.78 6 The people [of England] have that nervous bilious temperament which is known by medical men to resist every means employed to make its possessor subservient to the will of others.
    ET5 5.78 25 In [the English] parliament, the tactics of the opposition is to resist every step of the government by a pitiless attack;...
    ET5 5.86 23 Lord Collingwood was accustomed to tell his men that if they could fire three well-directed broadsides in five minutes, no vessel could resist them;...
    ET8 5.141 11 The [English] nation always resist the immoral action of their government.
    ET10 5.168 18 The machinist has wrought and watched, engineers and firemen without number have been sacrificed in learning to tame and guide the monster [steam]. But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money...
    ET10 5.171 1 A civility of trifles...takes place [in England], and the putting as many impediments as we can between the man and his objects. Hardly the bravest among them have the manliness to resist it successfully.
    ET12 5.209 27 ...it is likely that the university [Oxford] will know how to resist and make inoperative the terrors of parliamentary inquiry;...
    ET13 5.226 9 Like the Quakers, [the wise legislator] may resist the separation of a class of priests...
    ET16 5.278 7 The sacrificial stone, as it is called, is the only one in all these blocks [at Stonehenge] that can resist the action of fire...
    F 6.19 10 The force with which we resist these torrents of tendency looks so ridiculously inadequate...
    F 6.25 3 A tube made of a film of glass can resist the shock of the ocean if filled with the same water.
    Ctr 6.164 2 Who wishes to resist the eminent and polite, in behalf of the poor, and low, and impolite?
    Bhr 6.170 16 No man can resist [manners'] influence.
    Ill 6.325 21 The mad crowd drives hither and thither, now furiously commanding this thing to be done, now that. What is [the young mortal] that he should resist their will...
    Civ 7.34 13 ...if there be...a country...where the suffrage is not free or equal;--that country is...not civil, but barbarous; and no advantages of soil, climate or coast can resist these suicidal mischiefs.
    Art2 7.41 6 Smeaton built Eddystone Lighthouse on the model of an oak-tree, as being the form in Nature best designed to resist a constant assailing force.
    DL 7.121 24 Nor can I resist the temptation of quoting so trite an instance as the noble housekeeping of Lord Falkland in Clarendon...
    WD 7.168 4 Czar Alexander...wished to call the Pacific my ocean; and the Americans were obliged to resist his attempts to make it a close sea.
    Clbs 7.231 8 ...who can resist the charm of talent?
    Cour 7.261 27 ...[the young soldier] had accustomed himself always to go into whatever place of danger, and do whatever he was afraid to do, setting a dogged resolution to resist this natural infirmity.
    SovE 10.197 22 How came this creation so magically woven...that an invisible fence surrounds my being which screens me from all harm that I will to resist?
    SovE 10.211 16 ...if the instinct of the people was to resist the government, it is plain the government must be two to one in order to be secure...
    MoL 10.242 17 ...nothing has been able to resist the tide with which the material prosperity of America in years past has beat down the hope of youth...
    Schr 10.269 3 Talk frankly with [the practical men] and you learn...that the Spirit of the Age has been before you with influences impossible to parry or resist.
    Schr 10.285 17 ...[Genius]...flings itself on real elemental things...which first subsist, and then resist unweariably forevermore all that opposes.
    Thor 10.458 13 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he was released. The like annoyance was threatened the next year. But as his friends paid the tax...I believe he ceased to resist.
    War 11.155 4 Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle...to resist opposition...
    War 11.172 21 I do not wonder at the dislike some of the friends of peace have expressed at Shakspeare. The veriest churl and Jacobin cannot resist the influence of the style and manners of these haughty lords.
    FSLC 11.185 27 The greatest prosperity will in vain resist the greatest calamity.
    FSLC 11.190 2 ...all men are beloved as they raise us to [the spiritual element]; hateful as they deny or resist it.
    FSLC 11.195 11 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America.
    FSLN 11.230 21 [Reasonably men] answered that they had no confidence in their strength to resist the Democratic party;...
    FSLN 11.231 9 [Reasonable men] side with Carolina, or with Arkansas, only to make a show of Whig strength, wherewith to resist a little longer this general ruin.
    FSLN 11.235 5 Cromwell said, We can only resist the superior training of the King's soldiers, by enlisting godly men.
    JBB 11.269 18 Nothing can resist the sympathy which all elevated minds must feel with [John] Brown...
    HCom 11.342 25 [Our young men] said, It is not in me to resist. I go [to war] because I must.
    Wom 11.414 13 ...in the East...where the laws resist the education and emancipation of women...Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess, that she has among the ancient Greeks...
    FRO2 11.487 25 I think wise men wish their religion to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...an adult, self-searching soul, brave to assist or resist a world...
    FRep 11.514 10 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that he must often face and resist the party...
    FRep 11.517 27 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians...
    PLT 12.18 9 There are...minds that produce their thoughts complete men, like armed soldiers, ready and swift to go out to resist and conquer all the armies of error...
    PLT 12.26 23 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association.
    II 12.68 6 One often sees in the embittered acuteness of critics snuffing heresy from afar, their own unbelief, that they pour forth on the innocent promulgator of new doctrine their anger at that which they vainly resist in their own bosom.
    MAng1 12.226 12 Michael Angelo made known his opinion that the bridge [Pons Palatinus] could not resist the force of the current;...

resistance, n. (63)

    Nat 1.36 11 Every property of matter is a school for the understanding, - its solidity or resistance...
    MN 1.196 7 ...as soon as [the grand inquisitor] probes the crust, behold gimlet, plumb-line, and philosopher take a lateral direction, in spite of all resistance...
    Con 1.299 16 Reform in its antagonism inclines to asinine resistance...
    Con 1.305 3 ...you cannot jump from the ground without using the resistance of the ground...
    SR 2.56 5 If this aversion had its origin in contempt and resistance like [the nonconformist's] own he might well go home with a sad countenance;...
    Comp 2.101 22 Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity,--all find room to consist in the small creature.
    SL 2.134 4 When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must...not...say, Crump is a better man with his grunting resistance to all his native devils.
    Fdsp 2.208 22 I hate, where I looked for...at least a manly resistance, to find a mush of concession.
    OS 2.292 4 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes, for they confront them...and give a high nature the refreshment and satisfaction of resistance...
    Chr1 3.91 18 ...the most confident and the most violent persons learn that here [in a man of character] is resistance on which both impudence and terror are wasted...
    Chr1 3.94 4 Higher natures overpower lower ones by affecting them with a certain sleep. The faculties are locked up, and offer no resistance.
    Chr1 3.94 7 When the high cannot bring up the low to itself, it benumbs it, as man charms down the resistance of the lower animals.
    Chr1 3.96 24 The natural measure of this power [of character] is the resistance of circumstances.
    Chr1 3.99 25 ...[the ingenious man] shall stand stoutly in his place and let me apprehend, if it were only his resistance;...
    Chr1 3.105 14 It is of no use to ape [character] or to contend with it. Somewhat is possible of resistance, and of persistence, and of creation, to this power, which will foil all emulation.
    NER 3.255 22 ...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of resistance to the government...
    MoS 4.177 10 We have too little power of resistance against this ferocity which champs us up.
    MoS 4.177 21 ...the main resistance which the affirmative impulse finds...is in the doctrine of the Illusionists.
    ShP 4.199 2 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes;...and it will bereave his fine attitude and resistance of something of their impressiveness.
    NMW 4.232 8 [Bonaparte] sees where the matter hinges, throws himself on the precise point of resistance...
    NMW 4.236 1 The grand principle of war, [Bonaparte] said, was that an army ought always to be ready...to make all the resistance it is capable of making.
    NMW 4.236 5 On any point of resistance [Bonaparte] concentrated squadron on squadron in overwhelming numbers...
    ET13 5.215 21 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...inspired resistance to tyrants, inspired self-respect...
    ET14 5.240 2 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists, and that the dull men will be Lockists. Then politics and commerce will absorb from the educated class men of talents without genius, precisely because such have no resistance.
    F 6.24 16 [A man] shall have not less the flow, the expansion, and the resistance of [the river, the oak, the mountain].
    F 6.24 27 If the Universe have these savage accidents, our atoms are as savage in resistance.
    F 6.34 2 [Steam] could be used to...compel other devils far more reluctant... namely...weight or resistance of water...
    Pow 6.58 10 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency...then...without envy or resistance all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
    Pow 6.61 7 ...if [children] have the buoyancy and resistance that preoccupies them with new interest in the new moment,--the wounds cicatrize and the fibre is the tougher for the hurt.
    Bhr 6.184 10 ...[of every two persons who meet on any affair],--one instantly perceives...that his will comprehends the other's will...and he has only to use courtesy and furnish good-natured reasons to his victim to cover up the chain, lest he be shamed into resistance.
    Wsp 6.232 12 It is strange that superior persons should not feel that they have some better resistance against cholera than avoiding green peas and salads.
    CbW 6.254 27 Passions, resistance, danger, are educators.
    CbW 6.270 2 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right.
    Elo1 7.81 7 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?... No, he defies any one, every one. Ah! he is thinking of resistance, and of a different turn from his own.
    Elo1 7.95 17 The resistance to slavery in this country has been a fruitful nursery of orators.
    Cour 7.255 21 Animal resistance...is no doubt common;...
    Cour 7.260 6 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their wrongs, and dissuading all resistance...
    Cour 7.262 25 The child is as much in danger from...a cat, as the soldier from...an ambush. Each surmounts the fear as fast as he precisely understands the peril and learns the means of resistance.
    Cour 7.265 4 ...we do not exhaust the subject [Courage] in the slight analysis; we must not forget the variety of temperaments, each of which qualifies this power of resistance.
    Cour 7.276 25 There is scope and cause and resistance enough for us in our proper work and circumstance.
    PC 8.231 26 Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times, which search till they find resistance and bottom.
    Edc1 10.157 12 Sympathy, the female force...deficient in instant control and the breaking down of resistance, is more subtle and lasting and creative [than will, the male power].
    Prch 10.236 15 We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...which yet is more than a match for any physical resistance.
    Schr 10.286 12 [The scholar] must...ride at anchor and vanquish every enemy whom his small arms cannot reach, by the grand resistance of submission...
    Plu 10.314 19 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him to...a stoic resistance to low indulgence;...
    LLNE 10.325 13 There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated...
    LLNE 10.327 1 There is an universal resistance to ties and ligaments once supposed essential to civil society.
    CSC 10.376 10 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it, in the attitude taken by the individuals of their number of resistance to the insane routine of parliamentary usage;...
    GSt 10.502 1 [George Stearns] was an early laborer in the resistance to slavery.
    HDC 11.73 8 In the field where the western abutment of the old bridge [in Concord] may still be seen...the first organized resistance was made to the British arms.
    EWI 11.137 12 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. On the other part, appeared...a resistance which drew from Mr. Huddlestone in Parliament the observation, That a curse attended this trade even in the mode of defending it.
    FSLC 11.187 18 If our resistance to this law [the Fugitive Slave Law] is not right, there is no right.
    FSLC 11.188 12 The resistance of all moral beings is secured to [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    JBS 11.278 18 ...the colored boy had no friend, and no future. This worked such indignation in [John Brown] that he swore an oath of resistance to slavery as long as he lived.
    EPro 11.318 26 The virtues of a good magistrate...seem vastly more potent than the acts of bad governors, which are ever tempered by...the incessant resistance which fraud and violence encounter.
    ALin 11.334 25 If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule.
    FRep 11.514 11 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that he must often face and resist the party, and abide by his resistance...
    PLT 12.7 1 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.
    PLT 12.20 3 This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts.
    CInt 12.114 10 ...when the Roman soldier, at the sack of Syracuse, broke into his study, the philosopher [Archimedes] could not rise from his chair and his diagram, and took his death without resistance.
    MAng1 12.224 15 Michael [Angelo] made such good resistance that the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato].
    MLit 12.334 25 Nature has not lost one ringlet of her beauty, one impulse of resistance and valor.
    WSL 12.345 23 ...though [character] may be resisted at any time, yet resistance to it is a suicide.

resistances, n. (5)

    Hist 2.6 25 We sympathize...in the great resistances, the great prosperities of men; because there law was enacted...for us...
    Pow 6.79 8 It is not question to express our thought, to elect our way, but to overcome resistances of the medium and material in everything we do.
    Wth 6.85 22 The forces and the resistances are nature's...
    PerF 10.79 4 [A man] becomes acquainted with the resistances, and with his own tools;...
    FSLC 11.198 18 These resistances [to the Fugitive Slave Law] appear in the history of the statute...

resisted, v. (27)

    MN 1.199 21 If anything could stand still, it would be crushed and dissipated by the torrent it resisted...
    Comp 2.100 16 If the government is a terrific democracy, the pressure is resisted by an over-charge of energy in the citizen...
    Comp 2.105 16 If [the unwise man] has escaped [the conditions of life] in form and in the appearance, it is because he has resisted his life...
    Fdsp 2.201 4 The attractions of this subject [friendship] are not to be resisted...
    Fdsp 2.203 9 I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy...spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered, and that with great insight and beauty. At first he was resisted...
    Int 2.338 27 The intellect...demands integrity in every work. This is resisted equally by a man's devotion to a single thought and by his ambition to combine too many.
    NER 3.260 25 ...much was to be resisted, much was to be got rid of by those who were reared in the old, before they could begin to affirm and to construct.
    NMW 4.244 3 [Napoleon's] impatience at levity was...an oblique tribute of respect to those able persons who commanded his regard not only when he found them friends and coadjutors but also when they resisted his will.
    ET4 5.48 14 ...whilst race works immortally to keep its own, it is resisted by other forces.
    ET11 5.186 4 ...beneficent power...gives a majesty which cannot be concealed or resisted.
    ET13 5.224 24 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted by petitions from all parts of the kingdom...
    ET14 5.245 17 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards...all new thought must be cast into the old moulds. The expansive element which creates literature is steadily denied. Plato is resisted, and his school.
    Bhr 6.186 8 Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second... is not to be resisted...
    Art2 7.54 20 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest.
    PC 8.207 10 The storm which has been resisted is a crown of honor and a pledge of strength to the ship.
    Chr2 10.116 13 ...the simple and free minds among our clergy have not resisted the voice of Nature...
    Edc1 10.125 13 We have already taken...the initial step, which for its importance might have been resisted as the most radical of revolutions... this, namely, that the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Prch 10.219 23 ...the sentiment that pervades a nation, the nation must react upon. It is resisted and corrupted by that obstinate tendency to personify and bring under the eyesight what should be the contemplation of Reason alone.
    HDC 11.43 21 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf was to be killed; the Indian to be watched and resisted;...
    HDC 11.44 26 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to...choose their own particular officers. This pointed chiefly at the office of constable, but they soon chose their own selectmen, and very early assessed taxes; a power at first resisted, but speedily confirmed to them.
    EWI 11.109 9 In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave] trade was brought in by Wilberforce, and supported by him and by Fox and Burke and Pitt, with the utmost ability and faithfulness; resisted by the planters and the whole West Indian interest, and lost.
    EWI 11.127 4 ...the West Indian estate was owned or mortgaged in England, and the owner and the mortgagee had very plain intimations that the feeling of English liberty was gaining every hour new mass and velocity, and the hostility to such as resisted it would be fatal.
    FSLN 11.230 17 The plea on which freedom was resisted was Union.
    EPro 11.321 2 We confide that...as [Lincoln]...has resisted the importunacy of parties and of events to the latest moment, he will be as absolute in his adhesion [to Emancipation].
    SMC 11.350 2 ...it is a piece of nature and the common sense that the throbbing chord that holds us to our kindred, our friends and our town, is not to be denied or resisted...
    SMC 11.352 2 The old [Concord] Monument...stands to signalize the first Revolution, where the people resisted offensive usurpations, offensive taxes of the British Parliament...
    WSL 12.345 22 ...though [character] may be resisted at any time, yet resistance to it is a suicide.

resisting, adj. (3)

    UGM 4.24 14 Is it not a rare contrivance that lodged the due inertia in every creature, the conserving, resisting energy...
    ET5 5.85 26 [The Englishmen's] military science propounds that if the weight of the advancing column is greater than that of the resisting, the latter is destroyed.
    ET14 5.233 19 [The Englishman's] mind must stand on a fact. He will not be baffled, or catch at clouds, but the mind must have a symbol palpable and resisting.

resisting, v. (10)

    Con 1.302 17 Here is the fact which men call Fate...necessitating the question whether the faculties of man will play him true in resisting the facts of universal experience?
    Comp 2.125 14 ...to us...resisting, not cooperating with the divine expansion, this growth comes by shocks.
    NR 3.239 21 Jesus would absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.
    ET5 5.83 25 [The English] apply themselves...to resisting encroachments of sea, wind, travelling sands, cold and wet sub-soil;...
    Ill 6.320 5 One after the other we accept the mental laws, still resisting those which follow...
    Chr2 10.118 15 In the present tendency of our society...when counties and towns are resisting centralization...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.
    Plu 10.307 23 ...[Plutarch] delights in memory, with its miraculous power of resisting time.
    PLT 12.10 10 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every way forwarded. Practical men...cannot arrive at this. Something very different has to be done,-the resisting this conspiracy of men and material things...
    Bost 12.207 11 With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston] took immense pleasure in...contravening the counsel of the clergy; as they had come so far for the sweet satisfaction of resisting the Bishops and the King.
    EurB 12.369 18 The influence [of Wordsworth]...was wafted up and down into lone and into populous places, resisting the popular taste...

resistless, adj. (7)

    Prd1 2.230 4 ...beside all the resistless beauty of form, [the Raphael in the Dresden gallery] possesses in the highest degree the property of the perpendicularity of all the figures.
    Int 2.325 8 ...the intellect dissolves...the subtlest unnamed relations of nature in its resistless menstruum.
    PI 8.40 1 In [Michelangelo] and the like perfecter brains the instinct [of creation] is resistless...
    Chr2 10.104 6 The populace drag down the gods to their own level, and give them their egotism; whilst in Nature is none at all, God...known only as pure law, though resistless.
    PLT 12.34 24 [Instinct] is that source of thought and feeling which acts on masses of men, on all men at certain times with resistless power.
    II 12.69 1 [Instinct] is resistless, and knows the way...
    CL 12.148 21 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... I praise their sportive resistless strength.

resists, v. (13)

    Nat 1.63 7 [If Idealism only deny the existence of matter] It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions, to wander without end. Then the heart resists it...
    Con 1.300 3 Nature does not give the crown of its approbation, namely, beauty...to the rock which resists the waves from age to age...
    Tran 1.336 6 ...[the Transcendentalist] resists all attempts to palm other rules and measures on the spirit than its own.
    YA 1.374 5 [That serene Power] resists our meddling, eleemosynary contrivances.
    Pol1 3.212 1 It makes no difference how many tons' weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure resists it within the lungs.
    PPh 4.52 18 ...[Europe] resists caste by culture;...
    ET18 5.305 12 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...
    Pow 6.60 5 Health is good,--power, life, that resists disease, poison and all enemies...
    Bhr 6.186 5 Society is very swift in its instincts, and, if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you...
    Res 8.145 9 The boat is full of water, and resists all your strength to drag it ashore and empty it.
    Plu 10.316 21 ...nothing so resembles an animal as fire. It is moved and nourished by itself, and...in its quenching shows some power that seems to proceed from a vital principle, for it makes a noise and resists...
    ALin 11.337 24 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...obtains the ultimate triumph of the best race by the sacrifice of everything which resists the moral laws of the world.
    Trag 12.415 1 ...Temperament resists the impression of pain.

resolute, adj. (14)

    Nat 1.74 18 ...when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations...shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew...
    Pol1 3.212 24 There is a middle measure which satisfies all parties, be they never so many or so resolute for their own.
    NMW 4.255 2 I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]: perhaps Joseph a little...and Duroc, I love him too; but why?--because his character pleases me: he is stern and resolute...
    ET8 5.131 4 [The English] are headstrong believers and defenders of their opinion, and not less resolute in maintaining their whim and perversity.
    ET12 5.211 7 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics...the American would arrives at as robust exegesis...
    ET14 5.245 19 Hallam...writes with resolute generosity...
    Bhr 6.182 20 A calm and resolute bearing, a polished speech...are essential to the courtier;...
    Res 8.137 18 I am benefited by every observation of a victory of man over Nature;...by seeing that every healthy and resolute man is an organizer...
    GSt 10.506 9 There [George Stearns] sat in the council, a simple, resolute Republican...
    HDC 11.68 1 From...1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
    HDC 11.73 5 ...the farmers [of Concord] snatched down their rusty firelocks from the kitchen walls, to make good the resolute words of their town debates.
    II 12.81 22 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them...
    ACri 12.291 10 Resolute blotting rids you of all those phrases that sound like something and mean nothing...
    MLit 12.323 9 ...since the earth as we said had become a reading-room, the new opportunities seem to have aided [Goethe] to be that resolute realist he is...

resolute, n. (1)

    Prch 10.235 7 Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid! As for position, the position is always the same...flanked, I may say, by the resolute...

resolutely, v. (1)

    Insp 8.288 17 ...it is almost impossible for a house-keeper who is in the country a small farmer, to exclude interruptions and even necessary orders, though I...resolutely omit...all that can be omitted.

resolution, n. (19)

    SR 2.70 13 This is the ultimate fact...the resolution of all into the ever-blessed ONE.
    Prd1 2.237 13 He who wishes to walk in the most peaceful parts of life with any serenity must screw himself up to resolution.
    Exp 3.67 6 In the street and in the newspapers, life appears so plain a business that manly resolution and adherence to the multiplication-table through all weathers will insure success.
    UGM 4.14 3 I cannot even hear of...great power of performance, without fresh resolution.
    PPh 4.51 4 That which the soul seeks is resolution into being above form...
    ET4 5.50 1 ...all our experience is of the gradation and resolution of races...
    ET5 5.81 21 Into this English logic...an infusion of justice enters, not so apparent in other races;--a belief in the existence of two sides, and the resolution to see fair play.
    ET8 5.140 23 [The English] are capable of a sublime resolution...
    ET10 5.153 12 Haydon says, There is a fierce resolution [in England] to make every man live according to the means he possesses.
    ET15 5.270 18 Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the hour, yet being apprised of...every Chartist resolution...[the editors of the London Times] detect the first tremblings of change.
    Elo1 7.74 11 There is the glib tongue and cool self-possession of the salesman in a large shop, which...overpower the prudence and resolution of housekeepers of both sexes.
    Cour 7.261 27 ...[the young soldier] had accustomed himself always to go into whatever place of danger, and do whatever he was afraid to do, setting a dogged resolution to resist this natural infirmity.
    OA 7.321 4 A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty; although this smacks a little of the resolution of a certain Young Men's Republican Club, that all men should be held eligible who are under seventy.
    Insp 8.279 2 [Bonaparte said] I am like a woman with child, and when my resolution is taken, all is forgot except whatever can make it succeed.
    HDC 11.60 2 The historian of Concord [Lemuel Shattuck] has preserved an instance of the resolution of one of the daughters of the town.
    HDC 11.69 26 ...in conjunction with our brethren in America, we...will... with the same resolution, as [George III's] freeborn subjects in this country, to the utmost of our power, defend all our rights inviolate to the latest posterity.
    EWI 11.120 3 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838. In British Guiana, in Dominica, the same resolution had been earlier taken with more good will;...
    CL 12.158 24 No man is suddenly a good walker. Many men begin with good resolution, but they do not hold out...
    PPr 12.380 22 The scholar shall read and write, the farmer and mechanic shall toil, with new resolution, nor forget the book [Carlyle's Past and Present] when they resume their labor.

resolutions, n. (13)

    Pol1 3.201 9 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day... shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies;...
    Pow 6.65 21 The messages of the governors and the resolutions of the legislatures are a proverb for expressing a sham virtuous indignation, which, in the course of events, is sure to be belied.
    CbW 6.277 13 ...when you tax [men] with treachery, and remind them of their high resolutions, they have forgotten that they made a vow.
    Art2 7.52 8 ...[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.
    Aris 10.31 15 ...the cogent motive with the best young men who are revolving plans and forming resolutions for the future, is the spirit of honor...
    Prch 10.219 4 We do not see that heroic resolutions will save men from those tides which a most fatal moon heaps and levels in the moral, emotive and intellectual nature.
    CSC 10.373 21 This [Chardon Street] Convention never...pretended to arrive at any result by the expression of its sense in formal resolutions;...
    HDC 11.83 14 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown. The author [Lemuel Shattuck]...has wisely enriched his pages with the resolutions, addresses and instructions to its agents...
    War 11.170 8 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of routine and mere forms...not by...going through a course of resolutions and public manifestoes...
    FSLC 11.183 1 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law]...showed...that the resolutions of public bodies, or the pledges never so often given and put on record of public men, will not bind them.
    FSLN 11.232 26 The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and clear...that official papers are of no use; resolutions of public meetings, platforms of conventions, no, nor laws, nor constitutions, any more.
    AsSu 11.247 2 Mr. Chairman: I sympathize heartily with the spirit of the resolutions.
    AsSu 11.251 20 ...I wish, sir, that the high respects of this meeting shall be expressed to Mr. Sumner; that a copy of the resolutions that have been read may be forwarded to him.

resolvable, adj. (1)

    Prch 10.226 2 ...the earth we stand upon...is chemically resolvable into gases and nebulae...

resolve, n. (1)

    F 6.35 2 Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his...pelvis, all the vices of a...Celtic race, which will be sure to pull him down,-with what grandeur of...resolve he is fired,-into a selfish...animal?

resolve, v. (15)

    LT 1.273 14 What does [the wealthy man]...but resolve to give over toiling...
    Tran 1.337 6 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like Epaminondas and John de Witt; I would resolve on suicide like Cato;...
    SR 2.88 26 ...the reformers summon conventions and vote and resolve in multitude.
    Prd1 2.226 2 ...we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.
    OS 2.268 2 In [philosophy's] experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve.
    SS 7.8 23 ...the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve;...
    PPo 8.263 17 Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical tale, in which the birds...resolve on a pilgrimage to Mount Kaf...
    Grts 8.301 22 ...that which invites all, belongs to us all...which, in every sane moment, we resolve to make our own.
    LS 11.19 12 To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
    HDC 11.80 23 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the town, and if it should be that the General Court should resolve, that, their pay should be more than 6s., then the representative shall be hereby directed to pay the overplus into the town treasury.
    War 11.166 24 War and peace thus resolve themselves into a mercury of the state of cultivation.
    AKan 11.263 9 ...I think the towns should hold town meetings, and resolve themselves into Committees of Safety...
    EdAd 11.391 10 ...the current year has witnessed the appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's] manuscripts. Here is an unsettled account in the book of Fame; a nebula to dim eyes, but which great telescopes may yet resolve into a magnificent system.
    Humb 11.459 1 I know that we have been accustomed to think...that because [the Germans] reflect, they never resolve...
    II 12.81 4 All conquests that history tells of will be found to resolve themselves into the superior mental powers of the conquerors...

resolved, adj. (2)

    PNR 4.81 27 The naturalist...is as poor when cataloguing the resolved nebula of Orion, as when measuring the angles of an acre.
    MoS 4.176 5 ...a book...or only the sound of a name, shoots a spark through the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will...all is possible to the resolved mind.

resolved, v. (17)

    Con 1.319 21 ...society has resolved itself into a Hospital Committee...
    Lov1 2.176 9 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when the head boiled all night on the pillow with the generous deed it resolved on;...
    PPh 4.55 12 [Plato]...is resolved that the two poles of thought shall appear in his statement.
    ET2 5.31 2 If sailors were contented, if they had not resolved again and again not to go to sea any more, I should respect them.
    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.
    F 6.3 10 ...the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life.
    Pow 6.74 25 The poet Campbell said that a man accustomed to work, was equal to any achievement he resolved on...
    PI 8.7 26 All multiplicity rushes to be resolved into unity.
    Comc 8.166 21 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him;.../
    Aris 10.48 12 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;... what it would be I could not determine yet;...but some figure I was resolved to make.
    MMEm 10.406 2 None but was attracted or piqued by [Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with eminent names. She said she gave herself full swing in these sudden intimacies, for she...resolved to have their best hours.
    Carl 10.497 6 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire, and, by the help of God, had resolved to stand there.
    HDC 11.69 1 Resolved, That these colonies have been and still are illegally taxed by the British parliament...
    HDC 11.71 14 On the 26th of the month [September, 1774], the whole town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety...
    HDC 11.74 10 ...when the smoke began to rise from the village where the British were burning cannon-carriages and military stores, the Americans resolved to force their way into town.
    HDC 11.79 5 In June [1776], the General Assembly of Massachusetts resolved to raise 5000 militia for six months...
    EWI 11.119 27 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.

resolves, v. (3)

    SR 2.61 20 ...all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.
    Wth 6.124 2 ...'t is very well that the poor husband reads in a book of a new way of living, and resolves to adopt it at home; let him go home and try it, if he dare.
    Farm 7.138 12 Poisoned by town life and town vices, the sufferer resolves: Well, my children...shall go back to the land...

resonant, adj. (2)

    Farm 7.135 23 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in a single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
    CW 12.170 4 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in the single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...

resort, n. (5)

    YA 1.389 18 The more need of...a resort to the fountain of right, by the brave.
    PC 8.227 20 In our daily intercourse, we...disuse our resort to the Divine oracle.
    Schr 10.286 13 [The scholar] is to know that in the last resort he is not here to work, but to be worked upon.
    LLNE 10.328 11 ...government itself becomes the resort of those whom government was invented to restrain.
    CL 12.151 20 In August, when the corn is grown to be a resort and protection to woodcocks and small birds...we observe already that the leaf is sere...

resort, v. (1)

    WD 7.165 27 Of course we resort to the enumeration of his arts and inventions as a measure of the worth of man.

resorted, v. (4)

    DL 7.122 8 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland]...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...
    Schr 10.273 6 In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation...but as a decalogue.
    Thor 10.478 9 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a friend...almost worshipped by those few persons who resorted to him as their confessor and prophet...
    Milt1 12.258 20 [Milton's] house was resorted to by men of wit...

resorts, n. (3)

    Nat 1.42 10 ...the sailor, the shepherd, the miner, the merchant, in their several resorts, have each an experience precisely parallel...
    Res 8.151 16 Natural history is, in the country...always opening new resorts.
    PPo 8.258 27 Wisdom is like the elephant,/ Lofty and rare inhabitant:/ He dwells in deserts or in courts;/ With hucksters he has no resorts./

resorts, v. (1)

    Clbs 7.241 2 Conversation is the Olympic games whither every superior gift resorts to assert and approve itself...

resound, v. (1)

    SR 2.58 18 My book should...resound with the hum of insects.

resounded, v. (3)

    Hist 2.8 8 I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.
    Elo2 8.123 23 Here is the concluding paragraph [of John Quincy Adams's final lecture], which long resounded in Cambridge...
    PPo 8.253 1 This morning heard I how the lyre of the stars resounded,/ Sweeter tones have we heard from Hafiz!/

resounding, adj. (2)

    AmS 1.95 10 I run eagerly into this resounding tumult.
    Pt1 3.41 22 Others shall be thy gentlemen and shall represent all courtesy and worldly life for thee [O poet]; others shall do the great and resounding actions also.

resounding, v. (2)

    OA 7.329 26 We have an admirable line worthy of Horace, ever and anon resounding in our mind's ear...
    FSLC 11.201 1 [John Randolph's] words resounding ever since from California to Oregon...come down now like the cry of Fate...

resounds, v. (4)

    NMW 4.254 19 Laws, institutions, monuments, nations, all fall [said Napoleon]; but the noise [of a great reputation]...resounds in after ages.
    PI 8.60 3 The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century, when Pierre d'Auvergne said,--I will sing a new song which resounds in my breast...
    Dem1 10.28 8 The voice of divination resounds everywhere...
    ACri 12.303 22 ...literature resounds with the music of united vast ideas of affirmation and of moral truth.

resource, n. (20)

    AmS 1.98 17 ...the final value of action...is that it is a resource.
    AmS 1.99 6 ...[the artist] has always the resource to live.
    MR 1.239 12 Instead of the masterly good humor and sense of power and fertility of resource in himself;...which the father had...we have now a puny, protected person...
    NMW 4.246 7 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...
    ET13 5.230 7 If a bishop [in England] meets an intelligent gentleman and reads fatal interrogations in his eyes, he has no resource but to take wine with him.
    Elo1 7.79 7 Men and women are [Caesar's] game. Where they are, he cannot be without resource.
    Cour 7.254 22 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight...whether it only plays a game of chess...or whether...Franklin draws off the lightning in his hand; suggesting that one day a wiser geology shall make...the volcano an agricultural resource.
    SA 8.85 5 ...Do not go to ask your debtor the payment of a debt on the day when you have no other resource.
    Elo2 8.123 26 At no hour of your life will the love of letters ever...fail you as a resource.
    Res 8.144 1 The whole history of our civil war is rich in a thousand anecdotes attesting the fertility of resource...of our people.
    QO 8.177 12 He who has once known [a book's] satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
    Schr 10.284 4 ...[the scholar] must have the resource of resources...
    Thor 10.462 13 [Thoreau] had always a new resource.
    SMC 11.359 22 ...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott]...great fertility of resource...
    SMC 11.360 12 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back;...
    Wom 11.407 7 When women engage in any art or trade, it is usually as a resource, not as a primary object.
    Shak1 11.449 3 ...Shakspeare is the one resource of our life on which no gloom gathers;...
    MLit 12.318 7 [The educated and susceptible] betray this impatience [with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy] by fleeing for resource to a conversation with Nature...
    WSL 12.340 13 ...for twenty years we have still found the Imaginary Conversations a sure resource in solitude...
    PPr 12.390 6 Carlyle, in his strange, half-mad way, has entered the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and shown a vigor and wealth of resource which has no rival in the tourney-play of these times;...

resources, n. (73)

    Nat 1.46 15 When much intercourse with a friend...has increased our respect for the resources of God...it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    DSA 1.141 22 ...historical Christianity destroys the power of preaching, by withdrawing it from the exploration of the moral nature of man;...where are the resources of astonishment and power.
    DSA 1.149 5 ...there are resources in us on which we have not drawn.
    LE 1.158 5 What I have to say on that doctrine [of Literary Ethics] distributes itself under the topics of the resources, the subject, and the discipline of the scholar.
    LE 1.158 7 The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the Intellect.
    LE 1.158 9 The resources of the scholar are co-extensive with nature and truth...
    LE 1.164 19 In order to a knowledge of the resources of the scholar, we must not rest in the use of slender accomplishments...
    LE 1.166 23 The view I have taken of the resources of the scholar, presupposes a subject as broad.
    LE 1.173 13 Having thus spoken of the resources and the subject of the scholar, out of the same faith proceeds also the rule of his ambition and life.
    MR 1.231 1 ...it requires more vigor and resources than can be expected of every young man, to right himself in [the employments of commerce];...
    LT 1.284 4 ...we begin to doubt...whether [Reform] be not...a paper blockade, in which each party is to display the utmost resources of his spirit and belief, and no conflict occur...
    Con 1.322 21 Which is that state which promises to edify a great, brave, and beneficent man; to throw him on his resources...
    Con 1.323 9 The man of courage and resources is shown [in war or anarchy]...
    YA 1.364 11 An unlooked-for consequence of the railroad is the increased acquaintance it has given the American people with the boundless resources of their own soil.
    YA 1.391 17 ...the development of our American internal resources, the extension to the utmost of the commercial system...are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...
    YA 1.394 13 ...[the English] need all and more than all the resources of the past to indemnify a heroic gentleman in that country for the mortifications prepared for him by the system of society...
    SR 2.71 2 ...the vital resources of every animal and vegetable, are demonstrations of the...self-relying soul.
    SR 2.76 17 Let a Stoic open the resources of man...
    SR 2.86 17 Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in their fishing-boats as to astonish Parry and Franklin, whose equipment exhausted the resources of science and art.
    Lov1 2.186 17 ...as life wears on, it proves a game of permutation and combination of all possible positions of the parties, to employ all the resources of each...
    Art1 2.362 27 He has conceived meanly of the resources of man, who believes that the best age of production is past.
    Chr1 3.113 10 ...if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause;...now pause, now possession is required, and the power to swell the moment from the resources of the heart.
    Pol1 3.210 27 From neither party, when in power, has the world any benefit to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all commensurate with the resources of the nation.
    UGM 4.19 5 ...[a wise man] would...calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guaranties of condition. The rich would see their mistakes and poverty, the poor their escapes and their resources.
    MoS 4.161 11 Every thing that is excellent in mankind...a brain of resources...[the wise skeptic] will see and judge.
    ShP 4.196 12 If [Shakespeare] lost any credit of design, he augmented his resources;...
    NMW 4.235 8 In the plenitude of [Napoleon's] resources, every obstacle seemed to vanish.
    NMW 4.244 18 In the Russian campaign he was so much impressed by the courage and resources of Marshal Ney, that [Napoleon] said, I have two hundred millions in my coffers, and I would give them all for Ney.
    ET4 5.66 23 When it is considered...what resources of mental and moral power the traits of the blonde race betoken, its accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch...
    ET5 5.96 7 Artificial aids of all kinds are cheaper [in England] than the natural resources.
    ET8 5.136 12 Each of [the English] has an opinion which he feels it becomes him to express all the more that it differs from yours. They are meditating opposition. This gravity is inseparable from minds of great resources.
    ET10 5.160 5 ...when, to this labor and trade and these native resources [of England] was added this goblin of steam...the amassing of property has run out of all figures.
    ET10 5.162 2 The introduction of these elements [steam and money] gives new resources to existing [English] proprietors.
    Pow 6.56 6 ...[sickness] must husband its resources to live.
    Pow 6.61 27 Personal power, freedom, and the resources of nature strain every faculty of every citizen.
    Pow 6.64 16 ...natures with great impulses have great resources...
    Wth 6.93 15 Power is what [men of sense] want...power to execute their design...which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.
    Ctr 6.139 7 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...with the high resources of philosophy, art and religion;...
    Ctr 6.142 27 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod, horse and boat, are all educators, liberalizers; and so are dancing, dress and the street talk; and provided only the boy has resources...these will not serve him less than the books.
    Bhr 6.171 6 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;...
    CbW 6.245 14 The physician prescribes hesitatingly out of his few resources the same tonic or sedative to this new and peculiar constitution which he has applied with various success to a hundred men before.
    Elo1 7.76 22 We believe that there may be a man who is a match for events...one of inexhaustible personal resources...
    WD 7.166 4 ...if, with all his arts, [man] is a felon, we cannot assume the mechanical skill or chemical resources as the measure of worth.
    Clbs 7.235 9 What is a match at...chess, to a match...of knowledge and of resources?
    Cour 7.264 20 Courage...consists in the conviction that the agents with whom you contend are not superior in strength of resources or spirit to you.
    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.
    SA 8.97 20 Here [in the man of genius] is...strong understanding, and the higher gifts, the insight of the real, or from the real, and the moral rectitude which belongs to it: but all this and all his resources of wit and invention are lost to me in every experiment that I make to hold intercourse with his mind;...
    SA 8.104 14 We have come...to know the vast resources of the continent...
    Elo2 8.133 2 Is it not worth the ambition of every generous youth to train and arm his mind with all the resources of knowledge, of method, of grace and of character, to serve such a constituency [as the United States]"
    Res 8.142 8 Resources of America! why, one thinks of Saint-Simon's saying, The Golden Age is not behind, but before you.
    Res 8.150 2 ...we learn that our doctrine of resources must be carried into higher application...
    Res 8.153 15 Resources of Man,--it is the inventory of the world...
    Res 8.154 5 ...the resources of America and its future will be immense only to wise and virtuous men.
    PC 8.210 1 Mark...the large resources of a statesman...in this age.
    Insp 8.280 17 A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;...he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes...with hope, courage, fertile in resources...
    Imtl 8.337 14 The love of life...seems to indicate...a conviction of immense resources and possibilities proper to us...
    Aris 10.43 18 The petty arts which we blame in the half-great seem as odious to them also;-the resources of weakness and despair.
    PerF 10.69 24 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the resources we can command...
    PerF 10.77 1 If we were truly to take account of stock before the last Court of Appeals,-that were an inventory! What are my resources?
    Edc1 10.135 10 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one...to acquaint [the youthful man] with the resources of his mind...
    Prch 10.232 3 ...it is impossible to pay no regard...to good harvests, new resources...
    Schr 10.284 5 ...[the scholar] must have the resource of resources...
    LLNE 10.329 22 Instead of the social existence which all shared, was now separation. Every one...driven to find all his resources, hopes, rewards, society and deity within himself.
    War 11.172 7 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...really poorer if government, law and order went by the board; because in himself reside infinite resources;...
    ALin 11.335 9 In four years...[Lincoln's] endurance, his fertility of resources, his magnanimity, were sorely tried...
    FRep 11.522 1 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain, rich beyond all experience in resources...
    PLT 12.63 10 We need all our resources to live in the world which is to be used and decorated by us.
    Milt1 12.249 20 ...the piece [a tract by Milton] shows all the rambles and resources of indignation...
    ACri 12.303 13 [Writing] discloses to [man] the variety and splendor of his resources.
    MLit 12.316 19 Another element of the modern poetry akin to this subjective tendency, or rather the direction of that same on the question of resources, is the Feeling of the Infinite.
    AgMs 12.362 14 Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] inherited a farm, and spends on it every year from other resources;...
    AgMs 12.362 23 The way in which men who have farms grow rich is either by other resources, or by trade...
    Let 12.397 21 As long as [a man] sleeps in the shade of the present error, the after-nature does not betray its resources.

Resources, n. (1)

    Res 8.153 13 It is easy to see that there is no limit to the chapter of Resources.

re-sow, v. (1)

    II 12.76 9 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power. My part is to sow, and sow, and re-sow, and in short do nothing but sow.

respect, n. (135)

    Nat 1.14 17 ...this mercenary benefit is one which has respect to a farther good.
    Nat 1.46 15 When much intercourse with a friend...has increased our respect for the resources of God...it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    Nat 1.65 2 ...[the world] differs from the body in one important respect.
    Nat 1.70 2 Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect...
    AmS 1.113 15 Every thing that tends to insulate the individual, - to surround him with barriers of natural respect...tends to true union as well as greatness.
    DSA 1.129 26 [Jesus] felt respect for Moses and the prophets...
    LE 1.156 16 ...the importunity, with which society presses its claim upon young men, tends to pervert the views of youth in respect to the culture of the intellect.
    LE 1.165 1 Able men, in general, have...a respect for justice;...
    MN 1.221 20 Our health and reason as men need our respect to this fact...
    MR 1.249 15 ...if...a woman or a child discovers...a juster way of thinking than mine, I ought to confess it by my respect and obedience...
    LT 1.278 27 ...I desire to express the respect and joy I feel before this sublime connection of reforms now in their infancy around us...
    Con 1.304 12 The respect for the old names of places...is universal.
    Con 1.310 8 ...in respect to you, personally, O brave young man! [existing institutions] cannot be justified.
    Con 1.311 1 ...if in any one respect [existing institutions] have come short, see what ample retribution of good they have made.
    Con 1.322 25 I understand well the respect of mankind for war...
    Con 1.323 25 Is there not something shameful that I should owe my peaceful occupancy of my house and field, not to the knowledge of my countrymen that I am useful, but to their respect for sundry other reputable persons, I know not whom, whose joint virtue still keeps the law in good odor?
    Tran 1.356 11 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect to this institution and that usage;...which they resist as what does not concern them.
    Hist 2.14 17 Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius.
    SR 2.65 12 ...the idlest reverie, the faintest native emotion, command my curiosity and respect.
    SR 2.70 21 Commerce, husbandry...engage my respect as examples of [virtue's] presence and impure action.
    SR 2.88 2 ...a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property, out of new respect for his nature.
    SR 2.88 18 Our dependence on these foreign goods leads us to our slavish respect for numbers.
    SL 2.141 22 The pretence that [a man] has another call, a summons by name and personal election...betrays obtuseness to perceive that there is one mind in all the individuals, and no respect of persons therein.
    Fdsp 2.211 21 There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until in their dialogue each stands for the whole world.
    Int 2.336 11 There is an inequality...between two men and between two moments of the same man, in respect to this faculty [of communication].
    Int 2.343 8 ...a true and natural man contains and is the same truth which an eloquent man articulates; but in the eloquent man, because he can articulate it, it seems something the less to reside, and he turns to these silent beautiful with the more inclination and respect.
    Pt1 3.8 1 ...[the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken, reckoning [the hero and the sage], though primaries also, yet, in respect to him, secondaries and servants;...
    Exp 3.56 18 ...thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular? The reason of the pain this discovery causes us (and we make it late in respect to works of art and intellect) is the plaint of tragedy which murmurs from it in regard to persons, to friendship and love.
    Exp 3.60 22 [Life] is a tempest of fancies, and the only ballast I know is a respect to the present hour.
    Chr1 3.93 1 ...[the natural merchant] inspires respect and the wish to deal with him...
    Chr1 3.103 20 ...when [your friends] stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike...you may begin to hope.
    Mrs1 3.143 12 ...the respect which these mysteries [of fashion] inspire in the most rude and sylvan characters...betray[s] the universality of the love of cultivated manners.
    NR 3.226 23 ...the power which drew my respect is not supported by the total symphony of [a man's] talents.
    NR 3.234 3 Art, in the artist, is...a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details.
    NR 3.235 22 I wish to speak with all respect of persons...
    PPh 4.78 24 A chief structure of human wit...it requires all the breath of human faculty to know [Plato]. I think it is trueliest seen when seen with the most respect.
    ShP 4.200 11 Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the time of Christ...
    NMW 4.237 25 ...[Napoleon] did not hesitate to declare that he was himself eminently endowed with this two-o'clock-in-the-morning courage, and that he had met with few persons equal to himself in this respect.
    NMW 4.243 20 ...with larger experience, [Napoleon's] respect for mankind was not increased.
    NMW 4.243 27 [Napoleon's] impatience at levity was...an oblique tribute of respect to those able persons who commanded his regard...
    GoW 4.266 7 In this country...the solid portion of the community is named with significant respect in every circle.
    GoW 4.280 22 In England and in America there is a respect for talent;...
    ET6 5.103 25 ...[England] is no country for fainthearted people;...take your own course, and you shall find respect and furtherance.
    ET9 5.149 6 ...the natural disposition is fostered by the respect which [the English] find entertained in the world for English ability.
    ET10 5.155 8 The respect for truth of facts in England is equalled only by the respect for wealth.
    ET10 5.155 9 The respect for truth of facts in England is equalled only by the respect for wealth.
    ET11 5.188 9 I look with respect at houses six, seven, eight hundred, or, like Warwick Castle, nine hundred years old.
    ET12 5.205 23 Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself...where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
    ET14 5.245 27 Hallam inspires respect by his knowledge and fidelity...
    ET16 5.287 15 ...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance... and procured a kind of hearing for it. I said, it is true that I have never seen in any country a man of sufficient valor to stand for this truth, and yet it is plain to me that no less valor than this can command my respect.
    Ctr 6.151 13 I have heard that throughout this country a certain respect is paid to good broadcloth;...
    Wsp 6.211 19 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...
    Wsp 6.228 15 ...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots. The young nun, who had become the object of much attention and respect, drew back with anger...
    Wsp 6.236 19 ...[Benedict] would correct his conduct, in that respect in which he had faulted, to the next person he should meet.
    Ill 6.316 17 Teague and his jade get some just relations of mutual respect...
    Civ 7.24 2 ...place the sexes in right relations of mutual respect, and a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which educates all that is delicate, poetic and self-sacrificing;...
    Elo1 7.64 16 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians...when a proper opportunity offers, this same person...will hurl a sentence worthy of attention...so that he who converses with him will appear to be in no respect superior to a boy.
    Farm 7.137 9 ...every man has an exceptional respect for tillage...
    Farm 7.153 4 We see the farmer with pleasure and respect when we think what powers and utilities are so meekly worn.
    WD 7.185 8 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from a respect to the works to a wise wonder at this mystic element of time in which he is conditioned;...
    Boks 7.189 11 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus;...certainly knowing that his passengers are the same and in no respect better than when he took them on board.
    Boks 7.189 15 The bookseller might certainly know that his customers are in no respect better for the purchase and consumption of his wares.
    Boks 7.202 21 Of Plotinus, we have eulogies by Porphyry and Longinus, and the favor of the Emperor Gallienus, indicating the respect he inspired among his contemporaries.
    Cour 7.260 13 ...the measure of our sincerity and therefore of the respect of men, is the amount of health and wealth we will hazard in the defence of our right.
    Suc 7.288 8 The Arabian sheiks...do not want [American arts]; yet...are easily able to impress the Frenchman or the American who visits them with the respect due to a brave and sufficient man.
    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.
    OA 7.316 22 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head, which... does deceive his juniors and the public, who presently distinguish him with a most amusing respect;...
    SA 8.85 11 Wait till your affairs go better, and you have other means at hand; you will then ask in a different tone, and [your debtor] will treat your claim with entire respect.
    SA 8.94 12 ...[Madame de Stael] said...If it were not for respect to human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time...
    SA 8.98 20 The law of the table is...a respect to the common soul of all the guests.
    SA 8.103 20 ...I said to myself, How little this man [an American to be proud of] suspects, with...his respect for lettered and scientific people, that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself.
    Comc 8.169 11 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance; as if a man should neglect himself and treat his shadow on the wall with marks of infinite respect.
    QO 8.178 2 Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.
    PPo 8.248 12 [The mind] indicates this respect to absolute truth by the use it makes of the symbols that are most stable and reverend...
    Insp 8.281 25 The wealth of the mind in this respect of seeing is like that of a looking-glass, which is never tired or worn by any multitude of objects which it reflects.
    Grts 8.312 3 With this respect to the bias of the individual mind add...the most catholic receptivity for the genius of others.
    Grts 8.314 10 Napoleon commands our respect by his enormous self-trust...
    Aris 10.36 24 ...a new respect for the sacredness of the individual man, is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion...
    Aris 10.37 22 What is the meaning of this invincible respect for war...
    Aris 10.51 19 The day is darkened...when genius grows...reckless of its fine duties of being Saint, Prophet, Inspirer to its humble fellows, balks their respect and confounds their understanding by silly extravagances.
    PerF 10.87 7 If I have not my own respect, I am an impostor...
    Chr2 10.91 8 [Morals] is that which all men profess to regard, and by their real respect for which recommend themselves to each other.
    Chr2 10.94 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.
    Chr2 10.100 5 ...the Deity does not break his firm laws in respect to imparting truth, more than in imparting material heat and light.
    Edc1 10.144 3 ...I hear the outcry which replies to this suggestion...would you leave the young child to the mad career of his own passions and whimsies, and call this anarchy a respect for the child's nature?
    Edc1 10.158 17 Of course you [teachers] will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers...
    Supl 10.171 12 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer. The caution of the toast did honor to our village father. I wish great lords and diplomatists had as much respect for truth.
    SovE 10.204 24 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds.
    SovE 10.206 3 The poor Irish laborer one sees with respect, because he believes in something, in his church, and in his employers.
    SovE 10.206 5 Superstitious persons we see with respect, because their whole existence is not bounded by their hats and their shoes...
    SovE 10.210 21 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another in whom he discovers absolute honesty;...
    SovE 10.210 22 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another...the respect he feels for one who thinks life is quite too coarse and frivolous...
    Prch 10.228 24 What sort of respect can these preachers or newspapers inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that they would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter, provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?
    MoL 10.254 24 There is respect due to your teachers...
    MoL 10.257 23 I learn with joy and with deep respect that this college has sent its full quota to the field.
    Schr 10.278 1 Perhaps I value power of achievement a little more because in America there seems to be a certain indigence in this respect.
    Plu 10.295 23 ...Rabelais cites [Plutarch] with due respect.
    Plu 10.299 20 [Plutarch] is...sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of his readers...respectfully skipping to the next chapter. But this scholastic omniscience of our author engages a new respect, since they hope he understands his own diagram.
    Plu 10.316 15 When the guests are gone, [Plutarch] would leave one lamp burning, only as a sign of the respect he bore to fires...
    LLNE 10.351 25 The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and his friends...commanded our attention and respect.
    EzRy 10.385 11 ...on 15th May [1735] we have this [from Joseph Emerson]: Shay brought home; mending cost thirty shillings. Favored in this respect beyond expectation.
    MMEm 10.412 24 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden]. Ah! mortifying sight! instinct perhaps triumphs over reason, and every dignified respect to herself, in her anxiety about recovery...
    MMEm 10.427 6 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...growing out of her respect to the Revelation...
    SlHr 10.442 19 ...what Middlesex jury, containing any God-fearing men in it, would hazard an opinion in flat contradiction to what Squire Hoar believed to be just? He was entitled to this respect;...
    SlHr 10.446 1 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was admirable...
    SlHr 10.447 28 [Samuel Hoar] had a huge respect for Mr. Webster's ability...
    Thor 10.460 13 ...[Thoreau] paid the tribute of his uniform respect to the Anti-Slavery party.
    Thor 10.472 22 ...not a particle of respect had [Thoreau] to the opinions of any man or body of men...
    LS 11.20 4 I will...not pay [Jesus] a stiff sign of respect, as men do those whom they fear.
    HDC 11.42 7 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter, and, in respect of the greatness of their charge thereabout, and in regard of the ease of the East quarter above the rest, in their highways, they are to allow the North quarter 3 pounds.
    HDC 11.63 12 ...I am sorry to find that the servile Randolph speaks of [Peter Bulkeley 2nd] with marked respect.
    LVB 11.96 14 I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray with one voice more that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which threatens the Cherokee tribe. With great respect, sir, I am your fellow citizen, RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
    EWI 11.142 25 [The blacks] won the pity and respect which they have received [in the West Indies]...
    War 11.166 3 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...the least mitigation of his feelings in respect to other men;...
    FSLC 11.192 18 The practitioners [of law] should guard this dogma [that immoral laws are void] well...as the anchor in the respect of mankind.
    FSLC 11.207 26 Since it is agreed by all sane men of all parties...that slavery is mischievous, why does the South itself never offer the smallest counsel of her own? I have never heard in twenty years any project except Mr. Clay's. Let us hear any project with candor and respect.
    FSLN 11.231 11 I have a respect for conservatism.
    AsSu 11.249 19 [Charles Sumner] meekly bore...the pity of the indifferent, cheered by the love and respect of good men with whom he acted;...
    JBB 11.268 5 [John Brown] cherishes a great respect for his father...
    JBB 11.268 6 [John Brown] cherishes a great respect for his father, as a man of strong character, and his respect is probably just.
    SMC 11.369 15 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect...
    FRO1 11.479 5 There is an element of childish infatuation in [the histories of the Church] which does not exalt our respect for man.
    FRep 11.514 12 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title to [the party's] permanent respect, and to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the real public interest, and to stand for that;...
    PLT 12.53 19 No man passes for that with another which he passes for with himself. The respect and the censure of his brother are alike injurious and irrelevant.
    II 12.66 13 All men are, in respect to this source of truth [consciousness], on a certain footing of equality...
    CL 12.142 23 There is also an effect [of walking] on beauty. De Quincey said, I have seen Wordsworth's eyes sometimes affected powerfully in this respect.
    Bost 12.199 5 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...
    Milt1 12.248 17 ...[Milton]...obtained great respect from his contemporaries as an accomplished scholar and a formidable pamphleteer.
    Milt1 12.254 6 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton]...who, respect to personal relations, is to us as the wind...
    AgMs 12.358 6 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always impresses me with respect...
    AgMs 12.358 19 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect.
    EurB 12.374 15 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect, because he speedily betrays that he does not see the true limitations of the charm;...
    EurB 12.376 8 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect;...
    PPr 12.385 15 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by...impressing the reader with the conviction that the satirist himself has...a genuine respect for the basis of truth in those whom he exposes.
    Trag 12.410 27 Tragedy must be somewhat which I can respect.

respect, v. (58)

    DSA 1.119 19 One is constrained to respect the perfection of this world in which our senses converse.
    Tran 1.333 19 [The idealist] does not respect labor...otherwise than as a manifold symbol...
    Tran 1.333 23 ...[the idealist] does not respect government, except as far as it reiterates the law of his mind;...
    Tran 1.340 17 ...the tendency to respect the intuitions and to give them, at least in our creed, all authority over our experience, has deeply colored the conversation and poetry of the present day;...
    Hist 2.8 5 The student is...to esteem his own life the text [of history], and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the Muse of history will utter oracles, as never to those who do not respect themselves.
    SL 2.129 1 The living Heaven thy prayers respect/...
    SL 2.158 23 All the devils respect virtue.
    Lov1 2.173 4 Among the throng of girls [the village boy] runs rudely enough, but one alone distances him; and these two little neighbors...have learned to respect each other's personality.
    Fdsp 2.196 14 ...the soul does not respect men as it respects itself.
    Fdsp 2.198 18 ...I respect thy genius;...
    Fdsp 2.200 18 Respect the naturlangsamkeit which hardens the ruby in a million years...
    Fdsp 2.211 10 Respect so far the holy laws of this fellowship [of friends] as not to prejudice its perfect flower...
    OS 2.271 5 [What we commonly call man] we do not respect...
    Mrs1 3.138 24 I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws than with a sloven and unpresentable person.
    Nat2 3.196 18 That power which does not respect quantity...distils its essence into every drop of rain.
    NR 3.234 19 Lively boys write to their ear and eye, and the cool reader finds nothing but sweet jingles in it. When they grow older, they respect the argument.
    NR 3.236 4 ...the divine man does not respect [persons];...
    NMW 4.240 22 ...some servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road, and Mrs. Balcombe desired them, in rather an angry tone, to keep back. Napoleon interfered, saying Respect the burden, Madam.
    GoW 4.271 6 We conceive...modern life to respect a multitude of things, which is distracting.
    ET1 5.5 12 ...I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons, as they respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world to make it needful to affect any prudery of suppression about a few hints of those bright personalities.
    ET2 5.31 3 If sailors were contented...I should respect them.
    ET8 5.128 1 [The police in England] thinks itself bound in duty to respect the pleasures and rare gayety of this inconsolable nation;...
    ET11 5.187 18 Every one who has tasted the delight of friendship will respect every social guard which our manners can establish...
    ET13 5.221 27 The English, in common perhaps with Christendom in the nineteenth century, do not respect power, but only performance;...
    ET14 5.251 21 [Englishmen]...respect the five mechanic powers even in their song.
    ET14 5.255 11 No [English] priest dares hint at a Providence which does not respect English utility.
    F 6.7 2 ...fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.
    F 6.22 7 We must respect Fate as natural history...
    Pow 6.80 19 ...this force or spirit, being the means relied on by Nature for bringing the work of the day about,--as far as we attach importance to household life and the prizes of the world, we must respect that.
    Wth 6.111 17 Our nature and genius force us to respect ends...
    Ctr 6.153 14 You say the gods ought to respect a life whose objects are their own;...
    Bhr 6.179 2 ...[eyes] respect neither poverty nor riches...
    DL 7.131 25 A collection of this kind [a library and museum]...would dignify the town, and we should love and respect our neighbors more.
    WD 7.164 22 A man has a reputation, and is no longer free, but must respect that.
    WD 7.182 23 ...those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
    Suc 7.286 20 ...there is no limit to these varieties of talent. These are arts to be thankful for,--each one as it is a new direction of human power. We cannot choose but respect them.
    Suc 7.286 24 We respect ourselves more if we have succeeded.
    PI 8.30 17 ...colder moods are forced to respect the ways of saying [the poet's thought]...
    SA 8.92 25 If you rise to frankness and generosity, [people] will respect it now or later.
    QO 8.191 13 ...the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.
    Aris 10.53 8 A man who has that possession of his means and that magnetism that he can at all times carry the convictions of a public assembly, we must respect...
    Edc1 10.143 20 Respect the child.
    Edc1 10.143 23 Respect the child.
    Edc1 10.144 4 ...Respect the child, respect him to the end, but also respect yourself.
    Edc1 10.144 5 ...Respect the child, respect him to the end, but also respect yourself.
    Supl 10.163 7 ...it is a long way from the Maine Law to the heights of absolute self-command which respect the conservatism of the entire energies of the body, the mind, and the soul.
    SovE 10.205 25 Men are respectable only as they respect.
    Schr 10.267 19 The action of these [busy] men I cannot respect, for they do not respect it themselves.
    Thor 10.463 18 [Thoreau] said...Nature knows very well what sounds are worth attending to, and has made up her mind not to hear the railroad-whistle. But things respect the devout mind, and a mental ecstasy was never interrupted.
    War 11.162 21 ...we never make much account of objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this moment...
    FSLC 11.188 17 I thought it a point on which all sane men were agreed, that the law must respect the public morality.
    FSLC 11.212 10 Let us respect the Union to all honest ends.
    FSLC 11.212 11 Let us respect the Union to all honest ends. But also respect an older and wider union, the law of Nature and rectitude.
    FSLN 11.244 9 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society.
    PLT 12.43 8 The conduct of Intellect must respect nothing so much as preserving the sensibility.
    PLT 12.58 14 The condition of sanity is to respect the order of the intellectual world;...
    PPr 12.381 18 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the exhortation to the workman that he shall respect the work and not the wages;...
    Trag 12.409 1 After we have enumerated...mutilation, rack, madness and loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror, and which does not respect definite evils but indefinite;...

respectabilities, n. (1)

    Carl 10.495 7 Combined with this warfare on respectabilities, and indeed, pointing all his satire, is the severity of [Carlyle's] moral sentiment.

respectability, n. (3)

    MN 1.193 18 ...we set a bound to the respectability of wealth...
    Pow 6.63 15 Men expect from good whigs put into office by the respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with Mexico...than from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson...
    FSLC 11.185 21 The learning of the universities...the respectability of the Whig party, are all combined to kidnap [the poor black boy].

respectable, adj. (23)

    LT 1.268 17 ...this [conservative] class...is respectable only as nature is;...
    SwM 4.139 10 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. ... If one whose ways are altogether evil serve me alone, he is as respectable as the just man;...
    MoS 4.174 4 How respectable is earnestness on every platform!...
    MoS 4.177 19 I can reason down or deny every thing, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
    ET4 5.65 17 I remarked the stoutness [of the English] on my first landing at Liverpool; porter, drayman, coachman, guard,--what substantial, respectable, grandfatherly figures...
    ET11 5.193 15 The respectable Duke of Devonshire...is reported to have said that he cannot live at Chatsworth but one month in the year.
    Wth 6.91 25 The world is full of fops...and these will deliver the fop opinion, that it is not respectable to be seen earning a living;...
    Wth 6.91 26 The world is full of fops...and these will deliver the fop opinion...that it is much more respectable to spend without earning;...
    Wsp 6.211 8 See what allowance vice finds in the respectable and well-conditioned class.
    Wsp 6.232 14 Life is hardly respectable...if it has no generous, guaranteeing task...
    CbW 6.277 6 How respectable the life that clings to its objects!
    Civ 7.29 15 ...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, and this line afforded him a respectable base for his triangle.
    Boks 7.203 24 The respectable and sometimes excellent translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse.
    Cour 7.259 4 ...the protection which a house...even the first accumulation of savings gives, go in all times to generate this taint of the respectable classes.
    Comc 8.159 6 Separate any object...and contemplate it alone, standing there in absolute nature, it becomes at once comic;...no respectable qualities can rescue it from the ludicrous.
    SovE 10.204 7 The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the mind, giving it concentration and force. A rude people were kept respectable by the determination of thought on the eternal world.
    SovE 10.205 25 Men are respectable only as they respect.
    Prch 10.234 20 That gray deacon or respectable matron with Calvinistic antecedents...could not have presented any obstacle to the march of St. Bernard...
    Schr 10.267 20 The action of these [busy] men I cannot respect, for they do not respect it themselves. They were better and more respectable abed and asleep.
    TPar 11.288 3 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind...they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed them, and so sunk into...a feeling of loneliness and hostility to what was reckoned respectable.
    ChiE 11.472 14 ...I must remember that [China] has respectable remains of astronomic science...
    II 12.88 9 The old Greek was respectable...who found the genius of tragedy in the conflict between Destiny and the strong should...
    PPr 12.388 27 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing; with his expedient for expressing those unproven opinions which he entertains but will not endorse, by summoning one of his men of straw from the cell,-and the respectable Sauerteig, or Teuffelsdrockh...says what is put into his mouth, and disappears.

respected, v. (17)

    Nat 1.48 19 Any distrust of the permanence of laws would paralyze the faculties of man. Their permanence is sacredly respected...
    MR 1.228 18 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something...
    LT 1.279 10 With so much awe, with so much fear let [the sanctuary of the heart] be respected.
    Con 1.323 5 The man of principle is known as such [in a state of war or anarchy], and even in the fury of faction is respected.
    Mrs1 3.122 15 The usual words...must be respected;...
    NR 3.228 19 The magnetism which arranges tribes and races in one polarity is alone to be respected;...
    NMW 4.231 10 [Bonaparte] respected the power of nature and fortune...
    ET5 5.79 9 ...[Kenelm Digby] had so graceful elocution and noble address, that, had he been dropt out of the clouds in any part of the world, he would have made himself respected;...
    ET14 5.249 16 But for Coleridge...one would say that in Germany and in America is the best mind in England rightly respected.
    Elo1 7.80 10 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons. His clients pay not so much for legal as for manly accomplishments,--for courage, conduct and a commanding social position, which enable him to make their claims heard and respected.
    Insp 8.289 26 ...the machine with which we are dealing is of such an inconceivable delicacy that whims also must be respected.
    Imtl 8.325 3 ...the polity of the Egyptians...respected burial.
    MMEm 10.417 5 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man...whom she respected.
    Carl 10.490 5 [Carlyle] is obviously greatly respected by all sorts of people...
    GSt 10.502 16 Mr. [George] Stearns made himself at once necessary to Captain Brown as one who respected his inspirations...
    Wom 11.424 24 When new opinions appear, they will be entertained and respected, by every fair mind, according to their reasonableness...
    Milt1 12.261 22 ...[Milton] knew that this mastery of language was a secondary power, and he respected the mysterious source whence it had its spring;...

respectful, adj. (3)

    NMW 4.251 23 I admire...[Bonaparte's] good-natured and sufficiently respectful account of Marshal Wurmser and his other antagonists;...
    EzRy 10.389 2 [Ezra Ripley] had...the patient, continuing courtesy, carrying out every respectful attention to the end, which marks what is called the manners of the old school.
    Thor 10.465 20 Visits were offered [Thoreau] from respectful parties, but he declined them.

respectfully, adv. (4)

    CbW 6.255 16 I do not think very respectfully of the designs or the doings of the people who went to California in 1849.
    WD 7.180 17 You must treat the days respectfully...
    Plu 10.299 17 [Plutarch] is...sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of his readers...respectfully skipping to the next chapter.
    Thor 10.460 27 The hall was filled at an early hour by people of all parties, and [Thoreau's] earnest eulogy of the hero [John Brown] was heard by all respectfully...

respecting, v. (17)

    Wth 6.112 12 Do your work, respecting the excellence of the work...
    Bhr 6.197 2 The oldest and the most deserving person should come very modestly into any newly awaked company, respecting the divine communications out of which all must be presumed to have newly come.
    Civ 7.27 1 What is moral? It is the respecting in action catholic or universal ends.
    Dem1 10.15 4 ...[Masollam] replied...Why are you so foolish as to take care of this unfortunate bird? How could this fowl give us any wise directions respecting our journey...
    Edc1 10.143 14 ...our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
    SovE 10.193 16 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart.
    LS 11.4 4 ...more important controversies have arisen respecting [the Lord' s Supper's] nature.
    LS 11.10 5 [Jesus] admonished his disciples respecting the leaven of the Pharisees.
    LS 11.10 6 [Jesus] instructed the woman of Samaria respecting living water.
    LS 11.17 27 ...our opinions differ much respecting the nature and offices of Christ...
    LS 11.22 10 In the midst of considerations as to what Paul thought, and why he so thought, I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to argue to or from his convictions, or those of Luke and John, respecting any form.
    HDC 11.78 20 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither; and 210 cords of wood were carried. A similar order is taken respecting hay.
    HDC 11.83 19 ...I have read with care the [Concord] Town Records themselves. They must ever be the fountains of all just information respecting your character and customs.
    EWI 11.139 6 The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground.
    AKan 11.261 13 The President told the Kansas Committee that the whole difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people respecting institutions which they need not have concerned themselves about.
    PLT 12.60 22 The spiritual power of man is twofold...Intellect and morals; one respecting truth, the other the will.
    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;...

respective, adj. (6)

    SL 2.158 15 ...there need never be any doubt concerning the respective ability of human beings.
    Cir 2.308 13 Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools.
    SwM 4.103 21 ...Swedenborg is systematic and respective of the world in every sentence;...
    ET4 5.60 4 History rarely yields us better passages than the conversation between King Sigurd the Crusader and King Eystein his brother, on their respective merits...
    Elo2 8.126 1 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.
    ACri 12.284 8 There is, in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.

respectively, adv. (4)

    Nat 1.26 25 Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively our image of memory and hope.
    Pt1 3.6 26 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. These stand respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the love of beauty.
    Pol1 3.209 20 The vice of our leading parties in this country...is that they do not plant themselves on the deep and necessary grounds to which they are respectively entitled...
    Boks 7.200 21 An inestimable trilogy of ancient social pictures are the three Banquets respectively of Plato, Xenophon and Plutarch.

respects, n. (12)

    AmS 1.88 14 ...neither can any artist entirely...write a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries...
    ShP 4.205 16 ...[Shakespeare]...in all respects appears as a good husband...
    ET1 5.10 9 From London...I went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge, requesting leave to pay my respects to him.
    ET1 5.19 4 On the 28th August [1833] I went to Rydal Mount, to pay my respects to Mr. Wordsworth.
    Bhr 6.177 24 In some respects the animals excel us.
    Bhr 6.187 15 Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects...
    Civ 7.34 11 ...if there be...a country...where the suffrage is not free or equal;--that country is, in all these respects, not civil, but barbarous;...
    Clbs 7.229 26 If men are less when together than they are alone, they are also in some respects enlarged.
    Cour 7.272 9 The troop of Virginian infantry that had marched to guard the prison of John Brown ask leave to pay their respects to the prisoner.
    HDC 11.84 16 ...it is to be remembered that a town is, in many respects, a financial corporation.
    AsSu 11.251 19 ...I wish, sir, that the high respects of this meeting shall be expressed to Mr. Sumner;...
    Milt1 12.263 19 [Milton] acknowledges...whatever the Deity may have bestowed upon me in other respects, he has certainly inspired me, if any ever were inspired, with a passion for the good and fair.

respects, v. (33)

    Nat 1.60 12 [The soul] respects the end too much to immerse itself in the means.
    MN 1.211 19 [This ecstatic state] respects genius and not talent;...
    Tran 1.333 2 The materialist respects sensible masses...
    Fdsp 2.196 15 ...the soul does not respect men as it respects itself.
    Prd1 2.225 2 [Prudence] respects space and time...
    Int 2.342 12 ...he [in whom the love of truth predominates]...respects the highest law of his being.
    Mrs1 3.129 22 [Aristocracy] respects the administration of such unimportant matters, that we should not look for any durability in its rule.
    Mrs1 3.139 6 ...[the spirit of the energetic class] respects everything which tends to unite men.
    Nat2 3.175 9 To the poor young poet, thus fabulous is his picture of society; he is loyal; he respects the rich;...
    Pol1 3.206 19 ...by a higher law, the property will, year after year, write every statute that respects property.
    UGM 4.7 24 Our common discourse respects two kinds of use or service from superior men.
    UGM 4.34 20 All that respects the individual is temporary and prospective...
    PNR 4.85 17 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:--Of all whose arguments are left to the men of the present time, no one has ever yet condemned injustice, or praised justice, otherwise than as respects the repute, honors, and emoluments arising therefrom;...
    PNR 4.85 18 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:...as respects either of them in itself...no one has yet sufficiently investigated...how, namely, that injustice is the greatest of all the evils that the soul has within it, and justice the greatest good.
    NMW 4.230 14 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it; the delight in the use of means;...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    ET8 5.142 11 ...the calm, sound and most British Briton...respects an economy founded on agriculture, coal-mines, manufactures or trade...
    F 6.16 19 Nature respects race, and not hybrids.
    Bhr 6.197 8 As respects the delicate question of culture I do not think that any other than negative rules can be laid down.
    Ill 6.323 15 One would think from the talk of men that riches and poverty were a great matter; and our civilization mainly respects it.
    Art2 7.43 10 Music, Eloquence, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts. I omit Rhetoric, which only respects the form of eloquence and poetry.
    Art2 7.47 21 ...the power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts, in all that respects their material and external circumstances.
    WD 7.185 13 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done...
    Cour 7.271 18 If Governor Wise is a superior man, or inasmuch as he is a superior man, he distinguishes John Brown. As they confer, they understand each other swiftly; each respects the other.
    PI 8.28 7 Imagination respects the cause.
    Chr2 10.91 1 Morals respects what men call goodness...
    Chr2 10.91 4 Morals respects the source or motive of this action.
    SovE 10.203 3 Our religion...respects and mythologizes some one time and place and person and people.
    Carl 10.494 9 A natural defender of anything...[Carlyle] respects;...
    Carl 10.496 11 Wellington [Carlyle] respects as real and honest...
    LVB 11.89 19 ...my communication respects the sinister rumors that fill this part of the country concerning the Cherokee people.
    War 11.169 19 In the second place, as far as [the charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme cases, I will say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just man;...
    EPro 11.326 11 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection sculptured for ages in their bronzed countenance...
    EdAd 11.391 24 What will easily seem to many a far higher question than any other is that which respects the embodying of the Conscience of the period.

respiration, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.40 24 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark, to come forth again to people a new world. This is like the stock of air for our respiration or for the combustion of our fireplace;...
    NER 3.266 25 ...in a celebrated experiment, by expiration and respiration exactly together, four persons lift a heavy man from the ground by the little finger only...
    ET6 5.104 14 [The Englishman's] vivacity betrays itself...in his manners, in his respiration...
    Bhr 6.182 9 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical.

respite, n. (3)

    Int 2.331 19 ...a man explores the basis of civil government. Let him intend his mind without respite...in one direction.
    ET13 5.216 12 The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals.
    SMC 11.372 19 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth of June comes at last a respite for a short space...

resplendence, n. (1)

    PPo 8.264 9 The sun from near-by beamed/ Clearest light into [the birds'] soul;/ The resplendence of the Simorg beamed/ As one back from all three./ They knew not, amazed, if they/ Were either this or that./

resplendent, adj. (2)

    PC 8.220 6 Often the master is a hidden man, but not to the true student; invisible to all the rest, resplendent to him.
    Prch 10.222 2 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action...what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?

respond, v. (2)

    UGM 4.17 3 ...these acts [of the intellect] expose the invisible organs and members of the mind, which respond, member for member, to the parts of the body.
    RBur 11.439 7 ...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced... that...it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].

respondents, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.240 1 What can you do with one of these sharp respondents?

response, n. (2)

    ET14 5.242 19 ...the very announcement...even of Dalton's doctrine of definite proportions, finds a sudden response in the mind...
    Res 8.137 15 ...whether searched by the plough of Adam...the surveyor's chain of Picard, or the submarine telegraph,--to every one of these experiments [the earth] makes a gracious response.

responsibilities, n. (2)

    QO 8.202 20 Shakspeare, Milton, Wordsworth, were very conscious of their responsibilities.
    EWI 11.115 25 The clergy and missionaries throughout the island [Antigua] were actively engaged, seizing the opportunity to enlighten the people on all the duties and responsibilities of their new relation...

responsibility, n. (5)

    LT 1.266 22 ...we are not permitted to stand as spectators of the pageant which the times exhibit; we are parties also, and have a responsibility which is not be be declined.
    Tran 1.352 26 ...When shall I die and be relieved of the responsibility of seeing an Universe which I do not use?
    NER 3.256 14 ...I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person whom I pay with money;...
    FRep 11.521 18 General Jackson was a man of will, and his phrase on one memorable occasion, I will take the responsibility, is a proverb ever since.
    FRep 11.527 16 ...responsibility educates fast.

responsible, adj. (13)

    Con 1.324 9 Of the past [the hero] will take no heed; for its wrongs he will not hold himself responsible...
    SR 2.60 23 ...there is a great responsible Thinker and Actor working wherever a man works;...
    ET10 5.170 13 England must be held responsible for the despotism of expense.
    ET13 5.214 3 No people at the present day can be explained by their national religion. They do not feel responsible for it;...
    Supl 10.168 18 ...the old head, after deceiving and being deceived many times, thinks, What's the use of having to unsay to-day what I said yesterday? I will not be responsible; I will not add an epithet.
    LLNE 10.366 8 It was very gently said [at Brook Farm] that people on whom beforehand all persons would put the utmost reliance were not responsible.
    War 11.170 20 ...[public meetings] vote and vote, cry hurrah on both sides, no man responsible, no man caring a pin.
    War 11.171 25 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that a man should be himself responsible... for his behavior;...
    FSLN 11.220 6 ...when a great man comes who knots up into himself the opinions and wishes of the people, it is so much easier to follow him as an exponent of this. He too is responsible; they will not be.
    AKan 11.258 22 That is the theory of the American State, that it exists to execute the will of the citizens, is always responsible to them...
    TPar 11.291 23 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person...
    Milt1 12.272 2 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of literary liberty... insisting that a book shall come into the world as freely as a man, so only it bear the name of author or printer, and be responsible for itself like a man.
    ACri 12.304 8 The democratic, when the power proceeds organically from the people and is responsible to them, are classic politics.

responsibleness, n. (3)

    ET5 5.99 17 ...[the English] have solidarity, or responsibleness...
    ET11 5.180 13 [The English lords]...call themselves after their lands, as if the man represented the country that bred him;... It has...the advantage of suggesting responsibleness.
    War 11.173 11 [Shakespeare's lords] make what is in their minds the greatest sacrifice. They will, for an injurious word, peril all their state and wealth, and go to the field. Take away that principle of responsibleness, and they become pirates and ruffians.

responsive, adj. (1)

    PerF 10.74 4 [Man's] whole frame is responsive to the world...

rest, n. (141)

    AmS 1.93 13 The discerning will read, in his...Shakspeare...only the authentic utterances of the oracle; - all the rest he rejects...
    AmS 1.106 18 All the rest behold in the hero or the poet their own green and crude being...
    DSA 1.127 19 ...the divine nature is attributed to one or two persons, and denied to all the rest...
    LE 1.166 20 ...motion is as easy as rest.
    MN 1.191 21 The rapid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire... enchants the eyes of all the rest;...
    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 1.211 11 We too could have gladly prophesied standing in [the poet's] place. We so quote our Scriptures; and the Greeks so quoted Homer, Theognis, Pindar, and the rest.
    LT 1.266 12 Now and then comes...a...soul, more informed and led by God...which is much in advance of the rest...
    Con 1.297 4 I see, rejoins Saturns [to Uranus]...thou art become an evil eye; thou spakest from love; now thy words smite me with hatred. I appeal to Fate, must there not be rest?
    Tran 1.348 18 The good, the illuminated, sit apart from the rest...
    Tran 1.350 13 When [the great man] has hit the white, the rest may shatter the target.
    Tran 1.350 27 We [Transcendentalists] perish of rest and rust: but we do not like your work.
    YA 1.373 24 Our condition is like that of the poor wolves: if one of the flock wound himself or so much as limp, the rest eat him up incontinently.
    Hist 2.3 16 ...without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty...which belongs to it, in appropriate events.
    SR 2.76 6 If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards...it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right...in complaining the rest of his life.
    SR 2.88 16 Thy lot or portion of life...is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it.
    Comp 2.97 8 ...each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as...motion, rest;...
    Fdsp 2.200 6 If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly.
    Fdsp 2.200 12 The valiant warrior famoused for fight,/ After a hundred victories, once foiled,/ Is from the book of honor razed quite/ And all the rest forgot for which he toiled./
    Hsm1 2.245 10 When any Rodrigo, Pedro or Valerio enters [in the plays of the elder English dramatists]...the duke or governor exclaims, This is a gentleman,--and proffers civilities without end; but all the rest are slag and refuse.
    Cir 2.303 17 Nature...has a cause like all the rest;...
    Cir 2.315 17 Think how many times we shall fall back into pitiful calculations before we take up our rest in the great sentiment...
    Cir 2.319 8 ...fever, intemperance, insanity, stupidity and crime; they are all forms of old age; they are rest, conservatism, appropriation, inertia;...
    Int 2.331 19 ...a man explores the basis of civil government. Let him intend his mind without respite, without rest, in one direction.
    Int 2.342 3 [He in whom the love of repose predominates] gets rest, commodity and reputation;...
    Int 2.346 9 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat... so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
    Pt1 3.3 10 [The umpires of tastes'] cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.
    Exp 3.47 21 The history of literature...is a sum of very few ideas and of very few original tales; all the rest being variation of these.
    Exp 3.48 15 [Grief], like all the rest, plays about the surface...
    Exp 3.65 15 ...stay there in thy closet and toil until the rest are agreed what to do about it.
    Gts 3.165 6 There are persons from whom we always expect fairy-tokens; let us not cease to expect them. This is prerogative, and not to be limited by our municipal rules. For the rest, I like to see that we cannot be bought and sold.
    Nat2 3.180 16 Motion or change and identity or rest are the first and second secrets of nature...
    Nat2 3.184 3 If the identity [in nature] expresses organized rest, the counter action runs also into organization.
    Nat2 3.193 24 Are we tickled trout, and fools of nature? One look at the face of heaven and earth lays all petulance at rest...
    Pol1 3.202 24 ...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and with more right, than Jacob, who...eats their bread and not his own?
    NR 3.227 2 All persons exist to society by some shining trait of beauty or utility which they have. We borrow the proportions of the man from that one fine feature, and finish the portrait symmetrically; which is false, for the rest of his body is small or deformed.
    NR 3.228 26 ...men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly select a particle, and say, O steel-filing number one!...what prodigious virtues are these of thine!... Whilst we speak the loadstone is withdrawn; down falls our filing in a heap with the rest...
    NER 3.261 18 ...society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good in some particular but negligent or narrow in the rest;...
    NER 3.272 14 [Men] are conservatives...before taking their rest;...
    UGM 4.24 21 Not the feeblest grandame, not a mowing idiot, but uses what spark of perception and faculty is left, to chuckle and triumph in his or her opinion over the absurdities of all the rest.
    UGM 4.27 2 Every mother wishes one son a genius, though all the rest should be mediocre.
    PPh 4.50 7 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...unconnected with unrealities, with name, species and the rest...
    PPh 4.50 17 ...the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold, arising from the consequences of acts [said Krishna]. When the difference of the investing form, as of god or the rest, is destroyed, there is no distinction.
    PPh 4.51 17 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is...rest; the other, motion...
    SwM 4.95 14 ...the Persian poet exclaims to a soul of this kind [of goodness],--Go boldly forth, and feast on being's banquet;/ Thou art the called,--the rest admitted with thee./
    SwM 4.96 18 ...the soul having heretofore known all, nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind...one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge, and find out again all the rest...
    SwM 4.122 17 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times,--when he was born, when he married, when he fell sick and when he died, and, for the rest, never interfered with him,--here was a teaching which accompanied him all day...
    SwM 4.134 4 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero, and with a touch of human relenting remarks, one whom it was given me to believe was Cicero; and when the soi disant Roman opens his mouth...it is plain theologic Swedenborg like the rest.
    MoS 4.151 23 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world...and the practical world, including the painful drudgeries which are never excused to philosopher or poet any more than to the rest,-- weigh heavily on the other side.
    ShP 4.203 22 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Paul Sarpi, Arminius, with all of whom exists some token of his having communicated, without enumerating many others whom doubtless he saw...Marlow, Chapman and the rest.
    NMW 4.231 1 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born; a man...capable...of going many days together without rest or food except by snatches...
    GoW 4.289 25 This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...without relaxation or rest... worked on for eighty years...
    ET3 5.35 6 ...the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...and reads quietly the Times newspaper, which, by its immense correspondence and reporting seems to have machinized the rest of the world for his occasion.
    ET5 5.101 21 Whilst [the English] are some ages ahead of the rest of the world in the art of living;...this vanguard of civility and power they coldly hold...
    ET6 5.107 12 Born in a harsh and wet climate, which keeps him in doors whenever he is at rest...[the Englishman] dearly loves his house.
    ET8 5.133 9 There are multitudes of rude young English...who, with their disdain of the rest of mankind and with this indigestion and choler, have made the English traveller a proverb for uncomfortable and offensive manners.
    ET9 5.148 13 A man's personal defects will commonly have, with the rest of the world, precisely that importance which they have to himself.
    ET9 5.150 20 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
    ET11 5.184 6 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848 (the day of the Chartist demonstration), that...men of rank were sworn special constables with the rest.
    ET11 5.185 1 For the rest, the [English] nobility have the lead in matters of state and expense;...
    ET12 5.199 19 My new friends [at Oxford] showed me...Merton Hall and the rest.
    ET12 5.203 4 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, They called on Lord Eldon. ... ...he said, your men have probably already contributed all they can spare; I can as well give the rest...
    ET12 5.203 22 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Dr. Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order; brought them to Oxford with the rest of his purchase...
    ET14 5.257 11 [Wordsworth] has written longer than he was inspired. But for the rest, he has no competitor.
    F 6.19 21 ...[the drowning men] had a right to their eye-beams, and all the rest was Fate.
    F 6.30 15 ...we gladly forget numbers, money, climate, gravitation, and the rest of Fate.
    F 6.39 24 The times, the age, what is that but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?--...Brunel, and the rest.
    Pow 6.66 6 The communities hitherto founded by socialists...are only possible by installing Judas as steward. The rest of the offices may be filled by good burgesses.
    Pow 6.74 12 ...you shall take what your brain can, and drop all the rest.
    Wth 6.88 10 ...by making his wants less or his gains more, [a man] must draw himself out of that state of pain and insult in which [nature] forces the beggar to lie. She gives him no rest until this is done;...
    Bhr 6.167 16 Little [man] says to [graceful women, chosen men]/, So dances his heart in his breast,/ Their tranquil mien bereaveth him/ Of wit, of words, of rest./
    Bhr 6.172 27 Society is infested with rude...persons, who prey upon the rest...
    Bhr 6.196 3 [Beautiful manners] must always show self-control;...every gesture and action shall indicate power at rest.
    Wsp 6.226 10 You want but one verdict; if you have your own you are secure of the rest.
    CbW 6.252 3 ...we are used as brute atoms until we think: then we use all the rest.
    CbW 6.260 19 ...what we ask daily, is to be conventional. Supply, most kind gods! this defect...in my fortunes, which puts me a little out of the ring: supply it, and let me be like the rest...
    CbW 6.264 3 ...as far as I had observed [the sick and dying] were as frivolous as the rest...
    CbW 6.266 22 Culture will give gravity and domestic rest to those who now travel only as not knowing how else to spend money.
    Ill 6.314 23 Pears and cakes are good for something; and because you unluckily have an eye or nose too keen, why need you spoil the comfort which the rest of us find in them?
    Ill 6.320 12 ...what avails it that...our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest...
    SS 7.8 11 [Many a philosopher] affects to be a good companion; but we are still surprising his secret, that he means and needs to impose his system on all the rest.
    Art2 7.54 21 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed the rest.
    Elo1 7.61 18 The eloquence of one [man] stimulates all the rest...
    Elo1 7.77 22 ...any swindlers we have known are novices and bunglers, as is attested by their ill name. A greater power of face would...with the rest of their takings, take away the bad name.
    Elo1 7.84 10 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...though he spoke indeed excellent well, yet his manner and freedom of doing it, as if he played with it, and was informing only all the rest of the company, was mighty pretty.
    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;...
    DL 7.117 9 ...if we begin by reforming particulars of our present system [of housekeeping], correcting a few evils and letting the rest stand, we shall soon give up in despair.
    Farm 7.147 23 The roots that shot deepest, and the stems of happiest exposure, drew the nourishment from the rest...
    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.
    WD 7.170 25 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...the fashion of a cloak or hat; like the luck of naked Indians, of whom one is proud in the possession of a glass bead or a red feather, and the rest miserable in the want of it.
    Boks 7.199 24 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library; first because he is so readable, which is much; then that he is medicinal and invigorating. The lives of...Phocion, Marcellus and the rest, are what history has of best.
    Boks 7.203 8 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men...and all the rest of the Platonic rhetoric...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
    Clbs 7.236 10 ...it is not [Luther's] theologic works,--his Commentary on the Galatians, and the rest, but his Table-Talk, which is still read by men.
    Clbs 7.241 4 Conversation is the Olympic games whither every superior gift resorts to assert and approve itself,--and, of course, the inspirations of powerful and public men, with the rest.
    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;/...
    Suc 7.296 7 We assume that there are few great men, all the rest are little;...
    PI 8.71 23 ...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias or a rest on to-day's forms.
    Res 8.150 9 ...the come-and-go of the pendulum, is the law of mind; alternation of labors is its rest.
    Comc 8.173 26 ...explore the whole of Nature, the farce and buffoonery in the yard below, as well as the lessons of poets and philosophers upstairs in the hall, and get the rest and refreshment of the shaking of the sides.
    PC 8.217 1 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...superior souls...drawn to each other and under some cloud with the rest of the world;...
    PC 8.220 5 Often the master is a hidden man, but not to the true student; invisible to all the rest, resplendent to him.
    PC 8.227 4 Great men,-the age goes on their credit; but all the rest, when their wires are continued and not cut, can do as signal things...
    PC 8.228 8 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the Source of events, has...a private despatch, which relieves him of the terror which presses on the rest of the community.
    Insp 8.282 6 ...there is diurnal and secular rest.
    Insp 8.291 8 ...[Allston] made it a rule not to go to the city on two consecutive days. One was rest; more was lost time.
    Dem1 10.11 11 A man reveals himself in every glance and step and movement and rest...
    Dem1 10.20 1 ...[belief in the demonological] extends the popular idea of success to the very gods;...that fortunate men, fortunate youths exist, whose good is not virtue or the public good, but a private good, robbed from the rest.
    Aris 10.56 4 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud. ... Their manners and behavior in the house and in the field are those of men at rest...
    Chr2 10.92 4 [Man] chooses,-as the rest of the creation does not.
    SovE 10.192 19 Nothing is allowed to exceed or absorb the rest;...
    MoL 10.242 11 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the source of events. He has...a private despatch which relieves him of the terror which presses on the rest of the community.
    Plu 10.318 13 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch, who told the story of Leonidas...of...Epaminondas, Caesar, Cato and the rest, sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
    LLNE 10.328 14 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France. Oh, no, set your heart at rest on that point, said the landlord;...
    LLNE 10.347 4 [Robert Owen] said that Fourier learned of him all the truth he had; the rest of his system was imagination, and the imagination of a banker.
    MMEm 10.418 19 Not a prospect but is dark on earth, as to knowledge and joy from externals: but the prospect of a dying bed reflects lustre on all the rest.
    LS 11.21 15 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...the rest it gives to the mind...
    HDC 11.39 16 ...[the settlers of Concord] might say with Higginson...that New England may boast of the element of fire, more than all the rest; for all Europe is not able to afford to make so great fires as New England.
    HDC 11.42 9 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter, and...in regard of the ease of the East quarter above the rest, in their highways, they are to allow the North quarter 3 pounds.
    HDC 11.61 7 The elder Bulkeley [Peter] was gone. In 1659, his bones were laid at rest in the forest.
    FSLC 11.211 11 ...these two, Greece and Judaea, furnish the mind and the heart by which the rest of the world is sustained;...
    FSLN 11.217 10 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation.
    FSLN 11.230 19 The plea on which freedom was resisted was Union. I went to certain serious men, who had a little more reason than the rest, and inquired why they took this part?
    AsSu 11.249 13 His friends, I remember, were told that they would find Sumner a man of the world like the rest;...
    AsSu 11.249 14 His friends, I remember, were told that they would find Sumner a man of the world like the rest; 't is quite impossible to be at Washington and not bend; he will bend as the rest have done.
    SMC 11.364 15 [George Prescott writes] We only had about twelve men [the rest of the company being, perhaps, on picket or other duty]...
    SMC 11.372 3 On the twenty-first, [the Thirty-second Regiment] had been, for seventeen days and nights, under arms without rest.
    SMC 11.372 24 ...from these incessant labors there was now to be rest for one head,-the honored and beloved commander [George Prescott] of the [Thirty-second] regiment.
    Wom 11.420 22 If new power is here, of a character...which puts me and all the rest in the wrong...you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.
    SHC 11.428 13 Learn from the loved one's rest serenity;/ To-morrow that soft bell for thee shall sound,/ And thou repose beneath the whispering tree,/ One tribute more to this submissive ground;-/...
    CPL 11.504 14 Even the wild and warlike Arab Mahomet said, Men are either learned or learning: the rest are blockheads.
    FRep 11.526 19 In Massachusetts, every twelfth man is a shoemaker, and the rest, millers, farmers, sailors, fishermen.
    PLT 12.46 16 He alone is strong and happy who has a will. The rest are herds.
    PLT 12.52 2 ...[Nature] feeds one faculty and starves all the rest.
    PLT 12.52 6 I am familiar with cases...wherein the vital force being insufficient for the constitution, everything is neglected that can be spared; some one power fed, all the rest pine.
    PLT 12.60 16 Man was made for conflict, not for rest.
    Mem 12.101 15 ...because all Nature has one law and meaning...all we have known aids us continually to the knowledge of the rest of Nature.
    Bost 12.185 23 Give me a climate where people think well and construct well,-I will spend six months there, and you may have all the rest of my years.
    ACri 12.293 15 A list might be made of showy words that tempt young writers...opal and the rest of the precious stones, carcanet, diadem.
    MLit 12.311 26 If we should designate favorite studies in which the age delights more than in the rest of this great mass of the permanent literature of the human race, one or two instances would be conspicuous.
    Pray 12.352 22 ...O my Father...my heart is cheered and at rest with thy presence...
    EurB 12.378 18 We must...adjourn the rest of our critical chapter to a more convenient season.

Rest, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.180 18 Motion or change and identity or rest are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest.
    Nat2 3.195 1 Wherever the impulse exceeds, the Rest or Identity insinuates its compensation.

rest, v. (48)

    Nat 1.45 27 ...these [human forms] all rest...on the unfathomed sea of thought and virtue...
    Nat 1.69 5 For us, the winds do blow,/ The earth does rest.../
    LE 1.164 20 In order to a knowledge of the resources of the scholar, we must not rest in the use of slender accomplishments...
    MN 1.209 9 ...there is a mischievous tendency in [man]...to quit his agency and rest in his acts...
    Prd1 2.236 23 ...the proper administration of outward things will always rest on a just apprehension of their cause and origin;...
    OS 2.268 21 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is that great nature in which we rest...
    OS 2.295 7 When I rest in perfect humility...what can Calvin or Swedenborg say?
    Pt1 3.34 10 The poet did not stop at the color or the form, but read their meaning; neither may he rest in this meaning, but he makes the same objects exponents of his new thought.
    Pt1 3.37 22 Banks and tariffs...rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away.
    Pt1 3.39 11 [The artist] hears a voice, he sees a beckoning. Then he is apprised, with wonder, what herds of daemons hem him in. He can no more rest;...
    Chr1 3.101 1 Our action should rest mathematically on our substance.
    Nat2 3.196 8 The divine circulations never rest nor linger.
    Pol1 3.199 21 ...politics rest on necessary foundations...
    MoS 4.150 25 The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design?--he will presently undervalue the actual object.
    ShP 4.210 11 Some able and appreciating critics think no criticism on Shakspeare valuable that does not rest purely on the dramatic merit;...
    ET13 5.214 5 [People's] loyalty to truth and their labor and expenditure rest on real foundations, and not on a national church.
    ET14 5.242 8 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Harrington's political rule that power must rest on land,--a rule which requires to be liberally interpreted;...
    ET14 5.250 22 If [James Wilkinson's] mind does not rest in immovable biases, perhaps the orbit is larger and the return is not yet...
    F 6.28 23 Where power is shown in will, it must rest on the universal force.
    F 6.28 25 Alaric and Bonaparte must believe they rest on a truth...
    Wsp 6.239 15 [Immortality] is a doctrine too great to rest on any legend...
    DL 7.108 15 The physiognomy and phrenology of to-day...rest on everlasting foundations.
    SA 8.96 12 Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity.
    Elo2 8.116 17 When a good man rises in the cold and malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to be silent; why not rest, sir, on your good record?
    Res 8.149 27 Whether larger or less, these strokes and all exploits rest at last on the wonderful structure of the mind.
    PC 8.211 12 Steffens said, The religious opinions of men rest on their views of Nature.
    PC 8.217 23 If a man know the laws of Nature better than other men, his nation cannot spare him; nor if he know...the secret of geometry, of algebra; on which the computations of astronomy, of navigation, of machinery, rest.
    PC 8.229 20 The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
    Imtl 8.329 16 I think all sound minds rest on a certain preliminary conviction, namely, that if it be best that conscious personal life shall continue, it will continue; if not best, then it will not;...
    Imtl 8.330 4 Plutarch, in Greece, has a deep faith that the doctrine of the Divine Providence and that of the immortality of the soul rest on one and the same basis.
    Imtl 8.343 25 [The belief in immortality] cannot rest on a legend;...
    Dem1 10.13 11 For Spiritism, it shows that no man, almost, is fit to give evidence. Then I say to the amiable and sincere among them, these matters are quite too important than that I can rest them on any legends.
    PerF 10.88 21 ...as...the planet on space in its flight, so do nations of men and their institutions rest on thoughts.
    Chr2 10.105 16 The establishment of Christianity in the world does not rest on any miracle but the miracle of being the broadest and most humane doctrine.
    Chr2 10.108 19 ...all the dogmas rest on morals...
    Plu 10.313 23 [Plutarch] believes that the doctrine of the Divine Providence, and that of the immortality of the soul, rest on one and the same basis.
    SlHr 10.446 23 ...let the cloud rest where it might, [Samuel Hoar] dwelt in eternal sunshine.
    EWI 11.108 15 [Thomas Clarkson] began to ask himself if these things [facts about slavery in the West Indies] could be true; and if they were, he could no longer rest.
    FSLC 11.213 22 That is the secret of Southern power, that they rest not on meetings, but on private heats and courages.
    FSLN 11.225 2 ...Mr. Webster's literary editor believes that it was his wish to rest his fame on the speech of the seventh of March.
    FSLN 11.229 23 ...there are rights which rest on the finest sense of justice...
    ACiv 11.309 22 This is the consolation on which we rest in the darkness of the future and the afflictions of to-day, that the government of the world is moral...
    SMC 11.364 20 [George Prescott writes] We started and marched two miles without stopping to rest...
    EdAd 11.390 1 The State, like the individual, should rest on an ideal basis.
    EdAd 11.392 15 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know...that he must rest on the moral and religious sentiments...
    CPL 11.496 13 ...I am not sure that when Boston learns the good deed of Mr. Munroe [building of Concord Library], it will not...rest until it has annexed Concord to the city.
    MAng1 12.227 6 Michael [Angelo]...constructed a movable platform to rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine Chapel]...
    WSL 12.348 21 [Landor's] merit must rest, at last...on the value of his sentences.

rested, v. (9)

    ShP 4.217 8 Shakspeare employed [the things of nature] as colors to compose his picture. He rested in their beauty;...
    ET17 5.291 22 At the landing in Liverpool, I found my Manchester correspondent awaiting me, a gentleman whose kind reception was followed by a train of friendly and effective attentions which never rested whilst I remained in the country.
    ET17 5.298 6 [Wordsworth's] adherence to his poetic creed rested on real inspirations.
    F 6.18 14 The Roman mile probably rested on a measure of a degree of the meridian.
    Elo1 7.94 26 The power of Chatham, of Pericles, of Luther, rested on this strength of character...
    Chr2 10.108 18 I suspect, that, when the theology was most florid and dogmatic, it was the barbarism of the people, and that, in that very time, the best men also fell away from the theology, and rested in morals.
    Thor 10.469 10 [Thoreau] knew how to sit immovable, a part of the rock he rested on...
    FRep 11.544 7 ...in seeing this felicity without example that has rested on the Union thus far, I find new confidence for the future.
    PLT 12.60 20 The truest state of mind rested in becomes false.

restest, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.423 24 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou, whose might has laid low the vastest and crushed the worm, restest on thy hoary throne...

resting, v. (11)

    Comp 2.125 14 ...to us...resting, not advancing...this growth comes by shocks.
    Prd1 2.229 22 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity...
    SwM 4.136 26 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
    ET18 5.302 23 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years! What dignity resting on what reality and stoutness!
    Bty 6.287 18 The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him; that these genii were sometimes seen as a flame of fire partly immersed in the bodies which they governed; on an evil man, resting on his head; in a good man, mixed with his substance.
    Res 8.149 5 See how [Newton] refreshed himself, resting from the profound researches of the calculus by astronomy;...
    PC 8.209 18 ...[the coxcomb] has found...that good sense is now in power, and that resting on a vast constituency of intelligent labor...
    Grts 8.308 17 This necessity of resting on the real...few young men apprehend.
    Grts 8.313 13 No aristocrat...can begin to compare with the self-respect of the saint. Why is he so lowly, but that he knows that he can well afford it, resting on the largeness of God in him?
    Chr2 10.113 11 ...the whole science of theology [is] of great uncertainty, and resting very much on the opinions of who may chance to be the leading doctors of Oxford or Edinburgh...
    RBur 11.440 14 [Burns's] organic sentiment was absolute independence, and resting as it should on a life of labor.

restitution, n. (1)

    Tran 1.355 3 In politics, it has often sufficed, when they treated of justice, if they kept the bounds of selfish calculation. If they granted restitution, it was prudence which granted it.

restless, adj. (8)

    NER 3.256 5 A restless, prying, conscientious criticism broke out in unexpected quarters.
    Bhr 6.172 26 Society is infested with rude, cynical, restless and frivolous persons...
    Suc 7.287 8 The Norseman was a restless rider, fighter, free-booter.
    PI 8.22 14 Man runs about restless and in pain when his condition or the objects about him do not fully match his thought.
    Elo2 8.119 9 The most...disagreeably restless...companion sometimes turns out in a public assembly to be a fluent, various and effective orator.
    Edc1 10.145 3 This is the perpetual romance of new life...when [God] sends into quiet houses a young soul...looking for something which is not there, but which ought to be there: the thought is dim but it is sure, and he casts about restless for means and masters to verify it;...
    MoL 10.245 5 We have...restless, gossiping, aimless activity.
    FRep 11.527 2 ...here that same great body [of the people] has arrived at a sloven plenty...the man awkward and restless if he have not something to do...

restlessly, adv. (1)

    OA 7.330 24 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...ever restlessly stroking his leg...

restlessness, n. (3)

    SR 2.82 10 ...our system of education fosters restlessness.
    Ctr 6.145 10 I think there is a restlessness in our people which argues want of character.
    Prch 10.217 9 ...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in the religious world marks that we are in a moment of transition;...

restoration, n. (2)

    Bty 6.292 19 The interruption of equilibrium stimulates the eye to desire the restoration of symmetry...
    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.

restorative, adj. (1)

    ET12 5.213 15 ...besides this restorative genius, the best poetry of England of this age, in the old forms, comes from two graduates at Cambridge.

restorative, n. (1)

    ALin 11.333 7 ...[good humor] is to a man of severe labor, in anxious and exhausting crises, the natural resorative...

restore, v. (14)

    DSA 1.150 22 Let [the Sabbath] stand forevermore, a temple which new love, new faith, new sight shall restore...
    MN 1.193 25 ...the sturdiest defender of existing institutions feels the terrific inflammability of this air which condenses heat in every corner that may restore to the elements the fabric of ages.
    SR 2.76 27 ...the moment [a man] acts from himself...that teacher shall restore the life of man to splendor...
    Art1 2.349 11 Let statue, picture, park and hall,/ Ballad, flag and festival,/ The past restore, the day adorn/ And make each morrow a new morn./
    Art1 2.358 10 The reference of all production at last to an aboriginal Power explains the traits common to all works of the highest art...that they restore to us the simplest states of mind, and are religious.
    PNR 4.84 10 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.
    NMW 4.249 5 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops...feel inclined to run. That terror proceeds from a want of confidence in their own courage, and it only requires a slight opportunity, a pretence, to restore confidence to them.
    ET10 5.159 12 After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830 procured a patent for his self-acting mule; a creation, the delight of mill-owners, and destined, they said, to restore order among the industrious classes;...
    Ctr 6.138 11 Cleanse with healthy blood [the scholar's] parchment skin. You restore to him his eyes which he left in pledge at Mimir's spring.
    DL 7.133 23 ...whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor...
    PI 8.73 6 The high poetry which shall...restore youth and health...is deeper hid...
    MMEm 10.429 6 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up, the last year or two, the hope of dying. In the lowest ebb of health nothing is ominous; diet and exercise restore.
    CPL 11.494 4 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...but the poet's misery caused him to restore the key on the first evening.
    Bost 12.194 13 Who shall restore to us the odoriferous Sabbaths which made the earth and the humble roof a sanctity?

restored, v. (9)

    Nat 1.77 11 The kingdom of man over nature...he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.
    Con 1.321 6 ...the priest presently restored order...
    Int 2.327 11 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal. It is the past restored, but embalmed.
    Mrs1 3.145 23 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...what his servants robbed, he restored...
    SwM 4.111 10 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson... who has restored his master's buried books to the day...
    PerF 10.70 16 ...the marble column, the brazen statue...would soon decompose if their molecular structure, disturbed by the raging sunlight, were not restored by the darkness of the night.
    JBS 11.276 20 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./
    CL 12.138 14 ...the curiosity to see [Kalm's] plants, restored [Linnaeus] instantly...
    CL 12.159 20 In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts, especially gazelles, collect around an insane person, and live with him on a friendly footing. The patient found something curative in that intercourse, by which he was quieted, and sometimes restored.

restorer, n. (1)

    MR 1.248 11 What is a man born for but to be...a restorer of truth and good...

restorers, n. (1)

    AmS 1.89 22 Hence the restorers of readings...

restores, v. (8)

    Nat 1.16 20 To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature...restores their tone.
    Int 2.345 13 ...you will find [your consciousness] is no recondite, but a simple, natural, common state which the writer restores to you.
    Gts 3.161 17 ...it restores society in so far to the primary basis, when a man' s biography is conveyed in his gift...
    Nat2 3.175 4 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp,--and this supernatural tiralira restores to him the Dorian mythology...
    PPh 4.69 8 ...every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good.
    Aris 10.49 27 The prerogatives of a right physician are determined...by the health he restores to body and mind;...
    Bost 12.182 6 The sea returning day by day/ Restores the world-wide mart;/ So let each dweller on the Bay/ Fold Boston in his heart./
    Trag 12.414 23 As the west wind...combs out the matted and dishevelled grass as it lay in night-locks on the ground, so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent. Time restores to them temper and elasticity.

restoring, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.265 22 Like [the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant] [the poet] will joyfully lose days and months...in the profound hope that one restoring, all rewarding, immense success will arrive at last...

restoring, v. (3)

    Nat 1.73 21 The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by the redemption of the soul.
    PI 8.64 11 Bring us...poetry which, like the verses inscribed on Balder's columns in Breidablik, is capable of restoring the dead to life;...
    SovE 10.193 3 Secret retributions are always restoring the level, when disturbed, of Divine justice.

restrain, v. (4)

    Exp 3.54 9 Temperament is the veto or limitation-power in the constitution, very justly applied to restrain an opposite excess in the constitution...
    NER 3.265 21 I have not been able either to persuade my brother or to prevail on myself to disuse the traffic or the potation of brandy, but perhaps a pledge of total abstinence might effectually restrain us.
    ShP 4.194 4 The poet needs a ground in popular tradition...which...may restrain his art within the due temperance.
    LLNE 10.328 12 ...government itself becomes the resort of those whom government was invented to restrain.

restrained, v. (8)

    SwM 4.143 12 Some minds are for ever restrained from descending into nature;...
    ET1 5.19 17 [Wordsworth] had much to say of America, the more that it gave occasion for his favorite topic,--that society is being enlightened by a superficial tuition, out of all proportion to its being restrained by moral culture.
    PI 8.62 4 How, Merlin, my good friend, said Sir Gawain, are you restrained so strongly...
    Insp 8.283 15 Seneca says of an almost fatal sickness that befell him, The thought of my father...restrained me;...
    Dem1 10.7 18 In a mixed assembly we have chanced to see...the features of the mink, of the bull, of the rat and the barn-door fowl. You think, could the man overlook his own condition, he could not be restrained from suicide.
    SlHr 10.437 12 ...[Samuel Hoar's] self-respect restrained him from any foolhardiness.
    SlHr 10.439 17 The severity of [Samuel Hoar's] logic might have inspired fear, had it not been restrained by his natural reverence...
    Thor 10.471 26 [Thoreau] confessed that he...if born among Indians, would have been a fell hunter. But, restrained by his Massachusetts culture, he played out the game in this mild form of botany and ichthyology.

restraining, adj. (2)

    Bhr 6.173 19 ...these [bad manners] are social inflictions...which must be entrusted to the restraining force of custom and proverbs...
    PI 8.3 10 The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all the valid minds...

restraint, n. (4)

    YA 1.393 8 The English...are not sensible of the restraint [of aristocracy]...
    Ctr 6.151 15 ...dress makes a little restraint;...
    Chr2 10.119 18 To nations or to individuals the progress of opinion is not a loss of moral restraint...
    EurB 12.378 13 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is...to have the courage to offend against every restraint of decorum...

restraints, n. (7)

    Hist 2.22 19 ...the cumulative values of long residence are the restraints on the itinerancy of the present day.
    Prd1 2.225 11 Here is a planted globe...fenced and distributed externally with civil partitions and properties which impose new restraints on the young inhabitant.
    Hsm1 2.250 10 [Heroism] is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence...
    Pol1 3.219 10 The tendencies of the times...leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution; which work with more energy than we believe whilst we depend on artificial restraints.
    Pol1 3.220 25 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of things, to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system;...
    Civ 7.23 21 We see insurmountable multitudes obeying...the restraints of a power which they scarcely perceive...
    Edc1 10.128 6 Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions and properties, which all put new restraints on the young inhabitant.

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