Restricted to Revolutions

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

restricted, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.53 6 ...the figures in Punch's drawings of the public men or of the club-houses, the prints in the shop-windows, are distinctive English and not American, no, nor Scotch, nor Irish: but 't is a very restricted nationality.

restricted, v. (1)

    PPh 4.59 19 ...Plato, in his plenty, is never restricted, but has the fit word.

restriction, n. (1)

    EWI 11.112 11 The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as apprenticed laborers, and to acquire thereby all the rights and privileges of freemen, subject to the restriction of laboring under certain conditions.

restrictions, n. (1)

    FRep 11.516 21 The new conditions of mankind in America are really favorable to...the removal of absurd restrictions and antique inequalities.

restrictive, adj. (2)

    Ctr 6.163 26 All that class of the severe and restrictive virtues, said Burke, are almost too costly for humanity.
    Milt1 12.263 2 The victories of the conscience in [Milton] are gained by the commanding charm which all the severe and restrictive virtues have for him.

restricts, v. (1)

    WD 7.165 9 Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer...

restrospective, adj. (1)

    ShP 4.198 21 Every thinker is restrospective.

rests, n. (1)

    Pow 6.70 25 The luxury...of electricity [is], not volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific.

rests, v. (33)

    Nat 1.64 9 As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the bosom of God;...
    LT 1.260 23 ...a negative imposed on the will of man by his condition, a deficiency in [man's] force, is the foundation on which [Conservatism] rests.
    LT 1.289 3 This ever renewing generation of appearances rests on a reality, and a reality that is alive.
    Cir 2.306 12 Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and... if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise.
    Pt1 3.13 27 The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
    Pt1 3.35 21 Everything on which [Swedenborg's] eye rests, obeys the impulses of moral nature.
    Mrs1 3.131 6 To say what good of fashion we can, it rests on reality...
    PPh 4.62 24 [Dialectic] rests on the observation of identity and diversity;...
    GoW 4.281 8 ...[the German intellect] has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance...
    ET7 5.116 23 [Englishmen's] practical power rests on their national sincerity.
    Pow 6.69 22 Strong race or strong individual rests at last on natural forces...
    Wth 6.96 25 We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude on the earth's surface. Our navigation is safer for the chart. How intimately our knowledge of the system of the Universe rests on that!...
    CbW 6.275 27 ...it rests with the master or the mistress what service comes from the man or the maid;...
    CbW 6.277 26 ...all rests at last on that integrity which dwarfs talent...
    Bty 6.294 8 Beauty rests on necessities.
    Art2 7.52 24 ...whatever is beautiful rests on the foundation of the necessary.
    Elo1 7.99 9 Eloquence...rests on laws the most exact and determinate.
    DL 7.111 1 [The citizen's] house ought to show us his honest opinion of what makes his well-being when he rests among his kindred...
    Farm 7.137 3 All trade rests at last on [the farmer's] primitive activity.
    Farm 7.137 7 ...all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
    PI 8.28 18 Lear...thinks every man who suffers must have the like cause with his own. What, have his daughters brought him to this pass? But when...his mind rests from this thought, he becomes fanciful with Tom, playing with the superficial resemblances of objects.
    PPo 8.240 8 The Persian poetry rests on a mythology whose few legends are connected with the Jewish history and the anterior traditions of the Pentateuch.
    PPo 8.256 3 Come!-the palace of heaven rests on aery pillars,-/ Come, and bring me wine; our days are wind./
    Grts 8.303 18 ...he who rests on what he is, has a destiny above destiny...
    Supl 10.174 15 All rests at last on the simplicity of nature...
    Schr 10.283 22 [Mother-wit] does not put forth organs, it rests in presence...
    EzRy 10.388 5 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues. There is none of that large family left but you, and it rests with you to bear up the good name and usefulness of your ancestors.
    War 11.162 11 You forget that the quiet...which lets the wagon go unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there...
    EdAd 11.392 17 ...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, as the motion of bodies rests on geometry.
    Scot 11.465 17 [Scott's] power on the public mind rests on the singular union of two influences.
    II 12.65 10 We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain...which rests in oversight and presence...
    II 12.71 6 The divine energy never rests or repeats itself...
    MAng1 12.219 17 The common eye is satisfied with the surface on which it rests.

result, n. (114)

    Nat 1.5 16 ...in an impression so grand as that of the world on the human mind, [man's operations] do not vary the result.
    Nat 1.12 3 Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result.
    Nat 1.13 8 Nature, in its ministry to man, is not only the material, but is also the process and the result.
    Nat 1.23 18 [A work of art] is the result or expression of nature, in miniature.
    Nat 1.23 20 ...the result or the expression of them all [the works of nature] is similar and single.
    MN 1.192 17 ...I will not be deceived into admiring the routine of handicrafts and mechanics, how splendid soever the result...
    MN 1.192 23 I would not have the laborer sacrificed to the result...
    MN 1.193 8 Men...are continually yielding to this dazzling result of numbers, that which they would never yield to the solitary example of any one.
    MN 1.195 23 How tardily men arrive at any result! how tardily they pass from it to another!
    MN 1.199 14 The wholeness we admire in the order of the world is the result of infinite distribution.
    MR 1.232 26 [The general system of our trade] is not that which a man... meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour of love and aspiration; but rather what he then puts out of sight, only showing the brilliant result...
    Con 1.301 7 If we read the world historically, we shall say, Of all the ages, the present hour and circumstance is the cumulative result;...
    Con 1.313 7 Who put things on this false basis? ... No man voluntarily and knowingly; but it is the result of that degree of culture there is in the planet.
    Con 1.313 18 You are yourself the result of this manner of living...
    Tran 1.345 5 ...this masterpiece is the result of such an extreme delicacy that the most unobserved flaw in the boy will neutralize the most aspiring genius, and spoil the work.
    YA 1.378 27 ...the aristocracy of trade...was the result of toil and talent...
    YA 1.379 1 ...the aristocracy of trade...was...the result of merit of some kind...
    YA 1.381 12 The farmer...turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant. This result might well seem astounding.
    SL 2.150 15 Persons...dedicate their whole skill to the hour and the company,--with very imperfect result.
    Cir 2.305 6 The result of to-day...will presently be abridged into a word...
    Cir 2.305 20 Every several result is threatened and judged by that which follows.
    Cir 2.321 19 True conquest is the causing the calamity to fade and disappear as an early cloud of insignificant result...
    Int 2.329 8 As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result...
    Art1 2.362 26 Our best praise is given to what [the arts] aimed and promised, not to the actual result.
    Exp 3.47 7 'T is the trick of nature thus to degrade to-day; a good deal of buzz, and somewhere a result slipped magically in.
    Exp 3.47 18 The history of literature--take the net result of Tiraboschi, Warton, or Schlegel--is a sum of very few ideas...
    Exp 3.57 13 We do what we must...and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.
    Exp 3.69 23 The persons who compose our company...design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked-for result.
    Exp 3.83 18 I should feel it pitiful to demand a result on this town and county...
    Chr1 3.108 11 When we see a great man we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune; a result which he is sure to disappoint.
    Mrs1 3.121 14 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.
    Mrs1 3.122 1 [Good society]...is a compound result into which every great force enters as an ingredient...
    Mrs1 3.122 21 The point of distinction in all this class of names, as courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that the flower and fruit, not the grain of the tree, are contemplated. It is beauty which is the aim this time, and not worth. The result is now in question...
    Mrs1 3.123 6 ...that is a natural result of personal force and love, that they should possess and dispense the goods of the world.
    NER 3.253 27 ...in each of these [reform] movements emerged a good result...
    NER 3.261 19 ...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; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.
    NER 3.269 24 It was found that the intellect could be independently developed, that is, in separation from the man...and the result was monstrous.
    PNR 4.80 23 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result.
    MoS 4.185 11 The appearance is immoral; the result is moral.
    ShP 4.204 26 The Shakspeare Society have...offered money for any information that will lead to proof,--and with what result?
    NMW 4.237 10 [Napoleon's] very attack was never the inspiration of courage, but the result of calculation.
    NMW 4.257 8 ...what was the result of [Napoleon's] vast talent and power...
    NMW 4.257 11 ...what was the result of [Napoleon's] vast talent and power...of this demoralized Europe? It came to no result.
    NMW 4.258 15 It was...the eternal law of man and of the world which baulked and ruined [Napoleon]; and the result, in a million experiments, will be the same.
    GoW 4.286 2 The reaction of things on the man is the only noteworthy result.
    ET10 5.165 17 ...the proudest result of this creation [of English property rights] has been the great and refined forces it has put at the disposal of the private citizen.
    ET13 5.222 2 The English, in common perhaps with Christendom in the nineteenth century...value ideas only for an economic result.
    ET14 5.247 23 It was a curious result, in which the civility and religion of England for a thousand years ends in denying morals and reducing the intellect to a sauce-pan.
    ET15 5.263 7 The most conspicuous result of this talent [for writing for journals] is the Times newspaper.
    Pow 6.54 3 ...the education of the will is the flowering and result of all this geology and astronomy.
    Wth 6.105 17 Rothschild refuses the Russian loan, and there is peace and the harvests are saved. He takes it, and there is...an agitation through a large portion of mankind, with every hideous result...
    Wsp 6.225 10 The way to conquer the foreign artisan is, not to kill him, but to beat his work. And the Crystal Palaces and World Fairs...are the result of this feeling.
    CbW 6.274 24 ...one may take a good deal of pains...to organize clubs and debating-societies, and yet no result come of it.
    Bty 6.281 20 The want of sympathy makes [the ornithologist's] record a dull dictionary. His result is a dead bird.
    Bty 6.294 9 The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy.
    SS 7.10 9 ...this banishment to the rocks and echoes no metaphysics can make right or tolerable. This result is so against nature...that it must be corrected by a common sense and experience.
    SS 7.13 1 ...[animal spirits'] feats are like the structure of a pyramid. Their result is a lord, a general, or a boon companion.
    Civ 7.23 19 The skilful combinations of civil government...in their result delight the imagination.
    Civ 7.25 17 Civilization is the result of highly complex organization.
    Elo1 7.68 18 Set a New Englander to describe any accident which happened in his presence. What hesitation and reserve in his narrative! He... gets as fast as he can to the result...
    Elo1 7.75 21 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent.
    DL 7.125 13 We are too easily pleased. I think this sad result appears in the manners.
    DL 7.126 4 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in clean and noble relations, notwithstanding our total inexperience of a true society. Certainly this was not the intention of Nature, to produce...so cheap and humble a result.
    WD 7.162 1 Another result of our arts is the new intercourse which is surprising us with new solutions of the embarrassing political problems.
    Boks 7.218 12 ...I might as well not have begun as to leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean...the sacred books of each nation, which express for each the supreme result of their experience.
    Boks 7.221 3 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours! Yet who in Boston has time for that? But one of our company...shall study and master it...shall give us the sincere result as it lies in his mind...
    Cour 7.261 11 Each [new soldier] whispers to himself: My exertions must be of small account to the result;...
    Suc 7.288 19 Cause and effect are a little tedious; how to leap to the result by short or by false means?
    OA 7.319 2 ...seen from the streets and markets and the haunts of pleasure and gain, the estimate of age is low, melancholy and skeptical. Frankly face the facts, and see the result.
    PI 8.7 24 ...the severest analyzer...is forced to keep the poetic curve of Nature, and his result is like a myth of Theocritus.
    PI 8.35 22 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy, and the result is that one of the partners offers a poem in a new style that hints at a new literature.
    PI 8.63 20 To true poetry we shall sit down as the result and justification of the age in which it appears...
    Elo2 8.111 11 ...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is gained...they see...the character and advantages of the ground, so that the result is often predicted by the observer with great certainty before the charge is sounded.
    Elo2 8.128 11 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...that I wish [a boy's] guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    QO 8.199 25 ...[the individual] is no more to be credited with the grand result [of language] than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.
    PC 8.213 15 ...each nation and period has done its full part to make up the result of existing civility.
    Insp 8.276 1 The result of the [literary] hack is inconceivable to the type-setter who waits for it.
    Grts 8.308 21 Set ten men to write their journal for one day, and nine of them will leave out their thought, or proper result...
    Aris 10.34 16 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...
    Aris 10.44 24 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow; but just as easily he...could lay his hand as readily on one as on another point in that series which opens the capability to the last point. The poet sees wishfully enough the result;...
    Aris 10.48 16 ...society must have the benefit of the best leaders. How to obtain them? Birth has been tried and failed. Caste in India has no good result.
    Chr2 10.115 21 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan philosophers. ... This is the secret of the mischievous result that, in every period of intellectual expansion, the Church ceases to draw into its clergy those who best belong there, the largest and freest minds...
    Edc1 10.133 2 ...the event of each moment...the passing of a beautiful face, the apoplexy of our neighbor, are all tests to try our theory [of life], the approximate result we call truth...
    SovE 10.204 27 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds. I will not now explore the causes of the result, but the fact must be conceded as of frequent occurrence...
    Prch 10.224 24 A man acts not from one motive, but from many shifting fears and short motives...so that the result of most lives is zero.
    Prch 10.225 1 ...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true, it is clear mathematically...that this will tell in the result...
    Prch 10.236 9 We shall find one result...a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...
    Schr 10.277 17 I delight in men...who could alone, or with a few like them, reproduce Europe and America, the result of our civilization.
    LLNE 10.338 22 The result [of Modern Science] in literature and the general mind was a return to law;...
    CSC 10.373 20 This [Chardon Street] Convention never...pretended to arrive at any result by the expression of its sense in formal resolutions;...
    Thor 10.466 14 The result of the recent survey of the Water Commissioners appointed by the State of Massachusetts [Thoreau] had reached by his private experiments...
    HDC 11.48 20 The matters there debated [in Concord town-meetings] are such as to invite very small considerations. The ill-spelled pages of the Town Records contain the result.
    HDC 11.49 12 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house...a mill-dam, hath been...altered, or bought, or sold, without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair. A general contentment is the result.
    HDC 11.66 16 I find, in the [Concord] Church Records, the charges preferred against [Daniel Bliss], his answer thereto, and the result of the Council.
    FSLN 11.226 16 ...a ghastly result of all those years of experience in affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the foremost American man [Webster] to tell his countrymen than that Slavery was now at that strength that they must beat down their conscience and become kidnappers for it.
    FSLN 11.232 17 Events roll...the result is the enforcing of some of those first commandments which we heard in the nursery.
    AsSu 11.250 11 [Sumner's enemies] have fastened their eyes like microscopes for five years on every act, word, manner and movement, to find a flaw,-and with what result?
    ALin 11.331 2 ...when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President]...we heard the result coldly and sadly.
    Wom 11.406 15 [Women] learn so fast and convey the result so fast as to outrun the logic of their slow brother...
    Wom 11.408 24 Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is...the best result which life has to offer us...
    Wom 11.422 18 Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him brings the other or corresponding half in his hand: a reasonable result is had.
    ChiE 11.471 11 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations. This auspicious event...is an irresistible result of the science which has given us the power of steam and the electric telegraph.
    FRep 11.526 20 ...the result is, instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...
    FRep 11.527 21 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears in the power of invention...
    PLT 12.54 1 The more the peculiarities are pressed, the better the result.
    CL 12.146 8 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels...and his method of working is no less beautiful than the result.
    MAng1 12.219 18 The common eye is satisfied with the surface on which it rests. The wise eye knows that it is surface and, if beautiful, only the result of interior harmonies...
    ACri 12.305 12 A man of genius or a work of love or beauty...is always a new and incalculable result...
    MLit 12.310 15 ...they say every man walks environed by his proper atmosphere, extending to some distance around him. This beautiful result must be credited to literature also in casting its account.
    MLit 12.311 7 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books...which work dubiously on society and seem to inoculate it with a venom before any healthy result appears.
    MLit 12.323 22 ...of [Goethe's] analysis, always wholes were the result.
    Let 12.399 10 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class, who...use all possible endeavors to secure to [their children] the same result.
    Let 12.403 14 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;-a result not so much owing to the natural increase of population as to the hard times...
    Let 12.404 18 A literature is...a secular and generic result...

result, v. (3)

    ET4 5.60 9 ...the reader of the Norman history must steel himself by holding fast the remote compensations which result from animal vigor.
    ET7 5.117 15 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces. English veracity seems to result on a sounder animal structure...
    PPo 8.247 4 That hardihood and self-equality of every sound nature, which result from the feeling that the spirit in him is entire and good as the world... are in Hafiz...

resultant, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.76 13 ...eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of personal ascendency,--a total and resultant power...

resulted, v. (3)

    ET4 5.47 7 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit. Then the miracle and renown begin. Then first we care to...copy heedfully the training...which resulted in this mother-wit...
    LLNE 10.343 6 As these persons became in the common chances of society acquainted with each other, there resulted certainly strong friendships...
    War 11.154 8 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought different families of the human race together,-to blows at first, but afterwards to truce, to trade, and to intermarriage. It would be very easy to show analogous benefits that have resulted from military movements of later ages.

resulting, v. (2)

    Bhr 6.169 13 The visible carriage or action of the individual, as resulting from his organization and his will combined, we call manners.
    Prch 10.221 2 ...this examination [of religion] resulting in the constant detection of errors, the flattered understanding assumes to judge all things...

result-loving, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.53 27 ...the infinitude of the Asiatic soul and the defining, result-loving, machine-making, surface-seeking, opera-going Europe,--Plato came to join...

results, n. (84)

    Nat 1.39 2 ...in [Nature's] heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.
    Nat 1.56 6 The astronomer, the geometer...disdain the results of observation.
    AmS 1.100 24 Flamsteed and Herschel...may catalogue the stars...and the results being splendid and useful, honor is sure.
    LE 1.156 7 ...even if his results were incommunicable;...the intellect hath somewhat so sacred in its possessions that the fact of [the scholar's] existence and pursuits would be a happy omen.
    LE 1.174 8 ...set your habits to a life of solitude;...you will have results, which, when you meet your fellow-men, you can communicate...
    MN 1.191 14 We hear something too much of the results of machinery, commerce, and the useful arts.
    MN 1.192 19 That splendid results ensue from the labors of stupid men, is the fruit of higher laws than their will...
    MR 1.256 10 There is a sublime prudence...which...postpones talent to genius, and special results to character.
    LT 1.262 4 ...[persons] are the results of the Past;...
    LT 1.283 21 The thinker gives me results...
    YA 1.371 23 ...there is a sublime and friendly Destiny by which the human race is guided...to results affecting masses and ages.
    YA 1.372 7 All the facts in any part of nature shall be tabulated and the results shall indicate the same security and benefit;...
    Exp 3.51 5 Of what use [is genius], if...the man does not care enough for results to stimulate him to experiment, and hold him up in it?...
    Exp 3.69 18 The results of life are uncalculated and incalculable.
    Mrs1 3.129 8 Aristocracy and fashion are certain inevitable results.
    Nat2 3.179 19 [Efficient Nature] publishes itself in creatures...arriving at consummate results without a shock or a leap.
    PPh 4.52 25 European civility is...delight...in comprehensible results.
    PPh 4.68 14 All things are symbolical; and what we call results are beginnings.
    SwM 4.119 16 ...to a reader who can make due allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's] peculiarities, the results are still instructive...
    NMW 4.251 11 Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions [said Bonaparte], the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
    GoW 4.272 16 [Goethe's Helena] are...elaborate forms to which the poet has confided the results of eighty years of observation.
    ET5 5.80 18 [The English people's] mind is...locked and bolted to results.
    ET5 5.82 9 This singular fairness [of the English] and its results strike the French with surprise.
    ET8 5.136 5 Great men, said Aristotle, are always of a nature originally melancholy. 'T is the habit of a mind which attaches to abstractions with a passion which gives vast results.
    ET13 5.222 18 [The English] talk with courage and logic, and show you magnificent results...
    ET15 5.264 13 [The London Times] first denounced and then adopted the new French Empire, and urged the French Alliance and its results.
    ET19 5.309 10 In looking over recently a newspaper-report of my remarks [at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I incline to reprint it, as fitly expressing the feeling with which I entered England, and which agrees well enough with the more deliberate results of better acquaintance recorded in the foregoing pages.
    F 6.48 14 ...the rainbow and the curve of the horizon and the arch of the blue vault are only results from the organism of the eye.
    Pow 6.55 25 There is no chance in results.
    Pow 6.58 16 ...Commander Wilkes appropriates the results of all the naturalists attached to the Expedition;...
    Wth 6.100 22 The problem [in commerce] is to combine many and remote operations with the accuracy and adherence to the facts...so as to arrive at gigantic results, without any compromise of safety.
    Wth 6.126 18 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits; it becomes...in still higher results, courage and endurance.
    Wsp 6.214 1 Even the fury of material activity has some results friendly to moral health.
    CbW 6.256 14 ...most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.
    WD 7.172 9 ...with great propriety, Humboldt entitles his book, which recounts the last results of science, Cosmos.
    WD 7.183 12 ...all [Newton's] life was simple, wise and majestic. So was it in Archimedes, always self-same, like the sky. In Linnaeus, in Franklin, the like sweetness and equality,--no stilts, no tiptoe; and their results are wholesome and memorable to all men.
    Boks 7.190 16 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
    Boks 7.216 4 For the most part, our novel-reading is a passion for results.
    Clbs 7.226 1 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts,--running from those of daily necessity, to the last results of science...
    Clbs 7.230 21 ...serious, happy discourse, avoiding personalities, dealing with results, is rare...
    Clbs 7.239 7 ...Dr. Dalton scratched a formula on a scrap of paper and pushed it towards the guest,--Had he seen that? The visitor scratched on another paper a formula describing some results of his own with sulphuric acid, and pushed it across the table,--Had he seen that?
    Clbs 7.244 12 Every scholar is surrounded by wiser men than he--if they cannot write as well. Cannot they meet and exchange results to their mutual benefit and delight?
    Suc 7.297 14 ...has [the scholar or writer] never found that there is a better poetry hinted...in the piping of a sparrow, than in all his literary results?
    OA 7.328 13 [The veteran] beholds the feats of the juniors with complacency, but as one who having long ago known these games, has refined them into results and morals.
    PI 8.24 10 The senses collect the surface facts of matter. The intellect acts on these brute reports, and obtains from them results which are the essence or intellectual form of the experiences.
    PI 8.24 14 [The intellect] knows that these transfigured results are not the brute experiences...
    PI 8.39 4 [The poet] reads in the word or action of the man its yet untold results.
    SA 8.90 10 The life of these persons was conducted in the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse. Life with them was an experiment... full of results...
    SA 8.107 13 ...I believe that with all liberal and hopeful men there is a firm faith in the beneficent results which we really enjoy;...
    QO 8.182 24 ...the surprising results of the new researches into the history of Egypt have opened to us the deep debt of the churches of Rome and England to the Egyptian hierology.
    PC 8.211 15 Geology, astronomy, chemistry, optics, have yielded grand results.
    PC 8.222 11 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one, his hand shook...
    PC 8.223 24 ...the universe at last is only prophetic, or, shall we say, symptomatic, of vaster interpretation and results.
    PC 8.232 24 ...it is not by easy virtue, where the public is concerned, that heroic results are obtained.
    Imtl 8.337 25 ...I have enjoyed the benefits of all this complex machinery of arts and civilization, and its results of comfort.
    Chr2 10.109 15 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature, the causes by which all the astronomic results are affected...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
    Edc1 10.126 1 The child shall be taken up by the State, and taught, at the public cost...at last, the ripest results of art and science.
    Edc1 10.157 6 The will, the male power...makes that military eye which controls boys as it controls men; admirable in its results...
    Prch 10.220 20 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect, the surprise of the results and the sense of power, we are like hunters on the scent...
    Schr 10.273 8 In this country we are fond of results and of short ways to them;...
    Plu 10.308 13 Of philosophy he is more interested in the results than in the method.
    LLNE 10.330 17 Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820, when Edward Everett...brought to Cambridge his rich results...
    LLNE 10.335 15 By a series of lectures largely and fashionably attended for two winters in Boston [Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing, which in that region at least had important results.
    LLNE 10.343 21 ...the intelligence and character and varied ability of the company...perhaps waked curiosity as to its aims and results.
    Carl 10.492 25 If you boast of the growth of the country, and show [Carlyle] the wonderful results of the census, he finds nothing so depressing as the sight of a great mob.
    HDC 11.48 25 ...I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records], as proof...that if the results of our history are approved as wise and good, it was yet a free strife;...
    AKan 11.260 12 What are the results of law and union?
    EPro 11.319 13 It is by no means necessary that this measure [Emancipation] should be suddenly marked by any signal results on the negroes or on the rebel masters.
    SMC 11.351 15 ...whatever good grows to the country out of war, the largest results, the future power and genius of the land, will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
    SMC 11.376 3 A duty so severe has been discharged [in the Civil War], and with such immense results of good...that, though the cannon volleys have a sound of funeral echoes, [men] can yet hear through them the benedictions of their country and mankind.
    EdAd 11.382 21 ...[the elements] shove us from them, yield to us/ Only what to our griping toil is due;/ But the sweet affluence of love and song,/ The rich results of the divine consents/ Of man and earth, of world beloved and loved,/ The nectar and ambrosia are withheld./
    Humb 11.457 15 With great propriety, [Humboldt] named his sketch of the results of science Cosmos.
    Humb 11.458 25 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants; that Germany has furnished the greatest number;...because in that empire there is no canton without some well-informed person capable of making researches and publishing interesting results.
    FRep 11.542 27 ...the cosmic results will be the same, whatever the daily events may be.
    PLT 12.13 5 Metaphysics is dangerous as a single pursuit. We should feel more confidence in the same results from the mouth of a man of the world.
    PLT 12.13 22 I want...the man who can humanize this [metaphysical] logic, these syllogisms, and give me the results.
    PLT 12.48 8 ...in the last results, the man with the talent is the need of mankind;...
    II 12.72 11 It is as impossible for labor to produce...a song of Burns, as... the Iliad. There is much loss, as we say on the railway, in the stops, but the running time need be but little increased, to add great results.
    II 12.83 13 An enthusiastic workman dignifies his art and arrives at results.
    Mem 12.100 15 Sir Isaac Newton was embarrassed when the conversation turned on his discoveries and results; he could not recall them;...
    CInt 12.119 8 I love results and hate abortions.
    CInt 12.124 22 The necessity of a mechanical system [of education] is not to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed...by some available plan that will give weekly and annual results;...
    Bost 12.195 7 I trace to this deep religious sentiment and to its culture great and salutary results to the people of New England;...
    MAng1 12.215 20 The means, the materials of [Michelangelo's] activity, were coarse enough to be appreciated, being addressed for the most part to the eye; the results, sublime and all innocent.

results, v. (4)

    Nat2 3.194 25 The uneasiness which the thought of our helplessness in the chain of causes occasions us, results from looking too much at one condition of nature, namely, Motion.
    PPh 4.75 25 ...the defect of Plato in power is only that which results inevitably from his quality.
    ET6 5.104 18 [The Englishman] has that aplomb which results from a good adjustment of the moral and physical nature...
    F 6.28 18 ...when a strong will appears, it usually results from a certain unity of organization...

resume, v. (5)

    SA 8.86 5 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals. It has the effect to...introduce a moment of reflection. After the pause, all resume their usual intercourse from a vantage-ground.
    Edc1 10.155 25 ...as [the naturalist] is still immovable, [the creatures of nature]...resume their haunts and their ordinary labors and manners...
    Thor 10.469 12 [Thoreau] knew how to sit immovable...until the bird, the reptile, the fish, which had retired from him, should come back and resume its habits...
    CL 12.151 10 ...the oak and maple are red with the same colors on the new leaf which they will resume in autumn when it is ripe.
    PPr 12.380 23 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.

resumed, v. (4)

    Elo2 8.123 12 When, on his return from Washington, [John Quincy Adams] resumed his lectures in Cambridge, his class attended...
    Insp 8.281 24 ...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to a thought and to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort, and it seems to us that this facility may be indefinitely applied and resumed.
    Thor 10.452 4 [Thoreau] resumed his endless walks and miscellaneous studies...
    MAng1 12.225 11 ...[Michelangelo] was instantly followed with apologies and importunities to return [to Florence]. He did so, and resumed his office.

resumes, v. (2)

    SwM 4.108 19 The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding and generating, in a new and ethereal element.
    MoS 4.176 7 Presently a new experience gives a new turn to our thoughts: common sense resumes its tyranny;...

resumption, n. (1)

    Nat 1.72 21 This is such a resumption of power as if a banished king should buy his territories inch by inch...

resurrection, adj. (1)

    Supl 10.165 9 ...one would not wear earthquake dresses or resurrection robes for a working jacket...

resurrection, n. (8)

    Elo1 7.97 12 There is a principle of resurrection in [the man who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion]...
    Cour 7.272 13 Everything feels the new breath [of courage] except the old doting nigh-dead politicians, whose heart the trumpet of resurrection could not wake.
    SA 8.98 7 ...On the day of resurrection, those who have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in their faces when they reach it.
    Imtl 8.326 12 ...the barbarians who received the cross took the doctrine of the resurrection as the Egyptians took it.
    Imtl 8.326 17 ...to keep the body still more sacredly safe for resurrection, it was put into the walls of the church;...
    Imtl 8.346 25 You shall not say, O my bishop, O my pastor, is there any resurrection?
    PLT 12.28 5 In this eternal resurrection and rehabilitation of transitory persons, who and what are they?
    CW 12.169 10 ...unto me not morn's magnificence/.../Hath such a soul, such divine influence,/ Such resurrection of the happy past,/ As is to me when I behold the morn/ Ope in such low, moist roadside, and beneath/ Peep the blue violets out of the black loam./

resurrections, n. (1)

    UGM 4.17 10 Foremost among these activities [of the intellect] are the summersaults, spells and resurrections wrought by the imagination.

retail, adj. (1)

    MR 1.232 12 ...I will not pry into the usages of our retail trade.

retail, v. (2)

    SMC 11.356 27 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...the village politician, who could now...amass what a stock of adventures to retail hereafter at the fireside...
    II 12.79 25 The thoughts which wander through our mind, we do not absorb and make flesh of, but...we retail them as news...

retailed, v. (1)

    Tran 1.349 9 Each cause as it is called...becomes speedily a little shop, where the article...is now made up into portable and convenient cakes, and retailed in small quantities to suit purchasers.

retain, v. (15)

    LT 1.277 8 The Reforms...do not retain the purity of an idea.
    Tran 1.354 4 ...we retain the belief that this petty web we weave will at last be overshot and reticulated with veins of the blue...
    Hist 2.26 14 The attraction of [the Greek] manners is that they belong to man, and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteristics.
    Art1 2.352 23 As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far it will retain a certain grandeur...
    Exp 3.55 25 ...each [picture] will bear an emphasis of attention once, which it cannot retain...
    Ctr 6.159 22 ...the [Greek] heroes...retain a serene aspect;...
    PI 8.63 11 [The high poets] have touched this heaven and retain afterwards some sparkle of it...
    Dem1 10.20 8 Dreams retain the infirmities of our character.
    Chr2 10.116 19 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions...
    LLNE 10.341 8 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of ladies and gentlemen. I had the honor to be present. Though I recall the fact, I do not retain any instant consequence of this attempt...
    LS 11.9 16 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all. Among the modern Jews, who in their dispersion retain the Passover, a hymn is also sung after this ceremony...
    FRO1 11.479 2 One wonders sometimes that the churches still retain so many votaries, when he reads the histories of the Church.
    PLT 12.32 8 Teach me never so much and I hear or retain only that which I wish to hear...
    PLT 12.37 8 If we could retain our early innocence, we might trust our feet uncommanded to take the right path to our friend in the woods.
    Mem 12.102 11 Some days are bright with thought and sentiment, and we live a year in a day. Yet these best days are not always those which memory can retain.

retained, adj. (1)

    SR 2.55 2 [The minister] is a retained attorney...

retained, v. (6)

    Nat 1.9 3 The lover of nature is he...who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
    ET4 5.63 23 [The English] have retained impressment, deck-flogging, army-flogging and school-flogging.
    ET4 5.64 4 The right of the husband to sell the wife has been retained [in England] down to our times.
    Plu 10.321 25 We owe to these translators [of Plutarch] many sharp perceptions of the wit and humor of their author, sometimes even to the adding of the point. I notice one, which...the severer criticism of the Editor has not retained.
    SlHr 10.443 21 [Samuel Hoar] retained to the last the erectness of his tall but slender form...
    TPar 11.287 13 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when, to the irresistible march of opinion, the forms still retained by the most advanced sects showed loose and lifeless...

retainer, n. (1)

    ET5 5.77 26 A man of that [English] brain thinks and acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of brain...is ready to allow the justice of the thought and act in his retainer or tenant...

retainers, n. (1)

    ET4 5.58 13 ...[going into guest-quarters] was the only way in which, in a poor country, a poor king with many retainers could be kept alive when he leaves his own farm to collect his dues through the kingdom.

retaining, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.426 15 Usefulness, if it requires action, seems less like existence than the desire of being absorbed in God, retaining consciousness.

retains, v. (7)

    Nat 1.46 18 ...when [our friend] has...become an object of thought, and, whilst his character retains all its unconscious effect, is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom, - it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    DSA 1.141 3 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men, who minister here and there in the churches...
    SR 2.80 24 It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling... retains its fascination for all educated Americans.
    QO 8.193 20 Every word in the language has once been used happily. The ear, caught by that felicity, retains it...
    Edc1 10.126 26 ...Man himself in many races retains almost the unteachableness of the beast.
    PLT 12.49 1 Webster naturally and always grasps, and therefore retains something from every company and circumstance.
    CL 12.158 16 The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is remarkable, and perhaps is not explained. An ingenious friend of mine suggested that it was because the upper part of the eye...retains more susceptibility than the lower...

retaliate, v. (2)

    Tran 1.342 21 ...[Society] saith, Whoso goes to walk alone...declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.
    Wom 11.417 18 ...it would be easy for women to retaliate in kind, by painting men from the dogs and gorillas that have worn our shape.

retaliated, v. (1)

    Comc 8.171 23 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure, as well as to her republican opinions; the Countess retaliated by calling Madame the Venus of the Pere-Lachaise...

retard, v. (1)

    MoS 4.185 22 We see, now, events forced on which seem to retard or retrograde the civility of ages.

retardation, n. (1)

    PLT 12.49 15 The pace of Nature is so slow. Why not from strength to strength...and not as now with this retardation...

retardations, n. (1)

    F 6.21 25 Thus we trace Fate...in retardations of strata...

retarded, v. (2)

    LLNE 10.352 11 [Fourier] treats man as...something that may be...ripened or retarded...at the will of the leader;...
    HDC 11.57 11 ...a new and alarming public distress retarded the growth of [Concord], as of the sister towns...

retarding, adj. (1)

    F 6.30 26 [The brave youth's] science is to make weapons and wings of these passions and retarding forces.

retention, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.262 23 The unremitting retention of simple and high sentiments in obscure duties is hardening the character to that temper which will work with honor...

retentive, adj. (1)

    Int 2.334 5 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the corn-flags, and this for five or six hours afterwards. There lie the impressions on the retentive organ, though you knew it not.

reticent, adj. (2)

    ET18 5.306 5 [The English] are slow and reticent...
    EPro 11.317 7 ...so fair a mind...so reticent...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.

reticulated, v. (1)

    Tran 1.354 6 ...we retain the belief that this petty web we weave will at last be overshot and reticulated with veins of the blue...

retina, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.25 1 ...in the sun, objects paint their images on the retina of the eye...

retinue, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.14 20 The earth and the heavenly bodies...we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.

retinues, n. (1)

    Art1 2.349 15 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/ Retinues of airy kings,/ Skirts of angels, starry wings/...

retire, v. (13)

    Nat 1.7 1 To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society.
    LE 1.175 20 ...retire and hide;...
    Int 2.333 26 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the the corn-flags...
    NR 3.242 27 It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight...
    OA 7.319 22 At seventy it was hinted to [the Massachusetts judge] that it was time to retire;...
    OA 7.330 25 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...ever... assuring himself he should retire from the University and read the authors.
    Insp 8.278 21 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./ Thus enraged, my lines are hurled,/ Like the Sibyl's, through the world;/ Look how next the holy fire/ Either slakes, or doth retire;/...
    Prch 10.236 2 ...we should...retire a moment to the grand secret we carry in our bosom, of inspiration from heaven.
    EWI 11.128 4 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    SMC 11.370 18 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods. This order was communicated to Colonel Prescott, whose regiment was then under the hottest fire. Understanding it to be a peremptory order to retire then, he replied , I don't want to retire;...
    SMC 11.370 19 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods. This order was communicated to Colonel Prescott, whose regiment was then under the hottest fire. Understanding it to be a peremptory order to retire then, he replied , I don't want to retire; I am not ready to retire;...
    SMC 11.370 23 Being informed that he misunderstood the order, which was only to inform him how to retire when it became necessary, [George Prescott] was satisfied...
    MAng1 12.225 15 Michael Angelo is represented as having ordered his defence [of Florence] so vigorously that the Prince [of Orange] was compelled to retire.

retired, adj. (5)

    CbW 6.263 22 I once asked a clergyman in a retired town, who were his companions?...
    Clbs 7.227 5 The experience of retired men is positive,--that we lose our days and are barren of thought for want of some person to talk with.
    SlHr 10.440 5 [Samuel Hoar] was...addicted to long and retired walks;...
    EWI 11.123 9 The English lord is a retired shopkeeper...
    FSLC 11.188 21 I thought that all men of all conditions had been made sharers of a certain experience, that in certain rare and retired moments they had been made to see how man is man...

retired, v. (4)

    Nat 1.71 21 ...having made for himself this huge shell, [man's] waters retired;...
    MoS 4.164 4 In 1571...Montaigne...retired from the practice of law at Bordeaux...
    Thor 10.469 11 [Thoreau] knew how to sit immovable...until the bird, the reptile, the fish, which had retired from him, should come back and resume its habits...
    SMC 11.370 13 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods.

retirement, n. (6)

    Tran 1.330 17 ...I, [the idealist] says, affirm...facts which it only needs a retirement from the senses to discern.
    Tran 1.342 21 ...this retirement does not proceed from any whim on the part of these separators;...
    Mrs1 3.135 12 ...by luxuries and ornaments we...guard our retirement.
    Ctr 6.155 24 ...the habits should be formed to retirement.
    Insp 8.290 20 Every artist knows well some favorite retirement.
    Prch 10.236 11 We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...

retirements, n. (3)

    OS 2.279 2 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses...and reserve all their display of wealth for their interior and guarded retirements.
    Shak1 11.447 7 We seriously endeavored, besides our brothers and our seniors...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer lovers of the muse...
    FRep 11.524 22 Whilst each cabal...at last brings...men whose names are a knell to all hope of progress, the good and wise are hidden in their active retirements...

retires, v. (1)

    Res 8.150 24 It was a pleasing trait in Goethe's romance, that Makaria retires from society to astronomy and her correspondence.

retiring, adj. (2)

    Clbs 7.242 7 I have known persons of rare ability who were heavy company to good social men who knew well enough how to draw out others of retiring habit;...
    GSt 10.501 20 Known until that time in no very wide circle as a man...of retiring and affectionate habits;...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.

retiring, v. (2)

    SwM 4.135 8 The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what...in the great secular Providence, was retiring from its prominence...
    Trag 12.405 15 ...how the spirit seems already to contract its domain, retiring within narrower walls by the loss of memory...

retort, n. (1)

    Art1 2.368 18 ...[genius] will raise to a divine use...the prism, and the chemist's retort;...

retorts, v. (1)

    Con 1.319 7 The idealist retorts that the conservative falls into a far more noxious error in the other extreme.

retouches, v. (1)

    Mem 12.102 3 The experienced and cultivated man is lodged in a hall hung with pictures which every new day retouches...

retreat, n. (10)

    NER 3.264 19 ...it may easily be questioned...whether such a retreat [to associations] does not promise to become an asylum to those who have tried and failed...
    PPh 4.72 12 ...the rumor ran that on one or two occasions, in the war with Boeotia, [Socrates] had shown a determination which had covered the retreat of a troop;...
    NMW 4.234 18 At the moment in which the Russian army was making its retreat...the Emperor Napoleon came riding at full speed toward the artillery.
    ET4 5.56 24 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ... Of course they...can engage [the land-nations] on shore with a victorious advantage in the retreat.
    ET8 5.139 21 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...men of such temper, that, like Baron Vere, had one seen him returning from a victory, he would by his silence have suspected that he had lost the day; and, had he beheld him in a retreat, he would have collected him a conqueror by the cheerfulness of his spirit.
    HDC 11.75 8 The militia and minute-men...ran...into the east quarter of the town [Concord], to waylay the enemy, and annoy his retreat.
    HDC 11.75 10 The British, as soon as they were rejoined by the plundering detachment, began that disastrous retreat to Boston...
    SMC 11.367 18 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud.
    SHC 11.434 1 [Sleepy Hollow's] seclusion from the village in its immediate neighborhood had made it to all the inhabitants an easy retreat on a Sabbath day...
    CPL 11.501 8 Nathaniel Hawthorne's residence in the Manse gave new interest to that house, whose windows overlooked the retreat of the British soldiers in 1775...

Retreat of the Ten Thousand (1)

    Hist 2.25 3 ...[in the Grecian period] the habit of [each man's] supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances. Such are the Agamemnon and Diomed of Homer, and not far different is the picture Xenophon gives of himself and his compatriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand.

retreat, v. (4)

    Tran 1.348 12 What right, cries the good world, has the man of genius to retreat from work, and indulge himself?
    Schr 10.287 14 [The scholar] is still to decline how many glittering opportunities, and to retreat, and wait.
    War 11.166 17 ...bayonet and sword must first retreat a little from their ostentatious prominence;...
    Mem 12.102 24 ...when age and calamity have bereaved [those who have used their days well] of their limbs or organs, then they retreat on mental faculty...

retreated, v. (2)

    HDC 11.73 21 This little battalion [of minute-men]...retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river...
    HDC 11.74 27 The British retreated immediately towards the village [Concord]...

retreating, adj. (1)

    Bhr 6.170 26 We send girls of a timid, retreating disposition to the boarding-school...or wheresoever they can come into acquaintance and nearness of leading persons of their own sex;...

retreating, n. (1)

    Exp 3.46 27 Men seem to have learned of the horizon the art of perpetual retreating and reference.

retreats, v. (4)

    AmS 1.99 8 The stream retreats to its source.
    LE 1.187 3 Ask not, Of what use is a scholarship that systematically retreats?...
    WD 7.183 4 ...his memoir finished and read and printed, [the savant] retreats into his routinary existence...
    Schr 10.288 4 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] may live on a heath without trees; sometimes hungry, sometimes rheumatic with cold. The fire retreats and concentrates within into a pure flame...

retrench, v. (1)

    Wth 6.112 27 Spend for your expense, and retrench the expense which is not yours.

retribution, n. (11)

    DSA 1.140 4 We are struck with pity, rather, at the swift retribution of [the negligent servant's] sloth.
    Con 1.311 2 ...if in any one respect [existing institutions] have come short, see what ample retribution of good they have made.
    Comp 2.102 20 What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears.
    Comp 2.103 3 Men call the circumstance the retribution.
    Comp 2.103 4 The causal retribution is in the thing and is seen by the soul.
    Comp 2.103 5 The retribution in the circumstance is seen by the understanding;...
    Comp 2.105 17 If [the unwise man] has escaped [the conditions of life] in form and in the appearance, it is because he has...fled from himself, and the retribution is so much death.
    Comp 2.121 15 We feel defrauded of the retribution due to evil acts...
    SovE 10.197 25 ...if I violate myself...the lightning loiters by the speed of retribution...
    MMEm 10.413 27 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...When I get a glimpse of the revolutions of nations,-that retribution which seems forever going on in this part of creation,-I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...
    FSLC 11.186 16 Let me remind you a little in detail how the natural retribution acts in reference to the statute [Fugitive Slave Law] which Congress passed a year ago.

Retribution, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.239 5 There has come, too, one to whom lurking warfare is dear, Retribution, with a soul full of wiles;...

retributions, n. (5)

    DSA 1.122 12 ...in the soul of man there is a justice whose retributions are instant and entire.
    SwM 4.146 8 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him...and he renders a second passive service to men... and, in the retributions of spiritual nature, not less glorious or less beautiful to himself.
    SovE 10.193 3 Secret retributions are always restoring the level, when disturbed, of Divine justice.
    FSLC 11.198 19 These resistances [to the Fugitive Slave Law] appear in the history of the statute, in the retributions which speak so loud in every part of this business...
    EdAd 11.389 11 ...the retributions of armed states are not less sure and signal than those which come to private felons.

retrieve, v. (1)

    ET11 5.192 21 ...the rotten debauchee [George IV] let down from a window by an inclined plane into his coach to take the air, was a scandal to Europe which the ill fame of his queen and of his family did nothing to retrieve.

retrieving, adj. (2)

    ET8 5.136 26 [The English] have great range of scale, from ferocity to exquisite refinement. With larger scale, they have great retrieving power.
    ET14 5.259 16 ...I know that a retrieving power lies in the English race which seems to make any recoil possible;...

retroaction, n. (1)

    Mem 12.91 3 The builder of the mind found it not less needful that it should have retroaction...

retrograde, v. (1)

    MoS 4.185 23 We see, now, events forced on which seem to retard or retrograde the civility of ages.

retrogrades, v. (1)

    AmS 1.101 27 [The scholar] is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism...

retrogression, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.208 27 In creeds never was such levity; witness...the retrogression to Popery...
    Wsp 6.218 15 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius, the sequent retrogression...

retrospect, n. (4)

    SR 2.58 15 ...let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect...
    Exp 3.47 16 So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
    ET14 5.241 22 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks.
    Mem 12.110 6 With every broader generalization which the mind makes... its retrospect is also wider.

retrospective, adj. (5)

    Nat 1.3 1 Our age is retrospective.
    SwM 4.143 10 Swedenborg is retrospective...
    ET12 5.212 18 The university must be retrospective.
    ET14 5.246 8 ...in Hallam, or in the firmer intellectual nerve of Mackintosh, one still finds the same type of English genius. It is wise and rich, but it lives on its capital. It is retrospective.
    PLT 12.21 10 The retrospective value of each new thought is immense...

Retrospective Review, Londo (1)

    MAng1 12.241 8 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper by Signor Radici in the London Retrospective Review...

retrospectively, adv. (1)

    ET18 5.307 9 ...retrospectively, we may strike the balance and prefer one Alfred, one Shakspeare, one Milton, one Sidney, one Raleigh, one Wellington, to a million foolish democrats.

return, n. (41)

    AmS 1.97 11 ...he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom.
    MN 1.195 9 The festival of the intellect and the return to its source cast a strong light on the always interesting topics of Man and Nature.
    MN 1.203 2 When we are dizzied with the arithmetic of the savant toiling to compute...the return of [Nature's] curve, we are steadied by the perception that a great deal is doing;...
    SR 2.89 26 ...the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event raises your spirits...
    Nat2 3.173 19 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... ... I am over-instructed for my return.
    Nat2 3.194 7 [Nature's] mighty orbit vaults like the fresh rainbow into the deep, but no archangel's wing was yet strong enough to follow it and report of the return of the curve.
    PPh 4.59 3 [Plato's] strength is like the momentum of a falling planet, and his discretion the return of its due and perfect curve...
    PNR 4.83 15 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction...
    MoS 4.180 25 [Some minds] may well give themselves leave to speculate, for they are secure of a return.
    ET1 5.3 2 In 1833, on my return from a short tour in Sicily, Italy and France, I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London...
    ET1 5.14 23 From Edinburgh I went to the Highlands. On my return I came from Glasgow to Dumfries...
    ET5 5.89 3 [The English] spend largely on their fabric, and await the slow return.
    ET7 5.120 16 At a St. George's festival, in Montreal, where I happened to be a guest since my return home, I observed that the chairman complimented his compatriots, by saying, they confided that wherever they met an Englishman, they found a man who would speak the truth.
    ET11 5.173 1 In spite of...the devastation of society by the profligacy of the court, we take sides as we read for the loyal England, and King Charles's return to his right with his Cavaliers,
    ET14 5.250 23 If [James Wilkinson's] mind does not rest in immovable biases, perhaps the orbit is larger and the return is not yet...
    ET18 5.307 1 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England]...that substantial justice was done. Fox, Burke, Pitt...or whatever national man, were by this means sent to Parliament, when their return by large constituencies would have been doubtful.
    F 6.3 14 Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return and reconcile their opposition.
    Elo1 7.61 22 The eloquence of one [man] stimulates...all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return to the fireside.
    Elo1 7.84 4 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...on his return from a conference, I did never observe how much easier a man do speak when he knows all the company to be below him, than in him;...
    DL 7.120 22 ...who can see unmoved...the affectionate delight with which [the eager, blushing boys] greet the return of each one after the early separations which school or business require;...
    DL 7.124 24 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away. The...manhood and offices they brought thither at this return seemed mere ornamental masks;...
    OA 7.334 18 We asked if at Whitefield's return the same popularity continued.
    PI 8.14 5 The return of the soul to God was described as a flask of water broken in the sea.
    PI 8.46 11 We are lovers of rhyme and return...
    PI 8.71 7 Facts are not foreign, as they seem, but related. Wait a little and we see the return of the remote hyperbolic curve.
    Elo2 8.123 8 On his return in the winter to the Senate at Washington, [John Quincy Adams] took such ground in the debates of the following session as to lose the sympathy of many of his constituents in Boston.
    Elo2 8.123 12 When, on his return from Washington, [John Quincy Adams] resumed his lectures in Cambridge, his class attended...
    PPo 8.239 25 Such [amatory] verses...will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat...or prove an ample reward on their return from the dangers of the ghazon, or the fight.
    Schr 10.280 7 ...there is but one defence against this principle of chaos, and that is the principle of order, or brave return at all hours to an infinite common sense...
    Plu 10.294 11 ...though the contemporary...Pliny the Elder and the Younger, [Plutarch] does not cite them, and, in return, his name is never mentioned by any Roman writer.
    LLNE 10.338 23 The result [of Modern Science] in literature and the general mind was a return to law;...
    LLNE 10.346 2 ...[the pilgrim] had the courage which so stern a return to Arcadian manners required...
    HDC 11.63 9 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676. The following year, he was sent to England...as agent for the Colony; and on his return, in 1685, was a royal councillor.
    HDC 11.73 27 The British following [the minute-men] across the bridge, posted two companies...to guard the bridge, and secure the return of the plundering party.
    EWI 11.107 4 ...(tracing the subject to natural principles, the claim of slavery never can be supported). The power claimed by this return never was in use here.
    EWI 11.107 5 We cannot say the cause set forth by this return is allowed or approved of by the laws of this kingdom [England];...
    War 11.158 10 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world...It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...
    War 11.159 17 This valuable person [Assacombuit], on his return to America, took to killing his own neighbors and kindred...
    SMC 11.366 25 After the return of the three months' company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of volunteers...
    CL 12.138 13 ...the joy in [Kalm's] return...restored [Linnaeus] instantly...
    MAng1 12.224 6 [Michelangelo] visited Bologna to inspect its celebrated fortifications, and, on his return, constructed a fortification on the heights of San Miniato...

return, v. (45)

    Nat 1.10 2 In the woods, we return to reason and faith.
    Nat 1.71 12 Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
    AmS 1.83 8 ...the individual, to possess himself, must sometimes return from his own labor to embrace all the other laborers.
    Con 1.326 1 ...to return from this alternation of partial views to the high platform of universal and necessary history, it is a happiness for mankind that innovation has got on so far...
    Chr1 3.96 10 ...at how long a curve soever, all [a man's] regards return to his own good at last.
    Pol1 3.200 23 Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait, it soon becomes unrecognizable, and in process of time will return to the mint.
    NR 3.243 1 It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again.
    PPh 4.68 8 [Plato] said then, Our faculties run out into infinity, and return to us thence.
    PPh 4.73 2 ...it is said that to procure the pleasure, which he loves, of talking at his ease all day with the most elegant and cultivated young men, [Socrates] will now and then return to his shop and carve statues, good or bad, for sale.
    SwM 4.94 26 In the language of the Koran, God said, The heaven and the earth and all that is between them, think ye that we created them in jest, and that ye shall not return to us?
    ET13 5.220 17 ...the age...of the Sherlocks and Butlers, is gone. Silent revolutions in opinion have made it impossible that men like these should return...
    ET16 5.275 17 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling, which the geography of America inevitably inspires, that we play the game with immense advantage;...
    ET16 5.280 11 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in the twilight, with the design to return the next morning...
    Pow 6.64 16 ...natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.
    Pow 6.73 14 ...a man cannot return into his mother's womb and be born with new amounts of vivacity...
    Bhr 6.171 23 In hours of business we go to him who knows...that which we want, and we do not let our taste or feeling stand in the way. But this activity over, we return to the indolent state...
    Wsp 6.202 21 We may well give skepticism as much line as we can. The spirit will return and fill us.
    Ill 6.307 22 When thou dost return/ On the wave's circulation,/ Beholding the shimmer,/ The wild dissipation,/ And, out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    Ill 6.308 5 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    Farm 7.137 16 If [a man] have not...some product for which the farmer will give him corn, he must himself return into his due place among the planters.
    Farm 7.144 25 ...the air is the receptacle from which all things spring, and into which they all return.
    Suc 7.285 21 [Columbus told the King and Queen] I assert that [the pilots] can give no other account than that they went to lands where there was abundance of gold, but they do not know the way to return thither...
    PI 8.60 18 ...many knights set out in search of [Merlin]. Among others was Sir Gawain, who pursued his search till it was time to return to the court.
    PI 8.62 24 You will find the king at Carduel in Wales [said Merlin]; and when you arrive there you will find there all the companions who departed with you, and who at this day will return.
    QO 8.191 6 If we are fired and guided by these [inspiring lessons], we... shall return to [an author] as long as he serves us so well.
    Dem1 10.14 25 The augur showed [Masollam] a bird, and told him, If that bird remained where he was, it would be better for them all to remain; if he flew on, they might proceed; but if he flew back, they must return.
    Chr2 10.116 25 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly. In general discourse, they are never obtruded. If the clergyman should travel...he might leave them locked up in the same closet with his occasional sermons at home, and, if he did not return, would never think to send for them.
    Edc1 10.155 18 These creatures [in nature] have no value for their time, and [the naturalist] must put as low a rate on his. By dint of obstinate sitting still...bird and beast, which all wish to return to their haunts, begin to return.
    Edc1 10.155 19 These creatures [in nature] have no value for their time, and [the naturalist] must put as low a rate on his. By dint of obstinate sitting still...bird and beast...begin to return.
    Plu 10.322 16 Plutarch's popularity will return in rapid cycles.
    MMEm 10.412 27 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] shall delight to return to God.
    MMEm 10.417 23 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] did overcome and return kindness for the repeated provocations.
    Carl 10.494 27 [Carlyle] preaches, as by cannonade, the doctrine that every noble nature...however extravagant, will keep its orbit and return from far.
    HDC 11.70 11 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...
    AKan 11.263 16 Send home every one who is abroad, lest they should find no country to return to.
    EdAd 11.382 14 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./
    FRep 11.535 20 They who find America insipid-they for whom London and Paris have spoiled their own homes-can be spared to return to those cities.
    PLT 12.13 14 I think metaphysics a grammar to which, once read, we seldom return.
    PLT 12.26 12 Scholars say that if they return to the study of a new language after some intermission, the intelligence of it is more and not less.
    PLT 12.26 15 A subject of thought to which we return from month to month...has always some ripeness of which we can give no account.
    PLT 12.28 3 An individual mind...is a fixation or momentary eddy in which certain services and powers are taken up and minister in petty niches and localities, and then, being released, return to the unbounded soul of the world.
    MAng1 12.225 10 ...[Michelangelo] was instantly followed with apologies and importunities to return [to Florence].
    MLit 12.309 18 We return to the house and take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo! the air swims with life...
    PPr 12.389 19 ...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word, and then with new glee return to his game.
    PPr 12.391 22 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning...is sure to return with deeper tones and weightier import...

returned, v. (42)

    LT 1.278 6 You have set your heart and face against society when you thought it wrong, and returned it frown for frown.
    GoW 4.280 15 ...Novalis soon returned to this book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]...
    ET1 5.10 12 From London...I went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge, requesting leave to pay my respects to him. It was near noon. Mr Coleridge sent a verbal message that he was in bed, but if I would call after one o'clock he would see me. I returned at one...
    ET1 5.13 16 ...on learning that I had been in Malta and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other, repeating what he had said to the Bishop of London when he returned from that country, that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy;...
    ET1 5.17 17 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...
    ET1 5.19 8 [Wordsworth] had just returned from a journey.
    ET1 5.22 9 [Wordsworth] had just returned from a visit to Staffa...
    ET1 5.24 16 [Wordsworth] then said he would show me a better way towards the inn; and he walked a good part of a mile...and finally parted from me with great kindness and returned across the fields.
    ET16 5.286 12 Carlyle was unwilling, and we did not ask to have the choir [at Salisbury Cathedral] shown us, but returned to our inn...
    ET17 5.294 10 At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for a couple of days the guest of Miss Martineau, then newly returned from her Egyptian tour.
    Bhr 6.194 9 At last the escorting angel returned with his prisoner [the monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that no phlegethon could be found that would burn him;...
    Wsp 6.228 17 Philip [Neri] ran out of doors, mounted his mule and returned instantly to the Pope;...
    Art2 7.49 15 The wonders of Shakspeare are things which he saw whilst he stood aside, and then returned to record them.
    Elo1 7.82 9 ...the commonest populace is flattered by hearing its low mind returned to it with every ornament which happy talent can add.
    WD 7.169 7 In college terms, and in years that followed, the young graduate, when the Commencement anniversary returned, though he were in a swamp, would see a festive light...
    Suc 7.304 7 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and his beloved] might somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief that he could...hold instant and sempiternal communication! In solitude, in banishment, the hope returned...
    SA 8.94 18 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix...
    Insp 8.282 13 ...after [Niebuhr's] genius for interpreting history had failed him for several years, this divination returned to him.
    Imtl 8.321 5 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/ Verdict which accumulates/ From lengthening scroll of human fates/ Voice of earth to earth returned,/ Prayers of saints that inly burned,-/...
    Imtl 8.331 21 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues, and...they daily returned to each other...
    Aris 10.42 16 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff...of every city [is to cause] two citizens, and of every borough, two burgesses, such as have greatest skill in shipping and merchandising, to be returned.
    Edc1 10.146 2 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone almost buried in the soil. Fellowes...looking about him, observed more blocks and fragments like this. He returned to the spot, procured laborers and uncovered many blocks.
    MoL 10.254 4 ...[Pytheas] returned and paid [Pindar] for the poem.
    MoL 10.257 27 I learn with grief...that the noble youth have returned wounded and maimed.
    LLNE 10.330 15 Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820, when Edward Everett returned from his five years in Europe...
    EzRy 10.382 19 Many of the students [at Harvard] entered the [Revolutionary] army, and [Ezra Ripley's] class never returned to Cambridge.
    MMEm 10.400 7 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father...went as chaplain to the the American army at Ticonderoga: he carried his infant daughter, before he went, to his mother in Malden and told her to keep the child until he returned.
    MMEm 10.410 17 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost, and found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look for them. The man went and returned saying that he could not find them.
    SlHr 10.441 2 [Samuel Hoar] returned from courts or congresses to sit down, with unaltered humility, in the church or in the town-house...
    Thor 10.451 23 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence and to its equality with the best London manufacture, he returned home contented.
    Thor 10.467 25 [Thoreau] returned Kane's Arctic Voyage to a friend of whom he had borrowed it, with the remark, that Most of the phenomena noted might be observed in Concord.
    GSt 10.504 24 I have heard...that [George Stearns] was indignant at this or that man's behavior, but never that his anger...ever stood in the way of his hearty cooperation with the offenders when they returned to the path of public duty.
    HCom 11.344 24 ...in how many cases it chanced, when the hero had fallen, they who came by night to his funeral, on the morrow returned to the war-path...
    SMC 11.374 25 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay.
    SMC 11.375 2 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay. But those also who went through the same fields, and returned alive, put just as much at hazard as those who died...
    CInt 12.114 6 ...[Archimedes] was willing to show [the king] that he was quite able in rude matters, if he could condescend to them, and he conducted the defence of Syracuse against the Romans. Then he returned to his geometry;...
    CL 12.137 3 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students, and, when they returned, they marched through the streets of Upsala in a festive procession...
    CL 12.138 11 When Kalm returned from America, Linnaeus was laid up with severe gout.
    CL 12.155 10 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy burden. Then, spending a few days in the low country of Norway...my languor or heaviness returned.
    MAng1 12.238 13 ...just here [said Vasari's servant to Michelangelo], before your door, is a spot of soft mud, and [the candles] will stand upright in it very well, and there I will light them all. Put them down, then, returned Michael, since you shall not make a bonfire at my gate.
    Milt1 12.267 25 [Milton] returned into his revolutionized country, and assumed an honest and useful task...
    PPr 12.391 26 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning...is sure to return...in gigantic reverberation, as if the hills, the horizon, and the next ages returned the sound.

returning, adj. (4)

    Fdsp 2.198 7 The instinct of affection revives the hope of union with our mates, and the returning sense of insulation recalls us from the chase.
    Prd1 2.224 19 ...our existence, thus apparently attached in nature to the sun and the returning moon and the periods which they mark...reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
    GoW 4.265 22 ...let one man have the comprehensive eye that can replace this isolated prodigy in its right neighborhood and bearings,--the illusion vanishes, and the returning reason of the community thanks the reason of the monitor.
    Mem 12.104 2 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not; the plants are still drinking their accustomed life and repaying it with their beautiful forms. But you need not wander thither. It flows for you, and they grow for you, in the returning images of former summers.

returning, v. [re-turning,] (18)

    AmS 1.85 8 There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.
    Exp 3.85 24 ...in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him.
    Nat2 3.177 23 ...I cannot renounce the right of returning often to this old topic [nature].
    PPh 4.44 10 Returning to Athens, [Plato] gave lessons in the Academy...
    ET8 5.139 19 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...men of such temper, that, like Baron Vere, had one seen him returning from a victory, he would by his silence have suspected that he had lost the day; and, had he beheld him in a retreat, he would have collected him a conqueror by the cheerfulness of his spirit.
    F 6.15 15 [Nature] turns the gigantic pages...never re-turning one.
    Bty 6.285 6 Why should not priests, lodged and fed comfortably in the temples, also amuse themselves [said Tisso]? Returning home, he imparted this reflection to the king.
    DL 7.108 13 ...we are always hovering round this better divination. In one form or another we are always returning to it.
    DL 7.124 20 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away.
    WD 7.173 10 Hume's doctrine was that...the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
    PPo 8.254 9 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple.
    PPo 8.260 21 I have sought for thee a costlier dome/ Than Mahmoud's palace high,/ And thou, returning, find thy home/ In the apple of Love's eye./
    MMEm 10.416 12 Later [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: Could I have those hours in which in fresh youth I said, To obey God is joy, though there were no hereafter, I should rejoice, though returning to dust.
    War 11.158 14 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world, entering in at the Strait of Magellan, and returning by the Cape of Buena Esperanca;...
    FSLN 11.242 15 I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political arena...
    PLT 12.16 9 ...the suggestion is always returning, that hidden source publishing at once our being and that it is the source of outward Nature.
    Bost 12.182 5 The sea returning day by day/ Restores the world-wide mart;/ So let each dweller on the Bay/ Fold Boston in his heart./
    Milt1 12.267 22 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton...in returning from Italy because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school.

Returns, Custom House, n. (1)

    ET5 5.94 22 The Mark-Lane Express, or the Custom House Returns, bear out to the letter the vaunt of Pope...

returns, n. (8)

    LE 1.184 10 If, with a high trust, [the scholar] can thus submit himself, he will find that ample returns are poured into his bosom...
    SwM 4.110 12 These grand rhymes or returns in nature...delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
    Farm 7.151 7 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among the landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that... the land is ever yielding less returns to enlarging hosts of eaters.
    PI 8.49 6 ...the elemental forces have their own periods and returns...
    Imtl 8.342 3 ...courage or confidence in the mind comes to those who know by use its wonderful forces and inspirations and returns.
    Aris 10.51 15 We do not expect [public representatives] to be saints, and it is very pleasing to see the instinct of mankind on this matter,-how much they will forgive to such as pay substantial service and work energetically after their kind; but they do not extend the same indulgence to those who claim and enjoy the same prerogative but render no returns.
    Edc1 10.154 24 ...in this world of hurry and distraction, who can wait for the returns of reason...
    PPr 12.391 19 ...[Carlyle] is full of rhythm, not only in the perpetual melody of his periods, but in the burdens, refrains, and grand returns of his sense and music.

returns, v. (22)

    DSA 1.149 26 The question returns, What shall we do?
    Con 1.307 10 I will none of your law, returns the youth;...
    SR 2.86 25 The great genius returns to essential man.
    Comp 2.102 17 The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. Take what figure you will, its exact value, not more nor less, still returns to you.
    OS 2.280 4 In the book I read, the good thought returns to me...the image of the whole soul.
    Mrs1 3.130 15 Each [member of an assembly] returns to his degree in the scale of good society...
    Mrs1 3.146 13 Even the line of heroes is not utterly extinct. ... And these are the centres of society, on which it returns for fresh impulses.
    PPh 4.48 19 Urged by an opposite necessity, the mind returns from the one to that which is not one, but other or many;...
    PPh 4.62 13 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored...and now, refreshed and empowered by this worship, the instinct of Europe, namely, culture, returns;...
    PNR 4.83 18 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction... instanced everywhere, but specially in the doctrine, what comes from God to us, returns from us to God...
    ET10 5.169 23 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with;...
    Art2 7.47 17 Our arts are happy hits. We are...like a traveller surprised by a mountain echo, whose trivial word returns to him in romantic thunders.
    OA 7.330 10 The day comes...when the brave speech returns straight to the hero who said it;...
    SA 8.90 16 ...the incomparable satisfaction of a society...in which every member returns a true echo...doubles the value of life.
    Insp 8.285 26 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./ Unmerciful she returns again:/ When often the half-awake victim/ Impatiently drives her off,/ She calls hither the unscrupulous sisters,/ And from my eyelids/ Sweet sleep must depart./
    Grts 8.319 22 ...the world is an echo which returns to each of us what we say?
    Aris 10.58 1 The great Indian sages had a lesson for the Brahmin, which every day returns to mind, All that depends on another gives pain; all that depends on himself gives pleasure;...
    MMEm 10.404 25 ...wonderfully as [Mary Moody Emerson] varies and poetically repeats that image [of the angel of Death] in every page and day, yet not less fondly and sublimely she returns to the other,-the grandeur of humility and privation...
    MMEm 10.416 21 ...the simple principle which made me [Mary Moody Emerson] say...that, should He make me a blot on the fair face of his Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never been equalled, though it returns in the long life of destitution like an Angel.
    LS 11.21 16 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...the echo it returns to my thoughts...
    II 12.84 19 If you speak to the man, he turns his eyes from his own scene, and, slower or faster, endeavors to comprehend what you say. When you have done speaking, he returns to his private music.
    CL 12.158 17 The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is remarkable, and perhaps is not explained. An ingenious friend of mine suggested that it was because the upper part of the eye...returns more delicate impressions.

Retz, Jean Francois de, n. (1)

    QO 8.196 9 ...Cardinal de Retz...described himself in an extemporary Latin sentence...

Retz, Jean Francois Paul d [Retz,] (3)

    Bhr 6.182 23 A calm and resolute bearing...and the art of hiding all uncomfortable feeling, are essential to the courtier; and Saint Simon and Cardinal de Retz and Roederer and an encyclopaedia of Memoires will instruct you...in those potent secrets.
    bty 6.300 17 Cardinal De Retz says of De Bouillon, With the physiognomy of an ox, he had the perspicacity of an eagle.
    Boks 7.208 10 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as... Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz;...

reunited, adj. (1)

    ET12 5.203 25 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Bulkeley Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order; brought them to Oxford with the rest of his purchase, and placed them in the volume; but has too much awe for the Providence that appears in bibliography also, to suffer the reunited parts to be re-bound.

reunites, v. (1)

    Comp 2.104 26 The parted water reunites behind our hand.

reussit, v. (1)

    Suc 7.289 6 Rien ne reussit mieux que le succes.

reveal, v. (10)

    YA 1.389 14 ...the bold face and tardy repentance permitted to this local mischief [Repudiation] reveal a public mind so preoccupied with the love of gain that the common sentiment of indignation at fraud does not act with its natural force.
    Comp 2.126 12 ...the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.
    Fdsp 2.214 9 We go to Europe...or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will...reveal us to ourselves.
    UGM 4.30 13 Children think they cannot live without their parents. But, long before they are aware of it...the detachment has taken place. Any accident will now reveal to them their independence.
    SwM 4.104 25 Unrivalled dissectors...had left nothing for scalpel or microscope to reveal in human or comparative anatomy...
    Ctr 6.133 6 The sufferers [from egotism]...reveal their indictable crimes...
    Bhr 6.177 13 The face and eyes reveal what the spirit is doing...
    Dem1 10.24 13 They who love [occult facts] say they are to reveal to us a world of unknown, unsuspected truths.
    Edc1 10.133 3 ...the event of each moment...the passing of a beautiful face, the apoplexy of our neighbor, are all tests to try our theory [of life]...and reveal its defects.
    Wom 11.411 26 For [woman] the seas their pearls reveal,/ Art and strange lands her pomp supply/ With purple, chrome and cochineal,/ Ochre and lapis lazuli./

revealed, adj. (2)

    ET14 5.259 10 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all appeals to our revealed tenets of religion and moral duty.
    Imtl 8.330 13 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... Independently of revealed ideas, metaphysical ideas give me a vigorous hope of my eternal well-being, which I would never renounce.

revealed, v. (9)

    AmS 1.86 22 ...when this spiritual light shall have revealed the law of more earthly natures...[the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.
    Tran 1.329 8 The light...falls on a great variety of objects, and by so falling is first revealed to us, not in its own form...but in theirs;...
    Comp 2.93 23 ...if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many dark hours...
    Lov1 2.167 2 I was as a gem concealed;/ Me my burning ray revealed./ Koran.
    ShP 4.209 11 Who ever read the volume of [Shakespeare's] Sonnets without finding that the poet had there revealed...the lore of friendship and of love;...
    ET19 5.312 18 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that [Englishmen's] best parts were slowly revealed;...
    Dem1 10.11 8 ...the atmosphere of a summer morning is filled with innumerable gossamer threads running in every direction, revealed by the beams of the rising sun!
    II 12.65 22 ...in each man's experience, from this spark [consciousness] torrents of light have once and again streamed and revealed the dusky landscape of his life.
    Trag 12.414 1 ...in truth [the man not grounded in the divine life] was already a driving wreck before the wind arose, which only revealed to him his vagabond state.

revealer, n. (2)

    LE 1.181 2 [The scholar] is a revealer of things.
    OS 2.279 16 The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth.

revealers, n. (1)

    SA 8.83 26 Manners are the revealers of secrets...

revealing, v. (3)

    Prd1 2.223 20 ...culture, revealing the high origin of the apparent world... degrades every thing else...into means.
    Exp 3.78 4 The soul...though revealing itself as child in time, child in appearance, is of a fatal and universal power, admitting no co-life.
    PNR 4.85 7 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...delighted in revealing the real at the base of the accidental;...

reveals, v. (16)

    DSA 1.120 7 ...when the mind...reveals the laws which traverse the universe...then shrinks the great world...into a mere illustration...
    Comp 2.116 5 Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge...
    OS 2.280 18 ...beyond this recognition of its own in particular passages of the individual's experience, [the soul] also reveals truth.
    NR 3.239 22 Hence the immense benefit of party in politics, as it reveals faults of character in a chief, which the intellectual force of the persons... could not have seen.
    NER 3.282 6 We would persuade our fellow to this or that; another self within our eyes dissuades him. That which we keep back, this reveals.
    PNR 4.86 8 ...the fact of knowledge and ideas reveals to [Plato] the fact of eternity;...
    Wsp 6.223 24 Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
    Ill 6.321 25 From day to day the capital facts of human life are hidden from our eyes. Suddenly the mist rolls up and reveals them...
    PI 8.18 26 Our indeterminate size is a delicious secret which [the act of imagination] reveals to us.
    Res 8.146 24 [The determined man] reveals to us the enormous power of one man over masses of men;...
    Imtl 8.352 5 [The soul] reveals its own truths.
    Dem1 10.11 10 A man reveals himself in every glance and step and movement and rest...
    Thor 10.476 23 [Thoreau's] poem entitled Sympathy reveals the tenderness under that triple steel of stoicism...
    Thor 10.481 21 [Thoreau] thought the scent a more oracular inquisition than the sight,-more oracular and trustworthy. The scent, of course, reveals what is concealed from the other senses.
    War 11.154 20 The microscope reveals miniature butchery in atomies and infinitely small biters that swim and fight in an illuminated drop of water;...
    CL 12.160 12 On the seashore, [Nature] reveals to the eye, by the sea-line, the true curve of the globe.

reveille, n. (1)

    War 11.163 19 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this reveille and evening gun;...seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.

revel, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.173 8 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... A holiday...a royal revel...establishes itself on the instant.

revelation, n. (26)

    Nat 1.3 9 Why should not we have...a religion by revelation to us...
    DSA 1.130 2 [Jesus] felt...no unfit tenderness at postponing [the prophets'] initial revelations...to the eternal revelation in the heart.
    DSA 1.134 8 Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done...
    DSA 1.135 20 ...the need was never greater of new revelation than now.
    DSA 1.151 5 What hinders that now...you speak the very truth...and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation?
    Lov1 2.178 7 Beauty, whose revelation to man we now celebrate...seems sufficient to itself.
    OS 2.282 27 Revelation is the disclosure of the soul.
    OS 2.283 1 The popular notion of a revelation is that it is a telling of fortunes.
    OS 2.293 6 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. He has...the sight, that the best is the true, and may in that thought...adjourn to the sure revelation of time the solution of his private riddles.
    OS 2.294 15 Let man then learn the revelation of all nature and all thought to his heart;...
    Cir 2.306 2 ...presently, all its energy spent, [the new statement] pales and dwindles before the revelation of the new hour.
    Int 2.335 5 [The thought] is revelation...
    SwM 4.140 12 Strictly speaking, Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes...
    F 6.25 8 The revelation of Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom.
    Ctr 6.133 18 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation.
    Wsp 6.209 2 In creeds never was such levity; witness...the rat and mouse revelation...
    Wsp 6.238 23 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely...the terror of its being taken away... The whole revelation that is vouchsafed us is the gentle trust, which, in our experience, we find will cover also with flowers the slopes of this chasm.
    Grts 8.309 22 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus: I do not pretend to any commandment or large revelation...
    Imtl 8.344 17 The revelation that is true is written on the palms of the hands, the thought of our mind, the desire of our heart, or nowhere.
    PerF 10.83 13 The last revelation of intellect and of sentiment is that in a manner it severs the man from all other men;...
    Chr2 10.97 7 In all ages, to all men, [the moral force] saith, I am; and he who hears it feels the impiety of wandering from this revelation to any record or to any rival.
    Chr2 10.98 2 We affirm that in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and command;...that it distances and degrades all statements of whatever saints, heroes, poets, as obscure and confused stammerings before its silent revelation.
    PLT 12.46 9 The revelation of thought takes us out of servitude into freedom.
    II 12.73 22 What a revelation of power is music!
    MLit 12.310 24 [The library of the Present Age] exhibits a vast carcass of tradition every year with as much solemnity as a new revelation.
    PPr 12.387 15 The revelation of Reason is this of the unchangeableness of the fact of humanity under all its subjective aspects;...

Revelation, n. (2)

    OS 2.281 2 We distinguish the announcements of the soul...by the term Revelation.
    MMEm 10.427 7 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...

revelations, n. (18)

    DSA 1.130 1 [Jesus] felt...no unfit tenderness at postponing [the prophets'] initial revelations to the hour and the man that now is;...
    DSA 1.134 4 ...the Moral Nature, that Law of laws whose revelations introduce greatness...is not explored...
    Comp 2.99 26 Has [the man of genius] light? he must...always outrun that sympathy which gives him such keen satisfaction, by his fidelity to new revelations of the incessant soul.
    OS 2.273 18 Before the revelations of the soul, Time, Space and Nature shrink away.
    OS 2.282 20 The nature of these revelations is the same;...
    Exp 3.85 25 ...in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him.
    SwM 4.139 17 [Swedenborg's] revelations destroy their credit by running into detail.
    Bhr 6.179 17 We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes...make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there. The revelations are sometimes terrific.
    CbW 6.251 9 All revelations...are made...to single persons.
    SS 7.15 20 We require such a solitude as shall hold us to its revelations when we are in the street and in palaces;...
    QO 8.182 18 What divines had assumed as the distinctive revelations of Christianity, theologic criticism has matched by exact parallelisms from the Stoics and poets of Greece and Rome.
    Grts 8.305 13 Others find a charm...in the elements of which the whole world is made. These lately have stimulus to their study through the extraordinary revelations of the spectroscope that the sun and the planets are made in part or in whole of the same elements as the earth is.
    Imtl 8.334 21 ...the naturalist works...for the believing mind, which turns his discoveries to revelations...
    Chr2 10.114 23 I am far from accepting the opinion that the revelations of the moral sentiment are insufficient...
    Edc1 10.141 5 ...from [friendship's] revelations we come more worthily into nature.
    MMEm 10.421 26 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us...to date the revelations of God to man.
    PLT 12.6 19 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is...that [the student] shall see in [the mind] the source of all traditions, and shall see each one of them as better or worse statement of its revelations;...
    Milt1 12.266 14 The indifferency of a wise mind to what is called high and low, and the fact that true greatness is a perfect humility, are revelations of Christianity which Milton well understood.

Revelations, n. (1)

    SwM 4.139 14 For the anomalous pretension of Revelations of the other world,--only [Swedenborg's] probity and genius can entitle it to any serious regard.

revels, n. (4)

    Nat2 3.173 23 I am grown expensive and sophisticated. I can no longer live without elegance, but a countryman shall be my master of revels.
    ShP 4.217 15 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind.
    ET11 5.190 10 Penshurst still shines for us, and its Christmas revels...
    ET11 5.191 18 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced...

revenge, n. (9)

    Comp 2.95 7 The legitimate inference the disciple would draw was...You sin now, we shall sin by and by; we would sin now, if we could; not being successful we expect our revenge to-morrow.
    Prd1 2.232 11 On him who scorned the world, as he said, the scorned world wreaks its revenge.
    Hsm1 2.259 2 ...the tough world had its revenge the moment [many extraordinary young men] put their horses of the sun to plough in its furrow.
    Bty 6.284 16 Science in England, in America...hates the name of love and moral purpose. There 's a revenge for this inhumanity.
    LLNE 10.342 5 These fine conversations...were incomprehensible to some in the company, and they had their revenge in their little joke.
    MMEm 10.419 1 Took a momentary revenge on--for worrying me [Mary Moody Emerson].
    HDC 11.73 15 Eight hundred British soldiers...at Lexington had fired upon the brave handful of militia, for which a speedy revenge was reaped by the same militia in the afternoon.
    War 11.152 7 ...in the infancy of society...the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak, at whatever peril of future revenge.
    JBS 11.278 21 ...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into Virginia and run off five hundred or a thousand slaves was not a piece of spite or revenge...

revenge, v. (2)

    Mrs1 3.129 10 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger in the least favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class finds itself at the top...
    MoS 4.153 3 ...the men of the senses revenge themselves on the professors and repay scorn for scorn.

revenged, v. (3)

    MN 1.198 27 Empedocles undoubtedly spoke a truth of thought, when he said, I am God; but the moment it was out of his mouth it became a lie to the ear; and the world revenged itself for the seeming arrogance by the good story about his shoe.
    Elo1 7.87 3 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was.
    HDC 11.58 4 Philip...revenged his humiliation a few years after, by carrying fire and tomahawk into the English villages.

revengeful, n. (1)

    SwM 4.131 27 ...[Swedenborg] saw...the hell of the revengeful...

revenges, v. (2)

    LE 1.177 7 ...the world revenges itself by exposing...the folly of these... pedantic...creatures.
    ET13 5.229 15 ...the religion of the day [in England] is a theatrical Sinai, where the thunders are supplied by the property-man. The fanaticism and hypocrisy create satire. ... Nature revenges herself more summarily by the heathenism of the lower classes.

revenue, n. (6)

    AmS 1.97 15 I will not...trust the revenue of some single faculty...
    Comp 2.100 12 If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.
    Civ 7.25 10 The skill that pervades complex details;...the very prison compelled to maintain itself and yield a revenue...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high civilization.
    HDC 11.69 11 ...the British parliament have empowered the East India Company to export their tea into America, for the sole purpose of raising a revenue from hence;...
    HDC 11.69 16 ...we will not, in this town [Concord]...buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea, or any other tea, whilst there is a duty for raising a revenue thereon in America;...
    EWI 11.127 11 These considerations, I doubt not, had their weight [in emancipation in the West Indies]; the interest of trade, the interest of the revenue, and...the good fame of the action.

revenues, n. (6)

    MoS 4.167 1 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I stand here for truth, and will not, for all the states and churches and revenues and personal reputations of Europe, overstate the dry fact, as I see it;...
    GoW 4.290 7 We shall learn to draw rents and revenues from the immense patrimony of the old and the recent ages.
    ET12 5.209 22 Oxford...mis-spends the revenues bestowed for such youths as should be most meet for towardness, poverty and painfulness;...
    F 6.35 12 ...a defect pays [a man] revenues on the other side.
    Wth 6.90 16 ...no clanship, no patriarchal style of living by the revenues of a chief...suits [the Saxons];...
    MoL 10.248 12 Italy, France-a hundred times those countries have been trampled with armies and burned over: a few summers, and they...yield new men and new revenues.

reverable, adj. (1)

    AgMs 12.358 8 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always impresses me with respect, he is...so disdainful of all appearances; excellent and reverable in his old weather-worn cap and blue frock...

reverberated, v. (1)

    SwM 4.109 12 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...ten thousand times reverberated...

reverberates, v. (1)

    Comp 2.120 7 ...every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

reverberation, n. (2)

    Chr1 3.89 18 This inequality of the reputation to the works or the anecdotes is not accounted for by saying that the reverberation is longer than the thunder-clap...
    PPr 12.391 24 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning...is sure to return...now as threat, now as confirmation, in gigantic reverberation...

reverberations, n. (1)

    ShP 4.216 18 ...how stands the account of man with this bard and benefactor [Shakespeare], when, in solitude, shutting our ears to the reverberations of his fame, we seek to strike the balance?

revere, v. (12)

    Hist 2.28 2 Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people. They cannot unite him to history, or reconcile him with themselves. As they come to revere their intuitions and aspire to live holily, their own piety explains every fact...
    SR 2.76 26 ...the moment [a man] acts from himself...we...thank and revere him;...
    Hsm1 2.250 22 ...we must profoundly revere [heroism].
    Chr1 3.99 12 I revere the person who is riches;...
    ET16 5.279 14 To these conscious stones [of Stonehenge] we two pilgrims [Emerson and Carlyle] were alike known and near. We could equally well revere their old British meaning.
    Grts 8.300 3 True dignity abides with him alone/ Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,/ Can still suspect, and still revere himself,/ In lowliness of heart./ Wordsworth.
    Supl 10.173 15 The expressors are the gods of the world, but the men whom these expressors revere are the solid, balanced, undemonstrative citizens...
    Schr 10.264 10 [The scholar] is...here to revere the dominion of a serene necessity...
    LS 11.21 14 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...
    CInt 12.130 9 If I had young men to reach, I should say to them, Keep the intellect sacred. Revere it.
    Let 12.400 16 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius...
    Let 12.401 9 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them nothing prospers because the godlike nature which is the root of all prosperity they do not revere;...

revered, v. (8)

    Con 1.325 10 It is my business to make myself revered.
    Fdsp 2.210 25 Let [your friend] be to thee for ever a sort of beautiful enemy, untamable, devoutly revered...
    Pol1 3.219 22 A man has a right...to be revered.
    NR 3.248 15 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I revered saints, but woke up glad that the old pagan world stood its ground and died hard;...
    Chr2 10.110 12 ...Spinoza has come to be revered.
    SlHr 10.444 6 ...how solitary [Samuel Hoar] looked, day by day in the world, this man so revered, this man of public life...
    Thor 10.472 27 [Thoreau] grew to be revered and admired by his townsmen...
    HDC 11.45 13 [The settlers of Concord] bore to John Winthrop, the Governor, a grave but hearty kindness. For the first time, men examined the powers of the chief whom they loved and revered.

reverence, n. (60)

    Nat 1.7 19 The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible;...
    DSA 1.121 12 The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws.
    LE 1.181 11 Let [the scholar] know that...most in the reverence of the humble commerce and humble needs of life...the secret of the world is to be learned...
    LT 1.267 14 Slowly...it steals on us, the new fact, that we who were pupils or aspirants...do compose a portion of that head and heart we are wont to think worthy of all reverence and heed.
    Con 1.302 8 That which is best about conservatism, that which, though it cannot be expressed in detail, inspires reverence in all, is the Inevitable.
    Con 1.323 20 ...it is always at last the virtue of some men in the society, which keeps the law in any reverence and power.
    Hist 2.24 19 The reverence exhibited [in the Grecian period] is for personal qualities;...
    Hist 2.31 5 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which...seems the self-defence of man against...a feeling that the obligation of reverence is onerous.
    SR 2.56 24 The other terror that scares us from self-trust is...a reverence for our past act or word...
    SR 2.63 12 [The world] has been taught by this colossal symbol [of kings] the mutual reverence that is due from man to man.
    SL 2.158 22 ...as much goodness as there is, so much reverence it commands.
    Lov1 2.174 1 I have been told that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal relations.
    Fdsp 2.209 14 ...friends are self-elected. Reverence is a great part of it.
    Chr1 3.87 9 His action won such reverence sweet,/ As hid all measure of the feat./
    Chr1 3.95 5 Is there nothing but rope and iron? Is there no love, no reverence.
    Gts 3.162 18 We arraign society if it do not give us...opportunity, love, reverence and objects of veneration.
    NER 3.280 16 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws...
    PPh 4.58 9 [Plato] has a probity, a native reverence for justice and honor...
    SwM 4.138 1 He who loves goodness...reveres reverence...
    MoS 4.186 7 ...let [a man] learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence without losing his reverence;...
    GoW 4.272 11 One looks at a king with reverence;...
    ET13 5.218 20 The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization...
    ET14 5.246 23 Bulwer...is distinguished for his reverence of intellect as a temporality...
    Wsp 6.205 11 These [prophetic souls] announce absolute truths, which, with whatever reverence received, are speedily dragged down into a savage interpretation.
    SS 7.15 2 A higher civility will reestablish in our customs a certain reverence which we have lost.
    WD 7.177 22 The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment.
    Clbs 7.237 3 ...though they know that there is in the speaker a degree...of insincerity and of talking for victory, yet...habitual reverence for principles over talent or learning, is felt by the frivolous.
    Cour 7.253 3 I observe that there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind...disinterestedness...practical power...courage...
    QO 8.182 14 ...whatever undue reverence may have been claimed for [the Bible] by the prestige of philonic inspiration, the stronger tendency we are describing is likely to undo.
    Grts 8.310 10 You are rightly fond of certain books or men that you have found to excite your reverence and emulation.
    Grts 8.319 12 What are these [heroes] but the promise and the preparation of a day...when the measure of greatness shall be usefulness in the highest sense, greatness consisting in truth, reverence and good will?
    Imtl 8.342 17 Ignorant people confound reverence for the intuitions with egotism.
    Aris 10.36 18 ...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman, and all the whimsical tyranny of Fashion which has continued to engraft itself on this reverence, is a secret homage to reality and love...
    Aris 10.36 24 ...instead of this impure, a pure reverence for character...is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion...
    Chr2 10.115 10 ...in [Jesus's] disciples, admiration of him runs away with their reverence for the human soul...
    Chr2 10.117 17 The Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.
    SovE 10.198 4 ...Religion is...the emotion of reverence which the presence of the universal mind ever excites in the individual.
    SovE 10.205 27 We delight in children...because of their reverence for their seniors, and for their objects of belief.
    SovE 10.206 21 We in America are charged...that reverence does not belong to our character;...
    SovE 10.207 4 ...we are fast losing or have already lost our old reverence;...
    Prch 10.219 11 It is certain that...many...periods of inactivity...will occur. In those hours, we can find comfort in reverence of the highest power, and only in that.
    Prch 10.220 3 Art will embody this vanishing Spirit in temples, pictures, sculptures and hymns. The senses instantly transfer the reverence from the vanishing Spirit to this steadfast form.
    Prch 10.220 15 ...the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and burned. Then the good sense of the people wakes up so far as to take tacit part with them, to cast off reverence for the Church;...
    Schr 10.271 24 This reverence [for genius and virtue] is the reestablishment of natural order;...
    Schr 10.273 19 Other men are...heaving and carrying, each that he may peacefully execute the fine function by which they all are helped. Shall [the scholar] play, whilst their eyes follow him from far with reverence...
    Plu 10.307 3 ...we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power from the philosopher in his closet...
    EzRy 10.389 1 [Ezra Ripley] had a reverence and love of society...
    MMEm 10.410 2 ...we lose sight of the first necessity,-here too amid works red with default in all great and grand and infinite aims. Yet with intentions disinterested, though uncontrolled by proper reverence for others.
    SlHr 10.439 18 The severity of [Samuel Hoar's] logic might have inspired fear, had it not been restrained by his natural reverence...
    SlHr 10.439 21 [Samuel Hoar] combined a uniform self-respect with a natural reverence for every other man;...
    Carl 10.494 17 Great is [Carlyle's] reverence for realities...
    HDC 11.45 15 The bands of love and reverence, held fast the little state [the Massachusetts Bay Colony]...
    II 12.79 2 The whole ethics of thought is of this kind, flowing out of reverence of the source...
    CInt 12.113 12 ...it were a compounding of all gradation and reverence to suffer the flash of swords and the boyish strife of passion and feebleness of military strength to intrude [in the college] on this sanctity and omnipotence of Intellectual Law.
    CInt 12.125 4 ...unless...the professor...takes care to interpose a certain relief and cherishing and reverence for the wild poet and dawning philosopher he has detected in his classes, that will happen which has happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
    MAng1 12.222 10 ...not the most swinish compost of mud and blood that was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in human clay.
    Milt1 12.252 2 ...by his own innate worth this man [Milton] has steadily risen in the world's reverence...
    MLit 12.321 13 ...more than any other contemporary bard [Wordsworth] is pervaded with a reverence of somewhat higher than (conscious) thought.
    MLit 12.336 4 Religion will bind again these that were sometime frivolous, customary, enemies...into a joyful reverence for the circumambient Whole...
    AgMs 12.360 9 ...it was easy to see that [Edmund Hosmer] felt toward the author [of the Agricultural Survey] much as soldiers do toward the historiographer who follows the camp, more good nature than reverence for the gownsman.

reverence, v. (4)

    MoS 4.186 6 ...let [a man] learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence without losing his reverence;...
    WD 7.177 24 [Our ancestors'] merit was not to reverence the old...
    QO 8.185 25 Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan which pleased his childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence the dreams of his youth...
    Plu 10.319 2 [Alexander] persuaded...the Persians to reverence, not marry their mothers;...

reverencing, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.223 8 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon,--reverencing the splendor of the God which he sees bursting through each chink and cranny.

reverend, adj. (7)

    DSA 1.145 5 ...one good soul shall make the name...of Zoroaster, reverend forever.
    Con 1.295 6 The conservative party established the reverend hierarchies and monarchies of the most ancient world.
    MoS 4.172 2 Skepticism is the attitude assumed by the student in relation to the particulars which society adores, but which he sees to be reverend only in their tendency and spirit.
    ET13 5.227 6 Brougham...said, How will the reverend bishops of the other house be able to express their due abhorrence of the crime of perjury...
    Comc 8.167 23 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me...with joy sparkling in his eyes. And how is my friend, the reverend Doctor? I inquired.
    PPo 8.248 14 [The mind] indicates this respect to absolute truth by the use it makes of the symbols that are most stable and reverend...
    SlHr 10.447 12 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school...

Reverend Dark, n. (1)

    Plu 10.321 27 Were there not a sun, we might, for all the other stars, pass our days in the Reverend Dark, as Heraclitus calls it.

reverent, adj. (1)

    CInt 12.126 23 ...a college...should aim at a reverent discipline and invitation of the soul...

reverential, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.50 9 The best moments of life are...the reverential withdrawing of nature before its God.

reverently, adv. (2)

    Pt1 3.14 12 Here we find ourselves suddenly not in a critical speculation but in a holy place, and should go very warily and reverently.
    Edc1 10.153 26 Our modes of Education aim...to do for masses what cannot be done for masses, what must be done reverently, one by one...

reverers, n. (1)

    DL 7.121 8 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band...of austerity, which...has...made them...reverers of the grand, the beautiful and the good.

reveres, v. (5)

    OS 2.279 15 ...if I renounce my will and act for the soul...out of [my child' s] young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.
    Pt1 3.5 5 The young man reveres men of genius, because...they are more himself than he is.
    SwM 4.138 1 He who loves goodness...reveres reverence...
    PLT 12.63 25 ...at last [the Intellect] will be justified, though for the moment it seem hostile to what is most reveres.
    II 12.87 6 The virtue of the Intellect is its own...and at last, it will be justified, though for the time it seem hostile to that which it most reveres.

reverie, n. (1)

    SR 2.65 11 ...the idlest reverie, the faintest native emotion, command my curiosity and respect.

reveries, n. (4)

    Fdsp 2.196 27 ...I must hazard the production of the bald fact amidst these pleasing reveries...
    OS 2.270 9 If we consider what happens...in reveries...we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    Art1 2.367 14 [Men] despatch the day's weary chores, and fly to voluptuous reveries.
    Pol1 3.201 5 The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic.

revering, v. (1)

    OS 2.296 27 ...revering the soul...man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh...

reverse, adj. (3)

    Tran 1.330 25 [The idealist] does not deny the presence of this table, this chair...but he looks at these things as the reverse side of the tapestry...
    SR 2.89 2 Not so, O friends! will the God deign to enter and inhabit you, but by a method precisely the reverse.
    MoS 4.149 8 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals], and when the observer has seen the obverse, he turns it over to see the reverse.

reverse, n. (16)

    NER 3.267 3 ...this union [of men] must be inward...and is to be reached by a reverse of the methods they use.
    PPh 4.56 11 Plato turns incessantly the obverse and the reverse of the medal of Jove.
    PPh 4.76 22 ...[Plato] has said one thing in one place, and the reverse of it in another place.
    MoS 4.184 2 Charles Fourier announced that...every desire predicts its own satisfaction. Yet all experience exhibits the reverse of this;...
    MoS 4.185 10 Things seem to say one thing, and say the reverse.
    NMW 4.238 14 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought...a great deal about what he should do in case of a reverse of fortune.
    NMW 4.241 12 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon promises the troops that he will keep his person out of reach of fire. This declaration, which is the reverse of that ordinarily made by generals and sovereigns on the eve of a battle, sufficiently explains the devotion of the army to their leader.
    NMW 4.253 9 I am sorry that the brilliant picture [of Napoleon] has its reverse.
    Wsp 6.201 15 ...I am sure that a certain truth will be said through me... though I should try to say the reverse.
    Bty 6.292 14 Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms. Any fixedness...is the reverse of flowing, and therefore deformed.
    SovE 10.206 13 It is very sad to see men who think their goodness made of themselves; it is very grateful to see those who hold an opinion the reverse of this.
    Prch 10.224 19 Now every man...professes this but practises the reverse;...
    Thor 10.479 5 The habit of a realist to find things the reverse of their appearance inclined [Thoreau] to put every statement in a paradox.
    FSLC 11.212 6 The behavior of Boston was the reverse of what it should have been...
    EdAd 11.387 2 We hesitate to employ a word so much abused as patriotism, whose true sense is almost the reverse of its popular sense.
    FRep 11.531 25 In this country...there is, at present...an extravagant confidence in our talent and activity, which becomes, whilst successful, a scornful materialism,-but with the fault, of course, that it has...no reserved force whereon to fall back when a reverse comes.

reverse, v. (6)

    SR 2.63 17 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to...make his own scale of men and things and reverse theirs...was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified...the right of every man.
    ET1 5.13 19 ...on learning that I had been in Malta and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other, repeating what he had said to the Bishop of London when he returned from that country, that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy; for, in any town there, it only needed to ask what the government enacted, and reverse that, to know what ought to be done;...
    Wsp 6.233 19 Thus can the faithful student reverse all the warnings of his early instinct...
    EWI 11.106 15 Very unwilling had that great lawyer [Lord Mansfield] been to reverse the late decisions [on slavery];...
    ACiv 11.297 15 ...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and to pronounce labor disgraceful...
    Mem 12.90 22 It is essential to a locomotive that it can reverse its movement...

reversed, v. (1)

    Hsm1 2.251 1 ...a different breeding, different religion and greater intellectual activity would have modified or even reversed the particular action...

reverses, n. (1)

    Trag 12.416 14 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature seems to have calculated that I should have great reverses to endure, for she has given me a temperament like a block of marble.

reverses, v. (2)

    SMC 11.353 4 A thunder-storm at sea sometimes reverses the magnets in the ship...
    CInt 12.121 18 [A larger angle of vision] reverses all rank;...

reverted, adj. (2)

    SR 2.67 15 ...man...with reverted eye laments the past...
    Comp 2.126 5 ...we walk ever with reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards.

reverted, v. (2)

    SovE 10.212 12 ...the Power sends in the next moment a new lesson, which we lose while our eyes are reverted and striving to perpetuate the old.
    FRep 11.539 10 It is not by heads reverted to the dying Demosthenes...that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time.

reverting, v. (1)

    Farm 7.152 21 ...we cannot enumerate the incidents and agents of the farm without reverting to their influence on the farmer.

Review, Edinburgh, n. (6)

    LE 1.160 7 ...neither Greece nor Rome...nor the Edinburgh Review...is to command any longer.
    ET1 5.3 21 Like most young men at that time, I was much indebted to the men of Edinburgh and of the Edinburgh Review...
    ET17 5.295 1 The Edinburgh Review wrote what would tell and what would sell.
    LLNE 10.339 14 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review.
    EWI 11.137 7 All men remember the subtlety and the fire of indignation which the Edinburgh Review contributed to the cause [of emancipation in the West Indies];...
    ACiv 11.301 3 You wish to satisfy people that slavery is bad economy. Why, The Edinburgh Review pounded on that string...forty years ago.

Review, Massachusetts Quart (1)

    EdAd 11.393 13 The name [Massachusetts Quarterly Review] might convey the impression...that nothing is to be found here which was not written expressly for the Review;...

review, n. (4)

    Mrs1 3.147 26 If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe...should pass in review...we might find no gentleman and no lady;...
    Prch 10.231 19 I do not love sensation preaching...the review of our appearances...
    HDC 11.72 13 On 13th March [1775], at a general review of all the military companies [of Concord], [William Emerson] preached to a very full assembly...
    Mem 12.109 11 You know what is told of the experience of some persons who have been recovered from drowning. They relate that their whole life's history seemed to pass before them in review.

Review, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.393 7 ...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal. We have obeyed the custom and convenience of the time in adopting this form of a Review...

Review, Retrospective, Lond (1)

    MAng1 12.241 9 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper by Signor Radici in the London Retrospective Review...

review, v. (1)

    HDC 11.29 11 We will review the deeds of our fathers...

Review, Westminster, n. (1)

    MoS 4.163 12 That Journal of Mr. Sterling's, published in the Westminster Review, Mr. Hazlitt has reprinted in the Prolegomena to his edition of the Essays [of Montaigne].

Reviewers, Edinburgh, n. (1)

    ET17 5.294 24 [Wordsworth] detailed the two models, on one or the other of which all the sentences of the historian Robertson are framed. Nor could Jeffrey, nor the Edinburgh Reviewers write English...

reviewers, n. (1)

    PI 8.63 16 There is something...the eminent scholars of England, historians and reviewers, romancers and poets included, might deny and blaspheme it,--which is setting us and them aside...and planting itself.

reviewing, v. (1)

    EWI 11.127 15 On reviewing this history, I think the whole transaction [emancipation in the West Indies] reflects infinite honor on the people and parliament of England.

Reviews, n. (1)

    ET1 5.10 1 Landor is strangely undervalued in England;...sometimes savagely attacked in the Reviews.

reviled, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.174 22 In the mount of vision, ere they have yet risen from their knees, [the saints] say...we must fly for relief to the suspected and reviled Intellect....

revisal, n. (1)

    SL 2.161 20 This revisal or correction is a constant force...

revise, v. (2)

    MR 1.248 2 We are to revise the whole of our social structure...
    HDC 11.46 5 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies.

Revised Statutes, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.445 26 Had you read Swedenborg or Plotinus to [Samuel Hoar], he would have waited till you had done, and answered you out of the Revised Statutes.

revised, v. (4)

    MN 1.194 1 Even the scholar is not safe; he too is searched and revised.
    Comp 2.112 5 Fear for ages has boded and mowed and gibbered over government and property. That obscene bird is not there for nothing. He indicates great wrongs which must be revised.
    Cir 2.308 27 ...there is not any literary reputation...that may not be revised and condemned.
    ET17 5.291 2 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits], now revised after seven busy years have much changed men and things in England, I have abstained from reference to persons...

revises, v. (1)

    SL 2.161 15 The epochs of our life are...in a thought which revises our entire manner of life...

revising, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.174 18 ...it may seem to many men, in revising their experience, that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft...to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.

revision, n. (3)

    DL 7.114 26 Our whole use of wealth needs revision and reform.
    Plu 10.310 4 [Some of Plutarch's works] are...very crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors, some of them jocosely misreporting the dogma of the professor, who laid them aside as memoranda for future revision...
    Milt1 12.275 23 ...in Paradise Regained, we have the most distinct marks of the progress of the poet's mind, in the revision and enlargement of his religious opinions.

revisit, v. (1)

    Aris 10.66 5 ...the American who would serve his country must...revisit the margin of that well from which his fathers drew waters of life and enthusiasm...

revisits, v. (1)

    Int 2.332 25 Every trivial fact in [the writer's] private biography...revisits the day...

revisit'st, v. (1)

    ShP 4.207 5 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...and all I then heard and all I now remember of the tragedian was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost: What may this mean,/ That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel/ Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon?/

revival, n. (4)

    OS 2.282 15 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist;...the revival of the Calvinistic churches;...are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.
    Schr 10.282 27 I wish to see a revival of the human mind...
    Plu 10.296 17 ...recently, there has been a remarkable revival, in France, in the taste for Plutarch...
    ACri 12.283 15 ...a war, an earthquake, revival of letters...exist to [the writer] as colors for his brush.

Revival, n. (1)

    Hist 2.10 25 We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before a fanatic Revival...

Revival of Letters, n. (2)

    Hist 2.39 8 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the Revival of Letters...
    Schr 10.282 26 We have had once what was called the Revival of Letters.

Revival of Religion, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.181 23 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame. I cannot read longer even the local good news. When I look down the columns at the titles of paragraphs...Art Union, Revival of Religion, what bitter mockeries!

revivals, n. (3)

    Wsp 6.208 25 In creeds never was such levity; witness...the periodic revivals...
    Chr2 10.118 4 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies to the help of the deaf-mute and the blind...
    Schr 10.282 25 We have many revivals of religion.

revive, v. (2)

    AmS 1.82 5 Who can doubt that poetry will revive and lead in a new age...
    Insp 8.282 9 ...it sometimes if rarely happens that after a season of decay or eclipse...the faculties revive to their fullest force.

revived, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.512 7 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood]; sent boxes of these as gifts to every court of Europe, and formed the taste of the world. It was a renaissance of the breakfast-table and china-closet. The brave manufacturers made their fortune. The jewellers imitated the revived models in silver and gold.

revived, v. (2)

    LT 1.272 20 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands.
    CL 12.155 11 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy burden. Then, spending a few days in the low country of Norway...my languor or heaviness returned. When I again ascended the Alps, I revived as before.

revives, v. (3)

    Hist 2.26 16 A person of childlike genius and inborn energy is still a Greek, and revives our love of the Muse of Hellas.
    Fdsp 2.198 6 The instinct of affection revives the hope of union with our mates...
    Ctr 6.137 6 Culture...puts [a man] among his equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy...

revolt, n. (6)

    MN 1.201 8 There is no revolt in all the kingdoms from the commonweal...
    NER 3.263 20 ...the revolt against the spirit of commerce...did not appear possible to individuals;...
    ET5 5.88 2 ...Popery, Plymouth colony, American Revolution, are all questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner, and except as touching that, would not have lashed the British nation to rage and revolt.
    CbW 6.262 15 In our life and culture everything is worked up and comes in use,--passion, war, revolt, bankruptcy...
    OA 7.322 9 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo...after the revolt again victorious and elected at the age of ninety-six to the throne of the Eastern Empire...
    LLNE 10.338 18 [Goethe] extended [his theory of metamorphosis] into anatomy and animal life, and his views were accepted. The revolt became a revolution.

revolted, v. (2)

    MN 1.198 15 My eyes and ears are revolted by any neglect of the physical facts, the limitations of man.
    LLNE 10.338 8 The German poet Goethe revolted against the science of the day...

revolters, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.219 14 ...the nature of the revolution is not affected by the vices of the revolters;...

revolting, adj. (2)

    LLNE 10.337 22 On the heels of this intruder [Phrenology] came Mesmerism, which...attempted the explanation of miracle and prophecy, as well as of creation. What could be more revolting to the contemplative philosopher!
    War 11.156 18 To men...in whom is any knowledge or mental activity, the detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and revolting.

revolting, v. (1)

    EWI 11.135 19 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the masters revolting from their mastery.

Revolution, American, n. (12)

    MN 1.219 21 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement] was the growth and expansion of the human race, and resembled herein the sequent Revolution...
    ET5 5.87 26 ...Popery, Plymouth colony, American Revolution, are all questions involving a yeoman's right to his dinner...
    Wsp 6.204 2 The stern old faiths have all pulverized. ... 'T is as flat anarchy in our ecclesiastic realms as that which existed in Massachusetts in the Revolution...
    MMEm 10.399 24 Mary Moody Emerson was born just before the outbreak of the Revolution.
    HDC 11.67 20 The planting of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony was the effect of religious principle. The Revolution was the fruit of another principle,-the devouring thirst for justice.
    HDC 11.72 4 The clergy of New England were, for the most part, zealous promoters of the Revolution.
    HDC 11.76 13 ...we see what manner of persons they were who stood in the worst perils of the [American] Revolution.
    FSLC 11.180 15 ...The Boston of the American Revolution...Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
    AKan 11.262 26 I think the American Revolution bought its glory cheap.
    RBur 11.440 8 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...that uprising which worked politically in the American and French Revolutions...
    Bost 12.210 12 We praised with a certain adulation the invariable valor of the old war-gods and war-councillors of the Revolution.
    Bost 12.211 4 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./

Revolution, French, History (1)

    PPr 12.379 4 Here is Carlyle's new poem [Past and Present], his Iliad of English woes, to follow his poem on France, entitled the History of the French Revolution.

Revolution, French, n. (11)

    LT 1.281 15 The sad Pestalozzi, who shared with all ardent spirits the hope of Europe on the outbreak of the French Revolution...recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
    Chr1 3.89 5 It has been complained of our brilliant English historian of the French Revolution that when he has told all his facts about Mirabeau, they do not justify his estimate of his genius.
    NMW 4.240 12 ...[Napoleon] exists as captain and king only as far as the Revolution, or the interest of the industrious masses, found an organ and a leader in him.
    NMW 4.245 11 The Revolution entitled the strong populace of the Faubourg St. Antoine, and every horse-boy and powder-monkey in the army, to look on Napoleon as flesh of his flesh...
    Clbs 7.240 21 The court successively appoints three more severe inquisitors; Beaumarchais converts them all into triumphant vindicators of the play which is to bring in the Revolution.
    Aris 10.34 21 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe.
    LLNE 10.348 13 Fourier carried a whole French Revolution in his head...
    LLNE 10.355 9 ...like the dreams of poetic people on the first outbreak of the old French Revolution, so [the Fourierist community] would disappear in a slime of mire and blood.
    LLNE 10.364 26 [Brook Farm] was...a French Revolution in small...
    RBur 11.440 8 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...that uprising which worked politically in the American and French Revolutions...
    Milt1 12.278 12 [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] was a sally of the extravagant spirit of the time, overjoyed, as in the French Revolution, with the sudden victories it had gained...

revolution, n. (67)

    Nat 1.31 24 Long hereafter...in the hour of revolution, - these solemn images shall reappear in their morning lustre...
    Nat 1.76 20 A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.
    AmS 1.107 19 This revolution is to be wrought by the gradual domestication of the idea of Culture.
    AmS 1.109 12 ...a revolution in the leading idea may be distinctly enough traced.
    DSA 1.144 6 Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution.
    LE 1.178 19 Bonaparte represents truly a great recent revolution...
    MR 1.235 15 I see no instant prospect of a virtuous revolution;...
    LT 1.283 26 ...we begin to doubt if that great revolution in the art of war, which has made it a game of posts instead of a game of battles, has not operated on Reform;...
    Con 1.317 20 Yonder peasant...carries a whole revolution of man and nature in his head...
    YA 1.379 27 In consequence of the revolution in the state of society wrought by trade, Government in our times is beginning to wear a clumsy and cumbrous appearance.
    YA 1.384 15 This is the value of the Communities;...the revolution which they indicate as on the way.
    Hist 2.4 25 Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind...
    SR 2.47 24 ...we are...not cowards fleeing before a revolution...
    SR 2.77 4 It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men;...
    SR 2.88 7 Especially [the cultivated man] hates what he has if he see that it...came to him by...crime; then he feels that...it...merely lies there because no revolution...takes it away.
    SL 2.151 27 [The world] will certainly accept your own measure of your doing and being...whether you see your work produced to the concave sphere of the heavens, one with the revolution of the stars.
    Lov1 2.169 11 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and works a revolution in his mind and body;...
    Chr1 3.98 12 What have I gained...that I do not tremble before...the Calvinistic Judgment-day,--if I quake...at the rumor of revolution...
    Mrs1 3.127 23 Napoleon, child of the revolution...never ceased to court the Faubourg St. Germain;...
    Pol1 3.219 13 ...the nature of the revolution is not affected by the vices of the revolters;...
    SwM 4.110 19 ...[Swedenborg] must be reckoned a leader in that revolution, which, by giving to science an idea, has given to an aimless accumulation of experiments, guidance and form and a beating heart.
    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.
    ET5 5.87 17 It is not usually a point of honor...and never any whim, that [the English] will shed their blood for; but usually property, and right measured by property, that breeds revolution.
    ET6 5.106 21 [The English] will not break up, or arrive at any desperate revolution...
    ET11 5.180 22 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy...
    ET11 5.196 4 The revolution in society has reached this class [the English nobility].
    ET14 5.245 22 Hallam...is unconscious of the deep worth which lies in the mystics, and which often outvalues as a seed of power and a source of revolution all the correct writers and shining reputations of their day.
    ET16 5.287 20 ...'t is certain as God liveth, the gun that does not need another gun, the law of love and justice alone, can effect a clean revolution.
    ET17 5.297 23 [Wordsworth] lived long enough to witness the revolution he had wrought...
    Wth 6.105 18 Rothschild refuses the Russian loan, and there is peace and the harvests are saved. He takes it, and there is...an agitation through a large portion of mankind...ending in revolution and a new order.
    Ctr 6.162 12 Fear not a revolution which will constrain you to live five years in one.
    Wsp 6.208 20 A silent revolution has loosed the tension of the old religious sects...
    CbW 6.254 21 ...the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters a rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.
    CbW 6.262 6 As we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism, so is...national bankruptcy or revolution more rich in the central tones than languid years of prosperity.
    Elo1 7.61 12 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... ...a fourth needs a revolution;...
    Elo1 7.83 17 ...let Bacon speak and wise men would rather listen though the revolution of kingdoms was on foot.
    DL 7.116 17 ...many things betoken a revolution of opinion and practice in regard to manual labor...
    Clbs 7.242 22 There was a time when in France a revolution occurred in domestic architecture;...
    Res 8.142 14 ...we have seen the most healthful revolution in the politics of the nation,--the Constitution not only amended, but construed in a new spirit.
    PC 8.209 11 A silent revolution has impelled...all this activity [in America].
    PC 8.212 1 That cosmical west wind which...constitutes, by the revolution of the globe, the upper current, is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
    PPo 8.250 20 ...sometimes [Hafiz's] feast, feasters and world are only one pebble more in the eternal vortex and revolution of Fate...
    Imtl 8.328 4 ...we are all aware of a revolution in opinion [concerning immortality].
    Aris 10.46 25 ...the revolution of things is always bringing the need, now of this, now of that...
    Aris 10.63 8 ...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the standard of Chartist and outlaw?
    Aris 10.63 19 Let [the man of honor]...say, The time will come when these poor enfans perdus of revolution, will have instructed their party, if only by their fate...
    Edc1 10.133 18 When I see...that there is no sot or fop, ruffian or pedant into whom thoughts do not enter by passages which the individual never left open, I can expect any revolution in character.
    Edc1 10.136 25 I call our system [of education] a system of despair, and I find all the correction, all the revolution that is needed...in one word, in Hope.
    Edc1 10.156 14 Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs.
    SovE 10.202 14 In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference of opinion in regard to...the future state of the soul; every variety of opinion, and rapid revolution in opinions, in the last half century.
    Prch 10.217 19 In consequence of this revolution in opinion, it appears, for the time, as the misfortune of this period that the cultivated mind has not the happiness and dignity of the religious sentiment.
    MoL 10.253 6 See a political revolution dogging a book.
    LLNE 10.328 3 Europe is strewn with wrecks; a constitution once a week. In social manners and morals the revolution is just as evident.
    LLNE 10.335 27 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science;...
    LLNE 10.338 19 [Goethe] extended [his theory of metamorphosis] into anatomy and animal life, and his views were accepted. The revolt became a revolution.
    Carl 10.496 21 ...the new French revolution of 1848 was the best thing [Carlyle] had seen...
    EWI 11.135 12 This event [emancipation in the West Indies] was a moral revolution.
    FSLN 11.218 11 Owing to the silent revolution which the newspaper has wrought, this class [students and scholars] has come in this country to take in all classes.
    AKan 11.262 24 A harder task will the new revolution of the nineteenth century be than was the revolution of the eighteenth century.
    AKan 11.262 25 A harder task will the new revolution of the nineteenth century be than was the revolution of the eighteenth century.
    Wom 11.406 22 ...any remarkable opinion or movement shared by woman will be the first sign of revolution.
    CPL 11.505 26 In 1618 (8th March) John Kepler came upon the discovery of the law connecting the mean distances of the planets with the periods of their revolution about the sun...
    FRep 11.517 24 [The American people] are now proceeding...to carry out, not the bill of rights, but the bill of human duties. And look what revolution that attempt involves.
    FRep 11.530 11 The revolution [in America] is the work of no man...
    PLT 12.57 25 Peter is the mould into which everything is poured like warm wax, and be it astronomy or railroads or French revolution or theology or botany, it comes out Peter.
    ACri 12.298 5 ...the revolution wrought by Carlyle is precisely parallel to that going forward in picture, by the stereoscope.
    Trag 12.413 22 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...and in calm times it will not appear that he is adrift and not moored; but let any shock take place in society, any revolution of custom, of law, of opinion, and at once his type of permanence is shaken.

Revolution, n. (6)

    AmS 1.110 6 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution;...
    HDC 11.85 16 Every moment carries us farther from the two great epochs of public principle, the Planting, and the Revolution of the colony [of Massachusetts Bay].
    JBB 11.267 22 [John Brown's] grandfather...was a captain in the Revolution.
    JBB 11.268 17 [John Brown] joins that perfect Puritan faith which brought his fifth ancestor to Plymouth Rock with his grandfather's ardor in the Revolution.
    SMC 11.352 1 The old [Concord] Monument...stands to signalize the first Revolution...
    Koss 11.397 18 ...you [Kossuth] could not take all your steps in the pilgrimage of American liberty, until you had seen with your eyes the ruins of the bridge where a handful of brave farmers opened our Revolution.

Revolution, Red, n. (1)

    Aris 10.63 12 ...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the standard of Chartist and outlaw? No, for these have been dragged in their ignorance by furious chiefs to the Red Revolution;...

revolutionary, adj. (8)

    NR 3.247 11 ...the most sincere and revolutionary doctrine...shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside...
    ET11 5.188 7 ...[the English nobility] are they...who gather and protect works of art, dragged from amidst burning cities and revolutionary countries...
    Boks 7.190 6 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables...of the old Orpheus of Thrace,--books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative...
    PC 8.209 8 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...all, one may say, in a high degree revolutionary...
    PC 8.217 16 [Culture] is...the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect.
    LLNE 10.356 25 [Thoreau]...brought every day a new proposition, as revolutionary as that of yesterday, but different...
    Thor 10.463 1 If [Thoreau] brought you yesterday a new proposition, he would bring you to-day another not less revolutionary.
    Milt1 12.279 7 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who, in a revolutionary age... endeavored...to carry out the life of man to new heights of spiritual grace and dignity...

Revolutionary War, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.382 13 The commencement of the Revolutionary War greatly interrupted [Ezra Ripley's] education at college.

revolutionize, v. (2)

    Cir 2.310 11 A new degree of culture would instantly revolutionize the entire system of human pursuits.
    Prch 10.224 16 ...the torpid heart gives no oracle. When that wakes, it will revolutionize the world.

revolutionized, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.267 26 [Milton] returned into his revolutionized country, and assumed an honest and useful task...

revolutions, n. (35)

    Nat 1.73 5 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...the achievements of a principle, as in religious and political revolutions...
    LE 1.180 19 ...always remained [Napoleon's] total trust in the prodigious revolutions of fortune which his reserved Imperial Guard were capable of working...
    MR 1.253 23 Let our affection flow out to our fellows; it would operate in a day the greatest of all revolutions.
    LT 1.285 21 The revolutions that impend over society are not now from ambition and rapacity...
    SR 2.88 12 ...what the man acquires, is living property, which does not wait the beck of...revolutions...
    Comp 2.111 23 Fear is...the herald of all revolutions.
    Comp 2.125 1 In proportion to the vigor of the individual these revolutions are frequent...
    Comp 2.126 17 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life...
    Hsm1 2.258 24 ...[many extraordinary young men's] is the tone of a youthful giant who is sent to work revolutions.
    Pol1 3.201 20 The theory of politics...which [men] have expressed the best they could in their laws and in their revolutions, considers persons and property as the two objects for whose protection government exists.
    Pol1 3.216 3 That which...which freedom, cultivation, intercourse, revolutions, go to form and deliver, is character;...
    PPh 4.65 17 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...and that...we might, by imitating the uniform revolutions of divinity, set right our own wanderings and blunders.
    ET10 5.161 13 ...[the Bank of England] refuses loans, and...revolutions break out;...
    ET10 5.164 2 [The English] have no revolutions;...
    ET13 5.220 16 ...the age...of the Sherlocks and Butlers, is gone. Silent revolutions in opinion have made it impossible that men like these should return...
    Wth 6.102 13 [The dollar] is the finest barometer of social storms, and announces revolutions.
    Chr2 10.113 15 No man can tell what religious revolutions await us in the next years;...
    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...
    SovE 10.207 7 Revolutions never go backward...
    MoL 10.249 4 Coleridge traces three silent revolutions...
    MoL 10.249 24 As certainly as water falls in rain on the tops of mountains and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first on the best minds, and run down...until it reaches the masses, and works revolutions.
    LLNE 10.326 13 The modern mind believed that the nation existed...for the guardianship and education of every man. This idea, roughly written in revolutions and national movements, in the mind of the philosopher had far more precision; the individual is the world.
    MMEm 10.413 26 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...When I get a glimpse of the revolutions of nations...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...
    EWI 11.135 17 Other revolutions have been the insurrection of the oppressed; [emancipation in the West Indies] was the repentance of the tyrant.
    War 11.161 10 Revolutions go not backward.
    HCom 11.342 6 ...revolutions disconcert and outwit all the insurgents.
    HCom 11.342 8 The revolutions carry their own points...
    ChiE 11.471 18 ...the wars and revolutions that occur in [China's] annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history...
    FRep 11.514 20 Prince Metternich said, Revolutions begin in the best heads and run steadily down to the populace.
    FRep 11.514 25 There have been revolutions which were not in the interest of feudalism and barbarism, but in that of society.
    FRep 11.521 24 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can have all he wants, risking all the prized charters of the human race, bought with battles and revolutions and religion...
    FRep 11.530 13 ...we say that revolutions beat all the insurgents...
    PLT 12.34 27 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to light which is no man's invention, but the common instinct, making the revolutions that never go back.
    Milt1 12.248 14 The reputation of Milton had already undergone one or two revolutions long anterior to its recent aspects.
    ACri 12.289 1 'T is odd what revolutions occur [in language].

Revolutions, n. (1)

    RBur 11.440 9 ...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...that uprising which worked politically in the American and French Revolutions...

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