T., Miss to Taleb

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

T., Miss, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.413 10 [I, Mary Moody Emerson] Met a lady in the morning walk, a foreigner,-conversed on the accomplishments of Miss T.

tabernacle, n. (2)

    MMEm 10.429 19 O dear worms,-how they will at some sure time take down this tedious tabernacle...
    CPL 11.506 9 [Kepler writes] I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt.

table d'hote, n. (3)

    Elo1 7.69 7 The traveller in Sicily needs no gayer melodramatic exhibition [of eloquence] than the table d'hote of his inn will afford him in the conversation of the joyous guests.
    Carl 10.490 25 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle...
    Shak1 11.452 7 [Periods fruitful of great men] are like the great wine years...which are not only noted in the carte of the table d'hote, but which, it is said, are always followed by new vivacity in the politics of Europe.

Table, Golden, n. (1)

    Aris 10.60 24 The Golden Table never lacks members;...

table, n. (57)

    AmS 1.105 23 Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table.
    MN 1.202 7 When we...shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...a gambling table where each is laying traps for the other...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    MR 1.228 21 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something,-church or state... the dinner table...
    LT 1.270 3 The Temperance-question, which...is tacitly recalled at every public and at every private table...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.
    Con 1.312 6 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...to thy command; scores...for thy wardrobe, thy table, thy chamber, thy library, thy leisure;...
    Tran 1.330 23 [The idealist] does not deny the presence of this table...
    Tran 1.332 12 One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...the multiplication table has been hitherto found unimpeachable truth;...
    YA 1.384 2 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life, to a common table... will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    SR 2.54 11 If you...spread your table like base housekeepers...I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are...
    Fdsp 2.207 11 In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone.
    Prd1 2.226 13 ...wherever a wild date-tree grows, nature has...spread a table for [the islander's] morning meal.
    Hsm1 2.254 13 The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies.
    Int 2.340 26 We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature. The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird...have nothing of them; the world is only their lodging and table.
    Pt1 3.10 13 I remember when I was young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table.
    Exp 3.76 12 ...the fop contrived to dress his bailiffs in his livery and make them wait on his guests at table...
    UGM 4.10 20 The table of logarithms is one thing, and its vital play in botany, music, optics and architecture another.
    UGM 4.21 8 Ever their phantoms arise before us,/ Our loftier brothers, but one in blood;/ At bed and table they lord it o'er us/ With looks of beauty and words of good./
    PPh 4.71 17 [Socrates] can drink, too;...and after leaving the whole party under the table, goes away as if nothing had happened...
    ET1 5.10 26 ...taking up Bishop Waterland's book, which lay on the table, [Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three pages written by himself in the fly-leaves...
    ET6 5.105 18 In a company of strangers you would think [the Englishman] deaf; his eyes never wander from his table and newspaper.
    ET6 5.114 3 The company [at an English dinner] sit one or two hours before the ladies leave the table.
    ET9 5.151 21 ...to wave our own flag at the dinner table or in the University is to carry the boisterous dulness of a fire-club into a polite circle.
    ET10 5.154 19 Malthus finds no cover laid at Nature's table for the laborer' s son.
    ET11 5.191 21 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...
    ET12 5.200 7 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals...
    ET12 5.206 3 If a young American...were offered a home, a table, the walks and the library in one of these academical palaces [at Oxford]...he would dance for joy.
    ET16 5.285 11 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...and so again to the house, where we found a table laid for us with bread, meats, peaches, grapes and wine.
    ET19 5.310 10 ...when I came to sea, I found the History of Europe, by Sir A. Alison, on the ship's cabin table...
    Pow 6.75 14 During the whole period of his administration [Pericles] never dined at the table of a friend.
    Bhr 6.173 25 In the hotels on the banks of the Mississippi they print...that No gentleman can be permitted to come to the public table without his coat;...
    Wsp 6.238 17 If there ever was a good man, be certain there was another and will be more. And so in relation to...that spectre clothed with beauty at our curtain by night, at our table by day...
    Elo1 7.69 13 ...[the Sicilians]...were it only by the physical strength exerted in telling the story, keep the table in unbounded excitement.
    Elo1 7.80 18 To talk of an overpowering mind rouses the same jealousy and defiance which one may observe round a table where anybody is recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism.
    DL 7.112 16 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...the daily table [is] less catered.
    Farm 7.149 12 [Peaches and grapes]...never tell on your table whence they drew their sunset complexion or their delicate flavors.
    Clbs 7.239 9 ...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 7.247 20 Men are unbent and social at table;...
    OA 7.318 3 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years, who was dying, and was saying to himself, I said, coming into the world by birth, I will enjoy myself for a few moments. Alas! at the variegated table of life, I partook of a few mouthfuls, and the Fates said, Enough!
    PI 8.36 4 The writer in the parlor has more presence of mind, more wit and fancy, more play of thought, on the incidents that occur at table or about the house, than in the politics of Germany or Rome.
    SA 8.81 10 Though the person so clothed [in manners]...lodge in the same chamber, eat at the same table, he is yet a thousand miles off...
    SA 8.85 26 Eat at your table as you would eat at the table of the king, said Confucius.
    SA 8.85 27 Eat at your table as you would eat at the table of the king, said Confucius.
    SA 8.86 8 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals. It has the effect to...introduce a moment of relfection. ... What a check to the violent manners which sometimes come to the table...
    SA 8.98 20 The law of the table is Beauty...
    QO 8.183 24 ...when [Webster] opened a new book, he turned to the table of contents...
    Insp 8.290 23 ...the experience of some good artists has taught them to prefer the smallest and plainest chamber, with one chair and table and with no outlook...
    Imtl 8.338 9 I have a house, a closet which holds my books, a table, a garden, a field...
    PerF 10.71 1 ...the strata were deposited and uptorn and bent back, and Chaos moved from beneath, to create and flavor the fruit on your table to-day.
    Chr2 10.107 8 Fifty or a hundred years ago, prayers were said, morning and evening, in all families; grace was said at table;...
    EzRy 10.389 22 ...[Ezra Ripley] repeated to me at table some of the particulars of that gentleman's [Jack Downing's] intimacy with General Jackson, in a manner which betrayed to me at once that he took the whole for fact.
    Thor 10.455 8 When asked at table what dish he preferred, [Thoreau] answered, The nearest.
    HDC 11.39 26 [The settlers of Concord] were fain to make use of their knees for a table, but their limbs were their own.
    EWI 11.142 5 If before, [the negro] was taxed with such stupidity...that he could not set a table square to the walls of an apartment, he is now the principal if not the only mechanic in the West Indies;...
    FRep 11.512 12 The marine insurance office has its mathematical counsellor to settle averages; the life-assurance, its table of annuities.
    FRep 11.524 3 ...the people] must take wine at the hotel, first, for the look of it, and second, for the purpose of sending the bottle to two or three gentlemen at the table;...
    PLT 12.16 3 The grandeur of the impression the stars and heavenly bodies make on us is surely more valuable than our exact perception of a tub or a table on the ground.
    WSL 12.339 2 ...[Landor] delights to throw a clod of dirt on the table, and cry, Gentlemen, there is a better man than all of you.

Table, Round, n. (2)

    Boks 7.221 7 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology, the Round Table...
    OA 7.317 13 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise, is a babe found exposed in a basket by the river-side...

tableaux, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.169 7 Good tableaux do not need declamation.

table-cloth, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.367 18 See how much more joy [children] find in pouring their pudding on the table-cloth than into their beautiful mouths.

table-drawers, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.209 3 In creeds never was such levity; witness...the rat and mouse revelation, thumps in table-drawers, and black art.

table-land, n. (2)

    ET14 5.244 18 Milton, who was the stair or high table-land to let down the English genius from the summits of Shakspeare, used this privilege [of generalization] sometimes in poetry, more rarely in prose.
    MLit 12.326 24 ...[Goethe's] thinking is...not a succession of summits, but a high Asiatic table-land.

table-rappers, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.26 11 I say to the table-rappers:-I well believe/ Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know,/ And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate./

tables, n. (16)

    Int 2.325 3 Every substance is negatively electric to that which stands above it in the chemical tables...
    Int 2.340 6 ...year after year our tables get no completeness...
    Art1 2.349 18 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/ .../ His fathers shining in bright fables,/ His children fed at heavenly tables./
    ET12 5.200 6 The halls [at Oxford] are rich with oaken wainscoting and ceiling. The pictures of the founders hang from the walls; the tables glitter with plate.
    ET18 5.308 11 ...if the ocean out of which it emerged should wash it away, [England] will be remembered as an island famous...for the announcements of original right which make the stone tables of liberty.
    Wth 6.98 9 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess, such as cyclopedias, dictionaries, tables, charts, maps and other public documents;...
    Bhr 6.173 4 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach: the contradictors and railers at public and private tables...
    Bty 6.297 10 ...even the noble crowd in the drawing-room clambered on chairs and tables to look at [the Duchess of Hamilton].
    Boks 7.200 12 ...it signifies little where you open [Plutarch's] book, you find yourself at the Olympian tables.
    Clbs 7.238 14 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the million mansions of heaven and of earth; at all tables, clubs and tete-a-tetes...
    Suc 7.290 11 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables...
    Comc 8.162 25 The peace of society and the decorum of tables seem to require that next to a notable wit should always be posted a phlegmatic bolt-upright man...
    QO 8.178 27 ...we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs by imitation.
    MoL 10.246 12 Bowditch translated Laplace, and when he removed to Boston, the Hospital Life Assurance Company insisted that he should make their tables of annuities.
    LS 11.2 2 The word unto the prophet spoken/ Was writ on tables yet unbroken;/...
    EPro 11.321 25 What if...the gold dollar costs one hundred and twenty-seven cents? These tables are fallacious.

tablet, n. (8)

    Nat 1.60 12 ...the soul holds itself off from a too trivial and microscopic study of the universal tablet.
    Tran 1.345 25 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? ... ...did the high idea die out of them, and leave their unperfumed body as its tomb and tablet...
    PNR 4.86 17 ...all things have symmetry in [Plato's] tablet.
    ET15 5.267 3 I was told of the dexterity of one of [the London Times's] reporters, who, finding himself...where the magistrates had strictly forbidden reporters, put his hands into his coat-pocket, and with pencil in one hand and tablet in the other, did his work.
    Art2 7.50 5 The first time you hear [good poetry], it sounds...as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind...
    Elo1 7.66 25 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe...
    PPo 8.263 3 I read on the porch of a palace bold/ In a purple tablet letters cast,-/ A house though a million winters old,/ A house of earth comes down at last;/...
    SMC 11.375 22 There are people who can hardly read the names on yonder bronze tablet [Concord Monument], the mist so gathers in their eyes.

Table-Talk [John Selden], (1)

    Boks 7.208 18 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan;...Selden's Table-Talk;...

Table-Talk [Martin Luther] (2)

    Boks 7.208 17 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan; Luther's Table-Talk;...
    Clbs 7.236 10 ...it is not [Luther's] theologic works...but his Table-Talk, which is still read by men.

table-talk, n. (6)

    PPh 4.44 19 ...our Jewish Bible has implanted itself in the table-talk and household life of every man and woman in the European and American nations...
    ET6 5.114 7 The [English] dress-dinner generates a talent of table-talk which reaches great perfection...
    ET6 5.114 17 English stories, bon-mots and the recorded table-talk of their wits, are as good as the best of the French.
    ET10 5.154 10 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer. You shall find this sentiment...deeply implied...in the tone of the preaching and in the table-talk.
    DL 7.109 1 Let us go to the sitting-room, the table-talk and the expenditure of our contemporaries.
    QO 8.183 7 ...the whole cyclopaedia of [a great man's] table-talk is presently believed to be his own.

Table-Talk [Samuel Taylor (2)

    Boks 7.208 20 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan;...Coleridge's Table-Talk;...
    Clbs 7.237 10 ...the Table-Talk of Coleridge is one of the best remains of his genius.

Table-Talks, n. (1)

    Boks 7.208 16 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks...

tablets, n. (6)

    Hist 2.5 14 Each new law and political movement has a meaning for you. Stand before each of its tablets and say, Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself.
    ET7 5.116 22 Private men [in England] keep their promises, never so trivial. Down goes the flying word on the tablets...
    ET14 5.235 16 When the Gothic nations came into Europe they found it lighted with the sun and moon of Hebrew and of Greek genius. The tablets of their brain...were finely sensible to the double glory.
    Bhr 6.177 3 If [the human body] were made of glass, or of air, and the thoughts were written on steel tablets within, it could not publish more truly its meaning than now.
    PLT 12.7 23 ...[a plain man] comes to write in his tablets, Avoid the great man as one who is privileged to be an unprofitable companion.
    MAng1 12.230 10 [Michelangelo's paintings are in the Sistine Chapel, of which he first covered the ceiling with the story of the Creation, in successive compartments, with the great series of the Prophets and Sibyls in alternate tablets...

tabourets, n. (1)

    MN 1.203 15 Why should not then these messieurs of Versailles strut and plot for tabourets and ribbons...

tabulate, v. (1)

    Insp 8.296 9 The occasions or predisposing circumstances [of inspiration] I could never tabulate;...

tabulated, v. (1)

    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;...

tabulating, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.384 24 ...we cannot stave off the ulterior question...the WHERE TO of all this [American] power and population...this taxing and tabulating...

tabulation, n. (3)

    SwM 4.109 20 ...the terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios.
    GoW 4.274 24 [Goethe] treats nature...as the seven wise masters did,--and, with whatever loss of French tabulation and dissection, poetry and humanity remain to us;...
    ET14 5.252 8 Nothing comes to the [English] book-shops but politics, travels, statistics, tabulation and engineering;...

tacit, adj. (5)

    OS 2.277 9 In all conversation between two persons tacit reference is made...to a common nature.
    Mrs1 3.147 17 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is always a tacit appeal of pride and reference...
    Pol1 3.218 12 Most persons of ability meet in society with a kind of tacit appeal.
    ET14 5.234 26 It is a tacit rule of the [English] language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words...
    Prch 10.220 14 ...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...

tacitly, adv. (1)

    LT 1.270 2 The Temperance-question, which...is tacitly recalled at every public and at every private table...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.

taciturn, adj. (2)

    SwM 4.139 24 ...the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.
    ET14 5.249 12 But for Coleridge, and a lurking taciturn minority uttering itself in occasional criticism...one would say that in Germany and in America is the best mind in England rightly respected.

taciturnity, n. (3)

    Chr1 3.87 6 ...matched his sufferance sublime/ The taciturnity of time./
    ET8 5.128 24 The reputation of taciturnity [the English] have enjoyed for six or seven hundred years;...
    Edc1 10.156 17 Your teaching and discipline must have the reserve and taciturnity of Nature.

Tacitus, n. (6)

    ET4 5.48 7 I chanced to read Tacitus On the Manners of the Germans, not long since...
    ET4 5.69 16 ...Tacitus found the English beer already in use among the Germans...
    ET5 5.85 19 In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the side of the strongest;...
    ET5 5.88 20 Tacitus says of the Germans, Powerful only in sudden efforts, they are impatient of toil and labor.
    Boks 7.204 26 The poet Horace is the eye of the Augustan age; Tacitus, the wisest of historians;...
    Plu 10.294 10 ...though the contemporary...of Quintilian, Martial, Tacitus, Suetonius...[Plutarch] does not cite them...

tack, n. (1)

    ET8 5.136 27 After running each tendency to an extreme, [the English] try another tack with equal heat.

tacking, v. (1)

    Int 2.333 13 [A person I knew] held the old; he holds the new; I had the habit of tacking together the old and the new which he did not use to exercise.

tackle, n. (1)

    Art2 7.42 3 It is the law of fluids that prescribes the shape of the boat...and, in the finer fluid above, the form and tackle of the sails.

tacks, n. (1)

    SR 2.59 6 The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

tact, n. (3)

    ET7 5.125 19 This English stolidity contrasts with French wit and tact.
    Elo1 7.76 7 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union, and he...takes the lead in the public mind over all these executive men, who, of course, are full of indignation to find one who has no tact or skill and knows he has none, put over them by means of this talking-power which they despise.
    SA 8.98 23 Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any portion of the company. Tact never violates for a moment this law;...

tactics, n. (15)

    LE 1.180 23 [Napoleon] was faithful to tactics to the uttermost...
    LE 1.180 24 ...when all tactics had come to an end then [Napoleon] dilated...
    LT 1.277 25 [The work of the reformer] is done in the same way [as other work], it is done profanely...by management, by tactics and clamor.
    Prd1 2.221 16 The poet admires the man of energy and tactics;...
    Prd1 2.227 11 The application of means to ends insures victory and the songs of victory not less in a farm or a shop than in the tactics of party or of war.
    ET5 5.78 24 In [the English] parliament, the tactics of the opposition is to resist every step of the government by a pitiless attack;...
    ET5 5.86 19 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling...were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
    ET5 5.87 1 ...[the English]...do not like ponderous and difficult tactics...
    Pow 6.76 18 The good Speaker in the House is not the man who knows the theory of parliamentary tactics, but the man who decides off-hand.
    Elo1 7.84 24 Napoleon's tactics of marching on the angle of an army, and always presenting a superiority of numbers, is the orator's secret also.
    Elo2 8.131 1 ...great generals do not fight many battles, but conquer by tactics...
    SlHr 10.445 7 These tactics of the lawyer were the tactics of [Samuel Hoar' s] life.
    War 11.157 25 ...the art of war, what with gunpowder and tactics, has made...battles less frequent and less murderous.
    SMC 11.354 24 The opinions of masses of men, which the tactics of primary caucuses and the proverbial timidity of trade had concealed, the [Civil] war discovered;...
    FRep 11.514 6 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd, however at first making his obedient apprenticeship in party tactics...soon learns that it is by no means by obeying the vulgar weathercock of his party...that real power is gained...

tadpoles, n. (1)

    WD 7.182 27 [The savant's] performance is a memoir to the Academy on fish-worms, tadpoles, or spiders' legs;...

ta'en, v. (2)

    Hsm1 2.247 14 Mar. This admirable duke, Valerius,/ With his disdain of fortune and of death,/ Captived himself, has captivated me,/ And though my arm hath ta'en his body here,/ His soul hath subjugated Martius' soul./
    Boks 7.196 26 ...Never read any [books] but what you like;, or, in Shakspeare's phrase, No profit goes where is no pleasure te'en:/ In brief, sir, study what you most affect./

Tahattawan, n. (6)

    HDC 11.36 6 Tahattawan, the Sachem [of the Massachusetts Indians]... lived near Nashawtuck...
    HDC 11.37 24 Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw Sachem, Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to the English...
    HDC 11.51 20 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum; Waban, Tahattawan, and their sannaps, going thither from Concord to hear him.
    HDC 11.52 9 Tahattawan, our Concord sachem, called his Indians together, and bid them not oppose the courses which the English were taking for their good;...
    HDC 11.52 20 Tahattawan and his son-in-law Waban, besought [John] Eliot to come and preach to them at Concord...
    HDC 11.53 2 [The Indians] requested to have a town given them within the bounds of Concord, near unto the English. When this question was propounded by Tahattawan, he was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country?

tail, n. (13)

    Comp 2.105 27 ...[the unwise man] sees the mermaid's head but not the dragon's tail...
    Exp 3.80 13 Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail?
    Exp 3.80 18 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many up and downs of fate,--and meantime it is only puss and her tail.
    Exp 3.80 26 What imports it whether it is...a reader and his book, or puss with her tail?
    Mrs1 3.133 6 If you could see Vich Ian Vohr with his tail on!--
    Pol1 3.218 22 Like one class of forest animals, [senators and presidents] have nothing but a prehensile tail; climb they must, or crawl.
    MoS 4.149 21 This head and this tail [Sensation and Morals] are called, in the language of philosophy, Infinite and Finite;...
    GoW 4.276 24 ...[Goethe] stripped [the Devil] of mythologic gear, of horns, cloven foot, harpoon tail, brimstone and blue-fire...
    ET6 5.111 13 All [the Englishmen's] statesmen...have invented many fine phrases to cover this slowness of perception and prehensility of tail.
    PI 8.4 4 ...the most imaginative and abstracted person...never...seizes his wild charger by the tail.
    Insp 8.270 11 They...cut off [the aboriginal man's] tail, set him on end... before he could begin to write his sad story...
    Thor 10.472 8 ...[Thoreau] pulled the woodchuck out of its hole by the tail...
    Bost 12.191 26 John Smith was stung near to death by the most poisonous tail of a fish, called a sting-ray.

tailor, n. (2)

    SS 7.4 22 All [my new friend] wished of his tailor was to provide that sober mean of color and cut which would never detain the eye for a moment.
    FRep 11.534 10 [A man's life] is manufactured for him. The tailor makes your dress; the baker your bread...

tailored, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.183 11 However close Mr. Wolf's nails have been pared, however neatly he has been shaved, and tailored...he cannot be relied on at a pinch...

tailoring, n. (1)

    Bost 12.198 16 No external advantages...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation. All else is coarse and external; all else is tailoring and cosmetics beside this;...

tails, n. (2)

    MoS 4.149 9 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. Life is a pitching of this penny,--heads or tails.
    Pow 6.67 14 [Boniface] girdled the trees and cut off the horses' tails of the temperance people, in the night.

taint, n. (7)

    DSA 1.123 9 The least admixture of a lie, - for example, the taint of vanity...will instantly vitiate the effect.
    Tran 1.355 12 [Our virtue's respresentatives] are still liable to that slight taint of burlesque which in our strange world attaches to the zealot.
    Lov1 2.182 17 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world...
    Lov1 2.182 25 ...separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint which it has contracted in the world, the lover ascends to the highest beauty...
    ET13 5.229 2 The English (and I wish it were confined to them, but 't is a taint in the Anglo-Saxon blood in both hemispheres),--the English and the Americans cant beyond all other nations.
    Cour 7.259 4 ...the protection which a house...even the first accumulation of savings gives, go in all times to generate this taint of the respectable classes.
    Imtl 8.340 10 Salt is a good preserver; cold is: but a truth cures the taint of mortality better...

taint, v. (1)

    DSA 1.140 26 Let me not taint the sincerity of this plea by any oversight of the claims of good men.

tainted, v. (4)

    MR 1.235 1 If the accumulated wealth of the past generation is thus tainted...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part to renounce it...
    Suc 7.289 7 Rien ne reussit mieux que le succes. And we Americans are tainted with this insanity...
    Chr2 10.106 4 ...in the hands...of fierce Gauls, [Christianity's] creeds were tainted with their barbarism.
    LLNE 10.330 9 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg; a man of prodigious mind, though as I think tainted with a certain suspicion of insanity...

taints, v. (2)

    SwM 4.97 18 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind. But what as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease. This beatitude comes...with shocks to the mind of the receiver. It...gives a certain violent bias which taints his judgment.
    CbW 6.269 23 ...a virulent, aggressive fool taints the reason of a household.

Tai's, Hatem, n. (1)

    Cour 7.253 21 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown...of Hatem Tai's hospitality;...

tak', v. (2)

    SwM 4.138 27 Burns, with the wild humor of his apostrophe to poor auld Nickie Ben, O wad ye tak a thought, and mend!/ has the advantage of the vindictive theologian.
    Plu 10.299 13 ...[Plutarch] is...enough a man of the world to give even the Devil his due, and would have hugged Robert Burns, when he cried;-O wad ye tak' a thought and mend!/

Take, n. (1)

    Comp 2.115 7 The absolute balance of Give and Take...is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states...

take, v. (433)

    Nat 1.13 6 More servants wait on man/ Than he'll take notice of./
    Nat 1.30 5 When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    Nat 1.38 27 The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take), teach that Nature's dice are always loaded;...
    Nat 1.53 17 Take those lips away/ Which so sweetly were forsworn;/...
    Nat 1.60 1 [The ideal theory] is...the view which Reason...that is, philosophy and virtue, take.
    Nat 1.69 17 More servants wait on man/ Than he'll take notice of./
    AmS 1.82 26 ...you must take the whole society to find the whole man.
    AmS 1.95 11 I...take my place in the ring...
    AmS 1.113 23 The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time...
    DSA 1.128 27 [Jesus Christ] saw that God...evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his World.
    DSA 1.131 23 ...you must...take [Christ's] portrait as the vulgar draw it.
    DSA 1.145 11 Once...take secondary knowledge...and you get wide from God with every year this secondary form lasts...
    LE 1.159 1 ...so pass into [the scholar's] mind...the grand events of history, to take a new order and scale from him.
    LE 1.160 11 ...things must take my scale...
    LE 1.160 14 ...God gave me this crown, and the whole world shall not take it away.
    LE 1.161 7 ...see how much you would impoverish the world if you could take clean out of history the lives of Milton, Shakspeare, and Plato...
    LE 1.171 5 This starting, this warping of the best literary works from the adamant of nature, is especially observable in philosophy. Let it take what tone of pretension it will, to this complexion must it come, at last.
    LE 1.171 7 Take for example the French Eclecticism...there is an optical illusion in it.
    LE 1.171 27 ...the first observation you make...may open a new view of nature and of man, that...shall take up Greece, Rome, Stoicism, Eclecticism...as mere data and food for analysis...
    LE 1.186 7 It is this domineering temper of the sensual world that creates the extreme need of the priests of science; and it is the office and right of the intellect to make and not take its estimate.
    LE 1.186 25 Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread...such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions...
    MN 1.196 7 ...as soon as [the grand inquisitor] probes the crust, behold gimlet, plumb-line, and philosopher take a lateral direction...
    MN 1.196 22 ...we do not take up a new book or meet a new man without a pulse-beat of expectation.
    MN 1.198 3 What difference can it make whether [our glance at the realities around us] take the shape of exhortation...
    MN 1.202 18 ...we feel not much otherwise if, instead of beholding foolish nations, we take the great and wise men...and narrowly inspect their biography.
    MN 1.204 25 ...the didactic morals of self-denial and strife with sin, are in the view we are constrained by our constitution to take of the fact seen from the platform of action;...
    MR 1.231 9 ...if [the young man] would thrive in [the employments of commerce]...he...must take on him the harness of routine and obsequiousness.
    MR 1.235 6 ...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part...to take each of us bravely his part...
    MR 1.238 21 What [a man] gets only as fast as he wants for his own ends, does not...take away his sleep with looking after.
    MR 1.254 5 ...no one should take more than his share...
    LT 1.265 12 Could we...indicate those who most accurately represent every good and evil tendency of the general mind, in the just order which they take on this canvas of Time...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    LT 1.269 26 The fury with which the slave-trader defends every inch of... his howling auction-platform, is a trumpet...to...drive all neutrals to take sides...
    LT 1.282 20 We mistrust every step we take.
    LT 1.284 5 ...we begin to doubt...whether [Reform] be not...a paper blockade, in which each party is to display the utmost resources of his spirit and belief, and no conflict occur, but the world shall take that course which the demonstration of the truth shall indicate.
    Con 1.301 3 As we take our stand on Necessity, or on Ethics, shall we go for the conservative, or for the reformer.
    Con 1.305 9 ...you are under the necessity...to live by [the Actual order of things], whilst you wish to take away its life.
    Con 1.309 11 I must...take that which you call yours.
    Con 1.316 9 The reformer concedes...that if he proposed comfort, he should take sides with the establishment.
    Con 1.316 13 ...[riches] take somewhat for everything they give.
    Con 1.321 27 [The sagacious] detect the falsehood of the preaching, but when they say so, all good citizens cry...do not take off the strait jacket from dangerous persons.
    Con 1.324 8 Of the past [the hero] will take no heed;...
    Tran 1.333 8 The idealist has another measure...namely, the rank which things themselves take in his consciousness;...
    Tran 1.341 22 ...in ecclesiastical history we take so much pains to know what the Gnostics...believed...
    Tran 1.342 23 ...if any one will take pains to talk with [these separators], he will find that this part is chosen both from temperament and from principle;...
    Tran 1.357 14 ...[strong spirits] by happiness of greater momentum lose no time, but take the right road at first.
    YA 1.365 4 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto. A consciousness of this fact is beginning to take the place of the purely trading spirit and education which sprang up whilst all the population lived on the fringe of sea-coast.
    YA 1.382 14 [The Associations] proposed...that all men should take a part in the manual toil...
    Hist 2.16 14 If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind, and those to which he is averse, he will see how deep is the chain of affinity.
    Hist 2.24 16 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;... wherein the face is...composed of...symmetrical features, whose eye-sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side and on that...
    SR 2.46 9 ...we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
    SR 2.46 14 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction...that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion;...
    SR 2.62 9 To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book... seem to say...Who are you, Sir? Yet they all are...petitioners to his faculties that they will come out to take possession.
    SR 2.68 27 You take the way from man, not to man.
    SR 2.71 9 Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet...
    Comp 2.101 23 Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity,--all find room to consist in the small creature.
    Comp 2.102 16 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.
    Comp 2.109 19 What will you have? quoth God; pay for it and take it.
    SL 2.131 7 Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible are comely as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
    SL 2.133 2 My will never gave the images in my mind the rank they now take.
    SL 2.133 15 People...take to themselves great airs upon their attainments...
    SL 2.142 19 Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do...
    SL 2.143 11 In our estimates let us take a lesson from kings.
    SL 2.145 7 Everywhere [the man] may take what belongs to his spiritual estate...
    SL 2.145 8 Everywhere [the man] may take what belongs to his spiritual estate, nor can he take anything else...
    SL 2.149 1 [A man]...comes at last to be faithfully represented by every view you take of his circumstances.
    SL 2.149 7 Take the book into your two hands and read your eyes out, you will never find what I find.
    SL 2.151 18 Take the place and attitude which belong to you, and all men acquiesce.
    SL 2.153 16 ...take Sidney's maxim:--Look in thy heart, and write.
    SL 2.160 13 Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
    SL 2.162 19 Epaminondas, if he was the man I take him for, would have sat still with joy and peace, if his lot had been mine.
    Lov1 2.172 15 Perhaps we never saw [the lovers] before and never shall meet them again. But we see them...betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We...take the warmest interest in the development of the romance.
    Lov1 2.183 9 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages with words that take hold of the upper world, whilst one eye is prowling in the cellar;...
    Fdsp 2.189 13 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ All things through thee take nobler form/ And look beyond the earth,/...
    Fdsp 2.207 8 ...three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
    Hsm1 2.245 18 ...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is...on such deep grounds of character, that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry. Among many texts take the following.
    Hsm1 2.246 4 Valerius. Bid thy wife farewell./ Soph. No, I will take no leave..../
    Hsm1 2.249 25 ...neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let [a man] take both reputation and life in his hand...
    Hsm1 2.251 18 ...just and wise men take umbrage at [the hero's] act...
    Hsm1 2.253 2 What a disgrace is it to me to take note how many pairs of silk stockings thou hast...
    Hsm1 2.254 7 In some way...the pains [the magnanimous] seem to take remunerate themselves.
    Hsm1 2.256 15 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously;...
    Hsm1 2.260 15 If you would serve your brother, because it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you.
    OS 2.288 23 ...the fine gentleman, does not take place of the man.
    OS 2.289 16 ...we...feel that the splendid works which [Shakspeare] has created...take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock.
    Cir 2.308 10 Each new step we take in thought reconciles twenty seemingly discordant facts...
    Cir 2.315 11 ...with every precaution you take against such an evil you put yourself into the power of the evil.
    Cir 2.315 17 Think how many times we shall fall back into pitiful calculations before we take up our rest in the great sentiment...
    Int 2.328 6 In the most...introverted self-tormentor's life, the greatest part is incalculable by him...and must be, until he can take himself up by his own ears.
    Int 2.329 2 We are the prisoners of ideas. They...so fully engage us that we take no thought for the morrow...
    Int 2.331 5 At last comes the era of reflection, when we not only observe, but take pains to observe;...
    Int 2.331 23 We say I will walk abroad, and the truth will take form and clearness to me.
    Int 2.341 25 God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,--you can never have both.
    Int 2.343 26 Take thankfully and heartily all [new doctrines] can give.
    Int 2.344 24 I were a fool not to sacrifice a thousand Aeschyluses to my intellectual integrity. Especially take the same ground in regard to abstract truth...
    Pt1 3.14 8 ...of the soul, the body form doth take,/ For soul is form, and doth the body make./
    Pt1 3.24 26 The expression [of the poet's thoughts] is organic, or the new type which things themselves take when liberated.
    Pt1 3.27 7 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks...with the intellect...suffered to take its direction from its celestial life;...
    Pt1 3.31 24 ...when Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;--we take the cheerful hint of the immortality of our essence and its versatile habit and escapes...
    Pt1 3.34 4 ...all books of the imagination endure, all which ascend to that truth that the writer sees nature beneath him, and uses it as his exponent. Every verse or sentence possessing this virtue will take care of its own immortality.
    Pt1 3.41 12 [O poet] Thou shalt not know any longer the times, customs, graces, politics, or opinions of men, but shalt take all from the muse.
    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 3.49 19 I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects...to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.
    Exp 3.56 2 How strongly I have felt of pictures that when you have seen one well, you must take your leave of it;...
    Exp 3.57 2 [Our friends] stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take the single step that would bring them there.
    Exp 3.60 2 Under the oldest mouldiest conventions a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world, and that by skill of handling and treatment. He can take hold anywhere.
    Exp 3.62 13 If we will take the good we find...we shall have heaping measures.
    Exp 3.75 16 ...scepticisms...are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in...
    Exp 3.76 14 ...the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as ladies and gentlemen in the street...
    Exp 3.76 24 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity, with the name of hero or saint. Jesus... is a good man on whom many people are agreed that these optical laws shall take effect.
    Chr1 3.94 25 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L'Ouverture...
    Chr1 3.102 9 We shall still postpone our existence, nor take the ground to which we are entitled, whilst it is only a thought and not a spirit that incites us.
    Mrs1 3.121 22 Comme il faut, is the Frenchman's description of good society: as we must be. It is a spontaneous fruit of talents and feelings of precisely that class...who take the lead in the world at this hour...
    Mrs1 3.126 12 ...the politics of this country, and the trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers, who have invention to take the lead...
    Mrs1 3.132 6 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment, and...take wine or refuse it..in a new and aboriginal way;...
    Gts 3.162 14 Brother, if Jove to thee a present make,/ Take heed that from his hands thou nothing take./
    Nat2 3.177 13 ...I suppose that such a gazetteer as wood-cutters and Indians should furnish facts for, would take place in the most sumptuous drawing-rooms of all the Wreaths and Flora's chaplets of the bookshops;...
    Pol1 3.204 17 If it be not easy to settle the equity of this question [of property], the peril is less when we take note of our natural defenses.
    NR 3.227 21 ...if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral law, he would...take liberties with private letters...
    NR 3.239 4 ...[the recluse] goes into a mob...into a camp, and in each new place...other talents take place, and rule the hour.
    NR 3.239 7 The rotation which whirls every leaf and pebble to the meridian, reaches to every gift of man, and we all take turns at the top.
    NER 3.254 8 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members on account of the somewhat hostile part to the church which his conscience led him to take in the anti-slavery business;...
    NER 3.254 19 It is right and beautiful in any man to say, I will take this coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of yours,--in whom we see the act to be original...
    NER 3.276 15 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no longer,--it is time...with Caesar to take in his hand the army, the empire and Cleopatra, and say, All these will I relinquish, if you will show me the fountains of the Nile.
    NER 3.277 18 ...surely the greatest good fortune that could befall me is precisely to be so moved by you that I should say, Take me and all mine...
    NER 3.283 8 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall not take counsel of flesh and blood...
    UGM 4.6 7 We take a great deal of pains to waylay and entrap that which of itself will fall into our hands.
    UGM 4.12 7 ...we sit by the fire and take hold on the poles of the earth.
    UGM 4.26 15 We learn of our contemporaries what they know...almost through the pores of the skin. ... But we stop where they stop. Very hardly can we take another step.
    PPh 4.56 13 To take an example:--The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...
    PNR 4.80 5 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion to take hastily a few more notes of the elevation and bearings of this fixed star;...
    SwM 4.94 13 ...the instincts presently teach that the problem of essence must take precedence of all others;...
    SwM 4.113 8 ...it is necessary to take science as a guide in pursuing [nature' s] steps.
    SwM 4.115 21 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg] should take the last step also, should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences...
    SwM 4.123 10 [Swedenborg] is superfluously explanatory, and his feeling of the ignorance of men, strangely exaggerated. Men take truths of this nature very fast.
    SwM 4.124 6 The moral insight of Swedenborg...the announcement of ethical laws, take him out of comparison with any other modern writer...
    SwM 4.136 7 Of all absurdities, this of some foreigner proposing to take away my rhetoric and substitute his own...seems the most needless.
    MoS 4.156 26 [The skeptic says] Of what use to take the chair and glibly rattle off theories of society, religion and nature, when I know that practical objections lie in the way, insurmountable by me and by my mates?
    MoS 4.173 5 It stands in [the wise skeptic's] mind that our life in this world is not of quite so easy interpretation as churches and school-books say. He does not wish to take ground against these benevolences...
    MoS 4.173 20 I shall not take Sunday objections, made up on purpose to be put down.
    MoS 4.173 22 I shall take the worst [doubts and negations] I can find, whether I can dispose of them or they of me.
    MoS 4.183 10 I play with the miscellany of facts, and take those superficial views which we call skepticism;...
    GoW 4.272 13 ...if one should chance to be at a congress of kings, the eye would take liberties with the peculiarities of each.
    GoW 4.276 5 [Goethe] hates...to be made to say over again some old wife's fable that has had possession of men's faith these thousand years. He may as well see if it is true as another. He sifts it. I am here, he would say, to be the measure and judge of these things. Why should I take them on trust?
    GoW 4.276 10 Take the most remarkable example that could occur of [Goethe's] tendency to verify every term in popular use.
    GoW 4.284 24 ...there is no weapon in the armory of universal genius [Goethe] did not take into his hand...
    ET1 5.11 4 When [Coleridge] stopped to take breath, I interposed that whilst I highly valued all his explanations, I was bound to tell him that I was born and bred a Unitarian.
    ET1 5.11 13 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul...this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...
    ET1 5.19 24 [Wordsworth] thinks more of the education of circumstances than of tuition. 'T is not question whether there are offences of which the law takes cognizance, but whether there are offences of which the law does not take cognizance.
    ET2 5.30 20 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port... having no money and wishing to go to England. The sailors have dressed him in Guernsey frock...and he...likes the work first-rate, and if the captain will take him, means now to come back again in the ship.
    ET3 5.36 6 ...the utilitarian direction which labor, laws, opinion, religion take, is the natural genius of the British mind.
    ET4 5.49 12 Whatever influences add to mental or moral faculty, take men out of nationality...
    ET4 5.59 1 Another pair [of Norse kings] ride out on a morning for a frolic, and finding no weapon near, will take the bits out of their horses' mouths and crush each other's heads with them...
    ET5 5.80 25 All the steps [the English] orderly take;...
    ET6 5.102 18 ...Sydney Smith had made it a proverb that little Lord John Russell, the minister, would take command of the Channel fleet to-morrow.
    ET6 5.103 20 ...he who goes among [the English] must have some weight of metal. At last, you take your hint from the fury of life you find, and say, one thing is plain, this is no country for fainthearted people;...
    ET6 5.103 24 ...[England] is no country for fainthearted people;...take your own course...
    ET6 5.104 17 ...[the Englishman] can take the initiative in emergencies.
    ET6 5.109 25 The Knights of the Bath take oath to defend injured ladies;...
    ET6 5.114 6 The company [at an English dinner] sit one or two hours before the ladies leave the table. The gentlemen...rejoin the ladies in the drawing-room and take coffee.
    ET7 5.119 3 [The English]...take the world as it goes.
    ET8 5.130 23 Take them as they come, you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper;...
    ET8 5.137 3 More intellectual than other races, when [the English] live with other races they do not take their language, but bestow their own.
    ET8 5.141 1 ...if hereafter the war of races...should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles...
    ET10 5.155 3 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders. Better take [the children] away from those who might deprave them.
    ET10 5.155 13 The Englishman believes that every man must take care of himself...
    ET10 5.155 19 The British armies are solvent and pay for what they take.
    ET10 5.169 17 Such a wealth has England earned, ever new, bounteous and augmenting. But the question recurs, does she take the step beyond...
    ET11 5.172 23 In spite of...the devastation of society by the profligacy of the court, we take sides as we read for the loyal England...
    ET11 5.173 13 The hopes of the commoners [in England] take the same direction with the interest of the patricians.
    ET11 5.181 7 Evelyn writes from Blois, in 1644: The wolves are here in such numbers, that they often come and take children out of the streets;...
    ET11 5.184 20 A few law lords and a few political lords take the brunt of public business [in England].
    ET11 5.192 19 ...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...
    ET11 5.195 15 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense. They went from city to city...gathering seeds, gems, coins and divers curiosities, preparing for a private life thereafter, in which they should take pleasure in these recreations.
    ET12 5.212 17 ...we all send our sons to college, and though he be a genius, the youth must take his chance.
    ET13 5.214 20 In the barbarous days of a nation, some cultus is formed or imported; altars are built...priests ordained. The education and expenditure of the country take that direction...
    ET13 5.221 11 A great duke said on the occasion of a victory, in the House of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had not been well used by them, and that it would become their magnanimity, after so great successes, to take order that a proper acknowledgement be made.
    ET13 5.228 6 If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
    ET13 5.230 7 If a bishop [in England] meets an intelligent gentleman and reads fatal interrogations in his eyes, he has no resource but to take wine with him.
    ET14 5.240 17 If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied; and this I [Bacon] take to be a great cause that has hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage.
    ET15 5.261 22 No antique privilege, no comfortable monopoly, but sees surely that its days are counted; the people are familiarized with the reason of reform, and, one by one, take away every argument of the obstructives.
    ET15 5.263 4 [Writing for English journals] comes of the crowded state of the professions, the violent interest which all men take in politics...
    ET15 5.265 5 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small share in the proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office when you will;...
    ET15 5.268 24 ...[the English] do not know, when they take [the London Times] up, what their paper is going to say...
    ET15 5.270 13 ...[the editors of the London Times] give a voice to the class who at the moment take the lead;...
    ET16 5.289 11 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer, which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be given to every one who should ask it at the gate. We had both, from the old couple who take care of the church.
    F 6.6 11 Whatever is fated that will take place.
    F 6.41 1 Ducks take to the water...
    F 6.43 12 By and by [man] will take up the earth, and have his gardens and vineyards in the beautiful order...of his thought.
    F 6.47 22 ...[man] is to take sides with the Deity who secures universal benefit by his pain.
    Pow 6.55 20 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric and put in a stronger and bolder man...and the ships will...sail six hundred... miles further...
    Pow 6.58 24 Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best heads among them take the best places.
    Pow 6.72 1 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it dangerous and destructive,--yet it...must be had in that form, and absorbents provided to take off its edge.
    Pow 6.73 8 There is no way to success in our art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
    Pow 6.74 11 ...you shall take what your brain can, and drop all the rest.
    Pow 6.75 8 ...if you will have a text from politics [concerning concentration], take this from Plutarch...
    Wth 6.90 21 The English are prosperous and peaceable, with their habit of considering that every man must take care of himself...
    Wth 6.95 7 The rich take up something more of the world into man's life.
    Wth 6.96 1 ...if men should take these moralists at their word and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
    Wth 6.103 27 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital, the rates of insurance will indicate it;...
    Wth 6.104 11 An apple-tree, if you take out every day for a number of days a load of loam and put in a load of sand about its roots, will find it out.
    Wth 6.104 17 ...if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad...would not the dollar... presently find it out?
    Wth 6.106 25 The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy; the way in which a house and a private man's methods tally with the solar system and the laws of give and take, throughout nature;...
    Wth 6.108 22 If the wind were always southwest by west, said the skipper, women might take ships to sea.
    Wth 6.122 26 ...the man who is to level the ground thinks it will take many hundred loads of gravel to fill the hollow to the road.
    Wth 6.123 12 Use has made the farmer wise, and the foolish citizen learns to take his counsel.
    Wth 6.123 14 The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will...for an opinion concerning the mode of building my wall...but the ball will rebound to you.
    Wth 6.125 24 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. ... It is to invest income; that is to say, to take up particulars into generals;...
    Ctr 6.149 11 ...London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
    Ctr 6.153 27 We spawning, spawning myrmidons,/ Our turn to-day! we take command,/ Jove gives the globe into the hand/ Of myrmidons, of myrmidons./
    Ctr 6.162 6 ...the wiser God says, Take the shame, the poverty and the penal solitude that belong to truth-speaking.
    Ctr 6.163 15 ...mere amiableness must not take rank with high aims and self-subsistency.
    Bhr 6.176 20 Take a thorn-bush, said the emir Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns.
    Bhr 6.176 23 Take a thorn-bush, said the emir Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns. Take a date-tree, leave it without water, without culture, and it will always produce dates.
    Bhr 6.180 25 There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep...others...take all too much notice...
    Bhr 6.190 8 Men take each other's measure, when they meet for the first time...
    Bhr 6.194 1 ...even good angels came from far to see [the monk Basle], and take up their abode with him.
    Bhr 6.195 10 Marcus Scaurus was accused by Quintus Varius Hispanus, that he had excited the allies to take arms against the Republic.
    Wsp 6.205 14 ...some of the Pacific islanders flog their gods when things take an unfavorable turn.
    Wsp 6.206 5 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture,--the grafted or meliorated tree in a crab forest. And to marry a pagan wife or husband was...voluntarily to take a step backwards towards the baboon...
    CbW 6.254 23 ...the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters a rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.
    CbW 6.261 13 What tests of manhood could [the rich man] stand? Take him out of his protections.
    CbW 6.261 16 ...perhaps [the rich man] could pass a college examination, and take his degrees;...
    CbW 6.271 2 Our habit of thought--take men as they rise--is not satisfying;...
    CbW 6.273 20 We take care of our health;...
    CbW 6.273 25 We know that all our training is to fit us for [friendship], and we do not take the step towards it.
    CbW 6.274 21 ...one may take a good deal of pains to bring people together...and yet no result come of it.
    CbW 6.276 25 'T is as easy...to boil granite as to boil water, if you take all the steps in order.
    Bty 6.282 23 ...man, when his powers unfold in order, will take nature along with him...
    Bty 6.285 16 Thou hast ceased to take recreation, saying to thyself, In seven days I shall be put to death.
    Bty 6.287 27 We know [our friends] have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed...
    Bty 6.295 17 Burns writes a copy of verses and sends them to a newspaper, and the human race take charge of them that they shall not perish.
    Bty 6.302 10 ...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her powers serve him;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    SS 7.8 17 Dear heart! take it sadly home to thee,--there is no cooperation.
    SS 7.13 10 For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.
    Civ 7.21 27 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. ... With it comes a Latin grammar,--and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed!...
    Civ 7.28 5 ...we found out that the air and earth were full of Electricity, and always going our way,--just the way we wanted to send [our letters]. Would he take a message?
    Art2 7.42 8 [Man] seems to take his task so minutely from intimations of Nature that his works become as it were hers...
    Elo1 7.62 15 Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men;...
    Elo1 7.67 10 ...all these several audiences...which successively appear to greet the variety of style and topic [of the orator], are really composed out of the same persons; nay, sometimes the same individual will take active part in them all, in turn.
    Elo1 7.73 10 Philip of Macedon said of Demosthenes, on hearing the report of one of his orations, Had I been there, he would have persuaded me to take up arms against myself;...
    Elo1 7.74 2 ...unless this oiled tongue could, in Oriental phrase, lick the sun and moon away, it must take its place with opium and brandy.
    Elo1 7.77 23 ...any swindlers we have known are novices and bunglers, as is attested by their ill name. A greater power of face would...with the rest of their takings, take away the bad name.
    Elo1 7.91 12 ...people always perceive whether you drive or whether the horses take the bits in their teeth and run.
    DL 7.111 7 Take off all the roofs...and we shall seldom find the temple of any higher god than Prudence.
    DL 7.130 18 If by love and nobleness we take up into ourselves the beauty we admire, we shall spend it again on all around us.
    DL 7.133 21 ...whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor...
    Farm 7.144 5 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it. We have not failed of our trust, and now...take the gas we have hoarded, mingle it with water, and let it be free to grow in plants and animals and obey the thought of man.
    Farm 7.148 27 ...[the farmer] will concentrate his kitchen-garden into a box of one or two rods square, will take the roots into his laboratory;...
    Farm 7.151 3 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that...the plight of every new generation is worse than of the foregoing, because the first comers take up the best lands;...
    WD 7.170 7 There are days when the great are near us...when they take us by the hand...
    WD 7.180 7 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will take off its dusty shoes...
    WD 7.180 8 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will take off its glazed traveller's-cap...
    WD 7.183 24 ...the least acceleration of thought and the least increase of power of thought, make life to seem and to be of vast duration. We call it time; but when that acceleration and that deepening take effect, it acquires another and higher name.
    Boks 7.190 3 ...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...
    Boks 7.205 4 [Horace, Tacitus, Martial] will bring [the student] to Gibbon, who will take him in charge...
    Boks 7.211 20 ...[the Germans] take any general topic...and write and quote without method or end.
    Boks 7.219 13 Friendship should give and take...[the communications of the sacred books].
    Clbs 7.232 26 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei equals, and then...listen badly or do not listen to the comment or to the thought by which the company strive to repay them; rather, as soon as their own speech is done, they take their hats.
    Clbs 7.245 18 [A club] requires people...who take a great deal for granted.
    Cour 7.257 17 ...[the child's] utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every by-stander to take his part.
    Cour 7.274 7 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to the rack of the inquisitor...
    Suc 7.291 12 ...I think we shall agree in my first rule for success,--that we shall...take Michel Angelo's course, to confide in one's self, and be something of worth and value.
    Suc 7.299 23 You walk on the beach and enjoy the animation of the picture. Scoop up a little water in the hollow of your palm, take up a handful of shore sand; well, these are the elements.
    Suc 7.304 9 The supernal powers seem to take [the lover's] part.
    Suc 7.306 13 ...the oracles are never silent; but the receiver must by a happy temperance be brought to...that frolic health, that he can easily take and give these fine communications.
    OA 7.319 10 ...they who take the larger draughts [of the cup of time] are drunk with it...
    OA 7.323 17 When the old wife says, Take care of that tumor in your shoulder, perhaps it is cancerous,--[the man of sixty] replies, I am yielding to a surer decomposition.
    OA 7.331 13 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...
    PI 8.13 7 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property, as when a boy finds that his pocket-knife will attract steel filings and take up a needle;...
    PI 8.35 9 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason...
    PI 8.74 19 We too shall know how to take up all this industry and empire... into thought...
    SA 8.92 5 A wise man once said to me that all whom he knew, met:-- meaning that he need not take pains to introduce the persons whom he valued to each other...
    SA 8.97 9 ...there are people...who are not only swainish, but are prompt to take oath that swainishness is the only culture;...
    SA 8.103 25 The young men in America at this moment take little thought of what men in England are thinking or doing.
    Elo2 8.111 24 ...[in a debate] much power is to be exhibited which is not yet called into existence, but is to be suggested on the spot by the unexpected turn things may take...
    Elo2 8.121 22 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his monthly stipend. He answered, Nothing at all. But why then do you take so much trouble? He replied, I read for the sake of God.
    Res 8.144 25 Nature herself gives the hint and the example, if we have wit to take it.
    Comc 8.162 14 So painfully susceptible are some men to these impressions [of halfness], that if a man of wit come into the room where they are, it seems to take them out of themselves with violent convulsions of the face and sides, and obstreperous roarings of the throat.
    Comc 8.168 4 I think there is malice in a very trifling story...which I should not take any notice of, did I not suspect it to contain some satire upon my brothers of the Natural History Society.
    Comc 8.169 23 ...the painter Astley...going out of Rome one day with a party for a ramble in the Campagna and the weather proving hot, refused to take off his coat...
    Comc 8.171 14 No fashion is the best fashion for those matters which will take care of themselves.
    QO 8.177 4 Whoever looks...at flies, aphides, gnats and innumerable parasites...must have remarked the extreme content they take in suction...
    QO 8.192 14 On the whole, we like the valor of [quotation]. 'T is on Marmontel's principle...and on Bacon's broader rule, I take all knowledge to be my province.
    QO 8.198 14 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. ... How it seemed the very voice of the refined and discerning public, inviting merit at last to consent to fame, and come up and take place in the reserved and authentic chairs!
    QO 8.203 4 Our pleasure in seeing each mind take the subject to which it has a proper right is seen in mere fitness in time.
    PC 8.210 25 Take as a type the boundless freedom here in Massachusetts.
    PC 8.213 23 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain, or in the opposite province of Britanny; the Chanson de Roland, in France;...
    PC 8.232 26 We have suffered our young men of ambition to play the game of politics and take the immoral side without loss of caste...
    PPo 8.243 20 Take, as specimens of these [Persian] gnomic verses, the following...
    PPo 8.251 18 Take my heart in thy hand, O beautiful boy of Shiraz!/ I would give for the mole on thy cheek Samarcand and Buchara!/
    PPo 8.260 14 ...what a nest has [Hafiz] found for his bonny bird to take up her abode in!
    Insp 8.270 15 We must take [the aboriginal man] as we find him...
    Insp 8.274 9 ...where is...a Franklin who can draw off electricity from Jove himself, and convey it into the arts of life, inspire men, take them off their feet...
    Insp 8.286 28 ...we take as much delight in finding the right place for an old observation, as in a new thought.
    Grts 8.312 13 A man will say: I am born to this position; I must take it...
    Imtl 8.324 12 ...where this belief [in immortality] once existed it would necessarily take a base form for the savage and a pure form for the wise;...
    Imtl 8.339 19 Take us as we are, with our experience, and transfer us to a new planet...
    Dem1 10.12 12 One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the lustre out of all fiction.
    Dem1 10.15 3 The Jew [Masollam]...bent his bow and shot the bird to the ground. This act offended the augur and some others, and they began to utter imprecations against the Jew. But he replied, Wherefore? Why are you so foolish as to take care of this unfortunate bird?
    Dem1 10.15 17 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success, exists not only among those who take part in political and military projects...
    Aris 10.29 8 Look who that is most virtuous alway,/ Prive and apert, and most entendeth aye/ To do the gentil dedes that he can,/ And take him for the greatest gentilman./
    Aris 10.29 9 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...
    Aris 10.34 3 ...I take this inextinguishable persuasion in men's minds [of hereditary transmission of qualities] as a hint from the outward universe to man to inlay as many virtues and superiorities as he can into this swift fresco of the day...
    Aris 10.54 19 Elevation of sentiment, refining and inspiring the manners, must really take the place of every distinction...
    Aris 10.56 26 When a man begins to speak, the churl will take him up by disputing his first words...
    Aris 10.60 14 The solitariest man who shares [a certain order of men's] spirit walks environed by them;...and happy is he who prefers these associates to profane companions. They also take shape in men, in women.
    Aris 10.63 23 Let [the man of honor]...say...the music and the dance of liberty will come up to bright and holy ground and will take me in also.
    PerF 10.71 8 Take up a spadeful or a buck-load of loam, who can guess what it holds?
    PerF 10.76 26 If we were truly to take account of stock before the last Court of Appeals,-that were an inventory!
    PerF 10.78 17 ...not less [than Memory, Fancy, Imagination, Eloquence], method, patience, self-trust, perseverance, love, desire of knowledge, the passion for truth. These are the angels that take us by the hand...
    PerF 10.84 3 ...if you wish the force of the intellect, the force of the will, you must take their divine direction...
    PerF 10.86 25 A boy who knows that a bully lives round the corner which he must pass on his daily way to school, is apt to take sinister views of streets and of school education.
    Chr2 10.94 3 The antagonist nature is the individual...with appetites which take from everybody else what they appropriate to themselves...
    Chr2 10.94 27 Compare...all our private and personal venture in the world, with this deep of moral nature in which we lie...and we take part with hasty shame against ourselves...
    Chr2 10.98 20 In the ever-returning hour of reflection, [a man] says: I stand here glad at heart of all the sympathies I can awaken and share...yet knowing that it is not in the power of all who surround me to take from me the smallest thread I call mine.
    Chr2 10.115 14 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan philosophers.
    Chr2 10.121 7 Take off the roofs of hundreds of happy houses, and you shall see this order without ruler...
    Edc1 10.125 16 ...the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Edc1 10.131 17 In some sort the end of life is that the man should take up the universe into himself...
    Edc1 10.158 8 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl...to check some injury that a little dastard is inflicting behind his desk on some helpless sufferer, take away the medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.
    SovE 10.193 18 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart.
    SovE 10.193 27 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical supervision of human life, by which that certain wonderful being whom they call God does take up their affairs where their intelligence leaves them...
    SovE 10.194 6 [Good men] do not see that He [God], that It, is there, next and within;...that he is existence, and take him from them and they would not be.
    SovE 10.194 11 [Good men] do not see that particulars are sacred to [God]...that these passages of daily life are his work; that in the moment when they desist from interference, these particulars take sweetness and grandeur...
    SovE 10.209 23 It does not yet appear what forms the religious feeling will take.
    Prch 10.220 14 ...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...
    Prch 10.222 8 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him.
    MoL 10.255 26 We should see in [the work of art] the great belief of the artist, which caused him to make it so as he did, and not otherwise;... somewhat that must be done then and there by him; he could not take his neck out of that yoke, and save his soul.
    Schr 10.269 21 The poet writes his verse on a scrap of paper, and instantly the desire and love of all mankind take charge of it...
    Plu 10.306 2 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay...or perhaps, at a rhetorician's school, the subject of Herodotus being the lesson of the day, Plutarch was appointed by lot to take the adverse side.
    Plu 10.307 12 These men [who revere the spiritual power]...are not the parasites of wealth. Perhaps they sometimes compromise...make and take compliments; but they keep open the source of wisdom and health.
    Plu 10.315 26 A brother, embroiled with his brother, going to seek in the street a stranger who can take his place, resembles him who will cut off his foot to give himself one of wood.
    Plu 10.316 24 ...[Plutarch] praises the Romans, who, when the feast was over, dealt well with the lamps, and did not take away the nourishment they had given...
    LLNE 10.350 17 All these [the hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] shall be redressed by human culture, and the useful goat and dog and innocent poetical moth, or the wood-tick to consume decomposing wood, shall take their place.
    LLNE 10.350 25 ...each community should take up six thousand acres of land.
    EzRy 10.388 23 ...the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] presently said, Mr. Merriam, my brother and colleague, Mr. Frost, has come to take tea with me.
    MMEm 10.398 19 ...[Lucy Percy]...will take a deep interest for persons of celebrity.
    MMEm 10.405 13 ...on her arrival at any new home [Mary Moody Emerson] was likely to steer first to the minister's house and pray his wife to take a boarder;...
    MMEm 10.418 22 Should I [Mary Moody Emerson] take so much care to save a few dollars?
    MMEm 10.420 1 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been needy, though I never had but two or three aids in those six years of earning my home. That ten dollars my dear father earned, and one hundred dollars remain, and I can't bear to take it...
    MMEm 10.429 19 O dear worms,-how they will at some sure time take down this tedious tabernacle...
    SlHr 10.438 1 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina...he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him...to take his daily walk...
    Thor 10.457 23 In any circumstance it interested all bystanders to know what part Henry [Thoreau] would take, and what he would say;...
    Thor 10.461 24 From a box containing a bushel or more of loose pencils, [Thoreau] could take up with his hands fast enough just a dozen pencils at every grasp.
    Thor 10.472 14 ...[Thoreau] would carry you...even to his most prized botanical swamp,-possibly knowing that you could never find it again, yet willing to take his risks.
    LS 11.9 23 ...still it may be asked, Why did Jesus make expressions so extraordinary and emphatic as these-This is my body which is broken for you. Take; eat.
    LS 11.18 6 ...I believe...that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.
    EWI 11.107 24 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783...to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies...
    EWI 11.117 13 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed...to take from [the apprentices], under various pretences, their fourth part of their time;...
    EWI 11.118 26 The child will sit in your arms contented, provided you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.
    EWI 11.134 25 If the managers of our political parties are too prudent and too cold;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    EWI 11.135 2 ...government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.
    EWI 11.145 9 ...in the great anthem which we call history...[the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can...take a master's part in the music.
    War 11.152 3 ...in the infancy of society...when hunger, thirst, ague and frozen limbs universally take precedence of the wants of the mind and the heart, the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
    War 11.167 25 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]... and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle, and take that limit which the common sense of all mankind has set...
    War 11.172 25 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...
    War 11.173 10 [Shakespeare's lords] make what is in their minds the greatest sacrifice. They will, for an injurious word, peril all their state and wealth, and go to the field. Take away that principle of responsibleness, and they become pirates and ruffians.
    FSLC 11.179 20 [Massachusetts laws] never came near me to any discomfort before. I find the like sensibility...in that class who take no interest in the ordinary questions of party politics.
    FSLC 11.187 5 It is remarkable how rare in the history of tyrants is an immoral law. Some color, some indirection was always used. If you take up the volumes of the Universal History, you will find it difficult searching.
    FSLC 11.205 26 I suppose the Union can be left to take care of itself.
    FSLN 11.217 9 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others.
    FSLN 11.218 13 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.
    FSLN 11.226 3 In the final hour, when he was forced by the peremptory necessity of the closing armies to take a side,-did [Webster] take the part of great principles...or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
    FSLN 11.226 3 In the final hour...did [Webster] take the part of great principles...or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
    FSLN 11.232 3 In vulgar politics the Whig goes...for the old necessities,- the Musts. The reformer goes for the Better, for the ideal good, the Mays. But each of these parties must of necessity take in, in some measure, the principles of the other.
    AsSu 11.249 4 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it.
    JBS 11.280 15 I am not a little surprised at the easy effrontery with which political gentlemen, in and out of Congress, take it upon them to say that there are not a thousand men in the North who sympathize with John Brown.
    ACiv 11.305 12 ...next winter we must begin at the beginning, and conquer [the South] over again. What use then to take a fort...
    ACiv 11.305 22 Congress can...abolish slavery, and pay for such slaves as we ought to pay for. Then the slaves near our armies will come to us; those in the interior will know in a week what their rights are, and will, where opportunity offers, prepare to take them.
    ACiv 11.306 24 Neither do I doubt, is such a composition should take place, that the Southerners will come back quietly and politely...
    ACiv 11.309 27 It is the maxim of natural philosophers that the natural forces wear out in time all obstacles, and take place...
    EPro 11.315 7 These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs, when...the political leaders of the day...take a step forward in the direction of catholic and universal interests.
    ALin 11.333 2 [Lincoln's good humor] enabled him...to take off the edge of the severest decisions;...
    HCom 11.341 19 War passes the power of all chemical solvents, breaking up the old adhesions, and allowing the atoms of society to take a new order.
    SMC 11.350 6 ...we...believe that our visitors will pardon us if we take the privilege of talking freely about our nearest neighbors as in a family party;...
    SMC 11.373 3 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment]...were ordered to take the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad from the rebels.
    Koss 11.397 15 ...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.
    Wom 11.405 18 ...according to the rule, take [women's] first advice, not the second...
    Wom 11.416 19 ...one right is an accession of strength to take more.
    Wom 11.421 5 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;...
    Wom 11.421 19 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    Wom 11.421 21 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen are willing to take on themselves the trouble of thinking and determining for you...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    RBur 11.442 24 ...Burns knew how to take from fairs and gypsies, blacksmiths and drovers, the speech of the market and street, and clothe it with melody.
    FRO2 11.486 1 ...as my friend, your presiding officer [of the Free Religious Association], has asked me to take at least some small part in this day's conversation, I am ready to give...the first simple foundation of my belief...
    CPL 11.507 13 ...it is a disadvantage not to have read the book your mates have read...so that it may take the place in your culture it does in theirs...
    FRep 11.521 17 General Jackson was a man of will, and his phrase on one memorable occasion, I will take the responsibility, is a proverb ever since.
    FRep 11.523 6 [Americans] stay away from the polls, saying that one vote can go no good! Or they take another step, and say, One vote can do no harm!...
    FRep 11.523 24 If a customer looks grave at [the peoples'] newspaper, or damns their member of Congress, they take another newspaper, and vote for another man.
    FRep 11.523 27 ...the people] must take wine at the hotel, first, for the look of it, and second, for the purpose of sending the bottle to two or three gentlemen at the table;...
    FRep 11.537 7 We want...men...who can live in the moment and take a step forward.
    NHI 12.1 3 Bacon's perfect law of inquiry after truth was that...nothing should take place as event in life which did not also exist as truth in the mind.
    PLT 12.18 21 [The perceptions of the soul] are detached from their parent, they pass into other minds; ripened and unfolded by many they hasten to incarnate themselves in action, to take body...
    PLT 12.18 23 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves wood and stone and iron;...
    PLT 12.22 19 Is it not a little startling to see with what genius some people take to hunting...
    PLT 12.29 27 If [a man] could attain full size he would take up, first or last, atom by atom, all the world into a new form.
    PLT 12.32 18 Though the world is full of food we can take only the crumbs fit for us.
    PLT 12.37 9 If we could retain our early innocence, we might trust our feet uncommanded to take the right path to our friend in the woods.
    PLT 12.37 12 If we could retain our early innocence, we might trust our feet uncommanded to take the right path to our friend in the woods. But... the feet have lost, by our distrust, their proper virtue, and we take the wrong path and miss him.
    PLT 12.42 3 I am bewildered by the immense variety of attractions and cannot take a step;...
    PLT 12.43 22 Thought must take the stupendous step of passing into realization.
    PLT 12.44 14 If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up the block as one.
    II 12.68 12 ...long after we have quitted the place [the art gallery], the objects begin to take a new order;...
    II 12.77 16 ...we can take sight beforehand of a state of being wherein the will shall penetrate and control what it cannot now reach.
    II 12.86 12 Take it sadly home to thy heart,-the artist must pay for his learning and doing with his life.
    CInt 12.127 11 ...these two [the College and the Church] should be counterbalancing to the bad politics and selfish trade. But there is but one institution, and not three. The Church and the College now take their tone from the City...
    CL 12.142 8 Few men know how to take a walk.
    CL 12.158 20 Dr. Johnson said, Few men know how to take a walk...
    CW 12.172 11 I did not know [when I bought my farm] what groups of interesting school-boys and fair school-girls were...to take hold of one's heart at the School Exhibitions.
    Bost 12.184 3 ...Sir Erskine Perry says the usage and opinion of the Hindoos so invades men of all castes and colors who deal with them that all take a Hindoo tint.
    Bost 12.202 9 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] Here in the clam-banks and the beech and chestnut forest, I shall take leave to breathe and think freely.
    MAng1 12.218 15 Every great work of art seems to take up into itself the excellencies of all works...
    MAng1 12.225 4 [Michelangelo] replied that it was useless for him to take care of the walls, if [the Florentines] were determined not to take care of themselves...
    MAng1 12.225 5 [Michelangelo] replied that it was useless for him to take care of the walls, if [the Florentines] were determined not to take care of themselves...
    MAng1 12.228 16 ...when [Michelangelo] wished to take Minerva from the head of Jove, there needed the hammer of Vulcan.
    Milt1 12.273 7 [Milton] would...support preachers by voluntary contributions; requiring that such only should preach as have faith enough to accept so self-denying and precarious a mode of life, scorning to take thought for the aspects of prudence and expediency.
    ACri 12.286 19 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...condemned to the company of a courier and of the padrone when they cannot take refuge in the society of countrymen.
    ACri 12.296 6 We can't afford to take the horse out of [Montaigne's] Essays; it would take the rider too.
    ACri 12.296 7 We can't afford to take the horse out of [Montaigne's] Essays; it would take the rider too.
    ACri 12.299 19 ...the secret interior wits and hearts of men take note of [Carlyle's History of Frederick II]...
    MLit 12.309 19 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo! the air swims with life...
    MLit 12.310 27 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books which take the rose out of the cheek of him that wrote them...
    MLit 12.324 3 ...for many of [Goethe's] stories, this seems the only reason: Here is a piece of humanity I had hitherto omitted to sketch;-take this.
    Pray 12.353 10 These duties are not the life, but the means which enable us to show forth the life. So must I take up this cross, and bear it willingly.
    Pray 12.356 17 [I, Augustine, entered my soul and saw] Not this vulgar light which all flesh may look upon, nor as it were a greater of the same kind, as though the brightness of this should be manifold greater and with its greatness take up all space.
    EurB 12.375 14 It is curious how sleepy and foolish we are, that these tales [novels of costume or of circumstance] will so take us.
    PPr 12.384 3 It is a costly proof of character that the most renowned scholar of England [Carlyle] should take his reputation in his hand and should descend into the [political] ring;...
    Let 12.398 22 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...
    Let 12.402 27 As if any taste or imagination could take the place of fidelity!
    Let 12.403 17 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;-a result...owing...to the hard times, which, driving men out of cities and trade, forced them to take off their coats and go to work on the land;...
    Trag 12.410 21 That which seems intolerable reproach or bereavement does not take from the accused or bereaved man or woman appetite or sleep.
    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...and at once his type of permanence is shaken.
    Trag 12.415 23 The market-man never damned the lady because she had not paid her bill, but the stout Irishman has to take that once a month.

taken, v. (165)

    Nat 1.5 12 ...[man's] operations taken together are so insignificant...that... they do not vary the result.
    Nat 1.28 2 All the facts in natural history taken by themselves, have no value...
    DSA 1.128 18 I shall endeavor to discharge my duty to you on this occasion, by pointing out two errors in [the Christian church's] administration, which daily appear more gross from the point of view we have just now taken.
    DSA 1.148 20 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...a certain solidity of merit...which is so essentially and manifestly virtue, that it is taken for granted that the right, the brave, the generous step will be taken by it...
    DSA 1.148 22 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...a certain solidity of merit...which is so essentially and manifestly virtue, that it is taken for granted that the right, the brave, the generous step will be taken by it...
    LE 1.166 23 The view I have taken of the resources of the scholar, presupposes a subject as broad.
    MN 1.192 13 There is in each of these works...an intellectual step, or short series of steps, taken;...
    MN 1.197 4 That which once existed in intellect as pure law, has now taken body as Nature.
    MR 1.231 27 In the Spanish islands, every agent or factor of the Americans...has taken oath that he is a Catholic...
    LT 1.275 24 Here is great variety and richness of mysticism, [which]... when it shall be taken up as the garniture of some profound and all-reconciling thinker, will appear the rich and appropriate decoration of his robes.
    Con 1.308 25 ...I am very peaceable, and on my private account could well enough die, since it appears...that I have been missent to this earth, where all the seats were already taken...
    Tran 1.345 22 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? Are they...taken in early ripeness to the gods...
    Tran 1.347 16 [Transcendentalists] feel that they are never so fit for friendship as when they have quitted mankind and taken themselves to friend.
    SR 2.84 17 For every thing that is given something is taken.
    Comp 2.94 12 [The preacher]...urged from reason and from Scripture a compensation to be made to both parties [the wicked and the good] in the next life. No offence appeared to be taken by the congregation at this doctrine.
    Comp 2.104 27 Pleasure is taken out of pleasant things...as soon as we seek to separate them from the whole.
    SL 2.131 18 In these hours [of clear reason] the mind seems so great that nothing can be taken from us that seems much.
    SL 2.141 2 [Each man] is like a ship in a river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one, on that side all obstruction is taken away...
    Fdsp 2.192 24 We talk better [with the commended stranger] than we are wont. We have...a richer memory, and our dumb devil has taken leave for the time.
    Fdsp 2.201 16 Not one step has man taken toward the solution of the problem of his destiny.
    Prd1 2.239 21 The thought is not [in dispute] taken hold of by the right handle...
    OS 2.272 1 ...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul, where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away.
    Int 2.327 12 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal. ... A better art than that of Egypt has taken fear and corruption out of it.
    Int 2.344 17 If Aeschylus be that man he is taken for, he has not yet done his office when he has educated the learned of Europe for a thousand years.
    Pt1 3.28 21 ...never can any advantage be taken of nature by a trick.
    Exp 3.65 6 Right to hold land, right of property, is disputed...and before the vote is taken, dig away in your garden...
    Chr1 3.105 18 Care is taken that the greatly-destined shall slip up into life in the shade...
    Chr1 3.112 23 Society is spoiled if pains are taken...
    Gts 3.163 16 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons, not at all considering the value of the gift but looking back to the greater store it was taken from,--I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
    Nat2 3.187 15 ...each [man] has a vein of folly in his composition...to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which nature had taken to heart.
    Nat2 3.194 27 ...the drag is never taken from the wheel.
    NR 3.242 12 ...care is taken that the whole tune shall be played.
    NER 3.252 26 The ox must be taken from the plough...
    NER 3.280 6 The man whose part is taken and who does not wait for society in anything, has a power which society cannot choose but feel.
    UGM 4.18 16 Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of Aristotle...in religion the history of hierarchies, of saints, and the sects which have taken the name of each founder, are in point.
    UGM 4.30 12 Children think they cannot live without their parents. But, long before they are aware of it...the detachment has taken place.
    PPh 4.53 17 ...[the Greeks'] perfect works in architecture and sculpture seemed things of course, not more difficult than the completion of...new mills at Lowell. These things are in course, and may be taken for granted.
    SwM 4.109 2 Every thing, at the end of one use, is taken up into the next...
    SwM 4.121 18 Every thing must be taken genially...
    SwM 4.134 12 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man...because he defies all dogmatizing and classification, so many allowances and contingences and futurities are to be taken into account;...
    MoS 4.160 8 [Skepticism] is a position taken up for better defence...
    ShP 4.205 23 [Shakespeare] was...an actor and shareholder in the theatre, not in any striking manner distinguished from other actors and managers. I admit the importance of this information. It was well worth the pains that have been taken to procure it.
    NMW 4.229 16 ...men saw in [Bonaparte] combined the natural and the intellectual power, as if the sea and land had taken flesh and begun to cipher.
    NMW 4.236 22 At Lonato, and at other places, [Napoleon] was on the point of being taken prisoner.
    NMW 4.246 20 [Napoleon's] army, on the night of the battle of Austerlitz... presented him with a bouquet of forty standards taken in the fight.
    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.
    ET1 5.12 23 ...I proceeded to inquire [of Coleridge] if the extract from the Independent's pamphlet, in the third volume of the Friend, were a veritable quotation. He replied that it was really taken from a pamphlet in his possession entitled A Protest of one of the Independents, or something to that effect.
    ET1 5.18 11 ...[Carlyle]...did not like to place himself where no step can be taken.
    ET2 5.28 24 Near the equator you can read small print by [the light of the sea-fire]; and the mate describes the phosphoric insects, when taken up in a pail, as shaped like a Carolina potato.
    ET3 5.36 24 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause...on which every body finds himself an interested party. Officers, jurors, judges have all taken sides.
    ET4 5.59 20 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with his dead men and their weapons, to be taken out to sea...
    ET4 5.65 9 I suppose a hundred English taken at random out of the street weigh a fourth more than so many Americans.
    ET4 5.72 26 ...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to foot-service, as pure and proper manhood, without any mixture; whilst in a victory on horseback, the credit ought to be divided betwixt the man and his horse. But in two hundred years a change has taken place.
    ET5 5.86 6 ...more care is taken of the health and comfort of English troops than of any other troops in the world;...
    ET8 5.133 2 ...[young Englishmen]...measure their own strength by the terror they cause. These travellers are of every class...and it may easily happen that those of rudest behavior are taken notice of and remembered.
    ET10 5.156 2 It is [Englishmen's] maxim that the weight of taxes must be calculated, not by what is taken, but by what is left.
    ET10 5.158 13 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs. And it was to little purpose that [the English] had pit-coal, or that looms were improved, unless Watt and Stephenson had taught them to work force-pumps and power-looms by steam. The great strides were all taken within the last hundred years.
    ET11 5.191 10 Prostitutes taken from the theatres were made duchesses [in England]...
    ET11 5.197 20 Another stride that has been taken [in England] appears in the perishing of heraldry.
    ET15 5.261 14 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...and no weakness can be taken advantage of by an enemy, since the whole people are already forewarned.
    ET15 5.269 13 [The London Times] addresses occasionally a hint to Majesty itself, and sometimes a hint which is taken.
    ET15 5.271 10 Many of [Punch's] caricatures...will convey to the eye in an instant the popular view which was taken of each turn of public affairs.
    ET15 5.271 18 It is a new trait of the nineteenth century, that the wit and humor of England...have taken the direction of humanity and freedom.
    ET16 5.288 1 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked.
    Pow 6.74 17 ...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
    Wth 6.87 9 When the farmer's peaches are taken from under the tree and carried into town, they have a new look and a hundredfold value over the fruit which grew on the same bough and lies fulsomely on the ground.
    Wsp 6.215 25 What a day dawns when we have taken to heart the doctrine of faith!...
    Wsp 6.238 21 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;...
    CbW 6.261 26 Aesop, Saadi, Cervantes, Regnard, have been taken by corsairs...and know the realities of human life.
    Bty 6.300 6 ...petulant old gentlemen...who see, after a world of pains have been successfully taken for the costume, how the least mistake in sentiment takes all the beauty out of your clothes,--affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    Ill 6.310 12 On arriving at what is called the Star-Chamber [in the Mammoth Cave], our lamps were taken from us by the guide...
    SS 7.13 12 ...the people are to be taken in very small doses.
    Art2 7.53 4 Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty that it has been taken for it.
    Elo1 7.78 14 In earlier days, [Julius Caesar] was taken by pirates. What then?
    Elo1 7.97 27 ...[the moral sentiment] conveys a hint of our eternity, when [the hearer] feels himself addressed on grounds which will remain when everything else is taken...
    DL 7.105 21 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the new knowledge is taken up into the life of to-day and becomes the means of more.
    DL 7.113 1 The difficulties to be overcome [in housekeeping] must be freely admitted; they are many and great. Nor are they to be disposed of by any criticism or amendment of particulars taken one at a time...
    WD 7.157 8 The human body is the magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint was taken.
    WD 7.180 21 The world is enigmatical...and must not be taken literally...
    Boks 7.199 26 ...this book [Plutarch's Lives] has taken care of itself...
    Boks 7.219 9 [The sacred books'] communications are not to be given or taken with the lips and the end of the tongue...
    Cour 7.259 19 ...the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...
    Cour 7.259 26 When we get an advantage...it is because our adversary has committed a fault, not that we have taken the initiative and given the law.
    OA 7.323 11 ...the chief evil of life is taken away in removing the grounds of fear.
    OA 7.334 1 E[dward] said [to John Adams]: I suppose, sir, you would not have taken [Mr. Lechmere's] place, even to walk as well as he.
    PI 8.23 11 The world is thoroughly anthropomorphized, as if it had passed through the body and mind of man, and taken his mould and form.
    SA 8.92 2 It may happen that each hears from the other a better wisdom than any one else will ever hear from either. But these ties are taken care of by Providence to each of us.
    SA 8.101 6 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class, who...shall be wise, temperate, brave, public men, adorned with dignity and accomplishments. Every country wishes this, and each has taken its own method to secure such service to the state.
    Elo2 8.131 4 [Eloquence] is the attitude taken...that a greater spirit speaks from you than is spoken to in him.
    QO 8.200 25 My work [said Goethe] is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of Nature;...
    PPo 8.240 22 [Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg...the all-wise fowl who had lived ever since the beginning of the world, and now lives alone on the highest summit of Mount Kaf. No fowler has taken him...
    Insp 8.279 3 [Bonaparte said] I am like a woman with child, and when my resolution is taken, all is forgot except whatever can make it succeed.
    Grts 8.316 7 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it in boys...as in more orderly examples.
    Imtl 8.340 3 ...all our intellectual action...bestows a feeling of absolute existence. We are taken out of time and breathe a purer air.
    Dem1 10.18 26 ...[demonic individuals] are not to be conquered save by the universe itself, against which they have taken up arms.
    Aris 10.34 18 ...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 10.56 24 It is a measure of culture, the number of things taken for granted.
    PerF 10.71 5 The coal on your grate gives out in decomposing to-day exactly the same amount of light and heat which was taken from the sunshine in its formation in the leaves and boughs of the antediluvian tree.
    Chr2 10.98 22 If all things are taken away, I have still all things in my relation to the Eternal.
    Chr2 10.109 27 Paganism has only taken the oath of allegiance, taken the cross...
    Edc1 10.125 10 We have already taken...the initial step...this, namely, that the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Edc1 10.125 23 The child shall be taken up by the State, and taught, at the public cost, the rudiments of knowledge...
    Edc1 10.141 26 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been...a way, not through plenty and superfluity, but by denial and renunciation, into solitude and privation; and, the more is taken away, the more real and inevitable wealth of being is made known to us.
    Supl 10.166 12 Think how much pains astronomers and opticians have taken to procure an achromatic lens.
    Supl 10.172 3 'T is very different, this weak and wearisome lie, from the stimulus to the fancy which is given by a romancing talker who does not mean to be exactly taken...
    SovE 10.189 12 The excellence of men consists in the completeness with which the lower system is taken up into the higher...
    Prch 10.233 4 ...if the events in which we have taken our part shall not see their solution until a distant future, there is yet a deeper fact;...
    Prch 10.235 6 Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid! As for position, the position is always the same,-insulting the timid, and not taken by storm...
    Schr 10.273 11 In our experiences, learning is not learned, nor is genius wise. The name of the Scholar is taken in vain.
    Schr 10.279 17 Hope is taken from youth unless there be, by the grace of God, sufficient vigor in their instinct to say, All is wrong and human invention.
    Plu 10.295 12 King Henry IV. wrote to his wife...you could not have sent me anything which could be more agreeable than the news of the pleasure you have taken in this reading [of Plutarch].
    Plu 10.320 21 The correction [in the 1871 edition of Plutarch's Morals] is not only of names of authors and of places grossly altered or misspelled, but of unpardonable liberties taken by the translators...
    LLNE 10.328 4 In the law courts, crimes of fraud have taken the place of crimes of force.
    CSC 10.376 10 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it, in the attitude taken by the individuals of their number of resistance to the insane routine of parliamentary usage;...
    CSC 10.376 26 ...although no decision was had, and no action taken on all the great points mooted in the discussion, yet the [Chardon Street] Convention brought together many remarkable persons...
    Thor 10.469 18 [Thoreau] knew every track in the snow or on the ground, and what creature had taken this path before him.
    Thor 10.482 6 I subjoin a few sentences taken from [Thoreau's] unpublished manuscripts...
    LS 11.8 15 ...it should be granted us that, taken alone, [the words This do in remembrance of me] do not necessarily import so much as is usually thought...
    LS 11.12 15 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings...
    LS 11.16 24 If the view which I have taken of the history of the institution [the Lord's Supper] be correct, then the claim of authority should be dropped in administering it.
    HDC 11.40 16 ...[The Concord settler's pastor said] if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven. Strive we, therefore, herein to excel, and suffer not this crown to be taken away from us.
    HDC 11.48 14 In 1795, several town-meetings are called [in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for land taken in making a bridle-road;...
    HDC 11.58 14 [Simon Willard] marched from Concord to Brookfield, in season to save the people...who had taken shelter in a fortified house.
    HDC 11.60 24 ...his brother, his uncle, his sister, and his beloved squaw being taken or slain, [King Philip] was at last shot down by an Indian deserter...
    HDC 11.70 13 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston, for every rational measure they have taken for the preservation or recovery of our invaluable rights and liberties infringed upon;...
    HDC 11.78 20 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither; and 210 cords of wood were carried. A similar order is taken respecting hay.
    EWI 11.99 11 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the settlement, as far as a great Empire was concerned, of a question on which almost every leading citizen in it had taken care to record his vote;...
    EWI 11.106 19 Very unwilling had that great lawyer [Lord Mansfield] been to reverse the late decisions [on slavery]; he suggested twice from the bench, in the course of the trial [of George Somerset], how the question might be got rid of: but the hint was not taken;...
    EWI 11.107 1 Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law, long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its introduction are lost; and in a case so odious as the condition of slaves, must be taken strictly...
    EWI 11.120 4 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838. In British Guiana, in Dominica, the same resolution had been earlier taken with more good will;...
    EWI 11.132 23 The Congress...should set on foot the strictest inquisition to discover where such persons [freemen of Massachusetts], brought into slavery by these local [Southern] laws at any time heretofore, may now be. That first; then, let order be taken to indemnify all such as have been incarcerated.
    War 11.158 24 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at, I burned and spoiled. And had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantity of treasure.
    War 11.175 23 ...not in an antiquated appanage where no onward step can be taken without rebellion, is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope;...
    FSLC 11.187 16 Pains seem to have been taken to give us in this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law] a wrong pure from any mixture of right.
    FSLC 11.187 27 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is befriending... on our own farms, a man who has taken the risk of being shot...to get away from his driver...
    FSLC 11.198 15 [Under the Fugitive Slave Law, the bench] is the extension of the planter's whipping-post; and its incumbents must rank with a class from which the turnkey, the hangman and the informer are taken...
    FSLN 11.235 19 Everything may be taken away; he may be poor, he may be houseless, yet [the self-reliant man] will know out of his arms to make a pillow, and out of his breast a bolster.
    AsSu 11.249 1 [Charles Sumner] had not taken his degrees in the caucus and in hack politics.
    TPar 11.288 22 ...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story...what part was taken by each actor [in Boston];...
    ACiv 11.300 3 The evil you contend with has taken alarming proportions...
    ACiv 11.305 1 ...as long as we fight without any affirmative step taken by the government...[the Southerners] and we fight on the same side, for slavery.
    ACiv 11.305 27 There can be no safety until this step [emancipation] is taken.
    ACiv 11.308 10 Men reconcile themselves very fast to a bold and good measure when once it is taken...
    EPro 11.317 8 ...so fair a mind...so reticent that his decision has taken all parties by surprise...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.
    EPro 11.319 20 [The Emancipation Proclamation] is not a measure that admits of being taken back...
    SMC 11.365 1 [George Prescott writes] I told Lieutenant Bowers, this morning, that I could afford to be sick from bringing the tent-poles, for it saved the whole regiment from sleeping out-doors; for they would not have thought of it, if I had not taken mine.
    SMC 11.374 3 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing. Here Major Shepard was taken prisoner.
    Wom 11.414 10 ...in every remarkable religious development in the world, women have taken a leading part.
    RBur 11.443 1 The memory of Burns,-I am afraid heaven and earth have taken too good care of it to leave us anything to say.
    CPL 11.498 17 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot excel, nor so much as equal other people in these things, and if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven. Strive we therefore herein to excel, and suffer not this crown to be taken away from us.
    FRep 11.543 25 ...our little wherry is taken in tow by the ship of the great Admiral...
    PLT 12.6 10 Whilst we converse with truths as thoughts, they exist also as plastic forces; as...the genius or constitution of any part of Nature, which makes it what it is. The thought which was...part and parcel of the world, has...taken an independent existence.
    PLT 12.25 24 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step.
    PLT 12.28 1 An individual mind...is a fixation or momentary eddy in which certain services and powers are taken up...
    CInt 12.114 20 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...
    CInt 12.118 5 Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense and of simple justice...
    CL 12.146 18 I know a whole district...where the apple-trees strive with and hold their ground against the native forest-trees: the apple growing with profusion that mocks the pains taken by careful cockneys...
    MAng1 12.226 6 [Michelangelo...was proceeding with the work [of rebuilding the Pons Palatinus], when, through the intervention of his rivals, this work was taken from him...
    MAng1 12.228 27 [Michelangelo] was accustomed to say, Those figures alone are good from which the labor is scraped off when the scaffolding is taken away.
    MAng1 12.233 14 ...let no man suppose...that this profound soul [Michelangelo] was taken or holden in the chains of superficial beauty.
    MAng1 12.241 14 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper...by the Italian scholar, in the Discourse of Benedetto Varchi upon one sonnet of Michael Angelo...from which, in substance, the views of Radici are taken.
    Milt1 12.250 9 The lover of [Milton's] genius will always regret that he should [when writing the Defence of the English People] not have taken counsel of his own lofty heart at this, as at other times...
    Milt1 12.255 14 Addison, Pope, Hume and Johnson, students...of the same subject [human nature], cannot, taken together, make any pretension to the amount or the quality of Milton's inspirations.
    ACri 12.291 16 Never say, I beg not to be misunderstood. It is only graceful in the case when you are afraid that what is called a better meaning will be taken, and you wish to insist on a worse;...
    AgMs 12.360 15 ...who is this book [the Agricultural Survey] written for? Not for farmers; no pains are taken to send it to them;...

takes, v. (157)

    Nat 1.10 26 The waving of the boughs in the storm is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise...
    Nat 1.20 10 In proportion to the energy of his thought and will, [man] takes up the world into himself.
    AmS 1.101 14 For the ease and pleasure of...accepting...the religion of society, [the scholar] takes the cross of making his own...
    AmS 1.105 12 ...in proportion as a man has any thing in him divine, the firmament...takes his signet and form.
    LE 1.168 25 ...[when I see the daybreak] I am cheered by the...hour, that takes down the narrow walls of my soul...
    MN 1.210 9 [A man's] health and greatness consist...in the fulness in which an ecstatical state takes place in him.
    MR 1.238 13 ...whoever takes any of these things [species of property] into his possession, takes the charge of defending them from this troop of enemies...
    MR 1.238 14 ...whoever takes any of these things [species of property] into his possession, takes the charge of defending them from this troop of enemies...
    MR 1.256 11 ...the merchant gladly takes money from his income to add to his capital...
    LT 1.262 13 ...persons are the world to persons,-a cunning mystery by which the Great Desert of thoughts and of planets takes this engaging form, to bring...its meanings nearer to the mind.
    Con 1.312 21 Providence takes care that you shall have a place...
    Con 1.317 26 ...[man] takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore...
    Con 1.320 1 Conservatism takes as low a view of every part of human action and passion.
    Tran 1.331 14 The materialist...believes...that he at least takes nothing for granted...
    Tran 1.332 24 In the order of thought, the materialist takes his departure from the external world...
    Tran 1.332 27 The idealist takes his departure from his consciousness...
    Tran 1.339 3 Nature...ever works and advances, yet takes no thought for the morrow.
    Tran 1.352 24 My life...takes no root in the deep world;...
    Tran 1.356 9 [Transcendentalists] complain that everything around them must be denied; and if feeble, it takes all their strength to deny...
    YA 1.377 12 ...as quickly as men go to foreign parts in ships or caravans... new command takes place, new servants and new masters.
    SR 2.61 4 Character, reality...takes place of the whole creation.
    SR 2.79 24 The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every thing to the new terminology as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and new seasons thereby.
    SR 2.88 8 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 robber takes it away.
    Comp 2.97 1 Superinduce magnetism at one end of a needle, the opposite magnetism takes place at the other end.
    Comp 2.98 17 If the gatherer gathers too much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest;...
    Comp 2.99 8 Thus [Nature]...takes the boar out and puts the lamb in...
    Comp 2.119 5 The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfilment of every contract...
    SL 2.131 1 When the act of reflection takes place in the mind...we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.
    SL 2.138 21 A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;...
    SL 2.144 5 [A man] takes only his own out of the multiplicity that sweeps and circles round him.
    SL 2.151 18 ...a man may have that allowance he takes.
    SL 2.152 8 There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place;...
    SL 2.153 21 The writer who takes his subject from his ear and not from his heart, should know that he has lost as much as he seems to have gained...
    Fdsp 2.207 11 In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone.
    Prd1 2.224 26 [Prudence] takes the laws of the world...as they are...
    Prd1 2.235 6 [Our Yankee trade] takes bank-notes, good, bad, clean, ragged, and saves itself by the speed with which it passes them off.
    Hsm1. 2.252 19 ...the little man takes the great hoax [the world] so innocently...
    Hsm1 2.255 18 ...that which takes my fancy most in the heroic class, is the good-humor and hilarity they exhibit.
    OS 2.280 26 ...in proportion to that truth [a man] receives, [the soul] takes him to itself.
    OS 2.286 18 The infallible index of true progress is found in the tone the man takes.
    Exp 3.80 22 A subject and an object,--it takes so much to make the galvanic circuit complete...
    Exp 3.82 5 In this our talking America we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power of being greatly useful.
    Exp 3.85 17 It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep...
    Chr1 3.98 14 Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person...
    Mrs1 3.148 8 There must be romance of character, or the most fastidious exclusion of impertinencies will not avail. It must be genius which takes that direction: it must be not courteous, but courtesy.
    Nat2 3.169 24 The knapsack of custom falls off [the man of the world's] back with the first step he takes into these precincts [of the forest].
    Nat2 3.171 13 Ever...comes in this honest face [of nature], and takes a grave liberty with us...
    NR 3.237 23 ...the frugal farmer takes care that his cattle shall eat down the rowen...
    NR 3.243 27 As soon as [a man] needs a new object, suddenly he beholds it, and no longer attempts to pass through it, but takes another way.
    NER 3.249 5 Peace now each for malice takes,/ Beauty for his sinful weeds,/ For the angel Hope aye makes/ Him an angel whom she leads./
    PPh 4.41 25 What is a great man but one of great affinities, who takes up into himself all arts, sciences, all knowables, as his food?
    SwM 4.93 23 Wherever the sentiment of right comes in, it takes precedence of every thing else.
    SwM 4.97 24 Indeed, it takes/ From our achievements, when performed at height,/ The pith and marrow of our attribute./
    SwM 4.124 24 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks...and is there objective, or really takes place in bodies by alien will,--in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.
    SwM 4.125 13 [To Swedenborg] Nothing can resist states: every thing gravitates: like will to like: what we call poetic justice takes effect on the spot.
    SwM 4.130 27 ...though aware that truth is not solitary nor is goodness solitary, but both must ever mix and marry, [Swedenborg] makes war on his mind, takes the part of the conscience against it...
    ShP 4.198 9 [Chaucer] steals by this apology,--that what he takes has no worth where he finds it and the greatest where he leaves it.
    ShP 4.201 1 The world takes liberties with world-books.
    NMW 4.258 1 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes hold of it...
    ET1 5.19 22 [Wordsworth] thinks more of the education of circumstances than of tuition. 'T is not question whether there are offences of which the law takes cognizance, but whether there are offences of which the law does not take cognizance.
    ET9 5.148 8 [This little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain] takes away a dodging, skulking, secondary air...
    ET10 5.167 15 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of linen...
    ET10 5.170 25 A civility of trifles...takes place [in England]...
    ET12 5.207 7 The English nature takes culture kindly.
    ET14 5.233 3 ...the Englishman...takes hold of things by the right end...
    ET14 5.239 8 ...wherever the mind takes a step, it is to put itself at one with a larger class...
    F 6.20 6 If we are brute and barbarous, the fate takes a brute and dreadful shape.
    F 6.20 9 If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
    F 6.25 8 The revelation of Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom.
    F 6.38 10 Nature...takes the shortest way to her ends.
    F 6.43 10 Whilst the man is weak, the earth takes up him.
    Pow 6.74 4 Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more...
    Wth 6.88 11 ...[nature]...takes away warmth, laughter, sleep, friends and daylight, until [a man] has fought his way to his own loaf.
    Wth 6.90 8 ...[the human being] is successful, or his education is carried on just so far, as...the degree in which he takes up things into himself.
    Wth 6.105 15 Rothschild refuses the Russian loan, and there is peace and the harvests are saved. He takes it, and there is war...
    Wth 6.120 1 When Mr. Cockayne takes a cottage in the country, and will keep his cow, he thinks a cow is a creature that is fed on hay and gives a pail of milk twice a day.
    Ctr 6.141 15 ...a large part of our cost and pains is thrown away. Nature takes the matter into her own hands...
    Ctr 6.143 11 [The boy] is infatuated for weeks with whist and chess; but presently will find out...that when he rises from the game too long played, he is vacant and forlorn and despises himself. Thenceforward it takes place with other things...
    Ctr 6.150 18 ...[the man of the world] takes a low business-tone...
    Ctr 6.150 22 [The man of the world] calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon.
    Ctr 6.155 15 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that...takes two looms in the factory...
    Ctr 6.157 8 Solitude takes off the pressure of present importunities...
    Wsp 6.215 20 Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him.
    Wsp 6.216 18 ...genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude;...
    Bty 6.282 14 Chemistry takes to pieces, but it does not construct.
    Bty 6.288 18 The question of Beauty takes us out of surfaces to thinking of the foundations of things.
    Bty 6.300 7 ...petulant old gentlemen...who see, after a world of pains have been successfully taken for the costume, how the least mistake in sentiment takes all the beauty out of your clothes,--affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    SS 7.7 18 We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you.
    SS 7.14 12 Put any company of people together with freedom for conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place into sets and pairs.
    Civ 7.17 27 Twirl the old wheels! Time takes fresh start again,/ On for a thousand years of genius more./
    Elo1 7.66 15 If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence [in the audience] of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them. If new topics are started, graver and higher, these roisters recede; a more chaste and wise attention takes place.
    Elo1 7.76 4 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union, and he...takes the lead in the public mind over all these executive men...
    Farm 7.138 27 [The farmer] takes the pace of seasons, plants and chemistry.
    Farm 7.142 17 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions;...and it takes him long to understand its parts and its working.
    Farm 7.144 25 The invisible and creeping air takes form and solid mass.
    Farm 7.151 13 The first planter, the savage...looking chiefly to safety from his enemy,--man or beast,--takes poor land.
    Boks 7.206 19 If now the relations of England to European affairs bring [the scholar] to British ground, he is arrived at the very moment when modern history takes new proportions.
    Boks 7.220 8 ...it takes millenniums to make a Bible.
    Cour 7.254 26 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end;...looks at all men as wax for his hands; takes command of them as the wind does of clouds...
    Cour 7.263 1 Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart...
    Cour 7.269 11 ...a new book astonishes for a few days, takes itself out of common jurisdiction...
    Suc 7.289 10 Our success takes from all what it gives to one.
    OA 7.325 22 ...Nature takes care that we shall not lose our organs forty years too soon.
    PI 8.3 15 The common sense which...takes things at their word...believes in the existence of matter...because it agrees with ourselves...
    PI 8.38 25 ...there is a third step which poetry takes...namely, creation...
    Res 8.139 8 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides. The machine is of colossal size;... and it takes long to understand its parts and its workings.
    Res 8.152 16 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that...though insignificant enough in the general bareness of the forest, yet a great change takes place in them between fall and spring;...
    PC 8.208 21 Now that by the increased humanity of law she controls her property, [woman] inevitably takes the next step to her share in power.
    Insp 8.292 26 Some perceptions...are granted to the single soul; they...are the permanent and controlling ones. Others it takes two to find.
    Grts 8.303 5 The man in the tavern maintains his opinion, though the whole crowd takes the other side; we are at once drawn to him.
    Imtl 8.340 7 I know not whence we draw the assurance...of a life which shoots the gulf we call death and takes hold of what is real and abiding, by so many claims as from our intellectual history.
    Imtl 8.347 20 ...when we are living in the sentiments we ask no questions about time. The spiritual world takes place;-that which is always the same.
    Imtl 8.349 8 The human mind takes no account of geography...
    Imtl 8.351 3 Yama said [to Nachiketas], One thing is good, another is pleasant. Blessed is he who takes the good...
    Dem1 10.9 9 Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance...
    Dem1 10.14 2 Euripides said...he is not the wisest man whose guess turns out well in the event, but he who, whatever the event be, takes reason and probability for his guide.
    Dem1 10.15 11 It is not the tendency of our times to ascribe importance...to omens. But the faith in peculiar and alien power takes another form in the modern mind...
    Dem1 10.16 6 The young man takes a leap in the dark and alights safe.
    Aris 10.36 13 Forever and ever it takes a pound to lift a pound.
    Aris 10.44 4 I think he'll be to Rome/ As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it/ By sovereignty of nature./
    Aris 10.55 23 ...it takes two to make an atmosphere.
    Aris 10.56 27 The wise man takes all for granted until he sees the parallelism of that which puzzled him with his own view.
    Edc1 10.132 3 The truth takes flesh in forms that can express it;...
    SovE 10.204 22 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 wit takes the place of faith in the leading spirits...
    Prch 10.225 8 The lessons of the moral sentiment are...an emancipation from that anxiety which takes the joy out of all life.
    Prch 10.233 13 The author...falters never, but takes the victorious tone.
    Schr 10.271 19 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that genius and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread, because they have...a first mortgage that takes effect before the right of the present proprietor.
    Plu 10.308 20 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher...to commend himself to men of public regards and ruling genius: for, if he once possess such a man with principles of honor and religion, he takes a compendious method, by doing good to one, to oblige a great part of mankind.
    LLNE 10.350 18 It takes sixteen hundred and eighty men to make one Man, complete in all the faculties;...
    Carl 10.493 4 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.
    EWI 11.122 5 There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity...
    War 11.152 25 [Society] presently finds the value of good sense and of foresight, and Ulysses takes rank next to Achilles.
    War 11.155 17 ...the appearance of the other instincts [than self-help] immediately modifies and controls this; turns its energies into harmless, useful and high courses...and, finally, takes out its fangs.
    War 11.173 23 ...the man who...without any notice of his action abroad, expecting none, takes in solitude the right step uniformly...does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
    FSLC 11.179 14 I wake in the morning with a painful sensation...which, when traced home, is the odious remembrance of that ignominy which has fallen on Massachusetts, which...takes the sunshine out of every hour.
    FSLN 11.237 18 ...as well-doing makes power and wisdom, ill-doing takes them away.
    FSLN 11.237 25 The habit of oppression cuts out the moral eyes, though the intellect goes on simulating the moral as before, its sanity is gradually destroyed. It takes away the presentiments.
    JBB 11.272 26 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance, and not a protection; for it takes away [a man's] right reliance on himself...
    EdAd 11.383 19 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys with journals still wet from Liverpool and Havre...
    Wom 11.406 8 Weirdes all, said the Edda, Frigga knoweth, though she telleth them never. That is to say, all wisdoms Woman knows; though she takes them for granted, and does not explain them as discoveries, like the understanding of man.
    SHC 11.436 7 I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good.
    FRO2 11.487 7 [Thought] is easily carried; it takes no room;...
    FRO2 11.489 4 If you are childish, and exhibit your saint as a worker of wonders, a thaumaturgist, I am repelled. That claim takes his teachings out of logic and out of nature...
    CPL 11.496 22 ...it is not easy to exaggerate the utility of the beneficence which takes this form [building of a library].
    PLT 12.28 24 ...[Nature] is careful to leave all her doors ajar,-towers, hall, storeroom and cellar. If [man] takes her hint and uses her goods she speaks no word;...
    PLT 12.33 1 A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system.
    PLT 12.46 9 The revelation of thought takes us out of servitude into freedom.
    II 12.81 7 ...the real credentials by which man takes precedence of man... are intellectual and moral.
    II 12.82 25 [A man] takes delight in working, not in having wrought.
    Mem 12.96 26 ...one [man] rarely takes an interest in how the facts really stand, in the order of cause and effect, without self-reference. This is an intellectual man.
    Mem 12.103 5 A thought takes its true rank in the memory by surviving other thoughts that were once preferred.
    Mem 12.108 3 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was...but...a possession of the intellect. Then...we put the onus of being remembered on the object, instead of on our will. We shall do as we do with all our studies, prize the fact or the name of the person by that predominance it takes in our mind after near acquaintance.
    CInt 12.119 3 The hater of property and of government takes care to have his warranty-deed recorded;...
    CInt 12.125 3 ...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.
    Bost 12.196 18 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year...takes from the muscles their suppleness...
    WSL 12.343 10 Each kind of excellence takes place for its hour and excludes everything else.
    AgMs 12.362 5 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth. The good Commissioner [Henry Colman] takes off his hat when he approaches them...

taketh, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.231 15 He is great whose eyes are opened to see that the reward of actions cannot be escaped, because he is transformed into his action, and taketh its nature...

taking, v. (58)

    LE 1.171 11 It looks as if [the French Eclectics] had all truth, in taking all the systems...
    MR 1.232 21 ...the general system of our trade...is a system...not of giving but of taking advantage.
    Hist 2.25 7 ...Xenophon arose naked, and taking an axe, began to split wood;...
    SL 2.145 10 Everywhere [the man] may take what belongs to his spiritual estate...nor can all the force of men hinder him from taking so much.
    Prd1 2.222 3 [Prudence] is God taking thought for oxen.
    Exp 3.54 2 Shall I preclude my future by taking a high seat...
    Exp 3.57 16 Life is not worth the taking, to do tricks in.
    Exp 3.67 24 Life is a series of surprises, and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
    Exp 3.85 9 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. ... Worse, I observe that in the history of mankind there is never a solitary example of success,--taking their own tests of success.
    Nat2 3.179 8 ...taking timely warning, and leaving many things unsaid on this topic, let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature...
    NER 3.254 23 It is right and beautiful in any man to say, I will take this coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of yours,--in whom we see the act...to flow from the whole spirit and faith of him; for then that taking will have a giving as free and divine;...
    NER 3.272 14 [Men] are conservatives...before taking their rest;...
    MoS 4.159 27 [The skeptic] is the considerer...taking in sail...
    GoW 4.270 12 ...[the nineteenth century's] poet, is Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century...taking away...the reproach of weakness which but for him would lie on the intellectual works of the period.
    ET1 5.10 25 ...taking up Bishop Waterland's book, which lay on the table, [Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three pages written by himself in the fly-leaves...
    ET1 5.20 21 [Wordsworth] was against taking off the tax on newspapers in England...
    ET7 5.125 5 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel, and made up his mind; then the counsel for the other side taking their turn to speak, he found himself so unsettled and perplexed that he exclaimed, So help me God! I will never listen to evidence again.
    ET10 5.166 23 Man...is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure...
    F 6.4 22 If one would study his own time, it must be by this method of taking up in turn each of the leading topics which belong to our scheme of human life...
    Bty 6.294 19 ...our art...reaches beauty by taking every superfluous ounce that can be spared from a wall, and keeping all its strength in the poetry of columns.
    Elo1 7.62 6 Our county conventions often exhibit a small-pot-soon-hot style of eloquence. We are too much reminded of a medical experiment where a series of patients are taking nitrous-oxide gas.
    Elo1 7.65 7 That...which eloquence ought to reach, is...a taking sovereign possession of the audience.
    Elo1 7.84 19 Especially [the orator] consults his power by making instead of taking his theme.
    Elo1 7.87 1 I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room. ... [The prisoner's counsel] drove the attorney for the state from corner to corner, taking his reasons from under him...
    Farm 7.148 4 In September, when the pears hang heaviest and are taking from the sun their gay colors, comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.
    WD 7.161 8 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph...whose sudden performance astonished mankind as if the intellect were taking the brute earth itself into training...
    Clbs 7.246 1 A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense preferred on his travels taking his chance at a hotel for company...
    PI 8.38 26 ...there is a third step which poetry takes...namely, creation, or ideas taking forms of their own...
    PI 8.42 25 We cannot know things by words and writing, but only by taking a central position in the universe and living in its forms.
    SA 8.95 18 ...there are...brave choices enough of taking the part of truth...in privatest circles.
    Elo2 8.116 21 ...[the orator] taking no counsel of past things...surprises [the people] with his tidings...
    Elo2 8.123 18 [John Quincy Adams's] last lecture, in taking leave of his class, contained some nervous allusions to the treatment he had received from his old friends...
    Res 8.146 12 ...taking from his portmanteau a small phial of white brandy, [Tissenet] poured it into a cup...
    Res 8.146 16 ...taking up a chip of dry pine, [Tissenet] drew a burning-glass from his pocket and set the chip on fire.
    Res 8.151 20 The first care of a man settling in the country should be to open the face of the earth to himself by a little knowledge of Nature, or a great deal, if he can; of birds, plants, rocks, astronomy; in short, the art of taking a walk.
    PC 8.209 9 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... teaching nations the taking of government into their own hands...
    Grts 8.314 20 When one of his favorite schemes missed, [Napoleon] had the faculty of taking up his genius, as he said, and of carrying it somewhere else.
    Imtl 8.347 17 [Future state] is not duration, but a taking of the soul out of time...
    PerF 10.83 11 We arrive at virtue by taking its direction instead of imposing ours.
    SovE 10.206 9 You cannot impoverish man by taking away these objects above him without ruin.
    Schr 10.267 27 I do not wish to see you...taking hold of the world with the tips of your fingers...
    LLNE 10.358 2 The large cities are phalansteries; and the theorists drew all their argument from facts already taking place in our experience.
    Thor 10.456 16 I love Henry, said one of [Thoreau's] friends, but I cannot like him; and as for taking his arm, I should as soon think of taking the arm of an elm-tree.
    Thor 10.456 17 I love Henry, said one of [Thoreau's] friends, but I cannot like him; and as for taking his arm, I should as soon think of taking the arm of an elm-tree.
    LS 11.16 2 We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own.
    HDC 11.52 12 Tahattawan, our Concord sachem, called his Indians together, and bid them not oppose the courses which the English were taking for their good;...
    HDC 11.52 19 ...said [Tahattawan], all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they care for you? They took away your skins, your kettles and your wampum...and this was all they regarded. But you may see the English...instead of taking away, are ready to give to you.
    HDC 11.72 15 On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson] preached to a very full assembly, taking for his text, 2 Chronicles xiii.12...
    EWI 11.145 19 There remains the very elevated consideration which the subject [emancipation] opens, but which belongs to more abstract views than we are now taking...
    FSLC 11.201 11 Hills and Halletts, servile editors by the hundred, we could have spared. But [Webster]...the first man of the North, in the very moment of mounting the throne, irresistibly taking the bit in his mouth and the collar on his neck...
    FSLN 11.241 17 We should not forgive the clergy for taking on every issue the immoral side;...
    TPar 11.292 26 ...taking all the duties he could grasp, and more... [Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave...
    SHC 11.429 11 [The committee] have thought that the taking possession of this field [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] ought to be marked by a public meeting and religious rites...
    FRep 11.526 11 ...here is the human race poured out over the continent to do itself justice;...unmistakably taking off its coat to hard work...
    PLT 12.21 27 If man has organs...for locomotion, for taking food...you shall find all the same in the muskrat.
    CL 12.141 26 In the English universities, the reading men are daily performing their punctual training in the boat-clubs...or, taking their famed constitutionals...
    Milt1 12.279 7 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who...taking counsel only of himself, endeavored...to carry out the life of man to new heights of spiritual grace and dignity...
    EurB 12.367 10 ...Wordsworth...though...taking the public to task for not admiring his poetry, is really a master of the English language...

takings, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.77 22 ...any swindlers we have known are novices and bunglers, as is attested by their ill name. A greater power of face would...with the rest of their takings, take away the bad name.

Talbot, Charles, n. (3)

    EWI 11.106 5 [Granville] Sharpe instantly...gave himself to the study of English law...until he had proved that the opinions relied on, of Talbot and Yorke, were incompatible with the former English decisions...
    FSLC 11.191 13 Lord Mansfield, in the case of the slave Somerset, wherein the dicta of Lords Talbot and Hardwicke had been cited...said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
    FSLN 11.225 22 There was the same law in England for Jeffries and Talbot and Yorke to read slavery out of, and for Lord Mansfield to read freedom.

Talbot, John [Earl of Shre (1)

    ET11 5.189 24 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker; Lord Herbert of Cherbury's autobiography;... are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.

Talbot [Shakespeare, Henry (1)

    ET11 5.189 22 Shakspeare's portraits of good Duke Humphrey, of Warwick, of Northumberland, of Talbot, were drawn in strict consonance with the traditions.

Talbots, n. (1)

    Shak1 11.451 5 There are no Warwicks, no Talbots...in real Europe, like [Shakespeare's].

Talbot's [Shakespeare, Henr (1)

    Hist 2.36 27 Transport [Napoleon] to...complex interests and antagonist power, and you shall see that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not the virtual Napoleon. This is but Talbot's shadow;...

Tale, Canon Yeman's [Geoff (1)

    Ctr 6.132 8 Lord Coke valued Chaucer highly because the Canon Yeman's Tale illustrates the statute fifth Hen. IV. chap. 4, against alchemy.

Tale, Knight's [Geoffrey C (2)

    F 6.6 9 For certainly, our appetites here,/ Be it of warre, or pees, or hate, or love,/ All this is ruled by the sight above./ Chaucer: The Knight's Tale.
    Aris 10.30 7 Than cometh our very gentillesse of grace,/ It was no thing bequethed us with our place./ Chaucer, The Knighte's Tale.

tale, n. (12)

    LE 1.177 25 Why should [the scholar] read [human life] as an Arabian tale...
    Hist 2.40 11 I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
    SwM 4.141 15 ...it is certain that [the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must tally with what is best in nature. ... In this mood we hear the rumor that the seer has arrived, and his tale is told.
    ShP 4.197 14 Each romancer was heir and dispenser of all the hundred tales of the world,--Presenting Thebes' and Pelops' line/ And the tale of Troy divine./
    GoW 4.287 23 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides...
    Ctr 6.154 11 Suffer [people who scream and bewail] once to begin the enumeration of their infirmities and the sun will go down on the unfinished tale.
    Cour 7.277 24 Men have done brave deeds,/ And bards have sung them well:/ I of good George Nidiver/ Now the tale will tell./
    PPo 8.263 16 Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical tale...
    Dem1 10.11 24 Lucian has an idle tale that Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words...
    Aris 10.54 10 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets, and then convert the world into a huge whispering-gallery, to report the tale to all men...
    LVB 11.92 8 We have looked in the newspapers of different parties and find a horrid confirmation of the tale [of the relocation of the Cherokees].
    MLit 12.334 19 Are there no lonely, anxious, wondering children, who must tell their tale?

Tale of Troy, n. (1)

    ShP 4.192 25 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is the Tale of Troy, which the audience will bear hearing some part of, every week;...

Tale, Winter Evening's, n. (1)

    ShP 4.218 7 ...when the question is, to life and its materials and its auxiliaries, how does [Shakespeare] profit me? What does it signify? It is but a Twelfth Night, or Midsummer-Night's Dream, or Winter Evening's Tale...

Taleb, Ali Ben Abu, n. (1)

    CbW 6.273 1 An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth:-- He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,/ And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere./

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