Taverns to Tempestuous

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

tavern, adj. (3)

    MoS 4.153 23 My neighbor, a jolly farmer, in the tavern bar-room, thinks that the use of money is sure and speedy spending.
    Clbs 7.247 23 ...it was explained to me...that it was impossible to set any public charity on foot unless through a tavern dinner.
    Clbs 7.248 12 Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands; and it is to be believed that an indifferent tavern dinner in such society was more relished by the convives than a much better one in worse company.

tavern, n. (8)

    ET1 5.4 26 It is probable you left some obscure comrade at a tavern...when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
    ET11 5.176 13 At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast, and every tavern was full of his meat...
    Pow 6.64 26 ...the 'bruisers,' who have run the gauntlet of caucus and tavern through the county or the state,--have their own vices, but they have the good nature of strength and courage.
    CbW 6.247 4 Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.
    SS 7.4 1 [My new friend] envied every drover and lumberman in the tavern their manly speech.
    Insp 8.272 11 The toper finds, without asking, the road to the tavern...
    Grts 8.303 4 The man in the tavern maintains his opinion, though the whole crowd takes the other side; we are at once drawn to him.
    Bost 12.188 14 [Boston] is...not...a cross-roads tavern...grown up by time and luck to a place of wealth;...

taverns, n. (4)

    Fdsp 2.205 23 I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter... by...dinners at the best taverns.
    ET2 5.31 14 'T is a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company and taverns steal from the best economist.
    ET8 5.130 3 ...the [English] gentry avoid the taverns...
    Thor 10.455 21 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose, walking hundreds of miles, avoiding taverns...

tax, n. (32)

    MR 1.242 27 For privileges so rare and grand, let [the man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] not stint to pay a great tax.
    Comp 2.105 19 So signal is the failure of all attempts to make this separation of the good from the tax, that the experiment would not be tried... but for the circumstance that when the disease began in the will...the intellect is at once infected...
    Comp 2.113 17 ...for every benefit which you receive, a tax is levied.
    Comp 2.120 15 Every advantage has its tax.
    Comp 2.122 20 There is no tax on the good of virtue...
    Comp 2.122 23 Material good has its tax...
    Comp 2.123 7 The gain [in external goods] is apparent; the tax is certain.
    Comp 2.123 8 ...there is no tax on the knowledge that the compensation exists...
    Prd1 2.225 22 ...the tax, and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains...these eat up the hours.
    Prd1 2.237 3 On the most profitable lie the course of events presently lays a destructive tax;...
    Pt1 3.42 12 Thou [O poet] shalt have...the sea for thy bath and navigation, without tax and without envy;...
    Exp 3.68 18 The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely...one gets the cheer of their light without paying too great a tax.
    Pol1 3.202 13 Laban, who has flocks and herds, wishes them looked after by an officer on the frontiers...and pays a tax to that end.
    Pol1 3.202 15 Jacob has no flocks or herds, and no fear of the Midianites, and pays no tax to the officer.
    NER 3.257 5 I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.
    NER 3.281 14 ...[lovers of truth] know the tax of talent...
    GoW 4.266 26 ...a headiness and loss of balance, is the tax which all action must pay.
    ET1 5.20 21 [Wordsworth] was against taking off the tax on newspapers in England...
    ET1 5.20 22 [Wordsworth] was against taking off the tax on newspapers in England,--which the reformers represent as a tax upon knowledge...
    ET7 5.122 4 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven all voting like sheep...all but four voting the income tax...
    CbW 6.251 7 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...if he do not violently decline the duties that fall to him, this amount of helpfulness will in one way or another be brought home to him. This is the tax which his abilities pay.
    CbW 6.253 25 In the twenty-fourth year of his reign [Edward I] decreed that no tax should be levied without consent of Lords and Commons;...
    LLNE 10.356 8 ...a pent-house to fend the sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts...
    Thor 10.454 9 ...[Thoreau] refused to pay a tax to the State;...
    Thor 10.458 9 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail.
    Thor 10.458 10 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he was released.
    Thor 10.458 12 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail. A friend paid the tax for him, and he was released. The like annoyance was threatened the next year. But as his friends paid the tax, notwithstanding his protest, I believe he ceased to resist.
    HDC 11.42 12 ...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their civil history...
    ACiv 11.302 3 ...by the dislike of people to pay out a direct tax, governments are forced to render life costly by making them pay twice as much, hidden in the price of tea and sugar.
    SMC 11.352 4 The old [Concord] Monument...stands to signalize the first Revolution, where the people resisted...offensive taxes of the British Parliament, claiming that there should be no tax without representation.
    Wom 11.424 13 If you do refuse [women] a vote, you will also refuse to tax them,-according to our Teutonic principle, No representation, no tax.
    EurB 12.376 23 ...a probity, a justice was to be [the society in Wilhelm Meister's] element, symbolized by the insisting that each property...should pay its full tax to the state.

tax, v. (15)

    Con 1.322 21 Which is that state which promises to edify a great, brave, and beneficent man; to...tax the strength of his character?
    Comp 2.100 11 If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.
    Nat2 3.174 21 When the rich tax the poor with servility and obsequiousness, they should consider the effect of men reputed to be the possessors of nature, on imaginative minds.
    PPh 4.42 2 What is a great man but one...who takes up into himself all arts, sciences, all knowables, as his food? ... Hence his contemporaries tax him with plagiarism.
    Wsp 6.221 19 If any reader tax me with using vague and traditional phrases, let me suggest to him by a few examples what kind of a trust this is [in the moral sentiment], and how real.
    CbW 6.277 11 ...when you tax [men] with treachery, and remind them of their high resolutions, they have forgotten that they made a vow.
    Civ 7.31 5 What a benefit would the American government...render to itself...if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition!
    PI 8.14 14 To the Parliament debating how to tax America, Burke exclaimed, Shear the wolf.
    SovE 10.191 19 ...the spasms of Nature are years and centuries, and it will tax the faith of man to wait so long.
    Thor 10.458 3 No one who knew [Thoreau] would tax him with affectation.
    FSLN 11.238 24 ...the spasms of Nature are centuries and ages, and will tax the faith of short-lived men.
    FSLN 11.242 4 ...the lovers of liberty may with reason tax the coldness and indifferentism of scholars and literary men.
    AsSu 11.249 27 I have heard that some of [Charles Sumner's] political friends tax him with indolence or negligence in refusing to make electioneering speeches...
    Wom 11.424 12 If you do refuse [women] a vote, you will also refuse to tax them...
    CPL 11.495 12 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants...if it avail itself of the Act of the Legislature authorizing towns to tax themselves for the establishment of a public library.

taxation, n. (7)

    ET5 5.88 12 Nothing is more in the line of English thought than our unvarnished Connecticut question, Pray, sir, how do you get your living when you are at home? The questions of freedom, of taxation, of privilege, are money questions.
    ET9 5.147 1 Lord Chatham goes for liberty and no taxation without representation;...
    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, the pains incurred. No taxation...would be a price too large.
    SlHr 10.440 18 ...[Samuel Hoar] said it was his practice to pay whatever was demanded; for, though he might think the taxation large and very unequally proportioned, yet he thought the money might as well go in this way as in any other.
    HDC 11.69 5 ...the purchasing commodities subject to such illegal taxation is an explicit, though an impious and sordid resignation of the liberties of this free and happy people.
    ACiv 11.302 1 ...imposts are the cheap and right taxation;...
    EPro 11.322 14 If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp, which...neutralized hitherto all the vast capabilities of this continent,-then this taxation...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.

taxed, adj. (1)

    ET9 5.146 27 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will...trample down all nationalities with his taxed boots.

taxed, v. (7)

    NER 3.257 9 The popular education has been taxed with a want of truth and nature.
    ET10 5.155 23 During the war from 1789 to 1815, whilst they complained that they were taxed within an inch of their lives...the English were growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.
    Suc 7.283 1 Our American people cannot be taxed with slowness in performance or in praising their performance.
    PPo 8.251 22 Timour taxed Hafiz with treating disrepectfully his two cities...
    HDC 11.69 2 Resolved, That these colonies have been and still are illegally taxed by the British parliament...
    EWI 11.142 3 If before, [the negro] was taxed with such stupidity, or such defective vision, 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;...
    AgMs 12.360 23 ...this [Agricultural Survey] was written for the literary men. But in that case, the state should not be taxed to pay for it.

taxes, n. (20)

    Mrs1 3.119 11 The house [of the inhabitants of Gournou], namely a tomb, is ready without rent or taxes.
    Pol1 3.215 17 Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes.
    ET5 5.82 7 In politics [the English] put blunt questions, which must be answered; Who is to pay the taxes?
    ET10 5.155 24 During the war from 1789 to 1815, whilst they complained that they...by dint of enormous taxes were subsidizing all the continent against France, the English were growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.
    ET10 5.156 1 It is [Englishmen's] maxim that the weight of taxes must be calculated, not by what is taken, but by what is left.
    Wth 6.110 16 [Immigrants] go into the poor-rates, and though we refuse wages, we must now pay the same amount in the form of taxes.
    Wth 6.119 7 In autumn a farmer could sell an ox or a hog and get a little money to pay taxes withal.
    Insp 8.270 12 They...cut off [the aboriginal man's] tail, set him on end, sent him to school and made him pay taxes, before he could begin to write his sad story...
    Schr 10.271 13 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as in the exemption of a priesthood or bards or artists from taxes and tolls levied on other men;...
    LLNE 10.327 4 ...[the new race] hate tolls, taxes, turnpikes, banks...
    SlHr 10.440 16 When I talked with [Samuel Hoar] one day of some inequality of taxes in the town, he said it was his practice to pay whatever was demanded;...
    HDC 11.44 26 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to...choose their own particular officers. This pointed chiefly at the office of constable, but they soon chose their own selectmen, and very early assessed taxes;...
    HDC 11.46 19 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty in the laying of taxes;...
    HDC 11.68 20 ...we cannot but be alarmed at the great majority, in the British parliament, for the imposition of unconstitutional taxes on the colonies;...
    HDC 11.79 18 The taxes [in Concord], which, before the [Revolutionary] war, had not much exceeded 200 pounds per annum, amounted, in the year 1782, to 9544 dollars, in silver.
    ACiv 11.306 17 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole breadth of the continent, and from Canada to the Gulf. But since this is the rooted belief and will of the people, so much the more are they in danger, when impatient of defeats, or impatient of taxes, to go with a rush for some peace;...
    EPro 11.322 8 Is it feared that taxes will check immigration?
    EPro 11.322 10 Is it feared that taxes will check immigration? That depends on what the taxes are spent for.
    SMC 11.352 3 The old [Concord] Monument...stands to signalize the first Revolution, where the people resisted...offensive taxes of the British Parliament...
    CPL 11.495 4 The people of Massachusetts prize the simple political arrangement of towns, each...assessing its taxes...

taxes, v. (2)

    Pol1 3.215 12 A man who cannot be acquainted with me, taxes me;...
    HDC 11.56 7 Even this check which befell [the people of Concord] acquaints us with the rapidity of their growth, for the good man [Peter Bulkeley], in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

taxing, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.384 23 ...we cannot stave off the ulterior question...the WHERE TO of all this [American] power and population...this taxing and tabulating...

taxing, v. (2)

    NR 3.242 6 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took up this book of Helena, and found him an Indian of the wilderness...
    QO 8.185 5 A pleasantry which ran through all the newspapers a few years since, taxing the eccentricities of a gifted family connection in New England, was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a hundred years ago...

Taylor, Bayard, n. (1)

    CW 12.174 16 In the arboretum you should have things...which people who read of them are hungry to see. Thus plant the Sequoia Gigantea...and set it on its way of ten or fifteen centuries. Bayard Taylor planted two -one died but I saw the other looking well.

Taylor, Edward, n. (2)

    Prch 10.231 13 Buckminster, Channing, Dr. Lowell, Edward Taylor, Parker, Bushnell, Chapin,-it is they who have been necessary...
    CSC 10.375 12 Dr. Channing, Edward Taylor, Bronson Alcott...and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian of philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street Convention]...

Taylor, Edward Thompson, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.135 22 Have you heard Everett, Garrison, Father Taylor, Theodore Parker?
    Grts 8.318 19 A great style of hero draws equally...all the extremes of society, till we say the very dogs believe in him. We have had such examples in this country, in Daniel Webster...and the seamen's preacher, Father Taylor;...

Taylor, Henry, n. (1)

    EurB 12.365 6 It was a brighter day than we have often known in our literary calendar, when within a twelvemonth a single London advertisement announced a new volume of poems by Wordsworth, poems by Tennyson, and a play by Henry Taylor.

Taylor, Jeremy, n. (8)

    PPh 4.40 19 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men,--Platonists!...Sir Thomas More...Jeremy Taylor...
    ET14 5.234 2 Hobbes was perfect in the noble vulgar speech. Donne... Taylor, Evelyn, Pepys...wrote it.
    ET14 5.238 4 ...[English] scholars...Taylor, Burton, Bentley, Brian Walton, acquired the solidity and method of engineers.
    ET14 5.238 19 ...Britain had many disciples of Plato;...Norris, Cudworth, Berkeley, Jeremy Taylor.
    SovE 10.203 21 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe...the piety of the English Church in Cranmer, and Herbert, and Taylor;...
    Prch 10.227 9 [The theologian] is to claim for his own whatever eloquence of St. Chrysostom or St. Jerome or St. Bernard he has felt. So not less of Bishop Taylor or George Herbert or Henry Scougal.
    TPar 11.290 7 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions...the truth is not in you; and no...praise of John Wesley, or of Jeremy Taylor, can save you from the Satan which you are.
    Bost 12.194 1 In our own age we are learning to look, as on chivalry, at the sweetness of that ancient piety which makes the genius of...Jeremy Taylor, Herbert and Leighton.

Taylor, Thomas, n. (5)

    PPh 4.40 20 How many great men Nature is incessantly sending up out of night, to be [Plato's] men,--Platonists!...Sir Thomas More...Thomas Taylor;...
    ET13 5.224 4 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts. The church has not been the founder...of the Free School, of whatever aims at diffusion of knowledge. The Platonists of Oxford are as bitter against this heresy, as Thomas Taylor.
    ET17 5.295 18 I told [Wordsworth] it was not creditable that no one in all the country knew anything of Thomas Taylor...
    Boks 7.202 25 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius, translated into English by Thomas Taylor, he will find it one of the majestic remains of literature...
    PI 8.50 9 Thomas Taylor...is really a better man of imagination, a better poet...than any man between Milton and Wordsworth.

Taylors, Jeremy, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.111 12 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using their fine fancy to emblazon their memory.

Taylor's, Jeremy, n. (1)

    TPar 11.284 13 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak,/ You forget the man wholly, you 're thankful to meet/ With a preacher who smacks of the field and the street,/ And to hear, you 're not over-particular whence,/ Almost Taylor's profusion, quite Latimer's sense./ Lowell, A Fable for Critics.

Taylors, n. (1)

    ET13 5.220 14 ...the age...of the Taylors, Leightons, Herberts;...is gone.

tea, n. (21)

    Hsm1 2.254 23 It seems not worth [the hero's] while to...denounce with bitterness...the use of tobacco, or opium, or tea, or silk, or gold.
    Pt1 3.27 21 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct...the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible. This is the reason why bards love...tea...
    SwM 4.101 12 [Swedenborg] is described, when in London, as a man of a quiet, clerical habit, not averse to tea and coffee...
    MoS 4.153 12 [The men of the senses] believe...that there is much sentiment in a chest of tea;...
    MoS 4.180 11 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may find small good in tea...
    ET16 5.280 17 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only milk for one cup of tea.
    Wth 6.119 9 Now, the farmer buys almost all he consumes,--tinware, cloth, sugar, tea, coffee, fish, coal, railroad tickets and newspapers.
    Insp 8.276 10 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat; as if tea, or wine, or sea-air...could...wake the fancy and the clear perception.
    Insp 8.281 13 Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
    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.
    HDC 11.56 22 The people on the [Massachusetts] bay...found the way to the West Indies...and the country people speedily learned to supply themselves with sugar, tea and molasses.
    HDC 11.69 10 ...the British parliament have empowered the East India Company to export their tea into America...
    HDC 11.69 14 ...we will not, in this town [Concord]...buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea...
    HDC 11.69 15 ...we will not, in this town [Concord]...buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea, or any other tea...
    HDC 11.69 17 ...we will not, in this town [Concord]...buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea, or any other tea...neither will we suffer any such tea to be used in our families.
    HDC 11.69 19 ...all such persons as shall purchase, sell, or use any such tea, shall, for the future, be deemed unfriendly to the happy constitution of this country.
    HDC 11.70 5 ...if any person or persons...so long as there is a duty on tea, shall import any tea from the India House, in England...we will treat them... as enemies to their country...
    HDC 11.70 5 ...if any person or persons...shall import any tea from the India House, in England...we will treat them...as enemies to their country...
    ACiv 11.302 5 ...by the dislike of people to pay out a direct tax, governments are forced to render life costly by making them pay twice as much, hidden in the price of tea and sugar.
    SMC 11.367 24 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud. We marched one mile through mud...a good deal of the way over my boots, and with short rations; on one day nothing but liver, blackberries, and pennyroyal tea.
    ChiE 11.472 12 I need not mention [China's] useful arts...its tea, the cordial of nations.

teach, v. (118)

    Nat 1.38 27 The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology...teach that Nature's dice are always loaded;...
    Nat 1.47 10 It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind...
    AmS 1.93 20 Colleges...have their indispensable office, - to teach elements.
    AmS 1.99 20 Time shall teach [the great soul] that the scholar loses no hour which the man lives.
    DSA 1.128 10 The truth contained in [the Christian church], you, my young friends, are now setting forth to teach.
    DSA 1.135 2 The spirit only can teach.
    DSA 1.135 3 ...not any liar, not any slave can teach...
    DSA 1.135 7 The man...through whom the soul speaks, alone can teach.
    DSA 1.135 8 Courage, piety, love, wisdom, can teach;...
    DSA 1.151 4 What hinders that now...you speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it...
    LE 1.161 2 ...do not teach me out of Leibnitz or Schelling...
    LE 1.175 15 You can very soon learn all that society can teach you for one while.
    LE 1.175 17 [Society's] foolish routine, an indefinite multiplication of... theatres, can teach you no more than a few can.
    Hist 2.37 27 A mind might ponder its thoughts for ages and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.
    SR 2.46 3 [Great works of art] teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression...
    SR 2.83 12 That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
    SL 2.136 19 It is natural and beautiful that childhood should inquire and maturity should teach;...
    SL 2.139 10 The whole course of things goes to teach us faith.
    SL 2.152 2 The man may teach by doing, and not otherwise.
    SL 2.152 3 If [a man] can communicate himself he can teach, but not by words.
    Hsm1 2.246 13 ...Never one object underneath the sun/ Will I behold before my Sophocles:/ Farewell; now teach the Romans how to die./
    Hsm1 2.258 10 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...Hampden, teach us how needlessly mean our life is;...
    OS 2.284 2 It was left to [Christ's] disciples...to teach the immortality of the soul as a doctrine...
    OS 2.285 18 We know...whether that which we teach or behold is only an aspiration or is our honest effort also.
    OS 2.286 12 That which we are, we shall teach...
    OS 2.289 10 [The poet's] best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.
    Cir 2.317 22 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you... would fain teach us that if we are true...our crimes may be lively stones out of which we shall construct the temple of the true God!
    Art1 2.349 25 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate,/ And, moulded of one element/ With the days and firmament,/ Teach him on these as stairs to climb/ And live on even terms with Time;/...
    Art1 2.358 25 The best of beauty is a finer charm than...rules of art can ever teach...
    Art1 2.364 26 Sculpture may serve to teach the pupil how deep is the secret of form...
    Exp 3.49 10 I grieve that grief can teach me nothing...
    Exp 3.69 19 The years teach much which the days never know.
    Chr1 3.107 18 ...however pertly our sermons and disciplines would...teach that the laws fashion the citizen, [Nature] goes her own gait and puts the wisest in the wrong.
    Mrs1 3.137 1 Let the incommunicable objects of nature and the metaphysical isolation of man teach us independence.
    NR 3.228 7 Our native love of reality joins with this [disillusioning] experience to teach us a little reserve...
    NER 3.257 23 The Roman rule was to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.
    NER 3.284 9 ...[man] will learn one day the mild lesson [gravity and the globe] teach, that our own orbit is all our task...
    UGM 4.13 15 Napoleon said, You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
    UGM 4.20 9 These [leaders and law-givers] teach us the qualities of primary nature...
    PPh 4.63 3 The sciences...are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it. Dialectic must teach the use of them.
    PPh 4.70 11 Body cannot teach wisdom;--God only.
    SwM 4.94 12 ...the instincts presently teach that the problem of essence must take precedence of all others;...
    ShP 4.216 20 ...[solitude] can teach us to spare both heroes and poets;...
    GoW 4.284 16 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of universal truth, to be his portion: a man...having one test for all men,--What can you teach me?
    GoW 4.285 13 Enemy of [Goethe] you may be,--if so you shall teach him aught which your good-will can not...
    ET1 5.20 1 [Wordsworth] has even said, what seemed a paradox, that they needed a civil war in America, to teach the necessity of knitting the social ties stronger.
    ET10 5.157 5 The headlong bias to utility [in England]...if possible will teach spiders to weave silk stockings.
    ET16 5.275 9 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English, and run away to France...instead of...confronting Englishmen and acquiring their culture, who really have much to teach them.
    F 6.24 17 'T is the best use of Fate to teach a fatal courage.
    Wth 6.106 21 Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer...knows all of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.
    Ctr 6.150 14 I wish cities could teach their best lesson,--of quiet manners.
    Ctr 6.160 14 ...sculpture and painting have an effect to teach us manners and abolish hurry.
    Ctr 6.162 10 Rough water can teach lessons worth knowing.
    Bhr 6.172 21 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks and habits;...teach them to stifle the base and choose the generous expression...
    Bhr 6.192 15 The novels are as useful as Bibles if they teach you the secret that the best of life is conversation...
    CbW 6.275 8 ...we live...not only with the young whom we are to teach all we know...
    Bty 6.281 16 We should go to the ornithologist with a new feeling if he could teach us what the social birds say when they sit in the autumn council...
    Bty 6.290 26 The dancing-master can never teach a badly built man to walk well.
    Bty 6.298 4 [Women]...teach [the most serious student] to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.
    DL 7.126 5 ...Certainly this was not the intention of Nature, to produce...so cheap and humble a result. The aspirations in the heart after the good and true teach us better...
    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...
    WD 7.160 10 What of this dapper caoutchouc and gutta-percha, which make...rain-proof coats for all climates, which teach us to defy the wet...
    Cour 7.277 6 ...the best use of fate is to teach us courage...
    Suc 7.284 21 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands. ... The details of working [cannons] in battle, if it is necessary to teach, I shall teach them.
    Suc 7.284 22 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands. ... The details of working [cannons] in battle, if it is necessary to teach, I shall teach them.
    Suc 7.301 13 We bring a welcome to the highest lessons of religion and of poetry out of all proportion beyond our skill to teach.
    OA 7.317 8 If we look into the eyes of the youngest person we sometimes discover that here is one who knows already what you would go about with much pains to teach him;...
    PI 8.1 15 ...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly to postpone/ Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human age,/ Freely as task at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.
    PI 8.37 13 ...we shall never understand political economy until Burns or Beranger or some poet shall teach it in songs...
    PI 8.37 13 ...we shall never understand political economy until Burns or Beranger or some poet shall teach it in songs, and he will not teach Malthusianism.
    PI 8.39 23 We cannot look at works of art but they teach us how near man is to creating.
    SA 8.85 25 Why have you statues in your hall, but to teach you that, when the door-bell rings, you shall sit like them.
    Elo2 8.118 2 A worthy gentleman...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
    Comc 8.166 20 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him;.../
    Insp 8.278 8 The depth of the notes which we accidentally sound on the strings of Nature...might teach us what strangers and novices we are...
    Imtl 8.321 2 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/
    Aris 10.58 5 The noble mind is here to teach us that failure is a part of success.
    Edc1 10.128 18 Here [in the household] is poverty and all the wisdom its hated necessities can teach...
    Edc1 10.134 23 We teach boys to be such men as we are.
    Edc1 10.134 24 We do not teach [boys] to aspire to be all they can.
    Edc1 10.135 7 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one; to teach self-trust...
    Edc1 10.135 11 [The great object of Education] should be a moral one...to acquaint [the youthful man] with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength...
    Edc1 10.143 9 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life-Hodson who took prisoner the king of Delhi. They teach the same truth...
    Edc1 10.147 5 Teach [a boy] the difference between the similar and the same.
    Edc1 10.147 10 It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy...
    Edc1 10.149 1 The boy wishes to learn to skate, to coast...and a boy a little older is just as well pleased to teach him these sciences.
    Edc1 10.156 18 Teach [your pupils] to hold their tongues by holding your own.
    Edc1 10.158 25 By your own act you teach the beholder how to do the practicable.
    Prch 10.225 22 ...there are those to whom the question of what shall be believed is the more interesting because they are to proclaim and teach what they believe.
    Schr 10.275 20 Nature could not leave herself without a seer and expounder. But he could not see or teach without organs.
    Plu 10.313 20 [Plutarch] reminds his friends that the Delphic oracles have given several answers the same in substance as that formerly given to Corax the Naxian: It sounds profane impiety/ To teach that human souls e'er die./
    LLNE 10.334 19 It was not the intellectual or the moral principles which [Everett] had to teach.
    EzRy 10.381 15 Ezra Ripley followed the business of farming till sixteen years of age, when his father wished him to be qualified to teach a grammar school...
    EzRy 10.384 27 [Joseph Emerson wrote] I desire (I hope I desire it) that the Lord would teach me suitably to resent this Providence...
    MMEm 10.417 19 It is difficult, when we have no kind of barrier, to command our feelings. But this [moment of anger] shall teach me [Mary Moody Emerson].
    LS 11.22 17 ...that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified;...was to... teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.
    LS 11.22 22 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men that they must serve him with the heart;...
    HDC 11.57 2 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    War 11.153 6 The strong tribe...attack and conquer their neighbors, and teach them their arts and virtues.
    FSLN 11.232 21 ...the world exists...to teach the science of liberty...
    FSLN 11.240 21 [The free man] is a finished man;...the sun does not see anything nobler, and has nothing to teach him.
    Wom 11.420 26 Those whom you [women] teach, and those whom you half teach, will fast enough make themselves considered...
    PLT 12.32 7 Teach me never so much and I hear or retain only that which I wish to hear...
    PLT 12.32 25 What can Plato or Newton teach, if you are deaf or incapable?
    II 12.75 24 That virtue which was never taught us, we cannot teach others.
    CInt 12.112 17 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./
    CInt 12.116 25 ...the scholars did not learn and teach...
    CInt 12.127 24 ...I thought...a college was to teach you geometry, or the lovely laws of space and figure;...
    CW 12.173 9 I [Linnaeus] possess here [in the Academy Garden]...unless I am very much mistaken, what is far more beautiful than...vases of the Chinese. Here I learn what I teach.
    CW 12.176 19 There is so much...which a book cannot teach that an old friend can.
    Bost 12.195 17 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    Bost 12.196 8 ...the young farmers and mechanics...in the winter often go into a neighboring town to teach the district school arithmetic and grammar.
    Bost 12.209 23 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America.
    MAng1 12.227 21 ...not only was this discoverer of Beauty [Michelangelo]...rooted and grounded in those severe laws of practical skill, which genius can never teach...but he was one of the most industrious men that ever lived.
    Milt1 12.277 13 Milton...exhausted the stores of his intellect for an end beyond, namely, to teach.
    ACri 12.290 4 Dante is the professor that shall teach both the noble low style...also the sculpture of compression.
    Pray 12.355 3 When nought on earth seemeth pleasant to me, thou dost... teach that which is needful for me...
    Trag 12.410 6 Come bad chance,/ And we add it to our strength,/ And we teach it art and length,/ Itself o'er us to advance./

teachable, adj. (1)

    Ctr 6.143 22 Provided always the boy is teachable...football, cricket...are lessons in the art of power...

teacher, n. (30)

    DSA 1.144 17 It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was;...
    Con 1.313 22 [This manner of living] nourished you with care and love on its breast, as it had nourished many a lover of the right and many a...teacher of men.
    SR 2.76 27 ...the moment [a man] acts from himself...that teacher shall restore the life of man to splendor...
    SL 2.146 7 If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.
    OS 2.287 24 All men stand continually in the expectation of the appearance of such a teacher [who speaks always from within].
    NER 3.284 17 Suppress for a few days your criticism on the insufficiency of this or that teacher or experimenter...
    UGM 4.8 3 The boy believes there is a teacher who can sell him wisdom.
    SwM 4.122 6 No wonder that [Swedenborg's] depth of ethical wisdom should give him influence as a teacher.
    Ctr 6.145 14 An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea of a girl's education is, whatever qualifies her for going to Europe.
    Wsp 6.209 12 ...[Christ] standing on his genius as a moral teacher, it is impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality;...
    Comc 8.168 8 That letter is A, said the teacher; A, drawled the boy.
    Comc 8.168 9 That letter is A, said the teacher; A, drawled the boy. That is B, said the teacher; B, drawled the boy, and so on.
    Comc 8.168 11 That letter is A, said the teacher; A, drawled the boy. That is B, said the teacher; B, drawled the boy, and so on. That is W, said the teacher. The devil! exclaimed the boy; is that W?
    Chr2 10.97 15 The excellence of Jesus, and of every true teacher, is, that he affirms the Divinity in him and in us...
    Chr2 10.113 4 Morals is the incorruptible essence, very heedless in its richness of any past teacher or witness...
    Edc1 10.127 13 [Man's] continual tendency, his great danger, is to overlook the fact that the world is only his teacher...
    Edc1 10.149 23 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher;...
    Edc1 10.152 14 Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair.
    Edc1 10.153 3 ...the devotion to details reacts injuriously on the teacher.
    Edc1 10.153 11 ...the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth, is grown a martinet...
    Edc1 10.154 13 ...the adoption of simple discipline and the following of nature, involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher.
    Plu 10.301 20 I find [Plutarch] a better teacher of rhetoric than any modern.
    HDC 11.40 18 The sermon [to the settlers of Concord] fell into good and tender hearts; the people conspired with their teacher.
    HDC 11.54 6 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651, [the Indians'] desire was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog Pond... became an Indian town, where a Christian worship was established under an Indian ruler and teacher.
    HDC 11.65 18 Captain Minott seems to have served our prudent fathers in the double capacity of teacher and representative.
    FSLN 11.217 18 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation. For they...affirm these...only from their cramped position of standing for their teacher.
    CInt 12.124 3 ...the very highest advantage which a young man of good mind can meet is to find such a teacher.
    CInt 12.128 5 This, then, is the theory of Education, the happy meeting of the young soul...with the living teacher...
    CInt 12.128 13 [The scholar] will greet joyfully the wise teacher...
    MAng1 12.227 19 ...not only was this discoverer of Beauty [Michelangelo], and its teacher among men, rooted and grounded in those severe laws of practical skill, which genius can never teach...but he was one of the most industrious men that ever lived.

Teacher, n. (2)

    DSA 1.151 16 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he shall see them come full circle;...
    SwM 4.142 24 ...[Behmen]...listens awe-struck, with the gentlest humanity, to the Teacher whose lessons he conveys;...

teachers, n. (34)

    Nat 1.4 14 ...religious teachers dispute and hate each other...
    SR 2.66 6 Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom... means, teachers, texts, temples fall;...
    OS 2.287 5 The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...
    Int 2.343 12 Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers...
    UGM 4.31 6 Is it a reply to these suggestions to say, Society is a Pestalozzian school: all are teachers and pupils in turn?
    UGM 4.34 9 For a time our teachers serve us personally...
    PPh 4.47 10 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from Asia...a confusion of crude notions of morals and of natural philosophy, gradually subsiding through the partial insight of single teachers.
    MoS 4.180 2 There are these, and more than these diseases of thought, which our ordinary teachers do not attempt to remove.
    Ctr 6.147 14 ...of the six or seven teachers whom each man wants among his contemporaries, it often happens that one or two of them live on the other side of the world.
    Bty 6.286 17 [Knowledge of men, knowledge of manners, the power of form and our sensibility to personal influence] are facts of a science...whose teachers and subjects are always near us.
    PI 8.36 18 [The poet] is very well convinced that the great moments of life are those in which...the tritest and nearest ways and words and things have been illuminated into prophets and teachers.
    PI 8.38 10 Socrates, the Indian teachers of the Maia, the Bibles...these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols...
    Elo2 8.118 12 It does not surprise us...to learn from Plutarch what great sums were paid at Athens to the teachers of rhetoric;...
    Chr2 10.101 22 ...to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him...
    Chr2 10.117 15 We must have days and temples and teachers.
    Chr2 10.118 10 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies...to the reform of convicts and harlots,-as the war created... the nurses and teachers at Washington.
    Edc1 10.157 14 I advise teachers to cherish mother-wit.
    Edc1 10.158 17 Of course you [teachers] will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers...
    SovE 10.196 4 Shall we attach ourselves violently to our teachers and historical personalities, and think the foundation shaken if any fault is shown in their record?
    MoL 10.241 5 You go to be teachers, to become physicians, lawyers, divines;...
    MoL 10.254 25 There is respect due to your teachers...
    MoL 10.255 1 Neither your teachers, nor the universal teachers...can compare with that counsel which is open to you.
    MoL 10.255 2 Neither your teachers, nor the universal teachers...can compare with that counsel which is open to you.
    Schr 10.279 14 ...the young...looking around them...at religious and literary teachers and teaching,-finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul, are confused...
    LLNE 10.345 4 Society always values, even in its teachers, inoffensive people...
    FSLN 11.236 2 We have many teachers;...
    HCom 11.343 24 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States, and now, by her teachers, preachers journalists and books...the diffuser of religious, literary and political opinion;...I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    SHC 11.433 11 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved...for games of education;... the meeting of teachers;...
    CInt 12.115 23 ...[the college] is there for us, is training our teachers, civilizers and inspirers.
    CInt 12.122 1 There are bad books and false teachers and corrupt judges;...
    CInt 12.128 13 [The scholar] will greet joyfully the wise teacher, but colleges and teachers are no wise essential to him;...
    CInt 12.128 15 ...[the scholar] will find teachers everywhere.
    Bost 12.209 23 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America.
    AgMs 12.360 20 [Farmers] could not afford to follow such advice as is given here [in the Agricultural Survey]; they have sterner teachers;...

teaches, v. (43)

    Hist 2.12 25 ...every animal in its growth, teaches the unity of cause...
    Hist 2.29 3 The fact teaches [the child] how Belus was worshipped...
    SR 2.58 22 Character teaches above our wills.
    Comp 2.111 23 One thing [Fear] teaches, that there is rottenness where he appears.
    SL 2.135 17 The face of external nature teaches the same lesson.
    SL 2.152 4 He teaches who gives...
    Lov1 2.178 14 ...[the maiden] teaches [the lover's] eye why Beauty was pictured with Loves and Graces attending her steps.
    OS 2.286 16 Character teaches over our head.
    Art1 2.352 4 ...that abridgment and selection we observe in all spiritual activity...is the inlet of that higher illumination which teaches to convey a larger sense by simpler symbols.
    Art1 2.356 25 ...painting teaches me the splendor of color...
    Art1 2.357 12 A gallery of sculpture teaches more austerely the same lesson [as painting].
    Art1 2.357 13 As picture teaches the coloring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.
    Pt1 3.14 2 The soul makes the body, as the wise Spenser teaches...
    SwM 4.107 22 A poetic anatomist, in our own day, teaches that a snake, being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect line, constitute a right angle;...
    NMW 4.247 15 The lesson [Napoleon] teaches is that which vigor always teaches;...
    NMW 4.247 16 The lesson [Napoleon] teaches is that which vigor always teaches;...
    GoW 4.290 8 Goethe teaches courage...
    ET12 5.212 11 The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.
    ET14 5.247 6 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly teaches that good means good to eat, good to wear...
    CbW 6.270 21 How to live with unfit companions?--for with such, life is for the most part spent; and experience teaches little better than our earliest instinct of self-defence...
    Elo1 7.89 12 The orator possesses no information which his hearers have not, yet he teaches them to see the thing with his eyes.
    Suc 7.294 9 ...I gain all points, if I can reach my companion with any statement which teaches him his own worth.
    PI 8.73 1 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments. It teaches the enormous force of a few words...
    SA 8.81 19 Who teaches manners of majesty...
    PPo 8.238 26 The religion [of the East] teaches an inexorable Destiny.
    Imtl 8.337 17 All the comfort I have found teaches me to confide that I shall not have less in times and places that I do not yet know.
    Imtl 8.338 2 All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
    Chr2 10.107 27 ...the distinctions of the true clergyman are not less decisive. Men ask now, Is he serious? Is he a sincere man, who lives as he teaches? Is he a benefactor?
    Chr2 10.115 4 The [moral] sentiment itself teaches unity of source...
    Edc1 10.136 9 Let us apply to this subject [education] the light of the same torch by which we have looked at all the phenomena of the time; the infinitude, namely, of every man. Everything teaches that.
    Edc1 10.140 4 How we envy in later life the happy youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which frames and sets off their school and college tasks, and teaches them, when least they think of it, the use and meaning of these.
    Edc1 10.141 11 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which...teaches by practice the law of conversation...
    Supl 10.177 7 ...the religion [of the Arab] teaches an inexorable destiny;...
    Prch 10.225 8 [The moral sentiment] teaches a great peace.
    Plu 10.308 9 ...[Plutarch] chiefly liked that proportion which teaches us to account that which is just, equal; and not that which is equal, just.
    LS 11.18 20 [Jesus] teaches us how to become like God.
    War 11.163 6 ...it is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas...
    PLT 12.30 20 When, moved by love, a man teaches his child...it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.
    Bost 12.204 21 [Liberty] was to be built on Religion, the Emancipator; Religion which teaches equality of all men in view of the spirit which created man.
    Milt1 12.251 12 ...[Milton's Areopagitica] cheers as well as teaches.
    MLit 12.317 4 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact,-that there is One Mind, and that all the powers and privileges which lie in any, lie in all;...literature is far the best expression. It is true, this is not the only nor the obvious lesson it teaches.
    MLit 12.333 6 ...every fine genius teaches us how to blame himself.
    AgMs 12.360 20 [Farmers] could not afford to follow such advice as is given here [in the Agricultural Survey]; they have sterner teachers; their own business teaches them better.

teaching, n. (27)

    DSA 1.129 17 Christianity became a Mythus, as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt, before.
    DSA 1.134 7 ...the Moral Nature, that Law of laws whose revelations introduce greatness...into the open soul, is not explored as the fountain of the established teaching in society.
    LT 1.262 19 [Persons] are the pungent instructors who...make all other teaching formal and cold.
    Comp 2.109 11 ...this law of laws [Compensation]...is hourly preached in all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs, whose teaching is as true and as omnipresent as that of birds and flies.
    OS 2.273 13 Is the teaching of Christ less effective now than it was when first his mouth was opened?
    OS 2.276 17 One mode of the divine teaching is the incarnation of the spirit in a form...
    OS 2.277 2 Persons are supplementary to the primary teaching of the soul.
    PPh 4.70 4 ...the Banquet [of Plato] is a teaching in the same spirit [of ascension]...that the love of the sexes is initial, and symbolizes at a distance the passion of the soul for that immense lake of beauty it exists to seek.
    SwM 4.122 18 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times,--when he was born, when he married, when he fell sick and when he died, and, for the rest, never interfered with him,--here was a teaching which accompanied him all day...
    ET12 5.205 4 ...the principal teaching relied on [at Oxford] is private tuition.
    Grts 8.307 1 ...there is a teaching for [every man] from within which is leading him in a new path...
    Chr2 10.99 7 The Divine Mind imparts itself to the single person: his whole duty is to this rule and teaching.
    Chr2 10.117 25 The churches already indicate the new spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent activities...
    Edc1 10.134 17 ...what teaching, what book of this day appeals to the Vast?
    Edc1 10.150 12 Appetite and indolence [young men] have, but no enthusiasm. These come in numbers to the college: few geniuses: and the teaching comes to be arranged for these many, and not for those few.
    Edc1 10.156 16 Your teaching and discipline must have the reserve and taciturnity of Nature.
    Edc1 10.156 24 I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching.
    Schr 10.279 14 ...the young...looking around them...at religious and literary teachers and teaching,-finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul, are confused...
    Plu 10.309 6 In many of these chapters [in Plutarch] it is easy to infer the relation between the Greek philosophers and those who came to them for instruction. This teaching was no play nor routine...
    EzRy 10.382 1 ...when fitted for college, the son [Ezra Ripley] could not be contented with teaching...
    LS 11.10 1 [Jesus] always taught by parables and symbols. It was the national way of teaching...
    War 11.171 5 ...[peace] is to be accomplished by the spontaneous teaching, of the cultivated soul, in its secret experience and meditation,-that it is now time that it should pass out of the state of beast into the state of man;...
    RBur 11.440 18 [Burns's] muse and teaching was common sense...
    FRO2 11.489 11 Let [the lesson of the New Testament] stand, beautiful and wholesome, with whatever is most like it in the teaching and practice of men;...
    II 12.75 20 Our teaching is indeed hazardous and rare.
    CW 12.177 7 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...when Dr. Charles Jackson or Mr. Hall would study chemistry or mines; and you secure the best company and the best teaching with every advantage.
    Let 12.403 2 The old Duty is the old God. And we may come to this by the rudest teaching.

teaching, v. (23)

    LE 1.173 4 Thus is justice done to each generation and individual,- wisdom teaching man that he shall not hate...his ancestors;...
    MN 1.220 6 What a debt is ours to that old religion...teaching privation, self-denial and sorrow!
    Comp 2.94 16 ...when the meeting broke up [the congregation] separated without remark on the sermon. Yet what was the import of this teaching?
    SL 2.152 1 The same reality pervades all teaching.
    SL 2.152 5 There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are;...
    SL 2.152 9 There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place;...then is a teaching...
    Lov1 2.183 15 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift...
    PPh 4.69 13 All things mount and mount. All [Plato's] thought has this ascension; in Phaedrus, teaching that beauty is the most lovely of all things...but that there is another, which is as much more beautiful than beauty is than chaos; namely wisdom...
    SwM 4.127 16 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] is a fine Platonic development of the science of marriage; teaching that sex is universal...
    ET3 5.36 18 ...a sensible Englishman once said to me, As long as you do not grant us copyright, we shall have the teaching of you.
    Civ 7.20 25 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement,--some superior foreigner importing new and wonderful arts, and teaching them.
    Elo2 8.128 11 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education,--teaching a youth Latin and metaphysics and history... that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    Res 8.138 8 A Schopenhauer, with logic and learning and wit, teaching pessimism...all the talent in the world cannot save him from being odious.
    Res 8.138 9 A Schopenhauer...teaching that this is the worst of all possible worlds...all the talent in the world cannot save him from being odious.
    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...
    Edc1 10.129 7 [The desire of power] is a constant teaching of the laws of matter and of mind.
    Edc1 10.149 3 Not less delightful is the mutual pleasure of teaching and learning the secret of algebra...
    Prch 10.228 4 [Christianity] is the record of a pure and holy soul...bent on serving, teaching and uplifting men.
    Thor 10.451 14 After leaving the University, [Thoreau] joined his brother in teaching a private school...
    Carl 10.496 22 ...the new French revolution of 1848 was the best thing [Carlyle] had seen, and the teaching this great swindler, Louis Philippe, that there is a God's justice in the Universe, after all, was a great satisfaction.
    Carl 10.497 22 ...[Carlyle] has stood for the people...teaching the nobles their peremptory duties.
    FSLN 11.232 23 The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and clear, the worthlessness of good tools to bad workmen;...
    FRO2 11.487 22 I think wise men wish their religion to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...

teachings, n. (6)

    SR 2.64 8 ...all later teachings are tuitions.
    SwM 4.139 26 The teachings of the high Spirit are abstemious...
    FSLN 11.234 25 The teachings of the Spirit can be apprehended only by the same spirit that gave them forth.
    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...
    FRO2 11.489 6 If you are childish, and exhibit your saint as a worker of wonders, a thaumaturgist, I am repelled. That claim...permits official and arbitrary senses to be grafted on the teachings.
    FRO2 11.489 7 It is the praise of our New Testament that its teachings go to the honor and benefit of humanity...

Teague, n. (1)

    Ill 6.316 16 Teague and his jade get some just relations of mutual respect...

teakettle, n. (1)

    ET7 5.124 6 The Englishman who visits Mount Etna will carry his teakettle to the top.

team, n. (1)

    MR 1.250 6 Now if I talk...with a conscientious youth who is...not yet harnessed in the team of society...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers...

teams, n. (3)

    Civ 7.30 18 Let us not lie and steal. No god will help. We shall find all their teams going the other way...
    HDC 11.32 25 [The pilgrims] must...with their axes cut a road for their teams...
    EWI 11.123 14 ...we...have acquired the vices and virtues that belong to trade. We peddle...we creep in teams...to market, and for the sale of goods.

teams, v. (1)

    SR 2.76 8 A sturdy lad...who...teams it...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.

teamster, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.131 20 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring. But so will Jock the teamster pass...as long as his head is not giddy with the new circumstance...

teamsters, n. (2)

    MoS 4.168 17 ...blacksmiths and teamsters do not trip in their speech;...
    MoL 10.243 7 ...doctors of medicine turned teamsters [in California];...

tear, n. (3)

    Fdsp 2.202 7 ...he alone is victor who has truth enough in his constitution to preserve the delicacy of his beauty from the wear and tear of [Time, Want, Danger].
    NMW 4.255 3 I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]: perhaps Joseph a little...and Duroc, I love him too; but why?--because his character pleases me...I believe the fellow never shed a tear.
    PI 8.14 5 ...the Greek mythology called the sea the tear of Saturn.

tear, v. (4)

    Ctr 6.133 5 The sufferers [from egotism]...tear the lint from their bruises...
    PerF 10.74 15 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark;...
    MMEm 10.407 18 [Mary Moody Emerson] would tear into the chaise or out of it...disdaining all the graduation by which her fellows time their steps...
    FSLN 11.238 9 No excess of good nature or of tenderness in individuals has been able to give a new character to the system [of slavery], to tear down the whipping-house.

tearing, v. (3)

    Exp 3.49 7 ...something which I fancied was a part of me, which could not be torn away without tearing me...falls off from me and leaves no scar.
    Supl 10.163 16 [Those who share the superlative temerpament] go tearing, convulsed through life...
    HDC 11.34 18 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail, every one that can lift a hoe to strike into the earth...tearing up the roots and bushes from the ground...

tears, n. (34)

    DSA 1.142 13 ...scarcely in a thousand years does any man dare to be wise and good, and so draw after him the tears and blessings of his kind.
    MR 1.252 16 An acceptance of the sentiment of love throughout Christendom for a season would bring the felon and the outcast to our side in tears...
    LT 1.262 24 How [persons] make the tears start...
    Exp 3.81 13 The life of truth...is not the slave of tears, contritions and perturbations.
    Mrs1 3.142 3 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons; when Fox urged on his old friend the claims of old friendship with such tenderness that the house was moved to tears.
    Nat2 3.188 16 Each young and ardent person writes a diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul. The pages thus written are to him burning and fragrant;...he wets them with his tears;...
    ET4 5.56 7 As [the Northmen] put out to sea again, the emperor [Charlemagne] gazed long after them, his eyes bathed in tears.
    ET4 5.56 10 As [the Northmen] put out to sea again, the emperor [Charlemagne] gazed long after them, his eyes bathed in tears. I am tormented with sorrow, he said, when I foresee the evils they will bring on my posterity. There was reason for these Xerxes' tears.
    F 6.37 25 [Man's] food is cooked when he arrives;...his companions arrived...awaiting him with...tears.
    Wth 6.122 24 [The citizen from Dock Square] proceeds at once, his eyes dim with tears of joy, to fix the spot for his corner-stone.
    Ctr 6.164 8 What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!
    Ctr 6.165 21 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...can set his dull nerves throbbing...make way and sing paean!
    CbW 6.252 23 ...this beast-force...has provoked in every age...the tears of good men.
    Ill 6.315 18 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday;...
    SS 7.9 9 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons whose confidence in each other for long years...is at last justified by victorious proof of probity...causing joyful emotions, tears and glory...
    Art2 7.53 21 The Iliad of Homer...the plays of Shakspeare...were made...in tears and smiles of suffering and loving men.
    Elo1 7.65 13 Him we call an artist...who, seeing the people furious...shall draw them, when he will, to laughter and to tears.
    Cour 7.265 24 Our affections and wishes for the external welfare of the hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries...
    PI 8.26 1 [People] like to go...to Faneuil Hall, and be taught by Otis, Webster, or Kossuth...what great hearts they have, what tears...
    Comc 8.173 22 We must learn by laughter, as well as by tears and terrors;...
    Aris 10.54 11 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...win smiles and tears from many generations.
    SovE 10.191 2 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...the orphan's tears, the vices of men, lust, cruelty and pitiless avarice.
    Plu 10.315 15 [Plutarch] has a tenderness almost to tears when he writes on Friendship...
    HDC 11.40 19 [The settlers of Concord's] religion was sweetness and peace amidst toil and tears.
    HDC 11.86 3 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Whitfield, whose silver voice melted his great congregation into tears;...
    EWI 11.120 12 The manner in which the new festival [of emancipation in the West Indies] was celebrated, brings tears to the eyes.
    War 11.169 17 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will...be...one which is looked upon as the asylum of the human race and has the tears and the blessings of mankind.
    War 11.175 25 ...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 11.184 23 Here are humane people who have tears for misery, an open purse for want; who should have been the defenders of the poor man, are found his embittered enemies...merely from party ties.
    ALin 11.330 5 ...acclamations of praise for the task [Lincoln] had accomplished burst out into a song of triumph, which even tears for his death cannot keep down.
    Wom 11.418 8 [Women] have tears, and gayeties, and faintings, and glooms and devotion to trifles.
    CW 12.178 4 I admire in trees the creation of property so clean of tears, or crime, or even care.
    Let 12.397 8 ...discontent and the luxury of tears will bring nothing to pass.
    Trag 12.414 14 Time the consoler...dries the freshest tears by obtruding new figures...on our eye, new voices on our ear.

tears, v. (4)

    Hsm1 2.256 2 Scipio, charged with peculation, refuses to do himself so great a disgrace as to wait for justification, though he had the scroll of his accounts in his hands, but tears it to pieces before the tribunes.
    Elo1 7.92 22 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him...
    PPo 8.244 25 [Hafiz] says to the Shah, Thou who rulest after words and thoughts which no ear has heard and no mind has thought, abide firm until thy young destiny tears off his blue coat from the old graybeard of the sky.
    PPo 8.249 21 Hafiz...tears off his turban and throws it at the head of the meddling dervish...

tear-stained, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.189 5 Days and nights...of communion with angels of darkness and of light have engraved their shadowy characters on that tear-stained book.

teased, v. (1)

    ET1 5.9 5 I suppose I teased [Landor] about recent writers...

teases, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.172 21 The rude village boy teases the girls about the school-house door;...

teaspoonful, n. (2)

    YA 1.381 24 On one side is agricultural chemistry...offering, by means of a teaspoonful of artificial guano, to turn a sandbank into corn;...
    PLT 12.13 15 I think metaphysics a grammar to which, once read, we seldom return. 'T is a Manila full of pepper, and I want only a teaspoonful in a year.

teat, n. (1)

    SR 2.44 2 Cast the bantling on the rocks,/ Suckle him with the she-wolf's teat/...

tea-table, adj. (1)

    II 12.80 1 ...the secret Power will not impart himself to us for tea-table talk;...

teats, n. (1)

    Pow 6.69 25 Strong race or strong individual rests at last on natural forces, which are best in the savage, which...is still in reception of the milk from the teats of Nature.

technical, adj. (11)

    Nat 1.33 12 These propositions [in physics] have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.
    Art1 2.359 19 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets that these works were not always thus constellated;...
    Elo1 7.88 10 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law, which...is a rarest gift, being...in lawyers nothing technical, but always some piece of common sense...
    SovE 10.209 13 ...the inspirations we catch of this [moral] law are not continuous and technical...
    Thor 10.452 9 ...though very studious of natural facts, [Thoreau] was incurious of technical and textual science.
    Thor 10.474 22 [Thoreau's] poetry might be bad or good; he no doubt wanted a lyric facility and technical skill...
    Thor 10.475 20 ...if [Thoreau] want lyric fineness and technical merits [in his poetry]...he never lacks the causal thought...
    FSLC 11.190 10 I had often heard that the Bible constituted a part of every technical law library...
    AKan 11.257 16 I know that lawyers hesitate on technical grounds, and wonder what method of relief [for Kansas] the legislature will apply.
    AKan 11.258 9 We stick at the technical difficulties.
    FRO1 11.478 6 We are all very sensible...of the feeling...that a technical theology no longer suits us.

technics, n. (2)

    Grts 8.314 26 I find it easy to translate all [Napoleon's] technics into all of mine...
    EurB 12.370 26 ...[modern painters] copy the technics of their predecessors...

Tecumseh, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.22 4 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy that the mountains and lakes were made specially for him Donald, or him Tecumseh;...

tedious, adj. (24)

    Nat 1.37 6 What tedious training...to form the common sense;...
    Nat 1.43 9 [Xenophanes] was weary of seeing the same entity in the tedious variety of forms.
    MN 1.195 19 There is somewhat indigent and tedious about [great men].
    MN 1.196 20 ...a man lasts but a very little while, for his monomania becomes insupportably tedious in a few months.
    YA 1.363 21 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days seemed already numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives...across such tedious distances...
    Pt1 3.25 23 The pairing of the birds is an idyl, not tedious as our idyls are;...
    Pt1 3.35 8 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it.
    PNR 4.81 5 ...[nature] is insensible to what you say of tedious preparation.
    ET11 5.186 11 ...[English nobility] see things so grouped and amassed as to infer easily the sum and genius, instead of tedious particularities.
    SS 7.11 26 It by no means follows that we are not fit for society, because soirees are tedious and because the soiree finds us tedious.
    SS 7.11 27 It by no means follows that we are not fit for society, because soirees are tedious and because the soiree finds us tedious.
    Suc 7.288 18 Cause and effect are a little tedious;...
    Suc 7.310 23 Which of [the most sanguine] has not...found themselves awkward or tedious or incapable of study...
    PPo 8.251 7 In general what is more tedious than dedications or panegyrics addressed to grandees?
    Aris 10.44 11 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you...whether he shall be a bungler, driveller, unlucky, heavy and tedious.
    Supl 10.165 12 ...the secrets of death, judgment and eternity are tedious when recurring as minute-guns.
    Supl 10.176 16 ...in Western nations the superlative in conversation is tedious and weak...
    MMEm 10.418 8 Weary at times of objects so tedious to hear and see.
    MMEm 10.429 10 [Mary Moody Emerson wrote] Tedious indisposition:- hoped, as it took a new form, it would open the cool, sweet grave.
    MMEm 10.429 19 O dear worms,-how they will at some sure time take down this tedious tabernacle...
    War 11.156 17 To men...in whom is any knowledge or mental activity, the detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and revolting.
    War 11.161 27 This is a poor, tedious society of yours, [sensible men] say; we do not see what good can come of it.
    Pray 12.353 28 If but this tedious battle could be fought,/ Like Sparta's heroes at one rocky pass,/ One day be spent in dying, men had sought/ The spot, and been cut down like mower's grass./
    Let 12.397 5 ...we are impatient of the tedious introductions of Destiny...

tediously, adv. (4)

    AmS 1.108 23 ...I have dwelt perhaps tediously upon this abstraction of the Scholar.
    Cir 2.316 6 One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who...makes the creditor wait tediously.
    NER 3.261 16 ...society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good in some particular but negligent or narrow in the rest;...
    MMEm 10.427 22 ...if it were in the nature of things possible He could withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith... that...my death, too, however long and tediously delayed to prayer,-was decreed, was fixed.

tediousness, n. (1)

    War 11.170 12 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of routine and mere forms...not by...going through a course of resolutions and public manifestoes, and being thus formally accredited to the public and to the civility of the newspapers. We have played this game to tediousness.

teem, v. (1)

    Milt1 12.260 20 The world, no doubt, contains many of that class of men whom Wordsworth denominates silent poets, whose minds teem with images which they want words to clothe.

teemed, v. (1)

    HDC 11.56 18 The check [to Concord] was but momentary. The earth teemed with fruits.

teeming, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.53 21 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village], so full of his facts, so unable to suppress them, that he has poured out a river of knowledge to all comers...

teeming, v. (2)

    Nat2 3.194 2 [Nature's] secret is untold. Many and many an Oedipus arrives; he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain.
    PI 8.19 1 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes.

teems, v. (1)

    LLNE 10.352 8 ...we could not exempt [Fourierism] from the criticism which we apply to so many projects for reform with which the brain of the age teems.

Tees River, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.182 8 From Barnard Castle I rode on the highway twenty-three miles from High Force, a fall of the Tees...through the estate of the Duke of Cleveland.

teeth, n. (23)

    SL 2.135 11 ...there is no need...of the wringing of the hands and the gnashing of the teeth;...
    PPh 4.77 25 ...the bitten world holds the biter fast by his own teeth.
    SwM 4.108 11 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again...the fingers and toes being represented this time by upper and lower teeth.
    ET4 5.69 8 A clear skin, a peach-bloom complexion and good teeth are found all over the island [England].
    ET5 5.78 2 The island [England] was renowned in antiquity for its breed of mastiffs, so fierce that when their teeth were set you must cut their heads off to part them.
    F 6.8 8 ...the forms of the shark...the jaw of the sea-wolf paved with crushing teeth...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    Pow 6.66 10 The most amiable of country gentlemen has a certain pleasure in the teeth of the bull-dog which guards his orchard.
    Bhr 6.182 4 What refinement and what limitations the teeth betray!
    Civ 7.21 18 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay. He is safe from the teeth of wild animals, from frost...
    Elo1 7.91 12 ...people always perceive whether you drive or whether the horses take the bits in their teeth and run.
    Cour 7.257 1 Touch the snapping-turtle with a stick, and he seizes it with his teeth.
    Cour 7.257 2 Touch the snapping-turtle with a stick, and he seizes it with his teeth. Cut off his head, and the teeth will not let go the stick.
    Res 8.144 16 The Indian, the sailor, the hunter, only these know the power of the hands, feet, teeth, eyes and ears.
    Comc 8.171 27 Lord C., said the Countess of Gordon, O, he is a perfect comb, all teeth and back.
    PPo 8.265 8 Ants see not the Pleiades./ Can the gnat grasp with his teeth/ The body of the elephant?/
    EWI 11.143 19 [Nature] appoints no police to guard the lion but his teeth and claws;...
    CPL 11.504 12 Julius Caesar, when shipwrecked, and forced to swim for life...took his Commentaries between his teeth and swam for the shore.
    PLT 12.35 5 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave, massive, without hands or fingers or articulating lips or teeth or tongue;...
    Mem 12.93 7 As every creature is furnished with teeth to seize and eat, and with stomach to digest its food, so the memory is furnished with a perfect apparatus.
    Mem 12.97 21 A knife with a good spring...a watch, the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly...describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
    Mem 12.98 13 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees; he seems to remember all he ever knew; thus certifying us...that what his mind grasps it does not let go. 'T is the bull-dog bite; you must cut off the head to loosen the teeth.
    CL 12.160 24 When I look at natural structures, as at a tree, or the teeth of a shark...I know that I am seeing an architecture and carpentry which has no sham...
    Trag 12.411 8 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs,-are terrors that make...the teeth clatter, but are no tragedy...

Teganwy, Castle, Wales, n. (1)

    PI 8.58 4 A favorable specimen is Taliessin's Invocation of the Wind at the door of Castle Teganwy...

Teign River, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.179 15 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Exmouth, Dartmouth, Sidmouth, Teignmouth, the mouths of the Ex, Dart, Sid and Teign rivers.

Teignmouth, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.179 13 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Exmouth, Dartmouth, Sidmouth, Teignmouth, the mouths of the Ex, Dart, Sid and Teign rivers.

Teleboas River, Arminia, n. (1)

    Hist 2.25 4 After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia, there fell much snow...

telegrams, n. (1)

    PC 8.227 26 To know in each social crisis how men feel in Kansas, in California, the wise man waits for no mails, reads no telegrams.

telegraph, adj. (2)

    YA 1.385 21 ...the national Post Office is likely to go into disuse before the private telegraph and the express companies.
    ET10 5.161 23 ...now that a telegraph line runs through France and Europe from London, every message it transmits makes stronger by one thread the band which war will have to cut.

Telegraph, Magnetic Ocean, (1)

    EPro 11.316 1 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the Magnetic Ocean Telegraph...

telegraph, n. (23)

    ET8 5.141 27 Nelson wrote from [English] hearts his homely telegraph, England expects every man to do his duty.
    ET10 5.161 22 The telegraph is a limp band that will hold the Fenris-wolf of war.
    Pow 6.67 21 ...[Boniface] subscribed for the fountains, the gas, and the telegraph;...
    Pow 6.81 15 A man hardly knows how much he is a machine until he begins to make telegraph, loom, press and locomotive, in his own image.
    Wth 6.93 25 [Columbus's] successors inherited his map, and inherited his fury to complete it. So the men of the mine, telegraph, mill, map and survey...
    Bhr 6.172 10 ...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of character [manners] convey, and what divination is required in us for the reading of this fine telegraph,--we see what range the subject has...
    Art2 7.56 26 Popular institutions...the telegraph...are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings.
    WD 7.161 5 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph...
    WD 7.161 18 No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found.
    Cour 7.254 6 Men admire...the man...who can lead his telegraph through the ocean from shore to shore;...
    Suc 7.283 10 Our eyes run approvingly along the lengthened lines of railroad and telegraph.
    Suc 7.287 24 Newton was a great man, without telegraph, or gas...
    Res 8.137 13 ...whether searched by the plough of Adam...the surveyor's chain of Picard, or the submarine telegraph,--to every one of these experiments [the earth] makes a gracious response.
    Res 8.141 17 We have seen the railroad and telegraph subdue our enormous geography;...
    Res 8.142 27 We are working the new Atlantic telegraph.
    PC 8.210 14 Consider...what masters, each in his several province, the railroad, the telegraph...have evoked!...
    Aris 10.40 12 ...if the finders of parallax, of new planets, of steam power for boat and carriage, the finder of sulphuric ether and the electric telegraph...should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?
    Aris 10.41 9 The multiplication of monarchs known by telegraph and daily news from all countries to the daily papers...has robbed the title of king of all its romance...
    FSLC 11.183 25 I cannot accept the railroad and telegraph in exchange for reason and charity.
    ACiv 11.300 8 The telegraph has been swift enough to announce our disasters.
    EdAd 11.383 11 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from the telescope, the telegraph, the railroad, steamship, steam-ferry, steam-mill;...
    ChiE 11.471 12 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations. This auspicious event...is an irresistible result of the science which has given us the power of steam and the electric telegraph.
    CInt 12.115 27 [The college] is essentially the most radiating and public of agencies, like, but better than...the telegraph which speeds the local news over the land.

telegraphed, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.209 20 By new arts the earth is subdued, roaded, tunnelled, telegraphed, gas-lighted;...

telegraphic, adj. (3)

    PC 8.228 5 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the Source of events...
    MoL 10.242 8 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the source of events.
    EdAd 11.383 21 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 telegraphic despatches not yet fifty minutes old from Buffalo and Cincinnati.

telegraphs, n. (11)

    ET4 5.73 22 Every [English] inn-room is lined with pictures of races; telegraphs communicate, every hour, tidings of the heats from Newmarket and Ascot;...
    ET10 5.160 26 The wise, versatile, all-giving machinery makes chisels, roads, locomotives, telegraphs.
    ET18 5.304 7 [The English] are expiating the wrongs of India by benefits; first, in works for the irrigation of the peninsula, and roads, and telegraphs;...
    Wth 6.102 25 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston. Now it will buy a great deal more in our old town, thanks to...telegraphs...
    Ctr 6.165 25 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...if Science with her telegraphs through the deeps of space and time can set his dull nerves throbbing...make way and sing paean!
    WD 7.158 7 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs...
    Suc 7.303 24 ...[the lover's] eye and ear are telegraphs;...
    PC 8.227 23 What is the use of telegraphs?
    Plu 10.294 16 ...[Plutarch's] name is never mentioned by any Roman writer. It would seem that the community of letters and of personal news was even more rare at that day than the want of printing, of railroads and telegraphs, would suggest to us.
    AKan 11.255 17 The testimony of the telegraphs from St. Louis and the border confirm the worst details.
    TPar 11.286 16 Such was the largeness of [Theodore Parker's] reception of facts and his skill to employ them that it looked as if he were some president of council to whom a score of telegraphs were ever bringing in reports;...

telegraph-wire, n. (2)

    PerF 10.84 6 Obedience alone gives the right to command. It is like the village operator who taps the telegraph-wire and surprises the secrets of empires as they pass to the capital.
    Thor 10.474 20 ...[Thoreau] found poetic suggestion in the humming of the telegraph-wire.

Telemachus, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.257 4 Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton] by his biographers, that if the anecdotes...had not been in part furnished or corroborated by political enemies, would lead us to suspect the portraits were ideal, like...the Telemachus of Fenelon...

telescope, n. (16)

    Exp 3.80 8 The partial action of each strong mind in one direction is a telescope for the objects on which it is pointed.
    NER 3.258 4 The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy;...
    ET9 5.145 7 Swedenborg...notes...[the English] regard foreigners as one looking through a telescope from the top of a palace regards those who dwell or wander about out of the city.
    Wth 6.98 3 Every man wishes to see...the mountains and craters in the moon; yet how few can buy a telescope!...
    SS 7.8 23 ...the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve;...
    Art2 7.41 7 Dollond formed his achromatic telescope on the model of the human eye.
    WD 7.158 16 Our century to be sure had inherited a tolerable apparatus. We had the compass, the printing-press, watches, the spiral spring, the barometer, the telescope.
    Res 8.137 12 ...whether searched by the plough of Adam...the telescope of Galileo...or the submarine telegraph,--to every one of these experiments [the earth] makes a gracious response.
    PC 8.217 11 Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers; as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer.
    PPo 8.237 14 Many qualities go to make a good telescope...
    Dem1 10.20 22 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...which is represented in modern fable by the telescope as used by Schlemil, is simply mischievous.
    Supl 10.172 16 The astronomer shows you in his telescope the nebula of Orion, that you may look on that which is esteemed the farthest-off land in visible nature.
    EdAd 11.383 10 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from the telescope, the telegraph, the railroad, steamship, steam-ferry, steam-mill;...
    PLT 12.31 17 ...[a man's] aptitude, if he would obey it, would prove a telescope to bring under his clear vision what was blur to everybody else.
    CL 12.167 2 Matter, how immensely soever enlarged by the telescope, remains the lesser half.
    CW 12.175 10 ...a common spy-glass...turned on the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, in which most eyes can only count six,-will show many more,-a telescope in an observatory will show two hundred.

telescopes, n. (5)

    Tran 1.358 12 In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only...baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,-rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes;...
    GoW 4.274 27 Eyes are better on the whole than telescopes or microscopes.
    ET5 5.96 19 [The English] make...telescopes for astronomers, cannons for kings.
    PerF 10.80 5 Bonaparte...reads the geography of Europe as if his eyes were telescopes;...
    EdAd 11.391 10 ...the current year has witnessed the appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's] manuscripts. Here is an unsettled account in the book of Fame; a nebula to dim eyes, but which great telescopes may yet resolve into a magnificent system.

telescopic, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.76 10 [These Saxons] have...the telescopic appreciation of distant gain.

tell, v. (182)

    AmS 1.103 6 ...the instinct is sure, that prompts [the scholar] to tell his brother what he thinks.
    DSA 1.136 15 In how many churches, by how many prophets, tell me, is man made sensible that he is an infinite Soul;...
    DSA 1.145 3 See how nations and races...leave no ripple to tell where they floated or sunk...
    LE 1.163 18 Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable, obliterated past, what it cannot tell...
    MN 1.199 11 We can...never tell where to set the first stone.
    MN 1.215 20 Tell me not how great your project is...
    MN 1.223 13 I cannot tell if these wonderful qualities which house to-day in this mortal frame shall ever re-assemble in equal activity in a similar frame...
    MR 1.229 25 That secret which you would fain keep,-as soon as you go abroad, lo' there is one standing on the doorstep to tell you the same.
    LT 1.286 25 We have come to that which is the spring of all power...and who shall tell us according to what law its inspirations and its informations are given or witholden?
    LT 1.288 5 ...to what port are we bound? Who knows! There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves...
    Con 1.304 16 The ancients tell us that the gods loved the Ethiopians for their stable customs;...
    Con 1.308 15 ...I should be more unworthy if I did not tell you why I cannot walk in your steps.
    Con 1.309 10 I must tell you the truth practically;...
    Con 1.315 19 ...we will tell you, good Father, how we spent the last evening.
    Con 1.316 10 Your words are excellent, but they do not tell the whole.
    Tran 1.329 21 ...The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell.
    Tran 1.343 7 ...if they tell you their whole thought, [Transcendentalists] will own that love seems to them the last and highest gift of nature;...
    Tran 1.344 8 If you do not need to hear my thought, because you can read it in my face and behavior, then I will tell it you from sunrise to sunset.
    Hist 2.38 22 You shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read.
    SR 2.52 4 ...do not tell me...of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations.
    SR 2.52 7 I tell thee...that I grudge the dollar...I give to such men as do not belong to me...
    SR 2.76 17 Let a Stoic...tell men they are not leaning willows...
    SR 2.84 27 If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad-axe and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal...
    SR 2.85 9 ...[the civilized man] fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun.
    SL 2.145 12 It is vain to attempt to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.
    SL 2.147 2 A chemist may tell his most precious secrets to a carpenter, and he shall be never the wiser...
    Fdsp 2.210 23 ...wish [your friend] not less by a thought, but hoard and tell them all.
    Hsm1 2.261 9 We tell our charities...for our justification.
    OS 2.283 4 In past oracles of the soul the understanding...undertakes to tell from God how long men shall exist...
    OS 2.285 7 Who can tell the grounds of his knowledge of the character of the several individuals in his circle of friends?
    Cir 2.320 12 ...of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat;...
    Art1 2.356 17 The best pictures can easily tell us their last secret.
    Pt1 3.10 7 ...[the poet] will tell us how it was with him, and all men will be the richer in his fortune.
    Pt1 3.10 16 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. He...had written hundreds of lines, but could not tell whether that which was in him was therein told;...
    Pt1 3.10 17 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. He...had written hundreds of lines, but could not tell whether that which was in him was therein told; he could tell nothing but that all was changed...
    Pt1 3.24 12 I knew in my younger days the sculptor who made the statue of the youth which stands in the public garden. He was...unable to tell directly what made him happy or unhappy, but by wonderful indirections he could tell.
    Pt1 3.24 14 I knew in my younger days the sculptor who made the statue of the youth which stands in the public garden. He was...unable to tell directly what made him happy or unhappy, but by wonderful indirections he could tell.
    Exp 3.45 10 ...the Genius which...gives us the lethe to drink, that we may tell no tales, mixed the cup too strongly...
    Chr1 3.92 11 ...the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man; that is all anybody can tell you about it.
    Chr1 3.109 12 When the Yunani sage arrived at Balkh, the Persians tell us, Gushtasp appointed a day on which the Mobeds of every country should assemble...
    Gts 3.160 1 Men use to tell us that we love flattery...because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
    Pol1 3.214 23 ...when a quarter of the human race assume to tell me what I must do, I may be too much disturbed by the circumstances to see so clearly the absurdity of their command.
    NR 3.229 10 Who can tell if Washington be a great man or no?
    NR 3.229 11 Who can tell if Washington be a great man or no? Who can tell if Franklin be?
    NR 3.244 13 Jesus is not dead; he is very well alive: nor John, nor Paul, nor Mahomet, nor Aristotle; at times we believe we have seen them all, and could easily tell the names under which they go.
    NER 3.257 18 ...we cannot tell our course by the stars...
    NER 3.276 7 [A man] is sure that the soul which gives the lie to all things will tell none.
    UGM 4.6 26 I cannot tell what I would know [from great men];...
    UGM 4.35 7 The destiny of organized nature is amelioration, and who can tell its limits?
    PPh 4.43 12 Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them.
    PPh 4.45 23 As soon as [children] can speak and tell their want and the reason of it, they become gentle.
    PPh 4.73 25 [Socrates] always knew the way out; knew it, yet would not tell it.
    PPh 4.74 6 ...Meno has discoursed a thousand times, at length, on virtue... and very well, as it appeared to him; but at this moment he cannot even tell what it is,--this cramp-fish of a Socrates has so bewitched him.
    PPh 4.78 4 The acutest German, the lovingest disciple, could never tell what Platonism was;...
    SwM 4.118 4 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
    SwM 4.139 26 The rumors of ghosts and hobgoblins gossip and tell fortunes.
    SwM 4.142 2 A man should not tell me that he has walked among the angels;...
    MoS 4.174 13 My astonishing San Carlo thought the lawgivers and saints infected. They found the ark empty; saw, and would not tell;...
    ShP 4.206 2 We tell the chronicle of parentage...
    ShP 4.208 6 Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us...
    ShP 4.208 16 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me if they match;...
    ShP 4.212 18 Give a man of talents a story to tell, and his partiality will presently appear.
    ET1 5.11 6 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 23 ...I tell you, sir [said Coleridge], that I have known ten persons who loved the good, for one person who loved the true;...
    ET5 5.86 21 Lord Collingwood was accustomed to tell his men that if they could fire three well-directed broadsides in five minutes, no vessel could resist them;...
    ET7 5.124 23 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money.
    ET7 5.125 1 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money. He let it lie there six months, the newspapers now and then, at his instance, stimulating the attention of the adepts; but none ever could tell him...
    ET9 5.149 20 [The English] tell you daily in London the story of the Frenchman and Englishman who quarrelled.
    ET11 5.191 19 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced...
    ET13 5.230 21 Where dwells the religion [of England]? Tell me first where dwells electricity...
    ET17 5.295 1 The Edinburgh Review wrote what would tell and what would sell.
    ET19 5.310 11 ...when I came to sea, I found the History of Europe, by Sir A. Alison, on the ship's cabin table, the property of the captain;--a sort of programme or play-bill to tell the seafaring New Englander what he shall find on his landing here.
    ET19 5.312 9 ...I must tell you, I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was no lotus-garden...
    F 6.36 9 ...where [man's] endeavors do not yet fully avail, they tell as tendency.
    F 6.36 25 Christopher Wren said of the beautiful King's College chapel, that if anybody would tell him where to lay the first stone, he would build such another.
    Pow 6.68 25 I remember a poor Malay cook on board a Liverpool packet, who, when the wind blew a gale, could not contain his joy; Blow! he cried, me do tell you, blow!
    Wth 6.83 1 Who shall tell what did befall,/ Far away in time, when once,/ Over the lifeless ball,/ Hung idle stars and suns?/
    Bhr 6.181 25 The sculptor and Winckelmann and Lavater will tell you how significant a feature is the nose;...
    Bhr 6.190 21 Another opposes [a man who is already strong] with sound argument, but the argument is scouted until by and by it gets into the mind of some weighty person; then it begins to tell on the community.
    Wsp 6.227 3 What I am has been secretly conveyed from me to another, whilst I was vainly making up my mind to tell him it.
    Wsp 6.229 18 An anatomical observer remarks that the sympathies of the chest, abdomen and pelvis tell at last on the face...
    CbW 6.250 6 What a vicious practice is this of our politicians at Washington pairing off!...as if your presence did not tell in more ways than in your vote.
    Bty 6.281 10 The geologist lays bare the strata and can tell them all on his fingers;...
    Bty 6.289 19 ...the mythologists tell us that Vulcan was painted lame and Cupid blind, to call attention to the fact that one was all limbs, and the other all eyes.
    SS 7.9 17 ...how insular and pathetically solitary are all the people we know! Nor dare they tell what they think of each other when they meet in the street.
    Elo1 7.71 20 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast.
    Elo1 7.83 14 Poor Tom never knew the time when the present occurrence was so trivial that he could tell what was passing in his mind without being checked for unseasonable speech;...
    Elo1 7.85 11 ...[the orator]...must have the fact, and know how to tell it.
    DL 7.107 22 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy who could tell straight on the real fortunes of the man;...
    Farm 7.149 12 [Peaches and grapes]...never tell on your table whence they drew their sunset complexion or their delicate flavors.
    Clbs 7.227 21 ...money does not more burn in a boy's pocket than a piece of news burns in our memory until we can tell it.
    Clbs 7.232 1 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were; they...tell stories...
    Clbs 7.246 12 I knew a scholar...who said that he liked, in a barroom, to tell a few coon stories...
    Clbs 7.249 18 If...[l'homme de lettres] dare not speak of fairy gold, he will yet tell what new books he has found...
    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./
    Cour 7.279 26 What thoughts were in [the bear's] mind/ It would be hard to spell:/ What thoughts were in George Nidiver/ I rather guess than tell./
    Suc 7.305 25 Every man has a history worth knowing, if he could tell it...
    OA 7.317 20 Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.
    OA 7.326 8 If [the old lawyer] should on a new occasion rise quite beyond his mark...that, of course, would instantly tell;...
    PI 8.25 5 When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me Shelley...I am quite of their mind.
    PI 8.62 21 ...said Merlin...salute for me the king and the queen and all the barons, and tell them of my condition.
    SA 8.86 16 Why need you, who are not a gossip...tell eagerly what the neighbors or the journals say?
    SA 8.105 14 [Sentimentalists] have, they tell you, an intense love of Nature;...
    Elo2 8.125 11 That something which each man was created to say and do, he only or he best can tell you...
    Elo2 8.127 3 Something which any boy would tell with color and vivacity [some men] can only stammer out with hard literalness...
    Res 8.138 14 ...if you tell me that there is always life for the living;...I am invigorated...
    Res 8.152 21 You cannot tell when [the willows] do bud and blossom...
    QO 8.183 20 ...we find in Grimm's Memoires that Sheridan got [his rules] from the witty D'Argenson; who, no doubt, if we could consult him, could tell of whom he first heard them told.
    QO 8.185 24 Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan which pleased his childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence the dreams of his youth...
    QO 8.192 26 Whoever expresses to us a just thought makes ridiculous the pains of the critic who should tell him where such a word had been said before.
    PC 8.212 1 That cosmical west wind which, meteorologists tell us, constitutes, by the revolution of the globe, the upper current, is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
    PPo 8.257 26 The lilies white prolonged/ Their sworded tongue to the smell;/ The clustering anemones/ Their pretty secrets tell./
    Insp 8.269 14 Our money is only a second best. We would jump to buy power with it, that is, intellectual perception moving the will. That is first best. But we don't know where the shop is. If Watt knew, he forgot to tell us the number of the street.
    Insp 8.281 12 Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
    Insp 8.297 8 Aubrey and Burton and Wood tell me incidents which I find not insignificant.
    Grts 8.304 10 You shall not tell me that your commercial house, your partners or yourself are of importance;...
    Grts 8.304 12 ...you shall not tell me that you have learned to know men;...
    Grts 8.304 16 You shall not...tell me by their titles what books you have read.
    Grts 8.313 21 Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar?
    Grts 8.314 22 Whatever they may tell you [said Napoleon], believe that one fights with cannon as with fists;...
    Dem1 10.28 2 [Man] is sure that intimate relations subsist...between him and his world; and until he can adequately tell them he will tell them wildly and fabulously.
    Aris 10.36 5 I cannot tell how English titles are bestowed...
    Aris 10.44 7 ...the philosopher may well say, Let me see his brain, and I will tell you if he shall be poet, king...
    Aris 10.50 18 It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential qualifications of its representatives. They ask if a man is a Republican, a Democrat? Yes. Is he a man of talent? Yes. Is he honest and not looking for an office or any manner of bribe? He is honest. Well then choose him by acclamation. And they go home and tell their wives with great satisfaction what a good thing they have done.
    Chr2 10.113 15 No man can tell what religious revolutions await us in the next years;...
    Edc1 10.148 24 The joy of our childhood in hearing beautiful stories from some skilful aunt who loves to tell them, must be repeated in youth.
    Edc1 10.149 10 One burns to tell the new fact, the other burns to hear it.
    Edc1 10.156 12 Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs.
    Edc1 10.157 20 If you have a taste which you have suppressed because it is not shared by those about you, tell [your pupils] that.
    Edc1 10.158 14 If a child [in the school] happens to show that he knows any fact...that interests him and you, hush all the classes and encourage him to tell it so that all may hear.
    Supl 10.169 26 When a farmer means to tell you that he is doing well with his farm, he says, I don't work as hard as I did, and I don't mean to.
    SovE 10.187 15 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...at last came the day when, as the historians rightly tell, the nerves of the world were electrified by the proclamation that all men are born free and equal.
    SovE 10.196 1 We answer, when they tell us of the bad behavior of Luther or Paul: Well, what if he did?
    Prch 10.224 27 ...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true, it is clear mathematically...that this will tell in the result...
    Prch 10.229 15 The clergy are as like as peas. I cannot tell them apart.
    Schr 10.268 20 Let us hear no more of the practical men, or I will tell you something of them...
    Schr 10.269 1 Talk frankly with [the practical men] and you learn that you have little to tell them;...
    Schr 10.284 11 [The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which, I must plainly tell you, cannot be staved off.
    EzRy 10.387 8 [Ezra Ripley] used to tell the story of one of his old friends, the minister of Sudbury...
    EzRy 10.392 12 We remember the remark of a gentleman who listened with much delight to [Ezra Ripley's] conversation...that a man who could tell a story so well was company for kings and John Quincy Adams.
    MMEm 10.405 18 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] would easily rouse [the minister's] curiosity, as a person who could read his secret and tell him his fortune.
    MMEm 10.423 13 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries of the battle-field...what of a few days of agony...compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?
    MMEm 10.430 23 ...one secret sentiment of virtue...will tell, in the world of spirits, of God's immediate presence...
    Thor 10.465 11 I have repeatedly known young men of sensibility converted in a moment to the belief that this [Thoreau] was the man they were in search of, the man of men, who could tell them all they should do.
    Thor 10.470 12 [Thoreau] thought that, if waked up from a trance, in this swamp, he could tell by the plants what time of the year it was within two days.
    Thor 10.473 6 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered...his knowledge of their lands...which enabled him to tell every farmer more than he knew before of his own farm;...
    Thor 10.473 25 [Thoreau] was inquisitive about the making of the stone arrow-head, and in his last days charged a youth setting out for the Rocky Mountains to find an Indian who could tell him that...
    Thor 10.475 26 [Thoreau]...liked to throw every thought into a symbol. The fact you tell is of no value, but only the impression.
    Carl 10.492 4 In the Long Parliament, [Carlyle] says...I know not what they would have done to anybody that had got in there and attempted to tell out of doors what they did.
    LS 11.11 18 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels, and then compare with it the account of this transaction [Christ's washing the disciples' feet] in St. John, and tell me if this be not much more explicitly authorized than the Supper.
    HDC 11.29 16 Who can tell how many thousand years, every day, the clouds have shaded these fields with their purple awning?
    HDC 11.50 3 Tell [the Continental nations] the Union has twenty-four States, and Massachusetts is one.
    HDC 11.50 5 Tell [the Continental nations] the Union has twenty-four States, and Massachusetts is one. Tell them, Massachusetts has three hundred towns, and Concord is one;...
    EWI 11.102 11 ...the secrets of slaughter-houses and infamous holes that cannot front the day, must be ransacked, to tell what negro slavery has been.
    EWI 11.104 22 ...a good man or woman...once in a while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the indiscretion to tell of them.
    FSLC 11.210 20 ...granting...that these evils [of slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in ages,-and by what instrument... none can tell...still the question recurs, What must we do?
    FSLN 11.226 18 ...a ghastly result of all those years of experience in affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the foremost American man [Webster] to tell his countrymen than that Slavery was now at that strength that they must beat down their conscience and become kidnappers for it.
    JBS 11.276 1 A man there came, whence none could tell,/ Bearing a touchstone in his hand,/ And tested all things in the land/ By its unerrring spell./
    TPar 11.285 21 He whose voice will not be heard here again [Theodore Parker] could well afford to tell his experiences;...
    SMC 11.361 5 ...the words [of Civil War letters] are proud and tender,- Tell mother I will not disgrace her;...
    SMC 11.361 6 ...the words [of Civil War letters] are proud and tender...tell [Mother] not to worry about me...
    SMC 11.370 3 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone.
    Shak1 11.448 21 He is a cultivated man-who can tell us something new of Shakspeare.
    FRep 11.530 1 In this fact, that we are a nation of individuals...and that on such an organization sooner or later the moral laws must tell, to such ears must speak,-in this is our hope.
    PLT 12.13 26 The adepts value only the pure geometry, the aerial bridge ascending from earth to heaven with arches and abutments of pure reason. I am fully contented if you tell me where are the two termini.
    PLT 12.19 18 So works the poor little blockhead manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can. At last he must be able to tell you it, or write it, translate it all clumsily enough into the new sky-language he calls thought.
    II 12.68 10 ...if you go to a gallery of pictures, or other works of fine art, the eye is dazzled and embarrassed by many excellences. The marble imposes on us; the exquisite details, we cannot tell if they be good or not;...
    Mem 12.94 1 We can tell much about [memory], but you must not ask us what it is.
    Mem 12.105 20 Captain John Brown, of Ossawatomie, said he had in Ohio three thousand sheep on his farm, and could tell a strange sheep in his flock as soon as he saw its face.
    CL 12.162 25 ...sometimes [my naturalist] brought [the farmers] ostentatiously gifts of flowers, fruit or rare shrubs they would gladly have paid a price for, and did not tell them that he gathered them in their own woods.
    CL 12.163 16 ...the lover of Nature cannot tell the best thing he knows.
    Bost 12.193 5 The common eye cannot tell what the bird will be, from the egg...
    MAng1 12.234 12 When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves.
    Milt1 12.271 3 Toland tells us...[Milton] used to tell those about him the entire satisfaction of his mind that he had constantly employed his strength and faculties in the defence of liberty...
    ACri 12.305 7 Once in the fields with the lowing cattle...and satisfying curves of the landscape, and I cannot tell whether this is Thessaly and Enna, or whether Concord and Acton.
    MLit 12.318 11 Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
    MLit 12.334 19 Are there no lonely, anxious, wondering children, who must tell their tale?
    Pray 12.351 21 Wacic the Caliph...ended his life, the Arabian historians tell us, with these words: O thou whose kingdom never passes away, pity one whose dignity is so transient.
    AgMs 12.361 27 ...necessity finds out when to go to Brighton, and when to feed in the stall, better than Mr. [Henry] Colman can tell us.
    AgMs 12.362 25 The way in which men who have farms grow rich is either by other resources...or by other methods of which I [Edmund Hosmer] could tell you many sad anecdotes.
    EurB 12.372 4 Godiva is a noble poem that will tell the legend a thousand years.
    PPr 12.387 7 ...if you should ask the contemporary, he would tell you...that he had [no superstitions].

teller, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.8 24 ...[the poet] is the only teller of news...
    PI 8.30 4 The only teller of news is the poet.

telleth, v. (1)

    Wom 11.406 7 Weirdes all, said the Edda, Frigga knoweth, though she telleth them never.

telling, adj. (2)

    RBur 11.440 20 Not Latimer, nor Luther struck more telling blows against false theology than did this brave singer [Burns].
    ACri 12.290 15 The silences, pauses, of an orator are as telling as his words.

telling, v. (9)

    OS 2.283 2 The popular notion of a revelation is that it is a telling of fortunes.
    Wth 6.100 24 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor...Young man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...
    Elo1 7.65 4 That...which eloquence ought to reach, is not a particular skill in telling a story...
    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 7.70 24 ...who does not remember in childhood some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?
    Comc 8.165 18 Smith...sent out a party into the swamp, caught an Indian, and sent him home in the first ship to London, telling the Society they might convert one themselves.
    MMEm 10.410 26 [Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God has given you a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow creatures. Go instantly and call Elizabeth till you find [Elizabeth Hoar and her niece]. The man...having found them apologized for calling thus, by telling what Miss Emerson had said to him.
    ACri 12.290 12 The French have a neat phrase, that the secret of boring you is that of telling all...
    PPr 12.381 4 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds...the vice [of the times] in false and superficial aims of the people, and the remedy in honesty and insight. Like every work of genius, [Carlyle's Past and Present's] great value is in telling such simple truths.

tells, v. (50)

    Nat 1.18 23 The succession of native plants in the pastures and roadsides, which makes the silent clock by which time tells the summer hours, will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer.
    Prd1 2.227 23 [The good husband's] garden or his poultry-yard tells him many pleasant anecdotes.
    Hsm1 2.256 8 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./
    OS 2.287 26 ...if a man do not speak from within the veil, where the word is one with that it tells of, let him lowly confess it.
    Pt1 3.8 23 [The poet] is the true and only doctor; he knows and tells;...
    Pt1 3.30 26 ...Socrates...tells us that the soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations, and that these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls;...
    ShP 4.213 1 ...the great [Shakespeare] tells greatly;...
    ET11 5.178 21 Pepys tells us, in writing of an Earl Oxford, in 1666, that the honor had now remained in that name and blood six hundred years.
    F 6.35 4 A learned physician tells us the fact is invariable with the Neapolitan...
    Bhr 6.169 8 Nature tells every secret once.
    Bhr 6.169 9 Nature tells every secret once. Yes, but in man she tells it all the time...
    CbW 6.245 19 The lawyer advises the client, and tells his story to the jury and leaves it with them...
    Bty 6.300 25 Sir Philip Sidney...Ben Jonson tells us, was no pleasant man in countenance...
    Elo1 7.68 16 Set a New Englander to describe any accident which happened in his presence. What hesitation and reserve in his narrative! He tells with difficulty some particulars...
    Elo1 7.70 19 Scheherezade tells these stories [in the Arabian Nights] to save her life...
    Elo1 7.73 3 Plutarch tells us that Thucydides, when Archidamus, king of Sparta, asked him which was the best wrestler, Pericles or he, replied, When I throw him, he says he was never down, and he persuades the very spectators to believe him.
    Clbs 7.230 15 ...a natural fact has only half its value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated. Then they confirm and adorn each other; a story is matched by another story. And that may be the reason why, when a gentleman has told a good thing, he immediately tells it again.
    Clbs 7.230 23 ...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he tells me...that he has no companion.
    Clbs 7.233 21 ...[Holmes (?)] tells the best story in the county...
    Suc 7.310 4 The painter Giotto, Vasari tells us, renewed art because he put more goodness into his heads.
    OA 7.317 17 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise...though an infant of only a few days...tells his name and history...
    PI 8.39 12 Do [men] think there is chance or wilfulness in what [the poet] sees and tells?
    PI 8.57 14 ...we listen to [the early bard] as we do to the Indian, or the hunter, or miner, each of whom represents his facts as accurately as the cry of the wolf or the eagle tells of the forest or the air they inhabit.
    SA 8.84 4 ...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our countenance and carriage, as the lapse of time tells itself on the face of a clock.
    SA 8.94 16 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet...
    Elo2 8.121 18 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud...
    PC 8.233 5 There is a text in Swedenborg which tells in figure the plain truth.
    PPo 8.248 19 [Hafiz] tells his mistress that not the dervish, or the monk, but the lover, has in his heart the spirit which makes the ascetic and the saint;...
    PPo 8.252 19 [Hafiz] tells us, The angels in heaven were lately learning his last pieces.
    Insp 8.273 27 Sometimes the Aeolian harp is dumb all day in the window, and again it...tells all the secrets of the world.
    Edc1 10.140 9 The young giant, brown from his hunting-tramp, tells his story well...
    Schr 10.285 2 These questions [of life] speak...to Genius, which is an emanation of that it tells of;...
    Plu 10.317 6 In his dedication of the work [Plutarch's Morals] to the Archbishop of Canterbury...[Morgan] tells the Primate that Plutarch was the wisest man of his age, and, if he had been a Christian, one of the best too;...
    LS 11.10 18 [Jesus] there [at Capernaum] tells the Jews, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
    LS 11.15 3 ...[St. Paul's] mind had not escaped the prevalent error of the primitive Church, the belief, namely, that the second coming of Christ would shortly occur, until which time, he tells them, this feast [the Lord's Supper] was to be kept.
    LS 11.15 4 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire...
    FSLC 11.193 25 Mr. Webster tells the President that he has been in the North, and he has found no man, whose opinion is of any weight, who is opposed to the [Fugitive Slave] law.
    TPar 11.285 8 It is only what [a man] tells of himself that comes to be known and believed.
    Humb 11.458 19 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants;
    CPL 11.504 17 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte, in hastening out of France to join his army in Germany, tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them...
    FRep 11.526 21 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...
    FRep 11.542 20 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...
    PLT 12.10 9 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every way forwarded. Practical men...cannot arrive at this. Something very different has to be done,-the availing ourselves of every impulse of genius, an emanation of the heaven it tells of...
    II 12.81 4 All conquests that history tells of will be found to resolve themselves into the superior mental powers of the conquerors...
    CL 12.142 12 If a man tells me that he has an intense love of Nature, I know, of course, that he has none.
    CL 12.160 9 Nature tells everything once.
    Bost 12.206 26 From...the Quaker women who for a testimony walked naked into the streets, and as the record tells us were arrested and publicly whipped,-the baggages that they were;...down to Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.
    MAng1 12.241 25 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari...and tells him he is at the end of his life...
    Milt1 12.263 8 [Milton] tells us, in a Latin poem, that the lyrist may indulge in wine and in a freer life;...
    Milt1 12.270 25 Toland tells us, As [Milton] looked upon true and absolute freedom to be the greatest happiness of this life, whether to societies or single persons, so he thought constraint of any sort to be the utmost misery;...

tell-tale, adj. [telltale,] (2)

    Bhr 6.177 8 The tell-tale body is all tongues.
    Dem1 10.11 9 All life, all creation, is telltale and betraying.

Tempe, Greece, n. (1)

    SL 2.147 15 The vale of Tempe, Tivoli and Rome are earth and water, rocks and sky.

Tempe, Vale of, Greece, n. (1)

    CW 12.173 4 You know [said Linnaeus]...that I live entirely in the Academy Garden; here is my Vale of Tempe...

temper, n. (59)

    LE 1.186 4 It is this domineering temper of the sensual world that creates the extreme need of the priests of science;...
    LT 1.261 3 I wish to consider well this affirmative side [Reform]...which encroaches on [Conservatism] every day, puts it...out of temper...
    Con 1.299 10 Conservatism...believes that men's temper governs them;...
    Tran 1.356 23 ...[these old guardians] have but one mood on the subject, namely, that Antony is very perverse,-that it is quite as much as Antony can do to...keep his temper.
    Comp 2.99 1 Is a man...by temper and position a bad citizen...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters...
    Comp 2.117 16 Has [a man] a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society? Thereby he is driven to entertain himself alone...
    SL 2.158 5 In every troop of boys...a new-comer is as well and accurately weighed in the course of a few days and stamped with his right number, as if he had undergone a formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
    Fdsp 2.197 12 I hear what you say of the admirable parts and tried temper of the party you praise...
    Prd1 2.229 4 Scatter-brained and afternoon men spoil much more than their own affair in spoiling the temper of those who deal with them.
    Hsm1 2.262 25 The unremitting retention of simple and high sentiments in obscure duties is hardening the character to that temper which will work with honor...
    Hsm1 2.263 5 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind, and with what sweetness of temper he can...
    Exp 3.52 13 ...temper prevails over everything of time, place and condition...
    PPh 4.71 8 [Socrates] was a cool fellow, adding to his humor a perfect temper and a knowledge of his man...
    PPh 4.73 20 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...whose temper was imperturbable;...
    MoS 4.161 18 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have...proof...that he has evinced the temper, stoutness and the range of qualities which...entitle him to fellowship and trust.
    ShP 4.216 5 ...the true bards have been noted for their firm and cheerful temper.
    ET6 5.107 13 ...being of an affectionate and loyal temper, [the Englishman] dearly loves his house.
    ET8 5.130 25 ...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper;...
    ET8 5.138 15 [The English] are subject to panics of credulity and of rage, but the temper of the nation...settles itself soon and easily...
    ET8 5.139 18 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...men of such temper, that, like Baron Vere, had one seen him returning from a victory, he would by his silence have suspected that he had lost the day; and, had he beheld him in a retreat, he would have collected him a conqueror by the cheerfulness of his spirit.
    ET8 5.140 16 The national temper [of England], in the civil history, is not flashy or whiffling.
    F 6.47 17 ...when a man is the victim of his fate, has...a sour face and a selfish temper;...he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
    Ctr 6.164 4 Who wishes to resist the eminent and polite, in behalf of the poor, and low, and impolite? And who that dares do it can keep his temper sweet...
    Bhr 6.182 1 The sculptor and Winckelmann and Lavater will tell you...how [the nose's] forms express...good or bad temper.
    CbW 6.264 24 ...so of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
    SS 7.3 18 [My new friend] had...a genial temper...
    Civ 7.27 19 The farmer had much ill temper, laziness and shirking to endure from his hand-sawyers, until one day he bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall;...
    Clbs 7.233 22 ...[Holmes (?)]...is of such genial temper that he disposes all others irresistibly to good humor and discourse.
    Cour 7.271 11 The true temper has genial influences.
    Suc 7.295 21 How often it seems the chief good to be born with a cheerful temper...
    Suc 7.306 16 Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is...an open and noble temper.
    Suc 7.312 2 ...[this tranquil, well-founded, wide-seeing soul] lies in the sun and broods on the world. A person of this temper once said to a man of much activity, I will pardon you that you do so much, and you me that I do nothing.
    SA 8.97 24 ...[in the man of genius] is...always some weary, captious paradox to fight you with, and the time and temper wasted.
    Elo2 8.116 9 [The people] have sent their best men; the young and ardent, those of a martial temper, went at the first draft, or the second...
    Res 8.138 22 ...if you tell me...that man only rightly knows himself as far as he has experimented on things,--I am...put into a genial and working temper;...
    PC 8.208 2 The temper of our people delights in this whirl of life.
    PPo 8.255 2 The muleteers and camel-drivers, on their way through the desert, sing snatches of [Hafiz's] songs, not so much for the thought as for their joyful temper and tone;...
    Prch 10.235 3 Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid!
    Schr 10.263 3 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...expressors themselves of that firm and cheerful temper...which reigns through the kingdoms of chemistry, vegetation and animal life.
    Schr 10.284 1 ...manners, temper, lion-heart, are all good things...
    MMEm 10.414 8 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Could [my aunt's] own temper in childhood or age have been subdued, how happy for herself...
    MMEm 10.415 24 This morning rich in existence; the remembrance of past destitution in the deep poverty of my [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt, and her most unhappy temper;...
    GSt 10.504 19 I have heard something of [George Stearns's] quick temper...
    EWI 11.100 27 In this cause [emancipation], we must renounce our temper...
    War 11.165 20 The standing army, the arsenal, the camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man. They only serve as an index to show where man is now; what a bad, ungoverned temper he has;...
    FSLN 11.225 16 ...it is the genius and temper of the man which decides whether he will stand for right or for might.
    FSLN 11.239 16 These delays [of Retribution], you see them now in the temper of the times.
    TPar 11.288 16 ...[it will be] in the plain lessons of Theodore Parker...that the true temper and the authentic record of these days will be read.
    EPro 11.323 11 If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels... the insatiable temper of the South made it impossible...
    EPro 11.325 3 ...those [Southern] states have shown every year a more hostile and aggressive temper...
    ALin 11.332 6 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial; one by bad health, one by...an ugly temper...
    ALin 11.333 5 [Lincoln's good humor] enabled him...to catch with true instinct the temper of every company he addressed.
    ALin 11.335 11 There, by...his even temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, [Lincoln] stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch.
    Koss 11.398 10 We [people of Concord] please ourselves that in you [Kossuth] we meet one whose temper was long since tried in the fire...
    SHC 11.433 15 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums, and agreeable to the temper of our times,-an Arboretum...
    FRep 11.543 7 Pennsylvania coal-mines and New York shipping and free labor, though not idealists, gravitate in the ideal direction. Nothing less large than justice can keep them in good temper.
    Milt1 12.255 13 Addison, Pope, Hume and Johnson, students, with very unlike temper and success, of the same subject [human nature], cannot, taken together, make any pretension to the amount or the quality of Milton' s inspirations.
    ACri 12.304 5 The politics of monarchy, when all hangs on the accidents of life and temper of a single person, may be called romantic politics.
    Trag 12.414 23 As the west wind...combs out the matted and dishevelled grass as it lay in night-locks on the ground, so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent. Time restores to them temper and elasticity.

temper, v. (2)

    Con 1.313 1 ...it might temper your indignation at the supposed wrong which society has done you, to keep the question before you, how society got into this predicament?
    Plu 10.312 5 Seneca...learned to temper his philosophy with facts.

temperable, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.37 20 Do not the constructive fingers of Watt, Fulton, Whittemore, Arkwright, predict the fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals, the properties of stone, water, and wood?

temperament, n. (61)

    Tran 1.342 25 ...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;...
    Prd1 2.232 26 A man of genius, of an ardent temperament...becomes presently unfortunate, querulous...
    OS 2.287 2 If [a man] have found his centre, the Deity will shine through him, through all the disguises...of ungenial temperament...
    Exp 3.50 17 There are...only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament.
    Exp 3.50 18 Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung.
    Exp 3.51 27 Temperament also enters fully into the system of illusions...
    Exp 3.52 4 In truth [men] are all creatures of given temperament...
    Exp 3.52 23 ...temperament is a power which no man willingly hears any one praise but himself.
    Exp 3.52 26 Temperament puts all divinity to rout.
    Exp 3.54 8 Temperament is the veto or limitation-power in the constitution...
    Exp 3.54 14 On its own level, or in view of nature, temperament is final.
    Chr1 3.98 16 Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person...
    PPh 4.52 3 Each student adheres, by temperament and by habit, to the first or to the second of these gods of the mind [unity or diversity].
    MoS 4.181 5 Others there are to whom the heaven is brass, and it shuts down to the surface of the earth. It is a question of temperament, or of more or less immersion in nature.
    ET5 5.77 14 A hard temperament had been formed by Saxon and Saxon-Dane...
    ET5 5.78 5 The people [of England] have that nervous bilious temperament which is known by medical men to resist every means employed to make its possessor subservient to the will of others.
    ET7 5.123 26 A slow temperament makes [the English] less rapid and ready than other countrymen...
    ET8 5.130 10 [The English] are...in all things very much steeped in their temperament...
    ET8 5.134 7 ...however derived,--whether a happier tribe or mixture of tribes, the air, or what circumstance that mixed for them the golden mean of temperament,--here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...
    ET8 5.134 14 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty;...
    ET8 5.134 18 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty; making this temperament a sea to which all storms are superficial;...
    ET10 5.166 11 The cause and spring of [England's wealth] is the wealth of temperament in the people.
    ET13 5.219 13 The [English] national temperament deeply enjoys the unbroken order and tradition of its church;...
    ET14 5.257 9 One regrets that [Wordsworth's] temperament was not more liquid and musical.
    ET18 5.303 11 I have noted the reserve of power in the English temperament.
    ET18 5.305 3 [The English] are oppressive with their temperament...
    F 6.10 3 ...sometimes the unmixed temperament...is drawn off in a separate individual...
    F 6.47 24 To offset the drag of temperament and race...learn this lesson...
    Pow 6.77 7 The second substitute for temperament is drill...
    CbW 6.245 4 ...so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enters into [life], that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.
    CbW 6.272 18 Add [to conversation] the consent of will and temperament, and there exists the covenant of friendship.
    DL 7.107 18 It is what is done and suffered in the house...in the temperament...that has the profoundest interest for us.
    DL 7.107 26 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy...who could explain...your debts, your temperament... and in every explanation, not sever you from the whole, but unite you to it?
    PI 8.32 6 Chastity, [men of the world] admit, is very well,--but then think of Mirabeau's passion and temperament!
    SA 8.79 15 ...how impossible to overcome the obstacle of an unlucky temperament and acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start;...
    SA 8.81 13 In the most delicate natures, fine temperament and culture build this impassable wall [of manners].
    PPo 8.238 24 The temperament of the people [in the East] agrees with this life in extremes.
    Aris 10.43 20 Temperament is fortune...
    Aris 10.53 1 ...Genius unlocks for all men the chains of use, temperament and drudgery...
    PerF 10.73 14 ...in man that bias or direction of his constitution is often as tyrannical as gravity. We call it temperament...
    Supl 10.163 11 There is a superlative temperament which has no medium range...
    Supl 10.179 12 ...there is no question...that the warm sons of the Southeast have bent the neck under the yoke of the cold temperament and the exact understanding of the Northwestern races.
    Prch 10.235 2 ...the power of sympathy is always great; and affirmative discourse, presuming assent, will often obtain it when argument would fail. Such, too, is the active power of good temperament.
    LLNE 10.339 23 ...[Channing's] cold temperament made him the most unprofitable private companion;...
    EzRy 10.395 1 By education, and still more by temperament, [Ezra Ripley] was engaged to the old forms of the New England Church.
    Thor 10.464 17 ...whatever faults or obstructions of temperament might cloud it, [Thoreau] was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
    Thor 10.475 21 ...[Thoreau] have not the poetic temperament, he never lacks the causal thought...
    Carl 10.493 19 [Carlyle] has a vivacious, aggressive temperament, and unimpressionable.
    FSLC 11.183 6 ...you cannot rely on any man for the defence of truth, who is not constitutionally or by blood and temperament on that side.
    FSLC 11.206 6 It is not slavery that severs [the North and the South], it is climate and temperament.
    ACiv 11.300 24 [People] bring their opinion [of slavery] into the world. If they have a comatose tendency in the brain, they are pro-slavery while they live; if of a nervous sanguineous temperament, they are abolitionists.
    SMC 11.358 20 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister...that he had long trained himself by forcing himself, on the suspicion of any near danger, to go directly up to it, cost him what struggles it might. Yet it is from this temperament of sensibility that great heroes have been formed.
    Wom 11.417 5 ...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences. But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this subject; from Aristophanes... to Rabelais, in whom it is monstrous exaggeration of temperament...
    Wom 11.417 9 In all [literature], the body of the joke is one, namely, to charge women with termperament;...
    Wom 11.417 11 In all [literature], the body of the joke is one, namely...to describe [women] as victims of temperament;...
    Wom 11.418 8 [Women] are victims of the finer temperament.
    SHC 11.432 8 ...how much more are [parks] needed by us...to stanch and appease that fury of temperament which our climate bestows!
    PPr 12.389 3 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character;...
    Trag 12.406 5 It is usually agreed that some nations have a more sombre temperament...
    Trag 12.409 21 In those persons who move the profoundest pity, tragedy seems to consist in temperament, not in events.
    Trag 12.416 15 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature... has given me a temperament like a block of marble.

Temperament, n. (3)

    Exp 3.43 9 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Use and Surprise,/ Surface and Dream,/ Succession swift, and spectral Wrong,/ Temperament without a tongue,/ And the inventor of the game/ Omnipresent without name;--/...
    Exp 3.82 25 Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are threads on the loom of time...
    Trag 12.415 1 ...Temperament resists the impression of pain.

temperamental, adj. (4)

    GoW 4.285 17 [Goethe] can not hate anybody; his time is worth too much. Temperamental antagonisms may be suffered...
    Pow 6.58 7 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency,--which implies...merely the temperamental or taming eye of a soldier or a schoolmaster...then quite easily...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
    Cour 7.266 21 Undoubtedly there is a temperamental courage...
    Cour 7.267 4 Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

temperamented, v. (1)

    Wom 11.418 16 Men are not to the same degree temperamented [as women]...

temperamenting, adj. (1)

    WD 7.171 5 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...the intellectual, temperamenting air;...are given immeasurably to all.

temperaments, n. (14)

    PPh 4.66 16 In the Republic [Plato] insists on the temperaments of the youth, as first of the first.
    PNR 4.83 9 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;... the golden, silver, brass and iron temperaments;...
    ET4 5.51 26 ...certain temperaments marry well...
    ET4 5.52 5 ...[the English character] is not so much a history of one or of certain tribes of Saxons, Jutes, or Frisians...as it is an anthology of temperaments out of them all.
    ET4 5.52 6 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England...
    ET4 5.52 10 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England...whilst all the unadapted temperaments die out.
    ET5 5.88 25 I know not from which of the tribes and temperaments that went to the composition of the people [of England] this tenacity was supplied, but they clinch every nail they drive.
    F 6.9 4 So is the scale...of temperaments;...imprisoning the vital power in certain directions.
    F 6.9 16 ...ask Quetelet if temperaments decide nothing?...
    F 6.9 19 Read the description in medical books of the four temperaments...
    Elo1 7.61 4 Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat...
    Cour 7.265 3 ...we do not exhaust the subject [Courage] in the slight analysis; we must not forget the variety of temperaments...
    PI 8.47 6 ...in higher degrees, we know the instant power of music upon our temperaments to change our mood...
    Edc1 10.152 10 Try your design on the best school. The scholars are of all ages and temperaments and capacities.

temperance, adj. (6)

    Tran 1.348 4 ...[Transcendentalists] do not willingly share...in the temperance society.
    NER 3.251 11 [The observer of New England's] attention must be commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party...is appearing in temperance and non-resistance societies;...
    Pow 6.67 14 [Boniface] girdled the trees and cut off the horses' tails of the temperance people, in the night.
    Ill 6.315 6 ...I have known gentlemen of great stake in the community...who held themselves bound to sign every temperance pledge...
    MoL 10.246 9 Dickens complained that in America, as soon as he arrived in any of the Western towns, a committee waited on him and invited him to deliver a temperance lecture.
    SMC 11.362 3 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...encourages a temperance society which is formed in the camp.

Temperance, adj. (2)

    MR 1.251 14 [The Arabs] were Temperance troops.
    SlHr 10.448 14 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to unpaid services of the Temperance and Peace and other philanthropic societies...

temperance, n. (26)

    Nat 1.11 7 It is necessary to use these pleasures [of nature] with great temperance.
    DSA 1.124 11 ...all things proceed out of this same spirit, which is differently named love, justice, temperance...
    Hist 2.14 26 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once more in their architecture, a beauty as of temperance itself...
    Hsm1 2.254 17 The temperance of the hero proceeds from the same wish to do no dishonor to the worthiness he has.
    Hsm1 2.255 3 Better still is the temperance of King David...
    Hsm1 2.261 16 ...to live with some rigor of temperance...seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty...
    Pt1 3.31 2 ...Socrates...tells us that the soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations, and that these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls;...
    PNR 4.83 5 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...beautiful definitions of ideas, of time, of form, of figure, of the line, sometimes hypothetically given, as his defining of virtue, courage, justice, temperance;...
    ShP 4.194 5 The poet needs a ground in popular tradition...which...may restrain his art within the due temperance.
    ShP 4.194 26 As soon as the statue was begun for itself, and with no reference to the temple or palace, the art began to decline: freak, extravagance and exhibition took the place of the old temperance.
    ET10 5.167 3 There should be temperance in making cloth, as well as in eating.
    Wsp 6.207 14 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath. ... With these grossnesses, we complacently compare our own taste and decorum. We think and speak with more temperance and gradation,--but is not indifferentism as bad as superstition?
    CbW 6.263 6 No labor, pains, temperance...that can gain [health], must be grudged.
    Suc 7.306 12 ...the oracles are never silent; but the receiver must by a happy temperance be brought to that top of condition...that he can easily take and give these fine communications.
    SA 8.97 25 ...beware of jokes; too much temperance cannot be used...
    SA 8.103 15 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company...in the temperance with which he parried all offence...
    SA 8.106 17 Temperance, courage, love, are made up of the same jewels.
    Supl 10.163 1 The doctrine of temperance is one of many degrees.
    Supl 10.171 15 ...whilst thus everything recommends simplicity and temperance of action; the utmost directness, the positive degree, we mean thereby that rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument.
    SovE 10.187 11 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;-virtue meaning physical courage, then chastity and temperance, then justice and love;...
    Plu 10.308 22 'T is a temperance, not an eclecticism, which makes [Plutarch] adverse to the severe Stoic, or the Gymnosophist, or Diogenes, or any other extremist.
    LLNE 10.326 2 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It...brought new divisions in politics; as the new conscience touching temperance and slavery.
    SlHr 10.446 14 [Samuel Hoar] had a childlike innocence and a native temperance...
    War 11.164 11 Observe the ideas of the present day...popular education, temperance, anti-masonry, anti-slavery;...
    Milt1 12.273 27 Learn to estimate great characters [wrote Milton]...by the habitual justice and temperance of their conduct.
    Milt1 12.279 5 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the temperance...of this man [Milton]...

Temperance, n. (3)

    MN 1.214 23 The reforms whose fame now fills the land with Temperance...are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.
    Tran 1.349 5 Each cause as it is called,-say Abolition, Temperance... becomes speedily a little shop...
    Ctr 6.136 17 The causes to which we have sacrificed...Temperance or Socialism would show like roots of bitterness...

Temperance-meeting, n. (1)

    SL 2.135 22 When we come out of...the Temperance-meeting...[nature] says to us, So hot? my little Sir.

Temperance-question, n. (1)

    LT 1.270 1 The Temperance-question...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.

temperate, adj. (18)

    LT 1.261 27 We do not think the sky will be bluer...or our climate more temperate...
    Prd1 2.226 8 The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitant of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.
    Hsm1. 2.252 4 ...[heroism] is just, generous, hospitable, temperate...
    Exp 3.62 17 The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.
    ET3 5.43 6 ...I [Nature] have work that requires the best will and sinew. Sharp and temperate northern breezes shall blow, to keep that will alive and alert.
    ET8 5.138 17 [The English] are subject to panics of credulity and of rage, but the temper of the nation...settles itself soon and easily, as, in this temperate zone, the sky after whatever storms clears again...
    ET18 5.303 23 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates, mainly following the belt of empire, the temperate zones...
    Wth 6.103 15 A dollar...is worth more...in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime...
    Civ 7.26 11 These feats are measures or traits of civility; and temperate climate is an important influence...
    Civ 7.31 20 I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth of the temperate zone.
    SA 8.101 3 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class, who...shall be wise, temperate, brave, public men...
    Edc1 10.127 5 Certain nations...usually in more temperate climates, have made such progress as to compare with these [savages] as these compare with the bear and the wolf.
    Supl 10.176 13 In the temperate climates there is a temperate speech...
    Supl 10.176 14 In the temperate climates there is a temperate speech...
    LLNE 10.349 24 The Desert of Sahara, the Campagna di Roma, the frozen Polar circles, which by their pestilential or hot or cold airs poison the temperate regions, accuse man.
    SlHr 10.440 5 [Samuel Hoar] was...temperate to asceticism...
    EdAd 11.386 19 ...who can see the continent with...its temperate climates... without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
    FRep 11.533 9 If a temperate wise man should look over our American society, I think the first danger that would excite his alarm would be the European influences on this country.

temperately, adv. (1)

    Elo2 8.119 21 Those whom we admire--the great orators--have some habit of heat, and moreover...an art of husbanding it,--as if their hand was on the organ-stop, and could now use it temperately, and now let out all the length and breadth of the power.

temperature, n. (11)

    ET3 5.38 19 Here [in England] is...a temperature which makes no exhausting demand on human strength...
    F 6.8 1 The cholera, the small-pox, have proved as mortal to some tribes as a frost to the crickets, which...are silenced by the fall of the temperature of one night.
    Farm 7.149 19 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation, and allows the warm rain to bring down into the roots the temperature of the air and of the surface soil;...
    QO 8.193 8 ...it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others, as it is to invent. Always...some sudden alteration of temperature...betrays the foreign interpolation.
    Insp 8.284 9 Plutarch affirms that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction, and the chief cause that excites this faculty and virtue is a certain temperature of air and winds.
    LLNE 10.350 5 Attractive Industry...would equalize temperature, give health to the globe...
    Mem 12.104 14 The spring days when the bluebird arrives have usually only few hours of fine temperature...
    CL 12.139 16 If we have coarse days, and dogdays...and days that are like ice-blinks, we have also...days which are...the perfection of temperature.
    CL 12.141 10 Plutarch thought [the air] contained the knowledge of the future. If it be true that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction, and that the chief cause that excites that faculty is a certain temperature of the air and winds, etc.
    Bost 12.183 15 According to quality and according to temperature, [the air] must have effect on manners.
    Bost 12.185 14 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes, which at one season gives them the splendor of the equator and a touch of Syria, and then runs down to a cold which approaches the temperature of the celestial spaces.

tempered, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.170 12 The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning...

tempered, v. (9)

    Fdsp 2.206 13 Friendship may be said to require natures...each so well tempered and so happily adapted...that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
    Mrs1 3.140 8 The dry light must shine in to adorn our festival, but it must be tempered and shaded, or that will also offend.
    NMW 4.237 6 [Napoleon's] vigor was guarded and tempered by the coldest prudence and punctuality.
    Clbs 7.225 6 The flame of life burns too fast in pure oxygen, and Nature has tempered the air with nitrogen.
    Clbs 7.225 10 ...thought...pure...soon burns up the bone-house of man, unless tempered with affection and coarse practice in the material world.
    QO 8.189 23 Certainly it only needs two well placed and well tempered for cooperation, to get somewhat far transcending any private enterprise!
    EWI 11.120 21 Though joy beamed on every countenance, [emancipation day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn thankfulness to God...
    EPro 11.318 25 The virtues of a good magistrate...seem vastly more potent than the acts of bad governors, which are ever tempered by the good nature in the people...
    CL 12.140 12 In summer, we have...scores of days when the heat is so rich, and yet so tempered, that it is delicious to live.

tempering, n. (1)

    Farm 7.145 25 Whilst all thus burns...it needs a perpetual tempering...to check the fury of the conflagration;...

tempers, v. (1)

    PC 8.217 27 If [a man] has wit, he tempers the despotism by epigrams...

Tempes, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.176 1 The moral sensibility which makes Edens and Tempes so easily, may not be always found, but the material landscape is never far off.

tempest, n. (13)

    Pt1 3.25 24 ...a tempest is a rough ode...
    Exp 3.60 21 [Life] is a tempest of fancies...
    GoW 4.263 12 Vexations and a tempest of passion only fill [the writer's] sail;...
    ET8 5.141 21 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters? The early history shows it, as the musician plays the air which he proceeds to conceal in a tempest of variations.
    F 6.19 15 I seemed in the height of a tempest to see men overboard struggling in the waves...
    WD 7.172 23 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship...
    OA 7.327 5 Michel Angelo's head is full...of architectural dreams, until a hundred stone-masons can lay them in courses of travertine. There is the like tempest in every good head in which some great benefit for the world is planted.
    PC 8.231 25 Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times...
    Imtl 8.323 11 Driven by the chilling tempest, a little sparrow enters at one door...
    Imtl 8.323 17 Whilst [the sparrow] stays in our mansion, it feels not the winter storm; but when this short moment of happiness has been enjoyed, it is forced again into the same dreary tempest from which it had escaped...
    PerF 10.74 16 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark; but by cunningly dividing the force, tapping the tempest for a little side-wind, he uses the monsters...
    Chr2 10.92 10 When a man...insists to do...something absurd or whimsical, only because he will...he blows with his lips against the tempest...
    HDC 11.40 2 ...the wailing of the tempest in the woods sounded kindlier in [the settlers of Concord's] ear than the smooth voice of the prelates, at home, in England.

Tempest, The [William Shak (1)

    Nat 1.54 2 I have before me the Tempest...

Tempest [William Shakespear (1)

    PI 8.66 26 A good poem--say Shakspeare's...the Tempest--goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men...

tempest-footed, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.301 1 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses. When, however, he offered a sufficient present, he composed the poem:- Hail, daughters of the tempest-footed horse,/ That skims like wind along the course./

tempests, n. (3)

    ET3 5.41 22 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off...a territory...so near that it can see the harvests of the continent, and so far that who would cross the strait must be an expert mariner, ready for tempests.
    Wth 6.95 16 The world is his who has money to go over it. He arrives at the seashore and a sumptuous ship has floored and carpeted for him the stormy Atlantic, and made it a luxurious hotel, amid the horrors of the tempests.
    Insp 8.282 24 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert] says...I once more smell the dew and rain,/ And relish versing:/ O my only light,/ It cannot be/ That I am he/ On whom thy tempests fell all night./

tempestuous, adj. (1)

    PPr 12.389 17 ...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd, quit his temptestuous key, and lance at him in clear level tone the very word...

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