Testimonies to Thin

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

testimonies, n. (1)

    EWI 11.142 10 The recent testimonies of Sturge, of Thome and Kimball... are very explicit on this point, the capacity and the success of the colored and the black population [in the West Indies]...

testimony, n. (29)

    AmS 1.106 21 What a testimony...is borne to the demands of his own nature, by the poor clansman...who rejoices in the glory of his chief.
    LT 1.272 4 It is the interior testimony to a fairer possibility of life and manners which agitates society every day with the offer of some new amendment.
    SR 2.53 18 ...I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.
    SL 2.155 24 Our philosophy...readily accepts the testimony of negative facts...
    SL 2.155 27 By a divine necessity every fact in nature is constrained to offer its testimony.
    NR 3.247 9 If...the hearer who is ready to sell all and join the crusade could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!
    NER 3.251 22 The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the Church...
    SwM 4.119 17 ...to a reader who can make due allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's] peculiarities, the results are...a more striking testimony to the sublime laws he announced than any that balanced dulness could afford.
    ET4 5.66 17 The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later...
    ET7 5.116 5 The German name has a proverbial significance of sincerity and honest meaning. The arts bear testimony to it.
    ET8 5.140 1 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...
    ET11 5.187 22 The jealousy of every class to guard itself is a testimony to the reality they have found in life.
    QO 8.201 18 Genius believes its faintest presentiment against the testimony of all history;...
    PC 8.208 18 The new claim of woman to a political status is itself an honorable testimony to the civilization which has given her a civil status new in history.
    Imtl 8.346 22 ...only by rare integrity...can the vision of [immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime. And hence the fact that in the minds of men the testimony of a few inspired souls has had such weight and penetration.
    Dem1 10.14 18 As I was once travelling by the Red Sea, there was one among the horsemen that attended us named Masollam...according to the testimony of all the Greeks and barbarians, a very skilful archer.
    LLNE 10.364 17 There is agreement in the testimony that [Brook Farm] was...education;...
    EzRy 10.390 22 We remember the remark made by the old farmer who used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern country would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate. Travellers from the West and North and South bear the like testimony.
    HDC 11.49 3 ...so be [the town-meeting] an everlasting testimony for [the settlers of Concord], and so much ground of assurance of man's capacity for self-government.
    EWI 11.108 7 [John Woolman] gave his testimony against the [slave] traffic, in Maryland and Virginia.
    EWI 11.142 15 The recent testimonies...of Gurney, of Philippo, are very explicit on this point, the capacity and the success of the colored and the black population [in the West Indies] in employments of skill, of profit and of trust; and best of all is the testimony to their moderation.
    AKan 11.255 17 The testimony of the telegraphs from St. Louis and the border confirm the worst details.
    AKan 11.262 5 California, a few years ago, by the testimony of all people at that time in the country, had the best government that ever existed.
    SMC 11.376 11 ...I do not like to omit the testimony to the character of the Commander of the Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment [George Prescott]...
    CPL 11.505 7 Hear the testimony of Seldon, the oracle of the English House of Commons in Cromwell's time.
    CPL 11.505 15 I have found several humble men and women who gave as affectionate, if not as judicious testimony to their readings.
    Bost 12.184 27 There is great testimony of discriminating persons to the effect that Rome is endowed with the enchanting property of inspiring a longing in men there to live and there to die.
    Bost 12.206 24 From...the Quaker women who for a testimony walked naked into the streets...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 12.240 22 Condivi, his friend, has left this testimony; I have often heard Michael Angelo reason and discourse upon love, but never heard him speak otherwise than upon platonic love.

test-objects, n. (1)

    EurB 12.366 3 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the Dante...have...the eye to see...the test-objects of the microscope...

tests, n. (11)

    Exp 3.85 9 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. ... Worse, I observe that in the history of mankind there is never a solitary example of success,--taking their own tests of success.
    Chr1 3.92 2 Our public assemblies are pretty good tests of manly force.
    ET2 5.32 6 ...under the best conditions, a voyage [at sea] is one of the severest tests to try a man.
    ET12 5.210 17 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...and I believed they would prove too severe tests for the candidates for a Bachelor's degree in Yale or Harvard.
    CbW 6.261 12 What tests of manhood could [the rich man] stand?
    Civ 7.33 24 ...if there be a country which cannot stand any one of these tests,--a country where knowledge cannot be diffused without perils of mob law and statute law;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Suc 7.307 27 The searching tests to apply to every new pretender are amount and quality...
    Edc1 10.133 2 ...the event of each moment...the passing of a beautiful face, the apoplexy of our neighbor, are all tests to try our theory [of life]...
    SovE 10.199 10 It is the sturdiest prejudice in the public mind that religion is...a department...to which the tests and judgment men are ready enough to show on other things, do not apply.
    Prch 10.232 11 ...these [day's events] are fair tests to try our doctrines by...
    FRep 11.519 5 The partisan on moral...questions, will choose a proven rogue who can answer the tests, over an honest, affectionate, noble gentleman;...

testy, adj. (1)

    ET8 5.137 25 [The English] are testy and headstrong through an excess of will and bias;...

tete-a-tete, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.119 14 The most...thought-paralyzing companion sometimes turns out in a public assembly to be a fluent, various and effective orator. Now you find what all that excess of power which so chafed and fretted you in a tete-a-tete with him was for.

tete-a-tetes, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.238 14 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the million mansions of heaven and of earth; at all tables, clubs and tete-a-tetes...

tethers, v. (1)

    SwM 4.121 7 [Swedenborg...poorly tethers every symbol to a several ecclesiastic sense.

tetrakism, n. (1)

    ET1 5.12 8 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...talked of trinism and tetrakism and much more...

Teufelsdrockh [Carlyle, Sar (1)

    PPr 12.389 1 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing; with his expedient for expressing those unproven opinions which he entertains but will not endorse, by summoning one of his men of straw from the cell,-and the respectable Sauerteig, or Teuffelsdrockh...says what is put into his mouth, and disappears.

Teutonic, adj. (6)

    PPh 4.41 1 An Englishman reads [Plato] and says, how English! a German,--how Teutonic!...
    ET7 5.116 1 The Teutonic tribes have a national singleness of heart...
    ET7 5.119 10 [The English] have the...preference for property in land, which is said to mark the Teutonic nations.
    WD 7.175 5 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols was not Persian, nor Memphian, nor Teutonic, nor local at all...
    Wom 11.424 12 If you do refuse [women] a vote, you will also refuse to tax them,-according to our Teutonic principle, No representation, no tax.
    CL 12.135 1 The Teutonic race have been marked in all ages by a trait which has received the name of Earth-hunger...

Teutons, n. (1)

    ET18 5.299 7 Broad-fronted, broad-bottomed Teutons, [the English] stand in solid phalanx foursquare to the points of the compass;...

Texas, n. (5)

    Pt1 3.38 3 Our log-rolling...Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung.
    GoW 4.265 12 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo, whether tariff, Texas...and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...
    Ctr 6.159 5 ...if in travelling in the dreary wildernesses of Arkansas or Texas we should observe on the next seat a man reading Horace...we should wish to hug him.
    CbW 6.256 11 The agencies by which events so grand as the opening of California, of Texas, or Oregon...are effected, are paltry...
    FSLC 11.207 13 [Slavery] got Texas and now will have Cuba...

text, n. (26)

    Nat 1.35 15 ...the love of truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand [Nature's] text.
    Hist 2.8 2 The student is...to esteem his own life the text [of history]...
    SR 2.48 2 What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior of children, babes, and even brutes!
    SR 2.54 20 I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency of one of the institutions of his church.
    Fdsp 2.204 25 I find very little written directly to the heart of this matter [of friendship] in books. And yet I have one text which I cannot choose but remember.
    Cir 2.313 16 ...yet was there never a young philosopher whose breeding had fallen into the Christian church by whom that brave text of Paul's was not specially prized...
    Pt1 3.25 18 ...herein is the legitimation of criticism, in the mind's faith that the poems are a corrupt version of some text in nature with which they ought to be made to tally.
    Gts 3.163 26 It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap. A golden text for these gentlemen is that which I so admire in the Buddhist, who never thanks, and who says, Do not flatter your benefactors.
    NER 3.270 26 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which Philip refused: the woman exclaimed, I appeal: the king, astonished, asked to whom she appealed: the woman replied, From Philip drunk to Philip sober. The text will suit me very well.
    ShP 4.211 4 ...[Shakespeare] wrote the text of modern life;...
    ShP 4.211 5 ...[Shakespeare] wrote the text of modern life; the text of manners...
    F 6.29 8 A text of heroism, a name and anecdote of courage, are not arguments but sallies of freedom.
    Pow 6.75 7 ...if you will have a text from politics [concerning concentration], take this from Plutarch...
    Bty 6.292 1 Another text from the mythologists.
    Bty 6.294 6 One more text from the mythologists is to the same purpose...
    Elo1 7.96 15 [The sturdy countryman's] hard head went through, in childhood, the drill of Calvinism, with text and mortification...
    Farm 7.150 19 [The farmer's tiles] drain the land, make it sweet and friable; have made English Chat Moss a garden, and will now do as much for the Dismal Swamp. But beyond this benefit they are the text of better opinions and better auguries for mankind.
    QO 8.188 18 In opening a new book we often discover, from the unguarded devotion with which the writer gives his motto or text, all we have to expect from him.
    PC 8.233 4 There is a text in Swedenborg which tells in figure the plain truth.
    PPo 8.259 14 From the plain text-The chemist of love/ Will this perishing mould,/ Were it made out of mire,/ Transmute into gold./-[Hafiz] proceeds to the celebration of his passion;...
    Chr2 10.115 11 ...[Jesus's disciples] hamper us with limitations of person and text.
    SovE 10.201 5 ...up comes a man with a text of I John v. 7...which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree.
    Plu 10.320 16 ...in recent reading of the old text [of Plutarch's Morals], on coming on anything absurd or unintelligible, I referred to the new text and found a clear and accurate statement in its place.
    HDC 11.72 15 On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson] preached to a very full assembly, taking for his text, 2 Chronicles xiii.12...
    FRO2 11.487 10 ...every fine text...travels across the line; and you will find it at Cape Town, or among the Tartars.

texts, n. (10)

    SR 2.66 6 Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom... means, teachers, texts, temples fall;...
    SR 2.67 25 We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts...
    Hsm1 2.245 18 ...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is...on such deep grounds of character, that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry. Among many texts take the following.
    PPh 4.40 25 Mysticism finds in Plato all its texts.
    PPh 4.78 5 ...admirable texts can be quoted on both sides of every great question from [Plato].
    SwM 4.122 9 To the withered traditional church...[Swedenborg] let in nature again, and the worshipper, escaping from the vestry of verbs and texts, is surprised to find himself a party to the whole of his religion.
    ET13 5.225 23 [Religion] is endogenous, like the skin and other vital organs. A new statement every day. The prophet and apostle knew this, and the nonconformist confutes the conformists, by quoting the texts they must allow.
    PI 8.38 19 ...it is a few oracles spoken by perceiving men that are the texts on which religions and states are founded.
    Prch 10.228 26 What sort of respect can these preachers or newspapers inspire by their weekly praises of texts and saints, when we know that they would say just the same things if Beelzebub had written the chapter, provided it stood where it does in the public opinion?
    FSLN 11.225 15 There are always texts and thoughts and arguments.

textual, adj. (1)

    Thor 10.452 9 ...though very studious of natural facts, [Thoreau] was incurious of technical and textual science.

texture, n. (14)

    Hist 2.13 27 ...a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will. The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it, and whilst I look at it its outline and texture are changed again.
    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?
    SL 2.164 26 ...let me do my work so well that other idlers if they choose may compare my texture with the texture of [Brant, Schuyler, Washington] and find it identical with the best.
    SL 2.165 1 ...let me do my work so well that other idlers if they choose may compare my texture with the texture of [Brant, Schuyler, Washington] and find it identical with the best.
    Lov1 2.186 22 All that is in the world, which is or ought to be known, is cunningly wrought into the texture of man, of woman...
    Fdsp 2.199 1 Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams...
    Hsm1 2.250 20 ...[heroism] seems not to know that other souls are of one texture with it;...
    Exp 3.52 17 ...the individual texture holds its dominion, if not to bias the moral judgments, yet to fix the measure of activity and of enjoyment.
    SwM 4.102 24 [Swedenborg's] superb speculation, as from a tower, over nature and arts, without ever losing sight of the texture and sequence of things, almost realizes his own picture...of the original integrity of man.
    ET5 5.77 13 Even the pleasure-hunters and sots of England are of a tougher texture.
    ET5 5.84 17 The Englishman wears a sensible coat...of rough but solid and lasting texture.
    ET8 5.139 4 ...[the English] are of an unctuous texture.
    Elo1 7.96 26 ...if the pupil be of a texture to bear it, the best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
    Edc1 10.128 1 The necessities imposed by this most irritable and all-related texture have taught Man hunting, pasturage...

textures, n. (1)

    Trag 12.410 19 [Grief] is so distributed as not to destroy. That which would rend you falls on tougher textures.

Thackeray, William Makepeac (5)

    ET13 5.229 14 Thackeray exposes the heartless high life.
    ET14 5.246 26 Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the poor thing in his universe...
    ET15 5.271 17 It is a new trait of the nineteenth century, that the wit and humor of England--as in Punch, so in the humorists, Jerrold, Dickens, Thackeray, Hood--have taken the direction of humanity and freedom.
    ET17 5.292 23 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...Dickens, Thackeray, Tennyson...
    Boks 7.213 16 The novel is that allowance and frolic the imagination finds. Everything else pins it down, and men flee for redress to...Dickens, Thackeray and Reade.

Thalberg, Sigismund, n. (1)

    ET6 5.112 12 When Thalberg the pianist was one evening performing before the Queen at Windsor, in a private party, the Queen accompanied him with her voice.

thalers, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.104 1 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as, so many hundred thalers given to Stilling, to Hegel, to Tischbein;...

Thales, n. (4)

    Exp 3.72 27 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol, as, Thales by water...
    F 6.18 8 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not...a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes...had anticipated them;...
    Plu 10.310 10 Usually, when Thales, Anaximenes or Anaximander are quoted [by Plutarch], it is really a good judgment.
    CInt 12.114 2 Like Thales, [Archimedes] was willing to show [the king] that he was quite able in rude matters, if he could condescend to them...

Thames River, England, n. (2)

    ET3 5.41 27 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom...
    ET3 5.42 10 When James the First declared his purpose of punishing London by removing his Court, the Lord Mayor replied that in removing his royal presence from his lieges, they hoped he would leave them the Thames.

Thames River, n. (1)

    CInt 12.114 16 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked, the Thames infested...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...

Thamus, n. (1)

    PNR 4.83 9 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;... Theuth and Thamus;...

thank, v. (38)

    DSA 1.145 24 Thank God for these good men...
    DSA 1.149 21 Let us thank God that such things [virtuous acts] exist.
    LE 1.161 25 ...I will thank my great brothers so truly for the admonition of their being...
    Con 1.313 14 Thank the rude foster-mother [Necessity]...
    Con 1.325 8 I cannot thank your law for my protection.
    Tran 1.343 11 ...[Transcendentalists] will own...that there are persons whom in their hearts they daily thank for existing...
    SR 2.76 26 ...the moment [a man] acts from himself...we...thank and revere him;...
    Comp 2.117 9 Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
    SL 2.134 1 When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are...
    Prd1 2.233 12 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. ... Yesterday, radiant with the light of an ideal world in which he lives, the first of men; and now oppressed by wants and by sickness, for which he must thank himself.
    Gts 3.164 18 ...we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation.
    NER 3.273 20 ...[Men] resent your honesty for an instant, they will thank you for it always.
    ShP 4.201 14 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
    ET10 5.155 13 The Englishman believes that every man...has himself to thank if he do not mend his condition.
    ET16 5.279 8 ...a thousand years hence, men will thank this age for the accurate history [of Stonehenge].
    F 6.35 9 A man must thank his defects...
    Wth 6.90 21 The English are prosperous and peaceable, with their habit of considering that every man...has himself to thank if he do not maintain and improve his position in society.
    Wth 6.122 9 Every pedestrian in our pastures has frequent occasion to thank the cows for cutting the best path through the thicket and over the hills;...
    Farm 7.135 11 [Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap,/ They set the wind to winnow pulse and grain,/ They thank the spring-flood for its fertile slime/...
    Boks 7.200 7 [The reader] will read in [Plutarch's Morals] the essays On the Daemon of Socrates...On Love; and thank anew the art of printing...
    Boks 7.204 9 The Italians have a fling at translators,--i traditori traduttori; but I thank them.
    Cour 7.254 11 Men admire...the man...who, sitting in his closet, can lay out the plans of a campaign...such that the best generals and admirals, when all is done, see that they must thank him for success;...
    QO 8.191 24 ...we must thank Karl Otfried Muller for the just remark, Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew.
    Insp 8.286 5 Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek the beloved Muses,/ Find them in the beech grove,/ Pleased to receive me;/ And I thank the annoying insect/ For many a golden hour./
    Imtl 8.333 6 When Bonaparte insisted...that it is the pit of the stomach that moves the world,-do we thank him for the gracious instruction?
    Plu 10.302 18 ...I suppose [Plutarch] has a hundred readers where Thucydides finds one, and Thucydides must often thank Plutarch for that one.
    Thor 10.482 2 The axe was always destroying [Thoreau's] forest. Thank God, he said, they cannot cut down the clouds!
    GSt 10.501 3 High virtue has such an air of nature and necessity that to thank its possessor would be to praise the water for flowing...
    HCom 11.345 3 We shall not again disparage America, now that we have seen what men it will bear. We see-we thank you for it-a new era...
    Koss 11.399 7 ...you [Kossuth] are elected by God and your genius to the task. We do not, therefore, affect to thank you.
    CW 12.172 26 Linnaeus...took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has ordered my fate, that I live in this time...
    Bost 12.185 10 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes...
    ACri 12.298 13 Here has come into the country, three months ago, a History of Friedrich...a book that, one would think, the English people would rise up in a mass to thank [Carlyle] for...
    MLit 12.329 4 [All great men] knew that the intelligent reader...would thank them.
    WSL 12.340 26 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    Pray 12.354 24 The last of the four orisons...contains this petition;-My Father: I now come to thee with a desire to thank thee for the continuance of our love...
    Pray 12.355 16 I thank thee for the knowledge that I have attained of thee by thy sons who have been before me...
    PPr 12.388 3 ...we at this distance are not so far removed from any of the specific evils [of the English State], and are deeply participant in too many, not to share the gloom and thank the love and courage of the counsellor [Carlyle].

thanked, v. (5)

    Mrs1 3.142 13 Fox thanked the man for his confidence and paid him...
    ET4 5.71 9 I suppose the dogs and horses [in England] must be thanked for the fact that the men have muscles almost as tough and supple as their own.
    OA 7.332 17 [John Adams] thanked us, and said: I am rejoiced, because the nation is happy.
    Thor 10.451 11 ...[Thoreau] seldom thanked colleges for their service to him...
    ACiv 11.302 23 [The existing administration] is to be thanked for its angelic virtue, compared with any executive experiences with which we have been familiar.

thankful, adj. (13)

    LE 1.159 25 Say to such doctors, We are thankful to you, as we are to history...
    LT 1.280 12 We are all thankful [the denouncing philanthropist] has no more political power...
    YA 1.394 27 ...Let us live in America, too thankful for our want of feudal institutions.
    Hsm1 2.255 1 John Eliot...said of wine,--It is a noble, generous liquor and we should be humbly thankful for it...
    Exp 3.61 26 I am thankful for small mercies.
    Chr1 3.114 26 I do not forgive in my friends the failure to know a fine character and to entertain it with thankful hospitality.
    ET14 5.258 1 There are all degrees in poetry, and we must be thankful for every beautiful talent.
    CbW 6.243 21 ...Where the star Canope shines in May,/ Shepherds are thankful, and nations gay./
    Boks 7.212 21 The child asks you for a story, and is thankful for the poorest.
    Suc 7.286 18 ...there is no limit to these varieties of talent. These are arts to be thankful for...
    TPar 11.284 10 ...[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/...
    SMC 11.349 14 We are glad and proud that we have no monopoly of merit. We are thankful that other towns and cities are as rich;...
    SMC 11.369 1 I feel, [George Prescott] writes, I have much to be thankful for that my life is spared...

thankfully, adv. (7)

    OS 2.278 2 [The best minds] accept [truth] thankfully everywhere...
    Int 2.343 26 Take thankfully and heartily all [new doctrines] can give.
    Boks 7.197 8 ...I will venture...to count the few books which a superficial reader must thankfully use.
    LS 11.18 22 ...a true disciple of Jesus will receive the light he gives most thankfully;...
    EWI 11.118 7 We sometimes say...give [the planter] a machine that will yield him as much money as the slaves, and he will thankfully let them go.
    HCom 11.341 10 I see thankfully those that are here...
    WSL 12.342 15 Let us thankfully allow every faculty and art which opens new scope to a life so confined as ours.

thankfulness, n. (2)

    Elo1 7.83 25 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness...carried audience, mourners and mourning along with him...
    EWI 11.120 21 Though joy beamed on every countenance, [emancipation day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn thankfulness to God...

thank-offering, n. (1)

    HDC 11.50 1 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England. I cannot but think that it would be a suitable acknowledgment of this national munificence, if the records of one of our towns...should be printed, and presented...to the English nation, as a thank-offering...

thank-offerings, n. (1)

    HDC 11.67 5 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ... even so far as to be bringing the petitions and thank-offerings of the people unto God...

thanks, n. (17)

    MN 1.194 15 Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the highest or truest name for our communication with the infinite...
    Fdsp 2.194 24 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers...
    Exp 3.62 4 ...I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.
    Gts 3.164 24 ...rectitude...receives with wonder the thanks of all people.
    PPh 4.66 22 Socrates declares that if some have grown wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...
    ET8 5.135 9 [The Englishman] says no, and serves you, and your thanks disgust him.
    ET9 5.146 5 Mr. Coleridge is said to have given public thanks to God...that he had defended him from being able to utter a single sentence in the French language.
    Wth 6.102 24 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 railroads...
    Wsp 6.238 20 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely, the terror of its being taken away;...
    LS 11.18 22 ...a true disciple of Jesus will receive the light he gives most thankfully; but the thanks he offers...are not compliments, commemorations...
    HDC 11.70 12 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...
    ACiv 11.308 8 ...the statesman who shall break through the cobwebs of doubt, fear and petty cavil that lie in the way [of Emancipation], will be greeted by the unanimous thanks of mankind.
    ACiv 11.310 22 All thanks and honor to the Head of the State!
    Wom 11.410 20 ...[the horse and ox]...say no thanks, but fight down whatever opposes their appetite.
    Bost 12.204 16 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn, yes, but honest corn; corn with thanks to the Giver of corn;...
    Bost 12.204 17 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn, yes, but...corn with thanks to the Giver of corn; and the best thanks, namely, obedience to his law;...
    PPr 12.384 23 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] which will be read, no thanks to anybody but itself.

thanks, v. (6)

    Tran 1.337 21 The Buddhist, who thanks no man...is a Transcendentalist.
    Prd1 2.219 6 Grandeur of the perfect sphere/ Thanks the atoms that cohere./
    Gts 3.163 27 It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap. A golden text for these gentlemen is that which I so admire in the Buddhist, who never thanks, and who says, Do not flatter your benefactors.
    GoW 4.265 23 ...let one man have the comprehensive eye that can replace this isolated prodigy in its right neighborhood and bearings,--the illusion vanishes, and the returning reason of the community thanks the reason of the monitor.
    WD 7.160 22 Egypt...now, it is said, thanks Mehemet Ali's irrigations and planted forests for late-returning showers.
    PI 8.1 2 But over all his crowning grace,/ Wherefor thanks God his daily praise,/ Is the purging of his eye/ To see the people of the sky/...

Thanksgiving, adj. (1)

    Farm 7.149 6 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving turkeys on bread and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on the viands they like best.

thanksgiving, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.194 1 I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends...
    EWI 11.120 14 The First of August, 1838, was observed in Jamaica as a day of thanksgiving and prayer.

Thanksgiving, n. (2)

    WD 7.168 23 Remember what boys think in the morning...of Thanksgiving or Christmas.
    LS 11.4 11 In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud and Wake maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist, or sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God;...

Thasians, n. (1)

    Comp 2.108 1 ...when the Thasians erected a statue to Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night and endeavored to throw it down...

thatched, v. (1)

    Ill 6.315 17 [The boys'] young life is thatched with [enchantments].

Thatcher, George, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.382 24 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...George Thatcher, Judge of the Supreme Court;...

thatching, n. (1)

    ET4 5.70 2 Wood the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not deny him beer. He says, His bed was under a thatching, and the way to it up a ladder; his fare was coarse; his drink, a penny a gawn, or gallon.

thatching, v. (1)

    Ill 6.315 23 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance... and talked of the dear cottage where so many joyful hours had flown. Well, this thatching of hovels is the custom of the country.

thaumaturgist, n. (1)

    FRO2 11.489 3 If you are childish, and exhibit your saint as a worker of wonders, a thaumaturgist, I am repelled.

thaw, n. (5)

    Wsp 6.203 22 I and my neighbors have been bred in the notion that unless we came soon to some good church...there would be a universal thaw and dissolution.
    Imtl 8.336 14 Nature does not, like the Empress Anne of Russia, call together all the architectural genius of the Empire to build and finish and furnish a palace of snow, to melt again to water in the first thaw.
    Supl 10.164 7 If the talker [with the superlative temperament] lose a tooth, he thinks the universal thaw and dissolution of things has come.
    HDC 11.60 18 ...it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor followers to come at the ground-nuts, else they had starved.
    CL 12.150 20 In March, the thaw, and the sounding of the south wind...

thawed, v. (1)

    QO 8.187 2 The popular incident of Baron Munchausen, who hung his bugle up by the kitchen fire and the frozen tune thawed out, is found in Greece in Plato's time.

thaws, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.118 23 ...deep interest or sympathy thaws the ice...

...the first observation you m (1)

    view of nature and man, that...shall...dispose of your world-containing system as a very little unit.

...[The man of this age] shou (12)

    pticisms and unbelie , and made the destroyer of all card-houses and paper walls...
    pticisms and unbelie , and made...the sifter of all opinions...
    pticisms and unbelie , and made...the sifter of all opinions, by being put face to face from his infancy with Reality.

Theagenes, n. (1)

    Comp 2.108 2 ...when the Thasians erected a statue to Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night and endeavored to throw it down...

Theages [Plato ("), Theages (2)

    PPh 4.66 19 A happier example of the stress laid on nature [by Plato] is in the dialogue with the young Theages...
    PPh 4.67 4 Such, O Theages, is the association with me [said Socrates]; for, if it pleases the God, you will make great and rapid proficiency...

Theanor, n. (1)

    Plu 10.305 2 The paths of life are large, but few are men directed by the Daemons. When Theanor had said this, he looked attentively on Epaminondas, as if he designed a fresh search into his nature and inclinations.

theatre, adj. (1)

    ShP 4.202 3 ...[the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not, whether he held horses at the theatre door...

Theatre, Blackfriars', Lond (1)

    ShP 4.205 5 It appears that from year to year [Shakespeare] owned a larger share of the Blackfriars' Theatre...

Theatre, Covent Garden, Lo (1)

    ShP 4.206 15 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil. The famed theatres, Covent Garden, Drury lane, the Park and Tremont have vainly assisted.

Theatre, Drury Lane, Londo (1)

    ShP 4.206 16 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil. The famed theatres, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Park and Tremont have vainly assisted.

theatre, n. (28)

    MR 1.246 13 Sofas, ottomans, stoves, wine, game-fowl, spices, perfumes, rides, the theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want...
    YA 1.388 16 ...the college, the church, the hospital, the theatre, the hotel, the road, the ship of the capitalist,-whatever goes to secure, adorn, enlarge these is good;...
    SL 2.150 3 ...Gertrude has Guy; but what now avails...how Roman his mien and manners, if his heart and aims are...in the theatre...
    Art1 2.364 17 ...there is a certain appearance of paltriness, as of...the trumpery of a theatre, in sculpture.
    Art1 2.365 26 ...a theatre...makes us feel that we are all paupers in the almshouse of this world...
    Chr1 3.96 14 [A man] encloses the world...as a material basis for his character, and a theatre for action.
    ShP 4.205 19 [Shakespeare] was...an actor and shareholder in the theatre...
    ET8 5.127 20 Religion, the theatre and the reading the books of [the Englishman's] country all feed and increase his natural melancholy.
    Ctr 6.148 17 In town [a man] can find...opera, theatre and panorama;...
    Bhr 6.184 11 The theatre in which this science of manners has a formal importance is not with us a court, but dress-circles...
    Bty 6.291 14 How beautiful are ships on the sea! but ships in the theatre,-- or ships kept for picturesque effect on Virginia Water by George IV., and men hired to stand in fitting costumes at a penny an hour!
    Art2 7.45 21 ...how much is there that is not original...in...whatever is national or usual; as...the prescribed distribution of parts of a theatre...
    DL 7.121 14 ...[the eager, blushing boys] sigh...for the theatre and premature freedom and dissipation...
    Boks 7.212 27 The very dunces wish to go to the theatre.
    Boks 7.213 18 [Men's] education is neglected; but the circulating library and the theatre...make such amends as they can.
    Suc 7.284 13 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he...writ the comedy and built the theatre.
    OA 7.317 22 Time is indeed the theatre and seat of illusion...
    PI 8.25 25 [People] like to go to the theatre and be made to weep;...
    Elo2 8.132 21 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech... that of political advice and persuasion on the grandest theatre...
    Res 8.142 14 We have seen slavery disappear like a painted scene in a theatre;...
    Res 8.150 15 ...in France the theatre and the ball occupy the night.
    Comc 8.174 11 The physician endeavored to cheer [his melancholy patient' s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre and see Carlini. He replied, I am Carlini.
    Imtl 8.344 1 ...[the belief in immortality] must have the assurance of a man' s faculties that they can fill a larger theatre...than Nature here allows him.
    Dem1 10.3 24 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows...
    Shak1 11.450 2 ...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so unites the extremes, that, whilst he has kept the theatre now for three centuries...he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.
    FRep 11.511 4 It is a rule that holds in economy as well as in hydraulics that you must have a source higher than your tap. The mills, the shops, the theatre and the caucus...have all found out this secret.
    FRep 11.512 8 The theatre avails itself of the best talent of poet, of painter, and of amateur of taste, to make the ensemble of dramatic effect.
    II 12.84 23 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre;...

Theatre, n. (1)

    ShP 4.193 12 [Elizabethan plays] have been the property of the Theatre so long...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers.

Theatre, Park, Boston, Mas (1)

    ShP 4.206 16 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil. The famed theatres, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Park and Tremont have vainly assisted.

Theatre, Tremont, Boston, (1)

    ShP 4.206 16 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil. The famed theatres, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Park and Tremont have vainly assisted.

theatre-manager, n. (1)

    Pow 6.58 19 ...Shakspeare was theatre-manager and used the labor of many young men, as well as the playbooks.

theatres, n. (11)

    LE 1.175 17 [Society's] foolish routine, an indefinite multiplication of... theatres, can teach you no more than a few can.
    Pt1 3.27 27 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize... theatres...
    ShP 4.191 24 ...extemporaneous enclosures at country fairs were the ready theatres of strolling players.
    ShP 4.206 15 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil. The famed theatres, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Park and Tremont have vainly assisted.
    ET5 5.100 10 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres [in England], when the speakers rise to thought and passion, the language becomes idiomatic;...
    ET11 5.191 11 Prostitutes taken from the theatres were made duchesses [in England]...
    Ctr 6.137 11 It is not a compliment but a disparagement to consult a man only...on theatres...
    Bty 6.297 13 Walpole says...people go early to get places at the theatres, when it is known [the Gunning sisters] will be there.
    Clbs 7.235 14 However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and spiritual power that are compared; whether in the parlor...or the chamber of science,--which are only less or larger theatres for this competition.
    CL 12.139 2 ...if, instead of running about in the hotels and theatres of Europe, we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...we were better patriots and happier men.
    CL 12.159 23 The crowd in the cities, at the hotels, theatres, card-tables... are all more or less mad...

theatrical, adj. (7)

    NMW 4.254 8 ...[Napoleon] sat...in his lonely island, coldly falsifying facts and dates and characters, and giving to history a theatrical eclat.
    ET6 5.113 6 [The English] value themselves on the absence of every thing theatrical in the public business...
    ET13 5.229 9 ...the religion of the day is a theatrical Sinai...
    Ill 6.310 26 I own I did not like the [Mammoth] cave so well for eking out its sublimities with this theatrical trick.
    Cour 7.276 22 I do not wish to put myself or any man into a theatrical position...
    Suc 7.292 22 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia...life is theatrical and literature a quotation;...
    Bost 12.208 16 Boston too is sometimes pushed into a theatrical attitude of virtue...

theatricals, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.143 3 [The boy] learns chess, whist, dancing and theatricals.
    PLT 12.58 24 No wonder the children...delight in theatricals.

Thebais, n. (1)

    Hist 2.28 15 More than once some individual has appeared to me with... such commanding contemplation, a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century...the Thebais...

Theban Band, n. (1)

    Aris 10.59 15 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant that we have no prizes offered to the ambition of virtuous young men; that there is no Theban Band;...

Theban Phalanx, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.327 17 Anciently, society was in the course of things. There was...a Theban Phalanx.

Theban Phalanx's, n. (1)

    QO 8.190 5 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they...call their poem Beaumont and Fletcher, or the Theban Phalanx's?

Thebes, Egypt, n. (8)

    Hist 2.11 12 Belzoni digs and measures in the mummy-pits and pyramids of Thebes until he can see the end of the difference between the monstrous work and himself.
    SR 2.81 19 In Thebes, in Palmyra, [the traveller's] will and mind have become old and dilapidated as they.
    Mrs1 3.119 7 The husbandry of the modern inhabitants of Gournou (west of old Thebes) is philosophical to a fault.
    UGM 4.5 2 The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets. He fancies he has a new article. If he go to the factory, he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes which are found on the interior walls of the pyramids of Thebes.
    Farm 7.147 16 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it...grows in a grove of giants, like a colonnade of Thebes.
    WD 7.174 12 ...every man in moments of deeper thought is apprised that he is repeating the experiences of the people in the streets of Thebes or Byzantium.
    PI 8.51 16 Time...is now dominant and...looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes...
    MoL 10.243 22 The Egyptian built Thebes and Karnak on a scale which dwarfs our art...

Thebes', Egypt, n. (1)

    ShP 4.197 13 Each romancer was heir and dispenser of all the hundred tales of the world,--Presenting Thebes' and Pelops' line/ And the tale of Troy divine./

Thebes, n. (4)

    Res 8.136 2 Day by day for her darlings to her much [Nature] added more;/ In her hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a door,/ A door to something grander,--loftier walls, and vaster floor./
    Plu 10.301 27 Thebes, Sparta, Athens and Rome charm us away from the disgust of the passing hour.
    PLT 12.29 7 In [Nature's] hundred-gated Thebes every chamber is a new door.
    CL 12.133 5 What boots it here of Thebes or Rome,/ Or lands of Eastern day?/ In forests I am still at home/ And there I cannot stray./

theft, n. (5)

    MR 1.230 21 The ways of trade are grown selfish to the borders of theft...
    SR 2.77 22 ...prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft.
    Chr1 3.95 24 ...whatever instances can be quoted of unpunished theft, or of a lie which somebody credited, justice must prevail...
    QO 8.185 6 A pleasantry which ran through all the newspapers a few years since...was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a hundred years ago...
    FSLN 11.234 13 If slavery is good, then is lying, theft, arson, homicide, each and all good...

thefts, n. (1)

    DSA 1.123 6 Thefts never enrich;...

theism, n. (6)

    UGM 4.5 3 Our theism is the purification of the human mind.
    ET14 5.242 6 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Doctor Samuel Clarke's argument for theism from the nature of space and time;...
    Ill 6.319 2 We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.
    WD 7.160 26 ...there is no argument of theism better than the grandeur of ends brought about by paltry means.
    SA 8.90 3 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...magic,theism, art...
    SovE 10.208 26 ...a new crop of geniuses like those of the Elizabethan age, may be born in this age, and, with happy heart and a bias for theism, bring asceticism, duty and magnanimity into vogue again.

Theism, n. (2)

    Hist 2.31 1 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude, objective form...
    Chr2 10.117 4 ...Calvinism rushes to be Unitarianism, as Unitarianism rushes to be pure Theism.

theist, adj. (1)

    Insp 8.284 15 ...I am...glad to find the dull rock itself to be deluged with Deity,-to be theist, Christian, poetic.

theist, n. (2)

    PC 8.233 21 ...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society,-not a believer within the Church, and almost not a theist out of it.
    SovE 10.207 20 The mystic or theist is never scared by any startling materialism.

theme, n. (10)

    Prd1 2.219 1 [Prudence] Theme no poet gladly sung,/ Fair to old and foul to young;/...
    SwM 4.109 11 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...
    Elo1 7.84 19 Especially [the orator] consults his power by making instead of taking his theme.
    DL 7.120 15 ...who can see unmoved...the first solitary joys of literary vanity, when the translation or the theme has been completed...
    Cour 7.256 17 How short a time since this whole nation rose every morning to read or hear the traits of courage of its sons and brothers in the field, and was never weary of the theme!
    PI 8.54 12 ...the rhyme is there in the theme, thought and image themselves.
    Grts 8.304 9 A sensible man...is content with putting his fact or theme simply on its ground.
    EWI 11.135 11 ...I turn gladly to the rightful theme, to the bright aspects of the occasion.
    RBur 11.439 10 ...I must trust to the inspirations of the theme [of the Burns Festival] to make a fitness which does not otherwise exist.
    EurB 12.368 10 [Wordsworth] sat at the foot of Helvellyn and on the margin of Windermere, and took their lustrous mornings and their sublime midnights for his theme...

themes, n. (1)

    EurB 12.378 2 [The Vivian Greys]...could write an Iliad any rainy morning, if fame were not such a bore. Men, women...are stupid things; but a rifle, and a mild pleasant gunpowder, a spaniel, and a cheroot, are themes for Olympus.

Themis, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.259 13 ...why should a woman...think, because...the cloistered souls who have had genius and cultivation do not satisfy the imagination and the serene Themis, none can,--certainly not she?

Themistocles, n. (2)

    NER 3.274 16 The heroes of ancient and modern fame, Cimon, Themistocles...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played...
    Plu 10.318 12 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch, who told the story of Leonidas...of...Themistocles, Demosthenes...sit as... laureate of the ancient world.

Then, n. (1)

    Hist 2.11 9 All inquiry into antiquity...is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then...

thence, adv. (24)

    AmS 1.92 9 But for the evidence thence afforded to the philosophical doctrine of the identity of all minds, we should suppose some preestablished harmony...
    YA 1.371 3 A heterogeneous population crowding...to the great gates of North America...and thence proceeding inward...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    Comp 2.121 6 Being is the vast affirmative...swallowing up all relations, parts and times within itself. Nature, truth, virtue, are the influx from thence.
    OS 2.276 27 ...these other souls, these separated selves, draw me as nothing else can. They stir in me the new emotions we call passion;...thence come conversation, competition, persuasion, cities and war.
    Chr1 3.105 4 Thence [from character] comes a new intellectual exaltation...
    Chr1 3.113 17 Poetry is joyful and strong as it draws its inspiration thence [from character].
    NR 3.227 4 I observe a person who makes a good public appearance, and conclude thence the perfection of his private character, on which this is based;...
    PPh 4.68 8 [Plato] said then, Our faculties run out into infinity, and return to us thence.
    ShP 4.212 1 A good reader can, in a sort, nestle into Plato's brain and think from thence; but not into Shakspeare's.
    ET14 5.240 16 If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied;...
    ET14 5.241 12 ...[Pericles] meeting with Anaxagoras...he attached himself to him, and nourished himself with sublime speculations on the absolute intelligence; and imported thence into the oratorical art whatever could be useful to it.
    CbW 6.255 6 ...the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power;...
    Civ 7.31 26 I see the immense material prosperity...California quartz-mountains dumped down in New York to be repiled architecturally alongshore from Canada to Cuba, and thence westward to California again.
    Clbs 7.237 19 Odin comes to the threshold of the Jotun Wafthrudnir in disguise...is invited into the hall, and told that he cannot go out thence unless he can answer every question Wafthrudnir shall put.
    Clbs 7.243 17 ...a history of clubs from early antiquity...through the Greek and Roman to the Middle Age, and thence down through French, English and German memoirs...would be an important chapter in history.
    PC 8.221 1 ...one of the distinctions of our century has been the devotion of cultivated men to natural science. The benefits thence derived to the arts and to civilization are signal and immense.
    Insp 8.287 3 Solitary converse with Nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries.
    Imtl 8.348 22 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood...
    Plu 10.294 22 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated and printed in Latin, thence into Italian, French and English, more than a century before the original Works were yet printed.
    LS 11.21 20 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...the persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and onward.
    CPL 11.498 20 The religious bias of our founders had its usual effect to secure an education to read their Bible and hymn-book, and thence the step was easy for active minds to an acquaintance with history and with poetry.
    CPL 11.502 7 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests... to procure in the temple fire from the sun, and thence distribute it as a sacred gift to every hearth in the nation.
    Mem 12.109 25 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
    MAng1 12.225 7 ...[Michelangelo] withdrew privately from the city [Florence] to Ferrara, and thence to Venice.

thenceforth, adv. (2)

    ShP 4.198 13 It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
    Pow 6.59 10 When a new boy comes into school...that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer, and it is settled thenceforth which is the leader.

thenceforward, adv. (7)

    Hist 2.9 11 The Garden of Eden, the sun standing still in Gibeon, is poetry thenceforward to all nations.
    PPh 4.46 19 In a month or two, through the favor of their good genius, [ardent young men and women] meet some one so related as to assist their volcanic estate, and, good communication being once established, they are thenceforward good citizens.
    ET5 5.91 8 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the southern heaven, came home, and redacted it in eight years more;.--a work whose value does not begin until thirty years have elapsed, and thenceforward a record to all ages of the highest import.
    Pow 6.59 13 When a new boy comes into school...there is at once a trial of strength...and it is settled thenceforth which is the leader. So now, there is a measuring of strength...and an acquiescence thenceforward when these two meet.
    Ctr 6.143 11 [The boy] is infatuated for weeks with whist and chess; but presently will find out...that when he rises from the game too long played, he is vacant and forlorn and despises himself. Thenceforward it takes place with other things...
    Suc 7.301 21 Aristotle or Bacon or Kant propound some maxim which is the key-note of philosophy thenceforward.
    SlHr 10.448 13 ...I find an elegance in [Samuel Hoar's] quiet but firm withdrawal from all business in the courts which he could drop without manifest detriment to the interests involved (and this when in his best strength), and his self-dedication thenceforward to unpaid services of the Temperance and Peace and other philanthropic societies...

then-known, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.188 4 It was said of Rome in its proudest days, looking at the vast radiation of the privilege of Roman citizenship through the then-known world,-the extent of the city and of the world is the same...

thenne, adv. (1)

    Aris 10.29 11 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...

Theobald, Lewis, n. (1)

    WSL 12.342 1 A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers of the House of Fame... to...Theobald and Dennis...

theocracy, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.213 11 ...every government is an impure theocracy.

theocrat, n. (1)

    PPr 12.380 24 Though no theocrat...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds the calamity of the times...in false and superficial aims of the people...

Theocritus, n. (1)

    PI 8.7 25 ...the severest analyzer...is forced to keep the poetic curve of Nature, and his result is like a myth of Theocritus.

Theognis, n. (1)

    MN 1.211 11 We too could have gladly prophesied standing in [the poet's] place. We so quote our Scriptures; and the Greeks so quoted Homer, Theognis, Pindar, and the rest.

theologian, n. (4)

    UGM 4.12 25 Engineer...theologian...inasmuch as he has any science,--is a definer and map-maker of the latitudes and longitudes of our condition.
    SwM 4.139 1 Burns, with the wild humor of his apostrophe to poor auld Nickie Ben...has the advantage of the vindictive theologian.
    PC 8.218 9 If a theologian of deep convictions and strong understanding carries his country with him, like Luther, the state becomes Lutheran, in spite of the Emperor;...
    Prch 10.227 2 What is essential to the theologian is...not to allow himself to be excluded from any church.

theologians, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.4 2 Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the spiritual meaning of a ship or a cloud...
    LLNE 10.330 4 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the English philosophic theologians...
    MMEm 10.423 6 A war-trump would be harmony to the jars of theologians and statesmen such as the papers bring.

theologic, adj. (12)

    SwM 4.105 23 Not every man can read [Swedenborg's books], but they will reward him who can. His theologic works are valuable to illustrate these.
    SwM 4.120 26 This design of exhibiting such correpondences [between heaven and earth]...was narrowed and defeated by the exclusively theologic direction which [Swedenborg's] inquiries took.
    SwM 4.121 3 [Swedenborg] fastens each natural object to a theologic notion;...
    SwM 4.134 4 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero, and with a touch of human relenting remarks, one whom it was given me to believe was Cicero; and when the soi disant Roman opens his mouth...it is plain theologic Swedenborg like the rest.
    SwM 4.134 21 The vice of Swedenborg's mind is its theologic determination.
    SwM 4.137 16 Under the same theologic cramp, many of [Swedenborg's] dogmas are bound.
    SwM 4.138 9 Another dogma, growing out of this pernicious theologic limitation, is [Swedenborg's] Inferno.
    Wsp 6.214 21 I do not think [skepticism] can be cured or stayed by any modification of theologic creeds...
    Wsp 6.214 22 I do not think [skepticism] can be cured or stayed by any modification of theologic creeds, much less by theologic discipline.
    Clbs 7.236 8 ...it is not [Luther's] theologic works...but his Table-Talk, which is still read by men.
    QO 8.182 18 What divines had assumed as the distinctive revelations of Christianity, theologic criticism has matched by exact parallelisms from the Stoics and poets of Greece and Rome.
    LLNE 10.335 23 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism.

theological, adj. (9)

    SL 2.132 11 Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like.
    SwM 4.100 7 [Swedenborg]...devoted himself to the writing and publication of his voluminous theological works...
    SwM 4.116 11 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...
    SwM 4.121 21 [Swedenborg's] theological bias thus fatally narrowed his interpretation of nature...
    SwM 4.123 4 There is no such problem for criticism as [Swedenborg's] theological writings...
    Chr2 10.116 19 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions...
    Prch 10.229 5 ...anything but losing hold of the moral intuitions, as betrayed in the clinging to a form of devotion or a theological dogma;...
    LLNE 10.327 7 [The new race] rebel against theological as against political dogmas;...
    FRO2 11.485 12 I think we might now relinquish our theological controversies to communities more idle and ignorant than we.

theologically, adv. (1)

    Pt1 3.6 23 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought, whether they be called cause, operation and effect;...or, theologically, the Father, the Spirit and the Son;...

theologies, n. (2)

    UGM 4.4 21 Our colossal theologies of Judaism, Christism...are the necessary and structural action of the human mind.
    F 6.6 16 The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies...

theology, n. (33)

    DSA 1.144 16 The stationariness of religion;...the fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man; - indicate...the falsehood of our theology.
    Comp 2.93 4 ...it seemed to me when very young that on this subject [Compensation] life was ahead of theology...
    Comp 2.95 22 ...our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle...
    Comp 2.95 24 ...men are better than their theology.
    NER 3.278 22 [The proposition of depravity] has had a name to live in some dogmatic theology...
    SwM 4.99 27 [Swedenborg]...from this time [1716] for the next thirty years was employed in the composition and publication of his scientific works. With the like force he threw himself into theology.
    SwM 4.114 24 [The idea that nature exists in leasts] is a key to [Swedenborg's] theology also.
    SwM 4.138 18 To what a painful perversion had Gothic theology arrived, that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil spirits!
    MoS 4.166 15 [Montaigne] likes his saddle. You may read theology, and grammar, and metaphysics elsewhere.
    NMW 4.250 10 In 1806 [Napoleon] conversed with Fournier, bishop of Montpellier, on matters of theology.
    ET13 5.230 12 ...when the hierarchy is afraid of science and education, afraid of piety, afraid of tradition and afraid of theology, there is nothing left but to quit a church which is no longer one.
    F 6.49 13 Why should we be afraid of Nature, which is no other than philosophy and theology embodied?
    Wsp 6.214 22 The cure for false theology is mother-wit.
    Elo2 8.127 26 The doctor [Charles Chauncy]...shut up in his closet and his theology, had lost some natural relation to men...
    Imtl 8.328 13 [Sixty years ago] We were all taught that we were born to die; and over that, all the terrors that theology could gather from savage nations were added to increase the gloom.
    Imtl 8.346 17 Not by literature or theology...can the vision [of immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime.
    Dem1 10.14 8 The poor ship-master discovered a sound theology, when in the storm at sea he made his prayer to Neptune, O God, thou mayst save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayst destroy me; but, however, I will hold my rudder true.
    Chr2 10.108 12 I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.
    Chr2 10.108 13 The mind of this age has fallen away from theology to morals.
    Chr2 10.108 15 I suspect, that, when the theology was most florid and dogmatic, it was the barbarism of the people...
    Chr2 10.108 18 I suspect, that, when the theology was most florid and dogmatic, it was the barbarism of the people, and that, in that very time, the best men also fell away from the theology, and rested in morals.
    Chr2 10.109 22 ...we paint over the bareness of ethics with the quaint grotesques of theology.
    Chr2 10.113 11 ...the whole science of theology [is] of great uncertainty...
    SovE 10.207 23 If theology shows that opinions are fast changing, it is not so with the convictions of men with regard to conduct.
    Prch 10.230 18 The simple fact...that all over this country the people are waiting to hear a sermon on Sunday, assures that opportunity which is inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large liberties.
    MoL 10.244 23 Now it is agreed...that with universal cheap education we have stringent theology, but religion is low.
    Plu 10.317 14 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of ignorance, which, 't is a favorable opinion to hope that the Almighty will sometime wink at; that our souls may be with these philosophers together in the same state of bliss. The puzzle in the worthy translator's mind between his theology and his reason well reappears in the puzzle of his sentence.
    MMEm 10.403 2 When I read Dante...and his paraphrases to signify with more adequateness Christ or Jehovah, whom do you think I was reminded of? Whom but Mary Emerson and her eloquent theology?
    SHC 11.430 8 In these times we see the defects of our old theology;...
    RBur 11.440 21 Not Latimer, nor Luther struck more telling blows against false theology than did this brave singer [Burns].
    FRO1 11.478 6 We are all very sensible...of the feeling...that a technical theology no longer suits us.
    PLT 12.57 26 Peter is the mould into which everything is poured like warm wax, and be it astronomy or railroads or French revolution or theology or botany, it comes out Peter.
    Bost 12.202 24 The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which consumed all opposition...

Theology, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.28 4 Demonology is the shadow of Theology.

Theology, Natural [Henry B (1)

    MMEm 10.425 8 'T is a strange deficiency in Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology, when the moral constitution of the being for whom these contrivances were made is not recognized.

Theophrastus, n. (1)

    Boks 7.211 25 Now and then out of that affluence of [the German's] learning comes a fine sentence from Theophrastus, or Seneca, or Boethius...

theorem, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.140 12 ...Jove and Achilles...opera and binomial theorem...dance through [the boy's] narrative in merry confusion, yet the logic is good.

theoretic, adj. (6)

    Exp 3.53 2 Theoretic kidnappers and slave-drivers, [physicians] esteem each man the victim of another...
    SwM 4.123 23 What earnestness and weightiness [in Swedenborg]...a theoretic or speculative man, but whom no practical man in the universe could affect to scorn.
    ET12 5.204 22 Seven years' residence [at Oxford] is the theoretic period for a master's degree.
    PC 8.222 11 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one, his hand shook...
    Aris 10.32 16 It will not pain me if I am found now and then to rove from the accepted and historic, to a theoretic peerage;...
    Schr 10.269 9 The shallow clamor against theoretic men comes from the weak.

Theorie de la demarche [Hono (1)

    Bhr 6.182 8 Balzac left in manuscript a chapter which he called Theorie de la demarche...

theories, n. (26)

    Nat 1.4 11 We have theories of races and of functions...
    Nat 1.70 3 ...we learn to prefer imperfect theories...to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
    LE 1.171 26 ...the first observation you make...may open a new view of nature and of man, that, like a menstruum, shall dissolve all theories in it;...
    MN 1.196 4 Here comes by a great inquisitor with auger and plumb-line, and will bore an Artesian well through our conventions and theories...
    LT 1.287 12 Is there not something comprehensive in the grasp of a society which to great mechanical invention and the best institutions of property adds the most daring theories;...
    Tran 1.331 12 The materialist...mocks at fine-spun theories...
    Int 2.340 4 When we are young we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books...in the hope that in the course of a few years we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived.
    NER 3.253 9 With these [reformers] appeared the adepts of homoeopathy... of phrenology, and their wonderful theories of the Christian miracles!
    NER 3.258 6 ...the shock of the electric spark in the elbow, outvalues all the theories;...
    PPh 4.56 16 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius.
    PPh 4.56 19 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...theories mechanical and chemical in their genius. Plato...feels these...to be no theories of the world but bare inventories and lists.
    MoS 4.156 27 [The skeptic says] Of what use to take the chair and glibly rattle off theories of society, religion and nature, when I know that practical objections lie in the way, insurmountable by me and by my mates?
    ET1 5.23 21 [Wordsworth] preferred such of his poems as touched the affections, to any others; for whatever is didactic--what theories of society, and so on--might perish quickly;...
    ET5 5.82 5 ...[Englishmen] want a working plan...and will...reject all preconceived theories.
    ET14 5.239 17 Whoever...requires heaps of facts before any theories can be attempted, has no poetic power...
    ET14 5.241 19 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics.
    ET14 5.247 14 [Macaulay] thinks it the distinctive merit of the Baconian philosophy in its triumph over the old Platonic, its disentangling the intellect from theories of the all-Fair and all-Good, and pinning it down to the making of a better sick chair and a better wine-whey for an invalid;...
    CbW 6.277 8 ...your theories and plans of life are fair and commendable:-- but will you stick?
    PI 8.7 11 One of these vortices or self-directions of thought is the impulse to search resemblance, affinity, identity, in all its objects, and hence our science, from its rudest to its most refined theories.
    PI 8.7 17 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science, of which the theories of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, of Oken...are the fruits...
    LLNE 10.347 19 ...truly I honor the generous ideas of the Socialists, the magnificence of their theories and the enthusiasm with which they have been urged.
    LLNE 10.356 21 Thoreau was in his own person a practical answer...to the theories of the socialists.
    Shak1 11.449 17 ...we have already seen the most fantastic theories plausibly urged, that Raleigh and Bacon were the authors of [Shakespeare' s] plays.
    PLT 12.12 12 All these exhaustive theories appear indeed a false and vain attempt to introvert and analyze the Primal Thought.
    PLT 12.56 8 There are two theories of life; one for the demonstration of our talent, the other for the education of the man.
    EurB 12.369 4 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...

theorist, n. (1)

    LT 1.268 19 It is...the theorist...who engages our interest.

theorists, n. (4)

    Hsm1 2.248 21 Each of [Plutarch's] Lives is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists.
    LLNE 10.358 1 The large cities are phalansteries; and the theorists drew all their argument from facts already taking place in our experience.
    EdAd 11.391 18 Here is the balance to be adjusted between the exact French school of Cuvier, and the genial catholic theorists, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Goethe, Davy and Agassiz.
    Bost 12.202 18 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...spend the salaries. No, but the theorists and extremists...

theorize, v. (1)

    LE 1.161 20 ...the most hopeless, in view of these radiant facts [Plato, Milton, Shakspeare], may now theorize and hope.

theory, n. (111)

    Nat 1.4 11 All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
    Nat 1.4 18 Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence.
    Nat 1.48 12 The frivolous make themselves merry with the Ideal theory...
    Nat 1.59 23 The advantage of the ideal theory over the popular faith is this, that it presents the world in precisely that view which is most desirable to the mind.
    Nat 1.61 1 It is essential to a true theory of nature and of man, that it should contain somewhat progressive.
    Nat 1.62 19 The first of these questions only [What is matter?], the ideal theory answers.
    Nat 1.63 12 ...this [ideal] theory makes nature foreign to me...
    AmS 1.84 11 In this view of him, as Man Thinking, the theory of [the scholar's] office is contained.
    AmS 1.87 19 The theory of books is noble.
    AmS 1.113 9 ...[Swedenborg]...has given in epical parables a theory of insanity...
    MN 1.208 16 Is not this the theory of every man's genius or faculty?
    MN 1.211 4 It was always the theory of literature that the word of a poet was authoritative and final.
    MN 1.211 12 If the theory has receded out of modern criticism, it is because we have not had poets.
    MR 1.250 13 ...the reason of the distrust of the practical man in all theory, is his inability to perceive the means whereby we work.
    LT 1.276 9 The impulse [of Reform] is good, and the theory; the practice is less beautiful.
    Con 1.301 2 In nature, each of these elements [Conservatism and Reform] being always present, each theory has a natural support.
    Con 1.319 5 ...[the radical's] theory is right, but he makes no allowance for friction;...
    SR 2.57 14 Leave your theory...
    Comp 2.97 25 The theory of the mechanic forces is another example [of Compensation].
    SL 2.132 22 It is quite another thing that [a man] should be able to... expound to another the theory of his self-union and freedom.
    SL 2.134 25 Could Shakspeare give a theory of Shakspeare?
    Cir 2.306 6 Does the fact look crass and material, threatening to degrade thy theory of spirit?
    Cir 2.306 7 Does the fact look crass and material, threatening to degrade thy theory of spirit? Resist it not; it goes to refine and raise thy theory of matter just as much.
    Cir 2.313 4 [Some Petrarch or Ariosto] claps wings to the sides of all the solid old lumber of the world, and I am capable once more of choosing a straight path in theory and practice.
    Exp 3.58 19 At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest figures of young men and maidens, quite powerless and melancholy.
    Mrs1 3.146 16 The beautiful and the generous are, in the theory, the doctors and apostles of this church [of Fashion]...
    Mrs1 3.146 27 The theory of society supposes the existence and sovereignty of these [natural aristocrats].
    Pol1 3.201 18 The theory of politics which has possessed the mind of men... considers persons and property as the two objects for whose protection government exists.
    NR 3.229 22 We are practically skilful in detecting elements for which we have no place in our theory, and no name.
    PPh 4.56 14 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...
    PPh 4.56 15 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world; the theory of atoms, of fire, of flux, of spirit;...
    PPh 4.76 19 [Plato] attempted a theory of the universe...
    PPh 4.76 20 [Plato] attempted a theory of the universe, and his theory is not complete or self-evident.
    PPh 4.77 1 Here is the world...perfect...not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but [Plato's] theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.
    PNR 4.87 22 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated...a theory so averaged, so modulated, that you would say the winds of ages had swept through this rhythmic structure...
    SwM 4.102 10 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated...in chemistry, the atomic theory;...
    SwM 4.107 6 This theory [Identity-philosophy] dates from the oldest philosophers...
    SwM 4.109 17 Gravitation, as explained by Newton, is good, but grander when we find...that the atomic theory shows the action of chemistry to be mechanical also.
    SwM 4.115 5 The hardihood and thoroughness of [Swedenborg's] study of nature required a theory of forms also.
    SwM 4.128 2 ...Swedenborg, after his mode, pinned his theory [of marriage] to a temporary form.
    MoS 4.160 16 A theory of Saint John, and non-resistance, seems...too thin and aerial.
    MoS 4.178 12 ...we may come to accept it as the fixed rule and theory of our state of education, that God is a substance, and his method is illusion.
    MoS 4.178 20 ...The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearance of reconciliation between the theory and practice of life.
    NMW 4.223 7 It is Swedenborg's theory that every organ is made up of homogeneous particles;...
    NMW 4.254 21 [Napoleon's] theory of influence is not flattering.
    GoW 4.275 20 In optics again [Goethe] rejected the artificial theory of seven colors...
    ET1 5.6 18 I have a private letter from [Greenough]...in which he roughly sketches his own theory.
    ET1 5.6 18 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure: A scientific arrangement of spaces and forms to functions and to site;...
    ET1 5.24 3 [Wordsworth]...quoted, with evident pleasure, the verses addressed To the Skylark. In this connection he said of the Newtonian theory that it might yet be superseded and forgotten;...
    ET1 5.24 4 [Wordsworth]...quoted, with evident pleasure, the verses addressed To the Skylark. In this connection he said of the Newtonian theory that it might yet be superseded and forgotten; and Dalton's atomic theory.
    ET4 5.44 10 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law...nor did he...count with precision the existing races and settle the true bounds;...the popular test of the theory.
    ET5 5.83 6 [The English] are impious in their skepticism of theory...
    ET12 5.204 7 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles of books contained in the library of that college,--the theory being that the Bodleian has all books.
    ET14 5.242 4 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the theory of Berkeley, that we have no certain assurance of the existence of matter;...
    ET14 5.242 10 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the theory of Swedenborg...that the man makes his heaven and hell;...
    ET14 5.242 16 ...the very announcement of the theory of gravitation...finds a sudden response in the mind...
    ET14 5.252 27 ...a devotion to the theory of politics like that of Hooker and Milton and Harrington, the modern English mind repudiates.
    ET16 5.273 15 I was glad...to exchange a few reasonable words on the aspects of England with a man...who had as much penetration and as severe a theory of duty as any person in it [Carlyle].
    ET16 5.282 2 ...here is the high point of [Stukeley's theory [of Stonehenge]...
    ET16 5.286 25 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?--any with an American idea,--any theory of the right future of that country?
    F 6.3 3 ...our cities were bent on discussing the theory of the Age.
    Pow 6.76 17 The good Speaker in the House is not the man who knows the theory of parliamentary tactics, but the man who decides off-hand.
    Ctr 6.131 4 Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power...culture corrects the theory of success.
    Ctr 6.142 23 ...you are not fit to direct [your boy's] bringing-up if your theory leaves out his gymnastic training.
    Bty 6.284 15 Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory...
    Bty 6.292 22 This is the theory of dancing, to recover continually in changes the lost equilibrium...
    SS 7.5 17 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins...
    SS 7.6 19 Even Swedenborg, whose theory of the universe is based on affection...is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated...
    Farm 7.141 27 We commonly say that the rich man...can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility.
    WD 7.179 21 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar...who can unfold the theory of this particular Wednesday.
    Clbs 7.239 1 It happened many years ago that an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England, the author of the theory of atomic proportions...
    Suc 7.308 2 Your theory is unimportant;...
    PI 8.16 10 The atomic theory is only an interior process produced...
    PI 8.16 12 The atomic theory is only...the effect of a foregone metaphysical theory.
    PI 8.24 4 Slowly, by comparing thousands of observations, there dawned on some mind a theory of the sun...
    SA 8.96 27 When Molyneux fancied that the observations of the nutation of the earth's axis destroyed Newton's theory of gravitation, he tried to break it softly to Sir Isaac...
    QO 8.179 25 In a hundred years, millions of men, and...not a theory of philosophy that offers a solution of the great problems...
    QO 8.197 25 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light;...
    QO 8.198 24 Swedenborg threw a formidable theory into the world...
    Grts 8.306 14 ...further experiments led [Faraday] to the theory that every chemical substance would be found to have its own, and a different, polarity.
    Imtl 8.335 22 ...the nebular theory threatens [the sun's and the star's] duration also...
    Imtl 8.346 13 You cannot make a written theory or demonstration of [immortality] as you can an orrery of the Copernican astronomy.
    Dem1 10.7 6 What keeps those wild tales [of Ovid and Kalidasa] in circulation for thousands of years? What but the wild fact to which they suggest some approximation of theory?
    Edc1 10.132 25 We have our theory of life, our religion, our philosophy;...
    Edc1 10.133 2 ...the event of each moment...the passing of a beautiful face, the apoplexy of our neighbor, are all tests to try our theory [of life]...
    Edc1 10.137 21 A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune; an expectation which the child, if justice is done him, will nobly disappoint. By working on the theory that this resemblance exists, we shall do what in us lies to defeat his proper promise...
    Edc1 10.148 19 The whole theory of the school is on the nurse's or mother' s knee.
    Prch 10.232 14 ...there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
    MoL 10.242 16 [The inviolate soul] is...a prophet surrendered with self-abandoning sincerity to the Heaven which pours through him its will to mankind. This is the theory...
    Schr 10.278 12 ...when one observes how eagerly our people entertain and discuss a new theory...one would draw a favorable inference as to their intellectual and spiritual tendencies.
    LLNE 10.330 20 [Everett] made us for the first time acquainted with Wolff' s theory of the Homeric writings...
    LLNE 10.338 12 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;...
    LLNE 10.348 23 We had an opportunity of learning something of these Socialists and their theory, from...Albert Brisbane.
    LLNE 10.351 21 The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and his friends, the comprehensiveness of their theory...commanded our attention and respect.
    LLNE 10.354 2 ...there is an intellectual courage and strength in [Fourierism] which is superior and commanding; it certifies the presence of so much truth in the theory, and in so far is destined to be fact.
    LLNE 10.355 12 There is...to every theory a tendency to run to an extreme...
    LLNE 10.369 16 ...the lady or the romantic scholar [at Brook Farm] saw the continuous strength and faculty in people who would have disgusted them but that these powers were now spent in the direction of their own theory of life.
    FSLN 11.229 20 The theory of personal liberty must always appeal to the most refined communities...
    FSLN 11.231 5 [Reasonably men] answered...that they knew Cuba would be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood...as near to monarchy as they could, only to moderate the velocity with which the car was running down the precipice. In short, their theory was despair;...
    AKan 11.258 20 That is the theory of the American State, that it exists to execute the will of the citizens...
    ACiv 11.300 17 Neither was anything concealed of the theory or practice of slavery.
    SMC 11.353 1 The aim of the hour was to reconstruct the South; but first the North had to be reconstructed. Its own theory and practice of liberty had got sadly out of gear...
    PLT 12.50 24 Every man has his theory...
    Mem 12.96 21 ...another man's memory is the history of science and art and civility and thought; and still another deals with laws and perceptions that are the theory of the world.
    CInt 12.128 3 This, then, is the theory of Education, the happy meeting of the young soul...with the living teacher...
    CInt 12.128 8 This, then, is the theory of Education, the happy meeting of the young soul...with the living teacher who has already made the passage from the centre forth...along the intellectual roads to the theory and practice of special science.
    CL 12.161 5 ...Goethe, whose whole life was a study of the theory of art, said no man should be admitted to his Republic, who was not versed in Natural History.
    MLit 12.324 21 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed.
    WSL 12.347 9 [Landor's] Dialogue on the Epicurean philosophy is a theory of the genius of Epicurus.
    Let 12.396 11 It is not for nothing, we assure ourselves...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society. How fantastic and unpresentable soever the theory has hitherto seemed...let us not lose the warning of that most significant dream.
    Trag 12.406 16 ...no theory of life can have any right which leaves out of account the values of vice...fear and death.

Theory, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.152 8 Alas for the cripple Practice when it seeks to come up with the bird Theory, which flies before it.

Theory of Colors [Goethe], (1)

    GoW 4.287 3 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal...and the historical part of his Theory of Colors, have the same interest.

Theory of the Sphere, [Arch (1)

    SS 7.6 15 If [Archimedes and Newton] had been good fellows, fond of dancing, port and clubs, we should have had no Theory of the Sphere and no Principia.

theosophists, n. (1)

    Nat 1.58 17 Some theosophists have arrived at a certain hostility and indignation towards matter...

There, n. (1)

    Hist 2.11 9 All inquiry into antiquity...is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and proposterous There or Then...

thereabout, adv. (1)

    HDC 11.42 8 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter, and, in respect of the greatness of their charge thereabout, and in regard of the ease of the East quarter above the rest, in their highways, they are to allow the North quarter 3 pounds.

thereafter, adv. (3)

    ET11 5.195 14 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense. They went from city to city...gathering seeds, gems, coins and divers curiosities, preparing for a private life thereafter...
    Thor 10.459 13 ...the President [of Harvard University] found...the rules [of the Harvard Library] getting to look so ridiculous, that he ended by giving [Thoreau] a privilege which in his hands proved unlimited thereafter.
    EWI 11.113 2 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid...shall be absolutely and forever manumitted; and that the children thereafter born to any such persons, and the offspring of such children, shall, in like manner, be free, from their birth;...

thereat, adv. (1)

    Comc 8.172 20 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I have looked in the mirror, and seen myself ugly. Thereat I grieved...

thereof, adv. (7)

    ET13 5.227 13 Brougham...said...the reverend bishops...solemnly declare in the presence of God that when they are called upon to accept a living, perhaps of 4000 pounds a year, at that very instant they are moved by the Holy Ghost to accept the office and administration thereof, for no other reason whatever?
    Suc 7.289 5 Fuller says 't is a maxim of lawyers that a crown once worn cleareth all defects of the wearer thereof.
    Chr2 10.105 24 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings. No leaf thereof could attain the liberty of being printed (in Berlin) to-day.
    HDC 11.57 5 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar school, the masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.
    EdAd 11.390 6 ...[man] lives in such connection with Thought and Fact that his bread is surely involved as one element thereof...
    Mem 12.105 13 Michael Angelo, after having once seen a work of any other artist, would remember it so perfectly that if it pleased him to make use of any portion thereof, he could do so...
    Bost 12.195 21 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that...where any town shall increase to the number of a hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar School, the Masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.

thereto, adv. (3)

    SlHr 10.439 9 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man...with a clear perception of justice, and a perfect obedience thereto in his action;...
    HDC 11.66 16 I find, in the [Concord] Church Records, the charges preferred against [Daniel Bliss], his answer thereto, and the result of the Council.
    FSLN 11.222 1 ...the perfection of [Webster's] elocution, and all that thereto belongs...we shall not soon find again.

thereunto, adv. (1)

    ET12 5.209 21 Oxford...shuts up the lectureships which were made public for all men thereunto to have concourse;...

thereupon, adv. (1)

    HDC 11.67 11 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was soon uneasy that I had used the word, lest some would put a wrong meaning thereupon.

therewith, adv. (2)

    DL 7.132 5 Certainly, not aloof from this homage to beauty, but in strict connection therewith, the house will come to be esteemed a Sanctuary.
    PI 8.53 25 Outside of the nursery the beginning of literature is the prayers of a people...the mind allowing itself range, and therewith is ever a corresponding freedom in the style...

thermic, adj. (1)

    ET3 5.40 22 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.

thermometer, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.178 21 ...nature...serves as a differential thermometer, detecting the presence or absence of the divine sentiment in man.
    EWI 11.142 1 The emancipation [in the West Indies] is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun.
    FRep 11.528 24 We have eight or ten religions in every large town, and the most that comes of it is a degree or two on the thermometer of fashion;...

thermometers, n. (2)

    Tran 1.358 11 In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only...baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,-rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes;...
    CL 12.160 18 ...the zones of plants...are all thermometers which cannot be deceived...

Thermopylae, Greece, n. (4)

    Nat 1.20 21 ...when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying, and the sun and moon come each and look at them once in the steep defile of Thermopylae;...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    CbW 6.250 6.250 Suppose the three hundred heroes at Thermopylae had paired off with three hundred Persians;...
    Cour 7.256 4 What an ado we make through two thousand years about Thermopylae and Salamis!
    Cour 7.272 21 The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was...in the instinct which, at Thermopylae, held Asia at bay...

Thersites, n. (1)

    UGM 4.24 27 ...in the midst of this chuckle of self-gratulation, some figure goes by which Thersites too can love and admire.

theses, n. (2)

    SovE 10.204 17 Luther would cut his hand off sooner than write theses against the pope if he suspected that he was bringing on with all his might the pale negations of Boston Unitarianism.
    EWI 11.136 1 The lives of the advocates [of emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness, and the connection of the eminent senators with this question constitutes the immortalizing moments of those men's lives. The bare enunciation of the theses at which the lawyers and legislators arrived, gives a glow to the heart of the reader.

Theseus, n. (2)

    Chr1 3.90 19 When I beheld Theseus, I desired that I might see him offer battle...
    Aris 10.51 21 To a right aristocracy, to Hercules, to Theseus...everything will be permitted and pardoned...

thesis, n. (4)

    Int 2.346 27 Well assured that their speech is intelligible and the most natural thing in the world, [the Greek philosophers] add thesis to thesis...
    PPh 4.40 7 ...it is fair to credit the broadest generalizer [Plato] with all the particulars deducible from his thesis.
    PNR 4.81 17 Plato's fame does not stand...on any thesis...
    II 12.71 1 In the healthy mind, the thought is not a barren thesis...

Thespis, n. (1)

    Plu 10.302 26 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind. I hope it is only my immense ignorance that makes me believe that they do not survive out of his pages,-not only Thespis, Polemos, Euphorion......

Thessaly, Greece, n. (1)

    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.

Thetis, n. (1)

    Comp 2.107 3 Achilles is not quite invulnerable; the sacred waters did not wash the heel by which Thetis held him.

Theuth, n. (1)

    PNR 4.83 9 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;... Theuth and Thamus;...

thick, adj. (12)

    Nat 1.72 24 ...in the thick darkness, there are not wanting gleams of a better light...
    AmS 1.114 13 Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat.
    Fdsp 2.194 21 ...by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find [my friends], or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character...
    ET1 5.10 13 ...[Coleridge] appeared, a short, thick old man...
    ET6 5.112 8 An Englishman of fashion is like one of those souvenirs... enriched with delicate engravings on thick hot-pressed paper...but with nothing in it worth reading or remembering.
    ET8 5.128 20 ...I suppose never nation built their party-walls so thick, or their garden-fences so high [as the English].
    F 6.15 6 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance, the thick skull...
    Ill 6.310 14 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars...
    Ill 6.315 16 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I...affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick.
    Ill 6.323 22 Riches and poverty are a thick or thin costume;...
    PerF 10.81 4 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...and learned that Papa had made it; that hidden deep in that thick skull was this gentle art and taste which the little fingers and caresses of his son had the power to draw out into day;...
    CL 12.140 1 ...thick coats and shoes must be recommended to walkers [in Massachusetts].

thick, n. (1)

    ShP 4.189 8 The hero is in the press of knights and the thick of events;...

thickened, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.271 27 ...the world is made of thickened light and arrested electricity...

thickening, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.223 18 [Base prudence] is a disease like a thickening of the skin until the vital organs are destroyed.

thickest, adj. (1)

    Suc 7.303 11 Who is he...who does not like to hear of those sensibilities which...send wonderful eye-beams across assemblies, from one to one, never missing in the thickest crowd?

thicket, n. (4)

    Comp 2.117 8 ...when the hunter came, [the stag's] feet saved him, and afterwards, caught in the thicket, his horns destroyed him.
    Wth 6.83 14 From air the creeping centuries drew/ The matted thicket low and wide/...
    Wth 6.122 10 Every pedestrian in our pastures has frequent occasion to thank the cows for cutting the best path through the thicket and over the hills;...
    HDC 11.32 24 ...the Indian paths leading up and down the country were a foot broad. [The Pilgrims] must then plunge into the thicket...

thickets, n. (4)

    Elo2 8.113 26 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned...in scrambling through thickets in a winter forest...
    Aris 10.59 24 The youth, having got through the first thickets that oppose his entrance into life...is left to himself...
    HDC 11.33 3 Sometimes passing through thickets where [the pilgrims'] hands are forced to make way for their bodies' passage...
    JBS 11.279 27 ...[John Brown] learned to drive his flock through thickets all but impassable;...

thickly, adv. (1)

    HDC 11.65 25 The country [near Concord] was not yet so thickly settled but that the inhabitants suffered from wolves and wildcats...

thickness, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.120 3 Again, the Bornoos have no proper names; individuals are called after their height, thickness, or other accidental quality...
    Wth 6.107 8 Your paper is not fine or coarse enough,--is too heavy, or too thin. The manufacturer says he will furnish you with just that thickness or thinness you want;...

thickset, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.66 1 It is the fault of their forms that [the English] grow stocky...few tall, slender figures of flowing shape, but stunted and thickset persons.

thick-skulled, adj. (1)

    F 6.22 15 [Man] betrays his relation to what is below him,-thick-skulled... quadruped ill-disguised...

thick-starred, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.235 16 I spent, [Benedict] said, ten months in the country. Thick-starred Orion was my only companion.

thick-strewn, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.37 9 Newton and Laplace need myriads of age and thick-strewn celestial areas.

thief, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.251 23 The coxcomb and bully and thief class are allowed as proletaries...

thief, n. (10)

    MR 1.252 11 We make, by our distrust, the thief...
    Comp 2.114 14 The thief steals from himself.
    Comp 2.116 13 The laws and substances of nature...become penalties to the thief.
    NER 3.271 5 Iron conservative, miser, or thief, no man is but by a supposed necessity...
    ET4 5.68 23 ...Robin Hood comes described to us as mitissimus praedonum; the gentlest thief.
    ET5 5.97 17 The pauper [in England] lives better than the free laborer, the thief better than the pauper...
    ET9 5.152 19 Strange...that broad America must wear the name of a thief.
    OA 7.323 20 The humorous thief who drank a pot of beer at the gallows blew off the froth because he had heard it was unhealthy;...
    FSLN 11.237 10 ...a man cannot steal without incurring the penalties of the thief...
    ACiv 11.297 10 ...now here comes this conspiracy of slavery...this stealing of men and setting them to work, stealing their labor, and the thief sitting idle himself;...

thieves, n. (11)

    MN 1.220 18 Shall we not quit our companions, as if they were thieves and pot-companions...
    MR 1.238 9 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as... money by thieves;...
    ET4 5.60 23 Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings.
    ET4 5.61 5 ...decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans]...
    ET13 5.229 17 Lord Shaftesbury calls the poor thieves together and reads sermons to them, and they call it gas.
    Pow 6.72 8 Of the sixty thousand men making [Napoleon's] army at Eylau, it seems some thirty thousand were thieves and burglars.
    CbW 6.248 14 What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves and triflers of both sexes might be advantageously spared!
    Elo1 7.77 4 ...how is it on the Atlantic, in a storm,--do you understand how to infuse your reason into men disabled by terror, and to bring yourself off safe then?--how among thieves...
    Cour 7.259 17 ...the aggressive attitude of men who...will no longer be bothered with...thieves on the bench; that part, the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...
    Chr2 10.120 21 Ke Kang, distressed about the number of thieves in the state, inquired of Confucius how to do away with them.
    ChiE 11.473 6 ...to the governor who complained of thieves, [Confucius] said, If you, sir, were not covetous, though you should reward them for it, they would not steal.

thieving, adj. (3)

    Bty 6.279 24 While thus to love [Seyd] gave his days/ In loyal worship, scorning praise,/ How spread their lures for him, in vain,/ Thieving Ambition and paltering Gain!/
    Comc 8.160 9 ...[the man of the world's] eye wandering perpetually from the rule to the crooked, lying, thieving fact, makes the eyes run over with laughter.
    MLit 12.319 9 ...[Byron's] praise of Nature is thieving and selfish.

thievish, adj. (2)

    Bhr 6.185 11 Here are creep-mouse manners, and thievish manners.
    QO 8.189 27 Our very abstaining to repeat and credit the fine remark of our friend is thievish.

thin, adj. (31)

    LE 1.168 4 The honking of the wild geese flying by night; the thin note of the companionable titmouse in the winter day;...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
    LE 1.176 4 We live in the sun and on the surface,-a thin, plausible, superficial existence...
    LT 1.280 19 ...I own our virtue makes me ashamed;...so thin and blind...
    Comp 2.104 1 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair; that is, again, to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless;...
    Prd1 2.235 13 In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
    Prd1 2.238 11 ...the sturdiest offender of your peace and of the neighborhood, if you rip up his claims, is as thin and timid as any...
    OS 2.275 3 With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite...
    Exp 3.53 12 The physicians say they are not materialists; but they are:-- Spirit is matter reduced to an extreme thinness: O so thin!
    Exp 3.62 18 We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science...
    Mrs1 3.128 20 ...fashion...is Mexico, Marengo and Trafalgar beaten out thin;...
    NER 3.274 8 [Souls of great vigor] feel the poverty at the bottom of all the seeming affluence of the world. They know the speed with which they come straight through the thin masquerade...
    MoS 4.149 5 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals]...
    MoS 4.155 21 The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale...
    MoS 4.160 18 A theory of Saint John, and non-resistance, seems...too thin and aerial.
    ET6 5.106 13 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin, about poor, thin, unable mortals;...
    Wth 6.107 7 Your paper is not fine or coarse enough,--is too heavy, or too thin.
    CbW 6.268 9 [The young people] explore a farm, but the house is small, old, thin;...
    Ill 6.323 23 Riches and poverty are a thick or thin costume;...
    Civ 7.17 17 ...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/ This wild plantation will suffice to chase./
    Farm 7.146 24 At rare intervals [on the prairie] a thin oak-opening has been spared...
    Boks 7.198 5 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare... ... 3. Aeschylus...who has given us under a thin veil the first plantation of Europe.
    PI 8.5 10 Thin or solid, everything is in flight.
    Chr2 10.112 19 The walls of the temple are wasted and thin...
    Prch 10.222 17 [Religion] does not grow thin or robust with the health of the votary.
    Prch 10.223 7 Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the One breaks in everywhere.
    LLNE 10.354 7 It argued singular courage, the adoption of Fourier's system, to even a limited extent, with his books lying before the world only defended by the thin veil of the French language.
    HDC 11.34 22 ...[the pilgrims] were forced to cut their bread very thin for a long season.
    War 11.151 24 ...in the infancy of society, when a thin population and improvidence make the supply of food and of shelter insufficient and very precarious...the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
    EdAd 11.391 20 Will [a journal] venture into the thin and difficult air of that school where the secrets of structure are discussed under the topics of mesmerism and the twilights of demonology?
    CL 12.153 6 The freedom [of the sea] makes the observer feel as a slave. Our expression is so thin and cramped!
    Milt1 12.275 4 ...throughout [Milton's] poems, one may see, under a thin veil, the opinions, the feelings, even the incidents of the poet's life...

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