Think to Thorwaldsen's

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

think, v. (538)

    Nat 1.7 8 One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man...the perpetual presence of the sublime.
    Nat 1.56 20 ...we think of nature as an appendix to the soul.
    Nat 1.57 12 ...life is no longer irksome, and we think it will never be so.
    AmS 1.99 10 A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
    DSA 1.129 5 [Jesus] said...Would you see God, see me; or see thee, when thou also thinkest as I now think.
    DSA 1.130 7 Thus is [Jesus], as I think, the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man.
    DSA 1.142 23 I think no man can go with his thoughts about him into one of our churches, without feeling that what hold the public worship had on men is gone...
    DSA 1.143 16 ...in these two errors, I think, I find the causes of a decaying church...
    DSA 1.144 26 [Men] think society wiser than their soul...
    LE 1.168 17 Whilst I read the poets, I think that nothing new can be said about morning and evening.
    LE 1.174 4 If [the scholar] pines in a lonely place, hankering for the crowd...he is not in the lonely place;...he does not think.
    LE 1.174 24 Think alone, and all places are friendly and sacred.
    LE 1.175 27 ...I think that we have need of a more rigorous scholastic rule;...
    LE 1.179 14 ...[Napoleon] belonged to a class...who think that what a man can do is his greatest ornament...
    LE 1.183 9 [They whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] seek him, that he may turn his lamp on the dark riddles whose solution they think is inscribed on the walls of their being.
    LE 1.184 16 ...[the scholar] can easily think that in a society of perfect sympathy, no word, no act, no record, would be.
    MN 1.202 17 I think we feel not much otherwise if...we take the great and wise men...and narrowly inspect their biography.
    MN 1.207 21 [a man] cannot read, or think, or look but he unites the hitherto separated strands into a perfect cord.
    MN 1.208 21 ...darest thou think meanly of thyself whom the stalwart Fate brought forth to unite his ragged sides...
    MN 1.223 1 Who shall dare think he has come late into nature...who seeth the admirable stars of possibility...glittering...in the vast West?
    MR 1.242 18 ...I think that if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry...that man...ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    MR 1.245 13 How can the man who has learned but one art, procure all the conveniences of life honestly? Shall we say all we think?-Perhaps with his own hands.
    MR 1.247 19 ...I think we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit;...
    MR 1.249 27 [The Americans] think you may talk the north wind down as easily as raise society;...
    LT 1.261 25 We do not think the sky will be bluer...
    LT 1.264 4 ...I find the Age walking about...in strong eyes and pleasant thoughts, and think I read it nearer and truer so, than in the statute-book...
    LT 1.264 19 I think that only is real which men love and rejoice in;...
    LT 1.265 19 Could we indicate the indicators...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours. Certainly I think if this were done there would be much to admire as well as to condemn;...
    LT 1.267 14 Slowly...it steals on us, the new fact, that we who were pupils or aspirants...do compose a portion of that head and heart we are wont to think worthy of all reverence and heed.
    LT 1.268 11 Here is the innumerable multitude of those who accept the state and the church from the last generation, and stand on no argument but possession. They have reason also, and, as I think, better reason than is commonly stated.
    LT 1.276 20 The love which lifted men to the sight of these better ends was...the disposition to trust a principle more than a material force. I think that the soul of reform;...
    LT 1.277 20 I think the work of the reformer as innocent as other work that is done around him;...
    LT 1.281 3 What are no trifles to [our young people], they naturally think are no trifles to Pompey.
    LT 1.282 23 We are so sharp-sighted that we can neither work nor think...
    LT 1.284 10 I think men never loved life less.
    LT 1.287 15 ...we think the Genius of this Age more philosophical than any other has been...
    Tran 1.329 17 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists;...the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses...
    Tran 1.334 26 You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstance.
    Tran 1.341 27 ...it would not misbecome us to inquire nearer home, what these companions and contemporaries of ours think and do...
    YA 1.370 10 ...I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen...
    YA 1.383 10 I think for example that [the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs...
    YA 1.387 9 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society;...
    Hist 2.3 6 What Plato has thought, he [that is once admitted to the right of reason] may think;...
    SR 2.48 16 Do not think the youth has no force...
    SR 2.51 3 I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names...
    SR 2.53 21 What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
    SR 2.53 25 ...you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
    SR 2.57 22 Speak what you think now in hard words...
    SR 2.67 2 Man...dares not say I think...
    SR 2.69 11 This which I think and feel underlay every former state of life and circumstances...
    SR 2.74 6 The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard...
    SR 2.90 1 ...you think good days are preparing for you.
    Comp 2.95 21 I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle...
    Comp 2.104 20 [Men] think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side, the bitter.
    SL 2.136 11 Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us country folk, and we do not think any good will come of it.
    SL 2.142 26 We think greatness entailed or organized in some places or duties...
    SL 2.150 24 We foolishly think in our days of sin that we must court friends by compliance to the customs of society...
    SL 2.153 7 If [writing] awaken you to think...then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men;...
    SL 2.156 6 You think because you have spoken nothing when others spoke...that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.
    SL 2.163 27 To think is to act.
    SL 2.164 19 I can think of nothing to fill my time with, and I find the Life of Brant.
    Lov1 2.184 11 Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other...of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
    Fdsp 2.198 16 ...Dear Friend, If I was...sure to match my mood with thine, I should never think again of trifles in relation to thy comings and goings.
    Fdsp 2.202 15 Before [a friend] I may think aloud.
    Fdsp 2.203 14 No man would think of speaking falsely with [a man I knew]...
    Prd1 2.228 6 If you think the senses final, obey their law.
    Prd1 2.239 15 Though your views are in straight antagonism to [your contemporaries]...assume that you are saying precisely that which all think...
    Hsm1 2.247 16 By Romulus, [Sophocles] is all soul, I think;/...
    Hsm1 2.248 11 ...Simon Ockley's History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor, with admiration all the more evident on the part of the narrator that he seems to think that his place in Christian Oxford requires of him some proper protestations of abhorrence.
    Hsm1 2.248 17 ...I must think we are more deeply indebted to [Plutarch] than to all the ancient writers.
    Hsm1 2.257 18 Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places...
    Hsm1 2.259 9 ...why should a woman...think, because Sappho, or Sevigne, or De Stael...do not satisfy the imagination and the serene Themis, none can,--certainly not she?
    Hsm1 2.261 11 We tell our charities...not because we think they have great merit...
    OS 2.278 1 ...the best minds, who love truth for its own sake, think much less of property in truth.
    OS 2.278 8 The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.
    OS 2.289 8 The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions.
    Cir 2.315 15 Think how many times we shall fall back into pitiful calculations before we take up our rest in the great sentiment...
    Cir 2.321 9 When we see the conqueror we do not think much of any one battle or success.
    Int 2.328 23 We do not determine what we will think.
    Int 2.330 16 Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes...for you?
    Int 2.331 12 What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
    Int 2.333 1 Men say, Where did [the writer] get this? and think there was something divine in his life.
    Int 2.338 15 One would think...that good thought would be as familiar as air and water...
    Art1 2.355 20 I should think fire the best thing in the world, if I were not acquainted with air, and water, and earth.
    Pt1 3.4 2 Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the spiritual meaning of a ship or a cloud...
    Pt1 3.7 25 ...as [the hero and the sage] act and think primarily, so [the poet] writes primarily what will and must be spoken...
    Pt1 3.32 8 I think nothing is of any value in books excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.
    Exp 3.46 8 If any of us knew what we were doing, or where we are going, then when we think we best know!
    Exp 3.58 10 We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.
    Exp 3.61 8 I think that however a thoughtful man may suffer from the defects and absurdities of his company, he cannot without affectation deny to any set of men and women a sensibility to extraordinary merit.
    Exp 3.63 12 I think I will never read any but the commonest books...
    Exp 3.70 12 In the growth of the embryo, Sir Everard Home I think noticed that the evolution was not from one central point...
    Exp 3.71 13 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...
    Exp 3.78 13 ...men never speak of crime as lightly as they think;...
    Exp 3.84 25 I know that the world I converse with in the city and in the farms, is not the world I think.
    Chr1 3.99 13 I revere the person who is riches; so that I cannot think of him as alone, or poor, or exiled, or unhappy, or a client...
    Chr1 3.99 21 ...if I go to see an ingenious man I shall think myself poorly entertained if he give me nimble pieces of benevolence and etiquette;...
    Chr1 3.108 23 I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood.
    Chr1 3.109 23 I should think myself very unhappy in my associates if I could not credit the best things in history.
    Mrs1 3.130 1 We sometimes...feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature. We think all other distinctions and ties will be slight and fugitive...
    Gts 3.159 4 I do not think this general insolvency [of the world]...to be the reason of the difficulty experienced at Christmas and New Year and other times, in bestowing gifts;...
    Gts 3.160 11 If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit him and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.
    Gts 3.161 1 I can think of many parts I should prefer playing to that of the Furies.
    Gts 3.162 22 Some violence I think is done...when I rejoice or grieve at a gift.
    Nat2 3.172 4 The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality meet. I think if we should be rapt away into all that and dream of heaven... the upper sky would be all that would remain of our furniture.
    Nat2 3.183 6 ...we think we shall be as grand as [natural objects] if we camp out and eat roots;...
    Nat2 3.189 21 ...no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is for the time the history of the world;...
    Nat2 3.189 25 ...no man can...do anything well who does not esteem his work to be of importance. My work may be of none, but I must not think it of none, or I shall not do it with impunity.
    Pol1 3.215 18 Everywhere [men] think they get their money's worth, except for [taxes].
    Pol1 3.216 26 We think our civilization near its meridian...
    Pol1 3.217 14 The gladiators in the lists of power feel...the presence of worth. I think the very strife of trade and ambition is confession of this divinity;...
    Pol1 3.218 15 Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth...
    Pol1 3.221 15 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures. If the individual who exhibits them dare to think them practicable, he disgusts scholars and churchmen;...
    NR 3.240 26 I think I have done well if I have acquired a new word from a good author;...
    NER 3.256 12 This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think...
    NER 3.261 26 Do not be so vain of your one objection. Do you think there is only one?
    NER 3.268 3 We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man...
    NER 3.271 2 I think...Unwillingly the soul is deprived of truth.
    NER 3.279 12 The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion... is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not.
    NER 3.279 23 It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession...
    NER 3.281 3 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear that there was no inequality such as men fancy, between them;...
    UGM 4.5 4 Man can paint, or make, or think, nothing but man.
    UGM 4.14 24 What is he whom I never think of?
    UGM 4.15 5 What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us? We will never more think cheaply of ourselves...
    UGM 4.15 10 Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that homage, very pure as I think, which all ranks pay to the hero of the day...
    UGM 4.24 7 The worthless and offensive members of society...invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive...
    UGM 4.30 9 Children think they cannot live without their parents.
    PPh 4.41 8 This range of Plato instructs us what to think of the vexed question concerning his reputed works...
    PPh 4.44 24 ...the writings of Plato have preoccupied...every church, every poet,--making it impossible to think, on certain levels, except through him.
    PPh 4.48 7 Oneness and otherness. It is impossible to speak or to think without embracing both.
    PPh 4.78 23 A chief structure of human wit...it requires all the breath of human faculty to know [Plato]. I think it is trueliest seen when seen with the most respect.
    SwM 4.94 25 In the language of the Koran, God said, The heaven and the earth and all that is between them, think ye that we created them in jest, and that ye shall not return to us?
    SwM 4.97 3 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all things flow into it: they mix; and he is present and sympathetic with their structure and law. This path is difficult, secret and beset with terror. The ancients called it ecstasy or absence,--a getting out of their bodies to think.
    SwM 4.110 15 These grand rhymes or returns in nature,--the dear, best-known face startling us at every turn, under a mask so unexpected that we think it the face of a stranger...delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
    SwM 4.120 11 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the fine fable of a most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling nigher to the gods; and Swedenborg added...that these, when they saw terrestrial objects, did not think at all about them, but only about those which they signified.
    SwM 4.144 14 I think, sometimes, [Swedenborg] will not be read longer.
    SwM 4.145 12 I think of [Swedenborg] as of some transmigrating votary of Indian legend...
    MoS 4.157 8 [The skeptic says] Why think to shut up all things in your narrow coop...
    MoS 4.159 1 ...once let [the savage] read in the book, and he is no longer able not to think of Plutarch's heroes.
    MoS 4.165 10 ...nobody can think or say worse of [Montaigne] than he does.
    MoS 4.167 11 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I...think an undress and old shoes that do not pinch my feet...the most suitable.
    MoS 4.173 27 'T is of no importance what bats and oxen think.
    MoS 4.175 8 I think that the intellect and moral sentiment are unanimous;...
    MoS 4.175 12 I think that the wiser a man is, the more stupendous he finds the natural and moral economy...
    ShP 4.195 19 In Henry VIII. I think I see plainly the cropping out of the original rock on which [Shakespeare's] own finer stratum was laid.
    ShP 4.199 5 As Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Webster vote, so Locke and Rousseau think, for thousands;...
    ShP 4.201 7 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men. In the composition of such works...the mason, the carpenter, the merchant, the farmer, the fop, all think for us.
    ShP 4.204 3 ...not until two centuries had passed, after [Shakespeare's] death, did any criticism which we think adequate begin to appear.
    ShP 4.210 9 Some able and appreciating critics think no criticism on Shakspeare valuable that does not rest purely on the dramatic merit;...
    ShP 4.210 12 Some able and appreciating critics think...that [Shakespeare] is falsely judged as poet and philosopher. I think as highly as these critics of his dramatic merit, but still think it secondary.
    ShP 4.210 14 Some able and appreciating critics think...that [Shakespeare] is falsely judged as poet and philosopher. I think as highly as these critics of his dramatic merit, but still think it secondary.
    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.
    ShP 4.217 27 One remembers again the trumpet-text in the Koran,--The heavens and the earth and all that is between them, think ye we have created them in jest?
    NMW 4.247 27 I think all men know better than they do;...
    GoW 4.269 6 ...the writer does not stand with us on any commanding ground. I think this to be his own fault.
    ET1 5.14 21 [Coleridge]...could not bend to a new companion and think with him.
    ET2 5.32 19 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people [the English]...
    ET4 5.52 23 ...what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district.
    ET4 5.70 6 [The English] think, with Henri Quatre, that manly exercises are the foundation of that elevation of mind which gives one nature ascendant over another;...
    ET5 5.84 21 [The English] think him the best dressed man whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
    ET6 5.105 4 ...not that [the Englishman] is trained to neglect the eyes of his neighbors,--he is really occupied with his own affair and does not think of them.
    ET6 5.105 17 In a company of strangers you would think [the Englishman] deaf;...
    ET6 5.113 13 ...[the English] think, says the Venetian traveller of 1500, no greater honor can be conferred or received, than to invite others to eat with them, or to be invited themselves...
    ET7 5.117 17 [The English] are blunt in saying what they think...
    ET7 5.120 21 ...one cannot think this festival [of St. George in Montreal] fruitless, if, all over the world, on the 23d of April, wherever two or three English are found, they meet to encourage each other in the nationality of veracity.
    ET8 5.128 7 As compared with the Americans, I think [the English] cheerful and contented.
    ET8 5.131 22 [The English] are good at storming redoubts...but not, I think, at enduring the rack...
    ET8 5.141 12 ...[The English] think humanely on the affairs of France, of Turkey...
    ET9 5.145 13 A much older traveller...says... [The English] think that there are no other men than themselves...
    ET11 5.196 14 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class. The road that grandeur levels for his coach, toil can travel in his cart. This is more manifest every day, but I think it is true throughout English history.
    ET12 5.207 10 [The Englishman] has enough to think of...
    ET12 5.212 22 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors for not admiring the young neologists who pluck the beards of Euclid and Aristotle...
    ET14 5.236 16 There is a hygienic simpleness...I think, in the common style of the [English] people...
    ET14 5.237 13 A man must think that age well taught and thoughtful, by which masques and poems, like those of Ben Jonson...were received with favor.
    ET14 5.254 7 [Natural science in England] stands in strong contrast with the genius of the Germans, those semi-Greeks, who...by means of their height of view, preserve their enthusiasm and think for Europe.
    ET15 5.266 5 Our entertainer [at the London Times] confided us to a courteous assistant to show us the establishment, in which, I think, they employed a hundred and twenty men.
    ET15 5.269 27 One would think the world was on its knees to The [London] Times office for its daily breakfast.
    ET16 5.283 17 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work...in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns, with an ordinary derrick. The men were common masons...nor did they think they were doing anything remarkable.
    ET16 5.289 22 I think I prefer this church [Winchester Cathedral] to all I have seen, except Westminster and York.
    ET17 5.295 21 I said, if Plato's Republic were published in England as a new book to-day, do you think it would find any readers?--[Wordsworth] confessed it would not...
    ET19 5.311 25 You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys;...
    ET19 5.312 1 ...I think it just, in this time of gloom and commercial disaster...that...you should not fail to keep your literary anniversary.
    F 6.9 20 Read the description in medical books of the four temperaments and you will think you are reading your own thoughts which you had not yet told.
    F 6.23 16 ...nothing is more disgusting than...the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble...by those who have never dared to think or to act...
    F 6.27 4 ...now we are as men in a balloon, and do not think so much of the point we have left...as of the liberty and glory of the way.
    F 6.31 8 ...in politics, [men] think they come under another [dominion];...
    Pow 6.57 11 [A broad, healthy, massive understanding]...anticipates everybody's discovery; and if it do not command every fact of the genius and the scholar, it is because it...does not think them worth the exertion which you do.
    Wth 6.98 25 I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,--that were a bath and a medicine.
    Wth 6.104 16 An apple-tree, if you take out every day for a number of days a load of loam and put in a load of sand about its roots, will find it out. An apple-tree is a stupid kind of creature, but if this treatment be pursued for a short time I think it would begin to mistrust something.
    Wth 6.111 7 ...we have to pay, not what would have contented [the immigrants] at home, but what they have learned to think necessary here;...
    Wth 6.112 23 I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.
    Wth 6.116 24 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc. How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation and rapt concentration and almost a going out of the body to think!
    Wth 6.119 13 You think farm buildings and broad acres a solid property;...
    Ctr 6.141 7 ...I think it the part of good sense to provide every fine soul with such culture that it shall not, at thirty or forty years, have to say, This which I might do is made hopeless through my want of weapons.
    Ctr 6.145 9 I think there is a restlessness in our people which argues want of character.
    Ctr 6.145 22 You do not think you will find anything [abroad] which you have not seen at home?
    Ctr 6.151 17 ...the box-coat is like wine, it unlocks the tongue, and men say what they think.
    Ctr 6.152 15 In an English party a man...with a face like red dough, unexpectedly discloses...personal familiarity with good men in all parts of the world, until you think you have fallen upon some illustrious personage.
    Ctr 6.154 26 How can you mind...even the bringing things to pass,--when you think how paltry are the machinery and the workers?
    Ctr 6.156 22 The high advantage of university life is often the mere mechanical one, I may call it, of a separate chamber and fire,--which parents will allow the boy without hesitation at Cambridge, but do not think needful at home.
    Ctr 6.160 13 I think sculpture and painting have an effect to teach us manners and abolish hurry.
    Ctr 6.164 23 ...I think it a presentable motive to a scholar, that...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined;...
    Bhr 6.171 17 Your manners are always under examination, and by committees little suspected...who are awarding or denying you very high prizes when you least think of it.
    Bhr 6.172 6 ...when we think what keys [manners] are, and to what secrets;...we see what range the subject has...
    Bhr 6.174 4 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly undertook the reformation of our American manners in unspeakable particulars. I think the lesson was not quite lost;...
    Bhr 6.194 22 I am sorry, replies Napoleon [to his brother Joseph], you think you shall find your brother again only in the Elysian Fields.
    Bhr 6.197 6 An old man...said to me, When you come into the room, I think I will study how to make humanity beautiful to you.
    Bhr 6.197 9 As respects the delicate question of culture I do not think that any other than negative rules can be laid down.
    Wsp 6.207 14 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath. ... With these grossnesses, we complacently compare our own taste and decorum. We think and speak with more temperance and gradation,--but is not indifferentism as bad as superstition?
    Wsp 6.214 20 I do not think [skepticism] can be cured or stayed by any modification of theologic creeds...
    Wsp 6.216 22 ...I think we very slowly admit in another man a higher degree of moral sentiment than our own...
    Wsp 6.216 27 ...we very slowly admit in another man...an ear to hear acuter notes of right and wrong than we can. I think we listen suspiciously and very slowly to any evidence to that point.
    Wsp 6.226 27 What I am and what I think is conveyed to you, in spite of my efforts to hold it back.
    Wsp 6.231 20 Fear God, and where you go, men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.
    Wsp 6.234 22 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal people to whom I have no skill to reply. They think they have defeated me.
    Wsp 6.240 14 ...I think that the last lesson of life...is a voluntary obedience, a necessitated freedom.
    CbW 6.246 22 ...whatever makes us either think or feel strongly, adds to our power...
    CbW 6.249 26 In old Egypt it was established law that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much underestimated.
    CbW 6.252 3 ...we are used as brute atoms until we think...
    CbW 6.255 16 I do not think very respectfully of the designs or the doings of the people who went to California in 1849.
    CbW 6.259 5 ...as soon as the children are good, the mothers...think they are going to die.
    Bty 6.283 12 We do not think heroes can exert any more awful power than that surface-play which amuses us.
    Ill 6.321 25 From day to day the capital facts of human life are hidden from our eyes. Suddenly the mist rolls up and reveals them, and we think how much good time is gone that might have been saved had any hint of these things been shown.
    Ill 6.322 27 Speak as you think, be what you are...
    Ill 6.323 13 One would think from the talk of men that riches and poverty were a great matter;...
    Ill 6.323 16 ...the Indians say that they do not think the white man...has any advantage of them.
    Ill 6.325 21 The mad crowd drives hither and thither, now furiously commanding this thing to be done, now that. What is [the young mortal] that he should...think or act for himself?
    SS 7.5 4 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot...
    SS 7.9 17 ...how insular and pathetically solitary are all the people we know! Nor dare they tell what they think of each other when they meet in the street.
    SS 7.15 8 One would think that the affinities would pronounce themselves with a surer reciprocity.
    Civ 7.21 23 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine stump.
    Art2 7.47 3 We hesitate at doing Spenser so great an honor as to think that he intended by his allegory the sense we affix to it.
    Art2 7.47 8 Even Shakspeare...we think indebted to Goethe and to Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in his Hamlet and Antony.
    Art2 7.48 27 ...[the artist] is not to speak his own words, or do his own works, or think his own thoughts...
    Elo1 7.66 12 There are many audiences in every public assembly, each one of which rules in turn. If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them.
    Elo1 7.66 16 If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence [in the audience] of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them. If new topics are started, graver and higher, these roisters recede; a more chaste and wise attention takes place. You would think the boys slept, and that the men have any degree of profoundness.
    Elo1 7.80 25 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?...
    Elo1 7.87 6 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court...said everything it could think of to fill the time...
    DL 7.107 21 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy who could tell straight on the real fortunes of the man;...
    DL 7.116 10 I think it plain that this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious...
    DL 7.122 23 I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred.
    DL 7.124 27 We...are still villagers, who think that every thing in their petty town is a little superior to the same thing anywhere else.
    DL 7.125 13 We are too easily pleased. I think this sad result appears in the manners.
    DL 7.129 25 ...let [a man] not think that a property in beautiful objects is necessary to his apprehension of them...
    DL 7.130 26 ...I think the public museum in each town will one day relieve the private house of this charge of owning and exhibiting [statues and pictures].
    DL 7.133 13 I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror.
    Farm 7.153 5 We see the farmer with pleasure and respect when we think what powers and utilities are so meekly worn.
    WD 7.164 8 Tantalus begins to think steam a delusion...
    WD 7.168 21 Remember what boys think in the morning of Election day...
    WD 7.179 25 These passing fifteen minutes, men think, are time, not eternity;...
    Boks 7.190 25 We owe to books those general benefits which come from high intellectual action. Thus, I think, we often owe to them the perception of immortality.
    Boks 7.191 1 Go with mean people and you think life is mean.
    Boks 7.191 24 ...the colleges, whilst they provide us with libraries, furnish no professor of books; and I think no chair is so much wanted.
    Boks 7.197 9 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare...
    Boks 7.204 16 I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
    Boks 7.205 13 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of civilization...and, I think, will be sure to send the reader to his Memoirs of Himself...
    Boks 7.214 24 I do not think [the novel] inoperative now.
    Clbs 7.226 10 Unless there be an argument, [some men] think nothing is doing.
    Clbs 7.226 18 ...the sound of some bells makes us think of the bell merely...
    Clbs 7.234 9 We know beforehand that yonder man must think as we do.
    Clbs 7.236 23 [Dr. Johnson's] obvious religion or superstition, his deep wish that they should think so or so, weighs with [his company]...
    Clbs 7.239 15 Hyde, Earl of Rochester, asked Lord-Keeper Guilford, Do you not think I could understand any business in England in a month?
    Clbs 7.239 18 Hyde, Earl of Rochester, asked Lord-Keeper Guilford, Do you not think I could understand any business in England in a month? Yes, my lord, replied the other, but I think you would understand it better in two months.
    Clbs 7.241 12 We consider those...who think it the highest compliment they can pay a man to deal with him as an intellect...
    Clbs 7.247 23 ...it was explained to me, in a Southern city, that it was impossible to set any public charity on foot unless through a tavern dinner. I do not think our metropolitan charities would plead the same necessity;...
    Cour 7.262 16 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same when I first went out in this way. It was as if an angel spoke to me. ... But I dare not think what would have become of me, if, at that moment, he had scoffed and exposed me.
    Cour 7.266 10 The thoughtful man says...do you not see that I cannot think or act otherwise than I do?...
    Cour 7.275 23 In the most private life, difficult duty is never far off. Therefore we must think with courage.
    Suc 7.288 17 Men see the reward which the inventor enjoys, and they think, How shall we win that?
    Suc 7.290 3 ...Nature utilizes misers, fanatics, show-men, egotists, to accomplish her ends; but we must not think better of the foible for that.
    Suc 7.290 18 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through...wealth by fraud. They think they have got it, but they have got something else...
    Suc 7.291 9 ...I think we shall agree in my first rule for success...
    Suc 7.301 10 Whilst [the moral sensibilities] abide with us we shall not think amiss.
    Suc 7.308 19 I think that some so-called sacred subjects must be treated with more genius than I have seen in the masters of Italian or Spanish art to be right pictures for houses and churches.
    OA 7.321 3 A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty;...
    OA 7.334 6 [John Adams] talked of Whitefield, and remembered when he was a Freshman in College to have come into town to the Old South church (I think) to hear him...
    PI 8.11 7 First the fact; second its impression, or what I think of it.
    PI 8.15 3 I think Hindoo books the best gymnastics for the mind...
    PI 8.16 15 Mountains and oceans we think we understand;...
    PI 8.21 13 I think the use or value of poetry to be the suggestion it affords of the flux or fugaciousness of the poet.
    PI 8.32 5 Chastity, [men of the world] admit, is very well,--but then think of Mirabeau's passion and temperament!
    PI 8.39 10 Men in the courts or in the street think themselves logical and the poet whimsical.
    PI 8.39 11 Do [men] think there is chance or wilfulness in what [the poet] sees and tells?
    PI 8.43 8 I have heard that the Germans think the creator of Trim and Uncle Toby...a greater poet than Cowper...
    PI 8.46 25 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres...you can easily believe these metres to be...derived from the human pulse, and to be therefore not proper to one nation, but to mankind. I think you will also find a charm heroic, plaintive, pathetic, in these cadences...
    PI 8.52 15 ...when we rise into the world of thought, and think of these things [food, fire, our work, tools, and material necessities] only for what they signify, speech refines into order and harmony.
    PI 8.63 22 To true poetry we shall sit down as the result and justification of the age in which it appears, and think lightly of histories and statutes.
    PI 8.67 15 Do you think Burns has had no influence on the life of men and women in Scotland...
    SA 8.79 3 Much ill-natured criticism has been directed on American manners. I do not think it is to be resented.
    SA 8.80 20 I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb cloth woven so fine that it was invisible...must mean manners...
    SA 8.83 1 We think a man unable and desponding. It is only that he is misplaced.
    SA 8.97 13 ...I have seen a man of genius who made me think that if other men were like him cooperation were impossible.
    SA 8.103 22 ...I said to myself, How little this man [an American to be proud of] suspects...that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself. And I think this is a good country that can bear such a creature as he is.
    SA 8.106 10 Another cure [for the disease of sentimentalism] would be to fight fire with fire, to match a sentimentalist with a sentimentalist. I think each might begin to suspect that something was wrong.
    Elo2 8.111 4 I do not know any kind of history, except the event of a battle, to which people listen with more interest than to any anecdote of eloquence; and the wise think it better than a battle.
    Elo2 8.115 8 ...I think every one of us can remember when our first experiences made us for a time the victim and worshipper of the first master of this art [of eloquence] whom we happened to hear in the court-house or in the caucus.
    Elo2 8.116 15 When a good man rises in the cold and malicious assembly, you think, Well, sir, it would be more prudent to be silent;...
    Elo2 8.121 1 ...[a singer] will make any words glorious. I think the like rule holds of the good reader.
    Elo2 8.126 20 Fundamentally all [men] feel alike and think alike...
    Res 8.147 12 ...when fear has once possessed you, God ye good even! You think you are flying towards the poop when you are running towards the prow...
    Res 8.147 14 ...when fear has once possessed you, God ye good even! You think you are flying towards the poop when you are running towards the prow, and for one enemy think you have ten before your eyes...
    Res 8.153 8 ...I think [the mighty law of vegetation] more grateful and health-giving than any news I am likely to find of man in the journals...
    Comc 8.163 13 Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
    Comc 8.168 2 I think there is malice in a very trifling story which goes about...
    QO 8.180 10 Read Tasso, and you think of Virgil;...
    QO 8.180 11 Read Tasso, and you think of Virgil; read Virgil, and you think of Homer...
    QO 8.184 3 ...we find in Southey's Commonplace Book this said of the Earl of Strafford: I learned one rule of him, says Sir G. Radcliffe, which I think worthy to be remembered.
    QO 8.187 24 ...if we learn how old are...the alternate lotus-bud and leaf-stem of our iron fences,-we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    QO 8.190 13 Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust, in another mouth.
    PC 8.216 15 I think I have seen two or three great men who, for that reason, were of no account among scholars.
    PC 8.234 13 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot...doubt that the interests of science, of letters, of politics and humanity, are safe. I think their hands are strong enough to hold up the Republic.
    PPo 8.246 3 Loose the knots of the heart; never think on thy fate:/ No Euclid has yet disentangled that snarl./
    Insp 8.272 25 I think [a thought] comes to some men but once in their life...
    Insp 8.280 15 A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;...he can never think more.
    Insp 8.292 23 Some perceptions-I think the best-are granted to the single soul;...
    Insp 8.294 1 ...it is not [the fact] which signifies, but...what we think of it.
    Grts 8.304 21 Young men think that the manly character requires that they should go to California...
    Grts 8.308 24 ...I think it an essential caution to young writers, that they shall not in their discourse leave out the one thing which the discourse was written to say. Let that belief which you hold alone, have free course.
    Imtl 8.328 3 ...I think we are all aware of a revolution in opinion [concerning immortality].
    Imtl 8.328 18 A wise man in our time caused to be written on his tomb, Think on living.
    Imtl 8.329 16 I think all sound minds rest on a certain preliminary conviction, namely, that if it be best that conscious personal life shall continue, it will continue; if not best, then it will not;...
    Imtl 8.329 25 A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he said;...
    Imtl 8.330 9 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... I avow that I am not so humble as the atheist; I know not how they think, but for me, I do not wish to exchange the idea of immortality against that of the beatitude of one day.
    Imtl 8.334 19 ...I think that the naturalist works not for himself, but for the believing mind...
    Imtl 8.343 19 ...I think that wherever man ripens, this audacious belief [in immortality] presently appears...
    Imtl 8.344 3 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent...
    Imtl 8.344 4 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live;...
    Imtl 8.344 24 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect which pervades Nature...leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a caprice...
    Imtl 8.345 20 ...I think that one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry eyes that run through it will close disappointed;...
    Imtl 8.346 25 You shall not say, O my bishop, O my pastor, is there any resurrection? What do you think?
    Dem1 10.3 21 'T is superfluous to think of the dreams of multitudes...
    Dem1 10.7 16 In a mixed assembly we have chanced to see...the features of the mink, of the bull, of the rat and the barn-door fowl. You think, could the man overlook his own condition, he could not be restrained from suicide.
    Dem1 10.8 21 [Dreams] are the maturation often of opinions not consciously carried out to statements, but whereof we already possessed the elements. Thus, when awake, I know the character of Rupert, but do not think what he may do.
    Dem1 10.16 2 We do not think the young will be forsaken;...
    Dem1 10.26 20 I think the rappings a new test...to try catechisms with.
    Dem1 10.27 16 ...I think the numberless forms in which this superstition [demonology] has reappeared in every time and every people indicates the inextinguishableness of wonder in man;...
    Aris 10.44 3 I think he'll be to Rome/ As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it/ By sovereignty of nature./
    Aris 10.45 26 Dull people think it Fortune that makes one rich and another poor.
    Aris 10.46 1 Dull people think it Fortune that makes one rich and another poor. Is it? Yes, but the fortune was earlier than they think...
    Aris 10.49 14 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...
    Aris 10.54 8 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets...
    Chr2 10.92 12 It were an unspeakable calamity if any one should think he had the right to impose a private will on others.
    Chr2 10.98 4 When I think of Reason, of Truth, of Virtue, I cannot conceive them as lodged in your soul and lodged in my soul...
    Chr2 10.108 19 I think that all the dogmas rest on morals...
    Chr2 10.116 26 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly. In general discourse, they are never obtruded. If the clergyman should travel...he might leave them locked up in the same closet with his occasional sermons at home, and, if he did not return, would never think to send for them.
    Edc1 10.136 18 The old man thinks the young man has no distinct purpose, for he could never get anything intelligible and earnest out of him. Perhaps the young man does not think it worth his while to explain himself to so hard and inapprehensive a confessor.
    Edc1 10.140 5 How we envy in later life the happy youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which frames and sets off their school and college tasks, and teaches them, when least they think of it, the use and meaning of these.
    Edc1 10.154 16 ...only to think of using [simple discipline and the following of nature] implies character and profoundness;...
    Supl 10.166 11 Think how much pains astronomers and opticians have taken to procure an achromatic lens.
    Supl 10.176 8 The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth;...a ground...where they speak and think and do what they must....
    SovE 10.196 5 Shall we attach ourselves violently to our teachers and historical personalities, and think the foundation shaken if any fault is shown in their record?
    SovE 10.196 27 I see...that I have been a pitiful person, because I have wished...to dress and order my whole way and system of living. I thought I managed it very well. I see that my neighbors think so.
    SovE 10.205 17 I do not think the summit of this age truly reached or expressed unless it attain the height which religion and philosophy reached in any former age.
    SovE 10.206 11 It is very sad to see men who think their goodness made of themselves;...
    Prch 10.226 5 ...when we think our feet are planted now at last on adamant, the slide is drawn out from under us.
    Prch 10.229 20 It was said: [The clergy] have bronchitis because they read from their papers sermons with a near voice, and then, looking at the congregation, they try to speak with their far voice, and the shock is noxious. I think they do this, or the converse of this, with their thought.
    Prch 10.231 10 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people... wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. ... It does not signify what [the others] say or think to-day;...
    Prch 10.236 6 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us...think as spirits think, who belong to the universe...
    MoL 10.249 9 ...the Church clung to ritual, and the scholar clung to joy... and thus the separation was a mutual fault. But I think it is a schism which must be healed.
    MoL 10.252 19 Men are as they think...
    Schr 10.262 21 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...Professors of the Joyous Science...
    Schr 10.278 2 I think there is no more intellectual people than ours.
    Schr 10.286 20 I think much may be said to discourage and dissuade the young scholar from his career.
    Schr 10.288 25 [The scholar] shall think very highly of his destiny.
    LLNE 10.330 8 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg; a man of prodigious mind, though as I think tainted with a certain suspicion of insanity...
    LLNE 10.335 26 ...I think the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science;...
    LLNE 10.339 19 ...we then thought, if we do not still think, that [Channing] left no successor in the pulpit.
    LLNE 10.342 13 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to establish certain opinions...
    LLNE 10.346 8 I think [the pilgrim] persisted for two years in his brave practice...
    LLNE 10.359 20 Mr. George Ripley was the President [of the West Roxbury Association], and I think Mr. Charles Dana...was the Secretary.
    LLNE 10.360 13 I think the numbers of this mixed community [at Brook Farm] soon reached eighty or ninety souls.
    LLNE 10.364 1 Hawthorne drew some sketches [of Brook Farm], not happily, as I think;...
    LLNE 10.368 16 The society at Brook Farm existed, I think, about six or seven years...
    LLNE 10.368 22 Some of [the partners] had spent on [Brook Farm] the accumulations of years. I suppose they all, at the moment, regarded it as a failure. I do not think they can so regard it now...
    MMEm 10.399 6 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life. It is a representative life...of an age now past, and of which I think no types survive.
    MMEm 10.403 1 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?
    MMEm 10.414 23 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out this afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me, Even these leaves you use to think my better emblem have lost their charm on me too...
    MMEm 10.416 24 I [Mary Moody Emerson] end days of fine health and cheerfulness without getting upward now. How did I use to think them lost!
    MMEm 10.416 26 If more liberal views of the divine government make me [Mary Moody Emerson] think nothing lost which carries me to His now hidden presence, there may be danger of losing and causing others the loss of that awe and sobriety so indispensable.
    MMEm 10.417 6 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man...whom she respected. The proposal gave her pause and much to think...
    MMEm 10.422 21 To her nephew Charles [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: War; what do I think of it? Why in your ear I think it so much better than oppression that if it were ravaging the whole geography of despotism it would be an omen of high and glorious import.
    SlHr 10.440 18 ...[Samuel Hoar] said it was his practice to pay whatever was demanded; for, though he might think the taxation large and very unequally proportioned, yet he thought the money might as well go in this way as in any other.
    SlHr 10.442 27 [Samuel Hoar's] character made him the conscience of the community in which he lived. And in many a town it was asked, What does Squire Hoar think of this?...
    SlHr 10.448 21 [Samuel Hoar] was as if on terms of honor with those nearest him, nor did he think a lifelong familiarity could excuse any omission of courtesy from him.
    Thor 10.456 17 I love Henry, said one of [Thoreau's] friends, but I cannot like him; and as for taking his arm, I should as soon think of taking the arm of an elm-tree.
    Thor 10.462 18 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau]...proceeded to...select the sound ones. But finding this took time, he said, I think if you put them all into water the good ones will sink;...
    Thor 10.468 23 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord did not grow out of any ignorance or depreciation of other longitudes or latitudes...
    Thor 10.469 3 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of his conviction...that the best place for each is where he stands. He expressed it once in this wise: I think nothing is to be hoped from you, if this bit of mould under your feet is not sweeter to you to eat than any other in this world, or in any world.
    Thor 10.479 2 I think the severity of [Thoreau's] ideal interfered to deprive him of a healthy sufficiency of human society.
    Carl 10.489 3 Thomas Carlyle is...as extraordinary in his conversation as in his writing,-I think even more so.
    Carl 10.492 12 [Carlyle says] I think if [Parliament] would give [the money] to me, to provide the poor with labor, and with authority to make them work or shoot them,-and I to be hanged if I did not do it,-I could find them in plenty of Indian meal.
    GSt 10.505 17 When one remembers...his immovable convictions,-I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    LS 11.10 24 ...when the Jews on that occasion [at Capernaum] complained that they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant, he added...that we might not think his body was to be actually eaten, that he only meant we should live by his commandment.
    LS 11.19 14 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion, and to some it is a painful impediment. ... The statement of this objection leads me to say that I think this difficulty...to be entitled to the greatest weight.
    HDC 11.49 22 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 governments of Europe;...
    HDC 11.63 21 ...the country people came armed into Boston, on the afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April) in such rage and heat, as made us all tremble to think what would follow;...
    HDC 11.70 10 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...
    LVB 11.92 21 Sir [Van Buren], does this government think that the people of the United States are become savage and mad?
    EWI 11.101 5 If there be any man...who would not so much as part with his ice-cream, to save [a race of men] from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.
    EWI 11.118 10 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. He has no love of slavery, but he wants luxury, and he will pay even this price of crime and danger for it. But I think experience does not warrant this favorable distinction...
    EWI 11.127 15 On reviewing this history, I think the whole transaction [emancipation in the West Indies] reflects infinite honor on the people and parliament of England.
    EWI 11.142 27 [The blacks] won the pity and respect which they have received [in the West Indies], by their powers and native endowments. I think this a circumstance of the highest import.
    EWI 11.144 26 All the songs and newspapers and money subscriptions and vituperation of such as do not think with us, will avail nothing against a fact.
    EWI 11.146 11 I doubt not that, sometimes, a despairing negro...has believed there was no vindication of right; it is horrible to think of, but it seemed so.
    War 11.170 15 Men who love that bloated vanity called public opinion think all is well if they have once got their bantling through a sufficient course of speeches and cheerings...
    War 11.174 20 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men...men who have...attained such a perception of their own intrinsic worth that they do not think property or their own body a sufficient good to be saved by such dereliction of principle as treating a man like a sheep.
    War 11.175 7 ...if the rising generation can be provoked to think it unworthy to nestle into every abomination of the past...then war has a short day...
    FSLC 11.181 7 I met the smoothest of Episcopal Clergymen the other day, and allusion being made to Mr. Webster's treachery, he blandly replied, Why, do you know I think that the great action of his life.
    FSLC 11.184 1 I cannot think the most judicious tubing a compensation for metaphysical debility.
    FSLC 11.198 20 These resistances [to the Fugitive Slave Law] appear...in the retributions which speak so loud in every part of this business, that I think a tragic poet will know how to make it a lesson for all ages.
    FSLC 11.202 14 I have as much charity for Mr. Webster, I think, as any one has.
    FSLN 11.221 11 I think [people] looked at [Webster] as the representative of the American Continent.
    FSLN 11.224 18 It is remarked of Americans...that they think they praise a man more by saying that he is smart than by saying that he is right.
    FSLN 11.225 5 ...I have my own opinions on [Webster's] seventh of March discourse and those others, and think them very transparent and very open to criticism...
    FSLN 11.232 7 I too think the musts are a safe company to follow...
    FSLN 11.232 14 Now, Gentlemen, I think we have in this hour instruction again in the simplest lesson.
    FSLN 11.241 5 ...when one sees how fast the rot [of slavery] spreads...I think we demand of superior men that they be superior in this,-that the mind and the virtue shall give their verdict in their day...
    AsSu 11.247 7 I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
    AsSu 11.250 6 I think, sir, if Mr. Sumner had any vices, we should be likely to hear of them.
    AsSu 11.251 9 ...when I think of these most small faults as the worst which party hatred could allege, I think I may borrow the language which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and say that Charles Sumner has the whitest soul I ever knew.
    AsSu 11.251 10 ...I think I may borrow the language which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and say that Charles Sumner has the whitest soul I ever knew.
    AKan 11.257 4 I think we are to give largely, lavishly, to these [Kansas] men.
    AKan 11.258 9 I think there never was a people so choked and stultified by forms.
    AKan 11.260 17 ...can any citizen of the Southern country who happens to think kidnapping a bad thing, say so?
    AKan 11.262 26 I think the American Revolution bought its glory cheap.
    AKan 11.263 8 ...I think the towns should hold town meetings, and resolve themselves into Committees of Safety...
    JBB 11.270 7 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown.
    TPar 11.289 21 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted beyond all men in pulpits-I cannot think of one rival-that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...
    ACiv 11.311 1 ...it is not yet too late to begin the emancipation; but we think it will always be too late to make it gradual.
    EPro 11.317 14 ...great as the popularity of the President [Lincoln] has been, we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    EPro 11.325 15 We think we cannot overstate the wisdom and benefit of this act of the government [the Emancipation Proclamation].
    HCom 11.341 3 ...I think it is not in man to see, without a feeling of pride and pleasure, a tried soldier...
    HCom 11.341 5 I think that in these last years all opinions have been affected by the magnificent and stupendous spectacle which Divine Providence has offered us of the energies that slept in the children of this country...
    HCom 11.344 2 ...when I see how irresistible the convictions of Massachusetts are in these swarming populations,-I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    SMC 11.348 1 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/
    SMC 11.357 24 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army;...
    SMC 11.360 9 [The Civil War soldiers]...have farms, shops, factories, affairs of every kind to think of...
    SMC 11.360 12 [The Civil War soldiers] have to think carefully of every last resource at home on which their wives or mothers may fall back;...
    SMC 11.362 10 At one time [George Prescott] finds his company unfortunate in having fallen between two companies of quite another class,-'t is profanity all the time; yet instead of a bad influence on our men, I think it works the other way,-it disgusts them.
    SMC 11.362 21 [George Prescott writes] This lieutenant seems to think that these men, who never saw a gun, can drill as well as he, who has been at West Point four years.
    SMC 11.365 4 [George Prescott writes] The major had tried to discourage me;-said, perhaps, if I carried [tent-poles] over, some other company would get them;-I told him, perhaps he did not think I was smart.
    SMC 11.369 16 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home. I think we were very fortunate to save it at all...
    SMC 11.371 23 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and centre since the battle begun...and is now building breastworks on the Fredericksburg road. This has been the hardest fight the world ever knew. I think the loss of our army will be forty thousand.
    EdAd 11.389 17 ...we should think our pains well bestowed if we could cure the infatuation of statesmen...
    Koss 11.397 23 ...[the people of Concord] think that the graves of our heroes around us throb to-day to a footstep that sounded like their own...
    Koss 11.400 18 ...it is not those who live idly in the city called after his name, but those who, all over the world, think and act like him, who can claim to explain the sentiment of Washington.
    Wom 11.405 16 I think [women's] words are to be weighed;...
    Wom 11.405 22 ...Coleridge was wont to apply to a lady for her judgment in questions of taste, and accept it; but when she added-I think so, because-Pardon me, madam, he said, leave me to find out the reasons for myself.
    Wom 11.406 2 ...as more delicate mercuries of the imponderable and immaterial influences, what [women] say and think is the shadow of coming events.
    Wom 11.411 17 ...I think [women] should magnify their ritual of manners.
    Wom 11.413 23 The first thing men think of, when they love, is to exhibit their usefulness and advantages to the object of their affection.
    Wom 11.415 22 I think another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg...
    Wom 11.421 16 For their want of intimate knowledge of affairs, I do not think this ought to disqualify [women] from voting at any town-meeting which I ever attended.
    Wom 11.422 1 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    Wom 11.423 3 If the wants, the passions, the vices, are allowed a full vote... I think it but fair that the virtues, the aspirations should be allowed a full vote...
    Wom 11.423 24 ...when I read the list of men of intellect, of refined pursuits...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
    Wom 11.423 26 I do not think it yet appears that women wish this equal share in public affairs.
    Wom 11.425 16 ...I think it impossible to separate the interests and education of the sexes.
    SHC 11.434 16 ...when I think of the mystery of life...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepyy Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...
    SHC 11.434 19 ...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...
    Shak1 11.447 23 We can hardly think of an occasion where so little need be said [as Shakespeare's anniversary].
    Humb 11.458 26 I know that we have been accustomed to think [the Germans] were too good scholars...
    Scot 11.463 13 I think no modern writer has inspired his readers with such affection to his own personality [as Scott].
    FRO1 11.477 12 I think that it does great honor to the sensibility of the committee [of the Free Religious Association] that they have felt the universal demand in the community for just the movement they have begun.
    FRO1 11.477 18 ...I think the necessity [of the Free Religious Association] very great...
    FRO2 11.485 11 I think we have disputed long enough [about religion].
    FRO2 11.485 12 I think we might now relinquish our theological controversies to communities more idle and ignorant than we.
    FRO2 11.485 19 I have no wish to proselyte any reluctant mind, nor, I think, have I any curiosity or impulse to intrude on those whose ways of thinking differ from mine.
    FRO2 11.487 21 I think wise men wish their religion to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...
    FRO2 11.488 8 The point of difference that still remains between churches...is in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat positive and historical. I think that to be...the one difference remaining.
    FRO2 11.490 13 ...you cannot bring me...too penetrating an insight from the Jews. I hail every one with delight, as showing the riches of my brother...who could thus think and thus greatly feel.
    FRO2 11.490 24 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who think it the highest worship to expect of Heaven the most and the best;...
    CPL 11.495 20 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who...make costly gifts to education, civility and culture, as in the act we are met to witness and acknowledge to-day [opening of the Concord Library]. I think we cannot easily overestimate the benefit conferred.
    CPL 11.496 21 I think it is not easy to exaggerate the utility of the beneficence which takes this form [building of a library].
    CPL 11.497 23 The chairman of Mr. [William] Munroe's trustees has told you how old is the foundation of our village library, and we think we can trace in our modest records a correspondent effect of culture amidst our citizens.
    CPL 11.499 24 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] I think that you never enjoy so much as in solitude with a book that meets the feelings...
    CPL 11.501 2 [Thoreau writes] I think the best parts of Shakspeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events.
    CPL 11.502 26 If you sprain your foot, you will presently come to think that Nature has sprained hers.
    CPL 11.503 4 Think how indigent Nature must appear to the blind, the deaf, and the idiot.
    FRep 11.518 21 We do not speak what we think...
    FRep 11.520 4 Our politics are full of adventurers, who...think they can afford to join the devil's party.
    FRep 11.522 21 I think this levity is a reaction on the [American] people from the extraordinary advantages and invitations of their condition.
    FRep 11.533 10 If a temperate wise man should look over our American society, I think the first danger that would excite his alarm would be the European influences on this country.
    FRep 11.544 4 Such and so potent is this high method by which the Divine Providence sends the chiefest benefits under the mask of calamities, that I do not think we shall by any perverse ingenuity prevent the blessing.
    PLT 12.7 12 Seek the literary circles...the men of splendor, of bon-mots, will they afford me satisfaction? I think you could not find a club of men acute and liberal enough in the world.
    PLT 12.13 13 I think metaphysics a grammar to which, once read, we seldom return.
    PLT 12.14 20 I think that philosophy is still rude and elementary.
    PLT 12.33 24 It does not need to pump your brains and force thought to think rightly.
    PLT 12.53 5 I must think this keen sympathy...with which we watch the performance of genius, a sign of our own readiness to exert the like power.
    PLT 12.53 8 I must think we are entitled to powers far transcending any that we possess;...
    PLT 12.62 20 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes.
    PLT 12.63 5 Often there is so little affinity between the man and his works that we think the wind must have writ them.
    II 12.76 18 We shall not think of ourselves too highly.
    II 12.77 5 I think this pathetic,-not to have any wisdom at our own terms...
    II 12.85 10 I think the reason why men fail in their conflicts is because they wear other armor than their own.
    II 12.87 7 I will speak the truth in my heart, or think the truth against what is called God.
    Mem 12.92 13 You say, I can never think of some act of neglect, of selfishness, or of passion without pain.
    Mem 12.100 9 ...men of great presence of mind...can think in this moment as well and deeply as in any past moment...
    Mem 12.100 19 A man would think twice about learning a new science or reading a new paragraph, if he believed...that he lost a word or a thought for every word he gained.
    Mem 12.106 5 Talk of memory and cite me these fine examples of Grotius and Daguesseau, and I think how awful is that power...
    CInt 12.118 20 We should not think it much to beat Indians or Mexicans,- but to beat English!
    CInt 12.121 7 Men are as they think.
    CInt 12.123 10 Will you let me say to you what I think is the organic law of learning? It is to observe the order...
    CInt 12.126 15 ...that which [Harvard College] exists for, to be...a Delphos uttering warning and ravishing oracles to lift and lead mankind,-that it shall not be permitted to do or to think of.
    CInt 12.130 4 My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the heart of Nature. I do not think that you will believe that the miracle of Nature is less...
    CL 12.150 13 I think sometimes how many days could Methuselah go out and find something new!
    CL 12.156 27 I think 't is the best of humanity that goes out to walk.
    CL 12.157 1 In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for this walking.
    CL 12.157 21 Every acquisition we make in the science of beauty is so sweet that I think it is cheaply paid for by what accompanies it, of course, the prating and affectation of connoisseurship.
    CL 12.165 21 If we believed that Nature was...some rock on which souls wandering in the Universe were shipwrecked, we should think all exploration of it frivolous waste of time.
    CW 12.172 19 When I go into a good garden, I think, if it were mine, I should never go out of it.
    CW 12.177 27 I think no pursuit has more breath of immortality in it [than that of the naturalist]..
    Bost 12.185 21 Give me a climate where people think well and construct well,-I will spend six months there, and you may have all the rest of my years.
    Bost 12.187 5 I think the Potomac water is a little acrid...
    Bost 12.202 9 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] Here in the clam-banks and the beech and chestnut forest, I shall take leave to breathe and think freely.
    Milt1 12.252 12 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson...
    Milt1 12.252 22 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say;...
    Milt1 12.253 19 ...we think no man can be named whose mind still acts on the cultivated intellect of England and America with an energy comparable to that of Milton.
    Milt1 12.254 13 ...we think no man in these later ages, and few men ever, possessed so great a conception of the manly character [as Milton].
    Milt1 12.254 26 ...we think it impossible to recall one in those countries [England, France, Germany] who communicates the same vibration of hope, of self-reverence, of piety, of delight in beauty, which the name of Milton awakens.
    ACri 12.286 25 Speak with the vulgar, think with the wise.
    ACri 12.297 23 ...I think of [Carlyle] when I read the famous inscription on the pyramid, I King Saib built this pyramid. I, when I had built it, covered it with satin. Let him who cometh after me, and says he is equal to me, cover it with mats.
    ACri 12.298 4 ...I think the revolution wrought by Carlyle is precisely parallel to that going forward in picture, by the stereoscope.
    ACri 12.298 12 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...
    ACri 12.299 16 ...this book [Carlyle's History of Frederick II] makes no noise. I have hardly seen a notice of it...and you would think there was no such book.
    MLit 12.327 21 We think, when we contemplate the stupendous glory of the world, that it were life enough for one man merely to lift his hands and cry with Saint Augustine, Wrangle who pleases, I will wonder.
    MLit 12.328 20 ...what shall we think of that absence of the moral sentiment, that singular equivalence to him of good and evil in action, which discredit [Goethe's] compositions to the pure?
    MLit 12.333 11 When one of these grand monads is incarnated whom Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think that the old weariness of Europe and Asia, the trivial forms of daily life will now end...
    WSL 12.339 6 Bolivar, Mina and General Jackson will never be greater soldiers than Napoleon and Alexander, let Mr. Landor think as he will;...
    Pray 12.352 17 When I go to visit my friends...I must think of my manner to please them.
    Pray 12.354 12 And next in value, which thy kindness lends,/ That I may greatly disappoint my friends,/ Howe'er they think or hope that it may be,/ They may not dream how thou'st distinguished me./
    AgMs 12.362 3 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth.
    EurB 12.365 20 [Wordsworth's] are such verses as in a just state of culture should be vers de societe, such as every gentleman could write but none would think of printing...
    EurB 12.374 24 ...Mr. Bulwer's recent stories have given us who do not read novels occasion to think of this department of literature...
    PPr 12.382 10 Let no man think himself absolved because he does a generous action...
    Let 12.393 9 ...we think the population is not yet quite fit for [flying-machines]...
    Let 12.394 21 By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity.
    Let 12.402 9 ...least of all should we think a preternatural enlargement of the intellect a calamity.

thinker, n. (20)

    Nat 1.74 18 ...when a faithful thinker...shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew...
    AmS 1.84 8 ...[the scholar] tends to become a mere thinker...
    LT 1.275 25 Here is great variety and richness of mysticism, [which]... when it shall be taken up as the garniture of some profound and all-reconciling thinker, will appear the rich and appropriate decoration of his robes.
    LT 1.283 20 The thinker gives me results...
    Cir 2.308 20 Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
    MoS 4.156 19 [The skeptic says] If there is a wish for immortality, and no evidence, why not say just that? If there are conflicting evidences, why not state them? If there is not ground for a candid thinker to make up his mind, yea or nay,--why not suspend the judgment?
    MoS 4.162 3 ...some stark and sufficient man, who is...sufficiently related to the world to do justice to Paris or London, and, at the same time, a vigorous and original thinker, whom cities can not overawe, but who uses them,--is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    ShP 4.198 20 Every thinker is restrospective.
    ET16 5.273 9 It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker...
    Wsp 6.201 16 A just thinker will allow full swing to his skepticism.
    QO 8.202 1 ...if the thinker feels that the thought most strictly his own is not his own...the oldest thoughts become new and fertile whilst he speaks them.
    Imtl 8.341 7 ...as far as the mechanic or farmer is also a scholar or thinker, his work has no end.
    Imtl 8.341 20 Art is long, says the thinker, and life is short.
    LLNE 10.342 2 ...the men of talent complained of the want of point and precision in this abstract and religious thinker [Alcott].
    Shak1 11.450 19 ...[Shakespeare] is the most robust and potent thinker that ever was.
    CPL 11.503 25 Every one of us is always in search of his friend, and when unexpectedly he finds a stranger enjoying the rare poet or thinker who is dear to his own solitude,-it is like finding a brother.
    CPL 11.507 4 You meet with...a good thinker or good wit,-but you do not know how to draw out of him that which he knows.
    PLT 12.17 16 Every just thinker has attempted to indicate these degrees [of Intellect]...
    PLT 12.61 13 ...the clear-headed thinker complains of souls led hither and thither by affections...
    PPr 12.379 12 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a powerful and accomplished thinker...

Thinker, n. (1)

    SR 2.60 23 ...there is a great responsible Thinker and Actor working wherever a man works;...

thinkers, n. (10)

    AmS 1.89 7 Books are written on [a book] by thinkers...
    LT 1.265 24 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in Greek or Roman fame might appear;...subtle thinkers...
    Tran 1.329 13 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists;...
    PPh 4.40 12 ...the thinkers of all civilized nations are [Plato's] posterity...
    Pow 6.58 24 Society is a troop of thinkers...
    Cour 7.275 24 Scholars and thinkers are prone to an effeminate habit...
    QO 8.199 14 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached through all thinkers, poets, inventors and wits...
    MoL 10.252 11 Gentlemen, I am here to commend to you your art and profession as thinkers.
    FSLN 11.218 10 ...who are the readers and thinkers of 1854?
    ACri 12.284 1 ...the transformation of the laborer into reader and writer has compelled the learned and the thinkers to address them.

thinkest, v. (1)

    DSA 1.129 4 [Jesus] said...Would you see God, see me; or see thee, when thou also thinkest as I now think.

thinketh, v. (1)

    ET14 5.240 14 If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied;...

thinking, adj. (4)

    SR 2.84 20 What a contrast between the...thinking American...and the naked New Zealander...
    Imtl 8.344 3 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent...
    Prch 10.232 5 ...we are not thinking machines...
    FRep 11.513 8 ...it is not...the whole magazine of material nature that can give the sum of power, but the infinite applicability of these things in the hands of thinking man...

Thinking, Man, n. (6)

    AmS 1.84 6 In the right state [the scholar] is Man Thinking.
    AmS 1.84 10 In this view of him, as Man Thinking, the theory of [the scholar's] office is contained.
    AmS 1.89 8 Books are written on [a book] by thinkers, not by Man Thinking;...
    AmS 1.89 17 ...instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm.
    AmS 1.91 10 Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments.
    AmS 1.100 16 [The scholar's duties] are such as become Man Thinking.

thinking, n. (27)

    AmS 1.84 9 ...[the scholar] tends to become...the parrot of other men's thinking.
    LT 1.275 12 A great deal of the profoundest thinking of antiquity...is now re-appearing in extracts and allusions...
    LT 1.283 19 Thinking, which was a rage, is become an art.
    Tran 1.340 11 The extraordinary profoundness and precision of that man's [Kant's] thinking have given vogue to his nomenclature...
    Hist 2.23 19 ...every thing is in turn intelligible to [the individual], as his onward thinking leads him into the truth to which that fact or series belongs.
    Int 2.346 11 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat...so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
    NR 3.245 8 We must reconcile the contradictions [between the end and the means] as we can, but their discord and their concord introduce wild absurdities into our thinking and speech.
    PPh 4.59 10 [Plato] has finished his thinking before he brings it to the reader...
    PPh 4.61 5 [Plato] is a great average man; one who, to the best thinking, adds a proportion and equality in his faculties...
    SwM 4.122 20 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him all day, accompanied him...into his thinking...
    SwM 4.124 17 ...what is real and universal cannot be confined to the circle of those who sympathize strictly with [Swedenborg's] genius, but will pass forth into the common stock of wise and just thinking.
    SwM 4.129 26 Whether from a self-inquisitorial habit that he grew into from jealousy of the sins to which men of thought are liable, [Swedenborg] has acquired, in disentangling and demonstrating that particular form of moral disease, an acumen which no conscience can resist. I refer to his feeling of the profanation of thinking to what is good, from scientifics.
    MoS 4.153 27 The inconvenience of this [sensual] way of thinking is that it runs into indifferentism and then into disgust.
    ET3 5.35 20 ...an American has more reasons than another to draw him to Britain. In all that is done or begun by the Americans towards right thinking or practice, we are met by a civilization already settled and overpowering.
    DL 7.106 25 ...Pilgrim's Progress...what a wardrobe to dress the whole world withal, are in this encyclopaedia of young thinking!
    DL 7.116 27 [The reform that applies itself to the household] must come with plain living and high thinking;...
    Boks 7.200 9 [The reader] will read in [Plutarch's Morals] the essays On the Daemon of Socrates...On Love; and thank anew...the cheerful domain of ancient thinking.
    PPo 8.264 24 So remained [the birds], sunk in wonder,/ Thoughtless in deepest thinking,/ And quite unconscious of themselves./ Speechless prayed they to the Highest/ To open this secret,/ And to unlock Thou and We./
    Imtl 8.332 25 Where there is depravity there is a slaughter-house style of thinking.
    Edc1 10.137 17 ...there is a perpetual hankering to violate this individuality, to warp [the new man's] ways of thinking and behavior to resemble or reflect your thinking and behavior.
    SovE 10.200 17 A fatal disservice does this Swedenborg or other who offers to do my thinking for me.
    Thor 10.477 21 ...the same isolation which belonged to his original thinking and living detached [Thoreau] from the social religious forms.
    FRep 11.527 22 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears in...the freedom of thinking...
    ACri 12.300 17 To make of motes mountains, and of mountains motes, Isocrates said, was the orator's office. Well, that is what poetry and thinking do.
    MLit 12.326 22 ...[Goethe's] thinking is of great altitude, and all level;...
    MLit 12.327 5 It is all design with [Goethe], just...analogies, allusion, illustration, which knowledge and correct thinking supply;...
    PPr 12.379 20 ...the topic of English politics becomes the best vehicle for the expression of [Carlyle's] recent thinking...

thinking, v. (66)

    Nat 1.11 3 [The waving of the boughs'] effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly...
    AmS 1.99 7 Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary.
    AmS 1.99 13 Thinking is a partial act.
    MR 1.249 14 ...if...a woman or a child discovers...a juster way of thinking than mine, I ought to confess it by my respect and obedience...
    LT 1.285 25 The revolutions that impend over society are...from new modes of thinking...
    Tran 1.330 3 These two modes of thinking [Materialism and Idealism] are both natural...
    Tran 1.330 4 ...the idealist contends that his way of thinking is in higher nature.
    Tran 1.339 14 This [Transcendental] way of thinking, falling on Roman times, made Stoic philosophers;...
    YA 1.375 19 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter.
    SL 2.142 15 If the labor is mean, let [a man] by his thinking and character make it liberal.
    Hsm1 2.253 7 Citizens, thinking after the laws of arithmetic, consider the inconvenience of receiving strangers at their fireside...
    Int 2.327 22 Long prior to the age of reflection is the thinking of the mind.
    Int 2.328 19 Our thinking is a pious reception.
    Int 2.330 25 Every man...finds his curiosity inflamed concerning the modes of living and thinking of other men...
    Exp 3.59 15 Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.
    Chr1 3.103 7 We have no pleasure in thinking of a benevolence that is only measured by its works.
    Pol1 3.216 14 [The wise man] needs no library, for he has not done thinking;...
    NER 3.266 21 The world is awaking to the idea of union, and these experiments [of association] show what it is thinking of.
    SwM 4.105 27 ...the Economy of the Animal Kingdom is one of those books which, by the sustained dignity of thinking, is an honor to the human race.
    GoW 4.272 27 In the menstruum of this man's [Goethe's] wit, the past and the present ages, and their religions, politics and modes of thinking, are dissolved into archetypes and ideas.
    ET1 5.14 6 Going out, [Coleridge] showed me...a picture of Allston's, and told me that Montague, a picture-dealer, once came to see him, and glancing towards this, said, Well, you have got a picture! thinking it the work of an old master;...
    ET3 5.43 26 For the English nation, the best of them are in the centre of all Christians, because they have interior intellectual light. This appears conspicuously in the spiritual world. This light they derive from the liberty of speaking and writing, and thereby of thinking.
    ET7 5.124 12 The old Italian author of the Relation of England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when the war is actually raging most furiously, [the English] will seek for good eating and all their other comforts, without thinking what harm might befall them.
    ET13 5.222 15 The most sensible and well-informed [English] men possess the power of thinking just so far as the bishop in religious matters...
    ET14 5.258 27 I am not surprised...to find an Englishman like Warren Hastings, who had been struck with the grand style of thinking in the Indian writings, deprecating the prejudices of his countrymen while offering them a translation of the Bhagvat.
    Pow 6.73 5 Ah! said a brave painter to me, thinking on these things, if a man has failed, you will find he has dreamed instead of working.
    Wth 6.97 21 The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men on thinking how certain civilizing benefits...can be enjoyed by all.
    Ctr 6.135 10 Though [men] talk of the object before them, they are thinking of themselves...
    Ctr 6.149 5 ...though [Thomas Hobbes] conceived he could order his thinking as well as another, yet he found a great defect.
    Ctr 6.158 11 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis.
    Bhr 6.183 9 In Notre Dame, the grandee took his place on the dias with the look of one who is thinking of something else.
    Wsp 6.203 6 Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a web. If they were more refined...it would be nervous, like that of the Shakers, who, from long habit of thinking and feeling together, it is said are affected in the same way and the same time, to work and to play;...
    Wsp 6.229 10 When the parent, instead of thinking how it really is, puts them off with a traditional or a hypocritical answer, the children perceive that it is traditional or hypocritical.
    Bty 6.288 19 The question of Beauty takes us out of surfaces to thinking of the foundations of things.
    Elo1 7.81 7 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?... No, he defies any one, every one. Ah! he is thinking of resistance, and of a different turn from his own.
    Boks 7.189 9 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus; not thinking he has done anything extraordinary...
    PI 8.15 14 All thinking is analogizing...
    PI 8.69 1 Vexatious to find poets, who are by excellence the thinking and feeling of the world, deficient in truth of intellect and of affection.
    PI 8.75 8 ...the involuntary part of [men's] life is so much as to...leave them no countenance to say aught of what is so trivial as their selfish thinking and doing.
    SA 8.87 23 [The young European emigrant's] good and becoming clothes put him on thinking that he must behave like people who are so dressed;...
    SA 8.103 26 The young men in America at this moment take little thought of what men in England are thinking or doing.
    QO 8.199 11 ...does it not look as if we men were thinking and talking out of an enormous antiquity...
    PC 8.219 18 Michel Angelo is thinking of Da Vinci, and Raffaelle is thinking of Michel Angelo.
    PPo 8.241 14 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built...a palace, of which the floor or pavement was of glass, laid over running water, in which fish were swimming. The Queen of Sheba...raised her robes, thinking she was to pass through the water.
    Grts 8.304 4 A sensible person will soon see the folly and wickedness of thinking to please.
    Grts 8.309 26 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. Very well,-I let it lie, thinking it may pass away...
    Imtl 8.351 16 [Yama said to Nachiketas] The wise, by means of the union of the intellect with the soul, thinking him whom it is hard to behold, leaves both grief and joy.
    Imtl 8.351 27 Thinking the soul as unbodily among bodies, firm among fleeting things, the wise man casts off all grief.
    Chr2 10.101 18 I am in the habit of thinking...that to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him...
    Edc1 10.137 16 ...there is a perpetual hankering to violate this individuality, to warp [the new man's] ways of thinking and behavior to resemble or reflect your thinking and behavior.
    Edc1 10.137 26 I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul...
    Edc1 10.151 11 Is it not manifest...that wise men thinking for themselves... should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life;...
    Supl 10.179 3 The Northern genius finds itself singularly refreshed and stimulated by the breadth and luxuriance of Eastern imagery and modes of thinking...
    Schr 10.277 14 I like to see a man...who wins all souls to his way of thinking.
    EzRy 10.381 16 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father wished him to be qualified to teach a grammar school, not thinking himself able to send one son to college without injury to his other children.
    MMEm 10.428 23 [Mary Moody Emerson] made up her shroud...and she thinking it a pity to let it lie idle, wore it as a night-gown, or a day-gown...
    GSt 10.507 21 ...there is to my mind somewhat so absolute in the action of a good man that we do not, in thinking of him, so much as make any question of the future.
    EWI 11.123 16 The national aim and employment streams into our ways of thinking...
    SMC 11.357 15 At a halt in the march, a few of our boys were sitting on a rail fence, talking together whether it was right to sacrifice themselves. One of them said, he had been thinking a good deal about it, last night, and he thought one was never too young to die for a principle.
    Wom 11.418 15 Men taunt [women] that, whatever they do, say, read or write, they are thinking of themselves...
    Wom 11.421 22 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen are willing to take on themselves the trouble of thinking and determining for you...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    FRO2 11.485 21 I have no wish to proselyte any reluctant mind, nor, I think, have I any curiosity or impulse to intrude on those whose ways of thinking differ from mine.
    PLT 12.10 15 What is life but what a man is thinking of all day?
    Mem 12.94 8 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza. But where I have them, or what becomes of them when I am not thinking of them...never any man...could turn himself inside out quick enough to find.
    ACri 12.283 3 Literature is but a poor trick...when it busies itself to make words pass for things; and yet I am far from thinking this subordinate service unimportant.
    EurB 12.368 13 [Wordsworth] once for all forsook the styles and standards and modes of thinking of London and Paris...

thinkings, n. (1)

    MN 1.196 1 As our soils and rocks lie in strata...so do all men's thinkings run laterally...

thinks, v. (114)

    Nat 1.61 22 Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.
    AmS 1.99 1 The mind now thinks, now acts...
    AmS 1.103 7 ...the instinct is sure, that prompts [the scholar] to tell his brother what he thinks.
    DSA 1.148 22 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...a certain solidity of merit...which is so essentially and manifestly virtue, that... nobody thinks of commending it.
    LE 1.155 23 ...the scholar by every thought he thinks extends his dominion into the general mind of men...
    LE 1.169 14 ...the broad, cold lowland...where the traveller...thinks with pleasing terror of the distant town; this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    MR 1.230 12 Behold, State Street thinks...
    Con 1.299 13 ...[conservatism] thinks there is a general law without a particular application...
    Tran 1.356 23 ...[these old guardians] have but one mood on the subject, namely, that Antony is very perverse,-that it is quite as much as Antony can do to...abstain from what he thinks foolish...
    Hist 2.8 7 I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age...has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.
    SR 2.57 23 ...to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again...
    Comp 2.106 1 ...[the unwise man] sees the mermaid's head but not the dragon's tail, and thinks he can cut off that which he would have from that which he would not have.
    SL 2.133 23 The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues the better we like him.
    SL 2.142 16 Whatever [a man] knows and thinks...that let him communicate...
    SL 2.145 3 What your heart thinks great, is great.
    OS 2.277 20 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer. They all become wiser than they were. It arches over them like a temple, this unity of thought in which every heart...thinks and acts with unusual solemnity.
    Cir 2.315 8 Geoffrey draws on his boots to go through the woods, that his feet may be safer from the bite of snakes; Aaron never thinks of such a peril.
    Cir 2.316 2 One man thinks justice consists in paying debts...
    Exp 3.50 24 Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown...if he...thinks of his dollar?...
    Exp 3.78 13 ...every man thinks a latitude safe for himself which is nowise to be indulged to another.
    Pol1 3.211 15 ...one foreign observer thinks he has found the safeguard in the sanctity of Marriage among us;...
    Pol1 3.211 16 ...one foreign observer thinks he has found the safeguard in the sanctity of Marriage among us; and another thinks he has found it in our Calvinism.
    NR 3.238 15 The recluse thinks of men as having his manner, or as not having his manner;...
    NR 3.238 22 In his childhood and youth [the recluse] has had many checks and censures, and thinks modestly enough of his own endowment.
    NR 3.240 24 ...[the great genius] thinks we wish to belong to him, as he wishes to occupy us.
    UGM 4.11 15 ...the chemic lump...arrives at the man, and thinks.
    PPh 4.76 21 One man thinks [Plato] means this, and another that;...
    SwM 4.122 11 [Swedenborg's] religion thinks for him and is of universal application.
    SwM 4.137 10 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come...
    SwM 4.137 20 ...he does not know what evil is, or what good is, who thinks any ground remains to be occupied, after saying that evil is to be shunned as evil.
    MoS 4.151 25 The trade in our streets...thinks nothing of the force which necessitated traders and a trading planet to exist...
    MoS 4.153 23 My neighbor, a jolly farmer, in the tavern bar-room, thinks that the use of money is sure and speedy spending.
    MoS 4.166 13 [Montaigne]...is so nervous, by factitious life, that he thinks the more barbarous man is, the better he is.
    ShP 4.201 5 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men. In the composition of such works the time thinks...
    ShP 4.201 6 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men. In the composition of such works the time thinks, the market thinks...
    ET1 5.19 19 [Wordsworth] thinks more of the education of circumstances than of tuition.
    ET4 5.44 18 ...Mr. Pickering, who lately in our [Wilkes] Exploring Expedition thinks he saw all the kinds of men that can be on the planet, makes eleven [races].
    ET5 5.77 21 A man of that [English] brain thinks and acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of brain...thinks the same thing...
    ET5 5.77 24 A man of that [English] brain thinks and acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of brain...thinks the same thing...
    ET5 5.89 20 A nation of laborers, every [English] man is trained to some one art or detail, and aims at perfection in that; not content unless he has something in which he thinks he surpasses all other men.
    ET8 5.127 23 [The police in England] thinks itself bound in duty to respect the pleasures and rare gayety of this inconsolable nation;...
    ET9 5.147 24 ...[the Englishman] thinks every circumstance belonging to him comes recommended to you.
    ET12 5.212 3 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a book, can consult it...
    ET13 5.214 12 A youth marries in haste; afterwards...he is asked what he thinks of the institution of marriage...
    ET14 5.247 2 Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the poor thing in his universe,--more's the pity, he thinks...
    ET14 5.247 11 [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;...
    ET14 5.248 16 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a mistake.
    ET15 5.268 26 ...[the English] like [the London Times]...above all, for the nationality and confidence of its tone. It thinks for them all;...
    ET16 5.274 11 Art and high art is a favorite target for [Carlyle's] wit. Yes, Kunst is a great delusion, and Goethe and Schiller wasted a great deal of good time on it:--and he thinks he discovers that old Goethe found this out...
    ET16 5.274 16 [Carlyle] wishes to go through the British Museum in silence, and thinks a sincere man will see something and say nothing.
    ET17 5.295 6 Tennyson [Wordsworth] thinks a right poetic genius, though with some affectation.
    F 6.23 9 So far as a man thinks, he is free.
    F 6.40 1 [Man] thinks his fate alien, because the copula is hidden.
    Pow 6.78 21 A humorous friend of mine thinks that the reason why Nature is so perfect in her art, and gets up such inconceivably fine sunsets, is that she has learned how, at last, by dint of doing the same thing so very often.
    Wth 6.91 1 ...Wall Street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word...
    Wth 6.93 16 Columbus thinks that the sphere is a problem for practical navigation as well as for closet geometry...
    Wth 6.120 2 ...[Mr. Cockayne] thinks a cow is a creature that is fed on hay and gives a pail of milk twice a day.
    Wth 6.122 26 ...the man who is to level the ground thinks it will take many hundred loads of gravel to fill the hollow to the road.
    Wth 6.123 1 The stone-mason who should build the well thinks he shall have to dig forty feet;...
    Wth 6.124 19 ...Hotspur thinks it a superiority in himself, this improvidence, which ought to be rewarded with Furlong's lands.
    Bhr 6.175 17 ...perhaps the ambitious youth thinks he has got the whole secret when he has learned that disengaged manners are commanding.
    Wsp 6.220 20 A man does not see that as he eats, so he thinks;...
    Wsp 6.226 15 ...no man thinks alone and no man acts alone...
    SS 7.12 12 A cold sluggish blood thinks it has not facts enough to the purpose...
    Art2 7.37 22 The man not only thinks, but speaks and acts.
    Elo1 7.74 16 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive...though it be...nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly;...
    Elo1 7.81 4 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?--for example...if he is penurious, to squander money for some purpose he now least thinks of...
    DL 7.124 16 ...we soon catch the trick of each man's conversation, and knowing his two or three main facts, anticipate what he thinks of each new topic that rises.
    WD 7.163 25 [Tantalus] is now in great spirits; thinks he shall reach it yet;...
    WD 7.163 25 [Tantalus] is now in great spirits;...thinks he shall bottle the wave.
    WD 7.165 3 ...the political economist thinks 't is doubtful if all the mechanical inventions that ever existed have lightened the day's toil of one human being.
    OA 7.332 24 [John Adams said] I have lived now nearly a century (he was ninety in the following October); a long, harassed and distracted life. I said, The world thinks a good deal of joy has been mixed with it.
    PI 8.13 19 ...if the elm-tree thinks the same thing, if running water, if burning coal...say what I say, it must be true.
    PI 8.28 14 Lear...thinks every man who suffers must have the like cause with his own.
    PI 8.56 12 Gray avows that he thinks even a bad verse as good a thing or better than the best observation that was ever made on it.
    Res 8.142 9 Resources of America! why, one thinks of Saint-Simon's saying, The Golden Age is not behind, but before you.
    QO 8.191 17 Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage.
    QO 8.202 21 When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses.
    PC 8.219 25 McKay, the shipbuilder, thinks of George Steers; and Steers, of Pook, the naval constructor.
    PPo 8.246 15 Riot, [Hafiz] thinks, can snatch from the deeply hidden lot the veil that covers it...
    Insp 8.293 12 Homer said, When two come together, one apprehends before the other; but it is because one thought well that the other thinks better...
    Aris 10.34 9 If one thinks of the interest which all men have in beauty of character and manners;...certainly, if culture, if laws...could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...
    Edc1 10.136 15 The old man thinks the young man has no distinct purpose...
    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.
    Supl 10.168 17 ...the old head, after deceiving and being deceived many times, thinks, What's the use of having to unsay to-day what I said yesterday?
    SovE 10.210 23 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another...the respect he feels for one who thinks life is quite too coarse and frivolous...
    Plu 10.307 21 [Plutarch] thinks that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction;...
    Plu 10.307 24 [Plutarch] thinks that Alexander invaded Persia with greater assistance from Aristotle than from his father Philip.
    Plu 10.307 26 [Plutarch] thinks that he who has ideas of his own is a bad judge of another man's...
    Plu 10.313 23 [Plutarch] thinks it impossible either that a man beloved of the gods should not be happy, or that a wise and just man should not be beloved of the gods.
    Plu 10.314 23 [Plutarch] thinks that the inhabitants of Asia came to be vassals to one, only for not having been able to pronounce one syllable; which is, No.
    Plu 10.315 2 At Rome [Plutarch] thinks [Fortune's] wings were clipped...
    Plu 10.315 4 [Plutarch] thinks it was by superior virtue that Alexander won his battles in Asia and Africa...
    Carl 10.491 15 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he is a Scotchman who thinks English national character has a pure enthusiasm for beef and mutton...
    Carl 10.491 23 [Young men] wish freedom of the press, and [Carlyle] thinks the first thing he would do, if he got into Parliament, would be to turn out the reporters...
    Carl 10.494 15 ...if, after Guizot had been a tool of Louis Philippe for years, he is now to come and write essays on the character of Washington... and on Philsophy of History, [Carlyle] thinks that nothing.
    Carl 10.496 3 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education indurates the young men...
    Carl 10.496 18 ...Carlyle thinks that the only religious act which a man nowadays can securely perform is to wash himself well.
    Carl 10.497 11 [Carlyle] thinks it the only question for wise men...to address themselves to the problem of society.
    LS 11.7 3 Jesus is a Jew, sitting with his countrymen, celebrating their national feast [the Passover]. He thinks of his own impending death...
    EWI 11.101 1 If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of his own comfort...I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.
    EWI 11.122 8 ...each age thinks its own [civility] the perfection of reason.
    EWI 11.126 1 ...[slavery] does not love...a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks;...
    FSLC 11.181 26 ...a man looks gloomily at his children, and thinks, What have I done that you should begin life in dishonor?
    AsSu 11.251 26 Let [Charles Sumner] hear...that every mother thinks of him as the protector of families;...
    AsSu 11.252 1 Let [Charles Sumner] hear...that every friend of freedom thinks him the friend of freedom.
    FRO2 11.489 18 Whoever thinks a story gains by the prodigious...robs it more than he adds.
    CPL 11.502 17 The very language we speak thinks for us by the subtle distinctions which already are marked for us by its words...
    PLT 12.62 21 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes.
    CL 12.133 1 The air is wise, the wind thinks well,/ And all through which it blows;/...
    CL 12.153 24 On the seashore the play of the Atlantic with the coast! What wealth is here! Every wave is a fortune; one thinks of Etzlers and great projectors who will yet turn all this waste strength to account...
    Bost 12.198 25 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...
    ACri 12.295 5 My friend thinks the reason why the French mind is so shallow...is because they do not read Shakspeare;...
    ACri 12.302 16 [Channing] thinks Egypt a humbug...

thinly, adv. (2)

    Hist 2.30 16 Beside its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Europe (the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic arts and the migration of colonies,) [the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion...
    Clbs 7.224 2 Too long shut in strait and few,/ Thinly dieted on dew,/ I will use the world, and sift it,/ To a thousand humors shift it./

thinness, n. (4)

    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!
    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;...
    SS 7.7 8 One protects himself [from society] by solitude...and one by an acid, worldly manner,--each concealing how he can the thinness of his skin...
    Elo1 7.67 22 When each auditor...shudders with cold at the thinness of the morning audience...mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable.

thinnest, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.180 6 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken, and the first lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil...

thinning, v. (1)

    MR 1.235 24 Who could regret to see...a purer taste...thinning the ranks of competition in the labors of commerce...

thins, v. (1)

    PLT 12.15 26 Not having enough [thought] to support all the powers of a race, [Nature] thins all her stock...

third, adj. (53)

    Nat 1.25 1 Language is a third use which Nature subserves to man.
    MN 1.200 18 This refers to that, and that to the next, and the next to the third, and everything refers.
    MN 1.219 15 What brought the pilgrims here? One man says, civil liberty;... and a third discovers that the motive force was plantation and trade.
    Comp 2.119 3 There is a third silent party to all our bargains.
    Prd1 2.222 25 A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified;...
    Prd1 2.223 1 The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the third, spiritual perception.
    OS 2.277 9 In all conversation between two persons tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature.
    OS 2.277 10 In all conversation between two persons tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social;...
    OS 2.287 18 The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...or perhaps as acquainted with the fact on the evidence of third persons.
    Mrs1 3.146 7 ...there is still...some fanatic who plants shade-trees for the second and third generation...
    PPh 4.59 1 One would say [Plato] had read the inscription on the gates of Busyrane,--Be bold; and on the second gate,--Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold; and then again had paused well at the third gate,--Be not too bold.
    MoS 4.155 1 The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely.
    ShP 4.195 11 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI....
    ShP 4.207 20 The forest of Arden...the antres vast and desarts idle of Othello's captivity,--where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
    GoW 4.286 3 An intellectual man can see himself as a third person;...
    ET1 5.12 21 ...I proceeded to inquire [of Coleridge] if the extract from the Independent's pamphlet, in the third volume of the Friend, were a veritable quotation.
    ET1 5.22 18 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire sonnets with great animation. I fancied the second and third more beautiful than his poems are wont to be.
    ET1 5.22 20 [Wordsworth's] third [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] is addressed to the flowers...
    ET14 5.236 16 There is a...closeness to the matter in hand, even in the second and third class of [English] writers;...
    ET15 5.269 11 One bishop fares badly [in the London Times] for his rapacity, and another for his bigotry, and a third for his courtliness.
    ET16 5.276 26 Stonehenge is a circular colonnade...enclosing a second and a third colonnade within.
    Wth 6.115 9 [The pale scholar] stoops to pull up a purslain or a dock that is choking the young corn, and finds there are two; close behind the last is a third;...
    Elo1 7.61 11 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... ...a third needs an antagonist, or a hot indignation;...
    DL 7.123 7 Every one was eager to try [the fairy cloak] on, but it would fit nobody: for one it was a world too wide, for the next it dragged on the ground, and for the third it shrunk to a scarf.
    DL 7.125 6 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea;... in a third, his journey to the West...
    Farm 7.149 26 The town of Concord is one of the oldest towns in this country, far on now in its third century.
    WD 7.178 14 A third illusion haunts us, that a long duration...is valuable.
    Boks 7.221 8 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry; a third on the Saxon Chronicles...
    Clbs 7.242 2 Even Montesquieu confessed that in conversation, if he perceived he was listened to by a third person, it seemed to him from that moment the whole question vanished from his mind.
    Cour 7.255 6 The third excellence is courage...
    OA 7.326 20 A third felicity of age is that it has found expression.
    PI 8.24 21 ...the beholding and co-energizing mind sees the same refining and ascent to the third, the seventh or the tenth power of the daily accidents which the senses report...
    PI 8.38 24 ...there is a third step which poetry takes...namely, creation...
    QO 8.200 9 ...every individual is only a momentary fixation of what was yesterday another's, is to-day his and will belong to a third to-morrow.
    PPo 8.240 17 Solomon had three talismans...the third, the east wind, which was his horse.
    Imtl 8.349 22 For the second boon, Nachiketas asks that the fire by which heaven is gained be made known to him; which also Yama allows, and says, Choose the third boon, O Nachiketas!
    Imtl 8.349 26 Nachiketas said [to Yama], there is this inquiry. Some say the soul exists after the death of man; others say it does not exist. This I should like to know, instructed by thee. Such is the third of the boons.
    PerF 10.69 3 The hero in the fairy-tales has a servant who can eat granite rocks...and a third who can run a hundred leagues in half an hour;...
    Edc1 10.146 11 ...[Fellowes]...at last in his third visit [to Xanthus] brought home to England such statues and marble reliefs and such careful plans that he was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...
    CSC 10.373 15 In March [1841]...a three-day' session [of the Chardon Street Convention] was holden in the same place, on the subject of the Church, and a third meeting fixed for the following November...
    SlHr 10.440 27 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which...left an infantile innocence, of which we have no second or third example...
    Thor 10.483 9 Fire is the most tolerable third party.
    HDC 11.29 2 Fellow Citizens: The town of Concord begins, this day, the third century of its history.
    FSLN 11.228 15 ...when allusion was made to the question of duty and the sanctions of morality, [Webster] very frankly said, at Albany, Some higher law, something existing somewhere between here and the third heaven,-I do not know where.
    AsSu 11.250 23 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken;...
    SMC 11.371 9 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a few days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and run in circles to keep themselves from being frozen. On the third of December, they went into winter quarters.
    SMC 11.371 15 On the third of May, [the Thirty-second Regiment] crossed the Rapidan for the fifth time.
    SMC 11.372 7 On the thirtieth, we learn, our regiment [the Thirty-second] has never been in the second line since we crossed the Rapidan, on the third.
    Wom 11.421 14 Here are two or three objections [to women's voting]: first, a want of practical wisdom; second, a too purely ideal view; and, third, the danger of contamination.
    FRep 11.538 1 Ours is the age...of the third person plural...
    PLT 12.25 22 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line.
    PLT 12.58 4 [People] entertain us for a time, but at the second or third encounter we have nothing more to learn.
    Bost 12.189 6 On the 3d of November, 1620, King James incorporated forty of his subjects...the council...for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in America.

Third Estate, n. (2)

    AmS 1.89 21 Hence the book-learned class, who value books...as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul.
    ACri 12.283 22 The decline of the privileged orders, all over the world; the advance of the Third Estate; the transformation of the laborer into reader and writer has compelled the learned and the thinkers to address them.

third, n. (2)

    YA 1.364 13 ...this invention [the railroad] has reduced England to a third of its size...
    ET10 5.156 27 Lord Burleigh writes to his son that one ought never to devote more than two thirds of his income to the ordinary expenses of life, since the extraordinary will be certain to absorb the other third.

thirdly, adv. (2)

    QO 8.183 14 Thirty years ago...you might often hear cited as Mr. Webster' s three rules...thirdly, never to pay any debt to-day.
    PLT 12.15 10 Thirdly I proceed to the fountains of thought in Instinct and Inspiration...

third-rate, adj. (1)

    QO 8.197 20 ...James Hogg...is but a third-rate author...

thirds, n. (3)

    ET10 5.156 24 Lord Burleigh writes to his son that one ought never to devote more than two thirds of his income to the ordinary expenses of life...
    Bty 6.296 10 To Eve, say the Mahometans, God gave two thirds of all beauty.
    Trag 12.405 3 As the salt sea covers more than two thirds of the surface of the globe, so sorrow encroaches in man on felicity.

thirst, n. (18)

    MR 1.256 19 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to cast all things behind, in the insatiable thirst for divine communications.
    Nat2 3.171 7 ...as water to our thirst, so is the rock, the ground, to our eyes and hands and feet.
    Nat2 3.190 8 Hunger and thirst lead us on to eat and to drink;...
    ET11 5.197 11 All the barriers to rank [in England] only whet the thirst and enhance the prize.
    Wth 6.89 11 The same correspondence that is between thirst in the stomach and water in the spring, exists between the whole of man and the whole of nature.
    Wth 6.96 1 The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth;...
    Elo1 7.95 16 ...wherever the fresh moral sentiment, the instinct of freedom and duty, come in direct opposition to fossil conservatism and the thirst of gain, the spark will pass.
    WD 7.163 21 Tantalus, who in old times was seen vainly trying to quench his thirst with a flowing stream which ebbed whenever he approached it, has been seen again lately.
    Suc 7.287 10 The ancient Norse ballads describe [the Norseman] as afflicted with this inextinguishable thirst of victory.
    OA 7.324 27 To secure strength, [Nature] plants cruel hunger and thirst...
    Thor 10.475 1 [Thoreau] could not be deceived as to the presence or absence of the poetic element in any composition, and his thirst for this made him negligent and perhaps scornful of superficial graces.
    HDC 11.67 21 The planting of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony was the effect of religious principle. The Revolution was the fruit of another principle,-the devouring thirst for justice.
    HDC 11.72 5 A deep religious sentiment sanctified the thirst for liberty.
    War 11.152 2 ...in the infancy of society...when hunger, thirst, ague and frozen limbs universally take precedence of the wants of the mind and the heart, the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
    JBB 11.270 17 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises...almost every man...who sees what a tiger's thirst threatens him in the malignity of public sentiment in the slave states.
    SMC 11.359 4 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... not a trace of fierceness, much less...of the devouring thirst for excitement;...
    FRep 11.517 13 ...hunger, thirst, cold...are always holding the masses hard to the essential duties.
    Bost 12.200 16 This thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers;...

thirst, v. (2)

    Cir 2.307 6 We thirst for approbation...
    Pray 12.352 14 ...I thirst for thy grace and spirit.

thirsts, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.208 9 In our large cities the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers and appetites walking.
    SovE 10.186 22 ...[the moral powers] are thirsts for action...

thirsty, adj. (4)

    Exp 3.71 9 ...if at any time being alone I have good thoughts, I do not at once arrive at satisfactions, as when, being thirsty, I drink water;...
    Nat2 3.190 10 ...bread and wine, mix and cook them how you will, leave us hungry and thirsty...
    Supl 10.165 15 Thousands of people live and die who were never...hungry or thirsty...
    Wom 11.410 19 ...[the horse and ox] run to the river when thirsty...

thirteen, adj. (3)

    PPh 4.44 8 [Plato] travelled into Italy; then into Egypt, where he stayed a long time; some say three,--some say thirteen years.
    ET10 5.160 15 The yield of wheat [in England] has gone on from 2,000, 000 quarters in the time of the Stuarts, to 13,000,000 in 1854.
    Res 8.152 11 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that they quietly expand in the warmer days...

thirteenth, adj. (7)

    ET13 5.218 15 It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848...
    ET13 5.220 9 Heats and genial periods arrive in history...as in the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and again in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries [in England]...
    QO 8.181 12 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...of the thirteenth century...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.
    QO 8.181 15 Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century, was long supposed to be the original work...
    HDC 11.72 12 On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson] preached to a very full assembly...
    SMC 11.374 18 The brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed part was detailed to receive the formal surrender of the rebel arms. The homeward march began on the thirteenth...
    FRO1 11.479 9 ...in the thirteenth century the First Person began to appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in sculpture, for worship...

thirteenth, n. (1)

    YA 1.392 27 Would [our youths and maidens] like...a pauperism now constituting one thirteenth of the population?

thirtieth, adj. (2)

    SMC 11.372 5 On the thirtieth, we learn, our regiment [the Thirty-second] has never been in the second line since we crossed the Rapidan, on the third.
    SMC 11.372 8 On the thirtieth, we learn, our regiment [the Thirty-second] has never been in the second line since we crossed the Rapidan, on the third. On the night of the thirtieth,-The hardest day we ever had.

thirty, adj. (47)

    Nat 1.8 15 The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms.
    Nat 1.13 22 ...by means of steam, [man]...carries the two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat.
    Lov1 2.170 22 It matters not...whether we attempt to describe the passion [of love] at twenty, thirty, or at eighty years.
    Lov1 2.174 14 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis or comparison and putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years...
    SwM 4.99 24 [Swedenborg]...from this time [1716] for the next thirty years was employed in the composition and publication of his scientific works.
    SwM 4.109 24 If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes or marries his grandmother, then in every twenty thousand or thirty thousand is found one man who eats shoes or marries his grandmother.
    SwM 4.109 26 If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes or marries his grandmother, then in every twenty thousand or thirty thousand is found one man who eats shoes or marries his grandmother.
    ET2 5.25 7 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which...in 1847 had been linked into a Union, which embraced twenty or thirty towns and cities...
    ET2 5.29 3 The floor of your room [at sea] is sloped at an angle of twenty or thirty degrees...
    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...
    ET10 5.163 15 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...are in the vast auction [in England]...
    ET11 5.183 16 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty.
    ET12 5.200 24 In the reign of Edward I., it is pretended, here [at Oxford] were thirty thousand students;...
    ET12 5.210 22 Oxford sends out yearly twenty or thirty very able men...
    ET16 5.284 18 The state drawing-room [at Wilton Hall] is a double cube, 30 feet high, by 30 feet wide, by 60 feet long...
    ET16 5.284 20 The state drawing-room [at Wilton Hall] is a double cube... the adjoining room is a single cube, of 30 feet every way.
    ET18 5.300 9 In the home population of near thirty millions [in England], there are but one million voters.
    Pow 6.55 17 If Eric...is at the top of his condition, and thirty years old, at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland.
    Pow 6.72 8 Of the sixty thousand men making [Napoleon's] army at Eylau, it seems some thirty thousand were thieves and burglars.
    Wth 6.122 21 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day, bathing...the peaks of Monadnoc and Uncanoonuc. What, thirty acres, and all this magnificence for fifteen hundred dollars!
    Ctr 6.141 9 ...I think it the part of good sense to provide every fine soul with such culture that it shall not, at thirty or forty years, have to say, This which I might do is made hopeless through my want of weapons.
    Elo1 7.80 3 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons.
    Farm 7.147 14 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it...grows three or four hundred feet high, and thirty in diameter...
    Clbs 7.237 8 One of the best records of the great German master who towered over all his contemporaries in the first thirty years of this century, is his conversations as recorded by Eckermann;...
    OA 7.325 26 Thirty years ago it was a serious concern to [the lawyer] whether his pleading was good and effective.
    PI 8.46 8 Who would hold the order of the almanac so fast but for the ding-dong,-- Thirty days hath September, etc.;...
    Elo2 8.132 27 ...here [in the United States] are the service of science, the demands of art, and the lessons of religion to be brought home to the instant practice of thirty millions of people.
    QO 8.183 8 Thirty years ago...you might often hear cited as Mr. Webster's three rules: first, never to do to-day what he could defer till to-morrow;...
    Chr2 10.106 13 Our horizon is not far, say one generation, or thirty years...
    Edc1 10.152 20 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils.
    MoL 10.251 21 'T is some thirty years since the days of the Reform Bill in England...
    EzRy 10.385 10 ...on 15th May [1735] we have this [from Joseph Emerson]: Shay brought home; mending cost thirty shillings.
    HDC 11.30 19 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord]. Here is Blood...Miles,-the names of the inhabitants for the first thirty years;...
    HDC 11.40 24 The original [Concord] Town Records, for the first thirty years, are lost.
    EWI 11.110 13 In 1821, according to official documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa. Nearly 30,000 were landed in the port of Havana alone.
    EWI 11.113 14 The Ministers...estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...
    EWI 11.114 12 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In the island of Antigua, containing 37,000 people, 30,000 being negroes, these objections had such weight that the legislature rejected the apprenticeship system...
    FSLC 11.200 20 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate.
    FSLC 11.203 18 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th March, 1850, in opposition to his education, association, and to all his own most explicit language for thirty years, [Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery party in this country.
    FSLC 11.210 1 These thirty nations [the United States] are equal to any work...
    SMC 11.367 12 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation, attested by the names of the thirty battles they were authorized to inscribe on their flag...
    SMC 11.368 2 [George Prescott's] next note is, cracker for a day and a half,-but all right. Another day, had not left the ranks for thirty hours...
    ChiE 11.472 8 ...China...thirty centuries before New York, had the custom of New Year's calls of comity and reconciliation.
    FRep 11.532 24 Young men at thirty and even earlier lose all spring and vivacity...
    Bost 12.199 9 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or fifty sail went yearly in America only to trade and fish...
    Let 12.393 3 When a railroad train shoots through Europe every day...it cannot stop every twenty or thirty miles at a German custom-house...
    Trag 12.406 12 Men and women at thirty years, and even earlier, have lost all spring and vivacity...

Thirty Years' War, n. (1)

    CbW 6.254 8 Schiller says the Thirty Years' War made Germany a nation.

thirty-eight, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.164 4 In 1571...Montaigne, then thirty-eight years old, retired from the practice of law at Bordeaux...

thirty-first, adj. (2)

    EzRy 10.384 12 The minister [Joseph Emerson] writes against January 31st [1735]: Bought a shay for 27 pounds, 10 shillings.
    EWI 11.114 21 On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels...

thirty-five, adj. (4)

    ShP 4.205 14 About the time when [Shakespeare] was writing Macbeth, he sues Philip Rogers...for thirty-five shillings, ten pence, for corn delivered to him at different times;...
    ET15 5.265 23 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us that the daily printing [of the London Times] was then 35,000 copies;...
    PC 8.211 2 Every one who was in Italy thirty-five years ago will remember the caution with which his host or guest in any house looked around him, if a political topic were broached.
    HCom 11.344 8 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard.

thirty-four, adj. (1)

    ET2 5.26 12 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship Washington Irving and sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847. On Friday at noon we had only made one hundred and thirty-four miles.

thirty-nine, adj. (1)

    EzRy 10.383 3 [Ezra Ripley] married, November 16, 1780, Mrs. Phebe (Bliss) Emerson, then a widow of thirty-nine...

Thirty-second Massachusetts (1)

    SMC 11.376 13 ...I do not like to omit the testimony to the character of the Commander of the Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment [George Prescott]...

Thirty-second Regiment, n. (6)

    SMC 11.367 3 After the return of the three months' company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of volunteers, and Captain Bowers another. Each of these companies included recruits from this town [Concord], and they formed part of the Thirty-second Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers.
    SMC 11.368 15 At the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863, the brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part, was in line of battle seventy-two hours...
    SMC 11.370 4 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone.
    SMC 11.371 1 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service at Rappahannock Station;...
    SMC 11.373 23 On the first of January, 1865, the Thirty-second Regiment made itself comfortable in log huts...
    SMC 11.374 15 The brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed part was detailed to receive the formal surrender of the rebel arms.

thirty-seven, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.114 11 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In the island of Antigua, containing 37,000 people, 30,000 being negroes, these objections had such weight that the legislature rejected the apprenticeship system...

thirty-six, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.256 18 Nor is there in literature a more noble outline of a wise external education than that which [Milton] drew up, at the age of thirty-six, in his Letter to Samuel Hartlib.

thirty-three, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.169 16 At the age of thirty-three, [Montaigne] had been married.

thirty-two, adj. (4)

    ET11 5.183 5 In 1786 the soil of England was owned by 250,000 corporations and proprietors; and in 1822, by 32,000.
    Supl 10.175 8 ...Nature...freezes punctually at 32 degrees, boils punctually at 212 degrees;...
    EWI 11.140 16 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...
    PLT 12.41 13 The first fact is the fate in every mental perception,-that my seeing this or that, and that I see it so or so, is as much a fact in the natural history of the world as is the freezing of water at thirty-two degrees of Fahrenheit.

thistle, n. (2)

    ET16 5.277 17 Within the enclosure [of Stonehenge] grow buttercups, nettles, and all around, wild thyme, daisy, meadowsweet, goldenrod, thistle and the carpeting grass.
    II 12.73 10 ...he will instruct and aid us who shows us...how the daily sunshine and sap may be made to feed wheat instead of moss and Canada thistle;...

thistles, n. (2)

    PPo 8.254 22 Give me what you will; I eat thistles as roses,/ And according to my food I grow and I give./
    RBur 11.442 2 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East, but in the homely landscape which the poor see around them...birds, hares, field-mice, thistles and heather...

thither, adv. (25)

    DSA 1.143 15 What was once a mere circumstance, that...the young and old, should meet one day as fellows in one house...has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
    SL 2.140 26 There is one direction in which all space is open to [each man]. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion.
    SL 2.152 15 We see it advertised that Mr. Grand will deliver an oration on the Fourth of July...and we do not go thither...
    Prd1 2.236 7 ...let [a man]...feel the admonition to...keep a slender human word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and thither...
    Pt1 3.13 4 I...have lost my faith in the possibility of any guide who can lead me thither where I would be.
    Exp 3.63 15 ...we...run hither and thither for nooks and secrets.
    Mrs1 3.131 21 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring. But so will Jock the teamster pass, in some crisis that brings him thither, and find favor, as long as his head is not giddy with the new circumstance...
    PPh 4.44 5 [Plato]...accepted the invitations of Dion and of Dionysius to the court of Sicily, and went thither three times...
    PPh 4.44 11 Returning to Athens, [Plato] gave lessons in the Academy to those whom his fame drew thither;...
    ET4 5.52 27 ...what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district. It...reduces itself at last to London, that is, to those who come and go thither.
    ET11 5.177 22 [The English aristocracy] have often no residence in London, and only go thither a short time, during the season, to see the opera;...
    ET12 5.199 13 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford... and went thither on the last day of March, 1848.
    Ctr 6.144 19 I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither.
    Bty 6.306 18 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    Ill 6.325 19 The mad crowd drives hither and thither...
    DL 7.124 23 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away. The...manhood and offices they brought thither at this return seemed mere ornamental masks;...
    DL 7.131 20 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...where it has its proper place among hundreds of such donations from other citizens who have brought thither whatever articles they have judged to be in their nature rather a public than a private property.
    Suc 7.285 21 [Columbus told the King and Queen] I assert that [the pilots] can give no other account than that they went to lands where there was abundance of gold, but they do not know the way to return thither...
    Grts 8.305 17 ...there is the boy who is born with a taste for the sea, and must go thither if he has to run away from his father's house to the forecastle;...
    HDC 11.51 21 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum; Waban, Tahattawan, and their sannaps, going thither from Concord to hear him.
    HDC 11.78 19 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither;...
    EWI 11.134 11 ...the reader of Congressional debates, in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the minority of slave-holders. What if we should send thither representatives who were a particle less amiable and less innocent?
    PLT 12.15 16 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...which surges and washes hither and thither...
    PLT 12.61 14 ...the clear-headed thinker complains of souls led hither and thither by affections...
    Mem 12.104 1 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not; the plants are still drinking their accustomed life and repaying it with their beautiful forms. But you need not wander thither.

thole-pin, n. (1)

    MR 1.238 18 A man...who builds a raft or boat to go a-fishing, finds it easy to...put in a thole-pin...

Thomas Aquinas, St., n. (1)

    QQ 8.181 11 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas Aquinas...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.

Thomas, n. (1)

    CL 12.165 8 [Agassiz] talks about lizard, shell-fish and squid, he means John and Mary, Thomas and Ann.

Thomas's Almanack, n. (1)

    AgMs 12.361 2 The story [in the Agricultural Survey] of the farmer's daughter, whom education had spoiled for everything useful on a farm,- that is good, too, and we have much that is like it in Thomas's Almanack.

Thome, J. A., n. (2)

    EWI 11.115 8 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua.
    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]...

Thomson's, James, n. (2)

    PI 8.22 24 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds...
    CL 12.164 18 What is the merit of Thomson's Seasons but copying a few of the pictures out of this vast book [of Nature] into words...

thongs, n. (1)

    Comp 2.107 22 The poets related that stone walls and iron swords and leathern thongs had an occult sympathy with the wrongs of their owners;...

Thor, n. (5)

    SR 2.72 18 ...let us enter into the state of war and wake Thor and Woden...
    ET5 5.89 12 When Thor and his companions arrive at Utgard, he is told that nobody is permitted to remain here, unless he understand some art, and excel in it all other men.
    ET5 5.89 16 When Thor and his companions arrive at Utgard, he is told that nobody is permitted to remain here, unless he understand some art, and excel in it all other men. The same question is still put to the posterity of Thor.
    ET10 5.162 17 Scandinavian Thor...in England has advanced with the times...
    Ill 6.320 22 That story of Thor, who was set to drain the drinking-horn in Asgard and to wrestle with the old woman and to run with the runner Lok, and presently found that he had been drinking up the sea, and wrestling with Time, and racing with Thought,--describes us...

Thoreau, Henry David, n. (21)

    Thor 10.451 1 Henry David Thoreau was the last male descendant of a French ancestor who came to this country from the Isle of Guernsey.
    Thor 10.451 17 [Thoreau's] father was a manufacturer of lead-pencils, and Henry applied himself for a time to this craft...
    Thor 10.452 21 ...it required rare decision to...keep [Thoreau's] solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends: all the more difficult that he...was exact in securing his own independence, and in holding every man to the like duty. But Thoreau never faltered.
    Thor 10.456 15 I love Henry, said one of [Thoreau's] friends, but I cannot like him;...
    Thor 10.456 26 Talking, one day, of a public discourse, Henry [Thoreau] remarked that whatever succeeded with the audience was bad.
    Thor 10.457 6 I said [to Thoreau]...who does not see with regret that his page is not solid with a right materialistic treatment, which delights everybody? Henry objected, of course...
    Thor 10.457 13 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story...or whether it was one of those old philosophical things that she did not care about. Henry turned to her, and bethought himself...
    Thor 10.457 22 In any circumstance it interested all bystanders to know what part Henry [Thoreau] would take, and what he would say;...
    Thor 10.458 21 Mr. Thoreau repaired to the President [of Harvard University], who stated to him the rules and usages, which permitted the loan of books to resident graduates...
    Thor 10.458 26 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University] that the railroad had destroyed the old scale of distances...
    Thor 10.459 7 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that, at this moment, not only his want of books was imperative, but he wanted a large number of books, and assured him that he, Thoreau, and not the librarian, was the proper custodian of these.
    Thor 10.459 14 No truer American existed than Thoreau.
    Thor 10.461 8 ...Mr. Thoreau was equipped with a most adapted and serviceable body.
    Thor 10.463 10 ...Thoreau thought all diets a very small matter...
    Thor 10.464 2 At Mount Washington...Thoreau had a bad fall, and sprained his foot.
    Thor 10.466 5 Mr. Thoreau dedicated his genius with such entire love to the fields, hills and waters of his native town, that he made them known and interesting to all reading Americans...
    Thor 10.470 17 The redstart was flying about, and presently the fine grosbeaks...whose fine clear note Thoreau compared to that of a tanager which has got rid of its hoarseness.
    Thor 10.473 8 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered...his knowledge of their lands...which enabled him to tell every farmer more than he knew before of his own farm; so that he began to feel a little as if Mr. Thoreau had better rights in his land than he.
    Thor 10.478 1 Thoreau was sincerity itself...
    Thor 10.478 27 Such dangerous frankness was in [Thoreau's] dealing that his admirers called him that terrible Thoreau...
    Thor 10.484 19 Thoreau seemed to me living in the hope to gather this plant [the Edelweisse]...

Thoreau, Henry, n. (7)

    Insp 8.268 13 ...Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
    Insp 8.290 3 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition exacted...
    PerF 10.87 9 I admire the sentiment of Thoreau, who said, Nothing is so much to be feared as fear; God himself likes atheism better.
    LLNE 10.356 14 ...Thoreau gave in flesh and blood and pertinacious Saxon belief the purest ethics.
    LLNE 10.356 19 Thoreau was in his own person a practical answer...to the theories of the socialists.
    CPL 11.500 9 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man of genius...
    Mem 12.107 17 Thoreau said, Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Mrs., n. (2)

    MMEm 10.410 3 When Mrs. Thoreau called on [Mary Moody Emerson] one day, wearing pink ribbons, she shut her eyes, and so conversed with her for a time.
    MMEm 10.410 6 By and by [Mary Moody Emerson] said, Mrs. Thoreau, I don't know whether you have observed that my eyes are shut.

Thoreau's, Henry, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.356 11 ...a pent-house to fend the sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts, and which he can leave...and defy the robber. This was Thoreau's doctrine...

Thorfin [Thorfinn], n. (1)

    Pow 6.55 21 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric and put in a stronger and bolder man,--Biorn, or Thorfin,--and the ships will...sail six hundred...miles further...

Thorfinn, n. (1)

    Bost 12.192 6 In the journey of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and his company through the forest from Boston to Concord they fainted from the powerful odor of the stweefern in the sun;-like what befell, still earlier, Biorn and Thorfinn, Northmen, in their expedition to the same coast;...

thorn, n. (6)

    Prd1 2.233 2 A man of genius...self-indulgent, becomes presently...a thorn to himself and to others.
    F 6.39 3 The vegetable eye makes leaf, pericarp, root, bark, or thorn, as the need is;...
    PPo 8.262 1 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/... ...sitt'st thou on the hand of princes,/ And feedest on the grouse's breast,/ Whilst I, who hundred thousand jewels/ Squander in a single tone,/ Lo! I feed myself with worms,/ And my dwelling is the thorn./
    PPo 8.262 10 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./ To me, appointed to the chase,/ The king's hand gives the grouse's breast;/ Whilst a chatterer like thee/ Must gnaw worms in the thorn. Farewell!/
    PerF 10.68 3 No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,/ My oldest force is good as new,/ And the fresh rose on yonder thorn/ Gives back the bending heavens in dew./
    Bost 12.207 5 From Roger Williams...down to...William Garrison, there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.

thorn-bush, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.176 20 Take a thorn-bush, said the emir Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns.

thorns, n. (3)

    Bhr 6.176 23 Take a thorn-bush, said the emir Abdel-Kader, and sprinkle it for a whole year with rose-water;--it will yield nothing but thorns.
    Bhr 6.176 26 Take a date-tree [said the emir Abdel-Kader], leave it without water, without culture, and it will always produce dates. Nobility is the date-tree and the Arab populace is a bush of thorns.
    SHC 11.431 27 In cultivated grounds one sees the picturesque and opulent effect of the familiar shrubs, barberry, lilac, privet and thorns...

thorny, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.415 11 'T was I who soothed your thorny childhood, though you knew me not...

thorough, adj. (9)

    YA 1.384 9 ...the Communities aimed at a higher success in securing to all their members an equal and thorough education.
    Comp 2.117 12 ...no man has a thorough acquaintance with the hindrances or talents of men until he has suffered from the one and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same.
    SL 2.162 4 Now [man] is not homogeneous, but heterogeneous, and the ray does not traverse; there are no thorough lights...
    Lov1 2.187 7 ...losing in violence what it gains in extent, [love] becomes a thorough good understanding.
    NMW 4.235 25 ...if fighting be the best mode of adjusting national differences...certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough.
    ET7 5.121 25 [The English] require the same adherence, thorough conviction and reality, in public men.
    ET18 5.305 1 [English] culture...is thorough and secular in families and the race.
    SA 8.90 18 ...the incomparable satisfaction of a society...in which a wise freedom, an ideal republic of sense, simplicity, knowledge and thorough good meaning abide,--doubles the value of life.
    MAng1 12.223 24 Nor was [Michelangelo's] a skill in ornament, or confined to the outline and designs of towers and facades, but a thorough acquaintance with all the secrets of the art [of architecture]...

thorough-base, n. (1)

    PI 8.56 27 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the thorough-base of the seashore...

thoroughbred, adj. (1)

    ET12 5.207 14 The great silent crowd of thoroughbred Grecians always known to be around him, the English writer cannot ignore.

thoroughfare, n. (2)

    Art1 2.364 13 ...under a sky full of eternal eyes, I stand in a thoroughfare;...
    ET5 5.92 23 [The English] have made the island a thoroughfare...

thoroughfares, n. (1)

    PPo 8.244 1 On earth's wide thoroughfares below/ Two only men contented go:/ Who knows what 's right and what 's forbid,/ And he from whom is knowledge hid./

thorough-lighted, v. (1)

    DL 7.109 8 Do you see the man...in his economy? Is that translucent, thorough-lighted?

thorough-lights, n. (1)

    LT 1.275 6 ...[the spirit of Reform] goes up and down, paving the earth with eyes, destroying privacy and making thorough-lights.

thoroughly, adv. (22)

    Nat 1.40 4 Nature is thoroughly mediate.
    Comp 2.117 10 ...no man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it...
    SL 2.137 22 He who...thoroughly knows how knowledge is acquired and character formed, is a pedant.
    NER 3.280 25 When two persons sit and converse in a thoroughly good understanding, the remark is sure to be made, See how we have disputed about words!
    NMW 4.225 10 Napoleon is thoroughly modern...
    NMW 4.255 10 [Napoleon] was thoroughly unscrupulous.
    GoW 4.280 8 The ardent and holy Novalis characterized the book [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] as thoroughly modern and prosaic;...
    ET5 5.75 20 The power of the Saxon-Danes, so thoroughly beaten in the war that the name of English and villein were synonymous......stood on the strong personality of these people.
    Wth 6.88 24 [A man] is thoroughly related; and is tempted out by his appetites and fancies to the conquest of this and that piece of nature, until he finds his well-being in the use of his planet...
    Wth 6.100 6 [The right merchant] is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic.
    PI 8.23 9 The world is thoroughly anthropomorphized...
    Insp 8.295 20 Fact-books, if the facts be well and thoroughly told, are much more nearly allied to poetry than many books are that are written in rhyme.
    LS 11.22 24 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that only that life was religious which was thoroughly good;...
    FSLN 11.222 4 ...[Webster] was so thoroughly simple and wise in his rhetoric;...
    ACiv 11.309 10 I hope it is not a fatal objection to this policy [of emancipation] that it is simple and beneficent thoroughly...
    ALin 11.330 8 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...
    Scot 11.467 8 [Scott] was a thoroughly upright, wise and great-hearted man...
    PLT 12.4 24 Every creation...is on the method and by the means which our mind approves as soon as it is thoroughly acquainted with the facts;...
    PLT 12.50 7 One would say [Shakespeare] must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first line, so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him...
    Mem 12.106 27 ...we remember best...when we are thoroughly awake.
    Mem 12.107 21 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess.
    ACri 12.294 17 ...Shakspeare must have been a thousand years old when he wrote his first piece; so thoroughly is his thought familiar to him...

thoroughness, n. (8)

    SwM 4.115 4 The hardihood and thoroughness of [Swedenborg's] study of nature required a theory of forms also.
    NMW 4.230 17 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it;...the directness and thoroughness of his work;...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    NMW 4.247 6 We can not...sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon], who...showed us how much may be accomplished by the mere force of such virtues as all men possess in less degrees; namely, by punctuality, by personal attention, by courage and thoroughness.
    ET5 5.89 22 [The Englishman] would rather not do anything at all than not do it well. I suppose no people have such thoroughness;...
    ET12 5.210 4 ...I found here [at Oxford]...proof of the national fidelity and thoroughness.
    ET19 5.311 12 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which...in trade and in the mechanic's shop, gives...that thoroughness and solidity of work which is a national [English] characteristic.
    PI 8.45 5 ...I doubt if the best poet has yet written any five-act play that can compare in thoroughness of invention with this unwritten play in fifty acts, composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.
    SA 8.102 7 I often hear the business of a little town...discussed with a clearness and thoroughness...that would have satisfied me had it been in one of the larger capitals.

Thor's, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.137 15 ...Thor's house had five hundred and forty floors;...

Thorwaldsen's, Bertel, n. (1)

    Pow 6.58 17 ...Thorwaldsen's statue is finished by stone-cutters;...

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