Town to Trains

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

town, adj. (12)

    ET11 5.182 3 A multitude of town palaces [in London] contain inestimable galleries of art.
    Ctr 6.148 7 ...the aesthetic value of railroads is to unite the advantages of town and country life...
    Farm 7.138 11 Poisoned by town life and town vices, the sufferer resolves: Well, my children...shall go back to the land...
    Thor 10.458 9 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail.
    HDC 11.43 23 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf was to be killed;...town and farm lines to be run.
    HDC 11.46 21 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty...in the disposal of town lands;...
    HDC 11.64 15 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town...being informed of the great present want of Thomas Pellit, gave order to Stephen Hosmer to deliver a town cow...unto said Pellit, for his present supply.
    HDC 11.73 5 ...the farmers [of Concord] snatched down their rusty firelocks from the kitchen walls, to make good the resolute words of their town debates.
    HDC 11.80 26 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the town, and if it should be that the General Court should resolve, that, their pay should be more than 6s., then the representative shall be hereby directed to pay the overplus into the town treasury.
    HDC 11.84 7 The old town clerks did not spell very correctly...
    AKan 11.263 9 ...I think the towns should hold town meetings, and resolve themselves into Committees of Safety...
    CPL 11.495 9 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants...still more, if it have an adequate town hall, good churches...

Town, Cape, South Africa, (1)

    FRO2 11.487 12 Every proverb...travels across the line; and you will find it at Cape Town, or among the Tartars.

Town House, n. (1)

    SHC 11.432 12 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...to the Court House and the Town House...

town, n. (227)

    Nat 1.13 26 ...[man] paves the road with iron bars, and mounting a coach with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts... from town to town...
    Nat 1.50 23 A man who seldom rides, needs only to get into a coach and traverse his own town, to turn the street into a puppet-show.
    AmS 1.97 7 ...town and country...must also soar and sing.
    AmS 1.98 3 Years are well spent...in town;...to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
    LE 1.169 15 ...the broad, cold lowland...where the traveller...thinks with pleasing terror of the distant town; this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    MR 1.228 20 Lutherans, Herrnhutters, Jesuits, Monks, Quakers, Knox, Wesley, Swedenborg, Bentham...all respected something,-church or state... the market town...
    MR 1.228 25 ...not a kingdom, town, statute, rite, calling, man, or woman, but is threatened by the new spirit.
    Con 1.311 27 Every island for thee has a town; every town a hotel.
    Con 1.317 3 ...the erect, formidable valor of some Dorian townsmen in the town of Sparta;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    Tran 1.342 15 ...[Transcendentalists] incline...to live in the country rather than in the town...
    YA 1.381 19 ...the farmer is living in the same town with men who pretend to know exactly what he wants.
    SR 2.74 16 Consider whether you have satisfied your relations to...town...
    SR 2.89 6 Is not a man better than a town?
    Pt1 3.37 23 Banks and tariffs...rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away.
    Exp 3.83 18 I should feel it pitiful to demand a result on this town and county...
    Mrs1 3.126 10 ...the politics of this country, and the trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers...
    Mrs1 3.129 5 It is only country which came to town day before yesterday that is city and court to-day.
    Mrs1 3.154 1 Are you...rich enough to make...the lame pauper hunted by overseers from town to town...feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    Mrs1 3.154 2 Are you...rich enough to make...the lame pauper hunted by overseers from town to town...feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    NER 3.249 1 In the suburb, in the town,/ On the railway, in the square,/ Came a beam of goodness down/ Doubling daylight everywhere/...
    NER 3.284 11 Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of standing.
    NER 3.284 14 Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of standing. They are laboring harder to set the town right concerning themselves, and will certainly succeed.
    UGM 4.25 26 The like assimilation goes on between men of one town...
    PPh 4.40 26 This citizen of a town in Greece [Plato] is no villager nor patriot.
    MoS 4.171 11 ...though the town and state and way of living, which our consellor contemplated, might be a very modest or musty prosperity, yet men rightly go for him...
    NMW 4.235 13 There shall be no Alps, [Napoleon] said; and he built his perfect roads...until Italy was as open to Paris as any town in France.
    GoW 4.271 18 ...[Goethe] lived in a small town...
    GoW 4.282 24 That a man has spent years on Plato and Proclus, does not afford a presumption that he...undervalues the fashions of his town.
    ET1 5.13 18 ...on learning that I had been in Malta and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other, repeating what he had said to the Bishop of London when he returned from that country, that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy; for, in any town there, it only needed to ask what the government enacted, and reverse that, to know what ought to be done;...
    ET2 5.25 22 ...the proposal [to lecture in England] offered an excellent opportunity of seeing the interior of England and Scotland, by means of a home and a committee of intelligent friends awaiting me in every town.
    ET4 5.55 27 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean.
    ET4 5.56 4 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean. They even entered the port of the town where he was...
    ET4 5.62 6 Konghelle, the town where the kings of Norway, Sweden and Denmark were wont to meet, is now rented to a private English gentleman for a hunting ground.
    ET7 5.125 12 I knew a very worthy man,--a magistrate, I believe he was, in the town of Derby,--who went to the opera to see Malibran.
    ET9 5.151 14 Coarse local distinctions, as those of nation, province or town, are useful in the absence of real ones;...
    ET11 5.179 15 Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red cliff; and so on...
    ET13 5.217 3 [The English Church]...names every day of the year, every town and market and headland and monument...
    ET16 5.276 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a carriage to Amesbury, passing by Old Sarum, a bare, treeless hill, once containing the town which sent two members to Parliament...
    F 6.6 15 Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town.
    F 6.14 5 ...if you could weigh bodily the tonnage of any hundred of the Whig and the Democratic party in a town on the Dearborn balance...you could predict with certainty which party would carry it.
    F 6.42 18 ...in each town there is some man who is...an explanation of the... ways of living and society of that town.
    F 6.42 21 ...in each town there is some man who is...an explanation of the... ways of living and society of that town.
    Pow 6.67 3 I knew a burly Boniface who for many years kept a public-house in one of our rural capitals. He was a knave whom the town could ill spare.
    Pow 6.67 11 [Boniface] introduced all the fiends, male and female, into the town...
    Wth 6.87 10 When the farmer's peaches are taken from under the tree and carried into town, they have a new look and a hundredfold value over the fruit which grew on the same bough and lies fulsomely on the ground.
    Wth 6.95 9 [The rich] include the country as well as the town...in their notion of available material.
    Wth 6.99 6 If properties of this kind [works of art] were owned by states, towns and lyceums, they would draw the bonds of neighborhood closer. A town would exist to an intellectual purpose.
    Wth 6.102 24 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston. Now it will buy a great deal more in our old town...
    Ctr 6.148 9 A man should live in or near a large town...
    Ctr 6.148 15 In town [a man] can find the swimming-school, the gymnasium...
    Ctr 6.153 7 The countryman finds the town a chop-house, a barber's shop.
    Ctr 6.155 10 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country, that has not got into literature...
    Ctr 6.155 23 Keep the town for occasions...
    Wsp 6.233 5 It is related of William of Orange, that whilst he was besieging a town on the continent, a gentleman sent to him on public business came to his camp...
    CbW 6.263 22 I once asked a clergyman in a retired town, who were his companions?...
    CbW 6.267 3 ...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever? Each nation has asked successively, What are they here for? until at last the party...anticipate the question at the gates of each town.
    CbW 6.267 26 The young people do not like the town, do not like the sea-shore...
    Ill 6.309 5 We traversed, through spacious galleries affording a solid masonry foundation for the town and county overhead, the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to the innermost recess which tourists visit...
    DL 7.119 23 There is many a humble house...in every town, where talent and taste and sometimes genius dwell with poverty and labor.
    DL 7.124 9 In men, it is their...settlement in a town...or some other magnified trifle which makes the meridian movement...
    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 7.130 27 ...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 7.131 14 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]...
    DL 7.131 16 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]...
    DL 7.131 24 A collection of this kind [a library and museum], the property of each town, would dignify the town...
    DL 7.131 26 Obviously, it would be easy for every town to discharge this truly municipal duty [of a library and museum].
    Farm 7.139 21 In the town where I live, farms remain in the same families for seven and eight generations;...
    Farm 7.149 24 The town of Concord is one of the oldest towns in this country...
    Farm 7.150 2 ...in this very year, a large quantity of land has been discovered and added to the town [of Concord] without a murmur of complaint from any quarter.
    WD 7.174 26 What journeys and measurements...to identify the plain of Troy and Nimroud town!
    Clbs 7.244 16 It was a pathetic experience when a genial and accomplished person said to me, looking from his country home to the capital of New England, There is a town of two hundred thousand people, and not a chair for me.
    Cour 7.267 1 In every school there are certain fighting boys;...in every town, bravoes and bullies...
    Suc 7.305 27 Send a deep man into any town, and he will find another deep man there...
    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...
    SA 8.101 21 In America, the necessity of...laying out town and street... exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought...
    SA 8.102 5 I have been often impressed at our country town-meetings with the accumulated virility, in each village, of five or six or eight or ten men, who...so easily handle the affairs of the town.
    SA 8.102 6 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.
    SA 8.102 12 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools...
    Elo2 8.117 7 [The orator] knew very well behorehand that [the people] were looking behind and that he was looking ahead, and therefore it was wise to speak. Then the observer says, What a godsend is this manner of man to a town!...
    Res 8.138 26 I like the sentiment of the poor woman who, coming from a wretched garret in an inland manufacturing town for the first time to the seashore...said she was glad for once in her life to see something which there was enough of.
    Comc 8.166 1 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to excuse,/ And hang the guiltless in their stead,/ Of whom the churches have less need;/ As lately happened, in a town/ Where lived a cobbler, and but one,/ That out of doctrine could cut use,/ And mend men's lives as well as shoes./
    PC 8.210 23 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...manufactures, the very inventions...have evoked!-all implying...the rapid addition to our society of a class of true nobles, by which the self-respect of each town and state is enriched.
    PPo 8.243 24 The secret that should not be blown/ Not one of thy nation must know;/ You may padlock the gate of a town,/ But never the mouth of a foe./
    Grts 8.319 19 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village:...it happens that there are no fine young men, no superior women in my town.
    PerF 10.75 20 ...[labor] keeps the cow out of the garden...the miasma out of the town.
    Edc1 10.145 9 ...[the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
    Edc1 10.145 10 ...[the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
    Supl 10.175 3 In all the years that I have sat in town and forest, I never saw a winged dragon...
    Prch 10.232 1 ...it is impossible to pay no regard...to the calamities and prosperities of our town and country;...
    Prch 10.236 8 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us...think as spirits think, who belong to the universe, whilst our feet walk in the streets of a little town...
    LLNE 10.356 27 [Thoreau]...brought every day a new proposition, as revolutionary as that of yesterday, but different: the only man of leisure in his town;...
    EzRy 10.381 11 The father [Noah Ripley] was born at Hingham [Connecticut], on the farm purchased by his ancestor, William Ripley, of England, at the first settlement of the town;...
    EzRy 10.382 16 In 1775, in [Ezra Ripley's] senior year, the college [Harvard] was removed from Cambridge to this town.
    EzRy 10.387 25 [Ezra Ripley said] When I came to this town, your great-grandfather was a substantial farmer in this very place...
    EzRy 10.391 12 ...it is no reflection on others to say that [Ezra Ripley] was the most public-spirited man in the town.
    MMEm 10.405 8 [Mary Moody Emerson]...now and then in her migrations from town to town in Maine and Massachusetts...discovered some preacher with sense or piety, or both.
    MMEm 10.407 6 From the country [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her sister in town, You cannot help saying that my epistle is a striking specimen of egotism.
    SlHr 10.440 16 When I talked with [Samuel Hoar] one day of some inequality of taxes in the town, he said it was his practice to pay whatever was demanded;...
    SlHr 10.442 26 [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 10.443 10 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained... all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...
    SlHr 10.446 26 [Samuel Hoar] had his birth and breeding in a little country town...
    Thor 10.463 4 ...[Thoreau] seemed the only man of leisure in town...
    Thor 10.466 7 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 10.467 19 One of the weapons [Thoreau] used...was a whim which grew on him by indulgence...namely, of extolling his own town and neighborhood as the most favored centre for natural observation.
    GSt 10.507 9 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember that there is not a town in the remote State of Kansas that will not weep with you at the loss of its founder;...
    HDC 11.29 1 Fellow Citizens: The town of Concord begins, this day, the third century of its history.
    HDC 11.29 8 You have thought it becoming to commemorate the planting of the first inland town [Concord].
    HDC 11.30 15 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord].
    HDC 11.30 27 ...the town of Concord was settled by a party of non-conformists...
    HDC 11.32 13 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more. A month later, Rev. John Jones and a large number of settlers destined for the new town arrived in Boston.
    HDC 11.33 27 Johnson...intimates that [the pilgrims] consumed many days in exploring the country, to select the best place for the town.
    HDC 11.35 22 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest, from a little rising town that had not much to spare...must be laborious to all...
    HDC 11.35 23 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest...to an Indian town in the wilderness that had nothing, must be laborious to all...
    HDC 11.40 27 We have records of marriages and deaths, beginning nineteen years after the settlement [of Concord]; and copies of some of the doings of the town in regard to territory, of the same date.
    HDC 11.41 22 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop, and 1000 to Thomas Dudley, of the lands adjacent to the town [Concord]...
    HDC 11.42 2 At the same date, in 1654, the town [Concord] having divided itself into three districts...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter...
    HDC 11.42 13 ...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their civil history...
    HDC 11.42 17 ...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their civil history, implying...the exercise of a sovereign power, and connected with all the immunities and powers of a corporate town in Massachusetts.
    HDC 11.44 13 ...each little company [in the Massachusetts Bay colonies] organized itself after the pattern of the larger town...
    HDC 11.44 21 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands and woods, and choose their own particular officers.
    HDC 11.46 4 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies.
    HDC 11.47 15 The moderator [of the New England town-meeting] was the passive mouth-piece, and the vote of the town, like the vane on the turret overhead, free for every wind to turn...
    HDC 11.48 17 In 1795, several town-meetings are called [in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for land taken in making a bridle-road; and one of them demanding large damages, many offers were made him in town-meeting, and refused; which the town thought very unreasonable.
    HDC 11.49 10 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house...a mill-dam, hath been...altered, or bought, or sold, without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair.
    HDC 11.49 25 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,-of this town [Concord], for example,-should be printed, and presented to the governments of Europe;...
    HDC 11.52 26 [The Indians] requested to have a town given them within the bounds of Concord...
    HDC 11.53 3 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country?
    HDC 11.54 4 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651, [the Indians'] desire was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog Pond... became an Indian town...
    HDC 11.54 16 ...Concord increased in territory and population. The lands were divided; highways were cut from farm to farm, and from this town to Boston.
    HDC 11.55 7 In 1644, the town [Concord] contained sixty families.
    HDC 11.57 3 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar school...
    HDC 11.57 17 In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics, and appointed Major Simon Willard, of this town [Concord], to the command.
    HDC 11.60 3 The historian of Concord [Lemuel Shattuck] has preserved an instance of the resolution of one of the daughters of the town.
    HDC 11.61 27 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits, in February, 1676, which ended in their forcible expulsion from the town.
    HDC 11.62 20 Before 1666, 15,000 acres had been added by grants of the General Court to the original territory of the town [Concord]...
    HDC 11.64 11 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town lends its commons as pastures, to poor men;...
    HDC 11.65 3 The charges of education and of legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord];...
    HDC 11.65 9 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord...
    HDC 11.65 15 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June;...for which service, the town is to pay Captain Minott ten pounds.
    HDC 11.65 20 It is an article in the selectmen's warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in for a representative not exceeding four pounds.
    HDC 11.65 23 It is an article in the selectmen's warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in for a representative not exceeding four pounds. Captain Minott was chosen, and after the General Court was adjourned received of the town for his services, an allowance of three shillings per day.
    HDC 11.66 6 Mr. Whiting was succeeded in the pastoral office [in Concord] by Rev. Daniel Bliss, in 1738. Soon after his ordination, the town seems to have been divided by ecclesiastical discords.
    HDC 11.67 24 From the appearance of the article in the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765, to see if the town will give the Representative any instructions about any important affair to be transacted by the General Court, concerning the Stamp Act, to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
    HDC 11.68 8 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence...the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    HDC 11.69 12 ...we will not, in this town [Concord]...buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea...
    HDC 11.70 12 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...
    HDC 11.71 5 In August [1774], a County Convention met in this town [Concord], to deliberate upon the alarming state of public affairs...
    HDC 11.71 11 In September [1774]...the inhabitants [of Concord]...forbade the justices to open the court of sessions. This little town then assumed the sovereignty.
    HDC 11.71 14 On the 26th of the month [September, 1774], the whole town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety...
    HDC 11.71 16 On the 26th of the month [September, 1774], the whole town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety, to suppress all riots, tumults, and disorders in said town...
    HDC 11.71 20 It was...voted [in Concord], to raise one or more companies of minute-men, by enlistment, to be paid by the town whenever called out of town;...
    HDC 11.71 21 It was...voted [in Concord], to raise one or more companies of minute-men, by enlistment, to be paid by the town whenever called out of town;...
    HDC 11.72 7 All the military movements in this town [Concord] were solemnized by acts of public worship.
    HDC 11.72 22 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord]...
    HDC 11.72 25 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety. It was to destroy those stores that the troops who were attacked in this town, on the 19th April, 1775, were sent hither by General Gage.
    HDC 11.74 4 ...the men of Acton, Bedford, Lincoln and Carlisle... remembering their parent town in the hour of danger, arrived [at Concord] and fell into the ranks so fast, that Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge.
    HDC 11.74 11 ...when the smoke began to rise from the village where the British were burning cannon-carriages and military stores, the Americans resolved to force their way into town.
    HDC 11.75 7 The militia and minute-men...ran...into the east quarter of the town [Concord]...
    HDC 11.76 20 ...you, my fathers [veterans of battle of Concord]...may well bear a chief part in keeping this peaceful birthday of our town.
    HDC 11.77 27 ...[William Emerson] asked, and obtained of the town [Concord], leave to accept the commission of chaplain to the Northern army, at Ticonderoga...
    HDC 11.78 4 In the whole course of the [Revolutionary] war the town [Concord] did not depart from this pledge it had given.
    HDC 11.78 15 ...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;...
    HDC 11.79 3 In March, 1776, 145 men were raised by this town [Concord] to serve at Dorchester Heights.
    HDC 11.80 22 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the town...
    HDC 11.81 1 ...whilst the town [Concord] had its own full share of the public distress, it was very far from desiring relief at the cost of order and law.
    HDC 11.81 7 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...
    HDC 11.81 14 In 1787, the admirable instructions given by the town [Concord] to its representative are a proud monument to the good sense and good feeling that prevailed.
    HDC 11.81 19 It was put to the town of Concord, in October, 1776, by the Legislature, whether the existing house of representatives should enact a constitution for the State?
    HDC 11.81 23 It was put to the town of Concord, in October, 1776, by the Legislature, whether the existing house of representatives should enact a constitution for the State? The town answered No.
    HDC 11.81 25 The General Court...draughted a constitution, sent it here [to Concord], and asked the town whether they would have it for the law of the State?
    HDC 11.81 26 The General Court...draughted a constitution, sent it here [to Concord], and asked the town whether they would have it for the law of the State? The town answered No, by a unanimous vote.
    HDC 11.82 3 In 1780, a constitution of the State [Massachusetts]...was accepted by the town [Concord]...
    HDC 11.82 4 ...in 1788, the town [Concord], by its delegate, accepted the new Constitution of the United States...
    HDC 11.82 7 ...in 1788, the town [Concord], by its delegate, accepted the new Constitution of the United States, and this event closed the whole series of important public events in which this town played a part.
    HDC 11.82 9 From that time [1788] to the present hour, this town [Concord] has made a slow but constant progress in population and wealth...
    HDC 11.82 18 The town [Concord] raises, this year, 1800 dollars for its public schools;...
    HDC 11.83 8 I have been greatly indebted, in preparing this sketch [of Concord], to the printed but unpublished History of this town...
    HDC 11.83 16 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown. The author [Lemuel Shattuck]...has wisely enriched his pages with the resolutions, addresses and instructions to its agents, which...at critical periods, the town has voted.
    HDC 11.83 21 [The Concord Town Records] are the history of the town.
    HDC 11.83 26 For the most part, the town [Concord] has deserved the name it wears.
    HDC 11.84 16 ...it is to be remembered that a town is, in many respects, a financial corporation.
    HDC 11.84 23 ...the town must save that the State may spend.
    HDC 11.85 17 Fortunate and favored this town [Concord] has been...
    HDC 11.85 25 Why need I remind you of our own Hosmers, Minotts...the departed benefactors of the town [Concord]?
    HDC 11.86 14 ...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place, in all times since its planting, of pious and excellent persons...
    LVB 11.94 4 These hard times...have brought the discussion [of currency and trade] home to every farmhouse and poor man's house in this town [Concord];...
    FSLC 11.185 16 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime: and the poor black boy...on arriving here finds all this force employed to catch him. The famous town of Boston is his master's hound.
    SMC 11.349 3 Fellow Citizens: The day is in Concord doubly our calendar day, as being the anniversary of the invasion of the town by the British troops in 1775, and of the departure of the company of voluteers for Washington, in 1861.
    SMC 11.349 9 ...every other town and city has its own heroes and memorial days...
    SMC 11.350 2 ...it is a piece of nature and the common sense that the throbbing chord that holds us to our kindred, our friends and our town, is not to be denied or resisted...
    SMC 11.350 14 The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square.
    SMC 11.351 4 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak;...
    SMC 11.351 10 The sense of the town, the eloquent inscriptions the shaft now bears...will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
    SMC 11.359 2 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... one of the last men in this town [Concord] you would have picked out for the rough dealing of war...
    SMC 11.361 10 The letters of the captain [George Prescott] are the dearest treasures of this town [Concord].
    SMC 11.365 23 In the fall of 1861, the old artillery company of this town [Concord] was reorganized...
    SMC 11.367 2 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]...
    EdAd 11.387 5 We have no sympathy with that boyish egotism, hoarse with cheering for one side, for one state, for one town...
    Koss 11.397 4 The people of this town [Concord] share with their countrymen the admiration of valor and perseverance;...
    Koss 11.397 10 ...it is the privilege of the people of this town [Concord] to keep a hallowed mound which has a place in the story of the country;...
    SHC 11.429 3 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
    SHC 11.432 14 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...making together a large block of public ground, permanent property of the town and county...
    SHC 11.433 5 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...
    SHC 11.434 25 The ground [Sleepy Hollow] has the peaceful character that belongs to this town [Concord];...
    CPL 11.495 5 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants which has a healthy site, good land, good roads...
    CPL 11.496 1 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a noble library...
    CPL 11.497 27 The town [Concord] was settled by a pious company of non-conformists from England...
    CPL 11.499 7 I possess the manuscript journal of a lady [Mary Moody Emerson], native of this town [Concord]...who removed into Maine...
    CPL 11.499 12 ...whenever [Mary Moody Emerson] arrived in a town where was a good minister who had a library, she would persuade him to receive her as a boarder...
    CPL 11.500 3 Lemuel Shattuck, by his history of the town [Concord], has made all of us grateful to his memory...
    CPL 11.508 25 ...the whole assembly to whom I speak entirely sympathize in the feeling of this town [Concord] in regard to the new Library...
    FRep 11.527 15 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are all educational...
    FRep 11.528 23 We have eight or ten religions in every large town...
    CL 12.161 25 Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows where arnica grows...
    CW 12.169 2 Not many men see beauty in the fogs/ Of close, low pine-woods in a river town;/...
    Bost 12.182 20 A blessing through the ages thus/ Shield all thy roofs and towers!/ GOD WITH THE FATHERS, SO WITH US,/ Thou darling town of ours [Boston]1/
    Bost 12.188 12 This town of Boston has a history.
    Bost 12.188 23 ...Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
    Bost 12.190 9 ...Dr. Mather writes of [Boston], The town hath indeed three elder Sisters in this colony, but it hath wonderfully outgrown them all...
    Bost 12.195 18 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that...where any town shall increase to the number of a hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar School, the Masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.
    Bost 12.196 7 ...the young farmers and mechanics...in the winter often go into a neighboring town to teach the district school arithmetic and grammar.
    Bost 12.206 9 A house in Boston was worth as much again as a house just as good in a town of timorous people...
    Bost 12.206 13 ...youth and health like a stirring town...
    Bost 12.211 20 ...in distant ages [Boston's] motto shall be the prayer of millions on all the hills that gird the town, As with our Fathers, so God be with us!
    ACri 12.301 16 Where is the town [New City]? Was there not, I asked, a river and a harbor there? Oh, yes, there was a guzzle out of a sand-bank.
    ACri 12.301 19 Where is the town [New City]? Was there not, I asked, a river and a harbor there? Oh, yes, there was a guzzle out of a sand-bank. And the town? There are still the sixty houses, but when I passed it, one owl was the only inhabitant.
    AgMs 12.361 11 ...our [New England] people...will remove from town to town as a new market opens...

Town Records, n. (8)

    HDC 11.40 23 The original [Concord] Town Records, for the first thirty years, are lost.
    HDC 11.47 7 He is ill informed who expects, on running down the [New England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find a church of saints...
    HDC 11.48 20 The matters there debated [in Concord town-meetings] are such as to invite very small considerations. The ill-spelled pages of the Town Records contain the result.
    HDC 11.63 26 ...the [Concord] Town Records of that day [April 18, 1689] confine themselves to descriptions of lands...
    HDC 11.67 27 From...1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
    HDC 11.79 27 The Town Records show how slowly the inhabitants [of Concord] recovered from the strain of excessive exertion [during the Revolution].
    HDC 11.83 18 ...I have read with care the [Concord] Town Records themselves.
    HDC 11.84 4 The tone of the [Concord Town] Records rises with the dignity of the event.

town-bounds, n. (1)

    SMC 11.353 19 Once we were patriots up to the town-bounds, or the state-line.

town-halls, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.119 24 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice...

town-house, n. (3)

    OA 7.333 24 [John Adams] spoke of Mr. Lechmere, whom he well remembered to have seen come down daily, at great age, to walk in the old town-house...
    SA 8.101 22 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house, exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought...
    SlHr 10.441 4 [Samuel Hoar] returned from courts or congresses to sit down, with unaltered humility, in the church or in the town-house...

Townley, adj. (1)

    ET11 5.188 13 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that... these have preserved...Townley galleries...

Townleys, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 10 Ages derive a culture from the wealth of...Townleys, Vernons and Peels, in England; or whatever great proprietors.

town-meeting, n. (15)

    PPh 4.53 21 The Roman legion...the steam-mill, steamboat, steam-coach, may all be seen in perspective; the town-meeting...
    Pow 6.67 16 [Boniface] led the 'rummies' and radicals in town-meeting with a speech.
    Cour 7.260 17 An old farmer...when I ask him if he is not going to town-meeting, says: No, 't is no use balloting, for it will not stay;...
    Elo2 8.116 3 You go to a town-meeting where the people are called to some disagreeable duty...
    Aris 10.49 24 ...the town-meeting, the Congress, will not fail to find out legislative talent.
    HDC 11.46 26 In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered...
    HDC 11.47 3 In a town-meeting, the roots of society were reached.
    HDC 11.47 23 Wrath and love came up to town-meeting in company.
    HDC 11.48 6 A man felt himself at liberty to exhibit, at town-meeting, feelings and actions that he would have been ashamed of anywhere but amongst his neighbors.
    HDC 11.48 16 In 1795, several town-meetings are called [in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for land taken in making a bridle-road; and one of them demanding large damages, many offers were made him in town-meeting, and refused;...
    HDC 11.64 22 After the death of Rev. Mr. Estabrook, in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry?
    HDC 11.65 19 It is an article in the selectmen's warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in for a representative not exceeding four pounds.
    Wom 11.421 17 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.
    FRep 11.527 17 The town-meeting is, after the high-school, a higher school.
    FRep 11.529 14 The government...knows the leaders of the humblest class. The President comes near enough to these; if he does not, the caucus does, the primary ward and town-meeting...

town-meetings, n. (5)

    SL 2.137 8 [Our society] is a graduated, titled, richly appointed empire, quite superfluous when town-meetings are found to answer just as well.
    SA 8.102 2 I have been often impressed at our country town-meetings with the accumulated virility, in each village, of five or six or eight or ten men...
    Edc1 10.138 17 I like...boys, who have the same liberal ticket of admission to all...town-meetings, caucuses, mobs, target-shootings, as flies have;...
    HDC 11.48 12 In 1795, several town-meetings are called [in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for land taken in making a bridle-road;...
    EdAd 11.388 13 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully...

towns, n. (83)

    AmS 1.94 1 Gowns and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit.
    LT 1.289 24 The granite is curiously concealed...under...large towns and cities...
    YA 1.368 22 ...the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns...
    YA 1.395 2 Our houses and towns are like mosses and lichens, so slight and new;...
    Hist 2.21 26 ...the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of a market had induced to build towns.
    Pt1 3.41 13 ...the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes...
    Nat2 3.173 15 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... I am taught...the ugliness of towns and palaces.
    Nat2 3.182 27 If we consider how much we are nature's, we need not be superstitious about towns...
    NER 3.267 6 [The union of men] is the union of friends who live in different streets or towns.
    UGM 4.20 12 We swim...on a river of delusions and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air...
    ShP 4.217 20 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind. Is it not as if one should have...the comets given into his hand...and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night, and advertise in all towns, Very superior pyrotechny this evening?
    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 5.30 2 A rising of the sea...say an inch in a century, from east to west on the land, will bury all the towns, monuments, bones and knowledge of mankind...
    ET2 5.33 17 There lay the green shore of Ireland, like some coast of plenty. We could see towns, towers, churches, harvests;...
    ET3 5.34 11 The solidity of the structures that compose the [English] towns speaks the industry of ages.
    ET3 5.35 2 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...over rivers and towns...
    ET3 5.37 20 The innumerable details [in England], the crowded succession of towns, cities, cathedrals, castles and great and decorated estates...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET3 5.38 8 ...[England] is stuffed full, in all corners and crevices, with towns, towers, churches, villas, palaces, hospitals and charity-houses.
    ET3 5.39 18 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks darken the day...
    ET5 5.88 19 [The English] cannot well read a principle, except by the light of fagots and of burning towns.
    ET5 5.98 17 Man in England submits to be a product of political economy. On a bleak moor a mill is built...and men come in as water in a sluice-way, and towns and cities rise.
    ET10 5.167 13 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently, in a change of industry, whole towns are sacrificed...
    ET10 5.169 3 In the culmination of national prosperity, in the...building of ships, depots, towns;...it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine prices...
    ET11 5.179 1 This long descent of [English] families and this cleaving through ages to the same spot of ground, captivates the imagination. It has too a connection with the names of the towns and districts of the country.
    F 6.7 17 Towns and counties fall into [the sea].
    Wth 6.84 8 Then temples rose, and towns, and marts,/ The shop of toil, the hall of arts;/...
    Wth 6.92 27 Society in large towns is babyish, and wealth is made a toy.
    Wth 6.93 6 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth, and, whatever is pretended, it ends in cosseting. But if this were the main use of surplus capital, it would bring us to barricades, burned towns and tomahawks, presently.
    Wth 6.99 5 If properties of this kind [works of art] were owned by states, towns and lyceums, they would draw the bonds of neighborhood closer.
    Bhr 6.174 22 If you look at the pictures of patricians and of peasants of different periods and countries, you will see how well they match the same classes in our towns.
    Civ 7.31 21 I see the immense material prosperity,--towns on towns...
    Farm 7.139 27 In the town where I live...most of the first settlers (in 1635), should they reappear on the farms to-day, would find their own blood and names still in possession. And the like fact holds in the surrounding towns.
    Farm 7.149 25 The town of Concord is one of the oldest towns in this country...
    WD 7.175 15 [That flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols] was the deep to-day which all men scorn;...the populous, all-loving solitude which men quit for the tattle of towns.
    SA 8.105 10 Now society in towns is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them.
    PC 8.209 6 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the enlarged scale of charities to relieve...burned towns...
    PC 8.212 11 Our towns are still rude...
    Imtl 8.325 3 ...the polity of the Egyptians, the by-laws of towns, of streets and houses, respected burial.
    Imtl 8.327 14 Swedenborg described an intelligible heaven, by continuing the like employments in the like circumstances as those we know; men in societies, in houses, towns, trades, entertainments;...
    Aris 10.61 6 In the presence of the Chapter it is easy for each member to carry himself royally and well; but in the absence of his colleagues and in the presence of mean people he is tempted to accept the low customs of towns.
    PerF 10.74 25 [Man] is a planter...a lawgiver, a builder of towns;-and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material elements.
    Chr2 10.105 6 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors, and can hardly believe that they had to the lively Greek the anxious meaning which, in our towns, is given and received in churches when our religious names are used...
    Chr2 10.118 15 In the present tendency of our society...when counties and towns are resisting centralization...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.
    MoL 10.246 7 Dickens complained that in America, as soon as he arrived in any of the Western towns, a committee waited on him and invited him to deliver a temperance lecture.
    MMEm 10.423 3 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich, which corrupts old worlds? How much better, more honest, are storming and conflagration of towns!
    HDC 11.44 19 In 1635, the [General] Court say, whereas particular towns have many things which concern only themselves, it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands and woods, and choose their own particular officers.
    HDC 11.45 19 [The settlers] were to settle the internal constitution of the towns...
    HDC 11.46 18 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty in the laying of taxes;...
    HDC 11.47 10 He is ill informed who expects, on running down the [New England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find...a metropolis of patriots, enacting wholesome and creditable laws. The constitution of the towns forbid it.
    HDC 11.49 25 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 11.50 6 Tell [the Continental nations] the Union has twenty-four States, and Massachusetts is one. Tell them, Massachusetts has three hundred towns, and Concord is one;...
    HDC 11.57 12 ...a new and alarming public distress retarded the growth of [Concord], as of the sister towns...
    HDC 11.58 17 Some flourishing towns were burned [by the Indians].
    HDC 11.62 21 ...Concord then [in 1666] included the greater part of the towns of Bedford, Acton, Lincoln and Carlisle.
    HDC 11.62 27 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English government, concerning the country towns; The farmers are numerous and wealthy...
    HDC 11.64 1 ...the [Concord] Town Records of that day [April 18, 1689] confine themselves...to conferences with the neighboring towns to run boundary lines.
    HDC 11.79 13 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will...fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns.
    HDC 11.80 13 ...the country towns thought it would be cheaper if [the government] were removed from the capital.
    HDC 11.84 14 If, at any time, in common with most of our towns, [our fathers] have carried this economy to the verge of a vice, it is to be remembered that a town is, in many respects, a financial corporation.
    HDC 11.85 20 Humble as is our village [Concord] in the circle of later and prouder towns that whiten the land, it has been consecrated by the presence and activity of the purest men.
    EWI 11.116 4 In every quarter [of Antigua], we were assured, the day [after emancipation] was like a Sabbath. Work had ceased. The hum of business was still: tranquillity pervaded the towns and country.
    War 11.157 18 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to... come and reside in the towns.
    War 11.158 22 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at, I burned and spoiled.
    War 11.171 22 The attractiveness of war shows one thing through...the sack of towns...
    AKan 11.263 8 ...I think the towns should hold town meetings, and resolve themselves into Committees of Safety...
    ACiv 11.301 22 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change...and those less interested are...averse to innovation. It is like free trade, certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat;...
    SMC 11.349 15 We are glad and proud that we have no monopoly of merit. We are thankful that other towns and cities are as rich;...
    SHC 11.431 1 A simultaneous movement has, in a hundred cities and towns in this country, selected some convenient piece of undulating ground with pleasant woods and waters;...and we lay the corpse in these leafy colonnades.
    CPL 11.495 2 The people of Massachusetts prize the simple political arrangement of towns...
    CPL 11.495 12 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants...if it avail itself of the Act of the Legislature authorizing towns to tax themselves for the establishment of a public library.
    CPL 11.497 2 If you consider what has befallen you when reading...a tragedy, or a novel, even, that deeply interested you...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...
    II 12.81 3 ...the force of method and the force of will...builds towns.
    Mem 12.105 25 Abel Lawton knew every horse that went up and down through Concord to the towns in the county.
    CL 12.144 3 In Massachusetts, our land...is permeable like a park, and not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire...
    CL 12.146 9 In old towns there are always certain paradises known to the pedestrian...
    CL 12.159 14 ...it was the practice...of the Persians, to let insane persons wander at their own will out of the towns, into the desert...
    Bost 12.196 1 The universality of an elementary education in New England is her praise and her power in the whole world. To the schools succeeds the village lyceum,-now very general throughout all the country towns of New England...
    Bost 12.200 4 America is growing like a cloud, towns on towns...
    Bost 12.200 5 America is growing like a cloud, towns on towns...
    Bost 12.204 13 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first, planters of towns...
    Bost 12.207 23 The towns or countries in which the man lives and dies where he was born, and his son and son's son live and die where he did, are of no great account.
    Milt1 12.273 24 ...it would not be matter of rational wonder [Milton said], if the wethers of our country should be born with horns that could batter down cities and towns.
    Let 12.401 14 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life is shallow and anxious and full of discord because they despise genius, which brings...love and brotherhood into towns and houses.

town's, n. (2)

    HDC 11.48 11 Individual protests are frequent [at Concord town-meetings]. Peter Wright [1705] desired his dissent might be recorded from the town's grant to John Shepard.
    HDC 11.64 6 Some interesting peculiarities in the manners and customs of the time appear in the town's [Concord's] books.

township, n. (5)

    SR 2.76 10 A sturdy lad...who...buys a township...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    HDC 11.32 6 [The pilgrims] petitioned the General Court for a grant of a township...
    HDC 11.56 27 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    Bost 12.195 15 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    Let 12.394 16 [The correspondents] do not wish a township or any large expenditure or incorporated association...

townships, n. (1)

    Wth 6.119 22 So is it with granite streets or timber townships as with fruit or flowers.

townsman, n. (3)

    HDC 11.44 15 As early as 1633, the office of townsman or selectman appears [in New England]...
    SMC 11.351 24 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...becomes a sentiment, a poet, a prophet, an orator, to every townsman and passenger...
    EdAd 11.384 15 ...[the traveller in America] exclaims, What a negro-fine royalty is that of Jamschid and Solomon. What a substantial sovereignty does my townsman possess!

townsmen, n. (5)

    Con 1.317 3 ...the erect, formidable valor of some Dorian townsmen in the town of Sparta;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    DL 7.114 8 ...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince with our townsmen...
    Thor 10.467 5 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau], and, as it were, townsmen and fellow creatures;...
    Thor 10.472 27 [Thoreau] grew to be revered and admired by his townsmen...
    SMC 11.373 16 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and comrades... writing to his own family, uses these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle.

townsmen's, n. (1)

    HDC 11.44 6 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court...to certain purposes, sovereign powers. The townsmen's words were heard and weighed...

towns-people, n. (1)

    Art2 7.48 17 The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired, not by his...towns-people...but by all men...must disindividualize himself...

toy, adj. (4)

    F 6.17 17 Man is the arch machine of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models.
    F 6.26 18 ...'t is all toy figures in a toy house.
    F 6.26 19 ...'t is all toy figures in a toy house.
    QO 8.177 23 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire? what gift? What but the book that shall come...that shall be to their mature eyes what many a tinsel-covered toy pamphlet was to their childhood...

toy, n. (14)

    Nat 1.8 4 Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit.
    DSA 1.119 11 Man under [the stars] seems a young child, and his huge globe a toy.
    Lov1 2.183 24 The rays of the soul alight first on things nearest, on every utensil and toy...
    Cir 2.309 19 We learn first to play with [idealism] academically, as the magnet was once a toy.
    Nat2 3.186 14 ...this opaline lustre plays round the top of every toy to [the child's] eye to insure his fidelity...
    SwM 4.117 9 The poets, in as far as they are poets, use [Correspondence]; but it is known to them only as the magnet was known for ages, as a toy.
    SwM 4.128 14 I know how delicious is this cup of love...but it is a child's clinging to his toy;...
    Wth 6.93 1 Society in large towns is babyish, and wealth is made a toy.
    CbW 6.266 16 My countrymen are not less infatuated with the rococo toy of Italy.
    Ill 6.318 14 Is not time a pretty toy?
    PI 8.4 26 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear that dwindled astronomy into a toy;...
    Res 8.149 12 We have not a toy or trinket for idle amusement but somewhere it is the one thing needful...
    PPo 8.256 21 Cumber thee not for the world, and this my precept forget not,/ 'Tis but a toy that a vagabond sweetheart has left us./
    EurB 12.374 18 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect... because the power with which his hero is armed is a toy...

toy, v. (1)

    CbW 6.243 25 ...Mask thy wisdom with delight,/ Toy with the bow, yet hit the white./

toy-battery, n. (1)

    Wth 6.106 6 The laws of nature play through trade, as a toy-battery exhibits the effects of electricity.

toys, n. (23)

    Lov1 2.186 2 [The soul] arouses itself at last from these endearments, as toys...
    Cir 2.311 7 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys.
    Art1 2.364 17 ...there is a certain appearance of paltriness, as of toys...in sculpture.
    Pt1 3.29 6 ...poetry is not Devil's wine, but God's wine. It is with this as it is with toys.
    Pt1 3.29 11 We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses; withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and sufficing objects of nature...which should be their toys.
    Mrs1 3.135 1 Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage and all manner of toys...
    Nat2 3.173 20 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... ... I am over-instructed for my return. Henceforth I shall be hard to please. I cannot go back to toys.
    SwM 4.94 20 The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a region of grandeur which reduces all material magnificence to toys...
    MoS 4.186 2 ...through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
    ET5 5.83 20 More than the diamond Koh-i-noor...[the English] prize that dull pebble...whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.
    F 6.40 13 All the toys that infatuate men and which they play for...are the selfsame thing...
    F 6.42 13 As once [man] found himself among toys, so now he plays a part in colossal systems...
    Ill 6.313 23 We wake from one dream into another dream. The toys to be sure are various...
    Civ 7.33 12 ...it is frivolous to insist on the invention...of...percussion-caps and rubber-shoes, which are toys thrown off from that security, freedom and exhilaration which a healthy morality creates in society.
    Art2 7.38 24 ...from [the child's] first pile of toys or chip bridge to the masonry of Minot Rock Lighthouse or the Pacific Railroad;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
    DL 7.125 12 It is a life of toys and trinkets.
    PerF 10.84 14 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God. Thus is the world delivered into your hand, but on two conditions,-not for property, but for use...and not for toys, not for self-indulgence.
    Supl 10.176 26 ...[Nature] creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning... to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all the works of Nature...as toys and words of the mind;...
    FSLN 11.236 6 ...our education is not conducted by toys and luxuries...
    EdAd 11.385 1 The aspect this country presents is...an immense apparatus of cunning machinery which turns out, at last, some Nuremberg toys.
    ChiE 11.470 4 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning...to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all works of Nature...as toys and words of the mind;...
    CW 12.175 17 Horses and carriages are costly toys...
    Let 12.393 25 The sea and the iron road are safer toys for such ungrown people;...

trace, n. (15)

    Art1 2.353 7 ...[a man] cannot wipe out from his work every trace of the thoughts amidst which it grew.
    ShP 4.196 3 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where...the verse has even a trace of pulpit eloquence.
    ShP 4.215 20 ...there is not a trace of egotism [in Shakespeare].
    NMW 4.257 13 ...what was the result of [Napoleon's] vast talent and power...of this demoralized Europe? It came to no result. All passed away like the smoke of his artillery, and left no trace.
    GoW 4.271 24 ...there is no trace of provincial limitation in [Goethe's] muse.
    GoW 4.278 8 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind, gratifying it with...so many unexpected glimpses into a higher sphere, and never a trace of rhetoric or dulness.
    Pow 6.65 26 In trade also this energy usually carries a trace of ferocity.
    Ill 6.318 26 The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone.
    Elo1 7.98 1 ...[the moral sentiment] conveys a hint of our eternity, when [the hearer] feels himself addressed on grounds...which have no trace of time or place or party.
    Suc 7.309 6 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. ... She... forces death down underground...and wipes carefully out every trace by new creation.
    MoL 10.253 17 Bonaparte himself deserted [the Egpytian campaign], and the army got home as it could, all fruitless; not a trace of it remains.
    Plu 10.301 11 [Plutarch's] surprising merit is the genial facility with which he deals with his manifold topics. There is no trace of labor or pain.
    SMC 11.359 3 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... not a trace of fierceness, much less of recklessness...
    ChiE 11.471 21 ...the wars and revolutions that occur in [China's] annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history, leaving no trace.
    Mem 12.97 16 Is [Memory] some old aunt who goes in and out of the house, and occasionally recites anecdotes of old times and persons...and she being gone again I search in vain for any trace of the anecdotes?

trace, v. (16)

    MN 1.210 22 ...as far as we can trace the natural history of the soul, its health consists in the fulness of its reception?...
    Hist 2.14 2 In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races;...
    Cir 2.301 12 One moral we have already deduced in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action. Another analogy we shall now trace...
    ET4 5.51 13 Neither do this people [the English] appear to be of one stem, but collectively a better race than any from which they are derived. Nor is it easy to trace it home to its original seats.
    ET4 5.51 15 Who can call by right names what races are in Britain? Who can trace them historically?
    ET5 5.78 20 You shall trace these Gothic touches [in England] at school, at country fairs...
    F 6.21 24 Thus we trace Fate in matter, mind, and morals;...
    Ill 6.314 7 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy...who is afflicted with a tendency to trace home the glittering miscellany of fruits and flowers to one root.
    WD 7.166 11 We cannot trace the triumphs of civilization to such benefactors as we wish.
    Suc 7.297 2 There is no...great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
    SovE 10.188 14 In the pre-adamite [Nature] bred valor only; by and by she gets on to man, and adds tenderness, and thus raises virtue piecemeal. When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses;...
    Plu 10.310 18 [Plutarch's] humanity stooped affectionately to trace the virtues which he loved in the animals also.
    Thor 10.478 17 It was easy to trace to the inexorable demand on all for exact truth that austerity which made this willing hermit [Thoreau] more solitary even than he wished.
    JBS 11.279 22 Walter Scott would have delighted to...trace [John Brown's] adventurous career.
    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.
    Bost 12.195 6 I trace to this deep religious sentiment and to its culture great and salutary results to the people of New England;...

traced, v. (14)

    Nat 1.25 15 Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
    AmS 1.109 13 ...a revolution in the leading idea may be distinctly enough traced.
    NER 3.257 7 The same insatiable criticism may be traced in the efforts for the reform of Education.
    ShP 4.197 19 ...in the whole society of English writers, a large unacknowledged debt [to Chaucer] is easily traced.
    ET3 5.38 12 In the history of art it is a long way from a cromlech to York minster; yet all the intermediate steps may still be traced in this all-preserving island [England].
    ET14 5.241 20 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these may be traced usually to Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, or Hooker...
    ET16 5.273 10 It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker, and one whose influence may be traced in every contemporary book.
    F 6.1 1 Delicate omens traced in air,/ To the lone bard true witness bare;/...
    Pow 6.81 26 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred...is traced back to the girl that wove it, and lessens her wages.
    CbW 6.251 14 All the marked events of our day...may be traced back to their origin in a private brain.
    SovE 10.187 9 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...
    Schr 10.271 9 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius...
    FSLC 11.179 11 I wake in the morning with a painful sensation...which, when traced home, is the odious remembrance of that ignominy which has fallen on Massachusetts...
    EurB 12.369 24 ...[Wordsworth's influence's] effect may be traced on all the poetry both of England and America.

traces, n. (6)

    SwM 4.97 4 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...
    Boks 7.215 6 ...I often see traces of the Scotch or the French novel in the courtesy and brilliancy of young midshipmen, collegians and clerks.
    MMEm 10.419 11 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] pass my youth, its last traces, in the veriest shades of ignorance...
    Thor 10.460 1 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans...
    EWI 11.106 25 Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law, long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its introduction are lost;...
    SHC 11.431 19 You can almost see behind these pines the Indian with bow and arrow lurking yet exploring the traces of the old trail.

traces, v. (3)

    ET13 5.224 14 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live. And one traces this Jewish prayer in all English private history...
    Grts 8.304 1 ...follow the path your genius traces like the galaxy of heaven for you to walk in.
    MoL 10.249 4 Coleridge traces three silent revolutions...

tracing, v. (7)

    PNR 4.80 11 Modern science...has learned to indemnify the student of man for the defects of individuals by tracing growth and ascent in races;...
    GoW 4.274 9 ...[Goethe] showed...that, in actions of routine, a thread of mythology and fable spins itself, by tracing the pedigree of every usage and practice...home to its origin in the structure of man.
    Clbs 7.243 14 ...a history of clubs...tracing the efforts to secure liberal and refined conversation...would be an important chapter in history.
    Clbs 7.243 18 ...a history of clubs...tracing the clubs and coteries in each country, would be an important chapter in history.
    PerF 10.78 24 I delight in tracing these wonderful [mental] powers...
    Schr 10.264 12 [The scholar] is...here to revere the dominion of a serene necessity and be its pupil and apprentice by tracing everything home to a cause;...
    EWI 11.107 1 ...(tracing the subject to natural principles, the claim of slavery never can be supported).

track, n. (10)

    LT 1.278 11 The world leaves no track in space...
    YA 1.379 14 Our part is plainly not to throw ourselves across the track, to block improvement...
    Comp 2.116 6 Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge...
    Hsm1 2.262 10 [Culture] will not now run against an axe at the first step out of the beaten track of opinion.
    Chr1 3.115 20 ...there are many [eyes] that can discern Genius on his starry track...
    F 6.15 10 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...the conditions of a tool, like the locomotive, strong enough on its track, but which can do nothing but mischief off of it;...
    Res 8.144 8 The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild the road. Many men stepped forward, searched in the water, found the hidden rails, laid the track...
    Thor 10.469 17 [Thoreau] knew every track in the snow or on the ground...
    PLT 12.31 27 ...a dog has a sense that you have not, to find the track of his master or of a fox...
    MLit 12.332 9 [Goethe] was content to fall into the track of vulgar poets...

track, v. (1)

    Edc1 10.130 8 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark...

tracks, n. (1)

    Thor 10.476 12 I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken...describing their tracks...

tract, n. (12)

    LT 1.273 4 Milton, in his best tract, describes a relation between religion and the daily occupations...
    YA 1.365 2 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto.
    YA 1.365 17 Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking a continent in the West, that the harmony of nature required a great tract of land in the western hemisphere...
    ET9 5.150 15 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
    ET14 5.259 14 [Warren Hasting] goes to bespeak indulgence to...passages elevated to a tract of sublimity into which our habits of judgment will find it difficult to pursue them.
    PI 8.50 26 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    QO 8.184 5 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument...
    SovE 10.190 9 Community of property is tried, as when a Tartar horde or an Indian tribe roam over a vast tract for pasturage or hunting;...
    HDC 11.37 25 Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw Sachem, Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to the English...
    SHC 11.432 10 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...
    Milt1 12.251 12 This tract [Milton's Areopagitica] is far the best known and the most read of all...
    PPr 12.379 5 In its first aspect [Carlyle's Past and Present] is a political tract...

tractable, adj. (1)

    CPL 11.506 21 With [books] many of us spend the most of our life...these tractable prophets, historians, and singers...

tractableness, n. (1)

    CPL 11.506 26 You say, [reading] is a languid pleasure. Yes, but its tractableness...compensates the quietness...

tractors, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.389 19 [Ezra Ripley] was the easy dupe of any tonguey agent, whether...charlatan of iron combs, or tractors, or phrenology, or magnetism, who went by.

tracts, n. (14)

    YA 1.364 16 ...in this country [the railroad] has...anticipated by fifty years the planting of tracts of land...
    YA 1.367 21 ...the new modes of travelling enlarge the opportunity of selection [of a seat], by making it easy to cultivate very distant tracts...
    Nat2 3.188 2 Jacob Behmen and George Fox betray their egotism in the pertinacity of their controversial tracts...
    ET14 5.246 18 Dickens...writes London tracts.
    Chr2 10.110 3 Paganism...writes the tracts, elects the minister, and persecutes the true believer.
    LLNE 10.350 4 Attractive Industry would speedily subdue...the pestilential tracts;...
    EzRy 10.389 16 ...[Ezra Ripley] knew nothing beyond the columns of his weekly religious newspaper, the tracts of his sect, and perhap the Middlesex Yeoman.
    SMC 11.349 18 We are thankful...that the heroes of old and of recent date, who made and kept America free and united, were...sporadic over vast tracts of the Republic.
    Bost 12.194 27 These ancient men...send out their perfumed breath across the great tracts of time.
    Milt1 12.248 22 These tracts [by Milton] are remarkable compositions.
    Milt1 12.249 2 [Milton's tracts] are not effective...like what became also controversial tracts, several masterly speeches in the history of the American Congress.
    Milt1 12.271 23 One of [Milton's] tracts is writ to prove that no power on earth can compel in matters of religion.
    Milt1 12.272 8 The tracts [Milton] wrote on these topics [divorce and freedom of the press] are, for the most part, as fresh and pertinent to-day as they were then.
    Milt1 12.278 7 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks...to create an ideal world better than the world of experience. Such certainly is the explanation of Milton's tracts.

Tracy, Albert H., n. (2)

    Imtl 8.332 8 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert.
    Imtl 8.332 9 Slowly [the two men]...at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially. At last his friend said, Any light, Albert? None, replied Albert.

Trade, Board of, n. (2)

    ET5 5.96 21 The Board of Trade [of England] caused the best models of Greece and Italy to be placed within the reach of every manufacturing population.
    FSLC 11.181 22 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame. I cannot read longer even the local good news. When I look down the columns at the titles of paragraphs, Education in Massachusetts, Board of Trade...what bitter mockeries!

Trade, Boards of, n. (1)

    ET10 5.168 19 Chancellors [of England] and Boards of Trade...went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.

Trade, Free, adj. (1)

    Res 8.148 10 Mr. Marshall, the eminent manufacturer at Leeds, was to preside at a Free Trade festival in that city;...

Trade, Free, n. (1)

    NER 3.255 15 ...the country is full of kings. Hands off! let there be no control and no interference in the administration of the affairs of this kingdom of me. Hence the growth of the doctrine and of the party of Free Trade...

trade, n. (206)

    Nat 1.47 13 It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind, and so makes it the receiver of a certain number of congruent sensations, which we call...house and trade.
    Nat 1.76 13 ...you perhaps call [your house], a cobbler's trade;...
    AmS 1.102 17 ...some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half...
    MN 1.191 19 The rapid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade...enchants the eyes of all the rest;...
    MN 1.192 9 ...I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also.
    MN 1.206 11 Each individual soul is such in virtue of its being a power to translate the world into some particular language of its own;...into a trade...
    MN 1.215 18 You shall love rectitude...and not...the avoidance of trade;...
    MN 1.219 16 What brought the pilgrims here? One man says, civil liberty;... and a third discovers that the motive force was plantation and trade.
    MR 1.230 20 The ways of trade are grown selfish to the borders of theft...
    MR 1.232 12 ...I will not pry into the usages of our retail trade.
    MR 1.232 13 ...the general system of our trade...is a system of selfishness;...
    MR 1.233 3 The sins of our trade belong to no class...
    MR 1.233 16 ...all such ingenuous souls...who by the law of their nature must act simply, find these ways of trade unfit for them...
    MR 1.233 19 ...by coming out of trade you have not cleared yourself.
    MR 1.248 4 We are to revise the whole of our social structure...trade, science...
    LT 1.269 9 The leaders of the crusades against War...Usages of trade...are the right successors of Luther, Knox...
    LT 1.270 6 The Temperance-question...drawing with it all the curious ethics...of the Wine-question, of the equity of the manufacture and the trade, is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.
    LT 1.273 11 A wealthy man...finds religion to be a traffic...of so many piddling accounts, that of all mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock going upon that trade.
    LT 1.275 1 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform]...accuses men of driving a trade in the great boundless providence which had given the air, the water, and the land to men...
    Con 1.319 16 Now that a vicious system of trade has existed so long, it has stereotyped itself in the human generation, and misers are born.
    Tran 1.359 13 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...these cities...ruined...by new inventions, by new seats of trade...
    YA 1.363 16 This rage of road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade...
    YA 1.366 16 ...the walks of trade were crowded...
    YA 1.367 23 ...the new modes of travelling enlarge the opportunity of selection [of a seat], by making it easy to cultivate very distant tracts and yet remain in strict intercourse with the centres of trade and population.
    YA 1.378 16 This is the good and this the evil of trade, that it would put everything into market;...
    YA 1.378 19 The philosopher and lover of man have much harm to say of trade;...
    YA 1.378 20 ...the historian will see that trade was the principle of Liberty;...
    YA 1.378 21 ...the historian will see that...trade planted America and destroyed Feudalism;...
    YA 1.378 26 ...the aristocracy of trade has no permanence...
    YA 1.379 26 I pass to speak of the signs of that which is the sequel of trade.
    YA 1.380 1 In consequence of the revolution in the state of society wrought by trade, Government in our times is beginning to wear a clumsy and cumbrous appearance.
    Hist 2.22 11 In America and Europe the nomadism is of trade and curiosity;...
    SR 2.60 21 Let us...hurl in the face of custom and trade and office, the fact which is the upshot of all history...
    Comp 2.101 13 Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is a compend of the world...
    Comp 2.115 22 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant...do recommend to him his trade...
    Comp 2.118 25 Bolts and bars are not the best of our institutions, nor is shrewdness in trade a mark of wisdom.
    SL 2.140 20 It is not an excuse any longer for [a man's] deeds that they are the custom of his trade.
    SL 2.140 21 What business has [a man] with an evil trade?
    SL 2.142 7 The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into...
    SL 2.148 26 [A man] cleaves to one person and avoids another, according to their likeness or unlikeness to himself truly seeking himself...in his trade and habits and gestures and meats and drinks...
    Prd1 2.235 4 Our Yankee trade is reputed to be very much on the extreme of this prudence.
    Prd1 2.237 8 ...treat [men] greatly and they will show themselves great, though they make an exception in your favor to all their rules of trade.
    OS 2.285 22 The intercourse of society, its trade...is one wide judicial investigation of character.
    Pt1 3.38 2 Our log-rolling...the northern trade...are yet unsung.
    Chr1 3.92 7 The same motive force [of character] appears in trade.
    Chr1 3.92 8 There are geniuses in trade, as well as in war, or the State, or letters;...
    Chr1 3.92 18 Nature seems to authorize trade...
    Chr1 3.93 5 This immensely stretched trade...centres in [the natural merchant's] brain only;...
    Chr1 3.93 22 [The natural merchant] too believes...that a man must be born to trade or he cannot learn it.
    Mrs1 3.123 18 The competition is transferred from war to politics and trade, but the personal force appears readily enough in these new arenas.
    Mrs1 3.123 21 In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.
    Mrs1 3.126 10 ...the politics of this country, and the trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers...
    Nat2 3.179 3 Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade.
    Nat2 3.190 23 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
    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;...
    NER 3.262 5 Our marriage is no worse than...our trade...
    PPh 4.51 22 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is...possession; the other, trade...
    PPh 4.52 20 ...[Europe] is a land of arts, inventions, trade, freedom.
    PPh 4.53 18 The Roman legion...English trade...may all be seen in perspective;...
    MoS 4.151 18 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world...and the practical world...weigh heavily on the other side.
    MoS 4.151 24 The trade in our streets believes in no metaphysical causes...
    MoS 4.158 6 ...shall the young man aim at a leading part in law, in politics, in trade? It will not be pretended that a success in either of these kinds is quite coincident with what is best and inmost in his mind.
    MoS 4.171 3 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive; his presence supposes a well-ordered society, agriculture, trade, large institutions and empire.
    MoS 4.180 13 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may...want a rougher instruction, want men, labor, trade, farming, war, hunger, plenty, love, hatred, doubt and terror to make things plain to him;...
    ShP 4.201 9 Every book supplies its time with one good word; every municipal law, every trade, every folly of the day;...
    NMW 4.247 22 ...it is the belief of men to-day that nothing new can be undertaken in politics...or in trade...
    GoW 4.271 3 The world extends itself like American trade.
    ET3 5.42 3 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom, giving...all the conveniency to trade that a people so skilful and sufficient in economizing water-front by docks, warehouses and lighters required.
    ET4 5.56 27 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ... As soon as the shores are sufficiently peopled to make piracy a losing business, the same skill and courage are ready for the service of trade.
    ET4 5.67 12 ...[the fair Saxon man] is moulded for law, lawful trade...
    ET5 5.82 7 In politics [the English] put blunt questions, which must be answered; Who is to pay the taxes? What will you do for trade?
    ET5 5.85 8 In trade, the Englishman believes that nobody breaks who ought not to break;...
    ET5 5.85 10 In trade, the Englishman believes...that if he do not make trade everything, it will make him nothing;...
    ET5 5.88 16 [The Englishmen's] drowsy minds need to be flagellated by war and trade and politics and persecution.
    ET5 5.93 13 ...in the complications of the trade and politics of their vast empire, [the English] have been equal to every exigency...
    ET5 5.96 12 The English trade does not exist for the exportation of native products...
    ET5 5.100 25 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion. So what is invented or known in agriculture, or in trade...
    ET6 5.109 5 The motive and end of [Englishmen's] trade and empire is to guard the independence and privacy of their homes.
    ET7 5.120 6 If war do not bring in its sequel new trade, better agriculture and manufactures...no prosperity could support it;...
    ET8 5.128 14 [The English] are...not so easily amused as the southerners, and are among them as grown people among children, requiring war, or trade...instead of frivolous games.
    ET8 5.132 5 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which creates... enterprise in trade...
    ET8 5.142 13 ...the calm, sound and most British Briton...respects an economy founded on agriculture, coal-mines, manufactures or trade...
    ET9 5.150 25 The English dislike the American structure of society, whilst yet trade, mills, public education and Chartism are doing what they can to create in England the same social condition.
    ET10 5.155 5 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders. Better take [the children] away from those who might deprave them. And it was highly injurious to trade to stop binding to manufacturers...
    ET10 5.158 26 ...about 1829-30, much fear was felt [in England] lest the [textile] trade would be drawn away by these interruptions [of labor]...
    ET10 5.160 5 ...when, to this labor and trade and these native resources [of England] was added this goblin of steam...the amassing of property has run out of all figures.
    ET10 5.161 13 ...[the Bank of England] refuses loans, and...trade sinks;...
    ET10 5.162 12 Of course [steam] draws the [English] nobility into the competition...in the application of steam to agriculture, and sometimes into trade.
    ET10 5.168 6 It is not, I suppose, want of probity, so much as the tyranny of trade, which necessitates a perpetual competition of underselling...
    ET10 5.168 26 It is rare to find a merchant who knows why a crisis occurs in trade...
    ET11 5.174 14 Piracy and war gave place [in England] to trade, politics and letters;...
    ET11 5.182 2 ...most of the historical [English] houses are masked or lost in the modern uses to which trade or charity has converted them.
    ET12 5.205 18 ...the known sympathy of entire Britain in what is done there [at the universities], justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America, where his college is half suspected by the Freshman to be insignificant in the scale beside trade and politics.
    ET13 5.222 19 ...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church.
    ET18 5.300 6 England and Scotland combine to check Irish manufactures and trade.
    ET18 5.301 8 [The foreign policy of England] has a principal regard to the interest of trade...
    ET19 5.310 5 The arguments of the League and its leader are known to all the friends of free trade.
    ET19 5.311 10 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which...in trade and in the mechanic's shop, gives that honesty in performance...which is a national [English] characteristic.
    ET19 5.313 10 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so...I feel in regard to this aged England...pressed upon by the transitions of trade...
    F 6.31 7 ...in trade...[men] think they come under another [dominion];...
    Pow 6.56 19 A man who knows men, can talk well on politics, trade, law, war, religion.
    Pow 6.65 25 In trade also this energy usually carries a trace of ferocity.
    Pow 6.75 2 Concentration is the secret of strength...in trade...
    Pow 6.75 15 ...if we seek an example [of concentration] from trade,--I hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not too fond of money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am sure I should wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to business,--that is the way to be happy.
    Wth 6.90 1 ...all grand and subtile things, minerals, gases, ethers, passions, war, trade, government,--are [man's] natural playmates...
    Wth 6.104 18 ...if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad...would not the dollar... presently find it out?
    Wth 6.106 5 The laws of nature play through trade...
    Wth 6.125 18 ...The right investment is in tools of your trade;...
    Ctr 6.158 23 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill;...
    Ctr 6.160 18 ...culture must reinforce from higher influx the empirical skills of eloquence...or of trade and the useful arts.
    Wsp 6.202 5 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out...in trade, in the love of power and pleasure...let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely...
    Wsp 6.202 16 The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate...or trade...
    Wsp 6.211 1 Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and establish free trade.
    CbW 6.258 3 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls... on...some trade or politics of the hour, he prefers it to the universe...
    CbW 6.271 9 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...a legacy and the like. With these objects, their conversation deals with surfaces: politics, trade...
    Civ 7.32 11 ...when I...see...how self-helped and self-directed all families are,--knots of men in purely natural societies, societies of trade...I see what cubic values America has...
    Farm 7.137 3 All trade rests at last on [the farmer's] primitive activity.
    Farm 7.138 8 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum...or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society. And who knows how many glances of remorse are turned this way from the bankrupts of trade...
    Farm 7.140 26 The men in cities who are...the driving-wheels of trade, or politics or practical arts...are the children or grandchildren of farmers...
    WD 7.173 27 How difficult to deal erect with [these passing hours]! The events they bring, their trade, entertainments and gossip...all throw dust in the eyes and distract attention.
    Cour 7.264 17 Courage is equality to the problem...in trade...or in action;...
    Cour 7.268 6 There is a courage of a merchant in dealing with his trade...
    Suc 7.297 1 There is no prosperity, trade...but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
    PI 8.5 27 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets our politics, trade...
    PI 8.32 2 Free trade, [men of the world] concede, is very well as a principle...
    SA 8.84 13 We say, in these days, that credit is to be abolished in trade; is it?
    Elo2 8.112 13 There are not only the wants of the intellectual and learned and poetic men and women to be met, but also the vast interests of property, public and private, of mining, of manufactures, of trade, of railroads, etc.
    Res 8.143 11 ...the immense expansion of trade has wanted every ounce of gold...
    Comc 8.166 18 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him;.../
    Comc 8.173 8 ...when this [patriotic] enthusiasm is perceived to end in the very intelligible maxims of trade...the intellect feels again the half-man.
    PC 8.210 17 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...the foreign trade and the home trade...have evoked!...
    PC 8.231 7 We wish...to ordain free trade, and believe that it will not bankrupt us;...
    Insp 8.273 7 [Most men's] house and trade and families serve them as ropes to give a coarse continuity.
    Insp 8.287 11 Are you poetical, impatient of trade...
    Aris 10.36 12 Every mark and scutcheon of [Nature's] indicates constitutional qualities. In science, in trade...it is the same thing.
    Aris 10.38 9 ...in any trade...they only prosper or they prosper best who have a military mind...
    Aris 10.62 26 In America [the gentleman] shall find deprecation of purism on all questions touching the morals of trade and of social customs...
    Aris 10.65 4 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit will not need...to direct large interests of trade...
    Edc1 10.129 6 How [the desire of power] sharpens the perceptions and stores the memory with facts. Thus a man may well spend many years of life in trade.
    Supl 10.170 13 I once attended a dinner given to a great state functionary by functionaries,-men of law, state and trade.
    SovE 10.206 23 We in America are charged...that our institutions, our politics and our trade have fostered a self-reliance which is small, liliputian, full of fuss and bustle;...
    SovE 10.210 6 ...there are the new conventions of social science, before which the questions of...the laws of trade...come for a hearing.
    MoL 10.248 6 War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize. Weeks, months pass-a new harvest; trade springs up...
    MoL 10.248 21 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...as...Smith, with his law of trade;...
    MoL 10.254 14 The scholar is bound to stand for...liberty of trade, liberty of the press, liberty of religion...
    Schr 10.270 12 For [the poet] arms, art, politics, trade, waited like menials...
    LLNE 10.355 15 In our free institutions, where every man is at liberty to choose his home and his trade...fortunes are easily made...
    Carl 10.491 13 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they admire Cobden and free trade and he is a protectionist in political economy;...
    Carl 10.492 18 [Carlyle] throws himself readily on the other side. If you urge free trade, he remembers that every laborer is a monopolist.
    Carl 10.492 24 [Carlyle says] St. John was insulted by the Dutch; he came home, got the law passed that foreign vessels should pay high fees, and it cut the throat of the Dutch, and made the English trade.
    HDC 11.43 16 ...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
    HDC 11.85 7 ...[Concord's sons] engage in trade and in all the professions.
    LVB 11.94 1 ...to us the questions upon which the government and the people have been agitated during the past year, touching the prostration of the currency and of trade, seem but motes in comparison [with the relocation of the Cherokees].
    EWI 11.108 19 The shipmasters in [the slave] trade were the greatest miscreants...
    EWI 11.108 23 [Thomas] Clarkson went to Bristol, made himself acquainted with the interior of the slave-ships and the details of the trade.
    EWI 11.109 1 More seamen died in [the slave] trade in one year than in the whole remaining trade of the country [England] in two.
    EWI 11.109 2 More seamen died in [the slave] trade in one year than in the whole remaining trade of the country [England] in two.
    EWI 11.109 6 In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave] trade was brought in by Wilberforce...
    EWI 11.109 16 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended.
    EWI 11.110 3 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade...
    EWI 11.110 8 The [slave] trade, under false flags, went on as before.
    EWI 11.110 15 In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing out of the act of abolition, ships were built sharp for swiftness...
    EWI 11.123 12 ...we...have acquired the vices and virtues that belong to trade.
    EWI 11.123 21 It was, or it seemed the dictate of trade, to keep the negro down.
    EWI 11.123 24 It was, or it seemed the dictate of trade, to keep the negro down. We had found a race who were...less energetic shopkeepers than we; who had very little skill in trade.
    EWI 11.126 19 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day;...
    EWI 11.127 10 These considerations, I doubt not, had their weight [in emancipation in the West Indies]; the interest of trade, the interest of the revenue, and...the good fame of the action.
    EWI 11.127 23 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    EWI 11.137 14 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. On the other part, appeared...a resistance which drew from Mr. Huddlestone in Parliament the observation, That a curse attended this trade even in the mode of defending it.
    War 11.154 6 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought different families of the human race together,-to blows at first, but afterwards to truce, to trade, and to intermarriage.
    War 11.156 25 Not only the moral sentiment, but trade, learning and whatever makes intercourse, conspire to put [war] down.
    War 11.156 27 Trade...is the antagonist of war.
    War 11.157 3 Wherever there is no property, the people will put on the knapsack for bread; but trade is instantly endangered and destroyed.
    War 11.157 4 ...trade brings men to look each other in the face...
    FSLC 11.189 2 ...men have to to with rectitude, with benefit, with truth, with something that is, independent of appearances: and...this tie makes the substantiality of life, and not their ploughing, or sailing, their trade, or the breeding of families.
    FSLN 11.239 24 England maintains trade, not liberty;...
    ACiv 11.301 21 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change...and those less interested are...averse to innovation. It is like free trade, certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat;...
    ACiv 11.304 22 We are advanced some ages on the war-state,-to trade, art and general cultivation.
    ACiv 11.306 11 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole breadth of the continent...
    EPro 11.324 6 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of... disinfecting us of our habitual proclivity, through the affection of trade and the traditions of the Democratic party, to follow Southern leading.
    EPro 11.325 13 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis. Then...Nature and trade may be trusted to establish a lasting peace.
    SMC 11.354 25 The opinions of masses of men, which the tactics of primary caucuses and the proverbial timidity of trade had concealed, the [Civil] war discovered;...
    EdAd 11.385 11 One would say there is nothing colossal in the country but its geography and its material activities; that the moral and intellectual effects are not on the same scale with the trade and production.
    EdAd 11.388 13 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully...
    Wom 11.407 7 When women engage in any art or trade, it is usually as a resource, not as a primary object.
    Wom 11.418 19 ...there are multitudes of men who live to objects quite out of them, as to politics, to trade...
    Wom 11.422 20 Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him brings the other or corresponding half in his hand: a reasonable result is had. Now there is no lack, I am sure...of the interests of trade or of imperative class interests being neglected.
    FRep 11.512 19 ...the interest nations took in our war was exasperated by the importance of the cotton trade.
    FRep 11.524 16 [The election of a rogue and a brawler] was done by the very men you know,-the mildest, most sensible, best-natured people. The only account of this is, that they have been scared or warped into some association in their mind of the candidate with the interest of their trade or of their property.
    FRep 11.531 18 In this country...there is, at present...a headlong devotion to trade...
    FRep 11.532 6 See how fast [our people] extend the fleeting fabric of their trade...
    FRep 11.540 13 We...shall proceed like William Penn...on principles of honest trade and mutual advantage.
    FRep 11.541 18 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of wealth; doors wide open. If I could have it,-free trade with all the world without toll or custom-houses...
    FRep 11.544 13 Trade and government will not alone be the favored aims of mankind...
    PLT 12.18 27 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves...agriculture, trade, commerce;...
    PLT 12.41 1 ...a thought, properly speaking,-that is a truth held not from... any accidental benefit or recommendation it has in our trade or circumstance...is of inestimable value.
    PLT 12.54 23 ...[a man's] genius leads him one way, but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another.
    II 12.72 27 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money.
    II 12.81 3 ...the force of method and the force of will makes trade...
    CInt 12.126 3 It is true that the University and the Church, which should be counterbalancing institutions to our great material institutions of trade and of territorial power, do not express the sentiment of the popular politics and the popular optimism, whatever it be.
    CInt 12.127 9 ...these two [the College and the Church] should be counterbalancing to the bad politics and selfish trade.
    Bost 12.205 22 The power of labor which belongs to the English race fell here...into a maritime country made for trade...
    Bost 12.210 6 In an age of trade and material prosperity, we have stood a little stupefied by the elevation of our ancestors.
    MLit 12.317 21 There are facts on which men of the world superciliously smile, which are worth all their trade and politics;...
    AgMs 12.362 24 The way in which men who have farms grow rich is either by other resources, or by trade...
    Let 12.403 16 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;-a result...owing...to the hard times, which, driving men out of cities and trade, forced them to take off their coats and go to work on the land;...

Trade, n. (15)

    LT 1.259 3 ...the present aspects of our social state...Art, Trade, Letters, have their root in an invisible spiritual reality.
    LT 1.275 4 [The spirit of Reform] casts its eye on Trade, and Day Labor...
    YA 1.377 6 Meantime Trade had begun to appear...
    YA 1.377 6 ...Trade, a plant which grows wherever there is peace...
    YA 1.377 22 Trade was the strong man that broke [Feudalism] down...
    YA 1.378 5 Trade goes to make the governments insignificant...
    YA 1.379 4 Trade is an instrument in the hands of that friendly Power which works for us in our own despite.
    YA 1.379 21 Trade was one instrument, but Trade is also but for a time...
    YA 1.379 22 Trade was one instrument, but Trade is also but for a time...
    NER 3.256 11 This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think...
    Ctr 6.165 24 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...if Trade with its money;...can set his dull nerves throbbing...make way and sing paean!
    Art2 7.37 2 All departments of life at the present day--Trade, Politics, Letters, Science, or Religion--seem to feel...the identity of their law.
    WD 7.165 22 ...Trade...ends in shameful defaulting, bubble and bankruptcy...
    WD 7.166 14 The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
    MLit 12.335 24 [The Genius of the time] will...record the descent of principles into practice, of love into Government, of love into Trade.

trade, v. (3)

    ET4 5.65 3 As early as the [Norman] conquest it is remarked...that [England's] merchants trade to all countries.
    Suc 7.311 9 There is an external life, which is...taught to read, write, cipher and trade;...
    Bost 12.199 10 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or fifty sail went yearly in America only to trade and fish...

traded, v. (3)

    ET5 5.75 3 ...the Saxon seriously settled in the land [England], builded, tilled, fished and traded...
    ET18 5.303 21 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates...
    JBS 11.280 9 ...if [John Brown] traded in wool, he was a merchant prince...

trade-nobility, n. (1)

    PPr 12.390 19 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and Europe...with trade-nobility, and East and West Indies for dependencies; and America...have never before been conquered in literature.

trader, n. (3)

    YA 1.366 20 ...the farmer who is not wanted by others can yet grow his own bread, whilst the manufacturer or the trader, who is not wanted, cannot...
    MoS 4.152 23 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in.
    Wth 6.103 23 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote...he makes so much more equity in Massachusetts;...

traders, n. (7)

    MR 1.237 10 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar...by simply signing my name...to a cheque in favor of John Smith and Co. traders, get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...
    MoS 4.151 26 The trade in our streets...thinks nothing of the force which necessitated traders and a trading planet to exist...
    Bty 6.282 11 However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders in [astrology], the hint was true...
    Elo1 7.65 24 [Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in the Pied Piper of Hamelin, whose music...drew...traders and feasters...
    EWI 11.146 14 I doubt not that sometimes the negro's friend, in the face of scornful and brutal hundreds of traders and drivers, has felt his heart sink.
    FSLN 11.238 4 The habit of mind of traders in power would not be esteemed favorable to delicate moral perception.
    CInt 12.116 25 ...[the scholars] were traders and left their altars and libraries and worship of truth...

trades, n. (10)

    AmS 1.98 3 Years are well spent...in the insight into trades and manufactures;...to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
    Prd1 2.224 5 If a man...immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.
    Pt1 3.18 9 Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles.
    ET3 5.37 22 The innumerable details [in England]...the number and power of the trades and guilds...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET4 5.48 22 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form.
    ET6 5.110 3 A hereditary tenure is natural to [the English]. Offices, farms, trades and traditions descend so.
    ET13 5.225 9 The new age has new desires, new enemies, new trades, new charities...
    Ctr 6.147 5 As many languages as [a man] has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
    PI 8.66 24 The philosophy which a nation receives, rules its religion, poetry, politics, arts, trades and whole history.
    Imtl 8.327 14 Swedenborg described an intelligible heaven, by continuing the like employments in the like circumstances as those we know; men in societies, in houses, towns, trades, entertainments;...

Trades' Unions, n. (1)

    YA 1.380 12 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner. Witness...the Trades' Unions...

trades, v. (1)

    CInt 12.130 15 ...know that, next to being [intellect's] minister...is the profound reception and sympathy, without ambition, which secularizes and trades it.

tradesman, n. (3)

    Nat 1.16 20 The tradesman...comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again.
    AmS 1.83 25 The tradesman scarcely ever gives an ideal worth to his work...
    Mrs1 3.142 5 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment.

tradesmen, n. (4)

    ET8 5.134 12 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...earls and tradesmen;...
    SMC 11.355 25 The invasion of Northern...tradesmen, lawyers and students did more than forty years of peace had done to educate the South.
    SMC 11.357 5 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...manly farmers, skilful mechanics, young tradesmen...
    Scot 11.466 7 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class, with whom he established the best relation,- small farmers and tradesmen, shepherds, fishermen, gypsies...

trades-unions, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.327 19 College classes, military corps, or trades-unions may fancy themselves indissoluble for a moment, over their wine;...

trading, adj. (6)

    Con 1.320 20 ...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class;...they will upset the fair pageant of Judicature...
    YA 1.365 5 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto. A consciousness of this fact is beginning to take the place of the purely trading spirit and education which sprang up whilst all the population lived on the fringe of sea-coast.
    MoS 4.151 26 The trade in our streets...thinks nothing of the force which necessitated traders and a trading planet to exist...
    ET11 5.175 27 ...the duel, which in peace still held [French and English nobles] to the risks of war, diminished the envy that in trading and studious nations would else have pried into their title.
    ET18 5.301 18 England keeps open doors, as a trading country must, to all nations.
    EWI 11.123 7 [Our civility] is that of a trading nation;...

trading, n. (3)

    TPar 11.289 24 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it with sharp trading...it is a hypocrisy...
    FRep 11.534 19 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain heroic planting and trading.
    PLT 12.19 10 Our eating, trading, marrying, and learning are mistaken by us for ends and realities...

trading, v. (2)

    LT 1.274 10 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises... and after the malmsey...his religion walks abroad at eight, and leaves his kind entertainer in the shop, trading all day without his religion.
    SwM 4.127 23 ...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total; and chastity not a local, but a universal virtue; unchastity being discovered as much in the trading, or planting, or speaking, or philosophizing, as in generation;...

tradition, n. (40)

    Nat 1.3 8 Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition...
    Nat 1.74 10 There are innocent men who worship God after the tradition of their fathers...
    DSA 1.141 15 ...tradition characterizes the preaching of this country;...
    LE 1.166 2 ...the moment [men] desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope...all flock to their aid.
    LT 1.277 11 [The Reforms]...present no more poetic image to the mind than the evil tradition which they reprobated.
    Hist 2.27 17 When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to [the student]...a prayer of his youth, he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition...
    Comp 2.93 16 ...in [Compensation] might be shown men...the present action of the soul of this world, clean from all vestige of tradition;...
    OS 2.292 24 When we have broken our god of tradition...then may God fire the heart with his presence.
    Chr1 3.112 10 It was a tradition of the ancient world that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god;...
    Mrs1 3.155 8 ...[society] reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology, in any attempt to settle its character.
    MoS 4.182 25 [The wise and magninimous] will exult in [the spiritualist's] far-sighted good-will that can abandon to the adversary all the ground of tradition and common belief...
    ShP 4.194 3 The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work...
    ShP 4.196 10 Shakspeare knew that tradition supplies a better fable than any invention can.
    ShP 4.196 25 [The poet in illiterate times] is...little solicitous whence his thoughts have been derived; whether through translation, whether through tradition...
    NMW 4.252 23 ...Rome and Austria, centres of tradition and genealogy, opposed [Napoleon].
    ET4 5.54 26 The sources from which tradition derives [the English] stock are mainly three.
    ET13 5.219 14 The [English] national temperament deeply enjoys the unbroken order and tradition of its church;...
    ET13 5.228 13 The English Church, undermined by German criticism, had nothing left but tradition;...
    ET13 5.230 12 ...when the hierarchy is afraid of science and education, afraid of piety, afraid of tradition and afraid of theology, there is nothing left but to quit a church which is no longer one.
    ET16 5.281 7 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position. In the silence of tradition, this one relation to science becomes an important clew;...
    Art2 7.46 16 In poetry, It is tradition more than invention that helps the poet to a good fable.
    PI 8.7 3 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to; what country, tradition or religion;...
    QO 8.178 15 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive...that...one would say there is no pure originality.
    QO 8.180 16 ...if we find in India or Arabia a book out of our horizon of thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new researches in its native country to discover its foregoers...
    Insp 8.272 22 Neither miracle nor magic nor any religious tradition...is incredible, after we have experienced an insight...
    Chr2 10.103 1 ...the memory and tradition of such a [steadfast] leader is preserved in some strange way by those who only half understand him...
    Chr2 10.112 23 Every age, says Varnhagen, has another sieve for the religious tradition...
    SovE 10.199 2 While the immense energy of the sentiment of duty and the awe of the supernatural exert incomparable influence on the mind,-yet it is often perverted, and the tradition received with awe, but without correspondent action of the receiver.
    Schr 10.288 22 ...[the scholar] is to hold lightly every tradition, every opinion, every person...
    LS 11.4 21 ...so far from the [Lord's] Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed, there has always been the widest room for difference of opinion upon this particular.
    HDC 11.61 5 Concord suffered little from the [King Philip's] war. This is to be attributed no doubt, in part, to the fact that...it was the residence of many noted soldiers. Tradition finds another cause in the sanctity of its minister.
    EWI 11.103 14 Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes...
    PLT 12.6 15 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is that the student...shall come to know that in seeing and in no tradition he must find what truth is;...
    PLT 12.42 27 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...no longer looks back to Hebrew or Greek or English use or tradition in religion, laws or life...
    PLT 12.60 13 That wonderful oracle [the divine soul] will reply when it is consulted, and there is no history or tradition...on which it is not a competent and the only competent judge.
    MAng1 12.239 22 ...the reputation of many works of art now in Italy derives a sanction from the tradition of [Michelangelo's] praise.
    MAng1 12.243 11 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot.
    MLit 12.310 22 [The library of the Present Age] exhibits a vast carcass of tradition every year...
    Let 12.402 7 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class...perhaps is the more violent that whilst our work is imposed by the soil and the sea, our culture is the tradition of Europe.
    Trag 12.408 15 After reason and faith have introduced a better public and private tradition, the tragic element is somewhat circumscribed.

traditional, adj. (7)

    YA 1.366 2 The land...is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education...
    SwM 4.122 6 To the withered traditional church...[Swedenborg] let in nature again...
    ET14 5.249 5 Even in [Coleridge], the traditional Englishman was too strong for the philosopher...
    Wsp 6.221 20 If any reader tax me with using vague and traditional phrases, let me suggest to him by a few examples what kind of a trust this is [in the moral sentiment], and how real.
    Wsp 6.229 11 When the parent...puts them off with a traditional or a hypocritical answer, the children perceive that it is traditional or hypocritical.
    Wsp 6.229 12 When the parent...puts them off with a traditional or a hypocritical answer, the children perceive that it is traditional or hypocritical.
    TPar 11.286 22 [Theodore Parker] had...a love for facts, a rapid eye for their historic relations, and a skill in stripping them of traditional lustres.

traditionally, adv. (1)

    Comp 2.106 11 ...the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme Mind; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions, they involuntarily made amends to reason by tying up the hands of so bad a god.

traditionary, adj. (3)

    DSA 1.134 1 The second defect of the traditionary and limited way of using the mind of Christ is a consequence of the first;...
    Fdsp 2.194 16 ...as many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand...no longer strangers and pilgrims in a traditionary globe.
    Aris 10.39 22 We are fallen on times so acquiescent and traditionary that we are in danger of forgetting so simple a fact as that the basis of all aristocracy must be truth...

traditioned, adj. (1)

    Civ 7.17 23 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again,/--Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill,/ Traditioned fame of masters.../

traditions, n. (40)

    Nat 1.70 12 I shall...conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature...
    Nat 1.73 2 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are, the traditions of miracles in the earliest antiquity of all nations;...
    MR 1.227 11 ...some of those offices and functions for which we were mainly created are grown so rare in society that the memory of them is only kept alive...in dim traditions;...
    SR 2.45 16 ...the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions...
    SR 2.50 18 ...What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?...
    ShP 4.199 8 ...there were fountains around Homer, Menu, Saadi, or Milton, from which they drew;--friends, lovers, books, traditions, proverbs,--all perished...
    ET2 5.29 26 ...'t is no wonder that the history of our race is so recent, if the roar of the ocean is silencing our traditions.
    ET4 5.46 17 Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed...to laws and traditions, nor to fortune;...
    ET4 5.54 4 ...it is fine for us to speculate in face of unbroken traditions...
    ET4 5.54 5 ...it is fine for us to speculate in face of unbroken traditions, though vague and losing themselves in fable. The traditions have got footing, and refused to be disturbed.
    ET6 5.110 3 A hereditary tenure is natural to [the English]. Offices, farms, trades and traditions descend so.
    ET9 5.146 21 [The Englishman] sticks to his traditions and usages...
    ET11 5.173 9 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself...with the Hebrew religion and the oldest traditions of the world, was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by a few offensive realities...
    ET11 5.189 23 Shakspeare's portraits of good Duke Humphrey, of Warwick, of Northumberland, of Talbot, were drawn in strict consonance with the traditions.
    ET14 5.243 9 ...we find stumps of vast trees in our exhausted soils, and have received traditions of their ancient fertility to tillage...
    ET17 5.298 1 ...[Wordsworth] had conformities to English politics and traditions;...
    Wsp 6.209 10 ...the Christian traditions have lost their hold.
    Wsp 6.214 23 Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
    Civ 7.20 17 The Indian is gloomy and distressed when urged to depart from his habits and traditions.
    Art2 7.54 9 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also. This form becomes immediately sacred in the eyes of their children, and as more traditions cluster round it, is imitated with more splendor in each succeeding generation.
    PI 8.35 20 In a game-party or picnic poem each writer is released from the solemn rhythmic traditions which alarm and suffocate his fancy...
    PC 8.215 9 Even the races that we still call savage or semi-savage, and which preserve their arts from immemorial traditions, vindicate their faculty by the skill with which they make their yam-cloths, pipes, bows...
    PPo 8.240 10 The Persian poetry rests on a mythology whose few legends are connected with the Jewish history and the anterior traditions of the Pentateuch.
    PPo 8.259 21 ...nothing in [Hafiz's] religious or in his scientific traditions is too sacred or too remote to afford a token of his mistress.
    Dem1 10.16 19 In the popular belief, ghosts are a selecting tribe, avoiding millions, speaking to one. In our traditions, fairies, angels and saints show the like favoritism;...
    Chr2 10.111 14 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using their fine fancy to emblazon their memory.
    Chr2 10.116 19 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions...
    SovE 10.208 19 The life of those once omnipotent traditions was really not in the legend...
    SovE 10.212 7 We buttress [the moral sentiment] up...with legends, traditions and forms...
    Prch 10.217 7 The venerable and beautiful traditions in which we were educated are losing their hold on human belief, day by day;...
    MoL 10.249 16 ...let us have masculine and divine men, formidable lawgivers...who warp the churches of the world from their traditions...
    Plu 10.297 16 [Plutarch] is, among prose writers, what Chaucer is among English poets...a compend of all accepted traditions.
    EPro 11.324 6 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of... disinfecting us of our habitual proclivity, through the affection of trade and the traditions of the Democratic party, to follow Southern leading.
    FRep 11.535 6 ...if we found [Westerners] clinging to English traditions... we should feel this...absurdly out of place.
    PLT 12.6 17 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is that the student shall learn to appreciate the miracle of the mind;...that he shall see in it the source of all traditions...
    PLT 12.42 25 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he releases himself from the traditions in which he grew...
    Mem 12.110 10 When we live by principles instead of traditions...the Great Mind will enter into us...
    Bost 12.209 8 Greater cities there are that sprung from [Boston], full of its blood and name and traditions.
    Milt1 12.257 5 Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton] by his biographers, that if the anecdotes...had not been in part furnished or corroborated by political enemies, would lead us to suspect the portraits were ideal, like...the popular traditions of Alfred the Great.
    MLit 12.323 23 All conventions, all traditions [Goethe] rejected.

traditori, n. (1)

    Boks 7.204 9 The Italians have a fling at translators,--i traditori traduttori;...

traduces, v. (1)

    SwM 4.131 1 ...though aware that truth is not solitary nor is goodness solitary, but both must ever mix and marry, [Swedenborg] makes war on his mind...and, on all occasions, traduces and blasphemes it.

traduttori, n. (1)

    Boks 7.204 9 The Italians have a fling at translators,--i traditori traduttori;...

Trafalgar, Cape, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.128 19 ...fashion...is Mexico, Marengo and Trafalgar beaten out thin;...
    ET4 5.68 1 Nelson, dying at Trafalgar, sends his love of Lord Collingwood...

traffic, n. (7)

    MR 1.243 26 I ought to be armed...by my traffic.
    LT 1.273 8 A wealthy man...finds religion to be a traffic so entangled...that of all mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock going upon that trade.
    NER 3.265 19 I have not been able either to persuade my brother or to prevail on myself to disuse the traffic or the potation of brandy...
    SwM 4.93 14 A higher class...are the poets, who...feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures which...console [men] for...the meanness of labor and traffic.
    EWI 11.108 7 [John Woolman] gave his testimony against the [slave] traffic, in Maryland and Virginia.
    HCom 11.343 25 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States, and now, by her teachers, preachers journalists and books, as well as by traffic and production, the diffuser of religious, literary and political opinion;...I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    FRep 11.543 19 ...north and south, east and west will be present to our minds, and our vote will be as if they voted, and we shall know that our vote secures...good will, liberty and security of traffic and of production...

tragedian, n. (2)

    ShP 4.206 27 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...and all I then heard and all I now remember of the tragedian was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost...
    ShP 4.207 1 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...and all I then heard and all I now remember of the tragedian was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost...

tragedians, n. (2)

    Boks 7.198 4 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare... ... 3. Aeschylus, the grandest of the three tragedians...
    PI 8.65 20 In the world of letters how few commanding oracles! Homer did what he could; Pindar, Aeschylus, and the Greek Gnomic poets and the tragedians.

tragedies, n. (9)

    AmS 1.81 5 We do not meet...for the recitation of histories, tragedies, and odes...
    Hist 2.26 2 [The Greeks] made vases, tragedies and statues, such as healthy senses should,--that is, in good taste.
    Fdsp 2.193 21 The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed;...all tragedies, all ennuis vanish...
    ShP 4.193 5 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know.
    Art2 7.53 17 The Iliad of Homer...the tragedies of Aeschylus...were made... in grave earnest...
    Plu 10.318 26 That prince [Alexander] kept Homer's poems not only for himself under his pillow in his tent, but carried these for the delight of the Persian youth, and made them acquainted also with the tragedies of Euripides and Sophocles.
    AKan 11.256 12 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal catalogue of private tragedies show it?
    ALin 11.329 7 Old as history is, and manifold as are its tragedies, I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement;...
    Wom 11.412 24 ...who suspects, in [love's] blushes and tremors, what tragedies, heroisms and immortalities are beyond it?

Tragedy, Greek, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.239 3 The delay of the Divine Justice-this was the meaning and soul of the Greek Tragedy;...

tragedy, n. (43)

    MR 1.243 12 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] must... postpone his self-indulgence, forewarned and forearmed against that frequent misfortune of men of genius,-the taste for luxury. This is the tragedy of genius;...
    Hist 2.25 18 The costly charm of the ancient tragedy...is that the persons speak simply...
    Comp 2.123 19 The radical tragedy of nature seems to be the distinction of More and Less.
    Prd1 2.232 14 Goethe's Tasso is very likely to be a pretty fair historic portrait, and that is true tragedy.
    Prd1 2.233 19 ...who has not seen the tragedy of imprudent genius struggling for years with paltry pecuniary difficulties, at last sinking, chilled, exhausted and fruitless...
    Exp 3.47 9 Every roof is agreeable to the eye until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women and hard-eyed husbands...
    Exp 3.56 19 ...thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular? The reason of the pain this discovery causes us...is the plaint of tragedy which murmurs from it in regard to persons, to friendship and love.
    NER 3.269 3 We adorn the victim [of education] with manual skill...his body with inoffensive and comely manners. So have we cunningly hid the tragedy of limitation and inner death we cannot avert.
    UGM 4.31 2 The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.
    MoS 4.183 25 [The man of thought] can behold with serenity the yawning gulf between the ambition of man and his power of performance...which makes the tragedy of all souls.
    ShP 4.193 25 Shakspeare...esteemed the mass of old plays waste stock, in which any experiment could be freely tried. Had the prestige which hedges about a modern tragedy existed, nothing could have been done.
    ShP 4.204 12 It was not until the nineteenth century...that the tragedy of Hamlet could find such wondering readers.
    ShP 4.213 8 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air, and likes as well to do the one as the other. This makes that equality of power in farce, tragedy, narrative, and love-songs;...
    SS 7.9 4 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons...
    Art2 7.56 9 The Madonnas of Raphael and Titian were made to be worshipped. Tragedy was instituted for the like purpose...
    Boks 7.216 18 ...the novelist plucks this event here and that fortune there, and ties them rashly to his figures, to tickle the fancy of his readers with a cloying success or scare them with shocks of tragedy.
    PI 8.30 24 See how Shakspeare grapples at once with the main problem of the tragedy...
    PI 8.35 26 On the stage, the farce is commonly far better given than the tragedy...
    PI 8.36 1 On the stage, the farce is commonly far better given than the tragedy, as the stock actors understand the farce, and do not understand the tragedy.
    PI 8.67 26 We must...ask...whether we shall find our tragedy written in [Hamlet's]...
    Edc1 10.143 3 Do not spare to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday and experiment; but, above all, good poetry in all kinds, epic, tragedy, lyric.
    MMEm 10.408 3 As by seeing a high tragedy, reading a true poem...by society with [Mary Moody Emerson], one's mind is electrified and purged.
    Carl 10.495 21 [Carlyle]...will not look grave even at dulness or tragedy.
    FSLC 11.193 13 If you starve or beat the orphan, in my presence, and I accuse your cruelty, can I help it? In the words of Electra, in the Greek tragedy, 'T is you that say it, not I. You do the deeds, and your ungodly deeds find me the words.
    ALin 11.335 27 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim?
    Shak1 11.448 26 [Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous prophecy of Socrates, that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be most excellent in comedy...
    Shak1 11.449 1 [Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous prophecy of Socrates, that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be most excellent in comedy, and more than fulfilled it by making tragedy also a victorious melody which healed its own wounds.
    Shak1 11.451 13 The unaffected joy of the comedy,-[Shakespeare] lives in a gale,-contrasted with the grandeur of the tragedy, where he stoops to no contrivance, no pulpiting...
    Scot 11.465 16 The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances, up to the Bride of Lammermoor, which almost goes back to Aeschylus for a counterpart as a painting of Fate-leaving on every reader the impression of the highest and purest tragedy.
    CPL 11.496 24 If you consider what has befallen you when reading...a tragedy, or a novel, even...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...
    II 12.84 25 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre; but they soon desist from the attempt, in finding that they also have some farce, or, perhaps, some ear-and heart-rending tragedy forward on their secret boards, on which they are intent;...
    II 12.88 11 The old Greek was respectable...who found the genius of tragedy in the conflict between Destiny and the strong should...
    Let 12.404 22 A literature...is the affair of a power which works by a prodigality of life and force very dismaying to behold,-every trait of beauty purchased by hecatombs of private tragedy.
    Trag 12.407 4 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that lies at the foundation of the old Greek tragedy...
    Trag 12.408 11 Destiny properly is...an immense whim; and this the only ground of terror and despair in the rational mind, and of tragedy in literature.
    Trag 12.408 12 ...the antique tragedy, which was founded on this faith [in destiny], can never be reproduced.
    Trag 12.408 23 ...the essence of tragedy does not seem to me to lie in any list of particular evils.
    Trag 12.409 21 In those persons who move the profoundest pity, tragedy seems to consist in temperament, not in events.
    Trag 12.410 11 Tragedy is in the eye of the observer...
    Trag 12.410 26 Tragedy must be somewhat which I can respect.
    Trag 12.410 27 A querulous habit is not tragedy.
    Trag 12.411 9 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs...are no tragedy...
    Trag 12.416 26 [The intellect] yields the joys of conversation, of letters and of science. Hence also the torments of life become tuneful tragedy...

Tragedy, n. (1)

    F 6.6 10 The Greek Tragedy expressed the same sense [of Fate].

tragic, adj. (21)

    AmS 1.114 15 The scholar is...complaisant. See already the tragic consequence.
    SL 2.131 7 Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible are comely as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
    Art1 2.366 2 The old tragic Necessity...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
    Exp 3.80 15 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues...
    GoW 4.269 10 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person: he wrote...tragic songs...
    SS 7.7 3 'T is worse, and tragic, that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.
    SS 7.9 21 Such is the tragic necessity which strict science finds underneath our domestic and neighborly life, irresistibly driving each adult soul as with whips into the desert...
    Elo1 7.83 21 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with more than his usual alacrity...
    Elo1 7.92 8 The listener cannot hide from himself that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see; and as he cannot dispose of it, it disposes of him. The history of public men and affairs in America will readily furnish tragic examples of this fatal force.
    PI 8.34 6 No matter what [your subject] is...if it has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart of it: then it will...as fully represent the central law and draw all tragic or joyful illustration, as if it were the book of Genesis or the book of Doom.
    Comc 8.157 14 Aristotle's definition of the ridiculous is, what is out of time and place, without danger. If there be pain and danger, it becomes tragic; if not, comic.
    Comc 8.160 15 The presence of the ideal of right and of truth in all action makes the yawning delinquencies of practice...tragic to the interest...
    Plu 10.303 19 [Plutarch's] delight in poetry makes him cite with joy the speech of Gorgias, that the tragic poet who deceived was juster than he who deceived not...
    EWI 11.111 1 There is no end to the tragic anecdotes in the municipal records of the [West Indian] colonies.
    FSLC 11.198 21 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.
    ALin 11.332 18 ...how [Lincoln's] good nature became a noble humanity, in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him, every one will remember;...
    Trag 12.406 20 What are the conspicuous tragic elements in human nature?
    Trag 12.406 21 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;...
    Trag 12.408 15 After reason and faith have introduced a better public and private tradition, the tragic element is somewhat circumscribed.
    Trag 12.408 27 After we have enumerated...mutilation, rack, madness and loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror...
    Trag 12.412 27 [Some men] treat trifles with a tragic air.

tragic, n. (1)

    ShP 4.213 20 ...[Shakespeare] could paint...the tragic and the comic indifferently...

tragical, adj. (2)

    Supl 10.164 15 ...we may challenge Providence to send a fact so tragical that we cannot contrive to make it a little worse in our gossip.
    HDC 11.60 15 With the tragical end of Philip, the war ended.

tragi-comedy, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.128 12 The household is a school of power. Here, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

trail, n. (5)

    MR 1.233 20 The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man.
    Civ 7.22 4 When the Indian trail gets widened, graded and bridged to a good road, there is a benefactor...
    Farm 7.151 19 ...[the first planter]...has no road but the trail of the moose or bear;...
    Thor 10.476 10 I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail.
    SHC 11.431 19 You can almost see behind these pines the Indian with bow and arrow lurking yet exploring the traces of the old trail.

trailed, v. (1)

    JBB 11.272 1 ...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts trailed in the dust...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.

train, n. (30)

    Hist 2.15 18 A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk...
    SR 2.59 22 What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field, which so fills the imagination? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind.
    SR 2.61 10 ...posterity seem to follow [a true man's] steps as a train of clients.
    Cir 2.302 7 Our culture is the predominance of an idea which draws after it this train of cities and institutions.
    Pt1 3.19 9 Nature adopts [the factory-village and the railway] very fast into her vital circles, and the gliding train of cars she loves like her own.
    Exp 3.50 4 Life is a train of moods like a string of beads...
    Nat2 3.190 20 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer. What is the end sought? Plainly to secure the ends of good sense and beauty from the intrusion of deformity or vulgarity of any kind. But what an operose method! What a train of means to secure a little conversation!
    SwM 4.95 11 The Koran makes a distinct class of those...whose goodness has an influence on others, and pronounces this class to be the aim of creation: the other classes are admitted to the feast of being, only as following in the train of this.
    MoS 4.185 20 ...although...the march of civilization is a train of felonies,-- yet, general ends are somehow answered.
    ET16 5.276 4 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the train at Salisbury and took a carriage to Amesbury...
    ET16 5.286 14 We [Emerson and Carlyle] passed in the train Clarendon Park...
    ET16 5.290 23 Slowly we [Emerson and Carlyle] left the old house [Winchester Cathedral], and parting with our host, we took the train for London.
    ET17 5.291 21 At the landing in Liverpool, I found my Manchester correspondent awaiting me, a gentleman whose kind reception was followed by a train of friendly and effective attentions...
    Bhr 6.186 2 Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train...
    CbW 6.247 25 See what a cometary train of auxiliaries man carries with him...
    CbW 6.275 19 A man of wit was asked, in the train, what was his errand in the city.
    Elo1 7.95 20 The natural connection by which [the resistance to slavery] drew to itself a train of moral reforms...reinforced the city with new blood from the woods and mountains.
    Boks 7.196 8 Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.
    Insp 8.276 13 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat; as if...a genial companion, or a new thought suggested in book or conversation could fire the train...
    Prch 10.228 17 Of course a hero so attractive to the hearts of millions [as Jesus] drew the hypocrite and the ambitious into his train...
    MoL 10.253 7 See armies, institutions, literatures, appearing in the train of some wild Arabian's dream.
    LLNE 10.336 21 Astronomy...compelled a certain extension and uplifting of our views of the Deity and his Providence. This correction of our superstitions was confirmed by the new science of Geology, and the whole train of discoveries in every department.
    EzRy 10.379 6 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God:/ In Heaven are kept their grateful vows,/ Their dust endears the sod./ From humble tenements around/ Came up the pensive train,/ And in the church a blessing found/ That filled their homes again./
    MMEm 10.406 4 Society is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train...
    War 11.173 22 ...the man who, without any...titles of lordship or train of guards...takes in solitude the right step uniformly...does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
    FSLC 11.206 21 ...he who writes a crime into the statute-book digs under the foundations of the Capitol to plant there a powder-magazine, and lays a train.
    EdAd 11.383 24 At the screams of the steam-whistle, the train quits city and suburbs...
    PLT 12.21 11 The retrospective value of each new thought is...like a torch applied to a long train of gunpowder.
    Mem 12.98 19 We gathered up what a rolling snow-ball as we came along... as capital stock of knowledge. Where is it now? Look behind you. I cannot see that your train is any longer than it was in childhood.
    Let 12.392 23 When a railroad train shoots through Europe every day...it cannot stop every twenty or thirty miles at a German custom-house...

train, v. (14)

    ET12 5.204 11 The logical English train a scholar as they train an engineer.
    ET12 5.204 12 The logical English train a scholar as they train an engineer.
    F 6.32 14 Cold and sea will train an imperial Saxon race...
    Ctr 6.134 22 He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is...to train away all impediment and mixture...
    Bhr 6.189 2 ...you cannot rightly train one to an air and manner, except by making him the kind of man of whom that manner is the natural expression.
    Elo1 7.97 3 He who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight.
    SA 8.87 1 It seems to require several generations of education to train a squeaking or a shouting habit out of a man.
    Elo2 8.133 2 Is it not worth the ambition of every generous youth to train and arm his mind with all the resources of knowledge, of method, of grace and of character, to serve such a constituency [as the United States]"
    Edc1 10.126 25 The trained dog cannot train another dog.
    Edc1 10.134 27 We do not train the eye and the hand.
    Edc1 10.144 13 The two points in a boy's training are, to keep his naturel and train off all but that...
    FRO2 11.487 19 All education is to accustom [man] to trust himself...exert the timid faculties until they are robust, and thus train him to self-help...
    CInt 12.127 20 ...I thought a college was a place not to train talents...but to adorn Genius...
    CInt 12.127 21 ...I thought a college was a place not to train talents, not to train attorneys, and those who say what they please, but to adorn Genius...

trained, adj. (3)

    Civ 7.17 6 We praise the guide, we praise the forest life:/ But will we sacrifice our dear-bought lore/ Of books and arts and trained experiment/...
    Elo1 7.75 16 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen...when they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.
    Edc1 10.126 24 The trained dog cannot train another dog.

trained, v. (15)

    SwM 4.104 9 The robust Aristotelian method...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    ET5 5.89 17 A nation of laborers, every [English] man is trained to some one art or detail...
    ET6 5.105 2 ...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 21 [Englishmen] have all been trained in one severe school of manners...
    ET11 5.195 4 ...[English nobles] were expert in every species of equitation, to the most dangerous practices, and this down to the accession of William of Orange. But graver men appear to have trained their sons for civil affairs.
    ET18 5.300 19 In [English] cities, the children are trained to beg, until they shall be old enough to rob.
    Pow 6.78 9 Stumping it through New England for twice seven [years] trained Wendell Phillips.
    Ctr 6.139 11 The hardiest skeptic who has seen...a pointer trained...will not deny the validity of education.
    Bhr 6.193 8 In all the superior people I have met I notice directness, truth spoken more truly, as if everything of obstruction, of malformation, had been trained away.
    Elo2 8.120 14 A good voice has a charm in speech as in song;...and indicates a rare sensibility, especially when trained to wield all its powers.
    PC 8.227 1 There is anything but humiliation in the homage men pay to a great man; it is...the expression of their hope of what they shall become when the obstructions of their mal-formation and mal-education shall be trained away.
    Edc1 10.131 12 By the permanence of Nature, minds are trained alike...
    Schr 10.277 3 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them trained...
    EzRy 10.385 22 Trained in this [New England] church...it was never out of [Ezra Ripley's] mind.
    SMC 11.358 17 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister...that he had long trained himself by forcing himself, on the suspicion of any near danger, to go directly up to it...

training, n. (26)

    Nat 1.37 6 What tedious training...to form the common sense;...
    Nat 1.41 23 The first and gross manifestation of this truth [of the doctrine of Use] is our inevitable and hated training in values and wants...
    LT 1.270 7 The Temperance-question...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.
    Con 1.301 25 Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood. As this is the invariable method of our training, we must give it allowance...
    Lov1 2.188 5 Thus are we put in training for a love which knows not sex, nor person, nor partiality...
    Art1 2.357 20 ...painting and sculpture are gymnastics of the eye, its training to the niceties and curiosities of its function.
    SwM 4.99 5 [Swedenborg's] youth and training could not fail to be extraordinary.
    ET4 5.47 5 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit. Then the miracle and renown begin. Then first we care to...copy heedfully the training...
    ET11 5.184 17 ...[the English peers] have their share in the subordinate offices, as a school of training.
    ET12 5.211 17 English wealth falling on their school and university training, makes a systematic reading of the best authors...
    F 6.30 24 Every brave youth is in training to ride and rule this dragon.
    Ctr 6.141 12 ...much of our training fails of effect;...
    Ctr 6.142 23 ...you are not fit to direct [your boy's] bringing-up if your theory leaves out his gymnastic training.
    Wsp 6.214 10 For a great nature it is a happiness to escape a religious training...
    CbW 6.273 24 We know that all our training is to fit us for [friendship]...
    Elo2 8.128 13 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...neglecting to give [a youth] the rough training of a boy...that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    Elo2 8.130 25 If the cause be unfashionable, [the eloquent man] will make it fashionable. 'T is the best man in the best training.
    Edc1 10.134 25 We do not give [boys] a training as if we believed in their noble nature.
    Edc1 10.144 12 The two points in a boy's training are, to keep his naturel and train off all but that...
    LLNE 10.364 21 There is agreement in the testimony that [Brook Farm] was...to many, the most important period of their life...their training in behavior.
    FSLN 11.235 5 Cromwell said, We can only resist the superior training of the King's soldiers, by enlisting godly men.
    SMC 11.356 17 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers. And the first events of the war of the Rebellion gave the like training to the new recruits.
    FRO2 11.488 25 We want all the aids to our moral training.
    FRep 11.541 9 Humanity asks...that democratic institutions shall be more thoughtful...for the training of children...
    CInt 12.115 20 ...a son, a brother, or one of our own kindred is [in college] for his training.
    CL 12.141 24 In the English universities, the reading men are daily performing their punctual training in the boat-clubs...

Training of Children [Pluta (1)

    Plu 10.315 16 [Plutarch] has a tenderness almost to tears when he writes... on the Training of Children...

training, v. (6)

    Pow 6.71 16 ...the compression and tension of these stern conditions [of war] is a training for the finest and softest arts...
    WD 7.161 8 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph...whose sudden performance astonished mankind as if the intellect were taking the brute earth itself into training...
    Elo2 8.121 8 Plutarch, in his enumeration of the ten Greek orators, is careful to mention their excellent voices, and the pains bestowed by some of them in training these.
    Supl 10.177 25 ...the Orientals excel...in the training of slaves, elephants and camels
    Mem 12.99 5 ...there is strength in the wild horse which is never regained when he is once broken by training...
    CInt 12.115 23 ...[the college] is there for us, is training our teachers, civilizers and inspirers.

trains, n. (3)

    NMW 4.246 4 [Napoleon's] capacious head, revolving and disposing sovereignly trains of affairs...
    ET3 5.35 4 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...at near twice the speed of our trains;...
    FSLN 11.218 14 Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb, carry the business men into the city...

trains, v. (2)

    ALin 11.337 27 [Providence]...creates the man for the time, trains him in poverty, inspires his genius, and arms him for his task.
    Mem 12.106 1 Nature trains us on to see illusions and prodigies with no more wonder than our toast and omelet at breakfast.

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