Trait to Treaty

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

trait, n. (48)

    DSA 1.142 1 What a cruel injustice it is to that Law...that it is behooted and behowled, and not a trait, not a word of it articulated.
    LE 1.178 23 Not the least instructive passage in modern history seems to me a trait of Napoleon exhibited to the English when he became their prisoner.
    MR 1.255 9 Will you suffer me to add one trait more to this portrait of man the reformer?
    LT 1.282 15 We do not find the same trait [of perplexity] in the Arabian, in the Hebrew...periods;...
    Tran 1.339 12 ...genius and virtue predict in man the same absence of private ends and of condescension to circumstances, united with every trait and talent of beauty and power.
    YA 1.389 7 It is not often the worst trait that occasions the loudest outcry.
    SR 2.65 19 If I see a trait, my children will see it after me...
    Hsm1 2.248 2 Thomas Carlyle...has suffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from his biographical and historical pictures.
    Chr1 3.102 14 These are properties of life, and another trait is the notice of incessant growth.
    Chr1 3.108 24 Every trait which the artist recorded in stone he had seen in life...
    NR 3.226 25 All persons exist to society by some shining trait of beauty or utility which they have.
    ShP 4.209 15 What trait of his private mind has [Shakespeare] hidden in his dramas?
    ShP 4.215 21 One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet.
    ET4 5.57 14 Individuals are often noticed [in the Norse Sagas] as very handsome persons, which trait only brings the story nearer to the English race.
    ET4 5.63 18 The [English] public schools are charged with being bear-gardens of brutal strength, and are liked by the people for that cause. The fagging is a trait of the same quality.
    ET7 5.118 22 The Duke of Wellington...advises the French General Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer. The English, of all classes, value themselves on this trait...
    ET8 5.127 10 This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the English] by French travellers...
    ET8 5.135 21 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...importing into their galleries every tint and trait of sunnier cities and skies;...
    ET15 5.271 15 It is a new trait of the nineteenth century, that the wit and humor of England...have taken the direction of humanity and freedom.
    ET17 5.297 3 ...this trait [Wordsworth's economy] would have another look in London...
    ET19 5.311 5 That which lures a solitary American in the woods with the wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race,--its commanding sense of right and wrong, the love and devotion to that,--this is the imperial trait...
    Pow 6.55 2 We must reckon success a constitutional trait.
    Wsp 6.207 23 The fatal trait is the divorce between religion and morality.
    Suc 7.307 8 One more trait of true success.
    PI 8.37 15 The trait and test of the poet is that he builds, adds and affirms.
    PI 8.75 10 Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
    SA 8.95 8 What a good trait is that recorded of Madame de Maintenon, that, during dinner, the servant slipped to her side, Please, madame, one anecdote more, for there is no roast to-day.
    Res 8.150 23 It was a pleasing trait in Goethe's romance, that Makaria retires from society to astronomy and her correspondence.
    Grts 8.308 15 ...another trait of greatness is facility.
    Dem1 10.5 5 A dislocation seems to be the foremost trait of dreams.
    Aris 10.60 15 There is no heroic trait...that will not sometime embody itself in the form of a friend.
    Aris 10.60 20 One trait more we must celebrate, the self-reliance which is the patent of royal natures.
    Prch 10.223 15 I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait of heroism...
    MoL 10.251 5 A redeeming trait of the Sophists of Athens...is that they made their own clothes and shoes.
    Plu 10.303 23 It is a consequence of this poetic trait in his mind, that I confess that, in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars...
    Plu 10.311 2 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly to Morals...
    MMEm 10.402 7 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's] attachment to the youths and maidens growing up in those families [of her brothers and sisters] was secure for any trait of talent or of character.
    GSt 10.506 8 ...this sudden association now with the leaders of parties and persons of pronounced power and influence in the nation...never altered... one trait of [George Stearns's] manners.
    War 11.156 6 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped? Of man, boy or beast, the only trait that much interests the speakers is the pugnacity.
    JBS 11.279 13 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character absolutely without any vulgar trait;...
    II 12.77 27 ...this reminds me to add one more trait of the inspired state, namely, incessant advance...
    CL 12.135 2 The Teutonic race have been marked in all ages by a trait which has received the name of Earth-hunger...
    Bost 12.194 19 ...how much more attractive and true that this [Christian] piety should be the central trait and the stern virtues follow than that Stoicism should face the gods and put Jove on his defence.
    MAng1 12.240 1 There is yet one more trait in Michael Angelo's history, which humanizes his character without lessening its loftiness; this is his platonic love.
    Milt1 12.257 14 Aubrey adds a sharp trait, [Milton] pronounced the letter R very hard, a certain sign of satirical genius.
    Milt1 12.261 5 ...[Milton]...bent [English] to express every trait of beauty, every shade of thought;...
    ACri 12.296 4 Every historic autobiographic trait authenticating the man [Montaigne] adds to the value of the book.
    Let 12.404 20 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.

traitor, n. (4)

    Comp 2.115 27 The beautiful laws and substances of the world persecute and whip the traitor.
    NER 3.282 9 ...[our other self] holds uncontrollable communication with the enemy, and he answers civilly to us, but believes the spirit. We exclaim, There's a traitor in the house!...
    NER 3.282 11 ...[our other self] holds uncontrollable communication with the enemy, and he answers civilly to us, but believes the spirit. We exclaim, There's a traitor in the house! but at last it appears that he is the true man, and I am the traitor.
    MoL 10.247 7 A scholar defending the cause...of the oppressor, is a traitor to his profession.

traitors, n. (1)

    TPar 11.292 16 ...the polished and pleasant traitors to human rights...rot and are forgotten...

traits, n. (56)

    DSA 1.121 25 The moral traits which are all globed into every virtuous act and thought, - in speech we must...describe or suggest by painful enumeration of many particulars.
    MR 1.232 14 ...the general system of our trade (apart from the blacker traits, which, I hope, are exceptions...) is a system of selfishness;...
    Tran 1.356 1 There is...a great deal of well-founded objection to be spoken or felt against the sayings and doings of this class [Transcendentalists], some of whose traits we have selected;...
    YA 1.377 19 Feudalism...had some good traits of its own;...
    SL 2.144 23 ...a few traits of character, manners, face...have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards.
    Lov1 2.170 25 He who paints [love] at the first period will lose some of its later, he who paints it at the last, some of its earlier traits.
    Lov1 2.182 24 ...beholding in many souls the traits of the divine beauty... the lover ascends to the highest beauty...
    Art1 2.354 7 We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision. It needs, by the exhibition of single traits, to assist and lead the dormant taste.
    Art1 2.358 8 The reference of all production at last to an aboriginal Power explains the traits common to all works of the highest art...
    Chr1 3.104 21 ...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of this simple and rapid power [of character]...
    NR 3.227 25 It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.
    NER 3.258 10 One of the traits of the new spirit is the inquisition it fixed on our scholastic devotion to the dead languages.
    PPh 4.45 5 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know so well, in its long history of arts and arms; here are all its traits, already discernible in the mind of Plato...
    PPh 4.45 12 This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art; since the author of it...abode by real and abiding traits.
    PPh 4.70 25 Socrates again, in his traits and genius, is the best example of that synthesis which constitutes Plato's extraordinary power.
    ShP 4.196 5 ...the play [Henry VIII] contains through all its length unmistakable traits of Shakspeare's hand...
    GoW 4.270 17 [Goethe] appears at a time when a general culture...has smoothed down all sharp individual traits;...
    ET4 5.48 6 The French in Canada...have held their national traits.
    ET4 5.48 15 Civilization is a re-agent, and eats away the old traits.
    ET4 5.52 24 ...what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district.
    ET4 5.54 11 We must use the popular category...for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise we are presently confounded when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.
    ET4 5.62 22 The mildness of the following ages has not quite effaced these traits of Odin;...
    ET4 5.66 24 When it is considered...what resources of mental and moral power the traits of the blonde race betoken, its accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch...
    ET7 5.125 26 The Italian is subtle, the Spaniard treacherous: tortures, it is said, could never wrest from an Egyptian the confession of a secret. None of these traits belong to the Englishman.
    ET8 5.134 3 ...it is in the deep traits of race that the fortunes of nations are written...
    ET9 5.145 26 France is, by its natural contrast, a kind of blackboard on which English character draws its own traits in chalk.
    ET9 5.151 16 Individual traits are always triumphing over national ones.
    Ctr 6.152 5 ...one of the traits down in the books as distinguishing the Anglo-Saxon is a trick of self-disparagement.
    Bhr 6.167 12 ...The green grass is a looking-glass/ Whereon [men's] traits are found./
    Bhr 6.176 17 Every man...looks with confidence for some traits and talents in his own child...
    Bhr 6.181 23 A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors;...
    Wsp 6.234 12 I recall some traits of a remarkable person whose life and discourse betrayed many inspirations of this [moral] sentiment.
    SS 7.7 4 ...no man is fit for society who has fine traits.
    Civ 7.26 10 These feats are measures or traits of civility;...
    Civ 7.31 15 These are traits and measures and modes [of civilization];...
    DL 7.106 26 ...by beautiful traits...the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
    DL 7.127 2 ...let the hearts [our friends] have agitated witness what power has lurked in the traits of these structures of clay that pass and repass us!
    Boks 7.201 2 Xenophon's delineation of Athenian manners is an accessory to Plato, and supplies traits of Socrates;...
    Cour 7.256 15 How short a time since this whole nation rose every morning to read or hear the traits of courage of its sons and brothers in the field...
    OA 7.316 2 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home...Cicero' s famous essay [De Senectute]...rising at the conclusion to a lofty strain. But he does not exhaust the subject; rather invites the attempt to add traits to the picture from our broader modern life.
    Grts 8.314 7 It is easy to draw traits [of greatness] from Napoleon...
    Aris 10.31 3 There is an attractive topic, which...is impertinent in no community,-the permanent traits of the Aristocracy.
    EzRy 10.383 10 To these facts, gathered chiefly from [Ezra Ripley's] own diary...I can only add a few traits from memory.
    EzRy 10.391 20 [Ezra Ripley] showed even in his fireside discourse traits of that pertinency and judgment...which make the distinction of the scholar...
    Thor 10.451 4 [Thoreau's] character exhibited occasional traits drawn from this [French] blood...
    Thor 10.464 27 At first glance [Thoreau] measured his companion, and, though insensible to some fine traits of culture, could very well report his weight and calibre.
    Carl 10.494 18 Great is [Carlyle's] reverence...for all such traits as spring from the intrinsic nature of the actor.
    HDC 11.37 4 To his bodily perfection, the wild man added some noble traits of character.
    JBB 11.267 13 ...I do not wonder that gentlemen find traits of relation readily between [John Brown] and themselves.
    SMC 11.359 27 [George Prescott] was a Puritan in the army, with traits that remind one of John Brown...
    MAng1 12.237 16 Traits of an almost savage independence mark all [Michelangelo's] history.
    ACri 12.289 23 Goethe, who had collected all the diabolical hints in men and nature for traits for his Walpurgis Nacht, continued the humor of collecting such horrors after this first occasion had passed...
    MLit 12.311 12 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write. In our present attempt to enumerate some traits of the recent literature, we shall have somewhat to offer on each of these topics...
    MLit 12.319 21 ...[Shelley] is a character full of noble and prophetic traits;...
    WSL 12.338 11 Transfer these traits to a very elegant and accomplished mind, and we shall have no bad picture of Walter Savage Landor...
    Trag 12.407 16 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...

Trajan, n. (3)

    Plu 10.293 11 [Plutarch] has been represented as having been the tutor of the Emperor Trajan...
    Plu 10.293 13 [Plutarch] has been represented...as having received from Trajan the consular dignity...
    Plu 10.293 18 ...[Plutarch] was not the tutor of Trajan...

tramp, n. (3)

    Thor 10.476 14 I have met one or two who have heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud;...
    CW 12.171 7 When I bought my farm...as little did I guess what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying...what fields and lanes for a tramp.
    CW 12.176 1 There are two companions, with one or other of whom 't is desirable to go out on a tramp.

tramp, v. (1)

    ET14 5.232 23 [The English muse] says, with De Stael, I tramp in the mire with wooden shoes, whenever they would force me into the clouds.

trample, v. (2)

    ET9 5.146 26 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will...trample down all nationalities with his taxed boots.
    ET14 5.254 18 As they trample on nationalities to reproduce London and Londoners in Europe and Asia, so [the English] fear the hostility of ideas, of poetry, or religion...

trampled, adj. (1)

    DSA 1.146 17 ...when you meet one of these men or women...let their trampled instincts be genially tempted out in your atmosphere;...

trampled, v. (2)

    MoL 10.248 10 Italy, France-a hundred times those countries have been trampled with armies and burned over...
    SMC 11.375 20 Brave men! you [veterans of the Civil War] will hardly be called to see again fields as terrible as those you have already trampled with your victories.

tramps, n. (2)

    Dem1 10.21 2 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps are troublesome enough in the city and in the highways, but tramps flying through the air...can well be spared.
    Dem1 10.21 3 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps are troublesome enough in the city and in the highways, but tramps flying through the air...can well be spared.

trance, n. (6)

    OS 2.281 22 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance...to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion...
    Art1 2.354 16 The infant lies in a pleasing trance...
    SwM 4.97 4 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...
    SwM 4.146 2 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw...
    Imtl 8.327 10 ...Swedenborg...explained his opinion of the history and destiny of souls in a narrative form, as of one who had gone in a trance into the society of other worlds.
    Thor 10.470 11 [Thoreau] thought that, if waked up from a trance, in this swamp, he could tell by the plants what time of the year it was within two days.

trance-mediums, n. (1)

    FRep 11.517 1 The trance-mediums, the rebel paradoxes, exasperate the common sense.

trances, n. (3)

    Fdsp 2.206 5 [Friendship] keeps company with...the trances of religion.
    OS 2.282 3 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light. The trances of Socrates...are of this kind.
    SwM 4.97 9 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates, Plotinus...will readily come to mind.

tranferred, v. (1)

    SwM 4.111 11 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson... who has restored his master's buried books to the day, and tranferred them... from their forgotten Latin into English...

tranquil, adj. (15)

    Nat 1.10 18 In the tranquil landscape...man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
    Nat 1.67 14 ...it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
    Prd1 2.233 18 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople, who skulk about all day...and at evening...slink to the opium-shop, swallow their morsel and become tranquil and glorified seers.
    Exp 3.71 18 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new...region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries...as if the clouds that covered it parted...and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains, with the tranquil eternal meadows spread at their base...
    Nat2 3.169 12 There are days which occur in this climate...when...the cattle that lie on the ground seem to have great and tranquil thoughts.
    ET6 5.105 16 ...every one of these islanders [the English] is an island himself, safe, tranquil, incommunicable.
    Pow 6.71 18 ...the compression and tension of these stern conditions [of war] is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times...
    Bhr 6.167 15 Little [man] says to [graceful women, chosen men]/, So dances his heart in his breast,/ Their tranquil mien bereaveth him/ Of wit, of words, of rest./
    DL 7.117 23 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains...to be...a hall which shines with...brows ever tranquil...
    Suc 7.311 26 This tranquil, well-founded, wide-seeing soul is no express-rider...
    PI 8.65 9 We know Nature and figure her exuberant, tranquil, magnificent in her fertility...
    Edc1 10.151 5 What tranquil mind will [the college] have fortified to walk with meekness in private and obscure duties...
    Milt1 12.269 14 The part [Milton] took, the zeal of his fellowship, make us acquainted with the greatness of his spirit as in tranquil times we could not have known it.

tranquillity, n. (20)

    Nat 1.42 22 Who can guess...how much tranquillity has been reflected to man from the azure sky...
    AmS 1.104 8 It is a shame to [the scholar] if his tranquillity...arise from the presumption that...his is a protected class;...
    Pt1 3.24 18 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the morning break...and for many days after, he strove to express this tranquillity...
    Mrs1 3.137 5 I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.
    Pol1 3.203 14 ...in the other case, of patrimony, the law makes an ownership which will be valid in each man's view according to the estimate which he sets on the public tranquillity.
    Pol1 3.218 5 [What we do] may throw dust in [our companions'] eyes, but does not...give us the tranquillity of the strong when we walk abroad.
    Civ 7.21 12 ...the effect of a framed or stone house is immense on the tranquillity, power and refinement of the builder.
    DL 7.125 19 How seldom do we behold tranquillity!
    Farm 7.137 20 ...the tranquillity and innocence of the countryman...all men acknowledge.
    Suc 7.287 5 I don't know but we and our race elsewhere set a higher value on wealth, victory and coarse superiority of all kinds, than other men,--have less tranquillity of mind...
    OA 7.331 25 America is...too full of work hitherto for leisure and tranquillity;...
    SA 8.88 26 ...I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
    Aris 10.64 14 There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize.
    Edc1 10.156 4 Can you not baffle the impatience and passion of the child by your tranquillity?
    SlHr 10.446 22 ...[Samuel Hoar's] countenance had an unalterable tranquillity and sweetness;...
    HDC 11.64 19 From the beginning to the middle of the eighteenth century, our records indicate no interruption of the tranquility of the inhabitants [of Concord]...
    EWI 11.116 3 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.
    Mem 12.104 21 ...this power of sinking the pain of any experience and of recalling the saddest with tranquillity, and even with a wise pleasure, is familiar.
    Trag 12.411 20 A man should not commit his tranquillity to things...
    Trag 12.411 25 ...the earliest works of the art of sculpture are countenances of sublime tranquillity.

tranquillizing, adj. (1)

    YA 1.366 1 The land, with its tranquillizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education...

tranquilly, adv. (2)

    PNR 4.81 6 [Nature] waited tranquilly the flowing periods of paleontology...
    Mem 12.96 2 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already...

transacted, v. (2)

    Prd1 2.225 22 ...the tax, and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains...these eat up the hours.
    HDC 11.67 25 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...

transaction, n. (15)

    LE 1.184 23 ...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether...the transaction [be] a letter of credit or a transfer of stocks; be it what it may, his commission comes gently out of it;...
    Comp 2.101 13 Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is a compend of the world...
    Comp 2.112 25 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or money? ... The transaction remains in the memory of himself and his neighbor;...
    Comp 2.112 27 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or money? ... The transaction remains in the memory of himself and his neighbor; and every new transaction alters according to its nature their relation to each other.
    Pol1 3.203 19 ...persons and property mixed themselves in every transaction.
    Wth 6.100 16 [The right merchant] insures himself in every transaction...
    Bhr 6.186 8 Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second... is not to be resisted, as the date of the transaction is not easily found.
    QO 8.189 16 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the transaction no more indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower than the simple fact of debt involves bankruptcy.
    QO 8.189 20 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the transaction no more indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower than the simple fact of debt involves bankruptcy. On the contrary, in far the greater number of cases the transaction is honorable to both.
    Aris 10.41 27 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages, and in reality each to adopt from the other a first-rate man, who thus acquired a new country; was at once made a chief. And no wrong was so keenly resented as any fraud in this transaction.
    LS 11.5 20 St. Luke...after relating the breaking of the bread [at the Last Supper], has these words: This do in remembrance of me. In St. John...this whole transaction is passed over without notice.
    LS 11.11 18 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels, and then compare with it the account of this transaction [Christ's washing the disciples' feet] in St. John...
    LS 11.14 18 ...St. Paul was living in the lifetime of all the apostles who could give him an account of the transaction [the Last Supper];...
    EWI 11.127 15 ...the whole transaction [emancipation in the West Indies] reflects infinite honor on the people and parliament of England.
    ACiv 11.301 8 A democratic statesman said to me...that, if he owned the state of Kentucky, he would manumit all the slaves, and be a gainer by the transaction.

transactions, n. (5)

    Comp 2.93 10 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn...are the tools in our hands...the transactions of the street, the farm, and the dwelling-house;...
    Wth 6.100 22 The problem [in commerce] is to combine many and remote operations with the accuracy and adherence to the facts which is easy in near and small transactions;...
    LS 11.6 2 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially...who has recorded with minuteness the conversation and the transactions of that memorable evening, has quite omitted such a notice.
    LS 11.14 10 To make [his friends'] enormity plainer, [St. Paul] goes back to the origin of this religious feast [the Lord's Supper] to show what sort of feast that was, out of which this riot of theirs came, and so relates the transactions of the Last Supper.
    FSLN 11.233 4 [Official papers] are all declaratory of the will of the moment, and are passed with more levity and on grounds far less honorable than ordinary business transactions of the street.

Transactions, Philosophical, (1)

    SS 7.5 20 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins, in which he forbade him to insert his name with the solution of the problem in the Philosophical Transactions...

transalpine, adj. (1)

    NER 3.277 10 What [the selfish man] most wishes is to be lifted to some higher platform, that he may see beyond his present fear the transalpine good...

transatlantic, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.110 25 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute. But the gross amount of these costs will begin to pay back what we thought was a net gain from our transatlantic customers of 1800.

transcend, v. (7)

    Exp 3.75 10 ...the elements already exist in many minds around you of a doctrine of life which shall transcend any written record we have.
    Nat2 3.181 8 [Nature] keeps her laws, and seems to transcend them.
    UGM 4.26 17 The great, or such as...transcend fashions by their fidelity to universal ideas, are saviors from these federal errors...
    ET18 5.299 23 [Englishmen] cannot see beyond England, nor in England can they transcend the interests of the governing classes.
    Ill 6.323 24 ...we transcend the circumstance continually and taste the real quality of existence;...
    Dem1 10.27 13 Willingly I too say, Hail! to the unknown awful powers which transcend the ken of the understanding.
    FRO1 11.476 5 In many forms we try/ To utter God's infinity,/ But the Boundless has no form,/ And the Universal Friend/ Doth as far transcend/ An angel as a worm./

transcendant, adj. (1)

    Shak1 11.449 27 ...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so unites the extremes, that, whilst he has kept the theatre now for three centuries...he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.

transcended, v. (1)

    Con 1.303 9 We have all a certain intellection...of reform existing in the mind, which does not yet descend into the character, and those who throw themselves blindly on this lose themselves. Whatever they attempt in that direction...reacts suicidally on the actor himself. This is the penalty of having transcended nature.

transcendencies, n. (1)

    SovE 10.198 20 ...I see not why to these simple instincts, simple yet grand, all the heights and transcendencies of virtue and of enthusiasm are not open.

transcendency, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.26 12 A spy [things] will not suffer; a lover, a poet, is the transcendency of their own nature,--him they will suffer.

Transcendency, n. (1)

    PI 8.70 6 Transcendency.--In a cotillon some persons dance and others await their turn when the music and the figure come to them.

transcendent, adj. (22)

    MN 1.221 3 ...Let us worship the mighty and transcendent Soul.
    YA 1.394 6 ...in England...such is the transcendent honor accorded to wealth and birth, that no man of letters...is received into the best society, except as a lion and a show.
    SR 2.47 22 ...we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny;...
    Lov1 2.179 14 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization. Nor does it point to any relations of friendship or love known and described in society, but...to relations of transcendent delicacy and sweetness...
    Hsm1 2.257 5 All these great and transcendent properties are ours.
    OS 2.270 6 ...I desire...to report what hints I have collected of the transcendent simplicity and energy of the Highest Law.
    Exp 3.63 1 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome, and what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them;...
    Chr1 3.111 1 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and...the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;...and there are persons he cannot choose but remember, who gave a transcendent expansion to his thought...
    PPh 4.78 16 Men, in proportion to their intellect, have admitted [Plato's] transcendent claims.
    SwM 4.144 12 The entire want of poetry in so transcendent a mind [as Swedenborg's] betokens the disease...
    ShP 4.207 22 The forest of Arden...the antres vast and desarts idle of Othello's captivity,--where is the...private letter, that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
    NMW 4.227 21 Bonaparte was the idol of common men because he had in transcendent degree the qualities and powers of common men.
    ET8 5.138 27 To understand the power of performance that is in their finest wits...in the versatile transcendent poets...one should see how English day-laborers hold out.
    F 6.35 10 A transcendent talent draws so largely on [a man's] forces as to lame him;...
    Ctr 6.142 6 I am always happy to meet persons who perceive the transcendent superiority of Shakspeare over all other writers.
    Ctr 6.151 5 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of...any container of transcendent power, passing for nobody;...
    Elo1 7.92 12 In transcendent eloquence, there was ever some crisis in affairs, such as could deeply engage the man to the cause he pleads...
    PI 8.17 3 ...the poet listens to conversation and beholds all objects in Nature, to give back, not them, but a new and transcendent whole.
    PC 8.216 3 All the transcendent writers and artists of the world,-'t is doubtful who they were, they are lifted so fast into mythology;...
    PC 8.230 12 ...the transcendent powers of mind were not meant to be misused.
    Milt1 12.274 23 [Milton's] fancy is never transcendent, extravagant;...
    MLit 12.327 6 It is all design with [Goethe]...but of Shakspeare and the transcendent muse, no syllable.

transcendental, adj. (3)

    Tran 1.339 2 Nature is transcendental...
    PPh 4.55 5 If he made transcendental distinctions, [Plato] fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers;...
    ET14 5.234 15 This mental materialism makes the value of English transcendental genius;...

Transcendental, adj. (6)

    Tran 1.336 19 Of this fine incident, Jacobi, the Transcendental moralist, makes use...
    Tran 1.338 2 ...there is no such thing as a Transcendental party;...
    Tran 1.339 26 ...the Idealism of the present day acquired the name of Transcendental from the use of that term by Immanuel Kant...
    Tran 1.340 9 ...Immanuel Kant...replied to the skeptical philosophy of Locke...by showing that there was a very important class of ideas or imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which experience was acquired; that these were intuitions of the mind itself; and he denominated them Transcendental forms.
    Tran 1.340 14 ...whatever belongs to the class of intuitive thought is popularly called at the present day Transcendental.
    SL 2.135 23 When we come out of...the Transcendental club...[nature] says to us, So hot? my little Sir.

transcendental, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.32 9 I think nothing is of any value in books excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.
    ACri 12.294 14 [Shakespeare's] muse is moral simply from its depth, and I value the intermixture of the common and the transcendental as in Nature.

transcendentalism, n. (1)

    Cir 2.315 25 Blessed be nothing and The worse things are, the better they are are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

Transcendentalism, n. (5)

    LT 1.261 11 The reason and influence of wealth...the tendencies which have acquired the name of Transcendentalism in Old and New England... these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    Tran 1.329 11 What is popularly called Transcendentalism among us, is Idealism;...
    Tran 1.338 24 Shall we say then that Transcendentalism is the Saturnalia or excess of Faith;...
    Tran 1.348 6 The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth;...
    LLNE 10.343 2 I suppose all of [the supposed conspirators] were surprised at this rumor of a school or sect, and certainly at the name of Transcendentalism...

Transcendentalist, n. (5)

    Tran 1.335 21 The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine.
    Tran 1.337 27 The Buddhist...who...will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.
    Tran 1.338 3 ...there is no pure Transcendentalist;...
    Tran 1.340 17 ...there is no pure Transcendentalist...
    Tran 1.348 8 The philanthropists...had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist;...

transcendentalists, n. (1)

    ET13 5.224 9 [The English] are neither transcendentalists nor Christians.

transcendently, adv. (1)

    Imtl 8.334 4 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find out...the delicate contrivance and adjustment of a weed...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!

transcending, adj. (1)

    LE 1.172 9 ...a wise man will never esteem [the book of philosophy] anything final and transcending.

transcending, v. (4)

    Pt1 3.40 14 Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy...
    NMW 4.246 1 Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
    QO 8.189 24 Certainly it only needs two well placed and well tempered for cooperation, to get somewhat far transcending any private enterprise!
    PLT 12.53 9 I must think we are entitled to powers far transcending any that we possess;...

transcends, v. (11)

    MR 1.251 1 To principles something else is possible that transcends all the power of expedients.
    Con 1.326 6 The boldness of the hope men entertain transcends all former experience.
    Fdsp 2.216 22 True love transcends the unworthy object...
    OS 2.287 21 Jesus speaks always from within, and in a degree that transcends all others.
    Art1 2.364 18 Nature transcends all our moods of thought...
    Mrs1 3.125 20 Money is not essential, but this wide affinity [between power and money] is, which transcends the habits of clique and caste...
    PPh 4.41 6 [Plato's] broad humanity transcends all sectional lines.
    DL 7.127 5 The secret power of form over the imagination and affections transcends all our philosophy.
    EWI 11.132 6 If the State has no power to defend its own people in its own shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal Government, has it no representation in the Federal Government? Are those men dumb? I am no lawyer, and cannot indicate the forms applicable to the case, but here is something which transcends all forms.
    II 12.67 20 The eye and ear have a logic which transcends the skill of the tongue.
    Milt1 12.253 23 As a poet, Shakspeare undoubtedly transcends, and far surpasses [Milton] in his popularity with foreign nations;...

transcript, n. (3)

    Pol1 3.212 19 ...an abstract of the codes of nations would be a transcript of the common conscience.
    Aris 10.33 2 The Golden Book of Venice...the hierarchy of India...is each a transcript of the decigrade or centigraded Man.
    Milt1 12.275 9 ...the Comus [is] a transcript, in charming numbers, of that philosophy of chastity, which, in the Apology for Smectymnuus, and in the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] declares to be his defence and religion.

transcripts, n. (3)

    AmS 1.91 14 When [the scholar] can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
    Pt1 3.8 13 ...we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts...become the songs of the nations.
    MAng1 12.233 13 ...let no man suppose that the images which [Michelangelo's] spirit worshipped were mere transcripts of external grace...

transept, n. (1)

    ET16 5.289 22 The length of line [of Winchester Cathedral] exceeds that of any other English church; being 556 feet, by 250 in breadth of transept.

transfer, n. (6)

    LE 1.184 24 ...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether...the transaction [be] a letter of credit or a transfer of stocks; be it what it may, his commission comes gently out of it;...
    Tran 1.334 10 From this transfer of the world into the consciousness... follow easily [the idealist's] whole ethics.
    Chr1 3.98 4 ...if we have broken any idols it is through a transfer of the idolatry.
    PI 8.12 16 Genius thus [through figurative speech] makes the transfer from one part of Nature to a remote part...
    Imtl 8.339 25 After we have found our depth [on a new planet], and assimilated what we could of the new experience, transfer us to a new scene. In each transfer we shall have acquired...a new mastery of the old thoughts...
    TPar 11.292 7 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius...

transfer, v. (14)

    MN 1.209 7 ...there is a mischievous tendency in [man] to transfer his thought from the life to the ends...
    Hist 2.8 22 ...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history is commonly read...to himself...
    Chr1 3.94 21 Cannot Caesar in irons shuffle off the irons and transfer them to the person of Hippo or Thraso the turnkey?
    F 6.31 9 ...[men] think...that it would be a practical blunder to transfer the method and way of working of one sphere into the other.
    Boks 7.196 18 If you should transfer the amount of your reading day by day from the newspaper to the standard authors----But who dare speak of such a thing?
    PI 8.40 17 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception...of fairy machineries and funds of power hitherto utterly unknown to him, whereby he can transfer his visions to mortal canvas...
    PI 8.48 21 ...the people liked an overpowering jewsharp tune. Later they like to transfer that rhyme to life...
    Imtl 8.339 20 Take us as we are, with our experience, and transfer us to a new planet...
    Imtl 8.339 25 After we have found our depth [on a new planet], and assimilated what we could of the new experience, transfer us to a new scene.
    Supl 10.168 27 The first valuable power in a reasonable mind, one would say, was...the power to receive things as they befall, and to transfer the picture of them to another mind unaltered.
    Prch 10.220 3 Art will embody this vanishing Spirit in temples, pictures, sculptures and hymns. The senses instantly transfer the reverence from the vanishing Spirit to this steadfast form.
    FSLC 11.180 22 ...we must transfer our vaunt to the country, and say, with a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be arrested here;...
    FRep 11.532 18 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him;...and they transfer the repute of judgment to the next prosperous person who has not yet blundered.
    WSL 12.338 11 Transfer these traits to a very elegant and accomplished mind, and we shall have no bad picture of Walter Savage Landor...

transferable, adj. (4)

    MN 1.197 26 Let us...try how far [the method of nature] is transferable to the literary life.
    SR 2.50 25 Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this;...
    Pol1 3.207 9 The same necessity which secures the rights of person and property against the malignity or folly of the magistrate, determines the form and methods of governing, which are proper to each nation...and nowise transferable to other states of society.
    UGM 4.28 9 It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men, and sending it to perform one more turn through the circle of beings, wrote, Not transferable and Good for this trip only, on these garments of the soul.

transference, n. (3)

    PerF 10.71 25 ...gravity is as adhesive...water as medicinal as on the first day. There is no loss, only transference.
    II 12.73 5 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money. Perhaps that is a benefit, but those who give the money must be just so much more shrewd, and worldly, and hostile, in order to save so much money. I see not how any virtue is thus gained to society. It is a mere transference.
    II 12.87 23 ...the whole moral of modern science is the transference of that trust which is felt in Nature's admired arrangements, to the sphere of freedom and of rational life.

transferred, v. (16)

    Nat 1.56 9 The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches...had already transferred nature into the mind...
    AmS 1.88 22 The sacredness which attaches to...the act of thought, is transferred to the record.
    SR 2.63 7 When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
    Mrs1 3.123 17 The competition is transferred from war to politics and trade, but the personal force appears readily enough in these new arenas.
    UGM 4.34 7 The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery; but the sense of the pictures is sacred, and you may still read them transferred to the walls of the world.
    PPh 4.54 27 ...the union of impossibilities, which reappears in every object;, its real and its ideal power,--was now also transferred entire to the consciousness of a man [Plato].
    MoS 4.168 11 I know not anywhere the book that seems less written [than Montaigne's Essays]. It is the language of conversation transferred to a book.
    Boks 7.209 13 The annals of bibliography afford many examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go, when the legitimate delight in a book is transferred to a rare edition or to a manuscript.
    PI 8.5 24 ...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.
    SlHr 10.443 14 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained, as, for instance, when the county commissioners refused to rebuild the burned court-house, on the belief that the courts would be transferred from Concord to Lowell,-all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...
    LS 11.17 9 It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity,-that the true worship was transferred from God to Christ...
    War 11.166 21 ...bayonet and sword...will be transferred to the museums of the curious...
    War 11.171 17 The manhood that has been in war must be transferred to the cause of peace...
    SMC 11.365 18 It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost unofficered. The colonel was, early in the day, disabled by a casualty; the lieutenant-colonel, the major and the adjutant were already transferred to new regiments...
    Bost 12.189 3 A capital fact distinguishing this colony [Massachusetts Bay] from all other colonies was that the persons composing it consented to come on the one condition that the charter should be transferred from the company in England to themselves;...
    ACri 12.301 13 [The founder of New City] had transferred to that city [Chicago] the magnificent dreams which he had once communicated to me...

transferring, v. (3)

    MN 1.206 17 ...when the genius comes...it is...the power of transferring the affair in the street into oils and colors.
    ShP 4.213 11 This power...of transferring the inmost truth of things into music and verse, makes [Shakespeare] the type of the poet...
    Bty 6.302 21 The radiance of the human form, though sometimes astonishing...in most, rapidly declines. But we remain lovers of it, only transferring our interest to interior excellence.

transfers, n. (1)

    Insp 8.275 24 ...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which [Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of a chain...

transfers, v. (3)

    Nat 1.36 15 ...Reason transfers all these lessons into its own world of thought...
    Tran 1.331 2 This [idealistic] manner of looking at things transfers every object in nature from an independent and anomalous position without there, into the consciousness.
    SovE 10.211 25 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice from the circumstance to the cause;...

transfiguration, n. (4)

    Nat 1.53 24 This transfiguration which all material objects undergo through the passion of the poet...might be illustrated by a thousand examples from [Shakspeare's] Plays.
    LE 1.158 26 ...so pass into [the scholar's] mind, in bright transfiguration, the grand events of history...
    Grts 8.309 12 There is a certain transfiguration; all great orators have it...
    CSC 10.376 13 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it...in...the prophetic dignity and transfiguration which accompanies...a man whose mind is made up to obey the great inward Commander...

Transfiguration [Raphael], n (5)

    LE 1.164 7 Say to the man of letters that he cannot paint a Transfiguration... and he will not seem to himself depreciated.
    Art1 2.362 8 The Transfiguration, by Raphael, is an eminent example of this peculiar merit [simplicity].
    Art1 2.363 3 The real value of the Iliad or the Transfiguration is as signs of power;...
    Exp 3.62 26 ...the Transfiguration, the Last Judgment...are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them;...
    DL 7.131 3 I go to Rome and see on the walls of the Vatican the Transfiguration, painted by Raphael...

transfigurations, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.14 22 The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits, in its transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions;...
    PI 8.24 16 [The intellect] knows that these transfigured results are not the brute experiences, just as souls in heaven are not the red bodies they once animated. Many transfigurations have befallen them.

transfigure, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.176 14 The uprolled clouds and the colors of morning and evening will transfigure maples and alders.

transfigured, adj. (1)

    PI 8.24 14 [The intellect] knows that these transfigured results are not the brute experiences...

transfigured, v. (5)

    AmS 1.96 18 In some contemplative hour [the new deed] detaches itself...to become a thought of the mind. Instantly it is raised, transfigured;...
    MR 1.250 26 ...the believer not only beholds his heaven to be possible, but already to begin to exist,-not by the men or materials the statesman uses, but by men transfigured and raised above themselves by the power of principles.
    Chr1 3.114 11 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth...who, by the pure quality of his nature, shed an epic splendor around the facts of his death which has transfigured every particular into an universal symbol for the eyes of mankind.
    Mem 12.103 16 The poor short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters. Then a thousand times over it lives and acts again, each time transfigured, ennobled.
    WSL 12.341 19 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature. We have...entered that crystal sphere in which everything in the world of matter reappears, but transfigured and immortal.

transform, v. (2)

    Tran 1.335 2 Let any thought or motive of mine be different from that they are, the difference will transform my condition and economy.
    LLNE 10.354 22 It is the worst of community that it must inevitably transform into charlatans the leaders...

transformation, n. (8)

    Nat 1.26 2 Most of the process by which this transformation [from thing to word] is made, is hidden from us...
    Pt1 3.36 25 ...if any poet has witnessed the transformation he doubtless found it in harmony with various experiences.
    Exp 3.86 4 ...the true romance which the world exists to realize will be the transformation of genius into practical power.
    Nat2 3.179 17 [Efficient Nature] publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spiculae through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries...
    ShP 4.215 7 The finest poetry was first experience; but the thought has suffered a transformation since it was an experience.
    PI 8.5 14 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form; and in animal transformation not less, as in grub and fly...
    MMEm 10.415 4 Oh, if there be a power superior to me...when will He let...my tides cease to an eternal ebb? Oh for transformation!
    ACri 12.283 23 ...the transformation of the laborer into reader and writer has compelled the learned and the thinkers to address them.

transformations, n. (4)

    Nat 1.17 8 I seem to partake [the sky's] rapid transformations;...
    JBS 11.276 5 A thousand transformations rose/ From fair to foul, from foul to fair:/ The golden crown he did not spare,/ Nor scorn the beggar's clothes./
    PLT 12.5 12 Our metaphysics should be able to follow the flying force through all transformations...
    CL 12.143 14 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. ...if young ladies were aware of the magical transformations which can be wrought in the depth and sweetness of the eye by a few weeks' exercise, I fancy we should see their habits in this point altered greatly for the better.

transformed, adj. (1)

    GoW 4.275 6 ...Goethe suggested the leading idea of modern botany...that every part of a plant is only a transformed leaf to meet a new condition;...

transformed, v. (8)

    Hist 2.14 5 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination;...
    Hsm1 2.246 8 Let not soft nature so transformed be,/ And lose her gentler sexed humanity,/ to make me see my lord bleed. So, 't is well;/...
    GoW 4.275 13 ...in osteology, [Goethe] assumed that one vertebra of the spine might be considered as the unit of the skeleton: the head was only the uttermost vertebrae transformed.
    ET4 5.62 19 Many a mean, dastardly boy is, at the age of puberty, transformed into a serious and generous youth.
    ET5 5.77 8 Nobody landed on this spellbound island [England] with impunity. The enchantments of barren shingle and rough weather transformed every adventurer into a laborer.
    Wsp 6.231 14 He is great whose eyes are opened to see that the reward of actions cannot be escaped, because he is transformed into his action...
    PI 8.8 12 In botany we have...the poetic perception of metamorphosis,--that the same vegetable point or eye which is the unit of the plant can be transformed at pleasure into every part...
    SA 8.82 23 ...if the elegant are also intellectual, instantly the hesitating scholar is inspired, transformed...

transforming, v. (1)

    SwM 4.107 13 In the plant, the eye or germinative point opens to a leaf, then to another leaf, with a power of transforming the leaf into radicle, stamen, pistil, petal, bract, sepal, or seed.

transforms, v. (3)

    NMW 4.228 20 ...the river which was a formidable barrier, winter transforms into the smoothest of roads.
    ET3 5.34 6 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in;...the latter because art...transforms a rude, ungenial land into a paradise of comfort and plenty.
    ET10 5.165 5 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds, so as to get a coachway and save her a mile to the avenue. Instantly he transforms his paling into stone-masonry...

transfusion, n. (3)

    SL 2.152 7 There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place;...
    WD 7.160 3 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body, as...in the boldest promiser of all,--the transfusion of the blood...
    Dem1 10.20 25 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the transfusion of the blood...are of this kind.

transgress, v. (4)

    Con 1.307 15 [The youth says] Nature has sufficiently provided me with rewards and sharp penalties, to bind me not to transgress.
    Comp 2.107 20 ...if the sun in heaven should transgress his path [the Furies] would punish him.
    Hsm1 2.247 5 Treacherous heart,/ My hand shall cast thee quick into my urn,/ Ere thou transgress this knot of piety./
    FSLC 11.191 4 ...if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are bound to transgress that human law;...

transgressed, v. (2)

    F 6.6 12 The great immense mind of Jove is not to be transgressed.
    FRep 11.532 3 That repose which is the ornament and ripeness of man is not American. That repose which indicates a faith in the laws of the universe,-a faith that they...are not to be impeded, transgressed or accelerated.

transgresses, v. (1)

    PI 8.21 25 [The poet] observes higher laws than he transgresses.

transgressing, v. (1)

    Hist 2.15 4 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of action and never transgressing the ideal serenity;...

transgression, n. (3)

    Nat 1.25 18 ...transgression [means] the crossing of a line;...
    MoS 4.182 27 [The spiritualist's far-sighted good-will] sees to the end of all transgression.
    SA 8.106 13 Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us...we must learn to adorn every day with sacrifices.

transgressions, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.232 3 The man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of the senses trivial...

transgressor, n. (1)

    Pow 6.63 18 Men expect from good whigs put into office by the respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with...with our own malcontent members, than from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson...

transient, adj. (3)

    PPh 4.50 27 As if [Krishna] had said, All is for the soul, and the soul is Vishnu; and animals and stars are transient paintings;...
    Imtl 8.351 14 [Yama said to Nachiketas] I know worldly happiness is transient...
    Pray 12.351 23 Wacic the Caliph...ended his life...with these words: O thou whose kingdom never passes away, pity one whose dignity is so transient.

transit, n. (2)

    PI 8.4 14 ...the creation is...in transit...
    PLT 12.59 6 The universe exists only in transit...

transition, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.207 17 We live in a transition period, when the old faiths which comforted nations...seem to have spent their force.

transition, n. (18)

    AmS 1.94 27 ...the transition through which [thought] passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action.
    SR 2.69 17 Power...resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state...
    Lov1 2.180 6 The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
    Cir 2.320 1 Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
    Nat2 3.181 19 If we look at [nature's] work, we seem to catch a glance of a system in transition.
    Nat2 3.188 27 The friend coldly turns [the pages of a young person's diary] over, and passes from the writing to conversation, with easy transition...
    PPh 4.76 24 [Plato] is charged with having failed to make the transition from ideas to matter.
    SwM 4.132 6 It is dangerous to sculpture these evanescing images of thought. True in transition, they become false if fixed.
    Pow 6.71 6 Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of transition [from savagery to civility]...
    Ctr 6.137 18 [Man's] excellence is facility of adaptation and of transition...
    Bty 6.292 10 Beauty is the moment of transition...
    Res 8.140 18 The marked events in history...each of these events...supples the tough barbarous sinew, and brings it into that state of sensibility which makes the transition to civilization possible and sure.
    QO 8.193 7 ...it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others, as it is to invent. Always some steep transition...betrays the foreign interpolation.
    Imtl 8.330 25 ...I have in mind the expression of an older believer, who once said to me, The thought that this frail being is never to end is so overwhelming that my only shelter is God's presence. This disquietude only marks the transition.
    Prch 10.217 11 ...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in the religious world marks that we are in a moment of transition;...
    Prch 10.222 19 We are in transition, from the worship of the fathers which enshrined the law in a private and personal history...
    PLT 12.59 10 Transition is the attitude of power.
    WSL 12.348 19 ...what skill of transition [Landor] may possess is superficial...

transitional, adj. (3)

    PPh 4.55 18 Our strength is transitional, alternating;...
    PPh 4.55 27 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    Insp 8.289 15 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness which is not found in staying at home nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible,-these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].

transitions, n. (6)

    PPh 4.55 25 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    ShP 4.211 11 ...[Shakespeare] read the hearts of men and women...the transitions by which virtues and vices slide into their contraries...
    ET19 5.313 9 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...
    Insp 8.289 13 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness which is not found in staying at home nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    FSLN 11.222 12 ...[Webster] knew perfectly well how to make such exordiums, episodes and perorations as might give perspective to his harangues without in the least embarrassing his march or confounding his transitions.
    PLT 12.60 18 ...not in his goals but in his transitions man is great.

transitive, adj. (1)

    Pt1 3.34 17 ...all language is vehicular and transitive...

transitory, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.53 14 In the strength of his constancy, the Pyramids seem to [Shakspeare] recent and transitory.
    ET4 5.55 2 Some peoples are deciduous or transitory.
    Dem1 10.3 19 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/ How many a large creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/ Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd./
    PLT 12.28 6 In this eternal resurrection and rehabilitation of transitory persons, who and what are they?

transits, n. (1)

    WD 7.181 9 The savages in the islands...delight to play with the surf, coming in on the top of the rollers, then swimming out again, and repeat the delicious manoeuvre for hours. Well, human life is made up of such transits.

transit-telescope, n. (1)

    GoW 4.270 22 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no Columbus, but hundreds of post-captains, with transit-telescope, barometer...

translatable, adj. (3)

    Boks 7.204 3 What is really best in any book is translatable...
    Boks 7.219 16 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life.
    Schr 10.264 2 All the sciences are only new applications, each translatable into the other, of the one law which [the scholar's] mind is.

translate, v. (15)

    Nat 1.33 4 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics.
    LE 1.171 20 Translate, collate, distil all the systems, it steads you nothing;...
    MN 1.206 9 Each individual soul is such in virtue of its being a power to translate the world into some particular language of its own;...
    Fdsp 2.199 14 We are armed all over with subtle antagonisms, which, as soon as we meet...translate all poetry into stale prose.
    Art1 2.365 1 Sculpture may serve to teach the pupil...how purely the spirit can translate its meanings into that eloquent dialect [of form].
    NER 3.282 22 Every time we converse we seek to translate [Providence] into speech...
    ET8 5.132 24 ...[young Englishmen]...translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Bramins;...
    Art2 7.37 5 ...[all the departments of life] translate each into a new language the sense of the other.
    PI 8.9 2 The laws of light and of heat translate each other;...
    Elo2 8.130 4 Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
    QO 8.195 11 A man hears a fine sentence out of Swedenborg...and is very merry at heart that he has now got so fine a thing. Translate it out of the new words into his own usual phrase, and he will wonder again at his own simplicity...
    Grts 8.314 26 I find it easy to translate all [Napoleon's] technics into all of mine...
    PLT 12.19 19 So works the poor little blockhead manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can. At last he must be able to tell you it, or write it, translate it all clumsily enough into the new sky-language he calls thought.
    PLT 12.37 16 We find ourselves expressed in Nature, but we cannot translate it into words.
    ACri 12.290 14 The French have a neat phrase, that the secret of boring you is that of telling all,-Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire; which we translate short, Touch and go.

translated, v. (15)

    AmS 1.103 13 ...he who has mastered any law in his private thoughts, is master to that extent...of all into whose language his own can be translated.
    Pt1 3.35 5 Either of these [symbols], or of a myriad more, are equally good to the person to whom they are significant. Only they must...be very willingly translated into the equivalent terms which others use.
    SwM 4.111 2 The scientific works [of Swedenborg] have just now been translated into English...
    GoW 4.279 15 Goethe's hero [in Wilhelm Meister]...keeps such bad company, that the sober English public, when the book was translated, were disgusted.
    ET5 5.85 21 In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the side of the strongest;--a sentence which Bonaparte unconsciously translated, when he said that he had noticed that Providence always favored the heaviest battalion.
    ET5 5.96 24 [The Board of Trade of England] caused to be translated from foreign languages and illustrated by elaborate drawings, the most approved works of Munich, Berlin and Paris.
    ET13 5.216 3 The priest [in England] translated the Vulgate...
    ET13 5.216 3 [The priest...translated the sanctities of old hagiology into English virtues on English ground.
    Boks 7.202 24 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius, translated into English by Thomas Taylor, he will find it one of the majestic remains of literature...
    PPo 8.237 3 [Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into German...specimens of two hundred [Persian] poets...
    MoL 10.246 9 Bowditch translated Laplace, and when he removed to Boston, the Hospital Life Assurance Company insisted that he should make their tables of annuities.
    Plu 10.294 21 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated and printed in Latin, thence into Italian, French and English, more than a century before the original Works were yet printed.
    Plu 10.294 25 ...[Plutarch's] Lives were translated in Rome in 1470...
    Plu 10.296 11 In England, Sir Thomas North translated [Plutarch's] Lives in 1579...
    Bost 12.193 24 An old lady who remembered these pious people [the Massachusetts colonists] said of them that they had to hold on hard to the huckleberry bushes to hinder themselves from being translated.

translates, v. (6)

    LT 1.275 10 By the books [the Times] reads and translates, judge what books it will presently print.
    CbW 6.265 7 It is an old commendation of right behavior, Aliis laetus, sapiens sibi, which our English proverb translates, Be merry and wise.
    QO 8.185 16 Goethe's favorite phrase, the open secret, translates Aristotle' s answer to Alexander, These books are published and not published.
    PerF 10.86 4 That band which ties [cosmical laws] together...is universal good, saturating all with one being and aim, so that each translates the other...
    FSLN 11.223 12 What gratitude does every man feel to him who...who translates truth into language entirely plain and clear!
    PLT 12.23 17 The affinity of particles accurately translates the affinity of thoughts...

translating, v. (4)

    PPh 4.39 21 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato, translating into the vernacular, wittily, his good things.
    MoS 4.169 26 This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe;...
    PI 8.22 7 Genius certifies its entire possession of its thought, by translating it into a fact which perfectly represents it...
    ACri 12.300 19 Whatever new object we see, we perceive to be only a new version of our familiar experience, and we set about translating it at once into our parallel facts.

translation, n. (25)

    Mrs1 3.136 9 I have just been reading, in Mr. Hazlitt's translation, Montaigne's account of his journey into Italy...
    UGM 4.11 8 Each material thing...has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere...
    SwM 4.117 4 ...[Lord Bacon] instanced some physical propositions, with their translation into a moral or political sense.
    MoS 4.162 15 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy.
    MoS 4.163 17 I heard with pleasure that one of the newly-discovered autographs of William Shakspeare was in a copy of Florio's translation of Montaigne.
    ShP 4.196 24 [The poet in illiterate times] is...little solicitous whence his thoughts have been derived; whether through translation, whether through tradition...
    ShP 4.198 2 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from William of Lorris and John of Meung...
    ShP 4.200 4 There never was a time when there was not some translation [of the Bible] existing.
    ShP 4.200 6 The Liturgy...is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations, a translation of the prayers and forms of the Catholic church...
    ShP 4.200 20 The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being translation on translation.
    ShP 4.200 21 The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being translation on translation.
    ShP 4.200 22 The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being translation on translation.
    ShP 4.204 8 ...it was with the introduction of Shakspeare into German, by Lessing, and the translation of his works by Wieland and Schlegel, that the rapid burst of German literature was most intimately connected.
    ShP 4.214 11 No recipe can be given for the making of a Shakspeare; but the possibility of the translation of things into song is demonstrated.
    ET14 5.259 2 I am not surprised...to find an Englishman like Warren Hastings...deprecating the prejudices of his countrymen while offering them a translation of the Bhagvat.
    CbW 6.266 2 An old French verse runs, in my translation:--Some of your griefs you have cured,/ And the sharpest you still have survived;/ But what torments of pain you endured/ From evils that never arrived!/
    Bty 6.305 15 ...when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency, as if a more interior ray had been emitted, disclosing its deep holdings in the frame of things. The laws of this translation we do not know...
    DL 7.120 15 ...who can see unmoved...the first solitary joys of literary vanity, when the translation or the theme has been completed...
    DL 7.128 21 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the shadow of a Friend./
    Boks 7.197 23 Of Homer, George Chapman's is the heroic translation...
    QO 8.186 8 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...
    PerF 10.77 16 Certain thoughts, certain observations...would be my capital if I removed to Spain or China, or, by stranger translation, to the planet Jupiter or Mars...
    Plu 10.295 5 In France...Amyot's translation [of Plutarch] awakened general attention.
    Plu 10.320 24 One proof of Plutarch's skill as a writer is that he bears translation so well.
    EdAd 11.391 7 ...the current year has witnessed the appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's] manuscripts.

Translation, n. (1)

    Plu 10.317 4 I can almost regret that the learned editor of the present republication [of Plutarch's Morals] has not preserved...the preface of Mr. Morgan, the editor and in part writer of this Translation of 1718.

translations, n. (10)

    PNR 4.80 2 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion to take hastily a few more notes of the elevation and bearings of this fixed star;...
    GoW 4.277 15 [Goethe's works] consist of translations, criticism, dramas, lyric and every other description of poems, literary journals and portraits of distinguished men.
    ET1 5.21 16 I inquired if [Wordsworth] had read Carlyle's critical articles and translations.
    ET5 5.86 19 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling...were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
    ET17 5.295 19 I told [Wordsworth] it was not creditable that no one in all the country knew anything of Thomas Taylor, the Platonist, whilst in every American library his translations are found.
    Elo1 7.70 18 The whole world knows pretty well the style of these [Eastern] improvisators, and how fascinating they are, in our translations of the Arabian Nights.
    Boks 7.203 25 The respectable and sometimes excellent translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse.
    Boks 7.204 2 I do not hesitate to read all the books I have named, and all good books, in translations.
    MoL 10.243 20 The subtle Hindoo...produced the wonderful epics of which, in the present century, the translations have added new regions to thought.
    CInt 12.131 3 ...the examination for admission and the examination for degrees and honors may be lax in this college and severe in that, and you may find facilities, translations, syllabuses and tutors here or there to coach you through, but 't is very certain than an examination is yonder before us...

translator, n. (4)

    Int 2.345 2 ...whosoever propounds to you a philosophy of the mind, is only a more or less awkward translator of things in your consciousness...
    Pt1 3.35 17 Swedenborg...stands eminently for the translator of nature into thought.
    Plu 10.321 23 We owe to these translators [of Plutarch] many sharp perceptions of the wit and humor of their author, sometimes even to the adding of the point. I notice one, which, although the translator has justified his rendering in a note, the severer criticism of the Editor has not retained.
    Milt1 12.270 2 My mother bore me, [Milton] said, a speaker of what God made mine own, and not a translator.

translators, n. (6)

    ET14 5.234 3 Hobbes was perfect in the noble vulgar speech. Donne... Hooker, Cotton and the translators wrote it.
    Boks 7.204 8 The Italians have a fling at translators,--i traditori traduttori;...
    Suc 7.296 14 In good hours we...find Shakspeare or Homer...only to have been translators of the happy present...
    Plu 10.320 21 The correction [in the 1871 edition of Plutarch's Morals] is not only of names of authors and of places grossly altered or misspelled, but of unpardonable liberties taken by the translators...
    Plu 10.321 20 We owe to these translators [of Plutarch] many sharp perceptions of the wit and humor of their author...
    ACri 12.284 25 ...many of [Goethe's] poems are so idiomatic...that they are the terror of translators...

translator's, n. (1)

    Plu 10.317 14 ...it was [Plutarch's] severe fate to flourish in those days of ignorance, which, 't is a favorable opinion to hope that the Almighty will sometime wink at; that our souls may be with these philosophers together in the same state of bliss. The puzzle in the worthy translator's mind between his theology and his reason well reappears in the puzzle of his sentence.

translucent, adj. (1)

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

translucid, adj. (1)

    Pt1 3.26 9 This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but...by sharing the path or circuit of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

transmigrating, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.145 13 I think of [Swedenborg] as of some transmigrating votary of Indian legend...

transmigration, n. (2)

    Hist 2.32 8 The transmigration of souls is no fable.
    Dem1 10.7 1 It was in this glance [at an animal] that Ovid got the hint of his metamorphoses; Calidasa of his transmigration of souls.

Transmigration, n. (2)

    SwM 4.96 3 If one should ask the reason of this intuition, the solution would lead us into that property which...is implied by the Bramins in the tenet of Transmigration.
    SwM 4.124 23 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks, collected in Ovid and in the Indian Transmigration...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character.

transmigrations, n. (1)

    Hist 2.32 1 ...what see I on any side but the transmigrations of Proteus?

transmission, n. (6)

    AmS 1.98 25 ...these fits of easy transmission and reflection...are the law of nature...
    SwM 4.121 14 In the transmission of the heavenly waters, every hose fits every hydrant.
    ET15 5.265 18 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a powder-mill; but...by dint of some transmission of cards, we were at last conducted into the parlor of Mr. Morris...
    Clbs 7.249 10 ...in the sections of the British Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in...the printing and transmission of ponderous reports.
    Res 8.150 7 ...the law of light, which Newton said proceeded by fits of easy reflection and transmission...is the law of mind;...
    Aris 10.33 19 I observe the inextinguishable prejudice men have in favor of a hereditary transmission of qualities.

transmit, v. (3)

    ET10 5.164 12 ...the provisions to lock and transmit [English property] have exercised the cunningest heads in a profession which never admits a fool.
    SA 8.100 27 ...[there is in America the general belief that] if [the young American] have...quick eye for the opportunities which are always offering for investment, he can come to wealth, and in such good season as to enjoy as well as transmit it.
    LS 11.8 8 ...men more easily transmit a form than a virtue...

transmits, v. (4)

    MN 1.208 27 ...[a man's] health and erectness consist in the fidelity with which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point on which his genius can act.
    Pt1 3.23 2 ...[nature] shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless spores, and one of which, being preserved, transmits new billions of spores to-morrow or next day.
    ET10 5.161 25 ...now that a telegraph line runs through France and Europe from London, every message it transmits makes stronger by one thread the band which war will have to cut.
    Aris 10.33 22 Some qualities [Nature] carefully fixes and transmits...

transmitted, v. (3)

    Int 2.340 10 Neither by detachment, neither by aggregation is the integrity of the intellect transmitted to its works...
    SA 8.101 10 In Europe...it has been attempted to secure the existence of a superior class by hereditary nobility, with estates transmitted by primogeniture and entail.
    LS 11.16 6 If it could be satisfactorily shown that [the primitive Church] esteemed [the Lord's Supper] authorized and to be transmitted forever, that does not settle the question for us.

transmute, v. (3)

    Bty 6.282 16 Alchemy, which sought to transmute one element into another...that was in the right direction.
    PPo 8.235 1 Go transmute crime to wisdom, learn to stem/ The vice of Japhet by the thought of Shem./
    PPo 8.259 18 From the plain text-The chemist of love/ Will this perishing mould,/ Were it made out of mire,/ Transmute into gold./-[Hafiz] proceeds to the celebration of his passion;...

transmuted, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.4 19 ...we are...children of the fire, made of it, and only the same divinity transmuted and at two or three removes, when we know least about it.

transmutes, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.185 22 The union which is thus effected [by love] and which adds a new value to every atom in nature--for it transmutes every thread throughout the whole web of relation into a golden ray...is yet a temporary state.

transmuting, v. (1)

    AmS 1.88 6 ...it depends on how far the process had gone, of transmuting life into truth.

transmutings, n. (2)

    UGM 4.16 26 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body; there is the like pleasure and a higher benefit from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds; as...the transmutings of the imagination...
    MMEm 10.425 16 Not to complain of the poor old earth's chaotic state, brought so near in its long and gloomy transmutings by the geologist.

transom, n. (2)

    ET2 5.31 17 Classics which at home are drowsily read, have a strange charm...in the transom of a merchant brig.
    SS 7.12 10 ...if we recall the rare hours when we encountered the best persons, we then found ourselves, and then first society seemed to exist. That was society, though in the transom of a brig...

transparency, n. (6)

    Bty 6.286 22 The crowd in the street oftener furnishes degradations than angels or redeemers, but they all prove the transparency.
    PerF 10.72 18 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides-and hides through absolute transparency-the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
    FRO2 11.484 4 ...Thou seek'st in globe and galaxy,/ He hides in pure transparency;/...
    PLT 12.5 17 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides (and hides through absolute transparency) the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
    Mem 12.101 6 So is it with every fact in a new science...each one adds transparency to the whole mass.
    MLit 12.330 11 The least inequality of mixture [of Truth, Beauty and Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that degree diminishes the transparency of things...

transparent, adj. (35)

    Nat 1.7 9 One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man...the perpetual presence of the sublime.
    Nat 1.10 8 I become a transparent eyeball;...
    Nat 1.34 10 ...the universe becomes transparent...
    Nat 1.50 5 If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become transparent...
    Nat 1.73 26 The axis of vision is not coincident with the axis of things, and so they appear not transparent but opaque.
    DSA 1.119 8 Through the transparent darkness the stars pour their almost spiritual rays.
    DSA 1.144 8 When a man comes, all books are legible, all things transparent...
    YA 1.387 4 If society were transparent, the noble would everywhere be gladly received...
    Comp 2.125 4 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him, becoming as it were a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen...
    Cir 2.302 3 Our globe seen by God is a transparent law...
    Int 2.325 14 ...what man has yet been able to mark the steps and boundaries of that transparent essence [Intellect]?
    Pt1 3.12 5 ...I shall mount above these clouds and opaque airs in which I live,--opaque, though they seem transparent...
    Pt1 3.42 20 ...wherever are forms with transparent boundaries...there is Beauty...shed for thee [O poet]...
    Chr1 3.96 17 ...[a healthy soul] stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun...
    Mrs1 3.127 2 [Fine manners] are a subtler science of defence to parry and intimidate; but once matched by the skill of the other party, they drop the point of the sword,--points and fences disappear, and the youth finds himself in a more transparent atmosphere...
    UGM 4.35 2 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect. Then he appears as an exponent of a vaster mind and will. The opaque self becomes transparent with the light of the First Cause.
    SwM 4.98 7 If you will have pure carbon, carbuncle, or diamond, to make the brain transparent, the trunk and organs shall be so much the grosser...
    ET1 5.5 12 ...I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons, as they respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world to make it needful to affect any prudery of suppression about a few hints of those bright personalities.
    F 6.43 1 Each of these men, if they were transparent, would seem to you... walking cities...
    Boks 7.190 21 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible...but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us...
    OA 7.315 13 ...the transparent good faith of [Josiah Quincy's] praise and blame...gave unusual interest to the College festival.
    PI 8.52 25 ...rhyme is the transparent frame that allows almost the pure architecture of thought to become visible to the mental eye.
    PC 8.223 18 ...[Nature] is hostile to ignorance,-plastic, transparent, delightful, to knowledge.
    Insp 8.274 12 ...where is...a Franklin who can draw off electricity from Jove himself, and convey it into the arts of life, inspire men...and make the world transparent...
    Edc1 10.131 4 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena...
    EzRy 10.390 12 [Ezry Ripley] was a man so kind and sympathetic, his character was so transparent...that he was very justly appreciated in this community.
    SlHr 10.446 8 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was...like one of those opaque crystals...not less perfect in their angles and structure, and only less beautiful, than the transparent topazes and diamonds.
    GSt 10.503 27 [George Stearns's] transparent singleness of purpose... disarmed...all gainsayers.
    EWI 11.144 20 The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were the color of night, are transparent...
    FSLN 11.225 5 ...I have my own opinions on [Webster's] seventh of March discourse and those others, and think them very transparent and very open to criticism...
    JBB 11.268 7 ...[John Brown] is so transparent that all men see him through.
    PLT 12.42 23 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...
    II 12.89 3 The joy of knowledge, the late discovery that the veil which hid all things from him is really transparent, transparent everywhere to pure eyes...renew life for [a man].
    MAng1 12.219 24 The walls of houses are transparent to the architect.
    MAng1 12.233 16 ...let no man suppose...that this profound soul [Michelangelo] was taken or holden in the chains of superficial beauty. To him, of all men, it was transparent.

transpierces, v. (1)

    SL 2.158 11 What has he done? is the divine question which...transpierces every false reputation.

transpire, v. (2)

    ET15 5.268 14 [The London Times] draws from any number of learned and skilful contributors; but a more learned and skilful person supervises, corrects, and co-ordinates. Of this closet, the secret does not transpire.
    FSLN 11.242 22 ...in one part of the discourse the orator [Robert Winthrop] allowed to transpire, rather against his will, a little sober sense.

transpired, v. (2)

    LLNE 10.331 21 Let [Everett] rise to speak on what occasion soever, a fact had always just transpired which composed, with some other fact well known to the audience, the most pregnant and happy coincidence.
    LVB 11.91 5 The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees; that the fact afterwards transpired that these deputies did by no means represent the will of the nation;...

transpires, v. (2)

    Comp 2.116 11 [Commit a crime and] Some damning circumstance always transpires.
    UGM 4.20 24 With each new mind, a new secret of nature transpires;...

transplant, v. (2)

    AmS 1.97 13 I will not...transplant an oak into a flower-pot...
    Bost 12.189 20 John Smith writes (1624): Of all the four parts of the world that I have yet seen not inhabited, could I but have means to transplant a colony, I would rather live here [in New England] than anywhere;...

transplantation, n. (1)

    Carl 10.490 16 [Carlyle]...is a very national figure, and would by no means bear transplantation.

transplanting, n. (1)

    CL 12.154 12 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and builds new;-forever redistributing the solid matter of the globe; and performs an analogous office in perpetual new transplanting of the races of men over the surface...

transport, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.99 2 The same transport which the occurrence of the best events in the best order would occasion me, I must learn to taste purer in the perception that my position is every hour meliorated, and does already command those events I desire.

transport, v. (3)

    LT 1.262 16 Thoughts...transport me into new and magnificent scenes.
    Hist 2.36 22 Transport [Napoleon] to large countries...and you shall see that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not the virtual Napoleon.
    EWI 11.110 18 In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing out of the act of abolition, ships were built...with a frightful disregard of the comfort of the victims they were destined to transport.

transportation, n. (4)

    YA 1.363 12 Who has not been stimulated to reflection by the facilities now in progress of construction for travel and the transportation of goods in the United States?
    SwM 4.100 2 In 1743, when [Swedenborg] was fifty-four years old, what is called his illumination began. All his metallurgy and transportation of ships overland was absorbed into this ecstasy.
    DL 7.104 20 ...chiefly...the young American studies new and speedier modes of transportation.
    EWI 11.107 13 Public attention...was drawn that way [to the West Indies], and the methods of the stealing and the transportation [of slaves] from Africa became noised abroad.

transported, adj. (2)

    ET5 5.97 18 The pauper [in England] lives better than the free laborer...and the transported felon better than the one under imprisonment.
    Milt1 12.260 12 At nineteen years...[Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument... Such where the deep transported mind may soar/ Above the wheeling poles, and at Heaven's door/ Look in, and see each blissful deity,/ How he before the thunderous throne doth lie./

transported, v. (3)

    Nat 1.57 14 ...[man] is transported out of the district of change.
    PPo 8.241 5 When all [the troops and spirits] were in order, the east wind, at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet and transported with all that were upon it, whither he pleased...
    MLit 12.330 27 ...we are not [in Wilhelm Meister] transported out of the dominion of the senses...

transporters, n. (1)

    PI 8.19 18 ...Poets are standing transporters, whose employment consists in speaking to the Father and to matter;...

transporting, v. (2)

    YA 1.363 20 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days seemed already numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives...across such tedious distances...
    Wth 6.87 2 [coal] is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted.

transports, v. (2)

    Farm 7.146 10 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles.
    PI 8.13 27 [A new symbol] satiates, transports, converts [men].

transposition, n. (1)

    SwM 4.116 15 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma, in place of the physical truth or precept: although no mortal would have predicted that any thing of the kind could possibly arise by bare literal transposition;...

transubstantiation, n. (2)

    Elo1 7.68 24 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of hers. Her speech flows like a river...such justice done to all the parts! It is a true transubstantiation,--the fact converted into speech...
    PI 8.35 5 This contemporary insight is transubstantiation...

transverse, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.18 4 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world, though not an antagonist, yet a transverse element...

trap, n. (9)

    SR 2.60 5 We love [honor] and pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage...
    Exp 3.54 15 I see not, if one be once caught in this trap of so-called sciences, any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical necessity.
    ET4 5.70 27 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury by gun, by trap, by harpoon, by lasso...all the game that is in nature.
    ET7 5.119 22 [The English] confide in each other,--English believes in English. The French feel the superiority of this probity. The Englishman is not springing a trap for his admiration, but is honestly minding his business.
    Pow 6.67 26 ...[Boniface] introduced the new horse-rake, the new scraper, the baby-jumper, and what not, that Connecticut sends to the admiring citizens. He did this the easier that the peddler stopped at his house, and paid his keeping by setting up his new trap on the landlord's premises.
    Ill 6.316 7 ...this especial trap [marriage] is laid to trip up our feet with...
    Thor 10.454 11 ...though a naturalist, [Thoreau] used neither trap nor gun.
    EWI 11.129 3 [The question of slavery in the West Idies] was not narrowed down [in England] to a paltry electioneering trap;...
    EurB 12.375 16 Again and again we have been caught in that old foolish trap [the novel of costume of circumstance].

trapper, n. (2)

    AmS 1.97 25 Authors we have, in numbers...who...follow the trapper into the prairie...to replenish their merchantable stock.
    CL 12.161 11 The college is not so wise as the mechanic's shop, nor the quarter-deck as the forecastle. Witness the insatiable interest of the white man about...the trapper...

trappers, n. (1)

    Exp 3.63 17 The imagination delights in the woodcraft of Indians, trappers and bee-hunters.

trappings, n. (3)

    OS 2.291 10 Nothing can pass [in the soul]...but the casting aside your trappings...
    Bty 6.306 19 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings, up to the perception of Newton that the globe on which we ride is only a larger apple falling from a larger tree...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    WSL 12.344 17 ...there is a noble nature within [Landor] which instructs him that he is so rich that he can well spare all his trappings...

traps, n. (3)

    MN 1.202 8 When we...shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...a gambling table where each is laying traps for the other...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    Hsm1. 2.252 22 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...laying traps for sweet food and strong wine...
    Ctr 6.135 11 Though [men] talk of the object before them...their vanity is laying little traps for your admiration.

travail, n. (1)

    HDC 11.34 16 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail...

travailed, v. (1)

    MN 1.208 21 Here art thou with whom so long the universe travailed in labor;...

travel, n. (19)

    YA 1.363 12 Who has not been stimulated to reflection by the facilities now in progress of construction for travel and the transportation of goods in the United States?
    ShP 4.196 25 [The poet in illiterate times] is...little solicitous whence his thoughts have been derived; whether through translation...whether by travel in distant countries...
    ET10 5.166 4 I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the better class to that of any potentate in Europe,--whether for travel, or for opportunity of society...
    Ctr 6.139 6 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...with travel...
    Ctr 6.139 8 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...with the high resources of philosophy, art and religion; books, travel, society, solitude.
    Ctr 6.145 9 I have been quoted as saying captious things about travel;...
    Ctr 6.146 5 ...for some men, travel may be useful.
    Ctr 6.146 16 ...let us...allow to travel its full effect.
    Ctr 6.147 3 No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages.
    Ctr 6.147 7 One use of travel is to recommend the books and works of home...
    Ctr 6.147 22 ...as a medical remedy, travel seems one of the best.
    Ctr 6.148 5 Akin to the benefit of foreign travel, the aesthetic value of railroads is to unite the advantages of town and country life...
    CbW 6.267 16 In childhood we...doubted not by distant travel we should reach the baths of the descending sun and stars.
    CbW 6.269 4 The uses of travel are occasional, and short;...
    Grts 8.305 19 ...there is the boy who is born with a taste for the sea, and must go thither if he has to run away from his father's house to the forecastle; another longs for travel in foreign lands;...
    SMC 11.356 24 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...the adventurous type of New Englander, with his appetite for novelty and travel;...
    EdAd 11.384 9 [The traveller] reflects on...how far these chains of intercourse and travel [in America] reach, interlock and ramify;...
    CL 12.135 19 Travel and walking have this apology, that Nature has impressed on savage men periodical or secular impulses to emigrate...
    Milt1 12.259 23 Among the advantages of his foreign travel, Milton certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and polish that great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power of language.

travel, v. (27)

    Tran 1.357 18 ...all these [Transcendentalists] of whom I speak...are novices; they only show the road in which man should travel...
    YA 1.368 24 The land,-travel a whole day together,-looks poverty-stricken...
    SR 2.82 11 Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home.
    OS 2.265 3 Space is ample, east and west,/ But two cannot go abreast,/ Cannot travel in it two/...
    OS 2.276 9 ...the heart which abandons itself to the Supreme Mind...will travel a royal road to particular knowledges and powers.
    Art1 2.358 21 Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
    UGM 4.3 22 We travel into foreign parts to find [the great man's] works...
    UGM 4.4 4 ...I do not travel to find comfortable, rich and hospitable people...
    ET1 5.4 9 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers...and I suppose if I had sifted the reasons that led me to Europe, when I was ill and was advised to travel, it was mainly the attraction of these persons.
    ET6 5.103 27 It requires, men say, a good constitution to travel in Spain.
    ET11 5.196 12 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class. The road that grandeur levels for his coach, toil can travel in his cart.
    Wth 6.114 9 Pride...can travel afoot...
    Ctr 6.145 6 For the most part, only the light characters travel.
    Ctr 6.147 1 ...the phrase to know the world, or to travel, is synonymous with all men's ideas of advantage and superiority.
    CbW 6.266 22 Culture will give gravity and domestic rest to those who now travel only as not knowing how else to spend money.
    Civ 7.29 19 ...if we will only choose our jobs in directions in which [the heavenly powers] travel, they will undertake them with the greatest pleasure.
    DL 7.119 6 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read...your thought and will...which he may well travel fifty miles...to behold.
    WD 7.163 3 ...we have a pretty artillery of tools now in our social arrangements: we...travel, grind, weave, forge, plant, till and excavate better [than our fathers did].
    Dem1 10.5 21 In sleep one shall travel certain roads in stage-coaches or gigs, which he recognizes as familiar...
    Chr2 10.116 22 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly. In general discourse, they are never obtruded. If the clergyman should travel in France...he might leave them locked up in the same closet with his occasional sermons...
    Schr 10.285 22 ...what [Genius] says and does is...on the great highways of Nature...which all souls must travel.
    EzRy 10.390 19 We remember the remark made by the old farmer who used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern country would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate.
    AKan 11.260 14 Can any citizen of Massachusetts travel in honor through Kentucky and Alabama and speak his mind?
    ALin 11.329 4 We meet under the gloom of a calamity [death of Lincoln] which darkens down over the minds of good men in all civil society, as the fearful tidings travel over sea, over land...
    Mem 12.92 10 [Memory] is the companion, this the tutor, the poet, the library, with which you travel.
    CL 12.136 6 ...the necessity of exercise and the nomadic instinct are always stirring the wish to travel...
    Milt1 12.267 17 ...Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth;-Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou travel on life's common way/ In cheerful godliness;.../

travelled, adj. (1)

    ET9 5.149 3 Their culture generally enables the travelled English to avoid any ridiculous extremes of this self-pleasing...

travelled, v. (9)

    Hist 2.21 17 ...the Persian court...travelled from Ecbatana, where the spring was spent, to Susa in summer and to Babylon for the winter.
    Art1 2.361 25 It had travelled by my side; that which I fancied I had left in Boston was here in the Vatican...
    PPh 4.42 19 Plato absorbed the learning of his time...and finding himself still capable of a larger synthesis...he travelled into Italy...
    PPh 4.44 6 [Plato] travelled into Italy;...
    ET11 5.176 26 [The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor having travelled on the continent...became the companion of a foreign prince wrecked on the Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John] Russell lived.
    PPo 8.240 26 When Solomon travelled, his throne was placed on a carpet of green silk...
    Insp 8.289 18 ...Montaigne travelled with his books, but did not read in them.
    MMEm 10.428 27 ...as [Mary Moody Emerson] never travelled without being provided for this dear and indispensable contingency [death], I believe she wore out a great many [shrouds].
    Humb 11.457 13 ...a whole French Academy, travelled in [Humboldt's] shoes.

traveller, n. (49)

    LE 1.169 13 ...the broad, cold lowland...where the traveller...thinks with pleasing terror of the distant town; this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    SR 2.81 2 The soul is no traveller;...
    SR 2.84 27 If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad-axe and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal...
    SL 2.148 7 On the Alps the traveller sometimes beholds his own shadow magnified to a giant...
    OS 2.289 17 ...we...feel that the splendid works which [Shakspeare] has created...take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock.
    OS 2.290 7 The vain traveller attempts to embellish his life by quoting my lord and the prince and the countess...
    Art1 2.359 11 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber through galleries of statues, vases, sarcophagi and candelabra...is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of which they all sprung...
    Pt1 3.27 11 ...the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse's neck...
    Exp 3.59 1 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough, with planted trees on either side to tempt the traveller, but soon became narrow and narrower and ended in a squirrel-track and ran up a tree.
    Exp 3.71 17 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...in sudden discoveries of its profound beauty and repose, as if the clouds that covered it parted at intervals, and showed the approaching traveller the inland mountains...
    Nat2 3.171 23 There is...the wood-fire to which the chilled traveller rushes for safety,--and there is the sublime moral of autumn and of noon.
    Pol1 3.202 26 ...if question arise whether additional officers or watch-towers should be provided, must not Laban and Isaac, and those who must sell part of their herds to buy protection for the rest, judge better of this, and with more right, than Jacob, who, because he is a youth and a traveller, eats their bread and not his own?
    ET2 5.25 24 I am not a good traveller...
    ET3 5.34 23 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...
    ET3 5.35 8 The problem of the traveller landing at Liverpool is, Why England is England?
    ET3 5.35 16 A wise traveller will naturally choose to visit the best of actual nations;...
    ET6 5.113 14 ...[the English] think, says the Venetian traveller of 1500, no greater honor can be conferred or received, than to invite others to eat with them, or to be invited themselves...
    ET8 5.133 11 There are multitudes of rude young English...who...have made the English traveller a proverb for uncomfortable and offensive manners.
    ET9 5.145 10 A much older traveller...says:--The English are great lovers of themselves and of every thing belonging to them.
    ET11 5.172 11 Many of the [English] halls...are beautiful desolations. The proprietor never saw them, or never lived in them. Primogeniture built these sumptuous piles, and I suppose it is the sentiment of every traveller...It was well to come ere these were gone.
    ET11 5.181 11 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown the palaces in Piccadilly...
    ET13 5.231 1 Electricity cannot be made fast...it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret...
    Bhr 6.177 22 In Siberia a late traveller found men who could see the satellites of Jupiter with their unarmed eye.
    Wsp 6.214 14 I have seen, said a traveller who had known the extremes of society, I have seen human nature in all its forms; it is everywhere the same...
    CbW 6.266 10 There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich...that of the sick...and that of the traveller...
    Civ 7.17 10 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./
    Art2 7.47 16 Our arts are happy hits. We are...like a traveller surprised by a mountain echo...
    Elo1 7.69 6 The traveller in Sicily needs no gayer melodramatic exhibition [of eloquence] than the table d'hote of his inn will afford him in the conversation of the joyous guests.
    DL 7.119 9 Certainly, let the board be spread and let the bed be dressed for the traveller;...
    Farm 7.147 26 The traveller who saw [the Sequoias] remembered his orchard at home...
    PI 8.51 20 The traveller as he paceth through those deserts asketh of [Oblivion], who builded [Memphis and Thebes]?...
    Res 8.140 2 See...how every traveller, every laborer...improves the national tongue.
    Res 8.141 26 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie, a traveller in Persia, told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha... obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
    Res 8.149 16 In the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the torches which each traveller carries make a dismal funeral procession...
    PPo 8.245 21 Good is what goes on the road of Nature. On the straight way the traveller never misses.
    PPo 8.260 26 I know this perilous love-lane/ No whither the traveller leads,/ Yet my fancy the sweet scent of/ Thy tangled tresses feeds./
    Dem1 10.21 5 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps...descending on the lonely traveller...can well be spared.
    LLNE 10.328 13 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France.
    MMEm 10.409 4 As a traveller enters some fine palace and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over the apartments of social affections...
    EdAd 11.384 3 ...the train...shows our traveller what tens of thousands of powerful and weaponed men...sit at large in this ample region...
    PLT 12.21 4 [A thought] comes single like a foreign traveller,-but find out its name, and it is related to a powerful and numerous family.
    PLT 12.27 4 A man has been in Spain. The facts and thoughts which the traveller has found in that country gradually settle themselves into a determinate heap of one size and form and not another.
    CL 12.144 16 Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin the pinery was composed of trees so big, and so many of them, that...the traveller had nothing for it but to wade in the streams.
    MAng1 12.243 12 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot.
    MAng1 12.244 15 The traveller from a distant continent, who gazes on that marble brow [bust of Michelangelo], feels that he is not a stranger in the foreign church;...
    Milt1 12.259 18 ...probably no traveller ever entered that country of history [Italy] with better right to its hospitality [than Milton]...
    ACri 12.288 18 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of the Sacre! of the French postilion...
    WSL 12.337 5 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;...
    PPr 12.382 18 A man's diet should be what is simplest and readiest to be had, because it is so private a good. His house should be better, because that...is the property of the traveller.

Traveller, Picturesque [Sar (1)

    PPr 12.389 2 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing; with his expedient for expressing those unproven opinions which he entertains but will not endorse, by summoning one of his men of straw from the cell,-and the respectable...Dryasdust, or Picturesque Traveller, says what is put into his mouth, and disappears.

travellers, n. (17)

    Nat 1.32 17 We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.
    Con 1.315 4 ...[Friar Bernard] encountered many travellers who greeted him courteously...
    Prd1 2.233 13 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople...
    ET4 5.71 5 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature. These men have written the game-books of all countries, as...Herbert, Maxwell, Cumming and a host of travellers.
    ET8 5.127 11 This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the English] by French travellers...
    ET8 5.129 25 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained.
    ET8 5.132 27 ...[young Englishmen]...measure their own strength by the terror they cause. These travellers are of every class...
    Wth 6.122 11 ...travellers and Indians know the value of a buffalo-trail...
    Ctr 6.148 20 In town [a man] can find...foreign travelers, the libraries and his club.
    Bty 6.288 26 ...the working of this deep instinct makes all the excitement... about works of art, which leads armies of vain travellers every year to Italy, Greece and Egypt.
    DL 7.118 21 Let a man...say...an eating-house and sleeping-house for travellers [my house] shall be, but it shall be much more.
    Boks 7.196 10 ...good travellers stop at the best hotels;...
    Plu 10.310 8 You may cull from [Plutarch's] record of barbarous guesses of shepherds and travellers, statements that are predictions of facts established in modern science.
    EzRy 10.390 21 We remember the remark made by the old farmer who used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern country would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate. Travellers from the West and North and South bear the like testimony.
    Thor 10.476 11 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 concerning them...
    Bost 12.198 3 We can show [in New England] native examples, and I may almost say (travellers as we are) natives who never crossed the sea, who possess all the elements of noble behavior.
    ACri 12.286 14 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...

travellers', n. [traveller's,] (2)

    ET1 5.3 13 For the first time for many months we were forced to check the saucy habit of travellers' criticism...
    ET14 5.255 27 What did Walter Scott write without stint? a rhymed traveller's guide to Scotland.

travellers's-cap, n. (1)

    WD 7.180 8 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will take off its glazed traveller's-cap...

travelling, adj. (7)

    YA 1.393 6 One thing...the beauties of aristocracy, we commend to the study of the travelling American.
    Exp 3.80 4 Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new-comer like a travelling geologist who passes through our estate and shows us good slate...in our brush pasture.
    ET2 5.25 17 The remuneration [for lectures in England] was equivalent to the fees at that time paid in this country for the like services. At all events it was sufficient to cover any travelling expenses...
    ET5 5.83 26 [The English] apply themselves...to resisting encroachments of sea, wind, travelling sands, cold and wet sub-soil;...
    ET16 5.273 23 There was much to say [to Carlyle]...of the travelling Americans and their usual objects in London.
    Dem1 10.25 15 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of...the travelling cloak, the shoes of swiftness and the sword of sharpness...
    CPL 11.504 20 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte...tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them...

Travelling Cloak, n. (1)

    QO 8.186 21 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers...The Travelling Cloak...

travelling, n. (2)

    NMW 4.225 21 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...fast travelling...
    Supl 10.172 22 Our travelling is a sort of search for the superlatives or summits of art...

travelling, v. (19)

    LE 1.178 3 ...out of travelling, and voting, and watching and caring;... comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    YA 1.367 19 ...the new modes of travelling enlarge the opportunity of selection [of a seat]...
    SR 2.81 22 Travelling is a fool's paradise.
    SR 2.82 7 ...the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness...
    SR 2.82 13 ...what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?
    Art1 2.362 1 ...that which I fancied I had left in Boston was here in the Vatican...and made all travelling ridiculous as a treadmill.
    Pt1 3.27 27 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize... travelling...
    Mrs1 3.127 8 [Manners] aid our dealing and conversation as a railway aids travelling...
    PPh 4.55 25 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    SwM 4.96 5 The soul having been often born, or, as the Hindoos say, travelling the path of existence through thousands of births...there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge...
    ET1 5.13 12 [Coleridge] inquired where I had been travelling;...
    Wth 6.89 3 Wealth requires...travelling, machinery...
    Ctr 6.145 1 I am not much an advocate for travelling...
    Ctr 6.156 2 He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men...
    Ctr 6.159 4 ...if in travelling in the dreary wildernesses of Arkansas or Texas we should observe on the next seat a man reading Horace...we should wish to hug him.
    Insp 8.289 13 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness which is not found in staying at home nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    Dem1 10.14 15 As I was once travelling by the Red Sea, there was one among the horsemen that attended us named Masollam...
    HDC 11.33 19 Much time was lost in travelling [the pilgrims] knew not whither, when the sun was hidden by clouds;...
    CL 12.136 16 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country...

Travelling, v. (1)

    SR 2.80 23 It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling... retains its fascination for all educated Americans.

Travels, Italian [Goethe], (1)

    GoW 4.287 1 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal, his Italian Travels... have the same interest.

travels, n. (9)

    ET14 5.252 8 Nothing comes to the [English] book-shops but politics, travels, statistics, tabulation and engineering;...
    Pow 6.69 10 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...
    CbW 6.268 2 [The young people] set forth on their travels in search of a home...
    SS 7.3 1 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa...
    Clbs 7.246 1 A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense preferred on his travels taking his chance at a hotel for company...
    QO 8.203 10 The earliest describers of savage life, as...Alexander Henry's travels among our Indian tribes, have a charm of truth...
    Plu 10.298 12 Plutarch was...a self-respecting, amiable man, who knew how to better a good education by travels...
    Thor 10.455 17 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose...
    Pray 12.355 4 When nought on earth seemeth pleasant to me, thou...dost cheer my travels on.

travels, v. (10)

    Tran 1.357 27 ...the path which the hero travels alone is the highway of health and benefit to mankind.
    SR 2.81 16 He who travels to be amused...travels away from himself...
    SR 2.81 17 He who travels...to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself...
    UGM 4.33 10 A new quality of mind travels by night and by day...
    ET4 5.53 9 As you go north into the manufacturing and agricultural districts, and to the population that never travels;...the world's Englishman is no longer found.
    Pow 6.59 4 ...when a man travels and encounters strangers every day...that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...
    LLNE 10.329 1 In science the French savant......travels into all nooks and islands...
    FRO2 11.487 10 Every proverb...travels across the line; and you will find it at Cape Town, or among the Tartars.
    CL 12.147 10 ...the wood-lot yields its gentle rent of six per cent....when the owner sleeps or travels...
    CL 12.150 1 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels...

travel-soiled, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.228 6 [St. Philip Neri] threw himself on his mule, all travel-soiled as he was, and hastened through the mud and mire to the distant convent.

traverse, v. (14)

    Nat 1.50 22 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.
    DSA 1.120 8 ...when the mind...reveals the laws which traverse the universe...then shrinks the great world...into a mere illustration...
    LE 1.186 19 Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth...
    LT 1.264 27 Whilst the Daguerreotypist...begins now to traverse the land, let us set up our Camera also...
    SL 2.161 24 The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his whole being without obstruction...
    SL 2.162 4 Now [man] is not homogeneous, but heterogeneous, and the ray does not traverse;...
    Nat2 3.195 27 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
    CbW 6.266 18 ...we shall not always traverse seas and lands with light purposes...
    Farm 7.139 9 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature;...patience...with the largeness of the sea and land we must traverse...
    WD 7.174 17 To what end, then, [man] asks, should I study languages, and traverse countries, to learn so simple truths?
    PPo 8.265 12 What you see is He not;/ What you hear is He not./ The valleys which you traverse,/ The actions which you perform,/ They lie under our treatment/ And among our properties./
    Aris 10.45 7 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism.
    HDC 11.58 8 From Narragansett to the Connecticut River, the scene of war was shifted as fast as these red hunters could traverse the forest.
    HDC 11.85 7 ...[Concord's sons] traverse the sea...

traversed, v. (6)

    NER 3.266 14 ...when [the individuals's] faith is traversed by his habits;... what concert can be?
    Ill 6.309 4 We traversed...the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to the innermost recess which tourists visit...
    Clbs 7.246 22 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come from many zones; they have traversed wide countries;...
    Supl 10.178 9 The political economist defies us to show any gold-mine country that is traversed by good roads...
    PLT 12.42 8 The universe is traversed by paths or bridges or stepping-stones across the gulfs of space in every direction.
    AgMs 12.358 2 In an afternoon in April...I traversed an orchard where boys were grafting apple-trees...

traversers, n. (1)

    CL 12.148 13 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access.

traverses, v. (7)

    Nat 1.44 8 ...the air resembles the light which traverses it with more subtile currents;...
    Prd1 2.223 3 Once in a long time, a man traverses the whole scale...
    Pt1 3.6 15 The poet is...the man...who...traverses the whole scale of experience...
    Comc 8.163 3 [Wit]...traverses the universe...
    QO 8.202 22 When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses.
    Grts 8.299 3 No fate, save by the victim's fault, is low,/ For God hath writ all dooms magnificent,/ So guilt not traverses his tender will./
    Schr 10.270 1 What the Genius whispered [the poet] at night he reported to the young men at dawn. He rides in them, he traverses sea and land.

traversing, v. (1)

    Comp 2.119 19 A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of reason and traversing its work.

travertine, n. (4)

    OA 7.327 4 Michel Angelo's head is full...of architectural dreams, until a hundred stone-masons can lay them in courses of travertine.
    MAng1 12.223 19 [Michelangelo's] Titanic handwriting in marble and travertine is to be found in every part of Rome and Florence;...
    MAng1 12.226 4 [Michelangelo] was charged with rebuilding the Pons Palatinus over the Tiber. He prepared, accordingly, a large quantity of blocks of travertine...
    MAng1 12.226 9 Nanni sold the travertine, and filled up the piers [of the Pons Palatinus] with gravel at small expense.

travestied, v. (1)

    DSA 1.141 27 What a cruel injustice it is to that Law...that it is travestied and depreciated...

travesty, n. (1)

    SL 2.136 26 If we look wider...laws and letters and creeds and modes of living seem a travesty of truth.

trays, n. (1)

    Art1 2.349 1 Give to barrows, trays, and pans/ Grace and glimmer of romance/...

treacheries, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.355 26 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way, and we suddenly find...that what we bragged as triumphs were treacheries;...

treacherous, adj. (7)

    Hsm1 2.247 3 Treacherous heart,/ My hand shall cast thee quick into my urn,/ Ere thou transgress this knot of piety./
    Hsm1 2.264 5 ...the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death impossible...
    NMW 4.253 11 ...that is the fatal quality which we discover in our pursuit of wealth, that it is treacherous...
    ET7 5.125 24 The Italian is subtle, the Spaniard treacherous...
    Ill 6.307 15 House you were born in,/ Friends of your spring-time,/ Old man and young maid,/ Day's toil and its guerdon, /They are all vanishing, / Fleeing to fables,/ Cannot be moored./ See the stars through them,/ Through treacherous marbles./
    SS 7.9 20 We have a fine right...to taunt men of the world with superficial and treacherous courtesies!
    WD 7.177 23 The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment.

treachery, n. (14)

    Con 1.299 9 Conservatism tends to universal seeming and treachery...
    Fdsp 2.217 1 ...these things may hardly be said without a sort of treachery to the relation [of friendship].
    Exp 3.66 6 ...nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound. Here, among the farms, we adduce the scholars as examples of this treachery.
    Nat2 3.193 20 Must we not suppose somewhere in the universe a slight treachery and derision?
    NR 3.247 1 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...and...we admire and love her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature of the fair earth...insinuating a treachery and contempt for all we had so long loved and wrought in ourselves and others.
    PPh 4.74 24 Crito bribed the jailer; but Socrates would not go out by treachery.
    CbW 6.277 12 ...when you tax [men] with treachery, and remind them of their high resolutions, they have forgotten that they made a vow.
    Suc 7.285 12 ...leaving the coast [of Panama], the ship full of one hundred and fifty skilful seamen,--some of them...with too much experience of their craft and treachery to him,--the wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
    SovE 10.195 26 Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt...never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders...
    MoL 10.254 10 The treachery of scholars!
    FSLC 11.181 6 I met the smoothest of Episcopal Clergymen the other day, and allusion being made to Mr. Webster's treachery, he blandly replied, Why, do you know I think that the great action of his life.
    TPar 11.290 12 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on the years when Southern slavery...wrung from the weakness or treachery of Northern people fatal concessions in the Fugitive Slave Bill...
    MAng1 12.224 26 After an active and successful service to the city [Florence] for six months, Michael Angelo was informed of a treachery that was ripening within the walls.
    MAng1 12.225 16 By the treachery...of the general of the Republic, Malatesta Baglioni, all [Michelangelo's] skill was rendered unavailing...

tread, n. (2)

    Chr2 10.101 15 When Omar prayed and loved,/ Where Syrian waters roll,/ Aloft the ninth heaven glowed and moved/ To the tread of the jubilant soul./
    Koss 11.398 1 The mighty tread/ Brings from the dust the sound of liberty./

tread, v. (10)

    Nat 1.57 11 ...we tread on air;...
    Hsm1 2.258 3 The Jerseys were handsome ground enough for Washington to tread...
    NER 3.274 14 ...Rousseau...Byron...they would know the worst, and tread the floors of hell.
    UGM 4.17 18 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and...a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies, and our feet tread the floor of the Pit.
    PC 8.211 19 We have been taught to tread familiarly on giddy heights of thought...
    PC 8.232 1 [Strong men] wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell...
    LLNE 10.329 4 ...chemistry, which is the analysis of matter, has taught us that we eat gas, drink gas, tread on gas, and are gas.
    Scot 11.463 24 ...when we reopen these old books [of Scott's] we all consent to be boys again. We tread over our youthful grounds with joy.
    Mem 12.103 17 In solitude, in darkness, we tread over again the sunny walks of youth;...
    Trag 12.410 3 [People with an appetite for grief]...tread on every snake in the meadow.

treading, v. (2)

    AmS 1.101 12 For the ease and pleasure of treading the old road...[the scholar] takes the cross of making his own...
    Exp 3.48 7 Ate Dea is gentle,--Over men's heads walking aloft,/ With tender feet treading so soft./

treadmill, n. (2)

    Art1 2.362 2 ...that which I fancied I had left in Boston was here in the Vatican...and made all travelling ridiculous as a treadmill.
    EWI 11.104 5 ...if we saw...pregnant women set in the treadmill for refusing to work;...we too should wince.

treads, v. (6)

    Nat 1.69 18 In every path,/ [Man] treads down that which doth befriend him/...
    AmS 1.103 5 Success treads on every right step.
    Hist 2.29 15 A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.
    Mrs1 3.147 8 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
    Mrs1 3.150 21 ...by the firmness with which she treads her upward path, [woman] convinces the coarsest calculators that another road exists than that which their feet know.
    ET14 5.234 21 The Saxon materialism and narrowness, exalted into the sphere of intellect, makes the very genius of Shakspeare and Milton. When it reaches the pure element, it treads the clouds as securely as the adamant.

treason, n. (6)

    Gts 3.164 26 I fear to breathe any treason against the majesty of love...
    ET5 5.97 21 The crimes [in England] are factitious; as smuggling, poaching, nonconformity, heresy and treason.
    ET10 5.164 15 The rights of property [in England] nothing but felony and treason can override.
    Elo2 8.129 5 Lord Ashley, in 1696, while the bill for regulating trials in cases of high treason was pending, attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...
    FSLN 11.228 5 ...by Mr. Webster the opposition to the [Fugitive Slave] law was sharply called treason...
    PPr 12.384 25 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat...

treasonable, adj. (1)

    Lov1 2.174 8 ...the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.

treasons, n. (1)

    ET7 5.126 8 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/ And often their own counsels undermine/ By mere infirmity without design;/ From whence, the learned say, it doth proceed,/ That English treasons never can succeed;/...

treasure, n. (16)

    Nat 1.69 7 Nothing we see, but means our good,/ As our delight, or as our treasure;/...
    Hist 2.35 7 ...all the postulates of elfin annals,--that the fairies do not like to be named;...that who seeks a treasure must not speak, and the like,--I find true in Concord...
    Comp 2.123 10 ...there is no tax on the knowledge that the compensation exists, and that it is not desirable to dig up treasure.
    Int 2.341 22 [The scholar] must...choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.
    Wth 6.118 13 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.
    DL 7.131 17 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]...
    Clbs 7.233 25 Diderot said of the Abbe Galiani: He was a treasure in rainy days;...
    QO 8.192 16 [Quotation] betrays the consciousness that truth...is the treasure of all men.
    PPo 8.253 21 I have no hoarded treasure,/ Yet have I rich content;/ The first from Allah to the Shah,/ The last to Hafiz went./
    Chr2 10.110 3 Paganism...carries the bag, spends the treasure...
    Plu 10.315 17 There is no treasure, [Plutarch] says, parents can give to their children, like a brother;...
    War 11.158 25 I [Cavendish] navigated along the coast of Chili, Peru, and New Spain, where I made great spoils. I burnt and sunk nineteen sail of ships, small and great. All the villages and towns that ever I landed at, I burned and spoiled. And had I not been discovered upon the coast, I had taken great quantity of treasure.
    EPro 11.321 13 What right has any one to read in the journals tidings of victories, if he has not bought them by his own valor, treasure, personal sacrifice...
    HCom 11.345 5 We see...a new era, worth to mankind all the treasure and all the lives it has cost;...
    Bost 12.204 26 [The people of Massachusetts] did not try to unlock the treasure of the world except by honest keys of labor and skill.
    Pray 12.353 23 I will know the joy of giving to my friend the dearest treasure I have.

treasured, v. (1)

    EWI 11.98 2 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./

treasurers, n. (1)

    ET11 5.188 23 These [English] lords are the treasurers and librarians of mankind...

treasures, n. (14)

    Hist 2.38 17 Thus in all ways does the soul concentrate and reproduce its treasures for each pupil.
    SR 2.68 12 When we have new perception, we shall gladly disburden the memory of its hoarded treasures as old rubbish.
    PPh 4.75 12 ...the figure of Socrates by a necessity placed itself in the foreground of the scene, as the fittest dispenser of the intellectual treasures [Plato] had to communicate.
    NMW 4.257 9 ...what was the result of [Napoleon's] vast talent and power, of these...squandered treasures...
    DL 7.121 1 ...who can see unmoved...the unrestrained glee with which [the eager, blushing boys] disburden themselves of their early mental treasures when the holidays bring them again together?
    WD 7.170 26 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...are given immeasurably to all.
    PPo 8.241 27 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Karun (the Persian Croesus)...who, with all his treasures, lies buried not far from the Pyramids...
    PPo 8.246 14 I will be drunk and down with wine;/ Treasures we find in a ruined house./
    Edc1 10.149 21 ...in literature,the young man who has taste...for noble thoughts...forgets all the world for the more learned friend,-who finds equal joy in dealing out his treasures.
    Thor 10.449 5 ...[Nature] to her son will treasures more,/ And more to purpose, freely pour/ In one wood walk, than learned men/ Will find with glass in ten times ten./
    SMC 11.361 9 The letters of the captain [George Prescott] are the dearest treasures of this town [Concord].
    Milt1 12.259 9 [Milton's] father's care, seconded by his own endeavor, introduced him to a profound skill in all the treasures of Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Italian tongues;...
    Milt1 12.269 27 [Milton] preferred his own English...to the Latin, which contained all the treasures of his memory.
    WSL 12.341 8 In these busy days...a faithful scholar, receiving from past ages the treasures of wit and enlarging them by his own love, is a friend and consoler of mankind.

treasures, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.243 10 The city of Florence...still treasures the fame of this man [Michelangelo].

treasuries, n. (1)

    MLit 12.332 26 ...they have served [humanity] better, who assured it out of the innocent hope in their hearts that a Physician will come, than this majestic Artist [Goethe], with all the treasuries of wit, of science, and of power at his command.

treasuring, v. (1)

    MoL 10.250 27 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed, and all his economies heroic;...a stoic... treasuring his youth.

treasury, n. (5)

    YA 1.371 6 A heterogeneous population crowding...to the great gates of North America...and quickly contributing...their toll to the treasury...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    Pol1 3.206 26 When the rich are outvoted...it is the joint treasury of the poor which exceeds their accumulations.
    Pow 6.62 5 We prosper with such vigor that...we do not suffer from the profligate swarms that fatten on the national treasury.
    Elo1 7.78 11 Julius Caesar said to Metellus, when that tribune interfered to hinder him from entering the Roman treasury, Young man, it is easier for me to put you to death than to say that I will;...
    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.

Treasury, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.101 11 I read in a book of English memoirs, Mr. Fox (afterwards Lord Holland) said, he must have the Treasury; he had served up to it, and would have it.

treat, v. (41)

    AmS 1.113 17 ...man shall treat with man as a sovereign state with a sovereign state...
    LT 1.280 4 ...if I treat all men as gods, how to me can there be any such thing as a slave?
    SR 2.56 21 ...when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
    Comp 2.95 21 I find a similar base tone in the popular religious works of the day and the same doctrines assumed by the literary men when occasionally they treat the related topics.
    Comp 2.110 25 Treat men as pawns and ninepins and you shall suffer as well as they.
    Fdsp 2.201 10 I do not wish to treat friendships daintily...
    Fdsp 2.209 15 Treat your friend as a spectacle.
    Prd1 2.237 6 ...treat [men] greatly and they will show themselves great...
    OS 2.291 13 Souls such as these treat you as gods would...
    Int 2.344 14 [One soul] must treat things and books and sovereign genius as itself also a sovereign.
    Pt1 3.14 19 ...physics and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent;...
    Exp 3.60 17 Let us treat the men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.
    Exp 3.80 4 Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new-comer like a travelling geologist who passes through our estate and shows us good slate...in our brush pasture.
    Chr1 3.115 3 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived...then to be critical and treat such a visitant with the jabber and suspicion of the streets, argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.
    NR 3.236 1 [Persons] melt so fast into each other that...it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.
    PPh 4.78 14 Let us not seem to treat with flippancy [Plato's] venerable name.
    SwM 4.115 27 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat of both these symbolical and typical resemblances...
    ET12 5.211 19 English wealth falling on their school and university training, makes a systematic reading of the best authors, and to the end of a knowledge how the things whereof they treat really stand...
    ET13 5.224 8 [England] believes in a Providence which does not treat with levity a pound sterling.
    Ctr 6.163 24 ...every brave heart must treat society as a child...
    Bhr 6.188 16 ...it is a point of prudent good manners to treat these reputations tenderly...
    Bhr 6.191 24 Novels are the journal or record of manners, and the new importance of these books derives from the fact that the novelist begins to... treat this part of life more worthily.
    CbW 6.263 18 Drop the cant, and treat [sickness] sanely.
    CbW 6.263 19 In dealing with the drunken, we do not affect to be drunk. We must treat the sick with the same firmness...
    Ill 6.320 9 ...what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought...
    WD 7.180 17 You must treat the days respectfully...
    Boks 7.214 3 ...books that treat the old pedantries of the world...with a certain freedom... put us on our feet again...
    Clbs 7.241 20 Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities...
    SA 8.85 6 ...Do not go to ask your debtor the payment of a debt on the day when you have no other resource. He will learn by your air and tone how it is with you, and will treat you as a beggar.
    SA 8.85 10 Wait till your affairs go better, and you have other means at hand; you will then ask in a different tone, and [your debtor] will treat your claim with entire respect.
    Comc 8.169 10 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance; as if a man should neglect himself and treat his shadow on the wall with marks of infinite respect.
    Chr2 10.110 14 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity...good-naturedly...
    Plu 10.306 15 One asks sometimes whether a metaphysician can treat the intellect well.
    HDC 11.37 19 ...the peace was made, and the ear of the savage already secured, before the pilgrims arrived at his seat of Musketaquid, to treat with him for his lands.
    HDC 11.70 7 ...if any person or persons...shall...be factors for the East India Company, we will treat them...as enemies to their country...
    LVB 11.95 18 ...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van Buren], and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends. I, sir, will not beforehand treat you with the contumely of this distrust.
    SMC 11.369 15 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect...
    PLT 12.14 13 There is something surgical in metaphysics as we treat it.
    PLT 12.15 7 Next I treat of the identity of the thought with Nature;...
    PLT 12.50 25 We are forced to treat a great part of mankind as if they were a little deranged.
    Trag 12.412 27 [Some men] treat trifles with a tragic air.

treated, v. (26)

    Con 1.303 11 ...the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream;...
    Tran 1.355 1 In politics, it has often sufficed, when they treated of justice, if they kept the bounds of selfish calculation.
    SR 2.62 15 That popular fable of the sot...laid in the duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke...symbolizes... the state of man...
    Pol1 3.199 22 ...politics rest on necessary foundations, and cannot be treated with levity.
    NER 3.257 4 I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury.
    NER 3.274 17 The heroes of ancient and modern fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played...
    PPh 4.44 6 [Plato]...accepted the invitations of Dion and of Dionysius to the court of Sicily, and went thither three times, though very capriciously treated.
    ShP 4.193 7 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. All the mass has been treated, with more or less skill, by every playwright...
    NMW 4.248 5 The world treated [Napoleon's] novelties just as it treats everybody's novelties...
    NMW 4.255 23 [Napoleon] treated women with low familiarity.
    GoW 4.280 13 The wonderful in [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is expressly treated as fiction and enthusiastic dreaming...
    ET2 5.29 5 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously...
    ET10 5.164 9 [English property] is felt and treated as the national life-blood.
    ET14 5.233 8 [The Englishman] must be treated with sincerity and reality;...
    ET17 5.298 4 ...let us say of [Wordsworth] that, alone in his time, he treated the human mind well...
    Bhr 6.193 24 ...such was the eloquence and good humor of the monk [Basle], that wherever he went he was received gladly and civilly treated...
    Wsp 6.204 20 In the last chapters we treated some particulars of the question of culture.
    DL 7.112 24 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If all are well attended, then must the master and mistress be studious of particulars at the cost of their own accomplishments and growth; or persons are treated as things.
    Boks 7.215 21 The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party.
    Suc 7.308 20 I think that some so-called sacred subjects must be treated with more genius than I have seen in the masters of Italian or Spanish art to be right pictures for houses and churches.
    Imtl 8.346 15 [Immortality] must be sacredly treated.
    Aris 10.56 14 I know nothing which induces so base and forlorn a feeling as when we are treated for our utilities...
    Edc1 10.151 17 Is it not manifest...that...children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?
    SovE 10.201 23 The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men, but... we hate to have them treated with contempt.
    FSLN 11.227 12 [The Fugitive Slave Law] was the question whether man shall be treated as leather?...
    CInt 12.118 13 A farmer wished to buy an ox. The seller told him how well he had treated the animal. But, said the farmer, I asked the ox, and the ox showed me by marks that could not lie that he had been abused.

treating, v. (9)

    MN 1.198 8 In treating a subject so large...I know it is not easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.
    MoS 4.168 2 The Essays...are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into [Montaigne's] head; treating every thing without ceremony, yet with masculine sense.
    ShP 4.192 8 [The Elizabethan theatre] had become, by all causes, a national interest,--by no means conspicuous, so that some great scholar would have thought of treating it in an English history...
    Ctr 6.133 20 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation. It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and by treating the patient tenderly, to shut him up in a narrower selfism...
    PI 8.27 6 As a power [poetry] is the perception of the symbolic character of things, and the treating them as representative...
    PPo 8.251 22 Timour taxed Hafiz with treating disrepectfully his two cities...
    Plu 10.304 9 In treating of the style of the Pythian Oracle, [Plutarch] says:-Do you not observe, some one will say, what a grace there is in Sappho's measures...
    War 11.174 22 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men...men who have...attained such a perception of their own intrinsic worth that they do not think property or their own body a sufficient good to be saved by such dereliction of principle as treating a man like a sheep.
    PLT 12.11 21 I cannot myself use that systematic form which is reckoned essential in treating the science of the mind.

treatise, n. (6)

    MN 1.201 24 Read alternately...a treatise of astronomy...with a volume of French Memoires pour servir.
    Cir 2.312 18 All the argument and all the wisdom is not in...the treatise on metaphysics...
    ET9 5.150 12 In the gravest treatise on political economy...one is surprised [in England] by the most innocent exhibition of unflinching nationality.
    Res 8.150 26 I do not know that the treatise of Brillat-Savarin on the Physiology of Taste deserves its fame.
    Edc1 10.133 24 A treatise on education...affects us with slight paralysis...
    Milt1 12.247 2 The discovery of the lost work of Milton, the treatise Of the Christian Doctrine, in 1823, drew a sudden attention to his name.

treatment, n. (26)

    LT 1.270 13 The political questions touching...the treatment of the Indians;...are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...
    Fdsp 2.209 13 Friendship demands a religious treatment.
    Exp 3.60 2 Under the oldest mouldiest conventions a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world, and that by skill of handling and treatment.
    Chr1 3.94 18 What means did you employ? was the question asked of the wife of Concini, in regard to her treatment of Mary of Medici;...
    NR 3.241 10 ...our affections and our experience urge that every individual is entitled to honor, and a very generous treatment is sure to be repaid.
    SwM 4.112 4 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was an anatomist's account of the human body, in the highest style of poetry. Nothing can exceed the bold and brilliant treatment of a subject usually so dry and repulsive.
    ShP 4.194 19 ...when at last the greatest freedom of style and treatment was reached [in Egypt and Greece], the prevailing genius of architecture still enforced a certain calmness and continence in the statue.
    ET14 5.234 4 How realistic or materialistic in treatment of his subject is Swift.
    ET17 5.298 3 ...[Wordsworth] had egotistic puerilities in the choice and treatment of his subjects;...
    Wth 6.104 15 An apple-tree, if you take out every day for a number of days a load of loam and put in a load of sand about its roots, will find it out. An apple-tree is a stupid kind of creature, but if this treatment be pursued for a short time I think it would begin to mistrust something.
    WD 7.160 1 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body, as...in the rhinoplastic treatment;...
    Clbs 7.225 2 We...require nice treatment to get from us the maximum of power and pleasure.
    Cour 7.268 11 There is a courage in the treatment of every art by a master in architecture, in sculpture...
    PI 8.15 5 I think Hindoo books the best gymnastics for the mind, as showing treatment.
    PI 8.27 8 ...as a talent [poetry] is a magnetic tenaciousness of an image, and by the treatment demonstrating that this pigment of thought is as palpable and objective to the poet as is the ground on which he stands...
    PI 8.53 21 Poetry...runs into fable, personifies every fact:--the clouds clapped their hands...the sky spoke. This is the substance, and this treatment always attempts a metrical grace.
    Elo2 8.123 19 [John Quincy Adams's] last lecture...contained some nervous allusions to the treatment he had received from his old friends...
    PPo 8.251 6 Every song of Hafiz affords new proof of the unimportance of your subject to success, provided only the treatment be cordial.
    PPo 8.265 14 What you see is He not;/ What you hear is He not./ The valleys which you traverse,/ The actions which you perform,/ They lie under our treatment/ And among our properties./
    Chr2 10.112 25 Every age, says Varnhagen, has another sieve for the religious tradition, and will sift it out again. Something is continually lost by this treatment...
    Supl 10.170 2 When [a farmer] wishes to condemn any treatment of soils or of stock, he says, It won't do any good.
    SovE 10.210 6 ...there are the new conventions of social science, before which the questions of...the treatment of crime...come for a hearing.
    Thor 10.457 5 I said [to Thoreau]...who does not see with regret that his page is not solid with a right materialistic treatment, which delights everybody?
    TPar 11.287 8 ...I found some harshness in [Theodore Parker's] treatment both of Greek and of Hebrew antiquity...
    CL 12.138 15 ...the curiosity to see [Kalm's] plants, restored [Linnaeus] instantly, and he found an old friend as good as the treatment by wood-strawberries.
    CL 12.159 22 ...there are more insane persons than...are under treatment in hospitals.

treatments, n. (1)

    Pow 6.60 13 A good tree that agrees with the soil will grow...in all weathers and all treatments.

treats, n. (1)

    DL 7.128 26 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the shadow of a Friend./

treats, v. (13)

    Fdsp 2.217 4 [Friendship] treats its object as a god, that it may deify both.
    NMW 4.248 6 The world treated [Napoleon's] novelties just as it treats everybody's novelties...
    GoW 4.274 22 [Goethe] treats nature as the old philosophers...did...
    GoW 4.280 11 The book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] treats only of the ordinary affairs of men...
    Suc 7.302 22 The wise Socrates treats this matter [of sensibility] with a certain archness...
    PI 8.44 4 This force of representation so plants [the poet's] figures before him that he treats them as real;...
    Plu 10.306 10 We are always interested in the man who treats the intellect well.
    Plu 10.319 24 The guests not invited to a private board by the entertainer, but introduced by a guest as his companions, the Greek called shadows; and the question is debated whether it was civil to bring them, and [Plutarch] treats it candidly...
    LLNE 10.352 9 [Fourier] treats man as a plastic thing...
    Carl 10.491 9 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...
    FRep 11.540 11 We...shall proceed like William Penn, or whatever other Christian or humane person who treats with the Indian or the foreigner, on principles of honest trade and mutual advantage.
    MLit 12.324 15 ...a certain greatness encircles every fact [Goethe] treats;...
    EurB 12.376 8 ...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect;...

treaty, n. (5)

    Wth 6.110 1 ...after the war was over, we received compensation over and above, by treaty, for all the seizures [of American ships].
    LVB 11.90 27 The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...
    LVB 11.91 10 ...out of eighteen thousand souls composing the [Cherokee] nation, fifteen thousand six hundred and sixty-eight have protested against the so-called treaty.
    LVB 11.91 12 It now appears that the government of the United States choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty...
    ACri 12.298 18 ...one would think...a sympathizing and much-reading America would make a new treaty or send a minister extraordinary to offer congratulations of honoring delight to England in acknowledgment of such a donation [as Carlyle's History of Frederick II];...

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