True to Trusty

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

true, adj. (474)

    Nat 1.4 18 Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence.
    Nat 1.33 25 What is true of proverbs, is true of all fables...
    Nat 1.33 26 What is true of proverbs, is true of all fables...
    Nat 1.44 14 ...a law of one organization, holds true throughout nature.
    Nat 1.55 14 The true philosopher and the true poet are one...
    Nat 1.56 8 The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches, This will be found contrary to all experience, yet is true; had already transferred nature into the mind...
    Nat 1.59 11 I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man...
    Nat 1.59 19 Children, it is true, believe in the external world.
    Nat 1.61 1 It is essential to a true theory of nature and of man, that it should contain somewhat progressive.
    Nat 1.61 5 ...facts that end in the statement, cannot be all that is true of this brave lodging...
    Nat 1.75 9 To the wise...a fact is true poetry...
    AmS 1.83 22 The planter...is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry.
    AmS 1.84 16 ...is not the true scholar the only true master?
    AmS 1.93 8 We then see, what is always true, that as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare...so is its record...the least part of his volume.
    AmS 1.94 19 As far as this is true of the studious classes, it is not just and wise.
    AmS 1.95 24 The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by...
    AmS 1.103 17 The poet...is found to have recorded that which men...find true for them also.
    AmS 1.103 25 ...the deeper [the orator] dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most...universally true.
    AmS 1.107 18 Wake [men] and they shall quit the false good and leap to the true...
    AmS 1.113 18 Every thing that tends to insulate the individual...tends to true union as well as greatness.
    DSA 1.126 19 What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
    DSA 1.127 4 What [another soul] announces, I must find true in me, or reject;...
    DSA 1.128 19 Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets.
    DSA 1.128 24 One man was true to what is in you and me.
    DSA 1.130 3 Thus was [Jesus] a true man.
    DSA 1.132 18 A true conversion...is...to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.
    DSA 1.132 19 A true conversion, a true Christ, is...to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.
    DSA 1.132 21 It is true that a great and rich soul...names the world.
    DSA 1.133 16 ...when I see among my contemporaries a true orator...I see beauty that is to be desired.
    DSA 1.133 22 ...with yet more entire consent of my human being, sounds in my ear the severe music of the bards that have sung of the true God in all ages.
    DSA 1.137 1 The test of the true faith, certainly, should be its power to charm and command the soul...
    DSA 1.138 15 The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life...
    DSA 1.141 14 ...it is still true that tradition characterizes the preaching of this country;...
    DSA 1.144 17 It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was;...
    DSA 1.144 19 The true Christianity...is lost.
    LE 1.175 19 ...accept the hint...of spiritual emptiness and waste which true nature gives you...
    LE 1.176 21 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons... forfeiting...the privacy, and the true and warm heart of the citizen!
    LE 1.181 2 Let the scholar appreciate this combination of gifts, which, applied to better purpose, make true wisdom.
    LE 1.181 6 ...though the success of the market is in the reward, true success is the doing;...
    LE 1.182 2 Let [the scholar]...serve the world as a true and noble man;...
    LE 1.183 2 Snares and bribes abound to mislead [the student]; let him be true nevertheless.
    LE 1.183 24 ...let [the scholar] be cold and true...
    LE 1.185 20 If...God have called any of you to explore truth and beauty, be bold, be firm, be true.
    MN 1.198 17 ...one who conceives the true order of nature...cannot state his thought without seeming to those who study the physical laws to do them some injustice.
    MN 1.199 5 ...let us hope that as far as we receive the truth, so far shall we be felt by every true person to say what is just.
    MN 1.204 10 It is true [man] pretends to give account of himself to himself...
    MR 1.248 17 Let [a man] renounce everything which is not true to him...
    LT 1.273 5 Milton...describes a relation between religion and the daily occupations, which is true until this time.
    LT 1.276 18 The love which lifted men to the sight of these better ends was the true and best distinction of this time...
    LT 1.289 5 To a true scholar the attraction of the aspects of nature...is simply the information they yield him of this supreme nature which lurks within all.
    Con 1.299 25 ...in a true society, in a true man both [Conservatism and Reform] must combine.
    Con 1.299 26 ...in a true society, in a true man both [Conservatism and Reform] must combine.
    Con 1.303 16 ...here [in the existing world] is sacred fact. This also was true, or it could not be...
    Con 1.310 10 [Existing institutions] have, it is most true, left you no acre for your own...
    Con 1.316 18 What you say of your planted, builded and decorated world is true enough...
    YA 1.380 26 These [Communities] proceeded...in great part from a feeling that the true offices of the State, the State had let fall to the ground;...
    YA 1.384 23 These rising grounds which command the champaign below, seem to ask for lords, true lords, land-lords...
    YA 1.392 8 It is true, the public mind wants self-respect.
    YA 1.392 14 It is also true that to imaginative persons in this country there is somewhat bare and bald in our short history and unsettled wilderness.
    Hist 2.6 19 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures...anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home.
    Hist 2.6 23 All that Shakspeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.
    Hist 2.7 16 A true aspirant therefore never needs look for allusions personal and laudatory in discourse.
    Hist 2.17 24 The true poem is the poet's mind;...
    Hist 2.17 25 ...the true ship is the ship-builder.
    Hist 2.21 12 ...all public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized. Then at once History becomes fluid and true, and Biography deep and sublime.
    Hist 2.30 2 [The advancing man] finds...that universal man wrote by [the poet's] pen a confession true for one and true for all.
    Hist 2.30 3 [The advancing man] finds...that universal man wrote by [the poet's] pen a confession true for one and true for all.
    Hist 2.31 9 The Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism. Not less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue.
    Hist 2.33 7 ...if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments...then the facts fall aptly and supple into their places;...
    Hist 2.35 8 ...all the postulates of elfin annals...I find true in Concord...
    SR 2.45 8 ...to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,--that is genius.
    SR 2.55 10 [Conformists'] every truth is not quite true.
    SR 2.60 18 I will stand here for humanity, and though I would make it kind, I would make it true.
    SR 2.60 25 ...a true man belongs to no other time or place...
    SR 2.61 6 Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age;...
    SR 2.62 21 ...[man] is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then...finds himself a true prince.
    SR 2.73 18 If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions;...
    SR 2.78 1 The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers...
    Comp 2.99 9 Thus [Nature]...takes the boar out and puts the lamb in and keeps her balance true.
    Comp 2.100 18 The true life and satisfactions of man seem to elude the utmost rigors or felicities of condition...
    Comp 2.101 25 The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.
    Comp 2.106 7 The human soul is true to these facts [of Compensation] in the painting of fable...
    Comp 2.109 11 ...this law of laws [Compensation]...is hourly preached in all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs, whose teaching is as true and as omnipresent as that of birds and flies.
    Comp 2.122 18 ...the true, the benevolent, the wise, is more a man and not less, than the fool and knave.
    SL 2.134 20 It is even true that there was less in [men of extraordinary success] on which they could reflect than in another;...
    SL 2.162 15 Nor can you, if I am true, excite me to the least uneasiness by saying, [Epaminondas] acted and thou sittest still.
    SL 2.165 14 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...
    SL 2.166 15 We know the authentic effects of the true fire through every one of its million disguises.
    Lov1 2.169 23 The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints, which every youth and maid should confess to be true to their throbbing experience, one must not be too old.
    Lov1 2.182 4 ...if...the soul passes through the body and falls to admire strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty...
    Lov1 2.182 15 ...so is the one beautiful soul only the door through which [the lover] enters to the society of all true and pure souls.
    Fdsp 2.198 11 ...if [a man] should record his true sentiment, he might write a letter like this to each new candidate for his love...
    Fdsp 2.203 13 I knew a man who...spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered, and that with great insight and beauty. At first...all men agreed he was mad. But persisting...he attained to the advantage of bringing every man of his acquaintance into true relations with him.
    Fdsp 2.203 22 To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
    Fdsp 2.212 12 You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house. If unlike...you shall never catch a true glance of his eye.
    Fdsp 2.215 18 It is true, next week I shall have languid moods...
    Fdsp 2.216 21 ...the great will see that true love cannot be unrequited.
    Fdsp 2.216 22 True love transcends the unworthy object...
    Prd1 2.222 10 ...a true prudence or law of shows recognizes the co-presence of other laws...
    Prd1 2.224 11 The true prudence limits this sensualism...
    Prd1 2.229 8 I have seen a criticism on some paintings, of which I am reminded when I see the shiftless and unhappy men who are not true to their senses.
    Prd1 2.232 14 Goethe's Tasso is very likely to be a pretty fair historic portrait, and that is true tragedy.
    Prd1 2.232 20 ...[Goethe's] Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other. One living after the maxims of this world and consistent and true to them, the other fired with all divine sentiments, yet grasping also at the pleasures of sense, without submitting to their law. That is a grief we all feel...
    Prd1 2.237 6 Trust men and they will be true to you;...
    Prd1 2.239 23 The thought...[in dispute]...does not show itself proportioned and in its true bearings...
    Hsm1 2.259 6 The lesson [many extraordinary young men] gave in their first aspirations is yet true;...
    OS 2.280 2 ...to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.
    OS 2.284 10 ...the soul is true to itself...
    OS 2.286 17 The infallible index of true progress is found in the tone the man takes.
    OS 2.290 6 [The soul] requires of us to be plain and true.
    OS 2.290 21 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God is plain and true;...
    Cir 2.309 20 ...we see in the heyday of youth and poetry that [idealism] may be true...
    Cir 2.309 20 ...we see in the heyday of youth and poetry that...[idealism] is true in gleams and fragments.
    Cir 2.309 23 ...[idealism's] countenance waxes stern and grand, and we see that it must be true.
    Cir 2.317 23 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you... would fain teach us that if we are true...our crimes may be lively stones out of which we shall construct the temple of the true God!
    Cir 2.317 25 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you... would fain teach us that if we are true...our crimes may be lively stones out of which we shall construct the temple of the true God!
    Cir 2.318 12 Do not set the least value on what I do, or the least discredit on what I do not, as if I pretended to settle any thing as true or false.
    Cir 2.321 17 True conquest is the causing the calamity to fade and disappear...
    Int 2.330 9 A true man never acquires after college rules.
    Int 2.338 20 It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative...
    Int 2.343 2 ...a true and natural man contains and is the same truth which an eloquent man articulates;...
    Int 2.343 18 Who leaves all, receives more. This is as true intellectually as morally.
    Art1 2.365 7 ...true art is never fixed...
    Art1 2.365 20 A true announcement of the law of creation...would carry art up into the kingdom of nature...
    Pt1 3.8 23 [The poet] is the true and only doctor;...
    Pt1 3.9 2 ...we do not speak now of men...of industry and skill in metre, but of the true poet.
    Pt1 3.21 8 [The poet] uses forms according to the life, and not according to the form. This is true science.
    Pt1 3.26 14 The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.
    Pt1 3.28 3 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 conversation...animal intoxication,--which are several coarser or finer quasi-mechanical substitutes for the true nectar...
    Pt1 3.28 15 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence; all but the few who received the true nectar;...
    Pt1 3.34 14 Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false.
    Pt1 3.35 7 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it.
    Pt1 3.42 15 ...thou [O poet] shalt possess that wherein others are only tenants and boarders. Thou true land-lord! sea-lord! air-lord!
    Exp 3.59 25 We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.
    Exp 3.80 27 It is true that all the muses and love and religion hate these [intellectual] developments...
    Exp 3.86 3 ...the true romance which the world exists to realize will be the transformation of genius into practical power.
    Chr1 3.91 24 The men who carry their points...are themselves the country which they represent; nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and true as in them;...
    Chr1 3.94 10 How often has the influence of a true master realized all the tales of magic!
    Chr1 3.95 22 We can drive a stone upward for a moment into the air, but it is yet true that all stones will forever fall;...
    Chr1 3.104 11 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune.
    Mrs1 3.145 9 What if the false gentleman almost bows the true out of the world?
    Gts 3.163 3 The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me...
    Nat2 3.177 25 The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
    NER 3.267 12 ...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul; he will go up and down doing the works of a true member [of a union]...
    NER 3.280 17 The wise Dandamis, on hearing the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes read, judged them to be great men every way, excepting that they were too much subjected to the reverence of the laws, which to second and authorize, true virtue must abate very much of its original vigor.
    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.
    NER 3.285 7 The life of man is the true romance...
    UGM 4.6 12 I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought...he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light...
    UGM 4.7 21 The true artist has the planet for his pedestal;...
    UGM 4.18 21 ...true genius seeks to defend us from itself.
    UGM 4.18 21 True genius will not impoverish, but will liberate...
    UGM 4.31 23 ...true art is only possible on the conviction that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere.
    UGM 4.32 17 ...there is true ascension in our love.
    UGM 4.34 23 We have never come at the true and best benefit of any genius so long as we believe him an original force.
    PPh 4.50 5 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...made up of true knowledge...
    PNR 4.84 7 Plato affirms...that the soul is unwillingly deprived of true opinions...
    SwM 4.121 26 ...the dictionary of symbols is yet to be written. But the interpreter whom mankind must still expect, will find no predecessor who has approached so near to the true problem [as Swedenborg].
    SwM 4.128 23 Perhaps the true subject of the Conjugal Love [by Swedenborg] is Conversation, whose laws are profoundly set forth.
    SwM 4.132 6 It is dangerous to sculpture these evanescing images of thought. True in transition, they become false if fixed.
    SwM 4.138 24 ...man, though in brothels, or jails, or on gibbets, is on his way to all that is good and true.
    SwM 4.144 26 Many opinions conflict as to the true centre.
    MoS 4.153 6 The first [men of ideas] had leaped to conclusions not yet ripe, and say more than is true;...
    MoS 4.154 10 Ah, said my languid gentleman at Oxford, there's nothing new or true,--and no matter.
    MoS 4.156 26 [The skeptic says] I am here to consider, skopein, to consider how it is. I will try to keep the balance true.
    MoS 4.159 2 ...true fortitude of understanding consists in not letting what we know be embarrassed by what we do not know...
    ShP 4.197 5 [The poet] knows the sparkle of the true stone...
    ShP 4.216 4 ...the true bards have been noted for their firm and cheerful temper.
    NMW 4.226 3 It is true that a man of Napoleon's truth of adaptation to the mind of the masses around him, becomes not merely representative but actually a monopolizer and usurper of other minds.
    NMW 4.255 4 For my part [said Napoleon] I know very well that I have no true friends.
    GoW 4.263 27 A new thought or a crisis of passion apprises [the writer] that all that he has yet learned and written is exoteric,--is not the fact, but some rumor of the fact. What then? Does he throw away the pen? No; he begins again to describe in the new light which has shined on him,--if, by some means, he may yet save some true word.
    GoW 4.269 12 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person: he wrote...Laconian sentences, inscribed on temple walls. Every word was true...
    GoW 4.276 2 [Goethe] hates...to be made to say over again some old wife's fable that has had possession of men's faith these thousand years. He may as well see if it is true as another.
    ET1 5.18 11 ...[Carlyle] was honest and true...
    ET4 5.44 8 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law...nor did he...count with precision the existing races and settle the true bounds;...
    ET4 5.47 24 Race avails much, if that be true which is alleged, that all Celts are Catholics and all Saxons are Protestants;...
    ET5 5.82 27 Montesquieu said, No people have true common-sense but those who are born in England.
    ET7 5.118 24 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, as distinguishing them from the French, who, in the popular belief, are more polite than true.
    ET8 5.135 15 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...
    ET10 5.168 3 In true England all is false and forged.
    ET11 5.176 23 I have met somewhere with a historiette, which, whether more or less true in its particulars, carries a general truth.
    ET11 5.184 11 It is...true that the existence of the House of Peers as a branch of the government entitles them to fill half the Cabinet;...
    ET11 5.196 15 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class. The road that grandeur levels for his coach, toil can travel in his cart. This is more manifest every day, but I think it is true throughout English history.
    ET14 5.232 10 ...[the English] delight in strong earthy expression...coarsely true to the human body...
    ET16 5.282 5 ...here is the high point of the theory: the Druids had the magnet; laid their courses by it; their cardinal points in Stonehenge, Ambresbury, and elsewhere, which vary a little from true east and west, followed the variations of the compass.
    ET16 5.287 8 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged... ...I said, Certainly yes;--but those who hold it are fanatics of a dream which I should hardly care to relate to your English ears, to which it might be only ridiculous,--and yet it is the only true.
    ET16 5.287 11 ...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance... and procured a kind of hearing for it. I said, it is true that I have never seen in any country a man of sufficient valor to stand for this truth...
    ET17 5.295 10 [Wordsworth] had thought an elder brother of Tennyson at first the better poet, but must now reckon Alfred the true one.
    ET19 5.310 20 ...these things are not for me to say; these compliments, though true, would better come from one who felt and understood these merits more.
    ET19 5.312 25 Is it not true...that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port...
    F 6.1 2 Delicate omens traced in air,/ To the lone bard true witness bare;/...
    F 6.4 8 This is true, and that other is true.
    F 6.4 9 This is true, and that other is true.
    F 6.4 27 ...by firmly stating all that is agreeable to experience on one [topic], and doing the same justice to the opposing facts in the others, the true limitations will appear.
    F 6.26 4 A man speaking from insight affirms of himself what is true of the mind: seeing its immortality, he says, I am immortal;...
    Wth 6.92 16 The artist has made his picture so true that it disconcerts criticism.
    Wth 6.96 25 We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude on the earth's surface. Our navigation is safer for the chart. How intimately our knowledge of the system of the Universe rests on that!--and a true economy in a state or an individual will forget its frugality in behalf of claims like these.
    Wth 6.101 3 ...the true and only power, whether composed of money, water or men; it is all alike [said the Marseilles banker];...
    Wth 6.126 22 The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane;...
    Ctr 6.146 1 What is true anywhere is true everywhere.
    Ctr 6.163 21 ...the youth must rate at its true mark the inconceivable levity of local opinion.
    Wsp 6.215 5 The true meaning of spiritual is real;...
    Wsp 6.216 17 It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude;...
    CbW 6.249 20 When [the population] reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
    CbW 6.261 22 ...send [a rich man]...to Oregon; and if he have true faculty, this may be the element he wants...
    Bty 6.282 11 However rash and however falsified by pretenders and traders in [astrology], the hint was true...
    Bty 6.289 22 In the true mythology Love is an immortal child...
    Bty 6.290 10 It is a rule of largest application, true in a plant, true in a loaf of bread, that in the construction of any fabric or organism any real increase of fitness to its end is an increase of beauty.
    Bty 6.299 2 Faces are rarely true to any ideal type...
    Ill 6.316 16 In the worst-assorted connections there is ever some mixture of true marriage.
    SS 7.14 14 It would be more true to say [people in conversation] separate as oil from water...
    Civ 7.23 12 So true is Dr. Johnson's remark that men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are making money.
    Civ 7.25 24 In man [the organs] are all unbound and full of joyful action. With this unswaddling he receives the absolute illumination we call Reason, and thereby true liberty.
    Civ 7.31 16 ...the true test of civilization is...the kind of man the country turns out.
    Civ 7.34 20 Montesquieu says: Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free; and the remark holds not less but more true of the culture of men than of the tillage of land.
    Art2 7.39 9 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the bird, the beaver, have no art; for what they do they do instinctively; but relatively to the Supreme Being, they have. And the same is true of all unconscious action: relatively to the doer, it is instinct, relatively to the First Cause, it is Art.
    Art2 7.41 2 It was said, in allusion to the great structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their Art was a Nature working to municiple ends. That is a true account of all just works of useful art.
    Elo1 7.63 21 [The successful orator] is the true potentate;...
    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...
    Elo1 7.88 22 [Lord Mansfield's] sentences are involved, but...a true distinction is drawn.
    Elo1 7.94 23 If you would correct my false view of facts,--hold up to me the same facts in the true order of thought...
    Elo1 7.98 26 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth, in such sort that he can hold up before the eyes of men the fact of to-day steadily to that standard, thereby making the great great, and the small small, which is the true way to astonish and reform mankind.
    DL 7.108 4 Is it not plain that...in the dwelling-house must the true character and hope of the time be consulted?
    DL 7.117 3 [The reform that applies itself to the household] must come in connection with a true acceptance by each man of his vocation...
    DL 7.117 22 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains...to be the shelter always open to good and true persons;...
    DL 7.118 12 The rich, as we reckon them...in a true scale would be found very indigent...
    DL 7.121 20 In many parts of true economy a cheering lesson may be learned from the mode of life and manners of the later Romans...
    DL 7.125 27 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in clean and noble relations, notwithstanding our total inexperience of a true society.
    DL 7.127 21 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw from man suggest a true and lofty life...especially we learn the same lesson from those best relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to form.
    Farm 7.141 16 If it be true that, not by votes of political parties but by the eternal laws of political economy, slaves are driven out of a slave state as fast as it is surrounded by free states, then the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    Farm 7.141 19 ...the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    Farm 7.142 1 We commonly say that the rich man...can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense...
    Farm 7.152 16 ...true political economy is not mean...
    Boks 7.189 23 ...it is not less true that there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables of Cornelius Agrippa...
    Boks 7.192 17 It seems...as if some charitable soul, after...alighting upon a few true [books] which made him happy and wise, would do a right act in naming those which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
    Boks 7.197 12 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare: 1. Homer, who...has really the true fire...
    Boks 7.197 13 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare: 1. Homer, who...is the true and adequate germ of Greece...
    Clbs 7.247 2 Things which you fancy wrong [manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] know to be right and profitable; things which you reckon superstitious they know to be true.
    Cour 7.268 14 There is a courage in the treatment of every art by a master in architecture...in painting or in poetry, each cheering the mind of the spectator or receiver as by true strokes of genius...
    Cour 7.271 6 True courage is not ostentatious;...
    Cour 7.271 11 The true temper has genial influences.
    Suc 7.299 7 ...I have just seen a man...who told me that [Wordsworth's] verse was not true for him;...
    Suc 7.301 15 ...the great hearing and sympathy of men is more true and wise than their speaking is wont to be.
    Suc 7.303 21 ...what is specially true of love is that it is a state of extreme impressionability;...
    Suc 7.306 19 The old trouveur, Pons Capdueil, wrote,--Oft have I heard, and deem the witness true,/ Whom man delights in, God delights in too./
    Suc 7.307 8 One more trait of true success.
    Suc 7.307 15 It is true there is evil and good...
    OA 7.321 16 We have, it is true, examples of an accelerated pace by which young men achieved grand works;...
    OA 7.321 26 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely old...
    PI 8.8 23 Natural objects...are really parts of a symmetrical universe, like words of a sentence; and if their true order is found, the poet can read their divine significance orderly as in a Bible.
    PI 8.13 22 ...if crystals, if alkalies, in their several fashions say what I say, it must be true.
    PI 8.19 1 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes.
    PI 8.23 22 Every healthy mind is a true Alexander or Sesostris...
    PI 8.26 7 Nature is the true idealist.
    PI 8.26 22 You must...find one faculty here, one there, to build the true poet withal.
    PI 8.31 21 [The poet] is a true re-commencer...
    PI 8.32 24 Later, the thought, the happy image which expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to mind...
    PI 8.37 8 There is no subject that does not belong to [the poet],--politics, economy, manufactures and stock-brokerage...only these things, placed in their true order, are poetry;...
    PI 8.37 23 As one of the old Minnesingers sung,--Oft have I heard, and now believe it true,/ Whom man delights in, God delights in too./
    PI 8.44 24 In dreams we are true poets;...
    PI 8.57 20 I find or fancy more true poetry...in the Welsh and bardic fragments of Taliessin and his successors, than in many volumes of British Classics.
    PI 8.63 19 To true poetry we shall sit down as the result and justification of the age in which it appears...
    PI 8.66 1 He is the true Orpheus who writes his ode, not with syllables, but men.
    PI 8.70 3 ...when life is true to the poles of Nature, the streams of truth will roll through us in song.
    SA 8.79 13 It is even true that grace is more beautiful than beauty.
    SA 8.90 16 ...the incomparable satisfaction of a society...in which every member returns a true echo...doubles the value of life.
    SA 8.92 9 The true friend must have an attraction to whatever virtue is in us.
    SA 8.98 3 True wit never made us laugh.
    Elo2 8.110 1 True eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth;...
    Elo2 8.115 16 ...there is no true orator who is not a hero.
    Elo2 8.120 1 ...this is quite as true of the action of the mind itself, that a man of this talent [of eloquence] sometimes finds himself cold and slow in private company...
    Elo2 8.122 23 If indignation makes verses, as Horace says, it is not less true that a good indignation makes an excellent speech.
    Elo2 8.125 14 ...I believe it to be true that when any orator at the bar or in the Senate rises in his thought, he descends in his language...
    Comc 8.158 13 ...if there be phenomena in botany which we call abortions, the abortion...assumes to the intellect the like completeness with the further function to which in different circumstances it had attained. The same rule holds true of the animals.
    Comc 8.159 27 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man who knows the world...
    Comc 8.162 8 It is true the sensibility to the ludicrous may run into excess.
    Comc 8.163 2 [Wit] is a true shaft of Apollo...
    Comc 8.164 1 ...the very jests and merry talk of true philosophers move those that are not altogether insensible...
    QO 8.202 17 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said: importing that the bard spoke not his own, but the words of some god. True poets have always ascended to this lofty platform...
    PC 8.210 22 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...manufactures, the very inventions...have evoked!-all implying...the rapid addition to our society of a class of true nobles...
    PC 8.212 20 The oldest empires...now that we have true measures of duration [in Geology], show like creations of yesterday.
    PC 8.220 5 Often the master is a hidden man, but not to the true student;...
    PC 8.220 20 ...wherever a true man appears, everything usually reckoned great dwarfs itself;...
    PPo 8.260 4 And since round lines are drawn/ My darling's lips about,/ The very Moon looks puzzled on,/ And hesitates in doubt/ If the sweet curve that rounds thy mouth/ Be not her true way to the South./
    Insp 8.277 4 Garrick said that on the stage his great paroxysms surprised himself as much as his audience. If this is true on this low plane, it is true on the higher.
    Insp 8.286 9 ...I thank the annoying insect/ For many a golden hour./ Stand, then, for me, ye tormenting creatures,/ Highly praised by the poet/ As the true Musagetes./
    Insp 8.292 9 [Conversation] is the true school of philosophy...
    Grts 8.300 1 True dignity abides with him alone/ Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,/ Can still suspect, and still revere himself,/ In lowliness of heart./ Wordsworth.
    Grts 8.303 24 There is somewhat in the true scholar which he cannot be laughed out of...
    Grts 8.311 14 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh. These few words sting and bite and lash us when we are frivolous. Let us get out of the way of their blows by making them true of ourselves.
    Grts 8.312 10 ...it is true that the stratification of crusts in geology is not more precise than the degrees of rank in minds.
    Grts 8.313 21 Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar?
    Grts 8.315 12 It is difficult to find greatness pure. Well, I please myself with its diffusion; to find a spark of true fire amid much corruption.
    Imtl 8.326 26 ...the true disciples saw, through the letter, the doctrine of eternity...
    Imtl 8.327 25 Swedenborg...announced many things true and admirable...
    Imtl 8.335 14 ...a century, when we have once made it familiar and compared it with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and recent;...
    Imtl 8.344 17 The revelation that is true is written on the palms of the hands, the thought of our mind, the desire of our heart, or nowhere.
    Dem1 10.9 19 ...[dreams] have a substantial truth. The same remark may be extended to the omens and coincidences which may have astonished us. Of all it is true that the reason of them is always latent in the individual.
    Dem1 10.11 19 ...all productions of man are so anthropomorphous that not possibly can he invent any fable that shall not...be true in senses and to an extent never intended by the inventor.
    Dem1 10.14 12 The poor ship-master discovered a sound theology, when in the storm at sea he made his prayer to Neptune, O God, thou mayst save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayst destroy me; but, however, I will hold my rudder true.
    Aris 10.31 9 My concern with [Aristocracy] is that concern which all well-disposed persons will feel, that there should be model men,-true instead of spurious pictures of excellence...
    Aris 10.32 1 It is not to be a man of rank, but a man of honor...which seems to [the best young men] the right mark and the true chief of our modern society.
    Aris 10.32 17 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing a real aristocracy...
    Aris 10.49 8 I should like to see...every man made acquainted with the true number and weight of every adult citizen...
    Aris 10.55 8 What is it that makes the true knight? Loyalty to his thought.
    Aris 10.57 8 The true aristocrat is he who is at the head of his own order...
    Aris 10.61 26 Effectual service in his own legitimate fashion distinguishes the true man.
    PerF 10.80 1 The geometer shows us the true order in figures;...
    PerF 10.85 11 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will...make me Chancellor or Foreign Secretary. But this perversion is punished with instant loss of true wisdom and real power.
    PerF 10.85 25 [This world] is a fagot of laws, and a true analysis of these laws...would be a wholesome lesson for every time and for this time.
    Chr2 10.97 15 The excellence of Jesus, and of every true teacher, is, that he affirms the Divinity in him and in us...
    Chr2 10.99 23 ...it is also true that men act powerfully on us.
    Chr2 10.103 4 ...the memory and tradition of such a [steadfast] leader is preserved in some strange way by those who only half understand him, until a true disciple comes, who apprehends and interprets every word.
    Chr2 10.103 27 The religions we call false were once true.
    Chr2 10.104 26 ...sometimes also [the moral sentiment] is the source, in natures less pure, of sneers and flippant jokes of common people, who feel that the forms and dogmas are not true for them...
    Chr2 10.107 25 ...the distinctions of the true clergyman are not less decisive.
    Chr2 10.110 1 Paganism...outvotes the true men by millions of majority...
    Chr2 10.110 4 Paganism...writes the tracts, elects the minister, and persecutes the true believer.
    Chr2 10.111 1 These men [Voltaire, Frederic the Great, D'Alembert] preached the true God...
    Chr2 10.111 6 A true nation loves its vernacular tongue.
    Edc1 10.129 20 Is it not true that every landscape I behold, every friend I meet...leaves me a different being from that they found me?
    Edc1 10.144 8 Let [the child] find you so true to yourself that you are the irreconcilable hater of his vice...
    Supl 10.164 23 Language should aim to describe the fact. It is not enough to suggest it and magnify it. Sharper sight would indicate the true line.
    Supl 10.168 14 Uncle Joel's news is always true, said a person to me with obvious satisfaction...
    Supl 10.171 18 Whenever the true objects of action appear, they are to be heartily sought.
    Supl 10.174 26 Nor is there in Nature itself any swell, any brag, any strain or shock, but...a true proportion between her means and her performance.
    SovE 10.186 1 ...we exaggerate when we represent these two elements [belief and skepticism] as disunited; every man shares them both; but it is true that men generally are marked by a decided predominance of one or of the other element.
    SovE 10.187 23 In the court of law the judge sits over the culprit, but in the court of life in the same hour the judge also stands as culprit before a true tribunal.
    SovE 10.199 25 When we ask simply, What is true in thought? what is just in action? it is the yielding of the private heart to the Divine mind...
    SovE 10.209 1 It is true that Stoicism...has now no temples...
    SovE 10.209 19 [The moral law] has not yet its first hymn. But, that every line and word may be coals of true fire, ages must roll...
    SovE 10.213 1 To [innocence] alone comes true friendship;...
    Prch 10.216 1 The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life...
    Prch 10.220 12 Of course the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and burned.
    Prch 10.222 22 We are in transition, from the worship of the fathers which enshrined the law in a private and personal history, to a worship which recognizes the true eternity of the law...
    Prch 10.236 15 It is true that which they say of our New England oestrum, which will never let us stand or sit...
    MoL 10.244 1 The Greek was so perfect in action and in imagination, his poems...so charming in form and so true to the human mind, that we cannot forget or outgrow their mythology.
    MoL 10.248 18 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...as Copernicus, with his secret of the true astronomy;...
    MoL 10.249 10 The true scholar is the Church.
    MoL 10.252 4 the merchant is true to the merchant...
    Schr 10.262 4 ...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some surprise...that those excellent influences which men in all ages have called the Muse, or by some kindred name, come in to keep us warm and true;...
    Schr 10.263 6 ...a true talent delights the possessor first.
    Schr 10.282 3 ...a true orator will make us feel that the states and kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and caterpillars...
    Schr 10.285 24 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...
    Schr 10.287 20 I invite you [scholars]...to true and natural supremacy...
    Plu 10.291 3 ...Be great, be true, and all the Scipios,/ The Catos, the wise patriots of Rome,/ Shall flock to you and tarry by your side/ And comfort you with their high company./
    Plu 10.296 22 M. Octave Greard...has...constructed from the works of Plutarch himself his true biography.
    Plu 10.307 14 Plutarch is uniformly true to this [spiritual] centre.
    Plu 10.308 1 [Plutarch] thinks that he who has ideas of his own is a bad judge of another man's, it being true that the Eleans would be most proper judges of the Olympic games, were no Eleans gamesters.
    Plu 10.308 16 ...true to his practical character, [Plutarch] wishes the philosopher not to hide in a corner...
    LLNE 10.337 2 ...every lesson of humility, or justice, or charity, which the old ignorant saints had taught [man], was still forever true.
    LLNE 10.338 3 ...the joy with which [Mesmerism] was greeted was an instinct of the people which no true philosopher would fail to profit by.
    LLNE 10.353 3 ...what is true and good must not only be begun by life, but must be conducted to its issues by life.
    LLNE 10.357 22 ...[the Fourierists] were unconscious prophets of a true state of society;...
    MMEm 10.403 26 ...certain expressions, when they marked a memorable state of mind in [Mary Moody Emerson's] experience, recurred to her afterwards, and she would vindicate herself as having said to Dr. Ripley or Uncle Lincoln [Ripley] so and so, at such a period of her life. But they were intensely true when first spoken.
    MMEm 10.408 3 As by seeing a high tragedy, reading a true poem...by society with [Mary Moody Emerson], one's mind is electrified and purged.
    MMEm 10.419 15 True, I [Mary Moody Emerson] must finger the very farthing candle-ends...
    SlHr 10.439 7 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man of simple tastes, plain and true in speech...
    Thor 10.471 12 [Thoreau] would not offer a memoir of his observations to the Natural History Society. Why should I? To detach the description from its connections in my mind would make it no longer true or valuable to me...
    GSt 10.504 12 I have heard, what must be true, that [George Stearns] had great executive skill...
    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...
    LS 11.18 21 ...a true disciple of Jesus will receive the light he gives most thankfully;...
    LS 11.20 9 ...any act or meeting which tends to awaken a pure thought, a flow of love, an original design of virtue, I call a worthy, a true commemoration [of Jesus].
    LS 11.22 5 ...although for the satisfaction of others I have labored to show by the history that this rite [the Lord's Supper] was not intended to be perpetual; although I have gone back to weigh the expressions of Paul, I feel that here is the true point of view.
    LS 11.22 26 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose;...
    HDC 11.50 12 About ten years after the planting of Concord, efforts began to be made to civilize the Indians, and to win them to the knowledge of the true God.
    HDC 11.66 21 The charges seem to have been made by the lovers of order and moderation against Mr. [Daniel] Bliss, as a favorer of religious excitements. His answer to one of the counts breathes such true piety that I cannot forbear to quote it.
    LVB 11.94 2 These hard times, it is true, have brought the discussion [of currency and trade] home to every farmhouse and poor man's house in this town [Concord];...
    EWI 11.104 25 ...a good man or woman...once in a while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the indiscretion to tell of them. The horrid story ran and flew; the winds blew it all over the world. They who heard it asked their rich and great friends if it was true...
    EWI 11.105 1 The richest and greatest, the prime minister of England, the king's privy council were obliged to say that [the story of West Indian slaves] was too true.
    EWI 11.108 14 [Thomas Clarkson] began to ask himself if these things [facts about slavery in the West Indies] could be true; and if they were, he could no longer rest.
    War 11.154 10 Considerations of this [historical] kind lead us to a true view of the nature and office of war.
    War 11.157 12 ...it is no less true that [all history] is the record of the mitigation and decline of war.
    War 11.162 25 ...what is true...must at last prevail over all obstruction and all opposition.
    War 11.163 3 It is the tendency of the true interest of man to become his desire and steadfast aim.
    War 11.165 14 We surround ourselves always...with true images of ourselves in things...
    War 11.169 1 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men.
    War 11.173 6 [Shakespeare's lords] are true heroes for their time.
    FSLC 11.194 11 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...necessitated to express first or last every feeling of the heart. You can keep no secret, for whatever is true some of them will unreasonably say.
    FSLC 11.210 24 ......still the question recurs, What must we do [about slavery]? One thing is plain, we cannot answer for the Union, but we must keep Massachusetts true.
    FSLC 11.211 12 ...Massachusetts is little, but, if true to itself, can be the brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery].
    FSLC 11.212 21 We must make a small state great, by making every man in it true.
    FSLN 11.224 22 It is remarked of Americans...that they think they praise a man more by saying that he is smart than by saying that he is right. Whether the defect be national or not...it is so far true of [Webster's] countrymen, namely, that the appeal is sure to be made to his physical and mental ability when his character is assailed.
    FSLN 11.244 6 [Liberty] is the oppressed Lady whom true knights on their oath and honor must rescue and save.
    AsSu 11.250 26 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be true in Sumner's case, as it was true of Webster...
    AsSu 11.252 4 ...if our arms at this distance cannot defend [Charles Sumner] from assassins, we confide the defence of a life so precious to all honorable men and true patriots...
    JBB 11.271 9 [The judges] assume that the United States can protect its witness or its prisoner. And in Massachusetts that is true...
    TPar 11.288 15 ...[it will be] in the plain lessons of Theodore Parker...that the true temper and the authentic record of these days will be read.
    ALin 11.328 9 ...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World moulds aside she threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of the unexhausted West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true./
    ALin 11.328 26 Here [in Lincoln] was a type of the true elder race,/ And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face./ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
    ALin 11.333 4 [Lincoln's good humor] enabled him...to catch with true instinct the temper of every company he addressed.
    ALin 11.335 14 [Lincoln] is the true history of the American people in his time.
    ALin 11.335 17 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before [the American people];...the true representative of this continent;...
    HCom 11.340 13 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness:/ Their higher instinct knew/ Those love her best who to themselves are true;/ And what they dare to dream of, dare to do;/...
    HCom 11.342 1 The War has lifted many other people besides Grant and Sherman into their true places.
    SMC 11.361 22 [George Prescott] writes, You don't know how one gets attached to a company by living with them and sleeping with them all the time. I know every man by heart. I know every man's weak spot,-who is shaky, and who is true blue.
    EdAd 11.387 1 We hesitate to employ a word so much abused as patriotism, whose true sense is almost the reverse of its popular sense.
    EdAd 11.388 21 In hours when it seemed only to need one just word from a man of honor...to have given a true direction to the first steps of a nation, we have seen the best understandings of New England...say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
    EdAd 11.390 8 ...the insight which commands the laws and conditions of the true polity precludes forever all interest in the squabbles of parties.
    Wom 11.406 19 'T is [women's] mood and tone that is important. Does their mind misgive them, or are they firm and cheerful? 'T is a true report that things are going ill or well.
    Wom 11.407 26 ...it is true that, up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece.
    Wom 11.408 5 ...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece. Till the new education and larger opportunities of very modern times, this position, with the fewest possible exceptions, has always been true.
    Wom 11.410 4 Position, Wren said, is essential to the perfecting of beauty;...much more true is it of woman.
    Wom 11.425 11 Let us have the true woman, the adorner...
    RBur 11.441 12 ...how true a poet is [Burns]!
    FRO1 11.480 3 What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings together to-day so many separated friends...was some practical suggestions by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true Church...
    FRO2 11.486 20 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion...never did not exist from the planting of the human race until Christ came in the flesh, at which time the true religion which already existed began to be called Christianity.
    CPL 11.500 27 [Thoreau writes] It is a relief to read some true books wherein all are equally dead, equally alive.
    FRep 11.513 25 ...if this is true in all the useful and in the fine arts, that the direction must be drawn from a superior source or there will be no good work, does it hold less in our social and civil life?
    FRep 11.514 19 The law of water and all fluids is true of wit.
    FRep 11.514 24 Prince Metternich said, Revolutions begin in the best heads and run steadily down to the populace. It is a very old observation; not truer because Metternich said it, and not less true.
    FRep 11.533 6 Corpora non agunt nisi soluta; the chemical rule is true in mind.
    FRep 11.541 15 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity.
    PLT 12.4 13 ...at last, it is only that exceeding and universal part [of Nature] which interests us, when we shall read in a true history what befalls in that kingdom where a thousand years is as one day...
    PLT 12.4 15 ...at last, it is only that exceeding and universal part [of Nature] which interests us, when we shall...see that what is set down is true through all the sciences;...
    PLT 12.6 20 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is...that [the student] shall see in [the mind] the source of all traditions, and shall see each one of them as better or worse statement of its revelations; shall come to trust it entirely, as the only true;...
    PLT 12.11 17 I confine my ambition to true reporting of [intellect's] play in natural action...
    PLT 12.23 20 ...what a modern experimenter calls the contagious influence of chemical action is so true of mind that I have only to read the law that its application may be evident...
    PLT 12.44 2 ...the true scholar is one who has the power to stand beside his thoughts...
    PLT 12.50 24 Every man has his theory, true, but ridiculously overstated.
    PLT 12.55 9 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism; a certain recognition of the simple and terrible laws which...pervade and govern. You will say this is quite axiomatic and a little too true.
    II 12.67 4 All true wisdom of thought and of action comes of deference to this instinct...
    II 12.67 8 To make a practical use of this instinct in every part of life constitutes true wisdom...
    II 12.71 16 How incomparable beyond all price seems to us a new poem... or true work of literary genius!
    II 12.71 25 The poet works to an end above his will, and by means, too, which are out of his will. Every part of the poem is therefore a true surprise to the reader...
    II 12.74 12 ...I believe it is true in the experience of all men...that, for the memorable moments of life, we were in them, and not they in us.
    II 12.77 20 The old law of science, Imperat parendo, we command by obeying, is forever true;...
    Mem 12.103 5 A thought takes its true rank in the memory by surviving other thoughts that were once preferred.
    Mem 12.104 24 Sampson Reed says, The true way to store the memory is to develop the affections.
    Mem 12.107 4 ...the true river Lethe is the body of man...
    CInt 12.119 27 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is in true order...
    CInt 12.126 1 It is true that the University and the Church...do not express the sentiment of the popular politics and the popular optimism, whatever it be.
    CInt 12.127 19 Ah, gentlemen, it's only a dream of mine, and perhaps never will be true,-but I thought a college was a place not to train talents... but to adorn Genius...
    CL 12.141 7 Plutarch thought [the air] contained the knowledge of the future. If it be true that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction, and that the chief cause that excites that faculty is a certain temperature of the air and winds, etc.
    CL 12.160 4 I hold all these opinions on the power of the air to be substantially true.
    CL 12.160 12 On the seashore, [Nature] reveals to the eye, by the sea-line, the true curve of the globe.
    CL 12.162 13 The true naturalist can go wherever woods or waters go;...
    CL 12.164 25 'T is true, that man only interests us.
    CW 12.171 21 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...
    CW 12.176 10 ...if one is so happy as to find the company of a true artist, he is a perpetual holiday and benefactor...
    Bost 12.184 14 How can we not believe in influences of climate and air, when, as true philosophers, we must believe that chemical atoms also have their spiritual cause why they are thus and not other;...
    Bost 12.194 18 ...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.
    Bost 12.205 15 ...when within our memory some flippant senator wished to taunt the people of this country by calling them the mudsills of society, he paid them ignorantly a true praise;...
    MAng1 12.215 8 ...so true was [Michelangelo] to the laws of the human mind, that his character and his works...seem rather a part of Nature than arbitrary productions of the human will.
    MAng1 12.219 8 Since Beauty is thus an abstraction of the harmony and proportion that reigns in all Nature, it is therefore studied in Nature, and not in what does not exist. Hence the celebrated French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de beau que le vrai; Nothing is beautiful but what is true.
    MAng1 12.220 1 ...to the artist it belongs by a better knowledge of anatomy, and, within anatomy, of life and thought, to acquire the power of true drawing.
    MAng1 12.222 25 Seeing these works [of art] true to human nature and yet superhuman, we feel that we are greater than we know.
    Milt1 12.247 16 ...it is...true that [Milton] has gained, in this age, some increase of permanent praise.
    Milt1 12.256 10 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem;...
    Milt1 12.262 3 ...[Milton] said...true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth;...
    Milt1 12.266 13 The indifferency of a wise mind to what is called high and low, and the fact that true greatness is a perfect humility, are revelations of Christianity which Milton well understood.
    Milt1 12.270 26 Toland tells us, As [Milton] looked upon true and absolute freedom to be the greatest happiness of this life, whether to societies or single persons, so he thought constraint of any sort to be the utmost misery;...
    Milt1 12.275 25 It is true of Homer and Shakspeare that they do not appear in their poems;...
    MLit 12.310 10 Over every true poem lingers a certain wild beauty, immeasurable;...
    MLit 12.316 24 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact...that I, as a man, may claim and appropriate whatever of true or fair or good or strong has anywhere been exhibited;...literature is far the best expression.
    MLit 12.317 3 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact,-that there is One Mind, and that all the powers and privileges which lie in any, lie in all;...literature is far the best expression. It is true, this is not the only nor the obvious lesson it teaches.
    MLit 12.319 4 In Byron...[the subjective tendency] predominates; but in Byron...it sees not its true end-an infinite good...
    MLit 12.320 5 ...whilst every line of the true poet will be genuine, he is in a boundless power and freedom to say a million things.
    MLit 12.326 4 The fair hearers [says Wieland] were enthusiastic at the nature in this piece [Goethe's journal]; I liked the sly art in the composition...still better. It is a true poem...
    MLit 12.333 5 It is true...that every fine genius teaches us how to blame himself.
    WSL 12.339 1 What [Landor] says of Wordsworth is true of himself, that he delights to throw a clod of dirt on the table, and cry, Gentlemen, there is a better man than all of you.
    Pray 12.350 3 Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,/ Nor gems whose rates are either rich or poor/ As fancy values them; but with true prayers,/...
    Pray 12.353 2 My Father, when I cannot be cheerful or happy, I can be true and obedient...
    Pray 12.355 15 Wilt thou give me strength to persevere in this great work of redemption. Wilt thou show me the true means of accomplishing it.
    Pray 12.356 25 O eternal Verity! and true Charity! and dear Eternity! thou art my God...
    AgMs 12.360 25 The account [in the Agricultural Survey] of the maple sugar,-that is very good and entertaining, and, I suppose, true.
    AgMs 12.363 5 The true men of skill, the poor farmers...are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...
    EurB 12.368 26 ...with a complete satisfaction [Wordsworth]...celebrated his own [life] with the religion of a true priest.
    EurB 12.374 13 For this reason, children delight in fairy tales. Nature is described in them as the servant of man, which they feel ought to be true.
    EurB 12.374 16 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect, because he speedily betrays that he does not see the true limitations of the charm;...
    PPr 12.380 9 The book [Carlyle's Past and Present] makes great approaches to true contemporary history...
    PPr 12.381 22 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the picture of Abbot Samson, the true governor, who is not there to expect reason and nobleness of others, he is there to give them of his own reason and nobleness;...
    PPr 12.383 10 Time stills the loud noise of opinions, sinks the small, raises the great, so that the true emerges without effort and in perfect harmony to all eyes;...
    Trag 12.411 13 The spirit is true to itself...
    Trag 12.412 15 To this architectural stability of the human form, the Greek genius added an ideal beauty...permitting no violence of mirth, or wrath, or suffering. This was true to human nature.

true, adv. (8)

    Con 1.302 17 Here is the fact which men call Fate...necessitating the question whether the faculties of man will play him true in resisting the facts of universal experience?
    Fdsp 2.199 26 Our faculties do not play us true...
    PI 8.61 7 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] You were wont to know me well, but...thus the proverb says true, Leave the court and the court will leave you.
    Dem1 10.23 17 ...to hit the mark with a stone [a man] has only to fasten his eye firmly on the mark and his arm will swing true...
    Prch 10.224 26 ...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true, it is clear mathematically...that this will tell in the result...
    FSLN 11.228 17 ...if the reporters say true, [Webster's] wretched atheism found some laughter in the company.
    TPar 11.291 7 There are men of good powers who have so much sympathy that they must be silent when they are not in sympathy. If you don't agree with them, they know they only injure the truth by speaking. Their faculties will not play them true...
    PLT 12.47 3 A man tries to speak [the truth] and his voice is...rude and chiding. The truth is not spoken but injured. The same thing happens in power to do the right. His rectitude is ridiculous. His organs do not play him true.

true, n. (19)

    LE 1.175 14 [The ingenious soul] repudiates the false, out of love of the true.
    LT 1.282 9 Out of love of the true, we repudiate the false;...
    Tran 1.355 21 We call the Beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.
    SL 2.162 24 Action and inaction are alike to the true.
    Fdsp 2.193 18 How beautiful, on their approach to this beating heart, the steps and forms of the gifted and the true!
    OS 2.293 4 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. He has not the conviction, but the sight, that the best is the true...
    Art1 2.361 9 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...pierced directly to the simple and true;...
    Pol1 3.201 5 The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic.
    NER 3.283 15 ...[men] believe that the best is the true;...
    PPh 4.49 4 ...each [Unity and Variety] so fast slides into the other that we can never say what is one, and what it is not. The Proteus is as nimble... when we contemplate the one, the true, the good,--as in the surfaces and extremities of matter.
    PPh 4.62 23 ...there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.
    PPh 4.68 18 After [Plato] has illustrated the relation between the absolute good and true and the forms of the intelligible world, he says: Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts.
    ET1 5.11 23 When [Coleridge] saw Dr. Channing he had hinted to him that he was afraid he loved Christianity for what was lovely and excellent,--he loved the good in it, and not the true;...
    ET1 5.11 25 ...I tell you, sir [said Coleridge], that I have known ten persons who loved the good, for one person who loved the true;...
    ET1 5.11 26 ...I tell you, sir [said Coleridge], that...it is a far greater virtue to love the true for itself alone, than to love the good for itself alone.
    DL 7.126 5 ...Certainly this was not the intention of Nature, to produce...so cheap and humble a result. The aspirations in the heart after the good and true teach us better...
    Elo2 8.109 10 ...No mimic; from [the patriot's] breast his counsel drew,/ Believed the eloquent was aye the true;/...
    War 11.162 24 What is the best must be the true;...
    MAng1 12.219 15 [Michelangelo] labored to express the beautiful, in the entire conviction that it was only to be attained by knowledge of the true.

True, n. (3)

    Chr1 3.96 15 A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True...
    MAng1 12.233 27 ...as...[Michelangelo] sought to approach the Beautiful by the study of the True, so he failed not to make the next step of progress, and to seek Beauty in its highest form, that of Goodness.
    ACri 12.293 11 We are now offended with Standpoint, Myth, Subjective, the Good and the True and the Cause.

true-born, adj. (1)

    ET17 5.295 24 I said, if Plato's Republic were published in England as a new book to-day, do you think it would find any readers?--[Wordsworth] confessed it would not: and yet, he added after a pause, with that complacency which never deserts a true-born Englishman, and yet we have embodied it all.

true-hearted, adj. (1)

    ET6 5.108 13 ...as the [English] men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.

truelier, adv. (1)

    MLit 12.328 4 What [Goethe] said of Lavater, may truelier said of him, that it was fearful to stand in the presence of one before whom all the boundaries within which Nature has circumscribed our being were laid flat.

trueliest, adv. (1)

    PPh 4.78 23 A chief structure of human wit...it requires all the breath of human faculty to know [Plato]. I think it is trueliest seen when seen with the most respect.

truer, adj. (15)

    DSA 1.141 12 ...the exceptions are not so much to be found in a few eminent preachers, as in...the truer inspirations of all...
    LT 1.287 17 ...we think the Genius of this Age more philosophical than any other has been, righter in its aims, truer...
    Lov1 2.183 7 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages...
    GoW 4.278 25 George Sand, in Consuelo and its continuation, has sketched a truer and more dignified picture [than has Goethe in Wilhelm Meister].
    Bty 6.305 22 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns.
    PI 8.1 10 ...From blue mount and headland dim/ Friendly hands stretch forth to him,/ Him they beckon, him advise/ Of heavenlier prosperities/ And a more excelling grace/ And a truer bosom-glow/ Than the wine-fed feasters know./
    PI 8.39 9 ...poetry is science, and the poet a truer logician.
    SovE 10.190 20 Shall I say then it were truer to see Necessity calm, beautiful, passionless...
    Thor 10.459 14 No truer American existed than Thoreau.
    War 11.173 15 ...another age comes, a truer religion and ethics open...
    FRep 11.514 23 Prince Metternich said, Revolutions begin in the best heads and run steadily down to the populace. It is a very old observation; not truer because Metternich said it...
    II 12.81 27 Whether Whiggery, or Chartism, or Church, or a dream of Wealth, fashioned all these resolute bankers, merchants, lawyers, landlords, who administer the world of to-day...an idea fashioned them, and one related to yours. A stronger idea will subordinate them. Yours, if you see it to be nearer and truer.
    Mem 12.95 4 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters.
    MAng1 12.218 13 A beautiful person...appears to have truer conformity to all pleasing objects in external Nature than another.
    MLit 12.329 27 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] To a profound soul is not austere truth the sweetest flattery? Yes, O Goethe! but the ideal is truer than the actual.

truer, adv. (1)

    LT 1.264 5 ...I find the Age walking about...in strong eyes and pleasant thoughts, and think I read it nearer and truer so, than in the statute-book...

truest, adj. (9)

    Nat 1.66 3 In inquiries respecting...the frame of things, the highest reason is always the truest.
    MN 1.194 16 Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the highest or truest name for our communication with the infinite...
    Pt1 3.11 20 Mankind in good earnest have availed so far in understanding themselves and their work, that the foremost watchman on the peak announces his news. It is the truest word ever spoken...
    UGM 4.17 5 ...we thus [through the acts of the intellect]...learn to choose men by their truest marks...
    SwM 4.139 3 The largest is always the truest sentiment...
    CbW 6.243 2 Hear what British Merlin sung,/ Of keenest eye and truest tongue./
    Wom 11.419 2 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this: that...they are asked for by people who intellectually seek them, but who have not the support or sympathy of the truest women;...
    PLT 12.60 19 The truest state of mind rested in becomes false.
    PPr 12.385 13 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by...impressing the reader with the conviction that the satirist himself has the truest love for everything old and excellent in English land and institutions...

truism, n. (1)

    LE 1.165 27 Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism...

trulier, adv. (1)

    Hist 2.40 23 Broader and deeper we must write our annals...if we would trulier express our central and wide-related nature...

truly, adv. (84)

    Nat 1.8 23 To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature.
    Nat 1.9 2 The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other;...
    AmS 1.103 4 ...let [the scholar]...bide his own time, - happy enough if he can satisfy himself alone that this day he has seen something truly.
    DSA 1.127 2 Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul.
    LE 1.161 25 ...I will thank my great brothers so truly for the admonition of their being...
    LE 1.178 19 Bonaparte represents truly a great recent revolution...
    LE 1.181 17 ...in a contempt for the gabble of to-day's opinions the secret of the world is to be learned, and the skill truly to unfold it is acquired.
    MN 1.217 13 When we speak truly,-is not he only unhappy who is not in love?...
    LT 1.266 2 ...there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough: bloated promises, which end in nothing or little. And then truly great men, but with some defect in their composition which neutralizes their whole force.
    LT 1.285 13 ...truly we shall find much to console us, when we consider the cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness.
    Tran 1.341 21 ...truly...it would not misbecome us to inquire nearer home, what these companions and contemporaries of ours think and do...
    Hist 2.33 6 Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them. Facts...tyrannize over them, and make the men of routine...in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by which man is truly man.
    SR 2.68 8 If we live truly, we shall see truly.
    SR 2.68 9 If we live truly, we shall see truly.
    SR 2.73 20 I do this not selfishly but humbly and truly.
    SR 2.74 26 ...truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity...
    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...
    Comp 2.96 14 I shall attempt...to record some facts that indicate the path of the law of Compensation; happy beyond my expectation if I shall truly draw the smallest arc of this circle.
    SL 2.141 9 ...the more truly [a man] consults his own powers, the more difference will his work exhibit from the work of any other.
    SL 2.148 24 [A man] cleaves to one person and avoids another, according to their likeness or unlikeness to himself truly seeking himself in his associates...
    SL 2.161 27 The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his whole being without obstruction, so that on what point soever of his doing your eye falls it shall report truly of his character...
    Lov1 2.173 22 By and by that boy wants a wife, and very truly and heartily will he know where to find a sincere and sweet mate...
    Lov1 2.183 3 Somewhat like this have the truly wise told us of love in all ages.
    OS 2.278 8 The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.
    OS 2.294 14 ...the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.
    Int 2.329 6 [Ideas]...so fully engage us that we...gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own. By and by we fall out of that rapture...and repeat as truly as we can what we have beheld.
    Art1 2.367 26 ...the distinction between the fine and the useful arts [must] be forgotten. If history were truly told...it would be no longer easy or possible to distinguish the one from the other.
    Pt1 3.5 6 The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
    Pt1 3.8 15 ...nature is as truly beautiful as it is good...
    Exp 3.70 7 The ancients...exalted Chance into a divinity; but that is to stay too long at the spark, which glitters truly at one point, but the universe is warm with the latency of the same fire.
    Pol1 3.204 9 ...there is an instinctive sense...that truly the only interest for the consideration of the State is persons;...
    PPh 4.64 3 ...the fairest fortune that can befall man is to be guided by his daemon to that which is truly his own.
    PNR 4.87 19 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated...
    SwM 4.126 15 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as nature descends. And the truly poetic account of the writing in the inmost heaven, which, as it consists of inflexions according to the form of heaven, can be read without instruction.
    ShP 4.200 23 The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being translation on translation. There never was a time when there was none. All the truly idiomatic and national phrases are kept, and all others successively picked out and thrown away.
    ShP 4.211 18 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye.
    NMW 4.257 1 The counter-revolution...still waits for its organ and representative, in a lover and a man of truly public and universal aims.
    GoW 4.272 18 This reflective and critical wisdom makes the poem [Goethe's Helena] more truly the flower of this time.
    GoW 4.279 18 ...[Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is so crammed with... knowledge of the world and with knowledge of laws; the persons so truly and subtly drawn...that we must...be willing to get what good from it we can...
    ET19 5.313 26 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations...truly a home to the thoughtful and generous who are born in the soil.
    Wth 6.93 21 Columbus...looks on all kings and peoples as cowardly landsmen until they dare fit him out. Few men on the planet have more truly belonged to it.
    Bhr 6.177 4 If [the human body] were made of glass...it could not publish more truly its meaning than now.
    Bhr 6.193 6 In all the superior people I have met I notice directness, truth spoken more truly...
    Wsp 6.237 21 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of person he is, and whether he belongs among them. They do not receive him, they do not reject him. And not in vain have they...shuffled in their Bruin dance...if they have truly learned thus much wisdom.
    CbW 6.267 12 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness,--whether it be to make baskets...or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.
    CbW 6.276 10 If you deal generously, the other, though selfish and unjust, will make an exception in your favor, and deal truly with you.
    Elo1 7.72 4 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses...knowing all wiles and wise counsels. To her the prudent Antenor replied again: O woman, you have spoken truly.
    Elo1 7.81 24 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech, it seems first to become truly human...
    Elo1 7.91 1 ...the truly eloquent man is a sane man with power to communicate his sanity.
    DL 7.129 1 [Friendship] is the happiness which, where it is truly known, postpones all other satisfactions...
    DL 7.131 27 Obviously, it would be easy for every town to discharge this truly municipal duty [of a library and museum].
    Boks 7.221 6 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...
    Clbs 7.228 14 What are the best days in memory? Those in which we met a companion who was truly such.
    Suc 7.306 27 ...truly, the heart at the centre of the universe with every throb hurls the flood of happiness into every artery, vein and veinlet...
    Grts 8.317 17 ...[morals and intellect]...always beckon to each other, until at last they meet in the man, if he is to be truly great.
    Imtl 8.347 2 You shall not say, O my bishop, O my pastor, is there any resurrection? What do you think? Did Dr. Channing believe that we should know each other? Did Wesley? did Butler? did Fenelon? What questions are these! Go read Milton, Shakspeare or any truly ideal poet.
    Aris 10.55 3 He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself.
    PerF 10.76 20 We define Genius to be...a sensibility so equal that it receives accurately all impressions, and can truly report them...
    PerF 10.76 26 If we were truly to take account of stock before the last Court of Appeals,-that were an inventory!
    Edc1 10.131 27 ...truly the population of the globe has its origin in the aims which their existence is to serve;...
    SovE 10.205 18 I do not think the summit of this age truly reached or expressed unless it attain the height which religion and philosophy reached in any former age.
    SovE 10.205 23 If I miss the inspiration of the saints of Calvinism, or of Platonism, or Buddhism, our times are not up to theirs, or, more truly, have not yet their own legitimate force.
    Schr 10.281 15 ...[Plotinus] says roundly, the knowledge of the senses is truly ludicrous.
    LLNE 10.347 18 ...truly I honor the generous ideas of the Socialists...
    LLNE 10.347 27 Fourier...turned a truly vast arithmetic to the question of social misery...
    EzRy 10.393 23 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had...in uncovering the bandage from a sore place, and applying the surgeon's knife with a truly surgical spirit.
    HDC 11.49 12 ...the people [of Concord] truly feel that they are lords of the soil.
    FSLC 11.204 1 ...[Webster's] finely developed understanding only works truly and with all its force, when it stands for animal good; that is, for property.
    FSLN 11.229 25 ...there are rights which rest on the finest sense of justice, and, with every degree of civility, it will be more truly felt and defined.
    ACiv 11.297 3 Ich dien, I serve, is a truly royal motto.
    EdAd 11.392 9 ...the Divine, or, as some will say, the truly Human, hovers, now seen, now unseen, before us.
    Koss 11.398 12 We [people of Concord] please ourselves that in you [Kossuth] we meet...a man so truly in love with the greatest future, that he cannot be diverted to any less.
    ChiE 11.472 2 China is old...in wisdom, which is gray hair to a nation,- or, rather, truly seen, is eternal youth.
    CPL 11.499 17 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes in her diary, Life truly resembles a river-ever the same-never the same;...
    PLT 12.27 8 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. That is what he knows and has to say of Spain; he cannot say it truly until a sufficient time for the arrangement of the particles has elapsed.
    PLT 12.43 1 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...sees so truly the omnipresence of eternal cause that he can convert the daily and hourly event of New York, of Boston, into universal symbols.
    II 12.68 14 ...long after we have quitted the place [the art gallery], the objects begin to take a new order;...the truly noble forms reappear to the imagination.
    CL 12.143 5 The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes]...under favorable accidents...is more truly entitled to be held the light that never was on land or sea...
    MAng1 12.218 11 The Italian artists sanction this view of Beauty by describing it as il piu nell' uno...or multitude in unity, intimating that what is truly beautiful seems related to all Nature.
    MAng1 12.237 15 ...[Michelangelo] says he is only half in Rome, since, truly, peace is only to be found in the woods.
    Milt1 12.271 7 Truly [Milton] was an apostle of freedom;...
    MLit 12.309 6 When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we truly express the privilege of spiritual nature...
    PPr 12.382 4 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;... These things strike us with a force which reminds us of the morals of the Oriental or early Greek masters, and of no modern book. Truly in these things is great reward.
    Let 12.401 10 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life is shallow and anxious and full of discord because they despise genius...

trump, n. (2)

    Imtl 8.336 10 If not to be, how like the bells of a fool is the trump of fame!
    EPro 11.314 4 To-day unbind the captive,/ So only are ye unbound;/ Lift up a people from the dust,/ Trump of their rescue, sound!/

trumpery, n. (2)

    Art1 2.364 17 ...there is a certain appearance of paltriness, as of...the trumpery of a theatre, in sculpture.
    LLNE 10.356 3 ...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 nothing is so vulgar as a great warehouse of rooms full of fine furniture and trumpery;...

trumpet, n. (13)

    MR 1.228 22 ...now...all things else hear the trumpet, and must rush to judgment...
    LT 1.269 25 The fury with which the slave-trader defends every inch of... his howling auction-platform, is a trumpet to alarm the ear of mankind...
    NR 3.247 23 ...if there could be any regulation...that a man should never leave his point of view without sound of trumpet.
    ShP 4.190 18 [A great man] finds a war raging: it educates him, by trumpet, in barracks, and he betters the instruction.
    NMW 4.249 9 At Arcola [said Napoleon] I won the battle with twenty-five horsemen. I seized that moment of lassitude, gave every man a trumpet, and gained the day with this handful.
    Wsp 6.239 6 The son of Antiochus asked his father when he would join battle. Dost thou fear, replied the king, that thou only in all the army wilt not hear the trumpet?
    DL 7.104 6 ...when [the nestler] fasts, the little Pharisee fails not to sound his trumpet before him.
    Cour 7.272 13 Everything feels the new breath [of courage] except the old doting nigh-dead politicians, whose heart the trumpet of resurrection could not wake.
    PI 8.46 15 Soldiers can march better and fight better for the drum and trumpet.
    Aris 10.37 25 What is the meaning of this invincible respect for war...that we can never quite smother the trumpet and the drum?
    HDC 11.59 13 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house, or a village; but...in the first blast of [the white men's] trumpet we already hear the flourish of victory.
    EWI 11.102 22 The prizes of society, the trumpet of fame...these were for all, but not for [negro slaves].
    Milt1 12.272 13 The events which produced [Milton's tracts on divorce and freedom of the press]...are mere occasions for this philanthropist to blow his trumpet for human rights.

trumpets, n. (8)

    SR 2.45 13 ...our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
    Chr1 3.107 3 ...some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.
    Mrs1 3.123 12 ...every man's name that emerged at all from the mass in the feudal ages rattles in our ear like a flourish of trumpets.
    ET10 5.165 25 ...[the Englishman's] English name and accidents are like a flourish of trumpets announcing him.
    HDC 11.72 17 On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson] preached to a very full assembly, taking for his text, 2 Chronicles xiii.12, And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you.
    War 11.173 3 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...and whose appearance is the arrival of so much life and virtue. In dangerous times they are presently tried, and therefore their name is a flourish of trumpets.
    War 11.173 21 ...the man who, without any flourish of trumpets...takes in solitude the right step uniformly...does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
    CL 12.137 6 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students, and, when they returned, they marched through the streets of Upsala in a festive procession...to the music of drums and trumpets...

trumpet-text, n. (1)

    ShP 4.217 25 One remembers again the trumpet-text in the Koran,--The heavens and the earth and all that is between them, think ye we have created them in jest?

trumpet-tones, n. (1)

    ACri 12.299 3 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling, with undertones, and trumpet-tones...

trundled, v. (1)

    PerF 10.75 7 [The farmer] put his days into carting from the distant swamp the mountain of muck which has been trundled about until it now makes the cover of fruitful soil.

trunk, n. (13)

    AmS 1.83 15 The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk...
    SR 2.81 26 I pack my trunk...
    Comp 2.97 24 If the head and neck are enlarged, the trunk and extremities are cut short.
    Comp 2.102 24 If you see a hand or a limb, you know that the trunk to which it belongs is there behind.
    Hsm1 2.246 28 ...Now I'll kneel,/ But with my back toward thee: 't is the last duty/ This trunk can do the gods./
    UGM 4.15 15 [The people] delight in a man. Here is a head and a trunk!
    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...
    SwM 4.108 14 This new spine [the skull] is destined to high uses. It is a new man on the shoulders of the last. It can almost shed its trunk and manage to live alone...
    SwM 4.108 17 Within [the skull], on a higher plane, all that was done in the trunk repeats itself.
    ET6 5.104 22 [The Englishman] has that aplomb which results from...the obedience of all the powers to the will; as if the axes of his eyes were united to his backbone, and only moved with the trunk.
    Comc 8.171 2 In poor pictures the limbs and trunk degrade the face.
    Aris 10.42 5 [Ulysses]...carves a bedstead out of the trunk of a tree...
    Aris 10.43 10 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers. She moulds a large brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it;...

trunkful, n. (1)

    MoL 10.256 25 ...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge. But the President of the Bank...relates that at Virginia Springs this idol of the forum exhausted a trunkful of classic authors.

trunnion, n. (1)

    Pow 6.77 23 At West Point, Colonel Buford...pounded with a hammer on the trunnions of a cannon until he broke them off. He fired a piece of ordnance some hundred times in swift succession, until it burst. Now which stroke broke the trunnion?

trunnions, n. (1)

    Pow 6.77 19 At West Point, Colonel Buford...pounded with a hammer on the trunnions of a cannon until he broke them off.

trust, n. (50)

    LE 1.180 18 ...always remained [Napoleon's] total trust in the prodigious revolutions of fortune which his reserved Imperial Guard were capable of working...
    LE 1.184 9 If, with a high trust, [the scholar] can thus submit himself, he will find that ample returns are poured into his bosom...
    Tran 1.352 19 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which...made me aware...that to me belonged trust, a child's trust, and obedience, and the worship of ideas...
    Comp 2.122 15 [The soul's] instinct is trust.
    SL 2.131 21 Neither vexations nor calamities abate our trust.
    Fdsp 2.200 27 ...let us approach our friend with an audacious trust in the truth of his heart...
    Fdsp 2.217 3 The essence of friendship is...a total magnanimity and trust.
    Prd1 2.230 13 Let [the figures in this picture of life]...honor their own senses with trust.
    OS 2.285 12 In that man, though he knew no ill of him, [one] put no trust.
    OS 2.293 3 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust.
    OS 2.297 14 [Man] will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it...
    Cir 2.315 4 ...it behooves each to see, when he sacrifices prudence, to what god he devotes it;...if to a great trust, he can well spare his mule and panniers who has a winged chariot instead.
    NER 3.260 17 I conceive...the indication of growing trust in the private self-supplied powers of the individual, to be the affirmative principle of the recent philosophy...
    NER 3.283 6 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall destroy distrust by his trust...
    UGM 4.29 16 We need not fear excessive influence. A more generous trust is permitted.
    MoS 4.161 21 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have...proof...that he has evinced the temper, stoutness and the range of qualities which...entitle him to fellowship and trust.
    NMW 4.242 11 ...a man of [the French people] held, in the Tuileries, knowledge and ideas like their own, opening of course to them and their children all places of power and trust.
    GoW 4.276 5 [Goethe] hates...to be made to say over again some old wife's fable that has had possession of men's faith these thousand years. He may as well see if it is true as another. He sifts it. I am here, he would say, to be the measure and judge of these things. Why should I take them on trust?
    ET5 5.99 17 ...[the English] have solidarity, or responsibleness, and trust in each other.
    ET17 5.298 5 ...let us say of [Wordsworth] that, alone in his time, he treated the human mind well, and with an absolute trust.
    Pow 6.79 25 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
    Bhr 6.192 26 That is the charm in all good novels...that the heroes...deal loyally and with a profound trust in each other.
    Wsp 6.211 14 ...if an adventurer...procure himself to be elected to a post of trust...by the same arts as we detest in the house-thief,--the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...
    Wsp 6.221 21 ...let me suggest to [the reader] by a few examples what kind of a trust this is [in the moral sentiment], and how real.
    Wsp 6.234 4 Hafiz writes,--At the last day, men shall wear/ On their heads the dust,/ As ensign and as ornament/ Of their lowly trust.
    Wsp 6.238 24 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely...the terror of its being taken away... The whole revelation that is vouchsafed us is the gentle trust, which, in our experience, we find will cover also with flowers the slopes of this chasm.
    Farm 7.144 4 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it. We have not failed of our trust...
    QO 8.190 14 Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust, in another mouth.
    Aris 10.37 4 From the folly of too much association we must come back to the repose of self-reverence and trust.
    Aris 10.65 27 To many the word [Gentleman] expresses...only graceful manners, and independence in trifles; but the fountains of that thought are in the deeps of man...a self-trust which is a trust in God himself.
    Chr2 10.122 13 [Character]...does not ask, in the absoluteness of its trust, even for the assurance of continued life.
    Edc1 10.128 26 Every one has a trust of power...
    Edc1 10.136 11 One fact...inspires all my trust, viz., this perpetual youth, which, as long as there is any good in us, we cannot get rid of.
    Edc1 10.143 9 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life-Hodson who took prisoner the king of Delhi. They teach the same truth,-a trust...in your own worth...
    SovE 10.201 11 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. ... He interrupts for the moment your peaceful trust in the Divine Providence.
    MoL 10.254 23 ...the scholars, the seers, have been false to their trust.
    Schr 10.263 13 The scholar is here to fill others with love and courage by confirming their trust in the love and wisdom which are at the heart of all things;...
    LVB 11.89 6 Before any acts contrary to his own judgment or interest have repelled the affections of any man, each may look with trust and living anticipation to your [Van Buren's] government.
    EWI 11.142 14 The recent testimonies...of Gurney, of Philippo, are very explicit on this point, the capacity and the success of the colored and the black population [in the West Indies] in employments of skill, of profit and of trust;...
    EWI 11.142 19 [West Indian negroes] receive hints and advances from the whites that they will be gladly received...as members of this or that committee of trust.
    War 11.163 6 ...it is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas...
    War 11.175 4 ...if the search of the sublime laws of morals and the sources of hope and trust, in man, and not in books, in the present, and not in the past, proceed;...then war has a short day...
    FSLN 11.235 1 To make good the cause of Freedom, you must draw off from all foolish trust in others.
    ALin 11.331 4 ...when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President]...we heard the result coldly and sadly. It seemed too rash, on a purely local reputation, to build so grave a trust in such anxious times;...
    PLT 12.56 16 There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is trust, religion...
    II 12.76 8 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power.
    II 12.87 24 ...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.
    II 12.89 4 The joy of knowledge, the late discovery that the veil which hid all things from him is really transparent, transparent everywhere to...the heart of trust which every perception fortifies,-renew life for [a man].
    CInt 12.116 24 ...the college was false to its trust...
    MLit 12.331 3 ...we are not [in Wilhelm Meister] transported out of the dominion of the senses...or armed with a grand trust.

Trust, n. (1)

    SovE 10.193 23 To good men, as we call good men, this doctrine of Trust is an unsounded secret.

trust, v. (42)

    Nat 1.3 21 We must trust the perfection of the creation...
    AmS 1.97 14 I will not...trust the revenue of some single faculty...
    MR 1.244 18 We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend...
    LT 1.276 11 The Reformers affirm the inward life, but they do not trust it...
    LT 1.276 19 The love which lifted men to the sight of these better ends was...the disposition to trust a principle more than a material force.
    Con 1.299 11 Conservatism...believes...that for me it avails not to trust in principles...
    SR 2.47 12 Trust thyself...
    SR 2.73 12 I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly... whatever inly rejoices me...
    SR 2.75 1 ...it demands something godlike in him who...has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
    SL 2.159 9 [A man's] sin...mars all his good impression. Men know not why they do not trust him, but they do not trust him.
    SL 2.159 10 [A man's] sin...mars all his good impression. Men know not why they do not trust him, but they do not trust him.
    Lov1 2.176 23 The trees of the forest, the waving grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent; and [the lover] almost fears to trust them with the secret which they seem to invite.
    Fdsp 2.211 7 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me. It is a spiritual gift... ... In these warm lines the heart will trust itself...
    Prd1 2.237 5 Trust men and they will be true to you;...
    Int 2.330 4 Trust the instinct to the end...
    Pol1 3.212 14 We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws.
    NER 3.285 19 Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives?
    NMW 4.248 3 I think all men...know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they dare not trust their presentiments.
    GoW 4.288 13 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's] tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture. It was the infirmity of an admirable scholar...who did not quite trust the compensations of poverty and nakedness.
    ET11 5.191 24 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and the linen-draper and the stationer were out of pocket and refusing to trust him...
    Clbs 7.245 25 The poet Marvell was wont to say that he would not drink wine with any one with whom he could not trust his life.
    SA 8.98 17 ...even if you could trust yourself on that perilous topic [sickness], beware of unmuzzling a valetudinarian, who will soon give you your fill of it.
    Elo2 8.132 22 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech... that of political advice and persuasion...reaching, as all good men trust, into a vast future...
    Imtl 8.329 12 A man of affairs is afraid to die...because he...is the victim of those who have moulded the religious doctrines into some neat and plausible system...for household use. It is the fear of the young bird to trust its wings.
    Imtl 8.338 2 All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
    Dem1 10.20 18 It is curious to see what grand powers we have a hint of and are mad to grasp, yet how slow Heaven is to trust us with such edge-tools.
    Dem1 10.26 15 I say to the table-rappers:-I well believe/ Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know,/ And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate./
    Aris 10.39 18 I wish...men who are charmed by the beautiful Nemesis as well as by the dire Nemesis, and dare trust their inspiration for their welcome;...
    MMEm 10.421 3 Am I [Mary Moody Emerson], poor victim, swept on through the sternest ordinations of Nature's laws, which slay? yet I 'll trust.
    GSt 10.502 17 Mr. [George] Stearns...had the magnanimity to trust [John Brown] entirely...
    FSLC 11.194 1 Mr. Webster tells the President that he has been in the North, and he has found no man, whose opinion is of any weight, who is opposed to the [Fugitive Slave] law. Oh, Mr. President, trust not the information!
    ALin 11.328 18 [The people] knew that outward grace is dust;/ They could not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's [Lincoln's] unfaltering skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent, like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust./
    RBur 11.439 9 ...I must trust to the inspirations of the theme [of the Burns Festival] to make a fitness which does not otherwise exist.
    FRO2 11.487 16 All education is to accustom [man] to trust himself...
    PLT 12.6 19 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is...that [the student] shall see in [the mind] the source of all traditions, and shall see each one of them as better or worse statement of its revelations; shall come to trust it entirely, as the only true;...
    PLT 12.37 9 If we could retain our early innocence, we might trust our feet uncommanded to take the right path to our friend in the woods.
    PLT 12.42 5 ...I hear a whisper, which I dare trust, that [perception] is the thread on which the earth and the heaven of heavens are strung.
    PLT 12.45 9 There is indeed this vice about men of thought, that you cannot quite trust them;...
    II 12.80 15 We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought.
    II 12.82 6 Trust entirely the thought.
    CW 12.174 5 [A man in his wood-lot] can fancy that the birds know him and trust him...
    Let 12.396 3 We shall hardly trust ourselves to reply to arguments by which we would gladly be persuaded.

trusted, adj. (1)

    EdAd 11.388 23 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England, the trusted leaders of her counsels...say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.

trusted, v. (25)

    LT 1.276 25 I think that the soul of reform; the conviction that not sensualism...not even government, are needed,-but...reliance on the sentiment of man, which will work best the more it is trusted;...
    Hist 2.35 7 ...all the postulates of elfin annals,--that the fairies do not like to be named; that their gifts are capricious and not to be trusted;...I find true in Concord...
    SR 2.47 2 [The divine idea] may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues...
    Lov1 2.188 24 The soul may be trusted to the end.
    OS 2.285 14 In that other [man]...authentic signs had yet passed, to signify that he might be trusted as one who had an interest in his own character.
    Exp 3.56 9 A deduction must be made from the opinion which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence. Their opinion...is nowise to be trusted as the lasting relation between that intellect and that thing.
    Chr1 3.91 10 The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely the power to make his talent trusted.
    Nat2 3.186 11 [Nature]...has secured the symmetrical growth of the [the child's] bodily frame by all these attitudes and exertions,--an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.
    Pol1 3.219 21 A man has a right...to be trusted...
    NER 3.265 22 The candidate my party votes for is not to be trusted with a dollar...
    ET1 5.17 15 [Carlyle]...recounted the incredible sums paid in one year by the great booksellers for puffing. Hence it comes that no newspaper is trusted now...
    ET18 5.304 23 ...we say that only the English race can be trusted with freedom...
    DL 7.105 27 What a holiday is the first snow in which Twoshoes can be trusted abroad!
    SA 8.84 24 Character must be trusted;...
    Grts 8.307 3 ...there is a teaching for [every man] from within...and, the more it is trusted, separates and signalizes him...
    Dem1 10.21 7 ...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 bank-messenger in the country, can well be spared. Men are not fit to be trusted with these talismans.
    Edc1 10.148 6 ...this function of opening and feeding the human mind...is not to be trusted to any skill less large than Nature itself.
    SovE 10.207 13 The human mind, when it is trusted, is never false to itself.
    Schr 10.283 22 ...trusted and obeyed in happy natures [mother-wit] becomes active and salient...
    LLNE 10.353 9 Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's] design have also believed...that the method of each associate might be trusted...
    MMEm 10.431 21 ...how much I [Mary Moody Emerson] trusted [God] with every event till I learned the order of human events from the pressure of wants.
    Thor 10.484 1 Only he can be trusted with gifts who can present a face of bronze to expectations.
    War 11.174 27 ...if the desire of a large class of young men for a faith and hope, intellectual and religious, such as they have not yet found, be an omen to be trusted;...then war has a short day...
    EPro 11.325 13 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race, and so allow its reconstruction on a just and healthful basis. Then...Nature and trade may be trusted to establish a lasting peace.
    ALin 11.335 1 If ever a man was fairly tested, [Lincoln] was. There was no lack of resistance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule. The times have allowed no state secrets;...such multitudes had to be trusted, that no secret could be kept.

Trustee, n. (1)

    SR 2.63 24 The magnetism which all original action exerts is explained when we inquire the reason of self-trust. Who is the Trustee?

trustees, n. (3)

    FSLC 11.185 3 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...husbands, fathers, trustees, friends...who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but canting fanaticism...
    CPL 11.497 21 The chairman of Mr. [William] Munroe's trustees has told you how old is the foundation of our village library...
    FRep 11.519 20 We have seen the great party of property and education in the country drivelling and huckstering away...the dearest hopes of mankind; the trustees of power only energetic when mischief could be done...

trusting, v. (6)

    DSA 1.146 21 By trusting your own heart, you shall gain more confidence in other men.
    Tran 1.338 12 ...we have yet no man...who, trusting to his sentiments, found life made of miracles;...
    Int 2.330 6 By trusting [the instinct] to the end, it shall ripen into truth...
    NER 3.273 18 It is a foolish cowardice which keeps us from trusting [men]...
    SovE 10.193 20 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart. It did itself create and distribute all that is created and distributed, and, trusting to its power, we cease to care for what it will certainly order well.
    MAng1 12.227 17 ...in painting, [Michelangelo] not only mixed but ground his colors himself, trusting no one.

trustless, n. (1)

    AmS 1.105 3 ...we are the cowed, - we the trustless.

trusts, n. (2)

    NMW 4.243 10 The necessity of [Napoleon's] position required a hospitality to every sort of talent, and its appointment to trusts;...
    Farm 7.140 12 [The farmer] has grave trusts confided to him.

trusts, v. (2)

    MN 1.206 25 ...nobody will read [Parliamentary Debates] who trusts his own eye...
    Pt1 3.27 12 ...the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse's neck and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road...

trustworthy, adj. (4)

    SR 2.47 18 Great men have always...confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart...
    QO 8.204 14 ...the words overheard at unawares by the free mind, are trustworthy and fertile when obeyed...
    Thor 10.481 20 [Thoreau] thought the scent a more oracular inquisition than the sight,-more oracular and trustworthy.
    CL 12.139 23 ...among our many prognostics of the weather, the only trustworthy one that I know is that, when it is warm, it is a sign that it is going to be cold.

trusty, adj. (3)

    Boks 7.205 20 Now having our idler safe down as far as the fall of Constantinople in 1453, he is in very good courses; for here are trusty hands waiting for him.
    JBB 11.266 13 Then [John Brown] grasped his trusty rifle, and boldly fought for Freedom;/ Smote from border unto border the fierce invading band/...
    TPar 11.285 11 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends.

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