Truth to Turnips

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

Truth. (1)

    Chr2 10.95 28 Truth, Power, Goodness, Beauty, are [the moral sentiment' s] varied names...

truth, n. (630)

    Nat 1.4 5 [Man] acts [his condition] as life, before he apprehends it as truth.
    Nat 1.4 14 We are now so far from the road to truth, that religious teachers dispute and hate each other...
    Nat 1.4 17 ...to a sound judgment, the most abstract truth is the most practical.
    Nat 1.21 20 ...an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple...
    Nat 1.24 19 Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
    Nat 1.29 25 A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol... depends...upon his love of truth and his desire to communicate it without loss.
    Nat 1.30 5 When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    Nat 1.30 25 ...picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God.
    Nat 1.33 16 ...the proverbs of nations consist usually of a natural fact, selected as a picture or parable of a moral truth.
    Nat 1.35 14 ...the love of truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand [Nature's] text.
    Nat 1.35 24 That which was unconscious truth, becomes...a part of the domain of knowledge...
    Nat 1.41 22 The first and gross manifestation of this truth [of the doctrine of Use] is our inevitable and hated training in values and wants...
    Nat 1.42 19 The moral influence of nature upon every individual is that amount of truth which it illustrates to him.
    Nat 1.43 11 The fable of Proteus has a cordial truth.
    Nat 1.44 19 Every universal truth which we express in words, implies or supposes every other truth.
    Nat 1.44 20 Every universal truth which we express in words, implies or supposes every other truth.
    Nat 1.44 24 Every such truth is the absolute Ens seen from one side.
    Nat 1.45 2 [Words] cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth.
    Nat 1.55 15 The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.
    Nat 1.55 16 The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.
    Nat 1.57 22 ...we learn...that with a perception of truth...[time and space] have no affinity.
    Nat 1.64 15 ...being admitted to behold the absolute natures of justice and truth...we learn that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator...
    Nat 1.64 23 This [spiritual] view...carries upon its face the highest certificate of truth...
    Nat 1.66 12 ...the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world...
    Nat 1.69 27 ...poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
    Nat 1.70 4 ...we learn to prefer...sentences which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
    Nat 1.74 15 Is not prayer also a study of truth...
    Nat 1.75 25 [The world] shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, - What is truth?...
    AmS 1.87 16 ...perhaps we shall get at the truth...by considering [books'] value alone.
    AmS 1.87 24 [Nature] came into [the scholar] life; it went out from him truth.
    AmS 1.88 6 ...it depends on how far the process had gone, of transmuting life into truth.
    AmS 1.90 8 The soul active sees absolute truth and utters truth, or creates.
    AmS 1.91 1 ...let [the soul] receive from another mind its truth...and a fatal disservice is done.
    AmS 1.94 23 Without [action] thought can never ripen into truth.
    AmS 1.106 2 The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth...
    AmS 1.109 25 Do we fear lest we should...drink truth dry?
    DSA 1.123 12 ...speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance.
    DSA 1.123 14 Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers...
    DSA 1.126 26 ...the oracles of this truth cease never...
    DSA 1.128 9 The truth contained in [the Christian church], you...are now setting forth to teach.
    DSA 1.129 15 ...the figures of [Jesus's] rhetoric have usurped the place of his truth;...
    DSA 1.131 16 One would rather be A pagan, suckled in a creed outworn,/ than to be defrauded of his manly right in coming into nature and finding... even virtue and truth foreclosed...
    DSA 1.138 6 The capital secret of his profession, namely, to convert life into truth, [the preacher] had not learned.
    DSA 1.139 14 There is poetic truth concealed in all the commonplaces of prayer and of sermons...
    DSA 1.151 3 What hinders that now...you speak the very truth...
    LE 1.158 10 The resources of the scholar are co-extensive with nature and truth...
    LE 1.164 25 ...we must...pass...by assiduous love and watching, into the visions of absolute truth.
    LE 1.165 9 ...what hinders [men] in the particular is the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth.
    LE 1.171 11 It looks as if [the French Eclectics] had all truth...
    LE 1.171 14 ...Truth is such a fly-away...
    LE 1.171 21 ...truth will not be compelled in any mechanical manner.
    LE 1.183 25 ...let [the scholar]...wait in patience, knowing that truth can make even silence eloquent and memorable.
    LE 1.183 26 Truth shall be policy enough for [the scholar].
    LE 1.185 19 If...God have called any of you to explore truth and beauty, be bold, be firm, be true.
    LE 1.186 20 Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth...
    LE 1.187 12 [Thought] will impledge you to truth by the love and expectation of generous minds.
    MN 1.197 17 When man curses, nature still testifies to truth and love.
    MN 1.198 25 Empedocles undoubtedly spoke a truth of thought, when he said, I am God;...
    MN 1.199 4 ...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 1.210 3 ...if [a man's] eye is set...not on the truth that is still taught... then the voice grows faint...
    MN 1.213 21 ...we have...in the oracles ascribed to the half fabulous Zoroaster, a statement of this fact which every lover and seeker of truth will recognize.
    MN 1.221 10 Truth is always holy, holiness is always wise.
    MN 1.222 11 The one condition coupled with the gift of truth is its use.
    MN 1.222 14 Emanuel Swedenborg affirmed that it was opened to him that the spirits who knew truth in this life, but did it not, at death shall lose their knowledge.
    MR 1.242 8 ...no separation from labor can be without some loss of power and of truth to the seer himself;...
    MR 1.248 11 What is a man born for but to be...a restorer of truth and good...
    LT 1.277 16 [The Reforms] mix the fire of the moral sentiment, with...the blindness that prefers some darling measure to justice and truth.
    LT 1.278 19 I must get with truth, though I should never come to act, as you call it, with effect.
    LT 1.283 22 The thinker...never invites me to be present with him at his invocation of truth...
    LT 1.284 6 ...we begin to doubt...whether [Reform] be not...a paper blockade, in which each party is to display the utmost resources of his spirit and belief, and no conflict occur, but the world shall take that course which the demonstration of the truth shall indicate.
    Con 1.298 25 ...conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.
    Con 1.301 24 Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.
    Con 1.302 2 ...we must...suffer men...to pair off into insane parties, and learn the amount of truth each knows by the denial of an equal amount of truth.
    Con 1.302 3 ...we must...suffer men...to pair off into insane parties, and learn the amount of truth each knows by the denial of an equal amount of truth.
    Con 1.309 11 I must tell you the truth practically;...
    Con 1.314 2 A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will. Then the principle of love and truth reappears in the strictest courts of fashion and property.
    Con 1.318 20 ...[the conservative party] lives in the senses, not in truth;...
    Con 1.321 19 Instead of that reliance which the soul suggests, on the eternity of truth and duty, men are misled into a reliance on institutions...
    Con 1.321 24 As it loses its truth, [religion] loses its credit with the sagacious.
    Con 1.326 8 [The boldness of the hope men entertain] calms and cheers them with the picture of a simple and equal life of truth and piety.
    Tran 1.332 13 One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...the multiplication table has been hitherto found unimpeachable truth;...
    Tran 1.351 23 Cannot we screw our courage to patience and truth...
    YA 1.389 25 The private mind has the access to the totality of goodness and truth...
    YA 1.391 13 Nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the State and the individual are alike ephemeral.
    Hist 2.23 19 ...every thing is in turn intelligible to [the individual], as his onward thinking leads him into the truth to which that fact or series belongs.
    Hist 2.27 1 ...when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more.
    Hist 2.27 16 When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to [the student]...a prayer of his youth, he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition...
    Hist 2.29 12 ...in that protest which each considerate person makes against the superstition of his times, he repeats step for step the part of old reformers, and in the search after truth finds, like them, new perils to virtue.
    SR 2.51 8 I ought to...speak the rude truth in all ways.
    SR 2.51 20 ...truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.
    SR 2.55 9 [Conformists'] every truth is not quite true.
    SR 2.64 24 We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth...
    SR 2.64 26 ...when we discern truth, we do nothing of ourselves...
    SR 2.68 16 ...the highest truth on this subject remains unsaid;...
    SR 2.72 20 ...let us...wake...courage and constancy, in our Saxon breasts. This is to be done in our smooth times by speaking the truth.
    SR 2.73 18 If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions;...
    SR 2.73 23 It is alike your interest...and all men's...to live in truth.
    SR 2.73 25 ...if we follow the truth it will bring us out safe at last.
    SR 2.74 4 ...all persons have their moments...when they look out into the region of absolute truth;...
    SR 2.75 12 We are afraid of truth...
    SR 2.78 16 We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company, instead of imparting to them truth and health...
    Comp 2.93 23 ...if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many dark hours...
    Comp 2.95 14 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success, instead of confronting and convicting the world from the truth;...
    Comp 2.100 3 Has [the man of genius] all that the world loves and admires and covets?--he must...afflict them by faithfulness to his truth...
    Comp 2.109 2 Still more striking is the expression of this fact [of Compensation] in the proverbs of all nations, which are always...the statements of an absolute truth without qualification.
    Comp 2.116 1 [The traitor] finds that things are arranged for truth and benefit...
    Comp 2.117 11 ...no man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it...
    Comp 2.120 10 Hours of sanity and consideration are always arriving to communities, as to individuals, when the truth is seen and the martyrs are justified.
    Comp 2.121 6 Being is the vast affirmative...swallowing up all relations, parts and times within itself. Nature, truth, virtue, are the influx from thence.
    SL 2.131 16 If in the hours of clear reason we should speak the severest truth, we should say that we had never made a sacrifice.
    SL 2.136 26 If we look wider...laws and letters and creeds and modes of living seem a travesty of truth.
    SL 2.139 22 Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom...and you are without effort impelled to truth...
    SL 2.139 25 Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom...and you are without effort impelled...to right and a perfect contentment. ... Then you are...the measure...of truth...
    SL 2.155 19 Truth has not single victories;...
    SL 2.156 19 Truth tyrannizes over the unwilling members of the body.
    SL 2.156 23 When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens.
    SL 2.160 16 Let us...learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
    Lov1 2.171 1 ...it is to be hoped that...we may attain to that inward view of the law which shall describe a truth ever young and beautiful...
    Lov1 2.171 19 Every thing is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth.
    Lov1 2.172 9 How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature!
    Lov1 2.174 23 ...it may seem to many men...that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft, surpassing the deep attraction of its own truth, to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
    Fdsp 2.200 27 ...let us approach our friend with an audacious trust in the truth of his heart...
    Fdsp 2.202 5 ...he alone is victor who has truth enough in his constitution to preserve the delicacy of his beauty from the wear and tear of [Time, Want, Danger].
    Fdsp 2.202 14 There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship, each so sovereign that I can detect...no reason why either should be first named. One is truth.
    Fdsp 2.202 24 Sincerity is the luxury allowed...only to the highest rank; that being permitted to speak truth...
    Fdsp 2.203 19 No man would think...of putting [a man I knew] off with any chat of markets or reading-rooms. But every man was constrained by so much sincerity to the like plaindealing, and...what symbol of truth he had, he did certainly show him.
    Prd1 2.229 15 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
    Prd1 2.236 26 Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar...
    Prd1 2.240 24 ...truth, frankness, courage, love, humility and all the virtues range themselves on the side of prudence...
    Hsm1 2.250 1 ...let [a man]...with perfect urbanity dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech...
    Hsm1. 2.252 3 [Heroism] speaks the truth...
    Hsm1 2.259 7 ...a better valor and a purer truth shall one day organize [many extraordinary young men's] belief.
    Hsm1 2.261 15 To speak the truth, even with some austerity...seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty...
    OS 2.277 27 ...the best minds, who love truth for its own sake, think much less of property in truth.
    OS 2.278 1 ...the best minds, who love truth for its own sake, think much less of property in truth.
    OS 2.278 19 I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbors, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play...
    OS 2.279 17 The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth.
    OS 2.279 17 We know truth when we see it...
    OS 2.279 21 Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?
    OS 2.279 22 We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
    OS 2.280 5 In the book I read, the good thought returns to me, as every truth will, the image of the whole soul.
    OS 2.280 18 ...beyond this recognition of its own in particular passages of the individual's experience, [the soul] also reveals truth.
    OS 2.280 22 ...the soul's communication of truth is the highest event in nature...
    OS 2.280 26 ...in proportion to that truth [a man] receives, [the soul] takes him to itself.
    OS 2.281 10 A thrill passes through all men at the reception of new truth...
    OS 2.283 20 To truth, justice, love...the idea of immutableness is essentially associated.
    OS 2.288 16 In these instances [the scholar and author]...we feel that a man' s talents stand in the way of his advancement in truth.
    OS 2.288 25 Humanity shines in Homer...in Milton. They are content with truth.
    OS 2.291 11 Nothing can pass [in the soul]...but...dealing man to man in naked truth...
    Cir 2.301 14 Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn;...
    Cir 2.304 6 The extent to which this generation of circles, wheel without wheel, will go, depends on the force or truth of the individual soul.
    Cir 2.306 11 Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him...I see not how it can be otherwise.
    Cir 2.307 15 For every friend whom he loses for truth, [a man] gains a better.
    Cir 2.307 22 Rich, noble and great [persons called high and worthy] are by the liberality of our speech, but truth is sad.
    Cir 2.309 11 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man... cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth...
    Cir 2.311 3 O, what truths profound and executable only in ages and orbs, are supposed in the announcement of every truth!
    Cir 2.316 13 For me...love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred;...
    Cir 2.319 22 ...let [the man and woman of seventy] behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted...
    Cir 2.320 3 No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow...
    Cir 2.320 15 I can know that truth is divine and helpful;...
    Int 2.326 1 Intellect and intellection signify to the common ear consideration of abstract truth.
    Int 2.327 5 ...a truth, separated by the intellect, is no longer a subject of destiny.
    Int 2.328 20 Our truth of thought is...vitiated as much by too violent direction given by our will, as by too great negligence.
    Int 2.329 10 As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result, and all men and all the ages confirm it. It is called truth.
    Int 2.329 12 As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result, and all men and all the ages confirm it. It is called truth. But the moment we...attempt to correct and contrive, it is not truth.
    Int 2.330 7 By trusting [the instinct] to the end, it shall ripen into truth...
    Int 2.331 7 At last comes the era of reflection...when we of set purpose sit down to consider an abstract truth;...
    Int 2.331 13 I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth...
    Int 2.331 22 We all but apprehend, we dimly forebode the truth.
    Int 2.331 23 We say I will walk abroad, and the truth will take form and clearness to me.
    Int 2.332 2 ...in a moment, and unannounced, the truth appears.
    Int 2.332 19 Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind...
    Int 2.335 9 [The thought] is the advent of truth into the world...
    Int 2.336 6 ...all men have some access to primary truth...
    Int 2.339 3 Truth is our element of life...
    Int 2.339 4 ...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted...
    Int 2.339 6 ...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted...
    Int 2.341 9 ...the truth was in us before it was reflected to us from natural objects;...
    Int 2.341 20 [The scholar] must worship truth...
    Int 2.341 25 God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
    Int 2.342 5 ...he [in whom the love of repose predominates] shuts the door of truth.
    Int 2.342 5 He in whom the love of truth predominates will keep himself aloof from all moorings, and afloat.
    Int 2.342 11 ...he [in whom the love of truth predominates] is a candidate for truth...
    Int 2.342 16 The circle of the green earth he [in whom the love of truth predominates] must measure with his shoes to find the man who can yield him truth.
    Int 2.342 20 As long as I hear truth I am bathed by a beautiful element...
    Int 2.343 3 ...a true and natural man contains and is the same truth which an eloquent man articulates;...
    Int 2.344 25 I were a fool not to sacrifice a thousand Aeschyluses to my intellectual integrity. Especially take the same ground in regard to abstract truth...
    Int 2.346 17 The truth and grandeur of [the Greek philosophers'] thought is proved by its scope and applicability...
    Art1 2.365 10 The sweetest music is...in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.
    Pt1 3.4 21 ...this hidden truth, that the fountains whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful, draws us to the consideration of the nature and functions of the Poet, or the man of Beauty;...
    Pt1 3.5 12 [The poet] is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his art...
    Pt1 3.5 14 ...all men live by truth...
    Pt1 3.6 27 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. These stand respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the love of beauty.
    Pt1 3.11 27 Man...still watches for the arrival of a brother who can hold him steady to a truth until he has made it his own.
    Pt1 3.12 6 ...from the heaven of truth I shall see and comprehend my relations.
    Pt1 3.26 1 Why should not the symmetry and truth that modulate these [aspects of nature], glide into our spirits...
    Pt1 3.33 13 On the brink of the waters of life and truth, we are miserably dying.
    Pt1 3.34 1 ...all books of the imagination endure, all which ascend to that truth that the writer sees nature beneath him, and uses it as his exponent.
    Pt1 3.34 24 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith;...
    Pt1 3.35 24 When some of [Swedenborg's] angels affirmed a truth, the laurel twig which they held blossomed in their hands.
    Exp 3.48 12 There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here at least we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth.
    Exp 3.52 3 In truth [men] are all creatures of given temperament...
    Exp 3.54 24 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the heart, lover of absolute good, intervenes for our succor...
    Exp 3.81 12 The life of truth is cold and so far mournful;...
    Exp 3.84 22 I hear always the law of Adrastia, that every soul which had acquired any truth, should be safe from harm until another period.
    Chr1 3.95 13 Truth is the summit of being;...
    Chr1 3.95 26 ...it is the privilege of truth to make itself believed.
    Chr1 3.96 3 An individual is an encloser. Time and space...truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
    Chr1 3.98 24 It is disgraceful to fly to events for confirmation of our truth and worth.
    Chr1 3.109 19 The Yunani sage, on seeing that chief [Zertusht], said, This form and this gait cannot lie, and nothing but truth can proceed from them.
    Chr1 3.112 7 Could we not pay our friend the compliment of truth, of silence, of forbearing?
    Mrs1 3.122 24 The gentleman is a man of truth...
    Mrs1 3.123 1 Beyond this fact of truth and real force, the word [gentleman] denotes good-nature or benevolence;...
    Mrs1 3.136 5 ...the first point of courtesy must always be truth...
    Mrs1 3.138 25 I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws than with a sloven and unpresentable person.
    Nat2 3.189 13 ...perhaps the discovery...that though we should hold our peace the truth would not the less be spoken, might check injuriously the flames of our zeal.
    Pol1 3.199 20 ...society is fluid;...any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement and compel the system to gyrate round it; as...every man of truth, like Plato or Paul, does forever.
    Pol1 3.213 5 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. ... This truth and justice men presently endeavor to make application of to the measuring of land...
    Pol1 3.214 9 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I overstep the truth...
    NR 3.225 3 Each [man] is a hint of the truth...
    NR 3.225 4 Each [man] is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us.
    NR 3.245 9 No sentence will hold the whole truth...
    NER 3.254 26 ...we are very easily disposed to resist the same generosity of speech when we miss originality and truth to character in it.
    NER 3.257 10 The popular education has been taxed with a want of truth and nature.
    NER 3.260 21 I conceive...that [the recent philosophy] is feeling its own profound truth...
    NER 3.265 15 Many of us have differed in opinion, and we could find no man who could make the truth plain, but possibly a college, or an ecclesiastical council, might.
    NER 3.266 4 ...let there be one man, let there be truth in two men, in ten men, then is concert for the first time possible;...
    NER 3.270 1 A canine appetite for knowledge was generated...and this knowledge...never took the character of substantial, humane truth...
    NER 3.271 4 ...Unwillingly the soul is deprived of truth.
    NER 3.273 17 ...[men] know the truth for their own.
    NER 3.273 19 It is a foolish cowardice which keeps us from trusting [men] and speaking to them rude truth.
    NER 3.274 3 We crave a sense of reality, though it comes in strokes of pain. I explain so,--by this manlike love of truth,--those excesses and errors into which souls of great vigor, but not equal insight, often fall.
    NER 3.278 15 Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth.
    NER 3.279 11 The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion... is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because...he feels that you have it not.
    NER 3.281 13 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think...the poet would confess...that his advantage was a knack, which might impose on indolent men but could not impose on lovers of truth;...
    NER 3.282 14 ...although I have never expressed the truth, and although I have never heard the expression of it from any other, I know that the whole truth is here for me.
    NER 3.282 16 ...I know that the whole truth is here for me.
    UGM 4.9 26 In the history of discovery, the ripe and latent truth seems to have fashioned a brain for itself.
    UGM 4.14 12 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden...of Falkland, who was so severe an adorer of truth, that he could as easily have given himself leave to steal, as to dissemble.
    UGM 4.17 8 ...we thus [through the acts of the intellect]...learn to choose men by their truest marks, taught, with Plato, to choose those who can, without aid from the eyes or any other sense, proceed to truth and to being.
    UGM 4.33 15 ...the smallest acquisition of truth or of energy, in any quarter, is so much good to the commonwealth of souls.
    PPh 4.44 26 [Plato] stands between the truth and every man's mind...
    PPh 4.46 20 The progress is to accuracy, to skill, to truth, from blind force.
    PPh 4.48 15 In the midst of the sun is the light, in the midst of the light is truth, and in the midst of truth is the imperishable being, say the Vedas.
    PPh 4.48 16 In the midst of the sun is the light, in the midst of the light is truth, and in the midst of truth is the imperishable being, say the Vedas.
    PPh 4.55 2 If he loved abstract truth, [Plato] saved himself by propounding the most popular of all principles, the absolute good...
    PPh 4.57 2 Exempt from envy, [the Supreme Ordainer] wished that all things should be as much as possible like himself. Whosoever, taught by wise men, shall admit this as the prime cause of the origin and foundation of the world, will be in the truth.
    PPh 4.60 25 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato];...
    PPh 4.63 12 The soul which has never perceived the truth, cannot pass into the human form [said Plato].
    PPh 4.63 20 I give you joy, O sons of men! that truth is altogether wholesome;...
    PPh 4.65 24 ...in the Republic [Plato says],--By each of these disciplines a certain organ of the soul is both purified and reanimated...an organ better worth saving than ten thousand eyes, since truth is perceived by this alone.
    PPh 4.68 2 Plato...saw the enlargement and nobility which come from truth itself and good itself...
    PPh 4.73 12 ...[Socrates] is...a man who was willingly confuted if he did not speak the truth...
    PNR 4.88 4 ...a very well-marked class of souls, namely those who delight in giving a spiritual, that is, an ethico-intellectual expression to every truth... are said to Platonize.
    SwM 4.116 8 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...
    SwM 4.116 11 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...
    SwM 4.116 12 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma, in place of the physical truth or precept...
    SwM 4.117 2 Lord Bacon had found that truth and nature differed only as seal and print;...
    SwM 4.123 19 There is an invariable method and order in [Swedenborg's] delivery of his truth...
    SwM 4.128 7 Do you love me? means [to Swedenborg], Do you see the same truth?
    SwM 4.128 10 Do you love me? means [to Swedenborg], Do you see the same truth? If you do, we are happy with the same happiness: but presently one of us passes into the perception of new truth;--we are divorced, and no tension in nature can hold us to each other.
    SwM 4.130 25 ...though aware that truth is not solitary nor is goodness solitary, but both must ever mix and marry, [Swedenborg] makes war on his mind...
    SwM 4.131 4 Beauty is disgraced, love is unlovely, when truth...is denied...
    SwM 4.132 26 Genius is ever haunted by similar dreams [to those of Swedenborg], when the hells and the heavens are opened to it. But these pictures are to be held...as a quite arbitrary and accidental picture of the truth,--not as the truth.
    SwM 4.136 23 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened, so that he sees with eyes and in the richest symbolic forms the awful truth of things...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
    SwM 4.139 3 Every thing is superficial and perishes but love and truth only.
    SwM 4.141 19 [Swedenborg's] spiritual world bears the same relation to the generosities and joys of truth of which human souls have already made us cognizant, as a man's bad dreams bear to his ideal life.
    MoS 4.156 2 If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits they entertain,--they...spend their days and nights...in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment...
    MoS 4.157 12 [The skeptic says] Why fancy that you have all the truth in your keeping?
    MoS 4.166 27 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I stand here for truth...
    MoS 4.170 8 Truth, or the connection between cause and effect, alone interests us.
    MoS 4.185 3 The expansive nature of truth comes to our succor...
    ShP 4.200 17 The nervous language of the Common Law...and the precision and substantial truth of the legal distinctions, are the contribution of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries where these laws govern.
    ShP 4.213 12 This power...of transferring the inmost truth of things into music and verse, makes [Shakespeare] the type of the poet...
    ShP 4.215 18 We say, from the truth and closeness of [Shakespeare's] pictures, that he knows the lesson by heart.
    NMW 4.226 3 ...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 4.250 6 ...[Napoleon] proposed to consider the probability of the destruction of the globe, either by water or by fire: at another time, the truth or fallacy of presentiments...
    NMW 4.252 4 In intervals of leisure...Napoleon appears as a man of genius directing on abstract questions the native appetite for truth...he was wont to show in war.
    NMW 4.253 22 ...[Napoleon] has not the merit of common truth and honesty.
    GoW 4.264 26 There is a certain heat in the breast which attends the perception of a primary truth...
    GoW 4.275 25 [Goethe]...has a certain gravitation towards truth.
    GoW 4.280 21 What distinguishes Goethe for French and English readers is...a habitual reference to interior truth.
    GoW 4.281 22 If [the writer] can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist and will open themselves to-morrow. There lies the burden on his mind,--the burden of truth to be declared...
    GoW 4.283 15 ...Goethe...does not speak from talent, but the truth shines through...
    GoW 4.283 20 [Goethe] has the formidable independence which converse with truth gives...
    GoW 4.284 9 [Goethe's] is not even the devotion to pure truth;...
    GoW 4.284 10 [Goethe's] is not even the devotion to pure truth; but to truth for the sake of culture.
    GoW 4.284 12 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of universal truth, to be his portion...
    GoW 4.289 1 In this aim of culture, which is the genius of [Goethe's] works, is their power. The idea of absolute, eternal truth...is higher.
    GoW 4.289 6 ...compared with any motives on which books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work] is very truth...
    GoW 4.289 7 ...compared with any motives on which books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work]...has the power to inspire which belongs to truth.
    GoW 4.290 23 The secret of genius is...first, last, midst and without end, to honor every truth by use.
    ET1 5.16 14 [Carlyle] worships a man that will manifest any truth to him.
    ET1 5.23 23 [Wordsworth] preferred such of his poems as touched the affections, to any others; for...whatever combined a truth with an affection was ktema es aei, good to-day and good forever.
    ET1 5.24 18 Wordsworth honored himself by his simple adherence to truth...
    ET4 5.67 7 On the English face are combined decision and nerve with the fair complexion, blue eyes and open and florid aspect. Hence the love of truth...
    ET5 5.75 3 ...the Saxon seriously settled in the land [England]...with German truth and adhesiveness.
    ET5 5.78 22 ...no breach of truth and plain dealing...is suffered the island [England].
    ET6 5.107 2 [The English] are positive, methodical, cleanly and formal... loving truth and religion, to be sure, but inexorable on points of form.
    ET7 5.116 10 Add to this hereditary [German] rectitude the punctuality and precise dealing which commerce creates, and you have the English truth and credit.
    ET7 5.117 8 In the nobler kinds [of animals], where strength could be afforded, [Nature's] races are loyal to truth, as truth is the foundation of the social state.
    ET7 5.117 19 ...[the English] require plain dealing of others. We will not have to do with a man in a mask. Let us know the truth.
    ET7 5.118 15 Even Lord Chesterfield...when he came to define a gentleman, declared that truth made his distinction;...
    ET7 5.119 18 Plain rich clothes, plain rich equipage, plain rich finish throughout their house and belongings mark the English truth.
    ET7 5.120 20 ...the chairman [of a St. George's festival in Montreal] complimented his compatriots, by saying, they confided that wherever they met an Englishman, they found a man who would speak the truth.
    ET7 5.120 25 In the power of saying rude truth...no men surpass [the English].
    ET8 5.129 16 The truth is [the English] have great range and variety of character.
    ET8 5.135 18 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, and profusely pouring over the cold mind of his countrymen creations of grace and truth...
    ET10 5.155 8 The respect for truth of facts in England is equalled only by the respect for wealth.
    ET11 5.176 24 I have met somewhere with a historiette, which...carries a general truth.
    ET11 5.186 8 ...if [English nobility] never hear plain truth from men, they see the best of everything...
    ET13 5.214 4 [People's] loyalty to truth and their labor and expenditure rest on real foundations, and not on a national church.
    ET14 5.233 15 When [the Englishman] is intellectual, and a poet or a philosopher, he carries the same hard truth and the same keen machinery into the mental sphere.
    ET14 5.234 8 Hudibras has the same hard mentality,--keeping the truth at once to the senses and to the intellect.
    ET14 5.258 15 ...[the Oxonian] does not value the salient and curative influence of intellectual action, studious of truth without a by-end.
    ET16 5.287 13 ...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...
    ET18 5.299 15 Truth in private life, untruth in public, marks these home-loving men [the English].
    F 6.25 23 ...if truth come to our mind we suddenly expand to its dimensions...
    F 6.28 15 ...we can see that with the perception of truth is joined the desire that it shall prevail;...
    F 6.28 25 Alaric and Bonaparte must believe they rest on a truth...
    F 6.30 1 ...no man has a right perception of any truth who has not been reacted on by it so as to be ready to be its martyr.
    F 6.44 18 The truth is in the air...
    Wth 6.116 22 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc. How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation and rapt concentration and almost a going out of the body to think!
    Ctr 6.136 22 ...our talents are as mischievous as if each had been seized upon by some bird of prey which had whisked him away from fortune, from truth...
    Bhr 6.182 14 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical. But, as it has not been given to man the power to stand guard at once over these four different simultaneous expressions of his thought, watch that one which speaks out the truth, and you will know the whole man.
    Bhr 6.186 10 Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second...is not to be resisted, as the date of the transaction is not easily found. People grow up and grow old under this infliction, and never suspect the truth...
    Bhr 6.192 22 The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is,--Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
    Bhr 6.193 6 In all the superior people I have met I notice directness, truth spoken more truly...
    Bhr 6.194 26 I am sorry, replies Napoleon [to his brother Joseph], you think you shall find your brother again only in the Elysian Fields. It is natural that at forty he should not feel toward you as he did at twelve. But his feelings toward you have greater truth and strength.
    Wsp 6.199 14 This is he men miscall Fate,/ Threading dark ways, arriving late,/ But ever coming in time to crown/ The truth, and hurl wrongdoers down./
    Wsp 6.201 13 ...I am sure that a certain truth will be said through me...
    Wsp 6.201 24 ...we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
    Wsp 6.202 13 The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe;...
    Wsp 6.207 9 [Dido] was so fair,/ So young, so lusty, with her eyen glad,/ That if that God that heaven and earthe made/ Would have a love for beauty and goodness,/ And womanhede, truth, and seemliness,/ Whom should he loven but this lady sweet?/ There n' is no woman to him half so meet./
    Wsp 6.219 20 Religion or worship is the attitude of those...who see that against all appearances the nature of things works for truth and right forever.
    Wsp 6.230 1 ...for ourselves it is really of little importance what blunders in statement we make, so only we make no wilful departures from the truth.
    Wsp 6.230 1 How a man's truth comes to mind, long after we have forgotten all his words!
    Wsp 6.230 3 How it comes to us in silent hours, that truth is our only armor in all passages of life and death!
    Wsp 6.230 7 ...cleave to the truth...and you gain a station from which you cannot be dislodged.
    CbW 6.243 8 ...Ever from one who comes to-morrow/ Men wait their good and truth to borrow./
    CbW 6.260 23 ...by gulfs of disparity, learn a wider truth and humanity than that of a fine gentleman.
    CbW 6.270 14 For remedy, while the case [of the blockhead] is yet mild, I recommend phlegm and truth;...
    CbW 6.270 15 ...let all the truth that is spoken or done be at the zero of indifferency, or truth itself will be folly.
    CbW 6.270 16 ...let all the truth that is spoken or done be at the zero of indifferency, or truth itself will be folly.
    CbW 6.273 2 An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth:-- He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,/ And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere./
    Bty 6.306 8 An adorer of truth we cannot choose but obey...
    Ill 6.322 24 ...we must...deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
    Ill 6.324 20 The intellect is stimulated by the statement of truth in a trope...
    Art2 7.37 14 On one side in primary communication with absolute truth through thought and instinct, the human mind on the other side tends...to the publication and embodiment of its thought...
    Art2 7.51 20 Proceeding from absolute mind, whose nature is goodness as much as truth, the great works [of art] are always attuned to moral nature.
    Art2 7.57 9 ...beauty, truth and goodness are not obsolete;...
    Elo1 7.85 23 In a court of justice...[the audience] really wish to sift the statements and know what the truth is.
    Elo1 7.86 17 ...it is the certainty with which...the truth stares us in the face... that makes the interest of a court-room to the intelligent spectator.
    Elo1 7.91 24 There is for every man a statement possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive...
    Elo1 7.97 24 [The moral sentiment] is what is called affirmative truth...
    Elo1 7.98 23 ...I esteem this to be [eloquence's] perfection,--when the orator sees through all masks to the eternal scale of truth...
    DL 7.117 11 ...our social forms are very far from truth and equity.
    DL 7.119 14 Honor to the house where they are simple to the verge of hardship, so that there...the soul worships truth and love...
    DL 7.123 9 [The women of Arthur's court]...said that the devil was in the mantle, for really the truth was in the mantle, and was exposing the ugliness which each would fain conceal.
    DL 7.132 9 ...the progress of truth will make every house a shrine.
    Farm 7.141 25 We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth...
    WD 7.169 16 The old Sabbath...when this hallowed hour dawns out of the deep,--a clean page, which the wise may inscribe with truth...the cathedral music of history breathes through it a psalm to our solitude.
    Boks 7.199 2 ...every fresh suggestion of modern humanity, is there [in Plato]. If the student wish to see...the supremacy of truth and the religious sentiment, he shall be contented also.
    Clbs 7.228 3 A certain truth possesses us which we in all ways strive to utter.
    Clbs 7.241 18 We consider those...who think it the highest compliment they can pay a man...to share with him the sphere of freedom and the simplicity of truth.
    Clbs 7.241 22 ...the simple lover of truth...finds himself a stranger and alien.
    Cour 7.269 20 In all applications [courage] is the same power,--the habit of reference to one's own mind, as the home of all truth and counsel...
    Cour 7.275 4 [The man with sacred courage] is free to speak truth;...
    Suc 7.294 6 Cannot we please ourselves with...gaining truth and power, without being praised for it?
    Suc 7.307 14 Truth and goodness subsist forevermore.
    Suc 7.307 24 We know...the sufficiency of truth.
    Suc 7.311 17 [The inner life] loves truth...
    PI 8.11 13 [Natural objects'] value to the intellect appears only when I hear their meaning made plain in the spiritual truth they cover.
    PI 8.12 27 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure.
    PI 8.26 14 Who has heard our hymn in the churches without accepting the truth,--As o'er our heads the seasons roll,/ And soothe with change of bliss the soul/?
    PI 8.26 27 ...against all the appearance [the true poet] sees and reports the truth, namely that the soul generates matter.
    PI 8.31 27 ...[men of the world] admit the general truth, but they and their affair always constitute a case in bar of the statute.
    PI 8.33 16 There is no choice of words for him who clearly sees the truth.
    PI 8.51 26 Rhyme, being a kind of music, shares this advantage with music, that it has a privilege of speaking truth...
    PI 8.52 7 You shall not speak ideal truth in prose uncontradicted...
    PI 8.68 19 In proportion as a man's life comes into union with truth, his thoughts approach to a parallelism with the currents of natural laws...
    PI 8.69 2 Vexatious to find poets, who are by excellence the thinking and feeling of the world, deficient in truth of intellect and of affection.
    PI 8.70 4 ...when life is true to the poles of Nature, the streams of truth will roll through us in song.
    PI 8.70 21 Every man may be, and at some time a man is, lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth...
    PI 8.74 9 One man sees a spark or shimmer of the truth and reports it, and his saying becomes a legend or golden proverb for ages...
    SA 8.90 7 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...myself, thyself, all selves, and whatever else, with a security and vivacity which belonged to the nobility of the parties and to their brave truth.
    SA 8.95 19 ...there are...brave choices enough of taking the part of truth...in privatest circles.
    SA 8.96 7 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. ... You will accept the fertile truth, instead of the solemn customary lie.
    SA 8.96 24 The main point is to throw yourself on the truth...
    SA 8.97 16 Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth...
    SA 8.99 9 ...What we want is...your content to be a vehicle of the simple truth.
    Elo2 8.110 2 True eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth;...
    Elo2 8.130 4 Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
    Elo2 8.130 7 He who would convince the worthy Mr. Dunderhead of any truth which Dunderhead does not see, must be a master of his art.
    Elo2 8.130 11 ...such practical chemistry as the conversion of a truth written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer.
    Elo2 8.130 12 ...such practical chemistry as the conversion of a truth written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer.
    Comc 8.159 11 ...the human form...suggests to our imagination the perfection of truth or goodness...
    Comc 8.159 22 ...a prophet...or a philosopher, in whom the love of truth predominates, these do not joke...
    Comc 8.160 13 The presence of the ideal of right and of truth in all action makes the yawning delinquencies of practice remorseful to the conscience...
    Comc 8.170 8 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...as if truth and virtue should be bowed out of creation by the clothes they wore, is the secret of all the fun that circulates concerning eminent fops and fashionists...
    QO 8.177 14 He who has once known [a book's] satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. Like Plato's disciple who has perceived a truth, he is preserved from harm until another period.
    QO 8.182 4 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology: the legend is tossed from believer to poet, from poet to believer...until it gets an ideal truth.
    QO 8.188 14 ...[people] live as foreigners in the world of truth...
    QO 8.192 15 [Quotation] betrays the consciousness that truth is the property of no individual...
    QO 8.192 21 The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
    QO 8.193 2 Truth is always present...
    QO 8.201 11 ...however received, these elements pass into the substance of [the individual's] constitution...and tend always to form, not a partisan, but a possessor of truth.
    QO 8.203 11 The earliest describers of savage life...have a charm of truth...
    PC 8.216 18 The truth...must always be sought in the minorities.
    PC 8.220 10 The importance of the one person who has the truth over nations who have it not, is because power obeys reality, and not appearance;...
    PC 8.220 18 How much more are...the wise and good souls...Alfred the king, Shakspeare the poet, Newton the philosopher, the perceiver and obeyer of truth,-than the foolish and sensual millions around them!
    PC 8.221 27 ...the first measure of a mind is...its capacity of truth, and its adhesion to it.
    PC 8.222 24 Why [was Newton] agitated?-but because, when he saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still...that atom draws to atom throughout Nature, and truth to truth throughout spirit?
    PC 8.230 1 ...when the wit is surrendered to intellectual truth, that is genius.
    PC 8.230 4 Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
    PC 8.233 5 There is a text in Swedenborg which tells in figure the plain truth.
    PPo 8.248 13 [The mind] indicates this respect to absolute truth by the use it makes of the symbols that are most stable and reverend...
    PPo 8.256 16 ...Seek not for faith or for truth in a world of light-minded girls;/ A thousand suitors reckons this dangerous bride./
    PPo 8.256 24 Accept whatever befalls; uncover thy brow from thy locks;/ Never to me nor to thee was option imparted;/ Neither endurance nor truth belongs to the laugh of the rose./
    PPo 8.257 18 [The rose] was of her beauty proud,/ And prouder of her youth,/ The while unto her flaming heart/ The bulbul gave his truth./
    Insp 8.281 1 ...another Arabian proverb has its coarse truth: When the belly is full, it says to the head, Sing, fellow!
    Insp 8.289 11 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    Insp 8.294 6 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is...at last...the lowliness, the outpouring, the large equality to truth of a single mind...
    Insp 8.294 8 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is...at last...the lowliness, the outpouring, the large equality to truth of a single mind,-as if in the narrow walls of a human heart the whole realm of truth...found room to exist.
    Grts 8.312 26 If it is the truth, what matters who said it?
    Grts 8.319 12 What are these [heroes] but the promise and the preparation of a day...when the measure of greatness shall be usefulness in the highest sense, greatness consisting in truth, reverence and good will?
    Grts 8.320 17 We are...forced to express our instinct of the truth by exposing the failures of experience.
    Imtl 8.322 5 Mute orator! well skilled to plead,/ And send conviction without phrase,/ Thou dost succor and remede/ The shortness of our days,/ And promise, on thy Founder's truth,/ Long morrow to this mortal youth./ Monadnoc.
    Imtl 8.326 10 No more truth can be conveyed than the popular mind can bear...
    Imtl 8.331 6 ...what is called great and powerful life...unless combined with...a taste for abstract truth...does not build up faith or lead to content.
    Imtl 8.340 9 Salt is a good preserver; cold is: but a truth cures the taint of mortality better...
    Imtl 8.340 12 A sort of absoluteness attends all perception of truth...
    Imtl 8.343 8 If truth live, I live; if justice live, I live, said one of the old saints;...
    Dem1 10.3 8 The witchcraft of sleep divides with truth the empire of our lives.
    Dem1 10.7 19 Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth.
    Dem1 10.9 16 However monstrous and grotesque [dreams'] apparitions, they have a substantial truth.
    Aris 10.39 7 I wish...men of universal politics, who are interested in things in proportion to their truth and magnitude;...
    Aris 10.39 25 ...the basis of all aristocracy must be truth...
    Aris 10.60 5 ...there is an order of men, never quite absent, who enroll no names in their archives but such as are capable of truth.
    PerF 10.76 2 ...the wise merchant by truth in his dealings finds his credit unlimited...
    PerF 10.78 16 ...not less [than Memory, Fancy, Imagination, Eloquence], method, patience, self-trust, perseverance, love, desire of knowledge, the passion for truth. These are the angels that take us by the hand...
    Chr2 10.91 11 ...in the question between truth and goodness, the moral cause of the world lies behind all else in the mind.
    Chr2 10.91 15 Surely it is not to prove or show the truth of things...no, it is for benefit, that all subsists.
    Chr2 10.94 15 He that speaks the truth executes no private function of an individual will...
    Chr2 10.96 13 ...there is...many a man who does not hesitate to lay down his life for the sake of a truth...
    Chr2 10.96 21 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/ There came a voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/ When for the truth he ought to die./
    Chr2 10.98 3 We affirm that in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and command;...that it distances and degrades all statements of whatever saints, heroes, poets, as obscure and confused stammerings before its silent revelation. They report the truth. It is the truth.
    Chr2 10.100 2 Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth...
    Chr2 10.100 5 ...the Deity does not break his firm laws in respect to imparting truth, more than in imparting material heat and light.
    Chr2 10.100 27 When a man is born...preferring truth, justice and the serving of all men to any honors or any gain, men readily feel the superiority.
    Chr2 10.103 7 [The moral sentiment] affirms not only its truth, but its supremacy.
    Chr2 10.105 21 Christianity was once a schism and protest against the impieties of the time, which had originally been protests against earlier impieties, but had lost their truth.
    Chr2 10.108 22 ...the stern determination to do justly, to speak the truth... was substantially the same, whether under a self-respect, or under a vow made on the knees at the shrine of Madonna.
    Chr2 10.109 11 Truth is too simple for us;...
    Chr2 10.112 26 ...it is a capital truth that Nature, moral as well as material, is always equal to herself.
    Chr2 10.115 5 The [moral] sentiment...disowns every superiority other than of deeper truth.
    Chr2 10.116 2 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church.
    Chr2 10.119 23 There is a fear that pure truth, pure morals, will not make a religion for the affections.
    Chr2 10.120 2 Character is the habit of action from the permanent vision of truth.
    Edc1 10.132 2 The truth takes flesh in forms that can express it;...
    Edc1 10.133 3 ...the event of each moment...the passing of a beautiful face, the apoplexy of our neighbor, are all tests to try our theory [of life], the approximate result we call truth...
    Edc1 10.133 4 If I have renounced the search of truth...I have died to all use of these new events...
    Edc1 10.137 14 The charm of life is...these contrasts and flavors by which Heaven has modulated the identity of truth...
    Edc1 10.139 9 [Boys] know truth from counterfeit as quick as the chemist does.
    Edc1 10.141 21 ...because of the disturbing effect of passion and sense, which by a multitude of trifles impede the mind's eye from the quiet search of that fine horizon-line which truth keeps,-the way to knowledge and power has ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and possessions;...
    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...
    Edc1 10.145 19 Happy this child...with a thought which...leads him, now into deserts, now into cities, the fool of an idea. Let him follow it in good and in evil report...it will lead him at last into the illustrious society of the lovers of truth.
    Edc1 10.151 17 Is it not manifest...that...children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?
    Supl 10.168 8 I judge by every man's truth of his degree of understanding, said Chesterfield.
    Supl 10.169 8 Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech. They are never off their centres. As soon as they swell and paint and find truth not enough for them, softening of the brain has already begun.
    Supl 10.170 26 Men of the world value truth, in proportion to their ability;...
    Supl 10.171 7 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad;...
    Supl 10.171 13 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer. The caution of the toast did honor to our village father. I wish great lords and diplomatists had as much respect for truth.
    Supl 10.176 6 The firmest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth;...
    SovE 10.185 24 The believer says to the skeptic:-One avenue was shaded from thine eyes/ Through which I wandered to eternal truth./
    SovE 10.187 18 Every truth leads in another.
    SovE 10.187 19 ...every truth brings that which will supplant it.
    SovE 10.188 22 The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.
    SovE 10.194 16 A man should be...a guest in his own thought. He is there to speak for truth; but who is he?
    SovE 10.194 17 A man should be...a guest in his own thought. He is there to speak for truth; but who is he? Some clod the truth has snatched from the ground, and with fire has fashioned to a momentary man.
    SovE 10.194 19 A man should be...a guest in his own thought. He is there to speak for truth; but who is he? Some clod the truth has snatched from the ground, and with fire has fashioned to a momentary man. Without the truth, he is a clod again.
    SovE 10.195 23 Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship...
    SovE 10.196 7 Shall we attach ourselves violently to our teachers and historical personalities, and think the foundation shaken if any fault is shown in their record? But how is the truth hurt by their falling from it?
    SovE 10.202 6 With patience and fidelity to truth [a man] may work his way through, if only by coming against somebody who believes more fables than he does;...
    SovE 10.212 20 ...what deeps of grandeur and beauty are known to us in ethical truth...
    SovE 10.213 11 Now science and philosophy recognize...how the laws of both [Spirit and Matter] are one, or how one is the realization. We are learning not to fear truth.
    Prch 10.223 24 I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion...men of sturdy truth, men of integrity and feeling for others.
    Prch 10.227 4 What is essential to the theologian is, that whilst he is... severe in his search for truth, he shall be broad in his sympathies,-not to allow himself to be excluded from any church.
    Prch 10.228 14 Mankind have been subdued to the acceptance of [Jesus's] doctrine, and cannot spare the benefit of so pure a servant of truth and love.
    Prch 10.237 5 Truth is simple, and will not be antique;...
    Prch 10.237 8 Here is thought and love and truth and duty, new as on the first day of Adam and of angels.
    MoL 10.252 20 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men, is master of all other men so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.
    MoL 10.252 22 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men, is master of all other men so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.
    MoL 10.255 7 ...it is...not at last a few individuals or any heroes, but himself only, the large equality to truth of a single mind...
    MoL 10.255 9 ...in the narrow walls of a human heart, the wide realm of truth...found room to exist.
    Schr 10.261 20 ...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some surprise that learning and truth and beauty have not let us go;...
    Schr 10.263 19 The scholar is here...to draw all men after the truth...
    Schr 10.269 14 ...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but truth...
    Schr 10.279 9 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character... so that presently...talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth...
    Schr 10.279 21 I declare anew from Heaven that truth exists new and beautiful and profitable forevermore.
    Schr 10.280 24 The objection of men of the world to what they call the morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at present, is not a hostility to their truth...
    Schr 10.281 7 We are not afraid of new truth, of truth never...no, but of a counterfeit.
    Schr 10.282 7 ...a true orator will make us feel that the states and kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and caterpillars, when seen in the light of this despised and imbecile truth.
    Schr 10.282 8 Truth alone is great.
    Schr 10.285 18 Genius has truth and clings to it...
    Plu 10.293 17 ...the simple truth is, that [Plutarch] was not the tutor of Trajan...
    Plu 10.308 5 [Plutarch] says of Socrates that he endeavored to...make truth consist with sober sense.
    Plu 10.311 23 Cannot the simple lover of truth enjoy the virtues of those he meets...
    Plu 10.312 26 Plutarch thought truth to be the greatest good that man can receive...
    Plu 10.314 20 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him...to...a regard for truth;...
    LLNE 10.337 16 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred secret to a street show. The attempt...had a certain truth in it;...
    LLNE 10.337 17 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred secret to a street show. The attempt...was a leading to a truth which had not yet been announced.
    LLNE 10.344 17 [Theodore Parker] stood altogether for practical truth;...
    LLNE 10.347 4 [Robert Owen] said that Fourier learned of him all the truth he had;...
    LLNE 10.351 26 [Fourierism] contained so much truth, and promised in the attempts that shall be made to realize it so much valuable instruction, that we are engaged to observe every step of its progress.
    LLNE 10.354 2 ...there is an intellectual courage and strength in [Fourierism] which is superior and commanding; it certifies the presence of so much truth in the theory, and in so far is destined to be fact.
    CSC 10.374 1 This [Chardon Street] Convention never printed any report of its deliberations...the professed objects of those persons who felt the greatest interest in its meetings being simply the elucidation of truth through free discussion.
    MMEm 10.411 20 What a rich day, so fully occupied in pursuing truth that I [Mary Moody Emerson] scorned to touch a novel which for so many years I have wanted.
    MMEm 10.416 16 Folly follows me [Mary Moody Emerson] as the shadow does the form. Yet my whole life devoted to find some new truth which will link me closer to God.
    MMEm 10.421 4 There was great truth in what a pious enthusiast said, that, if God should cast him into hell, he would yet clasp his hands around Him.
    SlHr 10.441 18 ...[Samuel Hoar] was not adorned with any graces of rhetoric:-But simple truth his utmost skill./
    SlHr 10.441 19 So cautious was [Samuel Hoar], and tender of the truth, that he sometimes wearied his audience with the pains he took to qualify and verify his statements...
    SlHr 10.448 27 With beams December planets dart,/ [Samuel Hoar's] cold eye truth and conduct scanned;/ July was in his sunny heart,/ October in his liberal hand./
    Thor 10.457 19 [Thoreau] was a speaker and actor of the truth...
    Thor 10.472 24 ...not a particle of respect had [Thoreau] to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to the truth itself;...
    Thor 10.476 21 Such was the wealth of [Thoreau's] truth that it was not worth his while to use words in vain.
    Thor 10.477 7 I hearing get, who had but ears,/ And sight, who had but eyes before;/ I moments live, who lived but years,/ And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore./
    Thor 10.478 18 It was easy to trace to the inexorable demand on all for exact truth that austerity which made this willing hermit [Thoreau] more solitary even than he wished.
    Carl 10.495 23 [Carlyle's] guiding genius is...his perception of the sole importance of truth and justice;...
    Carl 10.495 24 [Carlyle's] guiding genius is his moral sense...but that is a truth of character, not of catechisms.
    GSt 10.505 5 ...virtuous enough to obey to the uttermost the truth he saw,- [George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
    EWI 11.101 22 The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right...
    EWI 11.136 17 Out it would come, the God's truth, out it came [in emancipation in the West Indies], like a bolt from a cloud...
    EWI 11.146 25 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when...names which should be the alarums of liberty and the watchwords of truth, are mixed up with all the rotten rabble of selfishness and tyranny.
    War 11.156 10 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped? Of man, boy or beast, the only trait that much interests the speakers is the pugnacity. And why? Because the speaker has as yet no other image of manly activity and virtue...none of the attainment of truth.
    War 11.164 6 Observe how every truth and every error...clothes itself with societies, houses, cities...
    War 11.165 5 ...when a truth appears...it will build ships;...
    War 11.169 5 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. Let me know more of that nation;... I shall find them men of love, honor and truth;...
    War 11.173 18 ...another age comes...and a man puts himself under the dominion of principles. I see him to be the servant of truth, of love and of freedom...
    FSLC 11.182 17 The crisis [over the Fugitive Slave Law] had the illuminating power of a sheet of lightning at midnight. It showed truth.
    FSLC 11.183 5 ...you cannot rely on any man for the defence of truth, who is not constitutionally or by blood and temperament on that side.
    FSLC 11.188 26 ...whilst animals have to do with eating the fruits of the ground, men have to to with rectitude, with benefit, with truth...
    FSLC 11.213 15 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost, that the well-known sentiment of her people was not expressed. Let us correct this error. In this one fastness let truth be spoken and right done.
    FSLN 11.223 12 What gratitude does every man feel to him who...who translates truth into language entirely plain and clear!
    FSLN 11.227 7 ...Vattel, Burke, Jefferson, do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid], and I cite them...because, though lawyers and practical statesmen, the habit of their profession did not hide from them that this truth was the foundation of States.
    JBS 11.280 18 It would be far safer and nearer the truth to say that all people, in proportion to their sensibility and self-respect, sympathize with [John Brown].
    TPar 11.289 1 [Theodore Parker] never kept back the truth for fear to make an enemy.
    TPar 11.289 8 It was [Theodore Parker's] merit, like...to speak tart truth...
    TPar 11.290 5 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions...the truth is not in you;...
    TPar 11.291 6 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.
    TPar 11.292 11 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm...that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke; that the winds of Italy murmur the same truth over your grave;...
    EPro 11.324 23 ...granting the truth, rightly read, of the historical aphorism, that the people always conquer, it is to be noted that, in the Southern States, the tenure of land and the local laws, with slavery, give the social system not a democratic but an aristocratic complexion;...
    HCom 11.341 16 The old Greek Heraclitus said, War is the Father of all things. He said it, no doubt, as science, but we of this day can repeat it as political and social truth.
    EdAd 11.393 18 We entreat the aid of every lover of truth and right...
    EdAd 11.393 21 We rely on the talents and industry of good men known to us, but much more on the magnetism of truth...
    EdAd 11.393 23 We rely on the truth for and against ourselves.
    Wom 11.410 16 The spiritual force of man is as much shown in taste...as in his perception of truth.
    Wom 11.416 18 One truth leads in another by the hand;...
    SHC 11.436 20 The being that can share a thought and feeling so sublime as confidence in truth is no mushroom.
    FRO1 11.478 17 The child, the young student, finds scope in his mathematics...because he finds a truth larger than he is;...
    FRep 11.539 6 Here is the post where the patriot should plant himself; here the altar...where genius should...bring forgotten truth to the eyes of men.
    NHI 12.1 1 Bacon's perfect law of inquiry after truth was that nothing should be in the globe of matter which was not also in the globe of crystal;...
    NHI 12.1 4 Bacon's perfect law of inquiry after truth was that...nothing should take place as event in life which did not also exist as truth in the mind.
    PLT 12.6 16 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is that the student...shall come to know that in seeing and in no tradition he must find what truth is;...
    PLT 12.17 19 Above the thought is the higher truth,-truth as yet undomesticated...
    PLT 12.28 17 No quality in Nature's vast magazines [each man] cannot touch, no truth he cannot see.
    PLT 12.29 20 The truth is that every man is furnished, if he will heed it, with wisdom necessary to steer his own boat...
    PLT 12.30 15 There is always a loss of truth and power when a man leaves working for himself to work for another.
    PLT 12.32 27 A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it...
    PLT 12.40 25 ...a thought, properly speaking,-that is a truth held not from any man's saying so...is of inestimable value.
    PLT 12.46 1 A blending of these two-the intellectual perception of truth and the moral sentiment of right-is wisdom.
    PLT 12.46 24 All men know the truth, but what of that?
    PLT 12.46 27 A man tries to speak [the truth] and his voice is...rude and chiding. The truth is not spoken but injured.
    PLT 12.47 16 One meets contemplative men who dwell in a certain feeling and delight which are intellectual but wholly above their expression. They cannot formulate. They impress those who know them by their loyalty to the truth they worship but cannot impart.
    PLT 12.55 12 There is in all students a distrust of truth...
    PLT 12.60 23 The spiritual power of man is twofold...Intellect and morals; one respecting truth, the other the will.
    PLT 12.62 6 The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere, good and order, analogy, health and benefit,-the love of truth...
    II 12.66 14 All men are, in respect to this source of truth [consciousness], on a certain footing of equality...
    II 12.78 3 ...it is the curious property of truth to be uncontainable and ever enlarging.
    II 12.78 4 Truth indeed! We talk as if we had it...
    II 12.87 2 [The probity of the Intellect] consists in an absolute devotion to truth, founded in a faith in truth.
    II 12.87 7 I will speak the truth in my heart, or think the truth against what is called God.
    CInt 12.116 26 ...[the scholars] were traders and left their altars and libraries and worship of truth...
    CInt 12.117 7 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear; then the college... ceases to be a school; power oozes out of it just as fast as truth does;...
    CInt 12.117 11 This Integrity over all partial knowledge and skill, homage to truth-how rare!
    CInt 12.121 8 A certain quantity of power belongs to a certain quantity of truth.
    CInt 12.121 9 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men is master of all other men, so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.
    CInt 12.121 11 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men is master of all other men, so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.
    CInt 12.121 14 Do you imagine that a lie will nourish and work like a truth?
    CInt 12.123 22 ...the greater [talent] grows, the more is the mischief and misleading, so that presently all is wrong, talent is mistaken for genius, dogma or system for truth.
    CInt 12.124 17 If the truth must be told, thought is as rare in colleges as in cities.
    CInt 12.127 23 ...I thought a college was a place not to train talents...but to adorn Genius, which only speaks truth...
    CInt 12.127 23 ...I thought a college was a place not to train talents...but to adorn Genius, which only speaks truth, and after the way which truth uses, namely, Beauty;...
    CInt 12.128 23 If your college and your literature are not felt, it is because the truth is not in them.
    CInt 12.130 24 Homage to truth discriminates good and evil.
    CL 12.163 12 What truth, and what elegance belong to every fact of Nature, we know.
    CL 12.163 14 What truth, and what elegance belong to every fact of Nature, we know. And the study of them awakens the like truth and elegance in the student.
    Bost 12.193 2 The divine will descends into the barbarous mind in some strange disguise; its pure truth not to be guessed from the rude vizard under which it goes masquerading.
    Bost 12.193 6 The common eye cannot tell...the pure truth from the grotesque tenet which sheathes it.
    MAng1 12.217 5 This truth, that perfect beauty and perfect goodness are one, was made known to Michael Angelo;...
    Milt1 12.249 14 These writings [Milton's tracts] are wonderful for the truth, the learning...
    Milt1 12.262 4 ...[Milton] said...true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth;...
    Milt1 12.266 16 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. They give an inexhaustible truth to all his compositions.
    Milt1 12.266 17 His firm grasp of this truth [of Christian humility] is [Milton's] weapon against the prelates.
    Milt1 12.272 16 [Milton] sought absolute truth, not accomodating truth.
    Milt1 12.272 17 [Milton] sought absolute truth, not accomodating truth.
    Milt1 12.278 14 [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] was a sally of the extravagant spirit of the time...eager to carry on the standard of truth to new heights.
    ACri 12.303 23 ...literature resounds with the music of united vast ideas of affirmation and of moral truth.
    MLit 12.309 1 In our fidelity to the higher truth we need not disown our debt, in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these rude helpers.
    MLit 12.323 17 ...[Goethe] is of that comprehension which can see the value of truth.
    MLit 12.327 9 ...we claim for [Goethe] the praise of truth...
    MLit 12.327 21 Let [Goethe] have the praise of the love of truth.
    MLit 12.329 23 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...every keen beholder of life will justify my truth [in Wilhelm Meister]...
    MLit 12.329 26 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] To a profound soul is not austere truth the sweetest flattery??
    MLit 12.333 27 The Doctrine of the Life of Man established after the truth through all his faculties;-this is the thought which the literature of this hour meditates and labors to say.
    WSL 12.338 6 Add to this proud blindness [of John Bull] the better quality of great downrightness in speaking the truth...
    WSL 12.343 18 Whoever writes for the love of truth and beauty...belongs to this sacred class;...
    Pray 12.356 22 He that knows truth or verity knows what that light [of the soul] is...
    AgMs 12.362 18 The truth is, a farm will not make an honest man rich in money.
    EurB 12.366 17 [The poet's] fable must be a good story, and its meaning must hold as pure truth.
    EurB 12.370 10 Perhaps we felt the popular objection that [Tennyson] wants rude truth;...
    EurB 12.374 1 Many of the details of this novel [Zanoni] preserve a poetic truth.
    PPr 12.380 1 [Carlyle's Past and Present] is a brave and just book, and not a semblance. No new truth, say the critics on all sides. Is it so?
    PPr 12.380 2 Truth is very old...
    PPr 12.383 12 ...the truth of the present hour...is unattainable.
    PPr 12.383 15 ...to bring out the truth for beauty, and as literature, surmounts the powers of art.
    PPr 12.385 16 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...a genuine respect for the basis of truth in those whom he exposes.
    Trag 12.412 21 All that life demands of us through the greater part of the day is...open eyes and ears, and free hands. Society asks this, and truth, and love, and the genius of our life.
    Trag 12.413 26 ...in truth [the man not grounded in the divine life] was already a driving wreck before the wind arose...

Truth, n. (25)

    Nat 1.27 7 Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life, wherein...the natures of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise and shine.
    Nat 1.55 4 ...[the poet] differs from the philosopher only herein, that the one proposes Beauty as his main end; the other Truth.
    Nat 1.57 16 Whilst we behold unveiled the nature of Justice and Truth, we learn the difference between the absolute and the conditional or relative.
    DSA 1.121 6 When...[man] attains to say...Truth is beautiful...then...God is well pleased.
    LE 1.185 16 What is this Truth you seek?...men will ask, with derision.
    LE 1.186 21 Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.
    LT 1.288 22 ...where but in the intuitions which are vouchsafed us from within, shall we learn the Truth?
    Tran 1.354 19 In the eternal trinity of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty... [Transcendentalists] prefer to make Beauty the sign and head.
    SR 2.69 7 The soul raised over passion...perceives the self-existence of Truth and Right...
    Fdsp 2.197 19 Thou [my friend] art not Being, as Truth is...
    Int 2.345 16 I will not...speak to the open question between Truth and Love.
    Pol1 3.212 27 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.
    NR 3.247 9 ...the Truth sits veiled there on the Bench...
    Ill 6.324 22 ...the unities of Truth and of Right are not broken by the disguise.
    DL 7.121 19 The angels that dwell with [the eager, blushing boys] and are weaving laurels of life for their youthful brows, are Toil and Want, and Truth, and Mutual Faith.
    PC 8.221 19 To this material essence [centrality] answers Truth...
    PC 8.221 20 To this material essence [centrality] answers Truth, in the intellectual world,-Truth, whose centre is everywhere and its circumference nowhere...
    PC 8.221 24 To this material essence [centrality] answers Truth, in the intellectual world...Truth, on whose side we always heartily are.
    Chr2 10.89 2 Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,/ Sit still, and Truth is near;/...
    Chr2 10.98 4 When I think of Reason, of Truth, of Virtue, I cannot conceive them as lodged in your soul and lodged in my soul...
    Chr2 10.98 14 How can [a man] exist to weave relations of joy and virtue with other souls, but because he is inviolable, anchored at the centre of Truth and Being?
    HCom 11.340 1 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./
    PLT 12.38 1 At a moment in our history the mind's eye opens and we become aware...of rights, of duties, of thoughts,-a thousand faces of one essence. We call the essence Truth;...
    MAng1 12.217 15 Like Truth, [Beauty] is an ultimate aim of the human being.
    MLit 12.330 4 An interchangeable Truth, Beauty and Goodness, each wholly interfused in the other, must make the humors of that eye which would see causes reaching to their last effect...

Truth out of my Life, Poetr (1)

    GoW 4.285 22 [Goethe's] autobiography, under the title of Poetry and Truth out of my Life, is the expression of the idea...that a man exists for culture;...

truthful, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.64 21 [Plato] delighted...in every graceful and useful and truthful performance;...

truthfulness, n. (2)

    Prch 10.218 9 [Those persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have insight and truthfulness;...
    JBB 11.270 1 ...it is the reductio ad absurdum of Slavery, when the governor of Virginia is forced to hang a man [John Brown] whom he declares to be a man of the most integrity, truthfulness and courage he has ever met.

truth-obscuring, adj. (1)

    NMW 4.232 5 [Bonaparte] is...terrific to all talkers and confused truth-obscuring persons.

truths, n. (39)

    Nat 1.30 16 Hundreds of writers may be found...who...believe...that they see and utter truths...
    Nat 1.36 19 Nature is a discipline of the understanding in intellectual truths.
    Nat 1.63 21 ...when...we come to inquire, Whence is matter? and Whereto? many truths arise to us...
    Nat 1.69 22 The perception of this class of [spiritual] truths makes the attraction which draws men to science...
    AmS 1.99 11 Does [the great soul] lack organ or medium to impart his truths?
    DSA 1.142 16 ...there have been periods when, from the inactivity of the intellect on certain truths, a greater faith was possible in names and persons.
    Tran 1.333 18 ...[the idealist] is constrained to degrade persons into representatives of truths.
    OS 2.275 6 With each divine impulse the mind...comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world...
    Cir 2.311 1 O, what truths profound and executable only in ages and orbs, are supposed in the announcement of every truth!
    Exp 3.83 17 This is a fruit,--that I should not ask for a rash effect from meditations, counsels and the hiving of truths.
    UGM 4.21 12 How to illustrate...the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the general mind?...
    PPh 4.69 4 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images...for the other section, the objects of these images, that is, plants, animals, and the works of art and nature. Then divide the intelligible world in like manner; the one section will be of opinions and hypotheses, and the other section of truths.
    SwM 4.123 11 [Swedenborg] is superfluously explanatory, and his feeling of the ignorance of men, strangely exaggerated. Men take truths of this nature very fast.
    SwM 4.132 16 The wise people of the Greek race were accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian mysteries, wherein...the highest truths known to ancient wisdom were taught.
    GoW 4.283 2 ...the [German] professor can not divest himself of the fancy that the truths of philosophy have some application to Berlin and Munich.
    ET1 5.13 1 I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's pamphlet in The Friend] and how much I wished to see the entire work. Yes, he said, the man was a chaos of truths...
    F 6.16 19 Look at the unpalatable conclusions of Knox...a rash and unsatisfactory writer, but charged with pungent and unforgetable truths.
    F 6.26 20 [The mind] does not overvalue particular truths.
    Wth 6.100 7 [The right merchant] is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic.
    Wsp 6.205 10 These [prophetic souls] announce absolute truths...
    WD 7.174 18 To what end, then, [man] asks, should I study languages, and traverse countries, to learn so simple truths?
    Insp 8.293 21 By sympathy, each [party in good conversation] opens to the eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind. We were all lonely, thoughtless; and now...we see new relations, many truths;...
    Imtl 8.327 27 These truths, passing out of [Swedenborg's] system into general circulation, are now met with every day...
    Dem1 10.24 14 They who love [occult facts] say they are to reveal to us a world of unknown, unsuspected truths.
    Dem1 10.26 2 [Mesmerism]...is separated by celestial diameters from the love of spiritual truths.
    Chr2 10.95 8 High instincts, before which our mortal nature/ Doth tremble like a guilty thing surprised,-/ Which, be they what they may,/ Are yet the fountain-light of all our day,/ Are yet the master-light of all our seeing,-/ Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make/ Our noisy years seem moments in the being/ Of the eternal silence,-truths that wake/ To perish never./
    Chr2 10.99 16 ...slowly the soul unfolds itself in the new man. It is partial at first, and honors only some one or some few truths.
    Chr2 10.99 17 In its companions [the soul] sees other truths honored, and successively finds their foundation also in itself.
    LLNE 10.334 22 When Massachusetts was full of [Everett's] fame it was not contended that he had thrown any truths into circulation.
    MMEm 10.422 11 Dissolve the body...and we measure duration...by the activity of reason, the discovery of truths...
    LS 11.21 2 ...[Christianity] presents men with truths which are their own reason...
    HDC 11.67 7 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ... even so far as to be bringing the petitions and thank-offerings of the people unto God, and God's will and truths to the people;...
    FSLC 11.183 22 I question the value of our civilization, when I see that the public mind had never less hold of the strongest of all truths.
    PLT 12.6 4 Whilst we converse with truths as thoughts, they exist also as plastic forces;...
    PLT 12.60 6 This premature stop, I know not how, befalls most of us in early youth; as if...the access to rare truths, closed at two or three years in the child...
    CInt 12.112 16 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./
    CInt 12.116 11 If the colleges...really...had the power of imparting...truths which become powers...we should all rush to their gates;...
    PPr 12.381 5 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds...the vice [of the times] in false and superficial aims of the people, and the remedy in honesty and insight. Like every work of genius, [Carlyle's Past and Present's] great value is in telling such simple truths.
    PPr 12.381 6 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...

truth's, n. (2)

    DSA 1.148 14 ...we shall resist for truth's sake the freest flow of kindness...
    SR 2.72 27 Henceforward I am the truth's.

truth-speaker, n. (5)

    ET7 5.117 23 Alfred...is called by a writer at the Norman Conquest, the truth-speaker;...
    Prch 10.228 3 [Christianity] is the record of a pure and holy soul...a truth-speaker...
    Thor 10.478 4 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...
    GSt 10.504 9 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading, as a shining example of the manner in which a truth-speaker baffles all statecraft...
    TPar 11.291 13 There were...multitudes to censure and defame this truth-speaker [Theodore Parker].

truth-speaking, adj. (1)

    ET9 5.152 15 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...the pride of the best blood of the modern world. Strange, that the solid truth-speaking Briton should derive from an impostor.

truth-speaking, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.162 8 ...the wiser God says, Take the shame, the poverty and the penal solitude that belong to truth-speaking.
    Chr2 10.91 3 Morals respects...that which all men agree to honor as...truth-speaking...

try, v. (72)

    Nat 1.48 9 ...[nature] is ideal to me so long as I cannot try the accuracy of my senses.
    Nat 1.62 2 ...when we try to define and describe [God], both language and thought desert us...
    MN 1.197 25 Let us...try how far [the method of nature] is transferable to the literary life.
    Con 1.303 26 You are welcome to try your experiments...
    Hist 2.8 27 ...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history is commonly read...to himself, and not deny his conviction that he is the court, and if England or Egypt have anything to say to him he will try the case;...
    SR 2.58 10 Nor does it matter how you gauge and try [a man].
    Comp 2.105 20 So signal is the failure of all attempts to make this separation of the good from the tax, that the experiment would not be tried,--since to try it is to be mad,--but for the circumstance that when the disease began in the will...the intellect is at once infected...
    Lov1 2.185 11 [The lovers] try and weigh their affection...
    Prd1 2.236 11 We must not try to write the laws of any one virtue, looking at that only.
    Hsm1 2.260 8 ...when you have chosen your part...do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.
    Hsm1 2.262 11 ...whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.
    Int 2.345 8 ...[the philosopher] has not succeeded in rendering back to you your consciousness. He has not succeeded; now let another try.
    NR 3.228 14 ...as we grow older we value total powers and effects, as the impression, the quality, the spirit of men and things. The genius is all. The man,--it is his system: we do not try a solitary word or act, but his habit.
    NER 3.255 16 ...the country is full of kings. Hands off! let there be no control and no interference in the administration of the affairs of this kingdom of me. Hence the growth of the doctrine and of the party of Free Trade, and the willingness to try that experiment...
    NER 3.268 4 We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try.
    MoS 4.156 24 [The skeptic says] I neither affirm nor deny. I stand here to try the case.
    MoS 4.156 25 [The skeptic says] I am here to consider, skopein, to consider how it is. I will try to keep the balance true.
    MoS 4.184 18 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...he could try conclusions with gravitation or chemistry;...
    ET2 5.32 6 ...under the best conditions, a voyage [at sea] is one of the severest tests to try a man.
    ET3 5.36 21 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause which has agitated the whole community...
    ET8 5.136 27 After running each tendency to an extreme, [the English] try another tack with equal heat.
    F 6.8 13 ...it is of no use to try to whitewash [Providence's] huge, mixed instrumentalities...
    Wth 6.102 2 [The farmer] knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience, so much hoeing and threshing. Try to lift his dollar; you must lift all that weight.
    Wth 6.124 3 ...'t is very well that the poor husband reads in a book of a new way of living, and resolves to adopt it at home; let him go home and try it, if he dare.
    Ctr 6.162 8 Try the rough water as well as the smooth.
    Wsp 6.201 14 ...I am sure that a certain truth will be said through me... though I should try to say the reverse.
    Wsp 6.211 3 Kossuth fled hither across the ocean to try if he could rouse the New World to a sympathy with European liberty.
    Wsp 6.228 24 We need not much mind what people please to say, but what...their natures say, though their...understandings try to hold back and choke that word...
    CbW 6.261 20 ...try [a rich man] with a course of mobs;...this may be the element he wants...
    DL 7.123 5 Every one was eager to try [the fairy cloak] on, but it would fit nobody...
    Farm 7.138 17 ...you must not try to paint [the farmer] in rose-color;...
    WD 7.166 5 ...if, with all his arts, [man] is a felon, we cannot assume the mechanical skill or chemical resources as the measure of worth. Let us try another gauge.
    Clbs 7.232 1 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were; they...try many fantastic tricks...
    Suc 7.289 22 [Egotists] will not try conclusions with you.
    Suc 7.294 13 The good workman never says, There, that will do; but, There, that is it: try it, and come again, it will last always.
    PI 8.49 27 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see how wide they fly for weapons...
    PI 8.55 2 Try this strain of Beaumont and Fletcher...
    Res 8.139 14 Is there any load which water cannot lift? If there be, try steam;...
    Res 8.139 15 Is there any load which water cannot lift? If there be, try steam; or if not that, try electricity.
    Res 8.148 7 If a good story will not answer, still milder remedies sometimes serve to disperse a mob. Try sending round the contribution-box.
    PPo 8.249 17 We do not wish to...try to make mystical divinity out of the Song of Solomon...
    PPo 8.253 15 ...we must try to give some of [Hafiz's] poetic flourishes the metrical form which they seem to require...
    Dem1 10.4 22 ...[dreams] dissipate instantly and angrily if you try to hold them.
    Dem1 10.26 22 I think the rappings a new test...to try catechisms with.
    Edc1 10.133 2 ...the event of each moment...the passing of a beautiful face, the apoplexy of our neighbor, are all tests to try our theory [of life]...
    Edc1 10.138 27 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company, the merits of every engine and of every man at the brakes, how to work it, and are swift to try their hand at every part;...
    Edc1 10.152 8 Try your design on the best school.
    Supl 10.175 17 Sow grain, and it does not come up; put lime into the soil and try again, and this time [Nature] says yea.
    SovE 10.182 1 Thou shalt not try/ To plant thy shrivelled pedantry/ On the shoulders of the sky./
    Prch 10.229 19 It was said: [The clergy] have bronchitis because they read from their papers sermons with a near voice, and then, looking at the congregation, they try to speak with their far voice, and the shock is noxious.
    Prch 10.229 22 [The clergy] look into Plato, or into the mind, and then try to make parish mince-meat of the amplitudes and eternities, and the shock is noxious.
    Prch 10.232 11 ...these [day's events] are fair tests to try our doctrines by...
    Schr 10.271 4 ...if wealth has humors and wishes to shake off the yoke and assert itself,-oh, by all means let it try!
    LLNE 10.357 8 [Thoreau said] God could not be unkind to me if he should try.
    LLNE 10.360 16 [Brook Farm] was a noble and generous movement in the projectors, to try an experiment of better living.
    LLNE 10.364 9 The Founders of Brook Farm should have this praise, that they made what all people try to make, an agreeable place to live in.
    SlHr 10.447 29 [Samuel Hoar] had a huge respect for Mr. Webster's ability, with whom he had often occasion to try his strength at the bar...
    War 11.167 19 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty. There are cases frequently put by the curious,-moral problems, like those problems in arithmetic which in long winter evenings the rustics try the hardness of their heads in ciphering out.
    FSLC 11.198 8 What shall we say of the functionary by whom the recent rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made? If he has rightly defined his powers, and has no authority to try the case, but only to prove the prisoner's identity, and remand him, what office is this for a reputable citizen to hold?
    FSLN 11.231 16 We are all conservatives...in our essences: and might as well try to jump out of our skins as to escape from our Whiggery.
    SMC 11.358 9 None of us can have forgotten how sharp a test to try our peaceful people with, was the first call for troops [in the Civil War].
    Scot 11.467 10 [Scott] was...equal to whatever event or fortune should try him.
    FRO1 11.476 1 In many forms we try/ To utter God's infinity,/ But the Boundless has no form,/ And the Universal Friend/ Doth as far transcend/ An angel as a worm./
    PLT 12.58 9 The expansions [of the Intellect] are the invitations from heaven to try a larger sweep...
    II 12.72 21 It is this employment of new means...that denotes the inspired man. This is equally obvious...in action as well as in fine arts. We must try our philanthropists so.
    CL 12.156 15 If you wish to know the shortcomings of poetry and language, try to reproduce the October picture to a city company...
    Bost 12.204 26 [The people of Massachusetts] did not try to unlock the treasure of the world except by honest keys of labor and skill.
    Milt1 12.271 19 [Milton] maintained that a nation may try, judge and slay their king, if he be a tyrant.
    MLit 12.323 25 ...[Goethe] felt his entire right and duty to stand before and try and judge every fact in Nature.
    MLit 12.326 21 If we try Goethe by the ordinary canons of criticism, we should say that his thinking is of great altitude, and all level;...
    PPr 12.386 18 One can hardly credit, whilst under the spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us-as of a failed world just re-collecting its old withered forces to begin again and try to do a little business.
    Trag 12.413 10 A man should try Time...

Trygvesson, Olaf [Longfello (1)

    Suc 7.284 3 ...Olaf, King of Norway, could run round his galley on the blades of the oars of the rowers when the ship was in motion;...

Trygvesson, Olaf, of Norway (2)

    ET4 5.61 20 King Olaf said, When King Harold, my father, went westward to England, the chosen men in Norway followed him;...
    Wsp 6.205 25 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which burst asunder. Wilt thou now, Eyvind, believe in Christ? asks Olaf, in excellent faith.

Trygvesson's, Olaf, of Norw (1)

    Wsp 6.205 21 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly...

trying, v. (13)

    WD 7.163 21 Tantalus, who in old times was seen vainly trying to quench his thirst with a flowing stream which ebbed whenever he approached it, has been seen again lately.
    SA 8.81 24 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs.
    Edc1 10.138 2 You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
    Edc1 10.148 14 ...in education...we are continually trying costly machinery against nature...
    SovE 10.202 8 ...in trying to dispel the illusions of his neighbor, [a man] opens his own eyes.
    LLNE 10.358 11 Society in England and in America is trying the [Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces...
    MMEm 10.407 4 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing who...is looked up to as a specimen of genius. I performed a mission in secretly undermining his vanity, or trying to.
    MMEm 10.407 13 This seems a world rather of trying each others' dispositions than of enjoying each others' virtues.
    Thor 10.457 15 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture...was one of those old philosophical things that she did not care about. Henry turned to her...and, I saw, was trying to believe that he had matter that might fit her and her brother...
    Thor 10.473 21 [Thoreau's] visits to Maine were chiefly for love of the Indian. He had the satisfaction of seeing the manufacture of the bark canoe, as well as of trying his hand in its management on the rapids.
    EWI 11.128 13 ...England has the advantage of trying the question [of slavery] at a wide distance from the spot where the nuisance exists;...
    II 12.82 20 What is the use of trying to be somewhat else?
    CL 12.158 10 My companion and I...agreed that russet was the hue of Massachusetts, but on trying this experiment of inverting the view he said, There is the Campagna! and Italy is Massachusetts upside down.

tub, n. (2)

    Farm 7.149 3 ...the vines and stalks and stems may go sprawling about in the fields outside, [the farmer] will attend to the roots in his tub...
    PLT 12.16 3 The grandeur of the impression the stars and heavenly bodies make on us is surely more valuable than our exact perception of a tub or a table on the ground.

Tuba, n. (2)

    PPo 8.242 22 These legends [of Persian kings], with Chiser, the fountain of life, Tuba, the tree of life;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    PPo 8.255 8 In the following poem the soul is figured as the Phoenix alighting on Tuba, the Tree of Life...

Tubal Cain, n. (1)

    F 6.17 21 'T is...harder still to find the Tubal Cain...

Tuba's, n. (1)

    PPo 8.255 18 Once flees [the phoenix] upward, he will perch/ On Tuba's golden bough;/ His home is on that fruited arch/ Which cools the blest below.

tube, n. (4)

    F 6.25 2 A tube made of a film of glass can resist the shock of the ocean if filled with the same water.
    Res 8.142 2 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha (or petroleum) obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
    Res 8.142 4 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha (or petroleum) obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
    PC 8.231 19 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering. It was walled round with iron tube with that purpose...

tubes, n. (1)

    ET5 5.95 15 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained...

tubing, n. (2)

    Supl 10.178 21 Our modern improvements have been in the invention...of the famous two parallel bars of iron; then of the air-chamber of Watt, and of the judicious tubing of the engine, by Stephenson...
    FSLC 11.184 2 I cannot think the most judicious tubing a compensation for metaphysical debility.

tubs, n. (2)

    CbW 6.256 2 California gets peopled and subdued, civilized in this immoral way, and on this fiction a real prosperity is rooted and grown. 'T is a decoy-duck; 't is tubs thrown to amuse the whale;...
    Insp 8.269 21 In spring...the maple-trees flow with sugar, and you cannot get tubs fast enough;...

tubular, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.76 7 What signifies a pedigree of a hundred links...against a company of broad-shouldered Liverpool merchants, for whom Stephenson and Brunel are contriving locomotives and a tubular bridge?

Tuckerman's Ravine, New Ha (1)

    Thor 10.464 1 At Mount Washington, in Tuckerman's Ravine, Thoreau had a bad fall, and sprained his foot.

tucking, v. (1)

    Res 8.144 26 See how Nature keeps the lakes warm by tucking them up under a blanket of ice...

Tudor, adj. (1)

    ShP 4.202 14 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass without a single valuable note the founder of another dynasty, which alone will cause the Tudor dynasty to be remembered...

Tuesday, n. (1)

    ET2 5.26 9 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship Washington Irving and sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847.

tug, n. (3)

    ET5 5.78 10 The English game is...a rough tug without trick or dodging...
    F 6.24 11 Let [man] hold his purpose as with the tug of gravitation.
    Koss 11.398 23 [The sympathy of Americans] is, in every expression, antagonized. No opinion will pass but must stand the tug of war.

tugging, v. (1)

    CbW 6.276 5 ...nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

Tuileries, Paris, France, [Tuileries,] (4)

    Mrs1 3.134 2 No house, though it were the Tuileries or the Escurial, is good for anything without a master.
    Mrs1 3.142 2 ...Napoleon said of [Charles James Fox]...Mr. Fox will always hold the first place in an assembly at the Tuileries.
    NMW 4.238 17 [Bonaparte's] instructions to his secretary at the Tuileries are worth remembering.
    NMW 4.242 9 ...a man of [the French people] held, in the Tuileries, knowledge and ideas like their own...

tuition, n. (15)

    Nat 1.37 4 Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed, is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided...
    LE 1.178 5 ...out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    ET1 5.19 17 [Wordsworth] had much to say of America, the more that it gave occasion for his favorite topic,--that society is being enlightened by a superficial tuition, out of all proportion to its being restrained by moral culture.
    ET1 5.19 19 [Wordsworth] had much to say of America, the more that it gave occasion for his favorite topic,--that society is being enlightened by a superficial tuition, out of all proportion to its being restrained by moral culture. Schools do no good. Tuition is not education.
    ET1 5.19 20 [Wordsworth] thinks more of the education of circumstances than of tuition.
    ET12 5.205 1 The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of ordinary college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year.
    ET12 5.205 5 ...the principal teaching relied on [at Oxford] is private tuition.
    ET12 5.205 6 ...the expenses of private tuition [at Oxford] are reckoned at from 50 pounds to 70 pounds a year...
    Ctr 6.142 15 You send [your boy] to the Latin class, but much of his tuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop-windows.
    Ill 6.318 1 Since our tuition is through emblems and indirections, it is well to know that there is method in it...
    Boks 7.199 5 [Plato] would suffice for the tuition of the race;...
    PC 8.214 24 ...[the Middle Ages'] Gothic architecture, their painting, are the delight and tuition of ours.
    Edc1 10.134 4 If [a man] be dexterous, his tuition should make it appear;...
    Edc1 10.154 1 ...the whole world is needed for the tuition of each pupil.
    Wom 11.408 12 The part [women] play...in the care of the young and the tuition of older children, is their organic office in the world.

tuitions, n. (1)

    SR 2.64 8 ...all later teachings are tuitions.

tulip, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.387 14 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain. As soon as the service was over, he went to the petitioner, and said, You Boston ministers, as soon as a tulip wilts under your windows, go to church and pray for rain, until all Concord and Sudbury are under water.

tulips, n. (3)

    PPo 8.243 2 These legends [of Persian kings], with...lilies, roses, tulips and jasmines,-make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    PPo 8.257 21 The sweet narcissus closed/ Its eye, with passion pressed;/ The tulips out of envy burned/ Moles in their scarlet breast./
    PPo 8.258 11 O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./

Tully [Cicero], n. (2)

    AmS 1.89 12 Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their dut to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke...have given;...
    AmS 1.89 14 Meek young men grow up in libraries...forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.

tumble, v. (4)

    Pt1 3.12 27 I tumble down again soon into my old nooks...
    Exp 3.76 6 ...now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us. Nature, art, persons, letters, religions, objects, successively tumble in...
    Pol1 3.217 4 ...as the rightful lord who is to tumble all rulers from their chairs, [character's] presence is hardly yet suspected.
    Aris 10.58 16 I have heard that in horsemanship...a man never will be a good rider until he is thrown; then he will not be haunted any longer by the terror that he shall tumble...

tumbling, adj. (2)

    Wth 6.84 1 ...Who saw what ferns and palms were pressed/ Under the tumbling mountain's breast,/ In the safe herbal of the coal?/
    SS 7.1 19 [Seyd] stood before the tumbling main/ With joy too tense for sober brain;/...

tumbling, v. (2)

    Cir 2.302 16 The Greek letters...are already...tumbling into the inevitable pit which the creation of new thought opens for all that is old.
    HDC 11.33 8 Sometimes passing through thickets...and [the pilgrims'] feet clambering over the crossed trees, which when they missed, they sunk into an uncertain bottom in water, and wade up to their knees, tumbling sometimes higher, sometimes lower.

tumor, n. (3)

    ET2 5.29 21 To the geologist...the land is in perpetual flux and change, now blown up like a tumor, now sunk in a chasm...
    OA 7.323 17 When the old wife says, Take care of that tumor in your shoulder, perhaps it is cancerous,--[the man of sixty] replies, I am yielding to a surer decomposition.
    PerF 10.76 25 ...the health of man is an equality of inlet and outlet, gathering and giving. Any hoarding is tumor and disease.

tumult, n. (3)

    AmS 1.95 10 I run eagerly into this resounding tumult.
    Hsm1 2.262 26 The unremitting retention of simple and high sentiments in obscure duties is hardening the character to that temper which will work with honor, if need be in the tumult...
    Elo1 7.93 12 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness, which, in all the tumult, never utters a premature syllable...and the orator stands before the people as a demoniacal power...

tumults, n. (2)

    Hsm1 2.264 1 Who does not sometimes envy the good and brave who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world...
    HDC 11.71 15 On the 26th of the month [September, 1774], the whole town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety, to suppress all riots, tumults, and disorders in said town...

tumultuous, adj. (2)

    MN 1.211 3 What is best in any work of art but...that which flows from the hour and the occasion, like the eloquence of men in a tumultuous debate?
    Imtl 8.348 21 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth;...

tumultuously, adv. (1)

    Cour 7.265 23 Our affections and wishes for the external welfare of the hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries...

tun, n. (2)

    SwM 4.131 25 ...[Swedenborg] saw...the infernal tun of the deceitful;...
    PI 8.2 8 ...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that ' s just begun;/ Making free with time and size,/ Dwindles here, there magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/...

tunable, adj. (1)

    QO 8.182 13 The Bible itself is like an old Cremona [violin]; it has been played upon by the devotion of thousands of years until every word and particle is public and tunable.

tunc, adv. (1)

    OA 7.331 12 ...Et tunc magna mei sub terris ibit imago.

tune, n. (18)

    Con 1.320 4 [Conservatism's] religion is just as bad;...a dolorous tune to beguile the distemper;...
    Hsm1 2.247 23 I do not readily remember any poem, play, sermon, novel or oration that our press vents in the last few years, which goes to the same [heroic] tune.
    Art1 2.365 13 The oratorio has already lost its relation...to the sun, and the earth, but that persuading [human] voice is in tune with these.
    Exp 3.52 10 ...we look at [men], they seem alive, and we presume there is impulse in them. In the moment it seems impulse; in the year, in the lifetime, it turns out to be a certain uniform tune which the revolving barrel of the music-box must play.
    NR 3.242 12 ...care is taken that the whole tune shall be played.
    PNR 4.84 15 [Plato affirms that] The right punishment of one out of tune is to make him play in tune;...
    PNR 4.84 16 [Plato affirms that] The right punishment of one out of tune is to make him play in tune;...
    SwM 4.141 11 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads when once the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit is sounded,--the earth-beat... which makes the tune to which the sun rolls...
    ShP 4.195 27 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where instead of the metre of Shakspeare, whose secret is that the thought constructs the tune...the lines are constructed on a given tune...
    ShP 4.196 2 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where...the lines are constructed on a given tune...
    ET14 5.257 2 ...if this religion is in the poetry, it raises us to some purpose, and we can well afford...want of popular tune in the verses.
    Art2 7.44 26 A jumble of musical sounds...in which the rhythm of the tune is played without one of the notes being right, gives pleasure to the unskilful ear.
    Art2 7.45 17 ...how much is there that is not original...in every tune...
    Suc 7.297 13 ...has [the scholar or writer] never found that there is a better poetry hinted in a boy's whistle of a tune...than in all his literary results?
    PI 8.47 3 Young people like rhyme, drum-beat, tune...
    PI 8.48 20 ...the people liked an overpowering jewsharp tune.
    QO 8.187 2 The popular incident of Baron Munchausen, who hung his bugle up by the kitchen fire and the frozen tune thawed out, is found in Greece in Plato's time.
    MLit 12.332 3 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers is not...merely a circumstance, as we might relate of a man that he had or had not the sense of tune...

tuned, adj. (1)

    CInt 12.119 14 I value dearly the poet who knows his art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with sympathetic song, just as a powerful note of an organ sets all tuned strings in its neighborhood in accordant vibration...

tuned, v. (1)

    Milt1 12.258 1 In the midst of London, [Milton] seems...to have been tuned in concord with the order of the world;...

tuneful, adj. (1)

    Trag 12.416 26 [The intellect] yields the joys of conversation, of letters and of science. Hence also the torments of life become tuneful tragedy...

tunes, n. (7)

    Pt1 3.9 6 I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent writer of lyrics...whose head appeared to be a music-box of delicate tunes and rhythms...
    Ill 6.310 6 I remarked especially [in the Mammoth Cave] the mimetic habit with which nature, on new instruments, hums her old tunes...
    WD 7.169 20 A thousand tunes the variable wind plays...
    PI 8.47 8 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words...
    HDC 11.54 9 Wilson relates that, at their meetings, the Indians sung a psalm, made Indian by [John] Eliot, in one of our ordinary English tunes, melodiously.
    RBur 11.442 22 It seemed odious to Luther that the devil should have all the best tunes;...
    PPr 12.389 12 ...in all his fun of...playing of tunes with a whiplash... [Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...

tunes, v. (2)

    SMC 11.357 27 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army; but there is a higher Power that tunes the hearts of men...
    MLit 12.334 3 [The Doctrine of the Life of Man] is that which tunes the tongue and fires the eye...

tunnel, n. (2)

    ET7 5.124 14 ...[Englishmen's] eyes seem to be set at the bottom of a tunnel...
    Aris 10.40 9 ...if the healer of small-pox, the contriver...of the aqueduct, of the bridge, of the tunnel;...should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?

tunnelled, v. (2)

    FSLC 11.209 20 By new arts the earth is subdued, roaded, tunnelled, telegraphed, gas-lighted;...
    PPr 12.390 18 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and Europe, tunnelled, graded, corn-lawed...and America...have never before been conquered in literature.

tunnelling, v. (1)

    WD 7.160 14 What of the grand tools with which we engineer, like kobolds and enchanters, tunnelling Alps...

tunnels, n. (2)

    Exp 3.67 20 Power keeps quite another road than the turnpikes of choice and will; namely the subterranean and invisible tunnels and channels of life.
    ET3 5.35 2 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...through mountains in tunnels of three or four miles...

turban, n. (2)

    PPo 8.249 21 Hafiz...tears off his turban and throws it at the head of the meddling dervish...
    PPo 8.249 23 Hafiz...tears off his turban and throws it at the head of the meddling dervish, and throws his glass after the turban.

turbaned, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.101 13 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...their turbaned heads...I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...

turbid, adj. (2)

    LT 1.270 10 Anti-masonry had a deep right and wrong, which gradually emerged to sight out of the turbid controversy.
    PPr 12.383 20 The poet cannot descend into the turbid present without injury to his rarest gifts.

turbines, n. (1)

    FRep 11.511 12 The manufacturers rely on turbines of hydraulic perfection;...

Turbinewheel, Mr., n. (1)

    Ctr 6.135 24 Have you talked with Messieurs Turbinewheel, Summitlevel, and Lacofruppees? Then you may as well die.

turbine-wheels, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.208 18 There is faith...in turbine-wheels, sewing-machines...but not in divine causes.

turbot, n. (1)

    ET5 5.95 11 The rivers, lakes and ponds [in England]...are artificially filled with the eggs of salmon, turbot and herring.

turbulent, adj. (5)

    Cir 2.307 26 We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.
    Exp 3.84 14 Life wears to me a visionary face. Hardest roughest action is visionary also. It is but a choice between soft and turbulent dreams.
    Pol1 3.211 11 ...the older and more cautious among ourselves are learning from Europeans to look with some terror at our turbulent freedom.
    ET8 5.132 13 [Young Englishmen] stoutly carry into every nook and corner of the earth their turbulent sense;...
    Plu 10.295 4 In France, in the middle of the most turbulent civil wars, Amyot's translation [of Plutarch] awakened general attention.

Turenne, Henri de la Tour d (1)

    SovE 10.189 18 Savage war gives place to that of Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code.

turf, n. (2)

    Int 2.340 25 We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature. The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird, are not theirs...
    MMEm 10.397 25 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./

Turgot, Anne Robert Jacque (1)

    Nat 1.56 13 Turgot said, He that has never doubted the existence of matter, may be assured he has no aptitude for metaphysical inquiries.

Turk, Grand, n. (1)

    OS 2.291 25 I do not wonder that these [simple] men go to see Cromwell and Christina and Charles the Second and James the First and the Grand Turk.

Turk, n. (10)

    Con 1.317 7 ...the vigor of...Othman the Turk, sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    ET3 5.36 3 The Turk and Chinese also are making awkward efforts to be English.
    F 6.5 10 The Turk...rushes on the enemy's sabre with undivided will.
    F 6.5 13 The Turk, the Arab, the Persian, accepts the foreordained fate...
    Bhr 6.184 21 ...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle] fancied that every woman seemed to be suffering for a chair;...
    WD 7.162 13 ...German, Chinese, Turk, Russ and Kanaka were putting out to sea, and intermarrying race with race;...
    Cour 7.277 1 ...there is no creed of an honest man, be he Christian, Turk or Gentoo, which does not equally preach it.
    Edc1 10.145 23 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone...
    Trag 12.407 13 The same thought [of Fate] is the predestination of the Turk.
    Trag 12.412 3 The Egyptian sphinxes, which sit to-day...as they will still sit when the Turk, the Frenchman and the Englishman, who visit them now, shall have passed by...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...

turkey, n. (1)

    ET1 5.16 24 [Carlyle] had read in Stewart's book that when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots, he had been shown across the street and had found Mungo in his own house dining on roast turkey.

Turkey, n. (4)

    Comp 2.100 23 Under all governments the influence of character remains the same,--in Turkey and in New England about alike.
    ET8 5.141 13 ...[The English] think humanely on the affairs of France, of Turkey...
    ET18 5.301 12 ...[the foreign policy of England] betrayed Genoa, Sicily, Parma, Greece, Turkey, Rome and Hungary.
    Bhr 6.178 16 ...in enumerating the names of persons or of countries, as France, Germany, Spain, Turkey, the eyes wink at each new name.

turkeys, n. (1)

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

Turkish, adj. (2)

    ET8 5.132 23 ...[young Englishmen]...measure with an English footrule... every Turkish caaba...
    CbW 6.266 11 The Turkish cadi said to Layard, After the fashion of thy people, thou hast wandered from one place to another, until thou art happy and content in none.

Turks, n. (5)

    Hist 2.5 6 We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks...
    Civ 7.19 18 ...after many arts are invented or imported, as among the Turks and Moorish nations, it is often a little complaisant to call them civilized.
    Edc1 10.138 6 ...we sacrifice the genius of the pupil...to a neat and safe uniformity, as the Turks whitewash the costly mosaics of ancient art...
    Edc1 10.146 19 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by iconoclast Christians, then by savage Turks.
    FSLN 11.244 13 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It is the Cassandra that has foretold all that has befallen...years ago; foretold all, and no man laid it to heart. It seemed, as the Turks say, Fate makes that a man should not believe his own eyes.

Turk's, n. (1)

    WSL 12.344 13 [Landor]...is not insensible to the beauty of...the Turk's head on his umbrella;...

turmoil, n. (1)

    Ill 6.308 9 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./

turmoils, n. (1)

    Exp 3.82 20 The man at [Apollo's] feet asks for his interest in turmoils of the earth...

turn, n. (85)

    Nat 1.23 4 Therefore does beauty, which...comes unsought...remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect; and then again, in its turn, of the active power.
    LE 1.177 8 ...the world revenges itself by exposing, at every turn, the folly of these...pedantic...creatures.
    MN 1.194 19 Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the highest or truest name for our communication with the infinite,-but glad and conspiring reception,-reception that becomes giving in its turn...
    LT 1.261 17 The reason and influence of wealth...the fuller development and the freer play of Character as a social and political agent;-these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    Con 1.320 1 If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has entertained as good against the general despair, Society...will serve him a sexton's turn.
    Tran 1.351 25 ...Cannot we...without complaint, or even with good-humor, await our turn of action in the Infinite Counsels?
    Hist 2.3 21 Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant...
    Hist 2.23 18 ...every thing is in turn intelligible to [the individual], as his onward thinking leads him into the truth to which that fact or series belongs.
    SR 2.76 7 A sturdy lad...who in turn tries all the professions...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    SR 2.86 11 He who is really of [Phocion's, Socrates's] class...will be...in his turn the founder of a sect.
    Hsm1 2.259 18 Let the maiden, with erect soul...search in turn all the objects that solicit her eye...
    OS 2.286 24 If [a man] have not found his home in God...the turn of his sentences...will involuntarily confess it...
    Pt1 3.40 18 Nothing walks, or creeps, or grows, or exists, which must not in turn arise and walk before [the poet] as exponent of his meaning.
    Exp 3.57 10 ...each [man] has his special talent, and the mastery of successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practised.
    Exp 3.77 24 Two human beings are like globes, which can touch only in a point, and whilst they remain in contact all other points of each of the spheres are inert; their turn must also come...
    Mrs1 3.131 10 We contemn in turn every other gift of men of the world;...
    Mrs1 3.135 21 ...Napoleon, in his turn, was not great enough...to face a pair of freeborn eyes...
    Mrs1 3.141 12 A man who is happy [in the company], finds in every turn of the conversation equally lucky occasions for the introduction of that which he has to say.
    Pol1 3.201 13 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day...shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place in turn to new prayers and pictures.
    NR 3.227 13 Our exaggeration of all fine characters arises from the fact that we identify each in turn with the soul.
    NR 3.242 17 Your turn now, my turn next, is the rule of the game.
    NER 3.273 9 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say, begged to be heard in his turn...
    UGM 4.9 15 ...every organ, function, acid, crystal, grain of dust, has its relation to the brain. It waits long, but its turn comes.
    UGM 4.28 8 It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men, and sending it to perform one more turn through the circle of beings, wrote, Not transferable and Good for this trip only, on these garments of the soul.
    UGM 4.31 7 Is it a reply to these suggestions to say, Society is a Pestalozzian school: all are teachers and pupils in turn?
    PPh 4.59 13 [Plato] has that opulence which furnishes, at every turn, the precise weapon he needs.
    PPh 4.61 1 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato]; and when I die, to die so. And I invite all other men, to the utmost of my power; and you too I in turn invite to this contest, which, I affirm, surpasses all contests here.
    SwM 4.110 14 These grand rhymes or returns in nature,--the dear, best-known face startling us at every turn...delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
    SwM 4.121 11 In nature, each individual symbol plays innumerable parts, as each particle of matter circulates in turn through every system.
    MoS 4.176 6 Presently a new experience gives a new turn to our thoughts...
    ShP 4.192 24 At the time when [Shakespeare] left Stratford and went up to London, a great body of stage-plays of all dates and writers...were in turn produced on the boards.
    ShP 4.197 25 Chaucer, it seems, drew continually...from Guido di Colonna, whose Latin romance of the Trojan war was in turn a compilation from Dares Phrygius, Ovid and Statius.
    GoW 4.275 2 [Goethe] has contributed a key to many parts of nature, through the rare turn for unity and simplicity in his mind.
    ET4 5.58 19 ...[the Norsemen] have a singular turn for homicide;...
    ET5 5.74 15 The island [England] was a prize for the best race. Each of the dominant races tried its fortune in turn.
    ET7 5.125 5 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel, and made up his mind; then the counsel for the other side taking their turn to speak, he found himself so unsettled and perplexed that he exclaimed, So help me God! I will never listen to evidence again.
    ET8 5.142 25 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence...
    ET12 5.213 4 It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if we will wait for it, will have its own turn.
    ET15 5.271 10 Many of [Punch's] caricatures...will convey to the eye in an instant the popular view which was taken of each turn of public affairs.
    ET18 5.304 21 Such is their tenacity and such their practical turn, that [the English] hold all they gain.
    F 6.4 22 If one would study his own time, it must be by this method of taking up in turn each of the leading topics which belong to our scheme of human life...
    Wth 6.108 7 We must have joiner, locksmith, planter, priest, poet, doctor, cook, weaver, ostler; each in turn, through the year.
    Wth 6.112 20 The crime which bankrupts men and states is...declining from your main design, to serve a turn here or there.
    Ctr 6.146 10 ...if the man is of a light and social turn...we must follow [nature's] hint...
    Ctr 6.148 20 In town [a man] can find...the national orators, in their turn;...
    Ctr 6.153 27 We spawning, spawning myrmidons,/ Our turn to-day! we take command,/ Jove gives the globe into the hand/ Of myrmidons, of myrmidons./
    Bhr 6.183 20 ...if [the enthusiast] finds the scholar apart from his companions, it is then the enthusiast's turn...
    Wsp 6.205 15 ...some of the Pacific islanders flog their gods when things take an unfavorable turn.
    SS 7.12 13 A cold sluggish blood thinks it...must decline its turn in the conversation.
    Elo1 7.62 7 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...
    Elo1 7.66 9 There are many audiences in every public assembly, each one of which rules in turn.
    Elo1 7.67 11 ...all these several audiences...which successively appear to greet the variety of style and topic [of the orator], are really composed out of the same persons; nay, sometimes the same individual will take active part in them all, in turn.
    Elo1 7.81 8 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?... No, he defies any one, every one. Ah! he is thinking of resistance, and of a different turn from his own.
    Elo1 7.81 9 ...what if one should come of the same turn of mind as [a man' s] own...
    Elo1 7.87 4 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself, in his turn, on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was.
    DL 7.105 18 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the faces that claim his kisses, are all in turn absorbing;...
    Clbs 7.237 27 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin] the name of the god of the sun... etc.; all which the disguised Odin answers satisfactorily. Then it is his turn to interrogate...
    PI 8.54 24 ...the poem is made up of lines each of which fills the ear of the poet in its turn...
    PI 8.70 7 In a cotillon some persons dance and others await their turn when the music and the figure come to them.
    SA 8.100 23 ...[there is in America the general belief that] if [the young American] have a turn for business...he can come to wealth...
    Elo2 8.111 24 ...[in a debate] much power is to be exhibited which is not yet called into existence, but is to be suggested on the spot by the unexpected turn things may take...
    Elo2 8.128 18 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...allowing [a youth] to skulk from the games...and whatever else would lead him and keep him on even terms with boys, so that he can meet them as an equal, and lead in his turn,--that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    Elo2 8.129 20 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend it? This happy turn did great service in promoting that excellent bill [regulating trials in cases of high treason].
    Res 8.146 7 ...[Tissenet] opened his shirt a little and showed to each of the savages in turn the reflection of his own eyeball in a small pocket-mirror which he had hung next to his skin.
    PC 8.226 4 At any time, it only needs the contemporaneous appearance of a few superior and attractive men to give a new and noble turn to the public mind.
    Insp 8.281 19 When we...have come to believe that an image or a happy turn of expression is no longer at our command, in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise...to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort...
    Imtl 8.331 5 ...what is called great and powerful life...unless combined with a certain contemplative turn...does not build up faith or lead to content.
    Aris 10.46 22 I only point in passing to the order of the universe, which makes a rotation,-not...like our democratic politics, my turn now, your turn next...
    PerF 10.76 3 ...the wise merchant by truth in his dealings finds his credit unlimited,-he can use in turn, as he wants it, all the property in the world...
    PerF 10.81 22 See how rich life is; rich in private talents, each of which charms us in turn...
    PerF 10.82 5 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of the great parliamentary debater. And poetry and literature are disdainful of all these claims beside their own. Like the boy who thought in turn each one of the four seasons the best...
    Chr2 10.106 6 How unlike our habitual turn of thought was that of the last century in this country!
    Chr2 10.111 27 We, in our turn, want power to drive the ponderous State.
    Schr 10.275 23 There is no power in the mind but in turn becomes an instrument.
    LLNE 10.336 11 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was...a little scrap of a planet, rushing round the sun in our system, which in turn was too minute to be seen at the distance of many stars which we behold.
    LLNE 10.345 23 [The pilgrim] thought every one should labor at some necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than enough for himself...he should give of the commodity to any applicant, and in turn go to his neighbor for any article which he had to spare.
    MMEm 10.398 6 On earth I dream;-I die to be:/ Time! shake not thy bald head at me./ I challenge thee to hurry past,/ Or for my turn to fly too fast./
    EWI 11.122 5 There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity...
    EWI 11.136 22 One feels very sensibly in all this history [of emancipation in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there, superior to any man, and making use of each, in turn...
    AsSu 11.248 5 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of; Mr. Webster's life...was not to be risked on the turn of a vagabond's ball.
    SHC 11.435 20 ...hither [to Sleepy Hollow] shall repair...every sweet and friendly influence; the beautiful night and beautiful day will come in turn to sit upon the grass.
    Shak1 11.450 12 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket.
    II 12.70 17 If you press [those we call great men], they fly to a new topic, and here, again, open a magnificent promise, which serves the turn of interesting us once more...
    Bost 12.194 17 This [Christian] spirit, of course, involved that of Stoicism, as, in its turn, Stoicism did this.
    MLit 12.312 16 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn...

turn, v. (75)

    Nat 1.50 23 A man who seldom rides, needs only to get into a coach and traverse his own town, to turn the street into a puppet-show.
    Nat 1.51 10 Turn the eyes upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture...
    AmS 1.104 17 Manlike let [the scholar] turn and face [fear].
    AmS 1.114 25 Young men...turn drudges...
    LE 1.183 8 [They whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] seek him, that he may turn his lamp on the dark riddles whose solution they think is inscribed on the walls of their being.
    MN 1.196 27 In the absence of man, we turn to nature...
    MN 1.209 12 I conceive a man as always spoken to from behind, and unable to turn his head and see the speaker.
    MN 1.219 26 Is a man boastful and knowing, and his own master?-we turn from him without hope...
    LT 1.262 25 How [persons] make the tears start, make us blush and turn pale...
    LT 1.281 20 ...let us turn to see how it stands with the other class of which we spoke, namely, the students.
    LT 1.287 19 ...turn it how we will, as we ponder this meaning of the times, every new thought drives us to the deep fact that the Time is the child of the Eternity.
    Tran 1.353 18 So little skill enters into these works, so little do they mix with the divine life, that it really signifies little...whether we turn a grindstone...or govern the state.
    YA 1.377 3 ...[the nobles'] frolics turn out to be insulting and degrading to the commoner.
    YA 1.381 25 On one side is agricultural chemistry...offering, by means of a teaspoonful of artificial guano, to turn a sandbank into corn;...
    YA 1.386 5 If any man has a talent...for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry...let him in the county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
    Hist 2.24 18 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;... wherein the face is...composed of...symmetrical features, whose eye-sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side and on that, but they must turn the whole head.
    Comp 2.102 15 The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.
    SL 2.134 2 When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must...not turn sourly on the angel...
    Int 2.345 27 When...we turn over [the Greek philosophers'] abstruse pages, wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few...
    Exp 3.55 21 Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should not need any other book; before that, in Shakspeare...but now I turn the pages of either of them languidly, whilst I still cherish their genius.
    Exp 3.57 4 A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle;...
    Nat2 3.178 13 It is when...the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.
    NR 3.246 18 There is nothing we cherish and strive to draw to us but in some hour we turn and rend it.
    UGM 4.3 2 If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes...it would not surprise us.
    UGM 4.34 5 The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery;...
    SwM 4.144 16 [Swedenborg's] great name will turn a sentence.
    MoS 4.175 27 We go...believing in the iron links of Destiny, and will not turn on our heel to save our life...
    MoS 4.181 24 It is the rule of mere comity and courtesy...to turn your sentence with something auspicious...
    ET5 5.77 3 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of...Gibbon, Brindley, Watt, Wedgwood, dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain, and turn the sweat of their face to power and renown.
    ET5 5.83 18 More than the diamond Koh-i-noor...[the English] prize that dull pebble...whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world...
    ET12 5.206 24 ...an Eton captain...can turn the Court-Guide into hexameters...
    ET13 5.220 3 These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists. No church has had more learned, industrious or devoted men; plenty of clerks and bishops, who, out of their gowns, would turn their backs on no man.
    F 6.45 6 Moller...taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful...
    Ctr 6.137 12 It is not a compliment but a disparagement...whenever [a man] appears, considerately to turn the conversation to the bantling he is known to fondle.
    DL 7.127 10 We see heads that turn on the pivot of the spine,--no more;...
    DL 7.127 12 ...we see heads that seem to turn on a pivot as deep as the axle of the world...
    DL 7.130 1 ...let [a man] not...seek to turn his house into a museum.
    Farm 7.135 9 [Farmers] turn the frost upon their chemic heap/...
    WD 7.181 25 We do not want factitious men, who can...turn their ability indifferently in any particular direction by the strong effort of will.
    Suc 7.284 7 ...Ojeda could run out swiftly on a plank projected from the top of a tower, turn round swiftly and come back;...
    Suc 7.303 9 Who is he...who does not like to hear of those sensibilities which turn curled heads round at church...
    OA 7.323 14 It were strange if a man should turn his sixtieth year without a feeling of immense relief from the number of dangers he has escaped.
    PI 8.1 12 [The people of the sky] turn his heart from lovely maids,/ And make the darlings of the earth/ Swainish, coarse and nothing worth/...
    PI 8.48 5 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night./ Comus.
    PI 8.48 7 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night./ Comus.
    SA 8.86 25 You have in you there a noisy, sensual savage, which you are to keep down, and turn all his strength to beauty.
    Insp 8.273 4 The separation of our days by sleep almost destroys identity. Could we but turn these fugitive sparkles into an astronomy of Copernican worlds!
    Dem1 10.19 9 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. ... The crimes they commit...are strangely overlooked, or do more strangely turn to their account.
    Aris 10.32 17 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing a real aristocracy...
    Edc1 10.140 15 If [a boy] can turn his books to such picturesque account in his fishing and hunting, it is easy to see how his reading and experience... will interpenetrate each other.
    SovE 10.206 17 ...[the Orientals] will not turn on their heel to avoid famine, plague or the sword of the enemy.
    Carl 10.491 25 [Young men] wish freedom of the press, and [Carlyle] thinks the first thing he would do, if he got into Parliament, would be to turn out the reporters...
    LS 11.23 6 ...now...Christians must contend that it is...really a duty, to commemorate [Jesus] by a certain form [the Lord's Supper], whether that form be agreeable to their understandings or not. Is not this to make vain the gift of God? Is not this to turn back the hand on the dial?
    HDC 11.45 26 The disputes between that forbearing man [John Winthrop] and the deputies are like the quarrels of girls, so much do they turn into complaints of unkindness, and end in such loving reconciliations.
    HDC 11.47 16 The moderator [of the New England town-meeting] was the passive mouth-piece, and the vote of the town, like the vane on the turret overhead, free for every wind to turn...
    HDC 11.62 17 I turn gladly to the progress of our civil history.
    LVB 11.92 11 We have looked in the newspapers of different parties and find a horrid confirmation of the tale [of the relocation of the Cherokees]. We are slow to believe it. We hoped...that [the Indians'] remonstrance was premature, and will turn out to be a needless act of terror.
    LVB 11.94 25 On the broaching of this question [of the moral character of government], a general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel.
    EWI 11.135 10 ...I turn gladly to the rightful theme, to the bright aspects of the occasion.
    EWI 11.141 20 It was the sarcasm of Montesquieu, it would not do to suppose that negroes were men, lest it should turn out that whites were not;...
    FSLN 11.238 19 ...when the Southerner points to the anatomy of the negro, and talks of chimpanzee,-I recall Montesquieu's remark, It will not do to say that negroes are men, lest it should turn out that whites are not.
    ALin 11.333 15 [Lincoln] is the author of a multitude of good sayings, so disguised as pleasantries that it is certain they had no reputation at first but as jests; and only later...turn out to be the wisdom of the hour.
    ALin 11.336 18 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web, that [Lincoln] had reached the term;...
    SHC 11.428 19 ...Rather to those ascents of being turn/ Where a ne'er-setting sun illumes the year/ Eternal, and the incessant watch-fires burn/ Of unspent holiness and goodness clear,/...
    Scot 11.466 16 From these originals [Scott] drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts...making these, too, the pivots on which the plots of his stories turn;...
    PLT 12.51 10 It is a law of Nature that he who looks at one thing must turn his eyes from every other thing in the universe.
    PLT 12.53 2 'T is with us a flash of light, then a long darkness, then a flash again. Ah, could we turn these fugitive sparkles into an astronomy of Copernican worlds.
    Mem 12.94 13 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza. But where I have them, or what becomes of them when I am not thinking of them...never any man was so sharp-sighted, or could turn himself inside out quick enough to find.
    CInt 12.115 3 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not. If it be, then...turn your college into barracks and warehouses...
    CInt 12.127 7 The College should hold the profound thought, and the Church the great heart to which the nation should turn...
    CL 12.153 25 On the seashore the play of the Atlantic with the coast! What wealth is here! Every wave is a fortune; one thinks of Etzlers and great projectors who will yet turn all this waste strength to account...
    MAng1 12.224 23 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack, and by means of a bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable space was left between them and the wall. This simple expedient was sufficient, and the Prince was obliged to turn his siege into a blockade.
    ACri 12.290 21 A good writer must convey the feeling...as if in his densest period was...room to turn a chariot and horses between his valid words.
    ACri 12.294 23 Shakespeare's] loom is better toothed, cranked and pedalled than other people's, and he can turn off a hundred yards to their one.
    Let 12.399 1 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...simply because they shall so be...agreeably entertained for one or two years, with some lurking hope...that something may turn up to give them a decided direction.

Turnagain, Cape, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.144 5 ...here is Captain Friese, from Cape Turnagain;...

turned, v. (63)

    MR 1.234 23 Considerations of this kind have turned the attention of many...persons to the claims of manual labor, as a part of the education of every young man.
    LT 1.267 6 ...many another star has turned out to be a planet or an asteroid...
    Con 1.312 17 Now can your children be educated, your labor turned to their advantage...
    YA 1.383 5 It has turned out cheaper to make calico by companies;...
    Cir 2.308 24 There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow;...
    Cir 2.309 8 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned...
    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.
    PNR 4.80 21 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result.
    MoS 4.163 23 ...the duplicate copy of Florio...turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.
    ShP 4.202 9 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age mischooses the object on which...all eyes are turned;...
    NMW 4.249 13 You see [said Napoleon] that two armies are two bodies which meet and endeavor to frighten each other; a moment of panic occurs, and that moment must be turned to advantage.
    NMW 4.249 26 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it. He gave a subject, and the discussions turned on questions of religion, the different kinds of government, and the art of war.
    ET1 5.10 22 [Coleridge] spoke of Dr. Channing. It was an unspeakable misfortune that he should have turned out a Unitarian after all.
    ET1 5.18 26 The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour every day, and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the subject. But it turned out good men.
    ET1 5.21 7 The conversation [with Wordsworth] turned on books.
    ET3 5.34 15 The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use...
    ET4 5.68 18 ...Sir Edward Parry said of Sir John Franklin, that if he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it; for he was a man who never turned his back on a danger...
    ET8 5.140 4 King Harold gave [Haldor] this testimony, that he, among all his men, cared least about doubtful circumstances...for whatever turned up, he was never in higher nor in lower spirits...
    ET13 5.229 24 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The features of the assembly were twisted, and the eyes of all turned upon me with a frightful squint;...
    Pow 6.70 7 ...[the people's] instincts are a finger-pointing of Providence, always turned toward real benefit.
    Wth 6.120 19 [Cockayne] will have nothing to do with trees, but will have grass. After a year or two the grass must be turned up and ploughed;...
    Wth 6.122 5 Mr. Stephenson...turned out to be the safest and cheapest engineer.
    CbW 6.257 9 ...[the gentleman] replied that he knew so much mischief when he was a boy, and had turned out on the whole so successfully, that he was not alarmed by the dissipation of boys;...
    Elo1 7.73 26 [Pleasing speech] is heard like a band of music passing through the streets, which...is forgotten as soon as it has turned the next corner;...
    Farm 7.138 8 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum...or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society. And who knows how many glances of remorse are turned this way from the bankrupts of trade...
    WD 7.155 10 I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,/ Forgot my morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day/ Turned and departed silent./
    Cour 7.278 21 The boy turned round with screams,/ And ran with terror wild;/ One of the pair of savage beasts/ Pursued the shrieking child./
    Cour 7.279 21 The hunter met [the bear's] gaze,/ Nor yet an inch gave way;/ The bear turned slowly round,/ And slowly moved away./
    PI 8.33 13 ...We detect at once by [style]...whether [the writer] has one eye apologizing, deprecatory, turned on his reader.
    PI 8.62 19 Well, said Merlin, [my captivity] must be borne, for never will [King Arthur] see me...neither will any one speak with me again after you, it would be vain to attempt it; for you yourself, when you have turned away, will never be able to find the place...
    SA 8.80 2 Whilst almost everybody has a supplicating eye turned on events and things and other persons, a few natures are central...
    Comc 8.169 12 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance;... It affects us oddly, as to see things turned upside down...
    QO 8.183 24 ...when [Webster] opened a new book, he turned to the table of contents...
    PC 8.218 2 Eloquence a hundred times has turned the scale of war and peace at will.
    Dem1 10.12 1 ...Pancrates...wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words, and it stood up and brought him water, and turned a spit...
    SovE 10.200 5 The word miracle, as it is used, only indicates the ignorance of the devotee, staring with wonder to see water turned into wine...
    MoL 10.243 7 ...doctors of medicine turned teamsters [in California];...
    MoL 10.245 15 Our industrial skill, arts ministering to convenience and luxury...have turned the eyes downward to the earth...
    LLNE 10.347 26 Fourier...turned a truly vast arithmetic to the question of social misery...
    MMEm 10.425 1 When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds...
    Thor 10.457 14 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story...or whether it was one of those old philosophical things that she did not care about. Henry turned to her, and bethought himself...
    HDC 11.31 23 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him.
    HDC 11.47 17 The moderator [of the New England town-meeting] was the passive mouth-piece, and the vote of the town, like the vane on the turret overhead...always turned by the last and strongest breath.
    HDC 11.56 10 We pretended to come hither, [Peter Bulkeley] says, for ordinances; but now ordinances are light matters with us; we are turned after the prey.
    EWI 11.129 25 I could not see the great vision of the patriots and senators who have adopted the slave's cause:-they turned their backs on me.
    FSLC 11.199 24 [The Fugitive Slave Law] has turned every dinner-table into a debating-club...
    FSLC 11.203 13 [Webster] indulged occasionally in excellent expression of the known feeling of the New England people [on slavery]: but...he omitted to throw himself into the movement in those critical moments when his leadership would have turned the scale.
    ALin 11.331 6 ...men naturally talked of [Lincoln's] chances in politics as incalculable. But it turned out not to be chance.
    ALin 11.331 25 ...it turned out that [Lincoln] was a great worker;...
    SMC 11.352 14 It turned out that this one violation [slavery] was a subtle poison...
    SMC 11.356 10 ...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas] villages, these people, who turned pale at home if called to dress a cut finger...were so beside themselves with rage, that they became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined avengers.
    Wom 11.416 6 ...that Cause [antagonism to Slavery] turned out to be a great scholar.
    Humb 11.458 9 When [Humboldt] was stopped in Spain and could not get away, he turned round and interpreted their mountain system...
    FRep 11.517 12 ...a court or an aristocracy...can more easily run into follies than a republic, which has too many observers...to allow its head to be turned by any kind of nonsense...
    PLT 12.25 17 I never hear a good speech at caucus or at cattle-show but it helps me...by apprising me of admirable uses to which what I know can be turned.
    Mem 12.100 14 Sir Isaac Newton was embarrassed when the conversation turned on his discoveries and results; he could not recall them;...
    CL 12.136 21 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country, based on the conviction...that in every district were swamps, or beaches, or rocks, or mountains, which...if explored, and turned to account, were capable of yielding immense benefit.
    CL 12.137 20 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year. Linnaeus walked out to examine the meadow into which they were first turned out to grass...
    CL 12.149 12 The Hindoos called fire Agni...of graceful form and whose countenance is turned on all sides.
    CW 12.175 8 ...a common spy-glass...turned on the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, in which most eyes can only count six,-will show many more...
    MAng1 12.239 16 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome...he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.
    AgMs 12.360 2 I walked up and down the field, as [Edmund Hosmer] ploughed his furrow, and we talked as we walked. Our conversation naturally turned on the season and its new labors.
    Let 12.402 21 In all the cases we have ever seen where people were supposed to suffer from too much wit...it turned out that they had not wit enough.

Turner, Horizon, n. (1)

    ACri 12.293 7 Persons have been named from their abuse of certain phrases, as...Horizon Turner.

Turner, Sharon, n. (2)

    ET16 5.290 5 Sharon Turner, in his History of the Anglo-Saxons, says, Alfred was buried at Winchester, in the Abbey he had founded there...
    Boks 7.206 26 [The scholar] can look back for the legends and mythology... to the researches of Sharon Turner and Palgrave.

turnest, v. (1)

    PPo 8.261 14 Is Allah's face on thee/ Bending with love benign,/ And thou not less on Allah's eye/ O fairest! turnest thine./

turning, v. (12)

    AmS 1.104 14 It is a shame to [the scholar]...if he seek a temporary peace by the diversion of his thoughts from politics or vexed questions...turning rhymes...
    NER 3.269 19 [The scholar]...became a showman, turning his gifts to a marketable use...
    ET1 5.18 18 [Carlyle] was already turning his eyes towards London with a scholar's appreciation.
    ET10 5.154 11 I was lately turning over Wood's Athenae Oxonienses...
    Bty 6.291 24 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan...and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
    Civ 7.27 22 The farmer had much ill temper, laziness and shirking to endure from his hand-sawyers, until one day he bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall; and the river never tires of turning his wheel;...
    Elo1 7.83 24 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness...carried audience, mourners and mourning along with him...
    PI 8.51 19 Time...is now dominant and...looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semi-somnous on a pyramid... turning old glories into dreams.
    SA 8.98 10 ...On the day of resurrection, those who have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in their faces when they reach it. Again, on their turning back, they will be called to another door, and again, on reaching it, will see it closed against them...
    PLT 12.10 23 The laws and powers of the Intellect have...a stupendous peculiarity, of being at once observers and observed. So that it is difficult to...hinder them from turning the professor out of his chair.
    CW 12.172 5 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers... skilled in turning a swamp or a sand-bank into a fruitful field...
    Bost 12.207 8 With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston] took immense pleasure in turning out the governor and deputy and assistants...

turnip, n. (1)

    Comc 8.159 3 Separate any object, as...a turnip...from the connection of things...it becomes at once comic;...

turnips, n. (1)

    ACri 12.302 4 'T is very easy...to represent the farm, which stands for the organization of the gravest needs, as a poor trifle of pea-vines, turnips and hen-roosts.

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