Turnkey to Tyrolese

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

turnkey, n. (2)

    Chr1 3.94 23 Cannot Caesar in irons shuffle off the irons and transfer them to the person of Hippo or Thraso the turnkey?
    FSLC 11.198 14 [Under the Fugitive Slave Law, the bench] is the extension of the planter's whipping-post; and its incumbents must rank with a class from which the turnkey, the hangman and the informer are taken...

turnpike, n. (1)

    PI 8.72 24 Turnpike is one thing and blue sky another.

turnpikes, n. (4)

    Exp 3.67 18 Power keeps quite another road than the turnpikes of choice and will;...
    ET10 5.167 16 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of linen, or railways of turnpikes...
    PPo 8.246 23 On turnpikes of wonder/ Wine leads the mind forth,/ Straight, sidewise and upward,/ West, southward and north./
    LLNE 10.327 4 ...[the new race] hate tolls, taxes, turnpikes, banks...

turns, n. (8)

    Nat 1.70 27 We own and disown our relation to [nature], by turns.
    NR 3.229 6 ...you see [a personal influence], and you see it not, by turns;...
    NR 3.239 7 The rotation which whirls every leaf and pebble to the meridian, reaches to every gift of man, and we all take turns at the top.
    NR 3.248 12 ...I endeavored to show my good men that I liked everything by turns and nothing long;...
    ET6 5.114 10 The [English] dress-dinner generates a talent of table-talk which reaches great perfection: the stories are so good that one is sure they must have been often told before, to have got such happy turns.
    Cour 7.268 6 There is a courage of a merchant in dealing with his trade, by which dangerous turns of affairs are met and prevailed over.
    PPo 8.245 3 The rapidity of [Hafiz's] turns is always surprising us...
    EzRy 10.392 16 Sage and savage strove harder in [Ezra Ripley] than in any of my acquaintances, each getting the mastery by turns, and pretty sudden turns...

turns, v. (66)

    MN 1.196 18 The wedge turns out to be a rocket.
    MN 1.202 1 When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful hospitality with which boon Nature turns off new firmaments without end into her wide common...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    MR 1.253 4 Let any two matrons meet, and observe how soon their conversation turns on the troubles from their "help,", as our phrase is.
    YA 1.372 1 ...it turns out that love and good are inevitable...
    YA 1.374 15 ...it turns out that our charity increases pauperism.
    YA 1.379 6 We design it thus and thus; it turns out otherwise and far better.
    YA 1.381 10 The farmer...turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.
    SR 2.69 21 This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that... turns all riches to poverty...
    Comp 2.116 19 The good man has absolute good, which like fire turns every thing to its own nature...
    Comp 2.120 2 The inviolate spirit turns [the mob's] spite against the wrongdoers.
    SL 2.142 8 The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit.
    Int 2.332 20 Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind...
    Int 2.343 6 ...a true and natural man contains and is the same truth which an eloquent man articulates; but in the eloquent man, because he can articulate it, it seems something the less to reside, and he turns to these silent beautiful with the more inclination and respect.
    Pt1 3.20 20 ...the poet turns the world to glass...
    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. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit.
    Exp 3.52 9 ...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.
    Exp 3.70 2 [The individual] designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new and very unlike what he promised himself.
    Exp 3.78 22 ...in its sequel [murder] turns out to be a horrible jangle and confounding of all relations.
    Nat2 3.188 25 The friend coldly turns [the pages of a young person's diary] over, and passes from the writing to conversation...
    Nat2 3.196 10 Nature is the incarnation of a thought, and turns to a thought again...
    NER 3.272 3 From the triumphs of his art [the master] turns with desire to this greater defeat.
    PPh 4.56 11 Plato turns incessantly the obverse and the reverse of the medal of Jove.
    PPh 4.74 12 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates]...turns out...to have a probity as invincible as his logic...
    PPh 4.78 1 In view of eternal nature, Plato turns out of be philosophical exercitations.
    SwM 4.122 12 [Swedenborg's] religion thinks for him and is of universal application. He turns it on every side;...
    SwM 4.131 10 A vampyre sits in the seat of the prophet [in Swedenborg's universe] and turns with gloomy appetite to the images of pain.
    SwM 4.141 24 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like...to the phenomena of dreaming, which nightly turns many an honest gentleman... into a wretch...
    MoS 4.149 7 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals], and when the observer has seen the obverse, he turns it over to see the reverse.
    MoS 4.172 27 It turns out that [the wise skeptic] is not the champion of the operative, the pauper, the prisoner, the slave.
    ShP 4.210 20 ...it turns out that what [Shakespeare] has to say is of that weight as to withdraw some attention from the vehicle;...
    GoW 4.264 16 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office; for the class of scholars or writers...who are impelled to exhibit the facts in order, and so to supply the axis on which the frame of things turns.
    ET2 5.32 3 The busiest talk with leisure and convenience at sea, and sometimes a memorable fact turns up...
    ET4 5.68 4 Nelson, dying at Trafalgar...like an innocent schoolboy that goes to bed, says Kiss me, Hardy, and turns to sleep.
    ET4 5.70 23 Every season turns out the [the English] aristocracy into the country to shoot and fish.
    ET15 5.261 11 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper]...turns the glare of this solar microscope on every malfaisance...
    ET18 5.304 18 The English mind turns every abstraction it can receive into a portable utensil...
    F 6.15 14 [Nature] turns the gigantic pages...
    Wth 6.110 17 ...it turns out that the largest proportion of crimes are committed by foreigners.
    Wth 6.119 18 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask. The farmer knows what to do with it, stops every leak, turns all the streamlets to one reservoir and decants wine;...
    Ctr 6.132 25 In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round and continues to spin slowly on one spot.
    CbW 6.245 21 The lawyer...is as gay and as much relieved as the client if it turns out that he has a verdict.
    CbW 6.246 16 ...it is only as [a man] turns his back on us and on all men... that any good can come to him.
    CbW 6.252 4 Nature turns all malfeasance to good.
    CbW 6.255 25 ...nature...turns this malfeasance to good.
    Civ 7.31 18 ...the true test of civilization is...the kind of man the country turns out.
    Farm 7.145 4 [Nature] turns her capital day by day;...
    WD 7.177 21 Zoologists may deny that horse-hairs in the water change to worms, but I find that whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
    SA 8.88 19 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably. He...may easily find that performance...a fortification that turns the scale in social encounters...
    Elo2 8.119 10 The most...thought-paralyzing companion sometimes turns out in a public assembly to be a fluent, various and effective orator.
    Res 8.143 16 ...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has sent home to China American food and tools and luxuries...
    Res 8.145 5 ...[the old forester] draws his boat ashore, turns it over in a twinkling against a clump of alders with cat-briers, which keep up the lee-side, crawls under it with his comrade, and lies there till the shower is over, happy in his stout roof.
    PPo 8.250 8 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you with verses which express the poverty of sensual joys...
    Imtl 8.334 21 ...the naturalist works...for the believing mind, which turns his discoveries to revelations...
    Dem1 10.8 25 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in certain actions which seem...out of all fitness. He is hostile...he is a poltroon. It turns out prophecy a year later.
    Dem1 10.14 1 Euripides said...he is not the wisest man whose guess turns out well in the event...
    PerF 10.78 8 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Imagination, which turns every dull fact into pictures and poetry...
    Plu 10.315 13 Anger turns the mind out of doors, and bolts the door.
    MMEm 10.406 7 [Mary Moody Emerson] surprised, attracted, chided and denounced her companion by turns, and pretty rapid turns.
    War 11.155 15 ...the appearance of the other instincts [than self-help] immediately modifies and controls this; turns its energies into harmless, useful and high courses...
    War 11.167 9 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...being attacked, he bears it and turns the other cheek...
    FSLC 11.211 13 ...Massachusetts is little, but, if true to itself, can be the brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery].
    FSLN 11.237 7 Everything turns soldier to fight you down.
    ACiv 11.297 19 ...a man coins himself into his labor; turns his day, his strength, his thought, his affection into some product which remains as the visible sign of his power;...
    EdAd 11.384 27 The aspect this country presents is...an immense apparatus of cunning machinery which turns out, at last, some Nuremberg toys.
    II 12.84 16 If you speak to the man, he turns his eyes from his own scene...
    CInt 12.125 17 In the romance Spiridion...we had...the story of a young saint who comes into a convent for her education...but...it turns out in a few days that every hand is against this young votary.

turntable, n. (1)

    CInt 12.129 13 Do not gravity and polarity keep their unerring watch...on a cobbler's lapstone or a switchman's turntable as on the moon's orbit?

turpentine, n. (1)

    LE 1.168 10 ...the pine throwing out its pollen for the benefit of the next century; the turpentine exuding from the tree...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].

turpitude, n. (3)

    QO 8.189 17 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the transaction no more indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower than the simple fact of debt involves bankruptcy.
    Dem1 10.9 7 We learn [from dreams] that actions whose turpitude is very differently reputed proceed from one and the same affection.
    War 11.159 8 I read in Williams's History of Maine, that Assacombuit, the Sagamore of the Anagunticook tribe, was remarkable for his turpitude and ferocity...

turret, n. (3)

    HDC 11.47 15 The moderator [of the New England town-meeting] was the passive mouth-piece, and the vote of the town, like the vane on the turret overhead, free for every wind to turn...
    FRep 11.520 24 ...the grasshopper on the turret of Faneuil Hall gives a proper hint of the men below.
    EurB 12.371 7 [Tennyson] is not the husband who builds the homestead after his own necessity, from foundation-stone to chimney-top and turret...

turrets, n. (1)

    OA 7.313 2 Once more, the old man cried, ye clouds,/ Airy turrets purple-piled,/ Which once my infancy beguiled,/ Beguile me with the wonted spell./

turtle, n. (2)

    Thor 10.467 2 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau]...
    PLT 12.54 18 All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles...

turtle-dove, n. (1)

    Thor 10.476 10 I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle-dove...

turtles, n. (1)

    PLT 12.54 19 All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles...

turtle's, n. (1)

    CL 12.165 5 [Agassiz] pretends to be only busy with the foldings of the yolk of a turtle's egg.

Tuscan, adj. (1)

    Art1 2.359 5 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak.

Tuscany, Duke of, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.236 16 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies that to leave Saint Peter's in the state in which it now was would be to ruin the structure, and thereby be guilty of a great sin;...

Tuscany, n. (2)

    Wth 6.96 9 Ages derive a culture from the wealth of...Grand Dukes of Tuscany...or whatever great proprietors.
    Art2 7.57 12 ...[beauty, truth and goodness] are as indigenous in Massachusetts as in Tuscany or the Isles of Greece.

Tuscaroora, adj. (1)

    Clbs 7.249 15 ...l'homme de lettres is...not fond of giving away his seed-corn; but there is an infallible way to draw him out, namely, by having as good as he. If you have Tuscaroora and he Canada, he may exchange kernel for kernel.

Tustanuggee Indians, n. (1)

    Comc 8.165 10 The Society in London which had contributed their means to convert the savages, hoping doubtless to see the...Roaring Thunders and Tustanuggees...converted into church-wardens and deacons at least, pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations... touching the conversion of the Indians...

tutelar, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.276 3 Few people discern that it rests with the master or the mistress what service comes from the man or the maid; that this identical hussy was a tutelar spirit in one house and a haridan in the other.

tutor, n. (9)

    ET12 5.204 14 [The English] know the use of a tutor, as they know the use of a horse;...
    ET12 5.210 7 ...whether by cramming tutor or by examiners with prizes and foundational scholarships, education, according to the English notion of it, is arrived at [at Oxford].
    ET13 5.218 8 ...when the Saxon instinct had secured a [religious] service in the vernacular tongue, it was the tutor and university of the people.
    Cour 7.264 11 The school-boy is daunted before his tutor by a question of arithmetic...
    Edc1 10.154 6 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...and tutor or schoolmaster in his first term can apply it,-that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
    Schr 10.284 8 ...the sure months are bringing [the scholar] to an examination-day...for which no tutor, no book, no lectures, and almost no preparation can be of the least avail.
    Plu 10.293 11 [Plutarch] has been represented as having been the tutor of the Emperor Trajan...
    Plu 10.293 18 ...[Plutarch] was not the tutor of Trajan...
    Mem 12.92 9 [Memory] is the companion, this the tutor, the poet, the library, with which you travel.

tutoring, v. (1)

    ET14 5.248 18 Sir David Brewster sees the high place of Bacon, without finding Newton indebted to him, and thinks it a mistake. Bacon occupies it... not by any tutoring more or less of Newton...

tutors, n. (8)

    SR 2.67 27 We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of... tutors...
    Ctr 6.129 1 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/
    Clbs 7.246 8 Tutors and parents cannot interest [the boy] like the uproarious conversation he finds in the market or the dock.
    Edc1 10.150 14 ...the instruction [in colleges] seems to require skilful tutors...rather than ardent and inventive masters.
    CInt 12.117 9 ...[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;...and instead...it is a hospital for decayed tutors.
    CInt 12.126 21 All that is sought in the instruction [at Harvard College] is drill; tutors, not inspirers.
    CInt 12.131 4 ...the examination for admission and the examination for degrees and honors may be lax in this college and severe in that, and you may find facilities, translations, syllabuses and tutors here or there to coach you through, but 't is very certain than an examination is yonder before us...
    Bost 12.196 11 ...New England supplies annually a large detachment of preachers and schoolmasters and private tutors to the interior of the South and West.

twain, adj. (2)

    DL 7.109 20 That our expenditure and our character are twain, is the vice of society.
    MoL 10.257 20 Battle, with the sword, has cut many a Gordian knot in twain which all the wit of East and West, of Northern and Border statesmen could not untie.

twain, n. (2)

    Comp 2.110 17 ...[every opinion] is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat, and, if the harpoon is not good, or not well thrown, it will go nigh to cut the steersman in twain or sink the boat.
    PLT 12.61 19 ...all great minds and all great hearts have mutually allowed the absolute necessity of the twain.

tweezer-cases, n. (1)

    Wth 6.92 21 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust,--a paltry matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the determined youth saw in it an aperture to insert his dangerous wedges...

twelfth, adj. (10)

    ET13 5.220 9 Heats and genial periods arrive in history...as in the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and again in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries [in England]...
    Wsp 6.206 17 What Gothic mixtures the Christian creed drew from the pagan sources, Richard of Devizes' chronicle of Richard I.'s crusade, in the twelfth century, may show.
    PI 8.60 1 The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century...
    Thor 10.451 8 [Thoreau] was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on the 12th of July, 1817.
    HDC 11.32 7 ...on the 2d of September, 1635, corresponding in New Style to 12th September...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
    HDC 11.81 7 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord], on the 12th September...
    EWI 11.112 21 With these provisions and conditions, the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] proceeds, in the twelfth section, in the following terms...
    War 11.157 14 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to dismantle their castles...
    SMC 11.371 16 On the twelfth [of May], at Laurel Hill, the [Thirty-second] regiment had twenty-one killed and seventy-five wounded...
    FRep 11.526 18 In Massachusetts, every twelfth man is a shoemaker...

Twelfth Night, n. (1)

    ShP 4.218 6 ...when the question is, to life and its materials and its auxiliaries, how does [Shakespeare] profit me? What does it signify? It is but a Twelfth Night, or Midsummer-Night's Dream...

twelve, adj. (32)

    NR 3.229 12 Who can tell if Washington be a great man or no? Who can tell if Franklin be? Yes, or any but the twelve, or six, or three great gods of fame?
    ET1 5.13 10 ...[Coleridge] recited with strong emphasis, standing, ten or twelve lines beginning,--Born unto God in Christ--/
    ET2 5.27 26 Hour for hour, the risk on a steamboat is greater; but the speed is safety, or twelve days of danger instead of twenty-four.
    ET5 5.99 1 It is the maxim of [English] economists, that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
    ET12 5.200 17 ...out of twelve hundred young men [at Oxford]...a duel has never occurred.
    ET12 5.201 14 I saw [at Oxford] the Ashmolean Museum, whither Elias Ashmole in 1682 sent twelve cart-loads of rarities.
    ET15 5.266 2 The old press [the London Times] were then using printed five or six thousand sheets per hour; the new machine, for which they were then building an engine, would print twelve thousand per hour.
    ET19 5.312 20 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that [Englishmen's] virtues did not come out until they quarrelled; they did not strike twelve the first time;...
    Wth 6.108 11 If, in Boston, the best securities offer twelve per cent. for money, they have just six per cent. of insecurity.
    Bhr 6.194 25 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.
    CbW 6.250 25 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...
    WD 7.176 6 ...in our history, Jesus is born in a barn, and his twelve peers are fishermen.
    Boks 7.193 10 In 1858, the number of printed books in the Imperial Library at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand volumes, with an annual increase of twelve thousand volumes;...
    Insp 8.280 6 Sydney Smith said: You will never break down in a speech on the day when you have walked twelve miles.
    Insp 8.284 1 Had I not lived with Mirabeau, says Dumont, I never should have known all that can be done in one day, or, rather, in an interval of twelve hours.
    Aris 10.48 23 In the South a slave was bluntly but accurately valued at five hundred to a thousand dollars, if a good field-hand; if a mechanic, as carpenter or smith, twelve hundred or two thousand.
    Supl 10.167 9 An eminent French journalist paid a high compliment to the Duke of Wellington, when his documents were published: Here are twelve volumes of military dispatches, and the word glory is not found in them.
    Supl 10.175 9 ...Nature...freezes punctually at 32 degrees, boils punctually at 212 degrees;...
    Thor 10.470 21 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler, a bird he...had been in search of twelve years...
    GSt 10.501 16 We recall the all but exclusive devotion of this excellent man [George Stearns] during the last twelve years to public and patriotic interests.
    LS 11.5 24 Two of the Evangelists...were of the twelve disciples, and were present on that occasion [the Last Supper].
    LS 11.6 22 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution... would have been established...in a manner so slight, that the intention of commemorating it should not appear...to have...dwelt in the mind of the only two among the twelve who wrote down what happened.
    LS 11.9 17 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all. Among the modern Jews...a hymn is also sung after this ceremony, specifying the twelve great works done by God for the deliverance of their fathers out of Egypt.
    HDC 11.32 10 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
    EWI 11.114 23 On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels, and at midnight, when the clock struck twelve, on their knees, the silent, weeping assembly became men;...
    JBS 11.278 14 ...[John Brown] was much considered in the family where he then stayed, from the circumstance that this boy of twelve years had conducted alone a drove of cattle a hundred miles.
    SMC 11.364 15 [George Prescott writes] We only had about twelve men [the rest of the company being, perhaps, on picket or other duty]...
    SMC 11.366 19 In August, 1862...mainly through the personal example and influence of Mr. Sylvester Lovejoy, twelve men, including himself, were enlisted for three years...
    FRO1 11.479 6 ...in Europe, for twelve or fourteen centuries, God the Father had no temple and no altar.
    CL 12.141 22 You shall never break down in a speech, said Sydney Smith, on the day on which you have walked twelve miles.
    MAng1 12.221 4 ...[Michelangelo] devoted himself to the study of anatomy for twelve years;...
    MAng1 12.228 19 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads before he could satisfy himself...

Twelve Years...In India [ (1)

    Edc1 10.143 7 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life...

twelvemonth, n. (4)

    Tran 1.350 16 Every moment of a hero so raises and cheers us that a twelvemonth is an age.
    OA 7.328 23 ...the young man's year is a heap of beginnings. At the end of a twelvemonth, he has nothing to show for it...
    ACiv 11.304 20 On the climbing scale of progress, [the Southerner] is just up to war, and has never appeared to such advantage as in the last twelvemonth.
    EurB 12.365 3 It was a brighter day than we have often known in our literary calendar, when within a twelvemonth a single London advertisement announced a new volume of poems by Wordsworth, poems by Tennyson, and a play by Henry Taylor.

twenties, n. (1)

    OA 7.328 16 The Indian Red Jacket, when the young braves were boasting their deeds, said, But the sixties have all the twenties and forties in them.

twentieth, adj. (2)

    PPh 4.43 26 [Plato]...is said to have had an early inclination for war, but, in his twentieth year, meeting with Socrates, was easily dissuaded from this pursuit...
    Pow 6.78 15 No genius can recite a ballad at first reading so well as mediocrity can at the fifteenth or twentieth reading.

twentieth, n. (1)

    SR 2.84 23 What a contrast between the...American...and the naked New Zealander, whose property is...an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under!

twentieths, n. (2)

    II 12.80 21 Nineteen twentieths of their substance do trees draw from the air.
    CW 12.178 6 ...Nineteen twentieths of the timber are drawn from the atmosphere.

twenty, adj. (76)

    Nat 1.8 15 The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms.
    Nat 1.51 13 Turn the eyes upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture, though you have seen it any time these twenty years!
    LT 1.275 15 A great deal of the profoundest thinking of antiquity...in twenty years will get all printed anew.
    YA 1.367 18 We have twenty degrees of latitude wherein to choose a seat...
    Hist 2.13 22 ...a poet makes twenty fables with one moral.
    SR 2.86 6 ...nor can all the science, art, religion, and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes, three or four and twenty centuries ago.
    Lov1 2.170 22 It matters not...whether we attempt to describe the passion [of love] at twenty, thirty, or at eighty years.
    Cir 2.308 11 Each new step we take in thought reconciles twenty seemingly discordant facts...
    Int 2.337 13 ...a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation...
    Int 2.338 19 ...I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.
    Pt1 3.31 18 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire, which, though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus, will yet hold its natural office and burn as bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold;...
    NER 3.261 9 It is of little moment that one or two or twenty errors of our social system be corrected...
    NER 3.265 6 ...in the hour in which [a man] mortgages himself to two or ten or twenty, he dwarfs himself below the stature of one.
    SwM 4.109 23 If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes or marries his grandmother, then in every twenty thousand or thirty thousand is found one man who eats shoes or marries his grandmother.
    SwM 4.109 25 If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes or marries his grandmother, then in every twenty thousand or thirty thousand is found one man who eats shoes or marries his grandmother.
    SwM 4.132 18 An ardent and contemplative young man, at eighteen or twenty years, might read once these books of Swedenborg...and then throw them aside for ever.
    MoS 4.157 10 [The skeptic says] Why think to shut up all things in your narrow coop, when we know there are not one or two only, but ten, twenty, a thousand things, and unlike?
    ET2 5.25 7 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which...in 1847 had been linked into a Union, which embraced twenty or thirty towns and cities...
    ET2 5.29 3 The floor of your room [at sea] is sloped at an angle of twenty or thirty degrees...
    ET4 5.45 4 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America, which reckon...20,000,000 of people...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
    ET4 5.52 7 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England, say eight or ten or twenty varieties...
    ET4 5.60 22 Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings.
    ET11 5.183 16 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty.
    ET12 5.203 14 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me...the first Bible printed at Mentz...and a duplicate of the same, which had been deficient in about twenty leaves at the end.
    ET12 5.203 20 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Dr. Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order;...
    ET12 5.210 22 Oxford sends out yearly twenty or thirty very able men...
    ET12 5.211 9 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics...with a saddle and gallop of twenty miles a day... the American would arrives at as robust exegesis...
    ET14 5.260 14 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England]... are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...these two nations, of genius and of animal force, though the first consist of only a dozen souls and the second of twenty millions, forever by their discord and their accord yield the power of the English State.
    ET15 5.266 6 Our entertainer [at the London Times] confided us to a courteous assistant to show us the establishment, in which, I think, they employed a hundred and twenty men.
    ET16 5.289 11 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer, which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be given to every one who should ask it at the gate. We had both, from the old couple who take care of the church. Some twenty people every day, they said, make the same demand.
    F 6.17 11 ...on a population of twenty or two hundred millions, something like accuracy may be had.
    Pow 6.76 10 There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest;...
    Wth 6.114 22 We had in this region, twenty years ago, among our educated men, a sort of Arcadian fanaticism...
    Ctr 6.135 27 In New York the question [of life] is of some other eight, or ten, or twenty [men].
    Ctr 6.164 12 The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.
    Bty 6.295 7 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together...
    Elo1 7.65 1 The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude, and concentrating their valors and powers:--But now the blood of twenty thousand men/ Blushed in my face./
    DL 7.124 20 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals, ten, twenty years after they had left the halls, returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away.
    WD 7.159 6 ...one franc's worth of coal does the work of a laborer for twenty days.
    Boks 7.192 2 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends...and though they...have been waiting two, ten, or twenty centuries for us...it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to;...
    Boks 7.195 21 ...[the pamphlet or political chapter] is winnowed by all the winds of opinion, and what terrific selection has not passed on it before it can be reprinted after twenty years;...
    Boks 7.214 15 ...Jeanne and Consuelo, of George Sand, are great steps from the novel of one termination, which we all read twenty years ago.
    OA 7.318 15 ...if we did not find the reflection of ourselves in the eyes of the young people, we could not know that the century-clock had struck seventy instead of twenty.
    Aris 10.29 13 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...
    Edc1 10.153 6 ...[the teacher] cannot delight in personal relations with young friends, when...twenty classes are to be dealt with before the day is done.
    Prch 10.224 23 ...it is as if [a man] were ten or twenty less men than himself, acting at discord with one another...
    Prch 10.225 1 ...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true, it is clear mathematically...that this will tell in the result as if twenty men had cooperated...
    LLNE 10.325 19 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following.
    MMEm 10.411 8 In her solitude of twenty years...[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
    MMEm 10.416 6 I [Mary Moody Emerson] felt, till above twenty yeard old, as though Christianity were as necessary to the world as existence;...
    HDC 11.35 20 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest...must be laborious to all...
    HDC 11.53 11 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new hope they had conceived...
    HDC 11.57 13 ...a new and alarming public distress retarded the growth of [Concord], as of the sister towns, during more than twenty years from 1654 to 1676.
    HDC 11.62 9 ...a few vagrant [Indian] families, that are now pensioners on the bounty of Massachusetts, are all that is left of the twenty tribes.
    HDC 11.66 1 ...bounties of twenty shillings are given as late as 1735, to Indians and whites, for the heads of these animals [wolves and wildcats]...
    HDC 11.82 14 [Concord's] population, in the census of 1830, was 2020 souls.
    EWI 11.113 17 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters, as a compensation for so much of the slaves' time as the act [of emancipation] took from them, 20,000,000 pounds sterling...
    EWI 11.143 11 Who cares for oppressing whites, or oppressed blacks, twenty centuries ago...
    FSLC 11.207 24 Since it is agreed by all sane men of all parties...that slavery is mischievous, why does the South itself never offer the smallest counsel of her own? I have never heard in twenty years any project except Mr. Clay's.
    FSLC 11.211 4 Europe, the least of all the continents, has almost monopolized for twenty centuries the genius and power of them all.
    AKan 11.259 6 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years...
    JBS 11.278 22 ...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into Virginia and run off five hundred or a thousand slaves was not...a plot of two years or of twenty years...
    ALin 11.335 19 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before [the American people];...the pulse of twenty millions throbbing in his heart...
    HCom 11.339 3 Old classmate, say/ Do you remember our Commencement Day?/ Were we such boys as these at twenty? Nay,/ God called them to a nobler task than ours/...
    Wom 11.418 10 Nature's end, of maternity for twenty years, was of so supreme importance that it was to be secured at all events...
    SHC 11.433 22 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...so that every child may be shown growing, side by side, the eleven oaks of Massachusetts; and the twenty willows;...
    SHC 11.433 25 This spot for twenty years has borne the name of Sleepy Hollow.
    PLT 12.8 12 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor hastens to inform us that he knew it all twenty years ago...
    CL 12.144 12 Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin the pinery was composed of trees so big, and so many of them, that it was impossible to walk in the country...
    CL 12.159 25 ...the speculators who rush for investment, at ten per cent., twenty per cent....are all more or less mad...
    CW 12.171 20 ...I have a problem long waiting for an engineer,-this-to what height I must build a tower in my garden that shall show me the Atlantic Ocean from its top-the ocean twenty miles away.
    MAng1 12.228 3 [Michelangelo] finished the gigantic painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in twenty months...
    MLit 12.320 2 When we read poetry, the mind asks,-Was this verse one of twenty which the author might have written as well;...
    WSL 12.340 11 ...for twenty years we have still found the Imaginary Conversations a sure resource in solitude...
    Let 12.393 2 When a railroad train shoots through Europe every day...it cannot stop every twenty or thirty miles at a German custom-house...
    Let 12.397 2 The loneliest man, after twenty years, discovers that he stood in a circle of friends...

twenty-eight, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.99 13 At the age of twenty-eight [Swedenborg] was made Assessor of the Board of Mines by Charles XII.

twenty-eighth, adj. (2)

    ET1 5.19 3 On the 28th August [1833] I went to Rydal Mount, to pay my respects to Mr. Wordsworth.
    SMC 11.374 19 ...the [Thirty-second] regiment was mustered out in the field, at Washington, on the twenty-eighth of June...

twenty-fifth, adj. (2)

    EWI 11.109 26 ...in 1807, on the 25th March, the bill passed, and the slave-trade was abolished.
    RBur 11.439 14 At the first announcement, from I know not whence, that the 25th of January [1859] was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, a sudden consent warmed the great English race...to keep the festival.

twenty-first, adj. (2)

    SMC 11.372 1 On the twenty-first, [the Thirty-second Regiment] had been, for seventeen days and nights, under arms without rest.
    MAng1 12.225 11 On the 21st of March, 1530, the Prince of Orange assaulted the city [Florence] by storm.

twenty-five, adj. (8)

    NER 3.251 3 Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five years...will have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting.
    NMW 4.249 8 At Arcola [said Napoleon] I won the battle with twenty-five horsemen.
    Cour 7.274 14 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look...at the folios of the Brothers Bollandi, who collected the lives of twenty-five thousand martyrs, confessors, ascetics and self-tormentors.
    Imtl 8.332 1 ...it chanced that [my friend] never met [his colleague] again until, twenty-five years afterwards, they saw each other through open doors at a distance in a crowded reception at the President's house in Washington.
    HDC 11.78 23 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British troops, Concord contributed to the relief of the inhabitants...225 bushels of grain;...
    FSLC 11.210 2 These thirty nations [the United States] are equal to any work, and are every moment stronger. In twenty-five years they will be fifty millions.
    TPar 11.292 9 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm to all men, in all times, that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke;...
    CL 12.155 18 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road...

twenty-four, adj. (7)

    ET2 5.27 27 Hour for hour, the risk on a steamboat is greater; but the speed is safety, or twelve days of danger instead of twenty-four.
    OA 7.329 5 Linnaeus...lays out his twenty-four classes of plants, before yet he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes.
    HDC 11.50 4 Tell [the Continental nations] the Union has twenty-four States, and Massachusetts is one.
    HDC 11.54 12 ...in 1676, there were five hundred and sixty-seven praying Indians, and in 1689, twenty-four Indian preachers, and eighteen assemblies.
    HDC 11.78 14 ...say the plaintive records, General Washington, at Cambridge, is not able to give but 24s. per cord for wood, for the army;...
    SMC 11.364 11 ...I [George Prescott] took six poles, and went to the colonel, and told him I had got the poles for two tents, which would cover twenty-four men...
    MAng1 12.242 1 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari...and tells him...that he sees it is already twenty-four o'clock...

twenty-fourth, adj. (4)

    CbW 6.253 24 In the twenty-fourth year of his reign [Edward I] decreed that no tax should be levied without consent of Lords and Commons;...
    EzRy 10.384 17 In March following [Joseph Emerson] notes: Had a safe and comfortable journey to York. But April 24th, we find: Shay overturned, with my wife and I in it, yet neither of us much hurt. blessed be our gracious Preserver.
    HDC 11.68 5 On the 24th January, 1774, in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence, in the vicinity of Boston, the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the... endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    MAng1 12.224 9 On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city [Florence]...

twenty-nine, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.52 24 ...here [at Concord] [Tahattawan and Waban] entered, by [John Eliot's] assistance, into an agreement to twenty-nine rules...

twenty-one, adj. (5)

    ET12 5.204 26 Seven years' residence [at Oxford] is the theoretic period for a master's degree. In point of fact, it has long been three years' residence, and four years more of standing. This three years is about twenty-one months in all.
    EzRy 10.381 21 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college by the time he should be twenty-one years of age...
    HDC 11.70 22 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons, upwards of twenty-one years of age, inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant...
    SMC 11.371 17 On the twelfth [of May], at Laurel Hill, the [Thirty-second] regiment had twenty-one killed and seventy-five wounded...
    Milt1 12.263 16 [Milton] acknowledges to his friend Diodati, at the age of twenty-one, that he is enamoured...of moral perfection...

twenty-second, adj. (3)

    EWI 11.106 21 ...[George Somerset's] case was adjourned again and again, and judgment delayed. At last judgment was demanded, and on the 22d June, 1772, Lord Mansfield is reported to have decided...
    EPro 11.316 4 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...and now, eminently, President Lincoln's [Emancipation] Proclamation on the twenty-second of September.
    EPro 11.321 27 Every acre in the free states gained substantial value on the twenty-second of September.

twenty-seven, adj. (4)

    ET4 5.45 11 The British census proper reckons twenty-seven and a half millions in the home countries.
    ET7 5.122 2 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven all voting like sheep...
    EzRy 10.384 13 The minister [Joseph Emerson] writes against January 31st [1735]: Bought a shay for 27 pounds, 10 shillings.
    EPro 11.321 24 What if...the gold dollar costs one hundred and twenty-seven cents?

twenty-seventh, adj. (2)

    ET12 5.201 27 [At Oxford] on August 27, 1660, John Milton's Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio and Iconoclastes were committed to the flames.
    HDC 11.70 21 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant...

twenty-six, adj. (1)

    SMC 11.372 9 We [Thirty-second Regiment] have been in the first line twenty-six days...

twenty-sixth, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.71 13 On the 26th of the month [September, 1774], the whole town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety...

twenty-third, adj. (2)

    ET7 5.120 22 ...one cannot think this festival [of St. George in Montreal] fruitless, if, all over the world, on the 23d of April, wherever two or three English are found, they meet to encourage each other in the nationality of veracity.
    SMC 11.372 3 On the twenty-third, [the Thirty-second Regiment] crossed the North Anna, and achieved a great success.

twenty-three, adj. (2)

    ShP 4.203 8 Sir Henry Wotton was born four years after Shakspeare, and died twenty-three years after him;...
    ET11 5.182 7 From Barnard Castle I rode on the highway twenty-three miles...through the estate of the Duke of Cleveland.

twenty-two, adj. (3)

    PPh 4.39 16 The Bible of the learned for twenty-two hundred years, every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato...
    ET4 5.44 21 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848) 222,000, 000 souls...
    HDC 11.79 15 The numbers [of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will...fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns. On that occasion, Concord furnished 67 men, paying them itself, at an expense of 622 pounds.

twice, adv. (28)

    MN 1.214 15 You cannot bathe twice in the same river, said Heraclitus;...
    MN 1.214 17 ...a man never sees the same object twice...
    MR 1.255 2 The virtue of this principle [Love] in human society in application to great interests is obsolete and forgotten. Once or twice in history it has been tried in illustrious instances, with signal success.
    Lov1 2.177 9 ...[the lover] is twice a man;...
    Pt1 3.10 22 Boston seemed to be at twice the distance it had the night before...
    Mrs1 3.148 25 Once or twice in a lifetime we are permitted to enjoy the charm of noble manners...
    UGM 4.16 9 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence. This honor, which is possible in personal intercourse scarcely twice in a lifetime, genius perpetually pays;...
    PPh 4.68 16 A key to the method and completeness of Plato is his twice bisected line.
    SwM 4.116 27 The fact [of Correspondence] thus explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied...in the structure of language. Plato knew it, as is evident from his twice bisected line in the sixth book of the Republic.
    ET1 5.3 1 I have been twice in England.
    ET1 5.21 3 [Wordsworth] alluded once or twice to his conversation with Dr. Channing...
    ET3 5.35 3 Cushioned and comforted in every manner, the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...at near twice the speed of our trains;...
    ET14 5.258 6 The best office of the best poets has been to show...that only once or twice they have struck the high chord.
    Pow 6.78 9 Stumping it through New England for twice seven [years] trained Wendell Phillips.
    Wth 6.120 4 ...[Mr. Cockayne] thinks a cow is a creature that is fed on hay and gives a pail of milk twice a day.
    Ctr 6.144 26 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic, which they are not; and a free admission to them on an equal footing, if it were possible, only once or twice, would be worth ten times its cost, by undeceiving him.
    CbW 6.275 1 ...life would be twice or ten times life if spent with wise and fruitful companions.
    Bty 6.297 1 ...the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline de Viguier] to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...
    OA 7.329 1 Our instincts drove us to hive innumerable experiences...which we may keep for twice seven years before they shall be wanted.
    PI 8.73 15 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of an inspiration...
    Elo2 8.116 7 ...[the people] have spent their money once or twice very freely.
    Dem1 10.8 14 Once or twice the conscious fetters shall seem to be unlocked [by dreams]...
    EWI 11.106 16 Very unwilling had that great lawyer [Lord Mansfield] been to reverse the late decisions [on slavery]; he suggested twice from the bench, in the course of the trial [of George Somerset], how the question might be got rid of...
    ACiv 11.302 4 ...by the dislike of people to pay out a direct tax, governments are forced to render life costly by making them pay twice as much, hidden in the price of tea and sugar.
    ChiE 11.473 17 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill which the Hon. Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island has twice attempted to carry through Congress, requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.
    Mem 12.100 19 A man would think twice about learning a new science or reading a new paragraph, if he believed...that he lost a word or a thought for every word he gained.
    Bost 12.182 3 The rocky nook with hilltops three/ Looked eastward from the farms,/ And twice each day the flowing sea/ Took Boston in its arms./
    MLit 12.322 20 Such was [Goethe's] capacity that the magazines of the world's ancient or modern wealth...he wanted them all. Had there been twice so much, he could have used it as well.

twig, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.35 24 When some of [Swedenborg's] angels affirmed a truth, the laurel twig which they held blossomed in their hands.
    PI 8.35 14 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason, till he sees it...to be related to astronomy and history and the eternal order of the world. Then the dry twig blossoms in his hand.
    Res 8.152 27 ...every passenger may strike off a twig [of willow] with his cane;...
    CL 12.145 20 [The Farmer] saves every drop of sap, as if it were wine. A few years ago those trees were whipsticks. Now, every one of them is worth a hundred dollars. Observe their form; not a branch nor a twig is to spare.

twigs, n. (3)

    Pow 6.73 23 ...the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, instead of suffering it to spindle into a sheaf of twigs.
    Boks 7.216 11 I remember when some peering eyes of boys discovered that the oranges hanging on the boughs of an orange-tree in a gay piazza were tied to the twigs by thread.
    LLNE 10.338 16 The German poet Goethe...proposed...in Botany, his simple theory of metamorphosis;...the branch of a tree is nothing but a leaf whose serratures have become twigs.

Twilight [Michelangelo], n. (1)

    MAng1 12.230 4 In the mausoleum of the Medici at Florence are the tombs of Lorenzo and Cosmo, with the grand statues of Night and Day, and Aurora and Twilight.

twilight, n. (6)

    Nat 1.9 18 Crossing a bare common...at twilight...I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.
    Pt1 3.42 18 ...wherever day and night meet in twilight...there is Beauty... shed for thee [O poet]...
    ShP 4.218 17 ...had [Shakespeare] reached only the common measure of great authors...we might leave the fact in the twilight of human fate...
    ET16 5.280 10 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in the twilight...
    Dem1 10.23 26 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into this twilight and say, There 's more than is dreamed of in your philosophy.
    SHC 11.434 2 [Sleepy Hollow's] seclusion from the village in its immediate neighborhood had made it to all the inhabitants an easy retreat on a Sabbath day, or a summer twilight...

twilights, n. (5)

    Chr1 3.102 18 [Men] must...make us feel that they have a controlling happy future opening before them, whose early twilights already kindle in the passing hour.
    Dem1 10.19 12 ...however poetic these twilights of thought, I like daylight...
    Plu 10.300 25 ...twilights, shadows, omens and spectres have a charm for [Plutarch].
    EdAd 11.391 22 Will [a journal] venture into the thin and difficult air of that school where the secrets of structure are discussed under the topics of mesmerism and the twilights of demonology?
    MLit 12.309 3 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.

twin, adj. (2)

    PPh 4.52 9 A too rapid unification, and an excessive appliance to parts and particulars, are the twin dangers of speculation.
    ET14 5.235 19 To the images from this twin source (of Christianity and art), the mind became fruitful as by the incubation of the Holy Ghost.

twin, n. (1)

    OA 7.330 16 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched in our mind by its twin...

twin-born, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.78 3 The soul is not twin-born but the only begotten...

twine, n. (1)

    Thor 10.469 24 Under his arm [Thoreau] carried an old music-book to press plants; in his pocket...a spy-glass for birds, microscope, jack-knife and twine.

twine, v. (2)

    Comp 2.92 2 Man's the elm, and Wealth the vine,/ Stanch and strong the tendrils twine/...
    Trag 12.414 27 ...new hopes spring, new affections twine, and the broken is whole again.

twines, v. (1)

    ET10 5.161 1 Steam twines huge cannon into wreaths...

twinges, n. (1)

    Schr 10.262 11 I do not now refer to that intellectual conscience which... gives us many twinges for our sloth and unfaithfulness...

twinings, n. (1)

    MR 1.234 19 Inextricable seem to be the twinings and tendrils of this evil...

twinkle, v. (2)

    Elo1 7.59 13 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In his every syllable/ Lurketh nature veritable;/ .../ The forest waves, the morning breaks,/ The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,/ Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be/ And life pulsates in rock or tree./
    Suc 7.298 19 ...the leaves twinkle and pique and flatter [the city boy in the October woods];...

twinkling, n. (2)

    SA 8.83 25 There is the same difference between heavy and genial manners as between the perceptions of octogenarians and those of young girls who see everything in the twinkling of an eye.
    Res 8.145 5 ...[the old forester] draws his boat ashore, turns it over in a twinkling against a clump of alders with cat-briers, which keep up the lee-side, crawls under it with his comrade, and lies there till the shower is over, happy in his stout roof.

Twins, n. (1)

    PI 8.46 10 Who would hold the order of the almanac so fast but for the ding-dong,--Thirty days hath September, etc.;--or of the Zodiac, but for The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, etc.?

twirl, v. (1)

    Civ 7.17 27 Twirl the old wheels! Time takes fresh start again,/ On for a thousand years of genius more./

Twiss, Horace, n. (1)

    ET15 5.266 13 The staff of The [London] Times has always been made up of able men. Old Walter...Barnes, Alsiger, Horace Twiss...have contributed to its renown...

twist, n. (2)

    QO 8.178 23 There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands [old and new].
    Aris 10.62 18 ...[the gentleman] will find...in English palaces the London twist, derision, coldness...

twist, v. (5)

    Comp 2.119 15 The history of persecution is a history of endeavors...to twist a rope of sand.
    Bhr 6.173 15 I have seen...the frivolous Asmodeus, who relies on you to find him in ropes of sand to twist;...
    CbW 6.276 23 'T is as easy to twist iron anchors and braid cannons as to braid straw;...
    WD 7.159 11 Why need I speak of steam...which...can twist beams of iron like candy-braids...
    Res 8.149 2 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire. The children never suspect... that this unfailing fertility has been rehearsed a hundred times, when the necessity came of finding for the little Asmodeus a rope of sand to twist.

twisted, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.25 17 ...wrong means twisted.

twisted, v. (5)

    SL 2.146 10 If you pour water into a vessel twisted into coils and angles...it will find its level in all.
    SL 2.157 16 It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to articulate a proposition which they did not believe; but they could not, though they twisted and folded their lips even to indignation.
    ET10 5.161 3 Steam twines huge cannon into wreaths...and vies with the volcanic forces which twisted the strata.
    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...
    PerF 10.75 11 [Labor] is twisted and screwed into fragrant hay which fills the barn.

twisting, v. (1)

    Pol1 3.200 8 ...foolish legislation is a rope of sand which perishes in the twisting;...

twists, v. (1)

    CbW 6.258 19 In the high prophetic phrase, He causes the wrath of man to praise him, and twists and wrenches our evil to our good.

twitches, n. (1)

    Schr 10.267 17 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends. Yes, but not...an over-doing and busy-ness which pretends to the honors of action, but resembles the twitches of St. Vitus.

twitchings, n. (1)

    SS 7.5 13 [My friend]...walked miles and miles to get the twitchings out of his face...

two, adj. (519)

    Nat 1.13 21 ...by means of steam, [man]...carries the two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat.
    Nat 1.33 17 ...A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush;...
    Nat 1.39 22 Passing by many particulars of the discipline of nature, we must not omit to specify two.
    AmS 1.84 18 ...All things have two handles: beware of the wrong one.
    AmS 1.85 18 ...[the young mind] finds how to join two things and see in them one nature;...
    AmS 1.91 8 The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.
    AmS 1.92 6 There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived...two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul...
    AmS 1.106 16 ...in a millennium, one or two men;...
    AmS 1.106 17 ...in a millenium...one or two approximations to the right state of every man.
    DSA 1.127 19 ...the divine nature is attributed to one or two persons...
    DSA 1.128 16 I shall endeavor to discharge my duty to you on this occasion, by pointing out two errors in [the Christian church's] administration...
    DSA 1.143 16 ...in these two errors...I find the causes of a decaying church...
    DSA 1.150 15 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us;...
    LE 1.167 27 Further inquiry will discover...that [these chanting poets]...saw one or two mornings...
    MN 1.207 12 A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature...
    MN 1.207 15 A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature, and [man] was hurled into being as...the mediator betwixt two else unmarriageable facts.
    MN 1.207 15 [Man's] two parents held each of them one of the wants...
    MN 1.216 24 From the poisonous tree, the world, say the Brahmins, two species of fruit are produced, sweet as the waters of life;...
    MR 1.242 1 I would not quite forget the venerable counsel of the Egyptian mysteries, which declared that there were two pairs of eyes in man...
    MR 1.249 19 The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.
    MR 1.251 26 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel...with a bottle of water and two sacks, one holding barley and the other dried fruits.
    MR 1.253 2 Let any two matrons meet, and observe how soon their conversation turns on the troubles from their "help,", as our phrase is.
    LT 1.261 5 The fact of aristocracy, with its two weapons of wealth and manners, is as commanding a feature of the nineteenth century...as of old Rome...
    LT 1.268 5 The two omnipresent parties of History, the party of the Past and the party of the Future, divide society today as of old.
    LT 1.268 24 ...the movement party divides itself into two classes...
    LT 1.285 10 Of the two, I own I like the speculators best.
    Con 1.295 1 The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old...
    Con 1.296 2 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution. ... It is...the appearance in trifles of the two poles of nature
    Con 1.299 23 ...it may be safely affirmed of these two metaphysical antagonists [Conservatism and Reform], that each is a good half, but an impossible whole.
    Tran 1.329 14 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists;...
    Tran 1.330 2 These two modes of thinking [Materialism and Idealism] are both natural...
    Tran 1.331 19 ...how easy it is to show [the materialist]...that he need only ask a question or two beyond his daily questions to find his solid universe growing dim and impalpable before his sense.
    Tran 1.342 27 ...if any one will take pains to talk with [these separators], he will find that this part is chosen...with some unwillingness...and as a choice of the less of two evils;...
    Tran 1.353 3 These two states of thought diverge every moment, and stand in wild contrast.
    Tran 1.353 20 ...the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, really show very little relation to each other;...
    Tran 1.353 26 ...the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead...never meet and measure each other...and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.
    Tran 1.359 7 ...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    YA 1.370 24 To men legislating for the area betwixt the two oceans... somewhat of the gravity of nature will infuse itself into the code.
    YA 1.382 9 The science is confident, and surely the poverty is real. If any means could be found to bring these two together!
    Hist 2.21 21 In the early history of Asia and Africa, Nomadism and Agriculture are the two antagonist facts.
    Hist 2.22 20 The antagonism of the two tendencies [Nomadism and Agriculture] is not less active in individuals...
    Hist 2.27 3 ...when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception...why should I measure degrees of latitude...
    Hist 2.27 4 ...when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue...why should I measure degrees of latitude...
    Hist 2.38 13 ...in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history is to be read and written.
    SR 2.74 11 There are two confessionals...
    SR 2.84 4 ...the ear and the tongue are two organs of one nature.
    SR 2.84 25 ...compare the health of the two men [American and New Zealander]...
    SR 2.85 1 ...strike the savage with a broad-axe and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal...
    Comp 2.111 11 Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet...as two currents of air mix...
    Comp 2.116 17 All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
    Comp 2.120 14 Every thing has two sides, a good and an evil.
    SL 2.149 7 Take the book into your two hands and read your eyes out, you will never find what I find.
    SL 2.155 8 The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear.
    Lov1 2.172 11 ...what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties?
    Lov1 2.173 2 Among the throng of girls [the village boy] runs rudely enough, but one alone distances him; and these two little neighbors...have learned to respect each other's personality.
    Lov1 2.187 23 Looking at these aims with which two persons, a man and a woman...are shut up in one house to spend in the nuptial society forty or fifty years, I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
    Fdsp 2.193 15 What [is] so delicious as a just and firm encounter of two, in a thought...
    Fdsp 2.202 10 There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship...
    Fdsp 2.206 20 [Friendship] cannot subsist in its perfection...betwixt more than two.
    Fdsp 2.207 4 You shall have very useful and cheering discourse at several times with two several men...
    Fdsp 2.207 6 Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
    Fdsp 2.207 10 In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone.
    Fdsp 2.207 23 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. ... Now this convention...destroys the high freedom of great conversation, which requires an absolute running of two souls into one.
    Fdsp 2.207 24 No two men but being left alone with each other enter into simpler relations.
    Fdsp 2.207 26 ...it is affinity that determines which two shall converse.
    Fdsp 2.208 27 There must be very two, before there can be very one.
    Fdsp 2.209 2 Let [friendship] be an alliance of two large, formidable natures...
    Fdsp 2.211 20 There can never be deep peace between two spirits...until in their dialogue each stands for the whole world.
    Fdsp 2.213 22 [By persisting in your path] You...draw to you...those rare pilgrims whereof only one or two wander in nature at once...
    Prd1 2.231 6 Poetry and prudence should be coincident. ... But now the two things seem irreconcilably parted.
    Hsm1 2.248 5 Earlier, Robert Burns has given us a [heroic] song or two.
    OS 2.265 2 Space is ample, east and west,/ But two cannot go abreast,/ Cannot travel in it two/...
    OS 2.265 3 Space is ample, east and west,/ But two cannot go abreast,/ Cannot travel in it two/...
    OS 2.277 8 In all conversation between two persons tacit reference is made...to a common nature.
    OS 2.279 14 ...if I renounce my will and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of [my child's] young eyes looks the same soul;...
    Cir 2.308 13 Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools.
    Cir 2.308 16 ...discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle...
    Cir 2.314 22 Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
    Int 2.334 26 In the intellect constructive...we observe the same balance of two elements as in intellect receptive.
    Int 2.335 4 To genius must always go two gifts, the thought and the publication.
    Int 2.336 10 There is an inequality...between two men and between two moments of the same man, in respect to this faculty [of communication].
    Int 2.336 11 There is an inequality...between two men and between two moments of the same man, in respect to this faculty [of communication].
    Pt1 3.4 20 ...we are...children of the fire, made of it, and only the same divinity transmuted and at two or three removes, when we know least about it.
    Pt1 3.23 7 This atom of seed is thrown into a new place, not subject to the accidents which destroyed its parent two rods off.
    Exp 3.48 24 In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate...
    Exp 3.64 22 Whilst the debate goes forward on the equity of commerce, and will not be closed for a century or two, New and Old England may keep shop.
    Exp 3.65 23 Human life is made up of the two elements, power and form...
    Exp 3.77 21 Two human beings are like globes, which can touch only in a point...
    Exp 3.82 18 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold. The face of the god expresses a shade of regret and compassion, but is calm with the conviction of the irreconcilableness of the two spheres.
    Chr1 3.95 9 Is there no love, no reverence. Is there never a glimpse of right in a poor slave-captain's mind; and cannot these be supposed available to break or elude or in any manner overmatch the tension of an inch or two of iron ring?
    Chr1 3.104 4 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...two professors recommended to foreign universities; etc., etc.
    Chr1 3.105 22 Two persons lately...have given me occasion for thought.
    Chr1 3.108 8 Nature never...makes two men alike.
    Chr1 3.111 12 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous men...
    Chr1 3.113 14 A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart. Our beatitude waits for the fulfilment of these two in one.
    Mrs1 3.119 9 The husbandry of the modern inhabitants of Gournou...is philosophical to a fault. To set up their housekeeping nothing is requisite but two or three earthen pots, a stone to grind meal, and a mat which is the bed.
    Mrs1 3.124 21 I am far from believing the timid maxim of Lord Falkland (that for ceremony there must go two to it; since a bold fellow will go through the cunningest forms)...
    Mrs1 3.129 15 ...if the people should destroy class after class, until two men only were left, one of these would be the leader and would be involuntarily served and copied by the other.
    Nat2 3.179 24 All changes [in Efficient Nature] pass without violence, by reason of the two cardinal conditions of boundless space and boundless time.
    Nat2 3.180 15 It is a long way from granite to the oyster; farther yet to Plato and the preaching of the immortality of the soul. Yet all must come, as surely as the first atom has two sides.
    Nat2 3.181 2 ...so poor is nature with all her craft, that from the beginning to the end of the universe she has but one stuff,--but one stuff with its two ends, to serve up all her dream-like variety.
    Nat2 3.185 24 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths...and on goes the game again with a new whirl, for a generation or two more.
    Pol1 3.201 21 The theory of politics...which [men] have expressed the best they could in their laws and in their revolutions, considers persons and property as the two objects for whose protection government exists.
    Pol1 3.209 23 Of the two great parties which at this hour almost share the nation between them, I should say that one has the best cause, and the other contains the best men.
    Pol1 3.212 4 The fact of two poles, of two forces...is universal...
    Pol1 3.213 25 All forms of government symbolize an immortal government...perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.
    NR 3.229 16 We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements...
    NR 3.229 16 We are amphibious creatures...having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.
    NR 3.239 27 Since we are all so stupid, what benefit that there should be two stupidities!
    NR 3.240 19 Why have only two or three ways of life, and not thousands?
    NR 3.241 11 A recluse sees only two or three persons, and allows them all their room;...
    NR 3.245 3 The end and the means...life is made up of the intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers...
    NER 3.258 19 Once (say two centuries ago), Latin and Greek had a strict relation to all the science and culture there was in Europe...
    NER 3.261 9 It is of little moment that one or two or twenty errors of our social system be corrected...
    NER 3.265 6 ...in the hour in which [a man] mortgages himself to two or ten or twenty, he dwarfs himself below the stature of one.
    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 3.266 10 There can be no concert in two, where there is no concert in one.
    NER 3.270 20 I do not believe in two classes.
    NER 3.270 27 I believe not in two classes of men...
    NER 3.271 1 I believe not in two classes of men, but in man in two moods...
    NER 3.280 25 When two persons sit and converse in a thoroughly good understanding, the remark is sure to be made, See how we have disputed about words!
    UGM 4.7 24 Our common discourse respects two kinds of use or service from superior men.
    UGM 4.23 24 ...I intended to specify, with a little minuteness, two or three points of service.
    UGM 4.30 7 Presently a dot appears on the animal [the monad], which enlarges to a slit, and it becomes two perfect animals.
    PPh 4.46 15 In a month or two, through the favor of their good genius, [ardent young men and women] meet some one so related as to assist their volcanic estate, and, good communication being once established, they are thenceforward good citizens.
    PPh 4.47 25 Two cardinal facts lie forever at the base [of philosophy];...
    PPh 4.51 13 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things...
    PPh 4.54 10 Metaphysics and natural philosophy expressed the genius of Europe; [Plato] substructs the religion of Asia, as the base. In short, a balanced soul was born, perceptive of the two elements.
    PPh 4.54 22 ...whether a swarm of bees settled on his lips, or not;--a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was born.
    PPh 4.55 12 [Plato]...is resolved that the two poles of thought shall appear in his statement.
    PPh 4.55 14 [Plato's] argument and his sentence are self-poised and spherical. The two poles appear;...
    PPh 4.55 15 [Plato's] argument and his sentence are self-poised and spherical. The two poles appear; yes, and become two hands, to grasp and appropriate their own.
    PPh 4.55 19 Our strength is transitional, alternating; or, shall I say, a thread of two strands.
    PPh 4.55 21 ...the taste of two metals in contact;...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    PPh 4.56 1 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    PPh 4.56 6 Plato keeps the two vases, one of aether and one of pigment, at his side, and invariably uses both.
    PPh 4.68 19 After [Plato] has illustrated the relation between the absolute good and true and the forms of the intelligible world, he says: Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts.
    PPh 4.68 20 ...Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts. Cut again each of these two main parts,--one representing the visible, the other the intelligible world...
    PPh 4.68 22 ...Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts. Cut again each of these two main parts,--one representing the visible, the other the intelligible world,--and let these two new sections represent the bright part and the dark part of each of these worlds.
    PPh 4.72 11 ...the rumor ran that on one or two occasions, in the war with Boeotia, [Socrates] had shown a determination which had covered the retreat of a troop;...
    PNR 4.83 8 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;... the charioteer and two horses;...
    PNR 4.87 15 ...this well-bred, all-knowing Greek geometer [Plato]... marries the two parts of nature.
    PNR 4.89 13 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts of two kinds: first, those who by demerit have put themselves below protection,--outlaws;...
    SwM 4.99 19 [Swedenborg] performed a notable feat of engineering in 1718, at the siege of Frederikshald, by hauling two galleys, five boats and a sloop, some fourteen English miles overland...
    SwM 4.128 27 Heaven is not the pairing of two, but the communion of all souls.
    MoS 4.149 4 The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides [sensation and morals], to find the other...
    MoS 4.149 6 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals]...
    MoS 4.149 12 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals], and when the observer has seen the obverse, he turns it over to see the reverse. Life is a pitching of this penny,--heads or tails. We never tire of this game, because there is still a slight shudder of astonishment at...the contrast of the two faces.
    MoS 4.152 24 Spence relates that Mr. Pope was with Sir Godfrey Kneller one day, when his nephew, a Guinea trader, came in. Nephew, said Sir Godfrey, you have the honor of seeing the two greatest men in the world.
    MoS 4.155 2 The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely.
    MoS 4.157 10 [The skeptic says] Why think to shut up all things in your narrow coop, when we know there are not one or two only, but ten, twenty, a thousand things, and unlike?
    MoS 4.159 16 A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.
    MoS 4.162 12 ...I will...offer...a word or two to explain how my love began and grew for this admirable gossip [Montaigne].
    MoS 4.163 8 ...from a love of Montaigne, [John Sterling] had made a pilgrimage to his chateau...and, after two hundred and fifty years, had copied from the walls of his library the inscriptions which Montaigne had written there.
    MoS 4.164 22 Gibbon reckons, in these bigoted times, but two men of liberality in France,--Henry IV. and Montaigne.
    ShP 4.190 19 [A great man] finds two counties groping to bring coal, or flour, or fish, from the place of production to the place of consumption, and he hits on a railroad.
    ShP 4.203 4 [Jonson] no doubt thought the praise he has conceded to [Shakespeare] generous, and esteemed himself...the better poet of the two.
    ShP 4.203 21 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Paul Sarpi, Arminius, with all of whom exists some token of his having communicated, without enumerating many others whom doubtless he saw...Massinger, the two Herberts...
    ShP 4.204 2 ...not until two centuries had passed, after [Shakespeare's] death, did any criticism which we think adequate begin to appear.
    NMW 4.230 6 ...a very small force, skilfully and rapidly manoeuvring so as always to bring two men against one at the point of engagement, will be an overmatch for a much larger body of men.
    NMW 4.236 9 To a regiment of horse-chasseurs at Lobenstein, two days before the battle of Jena, Napoleon said, My lads, you must not fear death;...
    NMW 4.243 18 Good God! [Napoleon] said, how rare men are! There are eighteen millions in Italy, and I have with difficulty found two...
    NMW 4.244 19 ...[Napoleon] said, I have two hundred millions in my coffers, and I would give them all for Ney.
    NMW 4.249 11 You see [said Napoleon] that two armies are two bodies which meet and endeavor to frighten each other;...
    NMW 4.250 11 In 1806 [Napoleon] conversed with Fournier, bishop of Montpellier, on matters of theology. There were two points on which they could not agree...
    NMW 4.250 14 The Emperor told Josephine that he disputed like a devil on these two points [hell, and salvation out of the pale of the church]...
    NMW 4.254 22 [Napoleon's] theory of influence is not flattering. There are two levers for moving men,--interest and fear.
    NMW 4.256 9 In describing the two parties into which modern society divides itself,--the democrat and the conservative,--I said, Bonaparte represents the democrat...
    NMW 4.256 15 ...these two parties [democrat and conservative] differ only as young and old.
    GoW 4.267 25 The Hindoos write in their sacred books, Children only, and not the learned, speak of the speculative and the practical faculties as two.
    GoW 4.289 18 I join Napoleon with [Goethe], as being...two stern realists, who, with their scholars, have severally set the axe at the root of the tree of cant and seeming, for this and for all time.
    ET1 5.9 1 I had visited Professor Amici, who had shown me his microscopes, magnifying (it was said) two thousand diameters;...
    ET1 5.11 1 ...taking up Bishop Waterland's book, which lay on the table, [Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three pages written by himself in the fly-leaves...
    ET1 5.19 11 ...[Wordsworth] had broken a tooth by a fall, when walking with two lawyers...
    ET2 5.27 7 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles.
    ET2 5.28 17 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles, and now, at night, seems to hear the steamer behind her, which left Boston to-day at two;...
    ET3 5.39 12 ...at one season, the country people [of England] say, the lakes contain one part water and two parts fish.
    ET4 5.44 21 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848) 222,000, 000 souls...
    ET4 5.45 10 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000, and governing a population of 245,000,000 souls.
    ET4 5.48 1 Race is a controlling influence in the Jew, who, for two millenniums...has preserved the same character and employments.
    ET4 5.55 22 The English come mainly from the Germans, whom the Romans found hard to conquer in two hundred and ten years...
    ET4 5.56 17 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. For if they have not numerical superiority where they anchor, they have only to sail a mile or two to find it.
    ET4 5.66 2 The French say that the Englishwomen have two left hands.
    ET4 5.67 21 The two sexes are co-present in the English mind.
    ET4 5.72 18 Two centuries ago the English horse never performed any eminent service beyond the seas;...
    ET4 5.72 25 ...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to foot-service, as pure and proper manhood, without any mixture; whilst in a victory on horseback, the credit ought to be divided betwixt the man and his horse. But in two hundred years a change has taken place.
    ET4 5.73 18 A score or two of mounted gentlemen may frequently be seen [in England] running like centaurs down a hill nearly as steep as the roof of a house.
    ET5 5.78 14 King Ethelwald spoke the language of his race when he planted himself at Wimborne and said he would do one of two things, or there live, or there lie.
    ET5 5.81 20 Into this English logic...an infusion of justice enters, not so apparent in other races;--a belief in the existence of two sides...
    ET5 5.100 3 The Danish poet Oehlenschlager complains that who writes in Danish writes to two hundred readers.
    ET5 5.100 17 The island [England] has produced two or three of the greatest men that ever existed...
    ET6 5.108 10 An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.
    ET6 5.113 22 [the dinner] is reserved to the end of the day, the family-hour being generally six, in London, and if any company is expected, one or two hours later.
    ET6 5.114 2 The company [at an English dinner] sit one or two hours before the ladies leave the table.
    ET7 5.120 22 ...one cannot think this festival [of St. George in Montreal] fruitless, if, all over the world, on the 23d of April, wherever two or three English are found, they meet to encourage each other in the nationality of veracity.
    ET8 5.129 9 The [English] club-houses were established to cultivate social habits, and it is rare that more than two eat together...
    ET8 5.133 13 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man, uttered any thing that came into his mind...
    ET9 5.147 11 ...I am afraid that English nature is so rank and aggressive as to be a little incompatible with every other. The world is not wide enough for two.
    ET10 5.154 14 I was lately turning over Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, and looking naturally for another standard [than wealth] in a chronicle of the scholars of Oxford for two hundred years.
    ET10 5.154 14 ...I found the two disgraces in [Wood's Athenae Oxonienses], as in most English books, are, first, disloyalty to Church and State, and, second, to be born poor, or come to poverty.
    ET10 5.156 24 Lord Burleigh writes to his son that one ought never to devote more than two thirds of his income to the ordinary expenses of life...
    ET10 5.158 5 Two centuries ago the sawing of timber was done by hand;...
    ET10 5.159 20 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men, one man being able by the aid of steam to do the work which required two hundred and fifty men to accomplish fifty years ago.
    ET10 5.160 14 The yield of wheat [in England] has gone on from 2,000, 000 quarters in the time of the Stuarts, to 13,000,000 in 1854.
    ET10 5.161 5 [Steam] can...make sword-blades that will cut gun-barrels in two.
    ET11 5.178 6 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles from London, a family will last a hundred years; at a hundred miles, two hundred years; and so on;...
    ET11 5.183 4 In 1786 the soil of England was owned by 250,000 corporations and proprietors;...
    ET12 5.201 18 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, or calendar of the writers of Oxford for two hundred years, is a lively record of English manners and merits...
    ET12 5.203 26 The oldest building here [at Oxford] is two hundred years younger than the frail manuscript brought by Dr. Clarke from Egypt.
    ET12 5.204 19 The reading men [at Oxford]...two days before the examination, do no work...
    ET12 5.205 27 The number of fellowships at Oxford is 540, averaging 200 pounds a year...
    ET12 5.206 14 As the number of undergraduates at Oxford is only about 1200 or 1300...the chance of a fellowship is very great.
    ET12 5.213 17 ...the best poetry of England of this age, in the old forms, comes from two graduates at Cambridge.
    ET13 5.216 10 Bishop Wilfrid manumitted two hundred and fifty serfs, whom he found attached to the soil.
    ET13 5.223 9 ...[the English clergyman] entertains your thought or your project with sympathy and praise. But if a second clergyman come in, the sympathy is at an end: two together are inaccessible to your thought...
    ET14 5.234 25 Even in its elevations materialistic, [England's] poetry is common sense inspired; or iron raised to white heat. The marriage of the two qualities is in their speech.
    ET14 5.235 23 For two centuries England was philosophic, religious, poetic.
    ET14 5.236 9 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental soaring, of which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the writers of two centuries.
    ET14 5.259 26 I can well believe what I have often heard, that there are two nations in England;...
    ET14 5.260 4 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England]... are ever in counterpoise...
    ET14 5.260 5 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England]... are ever in counterpoise...
    ET14 5.260 12 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...these two nations...forever by their discord and their accord yield the power of the English State.
    ET15 5.264 9 [The London Times] denounced and discredited the French Republic of 1848, and checked every sympathy with it in England, until it had enrolled 200,000 special constables to watch the Chartists...
    ET15 5.268 1 Of two men of equal ability, the one who does not write but keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will have the higher judicial wisdom.
    ET16 5.276 7 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a carriage to Amesbury, passing by Old Sarum, a bare, treeless hill, once containing the town which sent two members to Parliament...
    ET16 5.277 5 It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures [Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across--had long outstood all later churches...
    ET16 5.279 12 To these conscious stones [of Stonehenge] we two pilgrims [Emerson and Carlyle] were alike known and near.
    ET16 5.280 12 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in the twilight...and coming back two miles to our inn we were met by little showers...
    ET16 5.287 21 I fancied that one or two of my anecdotes made some impression on Carlyle...
    ET16 5.289 16 This hospitality of seven hundred years' standing [at the Church of Saint Cross] did not hinder Carlyle from pronouncing a malediction on the priest who receives 2000 pounds a year...
    ET16 5.289 22 The length of line [of Winchester Cathedral] exceeds that of any other English church; being 556 feet, by 250 in breadth of transept.
    ET17 5.291 5 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons, except...in one or two cases where the fame of the parties seemed to have given the public a property in all that concerned them.
    ET17 5.293 16 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days, one at Kew, where Sir William Hooker showed me all the riches of the vast botanic garden;...
    ET17 5.294 21 [Wordsworth] detailed the two models, on one or the other of which all the sentences of the historian Robertson are framed.
    ET18 5.303 20 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates...
    F 6.5 15 On two days, it steads not to run from thy grave/...
    F 6.14 11 In science we have to consider two things...
    F 6.15 2 We have two things,-the circumstance, and the life.
    F 6.17 11 ...on a population of twenty or two hundred millions, something like accuracy may be had.
    F 6.18 21 ...there will, in a dozen millions of...Mahometans, be one or two astronomical skulls.
    F 6.28 7 Of two men...he whose thought is deepest will be the strongest character.
    F 6.31 1 ...whether, seeing these two things, fate and power, we are permitted to believe in unity?
    F 6.31 3 The bulk of mankind believe in two gods.
    F 6.36 22 This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
    F 6.40 16 All the toys that infatuate men...are the selfsame thing, with a new gauze or two of illusion overlaid.
    F 6.43 6 History is the action and reaction of these two,-Nature and Thought;...
    F 6.43 6 History is the action and reaction of these two,-Nature and Thought; two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement.
    F 6.46 21 ...year after year, we find two men, two women, without legal or carnal tie, spend a great part of their best time within a few feet of each other.
    F 6.47 26 ...by the cunning co-presence of two elements...whatever lames or paralyzes you draws in with it the divinity...to repay.
    Pow 6.59 13 When a new boy comes into school...there is at once a trial of strength...and it is settled thenceforth which is the leader. So now, there is a measuring of strength...and an acquiescence thenceforward when these two meet.
    Pow 6.73 16 ...there are two economies which are the best succedanea which the case admits.
    Pow 6.73 21 ...the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs...
    Wth 6.87 5 Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile...
    Wth 6.87 18 Wealth begins...in two suits of clothes...
    Wth 6.114 7 Pride...can live in a house with two rooms...
    Wth 6.115 9 [The pale scholar] stoops to pull up a purslain or a dock that is choking the young corn, and finds there are two;...
    Wth 6.119 26 Nor is any investment so permanent that it can be allowed to remain without incessant watching, as the history of each attempt to lock up an inheritance through two generations for an unborn inheritor may show.
    Wth 6.120 18 [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 6.121 21 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight from terminus to terminus...
    Wth 6.121 25 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...cutting ducal estates in two...
    Ctr 6.136 1 Have you seen...two or three scholars...
    Ctr 6.136 2 Have you seen...two or three capitalists, two or three editors of newspapers?
    Ctr 6.147 15 ...of the six or seven teachers whom each man wants among his contemporaries, it often happens that one or two of them live on the other side of the world.
    Ctr 6.155 15 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that...takes two looms in the factory...
    Ctr 6.156 25 ...if [solitude] can be shared between two or more than two, it is happier and not less noble.
    Ctr 6.164 22 ...these boys who now grow up are caught not only years too late, but two or three births too late, to make the best scholars of.
    Bhr 6.179 10 The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.
    Bhr 6.184 3 [The successful man of the world] knows that troops behave as they are handled at first; that is his cheap secret; just what happens to every two persons who meet on any affair...
    Bhr 6.192 22 The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is,--Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
    Wsp 6.217 12 Given the equality of two intellects,--which will form the most reliable judgments, the good, or the bad hearted?
    Wsp 6.224 4 A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought...
    Wsp 6.240 27 There are two things, said Mahomet, which I abhor, the learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his devotions.
    CbW 6.245 10 The priest is glad if his prayers or his sermon meet the condition of any soul; if of two...'t is a signal success.
    CbW 6.248 16 Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors.
    CbW 6.250 18 ...[nature] scatters nations of naked Indians and nations of clothed Christians, with two or three good heads among them.
    CbW 6.256 12 The agencies by which events so grand as...the junction of the two oceans, are effected, are paltry...
    CbW 6.275 22 A lady complained to me that of her two maidens, one was absent-minded and the other was absent-bodied.
    Bty 6.293 8 It is necessary in music, when you strike a discord, to let down the ear by an intermediate note or two to the accord again;...
    Bty 6.296 10 To Eve, say the Mahometans, God gave two thirds of all beauty.
    Ill 6.314 20 ...I remember the quarrel of another youth with the confectioners, that when he racked his wit to choose the best comfits in the shops, in all the endless varieties of sweetmeat he could find only three flavors, or two.
    Ill 6.314 25 I knew a humorist who in a good deal of rattle had a grain or two of sense.
    Ill 6.314 27 [I knew a humorist who] shocked the company by maintaining that the attributes of God were two,--power and risibility...
    SS 7.9 5 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons...
    Civ 7.25 2 ...I watched, in crossing the sea, the beautiful skill whereby the engine in its constant working was made to produce two hundred gallons of fresh water out of salt water, every hour...
    Civ 7.29 12 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit, say two hundred millions of miles, between his first observation and his second...
    Art2 7.54 14 ...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelopipeds, which broken in two, one part would be an obelisk;...
    Elo1 7.64 1 No man has a prosperity so high or firm but two or three words can dishearten it.
    Elo1 7.88 18 Each of Mansfield's famous decisions contains a level sentence or two which hit the mark.
    Elo1 7.90 14 A popular assembly...is commanded by these two powers,-- first by a fact, then by skill of statement.
    DL 7.124 15 ...we soon catch the trick of each man's conversation, and knowing his two or three main facts, anticipate what he thinks of each new topic that rises.
    Farm 7.148 26 ...[the farmer] will concentrate his kitchen-garden into a box of one or two rods square...
    Boks 7.192 2 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends...and though they...have been waiting two, ten, or twenty centuries for us...it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to;...
    Boks 7.205 27 To help us, perhaps a volume or two of M. Sismondi's Italian Republics will be as good as the entire sixteen.
    Boks 7.210 7 ...the contest [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] proceeded until the Marquis said, Two thousand pounds.
    Boks 7.210 15 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side, as if to bring his father a fresh lance to renew the fight. Father and son whispered together, and Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds!
    Clbs 7.234 9 We know beforehand that yonder man must think as we do. Has he not two hands,--two feet,--hair and nails?
    Clbs 7.239 19 Hyde, Earl of Rochester, asked Lord-Keeper Guilford, Do you not think I could understand any business in England in a month? Yes, my lord, replied the other, but I think you would understand it better in two months.
    Clbs 7.241 26 It is possible that the best conversation is between two persons who can talk only to each other.
    Clbs 7.242 13 There are men who are great only to one or two companions of more opportunity...
    Clbs 7.244 16 It was a pathetic experience when a genial and accomplished person said to me, looking from his country home to the capital of New England, There is a town of two hundred thousand people, and not a chair for me.
    Clbs 7.250 19 Discourse...when it lifts us into that mood out of which thoughts come that remain as stars in our firmament, is between two.
    Cour 7.256 3 What an ado we make through two thousand years about Thermopylae and Salamis!
    Cour 7.271 25 ...General Daumas and Abdel-Kader, become aware that they are nearer and more alike than any other two...
    Cour 7.278 14 One day as through the cleft/ Between two mountains steep,/ Shut in both right and left,/ Their questing way they keep,/...
    Cour 7.278 17 ...They see two grizzly bears/ With hunger fierce and fell/ Rush at them unawares/ Right down the narrow dell./
    Suc 7.283 9 ...we survey our map, which becomes old in a year or two.
    Suc 7.295 8 ...it is a nice point to discriminate this self-trust...from the disease to which it is allied,--the exaggeration of the part which we can play;--yet they are two things.
    Suc 7.305 17 An Englishman of marked character and talent, who had brought with him hither one or two friends and a library of mystics, assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England...
    OA 7.326 11 ...[the old lawyer] may go below his mark with impunity, and people will say...He lost his sleep for two nights.
    PI 8.71 11 To every plant there are two powers; one shoots down as rootlet, and one upward as tree.
    PI 8.72 3 One would say of the force in the works of Nature, all depends on the battery. If it give one shock, we shall get to the fish form, and stop; if two shocks, to the bird;...
    SA 8.87 12 I know that there go two to this game [of laughter], and, in the presence of certain formidable wits, savage nature must sometimes rush out in some disorder.
    SA 8.87 15 ...one word or two in regard to dress...
    SA 8.89 7 Welfare requires one or two companions of intelligence...
    SA 8.94 18 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix...
    SA 8.98 22 Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any portion of the company.
    Elo2 8.119 6 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do. It only needs that they should be once well pushed off into the water...and after a mad struggle or two they find their poise...
    Elo2 8.125 21 ...when [the orator] rises to any height of thought or of passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his audience. It is the merit of John Brown and of Abraham Lincoln--one at Charlestown, one at Gettysburg--in the two best specimens of eloquence we have had in this country.
    Comc 8.172 12 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite too ugly. Therefore he began to weep; Chodscha also set himself to weep; and so they wept for two hours.
    QO 8.178 23 There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands [old and new].
    QO 8.189 21 Can we not help ourselves as discreetly by the force of two in literature?
    QO 8.189 22 Certainly it only needs two well placed and well tempered for cooperation, to get somewhat far transcending any private enterprise!
    PC 8.216 15 I think I have seen two or three great men who, for that reason, were of no account among scholars.
    PC 8.218 4 The history of Greece is at one time reduced to two persons,- Philip...and Demosthenes...
    PC 8.225 27 The sublime point of experience is the value of a sufficient man. Cube this value by the meeting of two such, of two or more such...and you have organized victory.
    PC 8.233 7 [Swedenborg] saw in vision the angels and the devils; but these two companies stood not face to face and hand in hand...
    PPo 8.237 5 [Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into German...specimens of two hundred [Persian] poets...
    PPo 8.238 27 The religion [of the East] teaches an inexorable Destiny. It distinguishes only two days in each man's history,-his birthday, called the Day of the Lot, and the Day of Judgment.
    PPo 8.244 2 On earth's wide thoroughfares below/ Two only men contented go:/ Who knows what 's right and what 's forbid,/ And he from whom is knowledge hid./
    PPo 8.244 20 Our father Adam [says Hafiz] sold Paradise for two kernels of wheat;...
    PPo 8.251 23 Timour taxed Hafiz with treating disrepectfully his two cities...
    PPo 8.252 10 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry...
    PPo 8.264 19 [The birds] saw themselves all as Simorg,/ Themselves in the eternal Simorg./ When to the Simorg up they looked,/ They beheld him among themselves;/ And when they looked on each other,/ They saw themselves in the Simorg./ A single look grouped the two parties,/ The Simorg emerged, the Simorg vanished,/ This in that and that in this, As the world has never heard./
    Insp 8.289 7 The seashore and the taste of two metals in contact...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    Insp 8.291 5 Allston rarely left his studio by day. An old friend took him, one fine afternoon, a spacious circuit into the country, and he painted two or three pictures as the fruits of that drive.
    Insp 8.291 7 ...[Allston] made it a rule not to go to the city on two consecutive days.
    Insp 8.291 21 Allston...had two or three rooms in different parts of Boston, where he could not be found.
    Insp 8.292 26 Some perceptions...are granted to the single soul; they...are the permanent and controlling ones. Others it takes two to find.
    Insp 8.293 9 Homer said, When two come together, one apprehends before the other;...
    Insp 8.293 12 ...two men of good mind will excite each other's activity...
    Grts 8.317 15 Men are ennobled by morals and by intellect; but those two elements know each other...
    Imtl 8.331 10 Many years ago, there were two men in the United States Senate...
    Imtl 8.351 6 These two, ignorance...and knowledge...are known to be far asunder...
    Dem1 10.3 5 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which...deserve notice chiefly because every man has usually in a lifetime two or three hints in this kind which are specially impressive to him.
    Dem1 10.3 10 This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two children lying locked in each other's arms...
    Dem1 10.8 12 Wise and sometimes terrible hints shall in [dreams] be thrown to the man out of a quite unknown intelligence. He shall be startled two or three times in his life by the justice as well as the significance of this phantasmagoria.
    Aris 10.42 11 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff of every county is to cause two dubbed knights...to be returned.
    Aris 10.42 13 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff...of every city [is to cause] two citizens, and of every borough, two burgesses, such as have greatest skill in shipping and merchandising, to be returned.
    Aris 10.42 14 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff...of every city [is to cause] two citizens, and of every borough, two burgesses, such as have greatest skill in shipping and merchandising, to be returned.
    Aris 10.48 23 In the South a slave was bluntly but accurately valued at five hundred to a thousand dollars, if a good field-hand; if a mechanic, as carpenter or smith, twelve hundred or two thousand.
    Aris 10.54 26 ...the two poles of nature are Beauty and Meanness...
    Aris 10.55 23 ...it takes two to make an atmosphere.
    PerF 10.84 12 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God. Thus is the world delivered into your hand, but on two conditions,-not for property... and...not for self-indulgence.
    Chr2 10.106 14 The older see two generations, or sixty years.
    Chr2 10.106 22 ...'t is incredible to us, if we look into the religious books of our grandfathers, how they held themselves in such a pinfold. But why not? As far as they could see, through two or three horizons, nothing but ministers and ministers.
    Chr2 10.118 19 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects.
    Edc1 10.144 12 The two points in a boy's training are, to keep his naturel and train off all but that...
    Edc1 10.144 17 Here are the two capital facts [of education], Genius and Drill.
    Edc1 10.147 1 Nor are the two elements, enthusiasm and drill, incompatible.
    Supl 10.164 10 Controvert [the man with the superlative temperament's] opinion and he cries Persecution! and reckons himself with Saint Barnabas, who was sawn in two.
    Supl 10.168 2 [People of English stock's] houses are...designed...to stand as commodious, rentable tenements for a century or two.
    Supl 10.175 9 ...Nature...freezes punctually at 32 degrees, boils punctually at 212 degrees;...
    Supl 10.177 8 ...[the religion of the Arab] distinguishes only two days in each man's history, the day of his lot, and the day of judgment.
    Supl 10.178 19 Our modern improvements have been in the invention...of the famous two parallel bars of iron;...
    Supl 10.178 25 ...Nature...makes these two tendencies [of the East and the West] necessary each to the other...
    SovE 10.185 26 ...we exaggerate when we represent these two elements [belief and skepticism] as disunited;...
    SovE 10.200 15 ...as the [moral] sentiment purifies and rises, it leaves crowds. It makes churches of two, churches of one.
    SovE 10.211 17 ...if the instinct of the people was to resist the government, it is plain the government must be two to one in order to be secure...
    SovE 10.213 7 Now science and philosophy recognize the parallelism, the approximation, the unity of the two [Spirit and Matter]...
    Prch 10.235 25 A wise man advises that we should see to it that we read and speak two or three reasonable words, every day...
    Prch 10.237 10 There are two pairs of eyes in man;...
    MoL 10.242 2 [The scholar]...is born one or two centuries too early for the rough and sensual population into which he is thrown.
    Schr 10.278 16 It seems as if two or three persons coming who should add to a high spiritual aim great constructive energy, would carry the country with them.
    Plu 10.294 1 ...[Plutarch]...appears never to have been in Rome but on two occasions...
    Plu 10.294 6 ...[Plutarch]...with one or two doubtful exceptions, never quotes a Latin book;...
    Plu 10.300 9 It is one of the felicities of literary history, the tie which inseparably couples these two names [Plutarch and Montaigne] across fourteen centuries.
    Plu 10.304 8 ...I cannot forbear to cite one or two sentences [from Plutarch] which none who reads them will forget.
    LLNE 10.325 11 There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future;...
    LLNE 10.335 12 By a series of lectures largely and fashionably attended for two winters in Boston [Everett] made a beginning of popular literary and miscellaneous lecturing...
    LLNE 10.339 9 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing...
    LLNE 10.342 20 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity.
    LLNE 10.346 8 I think [the pilgrim] persisted for two years in his brave practice...
    LLNE 10.350 23 Your community should consist of two thousand persons, to prevent accidents of omission;...
    LLNE 10.358 15 It chanced that here in one family were two brothers, one a brilliant and fertile inventor, and close by him his own brother, a man of business...
    LLNE 10.359 18 The West Roxbury Association was formed in 1841, by a society of members...who bought a farm in West Roxbury, of about two hundred acres...
    EzRy 10.381 7 ...it is stated that the mother [Lydia Kent Ripley] died leaving...one hundred and two grandchildren and ninety-six great-grandchildren.
    MMEm 10.417 14 ...Malden [alluding to the sale of her farm]. Last night I [Mary Moody Emerson] spoke two sentences about that foolish place...
    MMEm 10.419 24 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been needy, though I never had but two or three aids in those six years of earning my home.
    MMEm 10.429 4 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up, the last year or two, the hope of dying.
    SlHr 10.445 20 If [Samuel Hoar] spoke of the engagement of two lovers, he called it a contract.
    Thor 10.457 27 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond, and lived there two years alone...
    Thor 10.470 13 [Thoreau] thought that, if waked up from a trance, in this swamp, he could tell by the plants what time of the year it was within two days.
    Thor 10.476 13 I have met one or two who have heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud;...
    GSt 10.505 24 These interests, which [George Stearns] passionately adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication with patriotic persons holding the same views,-with two Presidents...
    GSt 10.506 17 For a year or two, the most affectionate and domestic of men [George Stearns] became almost a stranger in his beautiful home.
    LS 11.4 16 ...it is now near two hundred years since the Society of Quakers denied the authority of the rite [the Lord's Supper] altogether...
    LS 11.5 4 ...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples; and further, to the opinion, that it is not expedient to celebrate it as we do. I shall now endeavor to state distinctly my reasons for these two opinions.
    LS 11.5 22 Two of the Evangelists...were of the twelve disciples, and were present on that occasion [the Last Supper].
    LS 11.6 22 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution... would have been established...in a manner so slight, that the intention of commemorating it should not appear...to have...dwelt in the mind of the only two among the twelve who wrote down what happened.
    LS 11.12 1 That rite [washing of the feet] is used...by the Sandemanians. It has been very properly dropped by other Christians. Why" For two reasons: (1) because it was a local custom, and unsuitable in western countries;...
    HDC 11.31 8 In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were suspended for contumacy, in the course of two years and a half.
    HDC 11.32 8 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...two hundred years ago this day, leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
    HDC 11.33 12 ...[the pilgrims] meet a scorching plain, yet not so plain but that the ragged bushes scratch their legs foully, even to wearing their stockings to their bare skin in two or three hours.
    HDC 11.36 24 ...standing on the seashore, [the Indians] often told of the coming of a ship at sea, sooner by one hour, yea, two hours' sail, than any Englishman that stood by, on purpose to look out.
    HDC 11.37 1 Roger Williams affirms that he has known [Indians] run between eighty and a hundred miles in a summer's day, and back again within two days.
    HDC 11.41 20 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop...
    HDC 11.47 7 He is ill informed who expects, on running down the [New England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find a church of saints...
    HDC 11.51 12 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
    HDC 11.54 26 ...in 1640, when the colony rate was 1200 pounds, Concord was assessed 50 pounds.
    HDC 11.57 15 In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics...
    HDC 11.60 3 Two young farmers, Abraham and Isaac Shepherd, had set their sister Mary, a girl of fifteen years, to watch whilst they threshed grain in the barn.
    HDC 11.67 18 In 1764, [George] Whitfield preached again at Concord, on Sunday afternoon; Mr. [Daniel] Bliss preached in the morning, and the Concord people thought their minister gave them the better sermon of the two.
    HDC 11.73 25 The British following [the minute-men] across the bridge, posted two companies...to guard the bridge...
    HDC 11.74 14 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river...
    HDC 11.74 24 Major Buttrick leaped from the ground, and gave the command to fire, which was repeated in a simultaneous cry by all his men. The Americans fired, and killed two men and wounded eight.
    HDC 11.75 1 The British retreated immediately towards the village [Concord], and were joined by two companies of grenadiers...
    HDC 11.78 17 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither;...
    HDC 11.78 19 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither; and 210 cords of wood were carried.
    HDC 11.78 23 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British troops, Concord contributed to the relief of the inhabitants...225 bushels of grain;...
    HDC 11.79 19 The taxes [in Concord], which, before the [Revolutionary] war, had not much exceeded 200 pounds per annum, amounted, in the year 1782, to 9544 dollars, in silver.
    HDC 11.82 14 [Concord's] population, in the census of 1830, was 2020 souls.
    HDC 11.82 16 The public expenses [of Concord], for the last year, amounted to 4290 dollars;...
    HDC 11.82 20 The town [Concord] raises, this year, 1800 dollars for its public schools; besides about 1200 dollars which are paid, by subscription, for private schools.
    HDC 11.82 23 Two religious societies, of differing creed, dwell together [in Concord] in good understanding...
    HDC 11.84 19 [Our fathers] stint and higgle on the price of a pew, that they may send 200 soldiers to General Washington to keep Great Britain at bay.
    HDC 11.85 10 Fellow citizens [of Concord]; let not the solemn shadows of two hundred years, this day, fall over us in vain.
    HDC 11.85 14 Every moment carries us farther from the two great epochs of public principle, the Planting, and the Revolution of the colony [of Massachusetts Bay].
    EWI 11.103 17 Very sad was the negro tradition, that the Great Spirit, in the beginning offered the black man, whom he loved better than the buckra, or white, his choice of two boxes...
    EWI 11.106 3 [Granville] Sharpe instantly sat down and gave himself to the study of English law for more than two years...
    EWI 11.109 3 More seamen died in [the slave] trade in one year than in the whole remaining trade of the country [England] in two.
    EWI 11.110 12 In 1821, according to official documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa.
    EWI 11.119 27 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved to throw up the two remaining years of apprenticeship, and to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
    EWI 11.130 23 ...the private interference of two excellent citizens of Boston has, I have ascertained, rescued several natives of this State from these Southern prisons.
    EWI 11.133 8 ...I am at a loss how to characterize the tameness and silence of the two senators and the ten representatives of the State [of Massachusetts] at Washington.
    War 11.164 20 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar.
    War 11.170 18 Men who love that bloated vanity called public opinion think all is well if they have once got their bantling through a sufficient course of speeches and cheerings, of one, two, or three public meetings;...
    FSLC 11.185 9 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston-two hundred thousand souls, and one hundred and eighty millions of money-are thrown into the scale of crime...
    FSLC 11.206 4 Under the Union I suppose the fact to be that there are really two nations, the North and the South.
    FSLC 11.209 1 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars.
    FSLC 11.211 9 ...these two, Greece and Judaea, furnish the mind and the heart by which the rest of the world is sustained;...
    FSLC 11.214 2 ...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and past, in either of which, if one man had felt the spirit of Coke or Mansfield or Parsons, and read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of Massachusetts had been prevented...
    FSLN 11.231 17 There are two forces in Nature, by whose antagonism we exist;...
    AKan 11.262 11 A bit of ground [in California] that your hand could cover was worth one or two hundred dollars...
    JBB 11.268 18 [John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence;...
    JBB 11.271 19 The state judges fear collision between their two allegiances;...
    JBS 11.278 22 ...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into Virginia and run off five hundred or a thousand slaves was not...a plot of two years or of twenty years...
    TPar 11.290 15 Two days, bitter in the memory of Boston, the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses.
    ACiv 11.297 11 ...for two or three ages [slavery] has lasted...
    ACiv 11.298 25 We have attempted to hold together two states of civilization...
    ACiv 11.299 4 ...a higher state, where labor and the tenure of land and the right of suffrage are democratical; and a lower state, in which the old military tenure of prisoners or slaves, and of power and land in a few hands, makes an oligarchy: we have attempted to hold these two states of society under one law.
    ACiv 11.308 12 A week before the two captive commissioners were surrendered to England, every one thought it could not be done...
    ACiv 11.308 15 A week before the two captive commissioners were surrendered to England, every one thought it could not be done: it would divide the North. It was done, and in two days all agreed it was the right action.
    SMC 11.362 7 At one time [George Prescott] finds his company unfortunate in having fallen between two companies of quite another class...
    SMC 11.364 11 ...I [George Prescott] took six poles, and went to the colonel, and told him I had got the poles for two tents, which would cover twenty-four men...
    SMC 11.364 19 [George Prescott writes] We started and marched two miles without stopping to rest...
    SMC 11.368 18 Colonel Prescott's regiment went in [to the battle of Gettysburg] with two hundred and ten men, nineteen officers.
    SMC 11.369 20 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home. I think we were very fortunate to save it at all, for...we had to carry him and all our wounded nearly two miles in blankets.
    SMC 11.369 24 [George Prescott writes] We laid [Lieutenant Barrow] in two double blankets, and then sent off a long distance and got boards off a barn to make the best coffin we could...
    SMC 11.372 10 We [Thirty-second Regiment] have been in the first line twenty-six days, and fighting every day but two;...
    SMC 11.372 17 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command;...
    EdAd 11.387 9 ...the grape on two sides of the same fence has new flavors;...
    Wom 11.421 12 Here are two or three objections [to women's voting]: first, a want of practical wisdom; second, a too purely ideal view; and, third, the danger of contamination.
    Scot 11.465 18 [Scott's] power on the public mind rests on the singular union of two influences.
    ChiE 11.474 1 It is gratifying to know that the advantages of the new intercourse between the two countries [China and the United States] are daily manifest on the Pacific coast.
    CPL 11.498 24 Peter Bulkeley sent his son John to the first class that graduated at Harvard College in 1642, and two sons to later classes.
    FRep 11.511 6 The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year...
    FRep 11.512 21 ...what is cotton? One plant out of some two hundred thousand known to the botanist...
    FRep 11.512 25 What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered,-every one of the two hundred thousand probably yet to be of utility in the arts.
    FRep 11.522 5 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...looks from his coal-fields, his wheat-bearing prairie, his gold-mines, to his two oceans...
    FRep 11.524 3 ...the people] must take wine at the hotel, first, for the look of it, and second, for the purpose of sending the bottle to two or three gentlemen at the table;...
    FRep 11.528 24 We have eight or ten religions in every large town, and the most that comes of it is a degree or two on the thermometer of fashion;...
    PLT 12.8 1 ...the course of things makes the scholars either egotists or worldly and jocose. In so many hundreds of superior men hardly ten or five or two from whom one can hope for a reasonable word.
    PLT 12.13 26 The adepts value only the pure geometry, the aerial bridge ascending from earth to heaven with arches and abutments of pure reason. I am fully contented if you tell me where are the two termini.
    PLT 12.16 5 To Be is the unsolved, unsolvable wonder. To Be, in its two connections of inward and outward, the mind and Nature.
    PLT 12.26 2 ...the blood of two trees being mixed a new and excellent fruit is produced.
    PLT 12.29 17 There are two mischievous superstitions, I know not which does the most harm...
    PLT 12.44 10 If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up the block as one.
    PLT 12.44 11 If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up the block as one.
    PLT 12.46 1 A blending of these two-the intellectual perception of truth and the moral sentiment of right-is wisdom.
    PLT 12.56 8 There are two theories of life; one for the demonstration of our talent, the other for the education of the man.
    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...
    Mem 12.90 19 The sparrow, the ant, the worm, have the same memory as we. If you...offer them somewhat disagreeable to their senses, they make one or two trials, and then once for all avoid it.
    Mem 12.98 21 The facts of the last two or three days or weeks are all you have with you...
    CInt 12.117 16 Two men cannot converse together on any topic without presently finding where each stands in moral judgment;...
    CInt 12.127 7 ...these two [the College and the Church] should be counterbalancing to the bad politics and selfish trade.
    CL 12.137 2 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students...
    CL 12.155 14 [Says Linnaeus] Not without admiration, I have watched my two Lap companions, in my journey to Finmark, one, my conductor, the other, my interpreter.
    CL 12.155 20 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road...
    CL 12.166 11 ...of the two facts, the world and man, man is by much the larger half.
    CW 12.174 16 In the arboretum you should have things...which people who read of them are hungry to see. Thus plant the Sequoia Gigantea...and set it on its way of ten or fifteen centuries. Bayard Taylor planted two -one died but I saw the other looking well.
    CW 12.175 11 ...a common spy-glass...turned on the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, in which most eyes can only count six,-will show many more,-a telescope in an observatory will show two hundred.
    CW 12.175 26 There are two companions, with one or other of whom 't is desirable to go out on a tramp.
    Bost 12.181 1 We are citizens of two fair cities, said the Genoese gentleman to a Florentine artist, and if I were not a Genoese, I should wish to be Florentine.
    Bost 12.190 23 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its shores trending steadily from the two arms which the capes of Massachusetts stretch out to sea, down to the bottom of the bay where the city domes and spires sparkle through the haze,-a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
    MAng1 12.218 19 In relation to this element of Beauty, the minds of men divide themselves into two classes.
    MAng1 12.227 11 [Michelangelo] gave this model [of a movable platform] to a carpenter, who made it so profitable as to furnish a dowry for his two daughters.
    MAng1 12.232 9 Sir Joshua Reynolds, two centuries later, declared to the British Institution, I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as [Michelangelo] intended to excite.
    MAng1 12.237 1 A natural fruit of the nobility of [Michelangelo's] spirit is his admiration for Dante, to whom two of his sonnets are addressed.
    MAng1 12.238 16 ...[Michelangelo] was liberal to profusion to his old domestic Urbino, to whom he gave at one time two thousand crowns...
    Milt1 12.248 14 The reputation of Milton had already undergone one or two revolutions long anterior to its recent aspects.
    Milt1 12.249 25 Two of [Milton's] pieces may be excepted from this description, one for its faults, the other for its excellence.
    ACri 12.284 2 Chiefly in this country, the common school has added two or three audiences [for the writer]: once, we had only the boxes; now, the galleries and the pit.
    ACri 12.300 22 Everything has two handles.
    ACri 12.302 5 Everything has two handles.
    MLit 12.312 2 If we should designate favorite studies in which the age delights more than in the rest of this great mass of the permanent literature of the human race, one or two instances would be conspicuous.
    MLit 12.314 11 Nor is the distinction between these two habits [of subjectiveness] to be found in the circumstance of using the first person singular...
    MLit 12.314 21 ...the criterion which discriminates these two habits [of subjectiveness] in the poet's mind is the tendency of his composition;...
    MLit 12.332 17 Life for [Goethe]...has a gem or two more on its robe; but its old eternal burden is not relieved;...
    Pray 12.351 26 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries...
    AgMs 12.361 7 Our [New England] roads are always changing their direction, and after a man has built at great cost a stone house, a new road is opened, and he finds himself a mile or two from the highway.
    AgMs 12.362 10 ...Mr. D. [Elias Phinney]...would starve in two years on any one of fifty poor farms in this neighborhood...
    EurB 12.366 7 The poet demands all gifts, and not one or two only.
    EurB 12.370 1 ...notwithstanding all Wordsworth's grand merits, it was a great pleasure to know that Alfred Tennyson's two volumes were coming out in the same ship;...
    EurB 12.375 1 ...the obvious division of modern romance is into two kinds...
    Let 12.398 26 ...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...
    Let 12.399 4 ...[a stay in Europe] is only a postponement of [American youths'] proper work, with the additional disadvantage of a two years' vacation.
    Trag 12.405 3 As the salt sea covers more than two thirds of the surface of the globe, so sorrow encroaches in man on felicity.
    Trag 12.413 1 [Some men] treat trifles with a tragic air. This is not beautiful. Could they not lay a rod or two of stone wall, and work off this superabundant irritability?
    Trag 12.413 3 When two strangers meet in the highway, what each demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm mind...

two, n. (3)

    SR 2.55 10 [Conformists'] two is not the real two...
    PPh 4.47 27 Two cardinal facts lie forever at the base [of philosophy]; the one, and the two.--1. Unity, or Identity; and, 2. Variety.

Two Voices, The [Alfred, (1)

    EurB 12.372 13 Locksley Hall and The Two Voices are meditative poems, which were slowly written to be slowly read.

Two Voices [William Wordsw (1)

    ET1 5.23 27 [Wordsworth] cited the sonnet, On the feelings of a highminded Spaniard, which he preferred to any other...and the Two Voices;...

Two-Face, n. (1)

    NR 3.245 16 All the universe over, there is but one thing, this old Two-Face... of which any proposition may be affirmed or denied.

twofold, adj. (4)

    LE 1.182 6 If [the scholar] have this twofold goodness,-the drill and the inspiration,-then he has health;...
    LE 1.182 10 ...this twofold merit characterizes ever the productions of great masters.
    Comp 2.102 27 Every act rewards itself...in a twofold manner...
    PLT 12.60 21 The spiritual power of man is twofold, mind and heart...

two-inch, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.61 8 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. The waters, of course, are not very deep. He has a two-inch enthusiasm...

two-o'clock-in-the-morning, ad (2)

    NMW 4.237 16 In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon] remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the- morning kind...
    NMW 4.237 23 ...[Napoleon] did not hesitate to declare that he was himself eminently endowed with this two-o'clock-in-the-morning courage...

twopence, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.218 20 [The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a head his bread of knowledge costs...

Twoshoes, n. (1)

    DL 7.105 27 What a holiday is the first snow in which Twoshoes can be trusted abroad!

Tyburn, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.114 8 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth...who was hanged at the Tyburn of his nation...

tying, v. (2)

    AmS 1.85 21 ...tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, [the young mind] goes on tying things together...
    Comp 2.106 13 ...the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme Mind; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions, they involuntarily made amends to reason by tying up the hands of so bad a god.

Tyler, John, n. (1)

    SS 7.8 15 Like President Tyler, our party falls from us every day...

Tyler, Royall, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.382 25 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...Royall Tyler, Chief Justice of Vermont;...

tympanum, n. (1)

    PLT 12.32 21 The air rings with sounds, but only a few vibrations can reach our tympanum.

tympany, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.131 14 For performance, nature has no mercy, and sacrifices the performer to get it done; makes a dropsy or a tympany of him.

type, n. (46)

    Nat 1.27 3 Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
    Nat 1.27 13 ...the sky...is the type of Reason.
    Nat 1.29 17 ...this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses its power to affect us.
    Nat 1.43 17 ...we detect the type of the human hand in the flipper of the fossil saurus...
    AmS 1.87 15 Books are the best type of the influence of the past...
    Hist 2.12 2 We remember the forest-dwellers, the first temples, the adherence to the first type...
    Hist 2.13 18 Genius detects...through all genera the steadfast type;...
    Comp 2.101 5 ...the naturalist sees one type under every metamorphosis...
    Comp 2.101 10 Each new form repeats not only the main character of the type...
    Pt1 3.13 12 Being used as a type, a second wonderful value appears in the object...
    Pt1 3.17 23 The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is...
    Pt1 3.24 25 The expression [of the poet's thoughts] is organic, or the new type which things themselves take when liberated.
    Exp 3.49 14 The Indian who was laid under a curse that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all.
    Exp 3.76 20 ...it is...the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity...
    Mrs1 3.125 9 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this strong type;...
    NR 3.230 19 We conceive distinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German genius, and it is not the less real that perhaps we should not meet in either of those nations a single individual who corresponded with the type.
    SwM 4.108 1 A poetic anatomist, in our own day...assumes the hair-worm, the span-worm, or the snake, as the type or prediction of the spine.
    MoS 4.160 27 The soul of man must be the type of our scheme...
    MoS 4.161 1 ...the body of man is the type after which a dwelling-house is built.
    ShP 4.213 13 This power...of transferring the inmost truth of things into music and verse, makes [Shakespeare] the type of the poet...
    GoW 4.284 19 [Goethe] is the type of culture, the amateur of all arts and sciences and events;...
    ET2 5.29 10 The sea is masculine, the type of active strength.
    ET4 5.54 17 I found plenty of well-marked English types...a Norman type, with the complacency that belongs to that constitution.
    ET4 5.66 8 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...
    ET7 5.117 22 Alfred, whom the affection of the nation makes the type of [the English] race, is called by a writer at the Norman Conquest, the truth-speaker;...
    ET14 5.243 17 Locke, to whom the meaning of ideas was unknown, became the type of philosophy [in England]...
    ET14 5.246 7 ...in Hallam, or in the firmer intellectual nerve of Mackintosh, one still finds the same type of English genius.
    F 6.15 24 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...her first misshapen animals...rude forms... concealing under these unwieldy monsters the fine type of her coming king.
    Bty 6.298 14 ...we see faces every day which have a good type but have been marred in the casting;...
    Bty 6.299 3 Faces are rarely true to any ideal type...
    WD 7.163 18 [Man] sees the skull of the English race changing from its Saxon type under the exigencies of American life.
    SA 8.80 16 Napoleon is the type of this class [of men of aplomb] in modern history;...
    PC 8.210 25 Take as a type the boundless freedom here in Massachusetts.
    Imtl 8.334 1 All great natures are lovers of stability and permanence, as the type of the Eternal.
    SovE 10.184 2 ...this unity exists...from lower type of man to the highest yet attained...
    SovE 10.212 9 We buttress [the moral sentiment] up...with legends, traditions and forms, each good for the one moment in which it was a happy type or symbol of the Power;...
    Thor 10.471 21 Every fact lay in glory in [Thoreau's] mind, a type of the order and beauty of the whole.
    GSt 10.504 26 I look upon [George Stearns] as a type of the American republican.
    ALin 11.328 26 Here [in Lincoln] was a type of the true elder race,/ And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face./ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
    SMC 11.356 23 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...the adventurous type of New Englander...
    CPL 11.502 9 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests... to procure in the temple fire from the sun, and thence distribute it as a sacred gift to every hearth in the nation. It is a just type of the service rendered to mankind by wise men.
    PLT 12.23 1 How lately the hunter was the poor creature's organic enemy; a presumption inflamed, as the lawyers say, by observing how many faces in the street still remind us of visages in the forest,-the escape from the quadruped type not yet perfectly accomplished.
    PLT 12.40 5 [A perception] lifts the object, whether in material or moral nature, into a type.
    Mem 12.91 26 Some fact that had a childish significance to your childhood and was a type in the nursery, when riper intelligence recalls it means more and serves you better as an illustration;...
    Pray 12.355 18 I thank thee...especially for him who brought me so perfect a type of thy goodness and love to men.
    Trag 12.413 24 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...and in calm times it will not appear that he is adrift and not moored; but let any shock take place in society...and at once his type of permanence is shaken.

Typee, n. (1)

    Wom 11.420 12 On the questions that are important...whether men shall be holden in bondage, or shall be roasted alive and eaten, as in Typee, or shall be hunted with bloodhounds, as in this country...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.

type-figures, n. (1)

    Scot 11.466 22 In the number and variety of his characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare. Other painters in verse or prose have thrown into literature a few type-figures; as Cervantes, De Foe...

types, n. (13)

    SwM 4.133 16 All [Swedenborg's] types mean the same few things.
    ET4 5.54 14 I found plenty of well-marked English types...
    ET4 5.61 7 ...decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans], who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal...
    PI 8.14 21 This belief that the higher use of the material world is to furnish us types or pictures to express the thoughts of the mind, is carried to its logical extreme by the Hindoos...
    PI 8.19 11 ...poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight, looking through [things], and using them as types or words for thoughts...
    PI 8.28 12 ...as soon as this [inspired] soul...at leisure plays with the resemblances and types, for amusement, and not for its moral end, we call its action Fancy.
    SA 8.102 20 Our gentlemen of the old school...were bred after English types...
    QO 8.179 5 ...movable types, the kaleidoscope, the railway, the power-loom, etc., have been many times found and lost...
    QO 8.187 18 If we observe the tenacity with which nations cling to their first types of costume...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    Insp 8.289 16 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    MMEm 10.399 6 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life. It is a representative life...of an age now past, and of which I think no types survive.
    LS 11.12 26 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that they, Jews like Jesus, should adopt his expressions and his types...
    Shak1 11.453 9 I could name in this very company...very good types [of men who live well in and lead any society]...

type-setter, n. (1)

    Insp 8.276 2 The result of the [literary] hack is inconceivable to the type-setter who waits for it.

typhus, n. (3)

    F 6.19 2 Famine, typhus, frost, war, suicide and effete races must be reckoned calculable parts of the system of the world.
    F 6.32 23 The annual slaughter from typhus far exceeds that of war;...
    F 6.32 24 ...right drainage destroys typhus.

typical, adj. (4)

    SwM 4.116 1 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat of both these symbolical and typical resemblances...
    PC 8.216 7 The early names are too typical,-Homer, or blind man;...
    LS 11.12 4 That rite [washing of the feet] is used...by the Sandemanians. It has been very properly dropped by other Christians. Why? For two reasons...(2) because it was typical, and all understood that humility is the thing signified.
    LS 11.12 7 ...the Passover was local too, and does not concern us, and its bread and wine were typical...

tyrannic, adj. (1)

    PI 8.3 10 The intellect...cannot supersede this tyrannic necessity [common sense].

tyrannical, adj. (8)

    ET15 5.271 14 [Punch's] sketches are...the delight of every class, because uniformly guided by that taste which is tyrannical in England.
    F 6.14 19 Yes,-but the tyrannical Circumstance!
    Wth 6.94 10 Each of these idealists, working after his thought, would make it tyrannical, if he could.
    Wth 6.123 24 Not less within doors a system settles itself paramount and tyrannical over master and mistress...
    Boks 7.212 14 Men are ever lapsing into a beggarly habit, wherein everything that is not ciphering, that is, which does not serve the tyrannical animal, is hustled out of sight.
    PI 8.6 27 Such currents, so tyrannical, exist in thoughts...that as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...
    PerF 10.73 14 ...in man that bias or direction of his constitution is often as tyrannical as gravity.
    PLT 12.21 1 ...[this reduction to a few laws, to one law]...is the tyrannical instinct of the mind.

tyrannically, adv. (4)

    F 6.9 2 ...the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.
    Bhr 6.187 4 A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is native and proper to him,--an immunity from all the observances, yea, and duties, which society so tyrannically imposes on the rank and file of its members.
    Wsp 6.219 11 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and projection keep their craft...a secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically in human history...
    Milt1 12.273 2 [Milton] defends the slaying of the king, because a king is a king no longer than he governs by the laws; It would be right to kill Philip of Spain making an inroad into England, and what right the king of Spain hath to govern us at all, the same hath the king Charles to govern tyranically.

tyrannies, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.152 24 For the present distress...of those who are predisposed to suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice [of society], there are easy remedies.
    Wsp 6.202 6 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out...in tyrannies, literatures and arts,--let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely...

tyrannize, v. (2)

    Hist 2.33 3 Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them. Facts...tyrannize over them...
    Int 2.326 3 The considerations...of profit and hurt, tyrannize over most men' s minds.

tyrannized, v. (2)

    AmS 1.85 20 ...tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, [the young mind] goes on tying things together...
    Hist 2.28 27 ...the oppressor of [the child's] youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth.

tyrannizes, v. (4)

    SL 2.156 19 Truth tyrannizes over the unwilling members of the body.
    Wsp 6.202 19 ...[Faith] tyrannizes at the centre of nature.
    Art2 7.41 13 ...Nature tyrannizes over our works.
    QO 8.180 9 The first book tyrannizes over the second.

tyrannizing, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.67 8 It is not so pertinent to man to know all the individuals of the animal kingdom, as it is to know whence and whereto is this tyrannizing unity in his constitution...

tyrannizing, v. (1)

    F 6.8 26 An expense of ends to means is fate;-organization tyrannizing over character.

tyrannous, adj. (5)

    Prd1 2.232 16 It does not seem to me so genuine grief when some tyrannous Richard the Third oppresses and slays a score of innocent persons, as when Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other.
    Pt1 3.37 15 We have yet had no genius in America, with tyrannous eye, which knew the value of our incomparable materials...
    PPh 4.74 2 The tyrannous realist [is Socrates]!...
    F 6.15 5 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...
    Insp 8.276 18 We are waiting until some tyrannous idea emerging out of heaven shall seize and bereave us of this liberty with which we are falling abroad.

tyranny, n. (19)

    YA 1.375 23 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter. This feeling...becomes petulance and tyranny when the head of the clan...deals with the same difference of opinion in his subjects.
    YA 1.394 4 In the East, where the religious sentiment comes in to the support of the aristocracy...there is a grain of sweetness in the tyranny;...
    Hist 2.28 24 The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child... paralyzing the understanding, and that without producing indignation, but... even much sympathy with the tyranny,--is a familiar fact...
    Nat2 3.170 26 How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape...until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out of the mind, all memory obliterated by the tyranny of the present...
    Pol1 3.205 17 ...the attributes of a person, his wit and his moral energy, will exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper force...
    NER 3.252 24 [Other reformers] attacked the system of agriculture, the use of animal manures in farming, and the tyranny of man over brute nature;...
    MoS 4.176 7 Presently a new experience gives a new turn to our thoughts: common sense resumes its tyranny;...
    ET3 5.36 27 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west...
    ET10 5.168 6 It is not, I suppose, want of probity, so much as the tyranny of trade, which necessitates a perpetual competition of underselling...
    Boks 7.201 21 ...we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for...to know the tyranny of Aristophanes...
    PI 8.6 16 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...a certain tyranny which springs up in his own thoughts...
    Aris 10.34 24 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe. By the abolition of kingship and aristocracy, tyranny, inequality and poverty would end.
    Aris 10.34 25 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe. By the abolition of kingship and aristocracy, tyranny, inequality and poverty would end. Alas! no; tyranny, inequality, poverty, stood as fast and fierce as ever.
    Aris 10.36 17 ...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman, and all the whimsical tyranny of Fashion which has continued to engraft itself on this reverence, is a secret homage to reality and love...
    SovE 10.191 1 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...the secrets of the prisons of tyranny, the slave and his master, the proud man's scorn...
    EWI 11.146 27 ...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 11.160 3 For ages...the human race has gone on under the tyranny...of this first brutish form of their effort to be men;...
    Mem 12.106 6 Talk of memory and cite me these fine examples of Grotius and Daguesseau, and I think how awful is that power and what privilege and tyranny it must confer.
    Milt1 12.268 26 [Milton's] birth fell upon the agitated years when the discontents of the English Puritans were fast drawing to a head against the tyranny of the Stuarts.

tyrant, n. (13)

    AmS 1.89 2 ...the guide is a tyrant.
    Comp 2.119 17 The history of persecution is a history of endeavors...to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be...a tyrant or a mob.
    Art1 2.355 11 ...each work of genius is the tyrant of the hour...
    NR 3.239 16 Each man...is a tyrant in tendency...
    NER 3.268 15 A man of good sense but of little faith...said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on. I am afraid the remark...comes from the same origin as the maxim of the tyrant, If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.
    Pow 6.64 20 In politics...red republicanism in the father is a spasm of nature to engender an intolerable tyrant in the next age.
    Cour 7.260 10 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their wrongs... But were their wrongs greater than the negro's? And what kind of strength did they ever give him? It was always invitation to the tyrant...
    Cour 7.274 9 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant...
    Aris 10.63 2 Pay [money], and you may play the tyrant at discretion...
    Chr2 10.107 3 ...the church-warden or tithing-man was a petty persecutor; the presbytery, a tyrant;...
    EWI 11.135 19 Other revolutions have been the insurrection of the oppressed; [emancipation in the West Indies] was the repentance of the tyrant.
    CInt 12.111 5 ...Merlin's mighty line/ Extremes of nature reconciled-/ Bereaved a tyrant of his will,/ And made the lion mild./
    Milt1 12.271 20 [Milton] maintained that a nation may try, judge and slay their king, if he be a tyrant.

tyrants, n. (5)

    ET13 5.215 21 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...inspired resistance to tyrants, inspired self-respect...
    Bhr 6.167 18 Too weak to win, too fond to shun/ The tyrants or his doom,/ The much deceived Endymion/ Slips behind a tomb./
    SovE 10.193 5 All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar [of Divine justice].
    FSLC 11.187 4 It is remarkable how rare in the history of tyrants is an immoral law.
    TPar 11.290 4 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...leaving your principles at home to follow on the high seas or in Europe a supple complaisance to tyrants,-it is a hypocrisy...

Tyre, Lebanon, n. (1)

    Hist 2.9 8 Babylon, Troy, Tyre, Palestine, and even early Rome are passing already into fiction.

Tyrian, adj. (2)

    ET16 5.282 19 ...as Britain was a Phoenician secret, so they kept their compass a secret, and it was lost with the Tyrian commerce.
    PPo 8.262 22 In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is found;/ Thine the star-pointing- roof, and the base on the ground:/ Is one half depicted with colors less bright?/ Beware that the counterpart blazes with light!/

Tyrolese, adj. (1)

    Thor 10.484 11 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...

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