Ubiquitous to Unexhausted
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
ubiquitous, adj. (1)
Schr 10.283 21 ...[mother-wit's] look is catholic and
universal, its light
ubiquitous like the sun.
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, (1)
Exp 3.63 2 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of
Saint Jerome, and
what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls of the Vatican, the
Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them;...
ugliness, n. (7)
LT 1.289 12 [The Moral Sentiment] makes by its presence
or absence... beauty and ugliness...
Cir 2.315 27 ...one man's beauty [is] another's
ugliness;...
Nat2 3.173 15 ...I go with my friend to the shore of
our little river, and with
one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and
moonlight... I am taught...the ugliness of towns and palaces.
Pol1 3.214 17 This undertaking for another is the
blunder which stands in
colossal ugliness in the governments of the world.
Bty 6.300 9 ...petulant old gentlemen...affirm that the
secret of ugliness
consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
DL 7.123 10 [The women of Arthur's court]...said that
the devil was in the
mantle, for really the truth was in the mantle, and was exposing the
ugliness
which each would fain conceal.
PI 8.69 18 Shakspeare could no doubt have been
disagreeable...if ugliness
had attracted him.
ugly, adj. (26)
Pt1 3.18 23 ...it is dislocation and detachment from the
life of God that
makes things ugly...
Mrs1 3.154 12 Without the rich heart, wealth is a ugly
beggar.
PPh 4.71 7 ...the potters copied [Socrates'] ugly face
on their stone jugs.
PPh 4.75 5 The rare coincidence [in Socrates], in one
ugly body, of the
droll and the martyr...had forcibly struck the mind of Plato...
ET8 5.135 11 Here [in England] was lately a
cross-grained miser [Joseph
Turner], odd and ugly...
Ctr 6.161 23 We must know our friends under ugly masks.
Bhr 6.195 24 I have seen manners that make a similar
impression with
personal beauty;...and in memorable experiences they are suddenly
better
than beauty, and make that superfluous and ugly.
Wsp 6.235 2 [Benedict said] My race may not be
prospering; we are sick, ugly, obscure, unpopular.
Bty 6.295 25 In our cities an ugly building is soon
removed and is never
repeated...
Bty 6.296 2 ...all masons and carpenters work to repeat
and preserve the
agreeable forms, whilst the ugly ones die out.
Bty 6.298 12 Mirabeau had an ugly face on a handsome
ground;...
Bty 6.298 27 Saadi describes a schoolmaster so ugly and
crabbed that a
sight of him would derange the ecstasies of the orthodox.
Bty 6.300 11 We love any forms, however ugly, from
which great qualities
shine.
Bty 6.300 22 Since I am so ugly, said Du Guesclin, it
behooves that I be
bold.
WD 7.163 27 [Tantalus] is now in great
spirits;...thinks he shall bottle the
wave. It is however getting a little doubtful. Things have an ugly look
still.
Boks 7.215 9 ...when one observes how ill and ugly
people make their
loves and quarrels, 't is pity they should not read novels a little
more...
Comc 8.172 3 ...Timur was an ugly man;...
Comc 8.172 10 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found
his face quite
too ugly.
Comc 8.172 20 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I
have looked in the
mirror, and seen myself ugly.
Comc 8.172 22 ...said Timur to Chodscha, Hearken! I
have looked in the
mirror, and seen myself ugly. Thereat I grieved, because, although I am
Caliph...yet still I am so ugly; therefore have I wept.
Dem1 10.26 27 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. We
have...come into
the realm or chaos of chance and pretty or ugly confusion;...
EWI 11.147 14 There is a blessed necessity by which the
interest of men is
always...making all crime mean and ugly.
War 11.165 20 The standing army, the arsenal, the camp
and the gibbet do
not appertain to man. They only serve as an index to show where man is
now;...what an ugly neighbor he is;...
AKan 11.259 26 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom,
fine names for
an ugly thing.
ALin 11.332 6 In a host of young men that start
together and promise so
many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial; one by
bad
health, one by...an ugly temper...
Milt1 12.262 24 Among so many contrivances as the world
has seen to
make holiness ugly, in Milton at least it was so pure a flame that the
foremost impression his character makes is that of elegance.
ulterior, adj. (14)
Nat 1.41 14 When a thing has served an end to the
uttermost, it is wholly
new for an ulterior service.
Pt1 3.20 12 The poet, by an ulterior intellectual
perception, gives [things] a
power which makes their old use forgotten...
Pol1 3.210 13 ...[the spirit of our American
radicalism] has no ulterior and
divine ends...
PPh 4.43 10 Plato...mainly is not a poet because he
chose to use the poetic
gift to an ulterior purpose.
PNR 4.82 19 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a
second sense, and
ulterior senses.
PNR 4.88 4 ...a very well-marked class of souls, namely
those who delight
in giving a spiritual, that is, an ethico-intellectual expression to
every truth, by exhibiting an ulterior end which is yet legitimate to
it,--are said to
Platonize.
F 6.39 11 The ulterior aim...will not stop but will
work into finer
particulars...
PI 8.15 23 The poet accounts all productions and
changes of Nature as the
nouns of language, uses them representatively, too well pleased with
their
ulterior to value much their primary meaning.
Insp 8.271 16 [Man] is fain to make the ulterior step
by mechanical means.
Insp 8.271 18 [Man] is fain to make the ulterior step
by mechanical means. It cannot so be done. That ulterior step is to be
also by inspiration;...
Insp 8.294 21 ...every word...hints ulterior meanings.
SovE 10.183 14 That convertibility we so admire in
plants and animal
structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when
one
part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and
self-creation
proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest
and meanest structures by the same design...
EdAd 11.384 20 ...we cannot stave off the ulterior
question...the WHERE
TO of all this [American] power and population...
WSL 12.343 18 Whoever writes for the love of truth and
beauty, and not
with ulterior ends, belongs to this sacred class;...
ultimate, adj. (14)
Nat 1.12 10 [Commodity]...is a benefit which is...not
ultimate...
Nat 1.24 16 The world thus exists to the soul to
satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end.
Nat 1.24 22 ...beauty in nature is not ultimate.
AmS 1.111 18 The meal in the firkin;...the form and the
gait of the
body; - show me the ultimate reason of these matters;...
Hist 2.6 1 All laws derive hence [from the universal
nature] their ultimate
reason;...
SR 2.70 12 ...a man or a company of men, plastic and
permeable to
principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all...poets,
who are
not. This is the ultimate fact...
Hsm1 2.251 27 ...[heroism's] ultimate objects are the
last defiance of
falsehood and wrong, and the power to bear all that can be inflicted by
evil
agents.
Cir 2.304 20 Every ultimate fact is only the first of a
new series.
SwM 4.110 1 What we call gravitation, and fancy
ultimate, is one fork of a
mightier stream for which we have yet no name.
Wsp 6.219 17 ...the primordial atoms...are in search of
justice, and ultimate
right is done.
EWI 11.137 26 This moral force perpetually reinforces
and dignifies the
friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It gave that
tenacity
to their point which has insured ultimate triumph...
War 11.155 17 ...the appearance of the other instincts
[than self-help] immediately modifies and controls this; turns its
energies into harmless, useful and high courses, showing thereby what
was its ultimate design;...
ALin 11.337 23 There is a serene Providence which rules
the fate of
nations, which...obtains the ultimate triumph of the best race by the
sacrifice of everything which resists the moral laws of the world.
MAng1 12.217 15 Like Truth, [Beauty] is an ultimate aim
of the human
being.
ultimate, v. (1)
PI 8.17 22 A deep insight will always, like Nature,
ultimate its thought in a
thing.
ultimately, adv. (1)
SwM 4.114 8 It is a constant law of the organic body
that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller,
simpler and ultimately from
invisible forms...
ultimates, n. (2)
Nat 1.49 18 [To the senses] Things are ultimates...
QO 8.201 19 ...[Genius] knows that facts are not
ultimates...
ultimates, v. (1)
Bty 6.290 19 It is the soundness of the bones that
ultimates itself in a peach-bloom
complexion;...
ultraists, n. (1)
NER 3.251 15 ...that the Church, or religious party...is
appearing...in very
significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions; composed
of
ultraists...
Ulysses [Alfred, Lord Tenn (1)
EurB 12.372 17 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high
class of poetry...
Ulysses [Homer, Iliad], n. (6)
Elo1 7.72 1 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove,
This is the wise
Ulysses...
Elo1 7.72 5 ...once the wise Ulysses came hither on an
embassy, with
Menelaus, beloved by Mars.
Elo1 7.72 12 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] mixed with the
assembled
Trojans, and stood, the broad shoulders of Menelaus rose above the
other; but, both sitting, Ulysses was more majestic.
Elo1 7.72 17 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood
and looked down... you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...
Elo1 7.72 25 ...when...his words fell like the winter
snows, not then would
any mortal contend with Ulysses;...
Elo1 7.72 27 ...[Homer] does not fail to arm Ulysses at
first with this power
of overcoming all opposition by the blandishments of speech.
Ulysses [Homer, Odyssey], n (2)
Elo1 7.74 4 I know no remedy against [an oiled tongue]
but...the wax
which Ulysses stuffed into the ears of his sailors to pass the Sirens
safely.
Aris 10.42 1 Ulysses in Homer is represented as a very
skilful carpenter.
Ulysses, n. (3)
NMW 4.239 7 There have been many working kings, from
Ulysses to
William of Orange...
War 11.152 25 [Society] presently finds the value of
good sense and of
foresight, and Ulysses takes rank next to Achilles.
Let 12.400 19 It is heartrending to see your [German]
poet, your artist, and
all who still revere genius, who love and foster the Beautiful. The
Good! They...are like the patient Ulysses whilst he sat in the guise of
a beggar at
his own door...
umbilical, adj. (3)
Nat2 3.188 20 This is the man-child that is born to the
soul, and her life
still circulates in the babe. The umbilical cord has not yet been cut.
SwM 4.143 15 ...[Swedenborg] could never break the
umbilical cord which
held him to nature...
ET8 5.130 19 [The English] are full of coarse strength,
rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep; and suspect any poetic
insinuation or any
hint for the conduct of life which reflects on this animal existence,
as if
somebody were fumbling at the umbilical cord and might stop their
supplies.
umbrage, n. (1)
Hsm1 2.251 18 ...just and wise men take umbrage at [the
hero's] act...
umbrella, n. (4)
ET6 5.105 10 An Englishman walks in a pouring rain,
swinging his closed
umbrella like a walking-stick;...and no remark is made.
ET14 5.254 13 A horizon of brass of the diameter of his
umbrella shuts
down around [the English student's] senses.
Comc 8.159 3 Separate any object, as...an umbrella,
from the connection of
things...it becomes at once comic;...
WSL 12.344 14 [Landor]...is not insensible to the
beauty of...the Turk's
head on his umbrella;...
umbrella-maker, n. (1)
LLNE 10.350 22 It takes sixteen hundred and eighty men
to make one
Man, complete in all the faculties; that is, to be sure that you have
got...an
umbrella-maker, a mayor and alderman, and so on.
umbrellas, n. (1)
Ctr 6.152 23 ...I remember one rainy morning in the city
of Palermo the
street was in a blaze with scarlet umbrellas.
umpire, n. (1)
OS 2.279 13 ...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;...
umpires, n. (1)
Pt1 3.3 1 Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are
often persons who
have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures...
unable, adj. (25)
AmS 1.96 10 [The actions and events of our childhood]
lie like fair pictures
in the air. Not so...with the business which we now have in hand. On
this
we are quite unable to speculate.
MN 1.209 12 I conceive a man as always spoken to from
behind, and
unable to turn his head and see the speaker.
LT 1.279 11 The great majority of men, unable to judge
of any principle
until its light falls on a fact, are not aware of the evil that is
around them...
SL 2.145 19 All the terrors of the French Republic,
which held Austria in
awe, were unable to command her diplomacy.
Lov1 2.181 9 ...[the ancient writers] said that the
soul of man, embodied
here on earth...was soon stupefied by the light of the natural sun, and
unable
to see any other objects than those of this world...
Lov1 2.181 24 If...from too much conversing with
material objects, the soul
was gross, and misplaced its satisfaction in the body, it reaped
nothing but
sorrow; body being unable to fulfil the promise which beauty holds
out;...
Pt1 3.24 12 I knew in my younger days the sculptor who
made the statue of
the youth which stands in the public garden. He was...unable to tell
directly
what made him happy or unhappy, but by wonderful indirections he could
tell.
NR 3.243 13 ...if we saw all things that really
surround us we should be
imprisoned and unable to move.
PPh 4.45 22 Children cry, scream and stamp with fury,
unable to express
their desires.
ET6 5.106 13 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated
to read and threw
out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been
accustomed to spin, about poor, thin, unable mortals;...
F 6.20 19 ...the gods in the Norse heaven were unable
to bind the Fenris
Wolf...
Bty 6.282 5 The boy had juster views when he gazed at
the shells on the
beach or the flowers in the meadow, unable to call them by their names,
than the man in the pride of his nomenclature.
DL 7.115 8 If [man]...is unable...it is because there
is so much of his nature
which is unlawfully withholden from him.
PI 8.30 21 ...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were,
muffle the fact to suit
the poverty or caprice of their expression...being unable to fuse and
mould
their words and images to fluid obedience.
PI 8.51 26 Rhyme, being a kind of music, shares this
advantage with music, that it has a privilege of speaking truth which
all Philistia is unable to
challenge.
SA 8.83 1 We think a man unable and desponding. It is
only that he is
misplaced.
PC 8.209 25 The fop is unable to cut the patriot in the
street;...
Dem1 10.25 2 Men who had never wondered at
anything...have been
unable to suppress their amazement at the disclosures of the
somnambulist.
Aris 10.53 22 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain
come among these men [in a village], so full of his facts, so unable to
suppress them, that he has
poured out a river of knowledge to all comers...
LS 11.13 18 It was only too probable that among the
half-converted Pagans
and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to
comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity.
HDC 11.71 22 It was...voted [in Concord], to raise one
or more companies
of minute-men...to provide arms and ammunition, that those who are
unable
to purchase them themselves, may have the advantage of them...
EWI 11.103 1 For the negro, was the slave-ship to begin
with, in whose
filthy hold he sat in irons, unable to lie down;...
AKan 11.258 7 ...the governor and legislature should
neither slumber nor
sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to
these
poor farmers [in Kansas], or else should resign their seats to those
who can. But first let them...order funeral service to be said for the
citizens whom
they were unable to defend.
FRep 11.541 10 Humanity asks...that democratic
institutions shall be more
thoughtful...for the welfare of sick and unable persons...
MAng1 12.228 6 ...[Michelangelo] toiled so assiduously
at this painful
work [the Sistine Chapel ceiling], that, for a long time after, he was
unable
to see any picture but by holding it over his head.
unabsorbed, adj. (1)
ET4 5.62 24 ...the rudiment of a structure matured in
the tiger is said to be
still found unabsorbed in the Caucasian man.
unaccommodating, adj. (1)
ET18 5.302 9 ...this perfunctory hospitality puts no
sweetness into [Englishmen's] unaccommodating manners...
unaccountable, adj. (1)
LVB 11.90 15 ...notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy
with which of
late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies,
it is
not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of
all
humane persons in the Republic...that they shall be duly cared for;...
unaccountably, adv. (1)
II 12.76 27 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is
very certain that
these things have been hid...and, at certain privileged moments, emerge
unaccountably into light.
unacknowledged, adj. (2)
Nat 1.10 24 I am not alone and unacknowledged.
ShP 4.197 19 ...in the whole society of English
writers, a large
unacknowledged debt [to Chaucer] is easily traced.
unacquainted, adj. (3)
ET12 5.205 3 The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of
ordinary
college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year. But this
plausible
statement may deceive a reader unacquainted with the fact that the
principal
teaching relied on is private tuition.
Wom 11.421 7 The objection to [women's] voting is the
same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in
politics;-that if they are good
clergymen they are unacquainted with the expediencies of politics...
Milt1 12.262 1 ...[Milton] said...I cannot say that I
am...unacquainted with
those examples which the prime authors of eloquence have written in any
learned tongue...
unadapted, adj. (1)
ET4 5.52 10 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil
of England...whilst
all the unadapted temperaments die out.
unadorned, adj. (1)
Milt1 12.269 21 ...[Milton] threw himself, the flower of
elegancy, on the
side of the reeking conventicle; the side of humanity, but unlearned
and
unadorned.
unadvised, adj. (1)
MoS 4.155 9 ...[the skeptic] stands for...a cool head
and whatever serves to
keep it cool; no unadvised industry...
unaffected, adj. (5)
SR 2.49 17 Who...having observed, [can] observe again
from the same
unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence,-must always
be
formidable.
DL 7.103 14 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations
when he lifts up his
voice on high...soften all hearts to pity...
Farm 7.152 27 The great elements with which [the
farmer] deals cannot
leave him unaffected...
SlHr 10.439 25 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong,
unaffected interest in farms...
Shak1 11.451 11 The unaffected joy of the
comedy,-[Shakespeare] lives
in a gale,-contrasted with the grandeur of the tragedy, where he stoops
to
no contrivance, no pulpiting...
unaffecting, adj. (5)
Nat 1.15 16 ...where the particular objects are mean and
unaffecting, the
landscape which they compose is round and symmetrical.
Nat 1.75 3 To our blindness, these [common] things seem
unaffecting.
SL 2.147 18 The vale of Tempe, Tivoli and Rome are
earth and water, rocks and sky. There are as good earth and water in a
thousand places, yet
how unaffecting!
Exp 3.74 19 [Just persons] believe...that no right
action of ours is quite
unaffecting to our friends...
Trag 12.410 25 In phlegmatic natures calamity is
unaffecting, in shallow
natures it is rhetorical.
unaffrighted, adj. (1)
SR 2.49 18 Who...having observed, [can] observe again
from the same
unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence,-must always
be
formidable.
unaided, adj. (1)
WD 7.157 12 Machines can only second, not supply,
[man's] unaided
senses.
unalterable, adj. (3)
Pt1 3.19 14 The spiritual fact remains unalterable...
ET18 5.302 4 ...this [English] shop-rule had one
magnificent effect. It
extends its cold unalterable courtesy to political exiles of every
opinion...
SlHr 10.446 22 ...[Samuel Hoar's] countenance had an
unalterable
tranquillity and sweetness;...
unaltered, adj. (7)
F 6.14 24 Lodged in the parent animal, [the vesicle]
suffers changes which
end in unsheathing miraculous capability in the unaltered vesicle...
Elo2 8.126 2 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every
nation...a certain mode of
phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its
respective
language as to remain settled and unaltered.
Supl 10.169 1 The first valuable power in a reasonable
mind, one would
say, was...the power to receive things as they befall, and to transfer
the
picture of them to another mind unaltered.
SlHr 10.437 18 ...when [Samuel Hoar] saw the day and
the gods went
against him, he withdrew, but with an unaltered belief.
SlHr 10.439 5 ...when the votes of the Free
States...had...betrayed the cause
of freedom, [Samuel Hoar]...promptly withdrew, but with unaltered
belief.
SlHr 10.441 3 [Samuel Hoar] returned from courts or
congresses to sit
down, with unaltered humility, in the church or in the town-house...
ACri 12.284 9 There is, in every nation...a certain
mode of phraseology so
consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective
language as to remain settled and unaltered.
unambitious, adj. (1)
FRep 11.518 7 Hitherto government has been that of the
single person or of
the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements,
it is
asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of
professional politicians, who...thrust their unworthy minority into the
place...of the good, industrious, well-taught but unambitious
population...
unanalyzable, adj. (1)
Cir 2.306 16 The last chamber, the last closet, [every
man] must feel was
never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable.
unanimity, n. (2)
LS 11.3 5 In the history of the Church no subject has
been more fruitful of
controversy than the Lord's Supper. There never has been any unanimity
in
the understanding of its nature...
RBur 11.440 1 I can only explain this singular
unanimity [to celebrate
Burns's anniversary] in a race which rarely acts together...by the fact
that
Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising
of
the middle class...
unanimous, adj. (14)
MoS 4.175 9 I think that the intellect and moral
sentiment are unanimous;...
ET6 5.102 12 ...the one thing the English value is
pluck. The word is not
beautiful, but on the quality they signify by it the nation is
unanimous.
ET12 5.205 23 Oxford is a little aristocracy in
itself...where fame and
secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has
the
unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
Pow 6.65 15 [The Hoosiers and the Suckers] see, against
the unanimous
declarations of the people, how much crime the people will bear;...
SA 8.93 25 Madame de Stael, by the unanimous consent of
all who knew
her, was the most extraordinary converser that was known in her time...
Insp 8.270 15 They...cut off [the aboriginal man's]
tail, set him on end, sent
him to school and made him pay taxes, before he could begin to write
his
sad story for the compassion or the repudiation of his descendants, who
are
all but unanimous to disown him.
SlHr 10.438 15 ...when...a deputation of gentlemen
waited upon him in the
hall to say they had come with the unanimous voice of the State to
remove
him by force...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last
point of possibility.
HDC 11.53 19 It is piteous to see [the Indians']
self-distrust in...their
unanimous entreaty to Captain Willard, to be their Recorder...
HDC 11.81 27 The General Court...draughted a
constitution, sent it here [to
Concord], and asked the town whether they would have it for the law of
the
State? The town answered No, by a unanimous vote.
LVB 11.95 4 Our counsellors and old statesmen here say
that ten years ago
they would have staked their lives on the affirmation that the proposed
Indian measures could not be executed; that the unanimous country would
put them down.
ACiv 11.308 8 ...the statesman who shall break through
the cobwebs of
doubt, fear and petty cavil that lie in the way [of Emancipation], will
be
greeted by the unanimous thanks of mankind.
EdAd 11.390 21 Let [a journal] now show its astuteness
by...arguing
diffusely every point on which men are long ago unanimous.
FRep 11.524 7 The record of the election now and then
alarms people by
the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler.
II 12.82 14 [A man] is strong by his genius, gets all
his knowledge only
through that aperture. Society is unanimous against his project.
unanimously, adv. (4)
Chr1 3.107 26 There is a class of men...so eminently
endowed with insight
and virtue that they have been unanimously saluted as divine...
Pol1 3.206 1 A nation of men unanimously bent on
freedom or conquest
can easily confound the arithmetic of statists...
MoS 4.158 21 ...it is alleged that labor impairs the
form and breaks the
spirit of man, and the laborers cry unanimously, We have no thoughts.
LS 11.24 2 My brethren...have recommended, unanimously,
an adherence
to the present form [of the Lord's Supper].
unannounced, adj. (2)
Int 2.332 2 ...in a moment, and unannounced, the truth
appears.
Art1 2.368 8 [Beauty] will come, as always,
unannounced...
unanswerable, adj. (2)
Nat 1.3 21 Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which
are
unanswerable.
MoS 4.171 8 The nonconformist and the rebel say all
manner of
unanswerable things against the existing republic...
unapparent, adj. (5)
Pt1 3.14 25 The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits,
in its
transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual
perceptions; being moved in conjunction with the unapparent periods of
intellectual
natures.
ET14 5.242 2 In England these [generalizations]...do
all have a kind of
filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the
Zoroastrian
definition of poetry, mystical, yet exact, apparent pictures of
unapparent
natures;...
PI 8.19 20 ...Poets are standing transporters, whose
employment consists... in producing apparent imitations of unapparent
natures...
PI 8.19 21 ...Poets are standing transporters, whose
employment consists... in producing apparent imitations of unapparent
natures, and inscribing
things unapparent in the apparent fabrication of the world;...
PI 8.20 1 ...mountains, crystals, plants, animals, are
seen; that which makes
them is not seen: these, then, are apparent copies of unapparent
natures.
unappointed, adj. (1)
F 6.5 16 On two days, it steads not to run from thy
grave,/ The appointed, and the unappointed day;/...
unapprehended, adj. (1)
SL 2.144 14 Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in
[a man's] memory
without his being able to say why, remain because they have a relation
to
him not less real for being as yet unapprehended.
unapproachable, adj. (1)
Exp 3.72 5 I am ready...be born again into this new yet
unapproachable
America I have found in the West...
unapproached, adj. (1)
PPh 4.78 19 How many ages have gone by, and [Plato]
remains
unapproached!
unappropriated, adj. (1)
Schr 10.276 14 There is plenty of wild azote and carbon
unappropriated, but it is nought till we have made it up into loaves
and soup.
unarmed, adj. (6)
MR 1.254 15 ...it would warm the heart to see how
fast...the impotence of... lines of defence, would be superseded by
this unarmed child [Love].
Bhr 6.177 24 In Siberia a late traveller found men who
could see the
satellites of Jupiter with their unarmed eye.
Cour 7.279 5 The other [bear] on George Nidiver/ Came
on with dreadful
pace:/ The hunter stood unarmed,/ And met him face to face./
Cour 7.279 7 I say unarmed [the hunter] stood./ Against
those frightful
paws/ The rifle butt, or club of wood,/ Could stand no more than
straws./
Comc 8.163 26 ...in Euripides, the Bacchae, though
unprovided of iron
weapons, and unarmed, wounded their invaders with the boughs of trees
which they carried...
PerF 10.73 24 It is curious to see how a creature so
feeble and vulnerable
as a man, who, unarmed, is no match for the wild beasts...is yet able
to
subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...
unascertainable, adj. (1)
Trag 12.407 25 ...this terror of contravening an
unascertained and
unascertainable will cannot co-exist with reflection...
unascertained, adj. (1)
Trag 12.407 24 ...this terror of contravening an
unascertained and
unascertainable will cannot co-exist with reflection...
unashamed, adj. (1)
NER 3.275 17 ...a naval and military honor...the
acknowledgment of
eminent merit,--have this lustre for each candidate that they enable
him to
walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he
felt himself inferior.
unattainable, adj. (7)
Lov1 2.179 13 Who can analyze the nameless charm which
glances from
one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination
by any
attempt to refer it to organization. Nor does it point to any relations
of
friendship or love known and described in society, but...to a quite
other and
unattainable sphere...
ET12 5.208 27 [An English gentleman] should...have
bodily activity and
strength, unattainable by our sedentary life in public offices.
Bhr 6.197 14 Who dare assume to guide a youth, a maid,
to perfect
manners? the golden mean is...say frankly, unattainable.
Prch 10.237 25 ...how rare and lofty, how unattainable,
are the aims [the
Church] labors to set before men!
MMEm 10.404 1 All [Mary Moody Emerson's] language was
happy, but... unattainable by talent...
II 12.77 15 ...the beatitude of the Intellect seems to
lie out of our volition, and to be unattainable as the sky...
PPr 12.383 13 ...the truth of the present hour...is
unattainable.
unattainable, n. (3)
Lov1 2.180 12 ...of poetry the success is not attained
when it lulls and
satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavors after
the
unattainable.
MoS 4.159 6 ...we ought to secure those advantages
which we can
command, and not risk them by clutching after the airy and
unattainable.
Bost 12.197 10 As an antidote to the spirit of commerce
and of economy, the religious spirit-always...prompting the pursuit of
the vast, the
beautiful, the unattainable-was especially necessary to the culture of
New
England.
Unattainable, n. (1)
Cir 2.301 20 This fact [that around every circle another
can be drawn], as
far as it symbolizes the moral fact of the Unattainable...may
conveniently
serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every
department.
unattained, adj. (1)
Hist 2.7 9 ...all that is said of the wise man by Stoic
or Oriental or modern
essayist...describes [to each reader] his unattained but attainable
self.
unattempted, adj. (4)
LE 1.168 12 ...indeed any vegetation, any
animation...are alike unattempted [by poets].
Hsm1 2.259 14 [A woman] has a new and unattempted
problem to solve...
NER 3.276 26 ...[those who reject us]...urge us to new
and unattempted
performances.
Milt1 12.261 3 ...soaring into unattempted strains,
[Milton] made [English] capable of an unknown majesty...
unattended, adj. (1)
SlHr 10.438 2 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to
South Carolina...he
was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him...to take his daily
walk... unattended by his friends...
unavailable, adj. (1)
Chr1 3.100 8 ...the uncivil, unavailable man...he
helps;...
unavailableness, n. (2)
UGM 4.27 23 Every genius is defended from approach by
quantities of
unavailableness.
PLT 12.7 19 There is really a grievous amount of
unavailableness about
men of wit.
unavailing, adj. (1)
MAng1 12.225 18 By the treachery...of the general of the
Republic, Malatesta Baglioni, all [Michelangelo's] skill was rendered
unavailing...
unavoidable, adj. (3)
Art1 2.366 19 Art makes the same effort which a sensual
prosperity makes; namely...to do up the work as unavoidable...
MoS 4.177 11 What front can we make against these
unavoidable, victorious, maleficent forces?
Milt1 12.278 22 ...as many poems have been written upon
unfit society... yet have not been proceeded against...so should
[Milton's plea for freedom
of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul, suffering more
keenly than others from the unavoidable evils of human life, is
entitled to.
unavowable, adj. (1)
DL 7.128 3 Happy will that house be...in which character
marries, and not
confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.
unawares, adv. (8)
Hist 2.40 27 Broader and deeper we must write our
annals...instead of this
old chronology of selfishness and pride to which we have too long lent
our
eyes. Already that day...shines in on us at unawares...
Comp 2.106 10 [The human soul] finds a tongue in
literature unawares.
Comp 2.107 10 It would seem there is always this
vindictive circumstance
stealing in at unawares...
OS 2.284 27 ...all unawares the advancing soul has
built and forged for
itself a new condition...
Wsp 6.199 20 [Fate] is Jove, who, deaf to prayers,/
Floods with blessings
unawares./
CbW 6.262 26 Men achieve a certain greatness unawares,
when working to
another aim.
Cour 7.278 19 ...They see two grizzly bears/ With
hunger fierce and fell/
Rush at them unawares/ Right down the narrow dell./
QO 8.204 13 ...the words overheard at unawares by the
free mind, are
trustworthy and fertile when obeyed...
unbalanced, adj. (2)
SR 2.80 3 ...in all unbalanced minds the classification
is idolized...
Let 12.399 15 ...we should not know where to find in
literature any record
of so much unbalanced intellectuality...as our young men pretend to.
unbar, v. (1)
Mrs1 3.130 24 [Fashion's] doors unbar instantaneously to
a natural claim
of their own kind.
unbarred, v. (1)
Con 1.323 7 In the civil wars of France, Montaigne
alone, among all the
French gentry, kept his castle gates unbarred...
unbarrelable, adj. (1)
LE 1.171 15 ...Truth is...so untransportable and
unbarrelable a commodity...
unbecoming, adj. (3)
Gts 3.162 21 We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and
both emotions are
unbecoming.
ET6 5.105 20 [The Englishman] is never betrayed into
any curiosity or
unbecoming emotion.
FRep 11.529 18 The men, the women, all over this land
shrill their
exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or
is
unbecoming in the government...
unbelief, n. (18)
DSA 1.143 18 ...in these two errors...I find the causes
of...a wasting
unbelief.
LT 1.285 5 [The intellectual class's] unbelief arises
out of a greater
Belief;...
SL 2.157 4 If [the lawyer] does not believe [his
client's innocence] his
unbelief will appear to the jury...
SL 2.157 6 If [the lawyer] does not believe [his
client's innocence] his
unbelief will appear to the jury...and will become their unbelief.
Fdsp 2.196 10 ...in the golden hour of friendship we
are surprised with
shades of suspicion and unbelief.
NER 3.270 9 When the literary class betray a
destitution of faith, it is not
strange that society should be...sensualized by unbelief.
SwM 4.138 13 That pure malignity can exist is the
extreme proposition of
unbelief.
MoS 4.159 21 This then is the right ground of the
skeptic,--this of
consideration, of self-containing; not at all of unbelief;...
MoS 4.171 18 ...we...reject a sour, dumpish unbelief...
MoS 4.180 20 Belief consists in accepting the
affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
GoW 4.277 1 ...[Goethe]...looked for [the Devil]...in
every shade of
coldness, selfishness and unbelief that...darkens over the human
thought...
Wsp 6.220 19 Skepticism is unbelief in cause and
effect.
SovE 10.206 14 All ages of belief have been great; all
of unbelief have
been mean.
Prch 10.220 16 ...the virtuous sentiment appears
arrayed against the
nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and
burned. Then the good sense of the people wakes up so far as to take
tacit part with
them, to cast off reverence for the Church; and there follows an age of
unbelief.
Prch 10.221 12 The understanding...because it has found
absurdities to
which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration; so
that
analysis has run to seed in unbelief.
Prch 10.229 3 Anything but unbelief...
FSLN 11.244 24 ...I hope we have reached the end of our
unbelief...
II 12.68 3 One often sees in the embittered acuteness
of critics snuffing
heresy from afar, their own unbelief...
Unbelief, n. (1)
LT 1.282 4 ...our torment is Unbelief...
unbeliefs, n. (3)
Exp 3.75 13 ...out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed.
MoS 4.175 19 The beliefs and unbeliefs appear to be
structural;...
SovE 10.213 18 [The man of this age] should be taught
all skepticisms and
unbeliefs...
unbelieved, adj. (1)
MLit 12.335 25 [The Genius of the time] will
describe...the now
unbelieved possibility of simple living...
unbeliever, n. (1)
MoS 4.181 15 ...presently the unbeliever, for love of
belief, burns the
believer.
unbelievers, n. (2)
MR 1.250 8 ...I see at once how paltry is all this
generation of unbelievers...
Prch 10.220 12 Of course the virtuous sentiment appears
arrayed against
the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and
burned.
unbelieving, adj. (1)
NR 3.242 6 After taxing Goethe as a courtier,
artificial, unbelieving, worldly,--I took up this book of Helena, and
found him an Indian of the
wilderness...
unbending, adj. (1)
Exp 3.73 11 This vigor is...in the highest degree
unbending.
unbent, adj. (1)
Clbs 7.247 19 Men are unbent and social at table;...
unbespoken, adj. (1)
Wsp 6.203 13 ...as [the Shakers] go with perfect
sympathy to their tasks in
the field or shop, so are they inclined for a ride or a journey at the
same
instant, and the horses come up with the family carriage unbespoken to
the
door.
unbiased, adj. (1)
SR 2.49 17 Who...having observed, [can] observe again
from the same
unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence,-must always
be
formidable.
unbidden, adj. (1)
Plu 10.309 20 ...[Plutarch]...despises the Epicharmian
disputations: as, that...he that was yesterday invited to supper, the
next night comes an
unbidden guest, for that he is quite another person.
unbind, v. (2)
Supl 10.179 6 There is no writing which has more
electric power to unbind
and animate the torpid intellect than the bold Eastern muse.
EPro 11.314 1 To-day unbind the captive,/ So only are
ye unbound;/ Lift
up a people from the dust,/ Trump of their rescue, sound!/
unblamed, adj. (2)
Suc 7.310 26 Which of [the most sanguine] has
not...found themselves
awkward or tedious or incapable of study, thought or heroism, and only
hoped by good sense and fidelity to do what they could and pass
unblamed?
PI 8.1 19 ...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly
to postpone/
Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human age,/ Freely as
task
at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.
unbodily, adj. (1)
Imtl 8.351 27 Thinking the soul as unbodily among
bodies, firm among
fleeting things, the wise man casts off all grief.
unbolted, adj. (1)
War 11.162 11 You forget that the quiet...which lets the
wagon go
unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect
understanding
of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind
there...
unborn, adj. (6)
AmS 1.90 7 ...[the active soul] every man contains
within him, although in
almost all men obstructed and as yet unborn.
Wth 6.119 27 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.
Ctr 6.139 17 ...the old English poet Gascoigne says, A
boy is better unborn
than untaught.
QO 8.199 1 Swedenborg threw a formidable theory into
the world, that
every soul existed in a society of souls, from which all its thoughts
passed
into it, as the blood of the mother circulates in her unborn child;...
Imtl 8.351 23 Unborn, eternal, [the soul] is not slain,
though the body is
slain;...
SHC 11.431 14 ...[trees] grow when we sleep, they grew
when we were
unborn.
unborn, n. (1)
Int 2.335 14 [The thought] seems, for the time...to
dictate to the unborn.
unbosom, v. (1)
Boks 7.192 4 In a library we are surrounded by many
hundreds of dear
friends...and though they...are eager to give us a sign and unbosom
themselves, it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until
spoken
to;...
unbound, v. (2)
Civ 7.25 21 In man [the organs] are all unbound and full
of joyful action.
EPro 11.314 2 To-day unbind the captive,/ So only are
ye unbound;/ Lift
up a people from the dust,/ Trump of their rescue, sound!/
unboundable, adj. (1)
AmS 1.108 16 The human mind cannot be enshrined in a
person who shall
set a barrier on any one side to this unbounded, unboundable empire.
unbounded, adj. (6)
AmS 1.108 16 The human mind cannot be enshrined in a
person who shall
set a barrier on any one side to this unbounded, unboundable empire.
LT 1.272 17 [The moral sentiment] alone can make a man
other than he is. Here or nowhere resides unbounded energy, unbounded
power.
LT 1.272 18 [The moral sentiment] alone can make a man
other than he is. Here or nowhere resides unbounded energy, unbounded
power.
Exp 3.72 23 Fortune, Minerva, Muse, Holy Ghost,--these
are quaint names, too narrow to cover this unbounded substance.
Elo1 7.69 13 ...[the Sicilians]...were it only by the
physical strength exerted
in telling the story, keep the table in unbounded excitement.
PLT 12.28 3 An individual mind...is a fixation or
momentary eddy in
which certain services and powers are taken up and minister in petty
niches
and localities, and then, being released, return to the unbounded soul
of the
world.
unbounded, n. (1)
PLT 12.36 18 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward
image; a terror
sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such homage did the Greek...
not fond of the extravagant and unbounded-pay to unscrutable force we
call Instinct...
unbribable, adj. (1)
SR 2.49 18 Who...having observed, [can] observe again
from the same
unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence,-must always
be
formidable.
unbridled, adj. (1)
Comp 2.106 6 How secret art thou who dwellest in the
highest heavens in
silence, O thou only great God, sprinkling with an unwearied providence
certain penal blindnesses upon such as have unbridled desires!
unbroken, adj. (14)
MN 1.199 26 ...nature descends always from above. It is
unbroken
obedience.
SwM 4.133 6 The universe [in Swedenborg's system of the
world] is a
gigantic crystal, all whose atoms and laminae lie in uninterrupted
order and
with unbroken unity...
ET4 5.54 3 ...it is fine for us to speculate in face of
unbroken traditions...
ET11 5.177 6 The pretence is that the [English] noble
is of unbroken
descent from the Norman...
ET11 5.188 21 In these [English] manors...the antiquary
finds the frailest
Roman jar...keeping the series of history unbroken...
ET11 5.197 1 The fiction with which the noble and the
bystander equally
please themselves [in England] is that the former is of unbroken
descent
from the Norman...
ET13 5.219 14 The [English] national temperament deeply
enjoys the
unbroken order and tradition of its church;...
ET14 5.253 26 ...in England, one hermit finds this
fact, and another finds
that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great
exceptions... adding sometimes the divination of the old masters to the
unbroken power
of labor in the English mind.
ET18 5.301 20 England keeps open doors, as a trading
country must, to all
nations. It is one of their fixed ideas, and wrathfully supported by
their laws
in unbroken sequence for a thousand years.
Wsp 6.219 12 ...if in sidereal ages gravity and
projection keep their craft...a
secreter gravitation, a secreter projection rule not less tyrannically
in human
history, and keep the balance of power from age to age unbroken.
PC 8.224 7 Here stretches...out of conception even,
this vast Nature...an
unbroken unity...
LS 11.2 2 The word unto the prophet spoken/ Was writ on
tables yet
unbroken;/...
Koss 11.397 2 Sir [Kossuth],-The fatigue of your many
public visits, in
such unbroken succession as may compare with the toils of a campaign,
forbid us to detain you long.
MAng1 12.236 15 The combined desire to fulfil, in
everlasting stone, the
conceptions of his mind, and to complete his worthy offering to
Almighty
God, sustained [Michelangelo] through numberless vexations with
unbroken spirit.
unbuckling, v. (1)
AKan 11.261 9 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the
complainants go to
the courts; though he knows that when the poor plundered farmer comes
to
the court, he finds the ringleader who has robbed him dismounting from
his
own horse, and unbuckling his knife to sit as his judge.
unbuttoned, adj. (1)
FRep 11.526 26 ...instead of the doleful experience of
the European
economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the
great
body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has
arrived at a sloven plenty...an unbuttoned comfort...
uncalculable, adj. (1)
Exp 3.69 19 The results of life are uncalculated and
incalculable.
uncalculated, adj. (3)
Exp 3.69 18 The results of life are uncalculated and
incalculable.
ET10 5.156 11 Every [English] household exhibits an
exact economy, and
nothing of that uncalculated headlong expenditure which families use in
America.
ALin 11.329 5 We meet under the gloom of a calamity
[death of Lincoln] which darkens down over the minds of good men in all
civil society, as the
fearful tidings travel...like the shadow of an uncalculated eclipse
over the
planet.
uncalculating, adj. (1)
MMEm 10.408 23 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes...My oddities
were
never designed,-effect of an uncalculating constitution, at first...
uncanny, adj. (2)
ET16 5.279 10 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked in and out
and took
again and again a fresh look at the uncanny stones [of Stonehenge].
TPar 11.287 5 The old religions have a charm for most
minds which it is a
little uncanny to disturb.
uncanonical, adj. (1)
MoS 4.165 6 ...though a biblical plainness coupled with
a most uncanonical
levity may shut [Montaigne's] pages to many sensitive readers, yet the
offence is superficial.
Uncanoonuc, Mount, New Ham (2)
Wth 6.122 20 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in
the country, his
first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every
day, bathing...the peaks of Monadnoc and Uncanoonuc.
CL 12.157 11 Can you...bring home the tops of
Uncanoonuc?
uncarpeted, adj. (1)
EzRy 10.383 22 I am sure all who remember both will
associate [Ezra
Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old, cold,
unpainted, uncarpeted, square-pewed meeting-house...
unceasing, adj. (4)
Nat 1.40 19 All things...have an unceasing reference to
spiritual nature.
YA 1.372 22 Remark the unceasing effort throughout
nature at somewhat
better than the actual creatures...
Hist 2.34 2 ...[Goethe's Helena]...awakens the reader's
invention and
fancy...by the unceasing succession of brisk shocks of surprise.
Milt1 12.263 23 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres, according
to the fable, ever
seek her daughter Proserpine with such unceasing solicitude as I have
sought this tou kalou idean, this perfect model of the beautiful in all
forms
and appearances of things.
uncertain, adj. (12)
DSA 1.134 11 ...the goodliest of institutions becomes an
uncertain and
inarticulate voice.
Fdsp 2.189 3 ...The world uncertain comes and goes,/
The lover rooted
stays./
Chr1 3.103 20 ...when [your friends] stand with
uncertain timid looks of
respect and half-dislike...you may begin to hope.
PPh 4.44 9 It is said [Plato] went farther, into
Babylonia: this is uncertain.
NMW 4.251 10 Medicine is a collection of uncertain
prescriptions [said
Bonaparte]...
Suc 7.303 2 [The greatest men] may well speak in this
uncertain manner of
their knowledge...
Dem1 10.15 16 The belief that particular individuals
are attended by a good
fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of
uncertain success, exists not only among those who take part in
political
and military projects...
Edc1 10.150 17 ...the youth of genius...are irritable,
uncertain, explosive, solitary...
HDC 11.33 6 Sometimes passing through thickets...and
[the pilgrims'] feet
clambering over the crossed trees, which when they missed, they sunk
into
an uncertain bottom in water...
PLT 12.11 12 Let me have your attention to this
dangerous subject [the
laws and powers of the Intellect], which we will cautiously approach on
different sides of this dim and perilous lake, so attractive, so
delusive. We
have had so many guides and so many failures. And now the world is
still
uncertain whether the pool has been sounded or not.
Trag 12.409 6 A low, haggard sprite sits by our side,
casting the fashion of
uncertain evils...
Trag 12.411 5 ...a terror of freezing to death that
seizes a man in a winter
midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family
at
night in the cellar or on the stairs...are no tragedy...
uncertainties, n. (2)
OS 2.293 5 [God's presence] inspires in man an
infallible trust. He has...the
sight, that the best is the true, and may in that thought easily
dismiss all
particular uncertainties and fears...
EPro 11.319 5 ...an event [Emancipation] worth the
dreadful war, worth its
costs and uncertainties, seems now to be close before us.
uncertainty, n. (4)
AmS 1.101 16 ...[the scholar] takes...the frequent
uncertainty and loss of
time, which are the nettles...in the way of the self-relying...
LT 1.283 6 ...[men] pine to be employed, but are
paralyzed by the
uncertainty what they should do.
Chr2 10.113 11 ...the whole science of theology [is] of
great uncertainty...
Edc1 10.154 25 ...in this world of hurry and
distraction, who can wait for
the returns of reason and the conquest of self; in the uncertainty too
whether
that will ever come?
Uncertainty, n. (1)
LT 1.282 4 ...our torment is...the Uncertainty as to
what we ought to do;...
unchallenged, adj. (2)
DSA 1.139 9 ...[the vain words] clatter and echo
unchallenged.
Mrs1 3.131 18 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if
it will, passes
unchallenged into the most guarded ring.
unchangeable, adj. (1)
Pray 12.356 13 I [Augustine] entered and discerned with
the eye of my
soul...even beyond my soul and mind itself, the Light unchangeable.
unchangeableness, n. (1)
PPr 12.387 16 The revelation of Reason is this of the
unchangeableness of
the fact of humanity under all its subjective aspects;...
unchanged, adj. (4)
Nat 1.5 8 Nature, in the common sense, refers to
essences unchanged by
man;...
Bty 6.295 10 In a house that I know, I have noticed a
block of spermaceti
lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together, simply
because the tallow-man gave it the form of a rabbit; and I suppose it
may
continue to be lugged about unchanged for a century.
Insp 8.283 8 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert]...consoles
himself that his own
faith and the divine life in him remain to him unchanged, unharmed.
SlHr 10.438 23 ...when the mob of Charleston was
assembled in the streets
before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the
last
point of possibility. The force was apparent and irresistible;...and he
said, Well, gentlemen, since it is your pleasure to use force, I must
go. But his
opinion was unchanged.
uncharitable, adj. (1)
SR 2.51 16 ...never varnish your hard, uncharitable
ambition with this
incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off.
unchastised, adj. (1)
Comp 2.107 18 ...in nature nothing can be given, all
things are sold. This is
that ancient doctrine of Nemesis, who...lets no offence go unchastised.
unchastity, n. (1)
SwM 4.127 22 ...in the real or spiritual world the
nuptial union is not
momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total; and chastity not a
local, but a universal virtue; unchastity being discovered as much in
the
trading, or planting, or speaking, or philosophizing, as in
generation;...
unchoked, adj. (1)
UGM 4.15 27 ...these unchoked channels and floodgates of
expression [in
Shakspeare] are only health or fortunate constitution.
unchosen, adj. (1)
Mem 12.106 15 [The bright school-girl's] is a
bushel-basket memory of all
unchosen knowledge...
unchristian, adj. (1)
LS 11.21 8 ...every practice is Christian which praises
itself, and every
practice unchristian which condemns itself.
unchurch, v. (1)
ET13 5.226 18 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a
bishopric, or
rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it
another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course,
money...will
steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was
bequeathed.
uncivil, adj. (3)
Tran 1.342 20 ...[Society] saith, Whoso goes to walk
alone...declares all to
be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting;...
Chr1 3.100 8 ...the uncivil, unavailable man...he
helps;...
Bhr 6.193 24 ...such was the eloquence and good humor
of the monk [Basle], that wherever he went he was received gladly and
civilly treated
even by the most uncivil angels;...
Uncle Joel's, n. (1)
Supl 10.168 13 Uncle Joel's news is always true, said a
person to me with
obvious satisfaction...
uncle, n. (8)
Tran 1.344 6 Love me, [Transcendentalists] say, but do
not ask who is my
cousin and my uncle.
Fdsp 2.208 7 A man is reputed to have thought and
eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his
uncle.
PPh 4.72 9 Plain old uncle as [Socrates] was...the
rumor ran that on one or
two occasions, in the war with Boeotia, he had shown a determination
which had covered the retreat of a troop;...
ET7 5.117 25 Geoffrey of Monmouth says of King
Aurelius, uncle of
Arthur, that above all things he hated a lie.
PI 8.62 13 ...said Merlin...I taught my mistress that
whereby she hath
imprisoned me in such a manner that none can set me free. Certes,
Merlin, replied Sir Gawain, of that I am right sorrowful, and so will
King Arthur, my uncle, be...
MMEm 10.400 20 One of [Mary Moody Emerson's] tasks, it
appears, was
to watch for the approach of the deputy-sheriff, who might come to...to
arrest the uncle for debt.
MMEm 10.417 24 My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has been
the means
of lessening my property.
HDC 11.60 23 ...his brother, his uncle, his sister, and
his beloved squaw
being taken or slain, [King Philip] was at last shot down by an Indian
deserter...
unclean, adj. (3)
AmS 1.113 10 ...[Swedenborg]...has given in epical
parables a theory...of
unclean and fearful things.
MR 1.235 6 ...we must begin to consider if it were not
the nobler part... abstaining from whatever is dishonest and unclean,
to take each of us
bravely his part...
Grts 8.315 20 Diderot was...unclean as the society in
which he lived;...
uncles, n. (4)
ET4 5.65 21 The American [in England] has arrived at the
old mansion-house, and finds himself among uncles, aunts and
grandsires.
DL 7.104 24 ...uncles, aunts, grandsires, grandams,
fall an easy prey [to the
young enchanter]...
Let 12.395 1 One of the [letter] writers relentingly
says, What shall my
uncles and aunts do without me?...
Let 12.395 7 One of the [letter] writers relentingly
says, What shall my
uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be
understood...to
propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all
uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!...
unclosed, v. (1)
Art2 7.50 23 ...in the moment or in the successive
moments when that form [of a work of art] was seen, the iron lids of
Reason were unclosed...
unclothed, adj. (1)
MAng1 12.223 3 Seeing these works [of art], we
appreciate the taste which
led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed
figures...
uncoiling, v. (1)
ET18 5.303 17 ...who would see the uncoiling of that
tremendous spring... 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...
uncomfortable, adj. (6)
YA 1.377 2 ...when peace comes, the nobles prove very
whimsical and
uncomfortable masters;...
Mrs1 3.141 16 The favorites of society...are able
men...who have no
uncomfortable egotism...
ET8 5.133 11 There are multitudes of rude young
English...who...have
made the English traveller a proverb for uncomfortable and offensive
manners.
Bhr 6.182 22 A calm and resolute bearing...and the art
of hiding all
uncomfortable feeling, are essential to the courtier;...
Wsp 6.211 12 If a pickpocket intrude into the society
of gentlemen, they
exert what moral force they have, and he finds himself uncomfortable
and
glad to get away.
PC 8.232 16 ...wherever high society exists it is very
well able to exclude
pretenders. The intruder finds himself uncomfortable, and quickly
departs
to his own gang.
uncommanded, adj. (1)
PLT 12.37 9 If we could retain our early innocence, we
might trust our feet
uncommanded to take the right path to our friend in the woods.
uncommitted, adj. (2)
PI 8.37 3 ...[the poet] is...silent, uncommitted or in
love, as his heart leads
him.
ALin 11.336 23 ...what if it should turn out, in the
unfolding of the web, that [Lincoln] had reached the
term;...that...what remained to be done
required new and uncommitted hands...
uncommon, adj. (4)
SR 2.79 12 If [a new mind] prove a mind of uncommon
activity and
power...it imposes its classification on other men...
Int 2.336 13 In common hours we have the same facts as
in the uncommon
or inspired...
Elo2 8.115 7 Uncommon boys follow uncommon men...
LLNE 10.333 27 [Everett]...speaking, walking, sitting,
was as much aloof
and uncommon as a star.
uncommonly, adv. (1)
EWI 11.116 15 We were told that the dress of the negroes
[in Antigua] on
that occasion [of emancipation in the West Indies] was uncommonly
simple
and modest.
uncomprehended, adj. (1)
SwM 4.102 18 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg] lies vast
abroad on his times, uncomprehended by them...
unconcealable, adj. (1)
Bhr 6.170 13 The power of manners is incessant,--an
element as
unconcealable as fire.
unconcealed, adj. (1)
Tran 1.346 7 By their unconcealed dissatisfaction
[youths] expose our
poverty and the insignificance of man to man.
unconcern, n. (1)
SL 2.151 21 [The world] leaves every man, with profound
unconcern, to set
his own rate.
unconcerned, adj. (1)
EPro 11.316 23 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an
orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles
involved;...a
new audience is found in the heart of the assembly,-an audience
hitherto
passive and unconcerned...
unconditional, adj. (1)
ET5 5.83 8 ...in high departments [the English] are
cramped and sterile. But
the unconditional surrender to facts, and the choice of means to reach
their
ends, are as admirable as with ants and bees.
unconditioned, adj. (1)
Nat 1.55 9 The problem of philosophy...is, for all that
exists conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute.
unconditioned, n. (1)
Supl 10.171 24 If man loves the conditioned, he also
loves the
unconditioned.
uncongenial, adj. (1)
ET14 5.245 26 [Hallam] passes in silence, or dismisses
with a kind of
contempt, the profounder masters: a lover of ideas is not only
uncongenial, but unintelligible.
unconnected, adj. (2)
PPh 4.50 6 What is the great end of all [said Krishna],
you shall now learn
from me. It is soul...unconnected with unrealities...
PPo 8.243 11 Gnomic verses...were always current in the
East; and if the
poem is long, it is only a string of unconnected verses.
unconquerable, adj. (1)
War 11.167 2 At a certain stage of his progress, the man
fights, if he be of
sound body and mind. At a certain higher stage, he...is alert to repel
injury, and of an unconquerable heart.
unconquerable, n. (1)
Shak1 11.451 26 [Shakespeare's] mind has a superiority
such that the
universities should read lectures on him, and conquer the unconquerable
if
they can.
unconquered, adj. (2)
SR 2.48 7 [Children's] mind being whole, their eye is as
yet unconquered...
PPh 4.77 25 ...the bitten world holds the biter fast by
his own teeth. There
he perishes: unconquered nature lives on and forgets him.
unconscious, adj. (19)
Nat 1.35 24 That which was unconscious truth,
becomes...a part of the
domain of knowledge...
Nat 1.46 18 ...when [our friend] has...become an object
of thought, and, whilst his character retains all its unconscious
effect, is converted in the
mind into solid and sweet wisdom, - it is a sign to us that his office
is
closing...
AmS 1.96 14 The new deed...remains for a time immersed
in our
unconscious life.
OS 2.285 21 We are all discerners of spirits. That
diagnosis lies aloft in our
life or unconscious power.
Int 2.337 18 ...as soon as we let our will go and let
the unconscious states
ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are!
PPh 4.45 21 The first period of a nation, as of an
individual, is the period of
unconscious strength.
ET11 5.185 13 If one asks...what service this class
[English nobility] have
rendered?--uses appear, or they would have perished long ago. Some of
these are easily enumerated, others more subtle make a part of
unconscious
history.
ET14 5.245 19 Hallam...is unconscious of the deep worth
which lies in the
mystics...
Art2 7.38 14 The utterance of thought and emotion in
speech and action
may be conscious or unconscious.
Art2 7.38 15 The sucking child is an unconscious actor.
Art2 7.38 17 The man in an ecstasy of fear or anger is
an unconscious actor.
Art2 7.39 10 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the
bird, the beaver, have
no art; for what they do they do instinctively; but relatively to the
Supreme
Being, they have. And the same is true of all unconscious action:
relatively
to the doer, it is instinct, relatively to the First Cause, it is Art.
DL 7.105 7 The child realizes to every man his own
earliest remembrance, and so...enables us to live over the unconscious
history...
Farm 7.152 27 The great elements with which [the
farmer] deals cannot
leave him...unconscious of his ministry;...
Comc 8.158 6 Unconscious creatures do the whole will of
wisdom.
PPo 8.264 25 So remained [the birds], sunk in wonder,/
Thoughtless in
deepest thinking,/ And quite unconscious of themselves./ Speechless
prayed
they to the Highest/ To open this secret,/ And to unlock Thou and We./
LLNE 10.357 22 ...[the Fourierists] were unconscious
prophets of a true
state of society;...
EzRy 10.392 4 ...often, though quite unconscious of it,
[Ezra Ripley's] speech was a satire on the loose, voluminous,
draggle-tail periods of other
speakers.
MMEm 10.430 3 If one could choose, and without crime be
gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by
age without
mentality or devotion? The vulture and crow...unconscious of any
deformity in the mutilated body, would relish their meal...
unconscious, n. (2)
Nat 1.65 1 [The world] is...a projection of God in the
unconscious.
AmS 1.95 1 ...the transition through which [thought]
passes from the
unconscious to the conscious, is action.
unconsciously, adv. (6)
Nat 1.30 18 Hundreds of writers may be found...who feed
unconsciously on
the language created by the primary writers of the country...
OS 2.278 15 [The soul] broods over every society, and
they unconsciously
seek for it in each other.
ET5 5.85 21 In war, the Englishman looks to his means.
He is of the
opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are
on the
side of the strongest;--a sentence which Bonaparte unconsciously
translated, when he said that he had noticed that Providence always
favored
the heaviest battalion.
ET9 5.148 27 There is also this benefit in brag, that
the speaker is
unconsciously expressing his own ideal.
Art2 7.38 18 A large part of our habitual actions are
unconsciously done...
Art2 7.38 19 ...most of our necessary words are
unconsciously said.
unconsciousness, n. (3)
Hist 2.26 9 [The Greeks] combine the energy of manhood
with the
engaging unconsciousness of childhood.
Int 2.327 9 ...any record of our fancies or
reflections, disentangled from the
web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal.
Chr1 3.106 22 How captivating is [children's] devotion
to their favorite
books...as feeling that they have a stake in that book;...and
especially the
total solitude of the critic, the Patmos of thought from which he
writes, in
unconsciousness of any eyes that shall ever read this writing.
unconsidered, adj. (2)
Elo1 7.68 22 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting
some experience of
hers. Her speech flows like a river,--so unconsidered...
AsSu 11.251 7 When the same reproach [of writing his
speeches] was cast
on the first orator of ancient times by some caviller of his day, he
said, I
should be ashamed to come with one unconsidered word before such an
assembly.
unconstitutional, adj. (1)
HDC 11.68 19 ...we cannot but be alarmed at the great
majority, in the
British parliament, for the imposition of unconstitutional taxes on the
colonies;...
uncontainable, adj. (2)
Lov1 2.169 3 Nature, uncontainable...anticipates already
a benevolence
which shall lose all particular regards in its general light.
II 12.78 3 ...it is the curious property of truth to be
uncontainable and ever
enlarging.
uncontained, adj. (1)
Nat 1.10 15 I am the lover of uncontained and immortal
beauty.
uncontradicted, adj. (2)
ET8 5.132 14 [Young Englishmen] stoutly carry into every
nook and
corner of the earth their turbulent sense; leaving no lie
uncontradicted;...
PI 8.52 8 You shall not speak ideal truth in prose
uncontradicted...
uncontrollable, adj. (3)
NER 3.282 7 ...[our other self] holds uncontrollable
communication with
the enemy...
Supl 10.176 22 ...[Nature] creates in the East the
uncontrollable yearning to
escape from limitation into the vast and boundless;...
ChiE 11.470 1 Nature creates in the East the
uncontrollable yearning to
escape from limitation into the vast and boundless...
uncontrolled, adj. (1)
MMEm 10.410 1 ...we lose sight of the first
necessity,-here too amid
works red with default in all great and grand and infinite aims. Yet
with
intentions disinterested, though uncontrolled by proper reverence for
others.
unconvertibility, n. (1)
SA 8.105 23 A little experience acquaints us with the
unconvertibility of
the sentimentalist...
unconvinced, adj. (1)
Bost 12.203 5 ...there is always [in Boston] a minority
unconvinced...
uncorrupt, adj. (2)
Nat2 3.182 1 The men, though young, having tasted the
first drop from the
cup of thought, are already dissipated: the maples and ferns are still
uncorrupt;...
ET4 5.66 11 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying
cross-legged in the
Temple Church at London...please...mainly by that uncorrupt youth in
the
face of manhood, which is daily seen in the streets of London.
uncorrupted, adj. (2)
Farm 7.153 27 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire
in animals and
in young children belongs to [the farmer]...
CW 12.178 19 That uncorrupted behavior which we admire
in the animals, and in young children, belongs also to...the man who
lives in the presence
of Nature.
uncountable, adj. (1)
Thor 10.482 26 I put on some hemlock-boughs, and the
rich salt crackling
of their leaves was like mustard to the ear, the crackling of
uncountable
regiments.
uncourtly, adj. (1)
Milt1 12.255 5 Lord Bacon...shrinks and falters before
the absolute and
uncourtly Puritan [Milton].
uncover, v. (7)
SwM 4.112 8 [Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover
those secret
recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her
laboratory;...
MoS 4.155 15 ...if we uncover the last facts of our
knowledge, you are
spinning like bubbles in a river...
Wsp 6.215 17 Let us...dare to uncover those simple and
terrible laws
which...pervade and govern.
WD 7.179 22 ...him I reckon the most learned
scholar...who can unfold the
theory of this particular Wednesday. Can he uncover the ligaments
concealed from all but piety...
Boks 7.190 20 A company of the wisest and wittiest men
that could be
picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the
smallest
chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and
wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible...but the thought
which they
did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in
transparent
words to us...
PPo 8.256 22 Accept whatever befalls; uncover thy brow
from thy locks;/ Never to me nor to thee was option imparted;/...
Chr2 10.114 16 Men will learn...to make morals the
absolute test, and so
uncover and drive out the false religions.
uncovered, adj. (2)
ET16 5.277 26 The temple [Stonehenge] is circular and
uncovered...
CL 12.138 22 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible
distemper which
sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an
animalcule...which falls from the air on the face, or hand, or other
uncovered part...
uncovered, v. (3)
PC 8.227 10 There is not a person here present to whom
omens that should
astonish have not predicted his future, have not uncovered his past.
Edc1 10.146 3 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at
Xanthus...had seen a Turk
point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone
almost
buried in the soil. Fellowes...looking about him, observed more blocks
and
fragments like this. He returned to the spot, procured laborers and
uncovered many blocks.
HDC 11.46 27 In a town-meeting, the great secret of
political science was
uncovered...
uncovering, v. (2)
F 6.8 2 Without uncovering what does not concern
us...the forms of the
shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
EzRy 10.393 21 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had...in
uncovering the
bandage from a sore place, and applying the surgeon's knife with a
truly
surgical spirit.
uncovers, v. (4)
MoS 4.170 24 We hearken to the man of science, because
we anticipate the
sequence in natural phenomena which he uncovers.
ET11 5.183 26 The hardest radical [in England]
instantly uncovers and
changes his tone to a lord.
ET16 5.279 4 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will
arrive...at the whole
history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and
perseverance... which leaves its own Stonehenge...to the rabbits,
whilst it opens pyramids
and uncovers Nineveh.
Dem1 10.22 27 Lord Bacon uncovers the magic when he
says, Manifest
virtues procure reputation; occult ones, fortune.
uncreated, adj. (1)
Nat 1.56 16 [Intellectual science] fastens the attention
upon immortal
necessary uncreated natures...
uncritical, adj. (1)
ShP 4.197 1 [The poet in illiterate times] is...little
solicitous whence his
thoughts have been derived;...from whatever source, they are equally
welcome to his uncritical audience.
unctuous, adj. (1)
ET8 5.139 4 ...[the English] are of an unctuous texture.
uncultivated, adj. (1)
Mrs1 3.126 24 Fine manners show themselves formidable to
the
uncultivated man.
uncultivated, n. (1)
Art1 2.363 11 Art has not yet come to its maturity...if
it do not make the
poor and uncultivated feel that it addresses them with a voice of lofty
cheer.
uncultured, adj. (1)
ET4 5.63 4 The English uncultured are a brutal nation.
uncultured, n. (1)
Art2 7.45 5 A very coarse imitation of the human form on
canvas, or in
wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much
pleasure
as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
undated, adj. (1)
FRep 11.525 14 In each new threat of faction the ballot
has been, beyond
expectation, right and decisive. It is ever an inspiration...a sudden,
undated
perception of eternal right coming into and correcting things that were
wrong;...
undaunted, adj. (2)
Hsm1. 2.252 6 ...[heroism] is of an undaunted
boldness...
Aris 10.33 10 The terrible aristocracy that is in
Nature. Real people
dwelling with the real, face to face, undaunted: then, far down, people
of
taste, people dwelling in a relation...and, far below these, gross and
thoughtless, the animal man...
undauntedness, n. (1)
Milt1 12.257 13 Wood, [Milton's] political opponent,
relates that his
deportment was affable, his gait erect and manly, bespeaking courage
and
undauntedness.
undeceive, v. (1)
EzRy 10.389 26 ...[Ezra Ripley] repeated to me at table
some of the
particulars of that gentleman's [Jack Downing's] intimacy with General
Jackson, in a manner which betrayed to me at once that he took the
whole
for fact. To undeceive him, I hastened to recall some particulars to
show the
absurdity of the thing...
undeceiving, adj. (1)
F 6.1 4 Birds with auguries on their wings/ Chanted
undeceiving things,/ [The bard] to beckon, him to warn;/...
undeceiving, v. (2)
Wth 6.121 14 Nature has her own best mode of doing each
thing, and she
has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open.
If
not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us when we prefer our own way
to
hers.
Ctr 6.144 27 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...would be worth ten times its cost, by
undeceiving him.
undecked, adj. (1)
SR 2.86 21 Columbus found the New World in an undecked
boat.
undefiled, adj. (1)
SA 8.93 22 Coleridge esteems cultivated women as the
depositaries and
guardians of English undefiled;...
undefinable, adj. (1)
OS 2.271 20 [This pure nature] is undefinable,
unmeasurable;...
undemonstrable, adj. (1)
Chr1 3.90 1 [Character] is conceived of as a certain
undemonstrable force...
undemonstrated, adj. (1)
Chr1 3.102 4 Had there been something latent in the man,
a terrible
undemonstrated genius agitating and embarrassing his demeanor, we had
watched for its advent.
undemonstrative, adj. (1)
Supl 10.173 16 The expressors are the gods of the world,
but the men
whom these expressors revere are the solid, balanced, undemonstrative
citizens...
undeniable, adj. (1)
Let 12.399 16 ...we should not know where to find in
literature any record
of...such undeniable apprehension without talent...as our young men
pretend to.
undeniably, adv. (2)
PI 8.69 12 The book [Goethe's Faust] is undeniably
written by a master...
EWI 11.104 3 ...if we saw the whip applied to old men,
to tender women; and, undeniably, though I shrink to say so, pregnant
women set in the
treadmill for refusing to work;...we too should wince.
under-estimate, n. (1)
SL 2.165 4 ...this under-estimate of our own
[possibilities], comes from a
neglect of the fact of an identical nature.
underestimated, v. (2)
CbW 6.249 26 In old Egypt it was established law that
the vote of a
prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much
underestimated.
EPro 11.317 14 ...great as the popularity of the
President [Lincoln] has
been, we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the
capacity
and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of
benefit
so vast.
under-fine, adj. (1)
Pow 6.60 4 The second man is as good as the
first,--perhaps better; but has
not stoutness or stomach, as the first has, and so his wit seems
over-fine or
under-fine.
undergo, v. (3)
Nat 1.53 25 This transfiguration which all material
objects undergo through
the passion of the poet...might be illustrated by a thousand examples
from [Shakspeare's] Plays.
Suc 7.289 24 ...[egotists] have a long education to
undergo to reach
simplicity and plain-dealing...
CL 12.140 20 So exquisite is the structure of the
cortical glands, said the
old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly
vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part...to undergo a change
of state.
undergoes, v. (2)
SR 2.84 13 [Society] undergoes continual changes;...
Farm 7.145 12 [The plants] burn, that is, exhale and
decompose their own
bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the
like
perpetual consumption.
undergone, v. (2)
SL 2.158 4 In every troop of boys...a new-comer is as
well and accurately
weighed in the course of a few days and stamped with his right number,
as
if he had undergone a formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
Milt1 12.248 13 The reputation of Milton had already
undergone one or
two revolutions long anterior to its recent aspects.
undergraduate, n. (2)
ET12 5.205 15 ...the known sympathy of entire Britain in
what is done
there [at the universities], justify a dedication to study in the
undergraduate
such as cannot easily be in America...
LLNE 10.330 24 The novelty of the learning lost nothing
in the skill and
genius of [Everett's] relation, and the rudest undergraduate found a
new
morning opened to him in the lecture-room of Harvard Hall.
undergraduates, n. (1)
ET12 5.206 13 As the number of undergraduates at Oxford
is only about
1200 or 1300...the chance of a fellowship is very great.
underground, adv. (4)
DSA 1.123 16 ...the very roots of the grass underground
there do seem to
stir and move to bear you witness.
Suc 7.309 4 Nature lays the ground-plan of each
creature accurately...then
veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton.
... She... forces death down underground, and makes haste to cover it
up with leaves
and vines...
Edc1 10.126 7 All the fairy tales of Aladdin...or the
enchanted halls
underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicate the one
miracle of
intellectual enlargement.
Plu 10.303 11 ...it is in reading the fragments
[Plutarch] has saved from lost
authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence
which
uses the violence of war, of earthquakes and changed water-courses, to
save
underground through barbarous ages the relics of ancient art...
Underhill, John, n. (1)
HDC 11.54 20 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared, that
the new
plantations of Dedham and Concord do afford large accommodations...
underlay, v. (1)
SR 2.69 11 This which I think and feel underlay every
former state of life
and circumstances...
underlie, v. (2)
SR 2.69 13 This which I think and feel underlay every
former state of life
and circumstances, as it does underlie my present...
Fdsp 2.196 15 In strict science all persons underlie
the same condition of
an infinite remoteness.
underlies, v. (3)
Comp 2.98 6 The same dualism underlies the nature and
condition of man.
Comp 2.126 13 ...the sure years reveal the deep
remedial force that
underlies all facts.
Art2 7.55 23 This strict dependence of Art upon
material and ideal Nature, this adamantine necessity which underlies
it, has made all its past and may
foreshow its future history.
underling, n. (2)
Mrs1 3.132 23 ...any deference to some eminent man or
woman of the
world, forfeits all privilege of nobility. He is an underling: I have
nothing to
do with him;...
FRO2 11.487 20 All education is to accustom [man] to
trust himself...until
he ceases to be an underling...
underlings, n. (4)
UGM 4.27 5 [The great man's] attractions warp us from
our place. We
have become underlings and intellectual suicides.
NMW 4.243 14 ...[Napoleon] undoubtedly felt...an
impatience of fools and
underlings.
Chr2 10.102 11 See how one noble person dwarfs a whole
nation of
underlings.
EWI 11.138 24 The secret cannot be kept, that the seats
of power are filled
by underlings...
undermine, v. (3)
ET4 5.49 16 These limitations of the formidable doctrine
of race suggest
others which threaten to undermine it...
ET7 5.126 5 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says
of them,--In close
intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know,
they
speak,/ And often their own counsels undermine/ By mere infirmity
without
design;/...
Carl 10.490 3 [Carlyle] talks like a very unhappy
man...meditating how to
undermine and explode the whole world of nonsense which torments him.
undermined, v. (2)
ET13 5.228 12 The English Church, undermined by German
criticism, had
nothing left but tradition;...
Ill 6.323 4 I prefer...to be what cannot be skipped, or
dissipated, or
undermined, to all the eclat in the universe.
undermining, adj. (1)
SL 2.129 6 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House
at once and
architect,/ .../ Fears not undermining days/...
undermining, v. (1)
MMEm 10.407 3 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson]
writes, in
finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing who...is looked up to
as a
specimen of genius. I performed a mission in secretly undermining his
vanity...
undermost, adj. (2)
Nat 1.44 16 So intimate is this Unity, that...it lies
under the undermost
garment of Nature...
Fdsp 2.202 18 [Before a friend] I am arrived at last in
the presence of a
man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of
dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought...
underneath, adv. (4)
DL 7.124 25 I have seen finely endowed men at college
festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away.
The...manhood and
offices they brought thither at this return seemed mere ornamental
masks; underneath they were boys yet.
Res 8.145 12 The boat is full of water, and resists all
your strength to drag
it ashore and empty it. The fisherman looks about him, puts a round
stick of
wood underneath, and it rolls as on wheels at once.
Schr 10.284 26 These questions [of life] speak to
Genius, to that power
which is underneath and greater than all talent...
FSLC 11.200 11 ...the Nemesis works underneath again.
underplaced, v. (1)
Aris 10.47 18 I do not pity the misery of a man
underplaced: that will right
itself presently...
underrate, v. (2)
AmS 1.92 17 I would not be hurried...by any exaggeration
of instincts, to
underrate the Book.
SovE 10.203 14 Far be it from me to underrate the men
or the churches that
have fixed the hearts of men...
underrating, v. (1)
SovE 10.184 6 In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt
the human
superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals;...
underscore, v. (1)
ET12 5.204 5 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the
standard catalogue
on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each several college they
underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles of books contained
in the
library of that college...
underscored, v. (1)
Supl 10.169 3 'T is a good rule of rhetoric which
Schlegel gives,-In good
prose, every word is underscored;...
underselling, v. (1)
ET10 5.168 8 It is not, I suppose, want of probity, so
much as the tyranny
of trade, which necessitates a perpetual competition of underselling...
undershirt, n. (1)
ET11 5.179 6 The names [of English towns and districts]
are excellent,--an
atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land. Older than all
epics
and histories which clothe a nation, this undershirt sits close to the
body.
undersized, adj. (1)
ET4 5.65 7 Other countrymen look slight and undersized
beside [the
English]...
understand, v. (96)
Nat 1.35 15 ...the love of truth and of virtue, will
purge the eyes to
understand [Nature's] text.
Nat 1.65 10 We do not understand the notes of birds.
MN 1.213 22 It is not proper, said Zoroaster, to
understand the Intelligible
with vehemence...
MN 1.213 26 You will not understand [the Intelligible]
as when
understanding some particular thing...
MN 1.214 2 Things divine are not attainable by mortals
who understand
sensual things...
MR 1.254 4 Let us understand that the equitable rule
is, that no one should
take more than his share...
LT 1.260 5 [The Times] is very good matter to be
handled, if we are
skilful; an abundance of important practical questions which it
behooves us
to understand.
Con 1.307 11 [The youth says] I cannot understand, or
so much as spare
time to read that needless library of your laws.
Con 1.322 25 I understand well the respect of mankind
for war...
Tran 1.344 10 If you do not need to hear my thought,
because you can read
it in my face and behavior, then I will tell it you from sunrise to
sunset. If
you cannot divine it, you would not understand what I say.
YA 1.384 24 These rising grounds which command the
champaign below, seem to ask for lords, true lords, land-lords, who
understand the land and its
uses and the applicabilities of men...
Hist 2.3 8 What Plato has thought, he [that is once
admitted to the right of
reason] may think;...what at any time has befallen any man, he can
understand.
Hist 2.34 10 ...Plato said that poets utter great and
wise things which they
do not themselves understand.
SR 2.68 5 ...when [children] come into the point of
view which those had
who uttered these sayings, they understand them...
SL 2.154 19 There are not in the world at any time more
than a dozen
persons who read and understand Plato...
Lov1 2.172 15 Perhaps we never saw [the lovers] before
and never shall
meet them again. But we see them...betray a deep emotion, and we are no
longer strangers. We understand them...
Int 2.347 11 The angels are so enamored of the language
that is spoken in
heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and
unmusical
dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who
understand
it or not.
Art1 2.357 16 When I have seen fine statues and
afterwards enter a public
assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, When I have been
reading Homer, all men look like giants.
Exp 3.73 6 I fully understand language, [Mencius] said,
and nourish well
my vast-flowing vigor.
Chr1 3.91 7 ...in our political elections, where this
element [character], if it
appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently
understand its incomparable rate.
Mrs1 3.155 3 ...I shall hear without pain that I play
the courtier very ill, and
talk of that which I do not well understand.
NR 3.248 19 Could [my good men] but once understand
that I loved to
know that they existed...yet...had no word or welcome for them when
they
came to see me...it would be a great satisfaction.
NER 3.278 6 If...we start objections to your project, O
friend of the slave... understand well that it is because we wish to
drive you to drive us into your
measures.
PPh 4.63 16 I announce the good of being
interpenetrated by the mind that
made nature: this benefit, namely, that it can understand nature, which
it
made and maketh.
SwM 4.93 18 Others may build cities; [the philosopher]
is to understand
them...
SwM 4.102 1 ...[Swedenborg's] books on mines and metals
are held in the
highest esteem by those who understand these matters.
SwM 4.121 20 ...we must be at the top of our condition
to understand any
thing rightly.
ShP 4.217 22 Are the agents of nature, and the power to
understand them, worth no more than a street serenade...
ET4 5.72 27 ...[the English] boast that they understand
horses better than
any other people in the world...
ET5 5.89 14 When Thor and his companions arrive at
Utgard, he is told
that nobody is permitted to remain here, unless he understand some art,
and
excel in it all other men.
ET5 5.100 12 In Parliament, in pulpits, in theatres [in
England], when the
speakers rise to thought and passion, the language becomes idiomatic;
the
people in the street best understand the best words.
ET7 5.116 12 The [English] government strictly performs
its engagements. The subjects do not understand trifling on its part.
ET8 5.138 25 To understand the power of performance
that is in their finest
wits...one should see how English day-laborers hold out.
ET12 5.211 25 Charles I. said that he understood
English law as well as a
gentleman ought to understand it.
ET14 5.249 18 It is the surest sign of national decay,
when the Bramins can
no longer read or understand the Braminical philosophy.
ET19 5.312 10 ...I was given to understand in my
childhood that the British
island from which my forefathers came was no lotus-garden...
F 6.46 10 ...our flesh hath no might/ To understand it
aright/ For it is
warned too derkely./
Wth 6.97 6 Goethe said well, Nobody should be rich but
those who
understand it.
Wth 6.101 3 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of
the Marseilles
banker who said to his visitor...Young man, you are too young to
understand how masses are formed;...
Ctr 6.140 11 There are people who can never understand
a trope...
Ctr 6.140 16 There are people who...remain literalists,
after hearing the
music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years. ...
But
even these can understand pitchforks and the cry of Fire!...
Bhr 6.173 9 I have seen men who neigh like a horse when
you...say
something which they do not understand...
Bhr 6.191 4 There is a whisper out of the ages to him
who can understand
it...
Bhr 6.192 25 That is the charm in all good novels, as
it is the charm in all
good histories, that the heroes mutually understand, from the first...
Bty 6.284 4 The motive of science was the extension of
man...till his hands
should touch the stars...his ears understand the language of beast and
bird...
Elo1 7.77 1 ...how is it on the Atlantic, in a
storm,--do you understand how
to infuse your reason into men disabled by terror, and to bring
yourself off
safe then?...
DL 7.113 23 Give me the means, says the wife, and your
house shall not... waste your time. On hearing this we understand how
these Means have
come to be so omnipotent on earth.
DL 7.117 13 Let us understand...that a house should
bear witness in all its
economy that human culture is the end to which it is built and
garnished.
Farm 7.142 17 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal
proportions;...and it
takes him long to understand its parts and its working.
WD 7.180 23 We must be at the top of our condition to
understand
anything rightly.
Clbs 7.239 16 Hyde, Earl of Rochester, asked
Lord-Keeper Guilford, Do
you not think I could understand any business in England in a month?
Clbs 7.239 18 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.
Cour 7.271 18 If Governor Wise is a superior man, or
inasmuch as he is a
superior man, he distinguishes John Brown. As they confer, they
understand each other swiftly;...
Suc 7.291 3 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who
writes thus of
himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and
become
something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
PI 8.16 15 Mountains and oceans we think we
understand;...
PI 8.17 25 As soon as a man masters a principle and
sees his facts in
relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in
images. Then all men understand him;...
PI 8.35 27 On the stage, the farce is commonly far
better given than the
tragedy, as the stock actors understand the farce...
PI 8.36 1 On the stage, the farce is commonly far
better given than the
tragedy, as the stock actors understand the farce, and do not
understand the
tragedy.
PI 8.37 11 ...we shall never understand political
economy until Burns or
Beranger or some poet shall teach it in songs...
Elo2 8.111 7 ...all can see and understand the means by
which a battle is
gained...
Res 8.139 9 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or
shop of power, with
its rotating constellations, times and tides. The machine is of
colossal size;... and it takes long to understand its parts and its
workings.
Res 8.145 25 M. Tissenet had learned among the Indians
to understand
their language...
Comc 8.167 8 I have been employed, [Camper] says, six
months on the
Cetacea; I understand the osteology of the head of all these
monsters...
QO 8.185 22 Madame de Stael's Architecture is frozen
music is borrowed
from Goethe's dumb music, which is Vitruvius's rule, that the architect
must not only understand drawing, but music.
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...who understand and
support each other, and you have organized victory.
PPo 8.240 1 He who would understand the influence of
the Homeric
ballads in the heroic ages should witness the effect which similar
compositions have upon the wild nomads of the East.
Insp 8.282 26 I understand The Harbingers to refer to
the signs of age and
decay which [Herbert] detects in himself...
Imtl 8.341 2 It is my greatest desire, [Van Helmont]
said, that it might be
granted unto atheists to have tasted, at least but one only moment,
what it is
intellectually to understand;...
Imtl 8.350 2 Yama said, For this question [of
immortality], it was inquired
of old, even by the gods; for it is not easy to understand it.
Imtl 8.350 6 Nachiketas said, Even by the gods was it
inquired [concerning
immortality]. And as to what thou sayest, O Death, that it is not easy
to
understand it, there is no other speaker to be found like thee.
Chr2 10.102 26 Such [self-reliant] souls...oftenest
appear solitary...because
those who can understand and uphold such appear rarely...
Chr2 10.103 3 ...the memory and tradition of such a
[steadfast] leader is
preserved in some strange way by those who only half understand him...
Edc1 10.136 14 ...the coming age and the departing age
seldom understand
each other.
Supl 10.178 4 ...all nations in proportion to their
civilization, understand
the manufacture of iron.
MoL 10.249 25 Nature says to the American: I understand
mensuration and
numbers; I compute...the balance of attraction and recoil. I have
measured
out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
Thor 10.476 19 [Thoreau's] riddles were worth the
reading, and I confide
that if at any time I do not understand the expression, it is yet just.
LS 11.12 8 ...the Passover was local too, and does not
concern us, and its
bread and wine...do not help us to understand the redemption which they
signified.
LS 11.20 25 If I understand the distinction of
Christianity, the reason why it
is to be preferred over all other systems and is divine is this, that
it is a
moral system;...
LS 11.21 12 ...it is not usage, it is not what I do not
understand, that binds
me to [Christianity]...
HDC 11.51 27 The questions which the Indians put [to
John Eliot] betray
their reason and their ignorance. Can Jesus Christ understand prayers
in the
Indian language?
FSLN 11.232 20 ...the world exists, as I understand it,
to teach the science
of liberty...
FSLN 11.235 14 ...that I understand to be the end for
which a soul exists in
this world,-to be himself the counterbalance of all falsehood and all
wrong.
JBB 11.273 4 ...I am detaining the meeting on matters
which others
understand better.
CPL 11.507 15 ...it is a disadvantage not to have read
the book your mates
have read...so that...you shall understand their allusions to it...
FRep 11.536 24 Of no use are the men...who can never
understand that to-day
is a new day.
PLT 12.20 21 ...mind, our mind, or mind like ours,
reappears to us in our
study of Nature, Nature being everywhere formed after a method which we
can well understand...
PLT 12.30 9 I acquiesce to be that I am, but I wish no
one to be civil to me. Strong men understand this very well.
Mem 12.101 20 Shall we not on higher stages of being
remember and
understand our early history better?
Mem 12.105 15 We remember what we understand...
Mem 12.105 16 ...we understand best what we like;...
CL 12.141 5 The air, said Anaximenes, is the soul, and
the essence of life. By breathing it, we become intelligent, and,
because we breathe the same
air, understand one another.
CL 12.145 13 I am afraid you do not understand values.
Bost 12.210 18 The [American] heroes only shared this
power of a
sentiment, which, if it now breathes into us, will make it easy to us
to
understand them, and we shall no longer flatter them.
ACri 12.285 5 ...when I read of various extraordinary
polyglots...who can
understand fifty languages, I answer that I shall be glad and surprised
to
find that they know one.
MLit 12.318 18 The music of Beethoven is said, by those
who understand
it, to labor with vaster conceptions and aspirations than music has
attempted before.
WSL 12.338 19 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...with
a profound
contempt for all that he does not understand;...
understanding, n. (127)
Nat 1.17 17 ...broad noon shall be my England of the
senses and the
understanding;...
Nat 1.30 12 In due time...words lose all power to
stimulate the
understanding or the affections.
Nat 1.36 10 Every property of matter is a school for
the understanding...
Nat 1.36 12 The understanding adds, divides, combines,
measures...
Nat 1.36 18 Nature is a discipline of the understanding
in intellectual truths.
Nat 1.38 2 ...[property] is the gymnastics of the
understanding...
Nat 1.38 7 The whole character and fortune of the
individual are affected
by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding;...
Nat 1.49 14 To the senses and the unrenewed
understanding, belongs a sort
of instinctive belief in the absolute existence of nature.
Nat 1.54 18 Their understanding/ Begins to swell.../
Nat 1.72 10 [Man] works on the world with his
understanding alone.
Nat 1.72 16 [Man's] relation to nature, his power over
it, is through the
understanding...
Nat 1.73 1 ...there are not wanting...occasional
examples of the action of
man upon nature...with reason as well as understanding.
Nat 1.74 14 ...there are patient naturalists, but they
freeze their subject
under the wintry light of the understanding.
DSA 1.129 9 The understanding caught this high chant
from the poet's
lips...
LE 1.165 24 The vision of genius comes by renouncing
the too officious
activity of the understanding...
MN 1.201 1 The simultaneous life throughout the whole
body...allows the
understanding no place to work.
Tran 1.338 19 Only in the instinct of the lower animals
we find the
suggestion of the methods of [the purely spiritual life], and something
higher than our understanding.
Tran 1.353 21 ...the two lives, of the understanding
and of the soul, which
we lead, really show very little relation to each other;...
Hist 2.15 22 A particular picture or copy of verses, if
it do not awaken the
same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some
wild
mountain walk, although the resemblance...is occult and out of the
reach of
the understanding.
Hist 2.28 22 The cramping influence of a hard formalist
on a young child... paralyzing the understanding...is a familiar
fact...
Comp 2.103 6 The retribution in the circumstance is
seen by the
understanding;...
Comp 2.121 24 Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the
malignity and the lie
with him he so far deceases from nature. In some manner there will be a
demonstration of the wrong to the understanding also;...
Comp 2.126 8 ...the compensations of calamity are made
apparent to the
understanding also...
Lov1 2.187 7 ...losing in violence what it gains in
extent, [love] becomes a
thorough good understanding.
Prd1 2.229 10 The last Grand Duke of Weimar, a man of
superior
understanding, said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of
great
works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect
which
gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
OS 2.273 18 ...always the soul's scale is one, the
scale of the senses and the
understanding is another.
OS 2.279 27 ...It is no proof of a man's understanding
to be able to affirm
whatever he pleases;...
OS 2.282 23 [Revelations] do not answer the questions
which the
understanding asks.
OS 2.283 3 In past oracles of the soul the
understanding seeks to find
answers to sensual questions...
OS 2.286 2 Against their will [men] exhibit those
decisive trifles by which
character is read. But who judges? and what? Not our understanding.
Cir 2.311 24 If [the speaker and the hearer] were at a
perfect understanding
in any part, no words would be necessary thereon.
Exp 3.67 17 To-morrow again every thing looks real and
angular...and
experience is hands and feet to every enterprise;--and yet, he who
should do
his business on this understanding would be quickly bankrupt.
Chr1 3.101 26 I knew an amiable and accomplished person
who undertook
a practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise
of love
he took in hand. He adopted it by ear and by the understanding from the
books he had been reading.
Chr1 3.111 10 I know nothing which life has to offer so
satisfying as the
profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous
men...
Mrs1 3.137 25 Must we have a good understanding with
one another's
palates?...
NER 3.280 26 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!
NER 3.281 5 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse
with the most
commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear...that a perfect
understanding, a like receiving, a like perceiving, abolished
differences;...
PPh 4.52 23 European civility is...the sharpened
understanding...
PPh 4.53 9 The understanding was in its health and
prime [in Greece].
PPh 4.69 6 To these four sections [images, objects,
opinions, truths], the
four operations of the soul correspond,--conjecture, faith,
understanding, reason.
PNR 4.82 10 In ascribing to Plato the merit of
announcing [the expansions
of facts], we only say, Here was a more complete man, who could apply
to
nature the whole scale of the senses, the understanding and the reason.
PNR 4.86 1 [Plato's] definition of ideas...forever
discriminating them from
the notions of the understanding, marks an era in the world.
SwM 4.111 8 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil
in Mr. Wilkinson...a
philosophic critic, with a coequal vigor of understanding and
imagination
comparable only to Lord Bacon's...
SwM 4.121 4 [Swedenborg] fastens each natural object to
a theologic
notion;--a horse signifies carnal understanding;...
MoS 4.159 2 ...true fortitude of understanding consists
in not letting what
we know be embarrassed by what we do not know...
ShP 4.202 24 Bacon, who took the inventory of the human
understanding
for his times, never mentioned [Shakespeare's] name.
GoW 4.281 1 ...in all these countries [England, America
and France], men
of talent write from talent. It is enough if the understanding is
occupied...
GoW 4.281 5 The German intellect wants...the fine
practical understanding
of the English, and the American adventure;...
ET4 5.57 17 ...the solid material interest predominates
[in the Norse
Sagas], so dear to English understanding...
ET5 5.99 5 One secret of [the Englishmen's] power is
their mutual good
understanding.
ET13 5.221 19 The torpidity on the side of religion of
the vigorous English
understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain.
ET13 5.228 10 England accepts this ornamented national
church, and it... clouds the understanding of the receivers.
ET14 5.243 17 Locke, to whom the meaning of ideas was
unknown, became the type of philosophy [in England], and his
understanding the
measure, in all nations, of the English intellect.
ET14 5.255 18 In the absence...of the pure love of
knowledge and the
surrender to nature, there is [in England]...the priapism of the senses
and
the understanding.
ET15 5.268 27 ...[the London Times] is [the
Englishmen's] understanding
and day's ideal daguerreotyped.
F 6.49 24 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely
or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout
existence; a Law
which...disdains words and passes understanding;...
Pow 6.57 3 ...a broad, healthy, massive understanding
seems to lie on the
shore of unseen rivers...
Ctr 6.149 7 In the country, in long time, for want of
good conversation, one's understanding and invention contract a moss on
them...
Ctr 6.157 6 The more I know you [wrote Neander to his
sacred friends], the
more I dissatisfy and must dissatisfy all my wonted companions. Their
very
presence stupefies me. The common understanding withdraws itself from
the one centre of all existence.
Bhr 6.192 18 The novels are as useful as Bibles if they
teach you the secret
that...the greatest success is...perfect understanding between sincere
people.
Bhr 6.192 20 'T is a French definition of friendship,
rien que s'entendre, good understanding.
Wsp 6.213 22 It is the order of the world to educate
with accuracy the
senses and the understanding;...
Wsp 6.217 16 The heart has its arguments, with which
the understanding is
not acquainted.
Wsp 6.224 8 A man cannot utter two or three sentences
without disclosing
to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought,
namely, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or
in that of
ideas and imagination...
CbW 6.257 15 ...one would say that a good understanding
would suffice as
well as moral sensibility to keep one erect;...
CbW 6.272 26 What questions we ask of [a friend]! what
an understanding
we have!...
CbW 6.273 17 With the first class of men our friendship
or good
understanding goes quite behind all accidents of estrangement...
Elo1 7.66 20 If the speaker utter a noble sentiment,
the attention [of the
audience] deepens, a new and highest audience now listens, and the
audiences of the fun and of facts and of the understanding are all
silenced
and awed.
Elo1 7.88 23 [Lord Mansfield's sentences] come from and
they go to the
sound human understanding;...
DL 7.115 18 You are to bring with you that spirit which
is understanding, health and self-help.
Boks 7.199 6 [Plato] would suffice for the tuition of
the race; to test their
understanding, and to express their reason.
Clbs 7.227 8 The understanding can no more empty itself
by its own action
than can a deal box.
Clbs 7.249 2 I need only hint the value of the club for
bringing masters in
their several arts to compare and expand their views, to come to an
understanding on these points...
Suc 7.303 27 In [the lover's] surprise at the sudden
and entire
understanding that is between him and the beloved person, it occurs to
him
that they might somehow meet independently of time and place.
SA 8.97 17 Here is...strong understanding...
SA 8.100 6 [The consideration the rich possess] is the
approval given by
the human understanding to the act of creating value by knowledge and
labor.
Res 8.147 8 ...it is the principal thing you are to beg
at the hands of
Almighty God, to preserve your understanding entire;...
Comc 8.159 26 ...the best of all jokes is the
sympathetic contemplation of
things by the understanding from the philosopher's point of view.
Comc 8.161 8 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute
understanding...
QO 8.178 10 He that borrows the aid of an equal
understanding, said
Burke, doubles his own;...
QO 8.202 26 Pindar uses this haughty defiance, as if it
were impossible to
find his sources: There are many swift darts within my quiver which
have a
voice for those with understanding;...
PC 8.218 10 If a theologian of deep convictions and
strong understanding
carries his country with him, like Luther, the state becomes Lutheran,
in
spite of the Emperor;...
PC 8.229 23 Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to
be measured by the
horse-power of the understanding.
Insp 8.277 19 Jacob Behmen said: Art has not wrote
here, nor was there
any time to consider how to set it punctually down according to the
right
understanding of the letters, but all was ordered according to the
direction
of the spirit...
Imtl 8.340 21 Lord Bacon said: Some of the
philosophers...came to this
point, that whatsoever motions the spirit of man could act and perform
without the organs of the body, might remain after death; which were
only
those of the understanding, and not of the affections;...
Imtl 8.352 3 The soul cannot be gained by knowledge,
not by
understanding...
Dem1 10.17 15 I believed that I discovered in
nature...somewhat which
manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be
grasped
by a conception, much less by a word. It was...not human, since it had
no
understanding;...
Dem1 10.23 5 ...the so-called fortunate man is one who,
though not gifted... to act with grace or with understanding to great
ends...relies on his
instincts...
Dem1 10.27 13 Willingly I too say, Hail! to the unknown
awful powers
which transcend the ken of the understanding.
Aris 10.51 20 The day is darkened...when genius
grows...reckless of its fine
duties of being Saint, Prophet, Inspirer to its humble fellows, balks
their
respect and confounds their understanding by silly extravagances.
PerF 10.78 11 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, by making it an emblem
of
thought. What a power, when, combined with the analyzing understanding,
it makes Eloquence;...
Edc1 10.156 2 ...as [the naturalist] is still
immovable, [the creatures of
nature]...volunteer some degree of advances towards fellowship and good
understanding with a biped who behaves so civilly and well.
Supl 10.168 8 I judge by every man's truth of his
degree of understanding, said Chesterfield.
Supl 10.179 13 ...there is no question...that the warm
sons of the Southeast
have bent the neck under the yoke of the cold temperament and the exact
understanding of the Northwestern races.
Prch 10.221 3 ...this examination [of religion]
resulting in the constant
detection of errors, the flattered understanding assumes to judge all
things...
Prch 10.221 5 In the activity of the understanding, the
sentiments sleep.
Prch 10.221 6 The understanding presumes in things
above its sphere...
LLNE 10.336 24 ...the religious nature in man was not
affected by these
errors in his understanding.
MMEm 10.415 26 This morning rich in existence; the
remembrance...of
bitterer days of youth and age, when my [Mary Moody Emerson's] senses
and understanding seemed but means of labor...
SlHr 10.439 10 [Samuel Hoar] was...a man...of a strong
understanding...
SlHr 10.445 14 ...the vigor of [Samuel Hoar's]
understanding was directed
on the ordinary domestic and municipal well-being.
LS 11.3 6 In the history of the Church no subject has
been more fruitful of
controversy than the Lord's Supper. There never has been any unanimity
in
the understanding of its nature...
LS 11.10 23 ...when the Jews on that occasion [at
Capernaum] complained
that they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant, he added for their
better
understanding...that we might not think his body was to be actually
eaten, that he only meant we should live by his commandment.
LS 11.10 24 ...when the Jews on that occasion [at
Capernaum] complained
that they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant, he added...as if for
our
understanding, that we might not think his body was to be actually
eaten, that he only meant we should live by his commandment.
HDC 11.82 24 Two religious societies, of differing
creed, dwell together [in Concord] in good understanding...
LVB 11.90 19 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the
good pleasure and the
understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that [the
Indians] shall be duly cared for;...
War 11.162 11 You forget that the quiet...which lets
the wagon go
unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect
understanding
of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind
there...
FSLC 11.202 22 We delighted...in [Webster's] large
understanding...
FSLC 11.203 27 ...[Webster's] finely developed
understanding only works
truly and with all its force, when it stands for animal good; that is,
for
property.
FSLN 11.223 19 ...it was the misfortune of his country
that with this large
understanding [Webster] had not what is better than intellect...
FSLN 11.223 24 If [Webster's] moral sensibility had
been proportioned to
the force of his understanding, what limits could have been set to his
genius
and beneficent power?
TPar 11.286 20 [Theodore Parker] had a strong
understanding...
Wom 11.406 10 Weirdes all, said the Edda, Frigga
knoweth, though she
telleth them never. That is to say, all wisdoms Woman knows; though
she... does not explain them as discoveries, like the understanding of
man.
FRep 11.531 16 In this country, with our practical
understanding, there is, at present, a great sensualism...
II 12.67 12 To indicate a few examples of our
recurrence to instinct instead
of to the understanding: we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a
book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces...
Mem 12.99 27 An act of the understanding will marshal
and concatenate a
few facts;...
CInt 12.121 6 The order of the world educates with care
the senses and the
understanding.
CL 12.141 1 The power of the air was the first
explanation offered by the
early philosophers of the mutual understanding that men have.
MAng1 12.217 17 [Beauty] does not lie within the limits
of the
understanding.
MAng1 12.217 20 ...because the understanding in the
presence of the
beautiful, cannot ask, Why is it beautiful? for that reason it is so.
MAng1 12.217 23 There is no standard whereby the
understanding can
determine whether objects are beautiful or otherwise.
MAng1 12.218 5 This great Whole the understanding
cannot embrace.
MAng1 12.219 21 [Michelangelo] knew well that only by
an understanding
of the internal mechanism can the outside be faithfully delineated.
MAng1 12.223 14 ...[Michelangelo's] love of beauty is
made solid and
perfect by his deep understanding of the mechanic arts.
Milt1 12.274 26 ...Bacon's imagination was said to be
the noblest that ever
contented itself to minister to the understanding...
WSL 12.340 17 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and
ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...a keen and precise
understanding...we
wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
Pray 12.356 19 Neither was [the light of the soul] so
above my
understanding, as oil swims above water...
Understanding, n. (9)
Nat 1.36 8 [Natural facts] educate both the
Understanding and the Reason.
DSA 1.129 9 There is no doctrine of the Reason which
will bear to be
taught by the Understanding.
Con 1.295 23 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that
between
Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat
in
the human constitution. It is the opposition...of the Understanding and
the
Reason.
SL 2.156 16 Doth not Wisdom cry and Understanding put
forth her voice?
MoS 4.174 23 In the mount of vision, ere they have yet
risen from their
knees, [the saints] say...we must fly for relief...to the
Understanding...
Boks 7.212 8 A right metaphysics should do justice to
the coordinate
powers of Imagination, Insight, Understanding and Will.
Prch 10.219 26 The Understanding will write out the
vision in a
Confession of Faith.
CInt 12.122 27 The Understanding is the name we give to
the low, limitary
power working to short ends...
MLit 12.322 16 [Goethe] has owed to Commerce and to the
victories of the
Understanding, all their spoils.
understanding, v. (8)
MN 1.213 27 You will not understand [the Intelligible]
as when
understanding some particular thing...
Hist 2.34 18 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a
deep presentiment of
the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness...the power...of
understanding
the voices of birds, are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right
direction.
Pt1 3.11 17 Mankind in good earnest have availed so far
in understanding
themselves and their work, that the foremost watchman on the peak
announces his news.
SwM 4.125 5 [To Swedenborg] Man is man by virtue of
willing, not by
virtue of knowing and understanding.
Chr2 10.98 25 We pretend not to define the way of [the
moral sentiment's] access to the private heart. It passes
understanding.
Thor 10.457 8 ...a young girl, understanding that
[Thoreau] was to lecture
at the Lyceum, sharply asked him, Whether his lecture would be a nice,
interesting story...
SMC 11.370 17 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that,
when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods. This
order was
communicated to Colonel Prescott, whose regiment was then under the
hottest fire. Understanding it to be a peremptory order to retire then,
he
replied , I don't want to retire;...
FRep 11.527 4 ...here that same great body [of the
people] has arrived at a
sloven plenty...the man...understanding his own rights and stiff to
maintain
them...
understandings, n. (7)
ET5 5.80 1 [The English people] would hardly greet the
good that did not
logically fall,--as if it...shook their understandings.
Wsp 6.228 24 We need not much mind what people please
to say, but
what...their natures say, though their...understandings try to hold
back and
choke that word...
Edc1 10.135 1 We exercise [boys'] understandings to the
apprehension and
comparison of some facts...
SovE 10.207 1 We in America are
charged...that...we...believe in our senses
and understandings, while our imagination and our moral sentiment are
desolated.
LS 11.23 4 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify
and send forth a
man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows.
This
man lived and died true to this purpose; and now...Christians must
contend
that it is...really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the
Lord's
Supper], whether that form be agreeable to their understandings or not.
LVB 11.93 6 ...a crime [the relocation of the
Cherokees] is projected that
confounds our understandings by its magnitude...
EdAd 11.388 22 ...we have seen the best understandings
of New England... say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New
England sentiment
any longer.
understanding's, n. (1)
PPo 8.245 24 The understanding's copper coin/ Counts not
with the gold of
love./
understands, v. (15)
Comp 2.117 10 ...no man thoroughly understands a truth
until he has
contended against it...
Fdsp 2.194 8 Who hears me, who understands me, becomes
mine...
Mrs1 3.130 27 Fashion understands itself;...
UGM 4.15 26 Shakspeare's principal merit may be
conveyed in saying that
he of all men best understands the English language...
F 6.4 5 ...if there be irresistible dictation, this
dictation understands itself.
Cour 7.262 24 The child is as much in danger from...a
cat, as the soldier
from...an ambush. Each surmounts the fear as fast as he precisely
understands the peril...
Suc 7.285 25 There is a mode of reckoning, [Columbus]
proudly adds, derived from astronomy, which is sure and safe to any one
who understands
it.
PPo 8.252 24 Out of the East, and out of the West, no
man understands
me;/ O, the happier I, who confide to none but the wind!/
Insp 8.272 14 Every youth should know the way to
prophecy as surely as
the miller understands how to let on the water...
Aris 10.45 16 He who understands the art of war,
reckons the hostile
battalions and cities, opportunities and spoils.
Edc1 10.158 1 ...if one [pupil] has brought in a
Plutarch or Shakspeare or
Don Quixote or Goldsmith or any other good book, and understands what
he reads, put him at once at the head of the class.
Plu 10.299 20 [Plutarch] is...sufficiently a
mathematician to leave some of
his readers...respectfully skipping to the next chapter. But this
scholastic
omniscience of our author engages a new respect, since they hope he
understands his own diagram.
Carl 10.490 6 [Carlyle]...understands his own value
quite as well as
Webster...
PLT 12.32 15 White huckleberries are so rare that in
miles of pasture you
shall not find a dozen. But a girl who understands it will find you a
pint in a
quarter of an hour.
II 12.89 7 ...the universe understands itself...
understatement, n. (3)
PPh 4.60 4 What moderation and understatement and
checking [Plato's] thunder in mid volley!
Supl 10.169 12 I am daily struck with the forcible
understatement of people
who have no literary habit.
Supl 10.176 2 The men whom [Nature] admits to her
confidence...are
uniformly marked...by understatement.
understates, v. (1)
ET7 5.118 24 An Englishman understates...
understood, v. (31)
Nat 1.27 26 ...neither can man be understood without
these objects, nor
these objects without man.
SL 2.146 2 Nothing seems so easy as to speak and to be
understood.
SL 2.146 4 ...a man may come to find that the strongest
of defences and of
ties,--that he has been understood;...
Cir 2.306 11 Every man supposes himself not to be fully
understood;...
NMW 4.233 2 ...Napoleon understood his business.
GoW 4.281 22 If [the writer] can not rightly express
himself to-day, the
same things subsist and will open themselves to-morrow. There lies the
burden on his mind,--the burden of truth to be declared,--more or less
understood;...
GoW 4.283 11 ...men distinguished for wit and learning,
in England and
France...are not understood to be very deeply engaged, from grounds of
character, to the topic or the part they espouse...
ET1 5.3 15 ...we could no longer speak aloud in the
streets without being
understood.
ET1 5.22 2 ...[Wordsworth] had always wished Coleridge
would write
more to be understood.
ET1 5.23 26 [Wordsworth] cited the sonnet, On the
feelings of a
highminded Spaniard, which he preferred to any other (I so understood
him)...
ET12 5.211 24 Charles I. said that he understood
English law as well as a
gentleman ought to understand it.
ET13 5.225 26 Prophet and apostle can only be rightly
understood by
prophet and apostle.
ET19 5.310 21 ...these things are not for me to say;
these compliments, though true, would better come from one who felt and
understood these
merits more.
Bhr 6.180 1 ...the ocular dialect...is understood all
the world over.
Ill 6.313 19 Life is a succession of lessons which must
be lived to be
understood.
SS 7.10 20 The king lived and ate in his hall with men,
and understood
men, said Selden.
Elo2 8.125 13 The power of [the men in the street's]
speech is, that it is
perfectly understood by all;...
Elo2 8.126 4 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every
nation...a certain mode of
phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its
respective
language as to remain settled and unaltered. This style is to be sought
in the
common intercourse of life among those who speak only to be
understood...
Elo2 8.130 16 It was said of Robespierre's audience,
that though they
understood not the words, they understood a fury in the words, and
caught
the contagion.
Elo2 8.130 17 It was said of Robespierre's audience,
that though they
understood not the words, they understood a fury in the words, and
caught
the contagion.
PC 8.221 9 [The scholar] has accosted this immeasurable
Nature, and got
clear answers. He understood what he read.
Thor 10.465 4 [Thoreau] understood the matter in hand
at a glance...
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.
EWI 11.113 23 The apprenticeship system [in the West
Indies] is
understood to have proceeded from Lord Brougham...
Wom 11.423 11 As for the unsexing and contamination [of
women in
politics],-that only...shows...that our policies are...made up of
things...to
be understood only by wink and nudge;...
Milt1 12.266 6 Few men could be cited who have so well
understood what
is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton]...
Milt1 12.266 15 The indifferency of a wise mind to what
is called high and
low, and the fact that true greatness is a perfect humility, are
revelations of
Christianity which Milton well understood.
Milt1 12.267 11 [Wrote Milton] Albeit I must confess to
be half in doubt
whether I should bring it forth or no, it being so contrary to the eye
of the
world, that I shall endanger either not to be regarded, or not to be
understood. For who is there, almost, that measures wisdom by
simplicity...
ACri 12.284 11 This [national] style is probably to be
sought...among those
who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.
ACri 12.294 4 ...in the conduct of the play, and the
speech of the heroes, [Shakespeare] keeps the level tone which is the
tone of high and low alike, and most widely understood.
Let 12.395 3 One of the [letter] writers relentingly
says, What shall my
uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood
not
to propose the Indian mode of giving decrepit relatives as much of the
mud
of holy Ganges as they can swallow, and more...
under-surface, n. (1)
Art2 7.41 10 Duhamel built a bridge by letting in a
piece of stronger timber
for the middle of the under-surface...
undertake, v. (8)
Pol1 3.214 8 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself
not sufficient for
me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I overstep the
truth...
Civ 7.29 19 ...if we will only choose our jobs in
directions in which [the
heavenly powers] travel, they will undertake them with the greatest
pleasure.
Boks 7.220 22 ...let each scholar associate himself to
such persons as he
can rely on, in a literary club, in which each shall undertake a single
work
or series for which he is qualified.
Boks 7.221 1 ...how attractive is the whole literature
of the Roman de la
Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours! Yet
who in Boston has time for that? But one of our company shall undertake
it...
SlHr 10.442 22 ...[Samuel Hoar]...refused very large
sums offered him to
undertake the defence of criminal persons.
EWI 11.99 16 I might well hesitate...to undertake to
set this matter [emancipation] before you;...
FSLN 11.221 1 There are those...who have power and
inspiration only to
do ill. Their talent or their faculty deserts them when they undertake
anything right.
Bost 12.203 15 ...there is always [in Boston]...always
a heresiarch, whom
the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new
light... some John Adams and Josiah Quincy and Governor Andrew to
undertake
and carry the defence of patriots in the courts against the uproar of
all the
province;...
undertaken, v. (6)
YA 1.380 20 Witness too the spectacle of three
Communities which have
within a very short time sprung up within this Commonwealth, besides
several others undertaken by citizens of Massachusetts within the
territory
of other States.
NMW 4.247 21 ...it is the belief of men to-day that
nothing new can be
undertaken in politics...
ET5 5.92 5 Faithful performance of what is undertaken
to be performed, [the English] honor in themselves, and exact in
others...
PPo 8.238 12 A war is undertaken [in the East] for an
epigram or a distich...
Insp 8.274 13 What metaphysician has undertaken to
enumerate the tonics
of the torpid mind...
MAng1 12.236 2 ...as [the building of St. Peter's] was
undertaken, so it was
performed.
undertaker, n. (2)
Imtl 8.325 4 ...the polity of the Egyptians...respected
burial. It made every
man an undertaker...
Dem1 10.21 17 Shun [animal magnetism, divination,
second-sight] as you
would the secrets of the undertaker and the butcher.
undertakes, v. (3)
OS 2.283 4 In past oracles of the soul the
understanding...undertakes to tell
from God how long men shall exist...
Comc 8.158 7 An oak or a chestnut undertakes no
function it cannot
execute;...
Milt1 12.265 21 [Milton]...deliberately undertakes the
defence of the
English people, when advised by his physicians that he does it at the
cost of
sight.
undertaking, n. (1)
Milt1 12.274 1 Was there not a fitness in the
undertaking of such a person [as Milton] to write a poem on the subject
of Adam...
undertaking, v. (2)
Pol1 3.214 15 This undertaking for another is the
blunder which stands in
colossal ugliness in the governments of the world.
SovE 10.197 2 ...I have never until now dreamed that
this undertaking the
entire management of my own affairs was not commendable.
undertand, v. (1)
PPh 4.46 11 The same weakness and want, on a higher
plane, occurs daily
in the education of ardent young men and women. ah! you don't undertand
me;...
undertones, n. (2)
ACri 12.297 17 ...[Carlyle] talks flexibly...in loud
emphasis, in undertones...
ACri 12.299 3 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II]
we see the eyes of
the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling, with
undertones, and trumpet-tones...
undertook, v. (9)
Chr1 3.101 22 I knew an amiable and accomplished person
who undertook
a practical reform...
ET10 5.159 7 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether
it were not possible
to make a spinner that would not rebel...nor emigrate? At the
solicitation of
the masters...Mr. Roberts of Manchester undertook to create this
peaceful
fellow...
Bhr 6.174 2 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly
undertook the reformation
of our American manners in unspeakable particulars.
Wsp 6.228 4 [St. Philip Neri] undertook to visit the
nun and ascertain her
character.
PerF 10.79 13 [The manufacturer] undertook the charge
of [the chemical
works] himself, began at the beginning...
LLNE 10.340 17 [Channing] had earlier talked with Dr.
John Collins
Warren on the like purpose [of bringing thoughtful people together],
who
admitted the wisdom of the design and undertook to aid him in making
the
experiment.
TPar 11.284 2 Here comes Parker, the Orson of parsons,
a man/ Whom the
Church undertook to put under her ban.-/
MAng1 12.235 4 Not until he was in the seventy-third
year of his age, [Michelangelo] undertook the building of Saint
Peter's.
MAng1 12.235 17 [Michelangelo] required that he should
be permitted to
accept this work [building St. Peter's] without any fee or reward,
because
he undertook it as a religious act;...
undervalue, v. (4)
NER 3.276 13 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper
makes the sweetness
and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no
longer,--it is time to undervalue what he has valued...
MoS 4.150 26 The genius is a genius by the first look
he casts on any
object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but
beholds the design?--he will presently undervalue the actual object.
Ctr 6.141 25 The best heads that ever
existed...were...quite too wise to
undervalue letters.
DL 7.130 25 I do not undervalue the fine instruction
which statues and
pictures give.
undervalued, v. (2)
ET1 5.8 16 [Landor]...undervalued Burke, and undervalued
Socrates;...
ET1 5.9 27 Landor is strangely undervalued in
England;...
undervalues, v. (1)
GoW 4.282 24 That a man has spent years on Plato and
Proclus, does not
afford a presumption that he...undervalues the fashions of his town.
undervaluing, v. (1)
Prch 10.227 13 Be not betrayed into undervaluing the
churches which
annoy you by their bigoted claims.
Underwood, Mr., n. (1)
AKan 11.260 18 ...can any citizen of the Southern
country who happens to
think kidnapping a bad thing, say so? Let Mr. Underwood of Virginia
answer.
underwriters, n. (1)
EWI 11.140 17 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781,
whose master had
thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat
the
underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and
owners...
undescribable, adj. (4)
Nat2 3.179 15 ...let us not longer omit our homage to
the Efficient Nature... itself secret, its works driven before it...in
undescribable variety.
GoW 4.262 26 [The writer] counts it all nonsense that
they say, that some
things are undescribable.
Bhr 6.197 26 ...we are continually surprised [in the
young girl] with graces
and felicities not only unteachable but undescribable.
Wsp 6.213 12 There is...a simple, quiet, undescribed,
undescribable
presence, dwelling very peacefully in us...
undescribed, adj. (2)
LE 1.168 3 But go into the forest, you shall find all
new and undescribed.
Wsp 6.213 12 There is...a simple, quiet, undescribed,
undescribable
presence, dwelling very peacefully in us...
undesirable, adj. (2)
Wth 6.97 4 Whilst it is each man's interest
that...wealth or surplus product
should exist somewhere, it need not be in his hands. Often it is very
undesirable to him.
JBB 11.269 23 ...if [John Brown] must suffer, he must
drag official
gentlemen into an immortality most undesirable...
undevout, adj. (1)
Pray 12.351 25 ...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...
undiminishable, adj. (1)
Chr1 3.90 9 ...character is of a stellar and
undiminishable greatness.
undiminished, adj. (1)
Farm 7.143 25 The eternal rocks...have held their oxygen
or lime
undiminished...
undisciplined, adj. (1)
Ill 6.322 8 ...it is the undisciplined will that is
whipped with bad thoughts
and bad fortunes.
undiscovered, adj. (1)
Nat 1.70 7 A wise writer will feel that the ends of
study and composition
are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought...
undiscriminating, adj. (1)
ET1 5.8 6 I could not make [Landor] praise Mackintosh,
nor my more
recent friends; Montaigne very cordially,--and Charron also, which
seemed
undiscriminating.
undisturbed, adj. (1)
Aris 10.61 9 The honor of a member consists in...in the
pursuing
undisturbed the career of a Brother...
undivided, adj. (3)
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!
F 6.5 13 The Turk...rushes on the enemy's sabre with
undivided will.
LS 11.17 11 It is the old objection to the doctrine of
the Trinity...that such
confusion was introduced into the soul that an undivided worship was
given
nowhere.
undo, v. (6)
Con 1.296 19 ...if I put forth my hands, I shall not do,
but undo.
SS 7.10 19 ...coop up most men and you undo them.
QO 8.182 16 ...whatever undue reverence may have been
claimed for [the
Bible] by the prestige of philonic inspiration, the stronger tendency
we are
describing is likely to undo.
Prch 10.228 18 Of course a hero so attractive to the
hearts of millions [as
Jesus] drew the hypocrite and the ambitious into his train, and they
used his
name to falsify his history and undo his work.
EPro 11.318 21 The virtues of a good magistrate undo a
world of mischief...
MAng1 12.234 20 As [Michelangelo] refused to undo his
work [The Last
Judgment], Daniel di Volterra was employed to clothe the figures;...
undoes, v. (1)
CL 12.156 3 ...a view from a cliff over a wide country
undoes a good deal
of prose...
undoing, n. (1)
FSLC 11.200 13 ...the Nemesis works underneath again. It
is a power that... draws us on to our undoing;...
undoing, v. (1)
PI 8.66 20 I count the genius of Swedenborg and
Wordsworth as the agents
of a reform in philosophy, the bringing poetry back...to the marrying
of
Nature and mind, undoing the old divorce in which poetry had been
famished and false...
undoings, n. (1)
JBS 11.276 20 But though they slew him with the sword,/
And in the fire
his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its
undoings
restored./
undomesticated, adj. (1)
PLT 12.17 20 Above the thought is the higher
truth,-truth as yet
undomesticated...
undone, adj. (1)
PI 8.1 18 ...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly to
postpone/
Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human age,/ Freely as
task
at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.
undone, v. (2)
Wth 6.96 5 ...if men should...leave off aiming to be
rich, the moralists
would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people,
lest
civilization should be undone.
EPro 11.319 21 Done, [The Emancipation Proclamation]
cannot be undone
by a new administration.
undoubted, adj. (3)
LS 11.16 18 But it is said: Admit that the rite [the
Lord's Supper] was not
designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it? Here it stands...the
undoubted
occasion of much good;...
CInt 12.115 6 ...either science and literature is a
hypocrisy, or it is not. If it
be, then...turn your college into barracks and warehouses, and divert
the
funds of your founders into the stock of...a tan-yard or some other
undoubted conveniency for the surrounding population.
MAng1 12.226 18 Versatility of talent in men of
undoubted ability always
awakens the liveliest interest;...
undoubtedly, adv. (14)
Nat 1.3 20 Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which
are
unanswerable.
AmS 1.91 9 Undoubtedly there is a right way of
reading...
LE 1.169 25 Undoubtedly the changes of geology have a
relation to the
prosperous sprouting of the corn and peas in my kitchen garden;...
MN 1.198 24 Empedocles undoubtedly spoke a truth of
thought, when he
said, I am God;...
YA 1.383 8 Undoubtedly, abundant mistakes will be made
by these first
adventurers [the Communities]...
Hist 2.19 3 ...[the cloud] was undoubtedly the
archetype of that familiar
ornament [the cherub].
Prd1 2.240 14 Undoubtedly we can easily pick faults in
our company...
NR 3.238 8 Great dangers undoubtedly accrue from this
incarnation and
distribution of the godhead...
NMW 4.243 11 ...[Napoleon] undoubtedly felt a desire
for men and
compeers...
Cour 7.266 21 Undoubtedly there is a temperamental
courage...
HDC 11.33 24 Johnson, relating undoubtedly what he had
himself heard
from the pilgrims, intimates that they consumed many days in exploring
the
country, to select the best place for the town.
HDC 11.61 12 A great defence [of Concord] undoubtedly
was the village
of Praying Indians...
War 11.175 15 The proposition of the Congress of
Nations is undoubtedly
that at which the present fabric of our society and the present course
of
events do point.
Milt1 12.253 23 As a poet, Shakspeare undoubtedly
transcends, and far
surpasses [Milton] in his popularity with foreign nations;...
undoubtingly, adv. (2)
YA 1.382 3 Here are Etzlers and mechanical projectors,
who...undoubtingly
affirm that the smallest union would make every man rich;...
Aris 10.55 7 He is beautiful in face, in port, in
manners, who is absorbed in
objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself. Is
there...any
cosmetic or any blood that can obtain homage like that security of air
presupposing so undoubtingly the sympathy of men in his designs?
undreamed-of, adj. (1)
Mem 12.109 17 If we occupy ourselves long on this
wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge
calls upon old
knowledge-new giving undreamed-of value to old;...we cannot fail to
draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase
in
the power of memory only through its use;...
undress, n. (2)
Nat2 3.176 20 Nature cannot be surprised in undress.
MoS 4.167 11 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] I...think
an undress and old
shoes that do not pinch my feet...the most suitable.
undress, v. (1)
MAng1 12.228 11 ...[Michelangelo] told Vasari that he
often slept in his
clothes [while painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling], both because he
was too
weary to undress, and because he would rise in the night and go
immediately to work.
undressing, v. (1)
PI 8.5 16 I believe this conviction makes the charm of
chemistry,--that we
have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of
the
old form; and in animal transformation not less, as...in embryo and
man; everything undressing and stealing away from its old into new
form...
undue, adj. (1)
QO 8.182 14 ...whatever undue reverence may have been
claimed for [the
Bible] by the prestige of philonic inspiration, the stronger tendency
we are
describing is likely to undo.
undulate, v. (2)
MoS 4.183 16 A man of thought must feel the thought that
is parent of the
universe; that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.
PI 8.21 3 The poet contemplates the central identity,
sees it undulate and
roll this way and that...
undulates, v. (1)
AmS 1.111 26 ...let me see...the shop, the plough, and
the ledger referred to
the like cause by which light undulates...
undulating, adj. (3)
SHC 11.431 2 A simultaneous movement has, in a hundred
cities and
towns in this country, selected some convenient piece of undulating
ground
with pleasant woods and waters;...and we lay the corpse in these leafy
colonnades.
CL 12.144 11 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like
some towns in the
more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so
that
if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the
hill
on your way out or on your way back. The more reason we have to be
content with the felicity of our slopes in Massachusetts, undulating,
rocky, broken and surprising...
Bost 12.191 18 ...the next colony planted itself at
Salem, and the next at
Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men...wisely judged that the
best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded
bay...where a
bold shore was bounded by a country of rich undulating woodland.
undulation, n. (3)
Int 2.332 10 It seems as if the law of the intellect
resembled that law of
nature...by which the heart now draws in, then hurls out the
blood,--the law
of undulation.
PC 8.222 27 Every law in Nature, as...undulation, has a
counterpart in the
intellect.
PPo 8.238 6 [Life in the East's] elements are few and
simple, not exhibiting
the long range and undulation of European existence...
Undulation, n. (1)
AmS 1.98 18 That great principle of Undulation in
nature...is known to us
under the name of Polarity...
undulations, n. (3)
Comp 2.96 23 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet
in every part of
nature;...in the undulations of fluids and of sound;...
CInt 12.129 10 Do not the electricities and the
imponderable influences
play with all their magic undulations?
Milt1 12.261 19 ...Milton was conscious of possessing
this intellectual
voice...propelling its melodious undulations forward through the coming
world...
undulatory, adj. (1)
Exp 3.68 10 ...the chemical and ethereal agents are
undulatory and
alternate;...
unduly, adv. (1)
MoS 4.162 9 ...the personal regard which I entertain for
Montaigne may be
unduly great...
undying, adj. (1)
FRep 11.525 22 ...the history of Nature from first to
last is incessant
advance...from rude to finer organization, the globe of matter thus
conspiring with the principle of undying hope in man.
unearth, v. (1)
WD 7.179 18 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar,
not who can unearth
for me the buried dynasties of Sesostris and Ptolemy...
uneasiness, n. (8)
LT 1.285 15 ...truly we shall find much to console us,
when we consider
the cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness.
SL 2.162 15 Nor can you, if I am true, excite me to the
least uneasiness by
saying, [Epaminondas] acted and thou sittest still.
Fdsp 2.192 8 A commended stranger is expected and
announced, and an
uneasiness betwixt pleasure and pain invades all the hearts of a
household.
OS 2.267 15 What is the ground of this uneasiness of
ours;...
Nat2 3.194 23 The uneasiness which the thought of our
helplessness in the
chain of causes occasions us, results from looking too much at one
condition of nature, namely, Motion.
Wsp 6.204 10 The decline of the influence...of Wesley,
or Channing, need
give us no uneasiness.
Wsp 6.228 18 Philip [Neri] ran out of doors, mounted
his mule and
returned instantly to the Pope; Give yourself no uneasiness, Holy
Father, any longer...
Elo1 7.75 15 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness
sometimes manifested
by trained statesmen...when they observe the disproportionate advantage
suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public
service.
uneasy, adj. (10)
LT 1.274 21 The more intelligent are growing uneasy on
the subject of
Marriage.
Fdsp 2.192 21 Having imagined and invested [the
commended stranger], we ask how we should stand related in conversation
and action with such a
man, and are uneasy with fear.
Fdsp 2.198 23 ...these uneasy pleasures and fine pains
[of friendship] are
for curiosity...
Prd1 2.238 9 You are solicitous of the good-will of the
meanest person, uneasy at his ill-will.
UGM 4.32 1 Each is uneasy until he has produced his
private ray unto the
concave sphere...
GoW 4.288 20 We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or
afraid to live.
Elo1 7.94 17 ...whilst [the preacher] speaks things, I
feel that he is touching
some of my relations, and I am uneasy;...
HDC 11.55 23 ...the Concord people became uneasy, and
looked around for
new seats.
HDC 11.67 9 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used
the word Mediator in
some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was
soon
uneasy that I had used the word...
EWI 11.108 5 John Woolman of New Jersey...was uneasy in
his mind
when he was set to write a bill of sale of a negro, for his master.
unedited, adj. (1)
SwM 4.110 27 ...it appears that a mass of manuscript [by
Swedenborg] still
unedited remains in the royal library at Stockholm.
uneducated, adj. (7)
LE 1.182 13 The man of genius should occupy the whole
space between
God or pure mind and the multitude of uneducated men.
DL 7.124 18 ...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. It is scarcely less perceivable in educated men, so
called, than in the uneducated.
Edc1 10.138 13 ...let us have men whose manhood is only
the continuation
of their boyhood, natural characters still;...and not that sad
spectacle with
which we are too familiar, educated eyes in uneducated bodies.
MMEm 10.423 21 For the widows and orphans--Oh, I [Mary
Moody
Emerson] could give facts of the long-drawn years of imprisoned minds
and
hearts, which uneducated orphans endure!
SlHr 10.439 24 ...it was perfectly easy for [Samuel
Hoar] to associate... with plain, uneducated, poor men...
Wom 11.422 23 ...if in your city the uneducated
emigrant vote numbers
thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote...
Trag 12.407 14 ...universally, in uneducated and
unreflecting persons...we
discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...
unembarrassed, adj. (1)
GoW 4.271 12 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern]
multiplicity;... a manly mind, unembarrassed by the variety of coats of
convention with
which life had got encrusted...
unemployed, adj. (1)
MoL 10.248 3 There is no unemployed force in Nature.
unencumbered, adj. (1)
Insp 8.290 18 Certain localities, as...natural parks of
oak and pine, where
the ground is smooth and unencumbered, are excitants of the muse.
unenlightened, adj. (1)
Wom 11.409 10 It was Burns's remark when he first came
to Edinburgh
that between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed
little
difference; that in the former, though...unenlightened by science, he
had
found much observation and much intelligence;...
unentertaining, adj. (1)
DSA 1.138 25 It seemed as if [the people's] houses were
very
unentertaining...
unequal, adj. (12)
LT 1.285 12 [Speculators] have some piety which looks
with faith to a fair
Future, unprofaned by rash and unequal attempts to realize it.
Tran 1.356 6 These persons [Transcendentalists] are of
unequal strength, and do not all prosper.
Fdsp 2.200 5 If I have shrunk unequal from one contest,
the joy I find in all
the rest becomes mean and cowardly.
Fdsp 2.216 16 If [your companion] is unequal, he will
presently pass
away;...
Pol1 3.202 1 Whilst the rights of all as persons are
equal, in virtue of their
access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal.
Pol1 3.202 6 One man owns his clothes, and another owns
a county. This
accident...falls unequally, and its rights of course are unequal.
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.
MoS 4.160 4 [The skeptic] is the
considerer...believing...that we cannot
give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict, with
powers so
vast and unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited
vulnerable popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every
danger, on the other.
ET14 5.250 10 ...where impatience of the tricks of
men...builds altars to the
negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is...the gallantry of the private
heart, which decks its immolation with glory, in the unequal combat of
will
against fate.
Insp 8.270 25 In the savage man, thought is infantile;
and, in the civilized, unequal and ranging up and down a long scale.
Grts 8.314 5 Scintillations of greatness appear here
and there in men of
unequal character...
HDC 11.59 8 We know beforehand who must conquer in that
unequal
struggle [with the Indian].
unequally, adv. (5)
MR 1.255 27 ...we have seen a few scattered up and down
in time for the
blessing of the world; men who have in the gravity of their nature a
quality
which answers to the fly-wheel in a mill, which...hinders [the motion]
from
falling unequally and suddenly in destructive shocks.
Pol1 3.202 5 One man owns his clothes, and another owns
a county. This
accident...falls unequally, and its rights...are unequal.
Bty 6.299 8 Portrait painters say that most faces and
forms are irregular and
unsymmetrical;...the hair unequally distributed, etc.
Bty 6.299 11 The man is physically as well as
metaphysically a thing of
shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors...
SlHr 10.440 19 ...[Samuel Hoar] said it was his
practice to pay whatever
was demanded; for, though he might think the taxation large and very
unequally proportioned, yet he thought the money might as well go in
this
way as in any other.
unequivocal, adj. (1)
Aris 10.52 13 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman,
who serves the
people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who
shall
blame them if they...express their unequivocal indignation and
contempt?
unerring, adj. (7)
Pt1 3.11 22 ...the phrase will be the fittest, most
musical, and the unerring
voice of the world for that time.
Mrs1 3.140 25 ...besides personal force and so much
perception as
constitutes unerring taste, society demands in its patrician class
another
element...which it significantly terms good-nature...
Comc 8.158 14 [Animals'] activity is marked by unerring
good sense.
JBS 11.276 4 A man there came, whence none could tell,/
Bearing a
touchstone in his hand,/ And tested all things in the land/ By its
unerrring
spell./
ALin 11.333 26 ...the weight and penetration of many
passages in [Lincoln'
s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide
fame. What pregnant definitions; what unerring common sense;...
ChiE 11.473 3 [Confucius's] rare perception appears
in...his unerring
insight...
CInt 12.129 11 Do not gravity and polarity keep their
unerring watch on a
needle and thread...as on the moon's orbit?
unexamined, adj. (1)
ET8 5.132 15 [Young Englishmen] stoutly carry into every
nook and
corner of the earth their turbulent sense; leaving no lie
uncontradicted; no
pretension unexamined.
unexceptionable, adj. (1)
LS 11.20 14 The general object and effect of the
ordinance [the Lord's
Supper] is unexceptionable.
unexecuted, adj. (1)
NMW 4.234 23 You are losing time, [Napoleon] cried; fire
upon those
masses; they must be engulfed: fire upon the ice! The order remained
unexecuted for ten minutes.
unexhausted, adj. (4)
Fdsp 2.189 7 ...The world uncertain comes and goes,/ The
lover rooted
stays./ I fancied he was fled,/ And, after many a year,/ Glowed
unexhausted
kindliness/ Like daily sunrise there./
GoW 4.279 20 ...the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]
remains ever so
new and unexhausted, that we must even let it go its way...
Elo1 7.99 16 In its right exercise, [eloquence] is an
elastic, unexhausted
power...
ALin 11.328 7 ...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World
moulds aside she
threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of the unexhausted
West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise, steadfast in the
strength of God, and true./
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