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

unexpected, adj. (12)

    DSA 1.123 13 ...speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance.
    Hist 2.16 1 [Nature]...delights in startling us with resemblances in the most unexpected quarters.
    NER 3.256 6 A restless, prying, conscientious criticism broke out in unexpected quarters.
    SwM 4.110 14 These grand rhymes or returns in nature,--the dear, best-known face startling us at every turn, under a mask so unexpected that we think it the face of a stranger...delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
    NMW 4.237 18 In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon] remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the- morning kind: I mean...that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion...
    GoW 4.278 7 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind, gratifying it with...so many unexpected glimpses into a higher sphere...
    Clbs 7.250 1 One likes...to make in an old acquaintance unexpected discoveries of scope and power through the advantage of an inspiring subject.
    SA 8.93 18 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman:... She strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that she gives unexpected vigor and agility to fancy...
    Elo2 8.111 24 ...[in a debate] much power is to be exhibited which is not yet called into existence, but is to be suggested on the spot by the unexpected turn things may take...
    LLNE 10.338 6 Unexpected aid from high quarters came to inconoclasts.
    FSLN 11.236 15 The insight of the religious sentiment will disclose to [man] unexpected aids in the nature of things.
    MAng1 12.226 22 ...[Michelangelo] possessed an unexpected dexterity in minute mechanical contrivances.

unexpectedly, adv. (7)

    SL 2.159 1 Never a magnanimity fell to the ground, but there is some heart to greet and accept it unexpectedly.
    Ctr 6.152 12 In an English party a man...with a face like red dough, unexpectedly discloses wit, learning, a wide range of topics...
    Elo1 7.85 25 ...in the examination of witnesses there usually leap out, quite unexpectedly, three or four stubborn words or phrases which are the pith and fate of the business...
    MoL 10.258 6 ...on each new threat of faction, the ballot of the people has been unexpectedly right.
    FSLC 11.203 15 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th March, 1850...[Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery party in this country.
    FSLN 11.224 12 Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    CPL 11.503 24 Every one of us is always in search of his friend, and when unexpectedly he finds a stranger enjoying the rare poet or thinker who is dear to his own solitude,-it is like finding a brother.

unexpensiveness, n. (1)

    Wth 6.117 1 Saving and unexpensiveness will not keep the most pathetic family from ruin...

unexplained, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.4 21 Now many [phenomena] are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable;...
    CW 12.179 13 ...there is a general sense which the best knowledge of the particular alphabet [of Nature] leaves unexplained.

unexplored, adj. (2)

    War 11.175 2 ...if the disposition to rely more, in study and in action, on the unexplored riches of the human constitution...proceed;...then war has a short day...
    Bost 12.192 24 ...the awe [of the Massachusetts colonists] was real and overpowering in the superstition with which every new object was magnified. The superstition which hung over the new ocean had not yet been scattered;...the dangers of the wilderness were unexplored;...

unexpressed, adj. (2)

    Schr 10.288 24 ...[the scholar] is to hold lightly every tradition, every opinion, every person, out of his piety to that Eternal Spirit which dwells unexpressed with him.
    Let 12.396 24 To live solitary and unexpressed is painful...

unexpressive, adj. (1)

    Farm 7.153 17 ...the drawing-room heroes put down beside [the farmer] would shrivel in his presence; he solid and unexpressive, they expressed to gold-leaf.

unfading, adj. (1)

    CInt 12.112 12 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./

unfailing, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.64 11 As a plant upon the earth, so a man...is nourished by unfailing fountains...
    Elo2 8.124 13 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge, my unfailing friends...in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
    Res 8.148 26 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire. The children never suspect...that this unfailing fertility has been rehearsed a hundred times...

unfairness, n. (1)

    LT 1.270 27 ...each of these aspirations and attempts of the people for the Better is magnified by the natural exaggeration of its advocates, until it... repels discreet persons by the unfairness of the plea...

unfaithful, adj. (1)

    PI 8.69 3 Vexatious to find poets, who are by excellence the thinking and feeling of the world, deficient in truth of intellect and of affection. Then is conscience unfaithful...

unfaithfulness, n. (1)

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

unfaltering, adj. (1)

    ALin 11.328 19 [The people] knew that outward grace is dust;/ They could not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's [Lincoln's] unfaltering skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent, like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust./

unfashionable, adj. (2)

    Mrs1 3.132 11 ...strong will is always in fashion, let who will be unfashionable.
    Elo2 8.130 23 If the cause be unfashionable, [the eloquent man] will make it fashionable.

unfashionable, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.153 23 What is rich? Are you rich enough...to succor the unfashionable and the eccentric?...

unfathomable, adj. (5)

    MN 1.205 25 ...O rich and various Man!...carrying in thy senses the morning and the night and the unfathomable galaxy;...
    CbW 6.269 3 When joy or calamity or genius shall show [the youth his purpose], then woods...then city shopmen...will mirror back to him its unfathomable heaven...
    PI 8.43 25 ...the poet creates his persons, and then watches and relates what they do and say. Such creation is poetry...and its possibility is an unfathomable enigma.
    PC 8.229 24 Hope never spreads her golden wings but on unfathomable seas.
    PerF 10.80 4 Bonaparte, with his celerity of combination, mute, unfathomable, reads the geography of Europe as if his eyes were telescopes;...

unfathomed, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.45 27 ...these [human forms] all rest...on the unfathomed sea of thought and virtue...
    Fdsp 2.198 19 ...I respect thy genius; it is to me as yet unfathomed;...
    Nat2 3.177 27 Literature, poetry, science are the homage of man to this unfathomed secret [nature]...

unfavorable, adj. (8)

    OS 2.287 2 If [a man] have found his centre, the Deity will shine through him, through all the disguises...of unfavorable circumstance.
    NMW 4.248 19 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains.
    Ctr 6.157 18 Here is a new poem, which elicits a good many comments in the journals and in conversation. From these it is easy at last to gather the verdict which readers passed upon it; and that is, in the main, unfavorable.
    Wsp 6.205 14 ...some of the Pacific islanders flog their gods when things take an unfavorable turn.
    Civ 7.26 5 High degrees of moral sentiment control the unfavorable influences of climate;...
    OA 7.318 24 ...if the question be the felicity of age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
    LS 11.23 16 There remain some practical objections to the ordinance [the Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter. There is one on which I had intended to say a few words; I mean the unfavorable relation in which it places that numerous class of persons who abstain from it merely from disinclination to the rite.
    EdAd 11.386 10 Conceding these unfavorable appearances, it would yet be a poor pedantry to read the fates of this country from these narrow data.

unfeigned, adj. (2)

    ET9 5.146 17 I have found that Englishmen have such a good opinion of England that...the New Yorker or Pennsylvanian who modestly laments the disadvantage of a new country, log-huts and savages, is surprised by the instant and unfeigned commiseration of the whole company...
    Comc 8.162 17 ...with what unfeigned compassion we have seen such a person [of excessive susceptibility to the ludicrous] receiving like a willing martyr the whispers into his ear of a man of wit.

unfinished, adj. (3)

    Pow 6.73 1 [Michel Angelo] was not crushed by his one picture left unfinished at last.
    Ctr 6.154 11 Suffer [people who scream and bewail] once to begin the enumeration of their infirmities and the sun will go down on the unfinished tale.
    LLNE 10.335 8 In every public discourse there was nothing left for the indulgence of [Everett's] hearer, no marks of late hours and anxious, unfinished study...

unfit, adj. (23)

    AmS 1.94 8 There goes in the world a notion that the scholar should be...as unfit for any handiwork or public labor as a penknife for an axe.
    DSA 1.129 27 [Jesus] felt...no unfit tenderness at postponing [the prophets'] initial revelations to the hour and the man that now is;...
    LE 1.184 13 Let [the scholar] not grieve too much on account of unfit associates.
    MR 1.230 24 The employments of commerce are not intrinsically unfit for a man...
    MR 1.233 16 ...all such ingenuous souls...who by the law of their nature must act simply, find these ways of trade unfit for them...
    LT 1.271 16 We arraign our daily employments. They appear to us unfit...
    Tran 1.342 19 ...[Society] saith, Whoso goes to walk alone...declares all to be unfit to be his companions;...
    SL 2.144 2 A man's genius...the selection of what is fit for him, the rejection of what is unfit, determines for him the character of the universe.
    Nat2 3.177 19 Frivolity is a most unfit tribute to Pan...
    Pol1 3.214 4 Whilst I do what is fit for me, and abstain from what is unfit, my neighbor and I shall often agree in our means...
    SwM 4.140 10 The illuminated Quakers explained their Light, not as somewhat which leads to any action, but it appears as an obstruction to any thing unfit.
    ET13 5.226 25 The [English] curates are ill paid, and the prelates are overpaid. This abuse draws into the church the children of the nobility and other unfit persons who have a taste for expense.
    Wsp 6.239 23 Men are too often unfit to live...
    CbW 6.270 19 How to live with unfit companions?...
    CbW 6.274 12 ...it is marriage, fit or unfit, that makes our home...
    Edc1 10.137 27 I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit.
    FSLN 11.221 23 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that...he was only to say plain and equal things,-grand things if he had them, and, if he had them not, only to abstain from saying unfit things...
    JBS 11.279 18 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...abstemious, refusing luxuries, not sourly and reproachfully, but simply as unfit for his habit;...
    PLT 12.26 19 In unfit company the finest powers are paralyzed.
    Milt1 12.272 5 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of domestic liberty, or the liberty of divorce, on the ground that unfit disposition of mind was a better reason for the act of divorce than infirmity of body...
    Milt1 12.272 20 [Milton] would be divorced when he finds in his consort unfit disposition;...
    Milt1 12.278 16 [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] is to be regarded as a poem on one of the griefs of man's condition, namely, unfit marriage.
    Milt1 12.278 17 ...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...is entitled to.

unfit, v. (1)

    Schr 10.280 25 The objection of men of the world to what they call the morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at present, is...that the idealistic views unfit their children for business in their sense...

unfitness, n. (1)

    ET13 5.225 16 The chatter of French politics...and the noise of embarking emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind; so that when you came to read the liturgy to a modern congregation, it was almost absurd in its unfitness...

unfits, v. (1)

    Comp 2.117 16 Has [a man] a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society? Thereby he is driven to entertain himself alone...

unfitted, adj. (1)

    Elo2 8.120 8 ...give [an eloquent man]...the inspiration of a great multitude, and he surprises by new and unlooked-for powers. Before, he was out of place, and unfitted as a cannon in a parlor.

unfix, v. (1)

    Hist 2.31 21 The power of music, the power of poetry, to unfix and...clap wings to solid nature, interprets the riddle of Orpheus.

unfixes, v. (1)

    Nat 1.51 27 [The poet] unfixes the land and the sea...

unflinching, adj. (2)

    ET9 5.150 15 ...in books of science, one is surprised [in England] by the most innocent exhibition of unflinching nationality.
    ET15 5.263 19 [The London Times] has shown those qualities which are dear to Englishmen, unflinching adherence to its objects...

unfold, v. (19)

    Nat 1.76 19 As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.
    LE 1.181 17 ...in a contempt for the gabble of to-day's opinions the secret of the world is to be learned, and the skill truly to unfold it is acquired.
    Int 2.325 11 Gladly would I unfold in calm degrees a natural history of the intellect...
    Pt1 3.10 6 ...[the poet] has a whole new experience to unfold;...
    NR 3.238 24 When afterwards [the recluse] comes to unfold [his endowment] in propitious circumstance, it seems the only talent;...
    GoW 4.278 19 We had an English romance here...professing...to unfold the political hope of the party called Young England,--in which the only reward of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage.
    ET4 5.52 13 The English derive their pedigree from such a range of nationalities that there needs sea-room and land-room to unfold the varieties of talent and character.
    Ctr 6.138 3 ...here is a pedant that cannot unfold his wrinkles, nor conceal his wrath at interruption by the best, if their conversation do not fit his impertinency...
    Bty 6.282 22 ...man, when his powers unfold in order, will take nature along with him...
    WD 7.179 20 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar...who can unfold the theory of this particular Wednesday.
    WD 7.180 13 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will...sit at home with repose and deep joy on its face. The world has no such landscape...the future no equal second opportunity. Now let poets sing! now let arts unfold!
    Suc 7.311 13 There is an external life, which is...taught to grasp all the boy can get, urging him...to...unfold his talents, shine, conquer and possess.
    SA 8.80 3 ...a few natures are central and forever unfold...
    SA 8.91 24 ...in the effort to unfold our thought to a friend we make it clearer to ourselves...
    Dem1 10.27 15 ...the attraction which this topic [demonology] has had for me and which induces me to unfold its parts before you is precisely because I think the numberless forms in which this superstition has reappeared in every time and every people indicates the inextinguishableness of wonder in man;...
    ACiv 11.304 10 I shall not attempt to unfold the details of the project of emancipation.
    PLT 12.31 23 There is no property or relation in that immense arsenal of forces which the earth is, but some man is at last found who...delights to unfold and work it...
    MAng1 12.213 1 Never did sculptor's dream unfold/ A form which marble doth not hold/ In its white block;.../
    MLit 12.333 23 ...all the hints of omnipresence and energy which we have caught, this man [the poet] should unfold, and constitute facts.

unfolded, v. (8)

    Hist 2.24 7 The Grecian state is the era...of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body.
    Comp 2.94 5 The preacher...unfolded in the ordinary manner the doctrine of the Last Judgment.
    SwM 4.127 1 In the Conjugal Love, [Swedenborg] has unfolded the science of marriage.
    QO 8.201 4 Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.
    War 11.155 19 The instinct of self-help is very early unfolded in the coarse and merely brute form of war...
    War 11.160 13 The eternal germination of the better has unfolded new powers...
    PLT 12.18 20 [The perceptions of the soul] are detached from their parent, they pass into other minds; ripened and unfolded by many they hasten to incarnate themselves in action...
    PLT 12.48 6 Each of these talents is born to be unfolded and set at work for the use and delight of men...

unfolding, adj. (2)

    DL 7.124 5 ...it is pitiful to date and measure all the facts and sequel of an unfolding life from such a youthful and generally inconsiderate period as the age of courtship and marriage.
    Suc 7.283 19 ...we value ourselves on all these feats. 'T is the way of the world; 't is the law of youth, and of unfolding strength.

unfolding, n. (7)

    Lov1 2.183 7 [The doctrine of love] awaits a truer unfolding in opposition and rebuke to that subterranean prudence which presides at marriages...
    Int 2.329 20 Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition;...
    UGM 4.8 7 Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding.
    PC 8.223 20 Mind carries the law; history is the slow and atomic unfolding.
    Edc1 10.147 26 By many steps...the hesitating collegian, in the school debate...in mock court, comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly...
    ALin 11.336 18 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web, that [Lincoln] had reached the term;...
    CInt 12.124 8 Here [in a good teacher] is sympathy; here is...the hope and impulse imparted. And education is what it should be, a delightful unfolding of the faculties in right order.

unfolding, v. (3)

    Int 2.330 1 All our progress is an unfolding...
    NR 3.234 13 In modern sculpture, picture and poetry, the beauty is miscellaneous; the artist works here and there...instead of unfolding the unit of his thought.
    EWI 11.143 14 Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature; and there too is the germ forever protected, unfolding gigantic leaf after leaf...

unfoldings, n. (1)

    War 11.151 20 As far as history has preserved to us the slow unfoldings of any savage tribe, it is not easy to see how war could be avoided...

unfolds, v. (6)

    AmS 1.99 22 Herein [the great soul] unfolds the sacred germ of his instinct...
    SL 2.141 26 By doing his own work [a man] unfolds himself.
    Prd1 2.222 16 [Prudence] is legitimate...when it unfolds the beauty of laws within the narrow scope of the senses.
    Chr2 10.99 14 ...slowly the soul unfolds itself in the new man.
    FSLN 11.218 19 [The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a head his bread of knowledge costs...
    ACri 12.304 9 The classic unfolds, the romantic adds.

unforeseen, adj. (2)

    Int 2.328 4 In the most...introverted self-tormentor's life, the greatest part is incalculable by him, unforeseen, unimaginable...
    NMW 4.237 19 In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon] remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the- morning kind: I mean...that which...in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgment and decision...

unforgetable, adj. (2)

    ET1 5.10 6 ...year after year the scholar must still go back to Landor...for wisdom, wit, and indignation that are unforgetable.
    F 6.16 19 Look at the unpalatable conclusions of Knox...a rash and unsatisfactory writer, but charged with pungent and unforgetable truths.

unformulated, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.17 20 Above the thought is the higher truth,-truth as yet undomesticated and therefore unformulated.

unfortunate, adj. (3)

    Prd1 2.233 1 A man of genius...self-indulgent, becomes presently unfortunate, querulous...
    Dem1 10.15 3 The Jew [Masollam]...bent his bow and shot the bird to the ground. This act offended the augur and some others, and they began to utter imprecations against the Jew. But he replied, Wherefore? Why are you so foolish as to take care of this unfortunate bird?
    SMC 11.362 7 At one time [George Prescott] finds his company unfortunate in having fallen between two companies of quite another class...

unfortunately, adv. (3)

    Nat 1.45 22 Unfortunately every one of [the human forms] bears the marks as of some injury;...
    AmS 1.83 9 ...unfortunately, this original unit...has been so distributed to multitudes...that it...cannot be gathered.
    NMW 4.226 19 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly. It is impossible, said Dumont, as, unfortunately, I have shown it to Lord Elgin.

unfound, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.74 16 Is not prayer also...a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite?

unfounded, adj. (2)

    NER 3.284 12 Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of standing.
    TPar 11.289 14 One fault [Theodore Parker] had, he...sometimes vexed [his friends] with the importunity of his good opinion, whilst they knew better the ebb which follows unfounded praise.

unfrequent, adj. (1)

    Prd1 2.232 25 Tasso's is no unfrequent case in modern biography.

unfrequently, adv. (1)

    Bost 12.197 16 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...

unfriendly, adj. (7)

    Nat 1.22 23 There is something unfriendly in each [of the intellectual and the active powers] to the other...
    Con 1.310 14 ...[existing institutions] are really friendly to the good, unfriendly to the bad;...
    SL 2.152 9 There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are;...then is a teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.
    Prd1 2.240 2 Wisdom will never let us stand with any man or men on an unfriendly footing.
    Exp 3.51 20 Very mortifying is the reluctant experience that some unfriendly excess or imbecility neutralizes the promise of genius.
    HDC 11.69 20 ...all such persons as shall purchase, sell, or use any such tea, shall, for the future, be deemed unfriendly to the happy constitution of this country.
    EdAd 11.391 26 Is the age we live in unfriendly to the highest powers;...

unfruitfulness, n. (1)

    PPo 8.257 5 The willows, [Hafiz] says, bow themselves to every wind out of shame for their unfruitfulness.

unfurls, v. (1)

    AmS 1.96 24 In its grub state...[the new deed] is a dull grub. But suddenly, without observation, the selfsame thing unfurls beautiful wings...

unfurnished, adj. (2)

    SS 7.10 15 A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member.
    Schr 10.283 25 The scholar...is unfurnished who has only literary weapons.

ungainliness, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.162 25 Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium...

ungainly, adj. (1)

    SA 8.82 19 It is a commonplace of romances to show the ungainly manners of the pedant who has lived too long in college.

ungenerous, adj. (1)

    SL 2.159 20 [A man] may be a solitary eater, but he cannot keep his foolish counsel. A broken complexion...ungenerous acts...all blab.

ungenial, adj. (2)

    OS 2.287 2 If [a man] have found his centre, the Deity will shine through him, through all the disguises...of ungenial temperament...
    ET3 5.34 6 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in;...the latter because art...transforms a rude, ungenial land into a paradise of comfort and plenty.

ungirt, adj. (1)

    SovE 10.203 25 ...our later generation appears ungirt, frivolous, compared with the religions of the last or Calvinist age.

unglue, v. (1)

    FSLN 11.244 15 ...the Fugitive Law did much to unglue the eyes of men...

ungodly, adj. (1)

    FSLC 11.193 15 If you starve or beat the orphan, in my presence, and I accuse your cruelty, can I help it? In the words of Electra...'T is you that say it, not I. You do the deeds, and your ungodly deeds find me the words.

ungoverned, adj. (2)

    War 11.151 22 As far as history has preserved to us the slow unfoldings of any savage tribe, it is not easy to see how war could be avoided by such wild, passionate, needy, ungoverned, strong-bodied creatures.
    War 11.165 19 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 a bad, ungoverned temper he has;...

ungraceful, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.85 19 ...in any public assembly, him who has the facts and can and will state them, people will listen to...though he is hoarse and ungraceful...

ungraciously, adv. (1)

    ET1 5.23 12 [Wordsworth] replied he never was in haste to publish; partly because he corrected a good deal, and every alteration is ungraciously received after printing;...

ungrateful, adj. (10)

    Nat 1.59 3 ...there is something ungrateful in expanding too curiously the particulars of the general proposition, that all culture tends to imbue us with idealism.
    Comp 2.119 7 If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more.
    SL 2.150 16 Persons approach us, famous for their beauty...with very imperfect result. To be sure it would be ungrateful in us not to praise them loudly.
    Fdsp 2.194 5 ...I am not so ungrateful as not to see the wise, the lovely and the noble-minded, as from time to time they pass my gate.
    Fdsp 2.216 13 It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space...
    Gts 3.163 13 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons...I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
    NR 3.246 16 We are as ungrateful as children.
    ET14 5.260 10 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...one studious, contemplative, experimenting; the other, the ungrateful pupil, scornful of the source whilst availing itself of the knowledge for gain;...
    MMEm 10.408 27 To be singular of choice, without singular talents and virtues, is as ridiculous as ungrateful.
    MMEm 10.431 24 What a timid, ungrateful creature!

ungratified, adj. (1)

    OA 7.326 22 The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried...

ungrounded, adj. (1)

    Trag 12.409 13 ...the glare of malignity, ungrounded fears...darken the brow and chill the heart of men.

ungrown, adj. (1)

    Let 12.393 25 The sea and the iron road are safer toys for such ungrown people;...

unguarded, adj. (2)

    QO 8.188 17 In opening a new book we often discover, from the unguarded devotion with which the writer gives his motto or text, all we have to expect from him.
    War 11.162 10 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...

unhallowed, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.403 4 [Mary Moody Emerson] had a deep sympathy with genius. When it was unhallowed, as in Byron, she had none the less...

unhand, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.214 15 Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying Who are you? Unhand me...

unhandselled, adj. (1)

    AmS 1.99 27 Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature;...

unhandsome, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.49 22 I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects...to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

unhappily, adv. (11)

    Hsm1 2.249 15 Unhappily no man exists who has not in his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the sin...
    NER 3.269 13 ...some doubt is felt by good and wise men whether really the happiness and probity of men is increased by the culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education. Unhappily too the doubt comes from scholars...
    SwM 4.102 5 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated, in astronomy, the discovery of the seventh planet,--but, unhappily, not also of the eighth;...
    Bhr 6.174 6 Unhappily the book [Dickens, American Notes] had its own deformities.
    DL 7.123 16 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model.
    PI 8.69 13 The book [Goethe's Faust]...stands unhappily related to the whole modern world;...
    EWI 11.124 19 ...unhappily, most unhappily, gentlemen, man is born with intellect...
    EWI 11.125 2 Unhappily...for the planter, the laws of nature are in harmony with each other...
    EWI 11.134 16 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out that these neglected victims are poor and without weight;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    FSLN 11.233 14 You relied on the Supreme Court. The law was right, excellent law for the lambs. But what if unhappily the judges were chosen from the wolves...
    PLT 12.54 10 Nonsense will not keep its unreason if you come into the humorist's point of view, but unhappily we find it is fast becoming sense...

unhappiness, n. (2)

    AmS 1.109 20 ...the time is infected with Hamlet's unhappiness...
    Art1 2.354 15 Our happiness and unhappiness are unproductive.

unhappy, adj. (16)

    DSA 1.140 4 Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give bread of life.
    MN 1.217 13 ...is not he only unhappy who is not in love?...
    MR 1.234 7 Suppose a man is so unhappy as to be born a saint...and he is to get his living in the world;...
    YA 1.386 14 Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy... does not hear his call to go and be their king?
    SL 2.136 3 ...our benevolence is unhappy.
    Prd1 2.229 7 I have seen a criticism on some paintings, of which I am reminded when I see the shiftless and unhappy men who are not true to their senses.
    Int 2.342 19 Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
    Pt1 3.24 13 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.
    Exp 3.75 19 It is very unhappy...the discovery we have made that we exist.
    Chr1 3.99 14 I revere the person who is riches; so that I cannot think of him as alone, or poor, or exiled, or unhappy, or a client...
    Chr1 3.109 23 I should think myself very unhappy in my associates if I could not credit the best things in history.
    Pow 6.77 2 Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day.
    MMEm 10.415 24 This morning rich in existence; the remembrance of past destitution in the deep poverty of my [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt, and her most unhappy temper;...
    Carl 10.489 24 [Carlyle] talks like a very unhappy man...
    War 11.156 14 Put [the man concerned with pugnacity] into a circle of cultivated men, where the conversation broaches the great questions that besiege the human reason, and he would be dumb and unhappy...
    Bost 12.187 26 The Greeks thought him unhappy who died without seeing the statue of Jove at Olympia.

unhappy, n. (1)

    SwM 4.131 19 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the unhappy...

unharmed, adj. (2)

    OA 7.314 6 ...Lowly faithful, banish fear,/ Right onward drive unharmed;/ The port, well worth the cruise, is near,/ And every wave is charmed./
    Insp 8.283 9 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert]...consoles himself that his own faith and the divine life in him remain to him unchanged, unharmed.

unhealthy, adj. (2)

    ET5 5.95 13 Chat Moss and the fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire are unhealthy and too barren to pay rent.
    OA 7.323 22 The humorous thief who drank a pot of beer at the gallows blew off the froth because he had heard it was unhealthy;...

unheard, adj. (3)

    Dem1 10.28 9 The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard...
    Scot 11.465 5 [Scott] apprehended in advance the immense enlargement of the reading public...which, though until then unheard of, has become familiar to the present time.
    Milt1 12.260 26 [Milton] uttered in [English] things unheard before.

unheard-of, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.22 9 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he acts, unheard-of success evinces the presence of rare agents;...

unheeding, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.357 12 ...church and old book mumble and ritualize to an unheeding, preoccupied and advancing mind...

unheroically, adv. (1)

    PI 8.74 7 Poetry is inestimable as...a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism. But so many men are ill-born or ill-bred,--the brains are...so imperfectly formed, unheroically...that the doctrine is imperfectly received.

unhesitating, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.83 9 I have been greatly indebted, in preparing this sketch [of Concord], to the printed but unpublished History of this town, furnished me by the unhesitating kindness of its author [Lemuel Shattuck]...

unhesitatingly, adv. (2)

    SR 2.89 12 He who knows that power is inborn...and, so perceiving, throws himself unhesitatingly on his thought, instantly rights himself...
    Plu 10.296 8 Rollin, so long the historian of antiquity for France, drew unhesitatingly his history from [Plutarch].

unhindered, adj. (1)

    Wom 11.418 19 ...there are multitudes of men who live to objects quite out of them...unhindered by any influence of constitution.

unhinged, v. (1)

    CbW 6.269 25 ...a virulent, aggressive fool taints the reason of a household. I have seen a whole family of quiet, sensible people unhinged and beside themselves, victims of such a rogue.

unhonored, adj. (1)

    AmS 1.100 20 [The scholar] plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation.

unhurt, adj. (4)

    SL 2.131 20 All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.
    Chr2 10.119 9 ...this rude stripping [the infant soul] of all support drives him inward, and he finds himself unhurt;...
    SovE 10.195 24 Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship...
    Prch 10.222 18 [Religion] does not grow thin or robust with the health of the votary. The object of adoration remains forever unhurt and identical.

unicorn, n. (1)

    SwM 4.135 23 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what with...behemoth and unicorn?

unideal, adj. (1)

    ET14 5.254 27 ...having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, [the English] are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will sweep their system away. The artists say, Nature puts them out; the scholars have become unideal.

unification, n. (1)

    PPh 4.52 7 A too rapid unification, and an excessive appliance to parts and particulars, are the twin dangers of speculation.

uniform, adj. (22)

    Nat 1.49 7 It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind, not to shake our faith in the stability of particular phenomena...
    Nat 1.58 12 The uniform language that may be heard in the churches of the most ignorant sects is, - Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world;...
    LT 1.267 22 To-day always looks mean to the thoughtless, in the face of an uniform experience that all good and great and happy actions are made up precisely of these blank to-days.
    Tran 1.332 18 ...ask [the materialist] why he believes that an uniform experience will continue uniform...
    Tran 1.332 19 ...ask [the materialist] why he believes that an uniform experience will continue uniform...
    Fdsp 2.197 5 [A man who stands united in his thought] is conscious of a universal success, even though bought by uniform particular failures.
    Exp 3.52 10 ...we look at [men], they seem alive, and we presume there is impulse in them. In the moment it seems impulse; in the year, in the lifetime, it turns out to be a certain uniform tune which the revolving barrel of the music-box must play.
    PPh 4.50 3 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...pervading, uniform, perfect, preeminent over nature...
    PPh 4.65 14 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds, which, though disturbed when compared with the others that are uniform, are still allied to their circulations;...
    PPh 4.65 17 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...and that...we might, by imitating the uniform revolutions of divinity, set right our own wanderings and blunders.
    PNR 4.85 27 [Plato's] definition of ideas, as what is simple, permanent, uniform and self-existent...marks an era in the world.
    F 6.16 5 ...the steadiness with which victory adheres to one tribe and defeat to another, is as uniform as the superposition of strata.
    OA 7.315 21 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute], charming by its uniform rhetorical merit;...
    Prch 10.235 10 ...emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject; seeing that opinions are temporary, but convictions uniform and eternal...
    SlHr 10.438 10 ...[Samuel Hoar] continued the uniform practice of his daily walk in all parts of the city [Charleston].
    SlHr 10.439 20 [Samuel Hoar] combined a uniform self-respect with a natural reverence for every other man;...
    Thor 10.460 12 ...[Thoreau] paid the tribute of his uniform respect to the Anti-Slavery party.
    HDC 11.84 1 I find our annals [of Concord] marked with a uniform good sense.
    HCom 11.342 19 The experience has been uniform that it is the gentle soul that makes the firm hero after all.
    FRO2 11.486 9 ...we find parity, identity of design, through Nature, and benefit to be the uniform aim...
    MAng1 12.222 1 There needs no better proof of our instinctive feeling of the immense expression of which the human figure is capable than the uniform tendency which the religion of every country has betrayed towards Anthropomorphism...
    MLit 12.327 18 In these days and in this country...it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...with uniform cheerfulness and greatness of mind.

uniform, n. (4)

    GoW 4.273 27 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...that he had put off a gay uniform for a fatigue dress...
    PI 8.46 1 In society you have this figure [of rhyme]...in a regiment of soldiers in uniform.
    Grts 8.312 6 The day will come when no badge, uniform or medal will be worn;...
    Chr2 10.109 26 ...Paganism hides itself in the uniform of the Church.

uniformity, n. (3)

    Edc1 10.138 6 ...we sacrifice the genius of the pupil...to a neat and safe uniformity...
    LLNE 10.361 4 Those who inspired and organized [Brook Farm] were... persons impatient of...the uniformity...of society around them...
    LS 11.3 7 In the history of the Church no subject has been more fruitful of controversy than the Lord's Supper. There never has been...any uniformity in the mode of celebrating it.

uniformly, adv. (17)

    Pt1 3.35 19 I do not know the man in history to whom things stood so uniformly for words [as Swedenborg].
    ET14 5.245 18 Hallam is uniformly polite, but with deficient sympathy;...
    ET15 5.271 13 [Punch's] sketches are...the delight of every class, because uniformly guided by that taste which is tyrannical in England.
    Wsp 6.217 23 ...talent uniformly sinks with character.
    Suc 7.293 15 ...the mob uniformly cheers the publisher, and not the inventor.
    Aris 10.42 1 In the heroic ages, as we call them, the hero uniformly has some real talent.
    Supl 10.176 1 The men whom [Nature] admits to her confidence...are uniformly marked by absence of pretension...
    Plu 10.307 13 Plutarch is uniformly true to this [spiritual] centre.
    LLNE 10.326 9 The former generations...sacrificed uniformly the citizen to the State.
    LLNE 10.365 5 Married women I believe uniformly decided against the community.
    SlHr 10.445 8 [Samuel Hoar] had uniformly the air of knowing just what he wanted...
    Thor 10.462 4 The length of [Thoreau's] walk uniformly made the length of his writing.
    GSt 10.503 24 [George Stearns] gave to each [patriotic measure] his strong support, but uniformly shunned to appear in public.
    HDC 11.37 15 The faithful dealing and brave good will, which, during the life of the friendly Massasoit, [the English] uniformly experienced at Plymouth and at Boston, went to their hearts.
    War 11.173 24 ...the man who...without any notice of his action abroad, expecting none, takes in solitude the right step uniformly...does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
    II 12.83 23 Life is not quite desirable to [men slow in finding their vocation]. It uniformly suggests in the conversation of men the presumption of continued life, of which the present is only one term.
    MLit 12.319 17 [Shelley's] muse is uniformly imitative;...

uniforms, n. (3)

    Cour 7.258 6 Lord Wellington said, Uniforms were often masks;...
    OA 7.316 7 Wellington, in speaking of military men, said, What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
    LLNE 10.367 21 The children from six to eight [said Fourier], organized into companies with flags and uniforms, shall do this last function of civilization [the dirty work].

unifying, adj. (1)

    AmS 1.85 20 ...tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, [the young mind] goes on tying things together...

unimaginable, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.17 15 ...the sunset and moonrise [are] my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie;...
    Tran 1.332 7 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away... a bit of bullet, now glimmering, now darkling through a small cubic space on the edge of an unimaginable pit of emptiness.
    Int 2.328 5 In the most...introverted self-tormentor's life, the greatest part is incalculable by him, unforeseen, unimaginable...
    PC 8.224 27 Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions...

unimagined, adj. (1)

    SA 8.77 7 He forbids to despair;/ His cheeks mantle with mirth;/ And the unimagined good of men/ Is yeaning at the birth./

unimpassioned, adj. (1)

    MN 1.198 14 I do not wish in attempting to paint a man, to describe an... unimpassioned...ghost.

unimpeachable, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.332 13 One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...the multiplication table has been hitherto found unimpeachable truth;...

unimpeded, adj. (1)

    MN 1.215 18 You shall love...an unimpeded mind...

unimplorable, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.52 14 The country...of men faithful in doctrine and in practice to the idea of a deaf, unimplorable, immense fate, is Asia;...

unimportance, n. (1)

    PPo 8.251 5 Every song of Hafiz affords new proof of the unimportance of your subject to success...

unimportant, adj. (7)

    Nat 1.28 24 The instincts of the ant are very unimportant considered as the ant's;...
    Mrs1 3.129 22 [Aristocracy] respects the administration of such unimportant matters, that we should not look for any durability in its rule.
    PPh 4.49 20 ...the ploughman, the plough and the furrow are of one stuff; and the stuff is such and so much that the variations of form are unimportant.
    Pow 6.61 26 ...[a timid man] discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are here in play make our politics unimportant.
    Suc 7.308 3 Your theory is unimportant;...
    Thor 10.455 19 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose...
    ACri 12.283 4 Literature is but a poor trick...when it busies itself to make words pass for things; and yet I am far from thinking this subordinate service unimportant.

unimpressionable, adj. (1)

    Carl 10.493 19 [Carlyle] has a vivacious, aggressive temperament, and unimpressionable.

unimpressive, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.5 25 ...when I look at the tree or the river and have not yet definitely made out what they would say to me, they are by no means unimpressive.

unimproved, adj. (1)

    Pray 12.352 7 ...soon I am weary of spending my time causelessly and unimproved...

uninhabitable, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.357 25 Let [the Transcendentalist] obey the Genius...then most when he seems to lead to uninhabitable deserts of thought and life;...

uninjurable, adj. (1)

    CL 12.148 24 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... They drive before them in their course the long, vast, uninjurable, rain-retaining cloud.

uninjured, adj. (2)

    Suc 7.285 6 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April, and he directed that during ten days at that season the logs should be immersed under water in the docks; which being done, the timber was found to be uninjured.
    CL 12.138 8 ...[Linnaeus] directed that during ten days...the logs should be immersed under the water, which beind done, the timber was found to be uninjured.

uninspired, adj. (2)

    NR 3.236 2 ...the uninspired man certainly finds persons a conveniency in household matters...
    ET14 5.258 5 The best office of the best poets has been to show how low and uninspired was their general style...

uninstructed, adj. (1)

    QO 8.181 4 Swedenborg, Behmen, Spinoza, will appear original to uninstructed and to thoughtless persons...

uninstructed, n. (1)

    CInt 12.121 25 ...in the class called intellectual the men are no better than the uninstructed.

unintelligent, adj. (1)

    SR 2.56 18 ...when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.

unintelligible, adj. (4)

    Mrs1 3.145 19 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age...
    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.
    Plu 10.320 16 ...in recent reading of the old text [of Plutarch's Morals], on coming on anything absurd or unintelligible, I referred to the new text and found a clear and accurate statement in its place.
    RBur 11.442 12 [Burns] grew up in a rural district, speaking a patois unintelligible to all but natives...

uninteresting, adj. (2)

    Bty 6.300 10 ...petulant old gentlemen...affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    PI 8.45 13 Every one may see, as he rides on the highway through an uninteresting landscape, how a little water instantly relieves the monotony...

uninterrupted, adj. (2)

    SwM 4.133 5 The universe [in Swedenborg's system of the world] is a gigantic crystal, all whose atoms and laminae lie in uninterrupted order...
    HDC 11.32 18 The green meadows of Musketaquid...were...not to be reached without a painful and dangerous journey through an uninterrupted wilderness.

uninterruptedly, adv. (1)

    OS 2.294 12 ...one blood rolls uninterruptedly an endless circulation through all men...

uninventive, adj. (1)

    Pow 6.58 3 ...in both men and women [there is] a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.

uninventive, n. (1)

    Aris 10.39 2 Men of aim must lead the aimless; men of invention the uninventive.

uninviting, adj. (1)

    AgMs 12.363 15 These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation, and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very uninviting and inconspicuous to State Commissioners.

Union, adj. (1)

    FSLN 11.234 14 If slavery is good, then is lying, theft, arson, homicide, each and all good, and to be maintained by Union societies.

Union, American, n. (2)

    FSLC 11.205 8 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop...
    FRep 11.528 12 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which will snap into atoms is so much as the smallest end be shivered off.

Union, Art, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.181 22 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals...so that one cannot open a newspaper without being disgusted by new records of shame. I cannot read longer even the local good news. When I look down the columns at the titles of paragraphs...Art Union, Revival of Religion, what bitter mockeries!

Union Committees', n. (1)

    FSLC 11.202 7 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they have thrust his speeches into the chimney. No roars of New York mobs can drown this voice in Mr. Webster's ear. It will outwhisper all the salvos of the Union Committees' cannon.

Union, Federal, n. (1)

    PC 8.207 5 No good citizen but shares the wonderful prosperity of the Federal Union.

union, n. (53)

    Nat 1.60 22 [The soul] is not hot and passionate...at the union or opposition of other persons.
    AmS 1.113 18 Every thing that tends to insulate the individual...tends to true union as well as greatness.
    MN 1.207 17 ...the union of foreign constitutions in him enables [a man] to do gladly and gracefully what the assembled human race could not have sufficed to do.
    Tran 1.359 24 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim... shall abide in beauty and strength, to reorganize themselves in nature...in fuller union with the surrounding system.
    YA 1.382 4 Here are Etzlers and mechanical projectors, who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would make every man rich;...
    Lov1 2.185 20 The union which is thus effected [by love]...is yet a temporary state.
    Fdsp 2.198 7 The instinct of affection revives the hope of union with our mates...
    OS 2.282 4 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light. The trances of Socrates, the union of Plotinus...are of this kind.
    OS 2.292 15 Ineffable is the union of man and God in every act of the soul.
    Int 2.325 23 [Mind's] vision is not like the vision of the eye, but is union with the things known.
    Exp 3.77 25 ...the longer a particular union lasts the more energy of appetency the parts not in union acquire.
    Exp 3.77 27 ...the longer a particular union lasts the more energy of appetency the parts not in union acquire.
    Mrs1 3.130 19 The objects of fashion may be frivolous, or fashion may be objectless, but the nature of this union and selection can be neither frivolous nor accidental.
    Mrs1 3.138 18 It is not quite sufficient to good-breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
    NER 3.266 20 The world is awaking to the idea of union...
    NER 3.267 1 ...this union [of men] must be inward...
    NER 3.267 4 The union [of men] is only perfect when all the uniters are isolated.
    NER 3.267 5 [The union of men] is the union of friends who live in different streets or towns.
    NER 3.267 9 Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished in his proportion; and the stricter the union the smaller and more pitiful he is.
    NER 3.267 16 The union must be ideal in actual individualism.
    UGM 4.10 25 There are advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first, when, by union with intellect and will, they ascend into life...
    UGM 4.33 12 ...the union of all minds appears intimate;...
    PPh 4.54 25 ...the union of impossibilities, which reappears in every object;...was now also transferred entire to the consciousness of a man [Plato].
    SwM 4.98 23 ...[Swedenborg] seemed...to be a composition of several persons,--like the giant fruits which are matured in gardens by the union of four or five single blossoms.
    SwM 4.127 20 ...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total;...
    ET4 5.67 18 This union of qualities is fabled in [the Englishmen's] national legend of Beauty and the Beast...
    ET14 5.236 6 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental soaring, of which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the writers of two centuries.
    Wth 6.99 17 Man was born to be rich, or inevitably grows rich...by the union of thought with nature.
    CbW 6.274 26 ...a habit of union and competition brings people up and keeps them up to their highest point;...
    SS 7.9 5 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons...
    SS 7.9 11 ...though there be for heroes this moral union, yet they too are as far off as ever from an intellectual union...
    SS 7.9 12 ...though there be for heroes this moral union, yet they too are as far off as ever from an intellectual union...
    SS 7.9 12 ...though there be for heroes this moral union, yet they too are as far off as ever from an intellectual union, and the moral union is for comparatively low and external purposes...
    Cour 7.271 12 The true temper has genial influences. It makes a bond of union between enemies.
    PI 8.22 1 This union of first and second sight reads Nature to the end of delight and of moral use.
    PI 8.68 18 In proportion as a man's life comes into union with truth, his thoughts approach to a parallelism with the currents of natural laws...
    Imtl 8.351 16 [Yama said to Nachiketas] The wise, by means of the union of the intellect with the soul, thinking him whom it is hard to behold, leaves both grief and joy.
    SovE 10.210 19 Such experiments as we recall are those in which some sect or dogma made the tie [with the moral principle], and that was an artificial element, which chilled and checked the union.
    Plu 10.318 18 The union in Alexander of sublime courage with the refinement of his pure tastes...endeared him to Plutarch.
    LLNE 10.369 3 [Brook Farm] was a close union...
    EWI 11.133 1 ...the Union already is at an end when the first citizen of Massachusetts is thus outraged. Is it an union and covenant in which the State of Massachusetts agrees to be imprisoned, and the State of Carolina to imprison?
    FSLC 11.199 8 [Webster's pacification] has brought United States swords into the streets, and chains round the court-house. A measure of pacification and union. What is its effect?
    FSLC 11.205 19 The union of this people is a real thing...
    FSLC 11.205 22 The union of this people is a real thing, an alliance of men of one flock, one language, one religion, one system of manners and ideas. I hold it to be a real and not a statute union.
    FSLC 11.205 27 I suppose the Union can be left to take care of itself. As much real union as there is, the statutes will be sure to express;...
    FSLC 11.212 12 Let us respect the Union to all honest ends. But also respect an older and wider union, the law of Nature and rectitude.
    AKan 11.260 12 What are the results of law and union?
    ACiv 11.307 21 ...whilst Slavery makes and keeps disunion, Emancipation removes the whole objection to union.
    Wom 11.411 3 [Man] invented marriage; and surrounded by religion...the union of the sexes.
    Scot 11.465 18 [Scott's] power on the public mind rests on the singular union of two influences.
    FRep 11.528 8 All this [American] forwardness and self-reliance...proceed on the belief...that [the people's] union and law are not in their memory, but in their blood and condition.
    FRep 11.531 4 Our national flag is not affecting...because it does not represent the population of the United States, but some...caucus; not union or justice, but selfishness and cunning.
    MLit 12.318 10 [The educated and susceptible] betray this impatience [with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy] by fleeing for resource to a conversation with Nature, which is courted in a certain moody and exploring spirit, as if they anticipated a more intimate union of man with the world than has been known in recent ages.

Union, n. (36)

    YA 1.363 18 This rage of road building is beneficent for America... inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch...
    YA 1.390 25 ...the terror of old people and of vicious people is lest the Union of these states be destroyed;...
    YA 1.390 26 ...as if the Union had any other real basis than the good pleasure of a majority of the citizens to be united.
    ET2 5.25 6 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which...in 1847 had been linked into a Union...
    Elo1 7.76 3 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union...
    PerF 10.87 2 ...a sensitive politician suffers his ideas of the part New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties.
    HDC 11.50 4 Tell [the Continental nations] the Union has twenty-four States, and Massachusetts is one.
    EWI 11.132 25 As for dangers to the Union, from such demands [on the South]!-the Union already is at an end when the first citizen of Massachusetts is thus outraged.
    EWI 11.132 26 ...the Union already is at an end when the first citizen of Massachusetts is thus outraged.
    EWI 11.134 27 ...let the citizens in their primary capacity...say to the government of the State, and of the Union, that government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party;...
    FSLC 11.180 7 Every hour brings us from distant quarters of the Union the expression of mortification at the late events in Massachusetts...
    FSLC 11.203 16 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th March, 1850...[Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery party in this country.
    FSLC 11.204 4 [Webster] looks at the Union as an estate...
    FSLC 11.204 9 [Webster] adheres to the letter. Happily he was born late,- after the independence had been declared, the Union agreed to, and the constitution settled.
    FSLC 11.205 23 The people cleave to the Union, because they see their advantage in it...
    FSLC 11.205 26 I suppose the Union can be left to take care of itself.
    FSLC 11.206 3 Under the Union I suppose the fact to be that there are really two nations, the North and the South.
    FSLC 11.206 16 The Union is at an end as soon as an immoral law is enacted.
    FSLC 11.207 3 ...I strongly share the hope of mankind in the power, and therefore, in the duties of the Union;...
    FSLC 11.210 23 ......still the question recurs, What must we do [about slavery]? One thing is plain, we cannot answer for the Union, but we must keep Massachusetts true.
    FSLC 11.212 11 Let us respect the Union to all honest ends.
    FSLC 11.213 19 Let us not lie, not steal, nor help to steal, and let us not call stealing by any fine name, as Union or Patriotism.
    FSLN 11.229 7 The way in which the country was dragged to consent to this [Fugitive Slave Law], and the disastrous defection (on the miserable cry of Union) of the men of letters...was the darkest passage in the history.
    FSLN 11.230 17 The plea on which freedom was resisted was Union.
    FSLN 11.233 27 ...now you relied on these dismal guaranties infamously made in 1850; and, before the body of Webster is yet crumbled, it is found that they have crumbled. This eternal monument of his fame and of the Union is rotten in four years.
    AKan 11.259 20 ...Union is a conspiracy against the Northern States which the Northern States are to have the privilege of paying for;...
    AKan 11.260 6 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I call it the stealing all the earnings of a poor man...and the earnings of all that shall come from him, his children's children forever. But this is Union, and this is Democracy;...
    AKan 11.260 13 What are the results of law and union? There is no Union.
    JBB 11.268 27 [John Brown] believes in the Union of the States...
    JBB 11.269 1 ...[John Brown] conceives that the only obstruction to the Union is Slavery...
    ACiv 11.306 10 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will that the Union shall not be broken...
    EPro 11.322 5 The territory of the Union shines to-day with a lustre which every European emigrant can discern from far;...
    SMC 11.355 1 ...it was found, contrary to all popular belief, that the country was at heart abolitionist, and for the Union was ready to die.
    FRep 11.527 26 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the predominance of the democratic party in the politics of the Union...
    FRep 11.544 8 ...in seeing this felicity without example that has rested on the Union thus far, I find new confidence for the future.
    Bost 12.207 18 The Massachusetts colony grew...all the while sending out colonies...until it has infused all the Union with its blood.

Union Pacific, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.272 12 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property...

Unionist, n. (2)

    FSLC 11.206 27 I am a Unionist as we all are, or nearly all...
    JBB 11.268 25 [John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence; and he used this expression in conversation here concerning them, Better that a whole generation of men, women and children should pass away by a violent death than that one word of either should be violated in this country. There is a Unionist, there is a strict constructionist for you.

unions, n. (1)

    Boks 7.215 13 ...'t is pity [people] should not read novels a little more, to import the fine generosities and the clear, firm conduct, which are as becoming in the unions and separations which love effects under shingle roofs as in palaces and among illustrious personages.

Unions, Trades', n. (1)

    YA 1.380 12 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner. Witness...the Trades' Unions...

unique, adj. (7)

    Nat 1.23 23 Nature is a sea of forms radically alike and even unique.
    DSA 1.126 19 ...the unique impression of Jesus upon mankind...is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion [of Eastern thought].
    SL 2.141 15 Every man has this call of the power to do somewhat unique...
    ShP 4.212 3 For executive faculty, for creation, Shakspeare is unique.
    ET14 5.237 17 The unique fact in literary history, the unsurprised reception of Shakspeare...seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the people.
    ET14 5.244 16 ...[the English] draw only a bucketful at the fountain of the First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not go to the spring-head. Bacon, who said this, is almost unique among his countrymen in that faculty;...
    Plu 10.297 6 Plutarch occupies a unique place in literature as an encyclopaedia of Greek and Roman antiquity.

unique, n. (1)

    SR 2.83 17 Every great man is a unique.

unison, n. (5)

    Nat 1.22 2 A virtuous man is in unison with [nature's] works...
    AmS 1.114 22 Young men...inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these...
    Hsm1 2.251 20 ...just and wise men take umbrage at [the hero's] act, until after some little time be past; then they see it to be in unison with their acts.
    ShP 4.189 15 A poet is...a heart in unison with his time and country.
    MMEm 10.424 23 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages...has attuned [man's] mind in such unison with the harp of the universe, that he is never without some chord of hope's music.

unit, n. (11)

    AmS 1.83 10 ...unfortunately, this original unit...has been so distributed to multitudes...that it...cannot be gathered.
    AmS 1.115 11 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit;...
    LE 1.172 3 ...the first observation you make...may open a new view of nature and of man, that...shall...dispose of your world-containing system as a very little unit.
    MN 1.193 4 If I see nothing to admire in the unit, shall I admire a million units?
    Lov1 2.184 21 Passion beholds its object as a perfect unit.
    Mrs1 3.151 21 [Lilla] was a unit and whole...
    NR 3.234 13 In modern sculpture, picture and poetry, the beauty is miscellaneous; the artist works here and there...instead of unfolding the unit of his thought.
    GoW 4.275 5 ...Goethe suggested the leading idea of modern botany, that a leaf or the eye of a leaf is the unit of botany...
    GoW 4.275 11 ...in osteology, [Goethe] assumed that one vertebra of the spine might be considered as the unit of the skeleton...
    PI 8.8 12 In botany we have...the poetic perception of metamorphosis,--that the same vegetable point or eye which is the unit of the plant can be transformed at pleasure into every part...
    FRep 11.527 15 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are all educational...

Unitarian, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.339 21 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling on Unitarian and commercial times, makes the peculiar shades of Idealism which we know.

Unitarian, n. (5)

    Exp 3.51 19 I knew a witty physician who...used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.
    ET1 5.10 22 [Coleridge] spoke of Dr. Channing. It was an unspeakable misfortune that he should have turned out a Unitarian after all.
    ET1 5.11 7 When [Coleridge] stopped to take breath, I interposed that whilst I highly valued all his explanations, I was bound to tell him that I was born and bred a Unitarian.
    ET1 5.12 2 He (Coleridge) knew all about Unitarianism perfectly well, because he had once been a Unitarian and knew what quackery it was.
    LS 11.18 2 I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God...

Unitarianism, Boston, n. (1)

    SovE 10.204 19 Luther would cut his hand off sooner than write theses against the pope if he suspected that he was bringing on with all his might the pale negations of Boston Unitarianism.

Unitarianism, n. (8)

    Tran 1.349 6 Each cause as it is called...say Calvinism, or Unitarianism- becomes speedily a little shop...
    Pt1 3.37 21 ...Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people...
    ET1 5.10 24 ...[Coleridge] burst into a declamation on the folly and ignorance of Unitarianism...
    ET1 5.12 1 He (Coleridge) knew all about Unitarianism perfectly well...
    ET1 5.12 4 [Coleridge] had been called the rising star of Unitarianism.
    Chr2 10.112 17 Our religion has got on as far as Unitarianism.
    Chr2 10.117 3 ...Calvinism rushes to be Unitarianism, as Unitarianism rushes to be pure Theism.
    MMEm 10.403 12 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is] that a mind like Byron's would never be satisfied with modern Unitarianism...

unitarians, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.382 5 The old men studied magic in the flowers,/ And human fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring things to names, for these were men,/ Were unitarians of the united world/...

Unitarians, n. (1)

    CSC 10.374 23 ...Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians and Philosophers,-all came successively to the top [at the Chardon Street Convention]...

unite, v. (19)

    MN 1.208 23 ...darest thou think meanly of thyself whom the stalwart Fate brought forth to unite his ragged sides...
    LT 1.275 18 See how daring is the reading, the speculation, the experimenting of the time. If now some genius shall arise who could unite these scattered rays!
    Hist 2.27 27 Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people. They cannot unite him to history...
    SR 2.85 2 ...strike the savage with a broad-axe and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal...
    Mrs1 3.139 7 ...[the spirit of the energetic class] respects everything which tends to unite men.
    NER 3.264 6 [The new communities] aim...to unite a liberal culture with an education to labor.
    PPh 4.48 1 We unite all things by perceiving the law which pervades them;...
    PPh 4.62 25 ...to judge is to unite to an object the notion which belongs to it.
    SwM 4.105 7 What was left for a genius of the largest calibre but to go over [his predecessors'] ground and verify and unite?
    GoW 4.273 19 [Goethe] had a power to unite the detached atoms again by their own law.
    GoW 4.290 16 We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.
    ET7 5.119 26 Madame de Stael says that the English irritated Napoleon, mainly because they have found out how to unite success with honesty.
    Wth 6.114 25 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to...unite farming to intellectual pursuits.
    Ctr 6.148 6 ...the aesthetic value of railroads is to unite the advantages of town and country life...
    DL 7.108 2 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy...who could explain...your habits of thought, your tastes, and in every explanation, not sever you from the whole, but unite you to it?
    PI 8.72 14 The problem of the poet is to unite freedom with precision;...
    Chr2 10.103 15 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when it...sets [a man] on...some zeal to unite men to abate some nuisance...are the homage we render to this sentiment...
    MMEm 10.416 2 ...joy, hope and resignation unite me [Mary Moody Emerson] to Him whose mysterious Will adjusts everything...
    FRO1 11.478 1 ...[the Free Religious Association] has prompted an equal magnanimity, that thus invites...all religious men...in whatever relation they stand to the Christian Church, to unite in a movement of benefit to men...

united, adj. (11)

    SR 2.59 23 [Previous victories] shed a united light on the advancing actor.
    Fdsp 2.197 2 A man who stands united with his thought conceives magnificently of himself.
    ShP 4.192 1 ...as we could not hope to suppress newspapers now...neither then [in Shakespeare's time] could king, prelate, or puritan, alone or united, suppress an organ which was ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch and library, at the same time.
    SS 7.8 22 ...the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light...
    Clbs 7.249 4 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, and so that their united opinion shall have its just influence on public questions of education and politics.
    Dem1 10.18 20 All united moral powers avail nothing against [demonic individuals].
    HDC 11.57 14 In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics...
    HDC 11.68 7 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence, in the vicinity of Boston, the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    SMC 11.349 17 We are thankful...that the heroes of old and of recent date, who made and kept America free and united, were not rare or solitary growths...
    EdAd 11.382 5 The old men studied magic in the flowers,/ And human fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring things to names, for these were men,/ Were unitarians of the united world/...
    ACri 12.303 22 ...literature resounds with the music of united vast ideas of affirmation and of moral truth.

United States, adj. (1)

    FSLC 11.199 6 [Webster's pacification] has brought United States swords into the streets...

United States, Constitution (2)

    HDC 11.82 5 ...in 1788, the town [Concord], by its delegate, accepted the new Constitution of the United States...
    EWI 11.131 11 ...the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States ordains in terms, that, The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.

United States Court, n. (1)

    JBB 11.272 19 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple as to believe that when a United States Court in Virginia, now, in its present reign of terror, sends to Connecticut...for a witness, it wants him for a witness?

United States, n. (16)

    YA 1.363 13 Who has not been stimulated to reflection by the facilities now in progress of construction for travel and the transportation of goods in the United States?
    ET10 5.159 1 ...about 1829-30, much fear was felt [in England] lest the [textile] trade would be drawn away by...the emigration of the spinners to Belgium and the United States.
    Elo1 7.69 4 ...neither can the Southerner in the United States, nor the Irish, compare [in eloquence] with the lively inhabitant of the south of Europe.
    SA 8.91 17 ...presidents of the United States are afflicted by rude Western and Southern gossips...
    Elo2 8.132 16 If there ever was a country where eloquence was a power, it is the United States.
    LVB 11.91 3 The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...
    LVB 11.91 11 It now appears that the government of the United States choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty...
    LVB 11.92 14 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States... forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact.
    LVB 11.92 22 Sir [Van Buren], does this government think that the people of the United States are become savage and mad?
    FSLN 11.219 16 ...under the shadow of [Webster's] great name inferior men sheltered themselves, threw their ballots for [the Fugitive Slave Law] and made the law. I say inferior men. There were all sorts of...men of high station, a President of the United States...but men without self-respect...
    AsSu 11.250 19 ...I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States...
    AKan 11.259 2 Who doubts that Kansas would have been very well settled, if the United States had let it alone?
    JBB 11.271 7 [The judges] assume that the United States can protect its witness or its prisoner.
    JBB 11.271 11 [The judges] assume that the United States can protect its witness or its prisoner. And in Massachusetts that is true, but the moment he is carried out of the bounds of Massachusetts, the United States, it is notorious, afford no protection at all;...
    FRep 11.531 2 Our national flag is not affecting...because it does not represent the population of the United States, but some...caucus;...
    FRep 11.539 14 It is not by heads reverted...to George Washington, that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time.

United States of America, n (1)

    ET4 5.45 3 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...

United States Senate, n. (4)

    Elo2 8.122 26 In the early years of this century, Mr. [John Quincy] Adams, at that time a member of the United States Senate at Washington, was elected Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College.
    Imtl 8.331 11 Many years ago, there were two men in the United States Senate...
    Imtl 8.331 18 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues...
    GSt 10.504 4 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading...

united, v. (23)

    Con 1.301 13 ...this bifold fact [Conservatism and Reform] lies thus united in real nature...
    Con 1.301 14 ...this bifold fact [Conservatism and Reform] lies thus united in real nature, and so united that no man can continue to exist in whom both these elements do not work...
    Tran 1.339 12 ...genius and virtue predict in man the same absence of private ends and of condescension to circumstances, united with every trait and talent of beauty and power.
    YA 1.391 1 ...as if the Union had any other real basis than the good pleasure of a majority of the citizens to be united.
    Lov1 2.187 2 By all the virtues [lovers] are united.
    Chr1 3.96 15 A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True...
    NER 3.266 24 Men will...plough, and reap, and govern, as by added ethereal power, when once they are united;...
    PPh 4.57 14 In [Plato] the freest abandonment is united with the precision of a geometer.
    ET6 5.104 21 [The Englishman] has that aplomb which results from...the obedience of all the powers to the will; as if the axes of his eyes were united to his backbone, and only moved with the trunk.
    Pow 6.67 11 [Boniface]...united in his person the functions of bully, incendiary, swindler, barkeeper, and burglar.
    Wth 6.115 3 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to...unite farming to intellectual pursuits. Many...made the experiment...but all were cured of their faith that scholarship and practical farming...could be united.
    CbW 6.254 5 ...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;... and united hostile nations under one government.
    SovE 10.186 18 All forces are found in Nature united with that which they move...
    SlHr 10.441 1 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which...left...the strength of a chief united to the modesty of a child.
    HDC 11.45 6 I esteem it the happiness of this country that its settlers...were united by personal affection.
    HDC 11.68 23 ...it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting opposition...
    War 11.154 3 [Alexander's conquest of the East]...united hostile nations under one code.
    AKan 11.263 2 I think the American Revolution bought its glory cheap. If the problem was new, it was simple. If there were few people, they were united...
    JBS 11.281 10 Nothing is more absurd than...to complain of a party of men united in opposition to slavery.
    Humb 11.457 12 ...Humboldt's [natural powers] were all united...
    MAng1 12.223 27 When the Florentines united themselves with Venice, England and France, to oppose the power of the Emperor Charles V., Michael Angelo was appointed Military Architect and Engineer, to superintend the erection of the necessary works.
    MLit 12.319 13 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the poems-one would say most incongruously united by some bookseller-of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats.
    MLit 12.322 10 ...of all men he who has united in himself...the tendencies of the era, is the German poet, naturalist and philosopher, Goethe.

uniters, n. (1)

    NER 3.267 4 The union [of men] is only perfect when all the uniters are isolated.

unites, v. (11)

    AmS 1.112 2 ...one design unites and animates the farthest pinnacle and the lowest trench.
    MN 1.207 22 [a man] cannot read, or think, or look but he unites the hitherto separated strands into a perfect cord.
    SR 2.59 5 These varieties [in actions] are lost sight of...at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all.
    Lov1 2.169 12 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... unites him to his race...
    Fdsp 2.209 5 Let [friendship] be an alliance of two large, formidable natures, mutually beheld, mutually feared, before yet they recognize the deep identity which, beneath these disparities, unites them.
    Mrs1 3.121 9 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.
    Pol1 3.219 17 [The movement toward self-government] separates the individual from all party, and unites him at the same time to the race.
    ET13 5.217 16 ...the gradation of the clergy [in England]...with the fact that a classical education has been secured to the clergyman, makes them the link which unites the sequestered peasantry with the intellectual advancement of the age.
    Shak1 11.450 1 ...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so unites the extremes, that, whilst he has kept the theatre now for three centuries...he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.
    Bost 12.197 19 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...unites itself by natural affinity to the highest minds of the world;...
    MAng1 12.223 16 Architecture is the bond that unites the elegant and the economical arts...

unities, n. (4)

    SwM 4.114 13 The unities of each organ are so many little organs...
    SwM 4.114 15 ...the unities of the tongue are little tongues;...
    Ill 6.313 2 ...in Boston, in San Francisco, the carnival, the maquerade is at its height. Nobody drops his domino. The unities, the fictions of the piece it would be an impertinence to break.
    Ill 6.324 21 ...the unities of Truth and of Right are not broken by the disguise.

Unities, n. (1)

    LE 1.160 5 ...neither Greece nor Rome, nor the three Unities of Aristotle... is to command any longer.

uniting, v. (1)

    War 11.153 17 [Alexander's conquest of the East] had the effect of uniting into one great interest the divided commonwealths of Greece...

units, n. (6)

    MN 1.193 5 If I see nothing to admire in the unit, shall I admire a million units?
    SwM 4.114 20 What was too small for the eye to detect was read by the aggregates; what was too large, by the units.
    ET4 5.45 14 The British census proper reckons twenty-seven and a half millions in the home countries. What makes this census important is the quality of the units that compose it.
    CbW 6.251 27 The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee. But the units whereof this mass is composed, are neuters, every one of which may be grown to a queen-bee.
    PC 8.210 5 When classes are exasperated against each other, the peace of the world is always kept by striking a new note. Instantly the units part, and form a new order...
    Mem 12.99 24 The mind has a better secret in generalization than merely adding units to its list of facts.

Unity, Blessed, n. (1)

    F 6.48 6 Let us build altars to the Blessed Unity...

unity, n. (66)

    Nat 1.43 3 ...[in the moral influence of nature] is especially apprehended the unity of Nature...
    Nat 1.43 4 ...[in the moral influence of nature] is especially apprehended the unity of Nature - the unity in variety...
    Nat 1.67 8 It is not so pertinent to man to know all the individuals of the animal kingdom, as it is to know whence and whereto is this tyrannizing unity in his constitution...
    Nat 1.67 15 ...it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
    Nat 1.74 1 The reason why the world lacks unity...is because man is disunited with himself.
    DSA 1.125 6 Thought may work cold and intransitive in things, and find no end or unity;...
    Hist 2.12 25 ...every animal in its growth, teaches the unity of cause...
    Hist 2.13 19 Genius detects...through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity.
    Hist 2.24 8 The Grecian state is the era...of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body.
    SR 2.77 23 [Prayer as a means to effect a private end] supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness.
    SR 2.87 14 [The wave's] unity is only phenomenal.
    Fdsp 2.206 8 [Friends] are to dignify to each other the daily needs and offices of man's life, and embellish it by courage, wisdom and unity.
    OS 2.277 18 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer. They all become wiser than they were. It arches over them like a temple, this unity of thought...
    OS 2.297 10 [Man] will weave no longer a spotted life of shreds and patches, but he will live with a divine unity.
    Exp 3.70 20 That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency. So is it with us, now sceptical or without unity, because immersed in forms and effects all seeming to be of equal yet hostile value, and now religious, whilst in the reception of spiritual law.
    Exp 3.78 2 Any invasion of [life's] unity would be chaos.
    Pol1 3.220 23 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of things...
    NER 3.280 24 ...all frank and searching conversation, in which a man lays himself open to his brother, apprises each of their radical unity.
    PPh 4.50 11 The knowledge that this spirit, which is essentially one, is in one's own and in all other bodies, is the wisdom of one who knows the unity of things [said Krishna].
    PPh 4.51 7 If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity...action tends directly backwards to diversity.
    PPh 4.51 12 The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces.
    PPh 4.52 6 By religion, [each student] tends to unity;...
    PPh 4.52 11 The country of unity...is Asia;...
    PPh 4.53 25 The unity of Asia and the detail of Europe;...Plato came to join...
    PPh 4.56 4 Thought seeks to know unity in unity;...
    PPh 4.63 11 The essence or peculiarity of man [said Plato] is to comprehend...that which in the diversity of sensations can be comprised under a rational unity.
    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...
    NMW 4.233 13 ...[Napoleon] inspires confidence and vigor by the extraordinary unity of his action.
    GoW 4.275 2 [Goethe] has contributed a key to many parts of nature, through the rare turn for unity and simplicity in his mind.
    GoW 4.284 3 [Goethe] has not worshipped the highest unity;...
    ET4 5.47 26 Race avails much, if that be true which is alleged...that Celts love unity of power, and Saxons the representative principle.
    ET5 5.82 18 ...in France, fraternity, equality, and indivisible unity are names for assassination.
    ET14 5.238 10 [British] minds...were...climbers on the staircase of unity.
    ET14 5.239 7 [Idealism] seems an affair of race, or of meta-chemistry;--the vital point being, how far the sense of unity, or instinct for seeking resemblances, predominated.
    F 6.28 18 ...when a strong will appears, it usually results from a certain unity of organization...
    F 6.31 2 ...whether, seeing these two things, fate and power, we are permitted to believe in unity?
    F 6.34 16 The Fultons and Watts of politics, believing in unity, saw that it was a power...
    F 6.45 8 I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive;...
    Wsp 6.219 18 Religion or worship is the attitude of those who see this unity, intimacy and sincerity [in nature];...
    DL 7.104 1 Infancy, said Coleridge, presents body and spirit in unity...
    DL 7.110 23 I am afraid that, so considered, our houses will not be found to have unity...
    PI 8.7 20 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...a hint...showing unity and perfect order in physics.
    PI 8.7 26 All multiplicity rushes to be resolved into unity.
    PI 8.9 6 While the student ponders this immense unity, he observes that all things...have a mysterious relation to his thoughts and his life;...
    PI 8.18 8 The thoughts are few, the forms many; the large vocabulary or many-colored coat of the indigent unity.
    PI 8.18 19 ...I see that a devouring unity changes all into that which changes not.
    SA 8.96 13 Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity.
    PC 8.223 13 On...this all-dissolving unity, the emphasis of heaven and earth is laid.
    PC 8.224 8 Here stretches...out of conception even, this vast Nature...an unbroken unity...
    PerF 10.86 2 That band which ties [cosmical laws] together is unity...
    Chr2 10.95 22 [The moral sentiment] puts us...in the cabinet of science and of causes, there where all the wires terminate which hold the world in magnetic unity...
    Chr2 10.115 4 The [moral] sentiment itself teaches unity of source...
    SovE 10.183 23 ...this unity exists in the organization of insect, beast and bird, still ascending to man...
    SovE 10.184 17 I see the unity of thought and of morals running through all animated Nature;...
    SovE 10.213 7 Now science and philosophy recognize the parallelism, the approximation, the unity of the two [Spirit and Matter]...
    LLNE 10.337 25 ...[Mesmerism] affirmed unity and connection between remote points...
    HDC 11.38 12 The Puritans, to keep the remembrance of their unity one with another...named their forest settlement CONCORD.
    PLT 12.20 1 There is in Nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available.
    PLT 12.44 17 If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up the block as one. That indescribably small interval...has forever severed the practical unity.
    PLT 12.64 2 We wish to sum up the conflicting impressions [of Intellect] by saying that all point at last to a unity which inspires all.
    CL 12.164 2 Nature speaks to the imagination; first, through her grand style,-the hint of immense force and unity which her works convey;...
    MAng1 12.218 10 The Italian artists sanction this view of Beauty by describing it as il piu nell' uno...or multitude in unity...
    MLit 12.313 8 [Subjectiveness] is founded on that insatiable demand for unity...
    MLit 12.319 14 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the poems...of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats. The only unity is in the subjectiveness and the aspiration common to the three writers.
    WSL 12.348 14 ...[Landor] has not the high, overpowering method by which the master gives unity and integrity to a work of many parts.

Unity, n. (9)

    Nat 1.43 8 Xenophanes complained...that...all things hastened back to Unity.
    Nat 1.44 15 So intimate is this Unity, that...it...betrays its source in Universal Spirit.
    Nat 1.44 26 The central Unity is still more conspicuous in actions.
    OS 2.268 22 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that Unity, that Over-Soul, within which every man's particular being is contained...
    Pt1 3.14 14 We stand before the secret of the world, there where Being passes into Appearance and Unity into Variety.
    PPh 4.47 27 Two cardinal facts lie forever at the base [of philosophy]; the one, and the two.--1. Unity, or Identity; and, 2. Variety.
    PPh 4.49 8 In all nations there are minds which incline to dwell in the conception of the fundamental Unity.
    F 6.25 16 ...the great day of the feast of life, is that in which the inward eye opens to the Unity in things...
    Bty 6.306 24 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings...up to the perception of Plato that globe and universe are rude and early expressions of an all-dissolving Unity,--the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.

universal, adj. (215)

    Nat 1.24 5 A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.
    Nat 1.27 4 Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life...
    Nat 1.27 8 This universal soul [man] calls Reason...
    Nat 1.33 11 These propositions [in physics] have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life...
    Nat 1.41 10 ...[discipline] is [nature's] public and universal function...
    Nat 1.44 19 Every universal truth which we express in words, implies or supposes every other truth.
    Nat 1.60 12 ...the soul holds itself off from a too trivial and microscopic study of the universal tablet.
    Nat 1.62 9 [Nature] is the organ through which the universal spirit speaks to the individual...
    Nat 1.63 24 We learn...that the dread universal essence...is that for which all things exist...
    Nat 1.70 21 In the cycle of the universal man...centuries are points...
    AmS 1.108 8 ...we have come up with the point of view which the universal mind took through the eyes of one scribe;...
    DSA 1.135 23 ...you will infer the sad conviction...of the universal decay... of faith in society.
    DSA 1.148 2 ...slight [the commanders], as you can well afford to do, by high and universal aims, and they instantly feel...that it is in lower places that they must shine.
    LE 1.162 15 The impoverishing philosophy of ages has laid stress on the distinctions of the individual, and not on the universal attributes of man.
    LE 1.165 4 ...an able man is nothing else than a good, free, vascular organization, whereinto the universal spirit freely flows;...
    LE 1.165 13 The condition of our incarnation in a private self seems to be a perpetual tendency...to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of universal being.
    LE 1.165 14 The hero is great by means of the predominance of the universal nature;...
    MN 1.201 3 Nature can only be conceived as existing to a universal and not to a particular end;...
    MN 1.211 27 There is...nothing that is not noxious to [man] if detached from [this divine method's] universal relations.
    MN 1.223 25 ...[these qualities]...hold the key to universal nature.
    MN 1.224 8 Pusillanimity and fear [the soul] refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who...goes out through universal love to universal power.
    MN 1.224 9 Pusillanimity and fear [the soul] refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who...goes out through universal love to universal power.
    MR 1.240 22 ...the husbandman's is the oldest and most universal profession...
    MR 1.255 8 ...one day...every calamity will be dissolved in the universal sunshine.
    LT 1.274 25 ...[Marriage] shall honor the man and the woman, as much as the most diffusive and universal action.
    LT 1.287 13 Is there not something comprehensive in the grasp of a society...which explores the subtlest and most universal problems?
    Con 1.299 9 Conservatism tends to universal seeming and treachery...
    Con 1.302 17 Here is the fact which men call Fate...necessitating the question whether the faculties of man will play him true in resisting the facts of universal experience?
    Con 1.304 14 The respect for the old names of places, of mountains and streams, is universal.
    Con 1.306 10 There [the youth] stands, newly born on the planet, a universal beggar...
    Con 1.310 24 ...in this institution of credit, which is as universal as honesty and promise in the human countenance, always some neighbor stands ready to be bread and land and tools and stock to the young adventurer.
    Con 1.326 2 ...to return from this alternation of partial views to the high platform of universal and necessary history, it is a happiness for mankind that innovation has got on so far...
    Tran 1.338 14 ...we have yet no man...who, working for universal aims, found himself fed, he knew not how;...
    Tran 1.357 23 [The Transcendentalists'] heart is the ark in which the fire is concealed which shall burn in a broader and universal flame.
    Hist 2.3 9 Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is... done.
    Hist 2.4 19 Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation.
    Hist 2.5 24 It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things.
    Hist 2.6 14 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures...anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men;...
    Hist 2.30 1 [The advancing man] finds...that universal man wrote by [the poet's] pen a confession true for one and true for all.
    Hist 2.30 12 The beautiful fables of the Greeks...are universal verities.
    Hist 2.34 4 The universal nature...sits on [the bard's] neck and writes through his hand;...
    SR 2.45 10 Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense;...
    SR 2.63 25 What is the aboriginal Self, on which a universal reliance may be grounded?
    SR 2.66 11 ...in the universal miracle petty and particular miracles disappear.
    Comp 2.102 21 What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears.
    Comp 2.111 19 All the old abuses in society, universal and particular...are avenged in the same manner.
    Lov1 2.170 18 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges until it warms and beams... upon the universal heart of all...
    Lov1 2.186 3 [The soul]...at last...puts on the harness and aspires to vast and universal aims.
    Fdsp 2.197 4 [A man who stands united in his thought] is conscious of a universal success...
    Fdsp 2.210 13 Should not the society of my friend be to me...universal...
    Fdsp 2.213 6 ...a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal power, souls are now acting... which can love us and which we can love.
    Prd1 2.231 13 Health or sound organization should be universal.
    Hsm1 2.250 16 ...pleasantly and as it were merrily [the hero] advances to his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.
    OS 2.267 16 What is the universal sense of want and ignorance...
    OS 2.269 8 ...within man is...the universal beauty...
    OS 2.270 2 Only [the soul] can inspire whom it will, and behold! their speech shall be lyrical, and sweet, and universal as the rising of the wind.
    OS 2.272 27 Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
    OS 2.282 19 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist;...the experiences of the Methodists, are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.
    OS 2.292 19 ...for ever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable.
    OS 2.293 10 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... In the presence of law to his mind he is overflowed with a reliance so universal that it sweeps away all cherished hopes and the most stable projects of mortal condition in its flood.
    OS 2.296 18 Behold, [the soul] saith, I am born into the great, the universal mind.
    Cir 2.320 13 ...the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universal movements of the soul, he hideth;...
    Int 2.343 11 Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
    Int 2.347 1 ...[the Greek philosophers] add thesis to thesis, without a moment's heed of the universal astonishment of the human race below...
    Art1 2.359 7 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak.
    Art1 2.363 16 ...in its essence, immense and universal, [art] is impatient of working with lame or tied hands...
    Art1 2.363 25 Art should exhilarate...awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist...
    Pt1 3.34 21 Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
    Pt1 3.35 10 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have... universal signs, instead of these village symbols,--and we shall both be gainers.
    Pt1 3.41 14 ...in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants...
    Exp 3.47 27 There are even few opinions, and these...do not disturb the universal necessity.
    Exp 3.57 7 There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men...
    Exp 3.74 6 ...in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is...the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance...
    Exp 3.78 5 The soul...is of a fatal and universal power, admitting no co-life.
    Chr1 3.94 5 Higher natures overpower lower ones by affecting them with a certain sleep. The faculties are locked up, and offer no resistance. Perhaps that is the universal law.
    Chr1 3.114 12 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth...who, by the pure quality of his nature, shed an epic splendor around the facts of his death which has transfigured every particular into an universal symbol for the eyes of mankind.
    Gts 3.159 23 ...everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.
    Gts 3.160 23 In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity...
    Nat2 3.195 8 ...though we are always engaged with particulars...we bring with us to every experiment the innate universal laws.
    Pol1 3.209 13 Parties of principle, as...the party...of universal suffrage... degenerate into personalities, or would inspire enthusiasm.
    Pol1 3.212 5 The fact of two poles, of two forces, centripetal and centrifugal, is universal...
    NR 3.235 14 It seems not worth while to execute with too much pains some one intellectual, or aesthetical, or civil feat, when presently the dream will scatter, and we shall burst into universal power.
    NR 3.237 19 [Nature] would never get anything done, if she suffered Admirable Crichtons and universal geniuses.
    NR 3.242 14 If we were not kept among surfaces, everything would be large and universal;...
    NR 3.246 4 ...the least of [our earth's] rational children, the most dedicated to his private affair, works out, though as it were under a disguise, the universal problem.
    UGM 4.26 7 The shield against the stingings of conscience is the universal practice...
    UGM 4.26 18 The great, or such as...transcend fashions by their fidelity to universal ideas, are saviors from these federal errors...
    PPh 4.41 3 ...they say that Helen of Argos had that universal beauty that every body felt related to her...
    SwM 4.104 17 Newton, in the year in which Swedenborg was born, published the Principia, and established the universal gravity.
    SwM 4.106 21 ...[Swedenborg] saw that the human body was strictly universal...
    SwM 4.120 5 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
    SwM 4.121 1 [Swedenborg's] perception of nature is not human and universal...
    SwM 4.122 11 [Swedenborg's] religion thinks for him and is of universal application.
    SwM 4.124 13 ...what is real and universal cannot be confined to the circle of those who sympathize strictly with [Swedenborg's] genius...
    SwM 4.127 16 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] is a fine Platonic development of the science of marriage; teaching that sex is universal...
    SwM 4.127 21 ...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;...
    SwM 4.134 23 Nothing with [Swedenborg] has the liberality of universal wisdom...
    SwM 4.135 2 Palestine is ever the more valuable as a chapter in universal history, and ever the less an available element in education.
    MoS 4.159 21 This then is the right ground of the skeptic,--this of consideration, of self-containing;...not at all of universal denying...
    MoS 4.159 22 This then is the right ground of the skeptic,--this of consideration, of self-containing;...not at all of universal denying, nor of universal doubting...
    MoS 4.184 4 ...the incompetency of power is the universal grief of young and ardent minds.
    ShP 4.196 15 There was no literature for the million [in Shakespeare's day]. The universal reading, the cheap press, were unknown.
    ShP 4.219 20 ...love is compatible with universal wisdom.
    NMW 4.245 17 ...there is something in the success of grand talent which enlists an universal sympathy.
    NMW 4.246 26 We can not, in the universal imbecility, indecision and indolence of men, sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon]...
    NMW 4.257 1 The counter-revolution...still waits for its organ and representative, in a lover and a man of truly public and universal aims.
    NMW 4.258 8 ...the universal cry of France and of Europe in 1814 was, Enough of him; Assez de Bonaparte.
    GoW 4.262 17 ...besides the universal joy of conversation, some men are born with exalted powers for this second creation. Men are born to write.
    GoW 4.284 11 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest of universal nature...
    GoW 4.284 12 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of universal truth, to be his portion...
    GoW 4.284 23 ...there is no weapon in the armory of universal genius [Goethe] did not take into his hand...
    ET4 5.69 12 Beef, mutton, wheat-bread and malt-liquors are universal among the first-class laborers [in England].
    ET18 5.303 9 ...[Englishmen's] speech seems destined to be the universal language of men.
    F 6.28 24 Where power is shown in will, it must rest on the universal force.
    F 6.29 1 ...the pure sympathy with universal ends is an infinite force...
    F 6.47 22 ...[man] is to take sides with the Deity who secures universal benefit by his pain.
    F 6.48 8 Let us build altars to the Blessed Unity which...compels every atom to serve an universal end.
    Ctr 6.157 11 The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal...
    Ctr 6.158 21 ...[Bonaparte] could criticise...a character, on universal grounds...
    Bhr 6.181 16 Whoever looked on [a complete man] would consent to his will, being certified that his aims were generous and universal.
    Bhr 6.190 26 In this country, where school education is universal, we have a superficial culture...
    Wsp 6.203 22 I and my neighbors have been bred in the notion that unless we came soon to some good church...there would be a universal thaw and dissolution.
    Wsp 6.212 25 In spite of...universal decay of religion...the moral sense reappears to-day...
    Wsp 6.236 21 ...[Benedict] would correct his conduct, in that respect in which he had faulted, to the next person he should meet. Thus, he said, universal justice was satisfied.
    Bty 6.303 23 Every natural feature...has in it somewhat which is not private but universal...
    Civ 7.27 2 What is moral? It is the respecting in action catholic or universal ends.
    Civ 7.27 5 Hear the definition which Kant gives of moral conduct: Act always so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings.
    Civ 7.30 3 To accomplish anything excellent the will must work for catholic and universal ends.
    Art2 7.40 15 The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful;...
    Art2 7.40 19 ...to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.
    Art2 7.40 23 Nature is the representative of the universal mind...
    Art2 7.48 15 ...so in art that aims at beauty must the parts be subordinated to Ideal Nature...so that it shall be the production of the universal soul.
    Art2 7.49 2 ...[the artist] is to be an organ through which the universal mind acts.
    Elo1 7.62 21 ...this lust to speak marks the universal feeling of the energy of the engine...
    Farm 7.143 18 You cannot...strip off from [an atom]...the relation to light and heat and leave the atom bare. No, it brings with it its universal ties.
    Boks 7.219 5 All these [sacred] books are the majestic expressions of the universal conscience...
    Suc 7.286 10 We have seen an American woman write a novel...which had one merit, of speaking to the universal heart...
    OA 7.320 20 Universal convictions are not to be shaken by the whimseys of overfed butchers and firemen...
    OA 7.321 14 The cynical creed or lampoon of the market is refuted by the universal prayer for long life...
    PI 8.18 1 ...[as soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it] he can now find symbols of universal significance...
    PI 8.23 21 Whatever one act we do, whatever one thing we learn, we are doing and learning all things,--marching in the direction of universal power.
    PI 8.23 23 Every healthy mind is a true Alexander or Sesostris, building a universal monarchy.
    PI 8.34 17 The...measure of poetic genius is the power...to convert those [superstitions] of the nineteenth century and of the existing nations into universal symbols.
    PI 8.34 25 ...to convert the vivid energies acting at this hour in New York and Chicago and San Francisco, into universal symbols, requires a subtile and commanding thought.
    SA 8.91 10 A universal etiquette should fix an iron limit after which a moment should not be allowed without explicit leave granted on request of either the giver or receiver of the visit.
    Elo2 8.117 10 No act indicates more universal health than eloquence.
    Elo2 8.118 17 ...this power [of eloquence] which so fascinates and astonishes and commands is only the exaggeration of a talent which is universal.
    Comc 8.157 1 A taste for fun is all but universal in our species...
    PC 8.222 21 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still, a fact really universal...
    PC 8.222 25 [Newton's] law was only a particular of the more universal law of centrality.
    PC 8.228 16 Science...necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses.
    PC 8.230 3 Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
    PC 8.231 8 We wish...to ordain...universal suffrage, believing that it will not carry us to mobs, or back to kings again.
    Grts 8.315 6 We perhaps look on [intellect's] crimes as experiments of a universal student;...
    Grts 8.318 14 ...there are always men who...inspire universal enthusiasm.
    Imtl 8.329 22 Schiller said, What is so universal as death, must be benefit.
    Imtl 8.348 23 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul.
    Dem1 10.20 27 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the steam battery, so fatal as to put an end to war by the threat of universal murder;...are of this kind.
    Aris 10.32 6 A reference to society is part of the idea of culture; science of a gentleman; art of a gentleman; poetry in a gentleman: intellectually held, that is...for their universal beauty and worth;...
    Aris 10.35 2 We...put faith...in the Republican principle carried out to the extremes of practice in universal suffrage...
    Aris 10.39 6 I wish...men of universal politics...
    Aris 10.40 20 Every survey of the dignified classes, in ancient or modern history, imprints universal lessons...
    PerF 10.86 2 That band which ties [cosmical laws] together...is universal good...
    Chr2 10.92 17 Morals is the direction of the will on universal ends.
    Chr2 10.92 21 He is moral...whose aim or motive may become a universal rule...
    Chr2 10.93 11 ...our first experiences in moral, as in intellectual nature, force us to discriminate a universal mind...
    Chr2 10.94 7 On the perpetual conflict between the dictate of this universal mind and the wishes and interests of the individual, the moral discipline of life is built.
    Chr2 10.95 23 [The moral sentiment] puts us at the heart of Nature, where we belong...and so converts us into universal beings.
    Chr2 10.108 4 ...So far the religion is now where it should be. Persons are discriminated...as helpful, as having public and universal regards, or otherwise;...
    Edc1 10.154 27 ...the familiar observation of the universal compensations might suggest the fear that so summary a stop of a bad humor [striking a bad boy] was more jeopardous than its continuance.
    Supl 10.164 7 If the talker [with the superlative temperament] lose a tooth, he thinks the universal thaw and dissolution of things has come.
    SovE 10.185 12 ...presently...[the man down in Nature] is aware that he owes a higher allegiance to do and live as a good member of this universe. In the measure in which he has this sense he...rises to the universal life.
    SovE 10.198 1 Virtue is the adopting of this dictate of the universal mind by the individual will.
    SovE 10.198 5 ...Religion is...the emotion of reverence which the presence of the universal mind ever excites in the individual.
    SovE 10.203 9 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace. But that, be sure, is not the religion of the universal, unsleeping providence...
    MoL 10.244 22 Now it is agreed...that with universal cheap education we have stringent theology, but religion is low.
    MoL 10.255 2 Neither your teachers, nor the universal teachers...can compare with that counsel which is open to you.
    MoL 10.258 15 Who would not, if it could be made certain that the new morning of universal liberty should rise on our race by the perishing of one generation, who would not consent to die?
    Schr 10.265 24 Like [the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant] [the poet] will joyfully lose days and months...in the profound hope that one restoring, all rewarding, immense success will arrive at last, which will give him at one bound a universal dominion.
    Schr 10.283 20 ...[mother-wit's] look is catholic and universal...
    Plu 10.297 27 [Plutarch] had that universal sympathy with genius which makes all its victories his own;...
    Plu 10.300 14 Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de la Boece with one hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch. These distant friendships...make the best example of the universal citizenship and fraternity of the human mind.
    LLNE 10.326 27 There is an universal resistance to ties and ligaments once supposed essential to civil society.
    MMEm 10.409 1 It is so universal with all classes to avoid contact with me [writes Mary Moody Emerson] that I blame none.
    MMEm 10.432 1 What a timid, ungrateful creature! Fear the deepest pitfalls of age, when pressing on...to Him...with whom all miseries and irregularities are conforming to universal good!
    Thor 10.474 13 ...I know not any genius who so swiftly inferred universal law from the single fact [as did Thoreau].
    HDC 11.65 1 ...in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching... shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry? Voted affirmatively. Mr. Whiting, who was chosen, was, we are told in his epitaph, a universal lover of mankind.
    War 11.158 5 Only in Elizabeth's time, out of the European waters, piracy was all but universal.
    War 11.161 18 ...a universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence of civilization over barbarism...
    War 11.170 6 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of routine and mere forms,-the universal specific of modern politics;...
    War 11.174 23 If the universal cry for reform of so many inveterate abuses, with which society rings...be an omen to be trusted;...then war has a short day...
    AKan 11.259 18 Language has lost its meaning in the universal cant.
    EPro 11.315 9 These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs, when...the political leaders of the day...take a step forward in the direction of catholic and universal interests.
    Humb 11.457 6 Humboldt was one of those wonders of the world...who appear from time to time...a universal man...
    FRO1 11.477 14 ...it does great honor to the sensibility of the committee [of the Free Religious Association] that they have felt the universal demand in the community for just the movement they have begun.
    PLT 12.4 11 ...at last, it is only that exceeding and universal part [of Nature] which interests us...
    PLT 12.39 11 The detachment consists in seeing [a fact]...not under a personal but under a universal light.
    PLT 12.40 20 The game of Intellect is the perception that whatever befalls or can be stated is a universal proposition;...
    PLT 12.43 4 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...sees so truly the omnipresence of eternal cause that he can convert the daily and hourly event of New York, of Boston, into universal symbols.
    II 12.70 20 [Inspiration] is...a public or universal light...
    II 12.71 12 Novelty in the means by which we arrive at the old universal ends is the test of the presence of the highest power...
    II 12.75 27 ...in spite of Boston and London, and universal decay of religion, etc....the moral sense reappears forever with the same angelic newness that has been from of old the fountain of poetry and beauty and strength.
    II 12.77 5 Intellect is universal not individual.
    II 12.88 1 These studies [of the Intellect] seem to me to derive an importance from their bearing on the universal question of modern times, the question of Religion.
    Mem 12.108 10 The universal sense of fables and anecdotes is marked by our tendency to forget name and date and geography.
    MAng1 12.228 21 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads...seeking that there should be in the composition a certain universal grace such as Nature makes...
    MAng1 12.244 22 ...[Michelangelo] was a brother and a friend to all who acknowledge the beauty that beams in universal Nature...
    Milt1 12.247 14 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided, and left the poet to the enjoyment of his permanent fame, or to such increase or abatement of it as is incidental to a sublime genius, quite independent of the momentary challenge of universal attention to his claims.
    Milt1 12.249 11 ...[Milton] demands, on the instant, an ideal justice. Therein [his tracts] are discriminated from modern writings, in which a regard to the actual is all but universal.
    MLit 12.315 1 The great man, even whilst he relates a private fact personal to him, is really leading us away from him to an universal experience.
    MLit 12.316 16 ...[the noble natural man] yields himself to your occasion and use, but his act expresses a reference to universal good.
    EurB 12.367 9 ...Wordsworth...though confounding his accidental with the universal consciousness...is really a master of the English language...
    EurB 12.374 9 Whoever looked on the hero [the complete man] would consent to his will, being certified that his aims were universal, not selfish;...
    Let 12.401 16 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...
    Trag 12.413 25 Whilst a man is not grounded in the divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of affection to society...but let any shock take place in society...and at once his type of permanence is shaken. The disorder of his neighbors appears to him universal disorder;...

Universal Being, n. (1)

    Nat 1.10 10 ...the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me;...

Universal Friend, n. (1)

    FRO1 11.476 4 In many forms we try/ To utter God's infinity,/ But the Boundless has no form,/ And the Universal Friend/ Doth as far transcend/ An angel as a worm./

Universal History, n. (2)

    Int 2.334 22 ...we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.
    FSLC 11.187 6 It is remarkable how rare in the history of tyrants is an immoral law. Some color, some indirection was always used. If you take up the volumes of the Universal History, you will find it difficult searching.

universal, n. (4)

    DSA 1.147 24 There are...persons...to whom all we call art and artist, seems too nearly allied...to...loss of the universal.
    MN 1.205 3 The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.
    MN 1.209 1 ...[a man's] health and erectness consist in the fidelity with which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point on which his genius can act.
    II 12.87 15 ...perception that the tendency of the whole is to the benefit of the individual is the universal of faith.

Universal Power, n. (1)

    MN 1.213 15 ...[the poet's] will in [his inspiration must be] only the surrender of will to the Universal Power...

Universal Reform, Friends o (1)

    CSC 10.373 2 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled in the Chardon Street Chapel in Boston...

Universal Spirit, n. (1)

    Nat 1.44 17 So intimate is this Unity, that...it...betrays its source in Universal Spirit.

universalist, n. (2)

    NR 3.245 26 ...every man is a universalist also...
    NR 3.248 10 Is it that every man believes every other to be an incurable partialist, and himself a universalist?

universality, n. (20)

    MN 1.195 16 We demand of men a richness and universality we do not find.
    Pt1 3.17 3 Beyond this universality of the symbolic language, we are apprised of the divineness of this superior use of things...in this, that there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature;...
    Pt1 3.37 14 Dante's praise is that he dared to write his autobiography in colossal cipher, or into universality.
    Mrs1 3.143 15 ...the respect which these mysteries [of fashion] inspire in the most rude and sylvan characters, and the curiosity with which the details of high life are read, betray the universality of the love of cultivated manners.
    NR 3.242 18 The universality being hindered in its primary form, comes in the secondary form of all sides;...
    NR 3.246 15 We hide this universality if we can...
    NER 3.262 12 Let into it the new and renewing principle of love, and property will be universality.
    SwM 4.106 14 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature; the Platonic doctrine of the scale or degrees;...
    SwM 4.110 9 ...the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens. Each law of nature has the like universality;...
    ShP 4.211 1 ...the occasion which gave the saint's meaning the form...of a code of laws, is immaterial compared with the universality of its application.
    ET14 5.240 4 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality...
    ET14 5.240 14 If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied;...
    ET14 5.244 12 [The English] do not look abroad into universality...
    WD 7.185 16 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and...the fidelity with which it flows from ourselves; then to the depth of thought it betrays, looking to its universality...
    PI 8.46 3 The universality of this taste [for rhyme] is proved by our habit of casting our facts into rhyme to remember them better...
    PLT 12.55 2 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism;...
    Bost 12.195 24 The universality of an elementary education in New England is her praise and her power in the whole world.
    MAng1 12.218 12 A beautiful person has a kind of universality...
    ACri 12.294 8 ...the only check on the detail of each of [Shakespeare's] portraits is his own universality...
    PPr 12.386 5 [Carlyle's] habitual exaggeration of the tone wearies whilst it stimulates. It is felt to be so much deduction from the universality of the picture.

universally, adv. (23)

    AmS 1.94 13 I have heard it said that the clergy, - who are always, more universally than any other class, the scholars of their day, - are addressed as women;...
    AmS 1.103 25 ...the deeper [the orator] dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most...universally true.
    YA 1.383 27 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    Art1 2.358 9 The reference of all production at last to an aboriginal Power explains the traits common to all works of the highest art,--that they are universally intelligible;...
    Pt1 3.27 1 ...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw, by...suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him; then he is caught up into the life of the Universe...his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals.
    Mrs1 3.121 15 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.
    Mrs1 3.145 5 The forms of politeness universally express benevolence in superlative degrees.
    Pol1 3.202 7 Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census;...
    NR 3.230 23 ...universally, a good example of this social force is the veracity of language, which cannot be debauched.
    SwM 4.114 10 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, which act similarly to the larger ones, but more perfectly and more universally;...
    SwM 4.114 11 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, which act similarly to the larger ones, but more perfectly and more universally; and the least forms so perfectly and universally as to involve an idea representative of their entire universe.
    MoS 4.164 19 In the civil wars of the League...Montaigne kept his gates open and his house without defence. All parties freely came and went, his courage and honor being universally esteemed.
    ET3 5.35 12 If there be one test of national genius universally accepted, it is success;...
    ET12 5.208 8 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired...
    Ctr 6.141 24 The best heads that ever existed...were well-read, universally educated men...
    Art2 7.39 15 Art, universally, is the spirit creative.
    Supl 10.178 7 Universally, the better gold, the worse man.
    SovE 10.190 5 ...every wish, appetite and passion rushes into act and... protects itself with laws. Some of them are useful and universally acceptable...
    War 11.152 3 ...in the infancy of society...when hunger, thirst, ague and frozen limbs universally take precedence of the wants of the mind and the heart, the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
    War 11.171 24 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that a man should be himself responsible... for his behavior;...
    FSLC 11.192 3 Those governors of places who bravely refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous Massacre of St. Bartholomew, have been universally praised;...
    FSLC 11.198 17 [Under the Fugitive Slave Law, the bench] is the extension of the planter's whipping-post; and its incumbents must rank with a class from which the turnkey, the hangman and the informer are taken, necessary functionaries...to whom the dislike and the ban of society universally attaches.
    Trag 12.407 13 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...

universals, n. (2)

    NR 3.229 1 Let us go for universals;...
    NR 3.244 16 ...we cannot make voluntary and conscious steps in the admirable science of universals...

Universe, Master of the, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.99 3 When the Master of the Universe has ends to fulfil, he impresses his will on the structure of minds.

universe, n. (204)

    Nat 1.3 6 Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
    Nat 1.4 23 Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.
    Nat 1.7 17 ...every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
    Nat 1.20 3 ..the universe is the property of every individual in it.
    Nat 1.24 19 Beauty...is one expression for the universe.
    Nat 1.34 10 ...the universe becomes transparent...
    Nat 1.39 11 Man is greater that he can see [that the beauty of nature shines in his own breast], and the universe less...
    DSA 1.120 8 ...when the mind...reveals the laws which traverse the universe...then shrinks the great world...into a mere illustration...
    DSA 1.125 3 By [the religious sentiment] is the universe made safe and habitable...
    DSA 1.130 19 [The soul] invites every man to expand to the full circle of the universe...
    LE 1.167 13 I give you the universe a virgin to-day.
    LE 1.187 8 Thought is all light, and publishes itself to the universe.
    MN 1.201 4 Nature can only be conceived as existing...to a universe of ends, and not to one...
    MN 1.208 9 Hereto was [a man] born, to deliver the thought of his heart from the universe to the universe;...
    MN 1.208 20 Here art thou with whom so long the universe travailed in labor;...
    Con 1.309 19 Yonder sun in heaven you would pluck down from shining on the universe, and make him a property and privacy, if you could;...
    Con 1.317 24 ...nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as [man];...
    Con 1.319 1 The conservative party in the universe concedes that the radical would talk sufficiently to the purpose, if we were still in the garden of Eden;...
    Con 1.319 12 The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and...his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels...
    Tran 1.331 20 ...how easy it is to show [the materialist]...that he need only ask a question or two beyond his daily questions to find his solid universe growing dim and impalpable before his sense.
    SR 2.46 15 ...though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to [man] but through his toil...
    SR 2.80 8 ...the walls of the system blend to [unbalanced mind's] eye in the remote horizon with the walls of the universe;...
    SR 2.80 20 ...the immortal light...will beam over the universe...
    Comp 2.101 2 ...the universe is represented in every one of its particles.
    Comp 2.102 1 The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point.
    Comp 2.102 5 The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point. If the good is there, so is the evil;...if the force, so the limitation. Thus is the universe alive.
    Comp 2.107 17 ...in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold. This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis, who keeps watch in the universe and lets no offence go unchastised.
    Comp 2.113 19 He is base,--and that is the one base thing in the universe,-- to receive favors and render none.
    Comp 2.115 6 Human labor...is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe.
    Comp 2.121 10 Nothing, Falsehood, may indeed stand as the great Night or shade on which as a background the living universe paints itself forth...
    SL 2.131 20 All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.
    SL 2.137 20 The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine.
    SL 2.139 5 ...none of us can wrong the universe.
    SL 2.144 3 A man's genius...determines for him the character of the universe.
    Fdsp 2.193 25 Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
    Fdsp 2.201 18 In one condemnation of folly stand the whole universe of men.
    Hsm1 2.254 5 ...they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger... do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.
    OS 2.276 15 In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the centre of the world, where...we see causes, and anticipate the universe...
    OS 2.297 7 ...the universe is represented in an atom...
    Cir 2.302 1 The universe is fluid and volatile.
    Int 2.335 11 [The thought] is...a form of thought now for the first time bursting into the universe...
    Int 2.340 15 ...no diligence can rebuild the universe in a model by the best accumulation or disposition of details...
    Pt1 3.7 11 ...Beauty is the creator of the universe.
    Pt1 3.15 14 ...all men have the thoughts whereof the universe is the celebration.
    Pt1 3.25 3 ...[the poet's thoughts], sharing the aspiration of the whole universe, tend to paint a far more delicate copy of their essence on his mind.
    Pt1 3.31 12 ...Proclus calls the universe the statue of the intellect;...
    Exp 3.61 3 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us.
    Exp 3.62 1 I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe...
    Exp 3.65 21 Thou art sick, but shalt not be worse, and the universe, which holds thee dear, shall be the better.
    Exp 3.70 8 The ancients...exalted Chance into a divinity; but that is to stay too long at the spark, which glitters truly at one point, but the universe is warm with the latency of the same fire.
    Exp 3.73 19 Suffice it for the joy of the universe that we have not arrived at a wall...
    Exp 3.77 20 The universe is the bride of the soul.
    Exp 3.79 22 Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color...
    Chr1 3.93 8 ...nobody in the universe can make [the natural merchant's] place good.
    Chr1 3.96 4 An individual is an encloser. Time and space...truth and thought, are left at large no longer. Now, the universe is a close or pound.
    Nat2 3.181 1 ...so poor is nature with all her craft, that from the beginning to the end of the universe she has but one stuff...
    Nat2 3.184 6 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe.
    Nat2 3.193 20 Must we not suppose somewhere in the universe a slight treachery and derision?
    NR 3.238 4 ...our economical mother...gathering up into some man every property in the universe, establishes thousand-fold occult mutual attractions among her offspring...
    NR 3.243 19 ...the divine Providence which keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul, conceals all the furniture and all the persons that do not concern a particular soul, from the senses of that individual.
    NR 3.245 15 All the universe over, there is but one thing, this old Two-Face... of which any proposition may be affirmed or denied.
    NER 3.271 25 How sinks the song in the waves of melody which the universe pours over [the master's] soul!
    NER 3.284 10 ...we need not assist the administration of the universe.
    UGM 4.8 12 Gift is contrary to the law of the universe.
    UGM 4.28 21 ...every individual strives to grow and exclude and to exclude and grow, to the extremities of the universe...
    UGM 4.32 23 The history of the universe is symptomatic...
    PPh 4.56 23 To the study of nature [Plato]...prefixes the dogma, Let us declare the cause which led the Supreme Ordainer to produce and compose the universe.
    PPh 4.69 10 The universe is perforated by a million channels for [the supreme Good's] activity.
    PPh 4.69 15 ...beauty is the most lovely of all things, exciting hilarity and shedding desire and confidence through the universe wherever it enters...
    PPh 4.76 19 [Plato] attempted a theory of the universe...
    PNR 4.81 26 The naturalist would never help us to [the expansions of facts] by any discoveries of the extent of the universe...
    PNR 4.82 16 Everywhere [Plato] stands on a path which...runs continuously round the universe.
    PNR 4.83 16 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction, which secure instant justice throughout the universe...
    SwM 4.94 22 The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a region of grandeur which...opens to every wretch that has reason the doors of the universe.
    SwM 4.95 2 [The moral sentiment]...by inspiring the will, which is the seat of personality, seems to convert the universe into a person;...
    SwM 4.104 2 ...[Swedenborg's] life was dignified by noblest pictures of the universe.
    SwM 4.114 12 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, which act similarly to the larger ones, but more perfectly and more universally; and the least forms so perfectly and universally as to involve an idea representative of their entire universe.
    SwM 4.123 25 What earnestness and weightiness [in Swedenborg]...a theoretic or speculative man, but whom no practical man in the universe could affect to scorn.
    SwM 4.125 1 [To Swedenborg] All things in the universe arrange themselves to each person anew, according to his ruling love.
    SwM 4.131 9 There is an air of infinite grief and the sound of wailing all over and through [Swedenborg's] lurid universe.
    SwM 4.133 4 The universe [in Swedenborg's system of the world] is a gigantic crystal...
    SwM 4.133 11 The universe, in [Swedenborg's] poem, suffers under a magnetic sleep...
    SwM 4.136 19 The parish disputes in the Swedish church between the friends and foes of Luther and Melancthon...intrude themselves into [Swedenborg's] speculations upon the economy of the universe...
    MoS 4.182 19 I believe, [the spiritualist] says, in the moral design of the universe;...
    MoS 4.183 15 A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe;...
    ShP 4.203 26 Since the constellation of great men who appeared in Greece in the time of Pericles, there was never any such society [as that in Elizabethan England];--yet their genius failed them to find out the best head in the universe.
    ShP 4.216 1 Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, [the poet] sheds over the universe.
    GoW 4.263 6 In [the writer's] eyes...the universe is the possibility of being reported.
    ET3 5.35 14 ...if there be one successful country in the universe for the last millennium, that country is England.
    ET5 5.81 26 ...the universe of Englishmen will suspend their judgment until the trial can be had.
    ET14 5.247 1 Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the poor thing in his universe...
    F 6.27 27 A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of the Right and Necessary.
    F 6.28 5 Thought dissolves the material universe...
    F 6.29 17 A little whim of will to be free gallantly contending against the universe of chemistry.
    F 6.43 15 Every solid in the universe is ready to become fluid on the approach of the mind...
    F 6.48 11 I do not wonder at...the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies;...
    Wth 6.93 15 Power is what [men of sense] want...power to execute their design...which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists...
    Wth 6.117 15 In England, the richest country in the universe, I was assured...that great lords and ladies had no more guineas to give away than other people;...
    Wth 6.125 20 The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the universe.
    Bhr 6.193 17 The man that stands by himself, the universe stands by him also.
    Wsp 6.208 15 There is no faith in the intellectual, none in the moral universe.
    Wsp 6.221 26 ...the police and sincerity of the universe are secured by God' s delegating his divinity to every particle;...
    Wsp 6.222 21 ...things are as broad as they are long, is not a rule for Littleton or Portland, but for the universe.
    Wsp 6.224 17 ...the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.
    Wsp 6.240 4 The weight of the universe is pressed down on the shoulders of each moral agent to hold him to his task.
    Wsp 6.240 10 ...as far as [immortality] is a question of fact respecting the government of the universe, Marcus Antoninus summed the whole in a word, It is pleasant to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
    CbW 6.255 4 The sun were insipid if the universe were not opaque.
    CbW 6.258 4 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls... on...some trade or politics of the hour, he prefers it to the universe...
    CbW 6.272 12 In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe...
    Bty 6.279 20 In dens of passion, and pits of woe, [Seyd] saw strong Eros struggling through,/ To sun the dark and solve the curse,/ And beam to the bounds of the universe./
    Bty 6.289 17 ...the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love...
    Bty 6.306 23 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings...up to the perception of Plato that globe and universe are rude and early expressions of an all-dissolving Unity,--the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    Ill 6.323 5 I prefer...to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe.
    Ill 6.325 8 There is no chance and no anarchy in the universe.
    SS 7.6 19 Even Swedenborg, whose theory of the universe is based on affection...is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated...
    DL 7.119 13 Honor to the house where they are simple to the verge of hardship, so that there the intellect is awake and reads the laws of the universe...
    DL 7.133 3 ...the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.
    Farm 7.145 24 Whilst all thus burns,--the universe in a blaze kindled from the torch of the sun,--it needs a perpetual tempering...to check the fury of the conflagration;...
    WD 7.167 7 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun...indicating that those ancient men, in their attempts to express the Supreme Power of the universe, called him the Day...
    WD 7.181 1 Everything in the universe goes by indirection.
    Suc 7.292 27 Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause...
    Suc 7.300 9 How that element [color] washes the universe with its enchanting waves!
    Suc 7.306 27 ...the heart at the centre of the universe with every throb hurls the flood of happiness into every artery, vein and veinlet...
    PI 8.3 19 ...the universe does not jest with us...
    PI 8.4 24 It was whispered that the globes of the universe were precipitates of something more subtle;...
    PI 8.8 22 Natural objects...are really parts of a symmetrical universe...
    PI 8.9 24 The privates of man's heart/ They speken and sound in his ear/ As tho' they loud winds were;/ for the universe is full of their echoes.
    PI 8.38 6 A poet comes who...gives [mortal men] glimpses of the laws of the universe;...
    PI 8.42 26 We cannot know things by words and writing, but only by taking a central position in the universe and living in its forms.
    PI 8.70 1 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image more or less that imports, but...that the old forgotten splendors of the universe should glow again for us;...
    Res 8.140 22 By his machines man...can see the system of the universe like Uriel...
    Comc 8.163 3 [Wit]...traverses the universe...
    QO 8.190 21 The Comte de Crillon said one day to M. d'Allonville...If the universe and I professed one opinion and M. Necker expressed a contrary one, I should be at once convinced that the universe and I were mistaken.
    QO 8.190 23 The Comte de Crillon said one day to M. d'Allonville...If the universe and I professed one opinion and M. Necker expressed a contrary one, I should be at once convinced that the universe and I were mistaken.
    PC 8.221 12 [The devotion to natural science] taught [the scholar] anew the reach of the human mind, and that it was citizen of the universe.
    PC 8.221 16 The first quality we know in matter is centrality,-we call it gravity,-which holds the universe together...
    PC 8.223 22 ...the universe at last is only prophetic...
    PC 8.224 9 [Man] finds that the universe, as Newton said, was made at one cast;...
    Insp 8.278 9 The depth of the notes which we accidentally sound on the strings of Nature...might teach us what strangers and novices we are, vagabond in this universe of pure power...
    Insp 8.294 9 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is...at last...the lowliness, the outpouring, the large equality to truth of a single mind,-as if in the narrow walls of a human heart...the tribunal by which the universe is judged, found room to exist.
    Imtl 8.333 1 The skeptic affirms that the universe is a nest of boxes with nothing in the last box.
    Imtl 8.333 13 I know against all appearances that the universe can receive no detriment;...
    Imtl 8.333 21 When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.
    Dem1 10.18 25 ...[demonic individuals] are not to be conquered save by the universe itself...
    Dem1 10.19 20 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...as if the laws of the Father of the universe were sometimes balked and eluded by a meddlesome Aunt of the universe for her pets.
    Dem1 10.19 22 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...as if the laws of the Father of the universe were sometimes balked and eluded by a meddlesome Aunt of the universe for her pets.
    Aris 10.34 5 ...I take this inextinguishable persuasion in men's minds [of hereditary transmission of qualities] as a hint from the outward universe to man to inlay as many virtues and superiorities as he can into this swift fresco of the day...
    Aris 10.35 24 ...every man confesses that the highest good which the universe proposes to him is the highest society.
    Aris 10.46 6 ...I am not going to argue the merits of gradation in the universe;...
    Aris 10.46 18 I only point in passing to the order of the universe...
    Chr2 10.93 6 ...humility is a sentiment of our insignificance when the benefit of the universe is considered.
    Edc1 10.130 19 If Newton come and...perceive...that all bodies in the Universe, the universe of bodies, fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind...over every cubic atom of his native planet...
    Edc1 10.131 17 In some sort the end of life is that the man should take up the universe into himself...
    Edc1 10.159 7 Work straight on in absolute duty, and you lend an arm and an encouragement to all the youth of the universe.
    SovE 10.181 3 These rules were writ in human heart/ By Him who built the day;/ The columns of the universe/ Not firmer based than they./
    SovE 10.183 22 ...this self-help and self-creation [in plants and animals] proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design,-works in a lobster or a mite-worm as a wise man would if imprisoned in that poor form. 'T is the effort of God...in the extremest frontier of his universe.
    SovE 10.185 10 ...presently...[the man down in Nature] is aware that he owes a higher allegiance to do and live as a good member of this universe.
    SovE 10.186 25 It is the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe.
    SovE 10.190 23 Shall I say then it were truer to see Necessity...stretching her dark warp across the universe?
    SovE 10.200 8 Here [a man] stands, a lonely thought harmoniously organized into correspondence with the universe of mind and matter.
    SovE 10.201 1 You have perceived in the first fact of your conscious life here a miracle so astounding,-a miracle comprehending all the universe of miracles to which your intelligent life gives you access,-as to exhaust wonder...
    SovE 10.202 4 [A man] may throw himself upon...some verbal creed, with such concentration as to hide the universe from him: but the stars roll above;...
    Prch 10.226 3 As the earth we stand upon...is chemically resolvable into gases and nebulae, so is the universe an infinite series of planes, each of which is a false bottom;...
    Prch 10.236 7 ...certainly on this seventh [day] let us...think as spirits think, who belong to the universe...
    MoL 10.255 10 ...in the narrow walls of a human heart...the tribunal by which the universe is judged, found room to exist.
    MoL 10.258 13 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our advantage, irretrievably. For such a gain...one generation might well be sacrificed; perhaps it will; that...a new era of equal rights dawn on the universe.
    Schr 10.272 14 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property, but the quality and essence of the universe is in that also.
    Schr 10.276 3 There is a great deal of spiritual energy in the universe...
    Schr 10.278 23 The universe was rifled to furnish [the scholar].
    EzRy 10.384 6 [Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in what is called a particular providence...following the narrowness of King David and the Jews, who thought the universe existed only or mainly for their church and congregation.
    MMEm 10.424 24 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages...has attuned [man's] mind in such unison with the harp of the universe, that he is never without some chord of hope's music.
    Carl 10.496 9 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education indurates the young men...so that when they come forth of them, they say... we have gone through all the degrees, and are case-hardened against the veracities of the Universe;...
    EWI 11.100 19 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts. Under such an impulse...I had almost said, Creep into your grave, the universe has no need of you!
    EWI 11.147 22 The sentiment of Right...ever more articulate, because it is the voice of the universe, pronounces Freedom.
    JBS 11.281 14 The sentiment of mercy is the natural recoil which the laws of the universe provide to protect mankind from destruction by savage passions.
    ACiv 11.309 14 ...the laws by which the universe is organized reappear at every point, and will rule it.
    SMC 11.350 24 ...the roots of events [the Concord Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.
    FRep 11.532 1 That repose which is the ornament and ripeness of man is not American. That repose which indicates a faith in the laws of the universe...
    FRep 11.535 16 ...it is the rule of the universe that corn shall serve man, and not man corn.
    FRep 11.542 14 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe.
    PLT 12.4 26 ...[science] adopts the method of the universe as fast as it appears;...
    PLT 12.5 3 ...the Intellect builds the universe and is the key to all it contains.
    PLT 12.21 17 ...having accepted this law of identity pervading the universe, we next perceive that whilst every creature represents and obeys it, there is diversity...
    PLT 12.28 13 Wherever there is health, that is, consent to the cause and constitution of the universe, there is perception and power.
    PLT 12.39 12 To us [a fact] had economic, but to the universe it has poetic relations...
    PLT 12.42 8 The universe is traversed by paths or bridges or stepping-stones across the gulfs of space in every direction.
    PLT 12.51 11 It is a law of Nature that he who looks at one thing must turn his eyes from every other thing in the universe.
    PLT 12.56 2 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men, or objects which have a brief importance, prefers it to the universe...
    PLT 12.58 25 The children have only the instinct of the universe, in which becoming somewhat else is the perpetual game of Nature...
    PLT 12.59 5 The universe exists only in transit...
    PLT 12.61 1 ...each [mind and heart] is easily exalted in our thoughts till it serves to fill the universe and become the synonym of God...
    PLT 12.62 19 ...the highest behavior, consists in the identification of the Ego with the universe;...
    II 12.73 18 [The spirit] has been in the universe before...and knows its way up and down.
    II 12.87 9 One polarity is impressed on the universe and on its particles.
    II 12.89 7 ...the universe understands itself...
    Mem 12.91 5 The builder of the mind found it not less needful that it should have retroaction, and command its past act and deed. Perception, though it...could pierce through the universe, was not sufficient.
    CInt 12.112 8 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./
    MAng1 12.237 7 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt...of that sordid and abject crowd of all classes and all places who obscure, as much as in them lies, every beam of beauty in the universe.
    MLit 12.313 12 Accustomed always to behold the presence of the universe in every part, the soul will not condescend to look at any new part as a stranger...
    MLit 12.324 5 ...a sort of conscientious feeling [Goethe] had to be up to the universe is the best account and apology for many of [his stories].
    WSL 12.343 16 Raphael and Homer feel that action is pitiful beside their enchantments. They could act too, if the stake was worthy of them: but now all that is good in the universe urges them to their task.
    PPr 12.385 8 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official zeal; and yet...this flaming sword of Cherubim waved high in air...shows to the eyes of the universe every wound it inflicts.
    Let 12.402 13 A new perception...is a victory won to the living universe from Chaos and old Night...
    Trag 12.405 1 He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain.

Universe, n. (37)

    Nat 1.39 14 ...we are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored.
    Nat 1.47 8 A noble doubt perpetually suggests itself, - whether this end [Discipline] be not the Final Cause of the Universe;...
    MN 1.223 22 ...these qualities...circulate through the Universe...
    MR 1.242 24 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry...that man...respecting the compensations of the Universe, ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    Tran 1.334 1 [The idealist's] thought,-that is the Universe.
    Tran 1.346 17 [A man] ought to be...a great influence...so that though absent...if...my last hour were come, his name should be the prayer I should utter to the Universe.
    Tran 1.351 6 We will wait. How long? Until the Universe beckons and calls us to work.
    Tran 1.351 14 If no call should come for years, for centuries, then I know that the want of the Universe is the attestation of faith by my abstinence.
    Tran 1.352 26 ...When shall I die and be relieved of the responsibility of seeing an Universe which I do not use?
    Pt1 3.6 19 ...the Universe has three children...
    Pt1 3.14 15 The Universe is the externization of the soul.
    Pt1 3.26 27 ...there is a great public power on which [the intellectual man] can draw, by...suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him; then he is caught up into the life of the Universe...
    F 6.5 18 On the first [the appointed day], neither balm nor physician can save,/ Nor thee, on the second [the unappointed day], the Universe slay./
    F 6.5 22 [The Calvinists] felt that the weight of the Universe held them down to their place.
    F 6.22 14 Man is...a dragging together of the poles of the Universe.
    F 6.24 26 If the Universe have these savage accidents, our atoms are as savage in resistance.
    F 6.26 1 This insight [of truth] throws us on the party and interest of the Universe...
    F 6.35 20 No statement of the Universe can have any soundness which does not admit [Fate's] ascending effort.
    F 6.47 20 ...when a man...is ground to powder by the vice of his race;-he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
    Wth 6.96 25 We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude on the earth's surface. Our navigation is safer for the chart. How intimately our knowledge of the system of the Universe rests on that!...
    Dem1 10.22 22 ...we know that the law of the Universe is one for each and for all.
    Dem1 10.25 19 ...in the Universe no man was ever known to get a cent's worth without paying in some form or other the cent...
    Aris 10.66 9 ...the American who would serve his country must...revisit the margin of that well from which his fathers drew waters of life and enthusiasm, the fountain I mean of the moral sentiments, the parent fountain from which this goodly Universe flows as a wave.
    Edc1 10.130 19 If Newton come and...perceive...that all bodies in the Universe...fall always, and at one rate;...he extends the power of his mind... over every cubic atom of his native planet...
    LLNE 10.336 4 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was not the centre of the Universe...
    Carl 10.496 24 ...the new French revolution of 1848 was the best thing [Carlyle] had seen, and the teaching this great swindler, Louis Philippe, that there is a God's justice in the Universe, after all, was a great satisfaction.
    FSLC 11.186 12 ...America, the most prosperous country in the Universe, has the greatest calamity in the Universe, negro slavery.
    FSLC 11.186 13 ...America, the most prosperous country in the Universe, has the greatest calamity in the Universe, negro slavery.
    FSLC 11.194 2 The gravid old Universe goes spawning on;...
    FSLC 11.194 6 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...
    FSLC 11.212 14 Let us respect the Union to all honest ends. But also respect an older and wider union, the law of Nature and rectitude. Massachusetts is as strong as the Universe, when it does that.
    FSLN 11.236 11 ...our education is...to know...that divine sentiments which are always soliciting us...are an offset to a Universe of suffering and crime;...
    FSLN 11.236 26 Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is...no liberty but his invincible will to do right,-then certain aids and allies will promptly appear: for the constitution of the Universe is on his side.
    FRO2 11.486 7 ...the moral sentiment speaks to every man the law after which the Universe was made;...
    Mem 12.92 16 You say, I can never think of some act of neglect, of selfishness, or of passion without pain. Well, that is as it should be. That is the police of the Universe...
    Mem 12.110 3 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint...that...since the Universe opens to us, the reach of the memory must be as large.
    CL 12.165 20 If we believed that Nature was...some rock on which souls wandering in the Universe were shipwrecked, we should think all exploration of it frivolous waste of time.

Universe, Spirit of the, n. (1)

    GSt 10.507 23 ...there is to my mind somewhat so absolute in the action of a good man that we do not, in thinking of him, so much as make any question of the future. For the Spirit of the Universe seems to say: He has done well; is not that saying all?

universities, n. (17)

    Chr1 3.104 5 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...two professors recommended to foreign universities; etc., etc.
    SwM 4.99 15 ...[Swedenborg]...visited the universities of England, Holland, France and Germany.
    ET11 5.198 3 A multitude of English, educated at the universities...are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality...
    ET12 5.199 1 Of British universities, Cambridge has the most illustrious names on its list.
    ET12 5.208 16 ...at the universities, it is urged that all goes to form what England values as the flower of its national life,--a well-educated gentleman.
    ET12 5.212 12 Universities are of course hostile to geniuses...
    ET12 5.213 9 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford...
    ET13 5.219 9 The [English] universities also are parcel of the ecclesiastical system...
    Chr2 10.112 12 The Lutheran Church does not represent in Germany the opinions of the universities.
    Edc1 10.148 16 ...in education...we are continually trying costly machinery against nature, in patent schools and academies and in great colleges and universities.
    LLNE 10.348 7 [Fourier] took his measure of that which all should and might enjoy...from the refinements of palaces, the wealth of universities and the triumphs of artists.
    FSLC 11.185 17 The learning of the universities, the culture of elegant society...are all combined to kidnap [the poor black boy.]
    FSLN 11.242 9 The [American] universities are not, as in Hobbes's time, the core of rebellion...
    Shak1 11.451 24 [Shakespeare's] mind has a superiority such that the universities should read lectures on him...
    PLT 12.7 8 Here are learned academies and universities, yet they have not propounded these [questions which really interest men] for any prize.
    CL 12.141 23 In the English universities, the reading men are daily performing their punctual training in the boat-clubs...
    ACri 12.291 22 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress...might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...

Universities, n. (2)

    ET5 5.98 5 The [English] Universities galvanize dead languages into a semblance of life.
    ET11 5.173 20 The Cathedrals, the Universities...conspire to uphold the heraldry which the current politics of the day [in England] are sapping.

university, adj. (3)

    ET12 5.211 16 English wealth falling on their school and university training, makes a systematic reading of the best authors...
    Pow 6.79 26 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...university deans and professors...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
    Ctr 6.156 19 The high advantage of university life is often the mere mechanical one, I may call it, of a separate chamber and fire...

University, adj. (2)

    ET12 5.210 13 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford], the Lusby, the Hertford, the Dean-Ireland and the University...
    Plu 10.321 3 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals], for its vigorous English style. The work of some forty or fifty University men...it is a monument of the English language...

University, Cambridge, adj. (3)

    MoS 4.168 19 It is Cambridge men who correct themselves and begin again at every half sentence.
    ET12 5.209 11 ...so eminent are the members that a glance at the calendars will show that in all the world one cannot be in better company than on the books of one of the larger Oxford or Cambridge colleges.
    Carl 10.496 4 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education indurates the young men...

University, Cambridge, n. (6)

    ET12 5.199 1 Of British universities, Cambridge has the most illustrious names on its list.
    ET12 5.205 8 At Cambridge, 750 dollars a year is economical...
    ET12 5.213 17 ...the best poetry of England of this age, in the old forms, comes from two graduates at Cambridge.
    Chr2 10.113 14 ...the whole science of theology [is] of great uncertainty, and resting very much on the opinions of who may chance to be the leading doctors...of Princeton or Cambridge, to-day.
    Carl 10.496 3 [Carlyle] prefers Cambridge to Oxford...
    EWI 11.108 16 [Thomas Clarkson] left Cambridge;...

University, Harvard, Librar (1)

    Thor 10.458 19 On one occasion [Thoreau] went to the University Library to procure some books.

University, Harvard, n. (7)

    ET12 5.210 18 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...and I believed they would prove too severe tests for the candidates for a Bachelor's degree in Yale or Harvard.
    OA 7.315 4 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1861 the venerable President Quincy, senior member of the Society, as well as senior alumnus of the University, was received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.
    OA 7.330 25 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...ever... assuring himself he should retire from the University and read the authors.
    Elo2 8.123 17 In 1809 [John Quincy Adams]...resigned his chair in the University.
    EzRy 10.382 12 ...[Ezra Ripley] entered Harvard University, July, 1772.
    SlHr 10.439 15 It was rather his reputation for severe method in his intellect than any special direction in his studies that caused [Samuel Hoar] to be offered the mathematical chair in Harvard University...
    Thor 10.451 14 After leaving the University, [Thoreau] joined his brother in teaching a private school...

University, London, n. (1)

    ET13 5.223 27 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts. The church has not been the founder of the London University...of whatever aims at diffusion of knowledge.

university, n. (22)

    AmS 1.113 26 [The scholar] must be an university of knowledges.
    SwM 4.103 11 [Swedenborg's] stalwart presence would flutter the gowns of an university.
    ET11 5.195 19 In the university, the [English] noblemen are exempted from the public exercises for the degree...
    ET12 5.201 5 Albericus Gentilis, in 1580, was relieved and maintained by the university [Oxford].
    ET12 5.209 6 The university is a decided presumption in any man's favor [in England].
    ET12 5.209 26 ...it is likely that the university [Oxford] will know how to resist and make inoperative the terrors of parliamentary inquiry;...
    ET12 5.212 17 The university must be retrospective.
    ET13 5.218 8 ...when the Saxon instinct had secured a [religious] service in the vernacular tongue, it was the tutor and university of the people.
    ET13 5.222 24 The action of the university...is directed more on producing an English gentleman, than a saint or a psychologist.
    Wth 6.103 14 A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail;...
    Ctr 6.144 17 I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither.
    Ctr 6.146 25 California and the Pacific Coast is now the university of this class [of poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut]...
    SS 7.12 1 A backwoodsman, who had been sent to the university, told me that when he heard the best-bred young men at the law-school talk together, he reckoned himself a boor; but whenever he caught them apart, and had one to himself alone, then they were the boors and he the better man.
    Civ 7.24 11 Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge...by the cheap press, bringing the university to every poor man's door...
    Elo1 7.96 27 ...the best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
    DL 7.122 10 ...[Lord Falkland's] house was a university in a less volume...
    Insp 8.278 3 [Behmen said] In one quarter of an hour I saw and knew more than if I had been many years together at an university.
    SovE 10.213 13 The man of this age must be matriculated in the university of sciences and tendencies flowing from all past periods.
    Schr 10.261 7 ...the society of lettered men is a university which does not bound itself with the walls of one cloister or college...
    FSLC 11.199 23 [The Fugitive Slave Law] has been like a university to the entire people.
    FSLN 11.242 14 I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political arena...
    Humb 11.457 13 ...a university...travelled in [Humboldt's] shoes.

University, n. (7)

    NER 3.259 7 Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing Greek and Latin, and as soon as he leaves the University...he shuts those books for the last time.
    ET9 5.151 22 ...to wave our own flag at the dinner table or in the University is to carry the boisterous dulness of a fire-club into a polite circle.
    ET15 5.267 16 The daily paper [London Times] is the work...chiefly, it is said, of young men recently from the University...
    SlHr 10.448 16 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to unpaid services of...the cause of Education, and specially of the University...
    HDC 11.57 7 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar school, the masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.
    CInt 12.126 1 It is true that the University and the Church...do not express the sentiment of the popular politics and the popular optimism, whatever it be.
    Bost 12.195 22 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that...where any town shall increase to the number of a hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar School, the Masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University.

University of Edinburgh, n. (1)

    Chrs 10.113 13 ...the whole science of theology [is] of great uncertainty, and resting very much on the opinions of who may chance to be the leading doctors of Oxford or Edinburgh...

University of Upsala, Swede (1)

    CL 12.136 15 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country...

University, Oxford, adj. (4)

    ET8 5.133 14 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man, uttered any thing that came into his mind...
    ET12 5.209 11 ...so eminent are the members that a glance at the calendars will show that in all the world one cannot be in better company than on the books of one of the larger Oxford or Cambridge colleges.
    ET15 5.263 1 Rude health and spirits, an Oxford education and the habits of society are implied [by writing for English journals], but not a ray of genius.
    Carl 10.496 3 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education indurates the young men...

University, Oxford, n. (27)

    Hist 2.20 24 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder.
    MoS 4.154 10 Ah, said my languid gentleman at Oxford, there's nothing new or true,--and no matter.
    ET10 5.154 13 I was lately turning over Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, and looking naturally for another standard [than wealth] in a chronicle of the scholars of Oxford for two hundred years.
    ET12 5.199 4 At the present day...[Cambridge] has the advantage of Oxford, counting in its alumni a greater number of distinguished scholars.
    ET12 5.199 10 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford...
    ET12 5.200 20 Oxford is old, even in England...
    ET12 5.201 18 ...Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, or calendar of the writers of Oxford for two hundred years, is a lively record of English manners and merits...
    ET12 5.201 22 On every side, Oxford is redolent of age...
    ET12 5.202 21 In Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection at London were the cartoons of Raphael and Michael Angelo. This inestimable prize was offered to Oxford University for seven thousand pounds.
    ET12 5.203 21 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Dr. Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order; brought them to Oxford with the rest of his purchase...
    ET12 5.204 4 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford.
    ET12 5.204 12 Oxford is a Greek factory...
    ET12 5.205 1 The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of ordinary college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year.
    ET12 5.205 18 Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself...
    ET12 5.205 27 The number of fellowships at Oxford is 540...
    ET12 5.206 14 As the number of undergraduates at Oxford is only about 1200 or 1300...the chance of a fellowship is very great.
    ET12 5.209 18 Oxford...shuts up the lectureships which were made public for all men thereunto to have concourse;...
    ET12 5.210 2 ...no doubt their learning is grown obsolete;--but Oxford also has its merits...
    ET12 5.210 21 Oxford sends out yearly twenty or thirty very able men...
    ET12 5.212 20 Oxford is a library, and the professors must be librarians.
    ET12 5.213 11 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford...
    ET13 5.224 3 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts. The Church has not been the founder...of the Fre School, of whatever aims at diffusion of knowledge. The Platonists of Oxford are as bitter against this heresy, as Thomas Taylor.
    DL 7.122 2 [Lord Falkland's] house being within little more than ten miles from Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that University...
    Chr2 10.113 13 ...the whole science of theology [is] of great uncertainty, and resting very much on the opinions of who may chance to be the leading doctors of Oxford or
    Carl 10.496 3 [Carlyle] prefers Cambridge to Oxford...
    Wom 11.416 9 ...that Cause [antagonism to Slavery] turned out to be a great scholar. He was a terrible metaphysician. He was a jurist, a poet, a divine. Was never a University of Oxford or Gottingen that made such students.
    CInt 12.124 15 ...there is a certain shyness of genius...in colleges, which is as old as the rejection...of Bentley by the pedants of his time, and only the other day, of Arago; in Oxford, the recent rejection of Max Muller.

University, Princeton, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.113 14 ...the whole science of theology [is] of great uncertainty, and resting very much on the opinions of who may chance to be the leading doctors...of Princeton or Cambridge, to-day.

University, Yale, n. (1)

    ET12 5.210 18 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...and I believed they would prove too severe tests for the candidates for a Bachelor's degree in Yale or Harvard.

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