Use to Utters
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
use, n. (291)
Nat 1.12 12 Yet although low, [Commodity]...is the only
use of nature
which all men apprehend.
Nat 1.25 1 Language is a third use which Nature
subserves to man.
Nat 1.25 10 The use of natural history is to give us
aid in supernatural
history;...
Nat 1.25 11 ...the use of outer creation [is] to give
us language for the
beings and changes of the inward creation.
Nat 1.28 14 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting
analogies in the nature
of man is that little fruit made use of...
Nat 1.32 16 Whilst we use this grand cipher to expedite
the affairs of our
pot and kettle, we feel that we have not yet put it to its use...
Nat 1.33 12 These propositions [in physics] have a much
more extensive
and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to
technical use.
Nat 1.36 3 This use of the world [as a discipline]
includes the preceding
uses...
Nat 1.38 12 A bell and a plough have each their use...
Nat 1.41 12 Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first
use.
Nat 1.41 16 ...the use of commodity, regarded by
itself, is mean and squalid.
Nat 1.52 12 The Imagination may be defined to be the
use which the
Reason makes of the material world.
Nat 1.72 17 [Man's] relation to nature, his power over
it, is through the
understanding, as by...the economic use of fire...
Nat 1.74 12 There are innocent men who worship God
after the tradition of
their fathers, but their sense of duty has not yet extended to the use
of all
their faculties.
AmS 1.89 25 What is the right use [of books]?
LE 1.164 20 In order to a knowledge of the resources of
the scholar, we
must not rest in the use of slender accomplishments...
LE 1.181 10 Let [the scholar] know that...in the use of
all means...the secret
of the world is to be learned...
LE 1.184 4 Show frankly as a saint would do, your
experience, methods, tools, and means. Welcome all comers to the freest
use of the same.
LE 1.187 2 Ask not, Of what use is a scholarship that
systematically
retreats?...
MN 1.212 3 Is [man's work in the world] for use? nature
is debased...
MN 1.222 11 The one condition coupled with the gift of
truth is its use.
MR 1.236 15 The use of manual labor is one which never
grows obsolete...
MR 1.238 2 ...I...have not earned by use a right to my
arms and feet.
MR 1.239 26 ...we have now a puny, protected person,
guarded by walls
and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them,
that
he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him to
his ends...
Con 1.309 24 What you do not want for use, you crave
for ornament...
Con 1.312 23 ...as soon as you put your gift to use,
you shall have acre or
acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert...
Tran 1.330 7 [The idealist]...admits the impressions of
sense, admits...their
use and beauty...
Tran 1.336 20 Of this fine incident, Jacobi, the
Transcendental moralist, makes use...
Tran 1.339 26 ...the Idealism of the present day
acquired the name of
Transcendental from the use of that term by Immanuel Kant...
Tran 1.349 11 You make very free use of these words
great and holy, but
few things appear to [Transcendentalists] such.
Hist 2.9 5 ...the purpose of nature, betrays itself in
the use we make of the
signal narrations of history.
Hist 2.39 17 ...what is the use of pretending to know
what we know not?
SR 2.85 6 The civilized man has built a coach, but has
lost the use of his
feet.
SL 2.158 9 A stranger comes from a distant
school...with airs and
pretensions; an older boy says to himself, It's of no use; we shall
find him
out to-morrow.
SL 2.164 17 I may say it of our preposterous use of
books,--He knew not
what to do, and so he read.
Lov1 2.179 21 [Beauty's] nature is like opaline
doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the
most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying
all attempts at appropriation
and use.
Hsm1 2.253 6 What a disgrace is it to me...to bear the
inventory of thy
shirts, as one for superfluity, and one other for use!
Hsm1 2.254 22 It seems not worth [the hero's] while
to...denounce with
bitterness...the use of tobacco...
OS 2.287 18 It is of no use to preach to me from
without.
Cir 2.312 2 The use of literature is to afford us a
platform whence we may
command a view of our present life...
Cir 2.322 6 Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium
and alcohol are the
semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius...
Int 2.333 12 I knew...a person...who, seeing my whim
for writing, fancied
that my experiences had somewhat superior; whilst I saw that his
experiences were as good as mine. Give them to me and I would make the
same use of them.
Art1 2.351 6 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the
production of a new and
fairer whole. This appears in works both of the useful and fine arts,
if we
employ the popular distinction of works according to their aim either
at use
or beauty.
Art1 2.352 16 ...the artist must employ the symbols in
use in his day...
Art1 2.366 21 ...this division of beauty from use, the
laws of nature do not
permit.
Art1 2.368 15 ...[genius] will raise to a divine use
the railroad...
Art1 2.368 19 ...[genius] will raise to a divine
use...the prism, and the
chemist's retort; in which we seek now only an economical use.
Pt1 3.16 10 The inwardness and mystery of this
attachment [to nature] drive men of every class to the use of emblems.
Pt1 3.17 5 ...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 3.17 13 Thought makes everything fit for use.
Pt1 3.20 13 The poet...gives [things] a power which
makes their old use
forgotten...
Pt1 3.22 9 ...language is made up of images or tropes,
which now, in their
secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.
Pt1 3.30 4 The use of symbols has a certain power of
emancipation and
exhilaration for all men.
Pt1 3.35 8 ...the mystic must be steadily told,--All
that you say is just as
true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it.
Exp 3.50 19 Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold
and defective nature?
Exp 3.50 26 Of what use is genius, if the organ is too
convex or too
concave...
Exp 3.51 3 Of what use [is genius], if the brain is too
cold or too hot...
Exp 3.51 10 Of what use to make heroic vows of
amendment, if the same
old law-breaker is to keep them?
Chr1 3.105 13 It is of no use to ape [character] or to
contend with it.
Mrs1 3.122 5 There is something equivocal in all the
words in use to
express the excellence of manners and social cultivation...
Mrs1 3.135 7 It were unmerciful, I know, quite to
abolish the use of these
screens...
Mrs1 3.153 6 ...the advantages which fashion values are
plants which
thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets namely. Out of
this
precinct they...are of no use in the farm...
Nat2 3.193 22 Are we not engaged to a serious
resentment of this use that
is made of us?
Pol1 3.213 3 Every man finds a sanction for his
simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls
Truth and Holiness. In these
decisions all the citizens find a perfect agreement, and only in these;
not in
what is...good use of time...
NR 3.233 7 I am faithful again to the whole over the
members in my use of
books.
NR 3.234 26 Anomalous facts...are of ideal use.
NR 3.241 3 I think I have done well if I have acquired
a new word from a
good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though it were
only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use...
NER 3.252 9 One apostle thought all men should go to
farming, and
another that no man should buy or sell, that the use of money was the
cardinal evil;...
NER 3.252 23 [Other reformers] attacked the system of
agriculture, the use
of animal manures in farming...
NER 3.266 8 What is the use of the concert of the false
and the disunited?
NER 3.269 20 [The scholar]...became a showman, turning
his gifts to a
marketable use...
UGM 4.7 25 Our common discourse respects two kinds of
use or service
from superior men.
UGM 4.8 24 ...each man converts some raw material in
nature to human
use.
UGM 4.27 21 There is...a speedy limit to the use of
heroes.
PPh 4.52 2 ...if we dare...name the last tendency of
both [unity and
diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from
organization,--pure science; and the end of the other is...use of
means...
PPh 4.63 2 The sciences...are like sportsmen, who seize
whatever prey
offers, even without being able to make any use of it.
PPh 4.63 3 The sciences...are like sportsmen, who seize
whatever prey
offers, even without being able to make any use of it. Dialectic must
teach
the use of them.
SwM 4.109 2 Every thing, at the end of one use, is
taken up into the next...
SwM 4.109 7 ...every thing at the end of one use is
lifted into a superior...
SwM 4.116 25 The fact [of Correspondence] thus
explicitly stated [by
Swedenborg] is implied...in the use of emblems...
SwM 4.118 22 ...Swedenborg was not content with the
culinary use of the
world.
SwM 4.126 12 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which
express with
singular beauty the ethical laws;...The perfection of man is the love
of use...
SwM 4.145 21 By the science of experiment and use,
[Swedenborg] made
his first steps...
MoS 4.153 23 My neighbor, a jolly farmer, in the tavern
bar-room, thinks
that the use of money is sure and speedy spending.
MoS 4.156 10 [The skeptic says] What is the use of
pretending to powers
we have not?
MoS 4.156 11 [The skeptic says] What is the use of
pretending to
assurances we have not, respecting the other life?
MoS 4.156 26 [The skeptic says] Of what use to take the
chair and glibly
rattle off theories of society, religion and nature, when I know that
practical
objections lie in the way, insurmountable by me and by my mates?
MoS 4.169 21 ...[Montaigne] says, might I have had my
own will, I would
not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me, but 't is to
much purpose to evade it, the common custom and use of life will have
it
so.
ShP 4.198 17 A certain awkwardness marks the use of
borrowed thoughts;...
ShP 4.200 13 Grotius makes the like remark in respect
to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed
were already in use in the
time of Christ...
ShP 4.216 26 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew
that a tree had
another use than for apples...
NMW 4.230 16 That common-sense which no sooner respects
any end than
it finds the means to effect it; the delight in the use of
means;...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may
almost call, from its
extent, the modern party.
NMW 4.231 26 I have always marched with the opinion of
great masses
and with events [said Bonaparte]. Of what use then would crimes be to
me?
GoW 4.276 12 Take the most remarkable example that
could occur of [Goethe's] tendency to verify every term in popular use.
GoW 4.290 23 The secret of genius is...first, last,
midst and without end, to
honor every truth by use.
ET1 5.14 18 As I might have foreseen, the visit [with
Coleridge] was rather
a spectacle than a conversation, of no use beyond the satisfaction of
my
curiosity.
ET3 5.34 16 The long habitation of a powerful and
ingenious race has
turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use...
ET4 5.51 1 Everything English is a fusion of distant
and antagonistic
elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are
counter... world-wide enterprise and devoted use and wont;...
ET4 5.69 17 ...Tacitus found the English beer already
in use among the
Germans...
ET5 5.84 12 [The English] study use and fitness in
their building...
ET5 5.84 22 [The English] think him the best dressed
man whose dress is
so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
ET5 5.99 14 An electric touch by any of their national
ideas, melts [the
English] into one family, and brings the hoards of power which their
individuality is always hiving, into use and play for all.
ET10 5.169 18 Such a wealth has England earned, ever
new, bounteous and
augmenting. But the question recurs, does she take the step beyond,
namely
to the wise use, in view of the supreme wealth of nations?
ET11 5.179 17 Waltham is strong town; Radcliffe is red
cliff; and so on,--a
sincerity and use in naming very striking to an American...
ET11 5.187 3 The economist of 1855 who asks, Of what
use are the [English] lords? may learn of Franklin to ask, Of what use
is a baby?
ET11 5.187 4 The economist of 1855 who asks, Of what
use are the [English] lords? may learn of Franklin to ask, Of what use
is a baby?
ET12 5.200 9 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the
upper table and
pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals, which, I suppose,
has
been in use here for ages...
ET12 5.200 11 It is a curious proof of the English use
and wont...that these
young men [at Oxford] are locked up every night at nine o'clock...
ET12 5.204 14 [The English] know the use of a tutor, as
they know the use
of a horse;...
ET12 5.204 15 [The English] know the use of a tutor, as
they know the use
of a horse;...
ET14 5.240 26 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part
of learning [universality] very deficient, the profounder sort of wits
drawing a bucket
now and then for their own use...
F 6.8 12 ...it is of no use to try to whitewash
[Providence's] huge, mixed
instrumentalities...
F 6.24 5 The right use of Fate is to bring up our
conduct to the loftiness of
nature.
F 6.24 17 'T is the best use of Fate to teach a fatal
courage.
F 6.36 14 The whole circle of animal life...until at
last...the whole chemical
mass is mellowed and refined for higher use-pleases at a sufficient
perspective.
F 6.38 3 ...[every creature] has predisposing power
that bends and fits what
is near him to his use.
Pow 6.66 21 It is an esoteric doctrine of
society...that as there is a use in
medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues;...
Pow 6.77 8 The second substitute for temperament is
drill, the power of use
and routine.
Pow 6.79 9 It is not question to express our thought,
to elect our way, but to
overcome resistances of the medium and material in everything we do.
Hence the use of drill...
Pow 6.79 19 To have learned the use of the tools, by
thousands of
manipulations;...is the power of the mechanic...
Wth 6.86 14 Steam is no stronger now than it was a
hundred years ago; but
is put to better use.
Wth 6.88 19 ...every thought of every hour opens a new
want to [a man] which it concerns his power and dignity to gratify. It
is of no use to argue
the wants down...
Wth 6.88 27 [A man]...is tempted out by his appetites
and fancies to the
conquest of this and that piece of nature, until he finds his
well-being in the
use of his planet...
Wth 6.93 3 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that
a shallow observer
must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth...
Wth 6.93 5 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that
a shallow observer
must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth, and, whatever
is
pretended, it ends in cosseting. But if this were the main use of
surplus
capital, it would bring us to barricades, burned towns and tomahawks,
presently.
Wth 6.97 26 There are many articles good for occasional
use, which few
men are able to own.
Wth 6.98 19 ...the use which any man can make of
[pictures, engravings, statues and casts] is rare...
Wth 6.99 17 Man was born to be rich, or inevitably
grows rich by the use
of his faculties;...
Wth 6.117 13 When the cholera is in the potato, what is
the use of planting
larger crops?
Wth 6.123 11 Use has made the farmer wise...
Wth 6.125 15 ...Best use of money is to pay debts;...
Ctr 6.144 8 There is also a negative value in these
[minor] arts. Their chief
use to the youth is not amusement...
Ctr 6.147 7 One use of travel is to recommend the books
and works of
home...
Wsp 6.210 16 Let a man attain the highest and broadest
culture that any
American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America
will acquiesce...that after the education has gone far, such is the
expensiveness of America that the best use to put a fine person to is
to
drown him to save his board.
CbW 6.251 9 The good men are employed for private
centres of use...
CbW 6.253 9 It is of no use for us to make war with
[the fools]; [wrote the
Chevalier de Boufflers]...
CbW 6.255 7 ...Art lives and thrills in new use and
combining of contrasts...
CbW 6.262 15 In our life and culture everything is
worked up and comes in
use...
CbW 6.265 12 ...I find the gayest castles in the air
that were ever piled, far
better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are
daily dug
and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.
Bty 6.284 10 The invention is of use to the inventor...
Bty 6.302 12 ...if a man...can take such advantages of
nature that all her
powers serve him; making use of geometry, instead of expense;...this is
still
the legitimate dominion of beauty.
Bty 6.304 15 Every word has a double, treble or
centuple use and meaning.
SS 7.1 6 ...[Seyd] Loved harebells nodding on a rock,/
A cabin hung with
curling smoke,/ Ring of axe or hum of wheel/ Or gleam which use can
paint
on steel/...
SS 7.11 16 Here is the use of society: it is so easy
with the great to be
great;...
Civ 7.24 25 The ship, in its latest complete equipment,
is an abridgment
and compend of a nation's arts... No use can lessen the wonder of this
control by so weak a creature of forces so prodigious.
Art2 7.39 4 ...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and
combination of things to
serve its end.
Art2 7.39 21 ...the Spirit, in its creation, aims at
use or at beauty...
Art2 7.43 12 Architecture and eloquence are mixed arts,
whose end is
sometimes beauty and sometimes use.
Elo1 7.75 9 These kinds of public and private speaking
have their use and
convenience to the practitioners;...
Elo1 7.89 2 ...all that is called eloquence seems to me
of little use for the
most part to those who have it...
DL 7.104 11 ...presently begins his use of his fingers,
and [the nestler] studies power...
DL 7.114 25 Our whole use of wealth needs revision and
reform.
Farm 7.135 3 To these men [farmers]/ The landscape is
an armory of
powers/ Which, one by one, they know to draw and use./
Farm 7.135 7 ...[Farmers] prove the virtues of each bed
of rock/ And, like
the chemist mid his loaded jars,/ Draw from each stratum its adapted
use/
To drug their crops or weapon their arts withal./
Farm 7.137 8 ...all historic nobility rests on
possession and use of land.
WD 7.158 4 ...such is the mechanical determination of
our age, and so
recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and
pride in
them;...
WD 7.177 11 The use of history is to give value to the
present hour and its
duty.
Clbs 7.247 18 The use of the hospitality of the club
hardly needs
explanation.
Cour 7.257 19 Every moment as long as [the child] is
awake he studies the
use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet...
Cour 7.260 3 Nature has made up her mind that what
cannot defend itself
shall not be defended. Complaining never so loud and with never so much
reason is of no use.
Cour 7.260 18 An old farmer...when I ask him if he is
not going to town-meeting, says: No, 't is no use balloting, for it
will not stay;...
Cour 7.263 2 Knowledge is the encourager...knowledge
and use, which is
knowledge in practice.
Cour 7.263 9 Use makes a better soldier than the most
urgent
considerations of duty...
Cour 7.277 5 ...the best use of fate is to teach us
courage...
Suc 7.283 6 We have the power of territory and of
seacoast, and know the
use of these.
PI 8.9 10 ...[all things in Nature's] growths, decays,
quality and use so
curiously resemble [the student], in parts and in wholes, that he is
compelled to speak by means of them.
PI 8.11 4 The primary use of a fact is low;...
PI 8.11 5 ...the secondary use [of a fact], as it is a
figure or illustration of
my thought, it the real worth.
PI 8.11 26 Note our incessant use of the word like...
PI 8.14 20 This belief that the higher use of the
material world is to furnish
us types or pictures to express the thoughts of the mind, is carried to
its
logical extreme by the Hindoos...
PI 8.15 15 ...it is the use of life to learn metonymy.
PI 8.17 20 The term genius, when used with emphasis,
implies imagination; use of symbols, figurative speech.
PI 8.21 14 I think the use or value of poetry to be the
suggestion it affords
of the flux or fugaciousness of the poet.
PI 8.22 2 This union of first and second sight reads
Nature to the end of
delight and of moral use.
PI 8.35 16 The use of occasional poems is to give leave
to originality.
SA 8.87 10 ...[Lord Chesterfield] says, I am sure that
since I had the use of
my reason, no human being has ever heard me laugh.
Elo2 8.119 6 Go into an assembly well excited, some
angry political
meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as
natural
as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do. It
only
needs that they should be once well pushed off into the water...and
after a
mad struggle or two they find...the use of their arms...
Res 8.138 5 A philosophy...which says 't is all of no
use...dispirits us;...
Res 8.145 16 ...the Corsicans at the battle of
Golo...made use of the bodies
of their dead to form an intrenchment.
Comc 8.166 3 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice
malefactors to
excuse,/ And hang the guiltless in their stead,/ Of whom the churches
have
less need;/ As lately happened, in a town/ Where lived a cobbler, and
but
one,/ That out of doctrine could cut use,/ And mend men's lives as well
as
shoes./
QO 8.179 2 The Patent-Office Commissioner knows that
all machines in
use have been invented and re-invented over and over;...
QO 8.194 8 ...you can easily pronounce, from the use
and relevancy of the
sentence, whether it had not done duty many times before...
PC 8.223 5 There is no use in Copernicus if the robust
periodicity of the
solar system does not show its equal perfection in the mental sphere...
PC 8.227 23 What is the use of telegraphs?
PPo 8.248 13 [The mind] indicates this respect to
absolute truth by the use
it makes of the symbols that are most stable and reverend...
PPo 8.249 9 His complete intellectual emancipation
[Hafiz] communicates
to the reader. There is no example of...such use of all materials.
Insp 8.276 15 Pit-coal,-where to find it? 'T is of no
use that your engine
is made like a watch...if there is no coal.
Insp 8.279 7 There are...certain risks in this
presentiment of the decisive
perception, as in the use of ether or alcohol...
Insp 8.293 27 ...it is not [the fact] which signifies,
but the use we put it to...
Insp 8.294 21 ...every word admits a new use...
Imtl 8.329 11 A man of affairs is afraid to
die...because he...is the victim of
those who have moulded the religious doctrines into some neat and
plausible system...for household use.
Imtl 8.339 19 ...a higher poetic use must be made of
the legend [of the
Wandering Jew].
Imtl 8.342 2 ...courage or confidence in the mind comes
to those who know
by use its wonderful forces and inspirations and returns.
Imtl 8.346 20 ...only by rare integrity...can the
vision of [immortality] be
clear to a use the most sublime.
Aris 10.53 1 ...Genius unlocks for all men the chains
of use, temperament
and drudgery...
PerF 10.72 24 The husbandry learned in the economy of
heat or light or
steam or muscular fibre applies precisely to the use of wit.
PerF 10.73 8 See how trivial is the use of the world by
any other of its
creatures.
PerF 10.76 12 ...[man] exhausts by his use all the
harvests...
PerF 10.84 13 ...this child of the dust throws himself
by obedience into the
circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God. Thus is
the
world delivered into your hand, but on two conditions,-not for
property, but for use, use according to the noble nature of the gifts;
and...not for self-indulgence.
Chr2 10.99 14 Slowly the body comes to the use of its
organs;...
Chr2 10.117 13 Religion is as inexpugnable as the use
of lamps...
Edc1 10.125 2 The use of the world is that man may
learn its laws.
Edc1 10.133 7 If I have renounced the search of
truth...I have died to all
use of these new events...
Edc1 10.140 5 How we envy in later life the happy
youths to whom their
boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which
frames and sets off their school and college tasks, and teaches them,
when
least they think of it, the use and meaning of these.
Edc1 10.147 18 ...as mechanics say, when one has
learned the use of tools, it is easy to work at a new craft.
Edc1 10.154 14 ...the adoption of simple discipline and
the following of
nature, involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on
the
life of the teacher. It requires time, use, insight, event...
Edc1 10.154 19 ...only to think of using [simple
discipline and the
following of nature] implies character and profoundness; to enter on
this
course of discipline is to be good and great. It is precisely analogous
to the
difference between the use of corporal punishment and the methods of
love.
Supl 10.168 17 ...the old head, after deceiving and
being deceived many
times, thinks, What's the use of having to unsay to-day what I said
yesterday?
Supl 10.169 10 It seems as if inflation were a disease
incident to too much
use of words...
Supl 10.173 21 ...the luminous object...is luminous
because it is burning
up; and if the powers are disposed for display, there is all the less
left for
use and creation.
Supl 10.177 14 ...the diamond and the pearl, which are
only accidental and
secondary in their use and value to us, are proper to the Oriental
world.
Prch 10.235 23 All civil mankind have agreed in leaving
one day for
contemplation against six for practice. I hope that day will keep its
honor
and its use.
Prch 10.236 21 That should be the use of the
Sabbath,-to check this
headlong racing...
Schr 10.265 27 ...[the poet's] achievement is the
piercing of the brass
heavens of use and limitation...
Schr 10.279 26 What is the use of strength or cunning
or beauty...to a
maniac?
Schr 10.283 2 I wish...to see men's sense of duty
extend to the cherishing
and use of their intellectual powers...
Schr 10.285 13 What is the use of artificial positions?
Schr 10.288 17 ...[the scholar's] use of books is
occasional, and infinitely
subordinate;...
Plu 10.299 1 ...[Plutarch] has a taste for common life,
and knows...the
forge, farm, kitchen and cellar, and every utensil and use...
MMEm 10.409 5 As a traveller enters some fine palace
and finds all the
doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages,
so
have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over the
apartments of social affections...
SlHr 10.440 10 Though rich, [Samuel Hoar was] of a
plainness and almost
poverty of personal expenditure, yet liberal of his money to any worthy
use...
Thor 10.451 19 [Thoreau's] father was a manufacturer of
lead-pencils, and
Henry applied himself for a time to this craft, believing he could make
a
better pencil than was then in use.
Thor 10.454 10 ...[Thoreau] ate no flesh, he drank no
wine, he never knew
the use of tobacco;...
Thor 10.461 15 [Thoreau's] senses were acute...his
hands strong and skilful
in the use of tools.
LS 11.7 16 I see natural feeling and beauty in the use
of such language
from Jesus, a friend to his friends;...
LS 11.7 21 ...I cannot bring myself to believe that in
the use of such an
expression [This do in remembrance of me] [Jesus] looked beyond the
living generation...
LS 11.15 19 ...this single expectation of a speedy
reappearance of a
temporal Messiah...would naturally tend to preserve the use of the rite
[the
Lord's Supper] when once established.
LS 11.16 23 I proceed to state a few objections that in
my judgment lie
against [the Lord's Supper's] use in its present form.
LS 11.17 5 It has seemed to me that the use of this
ordinance [the Lord's
Supper] tends to produce confusion in our views of the relation of the
soul
to God.
LS 11.18 24 ...a true disciple of Jesus will receive
the light he gives most
thankfully; but the thanks he offers...are not compliments,
commemorations, but the use of that instruction.
LS 11.18 27 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's
Supper]...is foreign
and unsuited to affect us.
LS 11.19 6 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's
Supper]...is foreign and
unsuited to affect us. Whatever long usage and strong association may
have
done in some individuals to deaden this repulsion, I apprehend that
their use
is rather tolerated than loved by any of us.
LS 11.23 12 ...in the eye of God there is no other
measure of the value of
any one form than the measure of its use?
LS 11.23 22 ...I have proposed to the brethren of the
Church to drop the use
of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of
this
ordinance [the Lord's Supper]...
HDC 11.39 25 [The settlers of Concord] were fain to
make use of their
knees for a table, but their limbs were their own.
EWI 11.107 4 ...(tracing the subject to natural
principles, the claim of
slavery never can be supported). The power claimed by this return never
was in use here.
EWI 11.136 22 One feels very sensibly in all this
history [of emancipation
in the West Indies] that a great heart and soul are behind there,
superior to
any man, and making use of each, in turn...
War 11.157 23 The increase of civility has abolished
the use of poison and
of torture...
FSLC 11.184 3 What is the use of admirable law-forms,
and political
forms, if a hurricane of party feeling and a combination of monied
interests
can beat them to the ground?
FSLC 11.184 6 What is the use of courts, if judges only
quote authorities...
FSLC 11.184 9 What is the use of a Federal Bench, if
its opinions are the
political breath of the hour?
FSLC 11.184 11 ...what is the use of constitutions, if
all the guaranties
provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made
of no
effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?
FSLC 11.205 7 The scraps of morality to be gleaned from
[Webster's] speeches are reflections of the mind of others; he says
what he hears said, but often makes signal blunders in their use.
FSLN 11.232 26 The events of this month are teaching
one thing plain and
clear...that official papers are of no use;...
FSLN 11.234 18 These things show that no forms...are of
any use in
themselves.
FSLN 11.234 21 Covenants are of no use without honest
men to keep
them;...
FSLN 11.236 27 It is of no use to vote down gravitation
of morals.
JBB 11.271 22 A good man will see that the use of a
judge is to secure
good government...
JBB 11.272 9 If judges cannot find law enough to
maintain the sovereignty
of the state...it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable.
What
avails their learning or veneration? At a pinch, they are no more use
than
idiots.
TPar 11.286 18 ...[Theodore Parker's] information would
have been
excessive, but for the noble use he made of it ever in the interest of
humanity.
TPar 11.289 23 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the
essence of
Christianity is its practical morals; it is there for use, or it is
nothing;...
ACiv 11.297 1 Use, labor of each for all, is the health
and virtue of all
beings.
ACiv 11.305 11 ...next winter we must begin at the
beginning, and conquer [the South] over again. What use then to take a
fort...
EPro 11.318 18 'T is wonderful what power is...and how
its ill use makes
life mean...
SMC 11.351 7 The art of the architect and the sense of
the town have made
these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak; have...converted
these elements from a secular to a sacred and spiritual use;...
Wom 11.418 3 There are plenty of people who...do not
see the use of
contemplative men...
SHC 11.435 20 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not
displace the old
tenants.
CPL 11.497 13 The sedge Papyrus...is of more importance
to history than
cotton, or silver, or gold. Its first use for writing is between three
and four
thousand years old...
FRep 11.511 11 The sailors sail by chronometers that do
not lose two or
three seconds in a year, ever since Newton explained to Parliament that
the
way to improve navigation was to get good watches, and to offer public
premiums for a better time-keeper than any then in use.
FRep 11.536 23 Of no use are the men who study to do
exactly as was
done before...
FRep 11.542 10 Use is inscribed on all [man's]
faculties.
FRep 11.542 11 Use is the end to which [man] exists.
FRep 11.542 16 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does
not stand in the
universe. They are all toiling...to a use in the economy of the
world;...
PLT 12.6 11 My belief in the use of a course of
philosophy is that the
student shall learn to appreciate the miracle of the mind;...
PLT 12.13 27 My metaphysics are to the end of use.
PLT 12.42 27 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...no longer looks back to Hebrew or Greek or English use or
tradition in religion, laws or life...
PLT 12.48 3 Somewhat is to come to the light, and one
[talent] was created
to fetch it,-a vessel of honor or of dishonor. 'T is of instant use in
the
economy of the Cosmos...
PLT 12.48 7 Each of these talents is born to be
unfolded and set at work for
the use and delight of men...
II 12.67 7 To make a practical use of this instinct in
every part of life
constitutes true wisdom...
II 12.82 20 What is the use of trying to be somewhat
else?
II 12.86 17 The old Herschel must...defend his eyes for
nocturnal use.
Mem 12.98 5 The way in which...any orator surprises us
is by his always
having a sharp tool that fits the present use.
Mem 12.100 9 ...men of great presence of mind...do not
need to rely on
what they have stored for use...
Mem 12.105 12 Michael Angelo, after having once seen a
work of any
other artist, would remember it so perfectly that if it pleased him to
make
use of any portion thereof, he could do so...
Mem 12.109 27 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 thus
there
must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its
use;...
CL 12.135 18 The avarice of real estate native to us
all covers...all that is
called the love of Nature, comprising the largest use and the whole
beauty
of a farm or landed estate.
CL 12.150 7 All [the Indian's] knowledge is for use...
CL 12.150 8 All [the Indian's] knowledge is for use,
and it only appears in
use...
CL 12.163 10 [Conversation with Nature] is the greatest
use and the
greatest beauty.
CL 12.166 5 'T is of no use to show us more planets and
systems.
Bost 12.205 9 [The people of Massachusetts] accepted
the divine ordination
that man is for use;...
Bost 12.205 10 [The people of Massachusetts] accepted
the divine
ordination...that intelligent being exists to the utmost use;...
Milt1 12.260 2 [Milton's] lore of foreign tongues added
daily to his
consummate skill in the use of his own.
ACri 12.289 12 As a study in language, the use of this
word [Devil] is
curious...
ACri 12.293 20 Shakspeare might be studied for his
dexterity in the use of
these weapons [of rhetoric], if it were not for his heroic strength.
ACri 12.296 1 Montaigne must have the credit of giving
to literature that
which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...words...that have
neatness and necessity, through their use in the vocabulary of work and
appetite...
MLit 12.313 17 There is a pernicious ambiguity in the
use of the term
subjective.
MLit 12.316 15 ...[the noble natural man] yields
himself to your occasion
and use...
EurB 12.366 11 The poet, like the electric rod, must
reach from a point
nearer the sky than all surrounding objects, down to the earth, and
into the
dark wet soil, or neither is of use.
PPr 12.382 17 A man's diet should be what is simplest
and readiest to be
had, because it is so private a good. His house should be better,
because that
is for the use of hundreds, perhaps of thousands...
Let 12.393 21 ...Nature has set the sun and moon in
plain sight and use, but
laid them on the high shelf where her roystering boys may not in some
mad
Saturday afternoon pull them down or burn their fingers.
Use, n. (4)
Nat 1.41 18 ...[commodity] is to the mind an education
in the doctrine of
Use...
Exp 3.43 6 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I
saw them pass,/ In their
own guise,/ .../ Use and Surprise,/ Surface and Dream,/ Succession
swift, and spectral Wrong,/ Temperament without a tongue,/ And the
inventor of
the game/ Omnipresent without name;--/...
CbW 6.243 16 The richest of all lords is Use/...
Cour 7.262 19 Knowledge is the antidote to
fear,--Knowledge, Use and
Reason, with its higher aids.
use, v. (157)
Nat 1.5 3 In enumerating the values of nature and
casting up their sum, I
shall use the word in both senses;...
Nat 1.11 7 It is necessary to use these pleasures [of
nature] with great
temperance.
Nat 1.26 6 Children and savages use only nouns or names
of things...
Nat 1.32 14 Whilst we use this grand cipher to expedite
the affairs of our
pot and kettle, we feel that we have not yet put it to its use...
DSA 1.121 7 When...[man] attains to say...Virtue, I am
thine;...use me;... then...God is well pleased.
DSA 1.135 11 ...the man who aims to speak...as synods
use...babbles.
DSA 1.143 2 In the country, neighborhoods, half
parishes are signing off, to use the local term.
LE 1.175 10 Let the youth study the uses of solitude
and of society. Let
him use both...
LE 1.178 14 Believing, as in God, in the presence and
favor of the grandest
influences, let [the scholar] deserve that favor, and learn how to
receive and
use it...
MN 1.197 13 ...we can use nature as a convenient
standard...
MN 1.220 16 How our friendships and the complaisances
we use, shame us
now!
MR 1.239 3 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods
he has year after
year collected, in one estate to his son...the son finds his hands
full,-not to
use these things, but to look after them...
MR 1.249 21 We use these words [Faith and Hope] as if
they were as
obsolete as Selah and Amen.
MR 1.253 18 To use an Egyptian metaphor, it is not [the
people's] will for
any long time, to raise the nails of wild beasts and to depress the
heads of
the sacred birds.
LT 1.275 3 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform]...accuses
men of driving a
trade in the great boundless providence which had given the air, the
water, and the land to men, to use...
LT 1.276 11 The Reformers affirm the inward life, but
they...use outward
and vulgar means.
Tran 1.352 27 ...When shall I die and be relieved of
the responsibility of
seeing an Universe which I do not use?
Hist 2.7 27 These hints, dropped as it were from sleep
and night, let us use
in broad day.
SR 2.68 7 ...when [children] come into the point of
view which those had
who uttered these sayings, they...are willing to let the words go; for
at any
time they can use words as good when occasion comes.
SR 2.74 9 ...the bold sensualist will use the name of
philosophy to gild his
crimes.
SR 2.89 18 So use all that is called Fortune.
Comp 2.98 16 If riches increase, they are increased
that use them.
SL 2.145 17 That mood into which a friend can bring us
is his dominion
over us. To the thoughts of that state of mind he has a right. All the
secrets
of that state of mind he can compel. This is a law which statesmen use
in
practice.
Fdsp 2.214 26 I would have [my friends and my books]
where I can find
them, but I seldom use them.
Prd1 2.231 22 ...society is officered by men of parts,
as they are properly
called, and not by divine men. These use their gift to refine luxury,
not to
abolish it.
OS 2.270 4 ...I desire, even by profane words, if I may
not use sacred, to
indicate the heaven of this deity...
OS 2.288 26 [Homer, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare,
Milton] use the
positive degree.
Int 2.333 15 [A person I knew] held the old; he holds
the new; I had the
habit of tacking together the old and the new which he did not use to
exercise.
Pt1 3.18 11 We are far from having exhausted the
significance of the few
symbols we use.
Pt1 3.18 12 We are far from having exhausted the
significance of the few
symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.
Pt1 3.18 15 ...we use defects and deformities to a
sacred purpose...
Pt1 3.20 6 ...though all men are intelligent of the
symbols through which [life] is named; yet they cannot originally use
them.
Pt1 3.35 6 Either of these [symbols], or of a myriad
more, are equally good
to the person to whom they are significant. Only they must...be very
willingly translated into the equivalent terms which others use.
Pt1 3.38 18 ...I am not wise enough for a national
criticism, and must use
the old largeness a little longer, to discharge my errand from the muse
to
the poet concerning his art.
Exp 3.79 26 ...use what language we will, we can never
say anything but
what we are;...
Chr1 3.91 3 ...to use a more modest illustration and
nearer home, I observe
that in our political elections, where this element [character], if it
appears at
all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently understand
its
incomparable rate.
Mrs1 3.126 4 I use these old names [Diogenes, Socrates,
Epaminondas], but the men I speak of are my contemporaries.
Gts 3.160 1 Men use to tell us that we love
flattery...because it shows that
we are of importance enough to be courted.
NR 3.233 13 I read Proclus...for a mechanical help to
the fancy and the
imagination. I read for the lustres, as if one should use a fine
picture in a
chromatic experiment, for its rich colors.
NR 3.248 3 How sincere and confidential we can be,
saying all that lies in
the mind, and yet go away feeling that all is yet unsaid, from the
incapacity
of the parties to know each other, although they use the same words!
NER 3.257 16 We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or
our eyes, or our
arms.
NER 3.259 22 If the physician, the lawyer, the divine,
never use [Greek
and Latin] to come at their ends, I need never learn it to come at
mine.
NER 3.267 3 ...this union [of men] must be inward...and
is to be reached by
a reverse of the methods they use.
NER 3.277 19 ...surely the greatest good fortune that
could befall me is
precisely to be so moved by you that I should say, Take me and all
mine, and use me and mine freely to your ends!...
NER 3.283 7 ...the man...whose advent men and events
prepare and
foreshow, is one who...shall use his native but forgotten methods...
PPh 4.43 9 Plato...mainly is not a poet because he
chose to use the poetic
gift to an ulterior purpose.
PPh 4.59 21 There is indeed no weapon in all the armory
of wit which [Plato] did not possess and use...
SwM 4.117 8 The poets, in as far as they are poets, use
[Correspondence];...
MoS 4.166 8 ...[Montaigne] will talk with sailors and
gipsies, use flash and
street ballads;...
MoS 4.173 10 I mean to use the occasion, and celebrate
the calendar-day of
our Saint Michel de Montaigne, by counting and describing these doubts
or
negations.
ShP 4.195 8 ...it appears that Shakspeare...was able to
use whatever he
found;...
NMW 4.225 12 [Napoleon] is no saint,--to use his own
word, no capuchin...
ET3 5.40 12 The shop-keeping nation [England], to use a
shop word, has a
good stand.
ET4 5.54 8 We must use the popular category...for
convenience...
ET4 5.57 24 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] have
weapons which they use
in a determined manner...
ET4 5.69 9 [The English] use a plentiful and nutritious
diet.
ET5 5.74 11 ...we are forced to use the names [Saxon
and Norman] a little
mythically...
ET6 5.110 20 [The English] have difficulty in bringing
their reason to act, and on all occasions use their memory first.
ET6 5.113 3 ...[the English] use a studied plainness.
ET10 5.156 12 Every [English] household exhibits an
exact economy, and
nothing of that uncalculated headlong expenditure which families use in
America.
ET14 5.235 4 The [English] children and laborers use
the Saxon unmixed.
F 6.21 2 ...if we give it the high sense in which the
poets use it, even
thought itself is not above Fate;...
F 6.23 19 [Man's] sound relation to these facts is to
use and command...
Wth 6.111 17 Our nature and genius force us to respect
ends, whilst we use
means.
Wth 6.111 18 We must use the means, and yet, in our
most accurate using
somehow screen and cloak them...
Ctr 6.144 4 ...the gun, fishing-rod, boat and horse,
constitute, among all
who use them, secret freemasonries.
Bhr 6.184 7 ...[of every two persons who meet on any
affair],--one
instantly perceives...that his will comprehends the other's will...and
he has
only to use courtesy and furnish good-natured reasons to his victim to
cover
up the chain,lest he be shamed into resistance.
Wsp 6.212 8 Even well-disposed, good sort of
people...for brave, straightforward action, use half-measures...
Wsp 6.226 25 Use what language you will, you can never
say anything but
what you are.
CbW 6.252 3 ...we are used as brute atoms until we
think: then we use all
the rest.
Ill 6.317 12 Men who make themselves felt in the world
avail themselves of
a certain fate in their constitution which they know how to use.
Art2 7.42 25 ...in all our operations we seek not to
use our own, but to
bring a quite infinite force to bear.
Elo1 7.98 10 Napoleon, even, must accept and use [the
moral element] as
he can.
Farm 7.139 17 It were as false for farmers to use a
wholesale and massy
expense, as for states to use a minute economy.
Farm 7.139 18 It were as false for farmers to use a
wholesale and massy
expense, as for states to use a minute economy.
WD 7.164 16 If you do not use the tools, they use you.
WD 7.168 14 ...if we do not use the gifts [the days]
bring, they carry them
as silently away.
Boks 7.197 8 ...I will venture...to count the few books
which a superficial
reader must thankfully use.
Boks 7.198 16 You find in [Plato] that which you have
already found in
Homer...yet with no less security of bold and perfect song, when he
cares to
use it...
Boks 7.214 8 ...books that...distribute things...with
as daring a freedom as
we use in dreams, put us on our feet again...
Clbs 7.224 3 Too long shut in strait and few,/ Thinly
dieted on dew,/ I will
use the world, and sift it,/ To a thousand humors shift it./
Clbs 7.226 14 Especially women use words that are not
words...
PI 8.10 18 We use semblances of logic until experience
puts us in
possession of real logic.
PI 8.25 12 ...[people] relish Aesop,--cannot forget
him, or not use him;...
PI 8.34 14 The...measure of poetic genius is the power
to read the poetry of
affairs...not to use Scott's antique superstitions, or Shakspeare's,
but to
convert those of the nineteenth century and of the existing nations
into
universal symbols.
PI 8.65 1 The poet who shall use Nature as his
hieroglyphic must have an
adequate message to convey thereby.
Elo2 8.119 20 Those whom we admire--the great
orators--have some habit
of heat, and moreover...an art of husbanding it,--as if their hand was
on the
organ-stop, and could now use it temperately, and now let out all the
length
and breadth of the power.
Res 8.143 7 Here [in America] is bread, and wealth, and
power, and
education for every man who has the heart to use his opportunity.
Res 8.143 18 ...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has
sent home to China
American food and tools and luxuries, until he has taught his people to
use
them...
Comc 8.165 24 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice
malefactors to
excuse/...
PC 8.229 14 ...when [a man] talks to men with the
unrestrained frankness
which children use with each other, he communicates himself, and not
his
vanity.
PPo 8.243 12 [The Persian poets] use an
inconsecutiveness quite alarming
to Western logic...
Insp 8.279 20 ...when you can use the lightning it is
better than cannon.
Insp 8.283 5 ...[In The Harbingers, Herbert] signalizes
his delight in this
skill [of writing verse], and his pain that the Herricks, Lovelaces and
Marlowes, or whoever else, should use the like genius in language to
sensual purpose...
Insp 8.292 22 For provocation of thought, we use
ourselves and use each
other.
Imtl 8.342 4 ...courage or confidence in the mind comes
to those who know
by use its wonderful forces and inspirations and returns. Belief in its
future
is a reward kept only for those who use it.
Dem1 10.21 10 Before we acquire great power we must
acquire wisdom to
use it well.
Aris 10.49 12 I should like to see...every man made
acquainted with the
true number and weight of every adult citizen, and that he be placed
where
he belongs, with so much power confided to him as he could carry and
use.
Aris 10.65 5 ...for the day that now is, a man of
generous spirit...will use a
high prudence in the conduct of life to guard himself from being
dissipated
on many things.
PerF 10.73 7 The brain of man has methods and
arrangements
corresponding to these material powers, by which he can use them.
PerF 10.73 20 ...we see the causes of evils and learn
to parry them and use
them as instruments, by knowledge...
PerF 10.76 3 ...the wise merchant by truth in his
dealings finds his credit
unlimited,-he can use in turn, as he wants it, all the property in the
world...
PerF 10.83 3 [The Intellect] is ours while we use it,
it is not ours when we
do not use it.
PerF 10.83 4 [The Intellect] is ours while we use it,
it is not ours when we
do not use it.
PerF 10.84 18 The effort of men is to use [things] for
private ends.
Chr2 10.99 27 Some men's words I remember so well that
I must often use
them to express my thought.
Chr2 10.105 2 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse
the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors...
Chr2 10.120 17 Confucius said one day to Ke Kang: Sir,
in carrying on
your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced
desires be for what is good, and the people will be good.
Edc1 10.157 11 Sympathy, the female force, which they
must use who
have not the first [will, the male power]...is more subtle and lasting
and
creative.
Supl 10.163 22 [Those with the superlative temperament]
use the
superlative of grammar...
Supl 10.167 16 The English mind...stigmatizes any heat
or hyperbole as
Irish, French, Italian, and infers weakness and inconsequence of
character
in speakers who use it.
Supl 10.168 20 [The old head thinks] I will be as
moderate as the fact, and
will use the same expression, without color, which I received;...
Supl 10.169 5 Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods
use a short and
positive speech.
Supl 10.176 23 ...[Nature] creates in the East the
uncontrollable yearning... to use a freedom of fancy which plays with
all the works of Nature...as toys
and words of the mind;...
SovE 10.193 23 To good men, as we call good men, this
doctrine of Trust
is an unsounded secret. They use the word...
MoL 10.241 12 ...let me use the occasion...to offer you
some counsels...
MoL 10.258 8 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our
advantage, irretrievably.
MMEm 10.410 22 [Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God has
given you
a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow creatures.
MMEm 10.414 23 ...as I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked out
this
afternoon, so sad was wearied Nature that I felt her whisper to me,
Even
these leaves you use to think my better emblem have lost their charm on
me
too...
MMEm 10.416 24 I [Mary Moody Emerson] end days of fine
health and
cheerfulness without getting upward now. How did I use to think them
lost!
SlHr 10.438 22 ...when the mob of Charleston was
assembled in the streets
before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the
last
point of possibility. The force was apparent and irresistible;...and he
said, Well, gentlemen, since it is your pleasure to use force, I must
go.
Thor 10.464 22 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other
world is all my art;...I
do not use it as a means.
Thor 10.476 22 Such was the wealth of [Thoreau's] truth
that it was not
worth his while to use words in vain.
LS 11.17 2 You say, every time you celebrate the rite
[the Lord's Supper], that Jesus enjoined it; and the whole language you
use conveys that
impression.
HDC 11.69 13 ...we will not, in this town
[Concord]...buy, sell, or use any
of the East India Company's tea...
HDC 11.69 19 ...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.
EWI 11.117 12 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian]
islands that the
planters were disposed to use their old privileges...
War 11.172 3 The attractiveness of war shows one
thing...this namely, the
conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself
a
kingdom and a state;...quite willing to use the opportunities and
advantages
that good government throw in his way, but nothing daunted, and not
really
poorer if government, law and order went by the board;...
FSLC 11.202 12 ...we must use the introducer and
substantial author of the [Fugitive Slave] bill as an illustration of
the history.
FSLC 11.205 3 It is neither praise nor blame to say
that [Webster] has no
moral perception, no moral sentiment, but in that region-to use the
phrase
of the phrenologists-a hole in the head.
FSLN 11.220 22 There is always...men who calculate on
the immense
ignorance of the masses;...they use the constituencies at home only for
their
shoes.
FSLN 11.230 12 That is the distinction of the
gentleman, to defend the
weak and redress the injured, as it is of the savage and the brutal to
usurp
and use others.
JBB 11.271 6 Great wealth, great population, men of
talent in the
executive, on the bench,-all the forms right,-and yet, life and freedom
are not safe. Why? Because the judges...do not, like John Brown, use
their
eyes to see the fact behind the forms.
JBB 11.271 25 ...the use of a judge is to secure good
government, and
where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power,
to use
that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government.
JBS 11.279 9 Our farmers...had learned that life
was...a probation, to use
their word, for a higher world...
HCom 11.343 12 It is a principle of war, said Napoleon,
that when you can
use the thunderbolt you must prefer it to the cannon.
SMC 11.363 21 When, afterwards, five of [George
Prescott's] men were
prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they set themselves to
use
the time to the wisest advantage...
EdAd 11.383 6 ...the territory [of America] is a
considerable fraction of the
planet, and the population neither loath nor inexpert to use their
advantages.
Wom 11.410 18 The horse and ox use no delays;...
Scot 11.464 17 Just so much thought, so much
picturesque detail in
dialogue or description as the old ballad required...[Scott] would keep
and
use...
ChiE 11.470 2 Nature creates in the East the
uncontrollable yearning...to
use a freedom of fancy which plays with all works of Nature...
PLT 12.3 17 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of
distribution which
chemists use in their nomenclature...applied to a higher class of
facts;...
PLT 12.11 20 I cannot myself use that systematic form
which is reckoned
essential in treating the science of the mind.
PLT 12.25 13 Every man has material enough in his
experience to exhaust
the sagacity of Newton in working it out. We have more than we use.
PLT 12.33 5 The appetite and the power of digestion
measure our right to
knowledge. He has it who can use it.
PLT 12.33 6 As soon as our accumulation [of knowledge]
overruns our
invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin...
II 12.72 14 One master could so easily be conceived as
writing all the
books of the world. They are all alike. For [Inspiration] is a power to
convert all Nature to his use.
Mem 12.91 20 ...a piece of news I hear, has a value at
this moment exactly
proportioned to my skill to deal with it. To-morrow, when I know more,
I
recall that piece of knowledge, and use it better.
CInt 12.121 26 ...in the class called intellectual the
men are no better than
the uninstructed. They use their wit and learning in the service of the
Devil.
CW 12.176 3 If you use a good and skilful companion [on
a tramp], you
shall see through his eyes;...
MAng1 12.238 1 Vasari observed that [Michelangelo] did
not use wax
candles...
MAng1 12.239 27 Michael [Angelo]...had the philosophy
to say, Only an
inventor can use the inventions of others.
Milt1 12.260 24 [Milton's] mastery of his native tongue
was more than to
use it as well as any other;...
ACri 12.285 13 Ought not the scholar to convey his
meaning in terms as
short and strong as the smith and the drover use to convey theirs?
ACri 12.292 14 Never use the word development...
MLit 12.330 15 ...to use a phrase of Ben Jonson's,
[Wilhelm Meister] is
rammed with life.
Let 12.399 9 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is
rapidly increasing by
the infatuation of the active class, who...use all possible endeavors
to secure
to [their children] the same result.
used, adj. (2)
Dem1 10.12 21 We are used to vaster wonders than these
that are alleged.
Schr 10.261 15 Literary men gladly acknowledge these
ties which find for
the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for. But in
proportion as we are conversant with the laws of life, we have seen the
like. We are used to these surprises.
used, v. (120)
Nat 1.25 14 Every word which is used to express a moral
or intellectual
fact...is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
AmS 1.89 24 Books are the best of things, well used;...
LE 1.177 2 ...literary men...dealing with the organ of
language...only fitly
used as the weapon of thought and of justice,-learn to enjoy the pride
of
playing with this splendid engine...
MN 1.220 1 ...let [a man] be filled with awe and dread
before the Vast and
the Divine, which uses him glad to be used, and our eye is riveted to
the
chain of events.
Hsm1 2.258 26 The magic [many extraordinary young men]
used was the
ideal tendencies...
Pt1 3.13 12 Being used as a type, a second wonderful
value appears in the
object...
Pt1 3.13 18 Things admit of being used as symbols
because nature is a
symbol...
Pt1 3.17 12 ...the distinctions which we make in events
and in affairs... disappear when nature is used as a symbol.
Pt1 3.27 5 The poet knows that he speaks adequately
then only when he
speaks...not with the intellect used as an organ, but with the
intellect
released from all service...
Exp 3.51 16 I knew a witty physician who...used to
affirm that if there was
a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist...
Mrs1 3.123 24 ...whenever used in strictness and with
any emphasis, the
name [gentleman] will be found to point at original energy.
Mrs1 3.145 8 The forms of politeness universally
express benevolence in
superlative degrees. What if they are...used as means of selfishness?
NER 3.269 17 In [scholars'] experience the scholar was
not raised by the
sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends.
UGM 4.9 20 ...how few materials are yet used by our
arts!
PPh 4.56 10 Things used as language are inexhaustibly
attractive.
SwM 4.120 9 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the
fine fable of a
most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling nigher to the
gods; and Swedenborg added that they used the earth symbolically;...
SwM 4.132 4 [Swedenborg's] books should be used with
caution.
NMW 4.247 25 ...it is at all times the belief of
society that the world is
used up.
ET2 5.29 8 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously,
upset...suffocated
with bilge, mephitis and stewing oil. We get used to these annoyances
at
last [at sea]...
ET11 5.173 26 [The English people] are proud...of the
language and
symbol of chivalry. Even the word lord is the luckiest style that is
used in
any language to designate a patrician.
ET13 5.221 9 A great duke said on the occasion of a
victory, in the House
of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had not been well used by
them...
ET14 5.244 20 Milton...used this privilege [of
generalization] sometimes in
poetry, more rarely in prose.
F 6.26 9 [The mind] uses and is not used.
F 6.33 27 [Steam] could be used to lift away...other
devils far more
reluctant...
Pow 6.58 20 ...Shakspeare was theatre-manager and used
the labor of many
young men, as well as the playbooks.
Ctr 6.140 1 ...in all human action those faculties will
be strong which are
used.
Ctr 6.155 20 We can ill spare the commanding social
benefits of cities; they must be used, yet cautiously and haughtily...
Bhr 6.173 23 In the hotels on the banks of the
Mississippi they print, or
used to print...that No gentleman can be permitted to come to the
public
table without his coat;...
Bhr 6.191 25 The novels used to be all alike...
Bhr 6.191 26 The novels used to lead us on to a foolish
interest in the
fortunes of the boy and girl they described.
CbW 6.250 23 The more difficulty there is in creating
good men, the more
they are used when they come.
CbW 6.252 2 ...we are used as brute atoms until we
think...
Elo1 7.79 9 Whoso can speak well, said Luther, is a
man. It was men of this
stamp that the Grecian States used to ask of Sparta for generals.
Elo1 7.99 25 [Eloquence's] great masters...resembling
the Arabian warrior
of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat
used them all occasionally,--yet subordinated all means;...
DL 7.123 1 In the old fables we used to read of a cloak
brought from fairy-land
as a gift for the fairest and purest in Prince Arthur's court.
WD 7.169 23 I used formerly to choose my time with some
nicety for each
favorite book.
WD 7.176 24 In daily life, what distinguishes the
master is the using of
those materials he has, instead of looking about for...what others have
used
well.
WD 7.183 6 ...[Newton] used the same wit to weigh the
moon that he used
to buckle his shoes;...
WD 7.183 7 ...[Newton] used the same wit to weigh the
moon that he used
to buckle his shoes;...
Boks 7.204 24 If [the student] can read Livy, he has a
good book; but one
of the short English compends, some Goldsmith or Ferguson, should be
used, that will place in the cycle [of Roman history] the bright stars
of
Plutarch.
Cour 7.277 11 If you accept your thoughts as
inspirations from the
Supreme Intelligence, obey them when they prescribe difficult duties,
because they come only so long as they are used;...
Suc 7.288 27 I have heard that Nelson used to say,
Never mind the justice
or the impudence, only let me succeed.
Suc 7.289 15 Egotism...seems to be much used in Nature
for fabrics in
which local and spasmodic energy is required.
Suc 7.290 5 ...war, cannons and executions are used to
clear the ground of
bad, lumpish, irreclaimable savages, but always to the damage of the
conquerors.
OA 7.321 2 A man of great employments and excellent
performance used
to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was
sixty;...
PI 8.17 19 The term genius, when used with emphasis,
implies
imagination;...
PI 8.28 6 The words [Fancy and Imagination] are often
used, and the things
confounded.
PI 8.48 13 So in our songs and ballads the refrain
skilfully used, and
deriving some novelty or better sense in each of many verses...
PI 8.74 24 The intellect uses and is not used...
SA 8.97 26 ...beware of jokes; too much temperance
cannot be used...
Comc 8.166 27 A classification or nomenclature used by
the scholar only
as a memorandum of his last lesson in the laws of Nature...becomes
through
indolence a barrack and a prison...
QO 8.193 19 Every word in the language has once been
used happily.
QO 8.193 21 Every word in the language has once been
used happily. The
ear, caught by that felicity, retains it, and it is used again and
again...
QO 8.197 16 Dumont was exalted by being used by
Mirabeau...
PPo 8.242 6 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the
annals...of Kai
Kaus, in whose palace...gold and silver and precious stones were used
so
lavishly that in the brilliancy produced by their combined effect,
night and
day appeared the same;...
Insp 8.276 7 We must prize our own youth. Later, we
want heat to execute
our plans...the whole armory of means are all present, but a certain
heat that
once used not to fail, refuses its office...
Insp 8.290 27 ...Sir Joshua Reynolds...used to say the
human face was his
landscape.
Insp 8.291 2 These indulgences [in favorite places of
retirement] are to be
used with great caution.
Insp 8.294 19 Words used in a new sense and
figuratively, dart a delightful
lustre;...
Dem1 10.20 23 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...which is
represented in modern
fable by the telescope as used by Schlemil, is simply mischievous.
Dem1 10.20 24 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply
mischievous. A new
or private language, used to serve only low or political purposes, the
transfusion of the blood...are of this kind.
Chr2 10.96 27 Devout men...have used different images
to suggest this
latent [moral] force;...
Chr2 10.102 21 ...when used with emphasis, [character]
points to what no
events can change, that is, a will built on the reason of things.
Chr2 10.105 8 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse
the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors, and can hardly
believe that they had to
the lively Greek the anxious meaning which, in our towns, is given and
received in churches when our religious names are used...
Chr2 10.114 5 The Church...clings to the
miraculous...which has even an
immoral tendency, as one sees in Greek, Indian and Catholic legends,
which are used to gloze every crime.
SovE 10.200 3 The word miracle, as it is used, only
indicates the ignorance
of the devotee...
Prch 10.228 17 Of course a hero so attractive to the
hearts of millions [as
Jesus] drew the hypocrite and the ambitious into his train, and they
used his
name to falsify his history and undo his work.
Plu 10.296 13 In England, Sir Thomas North translated
[Plutarch's] Lives
in 1579, and Holland the Morals in 1603, in time to be used by
Shakspeare
in his plays...
Plu 10.298 1 ...though [Plutarch] never used verse, he
had many qualities of
the poet...
LLNE 10.344 17 [Theodore Parker] used every day and
hour of his short
life...
EzRy 10.387 8 [Ezra Ripley] used to tell the story of
one of his old friends, the minister of Sudbury...
EzRy 10.390 18 We remember the remark made by the old
farmer who
used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern
country
would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate.
MMEm 10.403 17 [Mary Moody Emerson's] wit was so
fertile, and only
used to strike, that she never used it for display...
MMEm 10.403 18 [Mary Moody Emerson's] wit was so
fertile, and only
used to strike, that she never used it for display...
MMEm 10.404 21 I used to propose that [Mary Moody
Emerson's] epitaph
should be: Here lies the angel of Death.
MMEm 10.420 27 Hard to contend for a health which is
daily used in
petition for a final close.
MMEm 10.432 10 [Mary Moody Emerson's] friends used to
say to her, I
wish you joy of the worm.
SlHr 10.443 3 I used to feel that [Samuel Hoar's]
conscience was a kind of
meter of the degree of honesty in the country...
Thor 10.454 11 ...though a naturalist, [Thoreau] used
neither trap nor gun.
Thor 10.455 18 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the
railroad only to get over
so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose...
Thor 10.457 24 ...[Thoreau]...used an original judgment
on each
emergency.
Thor 10.463 9 [Thoreau] liked and used the simplest
food...
Thor 10.467 15 One of the weapons [Thoreau] used...was
a whim which
grew on him by indulgence...
Thor 10.477 15 Whilst [Thoreau] used in his writings a
certain petulance of
remark in reference to churches or churchmen, he was a person of a
rare, tender and absolute religion...
LS 11.6 11 I doubt not, the expression [This do in
remembrance of me.] was used by Jesus.
LS 11.10 1 [Jesus] always taught by parables and
symbols. It was the
national way of teaching, and was largely used by him.
LS 11.10 12 [Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed,
declaring that it was
for his interment. He washed the feet of his disciples. These are
admitted to
be symbolical actions and expressions. Here [at the Last Supper], in
like
manner, he calls the bread his body, and bids the disciples eat. He had
used
the same expression repeatedly before.
LS 11.11 21 [Christ's washing the disiciples' feet]
only differs in this, that
we have found the [Lord's] Supper used in New England and the washing
of the feet not.
LS 11.11 26 That rite [washing of the feet] is used by
the Church of Rome...
HDC 11.67 7 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was
filled with wonder, that
such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent
Christ... and used the word Mediator in some differing light from that
you have
given it;...
HDC 11.67 10 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used
the word Mediator in
some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was
soon
uneasy that I had used the word...
HDC 11.69 17 ...we will not, in this town
[Concord]...buy, sell, or use any
of the East India Company's tea, or any other tea...neither will we
suffer
any such tea to be used in our families.
EWI 11.137 18 By a certain fatality, none but the
vilest arguments were
brought forward [against emancipation in the West Indies], which
corrupted
the very persons who used them.
FSLC 11.187 5 It is remarkable how rare in the history
of tyrants is an
immoral law. Some color, some indirection was always used.
AKan 11.261 21 ...I borrow the language of an eminent
man, used long
since...If that be law, let the ploughshare be run under the
foundations of
the Capitol;...
JBB 11.268 20 [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.
JBB 11.272 25 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in
which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance...
EPro 11.318 18 'T is wonderful what power is, and how
ill it is used...
SMC 11.362 18 [George Prescott writes] There is a fine
for officers
swearing in the army, and I have too many young men that are not used
to
such talk.
SMC 11.376 11 ...In the above Address I have been
compelled to suppress
more details of personal interest than I have used.
FRO1 11.477 16 I say again, in the phrase used by my
friend, that we
began [the Free Religious Association] many years ago...
CPL 11.507 26 In saying these things for books, I do
not for a moment
forget that they are...only used in the off-hours...
FRep 11.516 22 The mind is always better the more it is
used...
PLT 12.3 1 I have used such opportunity as I have
had...to attend scientific
lectures;...
PLT 12.46 17 He alone is strong and happy who has a
will. The rest are
herds. He uses; they are used.
PLT 12.48 22 Most men's minds do not grasp anything.
All slips through
their fingers, like the paltry brass grooves that in most country
houses are
used to raise or drop the curtain...
PLT 12.63 11 We need all our resources to live in the
world which is to be
used and decorated by us.
II 12.67 10 ...we must form the habit of preferring in
all cases this guidance [of instinct], which is given as it is used.
Mem 12.102 21 The memory is one of the compensations
which Nature
grants to those who have used their days well;...
CL 12.158 16 The effect [of viewing the landscape
upside down] is
remarkable, and perhaps is not explained. An ingenious friend of mine
suggested that it was because the upper part of the eye is little
used...
CL 12.162 27 ...the very time at which [my naturalist]
used [the farmers'] land and water (for his boat glided like a trout
everywhere unseen) was in
hours when they were sound asleep.
CW 12.176 11 ...if one is so happy as to find the
company of a true artist, he...ought only to be used like an oriflamme
or a garland, for feasts and
May-days...
MAng1 12.227 8 Michael [Angelo]...constructed a movable
platform to
rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine Chapel], which is believed
to be
the same simple contrivance which is used in Rome, at this day, to
repair
the walls of churches.
MAng1 12.228 18 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single
figure nine, ten, or twelve heads before he could satisfy himself...
Milt1 12.271 3 Toland tells us...[Milton] used to tell
those about him the
entire satisfaction of his mind that he had constantly employed his
strength
and faculties in the defence of liberty...
ACri 12.292 5 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious.
Some as an
adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is written...but is
used as
if it meant descriptive...
ACri 12.292 18 Vulgarisms to be gazetted, moiety used
for a small part;...
ACri 12.293 9 Every age gazettes a quantity of words
which it has used up.
ACri 12.302 17 [Channing] thinks...Palestine used up...
MLit 12.322 21 Such was [Goethe's] capacity that the
magazines of the
world's ancient or modern wealth...he wanted them all. Had there been
twice so much, he could have used it as well.
useful, adj. (96)
Nat 1.13 17 The useful arts are reproductions or new
combinations by the
wit of man, of the same natural benefactors.
Nat 1.39 2 ...in [Nature's] heaps and rubbish are
concealed sure and useful
results.
Nat 1.40 8 [Nature] offers all its kingdoms to man as
the raw material
which he may mould into what is useful.
Nat 1.48 7 Whether nature enjoy a substantial existence
without, or is only
in the apocalypse of the mind, it is alike useful and alike venerable
to me.
Nat 1.63 16 Let [the ideal theory] stand then...merely
as a useful
introductory hypothesis...
AmS 1.100 24 Flamsteed and Herschel...may catalogue the
stars...and the
results being splendid and useful, honor is sure.
MN 1.191 15 We hear something too much of the results
of machinery, commerce, and the useful arts.
Con 1.302 21 Wisdom does not seek a literal rectitude,
but an useful, that is
a conditioned one...
Con 1.323 24 Is there not something shameful that I
should owe my
peaceful occupancy of my house and field, not to the knowledge of my
countrymen that I am useful, but to their respect for sundry other
reputable
persons, I know not whom, whose joint virtue still keeps the law in
good
odor?
Comp 2.117 5 ...no man had ever a defect that was not
somewhere made
useful to him.
Fdsp 2.205 8 We chide the citizen because he makes love
a commodity. It
is an exchange...of useful loans;...
Fdsp 2.207 3 You shall have very useful and cheering
discourse at several
times with two several men...
Art1 2.351 4 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the
production of a new and
fairer whole. This appears in works both of the useful and fine arts...
Art1 2.364 4 [Sculpture] was originally a useful art...
Art1 2.367 24 Beauty must come back to the useful
arts...
Art1 2.367 25 ...the distinction between the fine and
the useful arts [must] be forgotten.
Art1 2.368 2 In nature, all is useful, all is
beautiful.
Art1 2.368 4 In nature, all is useful, all is
beautiful. It is therefore beautiful
because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is therefore useful
because it is
symmetrical and fair.
Exp 3.74 26 If I am not at the meeting, my presence
where I am should be
as useful to the commonwealth of friendship and wisdom, as would be my
presence in that place.
Exp 3.82 6 In this our talking America we are ruined by
our good nature
and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power of
being
greatly useful.
Chr1 3.100 5 There is nothing real or useful that is
not a seat of war.
Gts 3.163 11 I say to [the donor], How can you give me
this pot of oil or
this flagon of wine when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of
mine
this gift seems to deny? Hence the fitness of beautiful, not useful
things, for
gifts.
Pol1 3.209 23 The vice of our leading parties in this
country...is that they... lash themselves to fury in the carrying of
some local and momentary
measure, nowise useful to the commonwealth.
Pol1 3.217 25 ...each of us...can do somewhat useful,
or graceful, or
formidable, or amusing, or lucrative.
NR 3.227 24 It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot
do anything useful...
NR 3.228 4 The men of fine parts protect themselves by
solitude...or by an
acid worldly manner; each concealing as he best can his incapacity for
useful association...
NR 3.238 12 ...Nature has her maligners, as if she were
Circe; and
Alphonso of Castile fancied he could have given useful advice.
PPh 4.64 21 [Plato] delighted...in every graceful and
useful and truthful
performance;...
NMW 4.251 12 Medicine is a collection of uncertain
prescriptions [said
Bonaparte], the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal
than
useful to mankind.
ET5 5.93 9 There is no department of literature, of
science, or of useful art, in which [the English] have not produced a
first-rate book.
ET9 5.151 14 Coarse local distinctions...are useful in
the absence of real
ones;...
ET10 5.162 27 All things precious, or useful...are
sucked into this
commerce and floated to London.
ET14 5.238 21 [Bacon's] centuries of observations on
useful science, and
his experiments, I suppose, were worth nothing.
ET14 5.241 13 ...[Pericles] meeting with
Anaxagoras...he attached himself
to him, and nourished himself with sublime speculations on the absolute
intelligence; and imported thence into the oratorical art whatever
could be
useful to it.
ET18 5.301 1 During the Australian emigration [from
England], multitudes
were rejected by the commissioners as being too emaciated for useful
colonists.
F 6.21 10 What is useful will last...
F 6.33 7 ...the wild beasts [man] makes useful for
food...
Wth 6.86 2 ...the mind acts...in directing the practice
of the useful arts...
Wth 6.103 19 The Bank-Note Detector is a useful
publication.
Ctr 6.146 5 ...for some men, travel may be useful.
Ctr 6.160 18 ...culture must reinforce from higher
influx the empirical
skills of eloquence...or of trade and the useful arts.
Ctr 6.166 11 [Man] is to convert...all enemies into
power. The formidable
mischief will only make the more useful slave.
Bhr 6.192 15 The novels are as useful as Bibles if they
teach you the secret
that the best of life is conversation...
CbW 6.275 3 ...life would be twice or ten times life if
spent with wise and
fruitful companions. The obvious inference is, a little useful
deliberation
and preconcert when one goes to buy house and land.
Bty 6.289 2 The most useful man in the most useful
world, so long as only
commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied.
Bty 6.289 3 The most useful man in the most useful
world, so long as only
commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied.
Bty 6.291 11 ...the smith at his forge, or whatever
useful labor, is becoming
to the wise eye.
SS 7.7 1 We have known many fine geniuses with that
imperfection that
they cannot do anything useful...
Civ 7.23 7 The division of labor...fills the State with
useful and happy
laborers;...
Art2 7.39 24 The useful arts comprehend not only those
that lie next to
instinct...but also navigation, practical chemistry...
Art2 7.40 14 I hasten to state the principle which
prescribes...its firm law to
the useful and the beautiful arts.
Art2 7.40 17 ...to make anything useful or beautiful,
the individual must be
submitted to the universal mind.
Art2 7.40 21 ...to make anything useful or beautiful,
the individual must be
submitted to the universal mind. In the first place let us consider
this in
reference to the useful arts.
Art2 7.41 3 It was said, in allusion to the great
structures of the ancient
Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their Art was a Nature working
to
municiple ends. That is a true account of all just works of useful art.
Art2 7.41 12 The first and last lesson of the useful
arts is that Nature
tyrannizes over our works.
Art2 7.48 8 ...in useful art, so far as it is useful,
the work must be strictly
subordinated to the laws of Nature...
Art2 7.49 3 In speaking of the useful arts, I pointed
to the fact that we do
not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength...
Farm 7.141 12 He who...so much as puts a stone seat by
the wayside... makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long
afterwards.
Boks 7.206 10 The Life of the Emperor Charles V., by
the useful
Robertson, is still the key of the following age.
Clbs 7.228 11 I prize the mechanics of conversation. 'T
is pulley and lever
and screw. To fairly disengage the mass, and send it jingling down, a
good
boulder,--a block of quartz and gold, to be worked up at leisure in the
useful arts of life,--is a wonderful relief.
Cour 7.276 14 Wolf, snake and crocodile are not
inharmonious in Nature, but are made useful as checks, scavengers and
pioneers;...
Suc 7.311 4 ...to help the young soul...and blow the
coals into a useful
flame;...that is not easy...
Suc 7.311 11 There is an external life, which
is...taught to grasp all the boy
can get, urging him...to make himself useful and agreeable in the
world...
PI 8.8 15 In geology, what a useful hint was given to
the early inquirers on
seeing in the possession of Professor Playfair a bough of a fossil tree
which
was perfect wood at one end and perfect mineral coal at the other.
SA 8.85 3 There is even a little rule of prudence for
the young experimenter
which Dr. Franklin omitted to set down, yet which the youth may find
useful...
SA 8.96 2 The great gain is...to find a companion who
knows what you do
not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all
your
logic and learning. There is a defeat that is useful.
Elo2 8.132 18 Here [in the United States] is room for
every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending
stages,--that of useful speech... that of political advice and
persuasion...
Comc 8.159 6 Separate any object...and contemplate it
alone, standing
there in absolute nature, it becomes at once comic; no
useful...qualities can
rescue it from the ludicrous.
PC 8.221 6 The chief value [of devotion to natural
science] is not the useful
powers he obtained, but the test it has been of the scholar.
Dem1 10.26 17 [Adepts in occult facts] are ignorant of
all that is healthy
and useful to know...
Edc1 10.125 22 ...the poor man...is allowed to put his
hand into the pocket
of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...in the languages, in
sciences, in
the useful and in elegant arts.
Edc1 10.134 11 If [a man] is jovial...if he
is...ingenious, useful...society has
need of all these.
SovE 10.190 4 ...every wish, appetite and passion
rushes into act and... protects itself with laws. Some of them are
useful and universally
acceptable...
SovE 10.191 9 Humanity sits at the dread loom and
throws the shuttle and
fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable ground is flowered all
over with
a woof of human industry and wisdom, virtuous examples, symbols of
useful and generous arts...
SovE 10.211 2 ...is it quite impossible to believe that
men should be drawn
to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for
another...the
respect he feels for another who, underneath his compliances with
artificial
society, would dearly like...to test his own reality by making himself
useful
and indispensable?
Prch 10.220 17 ...the virtuous sentiment appears
arrayed against the
nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and
burned. Then the good sense of the people wakes up so far as to take
tacit part with
them, to cast off reverence for the Church; and there follows an age of
unbelief. This analysis was inevitable and useful.
Prch 10.233 7 ...as much justice as we can see and
practise is useful to
men...
Prch 10.233 8 ...as much justice as we can see and
practise is useful to
men, and imperative, whether we can see it to be useful or not.
LLNE 10.350 15 All these [the hyaena, the jackal, the
gnat, the bug, the
flea] shall be redressed by human culture, and the useful goat and dog
and
innocent poetical moth, or the wood-tick to consume decomposing wood,
shall take their place.
GSt 10.505 15 When one remembers...the useful
suggestions;...I think this
single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand
ordinary
partisans...
HDC 11.39 1 The useful pine lifted its cones into the
frosty air.
EWI 11.144 23 ...a compassion for that which is not and
cannot be useful
or lovely, is degrading and futile.
War 11.155 16 ...the appearance of the other instincts
[than self-help] immediately modifies and controls this; turns its
energies into harmless, useful and high courses...
FSLN 11.237 1 What is useful will last...
ChiE 11.472 11 I need not mention [China's] useful
arts...
FRep 11.513 25 ...if this is true in all the useful and
in the fine arts, that the
direction must be drawn from a superior source or there will be no good
work, does it hold less in our social and civil life?
FRep 11.544 14 ...every useful, every elegant
art...will find their home in
our institutions...
PLT 12.19 25 Whilst we consider this appetite of the
mind to arrange its
phenomena, there is another fact which makes this useful.
Mem 12.91 13 Opportunities of investment are useful
only to those who
have capital.
CInt 12.113 22 Archimedes disdained to apply himself to
the useful arts...
MAng1 12.223 11 There is a closer relation than is
commonly thought
between the fine arts and the useful arts;...
Milt1 12.265 3 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the
suspicious calumny
respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they
should be, at home;...up and stirring...with useful and generous labors
preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear
and
not lumpish obedience to the mind...
Milt1 12.267 27 [Milton] returned into his
revolutionized country, and
assumed an honest and useful task...
WSL 12.347 4 ...as it is not from the highest Alps or
Andes but from less
elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded, so is
Mr. Landor the most useful and agreeable of critics.
AgMs 12.360 27 The story [in the Agricultural Survey]
of the farmer's
daughter, whom education had spoiled for everything useful on a farm,-
that is good, too...
EurB 12.376 18 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] was
founded on power
to do what was necessary, each person finding it an indispensable
qualification of membership that he could do something useful...
Useful Arts, n. (1)
Art2 7.39 22 ...the Spirit, in its creation, aims at use
or at beauty, and hence
Art divides itself into the Useful and the Fine Arts.
useful, n. (7)
Art1 2.366 18 Art makes the same effort which a sensual
prosperity makes; namely to detach the beautiful from the useful...
ET12 5.209 13 These seminaries [English public schools]
are finishing
schools for the upper classes, and not for the poor. The useful is
exploded.
Ctr 6.159 12 A man is a beggar who only lives to the
useful...
Art2 7.40 16 The universal soul is the alone creator of
the useful and the
beautiful;...
Art2 7.52 27 [Beauty] depends forever on the necessary
and the useful.
SlHr 10.445 17 The useful and practical super-abounded
in [Samuel Hoar'
s] mind...
CInt 12.123 5 [The Understanding] is the power which
the world of men
adopt and educate. He is...the worker in the useful;...
usefulness, n. (10)
MN 1.215 19 You shall love...sympathy and usefulness...
Mrs1 3.139 13 You must have genius or a prodigious
usefulness if you will
hide the want of measure.
Grts 8.319 11 What are these [heroes] but the promise
and the preparation
of a day...when the measure of greatness shall be usefulness in the
highest
sense...
EzRy 10.388 6 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to
be carried to his
grave, full of labors and virtues. There is none of that large family
left but
you, and it rests with you to bear up the good name and usefulness of
your
ancestors.
MMEm 10.426 13 Usefulness, if it requires action, seems
less like
existence than the desire of being absorbed in God, retaining
consciousness.
EPro 11.326 16 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race
which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of
the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a
race...whose very
miseries sprang from their great talent for usefulness...
Wom 11.413 24 The first thing men think of, when they
love, is to exhibit
their usefulness and advantages to the object of their affection.
FRep 11.539 25 If our mechanic arts are unsurpassed in
usefulness...let
these wonders work for honest humanity...
PLT 12.56 15 There are two theories of life;... One is
activity...in this
direction lie usefulness, comfort, society...
CL 12.154 22 Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch mountains,
The appearance is
that of matter incapable of form or usefulness...
useless, adj. (14)
Nat 1.54 11 A solemn air, and the best comforter/ To an
unsettled fancy, cure thy brains/ Now useless.../
LE 1.177 9 ...the world revenges itself by exposing, at
every turn, the folly
of these...useless...creatures.
Tran 1.351 8 We will wait. How long? Until the Universe
beckons and
calls us to work. But whilst you wait, you grow old and useless.
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?
Cir 2.302 23 See the investment of capital in
aqueducts, made useless by
hydraulics;...
Mrs1 3.125 5 [My gentleman] is good company for pirates
and good with
academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him;...
PPh 4.64 12 ...[said Plato] the persuasion that we must
search that which
we do not know, will render us, beyond comparison, better, braver and
more industrious than if we thought it impossible to discover what we
do
not know, and useless to search for it.
Boks 7.210 9 Earl Spencer bethought him like a prudent
general of useless
bloodshed and waste of powder...
Grts 8.314 25 ...one fights with cannon as with fists;
when once the fire is
begun, the least want of ammunition renders what you have done already
useless.
Thor 10.459 2 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President
[of Harvard
University]...that the library was useless, yes, and President and
College
useless, on the terms of his rules...
EWI 11.105 13 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made
acquainted with
the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with
him
to London, and had beaten with a pistol on his head, so badly that his
whole
body became diseased, and the man useless to his master...
FRep 11.523 20 ...it is useless to rely on [the people]
to go to a meeting, or
to give a vote, if any check from this must-have-the-money side arises.
MAng1 12.225 4 [Michelangelo] replied that it was
useless for him to take
care of the walls, if [the Florentines] were determined not to take
care of
themselves...
AgMs 12.359 4 These slight and useless city limbs of
ours will come to
shame before this strong soldier [the Farmer]...
user, n. (1)
ET10 5.167 1 ...the machine unmans the user.
uses, n. (33)
Nat 1.12 3 Whoever considers the final cause of the
world will discern a
multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result.
Nat 1.14 13 ...there is no need of specifying
particulars in this class of uses [of the useful arts].
Nat 1.36 4 This use of the world [as a discipline]
includes the preceding
uses...
Nat 1.61 3 Uses that are exhausted or that may
be...cannot be all that is true
of this brave lodging...
Nat 1.61 8 ...all the uses of nature admit of being
summed in one...
Nat 1.65 13 We do not know the uses of more than a few
plants...
LE 1.175 9 Let the youth study the uses of solitude and
of society.
LE 1.182 24 If [the man of genius] be defective at
either extreme of the
scale, his philosophy will...appear too vague and indefinite for the
uses of
life.
YA 1.384 24 These rising grounds which command the
champaign below, seem to ask for lords, true lords, land-lords, who
understand the land and its
uses and the applicabilities of men...
Pt1 3.20 10 ...we sympathize with the symbols, and
being infatuated with
the economical uses of things, we do not know that they are thoughts.
SwM 4.108 12 At the top of the column [the spine]
[Nature] puts out
another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and
forms the
skull, with extremities again...the fingers and toes being represented
this
time by upper and lower teeth. This new spine is destined to high uses.
ET1 5.9 2 I had visited Professor Amici, who had shown
me his
microscopes, magnifying (it was said) two thousand diameters; and I
spoke
of the uses to which they were applied.
ET4 5.71 25 The horse has more uses than Buffon noted.
ET11 5.182 2 ...most of the historical [English] houses
are masked or lost
in the modern uses to which trade or charity has converted them.
ET11 5.185 10 If one asks...what service this class
[English nobility] have
rendered?--uses appear, or they would have perished long ago.
CbW 6.243 26 Of all wit's uses, the main one/ Is to
live well with who has
none./
CbW 6.269 4 The uses of travel are occasional, and
short;...
Bty 6.294 16 There is a compelling reason in the uses
of the plant for every
novelty of color or form;...
PI 8.5 7 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that
under chemistry was
power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom.
It
was steeped in thought, did everywhere express thought; that...the
noble
house of Nature we inhabit has temporary uses...
PI 8.17 11 [Poetry's] essential mark is that it betrays
in every word instant
activity of mind, shown in new uses of every fact and image...
PI 8.71 23 ...for obvious municipal or parietal uses
God has given us a bias
or a rest on to-day's forms.
Res 8.151 27 ...the uses of the woods are many...
QO 8.193 24 Every word in the language has once been
used happily. The
ear, caught by that felicity, retains it, and it is used again and
again, as if the
charm belonged to the word and not to the life of thought which so
enforced
it. These profane uses, of course, kill it, and it is avoided.
Dem1 10.25 10 [Animal Magnetism] becomes...a black art.
The uses of the
thing, the commodity, the power, at once come to mind...
SovE 10.183 14 That convertibility we so admire in
plants and animal
structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when
one
part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and
self-creation
proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest
and meanest structures by the same design...
SovE 10.188 15 In the pre-adamite [Nature] bred valor
only; by and by she
gets on to man, and adds tenderness, and thus raises virtue piecemeal.
When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses;...
Prch 10.222 13 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you
take away the
purpose that animates him. The ball...is there, but his power...to
illuminate
the heart as well as the atmosphere, is gone forever. It is a lamp-wick
for
meanest uses.
Prch 10.237 2 The forms [of the creeds] are flexible,
but the uses not less
real.
EzRy 10.385 9 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well
to get me a
shay? ... Should I not be more in my study and less fond of diversion?
Do I
not withhold more than is meet from pious and charitable uses?
Thor 10.458 7 In 1847, not approving some uses to which
the public
expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was
put in jail.
PLT 12.25 16 I never hear a good speech at caucus or at
cattle-show but it
helps me...by apprising me of admirable uses to which what I know can
be
turned.
CL 12.149 14 What uses that we know belong to the
forest, and what
countless uses that we know not!
CL 12.149 15 What uses that we know belong to the
forest, and what
countless uses that we know not!
uses, v. (55)
Nat 1.52 4 Possessed himself by a heroic passion, [the
poet] uses matter as
symbols of it.
Nat 1.52 17 [Shakspeare's] imperial muse...uses [the
creation] to embody
any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind.
Nat 1.59 17 Culture...brings the mind to call that
apparent which it uses to
call real...
Nat 1.59 18 Culture...brings the mind to call...that
real which it uses to call
visionary.
MN 1.220 1 ...let [a man] be filled with awe and dread
before the Vast and
the Divine, which uses him glad to be used, and our eye is riveted to
the
chain of events.
MR 1.250 25 ...the believer not only beholds his heaven
to be possible, but
already to begin to exist,-not by the men or materials the statesman
uses...
YA 1.369 20 ...he who merely uses it as a support to
his desk and ledger... values [the land] less.
YA 1.373 12 ...Nature...uses a grinding economy...
YA 1.373 16 It is because Nature thus saves and uses,
laboring for the
general, that we poor particulars...find it so hard to live.
Comp 2.122 15 Our instinct uses more and less in
application to man, of
the presence of the soul, and not of its absence;...
SL 2.165 9 The poet uses the names of Caesar, of
Tamerlane...
SL 2.165 11 ...the painter uses the conventional story
of the Virgin Mary, of Paul, of Peter.
OS 2.270 19 All goes to show that the soul in man...is
not a function...of
calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet;...
Pt1 3.4 26 ...this hidden truth, that the fountains
whence all this river of
Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful,
draws us
to the consideration of the nature and functions of the Poet, or the
man of
Beauty; to the means and materials he uses...
Pt1 3.20 27 ...[the poet]...following with his eyes the
life, uses the forms
which express that life...
Pt1 3.21 6 [The poet] uses forms according to the life,
and not according to
the form.
Pt1 3.34 2 ...all books of the imagination endure, all
which ascend to that
truth that the writer sees nature beneath him, and uses it as his
exponent.
Mrs1 3.139 10 The person who...uses the superlative
degree...puts whole
drawing-rooms to flight.
NER 3.260 15 One tendency appears alike in the
philosophical speculation
and in the rudest democratical movements...the wish, namely,
to...arrive at
short methods; urged, as I suppose, by an intuition...that man is more
often
injured than helped by the means he uses.
UGM 4.24 19 Not the feeblest grandame, not a mowing
idiot, but uses what
spark of perception and faculty is left, to chuckle and triumph in his
or her
opinion over the absurdities of all the rest.
PPh 4.56 8 Plato keeps the two vases, one of aether and
one of pigment, at
his side, and invariably uses both.
MoS 4.162 4 ...some stark and sufficient man, who
is...sufficiently related
to the world to do justice to Paris or London, and, at the same time, a
vigorous and original thinker, whom cities can not overawe, but who
uses
them,--is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
MoS 4.168 24 Montaigne...uses the positive degree;...
ShP 4.198 6 ...poor Gower [Chaucer] uses as if he were
only a brick-kiln or
stone-quarry out of which to build his house.
ET14 5.233 7 ...[the Englishman] has built the engine
he uses.
F 6.26 9 [The mind] uses and is not used.
F 6.40 1 The same fitness must be presumed between a
man and the time
and event, as...between a race of animals and...the inferior races it
uses.
Pow 6.63 20 Men expect from good whigs put into office
by the
respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with
Mexico...than
from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson, who first
conquers his own government and then uses the same genius to conquer
the
foreigner.
Ctr 6.134 17 ...the student we speak to must have a
mother-wit...which uses
all books, arts, facilities, and elegancies of intercourse...
Wsp 6.212 11 ...forgetful that a wise mechanic uses a
sharp tool, [even well-disposed, good sort of people] go on choosing
the dead men of routine.
Elo1 7.91 20 ...we...might well go round the world, to
see...a man who, in
prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of
representing his ideas, and uses them only to express these;...
Clbs 7.231 23 [The lover of letters] uses his
occasions;...
Suc 7.295 11 ...it is sanity to know that, over my
talent or knack...is the
central intelligence which subordinates and uses all talents;...
PI 8.6 20 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer
inspection of the laws of
matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the
mind;...a
certain tyranny which springs up in his own thoughts, which have an
order, method and beliefs of their own, very different from the order
which this
common sense uses.
PI 8.15 22 The poet accounts all productions and
changes of Nature as the
nouns of language, uses them representatively...
PI 8.29 7 Imagination uses an organic classification.
PI 8.68 22 In proportion as a man's life comes into
union with truth, his
thoughts approach to a parallelism with the currents of natural laws,
so that
he easily...uses the ecstatic or poetic speech.
PI 8.68 25 By successive states of mind all the facts
of Nature are for the
first time interpreted. In proportion as [a man's] life departs from
this
simplicity, he uses circumlocution...
PI 8.74 23 The intellect uses and is not used...
PI 8.74 24 The intellect...uses London and Paris and
Berlin...to its end.
Elo2 8.124 26 Ought not the scholar to be able to
convey his meaning in
terms as short and strong as the porter or truckman uses to convey his?
QO 8.178 12 ...he that uses [the understanding] of a
superior elevates his
own to the stature of that he contemplates.
QO 8.202 23 Pindar uses this haughty defiance, as if it
were impossible to
find his sources: There are many swift darts within my quiver which
have a
voice for those with understanding;...
QO 8.204 18 The divine gift is ever the instant life,
which receives and
uses and creates...
Imtl 8.342 15 ...the one doctrine in which all
religions agree is that new
light is added to the mind in proportion as it uses that which it has.
PerF 10.74 17 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the
whirlwind with his
ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark; but
by
cunningly dividing the force, tapping the tempest for a little
side-wind, he
uses the monsters...
Plu 10.303 10 ...it is in reading the fragments
[Plutarch] has saved from lost
authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence
which
uses the violence of war, of earthquakes and changed water-courses, to
save
underground through barbarous ages the relics of ancient art...
FSLN 11.222 24 [Webster] worked with that closeness of
adhesion to the
matter in hand which a joiner or a chemist uses...
SMC 11.373 17 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and
comrades...uses
these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle.
PLT 12.28 24 ...[Nature] is careful to leave all her
doors ajar,-towers, hall, storeroom and cellar. If [man] takes her hint
and uses her goods she
speaks no word;...
PLT 12.46 17 He alone is strong and happy who has a
will. The rest are
herds. He uses; they are used.
Mem 12.108 20 The divine is the instant life that
receives and uses...
CInt 12.127 23 ...I thought a college was a place not
to train talents...but to
adorn Genius, which only speaks truth, and after the way which truth
uses, namely, Beauty;...
ACri 12.303 10 ...the means or material [writing] uses
are also of the soul.
WSL 12.347 26 [Landor] never...uses seven words where
one will do.
Usher, James, n. (1)
ET14 5.238 3 ...[English] scholars, Camden, Usher,
Selden...acquired the
solidity and method of engineers.
using, n. (1)
Wth 6.111 19 We must use the means, and yet, in our most
accurate using
somehow screen and cloak them...
using, v. (29)
Nat 1.32 17 We are like travellers using the cinders of
a volcano to roast
their eggs.
DSA 1.134 2 The second defect of the traditionary and
limited way of using
the mind of Christ is a consequence of the first;...
Con 1.305 3 ...you cannot jump from the ground without
using the
resistance of the ground...
Con 1.305 7 ...you are under the necessity of using the
Actual order of
things, in order to disuse it;...
Hist 2.32 2 I can symbolize my thought by using the
name of any creature, of any fact...
Hist 2.34 17 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a
deep presentiment of
the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness...the power...of using
the
secret virtues of minerals...are the obscure efforts of the mind in a
right
direction.
Int 2.333 19 Perhaps, if we should meet Shakspeare we
should...be
conscious...only that he possessed a strange skill of using, of
classifying his
facts, which we lacked.
Pt1 3.24 5 So far the bard taught me, using his freer
speech.
ShP 4.218 24 ...it must even go into the world's
history that the best poet [Shakespeare] led an obscure and profane
life, using his genius for the
public amusement.
GoW 4.279 26 The argument [in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]
is the passage
of a democrat to the aristocracy, using both words in their best sense.
ET12 5.212 13 Universities are of course hostile to
geniuses, which, seeing
and using ways of their own, discredit the routine...
ET15 5.265 27 The old press [the London Times] were
then using printed
five or six thousand sheets per hour;...
ET18 5.304 16 [The English]...occupy themselves...on a
corporeal
civilization, on goods that perish in the using.
F 6.38 18 As soon as there is life, there
is...absorbing and using of material.
Wth 6.95 2 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the
marches of a
man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and
implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated, and who is using
these to add to the stock.
Wsp 6.221 19 If any reader tax me with using vague and
traditional
phrases, let me suggest to him by a few examples what kind of a trust
this is [in the moral sentiment], and how real.
WD 7.176 22 In daily life, what distinguishes the
master is the using of
those materials he has...
PI 8.19 10 ...poetry, or the imagination which dictates
it, is a second sight, looking through [things], and using them as
types or words for thoughts...
PI 8.41 18 ...all becomes poetry, when we...are using
all as if the mind
made it.
QO 8.203 16 Landsmen and sailors freshly come from the
most civilized
countries, and with...no sentimentality yet about wild life, healthily
receive
and report what they saw,-seeing what they must, and using no
choice;...
Dem1 10.24 22 While the dilettanti have been prying
into the humors and
muscles of the eye, simple men will have helped themselves and the
world
by using their eyes.
PerF 10.85 4 ...a military genius, instead of using
that to defend his
country, he says, I will fight the battle so as to give me place and
political
consideration;...
Chr2 10.111 14 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George
Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using
their fine fancy to
emblazon their memory.
Edc1 10.154 16 ...only to think of using [simple
discipline and the
following of nature] implies character and profoundness;...
LS 11.9 11 It was the custom for the master of the
feast [Passover] to break
the bread and to bless it, using this formula...Blessed be Thou, O
Lord, our
God, who givest us the fruit of the vine...
Mem 12.102 8 ...some thoughts perish in the using.
ACri 12.299 27 [Metonomy] means, using one word or
image for another.
ACri 12.300 5 The power of the poet is...in using every
fact in Nature...as a
fluent symbol...
MLit 12.314 12 Nor is the distinction between these two
habits [of
subjectiveness] to be found in the circumstance of using the first
person
singular...
usual, adj. (20)
DSA 1.141 17 ...[preaching in this country] aims at what
is usual...
LE 1.179 7 The English officers and men...inquired if
such familiarity was
usual with the Emperor.
LT 1.283 10 ...talents bring their usual temptations...
Hist 2.20 5 What would statues of the usual size...have
been, associated
with those gigantic halls before which only Colossi could sit as
watchmen...
SL 2.145 2 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your
memory out of all
proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the
ordinary standards. ... Let them have their weight, and do not...cast
about
for illustration and facts more usual in literature.
Fdsp 2.206 9 [Friendship] should never fall into
something usual and
settled...
Mrs1 3.122 14 The usual words...must be respected;...
ET2 5.31 23 We found on board [the Washington Irving]
the usual cabin
library;...
ET12 5.202 11 It is usual for a nobleman, or indeed for
almost every
wealthy student [at Oxford], on quitting college to leave behind him
some
article of plate;...
ET16 5.274 1 There was much to say [to Carlyle]...of
the travelling
Americans and their usual objects in London.
Art2 7.45 19 ...how much is there that is not
original...in every tune, painting, poem or harangue!--whatever is
national or usual;...
Elo1 7.83 23 I have heard it reported of an eloquent
preacher...that, on
occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation
with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with more than his usual alacrity...
Cour 7.266 19 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who
tried to prophesy
without command in the Temple at Delphi, though she performed the usual
rites...fell into convulsions and died.
PI 8.40 24 Now at this rare elevation above his usual
sphere, [the poet] has
come into new circulations...
SA 8.86 5 It is an excellent custom of the
Quakers...the silent prayer before
meals. It has the effect to...introduce a moment of reflection. After
the
pause, all resume their usual intercourse from a vantage-ground.
QO 8.195 12 A man hears a fine sentence out of
Swedenborg...and is very
merry at heart that he has now got so fine a thing. Translate it out of
the
new words into his own usual phrase, and he will wonder again at his
own
simplicity...
Prch 10.231 3 There are always plenty of young,
ignorant people...wanting
peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only
one
person that is qualified to give it.
EzRy 10.393 6 The usual experiences of men...[Ezra
Ripley] studied them
all...
SMC 11.374 5 At Dabney's Mills...[the Thirty-second
Regiment] lost
seventy-four killed, wounded and missing. Here Major Shepard was taken
prisoner. The lines were held until the tenth, with more than usual
suffering
from snow and hail and intense cold...
CPL 11.498 19 The religious bias of our founders had
its usual effect to
secure an education to read their Bible and hymn-book...
usual, n. (1)
NER 3.285 18 ...that is ever the difference between the
wise and the
unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at
the
usual.
usually, adv. (71)
Nat 1.33 14 ...the proverbs of nations consist usually
of a natural fact...
MN 1.198 23 Statements of the infinite are usually felt
to be unjust to the
finite...
MR 1.241 17 I know it often, perhaps usually, happens
that where there is a
fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual finds
himself compelled to wait on his thoughts;...
Fdsp 2.194 23 ...by the divine affinity of virtue with
itself, I find [my
friends], or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and
cancels
the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex,
circumstance, at
which he usually connives...
Chr1 3.108 3 [Divine persons] are usually received with
ill-will...
Mrs1 3.127 21 The strong men usually give some
allowance even to the
petulances of fashion...
Mrs1 3.128 5 [Fashion] usually sets its face against
the great of this hour.
Mrs1 3.138 15 Defect in manners is usually the defect
of fine perceptions.
UGM 4.15 20 This pleasure of full expression to that
which, [in the people'
s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed, runs...much
higher...
UGM 4.17 24 The high functions of the intellect are so
allied that some
imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...
PPh 4.57 8 Where there is great compass of wit, we
usually find
excellencies that combine easily in the living man...
PPh 4.72 19 [Socrates]...he is hardy as a soldier, and
can live...usually, in
the strictest sense, on bread and water...
SwM 4.112 5 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was an
anatomist's
account of the human body, in the highest style of poetry. Nothing can
exceed the bold and brilliant treatment of a subject usually so dry and
repulsive.
MoS 4.150 17 The literary class is usually proud and
exclusive.
GoW 4.288 18 All the geniuses are usually so
ill-assorted and sickly that
one is ever wishing them somewhere else.
ET1 5.9 27 Landor is strangely undervalued in England;
usually ignored...
ET2 5.27 10 The shortest sea-line from Boston to
Liverpool is 2850 miles. This a steamer keeps, and saves 150 miles. A
sailing ship can never go in a
shorter line than 3000, and usually it is much longer.
ET5 5.87 13 It is not usually a point of honor...that
[the English] will shed
their blood for;...
ET5 5.87 15 It is not usually a point of honor...and
never any whim, that [the English] will shed their blood for; but
usually property, and right
measured by property, that breeds revolution.
ET11 5.183 14 I was surprised to observe the very small
attendance usually
in the House of Lords.
ET14 5.241 20 A few generalizations always circulate in
the world...and
these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian
theories in physics. In England these may be traced usually to
Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, or Hooker...
ET15 5.271 11 [Punch's] sketches are usually made by
masterly hands...
ET15 5.272 2 It is usually pretended, in Parliament and
elsewhere, that the
English press has a high tone...
ET17 5.293 8 It is not in distinguished circles that
wisdom and elevated
characters are usually found...
ET18 5.301 9 [The foreign policy of England] has a
principal regard to the
interest of trade, checked however by the aristocratic bias of the
ambassador, which usually puts him in sympathy with the continental
Courts.
F 6.28 18 ...when a strong will appears, it usually
results from a certain
unity of organization...
Pow 6.64 2 ...all kinds of power usually emerge at the
same time;...
Pow 6.65 2 ...the 'bruisers,' who have run the gauntlet
of caucus and tavern
through the county or the state,--have their own vices, but they have
the
good nature of strength and courage. Fierce and unscrupulous, they are
usually frank and direct and above falsehood.
Pow 6.65 25 In trade also this energy usually carries a
trace of ferocity.
Pow 6.80 1 I remarked in England...that in literary
circles, the men of trust
and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary
intellectuality...
Ctr 6.131 17 ...any excess of power in one part is
usually paid for at once
by some defect in a contiguous part.
Ctr 6.131 20 ...nature usually in the instances where a
marked man is sent
into the world, overloads him with bias...
Ctr 6.164 25 ...in an old community a well-born
proprietor is usually
found, after the first heats of youth, to be a careful husband...
Bhr 6.187 17 Friendship requires more time than poor
busy men can
usually command.
Wsp 6.218 1 The bias of errors of principle carries
away men into perilous
courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent.
Hence
the extraordinary blunders and final wrong-head into which men spoiled
by
ambition usually fall.
Wsp 6.223 27 If a man wish to conceal anything he
carries, those whom he
meets know that he conceals somewhat, and usually know what he
conceals.
CbW 6.275 17 Our domestic service is usually a foolish
fracas of
unreasonable demand on one side and shirking on the other.
Bty 6.300 14 If command...exist in the most deformed
person, all the
accidents that usually displease, please...
Civ 7.19 14 In the hesitation to define what
[Civilization] is, we usually
suggest it by negations.
Civ 7.23 16 The skilful combinations of civil
government, though they
usually follow natural leadings...require wisdom and conduct in the
rulers...
Civ 7.25 27 Wherever snow falls there is usually civil
freedom.
Elo1 7.83 5 The emergency which has convened the
meeting is usually of
more importance than anything the debaters have in their minds...
Elo1 7.85 24 ...in the examination of witnesses there
usually leap out...three
or four stubborn words or phrases which are the pith and fate of the
business...
DL 7.113 4 The difficulties to be overcome [in
housekeeping] must be
freely admitted; they are many and great. Nor are they to be disposed
of by
any criticism or amendment of particulars taken one at a time, but only
by
the arrangement of the household to a higher end than those to which
our
dwellings are usually built and furnished.
Farm 7.148 5 In September, when the pears hang
heaviest...comes usually
a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps.
Clbs 7.250 15 When we look for the highest benefits of
conversation, the
Spartan rule of one to one is usually enforced.
Cour 7.265 12 Bodily pain is superficial, seated
usually in the skin and the
extremities...
Cour 7.270 21 As for the bullying drunkards of which
armies are usually
made up, [John Brown] thought cholera, small-pox and consumption as
valuable recruits.
QO 8.177 16 In every man's memory, with the hours when
life culminated
are usually associated certain books which met his views.
QO 8.190 25 Original power is usually accompanied with
assimilating
power...
QO 8.192 2 ...Voltaire usually imitated, but with such
superiority that
Dubuc said: He is like the false Amphitryon; although the stranger, it
is
always he who has the air of being master of the house.
PC 8.220 21 ...wherever a true man appears, everything
usually reckoned
great dwarfs itself;...
Dem1 10.3 5 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens,
coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences
which...deserve notice chiefly
because every man has usually in a lifetime two or three hints in this
kind
which are specially impressive to him.
Edc1 10.127 5 Certain nations...usually in more
temperate climates, have
made such progress as to compare with these [savages] as these compare
with the bear and the wolf.
Supl 10.163 2 [The doctrine of temperance] is usually
taught on a low
platform...
Plu 10.310 10 Usually, when Thales, Anaximenes or
Anaximander are
quoted [by Plutarch], it is really a good judgment.
MMEm 10.399 21 I report some of the thoughts and
soliloquies of a
country girl [Mary Moody Emerson]...growing from youth to age amid
slender opportunities and usually very humble company.
LS 11.8 16 ...it should be granted us that, taken
alone, [the words This do in
remembrance of me] do not necessarily import so much as is usually
thought...
FSLN 11.228 9 [Webster] did as immoral men usually do,
made very low
bows to the Christian Church...
AsSu 11.248 20 ...men's bodily strength, or skill with
knives and guns, is
not usually in proportion to their knowledge and mother-wit...
JBS 11.279 19 ...as happens usually to men of romantic
character, [John
Brown's] fortunes were romantic.
SMC 11.367 14 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at
last...to an
excellent reputation, attested...by the important position usually
assigned
them in the field.
Wom 11.407 7 When women engage in any art or trade, it
is usually as a
resource, not as a primary object.
Wom 11.407 9 ...there is usually no employment or
career which [women] will not with their own applause and that of
society quit for a suitable
marriage.
II 12.73 24 ...when we consider who and what the
professors of that art
usually are, does it not seem as if music falls accidentally and
superficially
on its artists?
Mem 12.103 9 If we recall our own favorites, we shall
usually find that it is
for one crowning act or thought that we hold them dear.
Mem 12.104 13 The spring days when the bluebird arrives
have usually
only few hours of fine temperature...
CL 12.139 6 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows,
or might grow, in
Massachusetts...and following what is usually the natural suggestion of
these pursuits, ponder the moral secrets which, in her solitudes,
Nature has
to whisper to us, we were better patriots and happier men.
Bost 12.202 16 The soul of a political party is by no
means usually the
officers and pets of the party...
EurB 12.375 7 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of
circumstance] is
greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both...
Trag 12.406 4 It is usually agreed that some nations
have a more sombre
temperament...
Usurers, n. (1)
Plu 10.305 18 ...the vigor of [Plutarch's] pen appears
in the chapter
Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or Learned, and in his attack
upon Userers.
usurp, v. (6)
Prd1 2.226 6 We are instructed by these petty
experiences which usurp the
hours and years.
ET8 5.133 26 No man can claim to usurp more than a few
cubic feet of the
audibilities of a public room...
CbW 6.243 4 Say not, the chiefs who first arrive/ Usurp
the seats for which
all strive;/...
SovE 10.192 24 The strength of the animal to eat and to
be luxurious and to
usurp is rudeness and imbecility.
FSLN 11.230 12 That is the distinction of the
gentleman, to defend the
weak and redress the injured, as it is of the savage and the brutal to
usurp
and use others.
Pray 12.350 21 ...there are scattered about in the
earth a few records of
these devout hours [of prayer], which it would edify us to read, could
they
be collected in a more catholic spirit than the wretched and repulsive
volumes which usurp that name.
usurpation, n. (6)
LE 1.181 18 ...by this discipline, the usurpation of the
senses is overcome...
Gts 3.163 12 This giving is flat usurpation...
MoS 4.185 8 The lesson of life is practically...to
resist the usurpation of
particulars;...
HDC 11.48 2 Not a complaint occurs in all the volumes
of our Records [of
Concord], of any inhabitant...suffering from any violence or usurpation
of
any class.
EWI 11.134 5 ...you will not suffer me to forget one
eloquent old man [John Quincy Adams]...who singly has defended the
freedom of speech, and the rights of the free, against the usurpation
of the slave-holder.
AgMs 12.359 26 ...[Edmund Hosmer] is a man...of an
erect good sense and
independent spirit which can neither brook usurpation nor falsehood in
any
shape.
usurpations, n. (2)
Suc 7.296 10 We assume...that there is but one Homer,
but one Shakspeare, one Newton, one Socrates. But the soul in her
beaming hour does not
acknowledge these usurpations.
SMC 11.352 2 The old [Concord] Monument...stands to
signalize the first
Revolution, where the people resisted offensive usurpations, offensive
taxes
of the British Parliament...
usurped, v. (3)
DSA 1.129 14 ...the figures of [Jesus's] rhetoric have
usurped the place of
his truth;...
DSA 1.137 13 Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a
formalist, then is the
worshipper defrauded...
MLit 12.317 6 A selfish commerce and government have
caught the eye
and usurped the hand of the masses.
usurper, n. (2)
Pol1 3.200 11 ...the strongest usurper is quickly got
rid of;...
NMW 4.226 6 ...a man of Napoleon's truth of adaptation
to the mind of the
masses around him, becomes not merely representative but actually a
monopolizer and usurper of other minds.
usurping, adj. (2)
SR 2.55 24 The muscles, not spontaneously moved but
moved by a low
usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face...
Bhr 6.179 19 The confession of a low, usurping devil is
there made [in the
eyes]...
usurps, v. (2)
DSA 1.127 22 ...the base doctrine of the majority of
voices usurps the place
of the doctrine of the soul.
Lov1 2.172 3 The strong bent of nature is seen in the
proportion which this
topic of personal relations usurps in the conversation of society.
Utah, n. (2)
Pow 6.63 4 ...let these rough riders--legislators in
shirt-sleeves...whatever
hard head Arkansas, Oregon or Utah sends...drive as they may, and the
disposition of territories and public lands...will bestow promptness,
address
and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter, and authority and majesty
of
manners.
JBB 11.271 14 ...the government, the judges...give such
protection as they
give in Utah to honest citizens...
utensil, n. (5)
Lov1 2.183 24 The rays of the soul alight first on
things nearest, on every
utensil and toy...
Pt1 3.17 26 ...we choose the smallest box or case in
which any needful
utensil can be carried.
GoW 4.274 10 ...[Goethe] showed...that, in actions of
routine, a thread of
mythology and fable spins itself, by tracing the pedigree of...every
institution, utensil and means, home to its origin in the structure of
man.
ET18 5.304 19 The English mind turns every abstraction
it can receive into
a portable utensil...
Plu 10.299 1 ...[Plutarch] has a taste for common life,
and knows...the
forge, farm, kitchen and cellar, and every utensil and use...
utensils, n. (3)
WD 7.158 27 ...our common and indispensable utensils of
house and farm
are new;...
Boks 7.200 19 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian
Games...and you
are stimulated and recruited...by the passing of fillets, parsley and
laurel
wreaths, chariots, armor, sacred cups and utensils of sacrifice.
WSL 12.349 2 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure
their own
immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no
mean
merit. These are not plants and animals, but the genetical atoms of
which
both are composed. All our great debt to the Oriental world is of this
kind, not utensils and statues of the precious metal, but bullion and
gold-dust.
uterine, adj. (1)
F 6.12 16 People are born...uterine brothers with this
diverging
destination;...
Utgard, n. (1)
ET5 5.89 13 When Thor and his companions arrive at
Utgard, he is told
that nobody is permitted to remain here, unless he understand some art,
and
excel in it all other men.
utilitarian, adj. (3)
LE 1.182 23 If [the man of genius] be defective at
either extreme of the
scale, his philosophy will seem low and utilitarian...
ET3 5.36 5 ...the utilitarian direction which labor,
laws, opinion, religion
take, is the natural genius of the British mind.
MoL 10.244 21 Now it is agreed that we are
utilitarian;...
utilitarian, n. (1)
Aris 10.35 21 ...not the hardest utilitarian will
question the value of an
aristocracy if he love himself.
utilitarians, n. (1)
CPL 11.501 19 There are utilitarians who prefer that
Jesus should have
wrought as a carpenter...
utilities, n. (8)
Gts 3.159 17 ...flowers...are a proud assertion that a
ray of beauty outvalues
all the utilities of the world.
Bhr 6.171 18 We talk much of utilities, but 't is our
manners that associate
us.
Bty 6.283 21 ...we prize very humble utilities...
DL 7.111 13 The progress of domestic living has
been...in the
concentration of all the utilities of every clime in each house.
Farm 7.153 5 We see the farmer with pleasure and
respect when we think
what powers and utilities are so meekly worn.
PC 8.221 5 [The benefits of devotion to natural
science] are felt...in mining
and in war. But over all their utilities, I must hold their chief value
to be
metaphysical.
Aris 10.56 15 I know nothing which induces so base and
forlorn a feeling
as when we are treated for our utilities...
SMC 11.351 19 'T is certain that a plain stone like
this [the Concord
Monument]...having no reference to utilities...mixes with surrounding
nature...
utility, n. (14)
LE 1.169 24 Men believe in the adaptations of utility,
always...
YA 1.364 7 ...I hasten to speak of the utility of these
improvements in
creating an American sentiment.
Prd1 2.222 21 One class live to the utility of the
symbol...
Pt1 3.5 26 There is no man who does not anticipate a
supersensual utility in
the sun and stars...
NR 3.226 25 All persons exist to society by some
shining trait of beauty or
utility which they have.
ET5 5.83 11 The bias of the nation [England] is a
passion for utility.
ET10 5.157 4 The headlong bias to utility [in England]
will let no talent lie
in a napkin...
ET14 5.232 19 [The English] ask their constitutional
utility in verse.
ET14 5.255 11 No [English] priest dares hint at a
Providence which does
not respect English utility.
Civ 7.30 22 Work...for those interests which the
divinities honor and
promote,--justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility.
Aris 10.62 8 ...[the true man] is to know...that there
is a master grace and
dignity communicated by exalted sentiments to a human form, to which
utility and even genius must do homage.
Edc1 10.126 22 Those [animals] called domestic are
capable of learning of
man a few tricks of utility or amusement...
CPL 11.496 21 ...it is not easy to exaggerate the
utility of the beneficence
which takes this form [building of a library].
FRep 11.512 26 What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have not yet been
discovered,-every one of the two hundred thousand probably yet to be of
utility in the arts.
utilize, v. (4)
Civ 7.25 15 The skill that pervades complex details; the
man that maintains
himself;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms
and
utilize evil which is the index of high civilization.
LLNE 10.358 27 Talents supplement each other. Beaumont
and Fletcher
and many French novelists have known how to utilize such partnerships.
PLT 12.47 27 The various talents are...each related to
that part of nature it
is to explore and utilize.
PLT 12.57 8 ...society seems to be in conspiracy to
utilize every gift
prematurely...
utilized, v. (1)
PLT 12.63 14 ...[Socrates] utilized his humanity chiefly
as a better eye-glass
to penetrate the vapors that baffled the vision of other men.
utilizes, v. (1)
Suc 7.290 1 ...Nature utilizes misers, fanatics,
show-men, egotists, to
accomplish her ends;...
utilizing, v. (1)
Pow 6.69 15 ...when [the young English] have no wars to
breathe their
riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as
war...utilizing
Bedouin, Sheik and Pacha, with Layard;...
utmost, adj. (22)
LT 1.284 3 ...we begin to doubt...whether [Reform] be
not...a paper
blockade, in which each party is to display the utmost resources of his
spirit
and belief, and no conflict occur...
Con 1.320 16 The cause of education is urged in this
country with the
utmost earnestness...
Hist 2.15 3 ...we have [the Greek national mind
expressed] once again in
sculpture...a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of action and
never
transgressing the ideal serenity;...
Hist 2.29 22 Doctor, said his wife to Martin Luther,
one day, how is it that
whilst subject to papacy we prayed so often and with such fervor,
whilst
now we pray with utmost coldness and very seldom?
Comp 2.100 19 The true life and satisfactions of man
seem to elude the
utmost rigors or felicities of condition...
Hsm1 2.263 13 It may calm the apprehension of calamity
in the most
susceptible heart to see how quick a bound Nature has set to the utmost
infliction of malice.
OS 2.292 9 Deal so plainly with man and woman as to
constrain the utmost
sincerity...
Art1 2.364 8 [Sculpture] was originally a useful
art...and among a people
possessed of a wonderful perception of form this childish carving was
refined to the utmost splendor of effect.
DL 7.115 15 [Man] should be visited in this his
prison...with no...mean
offer of money as the utmost benefit...
OA 7.322 27 We still feel the force...of Fontenelle,
that precious porcelain
vase laid up in the centre of France to be guarded with the utmost care
for a
hundred years;...
Supl 10.171 15 ...whilst thus everything recommends
simplicity and
temperance of action; the utmost directness, the positive degree, we
mean
thereby that rightly to be great is not to stir without great argument.
LLNE 10.366 7 It was very gently said [at Brook Farm]
that people on
whom beforehand all persons would put the utmost reliance were not
responsible.
SlHr 10.441 18 ...[Samuel Hoar] was not adorned with
any graces of
rhetoric:-But simple truth his utmost skill./
Carl 10.489 22 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious
tinge you sometimes
find in burly people. That, and all his qualities, have a certain
virulence, coupled though it be in his case with the utmost impatience
of Christendom
and Jewdom...
HDC 11.79 11 The numbers [of of men for the Continental
army], say [the
General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the
fullest assurance that their brethren...will...with the utmost alacrity
and
despatch, fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns.
EWI 11.109 9 In 1791, a bill to abolish the [slave]
trade was brought in by
Wilberforce, and supported by him and by Fox and Burke and Pitt, with
the
utmost ability and faithfulness;...
FSLN 11.230 23 [Reasonably men] answered...that they
saw plainly that all
was going to the utmost verge of licence;...
ACiv 11.302 22 The existing administration is entitled
to the utmost candor.
Bost 12.205 10 [The people of Massachusetts] accepted
the divine
ordination...that intelligent being exists to the utmost use;...
Milt1 12.253 9 The opposition to [a masterpiece of
art]...at last ends; and a
new race grows up in the taste and spirit of the work, with the utmost
advantage for seeing intimately its power and beauty.
Milt1 12.271 2 Toland tells us...[Milton] thought
constraint of any sort to
be the utmost misery;...
WSL 12.338 20 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic
man...capable of the utmost
delicacy of sentiment...
utmost, n. (5)
Con 1.302 25 The reformer, the partisan, loses himself
in driving to the
utmost some specialty of right conduct...
YA 1.375 12 We should be mortified to learn that the
little benefit we
chanced in our own persons to receive was the utmost [the things we do]
would yield.
YA 1.391 17 ...the development of our American internal
resources, the
extension to the utmost of the commercial system...are giving an aspect
of
greatness to the Future...
PPh 4.60 27 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor
in reality to live as
virtuously as I can [said Plato]; and when I die, to die so. And I
invite all
other men, to the utmost of my power...to this contest, which, I
affirm, surpasses all contests here.
HDC 11.69 27 ...we will...to the utmost of our power,
defend all our rights
inviolate to the latest posterity.
utter, adj. (7)
Nat 1.47 14 In my utter impotence to test the
authenticity of the report of
my senses...what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in
heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
AmS 1.103 14 The poet, in utter solitude...is found to
have recorded that
which men...find true for them also.
Int 2.333 21 ...notwithstanding our utter incapacity to
produce anything
like Hamlet and Othello, see the perfect reception this wit and immense
knowledge of life and liquid eloquence find in us all.
MoS 4.178 16 The Eastern sages owned the goddess
Yoganidra, the great
illusory energy of Vishnu, by whom, as utter ignorance, the whole world
is
beguiled.
Cour 7.257 15 ...[the child's] utter ignorance and
weakness, and his
enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every
by-stander
to take his part.
SA 8.95 27 The great gain is...to find a companion who
knows what you do
not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all
your
logic and learning.
Prch 10.235 9 ...emphasize your choice by utter
ignoring of all that you
reject;...
utter, v. (31)
Nat 1.29 23 A man's power to connect his thought with
its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his
character...
Nat 1.30 16 Hundreds of writers may be
found...who...believe...that they
see and utter truths...
MN 1.207 24 The thoughts [a man] delights to utter are
the reason of his
incarnation.
MR 1.230 9 That fancy [the scholar] had, and hesitated
to utter because you
would laugh,-the broker, the attorney, the market-man are saying the
same
thing.
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.
Hist 2.8 4 The student is...to esteem his own life the
text [of history], and
books the commentary. Thus compelled, the Muse of history will utter
oracles, as never to those who do not respect themselves.
Hist 2.34 9 ...Plato said that poets utter great and
wise things which they do
not themselves understand.
SR 2.49 19 [The self-reliant individual] would utter
opinions on all passing
affairs...
SL 2.147 4 A chemist may tell his most precious secrets
to a carpenter, and
he shall be never the wiser,--the secrets he would not utter to a
chemist for
an estate.
SL 2.156 13 You have no oracle to utter...
OS 2.289 19 The inspiration which uttered itself in
Hamlet and Lear could
utter things as good from day to day for ever.
Pt1 3.5 17 In love...in games, we study to utter our
painful secret.
ET4 5.47 18 ...no genius can long or often utter any
thing which is not
invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
ET9 5.146 7 Mr. Coleridge is said to have given public
thanks to God...that
he had defended him from being able to utter a single sentence in the
French language.
Bhr 6.177 19 It almost violates the proprieties if we
say above the breath
here what the confessing eyes do not hesitate to utter to every street
passenger.
Wsp 6.224 4 A man cannot utter two or three sentences
without disclosing
to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought...
Elo1 7.66 17 If the speaker utter a noble sentiment,
the attention [of the
audience] deepens...
Elo1 7.95 25 Wild men...utter the savage sentiment of
Nature in the heart of
commercial capitals.
Boks 7.195 10 ...all books that get fairly into the
vital air of the world were
written...by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of
thousands feel though they cannot say.
Clbs 7.228 4 A certain truth possesses us which we in
all ways strive to
utter.
PI 8.11 25 We cannot utter a sentence in sprightly
conversation without a
similitude.
Elo2 8.129 6 Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a
premeditated speech in
Parliament...fell into such a disorder that he was not able to
proceed;...
Dem1 10.15 1 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.
Dem1 10.26 14 I say to the table-rappers:-I well
believe/ Thou wilt not
utter what thou dost not know,/ And so far will I trust thee, gentle
Kate./
SovE 10.213 17 [The man of this age] must not be one
who can be
surprised and shipwrecked by every bold or subtile word which malignant
and acute men may utter in his hearing...
TPar 11.291 14 Fops, whether in hotels or churches,
will utter the fop's
opinion...
FRO1 11.476 2 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./
ACri 12.303 17 ...there is much in literature that
draws us with a sublime
charm-the superincumbent necessity by which each writer...is made to
utter his part in the chorus of humanity...
MLit 12.326 16 Who saw Milton, who saw Shakspeare, saw
them...utter
their whole heart manlike among their brethren.
MLit 12.335 1 ...he that loves must utter his desires.
EurB 12.366 4 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the
Dante...have...the eye to
see...the test-objects of the microscope, and then the tongue to utter
the
same things in words...
utterance, n. (15)
AmS 1.90 14 The book...the institution of any kind, stop
with some past
utterance of genius.
DSA 1.134 16 If utterance is denied, the thought lies
like a burden on the
man.
SR 2.83 23 There is at this moment for you an utterance
brave and grand as
that of the colossal chisel of Phidias...
GoW 4.264 2 Whatever can be thought can be spoken, and
still rises for
utterance...
Art2 7.38 13 The utterance of thought and emotion in
speech and action
may be conscious or unconscious.
Art2 7.38 21 The conscious utterance of thought, by
speech or action, to
any end, is Art.
OA 7.327 25 He is serene...whose condition, in
particular and in general, allows the utterance of his mind.
PPo 8.247 18 ...a large utterance, a river that makes
its own shores...this
generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
Dem1 10.8 16 Once or twice the conscious fetters shall
seem to be
unlocked [by dreams], and a freer utterance attained.
LLNE 10.331 11 If any of my readers were at that period
[1820] in Boston
or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of
person...a voice of...such precise and perfect utterance, that...it was
the most
mellow and beautiful and correct of all the instruments of the time.
HDC 11.47 11 In this open democracy [in New England],
every opinion
had utterance;...
EdAd 11.393 15 ...good readers know that inspired pages
are not written to
fill a space, but for inevitable utterance;...
SHC 11.433 12 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy
Hollow
Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of
the
cheer of the village...it admits of being reserved...for...patriotic
eloquence, the utterance of the principles of national liberty to
private, social, literary
or religious fraternities.
ACri 12.294 25 Shakspeare is nothing but a large
utterance.
ACri 12.296 23 Herrick's merit is the simplicity and
manliness of his
utterance...
utterances, n. (3)
AmS 1.93 13 The discerning will read, in
his...Shakspeare...only the
authentic utterances of the oracle;...
OS 2.291 3 The simplest utterances are worthiest to be
written...
Milt1 12.276 13 Like prophets, [Homer and Shakespeare]
seem but
imperfectly aware of the import of their own utterances.
uttered, v. (24)
AmS 1.87 22 The scholar of the first age received into
him the world
around;...gave it the new arrangement of his own mind, and uttered it
again.
AmS 1.102 6 Whatsoever oracles the human heart...has
uttered...these [the
scholar] shall receive and impart.
SR 2.68 5 ...when [children] come into the point of
view which those had
who uttered these sayings, they understand them...
SL 2.152 27 ...the thing uttered in words is not
therefore affirmed.
OS 2.283 26 Jesus...never...uttered a syllable
concerning the duration of the
soul.
OS 2.289 18 The inspiration which uttered itself in
Hamlet and Lear could
utter things as good from day to day for ever.
Chr1 3.93 15 In his parlor I see very well that [the
natural merchant] has
been at hard work this morning, with that knitted brow and that settled
humor, which all his desire to be courteous cannot shake off. I see
plainly... how many valiant noes have this day been spoken, when others
would have
uttered ruinous yeas.
SwM 4.126 7 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which
express with
singular beauty the ethical laws; as when he uttered that famed
sentence, that In heaven the angels are advancing continually to the
springtime of
their youth, so that the oldest angel appears the youngest...
ET8 5.133 15 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...
Art2 7.38 5 [Action] rises in thought, to the end that
it may uttered and
acted.
Elo1 7.93 8 ...the main distinction between [the
eloquent man] and other
well-graced actors is the conviction...that the words and sentences
uttered
by him...fall from him as unregarded parts of that terrible whole which
he
sees...
Boks 7.220 7 ...these ejaculations of the soul are
uttered one or a few at a
time...
Suc 7.304 10 What was on [the lover's] lips to say is
uttered by his friend.
Insp 8.287 5 Solitary converse with Nature; for thence
are ejaculated sweet
and dreadful words never uttered in libraries.
LLNE 10.339 27 We could not then spare a single word
[Channing] uttered
in public...
LLNE 10.351 23 The ability and earnestness of the
advocate [Fourier] and
his friends...the indignation they felt and uttered in the presence of
so much
social misery, commanded our attention and respect.
MMEm 10.432 23 Cassandra uttered, to a frivolous,
skeptical time, the
arcana of the Gods...
Carl 10.490 27 Forster of Rawdon described to me a
dinner at the table d'
hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle, and where an
Irish
canon had uttered something.
EPro 11.326 13 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race
which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of
the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music...
ChiE 11.472 25 ...what we call the GOLDEN RULE of
Jesus, Confucius
had uttered in the same terms five hundred years before.
II 12.70 1 Here are we with...the spontaneous
impressions of Nature and
men, and original oracles,-all ready to be uttered, if only we could be
set
aglow.
MAng1 12.215 7 ...[Michelangelo] uttered extraordinary
words;...
MAng1 12.242 10 ...a nobler sentiment, uttered by
[Michelangelo], is
contained in his reply to a letter of Vasari...
Milt1 12.260 26 [Milton] uttered in [English] things
unheard before.
utterer, n. (2)
LE 1.182 4 Let [the scholar]...serve the world as a true
and noble man; never forgetting to worship the immortal divinities who
whisper to the poet
and make him the utterer of melodies that pierce the ear of eternal
time.
Pt1 3.8 26 [The poet] is...an utterer of the necessary
and causal.
utterest, v. (1)
PPo 8.261 21 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The
nightingale to the
falcon said/ Why, of all birds, must thou be dumb?/ With closed mouth
thou
utterest,/ Though dying, no last word to man./
uttering, v. (7)
ET14 5.249 13 But for Coleridge, and a lurking taciturn
minority uttering
itself in occasional criticism...one would say that in Germany and in
America is the best mind in England rightly respected.
PI 8.17 15 [Poetry] is a presence of mind that gives a
miraculous command
of all means of uttering the thought and feeling of the moment.
PPo 8.248 1 The difference is not so much in the
quality of men's thoughts
as in the power of uttering them.
Plu 10.304 15 ...[Plutarch] says...the Sibyl, with her
frantic grimaces, uttering sentences altogether thoughtful and
serious...continues her voice a
thousand years...
TPar 11.290 26 [Theodore Parker] took away the reproach
of silent consent
that would otherwise have lain against the indignant minority, by
uttering in
the hour and place wherein these outrages were done, the stern protest.
CInt 12.126 13 ...that which [Harvard College] exists
for, to be...a Delphos
uttering warning and ravishing oracles to lift and lead mankind,-that
it
shall not be permitted to do or to think of.
CL 12.164 5 Nature speaks to the imagination;...because
her visible
productions and changes are the nouns of language, and our only means
of
uttering the invisible thought.
utterly, adv. (17)
MR 1.249 10 I ought not to allow any man, because he has
broad lands, to
feel that he is rich in my presence. I ought to make him feel...though
I be
utterly penniless...that he is the poor man beside me.
SL 2.150 22 ...a person of related mind...comes to
us...so nearly and
intimately, as if it were the blood in our proper veins, that we feel
as if
some one was gone, instead of another having come; we are utterly
relieved
and refreshed;...
SL 2.158 26 Never was a sincere word utterly lost.
Mrs1 3.145 27 Even the line of heroes is not utterly
extinct.
NR 3.227 8 All our poets, heroes and saints, fail
utterly in some one or in
many parts to satisfy our idea...
ET3 5.41 7 The sea, which, according to Virgil's famous
line, divided the
poor Britons utterly from the world, proved to be the ring of marriage
with
all nations.
PI 8.40 16 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his
condition. In that
prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception...of fairy
machineries and funds of power hitherto utterly unknown to him...
Elo2 8.117 26 A worthy gentleman...listening to the
debates of the General
Assembly of the Scottish Kirk in Edinburgh, and eager to speak to the
questions but utterly failing in his endeavors...went to [Dr. Hugh
Blair] and
offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak
with propriety in public.
Res 8.143 4 America is...such a magazine of power, that
at her shores all
the common rules of political economy utterly fail.
Insp 8.278 27 Bonaparte said: There is no man more
pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan. I magnify...all the
possible mischances. I am
in an agitation utterly painful.
Edc1 10.156 23 I confess myself utterly at a loss in
suggesting particular
reforms in our ways of teaching.
MoL 10.254 8 ...now not only all the statues of bronze
in the temples of
Aegina are destroyed, but...the very walls of the city are utterly
gone;...
MoL 10.256 18 [Senators and lawyers] read that they
might know, did they
not? Well, these men [who passed infamous laws] did not know. They
blundered; they were utterly ignorant of...the rights of men and women.
LVB 11.89 16 ...the circumstance that my name will be
utterly unknown to
you [Van Buren] will only give the fairer chance to your equitable
construction of what I have to say.
EWI 11.113 7 ...be it enacted...that from and after the
first August, 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and forever
abolished and declared
unlawful throughout the British colonies...
Milt1 12.250 7 We could be well content if the flames
to which [Milton's
Defence of the English People] was condemned at Paris, at Toulouse, and
at
London, had utterly consumed it.
Milt1 12.261 26 ...[Milton] said...I cannot say that I
am utterly untrained in
those rules which best rhetoricians have given...
uttermost, adj. (7)
Nat 1.74 6 In the uttermost meaning of the words,
thought is devout, and
devotion is thought.
DSA 1.136 27 Where shall...I feel ennobled by the offer
of my uttermost
action and passion?
LE 1.181 24 The good scholar will not refuse...to
know...the uttermost
secret of toil and endurance;...
GoW 4.275 12 ...in osteology, [Goethe] assumed that one
vertebra of the
spine might be considered as the unit of the skeleton: the head was
only the
uttermost vertebrae transformed.
ET9 5.144 2 Individual right is pushed [in England] to
the uttermost bound
compatible with public order.
Dem1 10.25 17 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again
that door which
was open to the imagination of childhood-of...the travelling cloak, the
shoes of swiftness and the sword of sharpness that were to satisfy the
uttermost wish of the senses without danger or a drop of sweat.
FSLC 11.211 20 ...Massachusetts is little, but, if true
to itself, can be the
brain which turns about the behemoth [slavery]. I say Massachusetts,
but I
mean...Massachusetts...as she sees her progeny scattered over the face
of
the land, in the farthest South, and the uttermost West.
uttermost, n. (6)
Nat 1.41 13 When a thing has served an end to the
uttermost, it is wholly
new for an ulterior service.
DSA 1.140 17 ...can [the poor preacher] ask a
fellow-creature to come to
Sabbath meetings, when he and they all know what is the poor uttermost
they can hope for therein.
LE 1.180 23 [Napoleon] was faithful to tactics to the
uttermost...
ET5 5.101 19 The charm in Nelson's history is the
unselfish greatness, the
assurance of being supported to the uttermost by those whom he supports
to
the uttermost.
ET5 5.101 20 The charm in Nelson's history is the
unselfish greatness, the
assurance of being supported to the uttermost by those whom he supports
to
the uttermost.
GSt 10.505 4 ...virtuous enough to obey to the
uttermost the truth he saw,- [George Stearns] became, in the most
natural manner, an indispensable
power in the state.
utters, v. (12)
AmS 1.90 8 The soul active sees absolute truth and
utters truth, or creates.
LE 1.166 19 ...[the speaker] only adjusts himself to
the free spirit which
gladly utters itself through him;...
LE 1.172 10 ...the first word [a man of genius] utters,
sets all your so-called
knowledge afloat and at large.
Comp 2.110 10 Every opinion reacts on him who utters
it.
Nat2 3.187 23 The poet, the prophet, has a higher value
for what he utters
than any hearer...
Nat2 3.189 17 A man can only speak so long as he does
not feel his speech
to be partial and inadequate. It is partial, but he does not see it to
be so
whilst he utters it.
SwM 4.136 23 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the
heavens are
opened, so that he...utters again in his books...the indisputable
secrets of
moral nature...remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
Elo1 7.93 13 ...the main distinction between [the
eloquent man] and other
well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a
whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness,
which...never
utters a premature syllable...and the orator stands before the people
as a
demoniacal power...
Imtl 8.349 9 The human mind takes no account of
geography, language or
legends, but in all utters the same instinct.
Chr2 10.94 17 He that speaks the truth executes no
private function of an
individual will, but the world utters a sound by his lips.
Prch 10.219 2 A thousand negatives [the oracle]
utters...
Shak1 11.451 16 The unaffected joy of the
comedy...contrasted with the
grandeur of the tragedy...where [Shakespeare's] speech is a Delphi,-the
great Nemesis that he is and utters.
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