Hous to Hum

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

hous, n. (1)

    Aris 10.29 9 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...

house, adj. (1)

    Civ 7.33 15 These arts [of invention] add a comfort and smoothness to house and street life;...

House, Burlington, London, (1)

    ET11 5.181 12 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown the palaces in Piccadilly, Burlington House, Devonshire House...

House, Chesterfield, London (1)

    ET11 5.181 26 Chesterfield House remains in Audley Street.

House, Court, n. (1)

    SHC 11.432 12 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...to the Court House...

House, Custom, n. (1)

    PLT 12.8 8 Go into the scientific club and harken. Each savant proves in his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did know anything on the subject: Does the gentleman speak of anatomy? Who peeped into a box at the Custom House and then published a drawing of my rat?

House, Custom, Returns, n. (1)

    ET5 5.94 22 The Mark-Lane Express, or the Custom House Returns, bear out to the letter the vaunt of Pope...

House, Devonshire, London, (1)

    ET11 5.181 13 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown the palaces in Piccadilly, Burlington House, Devonshire House...

House, East India, n. (1)

    ET10 5.155 16 From the Exchequer and the East India House to the huckster's shop, every thing [in England] prospers because it is solvent.

House, Graham, n. (1)

    Thor 10.463 13 ...Thoreau thought all diets a very small matter, saying that the man who shoots the buffalo lives better than the man who boards at the Graham House.

House, Holland, London, En (1)

    ET11 5.181 27 Sion House and Holland House are in the suburbs [of London].

House, India, n. (3)

    ET10 5.162 21 Scandinavian Thor...in England...sits down at a desk in the India House...
    ET15 5.266 25 One hears anecdotes of the rise of [the London Times's] servants, as of the functionaries of the India House.
    HDC 11.70 5 ...if any person or persons...shall import any tea from the India House, in England...we will treat them...as enemies to their country...

House, Lambeth, London, En (1)

    Milt1 12.270 4 [Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of Lambeth House had been writ in Latin;...

House, Lansdowne, London, (1)

    ET11 5.181 13 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown...Lansdowne House in Berkshire Square...

House, Montague, London, E (1)

    ET11 5.181 19 The Duke of Bedford includes or included a mile square in the heart of London, where the British Museum, once Montague House, now stands...

house, n. (397)

    Nat 1.5 11 Art is applied to the mixture of [man's] will with the same things [unchanged essences], as in a house...
    Nat 1.14 9 [The private poor man] sets his house upon the road, and the human race go forth every morning, and shovel out the snow, and cut a path for him.
    Nat 1.17 3 I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house...with emotions which an angel might share.
    Nat 1.19 14 Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel;...
    Nat 1.47 13 It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind, and so makes it the receiver of a certain number of congruent sensations, which we call...house and trade.
    Nat 1.48 23 We are not built like a ship, to be tossed, but like a house to stand.
    Nat 1.65 8 As we degenerate, the contrast between us and our house is more evident.
    Nat 1.72 2 ...sometimes [man]...wonders at himself and his house...
    Nat 1.76 5 Every spirit builds itself a house...
    Nat 1.76 6 Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world...
    Nat 1.76 11 Adam called his house, heaven and earth;...
    Nat 1.76 12 ...Caesar called his house, Rome;...
    DSA 1.136 23 Where shall I hear words such as in elder ages drew men to leave all and follow...house and land...
    DSA 1.143 13 What was once a mere circumstance, that...the young and old, should meet one day as fellows in one house...has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
    LE 1.186 21 Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn?
    MN 1.192 2 ...the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house...
    MN 1.205 15 So must we admire in man...the house of reason...
    MN 1.209 27 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears...he becomes careless of his food and of his house...
    MR 1.238 24 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son,-house, orchard...the son finds his hands full...
    MR 1.244 18 We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend...
    MR 1.244 22 [Our friend] is accustomed to carpets, and we have not sufficient character to put floor cloths out of his mind while he stays in the house...
    MR 1.244 23 Let the house rather be a temple of the Furies of Lacedaemon...
    MR 1.245 27 ...parched corn and a house with one apartment, that I may be free of all perturbations...is frugality for gods and heroes.
    MR 1.250 9 ...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers, and what a house of cards their institutions are...
    LT 1.274 1 ...a [wealthy] man may say his religion...is become a dividual moveable, and goes and comes near him, according as that good man frequents the house.
    LT 1.279 22 If every island and every house had a Bible...would the wounds of the world heal...
    Con 1.323 23 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?
    Tran 1.342 14 ...[Transcendentalists] incline to shut themselves in their chamber in the house...
    Tran 1.359 5 ...when every voice is raised...for a new house or a larger business;...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    YA 1.364 27 The heaven's blue pillars are Medea's house./
    YA 1.368 6 A little grove, which any farmer can find or cause to grow near his house, will in a few years make cataracts...quite unnecessary to his scenery;...
    YA 1.368 18 ...the culture of years will never make the most painstaking apprentice [the man of genius's] equal: no more will gardening give the advantage of a happy site to a house in a hole...
    YA 1.376 21 The king is compelled to call in the aid of his brothers...to help him keep his overgrown house in order;...
    SR 2.60 15 A great man is coming to eat at my house.
    SR 2.62 14 That popular fable of the sot...carried to the duke's house... symbolizes...the state of man...
    SR 2.62 26 ...power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house...
    SR 2.81 5 ...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him from his house...he is at home still...
    SR 2.83 3 ...if the American artist will study...the precise thing to be done by him...he will create a house in which [beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves fitted...
    Comp 2.114 8 It is best...to buy...in the house, good sense applied to cooking, sewing, serving;...
    Comp 2.120 6 ...every burned book or house enlightens the world;...
    Comp 2.124 26 ...the shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case... and slowly forms a new house.
    SL 2.129 2 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect/...
    SL 2.131 10 The river-bank...the old house...have a grace in the past.
    SL 2.131 13 Even the corpse that has lain in the chambers has added a solemn ornament to the house.
    SL 2.162 1 The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his whole being without obstruction, so that on what point soever of his doing your eye falls it shall report truly of his character, whether it be his diet, his house...
    Lov1 2.183 25 The rays of the soul alight first on things nearest...on the house and yard and passengers...
    Lov1 2.187 18 At last [lovers] discover that all which at first drew them together...had a prospective end, like the scaffolding by which the house was built;...
    Lov1 2.187 24 Looking at these aims with which two persons, a man and a woman, so variously and correlatively gifted, are shut up in one house to spend in the nuptial society forty or fifty years, I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
    Fdsp 2.192 5 See, in any house where virtue and self-respect abide, the palpitation which the approach of a stranger causes.
    Fdsp 2.192 12 The house is dusted...
    Fdsp 2.201 22 Happy is the house that shelters a friend!
    Fdsp 2.210 4 Why go to [your friend's] house...
    Fdsp 2.212 10 You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.
    Prd1 2.225 21 ...the house smokes...
    Hsm1 2.253 20 When I was in Sogd I saw a great building, like a palace, the gates of which were...fixed back to the wall with large nails. I asked the reason, and was told that the house had not been shut, night or day, for a hundred years.
    OS 2.275 9 With each divine impulse the mind...comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It...becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian than with persons in the house.
    Int 2.343 16 Jesus says, Leave father, mother, house and lands, and follow me.
    Art1 2.360 14 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    Pt1 3.9 17 ...this genius [a recent writer of lyrics] is the landscape-garden of a modern house...
    Pt1 3.18 7 Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles.
    Pt1 3.30 25 What a joyful sense of freedom we have when Vitruvius announces the old opinion of artists that no architect can build any house well who does not know something of anatomy.
    Pt1 3.31 15 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire, which, though carried to the darkest house betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus, will yet hold its natural office and burn as bright as if twenty thousand men did it behold;...
    Chr1 3.100 20 Acquiescence in the establishment and appeal to the public, indicate...heads...which must see a house built before they can comprehend the plan of it.
    Chr1 3.103 12 Love is inexhaustible, and if its estate is wasted...still cheers and enriches, and the man...seems to purify the air and his house...
    Mrs1 3.119 10 The house [of the inhabitants of Gournou], namely a tomb, is ready without rent or taxes.
    Mrs1 3.119 14 If the house do not please [the inhabitants of Gournou], they walk out and enter another...
    Mrs1 3.134 11 ...do we not insatiably ask, Was a man in the house?
    Mrs1 3.134 22 It was...a very natural point of old feudal etiquette that a gentleman who received a visit, though it were of his sovereign...should wait his arrival at the door of his house.
    Mrs1 3.134 23 No house...is good for anything without a master.
    Mrs1 3.134 27 Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books...
    Mrs1 3.136 17 When [Montaigne] leaves any house in which he has lodged for a few weeks, he causes his arms to be painted and hung up as a perpetual sign...
    Mrs1 3.136 20 When [Montaigne] leaves any house in which he has lodged for a few weeks, he causes his arms to be painted and hung up as a perpetual sign to the house...
    Mrs1 3.137 3 I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures...
    Mrs1 3.137 21 Proportionate is our disgust at those invaders who fill a studious house with blast and running...
    Mrs1 3.142 3 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons; when Fox urged on his old friend the claims of old friendship with such tenderness that the house was moved to tears.
    Mrs1 3.149 27 The open air and the fields, the street and public chambers are the places where Man executes his will; let him yield or divide the sceptre at the door of the house.
    Mrs1 3.151 1 ...are there not women who fill our vase with wine and roses to the brim, so that the wine runs over and fills the house with perfume;...
    Mrs1 3.154 4 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    Gts 3.160 20 ...it is always pleasing to see a man eat bread, or drink water, in the house or out of doors...
    Gts 3.165 12 I find that I am not much to you;...you do not feel me; then am I thrust out of doors, though you proffer me house and lands.
    Nat2 3.172 23 My house stands in low land...
    Nat2 3.178 12 It is when...the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.
    Nat2 3.183 2 Nature, who made the mason, made the house.
    NR 3.237 25 ...the frugal farmer takes care that...swine shall eat the waste of his house...
    NR 3.239 1 ...[the recluse] goes into a mob, into a banking house...and in each new place he is no better than an idiot;...
    NER 3.262 27 ...the street is as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.
    NER 3.273 5 Lord Bathurst told [Thomas Warton] that the members of the Scriblerus Club being met at his house at dinner, they agreed to rally Berkeley...on his scheme at Bermudas.
    NER 3.277 24 ...we hold on to our little properties, house and land...for the bread which they have in our experience yielded us...
    NER 3.282 10 ...[our other self] holds uncontrollable communication with the enemy, and he answers civilly to us, but believes the spirit. We exclaim, There's a traitor in the house!...
    UGM 4.21 5 The veneration of mankind selects these [great men] for the highest place. Witness the multitude of statues, pictures and memorials which recall their genius in every city, village, house and ship...
    PPh 4.42 10 ...every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries;...
    PPh 4.43 13 [Great geniuses] lived in their writings, and so their house and street life was trivial and commonplace.
    SwM 4.101 5 ...[Swedenborg] lived in a house situated in a large garden;...
    SwM 4.123 15 [Swedenborg's] thought dwells in essential resemblances, like the resemblance of a house to the man who built it.
    SwM 4.125 18 [To Swedenborg] Every one makes his own house and state.
    MoS 4.160 11 ...when we build a house, the rule is to set it not too high nor too low...
    MoS 4.160 22 An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters in this storm of many elements.
    MoS 4.160 26 ...a shell must dictate the architecture of a house founded on the sea.
    MoS 4.164 16 In the civil wars of the League, which converted every house into a fort, Montaigne kept his gates open and his house without defence.
    MoS 4.164 17 In the civil wars of the League...Montaigne kept his gates open and his house without defence.
    MoS 4.167 4 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know,--my house and barns;...
    MoS 4.171 10 The nonconformist and the rebel...discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.
    MoS 4.184 26 In every house...this chasm is found,--between the largest promise of ideal power, and the shabby experience.
    ShP 4.189 5 If we require the originality which consists...in finding clay and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original.
    ShP 4.198 8 ...poor Gower [Chaucer] uses as if he were only a brick-kiln or stone-quarry out of which to build his house.
    ShP 4.205 9 It appears...that [Shakespeare] lived in the best house in Stratford;...
    ET1 5.3 9 ...I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground... to a house in Russell Square...
    ET1 5.7 5 I found [Landor]...living in a cloud of pictures at his Villa Gherardesca, a fine house commanding a beautiful landscape.
    ET1 5.9 15 ...Mr. H[are], one of the guests, told me that Mr. Landor gives away his books, and has never more than a dozen at a time in his house.
    ET1 5.15 3 I found the house [Craigenputtock] amid desolate heathery hills...
    ET1 5.16 23 [Carlyle] had read in Stewart's book that when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots, he had been shown across the street and had found Mungo in his own house dining on roast turkey.
    ET1 5.17 24 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat, and supplies his wants to the next house.
    ET2 5.29 7 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously, upset, shoved against the side of the house...
    ET4 5.73 21 A score or two of mounted gentlemen may frequently be seen [in England] running like centaurs down a hill nearly as steep as the roof of a house.
    ET5 5.84 11 [The English] are neat husbands for ordering all their tools pertaining to house and field.
    ET6 5.107 14 ...[the Englishman] dearly loves his house.
    ET6 5.107 16 ...[the Englishman] dearly loves his house. If he is rich, he buys a demesne and builds a hall; if he is in middle condition, he spares no expense on his house.
    ET6 5.109 14 This [English] taste for house and parish merits has of course its doting and foolish side.
    ET6 5.113 23 [In London] Every one dresses for dinner, in his own house, or in another man's.
    ET7 5.118 4 The mottoes of [English] families are monitory proverbs, as... Say and seal, of the house of Fiennes;...
    ET7 5.119 17 Plain rich clothes, plain rich equipage, plain rich finish throughout their house and belongings mark the English truth.
    ET8 5.130 3 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained. It easily happens that this class should characterize England to the foreigner, who meets them...at every public house...
    ET8 5.135 13 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...sulking in a lonely house;...
    ET10 5.157 3 The ambition to create value evokes every kind of ability [in England]; government becomes a manufacturing corporation, and every house a mill.
    ET10 5.164 15 The [English] house is a castle which the king cannot enter.
    ET10 5.165 12 Sir Edward Boynton...on a precipice of incomparable prospect, built a house like a long barn, which had not a window on the prospect side.
    ET11 5.176 11 At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast...
    ET11 5.178 20 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival...to mark the day when the dukedom should have remained three hundred years in their house...
    ET11 5.182 11 The Marquis of Breadalbane rides out of his house a hundred miles in a straight line to the sea...
    ET11 5.190 8 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...down to Aubrey's passages of the life of Hobbes in the house of the Earl of Devon, are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    ET11 5.190 16 I must hold Ludlow Castle an honest house, for which Milton's Comus was written...
    ET11 5.190 24 ...at this moment, almost every great house [in England] has its sumptuous picture-gallery.
    ET13 5.227 6 Brougham...said, How will the reverend bishops of the other house be able to express their due abhorrence of the crime of perjury...
    ET16 5.276 11 On the broad downs...not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge...
    ET16 5.279 16 In this quiet house of destiny [Stonehenge] [Carlyle] happened to say, I plant cypresses wherever I go, and if I am in search of pain, I cannot go wrong.
    ET16 5.283 12 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston...
    ET16 5.284 5 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...a house known to Shakspeare and Massinger...
    ET16 5.284 16 My friend [Carlyle] had a letter from Mr. [Sidney] Herbert to his housekeeper,and the house [Wilton Hall] was shown.
    ET16 5.285 10 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...and so again to the house, where we found a table laid for us with bread, meats, peaches, grapes and wine.
    ET16 5.286 20 At Bishopstoke we [Emerson and Carlyle] stopped, and found Mr. H[elps]., who...took us to his house at Bishops Waltham.
    ET16 5.288 12 On the way to Winchester...my friends asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses,--my house, for example.
    ET16 5.290 22 Slowly we [Emerson and Carlyle] left the old house [Winchester Cathedral]...
    ET17 5.292 11 My visit [to England] fell in the fortunate days when Mr. [George] Bancroft was the American Minister in London, and at his house, or through his good offices, I had easy access to excellent persons and to privileged places.
    ET17 5.292 13 At the house of Mr. Carlyle, I met persons eminent in society and in letters.
    ET17 5.296 21 ...in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare; if they wanted anything more, they must pay him for their board. It was the rule of the house.
    F 6.9 7 Every spirit makes its house; but afterwards the house confines the spirit.
    F 6.10 2 It often appears in a family as if all the qualities of the progenitors were potted in several jars,-some ruling quality in each son or daughter of the house;...
    F 6.24 19 Go face...the cholera in your friend's house...knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny.
    F 6.26 19 ...'t is all toy figures in a toy house.
    F 6.30 19 We stand against Fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house...
    F 6.30 21 ...when the boy grows to man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall...
    F 6.31 4 [Men] are under one dominion here in the house...
    F 6.33 20 Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should...carry the house away.
    F 6.37 1 ...where shall we find the first atom in this house of man...
    F 6.37 22 [Man's] food is cooked when he arrives;...the house ventilated;...
    F 6.41 17 ...the slug sweats out its slimy house on the pear-leaf...
    Pow 6.67 8 ...[Boniface] made good friends of the selectmen, served them with his best chop when they supped at his house...
    Pow 6.67 17 [Boniface] led the 'rummies' and radicals in town-meeting with a speech. Meantime, he was civil, fat, and easy, in his house, and precisely the most public-spirited citizen.
    Pow 6.67 25 ...[Boniface] introduced the new horse-rake, the new scraper, the baby-jumper, and what not, that Connecticut sends to the admiring citizens. He did this the easier that the peddler stopped at his house, and paid his keeping by setting up his new trap on the landlord's premises.
    Pow 6.75 11 There was, in the whole city, but one street in which Pericles was ever seen, the street which led to the market-place and the council house.
    Wth 6.106 23 The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy; the way in which a house and a private man's methods tally with the solar system and the laws of give and take, throughout nature;...
    Wth 6.107 17 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap.
    Wth 6.107 20 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can reduce the rent...and the tenant gets not the house he would have, but a worse one;...
    Wth 6.113 2 Allston the painter was wont to say that he built a plain house, and filled it with plain furniture, because he would hold out no bribe to any to visit him who had not similar tastes to his own.
    Wth 6.114 7 Pride...can live in a house with two rooms...
    Wth 6.123 6 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for the sun and wind...
    Ctr 6.137 15 ...Thor's house had five hundred and forty floors;...
    Ctr 6.137 16 ...man's house has five hundred and forty floors.
    Ctr 6.148 26 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a good library...
    Ctr 6.149 27 The head of a commercial house or a leading lawyer or politician is brought into daily contact with troops of men from all parts of the country...
    Bhr 6.173 6 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach: the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.
    Bhr 6.173 24 In the hotels on the banks of the Mississippi they print... among the rules of the house, that No gentleman can be permitted to come to the public table without his coat;...
    Bhr 6.179 9 The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.
    Bhr 6.179 23 'T is remarkable too that the spirit that appears at the windows of the house [the eyes] does at once invest himself in a new form of his own to the mind of the beholder.
    Bhr 6.189 19 ...no rod and chain will measure the dimensions of any house or house-lot;...
    Bhr 6.189 20 ...no rod and chain will measure the dimensions of any house or house-lot; go into the house;...
    Bhr 6.189 22 ...go into the house; if the proprietor is constrained and deferring, 't is of no importance how large his house...
    Bhr 6.189 25 ...if the man is self-possessed, happy and at home, his house is deep-founded...
    Wsp 6.223 19 If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear house.
    Wsp 6.223 21 If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear house.
    CbW 6.268 9 [The young people] explore a farm, but the house is small...
    CbW 6.268 13 The youth aches for solitude. When he comes to the house he passes through the house.
    CbW 6.268 14 The youth aches for solitude. When he comes to the house he passes through the house.
    CbW 6.271 12 ...if one comes who can illuminate this dark house with thoughts...he wakes in [men] the feeling of worth...
    CbW 6.275 5 ...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.
    CbW 6.276 3 Few people discern that it rests with the master or the mistress what service comes from the man or the maid; that this identical hussy was a tutelar spirit in one house and a haridan in the other.
    Bty 6.281 12 ...does [the geologist] know what effect passes into the man who builds his house in [the strata]?...
    Bty 6.282 20 All our science lacks a human side. The tenant is more than the house.
    Bty 6.286 23 Every spirit makes its house...
    Bty 6.286 24 ...we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
    Bty 6.291 6 ...our taste in building...allows the real supporters of the house honestly to show themselves.
    Bty 6.295 5 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together...
    Ill 6.307 7 House you were born in,/ Friends of your spring-time,/ Old man and young maid,/ Day's toil and its guerdon, /They are all vanishing, / Fleeing to fables,/ Cannot be moored./
    SS 7.2 1 That each should in his house abide,/ Therefore was the world so wide./
    SS 7.4 10 When [my new friend] bought a house, the first thing he did was to plant trees.
    SS 7.4 17 The most agreeable compliment you could pay [my new friend] was to imply that you had not observed him in a house or a street where you had met him.
    SS 7.6 24 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated, but separate, house and house;...
    SS 7.15 5 What to do with these brisk young men who...make themselves at home in every house?
    Civ 7.21 12 ...the effect of a framed or stone house is immense on the tranquillity, power and refinement of the builder.
    Civ 7.21 16 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay.
    Civ 7.24 15 ...in every house we hesitate to burn a newspaper until we have looked it through.
    Civ 7.32 12 ...when I...see...how self-helped and self-directed all families are,--knots of men in purely natural societies, societies...of habitual hospitality, house and house...I see what cubic values America has...
    Art2 7.41 18 You cannot build your house or pagoda as you will, but as you must.
    Art2 7.47 25 Nature...builds the best part of the house...
    Art2 7.54 6 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also.
    Elo1 7.66 12 There are many audiences in every public assembly, each one of which rules in turn. If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them.
    Elo1 7.68 12 ...as we must be fed and warmed before we can do any work well,--even the best,--so is this semi-animal exuberance [in the orator], like a good stove, of the first necessity in a cold house.
    Elo1 7.72 7 I [Antenor] received [Ulysses and Menelaus] and entertained them at my house.
    DL 7.102 1 Thou shalt make thy house/ The temple of a nation's vows./
    DL 7.103 6 The care which covers the seed of the tree under tough husks and stony cases provides for the human plant the mother's breast and the father's house.
    DL 7.105 15 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the furniture of the house, the red tin horse...
    DL 7.107 4 [The little pilgrim] grows up the ornament and joy of the house...
    DL 7.107 17 It is what is done and suffered in the house...that has the profoundest interest for us.
    DL 7.110 26 [The citizen's] house ought to show us his honest opinion of what makes his well-being when he rests among his kindred...
    DL 7.111 14 The progress of domestic living has been...in the concentration of all the utilities of every clime in each house.
    DL 7.111 22 A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy;...
    DL 7.111 23 ...a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women...
    DL 7.112 15 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...
    DL 7.113 22 Give me the means, says the wife, and your house shall not annoy your taste...
    DL 7.116 6 What kind of a house was kept by Paul and John...
    DL 7.117 13 ...a house should bear witness in all its economy that human culture is the end to which it is built and garnished.
    DL 7.117 26 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains...to be...a hall...whose inmates...do not ask your house how theirs should be kept.
    DL 7.118 1 The diet of the house does not create its order...
    DL 7.118 19 Let a man...say, My house is here in the county, for the culture of the county;...
    DL 7.119 10 Honor to the house where they are simple to the verge of hardship...
    DL 7.119 22 There is many a humble house in every city...where talent and taste and sometimes genius dwell with poverty and labor.
    DL 7.120 16 ...who can see unmoved...the first solitary joys of literary vanity...sitting alone near the top of the house;...
    DL 7.121 26 [Lord Falkland's] house being within little more than ten miles from Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that University...
    DL 7.122 10 ...[Lord Falkland's] house was a university in a less volume...
    DL 7.127 26 Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character;...
    DL 7.128 1 Happy will that house be...the house in which character marries...
    DL 7.128 13 The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
    DL 7.130 2 ...let [a man] not...seek to turn his house into a museum.
    DL 7.131 1 ...I think the public museum in each town will one day relieve the private house of this charge of owning and exhibiting [statues and pictures].
    DL 7.132 6 Certainly, not aloof from this homage to beauty...the house will come to be esteemed a Sanctuary.
    DL 7.132 8 The language of a ruder age has given to common law the maxim that every man's house is his castle...
    DL 7.132 10 ...the progress of truth will make every house a shrine.
    DL 7.132 26 Does the consecration of the church confess the profanation of the house?
    Farm 7.141 8 He who...builds a durable house...makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.
    WD 7.158 27 ...our common and indispensable utensils of house and farm are new;...
    WD 7.164 18 A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master...
    Clbs 7.227 10 The clergyman walks from house to house all day all the year to give people the comfort of good talk.
    Clbs 7.243 7 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first...broke through the morgue of etiquette by inviting to her house men of wit and learning as well as men of rank...
    Cour 7.259 1 ...the protection which a house, a family...gives, go in all times to generate this taint of the respectable classes.
    Suc 7.286 12 We have seen an American woman write a novel...which... was read with equal interest to three audiences, namely, in the parlor, in the kitchen and in the nursery of every house.
    Suc 7.291 19 'T is clownish to insist on doing all with one's own hands, as if every man should build his own clumsy house...
    Suc 7.293 17 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan;...
    Suc 7.299 18 Is the house in which you were born...only a piece of real estate...
    Suc 7.299 18 Is...the house in which your dearest friend lived, only a piece of real estate...
    Suc 7.305 22 An Englishman of marked character and talent, who had brought with him hither one or two friends and a library of mystics, assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England,--he had brought all that was alive away. I was forced to reply: No, next door to you probably, on the other side of the partition in the same house, was a greater man than any you had seen.
    OA 7.327 13 [Man] wants...power, house and land...
    OA 7.328 17 ...age sets its house in order...
    OA 7.332 16 We...told [John Adams] he must let us join our congratulations to those of the nation on the happiness of his house.
    OA 7.334 7 [John Adams] talked of Whitefield, and remembered when he was a Freshman in College to have come into town to the Old South church (I think) to hear him, but could not get into the house;...
    PI 8.3 20 ...the universe...is the house of health and life.
    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 8.36 4 The writer in the parlor has more presence of mind, more wit and fancy, more play of thought, on the incidents that occur at table or about the house, than in the politics of Germany or Rome.
    PI 8.36 16 [The poet] is very well convinced that the great moments of life are those in which his own house, his own body...have been illuminated into prophets and teachers.
    SA 8.81 1 ...he who has not this fine garment of behavior is studious of dress, and then not less of house and furniture and pictures and gardens...
    SA 8.94 10 When they showed [Madame de Stael] the beautiful Lake Leman, she exclaimed, O for the gutter of the Rue de Bac! the street in Paris in which her house stood.
    SA 8.98 25 Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any portion of the company. Tact...never intrudes the orders of the house...
    SA 8.99 23 ...[manners and talk] require...human labor for food, clothes, house, tools...
    SA 8.101 22 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence...exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought...
    SA 8.103 8 It is of course that [the American to be proud of] should ride well, shoot well, sail well, keep house well, administer affairs well;...
    Elo2 8.132 3 ...it was said that no member of either house of the British Parliament will be ranked among the orators, whom Lord North did not see, or who did not see Lord North.
    Res 8.142 21 ...the walls of a modern house are perforated with water-pipes, sound-pipes, gas-pipes, heat-pipes...
    Res 8.152 5 When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/ he must leave the house, the streets and the club...
    Comc 8.170 7 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature, through some superstition of his house or equipage...is the secret of all the fun that circulates concerning eminent fops and fashionists...
    QO 8.176 1 ...every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone-quarries;...
    QO 8.192 5 ...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 8.211 4 Every one who was in Italy thirty-five years ago will remember the caution with which his host or guest in any house looked around him, if a political topic were broached.
    PC 8.212 4 That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb, to the farmer's house...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
    PPo 8.246 14 I will be drunk and down with wine;/ Treasures we find in a ruined house./
    PPo 8.263 4 I read on the porch of a palace bold/ In a purple tablet letters cast,-/ A house though a million winters old,/ A house of earth comes down at last;/...
    PPo 8.263 5 I read on the porch of a palace bold/ In a purple tablet letters cast,-/ A house though a million winters old,/ A house of earth comes down at last;/...
    Insp 8.269 7 ...every reasonable man would give any price of house and land and future provision, for condensation, concentration and the recalling at will of high mental energy.
    Insp 8.273 7 [Most men's] house and trade and families serve them as ropes to give a coarse continuity.
    Insp 8.291 19 What prudence again does every artist, every scholar need in the security of his easel or his desk! These must be remote from the work of the house...
    Grts 8.304 11 You shall not tell me that your commercial house, your partners or yourself are of importance;...
    Grts 8.305 18 ...there is the boy who is born with a taste for the sea, and must go thither if he has to run away from his father's house to the forecastle;...
    Imtl 8.332 4 ...it chanced that [my friend] never met [his colleague] again until, twenty-five years afterwards, they saw each other through open doors at a distance in a crowded reception at the President's house in Washington.
    Imtl 8.335 5 The mind delights in immense time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long,-A house, says Ruskin, is not in its prime until it is five hundred years old...
    Imtl 8.338 8 I have a house, a closet which holds my books, a table, a garden, a field...
    Imtl 8.338 16 I do not wish to live for the sake of my warm house...
    Imtl 8.348 12 Will you offer empires to such as cannot set a house or private affairs in order?
    Imtl 8.351 19 [Yama said] Thee, O Nachiketas! I believe a house whose door is open to Brahma.
    Dem1 10.5 13 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem...like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer; so is the ground, the road, the house, in dreams, too long or too short...
    Dem1 10.21 5 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps...descending...on the lonely farmer's house...can well be spared.
    Dem1 10.22 5 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that the one question for history is the pedigree of his house...
    Aris 10.29 23 ...he that wol have prize of his genterie,/ For he was boren of a gentil house,/ And had his elders noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill hinselven do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He n' is not gentil, be he duke or erl;/...
    Aris 10.56 3 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud. ... Their manners and behavior in the house and in the field are those of men at rest...
    PerF 10.75 10 [Labor] is massed and blocked away in that stone house...
    PerF 10.75 16 [Labor] is under the house in the well; it is over the house in slates and copper and water-spout;...
    PerF 10.86 12 All our political disasters grow as logically out of our attempts in the past to do without justice, as the sinking of some part of your house comes of defect in the foundation.
    Chr2 10.101 4 ...[the man of profound moral sentiment] lights up the house or the landscape in which he stands.
    Chr2 10.107 4 ...in many a house in country places the poor children found seven sabbaths in a week.
    Edc1 10.145 9 ...[the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
    Edc1 10.145 10 ...[the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
    Supl 10.169 16 [The citizen's] dress and draperies, house and stables, occupy him.
    Supl 10.174 7 Children and thoughtless people...like to run to a house on fire...
    SovE 10.191 26 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment: the house, the works, the persons, the days, the weathers-all that he calls Nature, all that he calls institutions, when once his mind is active are visions merely...
    SovE 10.194 14 A man should be a guest in his own house...
    SovE 10.201 16 The house in which we were born is not quite mere timber and stone;...
    Prch 10.237 18 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose to be disabused of appearances...
    Schr 10.270 21 Genius is a poor man and has no house...
    Schr 10.271 17 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as...in hospitalities; as if men would signify their sense that genius and virtue should not pay money for house and land and bread...
    Plu 10.298 16 ...eminently social, [Plutarch] was a king in his own house...
    LLNE 10.340 19 Dr. Channing repaired to Dr. Warren's house on the appointed evening, with large thoughts which he wished to open.
    LLNE 10.343 14 From that time meetings were held for conversation... from house to house...
    LLNE 10.343 15 From that time meetings were held for conversation... from house to house...
    LLNE 10.356 8 ...a pent-house to fend the sun and rain is the house which lays no tax on the owner's time and thoughts...
    LLNE 10.359 9 ...the architect, acting under a necessity to build the house for its purpose, finds himself helped, he knows not how, into all these merits of detail...
    LLNE 10.359 24 An old house on the place [Brook Farm] was enlarged...
    LLNE 10.362 4 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth...came and built a house on [Brook] farm...
    LLNE 10.364 24 Letters were always flying not only from house to house [at Brook Farm], but from room to room.
    EzRy 10.379 1 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God/...
    EzRy 10.386 1 ...in passing each house [Ezra Ripley] told the story of the family that lived in it...
    EzRy 10.387 17 I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a house at Nine Acre Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a family.
    EzRy 10.388 12 I can remember a little speech [Ezra Ripley] made to me, when the last tie of blood which held me and my brothers to his house was broken by the death of his daughter.
    EzRy 10.388 14 [Ezra Ripley] said, on parting, I wish you and your brothers to come to this house as you have always done.
    EzRy 10.390 17 [Ezra Ripley] was...courtly, hospitable, manly and public-spirited; his nature social, his house open to all men.
    EzRy 10.390 27 In [Ezra Ripley's] house dwelt order and prudence and plenty.
    EzRy 10.393 2 [Ezra Ripley] watched with interest...the orchard, the house and the barn...
    EzRy 10.394 11 [Ezra Ripley]...seemed to address each person rather as the representative of his house and name, than as an individual.
    MMEm 10.400 11 ...Mary [Moody Emerson] remained at Malden with her grandmother, and after her death, with her father's sister, in whose house she grew up...
    MMEm 10.400 17 [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt and her husband...were getting old, and the husband a shiftless, easy man. There was...not always bread enough in the house.
    MMEm 10.401 19 Not far from [Mary Moody Emerson's] house was a brook running over a granite floor like the Franconia Flume...
    MMEm 10.402 10 [Mary Moody Emerson's] sympathy for young people who pleased her...was sure to make her arrival in each house a holiday.
    MMEm 10.405 13 ...on her arrival at any new home [Mary Moody Emerson] was likely to steer first to the minister's house and pray his wife to take a boarder;...
    MMEm 10.407 19 [Mary Moody Emerson] would tear...into the house or out of it...disdaining all the graduation by which her fellows time their steps...
    MMEm 10.410 16 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost, and found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look for them.
    MMEm 10.412 3 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...washed, carded, cleaned house, and baked.
    MMEm 10.428 19 ...[Mary Moody Emerson]...delighted herself with the discovery of the figure of a coffin made every evening on their sidewalk, by the shadow of a church tower which adjoined the house.
    MMEm 10.432 26 ...it is easy to believe that Cassandra domesticated in a lady's house would have proved a troublesome boarder.
    Thor 10.454 24 A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau].
    Thor 10.457 26 In 1845 [Thoreau] built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond...
    Thor 10.462 6 The length of [Thoreau's] walk uniformly made the length of his writing. If shut up in the house he did not write at all.
    Thor 10.462 20 [Thoreau] could plan a garden or a house or a barn;...
    Carl 10.496 15 Edwin Chadwick is one of [Carlyle's] heroes,-who proposes to provide every house in London with pure water...
    GSt 10.506 6 ...this sudden association now with the leaders of parties and persons of pronounced power and influence in the nation, and the broad hospitality which brought them about his board at his own house or in New York, or in Washington, never altered...one trait of [George Stearns's] manners.
    HDC 11.30 4 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow that enters at a window, flutters round the house, and flies out at another...
    HDC 11.41 24 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop... and Governor Winthrop selected as a building spot the land near the house of Captain Humphrey Hunt.
    HDC 11.46 20 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty...in the choice of their deputy to the house of representatives;...
    HDC 11.58 14 [Simon Willard] marched from Concord to Brookfield, in season to save the people...who had taken shelter in a fortified house.
    HDC 11.63 7 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676.
    HDC 11.77 10 On the second day after the affray [battle of Concord], divine service was attended, in this house, by 700 soldiers.
    HDC 11.81 21 It was put to the town of Concord, in October, 1776, by the Legislature, whether the existing house of representatives should enact a constitution for the State?
    HDC 11.84 22 That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad...
    LVB 11.94 4 These hard times...have brought the discussion [of currency and trade] home to every farmhouse and poor man's house in this town [Concord];...
    EWI 11.110 26 ...every [West Indian] house had a dungeon attached to it;...
    EWI 11.116 10 At Grace Hill, [the day after emancipation in the West Indies] there were at least a thousand persons around the Moravian Chapel who could not get in. For once the house of God suffered violence...
    EWI 11.122 10 Our culture is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it.
    EWI 11.122 16 [Our] well-being consists in having...the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year. Such as one house, such are all.
    EWI 11.139 27 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons...would fain...lock up every house where liberty and innovation can be pleaded for.
    War 11.168 4 ...if you go for no war, then be consistent, and give up self-defence in the highway, in your own house.
    FSLC 11.181 24 The very convenience of property, the house and land we occupy, have lost their best value...
    FSLC 11.182 8 Just now a friend came into my house and said, If this [Fugitive Slave] law shall be repealed I shall be glad that I have lived; if not I shall be sorry that I was born.
    FSLC 11.199 4 [Webster's] pacification has brought all the honesty in every house...to accuse the law.
    AsSu 11.249 5 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it. He would not so much as go up to the state house to shake hands with this or that person whose good will was reckoned important by his friends.
    JBB 11.266 11 ...Old Brown,/ Osawatomie Brown,/ Came homeward in the morning to find his house burned down./
    JBS 11.277 4 ...the best orators who have added their praise to his fame,- and I need not go out of this house to find the purest eloquence in the country,-have one rival who comes off a little better, and that is JOHN BROWN.
    JBS 11.279 19 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...quiet and gentle as a child in the house.
    TPar 11.291 22 ...[Theodore Parker's] great hospitable heart was the sanctuary to which every soul conscious of an earnest opinion came for sympathy-alike the brave slave-holder and the brave slave-rescuer. These met in the house of this honest man...
    ACiv 11.298 15 In every house...the children ask the serious father,-What is the news of the war to-day...
    SMC 11.352 1 The old [Concord] Monument, a short half-mile from this house, stands to signalize the first revolution...
    FRO1 11.477 2 Mr. Chairman: I hardly felt, in finding this house this morning, that I had come into the right hall.
    FRO1 11.477 8 I came [to the Free Religious Association], as I supposed myself summoned, to a little committee meeting...and I supposed myself no longer subject to your call when I saw this house.
    CPL 11.501 7 Nathaniel Hawthorne's residence in the Manse gave new interest to that house...
    CPL 11.505 20 One curious witness [to the value of reading] was that of a Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.
    FRep 11.523 16 ...if [Americans] should come to be interested in themselves and in their career, they would no more stay away from the election than from...the house of their friend.
    FRep 11.533 24 Every village, every city, has...its hotel, its private house, its church, from England.
    PLT 12.15 18 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes. To this sea every human house has a water front.
    PLT 12.57 17 The men we know, poets, wits, writers, deal with their thoughts as jewellers with jewels, which they sell but must not wear. Like the carpenter, who gives up the key of the fine house he has built, and never enters it again.
    Mem 12.97 12 Is [Memory] some old aunt who goes in and out of the house...
    CInt 12.123 2 The Understanding is the name we give to the low, limitary power working to short ends, to daily life in house and street.
    CL 12.140 24 We are very sensible of this [power of the air]...when, after much confinement to the house, we go abroad into the landscape...
    CL 12.148 1 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to a house, were the house never so small, through a wood;...
    CL 12.148 7 Some English reformers thought the cattle made all this wide space necessary between house and house...
    CW 12.171 10 ...every house on that long street [in Concord] has a back door, which leads down through the garden to the river-bank...
    CW 12.175 22 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to the house- were the house never so small-through a wood;...
    Bost 12.206 7 A house in Boston was worth as much again as a house just as good in a town of timorous people...
    Bost 12.206 8 A house in Boston was worth as much again as a house just as good in a town of timorous people...
    MAng1 12.242 12 ...a nobler sentiment, uttered by [Michelangelo], is contained in his reply to a letter of Vasari, who had informed him of the rejoicings made at the house of his nephew Lionardo, at Florence, over the birth of another Buonarotti.
    MAng1 12.243 23 Here [in Florence] is [Michelangelo's] own house.
    Milt1 12.258 20 [Milton's] house was resorted to by men of wit...
    Milt1 12.266 27 [Milton] advises that in country places, rather than to trudge many miles to a church, public worship be maintained nearer home, as in a house or barn.
    Milt1 12.271 8 Truly [Milton] was an apostle of freedom; of freedom in the house, in the state, in the church;...
    ACri 12.296 13 [Herrick] found his subject where he stood, between his feet, in his house...
    MLit 12.309 18 We return to the house and take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo! the air swims with life...
    WSL 12.337 16 [John Bull]...is astonished to learn that a wooden house may last a hundred years;...
    AgMs 12.361 6 Our [New England] roads are always changing their direction, and after a man has built at great cost a stone house, a new road is opened, and he finds himself a mile or two from the highway.
    EurB 12.367 3 ...a palace might well be magnificent, but first it must be a house.
    PPr 12.379 16 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a powerful and accomplished thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years, has conversed much on these topics with such wise men of all ranks and parties as are drawn to a scholar's house...
    PPr 12.382 16 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 12.400 19 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius, who love and foster the Beautiful. The Good! They live in the world as strangers in their own house;...
    Trag 12.405 2 He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain.
    Trag 12.409 11 Hark! what sounds on the night wind, the cry of Murder in that friendly house;...

House, n. (1)

    Pow 6.76 17 The good Speaker in the House is not the man who knows the theory of parliamentary tactics, but the man who decides off-hand.

House, Northumberland, Lond (1)

    ET11 5.181 24 Northumberland House holds its place by Charing Cross.

House of Commons, n. (32)

    Mrs1 3.141 27 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons;...
    ET4 5.64 15 In the last session (1848), the House of Commons was listening to the details of flogging and torture practised in the jails.
    ET4 5.73 24 Every [English] inn-room is lined with pictures of races;...and the House of Commons adjourns over the Derby Day.
    ET5 5.86 6 Lord Palmerston told the House of Commons that more care is taken of the health and comfort of English troops than of any other troops in the world;...
    ET5 5.90 3 Sir Samuel Romilly refused to speak in popular assemblies, confining himself to the House of Commons...
    ET5 5.90 5 The business of the House of Commons is conducted by a few persons...
    ET8 5.128 27 ...a kind of pride in bad public speaking is noted in the House of Commons...
    ET10 5.154 22 In 1809, the majority in Parliament expressed itself by the language of Mr. Fuller in the House of Commons, If you do not like the country, damn you, you can leave it.
    ET11 5.197 17 The lawyers, said Burke, are only birds of passage in this House of Commons...
    ET12 5.213 6 Genius exists there [in the college] also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons.
    ET13 5.221 15 ...gentlemen lately testified in the House of Commons that in their lives they never saw a poor man in a ragged coat inside a church.
    ET13 5.227 4 Brougham, in a speech in the House of Commons on the Irish elective franchise, said, How will the reverend bishops of the other house be able to express their due abhorrence of the crime of perjury...
    Ctr 6.153 3 [The English] have piqued themselves on governing the whole world in the poor, plain, dark Committee-room which the House of Commons sat in, before the fire.
    CbW 6.253 22 Edward I. wanted money, armies, castles, and as much as he could get. It was necessary to call the people together by shorter, swifter ways,--and the House of Commons arose.
    CbW 6.253 26 In the twenty-fourth year of his reign [Edward I] decreed that no tax should be levied without consent of Lords and Commons;...
    CbW 6.260 9 Charles James Fox said of England, The history of this country proves that we are not to expect from men in affluent circumstances the vigilance, energy and exertion without which the House of Commons would lose its greatest force and weight.
    Elo1 7.80 6 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons.
    Elo1 7.90 12 A popular assembly, like the House of Commons...is commanded by these two powers,--first by a fact, then by skill of statement.
    Elo2 8.113 9 After Sheridan's speech in the trial of Warren Hastings, Mr. Pitt moved an adjournment, that the House might recover from the overpowering effect of Sheridan's oratory.
    Aris 10.62 21 The English House of Commons is the proudest assembly of gentlemen in the world...
    Aris 10.62 23 ...the genius of the House of Commons, its legitimate expression, is a sneer.
    MoL 10.244 17 Parliaments of Love and Poesy served [the people of the Middle Ages], instead of the House of Commons, Congress and the newspapers.
    EWI 11.109 5 Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox were drawn into the generous enterprise [emancipation of West Indian slaves]. In 1788, the House of Commons voted Parliamentary inquiry.
    EWI 11.112 3 ...in 1833, on the 14th May, Lord Stanley, Minister of the Colonies, introduced into the House of Commons his bill for the Emancipation.
    EWI 11.120 26 The Queen, in her speech to the Lords and Commons, praised the conduct of the emancipated population [of Jamaica]...
    EWI 11.127 4 The House of Commons would destroy the protection of [West Indian] island produce...
    EWI 11.127 27 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    EWI 11.141 14 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to the House of Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have obtained for these poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition of their human nature...
    CPL 11.505 8 Hear the testimony of Seldon, the oracle of the English House of Commons in Cromwell's time.
    ACri 12.287 23 ...the lowest classifying words outvalue arguments; as... lubber, puppy, peacock-A cocktail House of Commons.
    ACri 12.292 8 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short and graphic.
    EurB 12.366 21 In the debates on the Copyright Bill...Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked the roaring House of Commons what that meant...

House of Fame [Geoffrey Ch (2)

    ShP 4.198 5 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from William of Lorris and John of Meung...The House of Fame, from the French or Italian...
    PPo 8.252 11 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry: that of Chaucer, in the House of Fame...

House of Fame, n. (1)

    WSL 12.341 26 A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers of the House of Fame...

House of Lords, n. (7)

    ET4 5.60 24 Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons...
    ET10 5.162 4 A sporting duke [in England] may fancy that the state depends on the House of Lords...
    ET11 5.183 14 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords.
    ET11 5.197 19 The lawyers, said Burke, are only birds of passage in this House of Commons, and then added...they have their best bower anchor in the House of Lords.
    ET13 5.221 7 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...
    CbW 6.253 26 In the twenty-fourth year of his reign [Edward I] decreed that no tax should be levied without consent of Lords and Commons;...
    EWI 11.120 25 The Queen, in her speech to the Lords and Commons, praised the conduct of the emancipated population [of Jamaica]...

House of Peers, n. (1)

    ET11 5.184 12 ...the existence of the House of Peers as a branch of the government entitles them to fill half the Cabinet;...

House of Representatives, n. (1)

    LVB 11.91 18 Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand up and say, This is not our act. Behold us. Here are we. Do not mistake that handful of deserters for us; and the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives, neither hear these men nor see them...

House, Osborne, Isle of Wi (2)

    FRep 11.534 3 A man is coming, here as [in England], to value himself on what he can buy. Worst of all, his expense is not his own, but a far-off copy of Osborne House or the Elysee.

House, Parliament, n. (1)

    PPr 12.391 11 [Carlyle's] jokes shake down Parliament House and Windsor Castle...

House, Sion, London, Engla (1)

    ET11 5.181 26 Sion House and Holland House are in the suburbs [of London].

House, Somerset, London, E (1)

    ET16 5.274 24 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.

House, Stafford, London, E (1)

    ET11 5.181 23 Stafford House is the noblest palace in London.

House, State, n. (1)

    Bost 12.191 1 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...

House, Town, n. (1)

    SHC 11.432 13 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...to the Court House and the Town House...

house, v. (2)

    MN 1.223 14 I cannot tell if these wonderful qualities which house to-day in this mortal frame shall ever re-assemble in equal activity in a similar frame...
    Exp 3.55 15 We house with the insane, and must humor them;...

House, White, n. (1)

    Comp 2.99 12 But the President has paid dear for his White House.

House, Wilton, England, n. (2)

    ET11 5.190 12 At Wilton House the Arcadia was written...
    ET16 5.285 13 On leaving Wilton House, we [Emerson and Carlyle] took the coach for Salisbury.

house-building, v. (1)

    PLT 12.22 1 If man has organs...for digesting, for protection by house-building... you shall find all the same in the muskrat.

housed, v. (4)

    MN 1.205 3 The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.
    Lov1 2.177 4 Fountain-heads and pathless groves,/ Places which pale passion loves,/ Moonlight walks, when all the fowls/ Are safely housed, save bats and owls,/ A midnight bell, a passing groan,--/ These are the sounds we [lovers] feed upon./
    ET12 5.199 15 I was the guest of my friend [Arthur Hugh Clough] in Oriel [College, Oxford], was housed close upon that college...
    PI 8.55 18 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...Midnight walks, when all the fowls/ Are warmly housed, save bats and owls;/...

household, adj. (24)

    AmS 1.111 3 The literature of the poor...the meaning of household life, are the topics of the time.
    MN 1.218 16 All your learning of all literatures would never enable you to anticipate one of its thoughts or expressions, and yet each is natural and familiar as household words.
    Lov1 2.183 26 The rays of the soul alight first on things nearest...on the circle of household acquaintance...
    Fdsp 2.215 13 It would...give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking...
    OS 2.281 25 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy...to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion, in which form it warms, like our household fires, all the families and associations of men...
    Art1 2.359 26 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist, who...created his work without other model save life, household life...
    Chr1 3.115 18 There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues;...
    NR 3.236 3 ...the uninspired man certainly finds persons a conveniency in household matters...
    PPh 4.44 20 ...our Jewish Bible has implanted itself in the table-talk and household life of every man and woman in the European and American nations...
    ET6 5.109 8 Nothing so much marks [Englishmen's] manners as the concentration on their household ties.
    ET14 5.232 17 [The plain style] imports into [English] songs and ballads the smell of the earth...and, like a Dutch painter, seeks a household charm...
    Pow 6.80 18 ...this force or spirit, being the means relied on by Nature for bringing the work of the day about,--as far as we attach importance to household life and the prizes of the world, we must respect that.
    Ill 6.318 19 The fine star-dust and nebulous blur in Orion...must come down and be dealt with in your household thought.
    DL 7.114 2 The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat and wool and household stuff.
    DL 7.119 27 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys discharging as they can their household chores...
    WD 7.167 19 [Hesiod's Works and Days] is full of economies for Grecian life, noting...the rules of household thrift and of hospitality.
    SA 8.106 14 Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression...degrades our household life, we must learn to adorn every day with sacrifices.
    Grts 8.316 15 ...in the lives of soldiers, sailors and men of large adventure, many of the stays and guards of our household life are wanting...
    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.
    Schr 10.272 16 Union Pacific stock is not quite private property, but the quality and essence of the universe is in that also. Have we less interest...in manual work or in household affairs;...
    LLNE 10.364 12 It is certain that freedom from household routine, variety of character...did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
    HDC 11.32 26 [The pilgrims] must...with their axes cut a road for their teams, with their women and children and their household stuff...
    SMC 11.348 3 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/ In household faces waiting at the door/ Their evening step should lighten up no more?/
    CPL 11.502 6 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests, after the annual extinction of the household fires of their land, to procure in the temple fire from the sun...

household, n. (29)

    MR 1.243 24 I ought to be armed by every part and function of my household...
    MR 1.252 27 In every household, the peace of a pair is poisoned by the malice...of domestics.
    Hist 2.29 19 How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament the decay of piety in his own household!
    Comp 2.126 20 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly...breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living...
    Fdsp 2.192 10 A commended stranger is expected and announced, and an uneasiness betwixt pleasure and pain invades all the hearts of a household.
    Exp 3.85 21 We dress our garden...discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression...
    Mrs1 3.134 11 I may easily go into a great household where there is much substance...and yet not encounter there any Amphitryon who shall subordinate these appendages.
    NMW 4.240 3 When the expenses...of his household...had accumulated great debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself...
    ET10 5.156 10 Every [English] household exhibits an exact economy...
    ET17 5.296 14 Miss Martineau...praised [Wordsworth] to me...for having afforded to his country-neighbors an example of a modest household where comfort and culture were secured without any display.
    Wth 6.124 10 Good husbandry finds wife, children and household.
    Ctr 6.155 3 Wordsworth was praised to me in Westmoreland for having afforded to his country neighbors an example of a modest household where comfort and culture were secured without display.
    CbW 6.269 24 ...a virulent, aggressive fool taints the reason of a household.
    DL 7.107 6 The household is the home of the man, as well as of the child.
    DL 7.109 6 Does the household obey an idea?
    DL 7.110 24 The household, the calling, the friendships, of the citizen are not homogeneous.
    DL 7.113 2 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.
    DL 7.116 11 ...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious...
    DL 7.116 14 ...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious, and leaves the whole difficulty untouched. It is better, certainly, in this form, Give us your labor, and the household begins.
    DL 7.116 24 ...the reform that applies itself to the household must not be partial.
    DL 7.127 21 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw from man suggest... a household equal to the beauty and grandeur of this world, especially we learn the same lesson from those best relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to form.
    DL 7.129 19 ...the household should cherish the beautiful arts and the sentiment of veneration.
    DL 7.133 7 These are the consolations,--these are the ends to which the household is instituted...
    Farm 7.140 13 In the great household of Nature, the farmer stands at the door of the bread-room...
    Chr2 10.120 10 [Character] sees that a man's friends and his foes are of his own household, of his own person.
    Edc1 10.128 11 The household is a school of power.
    Plu 10.297 4 ...M. Fustel de Coulanges has explored from its roots in the Aryan race, then in their Greek and Roman descendants, the primaeval religion of the household.
    LS 11.9 7 Jesus did not celebrate the Passover, and afterwards the [Last] Supper, but the Supper was the Passover. He did with his disciples exactly what every master of a family in Jerusalem was doing at the same hour with his household.
    Scot 11.466 4 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...

Household, n. (1)

    DL 7.133 4 ...the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.

householder, n. (2)

    Prd1 2.226 15 The northerner is perforce a householder.
    CbW 6.260 25 ...a West End householder, is not the highest style of man;...

house-holders, n. [householders,] (2)

    HDC 11.57 1 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    Bost 12.195 16 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...

households, n. (4)

    MR 1.248 1 ...the idea which now begins to agitate society has a wider scope than...our households...
    ET6 5.107 5 All the world praises the comfort and private appointments of an English inn, and of English households.
    ET17 5.291 13 ...my impression of the island [England] is bright with agreeable memories both of public societies and of households...
    SA 8.106 13 Would we codify the laws that should reign in households...we must learn to adorn every day with sacrifices.

housekeeper, n. [house-keeper,] (2)

    ET16 5.284 16 My friend [Carlyle] had a letter from Mr. [Sidney] Herbert to his housekeeper,and the house [Wilton Hall] was shown.
    Insp 8.288 14 ...it is almost impossible for a house-keeper who is in the country a small farmer, to exclude interruptions...

housekeepers, n. (6)

    SR 2.54 11 If you...spread your table like base housekeepers...I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are...
    UGM 4.19 8 Housekeepers say of a domestic who has been valuable, She had lived with me long enough.
    Elo1 7.74 11 There is the glib tongue and cool self-possession of the salesman in a large shop, which...overpower the prudence and resolution of housekeepers of both sexes.
    LLNE 10.355 21 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers...
    LLNE 10.359 3 Housekeepers say, There are a thousand things to everything...
    WSL 12.342 4 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be citizens, creditors, debtors, housekeepers...

housekeeping, n. [house-keeping,] (11)

    MR 1.243 5 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] may leave to others the costly conveniences of housekeeping...
    MR 1.243 21 Is our housekeeping sacred and honorable?
    SR 2.75 20 Our housekeeping is mendicant...
    Prd1 2.227 22 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box... stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel. Herein he tastes... the cat-like love...of the conveniences of long housekeeping.
    Mrs1 3.119 8 The husbandry of the modern inhabitants of Gournou...is philosophical to a fault. To set up their housekeeping nothing is requisite but two or three earthen pots, a stone to grind meal, and a mat which is the bed.
    NER 3.265 12 Our housekeeping is not satisfactory to us, but perhaps a phalanx, a community, might be.
    ET17 5.296 16 ...in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare;...
    DL 7.111 18 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are imitations of these to the extent of their ability. With these ends housekeeping is not beautiful;...
    DL 7.112 7 ...if you look at the multitude of particulars, one would say: Good housekeeping is impossible;...
    DL 7.121 25 Nor can I resist the temptation of quoting so trite an instance as the noble housekeeping of Lord Falkland in Clarendon...
    DL 7.122 24 ...the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred.

houseless, adj. (3)

    Prch 10.221 27 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action...what are they to this chill, houseless, fatherless, aimless Cain, the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?
    HDC 11.39 4 The maple...reddened over those houseless men [the settlers of Concord].
    FSLN 11.235 20 Everything may be taken away; he may be poor, he may be houseless, yet [the self-reliant man] will know out of his arms to make a pillow, and out of his breast a bolster.

house-lot, n. (5)

    Con 1.306 21 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me...my pleasant ground where to build my cabin. Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;...
    YA 1.368 12 ...the selection of a fit house-lot has the same advantage over an indifferent one, as the selection to a given employment of a man who has a genius for that work.
    Wth 6.121 4 I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with the house-lot...when bought.
    Bhr 6.189 20 ...no rod and chain will measure the dimensions of any house or house-lot;...
    EPro 11.322 2 Every man's house-lot and garden are relieved of the malaria [slavery]...

housemates, n. (3)

    UGM 4.25 19 It is observed in old couples, or in persons who have been housemates for a course of years, that they grow like...
    Bhr 6.196 23 ...if you have headache...or thunderstroke, I beseech you...to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning, to which all the housemates bring serene and pleasant thoughts...
    DL 7.113 8 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find in the housemates no aim;...

house-rents, n. (1)

    Bost 12.206 12 A house in Boston was worth as much again as a house just as good in a town of timorous people...quite naturally house-rents rose in Boston.

house-room, n. (3)

    Wth 6.103 7 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly, not for the corn or house-room, but for Athenian corn, and Roman house-room...
    Wth 6.103 8 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly, not for the corn or house-room, but for Athenian corn, and Roman house-room...
    Aris 10.56 9 Others I meet...who denude and strip one of all attributes but material values. As much health and muscle as you have, as much land, as much house-room and dinner, avails.

houses, n. (118)

    DSA 1.138 24 It seemed as if [the people's] houses were very unentertaining...
    DSA 1.151 1 What hinders that now...in houses...you speak the very truth...
    LE 1.177 21 [The scholar] must work with men in houses...
    MR 1.231 17 ...it is only necessary to ask a few questions as to the progress of the articles of commerce from the fields where they grew, to our houses, to become aware that we eat and drink and wear perjury and fraud...
    MR 1.244 10 Why must [any man] have...access to public houses and places of amusement?
    MR 1.245 24 Much of the economy which we see in houses is of a base origin...
    YA 1.375 7 ...we build stone houses...for remote generations.
    YA 1.388 6 Every body who comes into our houses savors of these habits; the men, of the market; the women, of the custom.
    YA 1.395 1 Our houses and towns are like mosses and lichens, so slight and new;...
    Hist 2.19 20 The Indian and Egyptian temples still betray the mounds and subterranean houses of their forefathers.
    Hist 2.19 22 The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock, says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.
    SR 2.82 13 Our houses are built with foreign taste;...
    Comp 2.94 19 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine, horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men...
    Comp 2.119 25 ...[the mob] would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have [a principle, right, justice].
    Fdsp 2.191 6 How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor, and who honor us!
    Prd1 2.223 7 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon...
    Hsm1 2.257 10 If we dilate in beholding...the Roman pride, it is that we are already domesticating the same sentiment. Let us find room for this great guest in our small houses.
    OS 2.278 26 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty...
    Cir 2.312 7 We...install ourselves the best we can...in Roman houses, only that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes of living.
    Cir 2.312 9 We...install ourselves the best we can...in Roman houses, only that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes of living.
    Pt1 3.19 20 A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for the first time, and the complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder. It is not that he does not see all the fine houses...
    Pt1 3.34 19 ...all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good...for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
    Chr1 3.100 6 Our houses ring with laughter and personal and critical gossip, but it helps little.
    Chr1 3.115 26 ...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...
    Nat2 3.170 6 We have crept out of our close and crowded houses into the night and morning...
    UGM 4.3 18 ...[great men's] works and effigies are in our houses...
    UGM 4.4 8 ...if there were any magnet that would point to the countries and houses where are the persons who are intrinsically rich and powerful, I would sell all and buy it...
    UGM 4.20 12 We swim...on a river of delusions and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air...
    MoS 4.161 4 We are...houses founded on the sea.
    ShP 4.191 22 Inn-yards, houses without roofs...were ready theatres of strolling players.
    ET5 5.85 6 [The English]...warm and ventilate houses.
    ET5 5.96 5 The value of the houses in Britain is equal to the value of the soil.
    ET5 5.96 11 All the houses in London buy their water.
    ET5 5.98 22 A landlord who owns a province [in England] says, The tenantry are unprofitable; let me have sheep. He unroofs the houses and ships the population to America.
    ET6 5.108 3 Incredible amounts of plate are found in good houses [in England]...
    ET7 5.119 13 In comparing [the English] ships' houses and public offices with the American, it is commonly said that they spend a pound where we spend a dollar.
    ET8 5.142 16 [The English] wish...to be kings in their own houses.
    ET11 5.181 14 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown...lower down in the city [London], a few noble houses which still withstand...the encroachment of streets.
    ET11 5.182 1 ...most of the historical [English] houses are masked or lost in the modern uses to which trade or charity has converted them.
    ET11 5.188 9 I look with respect at houses six, seven, eight hundred, or, like Warwick Castle, nine hundred years old.
    ET11 5.190 2 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...some glimpses at the interiors of noble houses, which we owe to Pepys and Evelyn;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    ET11 5.190 6 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the details which Ben Jonson's masques (performed at Kenilworth, Althorpe, Belvoir and other noble houses), record or suggest;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    ET11 5.193 3 Dismal anecdotes abound...of great lords living by the showing of their houses...
    ET11 5.193 19 [English noblemen's] many houses eat them up.
    ET11 5.193 25 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds a year. The spending is for a great part in servants, in many houses exceeding a hundred.
    ET11 5.194 14 A man of wit [in England]...confessed to his friend that he could not enter [noblemen's] houses without being made to feel that they were great lords, and he a low plebeian.
    ET11 5.194 19 When Julia Grisi and Mario sang at the houses of the Duke of Wellington and other grandees, a cord was stretched between the singer and the company.
    ET12 5.212 1 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country...
    ET12 5.213 12 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford, to mould the opinions of cities, to build their houses as simply as birds their nests...
    ET16 5.288 12 On the way to Winchester...my friends asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses...
    ET17 5.293 6 A finer hospitality made many private houses [in London] not less known and dear.
    F 6.33 25 Could [steam] lift pots and roofs and houses so handily?
    F 6.40 14 All the toys that infatuate men...houses, land, money, luxury, power, fame, are the selfsame thing...
    Pow 6.58 26 A feeble man can see...the houses that are built.
    Pow 6.58 27 The strong man sees the possible houses and farms.
    Wth 6.103 10 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly... for the wit, probity and power which we eat bread and dwell in houses to share and exert.
    Ctr 6.155 9 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country, that has not got into literature...
    Wsp 6.211 22 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one; and no amount of evidence of his crimes will prevent them... opening their own houses to him...
    CbW 6.257 5 What happens thus to nations befalls every day in private houses.
    CbW 6.275 26 ...the evil [in our domestic service] increases from the ignorance and hostility of every ship-load of the immigrant population swarming into houses and farms.
    SS 7.14 6 I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone.
    Art2 7.46 5 [The temple] is exalted by...its grouping with the houses, trees and towers in its vicinity.
    DL 7.110 22 I am afraid that, so considered, our houses will not be found to have unity...
    DL 7.111 6 ...what idea predominates in our houses?
    DL 7.111 15 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops...
    DL 7.111 16 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are imitations of these to the extent of their ability.
    DL 7.130 16 Why should we convert ourselves into showmen and appendages to our fine houses and our works of art?
    Clbs 7.242 23 There was a time when in France...the houses of the nobility...were rebuilt with new purpose.
    Suc 7.296 24 Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine.
    Suc 7.298 1 We remember when in early youth the earth spoke and the heavens glowed; when an evening, any evening...was enough us; the houses were in the air.
    Suc 7.308 16 We may apply this affirmative law to letters...to the decorations of our houses...
    Suc 7.308 22 I think that some so-called sacred subjects must be treated with more genius than I have seen in the masters of Italian or Spanish art to be right pictures for houses and churches.
    OA 7.322 4 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely old,-- namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them...
    OA 7.331 16 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments, and all old men in finishing their houses...
    PI 8.27 11 ...as a talent [poetry] is a magnetic tenaciousness of an image, and by the treatment demonstrating that this pigment of thought is as palpable and objective to the poet as...the walls of the houses about him.
    PI 8.34 22 'T is easy to repaint the mythology...of...the martyrdoms of mediaeval Europe; but to point out where the same creative force is now working in our own houses and public assemblies;...requires a subtile and commanding thought.
    SA 8.82 4 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs. ... Are they encroaching? he is dignified and inexorable. And this scene is daily repeated in hovels as well as in high houses.
    Comc 8.173 18 All our plans, managements, houses, poems...are equally imperfect and ridiculous.
    QO 8.178 27 ...we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs by imitation.
    Insp 8.290 14 Some of us may remember, years ago, in the English journals, the petition, signed by Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Dickens and other writers...against the license of the organ-grinders, who infested the streets near their houses...
    Imtl 8.325 3 ...the polity of the Egyptians, the by-laws of towns, of streets and houses, respected burial.
    Imtl 8.327 14 Swedenborg described an intelligible heaven, by continuing the like employments in the like circumstances as those we know; men in societies, in houses, towns, trades, entertainments;...
    Chr2 10.107 9 Fifty or a hundred years ago...an exact observance of the Sunday was kept in the houses of laymen as of clergymen.
    Chr2 10.121 7 Take off the roofs of hundreds of happy houses, and you shall see this order without ruler...
    Edc1 10.144 26 This is the perpetual romance of new life, the invasion of God into the old dead world, when he sends into quiet houses a young soul with a thought which is not met...
    Supl 10.167 23 [People of English stock's] houses are of wood, and brick, and stone...
    Prch 10.218 21 ...that religious submission and abandonment which give man a new element and being, and make him sublime, it is not in churches, it is not in houses.
    LLNE 10.341 18 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr. Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation.
    LLNE 10.359 25 An old house on the place [Brook Farm] was enlarged, and three new houses built.
    Thor 10.455 22 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose, walking hundreds of miles...buying a lodging in farmers' and fishermen's houses...
    Thor 10.460 5 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans...their dwellings. But New England, at least, is not based on any Roman ruins. We have not to lay the foundations of our houses on the ashes of a former civilization.
    Thor 10.460 17 Before the first friendly word had been spoken for Captain John Brown, [Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown...
    Thor 10.465 15 [Thoreau's] own dealing with [young men of sensibility] was...didactic, scorning their petty ways,-very slowly conceding, or not conceding at all, the promise of his society at their houses...
    Carl 10.498 3 ...in England, where the morgue of aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society,-a very few houses only in the high circles being ever opened to them,-[Carlyle] has carried himself erect...
    HDC 11.34 13 ...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims] sing psalms, pray and praise their God, till they can provide them houses...
    HDC 11.58 13 [Simon Willard] marched from Concord to Brookfield, in season to save the people whose houses had been burned...
    HDC 11.63 1 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English government, concerning the country towns; The farmers...live in good houses;...
    EWI 11.126 9 It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that...if the slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves would be clothed, would build houses...
    War 11.164 8 Observe how every truth and every error...clothes itself with societies, houses, cities...
    War 11.164 22 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar.
    FSLC 11.193 3 There is not a manly Whig, or a manly Democrat, of whom if a slave were hidden in one of our houses from the hounds, we should not ask with confidence to lend his wagon in aid of his escape, and he would lend it.
    AKan 11.257 8 I think we are to give largely, lavishly, to these [Kansas] men. And we must prepare to do it. We must...sell our apple-trees, our acres, our pleasant houses.
    ALin 11.337 12 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which, with a slow but stern justice, carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses...
    SMC 11.350 4 ...we shall cling affectionately to our houses, our river and pastures...
    SMC 11.375 26 A gloom gathers on this assembly...for, in many houses, the dearet and noblest is gone from their hearth-stone.
    CPL 11.505 18 One curious witness [to the value of reading] was that of a Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.
    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...
    Bost 12.196 14 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year...defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to external nature;...
    Bost 12.197 2 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter, makes him anxiously frugal...
    MAng1 12.219 24 The walls of houses are transparent to the architect.
    ACri 12.301 9 I fell in with one of the founders [of New City] who showed its advantages and its river and port and the capabilities: Sixty houses, sir, were built in a night, like tents.
    ACri 12.301 20 Where is the town [New City]? Was there not, I asked, a river and a harbor there? Oh, yes, there was a guzzle out of a sand-bank. And the town? There are still the sixty houses, but when I passed it, one owl was the only inhabitant.
    AgMs 12.361 3 ...why this recommendation [in the Agricultural Survey] of stone houses?
    AgMs 12.363 15 These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation, and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very uninviting and inconspicuous to State Commissioners.
    EurB 12.377 4 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] watched each candidate vigilantly...and when he had given proof that he was a faithful man, all doors, all houses, all relations were open to him;...
    Let 12.393 13 Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out of the high air to orchards and lone houses...that we have not the heart to break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.
    Let 12.401 14 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life is shallow and anxious and full of discord because they despise genius, which brings...love and brotherhood into towns and houses.
    Let 12.403 7 A friend of ours went five years ago to Illinois to buy a farm for his son. Though there were crowds of emigrants in the roads, the country was open on both sides, and long intervals between hamlets and houses.

house-servants, n. (1)

    EWI 11.101 11 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...

house-talk, n. (1)

    SA 8.82 9 The attitudes of children are gentle, persuasive, royal, in their games and in their house-talk and in the street...

house-thief, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.211 16 ...if an adventurer...procure himself to be elected to a post of trust...by the same arts as we detest in the house-thief,--the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...

house-warmer, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.68 1 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with a substantial cordial man...who is a house-warmer...

housewife, n. (1)

    NER 3.252 14 It was in vain urged by the housewife that God made yeast...

housewife's, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.183 16 Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift...

house-yard, n. (1)

    CW 12.175 4 ...do not forget the 14th of November, when the meteors come, and on some years drop into your house-yard like sky-rockets.

Houstonia, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.172 14 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the mimic waving of acres of houstonia...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.

hovel, n. (2)

    Ill 6.315 19 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday;...
    Edc1 10.156 13 Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs.

hovels, n. (2)

    Ill 6.315 23 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance... and talked of the dear cottage where so many joyful hours had flown. Well, this thatching of hovels is the custom of the country.
    SA 8.82 4 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs. ... Are they encroaching? he is dignified and inexorable. And this scene is daily repeated in hovels as well as in high houses.

hover, v. (5)

    AmS 1.113 5 Especially did [Swedenborg's] shade-loving muse hover over and interpret the lower parts of nature;...
    Fdsp 2.215 5 In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the firmament.
    Hsm1 2.246 6 My Dorigen,/ Yonder, above, 'bout Ariadne's crown,/ My spirit shall hover for thee. Prithee, haste./
    Pt1 3.15 8 No wonder then, if these waters be so deep, that we hover over them with a religious regard.
    ET2 5.27 1 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks, petrels, swim, dive and hover around;...

hovered, v. (2)

    GoW 4.277 6 [Goethe] found that the essence of this hobgoblin [the Devil] which had hovered in shadow about the habitations of men ever since there were men, was pure intellect, applied...to the service of the senses...
    Bty 6.279 4 Was never form and never face/ So sweet to Seyd as only grace/ Which did not slumber like a stone/ But hovered gleaming and was gone./

hovering, v. (3)

    Lov1 2.179 17 [Beauty's] nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent.
    DL 7.108 11 ...we are always hovering round this better divination.
    Imtl 8.346 11 A conclusion, an inference, a grand augury [of immortality], is ever hovering...

hovers, v. (4)

    Comp 2.111 26 [Fear] is a carrion crow, and though you see not well what he hovers for, there is death somewhere.
    Exp 3.45 13 ...night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
    GoW 4.290 11 Genius hovers with [Goethe's] sunshine and music close by the darkest and deafest eras.
    EdAd 11.392 9 ...the Divine, or, as some will say, the truly Human, hovers, now seen, now unseen, before us.

how, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.187 27 'T is hard to keep the what from breaking through this pretty painting of the how.

Howard, adj. (1)

    ET11 5.188 13 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that... these have preserved...Howard and Spenserian libraries...

Howard, Charles [Duke of N (1)

    ET11 5.178 15 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the body of Jockey of Norfolk...

Howard, Charles [Lord Surr (1)

    ET11 5.178 14 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the body of Jockey of Norfolk...

Howard, Henry G. [Duke of (1)

    ET11 5.182 18 The Duke of Norfolk's park in Sussex is fifteen miles in circuit.

Howard, John, n. (2)

    CbW 6.256 20 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred, or by a Howard...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...
    SA 8.105 4 The consolation and happy moment of life...is...a flame of affection or delight in the heart, burning up suddenly for its object;--as the love...in the tender-hearted philanthropist to spend and be spent for some romantic charity, as Howard for the prisoner...

Howell, James, n. (1)

    Bost 12.183 21 There are countries, said Howell, where the heaven is a fiery furnace or a blowing bellows, or a dropping sponge, most parts of the year.

howitzers, n. (1)

    NMW 4.235 1 In vain several officers and myself were placed on the slope of a hill to produce the effect: their balls and mine rolled upon the ice without breaking it up. Seeing that, I tried a simple method of elevating light howitzers.

howl, n. (2)

    LVB 11.95 10 ...the steps of this crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other...at such fatally quick time, that the millions of virtuous citizens...must shut their eyes until the last howl and wailing of these tormented villages and tribes shall afflict the ear of the world.
    AKan 11.255 16 We hear the screams of hunted wives and children answered by the howl of the butchers.

howling, adj. (2)

    LT 1.269 24 The fury with which the slave-trader defends every inch of... his howling auction-platform, is a trumpet to alarm the ear of mankind...
    Prch 10.221 14 The understanding...because it has found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration; so that analysis has run to seed in unbelief. There is no faith left. We laugh and hiss, pleased with our power in making heaven and earth a howling wilderness.

Hoyt, Mr., n. (1)

    AKan 11.256 14 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal catalogue of private tragedies show it? Do the private letters? Is it an exaggeration, that Mr. Hopps of Somerville, Mr. Hoyt of Deerfield...have been murdered?

hubbub, n. (1)

    MoS 4.178 23 Reason...is apprehended, now and then, for a serene and profound moment amidst the hubbub of cares and works...

Huber, Francois, n. (2)

    UGM 4.9 6 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is; as...Huber, of bees;...
    ET18 5.304 13 [The English] mind is in a state of arrested development...a blind savant like Huber and Sanderson.

Huber, Victore Aime, n. (1)

    ET12 5.208 19 The German Huber, in describing to his countrymen the attributes of an English gentleman, frankly admits that in Germany, we have nothing of the kind.

huckaback, n. (1)

    SA 8.88 10 If the intellect were always awake...the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired...

huckabuck, n. (1)

    F 6.10 20 You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere...

huckleberries, n. (1)

    PLT 12.32 13 White huckleberries are so rare that in miles of pasture you shall not find a dozen.

huckleberry, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.193 22 An old lady who remembered these pious people [the Massachusetts colonists] said of them that they had to hold on hard to the huckleberry bushes to hinder themselves from being translated.

huckleberry, n. (1)

    CL 12.162 8 Where is the Norway pine...where the epigaea...or pink huckleberry?...

huckleberry-party, n. (2)

    Thor 10.456 24 ...[Thoreau] was always ready to lead a huckleberry-party...
    Thor 10.480 21 ...instead of engineering for all America, [Thoreau] was the captain of a huckleberry-party.

huckstering, adj. (2)

    F 6.35 3 Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in his...pelvis, all the vices of a...Celtic race, which will be sure to pull him down...into a...huckstering... animal?
    WD 7.166 14 The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

huckstering, v. (1)

    FRep 11.519 18 We have seen the great party of property and education in the country drivelling and huckstering away...every principle of humanity...

hucksters, n. (1)

    PPo 8.258 27 Wisdom is like the elephant,/ Lofty and rare inhabitant:/ He dwells in deserts or in courts;/ With hucksters he has no resorts./

huckster's, n. (1)

    ET10 5.155 17 From the Exchequer and the East India House to the huckster's shop, every thing [in England] prospers because it is solvent.

huddled, v. (3)

    Nat 1.38 10 Therefore is Space, and therefore Time, that man may know that things are not huddled and lumped...
    LVB 11.93 23 We will not have this great and solemn claim upon national and human justice [the relocation of the Cherokees] huddled aside under the flimsy plea of its being a party act.
    CPL 11.508 4 Instantly, when the mind itself wakes, all books, all past acts are...huddled aside as impertinent in the august presence of the creator.

Huddlestone [Huddleston, Jo (1)

    EWI 11.137 13 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. On the other part, appeared...a resistance which drew from Mr. Huddlestone in Parliament the observation, That a curse attended this trade even in the mode of defending it.

Hudibras [Samuel Butler], n (2)

    ET14 5.234 7 Hudibras has the same hard mentality...
    Comc 8.165 23 The satire [on religion] reaches its climax when the actual Church is set in direct contradiction to the dictates of the religious sentiment, as in the sketch of our Puritan politics in Hudibras...

Hudson, Henry, n. (1)

    SR 2.86 14 Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in their fishing-boats as to astonish Parry and Franklin...

Hudson River, n. (2)

    CW 12.171 16 ...because our river is no Hudson or Mississippi I have a problem long waiting for an engineer,-this-to what height I must build a tower in my garden that shall show me the Atlantic Ocean from its top-the ocean twenty miles away.
    Bost 12.187 5 ...they who drink for some little time of the Potomac water lose their relish for the water...of the Merrimac and the Connecticut,-even of the Hudson.

hue, n. (8)

    Hist 2.27 5 ...when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue...why should I measure degrees of latitude...
    Exp 3.50 7 Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue...
    Chr1 3.94 15 How often has the influence of a true master realized all the tales of magic! A river of command seemed to run down from his eyes into all those who beheld him...which pervaded them with his thoughts and colored all events with the hue of his mind.
    SwM 4.133 24 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they who they may, to this complexion must they come at last. This Charon ferries them all over in his boat;...and all gather one grimness of hue and style.
    Ill 6.312 16 In the life of the dreariest alderman, fancy enters into all details and colors them with rosy hue.
    EWI 11.101 12 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...their hue of bronze...I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...
    CL 12.158 9 My companion and I...agreed that russet was the hue of Massachusetts...
    Trag 12.405 7 I do not know but the prevalent hue of things to the eye of leisure is melancholy.

hue-and-cry, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.68 3 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with...a hue-and-cry style of harangue...

hues, n. (4)

    Fdsp 2.210 27 The hues of the opal...are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
    F 6.41 10 We know what madness belongs to love,-what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.
    Suc 7.300 17 The hues of sunset make life great;...
    HDC 11.39 3 The maple, which is already making the forest gay with its orange hues, reddened over those houseless men [the settlers of Concord].

huff, v. (1)

    UGM 4.29 11 If we huff and chide [children] they soon come not to mind it...

hug, v. (4)

    Ctr 6.159 8 ...if in travelling in the dreary wildernesses of Arkansas or Texas we should observe on the next seat a man reading...Calderon, we should wish to hug him.
    Elo2 8.129 26 ...we must come to the main matter [of eloquence]...know your fact; hug your fact.
    Edc1 10.158 19 ...if the boy [in your school] stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!
    Bost 12.186 22 ...New Bedford is not nearer to the whales than New London or Portland, yet...they hug an oil-cask like a brother.

huge, adj. (29)

    Nat 1.71 20 ...having made for himself this huge shell, [man's] waters retired;...
    AmS 1.115 4 ...if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
    DSA 1.119 10 Man under [the stars] seems a young child, and his huge globe a toy.
    YA 1.378 9 Instead of a huge Army and Navy and Executive Departments, [Trade] converts Government into an Intelligence-Office...
    Hist 2.20 1 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns, already prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses...
    Cir 2.303 1 ...a little waving hand built this huge wall...
    PPh 4.67 27 There is no thought in any mind but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power and organizes a huge instrumentality of means.
    ShP 4.197 21 ...Chaucer is a huge borrower.
    ET1 5.18 22 London is the heart of the world, [Carlyle] said, wonderful only from the mass of human beings. He liked the huge machine.
    ET3 5.34 21 ...England is a huge phalanstery...
    ET4 5.60 12 ...the old fossil world shows that the first steps of reducing the chaos were confided to saurians and other huge and horrible animals...
    ET6 5.109 16 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval, prime minister in 1810, to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday...
    ET10 5.155 20 The British empire is solvent; for in spite of the huge national debt, the valuation mounts.
    ET10 5.161 1 Steam twines huge cannon into wreaths...
    ET14 5.260 8 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually: one in hopeless minorities; the other in huge masses;...
    F 6.3 13 Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas...
    F 6.8 13 ...it is of no use to try to whitewash [Providence's] huge, mixed instrumentalities...
    Pow 6.62 5 The huge animals nourish huge parasites...
    Pow 6.62 6 The huge animals nourish huge parasites...
    Pow 6.68 20 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood] are made...for hair-breadth adventures, huge risks and the joy of eventful living.
    Farm 7.145 2 Our senses...do not believe the chemical fact that these huge mountain chains are made up of gases and rolling wind.
    PI 8.26 9 ...when, on rare days, [nature] speaks to the imagination, we feel that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around us...
    Aris 10.54 10 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets, and then convert the world into a huge whispering-gallery...
    LLNE 10.348 14 Here [in Fourier] was arithmetic on a huge scale.
    SlHr 10.447 28 [Samuel Hoar] had a huge respect for Mr. Webster's ability...
    Thor 10.466 25 ...the conical heaps of small stones on the river-shallows, the huge nests of small fishes...were all known to [Thoreau]...
    FSLC 11.205 9 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop...
    FRep 11.528 12 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which will snap into atoms is so much as the smallest end be shivered off.
    Mem 12.106 16 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge, heaped together in a huge hamper...

hugely, adv. (2)

    Nat 1.53 12 ...[My passion] all alone stands hugely politic./
    ET1 5.16 5 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig.

hugest, adj. (1)

    CL 12.153 27 ...what strength and fecundity [in the sea], from the sea-monsters, hugest of animals, to the primary forms of which it is the immense cradle...

hugged, v. (3)

    Plu 10.299 11 ...[Plutarch] is...enough a man of the world to give even the Devil his due, and would have hugged Robert Burns, when he cried;-O wad ye tak' a thought and mend!/
    FSLN 11.222 5 ...[Webster] saw through his matter, hugged his fact so close...
    CPL 11.504 2 Dr. Johnson hearing that Adam Smith, whom he had once met, relished rhyme, said, If I had known that, I should have hugged him.

Hugh, n. (1)

    Ill 6.316 27 ...if...Hugh...or any other, invent a new style or mythology, I fancy that the world will be all brave and right if dressed in these colors...

Hugo, Victor, n. (1)

    PI 8.53 5 Victor Hugo says well, An idea steeped in verse becomes suddenly more incisive and more brilliant...

hugs, v. (2)

    ET4 5.52 21 The Scandinavians in [the English] race still hear in every age the murmurs of their mother, the ocean; the Briton in the blood hugs the homestead still.
    Ctr 6.150 21 ...[the man of the world]...hugs his fact.

hull, n. (1)

    SovE 10.184 26 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...casts its filthy hull...

Hull, William, n. (1)

    JBB 11.268 4 ...our Captain John Brown...with his father was present and witnessed the surrender of General Hull.

hum, n. (6)

    SR 2.58 18 My book should...resound with the hum of insects.
    PPh 4.58 22 ...[Plato] beholds...the Fates...and hears the intoxicating hum of their spindle.
    ET13 5.225 11 The chatter of French politics...the hum of the mill...had quite put most of the old legends out of mind;...
    SS 7.1 5 ...[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/...
    PerF 10.81 17 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone... Would you know where to find her? Listen for the laughter, follow the cheerful hum...
    EWI 11.116 3 In every quarter [of Antigua], we were assured, the day [after emancipation] was like a Sabbath. Work had ceased. The hum of business was still...

hum, v. (1)

    PI 8.46 19 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres...you can easily believe these metres to be organic...

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