Vacancy to Vastness

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

vacancy, n. (2)

    Exp 3.73 13 This vigor is...in the highest degree unbending. Nourish it correctly and do it no injury, and it will fill up the vacancy between heaven and earth.
    QO 8.180 1 In this delay and vacancy of thought we must make the best amends we can...

vacant, adj. (19)

    LE 1.175 4 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant thought comes...their eye fixes...on vacant space;...
    Prd1 2.225 17 Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters.
    Cir 2.320 22 I cast away in this new moment all my once hoarded knowledge, as vacant and vain.
    NR 3.242 25 [Nature] suffers no seat to be vacant in her college.
    PNR 4.85 13 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:--Of all whose arguments are left to the men of the present time, no one has ever yet condemned injustice, or praised justice, otherwise than as respects the repute, honors, and emoluments arising therefrom;...
    SwM 4.101 17 There is a common portrait of [Swedenborg] in antique coat and wig, but the face has a wandering or vacant air.
    SwM 4.124 8 The moral insight of Swedenborg...the announcement of ethical laws...entitle him to a place, vacant for some ages, among the lawgivers of mankind.
    ET2 5.32 4 The busiest talk with leisure and convenience at sea, and sometimes a memorable fact turns up, which you have long had a vacant niche for...
    ET12 5.205 25 This aristocracy [at Oxford]...fills places, as they fall vacant, from the body of students.
    ET12 5.213 1 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors...for not attempting themselves to fill their vacant shelves as original writers.
    Ctr 6.143 10 [The boy] is infatuated for weeks with whist and chess; but presently will find out...that when he rises from the game too long played, he is vacant and forlorn and despises himself.
    Wsp 6.217 7 ...such persons [of higher moral sentiment] are nearer to the secret of God than others;...they see visions, where others are vacant.
    Clbs 7.239 22 When Edward I. claimed to be acknowledged by the Scotch (1292) as lord paramount, the nobles of Scotland replied, No answer can be made while the throne is vacant.
    PI 8.47 2 I think you will also find a charm heroic, plaintive, pathetic, in these cadences [of common English metres], and be at once set on searching for the words that can rightly fill these vacant beats.
    Imtl 8.334 14 ...never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will! Of what import this vacant sky, these puffing elements...
    SlHr 10.439 16 It was rather his reputation for severe method in his intellect than any special direction in his studies that caused [Samuel Hoar] to be offered the mathematical chair in Harvard University, when vacant in 1806.
    War 11.155 24 Idle and vacant minds want excitement...
    AKan 11.255 7 Mr. Whitman is not here; but knowing, as we all do, why he is not, what duties kept him at home he is more than present. His vacant chair speaks for him.
    EdAd 11.389 24 ...the laws and governors cannot possess a commanding interest for any but vacant or fanatical people;...

vacation, n. (1)

    Let 12.399 4 ...[a stay in Europe] is only a postponement of [American youths'] proper work, with the additional disadvantage of a two years' vacation.

vacations, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.104 23 ...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of this simple and rapid power [of character], and we are painting the lightning with charcoal; but in these long nights and vacations I like to console myself so.

vaccination, n. (3)

    F 6.33 1 ...the depopulation by cholera and small-pox is ended by drainage and vaccination;...
    WD 7.160 1 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body, as...in vaccination...
    ChiE 11.472 5 ...China had the magnet centuries before Europe;...and lithography, and gunpowder, and vaccination, and canals;...

vacuity, n. (1)

    Cir 2.306 24 ...yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much;...

vacuum, n. (4)

    AmS 1.88 11 ...no air-pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum...
    Res 8.149 8 It is a law of chemistry that every gas is a vacuum to every other gas;...
    PC 8.226 17 The air does not rush to fill a vacuum with such speed as the mind to catch the expected fact.
    FSLC 11.193 17 Will you...blame the air for rushing in where a vacuum is made...

vagabond, adj. (6)

    SR 2.82 9 The intellect is vagabond...
    F 6.46 19 Wonderful intricacy in the web, wonderful constancy in the design this vagabond life admits.
    PPo 8.256 21 Cumber thee not for the world, and this my precept forget not,/ 'Tis but a toy that a vagabond sweetheart has left us./
    Insp 8.278 9 The depth of the notes which we accidentally sound on the strings of Nature...might teach us what strangers and novices we are, vagabond in this universe of pure power...
    Chr2 10.118 7 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies...to the education of the sailor and the vagabond boy...
    Trag 12.414 1 ...in truth [the man not grounded in the divine life] was already a driving wreck before the wind arose, which only revealed to him his vagabond state.

vagabond, n. (1)

    ET5 5.77 9 Each vagabond that arrived [in England] bent his neck to the yoke of gain...

vagabonds, n. (3)

    Exp 3.54 1 I carry the keys of my castle in my hand, ready to throw them at the feet of my lord, whenever and in what disguise soever he shall appear. I know he is in the neighborhood, hidden among vagabonds.
    PNR 4.85 11 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...appears like the god of wealth among the cabins of vagabonds...
    PI 8.70 13 O celestial Bacchus!--drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds, hungry for eloquence...

vagabond's, n. (1)

    AsSu 11.248 5 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of; Mr. Webster's life...was not to be risked on the turn of a vagabond's ball.

vagaries, n. (3)

    ET19 5.311 8 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which lies at the foundation of that aristocratic character, which certainly wanders into strange vagaries...but which, if it should lose this, would find itself paralyzed;...
    Mem 12.97 6 ...this mysterious power [memory] that binds our life together has its own vagaries and interruptions.
    ACri 12.295 7 My friend thinks the reason why the French mind is so shallow, and still to seek, running into vagaries and blind alleys, is because they do not read Shakspeare;...

vagrant, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.62 7 ...a few vagrant [Indian] families, that are now pensioners on the bounty of Massachusetts, are all that is left of the twenty tribes.

vague, adj. (12)

    LE 1.182 23 If [the man of genius] be defective at either extreme of the scale, his philosophy will...appear too vague and indefinite for the uses of life.
    Hist 2.33 23 ...although that poem [Goethe's Helena] be as vague and fantastic as a dream, yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author...
    Exp 3.56 8 A deduction must be made from the opinion which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence. Their opinion gives me...some vague guess at the new fact...
    Pol1 3.214 27 ...all public ends look vague and quixotic beside private ones.
    ET4 5.54 4 ...it is fine for us to speculate in face of unbroken traditions, though vague and losing themselves in fable.
    Wth 6.113 21 Let a man who belongs to the class of nobles, namely who have found out that they can do something, relieve himself of all vague squandering on objects not his.
    Wsp 6.221 19 If any reader tax me with using vague and traditional phrases, let me suggest to him by a few examples what kind of a trust this is [in the moral sentiment], and how real.
    Civ 7.19 6 [Civilization] is a vague, complex name, of many degrees.
    Aris 10.44 14 ...when I bring one man into an estate, he sees vague capabilities...
    LLNE 10.339 6 There was...much vague expectation...
    FSLN 11.233 9 You relied on the constitution. It has not the word slave in it; and very good argument has shown...that, with provisions so vague for an object not named...the robbing of a man and of all his posterity is effected.
    Milt1 12.252 20 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson, because it...was...more welcome to the poet than the general and vague acknowledgment of his genius by those able but unsympathizing critics.

vain, adj. (104)

    DSA 1.138 1 [The preacher] had lived in vain.
    DSA 1.139 6 When [the good hearer] listens to these vain words, he comforts himself by their relation to his remembrance of better hours...
    DSA 1.139 11 ...when we preach unworthily, it is not always quite in vain.
    DSA 1.150 2 ...all attempts to project and establish a Cultus with new rites and forms, seem to me vain.
    LE 1.171 18 Shut the shutters never so quick to keep all the light in, it is all in vain;...
    MR 1.254 12 ...it would warm the heart to see how fast the vain diplomacy of statesmen...would be superseded by this unarmed child [Love].
    LT 1.266 6 Here is a Damascus blade, such as you may search through nature in vain to parallel...
    LT 1.281 10 ...by combination of that which is dead [the reformers] hope to make something alive. In vain.
    SR 2.52 15 ...the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand;...though...I sometimes...give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar...
    Comp 2.100 6 It is in vain to build or plot or combine against [Compensation].
    Comp 2.126 2 ...we sit and weep in vain.
    SL 2.145 11 It is vain to attempt to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it.
    SL 2.146 11 If you pour water into a vessel twisted into coils and angles, it is vain to say, I will pour it only into this or that;--it will find its level in all.
    SL 2.157 14 It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to articulate a proposition which they did not believe;...
    SL 2.163 5 Shall I skulk and dodge and duck with my...vain modesty...
    Fdsp 2.199 12 We seek our friend...with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves. In vain.
    Prd1 2.221 18 ...where a man is not vain and egotistic you shall find what he has not by his praise.
    Hsm1 2.260 2 Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. Not in vain you live...
    OS 2.267 10 ...the argument which is always forthcoming to silence those who conceive extraordinary hopes of man, namely the appeal to experience, is for ever invalid and vain.
    OS 2.269 24 Every man's words who speaks from that [inner] life must sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part.
    OS 2.278 12 We owe many valuable observations to people...who say the thing without effort which we...have long been hunting in vain.
    OS 2.290 6 The vain traveller attempts to embellish his life by quoting my lord and the prince and the countess...
    Cir 2.318 26 Forever [the central life] labors to create a life and thought as large and excellent as itself, but in vain, for that which is made instructs how to make a better.
    Cir 2.320 23 I cast away in this new moment all my once hoarded knowledge, as vacant and vain.
    Int 2.330 6 It is vain to hurry [the instinct].
    Art1 2.368 9 It is in vain that we look for genius to reiterate its miracles in the old arts;...
    Pt1 3.31 27 ...the gypsies say of themselves it is in vain to hang them, they cannot die.
    Pt1 3.37 4 I look in vain for the poet whom I describe.
    Exp 3.83 11 I have seen many fair pictures not in vain.
    Mrs1 3.127 17 Thus grows up Fashion...which morals and violence assault in vain.
    Pol1 3.207 10 In this country we are very vain of our political institutions...
    NER 3.252 13 It was in vain urged by the housewife that God made yeast...
    NER 3.261 25 Do not be so vain of your one objection.
    NER 3.282 6 In vain we compose our faces and our words;...
    NER 3.284 25 We wish to escape from subjection and a sense of inferiority, and we make self-denying ordinances...we go to jail; it is all in vain;...
    UGM 4.29 27 Be another:...not a poet, but a Shaksperian. In vain, the wheels of tendency will not stop...
    MoS 4.182 3 It is vain to complain of the leaf or the berry;...
    ShP 4.208 3 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him, when the creative age...gives way to a new age, which sees the works and asks in vain for a history.
    NMW 4.231 20 Nothing has been more simple than my elevation [said Bonaparte], 't is in vain to ascribe it to intrigue or crime;...
    NMW 4.234 24 In vain several officers and myself were placed on the slope of a hill to produce the effect...
    NMW 4.253 1 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse and deceive him... make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    ET7 5.119 23 The Frenchman is vain.
    ET9 5.148 4 ...nature makes nothing in vain...
    F 6.16 15 We see how much will has been expended to extinguish the Jew, in vain.
    F 6.44 1 Wood...gums, were dispersed over the earth and sea, in vain.
    Wth 6.110 26 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute. But the gross amount of these costs will begin to pay back what we thought was a net gain from our transatlantic customers of 1800. It is vain to refuse this payment.
    Wth 6.123 26 Not less within doors a system settles itself paramount and tyrannical over master and mistress...cousin and acquaintance. 'T is in vain that genius or virtue or energy of character strive and cry against it.
    Bhr 6.176 11 ...there must be capacity for culture in the blood. Else all culture is vain.
    Bhr 6.180 10 Vain and forgotten are all the fine offers and offices of hospitality, if there is no holiday in the eye.
    Wsp 6.221 6 ...cant and lying and the attempt to secure a good which does not belong to us, are, once for all, balked and vain.
    Wsp 6.237 18 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of person he is, and whether he belongs among them. They do not receive him, they do not reject him. And not in vain have they worn their clay coat...if they have truly learned thus much wisdom.
    Bty 6.279 23 While thus to love [Seyd] gave his days/ In loyal worship, scorning praise,/ How spread their lures for him, in vain,/ Thieving Ambition and paltering Gain!/
    Bty 6.288 26 ...the working of this deep instinct makes all the excitement... about works of art, which leads armies of vain travellers every year to Italy, Greece and Egypt.
    Art2 7.48 4 ...[the artist] saw that his planting and his watering waited for the sunlight of Nature, or were vain.
    WD 7.175 10 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was that clay which thou heldest but now in thy foolish hands, and threwest away to go and seek in vain in sepulchres, mummy-pits and old book-shops of Asia Minor, Egypt and England.
    Boks 7.210 26 ...M. Van Praet groped in vain among the royal alcoves in Paris, to detect a copy of the famed Valdarfer Boccaccio.
    Boks 7.217 3 Money, and killing, and the Wandering Jew, and persuading the lover that his mistress is betrothed to another, these are the main-springs [of the novel]; new names, but no new qualities in the men and women. Hence the vain endeavor to keep any bit of this fairy gold which has rolled like a brook through our hands.
    Boks 7.220 1 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. ... These are Scriptures which the missionary might well carry...to Siberia, Japan, Timbuctoo. Yet he will find that the spirit which is in them...was there already long before him. The missionary must be carried by it, and find it there, or he goes in vain.
    Clbs 7.247 5 [Manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] have found virtue in the strangest homes; and in the rich store of their adventures are instances and examples which you have been seeking in vain for years...
    Cour 7.252 4 Peril around, all else appalling,/ Cannon in front and leaden rain,/ Him duty, through the clarion calling/ To the van, called not in vain./
    Suc 7.291 5 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to understand that the promises of this world are for the most part vain phantoms...
    OA 7.330 1 We have an admirable line worthy of Horace...but have searched all probable and improbable books for it in vain.
    PI 8.18 8 The savans are chatty and vain...
    PI 8.55 4 Hence, all ye vain delights,/ As short as are the nights/ In which you spend your folly!/
    PI 8.62 18 Well, said Merlin, [my captivity] must be borne, for never will [King Arthur] see me...neither will any one speak with me again after you, it would be vain to attempt it;...
    Elo2 8.123 27 In the vain and foolish exultation of the heart...the pensive portress of Science shall call you to the sober pleasures of her holy cell.
    Res 8.153 25 It is in vain to make a paradise but for good men.
    PPo 8.258 2 Presently we have [in Hafiz's poetry],-All day the rain/ Bathed the dark hyacinths in vain,/ The flood may pour from morn to night/ Nor wash the pretty Indians white./
    Insp 8.274 27 [Plato] said again, The man who is his own master knocks in vain at the doors of poetry.
    Insp 8.276 8 We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute our plans...the whole armory of means are all present, but a certain heat that once used not to fail, refuses its office, and all is vain until this capricious fuel is supplied.
    Dem1 10.18 21 In vain do the clear-headed part of mankind discredit [demonic individuals] as deceivers or deceived,-the mass is attracted.
    Aris 10.33 20 I observe the inextinguishable prejudice men have in favor of a hereditary transmission of qualities. It is in vain to remind them that Nature appears capricious.
    Edc1 10.133 10 If I have renounced the search of truth...I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as a bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain.
    SovE 10.193 6 All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar [of Divine justice].
    SovE 10.207 6 ...new views of inspiration, of miracles, of the saints, have supplanted the old opinions, and it is vain to bring them again.
    SovE 10.207 17 ...if there be really in us the wish to seek...for that which is lawfully above us, we shall not long look in vain.
    Schr 10.273 12 In our experiences, learning is not learned, nor is genius wise. The name of the Scholar is taken in vain.
    LLNE 10.330 14 Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820...
    Thor 10.470 23 Presently [Thoreau] heard a note which he called that of the night-warbler, a bird...which it was vain to seek;...
    Thor 10.471 1 [Thoreau] said, What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner.
    Thor 10.476 22 Such was the wealth of [Thoreau's] truth that it was not worth his while to use words in vain.
    LS 11.23 5 ...now...Christians must contend that it is...really a duty, to commemorate [Jesus] by a certain form [the Lord's Supper], whether that form be agreeable to their understandings or not. Is not this to make vain the gift of God?
    HDC 11.42 22 The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power. It is vain to look for the inventor.
    HDC 11.85 11 Fellow citizens [of Concord]; let not the solemn shadows of two hundred years, this day, fall over us in vain.
    EWI 11.118 20 It is vain to get rid of [spoiled children] by not minding them...
    EWI 11.131 18 If such a damnable outrage [kidnapping of freeborn negroes] can be committed on the person of a citizen with impunity, let the Governor break the broad seal of the State; he bears the sword in vain.
    FSLC 11.185 27 The greatest prosperity will in vain resist the greatest calamity.
    FSLC 11.194 25 ...unless you can draw a sponge over those seditious Ten Commandments which are the root of our European and American civilization;...your labor [the Fugitive Slave Law] is vain.
    TPar 11.287 20 ...it is vain to charge [Theodore Parker] with perverting the opinions of the new generation.
    EPro 11.319 26 This act [the Emancipation Proclamation] makes that the lives of our heroes have not been sacrificed in vain.
    HCom 11.341 11 I see thankfully those that are here, but dim eyes in vain explore for some who are not.
    EdAd 11.385 25 We hearken in vain for any profound voice speaking to the American heart...
    CPL 11.497 16 ...though [Papyrus] hardly grows now in Egypt, where I lately looked for it in vain, I always remember with satisfaction that I saw that venerable plant in 1833...
    FRep 11.532 4 Our people are too slight and vain.
    PLT 12.12 13 All these exhaustive theories appear indeed a false and vain attempt to introvert and analyze the Primal Thought.
    PLT 12.47 9 The new sect stands for certain thoughts. We go to individual members for an exposition of them. Vain expectation.
    II 12.71 19 We brood on the words or works of our companion, and ask in vain the sources of his information.
    Mem 12.97 16 Is [Memory] some old aunt who goes in and out of the house, and occasionally recites anecdotes of old times and persons...and she being gone again I search in vain for any trace of the anecdotes?
    CL 12.142 18 ...a vain talker profanes the river and the forest...
    CW 12.172 15 ...our people are vain, when abroad, of having the freedom of foreign cities presented to them in a gold box.
    WSL 12.340 21 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...an experience to which nothing has occurred in vain...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    WSL 12.342 25 It is vain to call [the literary spirit] a luxury...
    PPr 12.381 10 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths; the picture of the English nation all sitting enchanted,-the poor, enchanted so that they cannot work, the rich, enchanted so that they cannot enjoy, and are rich in vain;...
    Let 12.394 26 By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity. They believe that this society...would give their genius that inspiration which it seems to wait in vain.

vain, adv. (1)

    Fdsp 2.216 12 It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space...

vain, n. (1)

    Wth 6.114 15 ...the vain are gentle and giving.

vainglory, n. (1)

    PerF 10.69 22 ...King David had no good from making his census out of vainglory...

vainly, adv. (5)

    SL 2.144 16 [Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in a man's memory without his being able to say why] are symbols of value to him as they can interpret parts of his consciousness which he would vainly seek words for in the conventional images of books and other minds.
    ShP 4.206 16 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil. The famed theatres, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Park and Tremont have vainly assisted.
    Wsp 6.227 3 What I am has been secretly conveyed from me to another, whilst I was vainly making up my mind to tell him it.
    WD 7.163 20 Tantalus, who in old times was seen vainly trying to quench his thirst with a flowing stream which ebbed whenever he approached it, has been seen again lately.
    II 12.68 5 One often sees in the embittered acuteness of critics snuffing heresy from afar, their own unbelief, that they pour forth on the innocent promulgator of new doctrine their anger at that which they vainly resist in their own bosom.

Valdarfer, adj. (1)

    Boks 7.210 27 ...M. Van Praet groped in vain among the royal alcoves in Paris, to detect a copy of the famed Valdarfer Boccaccio.

Valdarfer (?), n. (1)

    Boks 7.209 22 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold. The sale lasted forty-two days...and among the many curiosities was a copy of Boccaccio published by Valdarfer, at Venice, in 1471;...

valde, adv. (1)

    ET18 5.305 26 ...personality is the token of this race [the English]. Quid vult valde vult.

Vale, Elm, n. (3)

    MMEm 10.401 22 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford)...interest like a romance...
    MMEm 10.408 22 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes: August, 1847: Vale.- My oddities were never designed...
    MMEm 10.410 13 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...

vale, n. (1)

    SL 2.147 15 The vale of Tempe, Tivoli and Rome are earth and water, rocks and sky.

Vale of Tempe, Greece, n. (1)

    CW 12.173 4 You know [said Linnaeus]...that I live entirely in the Academy Garden; here is my Vale of Tempe...

Valencia, Spain, n. (1)

    UGM 4.4 2 You say...in Valencia the climate is delicious;...

Valerio, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.245 6 When any Rodrigo, Pedro or Valerio enters [in the plays of the elder English dramatists]...the duke or governor exclaims, This is a gentleman...

Valerius [Beaumont, Triumph (5)

    Hsm1 2.246 3 Valerius. Bid thy wife farewell.
    Hsm1 2.246 24 Val. But art not grieved nor vexed to leave thy life thus?/
    Hsm1 2.246 29 Mar. Strike, strike, Valerius,/ Or Martius' heart will leap out at his mouth./
    Hsm1 2.247 5 Val. What ails my brother?/
    Hsm1 2.247 11 Mar. This admirable duke, Valerius,/ With his disdain of fortune and of death,/ Captived himself, has captivated me,/ And though my arm hath ta'en his body here,/ His soul hath subjugated Martius' soul./

valet, n. (2)

    Hist 2.24 24 A sparse population and want [in the Grecian period] make every man his own valet, cook, butcher and soldier...
    SR 2.81 10 ...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him...into foreign lands, he...shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he... visits cities and men...not like an interloper or a valet.

valets, n. (1)

    SL 2.147 22 ...it is not observed that the keepers of Roman galleries or the valets of painters have any elevation of thought...

valetudinarian, n. (3)

    AmS 1.94 7 There goes in the world a notion that the scholar should be...a valetudinarian...
    OA 7.319 27 ...the strong and hasty laborers of the street do not work well with the chronic valetudinarian.
    SA 8.98 18 ...even if you could trust yourself on that perilous topic [sickness], beware of unmuzzling a valetudinarian, who will soon give you your fill of it.

Valhalla, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.237 12 In the Norse legends, The gods of Valhalla when they meet the Jotuns, converse on the perilous terms that he who cannot answer the other's questions forfeits his own life.

valiant, adj. (5)

    Fdsp 2.200 9 The valiant warrior famoused for fight,/ After a hundred victories, once foiled,/ Is from the book of honor razed quite/ And all the rest forgot for which he toiled./
    Chr1 3.93 14 In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has been at hard work this morning, with that knitted brow and that settled humor, which all his desire to be courteous cannot shake off. I see plainly... how many valiant noes have this day been spoken, when others would have uttered ruinous yeas.
    Mrs1 3.146 19 The beautiful and the generous are, in the theory, the doctors and apostles of this church [of Fashion]: Scipio...and Washington, and every pure and valiant heart who worshipped Beauty by word and by deed.
    Pow 6.54 15 The most valiant men are the best believers in the tension of the laws.
    Cour 7.271 4 'T is still observed those men most valiant are/ Who are most modest ere they came to war./

valiantly, adv. (2)

    NER 3.285 8 The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conducted will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
    TPar 11.292 10 ...you [Theodore Parker] will already be consoled in the transfer of your genius, knowing well that the nature of the world will affirm to all men, in all times, that which for twenty-five years you valiantly spoke;...

valid, adj. (10)

    Mrs1 3.125 22 If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion;...
    Pol1 3.203 12 ...in the other case, of patrimony, the law makes an ownership which will be valid in each man's view according to the estimate which he sets on the public tranquillity.
    ET6 5.105 27 In mixed or in select companies [the English] do not introduce persons; so that a presentation is a circumstance as valid as a contract.
    PI 8.3 12 The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all the valid minds...
    PC 8.230 23 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amongst angry politicians...you are to make valid the large considerations of equity and good sense;...
    LLNE 10.333 8 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy. Then was exhibited all the richness of a rhetoric which we have never seen rivalled in this country. Wonderful how memorable were words made which...covered no new or valid thoughts.
    FSLN 11.227 1 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow. Here was a question of an immoral law; a question agitated for ages, and settled always in the same way by every great jurist, that an immoral law cannot be valid.
    SHC 11.436 18 The evidence [of immortality] from intellect is as valid as the evidence from love.
    ACri 12.290 22 A good writer must convey the feeling...as if in his densest period was...room to turn a chariot and horses between his valid words.
    WSL 12.348 5 The dense writer has...even a gamesome mood often between his valid words.

validity, n. (3)

    Ctr 6.139 13 The hardiest skeptic...who has visited...the exhibition of the Industrious Fleas, will not deny the validity of education.
    Schr 10.281 1 [Idealistic views] threaten the validity of contracts...
    FSLC 11.191 1 Blackstone admits the sovereignty antecedent to any positive precept, of the law of Nature, among whose principles are, that we should live on, should hurt nobody, and should render unto every one his due, etc. No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this.

Vallais, France, n. (1)

    MLit 12.325 24 There is a good letter from Wieland to Merck, in which Wieland relates that Goethe read to a select party his journal of a tour in Switzerland with the Grand Duke, and their passage through the Vallais and over the St. Gothard.

valley, adj. (1)

    FSLC 11.178 11 ...Fate's grass grows rank in valley clods,/ And rankly on the castled steep,-/ Speak it firmly, these [Eternal Rights] are gods,/ Are all ghosts beside./

Valley, Mississippi, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.256 25 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the...network of the Mississippi Valley roads;...

valley, n. (8)

    Nat 1.17 27 Was there no meaning in the live repose of the valley behind the mill...
    SR 2.87 13 The same particle does not rise from the valley [of the wave] to the ridge.
    Wth 6.122 3 Mr. Stephenson...believing that the river knows the way, followed his valley as implicitly as our Western Railroad follows the Westfield River...
    PI 8.55 21 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...A midnight bell, a passing groan,/ These are the sounds we feed upon,/ Then stretch our bones in a still, gloomy valley./
    Prch 10.226 12 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland, bisecting every delightful valley...[Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-In spite of all that Beauty may disown/ In your harsh features, Nature doth embrace/ Her lawful offspring in man's art/...
    SHC 11.434 9 Sleepy Hollow. In this quiet valley...we shall sleep well when we have finished our day.
    PLT 12.16 21 ...I have a suspicion that, as geologists say every river makes its own valley, so does this mystic stream.
    PLT 12.16 22 ...I have a suspicion that, as geologists say every river makes its own valley, so does this mystic stream. It makes its valley, makes its banks and makes perhaps the observer too.

valley, v. (1)

    SHC 11.433 3 In the valley where we stand [in Sleep Hollow Cemetery] will be the Monuments.

valleys, n. (4)

    ET3 5.34 13 Nothing [in England] is left as it was made. Rivers, hills, valleys, the sea itself, feel the hand of a master.
    PC 8.213 4 ...the rocks of Nahant or the dikes of the White Hills disclose that...the soil of the valleys and plains [is] a continual decomposition and recomposition.
    PPo 8.265 12 What you see is He not;/ What you hear is He not./ The valleys which you traverse,/ The actions which you perform,/ They lie under our treatment/ And among our properties./
    MoL 10.249 20 As certainly as water falls in rain on the tops of mountains and runs down into valleys, plains and pits, so does thought fall first on the best minds, and run down...

valor, n. (27)

    LE 1.180 16 ...everything [was] expected from the valor and discipline of every platoon, in flank and centre [in Napoleon's army]...
    Con 1.317 2 ...the erect, formidable valor of some Dorian townsmen in the town of Sparta;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    SR 2.87 3 ...Napoleon conquered Europe by the bivouac, which consisted of falling back on naked valor...
    Comp 2.118 18 ...the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself...
    Hsm1 2.248 9 ...Simon Ockley's History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor...
    Hsm1 2.259 7 ...a better valor and a purer truth shall one day organize [many extraordinary young men's] belief.
    Cir 2.309 7 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery...
    Mrs1 3.123 15 ...in the moving crowd of good society the men of valor and reality are known...
    Nat2 3.173 9 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... A holiday...the proudest, most heart-rejoicing festival that valor and beauty, power and taste, ever decked and enjoyed, establishes itself on the instant.
    NMW 4.245 7 ...the crosses of [Napoleon's] Legion of Honor were given to personal valor, and not to family connexion.
    ET4 5.66 11 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...please by...an expression blending good-nature, valor and refinement...which is daily seen in the streets of London.
    ET15 5.271 27 There is always safety in valor.
    ET16 5.287 13 ...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance... and procured a kind of hearing for it. I said, it is true that I have never seen in any country a man of sufficient valor to stand for this truth...
    ET16 5.287 14 ...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance... and procured a kind of hearing for it. I said, it is true that I have never seen in any country a man of sufficient valor to stand for this truth, and yet it is plain to me that no less valor than this can command my respect.
    Cour 7.256 22 Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions...
    Cour 7.267 7 Swedenborg has left this record of his king: Charles XII. of Sweden did not know...what that spurious valor and daring [was] that is excited by inebriating draughts...
    Cour 7.268 16 There is a courage in the treatment of every art by a master in architecture...in painting or in poetry...which yet nowise implies the presence of physical valor in the artist.
    QO 8.192 11 On the whole, we like the valor of [quotation].
    Grts 8.309 9 ...the rule of the orator begins...when the thought which he stands for...gives him valor, breadth and new intellectual power...
    Grts 8.311 20 Let the scholar measure his valor by his power to cope with intellectual giants.
    SovE 10.188 12 In the pre-adamite [Nature] bred valor only;...
    TPar 11.293 3 ...[Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave, to be a living and enlarging power, wherever learning, wit, honest valor and independence are honored.
    EPro 11.321 13 What right has any one to read in the journals tidings of victories, if he has not bought them by his own valor, treasure, personal sacrifice...
    Koss 11.397 6 The people of this town [Concord] share with their countrymen the admiration of valor and perseverance;...
    CInt 12.118 2 Never was pure valor...shown in a bad cause.
    Bost 12.210 11 We praised with a certain adulation the invariable valor of the old war-gods and war-councillors of the Revolution.
    MLit 12.334 26 Nature has not lost one ringlet of her beauty, one impulse of resistance and valor.

valors, n. (3)

    SR 2.78 7 Caratach...when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate, replies,--His hidden meaning lies in our endeavours;/ Our valors are our best gods./
    Pow 6.69 9 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...
    Elo1 7.64 27 The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude, and concentrating their valors and powers...

valuable, adj. (50)

    Nat 1.70 5 ...we learn to prefer...sentences which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
    Con 1.321 7 Such hints, be sure, are too valuable to be lost.
    Con 1.323 2 A state of war or anarchy...is so far valuable that it puts every man on trial.
    SL 2.154 2 ...we can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.
    OS 2.278 8 We owe many valuable observations to people who are not very acute or profound...
    Mrs1 3.121 7 ...the steady interest of mankind in [the name gentleman] must be attributed to the valuable properties which it designates.
    UGM 4.19 9 Housekeepers say of a domestic who has been valuable, She had lived with me long enough.
    SwM 4.105 23 Not every man can read [Swedenborg's books], but they will reward him who can. His theologic works are valuable to illustrate these.
    SwM 4.135 1 Palestine is ever the more valuable as a chapter in universal history, and ever the less an available element in education.
    ShP 4.189 6 If we require the originality which consists...in finding clay and making bricks and building the house; no great men are original. Nor does valuable originality consist in unlikeness to other men.
    ShP 4.202 12 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass without a single valuable note the founder of another dynasty, which alone will cause the Tudor dynasty to be remembered...
    ShP 4.210 10 Some able and appreciating critics think no criticism on Shakspeare valuable that does not rest purely on the dramatic merit;...
    GoW 4.283 5 ...almost all the valuable distinctions which are current in higher conversation have been derived to us from Germany.
    ET2 5.31 19 ...some of the happiest and most valuable hours I have owed to books, passed, many years ago, on shipboard.
    ET15 5.262 17 England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs, expressing with clearness and courage their opinion on any person or performance. Valuable or not, it is a skill that is rarely found, out of the English journals.
    F 6.36 8 Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint;...
    Pow 6.54 13 ...belief in compensation...characterizes all valuable minds...
    Pow 6.79 3 Men whose opinion is valued on 'Change are only such as have a special experience, and off that ground their opinion is not valuable.
    Wth 6.111 16 ...the subject [of economy] is tender, and we may easily have too much of it, and therein resembles the hideous animalcules of which our bodies are built up,--offensive in the particular, yet compose valuable and effective masses.
    Ctr 6.134 14 Every valuable nature is there in its own right...
    Ctr 6.148 11 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws...
    CbW 6.264 10 ...to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.
    Farm 7.150 9 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know, and have found...that Massachusetts has a basement story more valuable... than all the superstructure.
    WD 7.178 15 A third illusion haunts us, that a long duration...is valuable.
    Boks 7.201 16 The valuable part [of Greek history] is the age of Pericles and the next generation.
    Boks 7.201 25 Aristophanes is now very accessible, with much valuable commentary, through the labors of Mitchell and Cartwright.
    Clbs 7.228 24 We remember the time when the best gift we could ask of fortune was to fall in with a valuable companion in a ship's cabin...
    Cour 7.270 22 As for the bullying drunkards of which armies are usually made up, [John Brown] thought cholera, small-pox and consumption as valuable recruits.
    PI 8.10 6 Sonnets of lovers...are valuable to the philosopher...for their potent symbolism.
    SA 8.99 27 In a whole nation of Hottentots there shall not be one valuable man,--valuable out of his tribe.
    SA 8.100 3 In every million of Europeans or of Americans there shall be thousands who would be valuable on any spot on the globe.
    Aris 10.46 4 Dull people think it Fortune that makes one rich and another poor. Is it? Yes, but the fortune was...in the balance or adjustment between devotion to what is agreeable to-day and the forecast of what will be valuable to-morrow.
    PerF 10.77 18 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise...what he chiefly brings...is...his thoughts...
    Edc1 10.142 16 Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
    Supl 10.168 24 The first valuable power in a reasonable mind, one would say, was the power of plain statement...
    Plu 10.320 10 I cannot close these notes without expressing my sense of the valuable service which the Editor [of Plutarch's Morals] has rendered to his Author and to his readers.
    LLNE 10.352 1 [Fourierism] contained so much truth, and promised in the attempts that shall be made to realize it so much valuable instruction, that we are engaged to observe every step of its progress.
    MMEm 10.429 20 O dear worms,-how they will at some sure time take down this tedious tabernacle, most valuable companions...
    Thor 10.471 12 [Thoreau] would not offer a memoir of his observations to the Natural History Society. Why should I? To detach the description from its connections in my mind would make it no longer true or valuable to me...
    HDC 11.55 3 The very great immigration from England made the lands [near Concord] more valuable every year...
    EWI 11.134 20 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out...that [these neglected victims] have...no valuable business to throw into any man's hands...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    War 11.159 17 This valuable person [Assacombuit]...took to killing his own neighbors and kindred...
    FRO2 11.486 12 We have had not long since presented to us by Max Muller a valuable paragraph from St. Augustine...
    FRep 11.526 4 ...the best civilization yet is only valuable as a ground of hope.
    PLT 12.16 2 The grandeur of the impression the stars and heavenly bodies make on us is surely more valuable than our exact perception of a tub or a table on the ground.
    CInt 12.116 10 If the colleges...really...had the power of imparting valuable thought...we should all rush to their gates;...
    Milt1 12.251 15 [Milton's Areopagitica] is valuable in history as an argument addressed to a government to produce a practical end...
    WSL 12.346 25 Only from a mind conversant with the First Philosophy can definitions be expected. Coleridge has contributed many valuable ones to modern literature.
    Pray 12.353 14 Are they only the valuable members of society who labor to dress and feed it?
    AgMs 12.363 8 The true men of skill, the poor farmers, who...have reared a family of valuable citizens and matrons to the state...are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...

valuation, n. (1)

    ET10 5.155 21 The British empire is solvent; for in spite of the huge national debt, the valuation mounts.

valuations, n. (2)

    Chr1 3.101 2 In nature there are no false valuations.
    Suc 7.283 7 ...we read our growing valuations...

value, n. (223)

    Nat 1.28 2 All the facts in natural history taken by themselves, have no value...
    Nat 1.33 24 ...we repeat [proverbs] for the value of their analogical import.
    AmS 1.85 4 [The scholar] must settle [nature's] value in his mind.
    AmS 1.87 18 ...perhaps we shall...learn the amount of this influence more conveniently, by considering [books'] value alone.
    AmS 1.90 4 The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
    AmS 1.98 16 ...the final value of action...is that it is a resource.
    AmS 1.112 21 There is one man of genius...whose literary value has never yet been rightly estimated; - I mean Emanuel Swedenborg.
    LE 1.160 15 The whole value of history...is to increase my self-trust...
    LE 1.162 9 To feel the full value of these lives...you must come to know that each admirable genius is but a successful diver in that sea whose floor of pearls is all your own.
    LE 1.174 24 ...it is only as...the forest, and the rock, are a sort of mechanical aids to [independence of spirit], that they are of value.
    LE 1.177 13 Itself of surpassing value, [human life] is also the richest material for [the scholar's] creations.
    MN 1.193 2 The weaver should not be bereaved of...his knowledge that the product or the skill is of no value, except so far as it embodies his spiritual prerogatives.
    MN 1.215 9 ...[the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular practices...
    LT 1.270 20 The student of history will hereafter compute the singular value of our endless discussion of questions to the mind of the period.
    LT 1.282 6 ...our torment is...the distrust of the value of what we do...
    LT 1.285 27 The revolutions that impend over society are...from new modes of thinking...which shall destroy the value of many kinds of property and replace all property within the dominion of reason and equity.
    Con 1.321 11 [Religious institutions] have already acquired a market value as conservators of property;...
    YA 1.364 22 ...[the railroad] has great value as a sort of yard-stick and surveyor's line.
    YA 1.365 14 ...the value of timber-lands is enhanced.
    YA 1.383 18 ...the whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.
    YA 1.383 25 Money is of no value;...
    YA 1.384 4 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...setting a higher value on the private family...will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    YA 1.384 14 This is the value of the Communities;...the revolution which they indicate as on the way.
    YA 1.394 25 ...the system [of English aristocracy] is an invasion of the sentiment of justice and the native rights of men, which, however decorated, must lessen the value of English citizenship.
    Hist 2.12 4 ...the value which is given to wood by carving led to the carving over the whole mountain of stone of a cathedral.
    Hist 2.30 15 Beside its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Europe...[the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion...
    SR 2.45 6 The sentiment [original lines] instil is of more value than any thought they may contain.
    Comp 2.102 1 The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point.
    Comp 2.102 17 The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. Take what figure you will, its exact value, not more nor less, still returns to you.
    SL 2.133 9 We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value.
    SL 2.135 3 Could ever a man of prodigious mathematical genius convey to others any insight into his methods? If he could communicate that secret it would instantly lose its exaggerated value...
    SL 2.144 14 [Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in a man's memory without his being able to say why] are symbols of value to him as they can interpret parts of his consciousness...
    SL 2.155 4 Do not trouble yourself too much about the light on your statue, said Michel Angelo to the young sculptor; the light of the public square will test its value.
    Lov1 2.185 21 The union which is thus effected [by love] and which adds a new value to every atom in nature...is yet a temporary state.
    Prd1 2.224 3 Cultivated men always feel and speak...as if a great fortune...a graceful and commanding address, had their value as proofs of the energy of the spirit.
    Prd1 2.226 22 We are instructed by these petty experiences which usurp the hours and years. ... Such is the value of these matters that a man who knows other things can never know too much of these.
    Prd1 2.227 3 Time is always bringing the occasions that disclose [facts!] value.
    Cir 2.318 10 Do not set the least value on what I do...
    Int 2.329 23 ...the moment [logic] would appear as propositions and have a separate value, it is worthless.
    Int 2.332 17 Every intellection is mainly prospective. Its present value is its least.
    Int 2.335 27 The relation between [a thought] and you first makes you, the value of you, apparent to me.
    Int 2.340 4 When we are young we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books...in the hope that in the course of a few years we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived.
    Art1 2.353 19 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand to inscribe a line in the history of the human race. This circumstance gives a value to the Egyptian hieroglyphics...
    Art1 2.353 26 ...the whole extant product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value, as history;...
    Art1 2.362 17 The knowledge of picture dealers has its value...
    Art1 2.363 2 The real value of the Iliad or the Transfiguration is as signs of power;...
    Pt1 3.11 14 ...the value of genius to us is in the veracity of its report.
    Pt1 3.13 13 Being used as a type, a second wonderful value appears in the object...
    Pt1 3.13 14 Being used as a type, a second wonderful value appears in the object, far better than its old value;...
    Pt1 3.19 23 The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of Life...
    Pt1 3.32 9 I think nothing is of any value in books excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.
    Pt1 3.32 16 All the value which attaches to Pythagoras...is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
    Pt1 3.37 16 We have yet had no genius in America...which knew the value of our incomparable materials...
    Exp 3.53 21 I had fancied that the value of life lay in its inscrutable possibilities;...
    Exp 3.70 22 That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency. So is it with us, now sceptical or without unity, because immersed in forms and effects all seeming to be of equal yet hostile value, and now religious, whilst in the reception of spiritual law.
    Exp 3.84 27 I know that the world I converse with in the city and in the farms, is not the world I think. I observe that difference, and shall observe it. One day I shall know the value and law of this discrepance.
    Mrs1 3.128 9 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired lustre to their name...
    Gts 3.163 15 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons, not at all considering the value of the gift but looking back to the greater store it was taken from,--I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
    Gts 3.165 13 No services are of any value, but only likeness.
    Nat2 3.187 22 The poet, the prophet, has a higher value for what he utters than any hearer...
    Pol1 3.206 10 [A cent's] value is in the necessities of the animal man.
    Pol1 3.216 16 [The wise man] needs...no money, for he is value;...
    NR 3.235 1 Homoeopathy is...of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.
    NER 3.254 13 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...the threatened individual immediately excommunicated the church, in a public and formal process. This...of course loses all value when it is copied.
    PPh 4.39 4 Among secular books, Plato only is entitled to Omar's fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said, Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.
    PPh 4.43 21 ...a philosopher converts the value of all his fortunes into his intellectual performances.
    PPh 4.65 3 What value [Plato] gives to the art of gymnastic in education;...
    SwM 4.93 15 Then, also, the philosopher has his value...
    SwM 4.110 4 Astronomy is excellent; but it must come up into life to have its full value...
    MoS 4.152 3 The ward meetings, on election days, are not softened by any misgiving of the value of these ballotings.
    NMW 4.240 15 In the social interests, [Napoleon] knew the meaning and value of labor...
    NMW 4.247 8 The Austrians, [Napoleon] said, do not know the value of time.
    NMW 4.251 17 [Bonaparte's] memoirs...have great value...
    NMW 4.256 20 ...both parties [democrat and conservative] stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property...
    ET1 5.24 25 To judge from a single conversation, [Wordsworth] made the impression...of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity. off his own beat, his opinions were of no value.
    ET4 5.45 16 [The English] are free forcible men, in a country where life... has reached the greatest value.
    ET5 5.91 7 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the southern heaven, came home, and redacted it in eight years more;.--a work whose value does not begin until thirty years have elapsed...
    ET5 5.96 5 The value of the houses in Britain is equal to the value of the soil.
    ET5 5.96 6 The value of the houses in Britain is equal to the value of the soil.
    ET5 5.98 26 It is the maxim of [English] economists, that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
    ET10 5.157 1 The ambition to create value evokes every kind of ability [in England];...
    ET10 5.162 5 ...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the steam-piston gives value to the duke's land...
    ET11 5.187 16 On general grounds, whatever tends to form manners or to finish men, has a great value.
    ET12 5.205 11 The number of students and of residents [at English universities]...the value of the foundations...justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America...
    ET14 5.234 15 This mental materialism makes the value of English transcendental genius;...
    ET14 5.245 6 Doctor Johnson's written abstractions have little value;...
    ET14 5.253 20 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value.
    ET16 5.273 14 I was glad...to exchange a few reasonable words on the aspects of England with a man on whose genius I set a very high value [Carlyle]...
    ET18 5.307 23 The power of performance [in England] has not been exceeded,--the creation of value.
    Pow 6.53 20 ...[a man] can well afford to let events and possessions and the breath of the body go, if their value has been added to him in the shape of power.
    Pow 6.70 17 Physical force has no value where there is nothing else.
    Pow 6.80 9 ...there are sublime considerations which limit the value of talent and superficial success.
    Wth 6.87 11 When the farmer's peaches are taken from under the tree and carried into town, they have a new look and a hundredfold value over the fruit which grew on the same bough and lies fulsomely on the ground.
    Wth 6.98 20 ...the use which any man can make of [pictures, engravings, statues and casts] is rare, and their value...is much enhanced by the numbers of men who can share their enjoyment.
    Wth 6.103 4 A dollar is not value, but representative of value...
    Wth 6.103 11 The value of a dollar is, to buy just things;...
    Wth 6.103 12 ...a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world.
    Wth 6.104 22 The value of a dollar is social...
    Wth 6.106 8 The level of the sea is not more surely kept than is the equilibrium of value in society by the demand and supply;...
    Wth 6.108 3 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that...however unwilling you may be, the canteloupes, crook-necks and cucumbers will send for him. Who but must wish that all labor and value should stand on the same simple and surly market?
    Wth 6.119 15 You think farm buildings and broad acres a solid property; but its value is flowing like water.
    Wth 6.122 11 ...travellers and Indians know the value of a buffalo-trail...
    Ctr 6.144 7 There is also a negative value in these [minor] arts.
    Ctr 6.148 6 ...the aesthetic value of railroads is to unite the advantages of town and country life...
    Ctr 6.158 12 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis. But to give these accessories any value, I must know them as contingent...possessions...
    Bhr 6.188 3 ...the thought of the present moment has a greater value than all the past.
    Bhr 6.191 6 ...Whatever is known to thyself alone, has always very great value.
    CbW 6.262 1 Bad times have a scientific value.
    Bty 6.283 24 ...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good son...and perhaps reckon only his money value...
    Bty 6.284 13 The formulas of science are...of no value to any but the owner.
    Bty 6.289 5 ...as fast as [a man] sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.
    Ill 6.320 20 We must work and affirm, but we have no guess of the value of what we say or do.
    Elo1 7.79 25 In old countries a high money value is set on the services of men who have achieved a personal distinction.
    Elo1 7.81 18 ...it is not powers of speech that we primarily consider under this word eloquence, but the power that...being absent, leaves them a merely superficial value.
    Elo1 7.97 14 Men are averse and hostile, to give value to their suffrages.
    WD 7.177 11 The use of history is to give value to the present hour and its duty.
    Boks 7.191 13 ...in geometry, if you have read Euclid and Laplace,--your opinion has some value;...
    Boks 7.208 22 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites...
    Clbs 7.230 4 [Men] kindle each other; and such is the power of suggestion that each sprightly story calls out more; and sometimes a fact that had long slept in the recesses of memory hears the voice, is welcomed to daylight, and proves of rare value.
    Clbs 7.230 10 ...a natural fact has only half its value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated.
    Clbs 7.231 18 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety... But when he came home, his brave sequins were dry leaves. He found either that the fact they had thus dizened and adorned was of no value, or that he already knew all and more than all they had told him.
    Clbs 7.236 25 [Dr. Johnson's] obvious religion or superstition, his deep wish that they should think so or so, weighs with [his company],--so rare is...a constitutional value for a thought or opinion, among the light-minded men and women who make up society;...
    Clbs 7.248 27 I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in their several arts to compare and expand their views...
    Suc 7.287 3 I don't know but we and our race elsewhere set a higher value on wealth, victory and coarse superiority of all kinds, than other men...
    Suc 7.291 6 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
    Suc 7.291 14 ...I think we shall agree in my first rule for success,--that we shall...take Michel Angelo's course, to confide in one's self, and be something of worth and value.
    Suc 7.295 13 ...it is only as a door into this [central intelligence], that any talent or the knowledge it gives is of value.
    Suc 7.299 20 Is...the house in which your dearest friend lived, only a piece of real estate, whose value is covered by the Hartford insurance?
    OA 7.320 25 We know the value of experience.
    OA 7.327 21 ...at the end of fifty years, [a man's] soul is appeased by seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish and his possession. This makes the value of age...
    OA 7.328 27 Our instincts drove us to hive innumerable experiences, that are yet of no visible value...
    PI 8.11 12 [Natural objects'] value to the intellect appears only when I hear their meaning made plain in the spiritual truth they cover.
    PI 8.15 9 ...the value of a trope is that the hearer is one...
    PI 8.21 14 I think the use or value of poetry to be the suggestion it affords of the flux or fugaciousness of the poet.
    PI 8.23 4 The poet discovers that what men value as substances have a higher value as symbols;...
    PI 8.40 3 The reason we set so high a value on any poetry...is that it is a new work of Nature...
    PI 8.65 25 The supreme value of poetry is to educate us to a height beyond itself...
    SA 8.79 18 ...how impossible to...acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start; and this makes the value of wise forethought to give ourselves and our children as much as possible the habit of cultivated society.
    SA 8.90 19 ...the incomparable satisfaction of a society...in which a wise freedom, an ideal republic of sense, simplicity, knowledge and thorough good meaning abide,--doubles the value of life.
    SA 8.90 23 Every highly organized person knows the value of the social barriers...
    SA 8.100 7 [The consideration the rich possess] is the approval given by the human understanding to the act of creating value by knowledge and labor.
    Res 8.143 12 ...the immense expansion of trade has wanted every ounce of gold, and it has not lost its value.
    Comc 8.163 15 Plutarch happily expresses the value of the jest as a legitimate weapon of the philosopher.
    QO 8.190 13 Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value.
    QO 8.195 20 It is curious what new interest an old author acquires by official canonization in...Hallam, or other historian of literature. Their... citation of a passage, carries the sentimental value of a college diploma.
    QO 8.202 6 Originals never lose their value.
    PC 8.208 10 All this activity has added to the value of life [in America]...
    PC 8.221 5 [The benefits of devotion to natural science] are felt...in mining and in war. But over all their utilities, I must hold their chief value to be metaphysical.
    PC 8.221 6 The chief value [of devotion to natural science] is not the useful powers he obtained, but the test it has been of the scholar.
    PC 8.225 25 The sublime point of experience is the value of a sufficient man.
    PC 8.225 26 The sublime point of experience is the value of a sufficient man. Cube this value by the meeting of two such...and you have organized victory.
    PPo 8.237 17 Many qualities go to make a good telescope...but the one eminent value is the space-penetrating power;...
    PPo 8.237 19 ...the essential value [in books] is the adding of knowledge to our stock...
    PPo 8.244 19 He only [Hafiz] says, is fit for company, who knows how to prize earthly happiness at the value of a night-cap.
    PPo 8.255 4 ...Hafiz does not appear to have set any great value on his songs...
    Insp 8.284 2 A day to [Mirabeau] was of more value than a week or a month to others.
    Imtl 8.336 21 We are driven by instinct to hive innumerable experiences which are of no visible value...
    Imtl 8.337 12 The love of life is out of all proportion to the value set on a single day...
    Imtl 8.345 19 There is a drawback to the value of all statements of the doctrine [of immortality]...
    Dem1 10.24 5 Let [occult facts'] value as exclusive subjects of attention be judged of by the infallible test of the state of mind in which much notice of them leaves us.
    Aris 10.35 22 ...not the hardest utilitarian will question the value of an aristocracy if he love himself.
    PerF 10.79 12 I knew a manufacturer who found his property invested in chemical works which were depreciating in value.
    Edc1 10.138 21 I like...boys...known to have no money in their pockets, and themselves not suspecting the value of this poverty;...
    Edc1 10.155 15 These creatures [in nature] have no value for their time...
    Supl 10.173 8 ...fit expression is so rare that mankind have a superstitious value for it...
    Supl 10.177 14 ...the diamond and the pearl, which are only accidental and secondary in their use and value to us, are proper to the Oriental world.
    Prch 10.232 12 The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain;...
    Schr 10.288 16 ...[the scholar's] ends give value to every means...
    Plu 10.298 17 ...eminently social, [Plutarch]...knew the high value of good conversation;...
    Plu 10.309 23 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs.
    LLNE 10.352 24 There is an order in which in a sound mind the faculties always appear, and which, according to the strength of the individual, they seek to realize in the surrounding world. The value of Fourier's system is that it is a statement of such an order externized...
    LLNE 10.368 24 Some of [the partners] had spent on [Brook Farm] the accumulations of years. I suppose they all, at the moment, regarded it as a failure. I do not think they can so regard it now, but probably as an important chapter in their experience which has been of lifelong value.
    CSC 10.376 19 By no means the least value of this [Chardon Street] Convention, in our eye, was the scope it gave to the genius of Mr. Alcott...
    EzRy 10.391 7 ...[Ezra Ripley] knew the value of a dollar as well as another man...
    MMEm 10.399 8 [Mary Moody Emerson's life] has to me a value like that which many readers find in Madame Guyon, in Rahel, in Eugenie de Guerin...
    MMEm 10.406 10 ...no intelligent youth or maiden could have once met [Mary Moody Emerson] without...learning something of value.
    SlHr 10.445 6 [Samuel Hoar] saw what was essential, and refused whatever was not, so that no man embarrassed himself less with a needless array of books and evidences of contingent value.
    Thor 10.463 3 ...setting, like all highly organized men, a high value on his time, [Thoreau] seemed the only man of leisure in town...
    Thor 10.475 26 [Thoreau]...liked to throw every thought into a symbol. The fact you tell is of no value, but only the impression.
    Thor 10.478 10 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a friend...almost worshipped by those few persons who...knew the deep value of his mind and great heart.
    Carl 10.490 6 [Carlyle]...understands his own value quite as well as Webster...
    LS 11.23 11 ...in the eye of God there is no other measure of the value of any one form than the measure of its use?
    HDC 11.48 21 ...I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records]...
    EWI 11.113 13 The Ministers...estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...
    War 11.152 24 [Society] presently finds the value of good sense and of foresight...
    War 11.163 26 ...always we are daunted by the appearances; not seeing that their whole value lies at bottom in the state of mind.
    FSLC 11.181 25 The very convenience of property, the house and land we occupy, have lost their best value...
    FSLC 11.182 7 ...real estate, every kind of wealth, every branch of industry, every avenue to power, suffers injury [from the Fugitive Slave Law], and the value of life is reduced.
    FSLC 11.183 20 I question the value of our civilization, when I see that the public mind had never less hold of the strongest of all truths.
    FSLN 11.230 15 We [in Massachusetts] have more money and value of every kind than other people...
    AsSu 11.247 8 Life has not parity of value in the free state and in the slave state.
    AsSu 11.247 21 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...spending his days in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against his slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and dangerous way. Such people...readily risk on every passion a life which is of small value to themselves or to others.
    JBS 11.279 15 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...living to ideal ends, without any mixture of self-indulgence or compromise, such as lowers the value of benevolent and thoughtful men we know;...
    EPro 11.321 26 Every acre in the free states gained substantial value on the twenty-second of September.
    Koss 11.397 21 [The people of Concord] set no more value than you [Kossuth] do on cheers and huzzas.
    Wom 11.410 15 The spiritual force of man is as much shown...in his fancy and imagination,-attaching deep meanings to things and to arbitrary inventions of no real value,-as in his perception of truth.
    SHC 11.432 16 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...all the ornaments of either adding so much value to all.
    SHC 11.432 17 I suppose all of us will readily admit the value of parks and cultivated grounds to the pleasure and education of the people...
    CPL 11.508 15 ...there is no end...to the value of the library.
    PLT 12.21 10 The retrospective value of each new thought is immense...
    PLT 12.25 25 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enchance immensely the value of your first.
    PLT 12.40 24 A single thought has no limit to its value;...
    PLT 12.41 4 ...a thought...is of inestimable value.
    II 12.78 24 ...we must affirm and affirm, but neither you nor I know the value of what we say;...
    Mem 12.91 12 [Memory] holds us to our family, to our friends. Hereby a home is possible; hereby only a new fact has value.
    Mem 12.91 17 ...a piece of news I hear, has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.
    Mem 12.91 21 The Past has a new value every moment to the active mind...
    Mem 12.101 18 ...all the facts in this chest of memory are property at interest. And who shall set a boundary to this mounting value?
    Mem 12.102 7 We learn early that there is great disparity of value between our experiences;...
    Mem 12.109 18 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge-new giving undreamed-of value to old;...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
    CL 12.141 19 Walking has the best value as gymnastics for the mind.
    ACri 12.283 9 An enumeration of the few principal weapons of the poet or writer will at once suggest their value.
    ACri 12.296 5 Every historic autobiographic trait authenticating the man [Montaigne] adds to the value of the book.
    MLit 12.323 17 ...[Goethe] is of that comprehension which can see the value of truth.
    MLit 12.330 13 The least inequality of mixture [of Truth, Beauty and Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that degree...makes the world opaque to the observer, and destroys so far the value of his experience.
    WSL 12.347 7 [Landor] has commented on a wide variety of writers, with a closeness and extent of view which has enhanced the value of those authors to his readers.
    WSL 12.347 23 [Landor] knows the value of his own words.
    WSL 12.348 23 [Landor's] merit must rest, at last...on the value of his sentences.
    Pray 12.354 10 And next in value, which thy kindness lends,/ That I may greatly disappoint my friends,/ Howe'er they think or hope that it may be,/ They may not dream how thou'st distinguished me./
    AgMs 12.362 6 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth. The good Commissioner [Henry Colman] takes off his hat when he approaches them, distrusts the value of his feeble praise...
    EurB 12.367 8 ...Wordsworth...though setting a private and exaggerated value on his compositions;...is really a master of the English language...
    PPr 12.381 4 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds...the vice [of the times] in false and superficial aims of the people, and the remedy in honesty and insight. Like every work of genius, [Carlyle's Past and Present's] great value is in telling such simple truths.
    PPr 12.386 24 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear,-producing on the reader a feeling of forlornness by the excess of value attributed to circumstances.

value, v. (56)

    AmS 1.89 19 Hence the book-learned class, who value books, as such;...
    DSA 1.146 25 ...all men value the few real hours of life;...
    MN 1.192 7 ...I value the railway;...
    MN 1.205 7 Who would value any number of miles of Atlantic brine bounded by lines of latitude and longitude?
    Con 1.321 8 If you do not value the Sabbath, or other religious institutions, give yourself no concern about maintaining them.
    Prd1 2.238 18 ...calculation might come to value love for its profit.
    Hsm1 2.254 12 The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies.
    Cir 2.312 16 Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is...in the sonnet or the play.
    Art1 2.351 17 ...[the painter] will come to value the expression of nature and not nature itself...
    Mrs1 3.125 13 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this strong type; Saladin...Pericles, and the lordliest personages. They...were too excellent themselves, to value any condition at a high rate.
    NR 3.228 11 ...as we grow older we value total powers and effects...
    NR 3.237 7 We like to come to a height of land and see the landscape, just as we value a general remark in conversation.
    PPh 4.60 24 ...disregarding the honors that most men value...I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato];...
    ShP 4.196 21 ...[the poet in illiterate times] comes to value his memory equally with his invention.
    ET6 5.102 3 [The English] have in themselves what they value in their horses,--mettle and bottom.
    ET6 5.102 10 ...the one thing the English value is pluck.
    ET6 5.113 5 [The English] value themselves on the absence of every thing theatrical in the public business...
    ET7 5.118 21 The Duke of Wellington...advises the French General Kellermann that he may rely on the parole of an English officer. The English, of all classes, value themselves on this trait...
    ET7 5.122 11 The ruling passion of Englishmen in these days is a terror of humbug. In the same proportion they value honesty, stoutness, and adherence to your own.
    ET8 5.142 21 ...not creators in art, [the English] value its refinement.
    ET13 5.222 1 The English, in common perhaps with Christendom in the nineteenth century...value ideas only for an economic result.
    ET13 5.222 7 [The English] value a philosopher as they value an apothecary who brings bark or a drench;...
    ET13 5.222 8 [The English] value a philosopher as they value an apothecary who brings bark or a drench;...
    ET14 5.258 13 ...[the Oxonian] does not value the salient and curative influence of intellectual action...
    F 6.11 1 Let [a man] value his hands and feet...
    Pow 6.61 11 One comes to value this plus health when he sees that all difficulties vanish before it.
    Wsp 6.227 12 As we grow older we value total powers and effects...
    Elo1 7.75 24 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent. They...value men only as they can forward the work.
    Clbs 7.233 12 One of those conceited prigs who value Nature only as it feeds and exhibits them is equally a pest with the roysterers.
    Suc 7.283 16 ...we value ourselves on all these feats.
    Suc 7.284 1 Men are made each with some triumphant superiority, which... enriches the community with a new art; and not only we, but all men of European stock, value these certificates.
    Suc 7.311 16 ...the inner life...does not learn to do things, nor value these feats at all.
    PI 8.15 23 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language, uses them representatively, too well pleased with their ulterior to value much their primary meaning.
    PI 8.23 3 The poet discovers that what men value as substances have a higher value as symbols;...
    PI 8.49 3 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...
    QO 8.190 26 ...we value in Coleridge his excellent knowledge and quotations perhaps as much, possibly more, than his original suggestions.
    Insp 8.296 24 I value literary biography for the hints it furnishes from so many scholars...of what hygiene, what ascetic...their experience suggested and approved.
    Supl 10.170 25 Men of the world value truth, in proportion to their ability;...
    Supl 10.173 9 ...it would seem the whole human race agree to value a man precisely in proportion to his power of expression;...
    SovE 10.200 12 Certainly it is human to value a general consent...
    Prch 10.230 22 Let [the young preacher] value his talent as a door into Nature.
    Prch 10.230 25 ...over all, let [the young preacher] value the sensibility that receives, that loves, that dares, that affirms.
    Schr 10.270 11 ...all the human race have agreed to value a man according to his power of expression.
    Schr 10.274 25 It is the corruption of our generation that men value a long life...
    Schr 10.277 26 Perhaps I value power of achievement a little more because in America there seems to be a certain indigence in this respect.
    Schr 10.288 21 ...[the scholar] should read a little proudly, as one who knows the original, and cannot therefore very highly value the copy.
    FSLN 11.224 17 It is remarked of the Americans that they value dexterity too much, and honor too little;...
    AKan 11.258 18 Next to the private man, I value the primary assembly...
    FRep 11.534 1 A man is coming, here as [in England], to value himself on what he can buy.
    PLT 12.13 23 The adepts value only the pure geometry...
    Mem 12.103 3 I value the praise of Memory.
    CInt 12.119 7 ...I too am an American, and value practical talent.
    CInt 12.119 10 I value talent,-perhaps no man more.
    CInt 12.119 11 I value dearly the poet who knows his art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with sympathetic song...
    CInt 12.119 26 ...I value [talent] more when it is legitimate...
    ACri 12.294 13 [Shakespeare's] muse is moral simply from its depth, and I value the intermixture of the common and the transcendental as in Nature.

valued, adj. (4)

    SR 2.50 15 I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser...
    ET12 5.199 13 ...I availed myself of some repeated invitations to Oxford, where I had introductions to Dr. Daubeny...and to the Regius Professor of Divinity, as well as to a valued friend [Arthur Hugh Clough]...
    LLNE 10.364 20 There is agreement in the testimony that [Brook Farm] was...to many, the most important period of their life, the birth of valued friendships...
    EWI 11.142 9 ...[the negro] is now the principal if not the only mechanic in the West Indies; and is, besides...a magistrate, an editor, and a valued and increasing political power.

valued, v. (26)

    AmS 1.108 5 The books which once we valued more than the apple of the eye, we have quite exhausted.
    SL 2.154 2 ...we can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.
    NER 3.274 19 The heroes of ancient and modern fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played, but the stake not to be so valued but that any time it could be held as a trifle light as air...
    NER 3.276 13 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no longer,--it is time to undervalue what he has valued...
    PPh 4.71 24 [Socrates]...valued the bores and philistines...
    MoS 4.152 20 After dinner...a man comes to be valued by his athletic and animal qualities.
    GoW 4.284 16 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of universal truth, to be his portion: a man...having one test for all men,--What can you teach me? All possessions are valued by him for that only;...
    ET1 5.11 5 When [Coleridge] stopped to take breath, I interposed that whilst I highly valued all his explanations, I was bound to tell him that I was born and bred a Unitarian.
    ET4 5.58 22 ...crowbars, peat-knives and hay-forks are tools valued by [the Norsemen] all the more for their charming aptitude for assassinations.
    ET11 5.191 16 No man who valued his head might do what these pot-companions familiarly did with the king.
    Pow 6.79 1 Men whose opinion is valued on 'Change are only such as have a special experience...
    Ctr 6.132 7 Lord Coke valued Chaucer highly because the Canon Yeman's Tale illustrates the statute fifth Hen. IV. chap. 4, against alchemy.
    Ctr 6.140 5 ...men are valued precisely as they exert onward or meliorating force.
    Bty 6.287 25 ...every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.
    Elo1 7.99 20 [Eloquence's] great masters, whilst they valued every help to its attainment...resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...
    SA 8.92 6 A wise man once said to me that all whom he knew, met:-- meaning that he need not take pains to introduce the persons whom he valued to each other...
    SA 8.94 6 Madame de Stael valued nothing but conversation.
    Insp 8.277 13 ...a religious poet once told me that he valued his poems, not because they were his, but because they were not.
    Aris 10.48 21 In the South a slave was bluntly but accurately valued at five hundred to a thousand dollars, if a good field-hand;...
    Supl 10.174 3 ...these raptures of fire and frost, which...make the speech salt and biting, would cost me the days of well-being which are now so cheap to me, yet so valued.
    Schr 10.278 26 [The scholar] is to forge out of coarsest ores the sharpest weapons. But if the weapons are valued for themselves...they cannot serve him.
    Thor 10.484 14 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...and which the hunter, tempted...by his love (for it is immensely valued by the Swiss maidens), climbs the cliffs to gather...
    Milt1 12.250 22 ...as an historical argument, [Milton's Defence of the English People] cannot be valued with similar disquisitions of Robertson and Hallam...
    Milt1 12.252 14 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson...
    ACri 12.284 20 Goethe valued himself not on his learning or eccentric flights, but that he knew how to write German.
    WSL 12.345 4 [Landor's] portraits, though mere sketches, must be valued as attempts in the very highest kind of narrative...

values, n. (36)

    Nat 1.5 2 In enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum, I shall use the word in both senses;...
    Nat 1.41 23 The first and gross manifestation of this truth [of the doctrine of Use] is our inevitable and hated training in values and wants...
    YA 1.365 10 ...prudent men have begun to see that every American should be educated with a view to the values of land.
    YA 1.365 20 ...it now appears that we must estimate the native values of this broad region to redress the balance of our own judgments...
    YA 1.378 15 ...[Trade] converts Government into an Intelligence-Office, where every man may find what he wishes to buy, and expose what he has to sell; not only produce and manufactures, but art, skill, and intellectual and moral values.
    Hist 2.22 18 ...the cumulative values of long residence are the restraints on the itinerancy of the present day.
    Gts 3.160 8 ...[fruits]...admit of fantastic values being attached to them.
    UGM 4.16 12 The indicators of the values of matter are degraded to a sort of cooks and confectioners, on the appearance of the indicators of ideas.
    PNR 4.87 16 Before all men, [Plato] saw the intellectual values of the moral sentiment.
    MoS 4.151 16 Having at some time seen that the happy soul will carry all the arts in power...like dreaming beggars [men predisposed to morals] assume to speak and act as if these values were already substantiated.
    ET5 5.76 15 ...to set [the Saxon] at work and to begin to draw his monstrous values out of barren Britain, all dishonor, fret and barrier must be removed...
    ET8 5.142 14 ...the calm, sound and most British Briton...respects an economy founded on agriculture, coal-mines, manufactures or trade, which secures an independence through the creation of real values.
    ET12 5.202 14 ...gifts of all values...are continually accruing [at Oxford]...
    ET14 5.255 13 The island [England] is a roaring volcano of fate, of material values, of tariffs and laws of repression, glutted markets and low prices.
    Pow 6.57 23 Import into any stationary district...a colony of hardy Yankees...and everything begins to shine with values.
    Wth 6.86 3 ...the mind acts...in the creation of finer values by fine art...
    Wth 6.103 5 A dollar is not value, but representative of value, and, at last, of moral values.
    Ctr 6.155 21 We can ill spare the commanding social benefits of cities; they...will yield their best values to him who best can do without them.
    Ctr 6.158 4 ...the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him pleasure in the currency of Curfew. For the depreciation of his Curfew stock only shows the immense values of the humanity stock.
    Civ 7.32 23 ...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person, whom all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people who are not known far from home, and perhaps with great reason reckons these people his superiors in virtue and in the symmetry and force of their qualities,--I see what cubic values America has...
    WD 7.173 15 This element of illusion lends all its force to hide the values of present time.
    Clbs 7.234 25 ...once in the right company, new and vast values do not fail to appear.
    Clbs 7.245 18 [A club] requires people...who sink trifles and know solid values...
    Clbs 7.250 10 ...while we look complacently at these obvious pleasures and values of good companions, I do not forget that Nature is always very much in earnest...
    Aris 10.56 7 Others I meet...who denude and strip one of all attributes but material values.
    Edc1 10.127 19 Enamoured of [sun's, moon's, plants', animals'] beauty, comforted by their convenience, [man]...fast loses sight of the fact that they have worse than no values...
    Plu 10.322 20 ...[Plutarch's] sterling values will presently recall the eye and thought of the best minds...
    EdAd 11.386 14 ...we are persuaded that moral and material values are always commensurate.
    EdAd 11.386 25 ...who can see the continent...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which...this sudden creation of enormous values is made?
    Mem 12.92 24 Memory is...a living instructor, with a prophetic sense of the values which he guards;...
    Mem 12.101 9 The damages of forgetting are more than compensated by the large values which new thoughts and knowledge give to what we already know.
    CL 12.136 3 As the increasing population finds new values in the ground, the nomad life is given up for settled homes.
    CL 12.145 13 I am afraid you do not understand values.
    Bost 12.187 23 Each great city gathers these values and delights for mankind...
    Bost 12.206 3 Moral values become also money values.
    Trag 12.406 18 ...no theory of life can have any right which leaves out of account the values of vice...fear and death.

values, v. (18)

    YA 1.369 21 ...he who merely uses it as a support...to his manufactory, values [the land] less.
    Pt1 3.15 22 The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in riding, in horses and dogs.
    Mrs1 3.140 1 ...[society] values all peculiarities as in the highest degree refreshing, which can consist with good fellowship.
    Mrs1 3.153 3 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities...
    ET12 5.208 17 ...at the universities, it is urged that all goes to form what England values as the flower of its national life,--a well-educated gentleman.
    ET16 5.290 18 William of Wykeham's shrine tomb was unlocked for us, and Carlyle took hold of the recumbent statue's marble hands and patted them affectionately, for he rightly values the brave man who built Windsor and this Cathedral and the School here and New College at Oxford.
    Ctr 6.162 21 [The finished man of the world]...values men only as channels of power.
    Bty 6.288 27 Every man values every acquisition he makes in the science of beauty, above his possessions.
    WD 7.185 19 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills...to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and...the fidelity with which it flows from ourselves; then to the depth of thought it betrays, looking to its universality, or that its roots are in eternity, not in time. Then it flows from character, that sublime health which values one moment as another...
    Suc 7.288 12 ...the public values the invention more than the inventor does.
    SA 8.81 18 Nature values manners.
    Supl 10.167 12 The English mind...values exactness...
    LLNE 10.345 3 Society always values...inoffensive people...
    MMEm 10.398 12 ...[Lucy Percy's] nature values fortunate persons.
    HDC 11.45 22 The Governor [of the Massachusetts Bay Colony] conspires with [the settlers] in limiting his claims to their obedience, and values much more their love than his chartered authority.
    WSL 12.343 23 ...wherever freedom and justice are threatened, which he values as the element in which genius may work, [Landor's] interest is sure to be commanded.
    WSL 12.344 10 [Landor]...values his pedigree, his acres and the syllables of his name;...
    Pray 12.350 3 Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,/ Nor gems whose rates are either rich or poor/ As fancy values them; but with true prayers,/...

valuing, v. (3)

    PPh 4.64 14 [Plato] secures a position not to be commanded, by his passion for reality; valuing philosophy only as it is the pleasure of conversing with real being.
    NMW 4.231 12 [Bonaparte] respected the power of nature and fortune, and ascribed to it his superiority, instead of valuing himself...on his opinionativeness, and waging war with nature.
    Clbs 7.226 22 A man valuing himself as the organ of this or that dogma is a dull companion enough;...

valve, n. (3)

    OS 2.294 10 ...not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature...
    ET13 5.222 12 I suspect that there is in an Englishman's brain a valve that can be closed at pleasure...
    ET13 5.222 21 ...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church.

vamp, v. (1)

    Ill 6.321 8 ...says the good Heaven;...vamp your old coats and hats...

vampire, adj. (1)

    QO 8.188 26 In every kind of parasite, when Nature has finished an aphis, a teredo or a vampire bat...the self-supplying organs wither and dwindle...

vampivg, n. (1)

    QO 8.186 1 In romantic literature examples of this vamping abound.

vampyre, n. (2)

    SwM 4.131 10 A vampyre sits in the seat of the prophet [in Swedenborg's universe]...
    NMW 4.242 8 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied...by a small class of legitimates...holding the ideas and superstitions of a long-forgotten state of society. Instead of that vampyre, a man of themselves held, in the Tuileries, knowledge and ideas like their own...

Van Dieman's Land, n. (1)

    ET5 5.92 3 The nation [England] sits in the immense city they have builded, a London extended into every man's mind, though he live in Van Dieman's Land or Capetown.

Van Mons, Jean-Baptiste, n (1)

    UGM 4.9 7 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is; as...Van Mons, of pears;...

van, n. (3)

    Cour 7.252 4 Peril around, all else appalling,/ Cannon in front and leaden rain,/ Him duty, through the clarion calling/ To the van, called not in vain./
    FSLN 11.216 8 ...Shakspeare was of us, Milton was for us,/ Burns, Shelley, were with us,-they watch from their graves!/ He alone breaks from the van and the freemen,/ -He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves!/ Browning, The Lost Leader.
    II 12.78 9 The ideal is as far ahead of the videttes of the van as it is of the rear.

Van Praet, M., n. (1)

    Boks 7.210 25 ...M. Van Praet groped in vain among the royal alcoves in Paris, to detect a copy of the famed Valdarfer Boccaccio.

Vandykes, n. (1)

    ET16 5.284 22 Although these apartments and the long library [at Wilton Hall] were full of good family portraits, Vandykes and other;...yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...

Vane, Harry, n. (1)

    ET13 5.216 21 ...Cobham, Antony Parsons, Sir Harry Vane...are the democrats, as well as the saints of their times.

Vane, Henry, n. (3)

    Nat 1.21 9 When Sir Harry Vane was dragged up the Tower-hill...one of the multitude cried out to him, You never sate on so glorious a seat!
    ShP 4.203 14 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...John Milton, Sir Henry Vane...
    ET4 5.47 12 How came such men as...Francis Bacon, George Herbert, Henry Vane, to exist here [in England]?

vane, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.154 4 What is odious but...people whose vane points always east...
    HDC 11.47 15 The moderator [of the New England town-meeting] was the passive mouth-piece, and the vote of the town, like the vane on the turret overhead, free for every wind to turn...

Vane, William Harry [Duke (1)

    ET11 5.182 10 From Barnard Castle I rode on the highway twenty-three miles...through the estate of the Duke of Cleveland.

vanes, n. (1)

    ET12 5.212 19 The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

vanguard, n. (1)

    ET5 5.101 23 ...whilst in some directions [the English] do not represent the modern spirit but constitute it;--this vanguard of civility and power they coldly hold...

vanilla, n. (1)

    EWI 11.101 7 If there be any man...who would not so much as part with his ice-cream, to save [a race of men] from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.

Vanini, Lucilio, n. (1)

    Cour 7.274 9 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like Giordano Bruno, Vanini...

vanish, v. (10)

    Nat 1.39 12 ...Time and Space relations vanish as laws are known.
    Nat 1.76 23 A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. So fast will disagreeable appearances...mad-houses, prisons, enemies, vanish;...
    Con 1.313 25 ...if the mitigations are considered, do not all the mischiefs virtually vanish?
    SR 2.80 18 If [unbalanced minds] are honest and do well, presently their neat new pinfold...will rot and vanish...
    Comp 2.124 1 ...see the facts nearly and these mountainous inequalities vanish.
    Fdsp 2.193 21 The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed;...all tragedies, all ennuis vanish...
    UGM 4.33 18 ...the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each...
    NMW 4.235 9 In the plenitude of [Napoleon's] resources, every obstacle seemed to vanish.
    Pow 6.61 12 One comes to value this plus health when he sees that all difficulties vanish before it.
    Cour 7.275 18 ...the rack, the fire...appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity; but to the hero whose intellect is aggrandized by the soul...these terrors vanish as darkness at sunrise.

vanished, v. (6)

    Mrs1 3.151 5 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see? We say things we never thought to have said; for once, our walls of habitual reserve vanished and left us at large;...
    ShP 4.219 3 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...
    Clbs 7.242 3 Even Montesquieu confessed that in conversation, if he perceived he was listened to by a third person, it seemed to him from that moment the whole question vanished from his mind.
    PPo 8.264 20 [The birds] saw themselves all as Simorg,/ Themselves in the eternal Simorg./ When to the Simorg up they looked,/ They beheld him among themselves;/ And when they looked on each other,/ They saw themselves in the Simorg./ A single look grouped the two parties,/ The Simorg emerged, the Simorg vanished,/ This in that and that in this, As the world has never heard./
    HDC 11.78 11 The economy so rigid, which marked [Concord's] earlier history, has all vanished.
    Mem 12.95 14 He who calls what is vanished back again into being enjoys a bliss like that of creating, says Neibuhr.

vanishes, v. (5)

    Nat 1.10 8 Standing on the bare ground...all mean egotism vanishes.
    NR 3.229 8 ...[a personal influence] borrows all its size from the momentary estimation of the speakers: the Will-of-the-wisp vanishes if you go too near...
    NR 3.229 9 ...[a personal influence] borrows all its size from the momentary estimation of the speakers: the Will-of-the-wisp...vanishes if you go too far...
    GoW 4.265 22 ...let one man have the comprehensive eye that can replace this isolated prodigy in its right neighborhood and bearings,--the illusion vanishes...
    Milt1 12.276 2 It is true of Homer and Shakspeare...that those prodigious geniuses did cast themselves so totally into their song that their individuality vanishes...

vanishing, adj. (4)

    Exp 3.62 8 I find my account in sots and bores also. They give a reality to the circumjacent picture which such a vanishing meteorous appearance can ill spare.
    Imtl 8.346 12 A conclusion, an inference, a grand augury [of immortality], is ever hovering, but attempt to ground it, and the reasons are all vanishing and inadequate.
    Prch 10.220 1 Art will embody this vanishing Spirit in temples, pictures, sculptures and hymns.
    Prch 10.220 4 Art will embody this vanishing Spirit in temples, pictures, sculptures and hymns. The senses instantly transfer the reverence from the vanishing Spirit to this steadfast form.

vanishing, v. (4)

    Fdsp 2.215 17 ...I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.
    Ill 6.307 11 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./
    MMEm 10.422 18 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws around poetry, or pebbles, bugs, or bubbles. Sometimes they climb, sometimes creep into the meanest holes-but they are all alike in vanishing...
    Thor 10.480 25 ...these foibles [of Thoreau], real or apparent, were fast vanishing in the incessant growth of a spirit so robust and wise...

vanities, n. (2)

    Nat 1.58 15 ...Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world; they are vanities...
    PI 8.51 14 ...they adorned the sepulchres of the dead, and, planting thereon lasting bases, defied...the misty vaporousness of oblivion. Yet all were but Babel vanities.

vanity, n. (21)

    DSA 1.123 9 The least admixture of a lie, - for example, the taint of vanity...will instantly vitiate the effect.
    YA 1.392 9 We are full of vanity...
    SR 2.51 9 If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy, shall that pass?
    Pt1 3.13 5 ...leaving these victims of vanity, let us, with new hope, observe how nature, by worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming...
    Chr1 3.107 1 ...wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity.
    NER 3.261 18 ...society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good in some particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.
    SwM 4.123 22 What earnestness and weightiness [in Swedenborg]... without one swell of vanity...
    NMW 4.244 24 The characters which [Napoleon] has drawn of several of his marshals...though they did not content the insatiable vanity of French officers, are no doubt substantially just.
    Wth 6.114 5 ...it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.
    Wth 6.114 11 ...vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace...
    Ctr 6.135 11 Though [men] talk of the object before them...their vanity is laying little traps for your admiration.
    Wsp 6.236 18 [Benedict] had the whim not to make an apology to the same individual whom he had wronged. For this he said was a piece of personal vanity;...
    DL 7.120 14 ...who can see unmoved...the first solitary joys of literary vanity...
    PC 8.229 16 ...when [a man] talks to men with the unrestrained frankness which children use with each other, he communicates himself, and not his vanity.
    Schr 10.287 18 I invite you [scholars] not...to the flutter of gratified vanity...
    MMEm 10.397 16 On this altar God hath built/ I lay my vanity and guilt;/...
    MMEm 10.407 3 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist...a cold little thing who...is looked up to as a specimen of genius. I performed a mission in secretly undermining his vanity...
    War 11.170 15 Men who love that bloated vanity called public opinion think all is well if they have once got their bantling through a sufficient course of speeches and cheerings...
    FSLC 11.196 11 No government ever found it hard to pick up tools for base actions. If you cannot find them in the huts of the poor, you shall find them in the palaces of the rich. Vanity can buy some, ambition others, and money others.
    FRep 11.530 23 We have...a great deal of lying vanity.
    MLit 12.316 7 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the wilderness only...the exhibition of a talent...which has no root in the character, and can thus minister to the vanity but not to the happiness of the possessor;...

Vanity of Arts..., On the [ (1)

    Boks 7.211 14 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time.

Vannucci, Pietro [Perugino] (1)

    ET1 5.8 1 [Landor]...shares the growing taste for Perugino and the early masters.

vanquish, v. (4)

    Wsp 6.232 25 Napoleon, says Goethe, visited those sick of the plague, in order to prove that the man who could vanquish fear could vanquish the plague also;...
    Wsp 6.232 26 Napoleon, says Goethe, visited those sick of the plague, in order to prove that the man who could vanquish fear could vanquish the plague also;...
    Wsp 6.234 27 [Benedict said] My ledger may show that I am in debt, cannot yet make my ends meet and vanquish the enemy so.
    Schr 10.286 10 [The scholar] must...ride at anchor and vanquish every enemy whom his small arms cannot reach, by the grand resistance of submission...

vanquished, adj. (1)

    F 6.33 5 ...whilst art draws out the venom, it commonly extorts some benefit from the vanquished enemy.

vanquished, v. (2)

    AmS 1.95 17 So much only of life as I know by experience, so much of the wilderness have I vanquished and planted...
    Hsm1 2.247 18 By Romulus, [Sophocles] is all soul, I think;/ He hath no flesh, and spirit cannot be gyved,/ Then we have vanquished nothing; he is free,/ And Martius walks now in captivity./

vanquishing, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.225 13 The American workman who strikes ten blows with his hammer whilst the foreign workman only strikes one, is as really vanquishing that foreigner as if the blows were aimed at and told on his person.

vantage, adj. (2)

    Pol1 3.216 12 [The wise man] needs...no vantage ground, no favorable circumstance.
    ET18 5.299 10 ...[the English] have earned their vantage ground and held it through ages of adverse possession.

vantage, n. (3)

    UGM 4.5 16 Our affection towards others creates a sort of vantage or purchase which nothing will supply.
    Civ 7.29 16 All our arts aim to win this vantage. We cannot bring the heavenly powers to us, but if we will only choose our jobs in directions in which they travel, they will undertake them with the greatest pleasure.
    Carl 10.495 12 In proportion to the peals of laughter amid which [Carlyle] strips the plumes of a pretender, and shows the lean hypocrisy to every vantage of ridicule, does he worship whatever enthusiasm, fortitude, love or other sign of a good nature is in a man.

vantage-ground, n. (3)

    SL 2.135 13 ...whenever we get this vantage-ground of the past...we are able to discern that we are begirt with laws which execute themselves.
    CbW 6.243 6 ...The forefathers this land who found/ Failed to plant the vantage-ground;/...
    SA 8.86 6 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals. It has the effect to...introduce a moment of reflection. After the pause, all resume their usual intercourse from a vantage-ground.

vapeur, n. (1)

    Ill 6.313 9 It was wittily if somewhat bitterly said by D'Alembert, qu'un etat de vapeur etait un etat tres facheux, parcequ'il nous faisait voir les choses comme elles sont.

vapor, n. (6)

    Nat 1.13 12 ...the wind blows the vapor to the field;...
    LE 1.158 24 [The scholar] inhales the year as a vapor...
    LE 1.169 11 ...the broad, cold lowland which forms its coat of vapor with the stillness of subterranean crystallization;...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    PI 8.9 8 ...[the student] observes that all things in Nature...wood, iron, stone, vapor, have a mysterious relation to his thoughts and his life;...
    QO 8.179 11 ...the invention of yesterday of making wood indestructible by means of vapor of coal-oil or paraffine was suggested by the Egyptian method which has preserved its mummy-cases four thousand years.
    CInt 12.130 20 Go sit with the Hermit in you, who knows more than you do. You will find...doors opened to grander entertainments. Yet all comes easily that he does, as snow and vapor, heat, wind and light.

vapor, v. (1)

    MoS 4.167 20 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher...

vaporing, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.422 6 We call [Time] by every name of fleeting, dreaming, vaporing imagery.

vaporing, n. (2)

    NER 3.253 25 No doubt there was plentiful vaporing, and cases of backsliding might occur.
    Prch 10.236 13 We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion...infinitely removed from all vaporing and bravado...

vaporing, v. (2)

    ET4 5.57 20 The heroes of the [Norse] Sagas are not the knights of South Europe. No vaporing of France and Spain has corrupted them.
    ET6 5.112 25 Pretension and vaporing are once for all distasteful [in England].

vaporousness, n. (1)

    PI 8.51 13 ...they adorned the sepulchres of the dead, and, planting thereon lasting bases, defied...the misty vaporousness of oblivion.

vapors, n. (1)

    PLT 12.63 15 ...[Socrates] utilized his humanity chiefly as a better eye-glass to penetrate the vapors that baffled the vision of other men.

Varchi, Benedetto, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.241 10 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper...by the Italian scholar, in the Discourse of Benedetto Varchi upon one sonnet of Michael Angelo...

variable, adj. (3)

    Bhr 6.189 17 Not only is [your companion] larger, when at ease and his thoughts generous, but everything around him becomes variable with expression.
    Ill 6.321 16 We cannot write the order of the variable winds.
    WD 7.169 21 A thousand tunes the variable wind plays...

variation, n. (3)

    Exp 3.47 21 The history of literature...is a sum of very few ideas and of very few original tales; all the rest being variation of these.
    Grts 8.307 19 [A man's bias] is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path, with more or less variation from any other man's.
    EurB 12.376 4 ...there is but one standard English novel, like the one orthodox sermon, which with slight variation is repeated every Sunday from so many pulpits.

variations, n. (6)

    Hist 2.15 25 [Nature] hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
    PPh 4.49 20 ...the ploughman, the plough and the furrow are of one stuff; and the stuff is such and so much that the variations of form are unimportant.
    ET8 5.141 21 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters? The early history shows it, as the musician plays the air which he proceeds to conceal in a tempest of variations.
    ET16 5.282 6 ...here is the high point of the theory: the Druids had the magnet; laid their courses by it; their cardinal points in Stonehenge, Ambresbury, and elsewhere...followed the variations of the compass.
    ET16 5.283 5 On hints like these, Stukeley...computing backward by the known variations of the compass, bravely assigns the year 406 before Christ for the date of the temple [Stonehenge].
    MoL 10.245 4 The great poem of the age is the disagreeable poem of Faust,-of which the Festus of Bailey and the Paracelsus of Browning are English variations.

varied, adj. (20)

    LT 1.263 6 I do not wonder at the miracles which poetry attributes to the music of Orpheus, when I remember what I have experienced from the varied notes of the human voice.
    Lov1 2.175 7 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...which made...the morning and the night varied enchantments;...
    Art1 2.357 25 No mannerist made these varied groups and diverse original single figures.
    Pt1 3.9 20 We hear, through all the varied music [of modern poetry], the ground-tone of conventional life.
    SwM 4.106 2 [Swedenborg's] varied and solid knowledge makes his style lustrous with points and shooting spiculae of thought...
    Bty 6.287 4 ...the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    Clbs 7.225 11 Varied foods, climates, beautiful objects...are the necessity of this exigent system of ours.
    PI 8.9 4 ...galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of the selfsame energy.
    Chr2 10.96 1 Truth, Power, Goodness, Beauty, are [the moral sentiment's] varied names...
    Prch 10.221 24 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action...what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?
    MoL 10.256 8 Very little reliance must be put on the common stories that circulate of this great senator's or that great barrister's learning, their Greek, their varied literature.
    Plu 10.300 22 [Plutarch's] style is realistic, picturesque and varied;...
    LLNE 10.343 19 ...the intelligence and character and varied ability of the company gave it some notoriety...
    LLNE 10.362 10 Many ladies...gave character and varied attraction to the place [Brook Farm].
    Thor 10.456 22 ...[Thoreau]...threw himself heartily and childlike into the company of young people...whom he delighted to entertain...with the varied and endless anecdotes of his experiences by field and river...
    FRep 11.534 21 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence and to a certain heroic planting and trading. Later this strength appeared in the solitudes of the West, where a man is made a hero by the varied emergencies of his lonely farm...
    CL 12.134 6 Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./ Wonderful verse of the gods,/ Of one import, of varied tone;/...
    CL 12.152 7 The forest in its coat of many colors reflects its varied splendor through the softest haze.
    Milt1 12.253 1 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation which told...that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible; the perception and enjoyment of all his varied rhythm...
    Milt1 12.272 14 [Milton's tracts] are all varied applications of one principle, the liberty of the wise man.

varied, v. (2)

    ET1 5.6 23 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure...an emphasis of features proportioned to their gradated importance in function; color and ornament to be decided and arranged and varied by strictly organic laws...
    SA 8.90 10 The life of these persons was conducted in the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse. Life with them was an experiment continually varied...

variegated, adj. (2)

    Hist 2.39 3 [A man] shall walk...in a robe painted all over with wonderful events and experiences;--his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be that variegated vest.
    OA 7.318 3 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years, who was dying, and was saying to himself, I said, coming into the world by birth, I will enjoy myself for a few moments. Alas! at the variegated table of life, I partook of a few mouthfuls, and the Fates said, Enough!

varies, v. (3)

    MMEm 10.404 23 ...wonderfully as [Mary Moody Emerson] varies and poetically repeats that image [of the angel of Death] in every page and day, yet not less fondly and sublimely she returns to the other,-the grandeur of humility and privation...
    II 12.71 1 In the healthy mind, the thought...expands, varies, recruits itself with relations to all Nature...
    CL 12.143 12 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. The depth and subtlety of the eyes varies exceedingly with the state of the stomach...

varieties, n. (16)

    LT 1.287 7 ...it is only when surveyed from inferior points of view that great varieties of character appear.
    SR 2.59 3 These varieties [in actions] are lost sight of at a little distance...
    Comp 2.98 22 The waves of the sea do not more speedily seek a level from their loftiest tossing than the varieties of condition tend to equalize themselves.
    Comp 2.100 21 The true life and satisfactions of man seem...to establish themselves with great indifferency under all varieties of circumstances.
    ET4 5.52 7 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England, say eight or ten or twenty varieties...
    ET4 5.52 13 The English derive their pedigree from such a range of nationalities that there needs sea-room and land-room to unfold the varieties of talent and character.
    ET14 5.246 16 Dickens, with preternatural apprehension of the language of manners and the varieties of street life;...writes London tracts.
    Ill 6.314 11 ...a friend of mine complained that all the varieties of fancy pears in our orchard seem to have been selected by somebody who had a whim for a particular kind of pear...
    Ill 6.314 18 ...I remember the quarrel of another youth with the confectioners, that when he racked his wit to choose the best comfits in the shops, in all the endless varieties of sweetmeat he could find only three flavors, or two.
    DL 7.106 15 [The child] has heard of wild horses and of bad boys, and with a pleasing terror he watches at his gate for the passing of those varieties of each species.
    Suc 7.286 17 ...there is no limit to these varieties of talent.
    Dem1 10.7 7 ...in varieties of our own species where organization seems to predominate over the genius of man...we are sometimes pained by the same feeling [of the similarity between man and animal];...
    Aris 10.53 15 The best feat of genius is to bring all the varieties of talent and culture into its audience;...
    EPro 11.317 7 ...so fair a mind that none ever listened so patiently to such extreme varieties of opinion,-so reticent...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    CPL 11.504 8 There is a wonderful agreement among eminent men of all varieties of character and condition in their estimate of books.
    CL 12.146 23 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in Downing or Loudon.

variety, n. (90)

    Nat 1.19 1 By water-courses, the variety is greater.
    Nat 1.43 4 ...[in the moral influence of nature] is especially apprehended the unity of Nature - the unity in variety...
    Nat 1.43 5 All the endless variety of things make an identical impression.
    Nat 1.43 10 [Xenophanes] was weary of seeing the same entity in the tedious variety of forms.
    MN 1.205 20 The great Pan of old, who was clothed in a leopard skin to signify the beautiful variety of things...was but the representative of thee, O rich and various Man!...
    MR 1.236 22 We must have an antagonism in the tough world for all the variety of our spiritual faculties...
    LT 1.275 20 Here is great variety and richness of mysticism...
    Tran 1.329 7 The light...falls on a great variety of objects...
    YA 1.380 22 These [Communities] proceeded from a variety of motives...
    Hist 2.12 25 ...every animal in its growth, teaches the unity of cause, the variety of appearance.
    Hist 2.14 13 There is, at the surface [of history], infinite variety of things;...
    Hist 2.16 14 If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind, and those to which he is averse, he will see how deep is the chain of affinity.
    Hist 2.32 25 In splendid variety these changes come...
    SR 2.58 26 There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions...
    Comp 2.93 7 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn, charmed my fancy by their endless variety...
    Fdsp 2.204 10 A friend...is a sort of paradox in nature. I...who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form;...
    Int 2.341 4 [The poet]...detects more likeness than variety in all [Nature's] changes.
    Art1 2.354 12 The virtue of art lies...in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety.
    Art1 2.357 23 There is no statue like this living man, with his infinite advantage over all ideal sculpture, of perpetual variety.
    Exp 3.55 12 ...health of body consists in circulation, and sanity of mind in variety or facility of association.
    Nat2 3.179 15 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature... itself secret, its works driven before it...in undescribable variety.
    Nat2 3.181 3 ...so poor is nature with all her craft, that from the beginning to the end of the universe she has but one stuff...to serve up all her dream-like variety.
    PPh 4.48 22 Urged by an opposite necessity, the mind returns from the one to that which is not one, but other or many;...and affirms the necessary existence of variety...
    PPh 4.56 5 Thought seeks to know unity in unity; poetry to show it by variety;...
    SwM 4.98 20 As happens in great men, [Swedenborg] seemed, by the variety and amount of his powers, to be a composition of several persons...
    GoW 4.271 13 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... a manly mind, unembarrassed by the variety of coats of convention with which life had got encrusted...
    GoW 4.289 13 Goethe, coming into an over-civilized time and country, when original talent was oppressed under the load of books and mechanical auxiliaries and the distracting variety of claims, taught men how to dispose of this mountainous miscellany and make it subservient.
    ET2 5.31 26 Among the passengers [on the Washington Irving] there was some variety of talent and profession;...
    ET3 5.42 11 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe...
    ET4 5.44 12 ...each variety [of race] shades down imperceptibly into the next...
    ET5 5.79 14 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life.
    ET8 5.129 17 ...[the English] have great range and variety of character.
    ET14 5.252 16 [The English] exert every variety of talent on a lower ground...
    ET17 5.297 26 ...there is something hard and sterile in [Wordsworth's] poetry, want of grace and variety...
    ET18 5.302 19 What variety of power and talent;...is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years!
    F 6.10 13 In different hours a man represents each of several of his ancestors...and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
    Wth 6.107 10 The manufacturer says he will furnish you with just that thickness or thinness [of paper] you want;...here is his schedule;--any variety of paper, as cheaper or dearer, with the prices annexed.
    Ctr 6.132 27 In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round and continues to spin slowly on one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical variety of this malady?
    Ctr 6.139 4 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...
    Ctr 6.150 9 The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist...
    Bhr 6.184 16 ...[dress circles have] every variety of attraction and merit;...
    Wsp 6.225 18 In every variety of human employment...there are the working men, on whom the burden of the business falls;...
    Ill 6.324 12 ...the Hindoos...express the liveliest feeling, both of the essential identity and of that illusion which they conceive variety to be.
    SS 7.4 25 [My friend] went to Vienna, to Smyrna, to London. In all the variety of costumes...he could never discover a man in the street who wore anything like his own dress.
    Elo1 7.62 26 Of all the musical instruments on which men play, a popular assembly is that which has the largest compass and variety...
    Elo1 7.67 8 ...all these several audiences...which successively appear to greet the variety of style and topic [of the orator], are really composed out of the same persons;...
    Clbs 7.225 13 Varied foods, climates, beautiful objects,--and especially the alternation of a large variety of objects,--are the necessity of this exigent system of ours.
    Clbs 7.240 25 Every variety of gift...has its vent and exchange in conversation.
    Clbs 7.249 25 We need range and alternation of topics and variety of minds.
    Cour 7.265 2 ...we do not exhaust the subject [Courage] in the slight analysis; we must not forget the variety of temperaments...
    Suc 7.300 16 [Color] clothes the skeleton world with space, variety and glow.
    PI 8.5 22 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...
    PI 8.49 16 There is under the seeming poverty of metres an infinite variety...
    Elo2 8.121 9 What character, what infinite variety belong to the voice!...
    QO 8.189 13 This vast mental indebtedness has every variety that pecuniary debt has...
    QO 8.189 14 This vast mental indebtedness has every variety that pecuniary debt has,-every variety of merit.
    PC 8.210 10 Consider...what variety of issues...the railroad, the telegraph... have evoked!...
    Grts 8.301 6 ...[greatness] has...a wide variety of views...
    Aris 10.46 9 ...I am not going to argue the merits of gradation in the universe; the existing order of more or less. Neither do I wish to go into a vindication of the justice that disposes the variety of lot.
    Edc1 10.137 12 The charm of life is this variety of genius...
    SovE 10.202 14 In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference of opinion in regard to...the future state of the soul; every variety of opinion, and rapid revolution in opinions, in the last half century.
    Schr 10.272 23 [The scholar] is the attorney of the world, and can never be superfluous where so vast a variety of questions are ever coming up to be solved...
    Plu 10.322 19 If over-read in this decade, so that his anecdotes and opinions become commonplace, and to-day's novelties are sought for variety, [Plutarch's] sterling values will presently recall the eye and thought of the best minds...
    LLNE 10.333 17 All [Everett's] speech was music, and with such variety and invention that the ear was never tired.
    LLNE 10.360 26 There was no doubt great variety of character and purpose in the members of the community [Brook Farm].
    LLNE 10.364 12 It is certain that freedom from household routine, variety of character...did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.364 13 It is certain that...variety of work, variety of means of thought and instruction...did not permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
    CSC 10.374 16 A great variety of dialect and of costume was noticed [at the Chardon Street Convention];...
    MMEm 10.421 21 In a religious contemplative public [our civilization] would have less outward variety, but simpler and grander means;...
    Thor 10.480 2 ...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular botanical variety...
    AKan 11.260 21 It must happen, in the variety of human opinions, that there are dissenters.
    EPro 11.322 21 [Lincoln] might look wistfully for what variety of courses lay open to him;...
    SMC 11.367 6 ...these troops [Thirty-second Regiment] saw every variety of hard service...
    Koss 11.398 16 It is our republican doctrine...that the wide variety of opinions is an advantage.
    Scot 11.466 20 In the number and variety of his characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare.
    CPL 11.499 18 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes in her diary...perhaps a greater variety of internal emotions would be felt by remaining with books in one place than pursuing the waves which are ever the same.
    PLT 12.5 13 Our metaphysics should be able to...name the pair identical through all variety.
    PLT 12.42 2 I am bewildered by the immense variety of attractions and cannot take a step;...
    Mem 12.109 2 In dreams a rush...of spending hours and going through a great variety of actions and companies, and when we start up and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are surprised to find it was a short nap.
    CL 12.146 24 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in Downing or Loudon. The Tartaric variety, and Cow-apple...
    CL 12.154 16 ...the variety of our moods has an answering variety in the face of the world...
    CL 12.154 17 ...the variety of our moods has an answering variety in the face of the world...
    ACri 12.288 10 In the infinite variety of talents, 't is certain that some men swear with genius.
    ACri 12.303 13 [Writing] discloses to [man] the variety and splendor of his resources.
    MLit 12.313 9 [Subjectiveness] is founded on...the need to recognize one nature in all the variety of objects...
    MLit 12.327 17 In these days and in this country...it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...in an endless variety of studies...
    WSL 12.347 5 [Landor] has commented on a wide variety of writers...
    WSL 12.348 9 There is no inadequacy or disagreeable contraction in [the dense writer's] sentence, any more than in a human face, where in a square space of a few inches is found room for every possible variety of expression.
    Pray 12.352 2 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries, which attest...the eternity of the sentiment and its equality to itself through all the variety of expression.
    PPr 12.385 19 ...the variety and excellence of the talent displayed in [Carlyle's Past and Present] is pretty sure to leave all special criticism in the wrong.

Variety, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.14 14 We stand before the secret of the world, there where Being passes into Appearance and Unity into Variety.
    PPh 4.47 27 Two cardinal facts lie forever at the base [of philosophy]; the one, and the two.--1. Unity, or Identity; and, 2. Variety.

various, adj. (30)

    AmS 1.93 23 ...[colleges] can only highly serve us...when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls...
    AmS 1.112 7 This idea [of Unity] has inspired the genius...in a newer time, of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. This idea they have...followed...with various success.
    LE 1.184 15 When [the scholar] sees how much thought he owes to the disagreeable antagonism of various persons who pass and cross him, he can easily think that in a society of perfect sympathy, no word, no act, no record, would be.
    MN 1.195 22 ...if polite and various [great men] are shallow.
    MN 1.205 22 The great Pan of old...the firmament, his coat of stars,-was but the representative of thee, O rich and various Man!...
    LT 1.260 13 Here is this great fact of Conservatism...which has planted its... various signs and badges of possession, over every rood of the planet...
    LT 1.267 27 Let us not inhabit times of wonderful and various promise without divining their tendency.
    YA 1.364 2 ...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment...
    Pt1 3.36 26 ...if any poet has witnessed the transformation he doubtless found it in harmony with various experiences.
    NMW 4.224 22 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material, pointing at a sensual success and employing the richest and most various means to that end;...
    ET12 5.210 11 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...
    ET14 5.240 21 [Bacon] explained himself by giving various quaint examples of the summary or common laws of which each science has its own illustration.
    CbW 6.245 16 The physician prescribes hesitatingly out of his few resources the same tonic or sedative to this new and peculiar constitution which he has applied with various success to a hundred men before.
    Ill 6.313 24 We wake from one dream into another dream. The toys to be sure are various...
    Ill 6.322 5 ...we are parties to our various fortune.
    Elo2 8.119 11 The most...thought-paralyzing companion sometimes turns out in a public assembly to be a fluent, various and effective orator.
    Grts 8.306 10 ...[Faraday] showed us various experiments on certain gases...
    Grts 8.318 3 Voltaire is brilliant, nimble and various, but Frederick has the superior tone.
    PerF 10.76 17 ...[man's] his ability and performance are according to his reception of these various streams of force.
    LLNE 10.359 1 Talents supplement each other. Beaumont and Fletcher and many French novelists have known how to utilize such partnerships. Why not have a larger one, and with more various members?
    LLNE 10.368 26 ...what various practical wisdom...many of the members owed to [Brook Farm]!
    CSC 10.374 9 The composition of the assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was rich and various.
    EWI 11.114 1 The colonial legislatures [in the West Indies] received the act of Parliament with various degrees of displeasure...
    EWI 11.117 13 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed...to take from [the apprentices], under various pretences, their fourth part of their time;...
    FRO1 11.480 21 I wish that the various beneficent institutions which are springing up...all over this country, should all be remembered as within the sphere of this committee [of the Free Religious Association]...
    PLT 12.47 26 The various talents are organic...
    CL 12.160 17 ...the zones of plants, the...plum, linnaea and the various lichens and grapes are all thermometers which cannot be deceived...
    MAng1 12.231 27 Polini put an end to all the various projects of repairs [to St. Peter's dome], by the satisfying sentence: The cupola does not start, and if it should start, nothing can be done but to pull it down.
    MAng1 12.241 24 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari, sending him various spiritual sonnets he had written...
    ACri 12.285 4 ...when I read of various extraordinary polyglots...who can understand fifty languages, I answer that I shall be glad and surprised to find that they know one.

variously, adv. (5)

    Lov1 2.187 23 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 2.206 24 I please my imagination more with a circle of godlike men and women variously related to each other...
    UGM 4.11 24 Animated chlorine knows of chlorine, and incarnate zinc, of zinc. Their quality makes [man's] career; and he can variously publish their virtues, because they compose him.
    SwM 4.115 14 The form above [the circular] is the spiral...its diameters are not rectilinear, but variously circular...
    LLNE 10.340 22 Dr. Channing repaired to Dr. Warren's house on the appointed evening, with large thoughts which he wished to open. He found a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...

Varnhagen von Ense, n. (3)

    Chr2 10.105 21 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings.
    Chr2 10.110 13 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity...good-naturedly...
    Chr2 10.112 22 Every age, says Varnhagen, has another sieve for the religious tradition...

varnish, n. (6)

    LE 1.159 15 The sense of spiritual independence is like the lovely varnish of the dew...
    PNR 4.85 6 This eldest Goethe [Plato], hating varnish and falsehood, delighted in revealing the real at the base of the accidental;...
    ET18 5.305 1 [English] culture is not an outside varnish...
    Bhr 6.169 22 [Manners] form at last a rich varnish with which the routine of life is washed and its details adorned.
    Bhr 6.187 24 ...through this lustrous varnish the reality is ever shining.
    WD 7.171 15 The sky is the varnish or glory with which the Artist has washed the whole work...

varnish, v. (1)

    SR 2.51 16 ...never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off.

varnished, v. (1)

    AKan 11.259 14 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...one crime...always to be varnished over...

varnishes, v. (1)

    ET6 5.111 20 The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex. After the spire and the spines are formed...a juice exudes and a hard enamel varnishes every part.

vary, v. (12)

    Nat 1.5 16 ...in an impression so grand as that of the world on the human mind, [man's operations] do not vary the result.
    LE 1.169 17 ...this beauty...which the sun and the moon, the snow and the rain, repaint and vary, has never been recorded by art...
    Lov1 2.186 26 ...the circumstances vary every hour.
    OS 2.281 21 ...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...
    NER 3.281 17 I believe it is the conviction of the purest men that the net amount of man and man does not much vary.
    ET16 5.282 5 ...here is the high point of the theory: the Druids had the magnet; laid their courses by it; their cardinal points in Stonehenge, Ambresbury, and elsewhere, which vary a little from true east and west, followed the variations of the compass.
    Ctr 6.159 9 We only vary the phrase, not the doctrine, when we say that culture opens the sense of beauty.
    Bhr 6.189 14 ...even the size of your companion seems to vary with his freedom of thought.
    WD 7.173 6 Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not...
    Chr2 10.113 17 ...the education in the divinity colleges may well hesitate and vary.
    Supl 10.168 23 [The old head thinks] I will be as moderate as the fact, and will use the same expression, without color, which I received; and rather repeat it several times, word for word, than vary it ever so little.
    CPL 11.505 27 In 1618 (8th March) John Kepler came upon the discovery of the law connecting the mean distances of the planets with the periods of their revolution about the sun, that the squares of the times vary as the cubes of the distances.

varying, adj. (6)

    Nat 1.43 2 What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of Health!
    OS 2.282 17 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist;...the experiences of the Methodists, are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.
    NMW 4.251 25 I admire...[Bonaparte's] own equality as a writer to his varying subject.
    ET4 5.58 5 A king among these [Norse] farmers has a varying power...
    EdAd 11.392 4 We have a better opinion of the economy of Nature than to fear that those varying phases which humanity presents ever leave out any of the grand springs of human action.
    Koss 11.398 4 Sir [Kossuth], we have watched with attention...the varying feeling with which you have been received...

varying, v. (1)

    GoW 4.275 7 ...by varying the conditions, a leaf may be converted into any other organ...

Vasari, Giorgio, n. (9)

    Boks 7.206 4 When we come to Michel Angelo, his Sonnets and Letters must be read, with his Life by Vasari, or, in our day, by Hermann Grimm.
    Suc 7.310 4 The painter Giotto, Vasari tells us, renewed art because he put more goodness into his heads.
    Bost 12.185 24 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...
    MAng1 12.226 14 ...one day riding over [the Pons Palatinus] on horseback, with his friend Vasari, [Michelangelo] cried, George, this bridge trembles under us;...
    MAng1 12.228 9 ...[Michelangelo] told Vasari that he often slept in his clothes [while painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling], both because he was too weary to undress, and because he would rise in the night and go immediately to work.
    MAng1 12.237 22 ...it seemed to [Michelangelo] that if a man gave him anything, he was always obligated to that individual. His friend Vasari mentions one occasion on which his scruples were overcome.
    MAng1 12.237 27 Vasari observed that [Michelangelo] did not use wax candles...
    MAng1 12.241 24 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari, sending him various spiritual sonnets he had written...
    MAng1 12.242 11 ...a nobler sentiment, uttered by [Michelangelo], is contained in his reply to a letter of Vasari...

vascular, adj. (4)

    LE 1.165 3 ...an able man is nothing else than a good, free, vascular organization...
    MoS 4.168 12 Cut [Montaigne's] words, and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.
    ET8 5.131 25 [The English] are good at storming redoubts...but not, I think, at...any passive obedience, like jumping off a castle-roof at the word of a czar. Being both vascular and highly organized...and intellectual...
    Pow 6.67 3 [Boniface] was a social, vascular creature...

vase, n. (5)

    LE 1.157 4 ...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems...a vase of fair outline, but empty...
    Mrs1 3.150 26 ...are there not women who fill our vase with wine and roses to the brim...
    ET14 5.237 8 ...the Greek art wrought many a vase or column, in which too long or too lithe, or nodes, or pits and flaws are made a beauty of;...
    OA 7.322 26 We still feel the force...of Fontenelle, that precious porcelain vase laid up in the centre of France...
    ACri 12.304 23 When I read Plutarch, or look at a Greek vase, I incline to accept the common opinion of scholars, that the Greeks had clearer wits than any other people.

Vase, Warwick, n. (1)

    Bty 6.295 23 How many copies are there of the Belvedere Apollo...the Warwick Vase...

vases, n. (8)

    Hist 2.26 2 [The Greeks] made vases, tragedies and statues, such as healthy senses should,--that is, in good taste.
    Art1 2.359 13 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber through galleries of statues, vases, sarcophagi and candelabra...is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of which they all sprung...
    PPh 4.56 6 Plato keeps the two vases, one of aether and one of pigment, at his side, and invariably uses both.
    ET11 5.188 15 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that... these have preserved...Warwick and Portland vases...
    DL 7.130 14 Why should we owe our power of attracting our friends to pictures and vases...
    CPL 11.506 8 [Kepler writes] I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt.
    FRep 11.511 19 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the forms of old Etruscan vases...
    CW 12.173 8 I [Linnaeus] possess here [in the Academy Garden]...unless I am very much mistaken, what is far more beautiful than...vases of the Chinese.

vassal, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.206 27 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. ...in sooth not through any cowardice of my warfare art thou thyself, my king and my God, conquered this day, and not Richard thy vassal.

vassalage, n. (1)

    EWI 11.101 10 If the Virginian piques himself on the picturesque luxury of his vassalage...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...

vassals, n. (1)

    Plu 10.314 24 [Plutarch] thinks that the inhabitants of Asia came to be vassals to one, only for not having been able to pronounce one syllable; which is, No.

vast, adj. (144)

    Nat 1.55 23 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles]...that this feeble human being has penetrated the vast masses of nature with an informing soul...
    Nat 1.60 8 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...as one vast picture which God paints on the instant eternity...
    LE 1.165 5 ...[the able man's] fund of justice is not only vast, but infinite.
    MN 1.223 6 Who shall dare think he has...missed anything excellent in the past, who seeth...the yet untouched continent of hope glittering with all its mountains in the vast West?
    MR 1.256 6 There is a sublime prudence which is the very highest that we know of man, which, believing in a vast future...postpones always the present hour to the whole life;...
    LT 1.278 12 ...the greatest action of man [leaves] no mark in the vast idea.
    Con 1.308 16 I find this vast network, which you call property, extended over the whole planet.
    Tran 1.333 26 ...[the idealist] does not respect...the church, nor charities, nor arts, for themselves; but hears, as at a vast distance, what they say...
    YA 1.363 15 This rage of road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade...
    YA 1.369 22 The vast majority of the people of this country live by the land...
    YA 1.395 7 Here...the vast tendencies concur of a new order.
    SR 2.69 8 Vast spaces of nature...are of no account.
    Comp 2.121 3 Being is the vast affirmative...
    SL 2.139 2 Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.
    Lov1 2.186 3 [The soul]...at last...puts on the harness and aspires to vast and universal aims.
    Fdsp 2.197 16 I cannot deny it, O friend, that the vast shadow of the Phenomenal includes thee also in its pied and painted immensity...
    Cir 2.304 18 ...in its first and narrowest pulses [the heart] already tends outward with a vast force...
    Cir 2.307 2 Alas for...this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow!
    Int 2.346 10 This band of grandees...Synesius and the rest, have somewhat so vast in their logic, so primary in their thinking, that it seems antecedent to all the ordinary distinctions of rhetoric and literature...
    Nat2 3.193 26 To the intelligent, nature converts itself into a vast promise...
    PNR 4.80 13 Modern science...by the simple expedient of lighting up the vast background, generates a feeling of complacency and hope.
    SwM 4.137 1 ...[Swedenborg's] judgments are those of a Swedish polemic, and his vast enlargements purchased by adamantine limitations.
    MoS 4.160 5 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing...that we cannot give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict, with powers so vast and unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited vulnerable popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every danger, on the other.
    MoS 4.179 11 So vast is the disproportion between the sky of law and the pismire of performance under it, that whether [a man] is a man of worth or a sot is not so great a matter as we say.
    ShP 4.207 18 The forest of Arden...the antres vast and desarts idle of Othello's captivity,--where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
    NMW 4.223 14 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy, if any man is found to carry with him the power and affections of vast numbers, if Napoleon is France...it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.
    NMW 4.257 8 ...what was the result of [Napoleon's] vast talent and power...
    ET4 5.45 21 It has been denied that the English have genius. Be it as it may, men of vast intellect have been born on their soil...
    ET5 5.76 20 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls,--a kind of goblin men with vast power of work and skilful production...
    ET5 5.91 20 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board. The ship struck a rock and went to the bottom. He had them all fished up by divers, at a vast expense...
    ET5 5.93 14 ...in the complications of the trade and politics of their vast empire, [the English] have been equal to every exigency...
    ET8 5.136 5 Great men, said Aristotle, are always of a nature originally melancholy. 'T is the habit of a mind which attaches to abstractions with a passion which gives vast results.
    ET8 5.139 6 There is an adipocere in [Englishmen's] constitution, as if they...could perform vast amounts of work without damaging themselves.
    ET8 5.139 11 Even the scale of expense on which people live...proves the tension of [English] muscle, when vast numbers are found who can each lift this enormous load.
    ET8 5.143 1 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence, and however this inclination may have been disturbed by the bribes with which their vast colonial power has warped men out of orbit, the inclination endures...
    ET10 5.163 21 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...are in the vast auction [in England]...
    ET11 5.193 15 Even peers who are men of worth and public spirit [in England] are overtaken and embarrassed by their vast expense.
    ET11 5.193 27 Most of [the English noblemen] are only chargeable with idleness, which, because it squanders such vast power of benefit, has the mischief of crime.
    ET14 5.236 3 The ardor and endurance of [English] study...their fancy and imagination and easy spanning of vast distances of thought...astonish...
    ET14 5.241 16 A few generalizations always circulate in the world... which...appear to be avenues to vast kingdoms of thought...
    ET14 5.243 8 ...we find stumps of vast trees in our exhausted soils, and have received traditions of their ancient fertility to tillage...
    ET14 5.249 2 ...the misfortune of [Coleridge's] life, his vast attempts but most inadequate performings...seems to mark the closing of an era.
    ET14 5.252 11 ...even what is called philosophy and letters [in England] is mechanical in its structure...as if no vast hope, no religion, no song of joy, no wisdom, no analogy existed any more.
    ET17 5.293 18 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days, one at Kew, where Sir William Hooker showed me all the riches of the vast botanic garden;...
    ET18 5.303 5 [The English people's] many-headedness is owing to the advantageous position of the middle class, who are always the source of letters and science. Hence the vast plenty of their aesthetic production.
    ET18 5.304 2 [England's] colonial policy, obeying the necessities of a vast empire, has become liberal.
    F 6.49 9 In astronomy is vast space but no foreign system;...
    F 6.49 10 ...in geology, vast time but the same laws as to-day.
    Pow 6.54 17 All the great captains, said Bonaparte, have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of the art...
    Pow 6.54 23 ...the key to all ages is--Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men at all times...
    Pow 6.81 7 The world...has no casualty in all its vast and flowing curve.
    Wth 6.85 21 ...a better order is equivalent to vast amounts of brute labor.
    Ctr 6.150 9 The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist...
    Wsp 6.213 18 To this [moral] sentiment belong vast and sudden enlargements of power.
    CbW 6.248 18 Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast...
    Ill 6.325 15 [The young mortal] fancies himself in a vast crowd which sways this way and that...
    Civ 7.24 22 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship...driven by steam; and in wildest sea-mountains, at vast distances from home,--The pulses of her iron heart/ Go beating through the storm./
    Civ 7.31 19 I see the vast advantages of this country...
    Elo1 7.78 3 It was said that a man has at one step attained vast power, who has renounced his moral sentiment...
    DL 7.122 6 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland]...such vast knowledge that he was not ignorant in anything...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...
    DL 7.131 9 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo,--which have every day now for three hundred years...exalted the piety of what vast multitudes of men of all nations!
    Farm 7.146 10 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles.
    WD 7.158 25 ...the vast production and manifold application of iron is new;...
    WD 7.183 22 ...the least acceleration of thought and the least increase of power of thought, make life to seem and to be of vast duration.
    Boks 7.205 9 [The student] cannot spare Gibbon, with his vast reading...
    Clbs 7.234 25 ...once in the right company, new and vast values do not fail to appear.
    OA 7.320 13 The vast inconvenience of animal immortality was told in the fable of Tithonus.
    PI 8.15 10 ...Nature itself is a vast trope...
    PI 8.44 8 Vast is the difference between writing clean verses for magazines, and creating these new persons and situations...
    SA 8.81 5 [Manners'] vast convenience I must always admire.
    SA 8.91 14 A universal etiquette should fix an iron limit after which a moment should not be allowed without explicit leave granted on request of either the giver or receiver of the visit. There is inconvenience in such strictness, but vast inconvenience in the want of it.
    SA 8.104 14 We have come...to know the vast resources of the continent...
    Elo2 8.112 12 There are not only the wants of the intellectual and learned and poetic men and women to be met, but also the vast interests of property, public and private...
    Elo2 8.132 22 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech... that of political advice and persuasion...reaching...into a vast future...
    Res 8.142 5 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha (or petroleum) obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn...for a vast number of years.
    Res 8.153 26 The tropics are one vast garden;...
    QO 8.189 12 This vast mental indebtedness has every variety that pecuniary debt has...
    QO 8.204 16 This vast memory [the Past] is only raw material.
    PC 8.207 8 The heart still beats with the public pulse of joy that the country has withstood the rude trial which threatened its existence, and thrills with the vast augmentation of strength which it draws from this proof.
    PC 8.209 19 ...[the coxcomb] has found...that good sense is now in power, and that resting on a vast constituency of intelligent labor...
    PC 8.224 6 Here stretches...out of conception even, this vast Nature...
    PPo 8.238 3 Oriental life and society...stand in violent contrast with...the vast average of comfort of the Western nations.
    Imtl 8.327 24 Swedenborg had a vast genius...
    Imtl 8.334 26 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in mountain chains, and in the evidence of vast geologic periods which these give;...
    Imtl 8.336 14 Will you, with vast cost and pain, educate your children to be adepts in their several arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce a masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers to shoot them down?
    Dem1 10.27 21 ...I think the numberless forms in which this superstition [demonology] has reappeared...betrays [man's] conviction that behind all your explanations is a vast and potent and living Nature...
    Aris 10.60 7 ...out of the vast duration of man's race, [a certain order of men] tower like mountains...
    Edc1 10.148 9 It s curious...what vast pains and cost we incur to do wrong.
    SovE 10.190 9 Community of property is tried, as when a Tartar horde or an Indian tribe roam over a vast tract for pasturage or hunting;...
    SovE 10.197 15 ...what touches any thread in the vast web of being touches me.
    Prch 10.235 3 Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid!
    MoL 10.248 2 Man makes no more impression on [Nature's] wealth than the caterpillar or the cankerworm whose petty ravage...is insignificant in the vast exuberance of the summer.
    Schr 10.272 22 [The scholar] is the attorney of the world, and can never be superfluous where so vast a variety of questions are ever coming up to be solved...
    Plu 10.298 22 The reason of Plutarch's vast popularity is his humanity.
    LLNE 10.344 24 I habitually apply to [Theodore Parker] the words of a French philosopher who speaks of the man of Nature who abominates the steam-engine and the factory. His vast lungs breathe independence with the air of the mountains and the woods.
    LLNE 10.345 17 [The pilgrim]...explained with simple warmth the belief of himself...of the vast mischief of our insidious coin.
    LLNE 10.347 27 Fourier...turned a truly vast arithmetic to the question of social misery...
    LLNE 10.348 20 [Fourier's] ciphering goes...into stars, atmospheres and animals, and men and women, and classes of every character. It...could not but suggest vast possibilities of reform to the coldest and least sanguine.
    LVB 11.91 22 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting to put this active nation [the Cherokees] into carts and boats, and to drag them...to a wilderness at a vast distance beyond the Mississippi.
    LVB 11.94 10 ...[the question of currency and trade] is the chirping of grasshoppers beside the immortal question...whether...so vast an outrage upon the Cherokee Nation and upon human nature shall be consummated.
    EWI 11.145 5 ...in the great anthem which we call history, a piece of many parts and vast compass...[the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can strike in with effect...
    War 11.160 2 ...ideas work in ages, and animate vast societies of men...
    War 11.163 12 The reference to any foreign register will inform us of the number of thousand or million men that are now under arms in the vast colonial system of the British Empire...
    War 11.163 15 This vast apparatus of artillery...this incessant patrolling of sentinels;...seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
    FSLC 11.208 3 Everything invites emancipation. The grandeur of the design, the vast stake we hold;...all join to demand it.
    FSLC 11.209 20 By new arts the earth is subdued, roaded, tunnelled, telegraphed, gas-lighted; vast amounts of old labor disused;...
    AKan 11.259 8 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...
    AKan 11.263 3 ...now, vast property, gigantic interests...cover the land with a network that immensely multiplies the dangers of war.
    TPar 11.290 11 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on the years when Southern slavery...made new and vast pretensions...
    ACiv 11.301 16 ...there is no one owner of the state, but a good many small owners. ... It is clearly a vast inconvenience to each of these to make any change...
    EPro 11.317 17 ...great as the popularity of the President [Lincoln] has been, we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    EPro 11.322 13 If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp, which...neutralized hitherto all the vast capabilities of this continent,-then this taxation...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
    ALin 11.332 11 ...[Lincoln] had a vast good nature...
    SMC 11.349 18 We are thankful...that the heroes of old and of recent date, who made and kept America free and united, were...sporadic over vast tracts of the Republic.
    SMC 11.355 6 ...armies, which are only wandering cities, generate a vast heat...
    SMC 11.355 11 The armies mustered in the North...had the vast advantage of carrying whither they marched a higher civilization.
    SHC 11.430 18 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature...
    SHC 11.433 24 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...and here the vast firs of California and Oregon.
    FRep 11.516 1 At every moment some one country more than any other represents the sentiment and the future of mankind. None will doubt that America occupies this place in the opinion of nations, as is proved by the fact of the vast immigration into this country...
    FRep 11.521 27 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...
    FRep 11.543 14 We shall stand...for vast interests;...
    PLT 12.5 8 In astronomy, vast distance, but we never go into a foreign system.
    PLT 12.5 9 In geology, vast duration, but we are never strangers.
    PLT 12.12 2 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he does not interfere with its vast curves...
    PLT 12.28 16 No quality in Nature's vast magazines [each man] cannot touch...
    CInt 12.118 18 ...I note that we had a vast self-esteem on the subject of Bunker Hill, Yorktown and New Orleans.
    CInt 12.132 5 ...old men cannot see...the institutions, the laws under which they have lived, passing, or soon to pass, into the hands of you and your contemporaries, without an earnest wish that you have caught sight of... your vast possibilities and inspiring duties.
    CL 12.135 24 The nomads wander over vast territory, to find their pasture.
    CL 12.142 11 The qualifications of a professor [of walking] are...an eye for Nature, good humor, vast curiosity...
    CL 12.148 24 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... They drive before them in their course the long, vast, uninjurable, rain-retaining cloud.
    CL 12.154 3 ...[the sea] is one vast rolling bed of life...
    CL 12.157 12 The landscape is vast, complete, alive.
    CL 12.164 19 What is the merit of Thomson's Seasons but copying a few of the pictures out of this vast book [of Nature] into words...
    CL 12.167 4 Nature is vast and strong...
    Bost 12.188 3 It was said of Rome in its proudest days, looking at the vast radiation of the privilege of Roman citizenship through the then-known world,-the extent of the city and of the world is the same...
    MAng1 12.231 5 [Michelangelo] said he would hang the Pantheon in the air; and he redeemed his pledge by suspending that vast cupola [of St. Peter' s], without offence to grace or to stability, over the astonished beholder.
    MAng1 12.236 10 Amidst endless annoyances from the envy and interest of the office-holders and agents in the work whom he had displaced, [Michelangelo] steadily ripened and executed his vast ideas.
    MAng1 12.239 10 [Michelangelo] said of his predecessor, the architect Bramante, that he laid the first stone of Saint Peter's...with fit design for a vast structure.
    ACri 12.295 11 Shakspeare would have sufficed for the culture of a nation for vast periods.
    ACri 12.303 22 ...literature resounds with the music of united vast ideas of affirmation and of moral truth.
    MLit 12.310 22 [The library of the Present Age] exhibits a vast carcass of tradition every year...
    MLit 12.318 13 Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
    WSL 12.342 17 There are vast spaces in a thought...
    Trag 12.416 11 Analogous supplies are made to those individuals whose character leads them to vast exertions of body and mind.

vast, adv. (1)

    SwM 4.102 17 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg] lies vast abroad on his times...

vast, n. (12)

    MN 1.205 14 So must we admire in man...the concentration of the vast...
    MN 1.209 1 ...[a man's] health and erectness consist in the fidelity with which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point on which his genius can act.
    Tran 1.337 17 ...if there is...any reliance on the vast, the unknown;...the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature.
    PPh 4.47 19 [Plato] leaves with Asia the vast and superlative;...
    PI 8.57 21 I find or fancy more true poetry, the love of the vast and the ideal, in the Welsh and bardic fragments of Taliessin and his successors, than in many volumes of British Classics.
    Imtl 8.335 27 ...what are these delights in the vast and permanent and strong, but approximations and resemblances of what is entire and sufficing, creative and self-sustaining life?
    Dem1 10.27 8 ...far be from me the impatience which cannot brook the supernatural, the vast;...
    Edc1 10.134 20 If the vast and the spiritual are omitted [in our culture], so are the practical and the moral.
    Supl 10.176 23 ...[Nature] creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning to escape from limitation into the vast and boundless;...
    ChiE 11.470 2 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning to escape from limitation into the vast and boundless...
    Bost 12.197 10 As an antidote to the spirit of commerce and of economy, the religious spirit-always...prompting the pursuit of the vast, the beautiful, the unattainable-was especially necessary to the culture of New England.
    MLit 12.318 22 This new love of the vast, always native in Germany... finds a most genial climate in the American mind.

Vast, n. (3)

    MN 1.219 27 ...let [a man] be filled with awe and dread before the Vast and the Divine...and our eye is riveted to the chain of events.
    Edc1 10.134 16 Is not the Vast an element of the mind?
    Edc1 10.134 18 ...what teaching, what book of this day appeals to the Vast?

vastation, n. (1)

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

vaster, adj. (7)

    UGM 4.35 1 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect. Then he appears as an exponent of a vaster mind and will.
    F 6.1 8 Well might then the poet scorn/ To learn of scribe or courtier/ Hints writ in vaster character;/...
    Res 8.136 3 Day by day for her darlings to her much [Nature] added more;/ In her hundred-gated Thebes every chamber was a door,/ A door to something grander,--loftier walls, and vaster floor./
    PC 8.223 23 ...the universe at last is only prophetic, or, shall we say, symptomatic, of vaster interpretation and results.
    Dem1 10.12 22 We are used to vaster wonders than these that are alleged.
    Shak1 11.448 12 ...Shakspeare taught us that the little world of the heart is vaster, deeper and richer than the spaces of astronomy.
    MLit 12.318 19 The music of Beethoven is said...to labor with vaster conceptions and aspirations than music has attempted before.

vastest, adj. (1)

    Wom 11.413 20 Far have I clambered in my mind,/ But nought so great as Love I find./ What is thy tent, where dost thou dwell?/ My mansion is humility,/ Heaven's vastest capability./

vastest, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.423 23 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou, whose might has laid low the vastest and crushed the worm, restest on thy hoary throne...

vast-flowing, adj. (3)

    Exp 3.73 7 I fully understand language, [Mencius] said, and nourish well my vast-flowing vigor.
    Exp 3.73 8 I fully understand language, [Mencius] said, and nourish well my vast-flowing vigor. I beg to ask what you call vast-flowing vigor? said his companion.
    Exp 3.73 23 Our life seems...not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast-flowing vigor.

vastitudes, n. (1)

    PC 8.225 13 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems...of whose dizzy vastitudes all the worlds of God are a mere dot on the margin;...

vastly, adv. (7)

    ET4 5.59 8 King Ingiald finds it vastly amusing to burn up half a dozen kings in a hall...
    CbW 6.256 18 The benefaction derived in Illinois and the great West from railroads is inestimable, and vastly exceeding any intentional philanthropy on record.
    WD 7.161 21 When commerce is vastly enlarged, California and Australia expose the gold it needs.
    OA 7.325 26 A lawyer argued a cause yesterday in the Supreme Court, and I was struck with a certain air of levity and defiance which vastly became him.
    EPro 11.318 23 The virtues of a good magistrate...seem vastly more potent than the acts of bad governors...
    FRep 11.512 22 ...what is cotton? One plant out of some two hundred thousand known to the botanist, vastly the larger part of which are reckoned weeds.
    EurB 12.375 3 ...the obvious division of modern romance is into two kinds: first, the novels of costume or of circumstance, which is...vastly the most numerous.

vastness, n. (3)

    YA 1.393 2 Instead of the open future expanding here before the eye of every boy to vastness, would they like the closing in of the future to a narrow slit of sky...
    Chr1 3.96 8 With what quality is in him [a man] infuses all nature that he can reach; nor does he tend to lose himself in vastness...
    SwM 4.102 21 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg]...suggests...that a certain vastness of learning...is possible.

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