Vat to Victory
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
vat, n. (3)
ET5 5.89 4 [The English] spend largely on their
fabric, and await the slow return. Their leather lies tanning seven
years in the vat.
Farm 7.142 20 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal
proportions;...and it takes him long to understand its parts and its
working. This pump never sucks;...the vat and piston, wheels and tires,
never wear out...
Res 8.139 12 The vat, the piston, the wheels and
tires [of the earth], never wear out...
Vathek's [William Beckford, (1)
ACri 12.288 15 ...some men swear with genius. I knew
a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only
graceful verses were pretty blasphemies. The better the worse, you will
say; and I own it reminds one of Vathek's collection of monstrous men
with humps of a picturesque peak...
Vatican Gallery, Rome, Ita (1)
Art2 7.38 27 ...from the tattooing of the Owhyhees to
the Vatican Gallery;... Art is the spirit's voluntary use and
combination of things to serve its end.
Vatican, n. (5)
Art1 2.359 12 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...
Exp 3.63 2 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of
Saint Jerome, and what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls
of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see
them;...
PLT 12.43 16 There are times when the cawing of a
crow...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the
Vatican would be in another hour.
Vatican, Rome, Italy, n. (3)
Pow 6.72 20 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the
Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres,
red and yellow...
DL 7.131 3 I go to Rome and see on the walls of the
Vatican the Transfiguration, painted by Raphael...
Boks 7.193 6 We look over with a sigh the monumental
libraries of Paris, of the Vatican and the British Museum.
Vaticans, n. (1)
Wth 6.96 12 It is the interest of all men that there
should be Vaticans and Louvres full of noble works of art;...
vaticination, n. (2)
PLT 12.62 10 We have all of us by nature a certain
divination and parturient vaticination in our minds of some higher good
and perfection than either power or knowledge.
vats, n. (1)
Aris 10.43 12 When Nature goes to create a national
man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers.
She moulds a large brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it;
as if a fine alembic were fed with liquor for its distillations from
broad full vats in the vaults of the laboratory.
Vattel, Emmerichs, n. (2)
FSLC 11.190 15 ...the great jurists...vattel,
Burke...do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are
void].
FSLN 11.227 2 ...Blackstone, Burlamaqui, Vattel...do
all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid]...
Vauban, Sebastien de, n. (1)
MAng1 12.225 21 The excellence of the [defense] works
constructed by our artist [Michelangelo] has been approved by Vauban...
Vaucansons, n. (1)
F 6.18 1 This kind of talent so abounds, this
constructive tool-making efficiency...as if the air [a man] breathes
were made of Vaucansons...
Vaudreuil, Philippe de, n. (1)
War 11.159 9 ...in 1705, Vaudreuil sent [Assacombuit]
to France, where he was introduced to the king.
Vaughan, Henry, n. (1)
QO 8.195 26 Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry
unless it becomes deep, being always blind and deaf to imaginative and
analogy-loving souls...like Donne, Herbert, Crashaw and Vaughan;...
vault, n. (8)
Lov1 2.188 18 ...in health the mind is presently seen
again,--its overarching vault, bright with galaxies of immutable
lights...
F 6.48 14 ...the rainbow and the curve of the horizon
and the arch of the blue vault are only results from the organism of
the eye.
Wsp 6.199 10 ...Bound to the stake, no flames
appalled,/ But arched o'er him an honoring vault./
Suc 7.303 19 Lofn is as puissant a divinity in the
Norse Edda as Camadeva in the red vault of India...
PPo 8.246 27 Stands the vault adamantine/ Until the
Doomsday;/ The wine-cup shall ferry/ Thee o'er it away./
SovE 10.191 17 An Eastern poet...said that God had
made justice so dear to the heart of Nature that, if any injustice
lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue vault would shrivel to a
snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.
SHC 11.434 20 ...I think sometimes that the vault of
the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of
Suns, insead of foot-paths;...
vaulted, adj. (2)
Ill 6.307 19 Know, the stars yonder,/ The stars
everlasting,/ Are fugitive also,/ And emulate, vaulted,/ The lambent
heat-lightning,/ And fire-fly's flight./
Res 8.149 18 When now and then the vaulted roof [of
the Mammoth Cave] rises high overhead...'t is but gloom on gloom.
vaulting, v. (1)
Nat 1.72 23 This is such a resumption of power as if
a banished king should buy his territories inch by inch, instead of
vaulting at once into his throne.
vaults, n. (5)
Nat 1.30 10 ...a paper currency is employed, when
there is no bullion in the vaults.
Comp 2.106 20 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders;
Minerva keeps the key of them:--Of all the gods, I only know the keys/
That ope the solid doors within whose vaults/ His thunders sleep./
Hsm1 2.253 12 ...the soul of a better quality thrusts
back the unreasonable economy into the vaults of life...
Ill 6.309 21 We shot Bengal lights into the vaults
and groins of the sparry cathedrals [in the Mammoth Cave]...
Aris 10.43 12 When Nature goes to create a national
man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers.
She moulds a large brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it;
as if a fine alembic were fed with liquor for its distillations from
broad full vats in the vaults of the laboratory.
vaults, v. (2)
Fdsp 2.205 4 [Friendship] must plant itself on the
ground, before it vaults over the moon.
vaunt, n. (4)
ET5 5.94 23 The Mark-Lane Express, or the Custom
House Returns, bear out to the letter the vaunt of Pope...
ET16 5.277 14 It was pleasant to see
that...[Stonehenge]--two upright stones and a lintel laid across...were
like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the
barrows,--mere mounds...like the same mound on the plain of Troy, which
still makes good to the passing mariner on Hellespont, the vaunt of
Homer...
SovE 10.184 5 In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt
the human superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals;...
FSLC 11.180 22 ...we must transfer our vaunt to the
country, and say, with a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be
arrested here;...
vaunted, adj. (1)
vaunted, v. (1)
Thor 10.457 6 I said [to Thoreau]...who does not see
with regret that his page is not solid with a right materialistic
treatment, which delights everybody? Henry objected, of course, and
vaunted the better lectures which reached only a few persons.
vaunting, adj. (1)
DSA 1.133 5 ...the gift of God to the soul is not a
vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity...
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapie (1)
Chr2 10.92 22 ...we sat it...with Vauvenargues, the
mercenary sacrifice of the public good to a private interest is the
eternal stamp of vice.
Vaux, Thomas, n. (1)
QO 8.196 1 ...Hallam...distinguishes a lyric of
Edwards or Vaux, and straightway it commends itself to us...
Vecellio, Tiziano [Titian], (6)
Art1 2.361 23 [At Naples] I saw that nothing was
changed with me but the place... That fact I saw again in the Academmia
at Naples...and yet again when I came to Rome and to the paintings
of...Titian...
Art2 7.45 8 A very coarse imitation of the human form
on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the
uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture
of Titian.
Art2 7.45 9 A very coarse imitation of the human form
on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give..to the
uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture
of Titiaa. And in the statue of Canova or the picture of Titian, these
give the great part of the pleasure;...
MLit 12.325 8 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to
find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he
observed. Witness his explanation...of the coloring of Titian and Paul
Veronese...
Vecellio's, Tiziano [Titian (1)
Bhr 6.174 23 The modern aristocrat...is well drawn in
Itian's Venetian doges and in Roman coins and statues...
vector, radius, n. (1)
Vedas, Indian, n. (1)
OA 7.317 10 If we look into the eyes of the youngest
person we sometimes discover that...there is that in him which is the
ancestor of all around him; which fact the Indian Vedas express when
they say, He that can discriminate is the father of his father.
Vedas, n. (8)
PPh 4.48 16 In the midst of the sun is the light, in
the midst of the light is truth, and in the midst of truth is the
imperishable being, say the Vedas.
PPh 4.49 12 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of
devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest
expression...chiefly...in the Vedas, the Bhagavat Geeta, and the Vishnu
Purana.
ShP 4.201 1 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian
Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work
of single men.
Boks 7.218 16 After the Hebrew and Greek
Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Vedas and Laws of Menu;...
PI 8.13 24 The Vedas, the Edda, the Koran, are each
remembered by their happiest figure.
PC 8.214 11 ...if these [romantic European] works
still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who
have left remains that certify a height of genius...which men in
proportion to their wisdom still cherish,-as...the grand
scriptures...of the Indian Vedas...
PerF 10.71 16 The Vedas of India...are hymns to the
winds, to the clouds, and to fire.
CW 12.174 20 Plant...the Soma of the Vedas,-Asclepias
Viminalis...
vegetable, adj. (18)
MN 1.200 2 In all animal and vegetable forms, the
physiologist concedes that no chemistry...can account for the facts...
MN 1.201 15 Nature knows neither palm nor oak, but
only vegetable life...
MN 1.216 11 The doctrine in vegetable physiology of
the presence or the general influence of any substance over and above
its chemical influence... is more predicable of man.
Hist 2.21 8 The mountain of granite [the Gothic
cathedral] blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and
delicate finish as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of
vegetable beauty.
Cir 2.318 1 I own I am gladdened by seeing the
predominance of the saccharine principle throughout vegetable nature...
Int 2.330 1 All our progress is an unfolding, like
the vegetable bud.
Nat2 3.186 19 The vegetable life does not content
itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed...
F 6.15 19 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of
granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud; vegetable
forms appear;...
F 6.39 2 The vegetable eye makes leaf, pericarp,
root, bark, or thorn, as the need is;...
Farm 7.143 2 Long before [the farmer] was born, the
sun of ages... mellowed his land...covered it with vegetable film...
Farm 7.146 15 Water...transports vast boulders of
rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends
on its talent of becoming little, and entering the smallest holes and
pores. By this agency, carrying in solution elements needful to every
plant, the vegetable world exists.
PI 8.8 11 In botany we have...the poetic perception
of metamorphosis,--that the same vegetable point or eye which is the
unit of the plant can be transformed at pleasure into every part...
Insp 8.270 22 The Hunterian law of arrested
development is not confined to vegetable and animal structure...
Thor 10.463 10 ...when some one urged a vegetable
diet, Thoreau thought all diets a very small matter...
PLT 12.17 11 ...as man is conscious of the law of
vegetable and animal nature, so is he aware of an Intellect which
overhangs his consciousness...
CL 12.138 27 [Linnaeus]...distributed the animal,
vegetable and mineral kingdoms.
vegetable, n. (3)
Nat 1.10 23 The greatest delight which the fields and
woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and
the vegetable.
SR 2.71 2 ...the vital resources of every animal and
vegetable, are demonstrations of the...self-relying soul.
LLNE 10.352 13 [Fourier] treats man...as a vegetable,
from which, though now a poor crab, a very good peach can by manure and
exposure be in time produced...
vegetables, n. (2)
SwM 4.101 5 ...[Swedenborg] lived on bread, milk and
vegetables;...
Carl 10.491 14 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with
contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he is a
Scotchman who thinks English national character has a pure enthusiasm
for beef and mutton...
vegetation, n. (21)
Nat 1.40 24 ...every change of vegetation...shall
hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
LE 1.168 11 ...indeed any vegetation, any
animation...are alike unattempted [by poets].
Con 1.300 23 The leaves and a shell of soft wood are
all that the vegetation of this summer has made;...
Pt1 3.21 9 The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry,
vegetation and animation...
NER 3.252 16 It was in vain urged by the housewife
that God made yeast... and loves fermentation just as dearly as he
loves vegetation;...
ET16 5.288 17 There, I thought, in America, lies
nature sleeping...too much by half for man in the picture, and so
giving a certain tristesse, like the rank vegetation of swamps and
forests seen at night...
Bty 6.294 2 To this streaming or flowing belongs the
beauty that all circular movement has; as...the annual wave of
vegetation...
Ill 6.310 8 I remarked especially [in the Mammoth
Cave] the mimetic habit with which nature, on new instruments, hums her
old tunes, making... chemistry to ape vegetation.
Res 8.153 8 When I see in these brave plants [the
willows] this vigor and immortality in weakness, I find a sudden relief
and pleasure in observing the mighty law of vegetation...
SovE 10.183 7 ...each of the great departments of
Nature-chemistry, vegetation, the animal life-exhibits the same laws on
a different plane;...
SovE 10.195 17 We do not believe the less in
astronomy and vegetation, because we are writhing and roaring in our
beds with rheumatism.
Schr 10.263 5 I think the peculiar office of
scholars...is to be...expressors themselves of that firm and cheerful
temper...which reigns through the kingdoms of chemistry, vegetation and
animal life.
LLNE 10.329 18 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made
the strength of past ages...warm negro ages of sentiment and
vegetation,-all gone;...
SHC 11.430 11 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I
call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life
every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never
spared,-have impressed on the mind of the age the futility of these old
arts of preserving.
FRO1 11.479 17 ...as soon as every man...is apprised
that the perfect law of duty corresponds with the laws of chemistry, of
vegetation, of astronomy, as face to face in a glass;...then we have a
religion that exalts...
PLT 12.20 15 It is necessary to suppose that every
hose in Nature fits every hydrant; so only is combination, chemistry,
vegetation, animation, intellection possible.
CW 12.177 27 ...the naturalist has no barren places,
no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in winter, because,
remove the snow a little...and there is a perpetual push of buds, so
that it is impossible to say when vegetation begins.
vegetative, adj. (2)
Nat2 3.196 16 Man imprisoned, man crystallized, man
vegetative, speaks to man impersonated.
PLT 12.27 2 The mechanical laws might as easily be
shown pervading the kingdom of mind as the vegetative.
vehemence, n. (3)
MN 1.213 23 It is not proper, said Zoroaster, to
understand the Intelligible with vehemence...
PPh 4.46 5 As soon as, with culture...[men and women]
see [things] no longer in lumps and masses but accurately distributed,
they desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in
detail.
ET1 5.10 26 ...taking up Bishop Waterland's book,
which lay on the table, [Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three
pages written by himself in the fly-leaves...
vehement, adj. (2)
MAng1 12.241 18 So vehement was this desire [for
death], that, [Michelangelo] says, my soul can no longer be appeased by
the wonted seductions of painting and sculpture.
Pray 12.357 3 ...thou [God] didst beat back my weak
sight upon myself, shooting out beams upon me after a vehement
manner;...
vehemently, adv. (1)
PPh 4.45 26 In adult life, while the perceptions are
obtuse, men and women talk vehemently and superlatively...
vehicle, n. (13)
ShP 4.210 22 ...what [Shakespeare] has to say is of
that weight as to withdraw some attention from the vehicle;...
ET16 5.280 21 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was
only milk for one cup of tea. When we called for more, the girl brought
us three drops. My friend [Carlyle] was annoyed...and still more the
next morning, by the dog-car, sole procurable vehicle, in which we were
to be sent to Wilton.
Bhr 6.169 4 The soul which animates nature is not
less significantly published in the figure, movement and gesture of
animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech.
Bhr 6.181 20 If the organ of sight is such a vehicle
of power, other features have their own.
CbW 6.270 12 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid
fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates
[of his household] are soon perverted...into...repairers of this one
malefactor; like a boat about to be overset, or a carriage run away
with...everybody on board is forced to assume strange and ridiculous
attitudes, to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.
Civ 7.30 9 ...when [man] is the vehicle of ideas, he
borrows their omnipotence.
DL 7.127 7 The first glance we meet may satisfy us
that matter is the vehicle of higher powers than its own...
PPr 12.379 20 ...the topic of English politics
becomes the best vehicle for the expression of [Carlyle's] recent
thinking...
vehicles, n. (3)
YA 1.391 13 Nothing is mightier than we, when we are
vehicles of a truth before which the State and the individual are alike
ephemeral.
Dem1 10.14 5 Swans, horses, dogs and dragons, says
Plutarch, we distinguish as...vehicles of the divine foresight...
AKan 11.258 12 We adore the forms of law, instead of
making them vehicles of wisdom and justice.
vehicular, adj. (1)
veil, n. (15)
Lov1 2.175 14 ...no man ever forgot the visitations
of that power to his heart and brain...when the youth
becomes...studious of a glove, a veil, a ribbon, or the wheels of a
carriage;...
OS 2.284 18 It is...in the nature of man, that a veil
shuts down on the facts of to-morrow;...
OS 2.284 20 By this veil which curtains events [the
soul] instructs the children of men to live in to-day.
Cir 2.311 10 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded
by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial
toys. Then cometh the god...and by a flash of his eye burns up the veil
which shrouded all things...
Boks 7.198 5 Of the old Greek books, I think there
are five which we cannot spare... ... 3. Aeschylus...who has given us
under a thin veil the first plantation of Europe.
PPo 8.246 16 Riot, [Hafiz] thinks, can snatch from
the deeply hidden lot the veil that covers it...
LLNE 10.354 7 It argued singular courage, the
adoption of Fourier's system, to even a limited extent, with his books
lying before the world only defended by the thin veil of the French
language.
II 12.89 2 The joy of knowledge, the late discovery
that the veil which hid all things from him is really
transparent...renew life for [a man].
Milt1 12.275 4 ...throughout [Milton's] poems, one
may see, under a thin veil, the opinions, the feelings, even the
incidents of the poet's life...
MLit 12.328 2 Here was a man [Goethe] who...went up
and down, from object to object, lifting the veil from every one, and
did no more.
veil, v. (1)
NR 3.225 23 ...on seeing the smallest arc we complete
the curve, and when the curtain is lifted from the diagram which it
seemed to veil, we are vexed to find that no more was drawn than just
that fragment of an arc which we first beheld.
veiled, adj. (1)
veiled, v. (3)
SS 7.11 6 ...the power to charm the disguised soul
that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is [the
scholar's] rent and ration.
veiling, v. (2)
Hist 2.30 16 Beside its primary value as the first
chapter of the history of Europe (the mythology thinly veiling
authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic arts and the migration
of colonies,) [the story of Prometheus] gives the history of
religion...
MMEm 10.427 7 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary
Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the
name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic
dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author
of her being...
veils, n. (2)
PI 8.12 26 ...my young scholar does not wish to know
what the leopard, the wolf, or Lucia, signify in Dante's Inferno, but
prefers to keep their veils on.
PI 8.31 16 ...if your verse has not a necessary and
autobiographic basis, though under whatever gay poetic veils, it shall
not waste my time.
veils, v. (2)
GoW 4.283 16 ...[Goethe] is very wise, though his
talent often veils his wisdom.
vein, n. (14)
AmS 1.86 19 ...to this schoolboy under the bending
dome of day, is suggested that he and [nature] proceed from one
root;...relation, sympathy, stirring in every vein.
AmS 1.97 23 Authors we have, in numbers, who have
written out their vein...
MN 1.196 13 ...if you come month after month to see
what progress our reformer has made...you still find him...floating
about in new parts of the same old vein or crust.
Prd1 2.239 11 ...neither should you put yourself in a
false position with your contemporaries by indulging a vein of
hostility and bitterness.
Chr1 3.106 26 ...wherever the vein of thought reaches
down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity.
Cour 7.266 25 Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood,
which...does not feel itself except in a quarrel, as one sees
in...cats. The like vein appears in certain races of men and in
individuals of every race.
Suc 7.307 2 ...the heart at the centre of the
universe with every throb hurls the flood of happiness into every
artery, vein and veinlet...
Grts 8.318 26 Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most
remarkable example of this class [of great style of hero] that we have
seen,-a man...with a spirit and a practical vein in the times of terror
that commanded the admiration of the wisest.
FSLC 11.183 14 ...however neatly [Mr. Wolf] has been
shaved, and tailored, and set up on end, and taught to say, Virtue and
Religion, he cannot be relied on at a pinch: he will say, morality
means pricking a vein.
PLT 12.28 10 'T is only the source that we can
see;-the eternal mind... continually ejaculating its torrent into every
artery and vein and veinlet of humanity.
Bost 12.182 10 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred
thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/
Make sunshine in her brain./
Milt1 12.258 3 ...[Milton] believed, his poetic vein
only flowed from the autumnal to the vernal equinox;...
veinlet, n. (2)
Suc 7.307 2 ...the heart at the centre of the
universe with every throb hurls the flood of happiness into every
artery, vein and veinlet...
PLT 12.28 10 'T is only the source that we can
see;-the eternal mind... continually ejaculating its torrent into every
artery and vein and veinlet of humanity.
veinlets, n. (1)
Nat 1.71 22 ...having made for himself this huge
shell...[man] no longer fills the veins and veinlets;...
veins, n. (18)
Nat 1.71 22 ...having made for himself this huge
shell...[man] no longer fills the veins and veinlets;...
Tran 1.354 6 ...we retain the belief that this petty
web we weave will at last be overshot and reticulated with veins of the
blue...
SL 2.150 21 ...a person of related mind...comes to
us...so nearly and intimately, as if it were the blood in our proper
veins, that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having
come;...
Lov1 2.177 12 ...[the lover] feels the blood of the
violet, the clover and the lily in his veins;...
SwM 4.114 23 Hunger is an aggregate of very many
little hungers, or losses of blood by the little veins all over the
body.
ShP 4.212 26 ...no veins, no curiosities; no
cow-painter, no bird-fancier, no mannerist is [Shakespeare]...
ET14 5.251 4 It would be easy to add exceptions to
the limitary tone of English thought, and much more easy to adduce
examples of excellence in particular veins;...
F 6.9 24 How shall a man...draw off from his veins
the black drop which he drew from his father's or his mother's life?
Pow 6.55 10 During...trials of strength, wrestling,
fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...and
but little is sent into the veins.
Pow 6.55 13 Where [the arteries] pour [the blood]
unrestrained into the veins, the spirit is low and feeble.
Art2 7.54 19 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any
stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone
which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed
the rest.
PI 8.73 17 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of
every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of
an inspiration, and presently falling back on a low life. The drop of
ichor that tingles in their veins has not yet refined their blood...
EWI 11.134 2 ...you will not suffer me to forget one
eloquent old man [John Quincy Adams], in whose veins the blood of
Massachusetts rolls...
MLit 12.332 20 Life for [Goethe]...has a gem or two
more on its robe; but... no drop of healthier blood flows yet in its
veins.
vellum, n. (2)
SL 2.154 11 ...vellum and morocco...will not preserve
a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
ET6 5.112 7 An Englishman of fashion is like one of
those souvenirs, bound in gold vellum...but with nothing in it worth
reading or remembering.
velocity, n. (4)
MMEm 10.407 17 [Mary Moody Emerson] had the
misfortune of spinning with a greater velocity than any of the other
tops.
MMEm 10.407 24 ...though [Mary Moody Emerson] might
do very happily in a planet where others moved with the like velocity,
she was offended here by the phlegm of all her fellow creatures...
EWI 11.127 3 ...the West Indian estate was owned or
mortgaged in England, and the owner and the mortgagee had very plain
intimations that the feeling of English liberty was gaining every hour
new mass and velocity...
FSLN 11.231 3 [Reasonably men] answered...that they
knew Cuba would be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood...as
near to monarchy as they could, only to moderate the velocity with
which the car was running down the precipice.
velvet, adj. (2)
velvet, n. (1)
EurB 12.370 15 ...amidst velvet and glory, we long
for rain and frost.
venality, n. (1)
MR 1.231 22 ...in the Spanish islands the venality of
the officers of the government has passed into usage...
Venelas [The Boy and the M (1)
venerable, adj. (22)
Nat 1.48 8 Whether nature enjoy a substantial
existence without, or is only in the apocalypse of the mind, it is
alike useful and alike venerable to me.
SR 2.80 26 They who made...Greece, venerable in the
imagination, did so by sticking fast where they were...
OA 7.315 2 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society at Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy...was
received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect.
PC 8.212 20 The oldest empires,-what we called
venerable antiquity,- now that we have true measures of duration [in
Geology], show like creations of yesterday.
Prch 10.217 7 The venerable and beautiful traditions
in which we were educated are losing their hold on human belief, day by
day;...
Prch 10.222 13 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if
you take away the purpose that animates him. ... The words, great,
venerable, have lost their meaning;...
MMEm 10.402 23 ...Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus,-how
venerable and organic as Nature they are in [Mary Moody Emerson's]
mind!
HDC 11.76 2 Captain Charles Miles, who was wounded in
the pursuit of the enemy [at Concord bridge] told my venerable friend
who sits by me, that he went to the services of that day, with the same
seriousness and acknowledgment of God, which he carried to church.
HDC 11.86 27 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being
exalts the history of this people [of Concord]. It brought the fathers
hither. In a war of principle, it delivered their sons. And so long as
a spark of this faith survives among the children's children so long
shall the name of Concord be honest and venerable.
War 11.171 18 The manhood that has been in war must
be transferred to the cause of peace, before war can lose its charm,
and peace be venerable to men.
JBB 11.272 3 ...the use of a judge is to secure good
government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the
federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local
government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we
should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts trailed in the
dust...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.
JBB 11.272 7 If judges cannot find law enough to
maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them
as learned and venerable.
ChiE 11.471 6 All share the surprise and pleasure
when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the
fellowship of nations.
CPL 11.497 18 ...I always remember with satisfaction
that I saw that venerable plant [Papyrus] in 1833...
ACri 12.287 24 I remember when a venerable divine
[Dr. Osgood] called the young preacher's sermon patty cake.
PPr 12.387 20 The ancients are only venerable to us
because distance has destroyed what was trivial;...
Venerable Bede, n. (1)
Boks 7.206 25 [The scholar] can look back for the
legends and mythology... to Asser's Life of Alfred and Venerable
Bede...
venerate, v. (1)
venerates, v. (1)
veneration, n. (13)
MN 1.210 25 ...as far as we can trace the natural
history of the soul, its health consists in the fulness of its
reception?-call it piety, call it veneration...
Gts 3.162 18 We arraign society if it do not give
us...opportunity, love, reverence and objects of veneration.
ET16 5.276 21 It looked as if the wide margin given
in this crowded isle to this primeval temple [Stonehenge] were accorded
by the veneration of the British race to the old egg out of which all
their ecclesiastical structures and history had proceeded.
SovE 10.212 17 ...all the religion we have is the
ethics of one or another holy person; as soon as character appears, be
sure love will, and veneration...
Prch 10.221 10 The understanding...because it has
found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached,
sneers at veneration;...
Prch 10.221 11 The understanding...because it has
found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached,
sneers at veneration;...
LS 11.18 1 ...our opinions differ much respecting the
nature and offices of Christ, and the degree of veneration to which he
is entitled.
JBB 11.272 8 If judges cannot find law enough to
maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them
as learned and venerable. What avails their learning or veneration?
Venetian, adj. (4)
Art1 2.359 6 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and
Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they
speak.
ET6 5.113 14 ...[the English] think, says the
Venetian traveller of 1500, no greater honor can be conferred or
received, than to invite others to eat with them, or to be invited
themselves...
Bhr 6.174 23 The modern aristocrat...is well drawn in
Titian's Venetian doges and in Roman coins and statues...
MLit 12.325 2 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to
find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he
observed. Witness his explanation...of the Venetian music of the
gondolier...
Venetian, n. (1)
ET9 5.145 10 A much older traveller, the Venetian who
wrote the Relation of England, in 1500, says:--The English are great
lovers of themselves and of every thing belonging to them.
Venetians, n. (1)
ET3 5.40 13 The old Venetians pleased themselves with
the flattery that Venice was in 45 degrees, midway between the poles
and the line;...
vengeance, n. (3)
Comp 2.100 14 If the law is too mild, private
vengeance comes in.
LLNE 10.336 9 ...the paramount source of the
religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who
destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the
earth on which we live was not the centre of the Universe...and thus
fitted to be the platform on which the Drama of the Divine Judgment was
played before the assembled Angels of Heaven,-the scaffold of the
divine vengeance Saurin called it...
vengeful, adj. (1)
Wsp 6.222 17 ...[the countryman] makes the discovery
that...the censors of action are as numerous and as near in Paris as in
Littleton or Portland; that the gossip is as prompt and vengeful.
Venice, Golden Book of, n. (1)
Aris 10.32 27 The Golden Book of Venice, the scale of
European chivalry... is each a transcript of the decigrade or
centigraded Man.
Venice, Italy, n. (9)
Con 1.311 18 For thee Naples, Florence, and
Venice;...
ET3 5.40 14 The old Venetians pleased themselves with
the flattery that Venice was in 45 degrees, midway between the poles
and the line;...
ET12 5.203 15 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr.
Bandinel] bought a room full of books and manuscripts...
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;...
Boks 7.210 24 The tap of [the auctioneer's] hammer
was heard in the libraries of Rome, Milan and Venice.
MAng1 12.223 20 ...even at Venice, on defective
evidence, [Michelangelo] is said to have given the plan of the bridge
of the Rialto.
MAng1 12.224 1 When the Florentines united themselves
with Venice, England and France, to oppose the power of the Emperor
Charles V., Michael Angelo was appointed Military Architect and
Engineer, to superintend the erection of the necessary works.
MAng1 12.225 7 ...[Michelangelo] withdrew privately
from the city [Florence] to Ferrara, and thence to Venice.
MLit 12.325 9 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to
find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he
observed. Witness his explanation...of the coloring of Titian and Paul
Veronese, which one may verify in common daylight in Venice every
afternoon;...
Venice, Merchant of [Wm. S (1)
PI 8.30 25 See how Shakspeare grapples at once with
the main problem of the tragedy, as in...the opening of the Merchant of
Venice.
venison, n. (3)
Comp 2.94 24 What did the preacher mean by saying
that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it...that a
compensation is to be made to these last [the good] hereafter, by
giving them the like gratifications another day,--bank-stock and
doubloons, venison and champagne?
ET5 5.84 7 You dine with a gentleman [in England] on
venison, pheasant, quail, pigeons, poultry, mushrooms and pine-apples,
all the growth of his estate.
HDC 11.35 1 For flesh, [the pilgrims] looked not for
any, in those times, unless they could barter with the Indians for
venison and raccoons.
venom, n. (2)
F 6.33 4 ...whilst art draws out the venom, it
commonly extorts some benefit from the vanquished enemy.
MLit 12.311 6 ...[the library of the Present Age]
vents...books...which work dubiously on society and seem to inoculate
it with a venom before any healthy result appears.
vent, n. (13)
ShP 4.210 16 [Shakespeare] was...a brain exhaling
thoughts and images, which, seeking vent, found the drama next at hand.
Pow 6.68 27 [Men of this surcharge of arterial
blood's] friends and governors must see that some vent for their
explosive complexion is provided.
Bhr 6.191 9 ...when a man does not write his poetry
it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of
writing;...
Civ 7.22 7 When the Indian trail gets widened, graded
and bridged to a good road...there is...a vent for industry.
Art2 7.50 25 ...in the moment or in the successive
moments when that form [of a work of art] was seen, the iron lids of
Reason were unclosed, which ordinarily are heavy with slumber. The
individual mind became for the moment the vent of the mind of humanity.
Elo1 7.83 10 ...if one of [the debaters] have
anything of commanding necessity in his heart, how speedily he will
find vent for it...
Boks 7.213 6 We must have...some swing and verge for
the creative power...driving ardent natures to insanity and crime if it
do not find vent.
OA 7.327 9 Every faculty new to each man
thus...drives him out into doleful deserts until it finds proper vent.
PPo 8.250 1 Hafiz praises...birds, mornings and
music, to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every
form of beauty and joy;...
LLNE 10.365 2 In the American social communities, the
gossip found such vent and sway as to become despotic.
vent, v. (2)
Hist 2.34 7 ...when [the bard] seems to vent a mere
caprice and wild romance, the issue is an exact allegory.
PPo 8.250 25 A saint might lend an ear to the riotous
fun of Falstaff; for it is...created...to vent the joy of a supernal
intelligence.
vented, v. (1)
Art1 2.366 9 The old tragic Necessity,
which...furnishes the sole apology for the intrusion of such anomalous
figures [as Venuses and Cupids] into nature,--namely...that the artist
was drunk with a passion for form which... vented itself in these fine
extravagances,--no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
ventilate, v. (1)
ventilated, v. (2)
Bost 12.199 2 When one thinks of the enterprises that
are attempted in the heats of youth...which have been so profoundly
ventilated, but end in a protracted picnic...we see with new increased
respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New
England]...
ventilation, n. (3)
DL 7.111 11 The progress of domestic living has been
in cleanliness, in ventilation...
Supl 10.178 13 The European civility, or that of the
positive degree, is established by coal-mines, by ventilation, by
irrigation and every skill...
EdAd 11.383 13 ...this energetic race [Americans]
derive an unprecedented material power...from ventilation, from ice,
ether, caoutchouc, and innumberable inventions and manufactures.
venting, n. (1)
PPr 12.389 14 ...in all this glad and needful venting
of his redundant spirits, [Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if
catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in
clear level tone the very word...
ventriloquist, n. (1)
CInt 12.120 11 ...I value [talent] more...when the
talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is
the patriotism of Demosthenes, of Patrick Henry...strong by the
strength of the facts themselves. Then the orator is still one of the
audience, persuaded by the same reasons which persuade them; not a
ventriloquist, not a juggler...
vents, n. (2)
Bhr 6.191 8 ...when a man does not write his poetry
it escapes by other vents through him, instead of the one vent of
writing;...
vents, v. (2)
Hsm1 2.247 21 I do not readily remember any poem,
play, sermon, novel or oration that our press vents in the last few
years, which goes to the same [heroic] tune.
venture, n. (2)
Tran 1.332 8 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his
banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and
solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with
it... And this wild balloon, in which his whole venture is embarked, is
a just symbol of his whole state and faculty.
Chr2 10.94 24 Compare...all our private and personal
venture in the world, with this deep of moral nature in which we lie...
venture, v. (13)
Comp 2.109 19 Nothing venture, nothing have.
SwM 4.101 20 The genius [of Swedenborg] which
was...to...venture into the dim spirit-realm...began its lessons in
quarries and forges...
GoW 4.266 21 If I were to compare action of a much
higher strain with a life of contemplation, I should not venture to
pronounce with much confidence in favor of the former.
ET14 5.259 3 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to
prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all
rules drawn from the ancient or modern literature of Europe...
CbW 6.263 2 If now in this connection of discourse we
should venture on laying down the first obvious rules of life, I will
not here repeat the first rule of economy...
Boks 7.197 6 ...I will venture...to count the few
books which a superficial reader must thankfully use.
Clbs 7.231 4 Amidst all the gay banter, sentiment
cannot profane itself and venture out.
Cour 7.274 25 Sacred courage indicates...that [a
man]...will venture all to put in act the invisible thought in his
mind.
Aris 10.57 5 I will not protract this discourse by
describing the duties of the brave and generous. And yet I will venture
to name one...
Thor 10.484 12 There is a flower known to
botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese
mountains, where the chamois dare hardly venture...
EdAd 11.391 19 Will [a journal] venture into the thin
and difficult air of that school where the secrets of structure are
discussed under the topics of mesmerism and the twilights of
demonology?
Let 12.397 6 ...we are impatient of the tedious
introductions of Destiny... and would venture something to accelerate
them.
ventured, v. (7)
LE 1.185 5 ...I have ventured to offer you these
considerations upon the scholar's place and hope...
MN 1.203 19 ...Nature seems further to reply, I have
ventured so great a stake as my success, in no single creature.
SR 2.75 1 ...it demands something godlike in him
who...has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
ET15 5.270 4 Who would care for [the London Times],
if it surmised...or ventured to predict, etc.?
Wsp 6.233 8 It is related of William of Orange, that
whilst he was besieging a town on the continent, a gentleman...learning
that the king was before the walls...ventured to go where he was.
FRep 11.521 9 ...we can all count the few
cases...when a public man ventured to act as he thought...
ventures, v. (1)
Aris 10.58 9 ...a hero's, a man's success is made up
of failures, because he experiments and ventures every day...
Venus [de Milo ?], n. (1)
Bty 6.295 22 How many copies are there of the
Belvedere Apollo, the Venus...
Venus, n. (6)
PI 8.25 22 ...[people] like to talk and hear of Jove,
Apollo, Minerva, Venus and the Nine.
Comc 8.171 23 A lady of high rank, but of lean
figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier
tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure, as well as to her republican
opinions; the Countess retaliated by calling Madame the Venus of the
Pere-Lachaise...
PPo 8.253 4 ...I heard the harp of the planet Venus,
and it said in the early morning, I am the disciple of the sweet-voiced
Hafiz!
Venuses, n. (1)
Art1 2.366 3 The old tragic Necessity, which lowers
on the brows even of the Venuses and the Cupids of the antique...no
longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
vera, n. (1)
FSLN 11.226 15 [Webster]...left, with much
complacency we are told, the testament of his [7th of March] speech to
the astonished State of Massachusetts, vera pro gratis;...
veracious, adj. (1)
Chr2 10.108 2 ...So far the religion is now where it
should be. Persons are discriminated as honest, as veracious, as
illuminated...
veracities, n. (1)
Carl 10.496 9 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and
Cambridge education indurates the young men...so that when they come
forth of them, they say... we have gone through all the degrees, and
are case-hardened against the veracities of the Universe;...
veracity, n. (16)
NR 3.230 24 ...universally, a good example of this
social force is the veracity of language, which cannot be debauched.
UGM 4.10 8 ...a sober grace adheres to the mineral
and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the
charm of nature...the veracity of angles.
ET7 5.117 14 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a
cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on
digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in
pieces. English veracity seems to result on a sounder animal
structure...
ET7 5.120 24 ...one cannot think this festival [of
St. George in Montreal] fruitless, if, all over the world, on the 23d
of April, wherever two or three English are found, they meet to
encourage each other in the nationality of veracity.
ET12 5.213 13 ...when you have settled it that the
universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart
of Oxford...to give veracity to art and charm mankind...
ET14 5.232 13 This homeliness, veracity and plain
style appear in the earliest extant [English literary] works and in the
latest.
Bty 6.294 25 Veracity first of all, and forever.
Ill 6.322 25 I look upon the simple and childish
virtues of veracity and honesty as the root of all that is sublime in
character.
PI 8.39 14 ...we demand of [the poet] what he demands
of himself,-- veracity, first of all.
PC 8.229 11 Men say, Ah! if a man could impart his
talent, instead of his performance, what mountains of guineas would be
paid! Yes, but in the measure of his absolute veracity he does impart
it.
Bost 12.193 11 ...[the savage] goes muttering his
rude ritual or mythology, which yet conceals some grand commandment; as
courage, veracity, honesty...
Veracity, n. (1)
PI 8.29 14 Veracity.--I do not wish...to find that my
poet is not partaker of the feast he spreads...
Veraguas [Veragua], Panama, (3)
Suc 7.285 16 ...when he reached Spain [Columbus] told
the King and Queen that they may ask all the pilots who came with him
where is Veragua.
Suc 7.285 17 ...when he reached Spain [Columbus] told
the King and Queen that they may ask all the pilots who came with him
where is Veragua. Let them answer and say if they know where Veragua
lies.
verament, adv. (1)
Wsp 6.206 7 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both
fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love
fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his
life;/...
veranda, adj. (1)
verb, n. (1)
Pt1 3.20 2 The world being thus put under the mind
for verb and noun, the poet is he who can articulate it.
verbal, adj. (4)
ET1 5.10 10 From London...I went to Highgate, and
wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge, requesting leave to pay my respects to
him. It was near noon. Mr Coleridge sent a verbal message that he was
in bed, but if I would call after one o'clock he would see me.
SovE 10.202 2 [A man] may throw himself upon...some
verbal creed, with such concentration as to hide the universe from him:
but the stars roll above;...
Plu 10.309 15 Plutarch has such a keen pleasure in
realities that he has none in verbal disputes;...
WSL 12.347 17 ...the minuteness of [Landor's] verbal
criticism gives a confidence in his fidelity when he speaks the
language of meditation or of passion.
verbiage, n. (1)
Insp 8.295 19 ...read...fact-books, which all
geniuses prize...as antidote to verbiage and false poetry.
verbs, n. (6)
Nat 1.26 7 Children and savages use only nouns or
names of things, which they convert into verbs...
NER 3.282 26 Every time we converse we seek to
translate [Providence] into speech, but whether we hit or whether we
miss, we have the fact. Every discourse is an approximate answer: but
it is of small consequence that we do not get it into verbs and
nouns...
SwM 4.122 9 To the withered traditional
church...[Swedenborg] let in nature again, and the worshipper, escaping
from the vestry of verbs and texts, is surprised to find himself a
party to the whole of his religion.
PLT 12.37 19 ...Perception is the armed eye. A
civilization has tamed and ripened this savage wit, and he is a Greek.
His Aye and No have become nouns and verbs and adverbs.
verdict, n. (30)
AmS 1.102 8 ...whatsoever new verdict
Reason...pronounces on the passing men and events of to-day, - this
[the scholar] shall hear and promulgate.
LT 1.269 27 The fury with which the slave-trader
defends every inch of... his howling auction-platform, is a
trumpet...to...drive all neutrals...to listen to the argument and the
verdict.
Con 1.325 22 ...if they could give their verdict,
[mankind] would say that [the intemperate and covetous person's]
self-indulgence and his oppression deserved punishment from society...
SR 2.49 7 ...[the boy] gives an independent, genuine
verdict.
SL 2.154 4 They who make up the final verdict upon
every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it
appears...
SL 2.156 10 You think because you...have given no
opinion on the times... that your verdict is still expected with
curiosity as a reserved wisdom.
SL 2.157 3 I have heard an experienced counsellor say
that he never feared the effect upon a jury of a lawyer who does not
believe in his heart that his client ought to have a verdict.
OS 2.286 7 ...[the wise man] lets [men] judge
themselves, and merely reads and records their own verdict.
ShP 4.218 8 The Egyptian verdict of the Shakspeare
Societies comes to mind; that [Shakespeare] was a jovial actor and
manager.
Ctr 6.157 16 Here is a new poem, which elicits a good
many comments in the journals and in conversation. From these it is
easy at last to gather the verdict which readers passed upon it;...
CbW 6.245 22 The lawyer...is as gay and as much
relieved as the client if it turns out that he has a verdict.
OA 7.321 15 The cynical creed or lampoon of the
market is refuted by the universal prayer for long life, which is the
verdict of Nature...
SA 8.101 12 ...in the last age, this system [of
hereditary nobility] has been on its trial, and the verdict of mankind
is pretty nearly pronounced.
Imtl 8.321 3 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/
What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/ Verdict which accumulates/ From
lengthening scroll of human fates/...
Aris 10.49 18 I think that the community...will be
the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen, or will in the
long run give the fairest verdict and reward;...
SlHr 10.442 15 Many good stories are still told of
the perplexity of jurors who found the law and the evidence on one
side, and yet Squire Hoar had said that he believed, on his conscience,
his client entitled to a verdict.
HDC 11.29 12 We will...pass that just verdict on [the
deeds of our fathers] we expect from posterity on our own.
EWI 11.140 17 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781,
whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into
the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in
favor of the master and owners...
FSLN 11.241 7 ...when one sees how fast the rot [of
slavery] spreads...I think we demand of superior men that they be
superior in this,-that the mind and the virtue shall give their verdict
in their day...
FSLN 11.243 1 You, gentlemen of these literary and
scientific schools, and the important class you represent, have the
power to make your verdict clear and prevailing.
TPar 11.292 23 The sudden and singular eminence of
Mr. Parker, the importance of his name and influence, are the verdict
of his country to his virtues.
FRep 11.528 3 Our institutions, of which the town is
the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the voice of
the public...because it is thought to be, on the whole, the
verdict...of the greatest number.
ACri 12.299 12 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II
is] withal a book that is a judgment-day for its moral verdict on the
men and nations and manners of modern times.
verdicts, n. (2)
ET14 5.245 13 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the
ideal standards: the verdicts are all dated from London;...
II 12.75 4 ...in order to win infallible verdicts
from the inner mind, we must indulge and humor it in every way...
Vere, Aubrey de [Earl Oxfo (2)
ET8 5.139 18 No nation was ever so rich in able men
[as England];...men of such temper, that, like Baron Vere, had one seen
him returning from a victory, he would by his silence have suspected
that he had lost the day; and, had he beheld him in a retreat, he would
have collected him a conqueror by the cheerfulness of his spirit.
ET11 5.178 22 Pepys tells us, in writing of an Earl
Oxford, in 1666, that the honor had now remained in that name and blood
six hundred years.
verge, n. (12)
Cir 2.315 15 ...the highest prudence is the lowest
prudence. Is this too sudden a rushing from the centre to the verge of
our orbit?
Cir 2.315 18 Think how many times we shall fall back
into pitiful calculations before we...make the verge of to-day the new
centre.
ET4 5.61 2 ...[the Normans] burned, harried,
violated, tortured and killed, until everything English was brought to
the verge of ruin.
Civ 7.17 10 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful
traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he
hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played
with master's hand./
Boks 7.213 3 We must have...some swing and verge for
the creative power lying coiled and cramped here...
Imtl 8.338 24 On the borders of the grave, the wise
man looks forward with equal elasticity of mind, or hope; and why not,
after millions of years, on the verge of still newer existence?...
HDC 11.84 15 If, at any time, in common with most of
our towns, [our fathers] have carried this economy to the verge of a
vice, it is to be remembered that a town is, in many respects, a
financial corporation.
FSLN 11.230 23 [Reasonably men] answered...that they
saw plainly that all was going to the utmost verge of licence;...
MAng1 12.231 9 ...is there not something affecting in
the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety
years, carrying steadily onward...his poetic conceptions into
progressive execution...
veridicus, n. (1)
ET7 5.117 24 Alfred...is called by a writer at the
Norman Conquest, the truth-speaker; Alueredus veridicus.
veriest, adj. (4)
LE 1.171 24 ...the first observation you
make...though on the veriest trifle, may open a new view of nature and
of man...
MMEm 10.419 11 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] pass my
youth, its last traces, in the veriest shades of ignorance...
War 11.172 20 I do not wonder at the dislike some of
the friends of peace have expressed at Shakspeare. The veriest churl
and Jacobin cannot resist the influence of the style and manners of
these haughty lords.
verification, n. (1)
MAng1 12.219 12 In art, Michael Angelo is himself but
a document or verification of this maxim [Rien de beau que le vrai].
verified, v. (1)
Nat2 3.183 21 Every known fact in natural science was
divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually
verified.
verifies, v. (2)
Hist 2.30 8 One after another [the advancing man]
comes up in his private adventures with every fable of Aesop...and
verifies them with his own head and hands.
Mrs1 3.150 19 The wonderful generosity of her
sentiments raises [woman] at times into heroical and godlike regions,
and verifies the pictures of Minerva, Juno, or Polymnia;...
verify, v. (8)
Tran 1.358 26 ...it may not be without its advantage
that we should now and then encounter rare and gifted men, to...verify
our bearings from superior chronometers.
SwM 4.105 7 What was left for a genius of the largest
calibre but to go over [his predecessors'] ground and verify and unite?
GoW 4.276 11 Take the most remarkable example that
could occur of [Goethe's] tendency to verify every term in popular use.
Boks 7.190 1 ...there are books which are of that
importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the
fables of Cornelius Agrippa...
Edc1 10.145 4 This is the perpetual romance of new
life...when [God] sends into quiet houses a young soul...looking for
something which is not there, but which ought to be there: the thought
is dim but it is sure, and he casts about restless for means and
masters to verify it;...
SlHr 10.441 21 ...[Samuel Hoar] sometimes wearied his
audience with the pains he took to qualify and verify his statements...
SMC 11.356 25 All sorts of men went to the [Civil]
war...the village politician, who could now verify his newspaper
knowledge...
MLit 12.325 9 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to
find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he
observed. Witness his explanation...of the coloring of Titian and Paul
Veronese, which one may verify in common daylight in Venice every
afternoon;...
verifying, v. (6)
Hist 2.10 1 We are always coming up with the emphatic
facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here.
Hist 2.10 9 What the former age has epitomized into a
formula or rule for manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all the
good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule.
ET11 5.192 27 Dismal anecdotes abound, verifying the
gossip of the last generation, of [English] dukes served by bailiffs...
OA 7.329 18 An old scholar finds keen delight in
verifying the impressive anecdotes and citations he has met with in
miscellaneous reading and hearing, in all the years of youth.
Trag 12.412 8 The Egyptian sphinxes...have
countenances expressive of complacency and repose...verifying the
primeval sentence of history on the permanency of that people, Their
strength is to sit still.
verily, adv. (6)
LE 1.165 18 The hero is great by means of the
predominance of the universal nature;...he has only to be forced to
act, and it acts. All men... embrace the deed, with the heart, for it
is verily theirs as much as his;...
Fdsp 2.196 8 The lover, beholding his maiden, half
knows that she is not verily that which he worships;...
ShP 4.199 15 Is there at last in [the writer's]
breast a Delphi whereof to ask concerning any thought or thing, whether
it be verily so, yea or nay?...
Edc1 10.143 26 ...I hear the outcry which replies to
this suggestion:- Would you verily throw up the reins of public and
private discipline;...
CPL 11.494 4 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's
friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...but the
poet's misery caused him to restore the key on the first evening. And I
verily believe I should have become insane, says Petrarch, if my mind
had longer been deprived of its necessary nourishment.
MLit 12.334 4 Verily [the Doctrine of the Life of
Man] will not long want articulate and melodious expression.
veritable, adj. (3)
ET1 5.12 22 ...I proceeded to inquire [of Coleridge]
if the extract from the Independent's pamphlet, in the third volume of
the Friend, were a veritable quotation.
Elo1 7.59 6 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In
his every syllable/ Lurketh nature veritable;/...
verities, n. (5)
Nat 1.66 6 That which seems faintly possible...is
often faint and dim because it is deepest seated in the mind among the
eternal verities.
LE 1.175 6 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may
be, but the instant thought comes...they spurn personal relations; they
deal...with verities...
MoS 4.152 15 After dinner, a man believes less,
denies more: verities have lost some charm.
Wsp 6.216 15 ...when poems were made,--the human
soul...had fixed its thoughts on spiritual verities...
verity, n. (4)
Elo1 7.76 11 Leaving behind us these pretensions...to
come a little nearer to the verity,--eloquence is attractive as an
example of the magic of personal ascendency...
PI 8.20 25 Poetry, if perfected, is the only
verity;...
Verity, n. (1)
verius, adj. (1)
ET7 5.118 4 The mottoes of [English] families are
monitory proverbs, as... Vero nil verius, of the DeVeres.
vermin, n. (2)
MR 1.238 9 Every species of property is preyed on by
its own enemies, as... provisions by mould, putridity, or vermin;...
MR 1.239 6 ...rust, mould, vermin, rain, sun,
freshet, fire, all seize their own...
Vermont, adj. (1)
JBB 11.272 11 A Vermont judge, Hutchinson, who has
the Declaration of Independence in his heart;...is worth a court-house
full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.
Vermont, n. (5)
Ctr 6.146 21 Poor country boys of Vermont and
Connecticut formerly owed what knowledge they had to their peddling
trips to the Southern States.
CbW 6.268 3 [The young people] set forth on their
travels in search of a home: they reach Berkshire; they reach
Vermont;...
EzRy 10.382 25 There were an unusually large number
of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776...Royall Tyler,
Chief Justice of Vermont;...
SMC 11.353 23 ...when you replace the love of family
or clan by a principle, as freedom, instantly that fire runs over the
state-line into New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Ohio...
vernacular, adj. (3)
ET13 5.218 7 ...when the Saxon instinct had secured a
[religious] service in the vernacular tongue, it was the tutor and
university of the people.
WD 7.167 4 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us
the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun, still
recognizable through the modifications of our vernacular words...
vernacular, n. (2)
Mrs1 3.122 11 ...we must keep alive in the vernacular
the distinction between fashion...and the heroic character which the
gentleman imports.
PPh 4.39 21 ...every brisk young man who says in
succession fine things to each reluctant generation...is some reader of
Plato, translating into the vernacular, wittily, his good things.
vernal, adj. (3)
CL 12.160 16 ...the zones of plants, the savin, the
pine, vernal gentian...are all thermometers which cannot be deceived...
Milt1 12.258 4 ...[Milton] believed, his poetic vein
only flowed from the autumnal to the vernal equinox;...
Milt1 12.258 7 [Milton says] In those vernal seasons
of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and
sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches...
Vernons, n. (1)
Wth 6.96 10 Ages derive a culture from the wealth
of...Townleys, Vernons and Peels, in England; or whatever great
proprietors.
vero, adv. (1)
ET7 5.118 4 The mottoes of [English] families are
monitory proverbs, as... Vero nil verius, of the DeVeres.
vero, n. (1)
Veronese, Paul, n. (1)
MLit 12.325 8 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to
find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he
observed. Witness his explanation...of the coloring of Titian and Paul
Veronese...
vers de societe, n. (3)
Scot 11.464 23 [Scott] made no pretension to the
lofty style of Spenser, or Milton, or Wordsworth. Compared with their
purified songs...his were vers de societe.
EurB 12.365 19 [Wordsworth's] are such verses as in a
just state of culture should be vers de societe...
Versailles, France, n. (4)
MN 1.203 14 Why should not then these messieurs of
Versailles strut and plot for tabourets and ribbons...
ACri 12.287 26 The sans-culottes at Versailles cried
out, Let our little Mother Mirabeau speak!
versatile, adj. (7)
Pt1 3.31 25 ...when Aesop reports the whole catalogue
of common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and
beasts;--we take the cheerful hint of the immortality of our essence
and its versatile habit and escapes...
SwM 4.99 10 Such a boy [as
Swedenborg]...goes...prying into...physiology, mathematics and
astronomy, to find images fit for the measure of his versatile and
capacious brain.
ET8 5.138 27 To understand the power of performance
that is in their finest wits...in the versatile transcendent
poets...one should see how English day-laborers hold out.
ET10 5.160 25 The wise, versatile, all-giving
machinery makes chisels, roads, locomotives, telegraphs.
QO 8.184 23 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron
Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has
Brougham!...if he only knew a little of law, he would know a little of
everything.
versatility, n. (7)
UGM 4.16 27 We go to the gymnasium and the
swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body; there is the
like pleasure and a higher benefit from witnessing intellectual feats
of all kinds; as...the transmutings of the imagination, even
versatility and concentration...
GoW 4.271 11 Goethe was the philosopher of this
[modern] multiplicity;... able and happy to cope with this rolling
miscellany of facts and sciences, and by his own versatility to dispose
of them with ease;...
ET10 5.167 11 The incessant repetition of the same
hand-work dwarfs the man, robs him of his strength, wit and
versatility...
Supl 10.172 26 The arithmetic of Newton...the
versatility of Julius Caesar... are sure of commanding interest and awe
in every company of men.
ChiE 11.474 4 [Asian immigrants'] power of continuous
labor, their versatility in adapting themselves to new conditions...are
unlooked-for virtues.
Bost 12.185 8 ...if the character of the people [of
Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may
thank their climate of extremes...
MAng1 12.226 18 Versatility of talent in men of
undoubted ability always awakens the liveliest interest;...
verse, n. (59)
AmS 1.102 3 [The scholar] is to resist the vulgar
prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism, by preserving and
communicating...melodious verse...
Lov1 2.177 16 The heats that have opened [the
lover's] perceptions of natural beauty have made him love music and
verse.
Pt1 3.8 10 ...whenever we are so finely organized
that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear
those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever
and anon a word or a verse...
Pt1 3.34 3 ...all books of the imagination endure,
all which ascend to that truth that the writer sees nature beneath him,
and uses it as his exponent. Every verse or sentence possessing this
virtue will take care of its own immortality.
Pt1 3.42 5 ...thou [O poet] shalt not be able to
rehearse the names of thy friends in thy verse, for an old shame before
the holy ideal.
Chr1 3.106 15 They are a relief from
literature,--these fresh draughts from the sources of thought and
sentiment; as we read...the first lines of written prose and verse of a
nation.
Chr1 3.112 12 ...there is a Greek verse which runs,
The Gods are to each other not unknown./
ShP 4.196 3 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII]
was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can
mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy,
and the following scene with Cromwell, where...the verse has even a
trace of pulpit eloquence.
ShP 4.210 24 ...[Shakespeare] is like some saint
whose history is to be rendered...into verse and prose...
ShP 4.213 12 This power...of transferring the inmost
truth of things into music and verse, makes [Shakespeare] the type of
the poet...
ShP 4.218 11 The Egyptian verdict of the Shakspeare
Societies comes to mind; that [Shakespeare] was a jovial actor and
manager. I can not marry this fact to his verse.
ET1 5.24 14 [Wordsworth] then said he would show me a
better way towards the inn; and he walked a good part of a mile,
talking and ever and anon stopping short to impress the word or the
verse...
CbW 6.266 1 An old French verse runs, in my
translation:--Some of your griefs you have cured,/ And the sharpest you
still have survived;/ But what torments of pain you endured/ From evils
that never arrived!/
Art2 7.46 19 The adventitious beauty of poetry may be
felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than
in the poem.
Art2 7.50 8 [Good poets] found the verse, not made
it.
Clbs 7.248 19 Herrick's verses to Ben Jonson no doubt
paint the fact:-- When we such clusters had/ As made us nobly wild, not
mad;/ And yet, each verse of thine/ Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic
wine./
Suc 7.299 6 ...I have just seen a man...who told me
that [Wordsworth's] verse was not true for him;...
PI 8.31 14 ...if your verse has not a necessary and
autobiographic basis...it shall not waste my time.
PI 8.43 10 I have heard that the Germans think the
creator of Trim and Uncle Toby, though he never wrote a verse, a
greater poet than Cowper...
PI 8.53 6 Victor Hugo says well, An idea steeped in
verse becomes suddenly more incisive and more brilliant...
PI 8.56 1 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his
Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and
appetency for it. It appears in... Collins's Ode to Evening, all but
the last verse...
PI 8.56 12 Gray avows that he thinks even a bad verse
as good a thing or better than the best observation that was ever made
on it.
PI 8.64 12 Bring us...poetry like that verse of
Saadi, which the angels testified met the approbation of Allah in
Heaven;...
QO 8.186 2 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of
The Drowned Lovers...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and
Leander...
Insp 8.268 4 If with light head erect I sing,/ Though
all the Muses lend their force,/ From my poor love of anything,/ The
verse is weak and shallow as its source./
Insp 8.268 11 ...if with bended head I grope/
Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More
anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/
Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/
Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
Insp 8.283 3 I understand The Harbingers to refer to
the signs of age and decay which [Herbert] detects in himself, not only
in his constitution, but in his fancy and his facility and grace in
writing verse;...
Insp 8.295 7 A Greek epigram out of the anthology, a
verse of Herrick or Lovelace, are in harmony both with sense and
spirit.
Insp 8.295 14 You may read Chaucer, Shakspeare, Ben
Jonson, Milton,- and Milton's prose as his verse;...
Schr 10.269 20 The poet writes his verse on a scrap
of paper, and instantly the desire and love of all mankind take charge
of it...
Plu 10.298 2 ...though [Plutarch] never used verse,
he had many qualities of the poet...
Plu 10.302 20 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a
multitude of precious sentences, in prose or verse, of authors whose
books are lost;...
Plu 10.318 10 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the
legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or
verse,-there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
LLNE 10.351 17 ...it is not to be doubted but that in
the reign of Attractive Industry all men will speak in blank verse.
SlHr 10.448 5 ...I have heard that the only verse
that [Samuel Hoar] was ever known to quote was the Indian rule: When
the oaks are in the gray,/ Then, farmers, plant away./
Shak1 11.447 15 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a
painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot, who
first in Boston wrote elegant verse...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the
infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
Scot 11.466 21 In the number and variety of his
characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare. Other painters in verse or
prose have thrown into literature a few type-figures; as Cervantes, De
Foe...
PLT 12.43 17 There are times when the cawing of a
crow...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the
Vatican would be in another hour. In like mood an old verse, or certain
words, gleam with rare significance.
CL 12.134 5 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;/...
ACri 12.290 9 The next virtue of rhetoric is
compression, the science of omitting, which makes good the old verse of
Hesiod, Fools, they did not know that half was better than the whole.
MLit 12.320 1 When we read poetry, the mind asks,-Was
this verse one of twenty which the author might have written as
well;...
Let 12.392 8 ...we have thought that we might clear
our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter
to all and several who have honored us, in verse or prose, with their
confidence...
versed, adj. (2)
CL 12.161 6 ...Goethe...said no man should be
admitted to his Republic, who was not versed in Natural History.
verses, n. (56)
AmS 1.92 3 We read the verses of one of the great
English poets...with a pleasure...which is in great part caused by the
abstraction of all time from their verses.
Hist 2.15 17 A particular picture or copy of verses,
if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the
same sentiment as some wild mountain walk...
SL 2.133 26 Timoleon's victories are the best
victories, which ran and flowed like Homer's verses, Plutarch said.
Lov1 2.177 17 ...men have written good verses under
the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under any other
circumstances.
Int 2.340 27 ...the poet, whose verses are to be
spheral and complete, is one whom Nature cannot deceive...
Pt1 3.9 24 The argument [in modern poetry] is
secondary, the finish of the verses is primary.
PPh 4.46 13 ...[ardent young men and women] sigh and
weep, write verses and walk alone...
SwM 4.113 16 This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces
[Swedenborg' s] favorite dogmas. The ancient doctrine...of Leucippus,
that the atom may be known by the mass; or...in the verses of
Lucretius...The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest
entrails;.../
GoW 4.269 10 There have been times when [the writer]
was a sacred person: he wrote...Sibylline verses...
ET1 5.13 8 When I rose to go, [Coleridge] said...I
will repeat some verses I lately made on my baptismal anniversary...
ET1 5.22 13 [Wordsworth] said, If you are interested
in my verses perhaps you will like to hear these lines.
ET1 5.24 1 [Wordsworth]...quoted, with evident
pleasure, the verses addressed To the Skylark.
ET14 5.237 4 The country gentlemen [in England] had a
posset or drink they called October; and the poets, as if by this hint,
knew how to distil the whole season into their autumnal verses...
ET14 5.256 1 What did Walter Scott write without
stint? a rhymed traveller' s guide to Scotland. And the libraries of
verses [the English] print have this Birmingham character.
ET14 5.257 3 ...if this religion is in the poetry, it
raises us to some purpose, and we can well afford...want of popular
tune in the verses.
Bty 6.295 15 Burns writes a copy of verses and sends
them to a newspaper, and the human race take charge of them that they
shall not perish.
Boks 7.200 15 [Plutarch's] memory is like the
Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited by lyric
verses...
Clbs 7.228 19 How sweet those hours when the day was
not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual
jewels...the delicious verses we had hoarded!
Suc 7.297 11 When the scholar or the writer has
pumped his brain for thoughts and verses, and then comes abroad into
Nature, has he never found that there is a better poetry hinted in a
boy's whistle...than in all his literary results?
PI 8.44 9 Vast is the difference between writing
clean verses for magazines, and creating these new persons and
situations...
PI 8.48 14 So in our songs and ballads the refrain
skilfully used, and deriving some novelty or better sense in each of
many verses...
PI 8.64 10 Bring us...poetry which, like the verses
inscribed on Balder's columns in Breidablik, is capable of restoring
the dead to life;...
Elo2 8.122 22 If indignation makes verses, as Horace
says, it is not less true that a good indignation makes an excellent
speech.
PPo 8.243 11 Gnomic verses...were always current in
the East; and if the poem is long, it is only a string of unconnected
verses.
PPo 8.243 20 Take, as specimens of these [Persian]
gnomic verses, the following...
PPo 8.250 9 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low
rioter, he turns short on you with verses which express the poverty of
sensual joys...
PPo 8.251 21 It is told of Hafiz, that, when he had
written a compliment to a handsome youth...the verses came to the ears
of Timour in his palace.
PPo 8.254 5 O Hafiz! speak not of thy need;/ Are not
these verses thine?/ Then all the poets are agreed,/ No man can less
repine./
PPo 8.256 28 The loving nightingale mourns;-cause
enow for mourning;-/ Why envies the bird the streaming verses of
Hafiz?/ Know that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech./
PPo 8.257 3 The cedar, the cypress, the palm, the
olive and fig-tree, the birds that inhabit them, and the garden
flowers, are never wanting in these musky verses [of Hafiz]...
Insp 8.294 14 I have heard from persons who had
practice in rhyming, that it was sufficient to set them on writing
verses, to read any original poetry.
Edc1 10.141 2 That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs
a little direction to... verses of society, song...
RBur 11.442 5 How many Bonny Doons and John Anderson
my jo's and Auld lang synes all around the earth have [Burns's] verses
been applied to!
CPL 11.500 21 In a private letter to a lady,
[Thoreau] writes, Do you read any noble verses?
PLT 12.49 10 I once found Page the painter modelling
his figures in clay... before he painted them on canvas. Dante, one
would say, did the same thing before he wrote the verses.
CL 12.164 16 A farmer's boy finds delight in reading
the verses under the Zodiacal vignettes in the Almanac.
Milt1 12.252 23 We think we have heard the recitation
of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself
would say;...
Milt1 12.263 5 [Milton's] virtues remind us of what
Plutarch said of Timoleon's victories, that they resembled Homer's
verses, they ran so easy and natural.
Milt1 12.276 27 ...the genius and office of Milton
were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion...to a
higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man.
This was his poem; whereof all his indignant pamphlets and all his
soaring verses are only single cantos or detached stanzas.
ACri 12.288 13 ...some men swear with genius. I knew
a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only
graceful verses were pretty blasphemies.
WSL 12.343 12 Do not brag of your actions, as if they
were better than Homer's verses or Raphael's pictures.
EurB 12.365 18 [Wordsworth's] are such verses as in a
just state of culture should be vers de societe...
versing, n. (1)
Insp 8.282 21 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert]
says:-And now in age I bud again,/ After so many deaths I live and
write;/ I once more smell the dew and rain,/ And relish versing/...
version, n. (11)
Pt1 3.25 18 ...herein is the legitimation of
criticism, in the mind's faith that the poems are a corrupt version of
some text in nature with which they ought to be made to tally.
SwM 4.106 15 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived
were, the universality of each law in nature;...the version or
conversion of each into other, and so the correspondence of all the
parts;...
ET15 5.271 7 Punch is equally an expression of
English good sense, as the London Times. It is the comic version of the
same sense.
Boks 7.197 23 Of Homer, George Chapman's is the
heroic translation, though the most literal prose version is the best
of all.
Boks 7.204 12 I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German,
Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can
procure in a good version.
Plu 10.295 6 [Amyot's] genial version of [Plutarch's]
Lives in 1559, of the Morals in 1572, had signal success.
Milt1 12.275 15 The Samson Agonistes is too broad an
expression of [Milton's] private griefs to be mistaken, and is a
version of the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.
ACri 12.300 18 Whatever new object we see, we
perceive to be only a new version of our familiar experience...
vertebra, n. (2)
SwM 4.107 18 In the animal, nature makes a vertebra,
or a spine of vertebrae...
GoW 4.275 10 ...in osteology, [Goethe] assumed that
one vertebra of the spine might be considered as the unit of the
skeleton...
vertebrae, n. (4)
SwM 4.107 19 In the animal, nature makes a vertebra,
or a spine of vertebrae...
GoW 4.275 13 ...in osteology, [Goethe] assumed that
one vertebra of the spine might be considered as the unit of the
skeleton: the head was only the uttermost vertebrae transformed.
GoW 4.275 18 Man and the higher animals are built up
through the vertebrae, the powers being concentrated in the head [wrote
Goethe].
PLT 12.4 7 [These higher laws]...may be numbered and
recorded, like stamens and vertebrae.
vertebrate, n. (1)
PI 8.8 3 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or
progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms,
the higher to the highest, from the fluid in an elastic sack, from
radiate, mollusk, articulate, vertebrate, up to man;...
vertical, adj. (1)
vertically, adv. (1)
MN 1.196 1 As our soils and rocks lie in strata...so
do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.
vertigo, n. (1)
Exp 3.60 23 ...amidst this vertigo of shows and
politics, I settle myself ever the firmer in the creed that we
should...do broad justice where we are...
Vertue [Virtue] [George He (1)
PI 8.55 28 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his
Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and
appetency for it. It appears in...Herbert's Virtue and Easter...
verum, n. (1)
Very, Jones, n. (1)
CSC 10.375 15 ...Edward, Palmer, Jones Very, Maria W.
Chapman and many other persons of a mystical or sectarian or
philanthropic renown, were present [at the Chardon Street
Convention]...
Vesalius, Andreas, n. (2)
SwM 4.104 23 Unrivalled dissectors,
Swammerdam...Vesalius...had left nothing for scalpel or microscope to
reveal in human or comparative anatomy...
GoW 4.263 18 ...if we knew the genesis of fine
strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan
Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician,
Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck.
vesicle, n. (4)
F 6.14 14 All we know of the egg, from each
successive discovery, is, another vesicle;...
F 6.14 21 ...a vesicle lodged in darkness, Oken
thought, became animal;...
F 6.14 25 Lodged in the parent animal, [the vesicle]
suffers changes which end in unsheathing miraculous capability in the
unaltered vesicle...
vesicles, n. (1)
F 6.14 19 ...all that the primary power or spasm
operates is still vesicles, vesicles.
vespertina, adj. (2)
Nat 1.73 19 ...the knowledge of man is an evening
knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning
knowledge...
Mem 12.94 23 Memory was called by the schoolmen
vespertina cognitio, evening knowledge...
Vespucci, Amerigo, n. (1)
ET9 5.152 19 Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at
Seville...managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus...
vessel, n. (14)
Tran 1.358 21 ...the storm-tossed vessel at sea
speaks the frigate or line packet to learn its longitude...
SL 2.146 10 If you pour water into a vessel twisted
into coils and angles...it will find its level in all.
Pt1 3.30 19 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine
that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the
charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but
it is felt in every definition; as when Aristotle defines space to be
an immovable vessel in which things are contained;...
Exp 3.46 23 Embark, and the romance quits our
vessel...
Chr1 3.95 19 The will of the pure runs down from them
into other natures, as water runs down from a higher into a lower
vessel.
ET5 5.86 23 Lord Collingwood was accustomed to tell
his men that if they could fire three well-directed broadsides in five
minutes, no vessel could resist them;...
Ctr 6.163 9 [The ancients] preferred the noble vessel
too late for the tide... to her companion borne into harbor with colors
flying and guns firing.
Cour 7.262 5 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of
an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he...accompanied
Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to
attack...I was overpowered with fear...
Cour 7.266 3 ...there is no separate essence called
courage...no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or
give this virtue;...
Comc 8.162 22 The victim who has just received the
discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a
stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea;...
EWI 11.130 9 ...I see...poor black men of obscure
employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the
States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in
jails so long as the vessel remained in port...
CPL 11.502 16 Once brought into the world, [thought]
runs over the vessel which received it into all minds that love it.
PLT 12.48 2 Somewhat is to come to the light, and one
[talent] was created to fetch it,-a vessel of honor or of dishonor.
vessels, n. (8)
MN 1.210 11 It is pitiful to be an artist, when by
forbearing to be artists we might be vessels filled with the divine
overflowings...
Prd1 2.229 20 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and
stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as
they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity...
UGM 4.4 20 The gods of fable are the shining moments
of great men. We run all our vessels into one mould.
Carl 10.492 22 [Carlyle says] St. John was insulted
by the Dutch; he came home, got the law passed that foreign vessels
should pay high fees, and it cut the throat of the Dutch, and made the
English trade.
EWI 11.130 8 ...I see...poor black men of obscure
employment...in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of
Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of
South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels
in which they visited those ports...
FRep 11.511 20 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...domestic and
sacrificial vessels of all kinds.
vest, n. (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.
Pt1 3.37 3 He is the poet and shall draw us with love
and terror, who sees through the flowing vest the firm nature, and can
declare it.
Vesta, Temple of, Rome, It (1)
vested, adj. (2)
ET15 5.270 11 [The London Times's] editors know
better than to defend... English vested rights, on abstract grounds.
vestibule, n. (1)
vestige, n. (3)
Comp 2.93 16 ...in [Compensation] might be shown
men...the present action of the soul of this world, clean from all
vestige of tradition;...
Ill 6.319 1 We are coming on the secret of a magic
which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which
they and their fathers held and were framed upon.
PI 8.5 13 I believe this conviction makes the charm
of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic,
without a vestige of the old form;...
vestiges, n. (2)
War 11.159 4 ...our American annals have preserved
the vestiges of barbarous warfare down to more recent times.
Vestiges of...Creation [Rob (1)
EdAd 11.391 15 Here is the standing problem of
Natural Science, and the merits of her great interpreters to be
determined; the encyclopaedical Humboldt, and the intrepid
generalizations collected by the author of the Vestiges of Creation
[Robert Chambers].
vestment, n. (1)
Nat 1.31 5 A man conversing in earnest...will find
that a material image... arises in his mind...which furnishes the
vestment of the thought.
vestry, n. (2)
SwM 4.122 9 To the withered traditional
church...[Swedenborg] let in nature again, and the worshipper, escaping
from the vestry of verbs and texts, is surprised to find himself a
party to the whole of his religion.
EzRy 10.392 1 In debate, in the vestry of the Lyceum,
the structure of [Ezra Ripley's] sentences was admirable;...
vests, v. (1)
Plu 10.302 11 We sail on [Plutarch's] memory into the
ports of every nation, enter into every private property, and do not
stop to discriminate owners, but give him the praise of all. 'T is all
Plutarch...and all property vests in this emperor.
vesture, n. (1)
Vesuvius, Mount, Italy, n. (2)
AmS 1.108 19 [The universal mind] is one central
fire, which, flaming... now out of the throat of Vesuvius, illuminates
the towers and vineyards of Naples.
Mrs1 3.144 12 ...here is...Signor Torre del Greco,
who extinguished Vesuvius by pouring into it the Bay of Naples;...
Vesuvius, Mount, n. (1)
SMC 11.350 27 I shall say of this obelisk [the
Concord Monument]...what Richter says of the volcano in the fair
landscape of Naples: Vesuvius stands in this poem of Nature, and exalts
everything, as war does the age.
veteran, adj. (1)
Cour 7.263 7 It is the veteran soldier, who, seeing
the flash of the cannon, can step aside from the path of the ball.
veteran, n. (3)
SS 7.10 23 When a young barrister said to the late
Mr. Mason, I keep my chamber to read law,--Read law! replied the
veteran, 't is in the court-room you must read law.
OA 7.328 10 What to the youth is only a guess or a
hope, is in the veteran a digested statute.
veterans, n. (2)
SMC 11.366 10 The regiment [Fifty-ninth
Massachusetts] being formed of veterans, and in fields requiring great
activity and exposure, suffered extraordinary losses;...
veto, n. (1)
vex, v. (1)
vexation, n. (6)
MR 1.239 8 ...rust, mould, vermin, rain, sun,
freshet, fire, all...fill [the heir] with vexation...
Nat2 3.189 1 The friend coldly turns [the pages of a
young person's diary] over, and passes from the writing to
conversation, with easy transition, which strikes the other party with
astonishment and vexation.
ET9 5.148 18 A man's personal defects will commonly
have, with the rest of the world, precisely that importance which they
have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men. We all
find in these a convenient metre of character, since a little man would
be ruined by the vexation.
DL 7.103 18 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations
when he lifts up his voice on high, or, more beautiful, the sobbing
child,--the face all liquid grief, as he tries to swallow his
vexation,--soften all hearts to pity...
DL 7.131 13 I wish to bring home to my children and
my friends copies of these admirable forms [Michelangelo's sibyle and
prophets], which I can find in the shops of the engravers; but I do not
wish the vexation of owning them.
CPL 11.503 14 There is no hour of vexation which on a
little reflection will not find diversion and relief in the library.
vexations, n. (6)
MMEm 10.401 22 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes
about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford), her dealings and vexations about
it...interest like a romance...
CPL 11.503 2 ...when you sprain your mind, by gloomy
reflection on your failures and vexations, you come to have a bad
opinion of life.
MAng1 12.236 14 The combined desire to fulfil, in
everlasting stone, the conceptions of his mind, and to complete his
worthy offering to Almighty God, sustained [Michelangelo] through
numberless vexations with unbroken spirit.
vexatious, adj. (2)
Gts 3.159 10 ...it is always so pleasant to be
generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
PI 8.68 27 Vexatious to find poets, who are by
excellence the thinking and feeling of the world, deficient in truth of
intellect and of affection.
vexed, adj. (2)
AmS 1.104 12 It is a shame to [the scholar]...if he
seek a temporary peace by the diversion of his thoughts from politics
or vexed questions...
PPh 4.41 9 This range of Plato instructs us what to
think of the vexed question concerning his reputed works...
vexed, v. (6)
SL 2.133 17 ...the question is everywhere vexed when
a noble nature is commended, whether the man is not better who strives
with temptation.
NR 3.225 23 ...on seeing the smallest arc we complete
the curve, and when the curtain is lifted from the diagram which it
seemed to veil, we are vexed to find that no more was drawn than just
that fragment of an arc which we first beheld.
UGM 4.21 21 I go to Boston or New York and run up and
down on my affairs: they are sped, but so is the day. I am vexed by the
recollection of this price I have paid for a trifling advantage.
F 6.45 17 ...as every man is...vexed by his own
disease, this checks all his activity.
TPar 11.289 12 One fault [Theodore Parker] had,
he...sometimes vexed [his friends] with the importunity of his good
opinion...
vexes, v. (1)
Plu 10.300 6 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken
[as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure. What better praise
has any writer received than he whom Montaigne finds frank in giving
things, not words, dryly adding, it vexes me that he is so exposed to
the spoil of those that are conversant with him.
vexing, v. (1)
LT 1.277 2 The young men who have been vexing society
for these last years with regenerative methods seem to have made this
mistake;...
viands, n. (2)
Farm 7.149 8 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving
turkeys on bread and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on
the viands they like best.
Clbs 7.248 11 Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have
celebrated each a banquet of their set, have given us next to no data
of the viands;...
Viasa [Vyasa], n. (3)
Nat 1.58 12 [Religion] does that for the unschooled,
which philosophy does for Berkeley and Viasa.
PC 8.216 5 All the transcendent writers and artists
of the world,-'t is doubtful who they were, they are lifted so fast
into mythology; Homer, Menu, Viasa...
PC 8.216 9 The early names are too typical...Viasa,
compiler;...
vibrate, v. (5)
DSA 1.133 17 ...when I vibrate to the melody and
fancy of a poem; I see beauty that is to be desired.
OS 2.294 2 ...every sound that is spoken over the
round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!
PI 8.16 5 ...the sole question is how many strokes
vibrate on this mystic string,--how many diameters are drawn quite
through from matter to spirit;...
Mem 12.103 22 ...confined now in populous streets you
behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches; by the
solitary river...vibrate anew to the tenderness and dainty music of the
poetry your boyhood fed upon.
MLit 12.331 23 Poetry is with Goethe thus
external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones which cause to
vibrate the sun and the moon...
vibrated, v. (1)
Bty 6.304 23 There are no days in life so memorable
as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
vibrates, v. (2)
CInt 12.119 12 I value dearly the poet who knows his
art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with
sympathetic song...
vibrating, adj. (1)
EPro 11.316 18 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when
an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles
involved;...
vibration, n. (3)
Grts 8.302 24 Who can doubt the potency of an
individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet;
a vibration propagated over Asia and Africa?
CInt 12.119 15 I value dearly the poet who knows his
art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with
sympathetic song, just as a powerful note of an organ sets all tuned
strings in its neighborhood in accordant vibration...
Milt1 12.254 27 ...we think it impossible to recall
one in those countries [England, France, Germany] who communicates the
same vibration of hope, of self-reverence, of piety, of delight in
beauty, which the name of Milton awakens.
vibrations, n. (5)
ShP 4.203 1 Ben Jonson...had no suspicion of the
elastic fame whose first vibrations [Shakespeare] was attempting.
Wth 6.105 10 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not
accept bills...landlords are shot down in Ireland. The police-records
attest it. The vibrations are presently felt in New York, New Orleans
and Chicago.
PLT 12.32 20 The air rings with sounds, but only a
few vibrations can reach our tympanum.
Vicar of Wakefield [Oliver (1)
PI 8.43 12 I have heard that the Germans think...that
Goldsmith's title to the name [of poet] is...derived from the Vicar of
Wakefield.
vicarious, adj. (2)
Comp 2.112 12 The terror of cloudless noon...the
instinct which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a
noble asceticism and vicarious virtue, are the tremblings of the
balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.
SovE 10.195 9 The new saint gloried in infirmities.
Who or what was he? His rise and his recovery were vicarious.
vice, n. (61)
MR 1.233 10 That is the vice,-that no one feels
himself called to act for man...
Con 1.298 9 ...[conservatism] must saddle itself with
the mountainous load of the violence and vice of society...
Con 1.319 15 Sickness gets organized as well as
health, the vice as well as the virtue.
Comp 2.115 25 The league between virtue and nature
engages all things to assume a hostile front to vice.
Comp 2.121 6 Vice is the absence or departure of
[Essence, or God].
OS 2.288 14 In these instances [the scholar and
author] the intellectual gifts do not make the impression of virtue,
but almost of vice;...
Chr1 3.98 14 Our proper vice takes form in one or
another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the
person...
Pol1 3.209 16 The vice of our leading parties in this
country...is that they do not plant themselves on the deep and
necessary grounds to which they are respectively entitled...
PNR 4.83 23 Plato affirms the coincidence of science
and virtue; for vice can never know itself and virtue, but virtue knows
both itself and vice.
PNR 4.83 24 Plato affirms the coincidence of science
and virtue; for vice can never know itself and virtue, but virtue knows
both itself and vice.
MoS 4.165 22 ...[says Montaigne,] I find that the
best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice;...
MoS 4.175 11 ...though philosophy extirpates
bugbears, yet it supplies the natural checks of vice, and polarity to
the soul.
ET14 5.253 6 I fear the same fault [lack of
inspiration] lies in [English] science, since they have known how to
make it repulsive and bereave nature of its charm;--though
perhaps...the vice attaches to many more than to British physicists.
F 6.10 4 ...sometimes...the family vice is drawn off
in a separate individual and the others are proportionally relieved.
F 6.47 19 ...when a man...is ground to powder by the
vice of his race;-he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
Pow 6.60 21 ...the torpid artist seeks inspiration at
any cost, by virtue or by vice...
Wsp 6.212 21 It has been charged that a want of
sincerity in the leading men is a vice general throughout American
society.
Ill 6.325 6 Fooled thou must be, though wisest of the
wise:/Then be the fool of virtue, not of vice./
SS 7.6 21 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to
weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make
an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live
consociated...
Art2 7.51 22 If the earth and sea conspire with
virtue more than vice,--so do the masterpieces of art.
DL 7.109 20 That our expenditure and our character
are twain, is the vice of society.
DL 7.122 25 The vice of government, the vice of
education, the vice of religion, is one with that of private life.
DL 7.122 26 The vice of government, the vice of
education, the vice of religion, is one with that of private life.
PI 8.69 9 Faust abounds in the disagreeable. The vice
is prurient, learned, Parisian.
PPo 8.235 2 Go transmute crime to wisdom, learn to
stem/ The vice of Japhet by the thought of Shem./
Grts 8.302 3 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to
hear or read? Only the best. Certainly not those in which he was
degraded to the level of dulness or vice...
Chr2 10.92 24 ...we sat it...with Vauvenargues, the
mercenary sacrifice of the public good to a private interest is the
eternal stamp of vice.
Edc1 10.144 10 Let [the child] find you so true to
yourself that you are the irreconcilable hater of his vice...
Edc1 10.151 26 If [the young man] has his own vice,
he has its correlative virtue.
Edc1 10.153 14 ...the gentle teacher, who wished to
be a Providence to youth...knows as much vice as the judge of a police
court...
Prch 10.227 26 [Cudworth's, More's, Bunyan's] purpose
is as real as Dante's sentiment and hatred of vice.
Plu 10.299 9 ...[Plutarch] is tolerant even of vice,
if he finds it genial;...
Plu 10.308 25 'T is a temperance, not an eclecticism,
which makes [Plutarch] adverse to the severe Stoic, or the
Gymnosophist, or Diogenes, or any other extremist. That vice of theirs
shall not hinder him from citing any good word they chance to drop.
HDC 11.84 15 If, at any time, in common with most of
our towns, [our fathers] have carried this economy to the verge of a
vice, it is to be remembered that a town is, in many respects, a
financial corporation.
Scot 11.467 7 ...[Scott] had no insanity, or vice, or
blemish.
FRep 11.543 11 No monopoly must be foisted in...no
coward compromise conceded to a strong partner. Every one of these is
the seed of vice, war and national disorganization.
PLT 12.9 10 ...'t is a great vice in all countries,
the sacrifice of scholars to be courtiers and diners-out...
PLT 12.45 8 There is indeed this vice about men of
thought, that you cannot quite trust them;...
PLT 12.50 20 The excess of individualism, when it is
not...subordinated to the Supreme Reason, makes that vice which we
stigmatize as monotones, men of one idea...
CL 12.142 7 ...Plato said of exercise that it would
almost cure a guilty conscience. For the living out of doors, and
simple fare, and gymnastic exercises, and the morals of companions,
produce the greatest effect on the way of virtue and of vice.
MLit 12.325 14 ...that other vicious subjectiveness,
the vice of the time, infected [Goethe] also.
EurB 12.368 4 We have poets who write the poetry of
society...and others who, like Byron and Bulwer, write the poetry of
vice and disease.
EurB 12.370 18 A critical friend of ours affirms that
the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition
to begin where their fathers ended;...
EurB 12.371 1 ...[modern painters]...paint for their
predecessors' public. It seems as if the same vice had worked in
poetry.
PPr 12.381 1 ...Mr. Carlyle very fairly finds...the
vice [of the times] in false and superficial aims of the people...
PPr 12.386 22 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, such as the vice of
preaching, should appear...
Trag 12.406 18 ...no theory of life can have any
right which leaves out of account the values of vice...fear and death.
vicegerent, n. (1)
MMEm 10.425 14 The wonderful inhabitant of the
building to which unknown ages were the mechanics, is left out [of
Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology] as to that part where
the Creator had...placed a viceregent.
vice-like, adj. (1)
vice-president, n. (1)
CPL 11.498 27 Major Simon Willard's son Samuel
graduated at Harvard in 1659, and was for six years, from 1701 to 1707,
vice-president of the college;...
vices, n. (50)
LE 1.179 9 ...that man [Napoleon], with whatever
defects or vices, represented performance in lieu of pretension.
MR 1.242 9 ...the faults and vices of our literature
and philosophy...are attributable to the enervated and sickly habits of
the literary class.
LT 1.269 14 The leaders of the crusades against War,
Negro slavery...are the right successors of Luther...and Whitefield.
They have the same virtues and vices;...
Tran 1.348 18 The good, the illuminated, sit apart
from the rest, censuring their dulness and vices...
YA 1.389 4 I shall not need to go into an enumeration
of our national defects and vices which require this Order of Censors
in the State.
Hist 2.5 21 ...I can see my own vices without heat in
the distant persons of Solomon, Alcibiades, and Catiline.
Lov1 2.187 2 The angels that inhabit this temple of
the body appear at the windows, and the gnomes and vices also.
Lov1 2.187 3 If there be virtue, all the vices are
known as such; they confess and flee.
Cir 2.317 4 The terror of reform is the discovery
that we must cast away our virtues...into the same pit that has
consumed our grosser vices...
Exp 3.81 26 [Men] wish to be saved from the mischiefs
of their vices, but not from their vices.
SwM 4.134 12 The thousand-fold relation of men is not
there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches
in nature to each man...strong by his vices, often paralyzed by his
virtues;...
ShP 4.211 12 ...[Shakespeare] read the hearts of men
and women...the transitions by which virtues and vices slide into their
contraries...
ET4 5.60 20 [The Normans] had...learned the Romance
or barbarous Latin of the Gauls, and had acquired, with the language,
all the vices it had names for.
ET8 5.134 26 [The English] hide virtues under vices,
or the semblance of them.
ET11 5.192 15 The sycophancy and sale of votes and
honor, for place and title;...the splendor of the titles, and the
apathy of the nation; are instructive, and make the reader pause and
explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a
handful of rich men.
ET11 5.192 24 Under the present reign the perfect
decorum of the Court is thought to have put a check on the gross vices
of the [English] aristocracy;...
F 6.34 27 Who likes to believe that he has, hidden in
his...pelvis, all the vices of a Saxon...race...
Pow 6.64 27 ...the 'bruisers,' who have run the
gauntlet of caucus and tavern through the county or the state,--have
their own vices, but they have the good nature of strength and courage.
Wth 6.113 25 The virtues are economists, but some of
the vices are also.
Wth 6.114 3 ...pride eradicates so many vices...that
is seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.
CbW 6.251 24 The coxcomb and bully and thief class
are allowed as proletaries, every one of their vices being the excess
or acridity of a virtue.
CbW 6.258 9 Better, certainly, if we could secure the
strength and fire which rude, passionate men bring into society, quite
clear of their vices.
Farm 7.138 11 Poisoned by town life and town vices,
the sufferer resolves: Well, my children...shall go back to the land...
SA 8.92 21 Virtues speak to virtues, vices to
vices...
SA 8.92 22 Virtues speak to virtues, vices to
vices...
SA 8.98 25 Everything is unseasonable which is
private to two or three or any portion of the company. Tact...never
intrudes...the vices of the absent...
Comc 8.160 19 ...all falsehoods, all vices seen at
sufficient distance... become ludicrous.
Grts 8.317 6 It is noted of some scholars...that they
pretended to vices which they had not, so much did they hate hypocrisy.
Chr2 10.93 22 ...inoperative, [the sense of Right and
Wrong] exists underneath whatever vices and errors.
SovE 10.191 3 These threads [of Necessity] are
Nature's pernicious elements...the orphan's tears, the vices of men,
lust, cruelty and pitiless avarice.
Plu 10.312 9 ...we owe to that wonderful moralist
[Seneca] illustrious maxims; as if the scarlet vices of the times of
Nero had the natural effect of driving virtue to its loftiest
antagonisms.
Plu 10.315 8 ...this Stoic [Plutarch] in his
fight...with vices, effeminacy and indolence, is gentle as a woman when
other strings are touched.
AsSu 11.250 7 ...if Mr. Sumner had any vices, we
should be likely to hear of them.
Wom 11.423 1 If the wants, the passions, the vices,
are allowed a full vote... I think it but fair that the virtues, the
aspirations should be allowed a full vote...
Bost 12.208 7 No doubt all manner of vices can be
found in [Boston], as in every city;...
MLit 12.329 18 [We can fancy Goethe saying to
himself] ...out of many vices and misfortunes [in Wilhelm Meister], I
have let a great success grow, as I had known in my own and many other
examples.
vicinity, n. (6)
Exp 3.71 11 When I converse with a profound mind...I
am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of
life.
Art2 7.46 6 [The temple] is exalted by...its grouping
with the houses, trees and towers in its vicinity.
EzRy 10.386 17 Some of those around me will remember
one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity...
EzRy 10.394 14 In [Ezra Ripley] have perished more
local and personal anecdotes of this village and vicinity than are
possessed by any survivor.
HDC 11.43 11 ...when, presently, the design of the
[Massachusetts Bay] colony began to fulfil itself, by the settlement of
new plantations in the vicinity of Boston...the Governor and freemen in
Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and
practices of these farmers.
HDC 11.68 8 ...in answer to letters received from the
united committees of correspondence, in the vicinity of Boston, the
town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference
the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those
rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
vicious, adj. (26)
LT 1.276 4 ...[these reforms] only name the relation
which subsists between us and the vicious institutions which they go to
rectify.
Con 1.319 15 Now that a vicious system of trade has
existed so long, it has stereotyped itself in the human generation, and
misers are born.
Tran 1.349 18 As to the general course of living, and
the daily employments of men, [Transcendentalists] cannot see much
virtue in these, since they are parts of this vicious circle;...
YA 1.390 25 ...the terror of old people and of
vicious people is lest the Union of these states be destroyed;...
SR 2.77 17 Prayer that craves...anything less than
all good, is vicious.
NR 3.248 7 My companion assumes to know my mood and
habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation until
all is said which words can, and we leave matters just as they were at
first, because of that vicious assumption.
ShP 4.195 22 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry
VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear.
ET18 5.302 16 We cannot go deep enough into the
biography of the spirit who...delegates his energy in parts or spasms
to vicious and defective individuals.
Ctr 6.139 14 A boy, says Plato, is the most vicious
of all wild beasts;...
DL 7.116 12 ...this voice of communities and ages,
Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious...
Boks 7.215 20 The question there [in Jane Eyre]
answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated
according to the habit of the party.
PerF 10.87 25 ...the courts snatch...at any vicious
form of law to rule [the moral sentiment] out;...
Supl 10.170 18 [The guest's] health was drunk with
some acknowledgment of his distinguished services to both countries,
and followed by nine cold hurrahs. There was the vicious superlative.
Plu 10.320 15 Professor Goodwin is a silent
benefactor to the book [Plutarch's Morals], wherever I have compared
the editions. I did not know how careless and vicious in parts the old
book was...
LLNE 10.350 13 ...the good Fourier knew what those
creatures [the hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] should
have been, had not the mould slipped, through the bad state of the
atmosphere; caused no doubt by the same vicious imponderable fluids.
FRep 11.518 12 ...liberal congresses and legislatures
ordain...equivocal, interested and vicious measures.
FRep 11.528 1 Our institutions, of which the town is
the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the voice of
the public even when irregular and vicious...
CInt 12.122 8 ...it happens often that the wellbred
and refined...are more vicious and malignant than the rude country
people...
MLit 12.314 18 ...a man may recite passages of his
life with no feeling of egotism. Nor need a man have a vicious
subjectiveness because he deals in abstract propositions.
MLit 12.325 13 ...that other vicious subjectiveness,
the vice of the time, infected [Goethe] also.
MLit 12.330 23 The vicious conventions...stand [in
Wilhelm Meister] for all they are worth in the newspaper.
vicissitudes, n. (1)
PI 8.26 12 ...when, on rare days, [nature] speaks to
the imagination, we feel...that the light, skies and mountains are but
the painted vicissitudes of the soul.
victim, n. (31)
AmS 1.84 7 ...when the victim of society, [the
scholar] tends to become a mere thinker...
Tran 1.345 2 ...the delicate [nature] will be
shallow, or the victim of sensibility;...
UGM 4.18 17 Especially when a mind of powerful method
has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of
Aristotle...in religion the history of hierarchies, of saints, and the
sects which have taken the name of each founder, are in point. Alas!
every man is such a victim.
NMW 4.258 5 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the
torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes
hold of it, producing spasms which contract the muscles of the hand, so
that the man can not open his fingers; and the animal inflicts new and
more violent shocks, until he paralyzes and kills his victim.
ET5 5.75 11 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane
arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the
kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...had managed to
make the victor speak the language and accept the law and usage of the
victim;...
ET10 5.170 9 [England] too is in the stream of fate,
one victim more in a common catastrophe.
F 6.11 14 Who meets [a man], or who meets [a woman],
in the street, sees that they are ripe to be each other's victim.
F 6.47 14 ...when a man is the victim of his
fate...he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
Ctr 6.138 12 If you are the victim of your doing, who
cares what you do?
Bhr 6.184 9 ...[of every two persons who meet on any
affair],--one instantly perceives...that his will comprehends the
other's will...and he has only to use courtesy and furnish good-natured
reasons to his victim to cover up the chain, lest he be shamed into
resistance.
Ill 6.316 26 I, who have all my life...read poems and
miscellaneous books... am still the victim of any new page;...
Cour 7.260 11 One heard much cant of peace-parties
long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the
greatness of their wrongs... But were their wrongs greater than the
negro's? And what kind of strength did they ever give him? It was
always invitation to the tyrant, and bred disgust in those who would
protect the victim.
Cour 7.265 16 Bodily pain is superficial, seated
usually in the skin and the extremities...not in the vitals, where the
rupture that produces death is perhaps not felt, and the victim never
knew what hurt him.
Elo2 8.115 10 ...I think every one of us can remember
when our first experiences made us for a time the victim and worshipper
of the first master of this art [of eloquence] whom we happened to hear
in the court-house or in the caucus.
Comc 8.162 20 The victim who has just received the
discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a
stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea;...
Insp 8.285 27 At last it has become summer,/ And at
the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my
sweet slumber./ Unmerciful she returns again:/ When often the
half-awake victim/ Impatiently drives her off,/ She calls hither the
unscrupulous sisters,/ And from my eyelids/ Sweet sleep must depart./
Imtl 8.329 7 A man of affairs is afraid to
die...because he...is the victim of those who have moulded the
religious doctrines into some neat and plausible system...
MMEm 10.421 1 Am I [Mary Moody Emerson], poor victim,
swept on through the sternest ordinations of Nature's laws, which slay?
yet I 'll trust.
HDC 11.61 13 A great defence [of Concord] undoubtedly
was the village of Praying Indians, until this settlement fell a victim
to the envenomed prejudice against their countrymen.
EWI 11.101 25 From the earliest monuments it appears
that one race was victim and served the other races.
EWI 11.111 20 ...when...some Quakers, or Moravians,
and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries...had been moved to come [the the
West Indies] and cheer the poor victim...these missionaries were
persecuted by the planters...
AsSu 11.246 3 His erring foe,/ Self-assured that he
prevails,/ Looks from his victim lying low,/ And sees aloft the red
right arm/ Redress the eternal scales./
AsSu 11.248 26 The outrage [attack on Sumner] is the
more shocking from the singularly pure character of its victim.
ALin 11.336 2 ...who does not see, even in this
tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of
the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim?
PLT 12.50 18 The Delphian prophetess, when the spirit
possesses her, is herself a victim.
AgMs 12.363 1 [The Agricultural Surveyor] is the
victim of the Reports, which are sent him, of particular farms.
victimizable, adj. (1)
Chr1 3.107 14 I remember the thought which occurred
to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America,
was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to
that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?
victimized, v. (1)
Chr1 3.107 12 I remember the thought which occurred
to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America,
was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?...
victims, n. (27)
Con 1.301 19 ...men are...very foolish children,
who...are the victims at all times of the nearest object.
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...
Exp 3.66 10 You who see the artist, the orator, the
poet, too near, and find... themselves victims of partiality...conclude
very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.
NR 3.237 12 We...get our clothes and shoes made and
mended, and are the victims of these details;...
Pow 6.54 25 ...the key to all ages is--Imbecility;
imbecility in the vast majority of men at all times...victims of
gravity, custom and fear.
CbW 6.269 26 ...a virulent, aggressive fool taints
the reason of a household. I have seen a whole family of quiet,
sensible people unhinged and beside themselves, victims of such a
rogue.
Farm 7.138 10 All men keep the farm in reserve as an
asylum...or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society. And who
knows how many glances of remorse are turned this way...from the
victims of idleness and pleasure?
PI 8.38 3 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed,
confined...in mean employments,--and victims of these;...
PC 8.227 19 In our daily intercourse, we...become the
victims of our own arts and implements...
LLNE 10.361 15 ...there was immense hope in these
young people [at Brook Farm]. There was nobleness; there were
self-sacrificing victims who compensated for the levity and rashness of
their companions.
HDC 11.74 26 A head-stone and a foot-stone, on this
bank of the river, mark the place where these first victims [of the
American Revolution] lie.
EWI 11.110 17 In consequence of the dangers of the
[slave] trade growing out of the act of abolition, ships were
built...with a frightful disregard of the comfort of the victims they
were destined to transport.
EWI 11.134 18 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious
class of young men and political men have found out that these
neglected victims are poor and without weight;...then let the citizens
in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very
ground...
Wom 11.417 10 In all [literature], the body of the
joke is one, namely...to describe [women] as victims of temperament;...
CInt 12.117 14 Few men wish to know how the thing
really stands, what is the law of it without reference to persons.
Other men are victims of their means...
EurB 12.377 14 Of the tales of fashionable life, by
far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey. Young
men were and still are the readers and victims.
victim's, n. (1)
Grts 8.299 1 No fate, save by the victim's fault, is
low,/ For God hath writ all dooms magnificent,/ So guilt not traverses
his tender will./
victor, n. (9)
LT 1.290 7 ...[the Moral Sentiment] rides the stormy
eloquence of the senate, sole victor;...
Comp 2.108 2 ...when the Thasians erected a statue to
Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night
and endeavored to throw it down...
Fdsp 2.202 4 ...he alone is victor who has truth
enough in his constitution to preserve the delicacy of his beauty from
the wear and tear of [Time, Want, Danger].
ET5 5.75 9 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane
arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the
kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...had managed to
make the victor speak the language and accept the law and usage of the
victim;...
SA 8.93 1 In this art of conversation, Woman, if not
the queen and victor, is the lawgiver.
Res 8.147 1 ...one man whose eye commands the end in
view and the means by which it can be attained, is...victor over all
mankind who do not see the issue and the means.
ACri 12.300 23 Pindar when the victor in a race by
mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought
of writing on demi-asses.
AgMs 12.359 2 As I drew near this brave laborer
[Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling
for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the
soil...not like Napoleon, hero of sixty battles, but of six thousand,
and out of every one he has come victor;...
Victoria, of England, n. (1)
PPr 12.384 16 It is plain that...all the great
classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present], even
those whose existence it proscribes. Poor Queen Victoria,-poor Sir
Robert Peel...
Victoria regia, n. (1)
victories, n. (31)
MR 1.240 9 Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories
of man over his necessities...
MR 1.251 5 Every great and commanding moment in the
annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. The victories of
the Arabs after Mahomet...is an example.
SR 2.59 23 What makes the majesty of the heroes of
the senate and the field, which so fills the imagination? The
consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind.
Fdsp 2.200 10 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./
Pt1 3.7 23 ...Homer's words are as costly and
admirable to Homer as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon.
NMW 4.245 26 As soon as we are removed out of the
reach of local and accidental partialities, Man feels that Napoleon
fights for him; these are honest victories;...
ET15 5.272 25 ...[if the London Times would cleave to
the right] the least of its victories would be to give to England a new
millennium of beneficent power.
Pow 6.72 13 The men whom in peaceful communities we
hold if we can with iron at their legs...this man [Napoleon] dealt with
hand to hand...and won his victories by their bayonets.
Bhr 6.192 13 ...the victories of character are
instant, and victories for all.
SovE 10.189 17 ...the warfare of beasts should be
renewed in a finer field, for more excellent victories.
SovE 10.191 10 Humanity sits at the dread loom and
throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable
ground is flowered all over with a woof of human industry and
wisdom...with...courage and the victories of the just and wise over
malice and wrong.
Prch 10.221 5 ...this examination [of religion]
resulting in the constant detection of errors, the flattered
understanding assumes to judge all things, and to anticipate the same
victories.
Plu 10.298 1 [Plutarch] had that universal sympathy
with genius which makes all its victories his own;...
CSC 10.376 5 There was a great deal of wearisome
speaking in each of those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street
Convention], but relieved...especially by the exhibition of character,
and by the victories of character.
EPro 11.321 12 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...
SMC 11.375 20 Brave men! you [veterans of the Civil
War] will hardly be called to see again fields as terrible as those you
have already trampled with your victories.
EdAd 11.389 6 We have a bad war, many victories, each
of which converts the country into an immense chanticleer;...
Milt1 12.262 27 The victories of the conscience in
[Milton] are gained by the commanding charm which all the severe and
restrictive virtues have for him.
Milt1 12.263 4 [Milton's] virtues remind us of what
Plutarch said of Timoleon's victories, that they resembled Homer's
verses, they ran so easy and natural.
Milt1 12.278 13 [Milton's plea for freedom of
divorce] was a sally of the extravagant spirit of the time,
overjoyed...with the sudden victories it had gained...
MLit 12.322 15 [Goethe] has owed to Commerce and to
the victories of the Understanding, all their spoils.
victorious, adj. (17)
MR 1.240 17 Only such persons interest us...who have
stood in the jaws of need, and have by their own wit and might...made
man victorious.
MoS 4.177 12 What front can we make against these
unavoidable, victorious, maleficent forces?
ET4 5.56 23 The men who have built a ship and
invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much
more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ...
Of course they...can engage [the land-nations] on shore with a
victorious advantage in the retreat.
SS 7.9 8 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is
in a moral union of two superior persons whose confidence in each other
for long years...is at last justified by victorious proof of probity...
Clbs 7.240 10 You may condemn [the eloquent man's]
book, but can you fight against his thought? That is always too nimble
for you...and breaks out victorious in some other quarter.
OA 7.322 9 ...if the life be true and noble, we have
quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely
old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty
their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo...after
the revolt again victorious and elected at the age of ninety-six to the
throne of the Eastern Empire...
Prch 10.233 13 The author...falters never, but takes
the victorious tone.
Schr 10.282 13 [Truth]...diminishes and annihilates
everybody, and the prophet so gladly feels his personality lost in this
victorious life.
Plu 10.315 12 To erect a trophy in the soul against
anger is that which none but a great and victorious puissance is able
to achieve.
Carl 10.493 24 [Carlyle's] firm, victorious, scoffing
vituperation strikes [literary, fashionable, political men] with chill
and hesitation.
EdAd 11.388 14 The young intriguers who drive in
bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics, sagacious only to
seize the victorious side, have put the country into the position of an
overgrown bully...
Shak1 11.449 1 [Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous
prophecy of Socrates, that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be
most excellent in comedy, and more than fulfilled it by making tragedy
also a victorious melody which healed its own wounds.
CPL 11.500 26 ...[Thoreau writes] the elegy itself is
some victorious melody in you, escaping from the wreck.
victoriously, adv. (1)
ET12 5.210 15 I looked over the Examination Papers of
the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at
Oxford]...containing the tasks which many competitors had victoriously
performed...
victors, n. (2)
FSLC 11.178 2 The Eternal Rights,/ Victors over daily
wrongs:/ Awful victors, they misguide/ Whom they will destroy/...
FSLC 11.178 3 The Eternal Rights,/ Victors over daily
wrongs:/ Awful victors, they misguide/ Whom they will destroy/...
victory, n. (80)
Hist 2.10 21 We must in ourselves see the necessary
reason of every fact,-- see how it could and must be. So stand...before
a victory of Napoleon...
SL 2.150 10 ...nearness or likeness of nature,--how
beautiful is the ease of its victory!
Prd1 2.227 10 The application of means to ends
insures victory and the songs of victory not less in a farm or a shop
than in the tactics of party or of war.
Exp 3.61 5 ...we should...do broad justice where we
are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic
officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us.
If these are mean and malignant, their contentment, which is the last
victory of justice, is a more satisfying echo to the heart than the
voice of poets...
Chr1 3.97 26 ...prosperity belongs to a certain mind,
and will introduce that power and victory which is its natural fruit,
into any order of events.
Chr1 3.108 3 Divine persons are character born, or,
to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
Nat2 3.195 25 Let the victory fall where it will, we
are on that side.
NER 3.283 25 ...whether thy work be fine or
coarse...so only it be honest work...no matter how often defeated, you
are born to victory.
ET4 5.49 6 Trades and professions carve their own
lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not
less effective; as...sense of superiority founded on habit of victory
in labor and in war...
ET4 5.72 23 ...the genius of the English hath always
more inclined them to foot-service, as pure and proper manhood, without
any mixture; whilst in a victory on horseback, the credit ought to be
divided betwixt the man and his horse.
ET5 5.87 3 ...[the English]...do not like ponderous
and difficult tactics, but delight to bring the affair hand to hand;
where the victory lies with the strength, courage and endurance of the
individual combatants.
ET7 5.122 27 Lord Collingwood would not accept his
medal for victory on 14 February, 1797, if he did not receive one for
victory on 1st June, 1794;...
ET7 5.123 1 Lord Collingwood would not accept his
medal for victory on 14 February, 1797, if he did not receive one for
victory on 1st June, 1794;...
ET8 5.139 19 No nation was ever so rich in able men
[as England];...men of such temper, that, like Baron Vere, had one seen
him returning from a victory, he would by his silence have suspected
that he had lost the day; and, had he beheld him in a retreat, he would
have collected him a conqueror by the cheerfulness of his spirit.
ET9 5.152 13 ...this precious knave [George of
Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...emblem of
victory and civility...
ET11 5.190 27 Of course there is another side to this
gorgeous show [of English aristocracy]. Every victory was the defeat of
a party only less worthy.
ET13 5.221 7 A great duke said on the occasion of a
victory, in the House of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had
not been well used by them...
ET14 5.242 13 In England these [generalizations]...do
all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this
kind is...Hegel's study of civil history, as the conflict of ideas and
the victory of the deeper thought;...
ET15 5.263 14 [The London Times] has risen, year by
year, and victory by victory, to its present authority.
ET15 5.271 1 ...when [the editors of the London
Times] see that [authors of each liberal movement] have established
their fact...they strike in with the voice of a monarch...and make the
victory sure.
F 6.16 4 ...the steadiness with which victory adheres
to one tribe and defeat to another, is as uniform as the superposition
of strata.
Bhr 6.181 8 The alleged power to charm down insanity,
or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. It must be a victory
achieved in the will, before it can be signified in the eye.
Wsp 6.226 7 Wherever work is done, victory is
obtained.
Bty 6.301 6 If a man...can organize victory...'t is
no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
Clbs 7.233 2 ...there are the gladiators, to whom
[conversation] is always a battle; 't is no matter on which side, they
fight for victory;...
Clbs 7.237 2 ...though they know that there is in the
speaker a degree...of insincerity and of talking for victory, yet the
existence of character...is felt by the frivolous.
Suc 7.287 4 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 7.287 11 The ancient Norse ballads describe [the
Norseman] as afflicted with this inextinguishable thirst of victory.
Suc 7.288 20 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is
victory, without regard to the cause;...
Elo2 8.117 2 ...[the orator] gains his victory by
prophecy, where [the people] expected repetition.
QO 8.184 17 ...a lady having expressed in his
presence a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington]
replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great
victory,-excepting a great defeat.
QO 8.184 19 ...a lady having expressed in his
presence a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington]
replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great
victory,-excepting a great defeat.
PC 8.226 2 The sublime point of experience is the
value of a sufficient man. Cube this value by the meeting of two
such...who understand and support each other, and you have organized
victory.
Aris 10.58 11 ...a hero's, a man's success is made up
of failures, because he experiments and ventures every day...defeated
all the time and yet to victory born.
PerF 10.78 27 The power...of enduring defeat and of
gaining victory by defeats, is one of these [mental] forces which never
loses its charm.
PerF 10.83 7 And so, one step higher, when [the
susceptible man] comes into the realm of sentiment and will. He
sees...the victory of love...
Chr2 10.109 24 We boast the triumph of Christianity
over Paganism, meaning the victory of the spirit over the senses;...
SovE 10.189 21 Savage war gives place to that of
Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code. This war
again gives place to the finer quarrel of property, where the victory
is wealth and the defeat poverty.
SovE 10.203 8 [Our religion] visits us only on some
exceptional and ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national
victory or a peace.
Plu 10.322 11 It is a service to our Republic to
publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read...the
Apothegms of Great Commanders [of Plutarch]. If we could keep the
secret, and communicate it only to a few chosen aspirants, we might
confide that, by this noble infiltration, they would easily carry the
victory over all competitors.
Thor 10.456 3 [Thoreau]...required a little sense of
victory...to call his powers into full exercise.
HDC 11.59 14 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house,
or a village; but...in the first blast of [the white men's] trumpet we
already hear the flourish of victory.
EWI 11.141 15 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to
the House of Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have
obtained for these poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition
of their human nature...
War 11.152 11 Not only every tribe has war-gods,
religious festivals in victory, but religious wars.
FSLN 11.235 4 To make good the cause of Freedom, you
must draw off from all foolish trust in others. You must be...the
charter, the battle and the victory.
FSLN 11.235 18 The army of unright is encamped from
pole to pole, but the road of victory is known to the just.
ACiv 11.310 1 ...it is the maxim of history that
victory always falls at last where it ought to fall;...
EPro 11.320 2 With a victory like this [the
Emancipation Proclamation], we can stand many disasters.
ALin 11.337 21 There is a serene Providence which
rules the fate of nations, which...conquers alike by what is called
defeat or by what is called victory...
Koss 11.400 26 Sir [Kossuth]...we congratulate you
that you have known how to convert...present defeat into lasting
victory.
Wom 11.413 9 This is the victory of Griselda, her
supreme humility.
FRep 11.515 19 When the cannon is aimed by
ideas...when men die for what they live for...then gods join in the
combat; then poets are born, and the better code of laws at last
records the victory.
PLT 12.62 7 The measure of mental health is the
disposition to find good everywhere, good and order, analogy, health
and benefit,-the love of truth, tendency to be in the right, no fighter
for victory...
II 12.77 8 I think this pathetic,-not to have any
wisdom at our own terms, not to have any power of organizing victory.
CL 12.136 8 ...the necessity of exercise and the
nomadic instinct are always stirring the wish to travel, and in the
spring and summer, it commonly gets the victory.
Bost 12.203 2 The theology and the instinct of
freedom that grew here [in Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men
furnished a certain rancor which... fed the party and carried it...to
victory.
Let 12.402 12 A new perception...is a victory won to
the living universe from Chaos and old Night...
Victory, n. (1)
War 11.149 4 The archangel Hope/ Looks to the azure
cope,/ Waits through dark ages for the morn,/ Defeated day by day, but
unto Victory born./
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