Vis to Vying

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

vis, n. (2)

    ET13 5.226 22 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money...will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. The class certain to be excluded from all preferment are the religious,--and driven to other churches; which is nature's vis medicatrix.
    Bty 6.305 24 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns. This is that haughty force of beauty, vis superba formae, which the poets praise...

visage, n. (1)

    SS 7.11 7 ...the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is [the scholar's] rent and ration.

visages, n. (1)

    PLT 12.22 27 How lately the hunter was the poor creature's organic enemy; a presumption inflamed, as the lawyers say, by observing how many faces in the street still remind us of visages in the forest...

visceribus, n. (1)

    SwM 4.113 20 Ossa videlicet e pauxillis atque minutis/ Ossibus sic et de pauxillis atque minutis/ Visceribus viscus gigni, sanguenque creari/ Sanguinis inter se multis coeuntibus guttis;/...

viscous, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.521 1 The very glaciers are viscous...

viscus, n. (1)

    SwM 4.113 20 Ossa videlicet e pauxillis atque minutis/ Ossibus sic et de pauxillis atque minutis/ Visceribus viscus gigni, sanguenque creari/ Sanguinis inter se multis coeuntibus guttis;/...

vise-like, adj. (1)

    ET14 5.233 20 What [the Englishman] relishes in Dante is the vise-like tenacity with which he holds a mental image before the eyes...

Vishnu, n. (8)

    MN 1.216 27 From the poisonous tree, the world, say the Brahmins, two species of fruit are produced, sweet as the waters of life; Love...and Poetry, whose taste is like the immortal juice of Vishnu.
    PPh 4.50 19 The whole world is but a manifestation of Vishnu [said Krishna]...
    PPh 4.50 26 As if [Krishna] had said, All is for the soul, and the soul is Vishnu;...
    SwM 4.139 5 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind.
    MoS 4.178 16 The Eastern sages owned the goddess Yoganidra, the great illusory energy of Vishnu, by whom, as utter ignorance, the whole world is beguiled.
    F 6.20 10 ...Vishnu follows Maya through all her ascending changes...
    WD 7.172 19 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes.
    PI 8.15 2 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence,--is only phenomenal. Youth, age, property, condition, events, persons,--self, even,-- are successive maias (deceptions) through which Vishnu mocks and instructs the soul.

Vishnu Purana, n. (3)

    PPh 4.49 13 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.
    Boks 7.218 17 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Upanishads, the Vishnu Purana, the Bhagvat Geeta, of the Hindoos;...
    Chr2 10.120 6 But I, father, says the wise Prahlada, in the Vishnu Purana, know neither friends nor foes, for I behold Kesava in all beings as in my own soul.

Vishnu Sarma, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.235 11 A man, says Vishnu Sarma, who having well compared his own strength or weakness with that of others, after all doth not know the difference, is easily overcome by his enemies.
    Boks 7.218 27 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world, as expressing the highest sentiment and hope of nations. Such are the Hermes Trismegistus...the Vishnu Sarma of the Hindoos;...

visibility, n. (1)

    SS 7.5 3 [My friend's] dismay at his visibility had blunted the fears of mortality.

visible, adj. (48)

    Nat 1.22 4 A virtuous man...makes the central figure of the visible sphere.
    Nat 1.22 7 The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.
    Nat 1.26 24 Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively our image of memory and hope.
    Nat 1.29 4 Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts, savages...converse in figures.
    Nat 1.30 22 ...wise men...fasten words again to visible things;...
    Nat 1.33 2 The visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible.
    Nat 1.34 26 The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
    Nat 1.35 5 ...visible nature must have a spiritual and moral side.
    AmS 1.113 4 [Swedenborg] pierced the emblematic or spiritual character of the visible, audible, tangible world.
    MN 1.208 3 If only [a man] sees, the world will be visible enough.
    LT 1.269 3 The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who...compose the visible church of the existing generation.
    SR 2.59 25 [The hero] is attended as by a visible escort of angels.
    Comp 2.121 18 ...[the criminal]...does not come to a crisis or judgment anywhere in visible nature.
    SL 2.134 18 ...the wonders of which [men of extraordinary success] were the visible conductors seemed to the eye their deed.
    SL 2.161 12 The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling...
    PPh 4.68 21 ...Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts. Cut again each of these two main parts,--one representing the visible, the other the intelligible world...
    PPh 4.68 25 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images, that is, both shadows and reflections;...
    PNR 4.86 25 All the circles of the visible heaven represent [to Plato] as many circles in the rational soul.
    SwM 4.113 3 ...as often as [nature] betakes herself upward from visible phenomena...she instantly as it were disappears, while no one knows what has become of her...
    SwM 4.114 7 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms...
    ShP 4.216 25 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer, saw the splendor of meaning that plays over the visible world;...
    ET16 5.276 11 On the broad downs...not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge...
    F 6.38 5 [A creature] is not possible until the invisible things are right for him, as well as the visible.
    Pow 6.71 13 ...whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated...
    Bhr 6.169 12 The visible carriage or action of the individual...we call manners.
    Civ 7.28 9 Only one doubt occurred, one staggering objection,-- [Electricity] had...no visible pockets...
    Art2 7.37 11 [All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity...dissolving man as well as his works in its flowing beneficence. This influence is conspicuously visible in the principles and history of Art.
    WD 7.170 10 There are days which are the carnival of the year. The angels assume flesh, and repeatedly become visible.
    OA 7.328 27 Our instincts drove us to hive innumerable experiences, that are yet of no visible value...
    PI 8.19 8 Whilst common sense looks at things or visible Nature as real and final facts, poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight...
    PI 8.42 12 ...guided by [thoughts and laws], [the poet] is ascending from an interest in in visible things to an interest in that which they signify...
    PI 8.52 27 ...rhyme is the transparent frame that allows almost the pure architecture of thought to become visible to the mental eye.
    PI 8.62 5 How, Merlin, my good friend, said Sir Gawain, are you restrained so strongly that you cannot...make yourself visible to me;...
    PI 8.66 14 I have heard that there is a hope which precedes and must precede all science of the visible or the invisible world;...
    Imtl 8.336 21 We are driven by instinct to hive innumerable experiences which are of no visible value...
    Supl 10.172 18 The astronomer shows you in his telescope the nebula of Orion, that you may look on that which is esteemed the farthest-off land in visible nature.
    Carl 10.497 10 ...now [the bad time] is coming, and the only good [Carlyle] sees in it is the visible appearance of the gods.
    War 11.160 23 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This thought is...the rising of the general tide in the human soul,-and rising highest, and first made visible, in the most simple and pure souls...
    War 11.161 14 The star once risen...will mount and mount, until it becomes visible to other men...
    War 11.170 3 The question naturally arises, How is this new aspiration of the human mind [towards peace] to be made visible and real?
    ACiv 11.297 21 ...a man coins himself into his labor; turns his day, his strength, his thought, his affection into some product which remains as the visible sign of his power;...
    CL 12.135 4 [Earth-hunger] is not less visible in that branch of the family which inhabits America.
    CL 12.149 11 The Hindoos called fire Agni...the sacrificer visible to all...
    CL 12.164 3 Nature speaks to the imagination;...because her visible productions and changes are the nouns of language...
    MAng1 12.216 10 [Michelangelo] is an eminent master in the four fine arts, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Poetry. In three of them by visible means...he strove to express the Idea of Beauty.
    MAng1 12.239 18 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome...he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.
    MAng1 12.243 27 Whilst he was yet alive, [Michelangelo] asked that he might be buried in that church [Santa Croce], in such a spot that the dome of the cathedral might be visible from his tomb when the doors of the church stood open.
    Milt1 12.254 1 Milton stands erect...still visible as a man among men...

visible, n. (2)

    MN 1.198 18 ...one who...beholds the visible as proceeding from the invisible, cannot state his thought without seeming to those who study the physical laws to do them some injustice.
    OS 2.275 4 With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite...

visibly, adv. (5)

    F 6.12 13 ...in the second generation, if the like genius appear, the health is visibly deteriorated...
    CbW 6.247 25 The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love and reason, visibly stream.
    Comc 8.160 25 ...whilst the presence of the ideal discovers the difference [between rule and fact], the comedy is enhanced whenever that ideal is embodied visibly in a man.
    Prch 10.232 6 ...we are...allied to men around us, as really though not quite so visibly as the Siamese brothers.
    SlHr 10.441 7 [Samuel Hoar] was a man in whom so rare a spirit of justice visibly dwelt, that if one had met him in a cabin or in a forest he must still seem a public man...

vision, n. (66)

    Nat 1.50 4 If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become transparent...
    Nat 1.51 7 ...the most wonted objects, (make a very slight change in the point of vision,) please us most.
    Nat 1.73 25 The axis of vision is not coincident with the axis of things...
    AmS 1.93 8 ...the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months...
    DSA 1.132 13 [The divine bards] admonish me that...they were not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
    DSA 1.146 27 ...[all men] love to be caught up into the vision of principles.
    LE 1.165 22 The vision of genius comes by renouncing the too officious activity of the understanding...
    MN 1.191 6 Where there is no vision, the people perish.
    MN 1.222 1 If you say, The acceptance of the vision is also the act of God:-I shall not seek to penetrate the mystery...
    Hist 2.12 18 The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes...
    SR 2.69 3 In the hour of vision there is nothing that can be called gratitude...
    Hsm1 2.256 24 Simple hearts...would appear, could we see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking together...
    Hsm1 2.260 3 Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. Not in vain you live, for every passing eye is cheered and refined by the vision.
    Hsm1 2.262 1 ...it behooves the wise man...to familiarize himself...with sounds of execration, and the vision of violent death.
    OS 2.269 18 Only by the vision of that Wisdom [the soul] can the horoscope of the ages be read...
    OS 2.282 4 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light. The trances of Socrates...the vision of Porphyry...are of this kind.
    Cir 2.308 18 ...we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.
    Int 2.325 22 [Mind's] vision is not like the vision of the eye...
    Int 2.339 24 Is it any better if the student...aims to make a mechanical whole of...philosophy, by a numerical addition of all the facts that fall within his vision.
    Art1 2.354 6 We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
    Pt1 3.28 24 The sublime vision comes to the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body.
    PPh 4.60 13 [Plato] could well afford to be generous,--who from the sunlike centrality and reach of his vision, had a faith without cloud.
    PNR 4.82 13 These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision...
    PNR 4.83 15 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction...
    SwM 4.126 19 [Swedenborg] almost justifies his claim to preternatural vision, by strange insights of the structure of the human body and mind.
    SwM 4.143 25 Was [Swedenborg] like Saadi, who, in his vision, designed to fill his lap with the celestial flowers, as presents for his friends;...
    SwM 4.144 3 ...was it that [Swedenborg] saw the vision [of heavenly society] intellectually, and hence that chiding of the intellectual that pervades his books?
    MoS 4.174 19 In the mount of vision, ere they have yet risen from their knees, [the saints] say, We discover that this our homage and beatitude is partial and deformed...
    ET5 5.80 22 [The English people's] practical vision is spacious...
    ET11 5.173 10 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself with heraldic names...was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by a few offensive realities...
    ET14 5.257 24 ...[Tennyson] wants a subject, and climbs no mount of vision to bring its secrets to the people.
    Bhr 6.178 23 ...there is no end to the catalogue of [the eye's] performances, whether in indolent vision (that of health and beauty), or in strained vision (that of art and labor).
    Bhr 6.178 24 ...there is no end to the catalogue of [the eye's] performances, whether in indolent vision (that of health and beauty), or in strained vision (that of art and labor).
    Clbs 7.236 5 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people...in giving wise answers, showing that he saw at a larger angle of vision...
    PI 8.11 1 [Goethe] was himself conscious of [imagination's] help, which made him a prophet among the doctors. From this vision he gave brave hints to the zoologist, the botanist and the optician.
    PI 8.28 7 [Imagination] is the vision of an inspired soul...
    Elo2 8.109 12 ...[The patriot] bridged the gulf from th' alway good and wise/ To that within the vision of small eyes./
    PC 8.233 6 [Swedenborg] saw in vision the angels and the devils;...
    Insp 8.280 24 Sleep is like death, and after sleep/ The world seems new begun;/ White thoughts stand luminous and firm,/ Like statues in the sun;/ Refreshed from supersensuous founts,/ The soul to clearer vision mounts./
    Insp 8.293 2 We must be warmed by the fire of sympathy, to be brought into the right...angles of vision.
    Imtl 8.329 7 A man of affairs is afraid to die...because he has not this vision...
    Imtl 8.346 20 ...only by rare integrity...can the vision of [immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime.
    Chr2 10.93 14 ...the high, contemplative, all-commanding vision...is alike in all.
    Chr2 10.103 6 The [moral] sentiment never stops in pure vision...
    Chr2 10.120 2 Character is the habit of action from the permanent vision of truth.
    Prch 10.219 16 Perhaps there must be austere elections and determinations before any clear vision.
    Prch 10.219 27 The Understanding will write out the vision in a Confession of Faith.
    MoL 10.252 1 Where there is no vision, the people perish.
    Schr 10.287 20 I invite you [scholars]...to the mountains of vision...
    MMEm 10.409 17 ...from the highway hedges where I [Mary Moody Emerson] get lodging...I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.
    MMEm 10.418 8 O the power of vision, then the delicate power of the nerve which receives impressions from sounds!
    MMEm 10.426 24 The idea of being no mate for those intellectualists I've [Mary Moody Emerson] loved to admire, is no pain. Hereafter the same solitary joy will go with me, were I not to live, as I expect, in the vision of the Infinite.
    Thor 10.464 18 ...whatever faults or obstructions of temperament might cloud it, [Thoreau] was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
    EWI 11.129 24 I could not see the great vision of the patriots and senators who have adopted the slave's cause...
    EWI 11.142 4 If before, [the negro] was taxed with such stupidity, or such defective vision, that he could not set a table square to the walls of an apartment, he is now the principal if not the only mechanic in the West Indies;...
    Wom 11.413 9 The instincts of mankind have drawn the Virgin Mother- Created beings all in lowliness/ Surpassing, as in height above them all./ This is the Divine Person whom Dante and Milton saw in vision.
    FRO2 11.488 26 We cannot spare the vision nor the virtue of the saints;...
    PLT 12.10 13 What is life but the angle of vision?
    PLT 12.31 17 ...[a man's] aptitude, if he would obey it, would prove a telescope to bring under his clear vision what was blur to everybody else.
    PLT 12.32 23 Perhaps creatures live with us which we never see, because their motion is too swift for our vision.
    PLT 12.43 27 We believe that certain persons add to the common vision a certain degree of control over these states of mind;...
    PLT 12.63 16 ...[Socrates] utilized his humanity chiefly as a better eye-glass to penetrate the vapors that baffled the vision of other men.
    CInt 12.121 16 ...a larger angle of vision, commands centuries of facts...
    MLit 12.320 8 ...the reason why [the true poet] can say one thing well is because his vision extends to the sight of all things...
    WSL 12.346 2 It is a sufficient proof of the extreme delicacy of this element [character], evanescing before any but the most sympathetic vision, that it has so seldom been employed in the drama and in novels.
    EurB 12.367 25 ...[Wordsworth] accepted the call to be a poet, and sat down...with coarse clothing and plain fare to obey the heavenly vision.

visionary, adj. (5)

    Nat 1.59 18 Culture...brings the mind to call...that real which it uses to call visionary.
    Exp 3.84 12 Life wears to me a visionary face.
    Exp 3.84 13 Hardest roughest action is visionary also.
    War 11.161 23 That the project of peace should appear visionary to great numbers of sensible men;...is very natural.
    War 11.163 2 There is no good now enjoyed by society that was not once as problematical and visionary as [peace].

visionary, n. (1)

    SwM 4.98 14 This man [Swedenborg], who appeared to his contemporaries a visionary...no doubt led the most real life of any man then in the world...

visions, n. (20)

    DSA 1.126 5 Man fallen...into sensuality, is never quite without the visions of the moral sentiment.
    LE 1.162 4 No more will I dismiss, with haste, the visions which flash and sparkle across my sky;...
    LE 1.164 25 ...we must...pass...by assiduous love and watching, into the visions of absolute truth.
    LE 1.185 22 When you shall say...I renounce, I am sorry for it, my early visions;...then dies the man in you;...
    SL 2.148 3 The visions of the night bear some proportion to the visions of the day.
    SL 2.148 4 The visions of the night bear some proportion to the visions of the day.
    Lov1 2.174 15 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis or comparison and putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years, yet the remembrance of these visions outlasts all other remembrances...
    Lov1 2.180 19 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when it suggests gleams and visions and not earthly satisfactions;...
    Lov1 2.181 26 ...if, accepting the hint of these visions and suggestions which beauty makes to [a man's] mind...the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty...
    Fdsp 2.215 12 In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the firmament. ... Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own.
    Fdsp 2.215 23 ...if you come, perhaps you will fill my mind only with new visions;...
    OS 2.268 17 When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that...from some alien energy the visions come.
    Pt1 3.36 2 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions, seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons...
    PNR 4.83 10 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;... the visions of Hades and the Fates...
    SwM 4.132 9 ...when [Swedenborg's] visions become the stereotyped language of multitudes of persons of all degrees of age and capacity, they are perverted.
    Wsp 6.217 7 ...such persons [of higher moral sentiment] are nearer to the secret of God than others;...they see visions, where others are vacant.
    Ill 6.322 8 The visions of good men are good;...
    Suc 7.297 9 ...our difference of wit appears to be only a difference of... power to appreciate faint, fainter and infinitely faintest voices and visions.
    PI 8.40 17 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception...of fairy machineries and funds of power hitherto utterly unknown to him, whereby he can transfer his visions to mortal canvas...
    SovE 10.192 2 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... all that he calls Nature, all that he calls institutions, when once his mind is active are visions merely...

visit, n. (18)

    OS 2.290 14 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance,--the visit to Rome...
    Mrs1 3.134 20 It was...a very natural point of old feudal etiquette that a gentleman who received a visit...should not leave his roof...
    Mrs1 3.136 14 Wherever [Montaigne] goes he pays a visit to whatever prince or gentleman of note resides upon his road...
    Mrs1 3.142 19 ...Napoleon said of [Charles James Fox] on the occasion of his visit to Paris...Mr. Fox will always hold the first place in an assembly at the Tuileries.
    ET1 5.14 17 As I might have foreseen, the visit [with Coleridge] was rather a spectacle than a conversation...
    ET1 5.22 9 [Wordsworth] had just returned from a visit to Staffa...
    ET2 5.25 1 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire...
    ET17 5.294 12 ...as I have recorded a visit to Wordsworth, many years before, I must not forget this second interview.
    WD 7.181 4 I remember well the foreign scholar who made a week of my youth happy by his visit.
    Suc 7.293 25 Horatio Greenough...said to me of Robert Fulton's visit to Paris: Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected;...
    OA 7.332 2 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825...
    SA 8.91 13 A universal etiquette should fix an iron limit after which a moment should not be allowed without explicit leave granted on request of either the giver or receiver of the visit.
    Edc1 10.146 11 ...[Fellowes]...at last in his third visit [to Xanthus] brought home to England such statues and marble reliefs and such careful plans that he was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...
    Thor 10.473 26 [Thoreau] was inquisitive about the making of the stone arrow-head, and in his last days charged a youth setting out for the Rocky Mountains to find an Indian who could tell him that: It was well worth a visit to California to learn it.
    Thor 10.474 6 In his last visit to Maine [Thoreau] had great satisfaction from Joseph Polis, an intelligent Indian of Oldtown...
    HDC 11.63 12 ...I am sorry to find that the servile Randolph speaks of [Peter Bulkeley 2nd] with marked respect. It would seem that his visit to England had made him a courtier.
    ChiE 11.474 17 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China. I am quite sure that I heard from Mr. Burlingame in New York, in his last visit to America, that the whole merit of it belonged to Sir Frederic Bruce.
    ACri 12.292 22 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...there being scarce a person of any note in England but what some time or other paid a visit or sent a present to our Lady of Walsingham...

visit, v. (27)

    DSA 1.146 12 Not too anxious to visit periodically all families...in your parish connection, - when you meet one of these men or women, be to them a divine man;...
    YA 1.392 21 ...it is one thing to visit the Pyramids, and another to wish to live there.
    SL 2.160 18 If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him...
    SL 2.160 20 If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.
    Gts 3.160 10 If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit him and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.
    ET3 5.35 16 A wise traveller will naturally choose to visit the best of actual nations;...
    ET3 5.37 7 ...if we will visit London, the present time is the best time, as some signs portend that it has reached its highest point.
    ET5 5.93 2 [The English] have made...London...such a city that almost every active man, in any nation, finds himself at one time or other forced to visit it.
    ET16 5.273 7 It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker...
    ET17 5.292 9 My visit [to England] fell in the fortunate days when Mr. [George] Bancroft was the American Minister in London...
    Wth 6.94 22 To be rich is...to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople;...
    Wth 6.113 4 Allston the painter was wont to say that he built a plain house, and filled it with plain furniture, because he would hold out no bribe to any to visit him who had not similar tastes to his own.
    Bhr 6.189 10 The things of a man for which we visit him were done in the dark and cold.
    Wsp 6.228 4 [St. Philip Neri] undertook to visit the nun and ascertain her character.
    Ill 6.309 8 We traversed...the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to the innermost recess which tourists visit...
    Boks 7.193 20 I visit occasionally the Cambridge Library...
    Clbs 7.238 20 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton; when Schiller came to Goethe;...
    Comc 8.167 18 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend...
    PPo 8.241 9 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built, against her arrival, a palace...
    Thor 10.474 1 Occasionally, a small party of Penobscot Indians would visit Concord...
    Carl 10.491 9 It needs something more than a clean shirt and reading German to visit [Carlyle].
    SMC 11.362 2 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...writes news of them home, urging his own correspondent to visit their families...
    MAng1 12.244 3 The innumerable pilgrims whom the genius of Italy draws to the city [Florence] duly visit this church [Santa Croce]...
    Pray 12.352 16 When I go to visit my friends, I must put on my best garments...
    Let 12.403 8 ...after five years [my friend] has just been [to Illinois] to visit the young farmer...
    Trag 12.412 4 The Egyptian sphinxes, which sit to-day...as they will still sit when the Turk, the Frenchman and the Englishman, who visit them now, shall have passed by...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...
    Trag 12.416 1 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.

visitant, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.115 4 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived...then to be critical and treat such a visitant with the jabber and suspicion of the streets, argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.

visitations, n. (2)

    Lov1 2.175 2 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain, which created all things anew;...
    NER 3.271 8 The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holydays of a diviner presence.

visited, v. (26)

    Nat 1.52 20 The remotest spaces of nature are visited [by Shakspeare's muse]...
    YA 1.374 18 ...we repair commerce with unlimited credit, and are presently visited with unlimited bankruptcy.
    SL 2.160 19 If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him...
    Fdsp 2.210 5 Why be visited by [your friend] at your own [house]?
    Mrs1 3.120 6 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into countries where the purchaser and consumer can hardly be ranked in one race with these cannibals and man-stealers;...
    Nat2 3.175 15 That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call a park; that they live in larger and better-garnished saloons than he has visited...these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of romance...
    SwM 4.99 15 ...[Swedenborg]...visited the universities of England, Holland, France and Germany.
    SwM 4.122 14 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him all day...
    ET1 5.8 26 I had visited Professor Amici, who had shown me his microscopes...
    ET1 5.21 5 [Wordsworth] alluded once or twice to his conversation with Dr. Channing, who had recently visited him...
    ET1 5.22 25 [Wordsworth's] second [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] alludes to the name of the cave, which is Cave of Music; the first to the circumstance of its being visited by the promiscuous company of the steamboat.
    ET12 5.201 7 Albert Alaskie...who visited England to admire the wisdom of Queen Elizabeth, was entertained with stage-plays in the Refectory of Christ-Church [College, Oxford] in 1583.
    Ctr 6.139 11 The hardiest skeptic...who has visited a menagerie...will not deny the validity of education.
    Wsp 6.232 24 Napoleon, says Goethe, visited those sick of the plague...
    DL 7.115 11 [Man] should be visited in this his prison with rebuke to the evil demons...
    Clbs 7.238 22 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton;...when France, in the person of Madame de Stael, visited Goethe and Schiller;...
    MoL 10.246 17 A shrewd broker out of State Street visited a quiet countryman possessed of all the virtues...
    Schr 10.285 20 ...what [Genius] says and does is not...visited only by curiosity...
    MMEm 10.411 3 When some ladies of my acquaintance by an unusual chance found themselves in her neighborhood and visited her, I told them that [Mary Moody Emerson] was no whistle that every mouth could play on...
    MMEm 10.411 26 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn; visited from necessity once, and again for books;...
    Thor 10.481 17 [Thoreau] honored certain plants with special regard, and, over all, the pond-lily...and a bass-tree which he visited every year when it bloomed...
    EWI 11.103 11 ...when [the negro] sank in the furrow...no priest of salvation visited him with glad tidings...
    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...
    Bost 12.185 17 [Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures; of snows rather, of east winds and changing skies; visited by icebergs...
    MAng1 12.224 5 [Michelangelo] visited Bologna to inspect its celebrated fortifications...
    MAng1 12.225 21 The excellence of the [defense] works constructed by our artist [Michelangelo] has been approved by Vauban, who visited them...

visitest, v. (1)

    Pray 12.352 20 ...O my Father, thou visitest me in my work...

visiting, v. (5)

    Nat2 3.176 3 We can find these enchantments [of the landscape] without visiting the Como Lake, or the Madeira Islands.
    MMEm 10.402 1 In Malden [Mary Moody Emerson] lived through all her youth and early womanhood, with the habit of visiting the families of her brothers and sisters on any necessity of theirs.
    MMEm 10.420 11 In 1830...[Mary Moody Emerson] reproaches herself with some sudden passion she has for visiting her old home and friends in the city...
    PLT 12.15 20 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes. To this sea every human house has a water front. But this force...visiting whom it will and withdrawing from whom it will...is no fee or property of man or angel.
    CL 12.159 4 Those who persist [in walking] from year to year...and know all the good points within ten miles, with the seasons for visiting each... these we call professors.

visitor, n. (11)

    ET11 5.193 6 Dismal anecdotes abound...of great lords living by the showing of their houses, and of an old man wheeled in his chair from room to room, whilst his chambers are exhibited to the visitor for money;...
    Wth 6.100 25 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor...Young man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...
    Clbs 7.239 6 ...Dr. Dalton scratched a formula on a scrap of paper and pushed it towards the guest,--Had he seen that? The visitor scratched on another paper a formula describing some results of his own with sulphuric acid, and pushed it across the table,--Had he seen that?
    Suc 7.305 2 ...'t is plain to the visitor that 't is of no importance at all about Odoacer and 't is a great deal of importance about Sylvina...
    Supl 10.172 21 At the Bank of England they put a scrap of paper that is worth a million pounds sterling into the hands of the visitor to touch.
    LLNE 10.361 26 Theodore Parker, the near neighbor of [Brook] farm...was a frequent visitor.
    LLNE 10.363 25 An English baronet, Sir John Caldwell, was a frequent visitor [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.366 18 ...every visitor [to Brook Farm] found that there was a comic side to this Paradise of shepherds and shepherdesses.
    EzRy 10.390 23 [Ezra Ripley's] brow was serene and open to his visitor...
    MMEm 10.406 18 [Mary Moody Emerson] tired presently of dull conversations, and asked to be read to, and so disposed of the visitor.
    Mem 12.97 11 One sometimes asks himself, Is it possible that [Memory] is only a visitor, not a resident?

visitors, n. (5)

    OA 7.335 8 [John Adams]...is better the next day after having visitors in his chamber from morning to night.
    Elo2 8.123 4 When [John Quincy Adams] read his first lectures in 1806... the hall was crowded by the Professors and by unusual visitors.
    Edc1 10.156 26 No discretion that can be lodged...with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities [in education]...
    LLNE 10.362 13 In and around Brook Farm, whether as members, boarders or visitors, were many remarkable persons...
    SMC 11.350 5 ...we...believe that our visitors will pardon us if we take the privilege of talking freely about our nearest neighbors as in a family party;...

visits, n. (12)

    Mrs1 3.134 8 ...what is it that we seek, in so many visits and hospitalities?
    SwM 4.137 4 [Swedenborg] carries his controversial memory with him in his visits to the souls.
    ET1 5.5 10 On looking over the diary of my journey in 1833, I find nothing to publish in my memoranda of visits to places.
    ET1 5.5 11 ...I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons...
    SA 8.91 6 'T is a defect in our manners that they have not yet reached the prescribing a limit to visits.
    Insp 8.288 21 In the hotel, I have...no visits to make or receive...
    EzRy 10.394 18 This intimate knowledge of families...and still more, his sympathy, made [Ezra Ripley] incomparable in his parochial visits...
    MMEm 10.400 25 [Mary Moody Emerson]...lived in entire solitude with these old people, very rarely cheered by short visits from her brothers and sisters.
    Thor 10.465 19 Visits were offered [Thoreau] from respectful parties, but he declined them.
    Thor 10.473 18 [Thoreau's] visits to Maine were chiefly for love of the Indian.
    ALin 11.332 15 ...[Lincoln] had a vast good nature...affable, and not sensible to the affliction which the innumerable visits paid to him when President would have brought to any one else.
    Koss 11.397 2 Sir [Kossuth],-The fatigue of your many public visits... forbid us to detain you long.

visits, v. (11)

    Nat 1.77 4 As when the summer comes...the face of the earth becomes green before it, so shall the advancing spirit...carry with it the beauty it visits...
    SR 2.81 8 ...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him...into foreign lands, he...shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he... visits cities and men like a sovereign...
    Art1 2.359 11 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber through galleries of statues, vases, sarcophagi and candelabra...is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of which they all sprung...
    PPh 4.58 18 Horsed on these winged steeds [poetry, prophecy, high insight], [Plato]...visits worlds which flesh cannot enter;...
    SwM 4.142 13 Strange, scholastic, didactic, passionless, bloodless man [Swedenborg], who...visits doleful hells as a stratum of chalk or hornblende!
    ET7 5.124 6 The Englishman who visits Mount Etna will carry his teakettle to the top.
    Suc 7.288 8 The Arabian sheiks...do not want [American arts]; yet...are easily able to impress the Frenchman or the American who visits them with the respect due to a brave and sufficient man.
    Dem1 10.3 9 This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two children lying locked in each other's arms...
    SovE 10.203 5 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...
    FSLN 11.217 5 I have...spirits in deeper prisons, whom no man visits if I do not.
    Mem 12.99 7 ...there is a sound sleep of children and of savages...which never visits the eyes of civil gentlemen...

visor, n. (1)

    HCom 11.339 13 We grudge them not, our dearest, bravest, best,-/ Let but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is Earth's old slave-God battling for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with her visor down./ Holmes.

Viswaharman, n. (1)

    ACri 12.290 26 In the Hindoo mythology, Viswaharman placed the sun on his lathe to grind off some of his effulgence, and in this manner reduced it to an eighth,-more was inseparable.

Vita Nuova, La [Dante Ali (1)

    Boks 7.205 24 There is...Dante's Vita Nuova, to explain Dante and Beatrice;...

vital, adj. (36)

    Nat 1.35 10 ...we must summon the aid of subtler and more vital expositors to make [the doctrine] plain.
    Nat 1.69 27 ...poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
    SR 2.51 8 I ought to go upright and vital...
    SR 2.71 2 ...the vital resources of every animal and vegetable, are demonstrations of the...self-relying soul.
    Comp 2.105 14 If [the unwise man] escapes [the conditions of life] in one part they attack him in another more vital part.
    SL 2.135 4 Could ever a man of prodigious mathematical genius convey to others any insight into his methods? If he could communicate that secret it would instantly lose its exaggerated value, blending with the daylight and the vital energy the power to stand and to go.
    Prd1 2.223 19 [Base prudence] is a disease like a thickening of the skin until the vital organs are destroyed.
    OS 2.285 3 By the same fire, vital, consecrating, celestial, which burns until it shall dissolve all things into the waves and surges of an ocean of light, we see and know each other...
    Pt1 3.19 8 Nature adopts [the factory-village and the railway] very fast into her vital circles...
    Exp 3.69 17 ...I can see nothing at last, in success or failure, than more or less of vital force supplied from the Eternal.
    UGM 4.10 21 The table of logarithms is one thing, and its vital play in botany, music, optics and architecture another.
    PPh 4.76 7 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which the screams of prophets...possess.
    SwM 4.133 2 Swedenborg's system of the world...is dynamic, not vital...
    MoS 4.184 12 ...to each man is administered a single drop, a bead of dew of vital power, per day...
    ET13 5.225 20 [Religion] is endogenous, like the skin and other vital organs.
    ET14 5.237 10 ...these [English poets] were so quick and vital that they could charm and enrich by mean and vulgar objects.
    ET14 5.239 6 [Idealism] seems an affair of race, or of meta-chemistry;--the vital point being, how far the sense of unity, or instinct for seeking resemblances, predominated.
    F 6.9 5 ...so is sex; so is climate; so is the reaction of talents imprisoning the vital power in certain directions.
    F 6.11 16 In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force...
    F 6.12 9 The new talent draws off so rapidly the vital force that not enough remains for the animal functions...
    Pow 6.74 13 ...you shall take what your brain can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing.
    Pow 6.79 17 The masters say that they know a master in music, only by seeing the pose of the hands on the keys;--so difficult and vital an act is the command of the instrument.
    Civ 7.32 26 In strictness, the vital refinements are the moral and intellectual steps.
    Boks 7.195 7 ...all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class...
    Boks 7.197 2 ...I find certain books vital and spermatic...
    PI 8.70 26 The poet is rare because he must be exquisitely vital and sympathetic, and, at the same time, immovably centred.
    Comc 8.164 7 ...the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...
    Plu 10.316 20 ...nothing so resembles an animal as fire. It is moved and nourished by itself, and...in its quenching shows some power that seems to proceed from a vital principle...
    MMEm 10.415 7 Vital, I feel not...
    GSt 10.505 7 Without such vital support as [George Stearns], and such as he, brought to the government, where would that government be?
    LS 11.23 2 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose; and now...Christians must contend that it is a matter of vital importance,-really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's Supper]...
    Wom 11.416 2 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who...showed the difference of sex to run through nature and through thought. Of all Christian sects this is at this moment the most vital and aggressive.
    FRep 11.538 3 Is it that Nature has only so much vital force, and must dilute it if it is to be multiplied into millions?
    PLT 12.52 4 I am familiar with cases...wherein the vital force being insufficient for the constitution, everything is neglected that can be spared;...
    II 12.70 19 Inspiration is vital and continuous.
    Let 12.396 9 It is not for nothing, we assure ourselves...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society.

vitality, n. (2)

    ShP 4.192 11 The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field;...
    Chr2 10.117 1 The orthodox clergymen hold a little firmer to [their traditions], as Calvinism has a more tenacious vitality;...

vitalize, v. (2)

    MoS 4.156 5 If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits they entertain,--they...spend their days and nights...in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute...of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.
    PI 8.70 15 O celestial Bacchus! drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds...hungry for poetry...perishing for want of electricity to vitalize this too much pasture...

vitals, n. (1)

    Cour 7.265 15 Bodily pain is superficial, seated usually in the skin and the extremities...not in the vitals...

vitiate, v. (1)

    DSA 1.123 11 The least admixture of a lie...will instantly vitiate the effect.

vitiated, adj. (1)

    Art1 2.363 14 [The arts] are abortive births of an imperfect or vitiated instinct.

vitiated, v. (6)

    MN 1.214 20 Does not the same law hold for virtue? It is vitiated by too much will.
    MR 1.230 26 ...The ways of commerce...are now in their general course so vitiated by derelictions and abuses at which all connive, that it requires more vigor and resources than can be expected of every young man, to right himself in them;...
    MR 1.234 18 ...whilst another man has no land...your title to yours, is at once vitiated.
    SL 2.133 13 ...our moral nature is vitiated by any interference of our will.
    Int 2.328 20 Our truth of thought is...vitiated as much by too violent direction given by our will, as by too great negligence.
    CL 12.140 19 So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part to sympathize...

vitiates, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.211 19 ...the least defect of self-possession vitiates...the entire relation [of friendship].

vitiating, v. (1)

    Comc 8.164 21 ...as the religious sentiment is the most real and earnest thing in nature...vitiating this is the greatest lie.

vitreous, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.116 12 The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity.

Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus, n (2)

    Nat 1.43 22 Vitruvius thought an architect should be a musician.
    Pt1 3.30 23 What a joyful sense of freedom we have when Vitruvius announces the old opinion of artists that no architect can build any house well who does not know something of anatomy.

Vitruvius Pollio's, Marcus, (1)

    QO 8.185 21 Madame de Stael's Architecture is frozen music is borrowed from Goethe's dumb music, which is Vitruvius's rule, that the architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

vituperated, adj. (2)

    Con 1.313 19 You are yourself the result of this manner of living...this vituperated Sodom.
    Con 1.326 13 It is much that this old and vituperated system of things has borne so fair a child.

vituperation, n. (3)

    ET8 5.133 6 The Saxon melancholy in the vulgar rich and poor appears as gushes of ill-humor, which every check exasperates into sarcasm and vituperation.
    Carl 10.493 25 [Carlyle's] firm, victorious, scoffing vituperation strikes [literary, fashionable, political men] with chill and hesitation.
    EWI 11.144 25 All the songs and newspapers and money subscriptions and vituperation of such as do not think with us, will avail nothing against a fact.

vituperative, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.75 7 These accomplishments [of eloquence] are of the same kind, and only a degree higher than...the vituperative style well described in the street-word jawing.

Vitus, St., n. (1)

    Schr 10.267 18 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends. Yes, but not...an over-doing and busy-ness which pretends to the honors of action, but resembles the twitches of St. Vitus.

Vitus's, St., n. (1)

    Prch 10.224 12 The human race are afflicted with a St. Vitus's dance;...

vivacious, adj. (7)

    Pt1 3.23 18 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...a fearless, vivacious offspring...
    GoW 4.274 1 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...that he...was not a whit less vivacious or rich in Liverpool or the Hague than once in Rome or Antioch.
    ET5 5.75 22 The power of the Saxon-Danes...so vivacious as to extort charters from the kings, stood on the strong personality of these people.
    Elo1 7.66 12 There are many audiences in every public assembly, each one of which rules in turn. If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them.
    Cour 7.257 5 Cut off [the snapping-turtle's] head, and the teeth will not let go the stick. Break the egg of the young, and the little embryo...bites fiercely; these vivacious creatures contriving--shall we say?--not only to bite after they are dead, but also to bite before they are born.
    Res 8.152 21 You cannot tell when [the willows] do bud and blossom, these vivacious trees...
    Carl 10.493 18 [Carlyle] has a vivacious, aggressive temperament, and unimpressionable.

vivacity, n. (22)

    Tran 1.343 17 ...to behold the beauty lodged in a human being, with such vivacity of apprehension that I am instantly forced home to inquire if I am not deformity itself;...these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
    MoS 4.175 21 ...as soon as each man attains the poise and vivacity which allow the whole machinery to play, he will not need extreme examples...
    ET4 5.72 2 Add a certain degree of refinement to the vivacity of these [English] riders, and you obtain the precise quality which makes the men and women of polite society formidable.
    ET6 5.104 13 [The Englishman's] vivacity betrays itself at all points...
    Pow 6.56 2 With adults, as with children, one class...whirl with the whirling world; the others...are only dragged in by the humor and vivacity of those who can carry a dead weight.
    Pow 6.60 14 Vivacity, leadership, must be had...
    Pow 6.73 15 ...a man cannot return into his mother's womb and be born with new amounts of vivacity...
    PI 8.13 9 Vivacity of expression may indicate this high gift...
    PI 8.71 14 ...you must have the vivacity of the poet to perceive in the thought its futurities.
    SA 8.90 5 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...myself, thyself, all selves, and whatever else, with a security and vivacity which belonged to the nobility of the parties...
    Elo2 8.127 4 Something which any boy would tell with color and vivacity [some men] can only stammer out with hard literalness...
    QO 8.190 21 The Comte de Crillon said one day to M. d'Allonville, with French vivacity, If the universe and I professed one opinion and M. Necker expressed a contrary one, I should be at once convinced that the universe and I were mistaken.
    Imtl 8.345 5 ...we live by choice;...by the vivacity of the laws which we obey...
    PerF 10.81 10 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone...
    Edc1 10.140 24 ...every one desires that [the boy's] pure vigor of action and wealth of narrative...should be carried into the habit of the young man... with all its vivacity entire.
    Plu 10.301 2 [Plutarch's] vivacity and abundance never leave him to loiter or pound on an incident.
    LLNE 10.342 21 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity.
    MMEm 10.406 14 Scorn trifles, lift your aims...these were the lessons which were urged [by Mary Moody Emerson] with vivacity...
    Shak1 11.452 8 [Periods fruitful of great men] are like the great wine years...which, it is said, are always followed by new vivacity in the politics of Europe.
    FRep 11.532 25 Young men at thirty and even earlier lose all spring and vivacity...
    Milt1 12.251 11 The weight of the thought [in Milton's Areopagitica] is equalled by the vivacity of the expression...
    Trag 12.406 13 Men and women at thirty years, and even earlier, have lost all spring and vivacity...

vive, v. (1)

    Plu 10.295 9 King Henry IV. wrote to his wife, Marie de Medicis: Vive Dieu. As God liveth, you could not have sent me anything which could be more agreeable than the news of the pleasure you have taken in this reading [of Plutarch].

Vivian Grey [Benjamin Disr (2)

    EurB 12.377 13 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey.
    EurB 12.377 15 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. Byron ruled for a time, but Vivian...rules longer.

vivid, adj. (4)

    Tran 1.347 20 A picture...can give [Transcendentalists] often forms so vivid that these for the time shall seem real, and society the illusion.
    Lov1 2.169 21 The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints...one must not be too old.
    PI 8.34 23 ...to convert the vivid energies acting at this hour in New York and Chicago and San Francisco, into universal symbols, requires a subtile and commanding thought.
    Prch 10.234 6 A vivid thought brings the power to paint it;...

vivifies, v. (4)

    F 6.49 25 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout existence; a Law which...vivifies nature;...
    Imtl 8.347 14 He has [immortality], and he alone, who gives life to all names, persons, things, where he comes. No religion, not the wildest mythology dies for him; no art is lost. He vivifies what he touches.
    Thor 10.477 3 [Thoreau's] habitual thought makes all his poetry a hymn to...the Spirit which vivifies and controls his own...
    CL 12.142 2 Walking, said Rousseau, has something which animates and vivifies my ideas.

vivify, v. (3)

    DSA 1.150 14 A whole popedom of forms one pulsation of virtue can uplift and vivify.
    SwM 4.105 10 [Swedenborg] had a capacity to entertain and vivify these volumes of thought.
    SwM 4.134 19 Though the agency of the Lord is in every line referred to by name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive. There is no lustre in that eye which gazes from the centre and which should vivify the immense dependency of beings.

viviparous, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.18 6 There are viviparous and oviparous minds;...

vixens, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.155 12 I overheard Jove, one day, said Silenus, talking of destroying the earth; he said it had failed; they were all rogues and vixens...

vizard, n. (1)

    Bost 12.193 3 The divine will descends into the barbarous mind in some strange disguise; its pure truth not to be guessed from the rude vizard under which it goes masquerading.

vizier, n. (2)

    PPo 8.241 19 Asaph, the vizier, at a certain time, lost the seal of Solomon...
    PPo 8.254 9 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple.

viziers, n. (1)

    Supl 10.168 1 [People of English stock's] houses are...not designed...to be made bonfires of by whimsical viziers;...

Vocabularies, n. (1)

    Boks 7.211 1 Another class [of books] I distinguish by the term Vocabularies.

vocabulary, n. (9)

    AmS 1.97 27 If it were only for a vocabulary, the scholar would be covetous of action.
    SR 2.62 25 ...power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward...
    Int 2.336 24 ...the imaginative vocabulary seems to be spontaneous also.
    Pt1 3.17 13 The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation.
    SwM 4.116 20 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences, together with a vocabulary containing the terms of spiritual things, as well as of the physical things for which they are to be substituted.
    PI 8.18 7 The thoughts are few, the forms many; the large vocabulary or many-colored coat of the indigent unity.
    PI 8.49 27 Rhyme is a pretty good measure of the latitude and opulence of a writer. If unskilful, he is at once detected by the poverty of his chimes. A small, well-worn, sprucely brushed vocabulary serves him.
    ACri 12.296 1 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...words...that have neatness and necessity, through their use in the vocabulary of work and appetite...
    ACri 12.300 21 Whatever new object we see, we perceive to be only a new version of our familiar experience, and we set about translating it at once into our parallel facts. We have hereby our vocabulary.

vocal, adj. (3)

    AmS 1.95 13 I...take my place in the ring...taught by an instinct that so shall the dumb abyss be vocal with speech.
    SwM 4.116 8 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...
    Thor 10.467 4 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau]...

vocation, n. (8)

    Tran 1.356 13 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect...to some vocation...which they resist as what does not concern them.
    SL 2.140 23 Each man has his own vocation.
    SL 2.142 12 Until he can manage to communicate himself to others in his full stature and proportion, [a man] does not yet find his vocation.
    GoW 4.262 21 The gardener saves every slip and seed and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of plants.
    DL 7.117 3 [The reform that applies itself to the household] must come in connection with a true acceptance by each man of his vocation...
    Prch 10.230 12 [The man of practice or worldly force] is sincere and ardent in his vocation, and plunged in it. Let priest or poet be as good in theirs.
    EWI 11.139 5 [The statesmen's] vocation is a presumption against them among well-meaning people.
    II 12.83 18 Many men are very slow in finding their vocation.

vocations, n. (1)

    NER 3.253 10 [Other reformers] assailed particular vocations...

vogue, n. (5)

    Tran 1.340 11 The extraordinary profoundness and precision of that man's [Kant's] thinking have given vogue to his nomenclature...
    ET14 5.251 14 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men...who were driven by tastes and modes they found in vogue into their several careers.
    QO 8.193 26 ...a quick wit can at any time reinforce [a word], and it comes into vogue again.
    Aris 10.31 2 There is an attractive topic, which never goes out of vogue...
    SovE 10.208 27 ...a new crop of geniuses like those of the Elizabethan age, may be born in this age, and...bring asceticism, duty and magnanimity into vogue again.

Vohr, Vich Ian, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.133 5 If you could see Vich Ian Vohr with his tail on!--
    Mrs1 3.133 6 If you could see Vich Ian Vohr with his tail on!-But Vich Ian Vohr must always carry his belongings in some fashion...

voice, n. (170)

    Nat 1.28 14 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting analogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of, in all discourse, up to the voice of Paul...
    DSA 1.134 12 ...the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.
    MN 1.209 14 In all the millions who have heard the voice, none ever saw the face.
    MN 1.209 18 That well-known voice speaks in all languages...and none ever caught a glimpse of its form.
    MN 1.210 5 ...if [a man's] eye is set...not on the truth that is still taught, and for the sake of which the things are to be done, then the voice grows faint...
    MN 1.218 11 Genius...draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience and spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to.
    MR 1.253 15 ...the people do not wish to be represented or ruled by the ignorant and base. They only vote for these, because they were asked with the voice and semblance of kindness.
    LT 1.263 7 I do not wonder at the miracles which poetry attributes to the music of Orpheus, when I remember what I have experienced from the varied notes of the human voice.
    Tran 1.359 2 ...when every voice is raised for a new road or another statute...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    Hist 2.24 22 The reverence exhibited [in the Grecian period] is for personal qualities; courage...a loud voice...
    Hist 2.27 13 When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to [the student] a sentiment of his infancy...he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition...
    SR 2.45 14 Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they...spoke...what they thought.
    SR 2.48 18 ...in the next room [the youth's] voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic.
    SR 2.59 26 [Virtue] is it which throws thunder into Chatham's voice...
    SR 2.66 1 It must be that when God speaketh he should...fill the world with his voice;...
    SR 2.68 13 When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook...
    SR 2.84 3 ...if you can hear what these patriarchs say, surely you can reply to them in the same pitch of voice;...
    Comp 2.108 7 This voice of fable has in it somewhat divine.
    Comp 2.126 2 The voice of the Almighty saith, Up and onward for evermore!
    SL 2.153 8 ...if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men;...
    SL 2.156 17 Doth not Wisdom cry and Understanding put forth her voice?
    Lov1 2.175 8 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when a single tone of one voice could make the heart bound...
    Hsm1 2.251 10 Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind...
    Hsm1 2.251 12 Heroism works...in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good.
    Art1 2.363 12 Art has not yet come to its maturity...if it do not make the poor and uncultivated feel that it addresses them with a voice of lofty cheer.
    Art1 2.365 9 The sweetest music is...in the human voice...
    Art1 2.365 13 The oratorio has already lost its relation...to the sun, and the earth, but that persuading [human] voice is in tune with these.
    Pt1 3.11 22 ...the phrase will be the fittest, most musical, and the unerring voice of the world for that time.
    Pt1 3.36 1 The noise which at a distance appeared like gnashing and thumping, on coming nearer was found to be the voice of disputants.
    Pt1 3.39 9 [The artist] hears a voice, he sees a beckoning.
    Exp 3.61 7 ...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...
    Mrs1 3.135 16 ...if perchance a searching realist comes to our gate...then again we run to our curtain, and hide ourselves as Adam at the voice of the Lord God in the garden.
    Mrs1 3.140 23 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover...an ignoring eye, which does not see the annoyances, shifts and inconveniences that cloud the brow and smother the voice of the sensitive.
    Mrs1 3.154 6 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness; to make such feel that they were greeted with a voice which made them both remember and hope?
    NER 3.276 4 ...instead of avoiding these men who make his fine gold dim, [a man] will cast all behind him and seek their society only, woo and embrace this his humiliation and mortification, until he shall know why... his voice is husky...in this presence.
    PPh 4.72 17 ...there was some story that under cover of folly, [Socrates] had, in the city government, when one day he chanced to hold a seat there, evinced a courage in opposing singly the popular voice, which had well-nigh ruined him.
    SwM 4.126 25 [To Swedenborg] The angels, from the sound of the voice, know a man's love;...
    SwM 4.144 13 The entire want of poetry in so transcendent a mind [as Swedenborg's]...like a hoarse voice in a beautiful person, is a kind of warning.
    MoS 4.176 24 Does the general voice of ages affirm any principle...
    ShP 4.214 17 ...like the tone of voice of some incomparable person, so [are Shakespeare's sonnets] a speech of poetic beings...
    NMW 4.252 10 He delighted to fascinate Josephine and her ladies...by the terrors of a fiction to which his voice and dramatic power lent every addition.
    GoW 4.281 26 What signifies...that [the writer's] voice is harsh or hissing;...
    ET6 5.112 2 There is a prose in certain Englishmen which exceeds in wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen. There is a knell in the conceit and externality of their voice, which seems to say, Leave all hope behind.
    ET6 5.112 15 When Thalberg the pianist was one evening performing before the Queen at Windsor, in a private party, the Queen accompanied him with her voice.
    ET6 5.112 20 [The English] require a tone of voice that excites no attention in the room.
    ET8 5.128 11 The English have...a ringing cheerful voice.
    ET9 5.148 1 If one of [the English] have...a squeaking or a raven voice, he has persuaded himself that there is something modish and becoming in it...
    ET13 5.228 9 England accepts this ornamented national church, and it glazes the eyes, bloats the flesh, gives the voice a stertorous clang...
    ET14 5.251 22 The voice of [Englishmen's] modern muse has a slight hint of the steam-whistle...
    ET14 5.257 8 [Wordsworth's] verse is the voice of sanity in a worldly and ambitious age.
    ET15 5.264 15 [The London Times] has entered into each municipal, literary and social question, almost with a controlling voice.
    ET15 5.270 12 ...[the editors of the London Times] give a voice to the class who at the moment take the lead;...
    ET15 5.270 26 ...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...
    ET15 5.272 20 ...[if the London Times would cleave to the right] its proud function, that of being the voice of Europe...would be more effectually discharged;...
    F 6.45 13 If a man has a see-saw in his voice, it will run into his sentences...
    Bhr 6.175 24 We had in Massachusetts an old statesman who had sat all his life...in chairs of state without overcoming an extreme irritability of face, voice and bearing;...
    Bhr 6.175 25 ...when [the old Massachusetts statesman] spoke, his voice would not serve him;...
    Bhr 6.182 9 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical.
    Bty 6.279 13 [Seyd] heard a voice none else could hear/ From centred and from errant sphere./
    Ill 6.309 12 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...heard the voice of unseen waterfalls;...
    Art2 7.44 3 Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization of the orator, the tone of the voice...
    Elo1 7.69 9 [The Sicilians] mimic the voice and manner of the person they describe;...
    Elo1 7.72 23 ...when he sent his great voice forth out of his breast...not then would any mortal contend with Ulysses;...
    Elo1 7.83 19 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher, whose voice is not yet forgotten in this city, that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with more than his usual alacrity...
    Elo1 7.94 4 Fame of voice or of rhetoric will carry people a few times to hear a speaker;...
    Elo1 7.99 27 [Eloquence's] great masters...never permitted any talent,-- neither voice, rhythm, poetic power, anecdote, sarcasm--to appear for show;...
    DL 7.103 15 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high...soften all hearts to pity...
    DL 7.116 10 ...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious...
    Boks 7.200 26 ...the meeting of the Seven Wise Masters...is as clear as the voice of a fife...
    Clbs 7.230 3 [Men] kindle each other; and such is the power of suggestion that each sprightly story calls out more; and sometimes a fact that had long slept in the recesses of memory hears the voice, is welcomed to daylight, and proves of rare value.
    Cour 7.268 19 The beautiful voice at church goes sounding on, and covers up in its volume...all the defects of the choir.
    Suc 7.293 24 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector. Whilst it is a thought...it is cried down, it is a chimera; but when it is a fact, and comes in the shape of...a hundred per cent., they cry, It is the voice of God.
    Suc 7.304 19 ...the man of sensibility counts it a delight only to hear a child' s voice fully addressed to him...
    OA 7.314 4 As the bird trims her to the gale,/ I trim myself to the storm of time,/ I man the rudder, reef the sail,/ Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime/...
    OA 7.316 12 Nature lends herself to these illusions [of time], and adds dim sight...cracked voice...
    OA 7.334 9 I...saw [George Whitefield], [John Adams] said, through a window, and distinctly heard all. He had a voice such as I never heard before or since.
    OA 7.334 14 [George Whitefield's] voice and manner helped him more than his sermons.
    PI 8.31 14 ...[the amateur] speaks with his lips and the [poet] with a chest voice.
    PI 8.43 18 Barthold Niebuhr said well, There is little merit in inventing a happy idea or attractive situation, so long as it is only the author's voice which we hear.
    PI 8.60 21 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice of one groaning on his right hand;...
    PI 8.60 25 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard a voice which said, Gawain, Gawain, be not out of heart...
    PI 8.61 2 ...when [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice which thus called him by his right name, he replied, Who can this be who hath spoken to me?
    PI 8.61 4 ...when [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice which thus called him by his right name, he replied, Who can this be who hath spoken to me? How, said the voice, Sir Gawain, know you me not?
    PI 8.61 13 When Sir Gawain heard the voice which spoke to him thus, he thought it was Merlin...
    SA 8.82 14 Give me a thought, and my hands and legs and voice and face will all go right.
    SA 8.83 14 One man can, by his voice, lead the cheer of a regiment; another will have no following.
    Elo2 8.119 25 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice...
    Elo2 8.120 11 I mentioned Jenny Lind's voice. A good voice has a charm in speech as in song;...
    Elo2 8.120 15 The voice...betrays the nature and disposition...
    Elo2 8.120 20 Every one of us has at some time been the victim of a well-toned and cunning voice...
    Elo2 8.120 22 The voice...is a delicate index of the state of mind.
    Elo2 8.120 25 I have heard an eminent preacher say that he learns from the first tones of his voice on a Sunday morning whether he is to have a successful day.
    Elo2 8.121 9 What character, what infinite variety belong to the voice!...
    Elo2 8.121 12 In moments of clearer thought or deeper sympathy, the voice will attain a music and penetration which surprises the speaker as much as the auditor;...
    Elo2 8.121 18 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud...
    Elo2 8.122 18 ...I never heard [John Quincy Adams] speak in public until his fine voice was much broken by age.
    Elo2 8.124 4 In the mortifications of disappointment, [Science's] soothing voice shall whisper serenity and peace.
    Elo2 8.129 22 These are ascending stairs [to eloquence],--a good voice, winning manners, plain speech, chastened...by the schools into correctness;...
    Elo2 8.131 5 [Eloquence] is...the unmistakable sign, never so casually given, in tone of voice, or manner, or word, that a greater spirit speaks from you than is spoken to in him.
    Res 8.146 21 A determined man, by...the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat...
    Res 8.146 24 ...they can conquer who believe they can. Every one hears gladly that cheerful voice.
    QO 8.183 6 What [a great man] quotes, he fills with his own voice and humor...
    QO 8.198 12 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. ... How it seemed the very voice of the refined and discerning public...
    QO 8.202 26 Pindar uses this haughty defiance, as if it were impossible to find his sources: There are many swift darts within my quiver which have a voice for those with understanding;...
    Insp 8.279 12 Aristotle said: No great genius was ever without some mixture of madness, nor can anything grand or superior to the voice of common mortals be spoken except by the agitated soul.
    Insp 8.288 1 Did you never observe, says Gray, while rocking winds are piping loud, that pause...rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an Aeolian harp? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit.
    Grts 8.306 25 ...every man...has a new countenance, new manner, new voice, new thoughts and new character.
    Imtl 8.321 5 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/ Verdict which accumulates/ From lengthening scroll of human fates/ Voice of earth to earth returned,/ Prayers of saints that inly burned,-/...
    Dem1 10.26 10 These adepts [in occult facts] have mistaken flatulency for inspiration. Were this drivel which they report as the voice of spirits really such, we must find out a more decisive suicide.
    Dem1 10.26 20 [Adepts in occult facts] are...by laws of kind,-dunces seeking dunces in the dark of what they call the spiritual world,-preferring snores and gastric noises to the voice of any muse.
    Dem1 10.28 8 The voice of divination resounds everywhere...
    Chr2 10.96 19 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/ There came a voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/ When for the truth he ought to die./
    Chr2 10.97 3 Devout men...have used different images to suggest this latent [moral] force; as...the Comforter, the Daemon, the still, small voice...
    Chr2 10.116 13 ...the simple and free minds among our clergy have not resisted the voice of Nature...
    Edc1 10.135 17 A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike...
    SovE 10.185 17 ...in the voice of Genius I hear invariably the moral tone...
    Prch 10.225 19 All wise men regard [the moral sentiment] as the voice of the Creator himself.
    Prch 10.229 18 It was said: [The clergy] have bronchitis because they read from their papers sermons with a near voice, and then, looking at the congregation, they try to speak with their far voice, and the shock is noxious.
    Prch 10.229 19 It was said: [The clergy] have bronchitis because they read from their papers sermons with a near voice, and then, looking at the congregation, they try to speak with their far voice, and the shock is noxious.
    Schr 10.274 19 [The thoughtful man] is not there to defend himself, but to deliver his message; if his voice is clear, then clearly;...
    Schr 10.279 27 What is the use of...musical voice...to a maniac?
    Plu 10.304 17 ...[Plutarch] says...the Sibyl, with her frantic grimaces... continues her voice a thousand years...
    LLNE 10.331 10 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...a voice of such rich tones...that...it was the most mellow and beautiful and correct of all the instruments of the time.
    LLNE 10.333 24 ...whatever [Everett] has quoted will be remembered by any who heard him, with inseparable association with his voice and genius.
    LLNE 10.334 5 ...every young scholar could recite brilliant sentences from [Everett's] sermons, with mimicry, good or bad, of his voice.
    LLNE 10.339 21 [Channing] could never be reported, for his eye and voice could not be printed...
    LLNE 10.342 9 ...a sympathizing Englishman with a squeaking voice interrupted with the question, Mr. Alcott, a lady near me desires to inquire whether omnipotence abnegates attribute?
    MMEm 10.406 18 [Mary Moody Emerson] tired presently of dull conversations, and asked to be read to, and so disposed of the visitor. If the voice or the reading tired her, she would ask the friend if he or she would do an errand for her, and so dismiss them.
    MMEm 10.410 22 [Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God has given you a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow creatures.
    SlHr 10.438 16 ...when...a deputation of gentlemen waited upon him in the hall to say they had come with the unanimous voice of the State to remove him by force...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
    HDC 11.29 10 Our ears shall not be deaf to the voice of time.
    HDC 11.40 3 ...the wailing of the tempest in the woods sounded kindlier in [the settlers of Concord's] ear than the smooth voice of the prelates, at home, in England.
    HDC 11.49 11 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house...a mill-dam, hath been...altered, or bought, or sold, without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair.
    HDC 11.51 24 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum; Waban, Tahattawan, and their sannaps, going thither from Concord to hear him. There under the rubbish and ruins of barbarous life, the human heart heard the voice of love, and awoke as from a sleep.
    HDC 11.86 2 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Whitfield, whose silver voice melted his great congregation into tears;...
    LVB 11.96 9 I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray with one voice more that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which threatens the Cherokee tribe.
    EWI 11.139 27 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons...would fain silence every honest voice...
    EWI 11.147 22 The sentiment of Right...ever more articulate, because it is the voice of the universe, pronounces Freedom.
    War 11.169 7 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;... I shall find them...men whose very look and voice carry the sentence of honor and shame;...
    War 11.171 8 ...[peace] is to hear the voice of God...
    FSLC 11.201 17 [Webster] must learn that those who make fame accuse him with one voice;...
    FSLC 11.201 20 [Webster] must learn...that the obscure and private who have no voice and care for none, so long as things go well...disown him...
    FSLC 11.202 5 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they have thrust his speeches into the chimney. No roars of New York mobs can drown this voice in Mr. Webster's ear.
    FSLC 11.202 20 We delighted...in [Webster's] voice...
    FSLN 11.222 2 ...the perfection of [Webster's] elocution, and all that thereto belongs,-voice, accent, intonation, attitude, manner,- we shall not soon find again.
    TPar 11.285 20 He whose voice will not be heard here again [Theodore Parker] could well afford to tell his experiences;...
    EPro 11.316 19 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...
    EdAd 11.385 15 Where is...the voice of aboriginal nations opening new eras with hymns of lofty cheer?
    EdAd 11.385 25 We hearken in vain for any profound voice speaking to the American heart...
    Wom 11.403 4 The politics are base,/ The letters do not cheer,/ And 't is far in the deeps of history,/ The voice that speaketh clear./
    Wom 11.406 25 ...the general voice of mankind has agreed that [women] have their own strength;...
    Wom 11.424 9 ...let [women] have and hold and give their property as men do theirs;-and in a few years it will easily appear whether they wish a voice in making the laws that are to govern them.
    RBur 11.441 14 [Burns] has given voice to all the experiences of common life;...
    FRep 11.515 14 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then the cannon articulates its explosions with the voice of a man...and the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    FRep 11.527 27 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the voice of the public...
    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,-the voice of mobs, the voice of lynch law...
    PLT 12.9 22 Ever since the Norse heaven made the stern terms of admission that a man must do something excellent with his hands or feet, or with his voice, eyes, ears...the same demand has been made in Norse earth.
    PLT 12.46 26 A man tries to speak [the truth] and his voice is like the hiss of a snake...
    PLT 12.64 10 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is...that by casting ourselves on it and being its voice it rushes each moment to positive commands...
    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...
    CInt 12.126 7 Harvard College has no voice in Harvard College, but State Street votes it down on every ballot.
    Milt1 12.250 26 ...when [Milton] comes to speak of the reason of the thing [Defence of the English People], then he always recovers himself. The voice of the mob is silent, and Milton speaks.
    Milt1 12.253 25 ...Shakspeare is a voice merely;...
    Milt1 12.257 20 ...[Milton's] voice, we are told, was delicately sweet and harmonious.
    Milt1 12.258 14 The form and the voice of Leonora Baroni seemed to have captivated [Milton] in Rome...
    Milt1 12.261 14 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music:-Notes, with many a winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn out,/ With wanton heed and giddy cunning,/ The melting voice through mazes running,/...
    Milt1 12.261 18 ...Milton was conscious of possessing this intellectual voice...
    Milt1 12.275 2 Milton's sublimest song...is the voice of Milton still.
    Pray 12.352 26 The next [prayer] is a voice out of a solitude as strict and sacred as that in which Nature had isolated this eloquent mute...
    Let 12.396 17 How joyfully we have felt the admonition of larger natures which despised our aims and pursuits, conscious that a voice out of heaven spoke to us in that scorn.

voiced, v. (1)

    PC 8.205 7 ...as through dreams in watches of the night,/ So through all creatures in their form and ways/ Some mystic hint accosts the vigilant,/ Not clearly voiced, but waking a new sense/ Inviting to new knowledge, one with old./

voices, n. (28)

    DSA 1.127 22 ...the base doctrine of the majority of voices usurps the place of the doctrine of the soul.
    MR 1.253 25 The State must consider the poor man, and all voices must speak for him.
    LT 1.272 19 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands.
    Tran 1.359 7 ...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    YA 1.380 7 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner.
    Hist 2.34 19 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness...the power...of understanding the voices of birds, are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction.
    SR 2.46 5 [Great works of art] teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side.
    SR 2.49 23 These are the voices which we hear in solitude...
    Hsm1 2.263 20 ...in the hour when we are deaf to the higher voices, who does not envy those who have seen safely to an end their manful endeavor?
    Pol1 3.200 6 Republics abound in young civilians who believe...that any measure, though it were absurd, may be imposed on a people if only you can get sufficient voices to make it a law.
    Pol1 3.213 17 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by contrivance; as by causing the entire people to give their voices on every measure;...
    NR 3.233 24 ...it was easy [at Handel's Messiah] to observe what efforts nature was making, through so many hoarse, wooden and imperfect persons, to produce beautiful voices...
    PPh 4.54 17 ...whether voices were heard in the sky, or not;...a man [Plato] who could see two sides of a thing was born.
    SwM 4.118 11 Why hear I the same sense from countless differing voices...
    ET4 5.55 11 [The Celts] planted Britain, and gave to the seas and mountains names which...imitate the pure voices of nature.
    Boks 7.194 4 The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of these few great voices of time.
    Suc 7.297 9 ...our difference of wit appears to be only a difference of... power to appreciate faint, fainter and infinitely faintest voices and visions.
    SA 8.83 20 ...certain voices are hoarse and truculent;...
    Elo2 8.121 7 Plutarch, in his enumeration of the ten Greek orators, is careful to mention their excellent voices...
    SovE 10.203 11 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace. But that, be sure, is not the religion of the universal, unsleeping providence, which lurks...in still, small voices...
    Thor 10.481 24 ...[Thoreau]...said [echoes] were almost the only kind of kindred voices that he heard.
    War 11.163 24 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this martial music and endless playing of marches and singing of military and naval songs seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
    ALin 11.329 22 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward...on its way to his home in Illinois, we might well be silent, and suffer the awful voices of the time to thunder to us.
    Wom 11.419 26 ...bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions?
    Mem 12.103 21 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches; by the solitary river hear again the joyful voices of early companions...
    Bost 12.211 1 The elder President Adams has to divide voices of fame with the younger President Adams.
    Let 12.397 12 Regrets and Bohemian castles and aesthetic villages...are the voices of debility.
    Trag 12.414 16 Time the consoler...dries the freshest tears by obtruding new figures...on our eye, new voices on our ear.

Voices, Two, The [Alfred, (1)

    EurB 12.372 13 Locksley Hall and The Two Voices are meditative poems, which were slowly written to be slowly read.

Voices, Two [William Words (1)

    ET1 5.23 27 [Wordsworth] cited the sonnet, On the feelings of a highminded Spaniard, which he preferred to any other...and the Two Voices;...

voicing, v. (1)

    Bty 6.285 1 The clergy have bronchitis, which does not seem a certificate of spiritual health. Macready thought it came of the falsetto of their voicing.

void, adj. (9)

    Int 2.326 10 Intellect is void of affection...
    ET4 5.61 19 The power of the race migrated and left Norway void.
    ET14 5.254 2 ...for the most part the natural science in England...is as void of imagination and free play of thought as conveyancing.
    PI 8.58 19 [The wind] was not born, it sees not,/ And is not seen; it does not come when desired;/ It has no form, it bears no burden,/ For it is void of sin./
    FSLC 11.186 24 ...virtue is the very self of every man. It is therefore a principle of law that an immoral contract is void, and that an immoral statute is void.
    FSLC 11.186 25 ...virtue is the very self of every man. It is therefore a principle of law that an immoral contract is void, and that an immoral statute is void.
    FSLC 11.190 12 I had often heard...that it was a principle in law that immoral laws are void.
    FSLC 11.191 9 Lord Coke held that where an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, the common law shall control it, and adjudge it to be void.
    AKan 11.261 4 In the free states, we give a snivelling support to slavery. The judges give cowardly interpretations to the law, in direct opposition to the known foundation of all law, that every immoral statute is void.

void, n. (2)

    Comp 2.91 11 The lonely Earth amid the balls/ That hurry through the eternal halls,/ A makeweight flying to the void,/ Supplemental asteroid,/ Or compensatory spark,/ Shoots across the neutral Dark./
    PC 8.228 21 The affections are the wings by which the intellect launches on the void...

voir, v. (1)

    Ill 6.313 10 It was wittily if somewhat bitterly said by D'Alembert, qu'un etat de vapeur etait un etat tres facheux, parcequ'il nous faisait voir les choses comme elles sont.

vois, v. (1)

    ET16 5.287 27 ...I insisted...that as to our secure tenure of our mutton-chop and spinach in London or in Boston, the soul might quote Talleyrand, Monsieur, je n'en vois pas la necessite.

volatile, adj. (9)

    Nat 1.76 4 ...to pure spirit [nature]...is volatile...
    MN 1.222 24 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...as these forest leaves absorb light, electricity, and volatile gases...
    MN 1.222 26 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...as...the gnarled oak to live a thousand years is the arrest and fixation of the most volatile and ethereal currents.
    Tran 1.346 3 We easily predict a fair future to each new candidate who enters the lists, but we are frivolous and volatile...
    Cir 2.302 2 The universe is fluid and volatile.
    Nat2 3.196 12 The world is mind precipitated, and the volatile essence is forever escaping again into the state of free thought.
    Ill 6.320 17 With such volatile elements to work in, 't is no wonder if our estimates are loose and floating.
    CPL 11.502 13 Thought is the most volatile of all things.
    PLT 12.11 3 The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all who approach it. Gloves on the hands...volatile salts in the nostrils, are no defence against this virus...

volatility, n. (2)

    Boks 7.213 22 The imagination infuses a certain volatility and intoxication.
    PI 8.18 22 [The act of imagination] infuses a certain volatility and intoxication into all Nature.

volcanic, adj. (4)

    Prd1 2.223 6 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon...
    PPh 4.46 17 In a month or two, through the favor of their good genius, [ardent young men and women] meet some one so related as to assist their volcanic estate, and, good communication being once established, they are thenceforward good citizens.
    ET10 5.161 3 Steam twines huge cannon into wreaths...and vies with the volcanic forces which twisted the strata.
    ET13 5.215 14 ...plainly there has been great power of sentiment at work in this island [England], of which these [religious] buildings are the proofs; as volcanic basalts show the work of fire which has been extinguished for ages.

volcano, n. (6)

    Nat 1.32 17 We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.
    NER 3.258 8 ...the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.
    ET14 5.255 12 The island [England] is a roaring volcano of fate, of material values, of tariffs and laws of repression, glutted markets and low prices.
    F 6.7 14 The planet is liable to...rendings from earthquake and volcano...
    Cour 7.254 21 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight...whether it only plays a game of chess...or whether...Franklin draws off the lightning in his hand; suggesting that one day a wiser geology shall make...the volcano an agricultural resource.
    SMC 11.350 26 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.

volcanoes, n. (1)

    Pow 6.70 19 ...fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap.

volitant, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.161 3 We are...volitant stabilities...

volition, n. (4)

    DSA 1.123 22 ...of their own volition, souls proceed into heaven, into hell.
    Pt1 3.4 2 ...the intellectual men do not believe in any essential dependence of the material world on thought and volition.
    PI 8.23 14 Good poetry...heightens every species of force in Nature, by giving it a human volition.
    II 12.77 15 ...the beatitude of the Intellect seems to lie out of our volition...

volitions, n. (2)

    Comp 2.108 23 We are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period, and was hindered, or...modified in doing, by the interfering volitions of...the organ whereby man at the moment wrought.
    Int 2.332 16 The immortality of man is as legitimately preached from the intellections as from the moral volitions.

volley, n. (3)

    PPh 4.60 5 What moderation and understatement and checking [Plato's] thunder in mid volley!
    Res 8.139 7 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides. The machine is of colossal size; the diameter of the water-wheel, the arms of the levers and the volley of the battery out of all mechanic measure;...
    HDC 11.74 18 ...the British fired one or two shots up the river...then a single gun...then a volley...

volleys, n. (3)

    Pow 6.70 22 The luxury...of electricity [is], not volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires.
    PerF 10.80 7 ...[Bonaparte's] will is an immense battery discharging irresistible volleys of power...
    SMC 11.376 4 A duty so severe has been discharged [in the Civil War], and with such immense results of good...that, though the cannon volleys have a sound of funeral echoes, [men] can yet hear through them the benedictions of their country and mankind.

Voltaire, Francois Arouet d (8)

    UGM 4.27 11 Perhaps Voltaire was not bad-hearted, yet he said of the good Jesus, even, I pray you, let me never hear that man's name again.
    GoW 4.287 5 [Goethe's] Daily and Yearly Journal...and the historical part of his Theory of Colors, have the same interest. In the last, he rapidly notices Kepler...Voltaire, etc;...
    ET8 5.127 12 This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the English] by French travellers, who, from Froissart, Voltaire, Le Sage, Mirabeau, down to the lively journalists of the feuilletons, have spent their wit on the solemnity of their neighbors.
    F 6.29 20 As Voltaire said, 't is the misfortune of worthy people that they are cowards;...
    Wsp 6.224 14 The fame of Shakspeare or of Voltaire...characterizes those who give it.
    CbW 6.257 23 Croyez moi, l'erreur aussi a son merite, said Voltaire.
    Elo2 8.122 7 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;...like Galiani, Voltaire...
    QO 8.181 21 M. Le Grand showed that in the old Fabliaux were the originals of the tales of Moliere, La Fontaine, Boccaccio, and of Voltaire.

Voltaire, Francois de, n. (2)

    Grts 8.318 2 Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of Weimar, does not shine. We can see that the Prince had the advantage of the Olympian genius. It is more plainly seen in the correspondence between Voltaire and Frederick of Prussia.
    Grts 8.318 2 Voltaire is brilliant, nimble and various, but Frederick has the superior tone.

Voltaire, Francois Marie A (1)

    QO 8.192 1 ...Voltaire usually imitated, but with such superiority that Dubuc said: He is like the false Amphitryon; although the stranger, it is always he who has the air of being master of the house.

Voltaire, Francois Marie, n (1)

    Grts 8.318 22 A great style of hero draws equally...all the extremes of society, till we say the very dogs believe in him. We have had such examples in this country, in Daniel Webster...in France...Voltaire.

Voltaire, Francois, n. (6)

    Chr2 10.110 11 ...Voltaire is no longer a scarecrow;...
    Chr2 10.110 16 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity-say the sarcasms of Voltaire...good-naturedly...
    Chr2 10.110 23 Voltaire was an apostle of Christian ideas; only the names were hostile to him, and he never knew it otherwise.
    Plu 10.296 9 Voltaire honored [Plutarch]...
    Scot 11.467 6 With such a fortune and such a genius, we should look to see what heavy toll the Fates took of [Scott], as of Rousseau or Voltaire...
    PLT 12.55 22 Croyez moi, l'erreur aussi a son merite, said Voltaire.

Voltaire's, Francois Arouet (1)

    ET1 5.8 3 The Greek histories [Landor] thought the only good; and after them, Voltaire's.

Voltaire's, Francois, n. (2)

    Plu 10.312 2 Seneca...by...his own skill, like Voltaire's, of living with men of business...learned to temper his philosophy with facts.
    II 12.67 18 ...Haydon found Voltaire's tales left him melancholy.

Volterra, Daniel di, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.234 20 As [Michelangelo] refused to undo his work [The Last Judgment], Daniel di Volterra was employed to clothe the figures;...

volubility, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.62 8 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...volubility...

volubly, adv. (1)

    NMW 4.248 2 I think all men...know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles;...

volume, n. (19)

    AmS 1.93 11 ...as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months, so is its record, perhance, the least part of his volume.
    MN 1.201 25 Read alternately...a treatise of astronomy, for example, with a volume of French Memoires pour servir.
    OS 2.273 8 ...produce a volume of Plato or Shakspeare...and instantly we come into a feeling of longevity.
    SwM 4.115 24 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg]... should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences, to unlock the meaning of the world? In the first volume of the Animal Kingdom, he broaches the subject in a remarkable note...
    MoS 4.162 15 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy.
    ShP 4.209 9 Who ever read the volume of [Shakespeare's] Sonnets without finding that the poet had there revealed...the lore of friendship and of love;...
    ET1 5.12 21 ...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.
    ET12 5.203 23 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Dr. Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order; brought them to Oxford with the rest of his purchase, and placed them in the volume;...
    DL 7.122 11 ...[Lord Falkland's] house was a university in a less volume...
    Boks 7.189 17 The bookseller might certainly know that his customers are in no respect better for the purchase and consumption of his wares. The volume is dear at a dollar...
    Boks 7.205 27 To help us, perhaps a volume or two of M. Sismondi's Italian Republics will be as good as the entire sixteen.
    Cour 7.268 20 The beautiful voice at church...covers up in its volume...all the defects of the choir.
    Thor 10.475 5 ...[Thoreau] would have detected every live stanza or line in a volume [of poetry]...
    War 11.156 21 ...Fontenelle expressed a volume of meaning when he said, I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
    CPL 11.500 8 ...events so important have occurred in the forty years since that book [Shattuck, History of Concord] was published, that it now needs a second volume.
    MAng1 12.241 12 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper...by the Italian scholar, in the Discourse of Benedetto Varchi upon one sonnet of Michael Angelo, contained in the volume of his poems published by Biagioli...
    AgMs 12.360 16 ...it was by accident that this volume [the Agricultural Survey] came into [Edmund Hosmer's] hands for a few days.
    EurB 12.365 4 It was a brighter day than we have often known in our literary calendar, when within a twelvemonth a single London advertisement announced a new volume of poems by Wordsworth, poems by Tennyson, and a play by Henry Taylor.
    EurB 12.372 17 The Talking Oak, though a little hurt by its wit and ingenuity, is beautiful, and the most poetic of the volume.

volumes, n. (25)

    Nat 1.28 5 ...all Linnaeus' and Buffon's volumes, are dry catalogues of facts;...
    LE 1.170 10 What else do these volumes of extracts and manuscript commentaries, that every scholar writes, indicate?
    Hist 2.38 23 You shall not tell me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read.
    Int 2.334 22 ...we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.
    NER 3.258 8 ...the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.
    SwM 4.105 10 [Swedenborg] had a capacity to entertain and vivify these volumes of thought.
    SwM 4.111 21 The admirable preliminary discourses with which Mr. Wilkinson has enriched these volumes [by Swedenborg], throw all the contemporary philosophy of England into shade...
    SwM 4.130 16 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion...of moral and mental power, which perhaps obeys the law of those chemical ratios which make a proportion in volumes necessary to combination...
    MoS 4.162 20 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy. It remained long neglected, until, after many years...I read the book, and procured the remaining volumes.
    GoW 4.288 5 ...notwithstanding the looseness of many of [Goethe's] works, we have volumes of detached paragraphs, aphorisms, Xenien, etc.
    ET14 5.256 3 How many volumes of well-bred metre we must jingle through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed!
    ET16 5.279 24 ...[Carlyle] reads little, he says, in these last years, but Acta Sanctorum; the fifty-three volumes of which are in the London Library.
    Elo1 7.67 19 Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or,--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.
    Boks 7.193 9 In 1858, the number of printed books in the Imperial Library at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand volumes...
    Boks 7.193 10 In 1858, the number of printed books in the Imperial Library at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand volumes, with an annual increase of twelve thousand volumes;...
    PI 8.25 7 When people tell me they do not relish poetry, and bring me...I know not what volumes of rhymed English...I am quite of their mind.
    PI 8.57 23 I find or fancy more true poetry...in the Welsh and bardic fragments of Taliessin and his successors, than in many volumes of British Classics.
    PerF 10.76 14 For man, the receiver of all, and depositary of these volumes of power, I am to say that his ability and performance are according to his reception of these various streams of force.
    Supl 10.167 10 An eminent French journalist paid a high compliment to the Duke of Wellington, when his documents were published: Here are twelve volumes of military dispatches, and the word glory is not found in them.
    Plu 10.321 9 I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in London...will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch]...
    HDC 11.47 27 Not a complaint occurs in all the volumes of our Records [of Concord], of any inhabitant being hindered from speaking...
    FSLC 11.187 6 It is remarkable how rare in the history of tyrants is an immoral law. Some color, some indirection was always used. If you take up the volumes of the Universal History, you will find it difficult searching.
    CPL 11.499 15 ...whenever [Mary Moody Emerson] arrived in a town where was a good minister who had a library, she would persuade him to receive her as a boarder, and would stay until she had looked over all his volumes which were to her taste.
    Pray 12.350 21 ...there are scattered about in the earth a few records of these devout hours [of prayer], which it would edify us to read, could they be collected in a more catholic spirit than the wretched and repulsive volumes which usurp that name.
    EurB 12.370 1 ...notwithstanding all Wordsworth's grand merits, it was a great pleasure to know that Alfred Tennyson's two volumes were coming out in the same ship;...

voluminous, adj. (4)

    SwM 4.100 7 [Swedenborg]...devoted himself to the writing and publication of his voluminous theological works...
    SwM 4.124 1 Plato is a gownsman; his garment...is an academic robe, and hinders action with its voluminous folds.
    Boks 7.201 14 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history...but the shortest is the best, and if one lacks stomach for Mr. Grote' s voluminous annals, the old slight and popular summary of Goldsmith or of Gillies will serve.
    EzRy 10.392 5 ...often...[Ezra Ripley's] speech was a satire on the loose, voluminous, draggle-tail periods of other speakers.

voluntarily, adv. (9)

    Con 1.313 6 Who put things on this false basis? ... No man voluntarily and knowingly;...
    Comp 2.119 18 A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of reason...
    Comp 2.119 19 The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
    OS 2.286 12 That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily but involuntarily.
    OS 2.286 16 ...thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.
    Cir 2.307 19 I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits of persons called high and worthy.
    F 6.38 21 Life works both voluntarily and supernaturally in its neighborhood.
    Wsp 6.206 4 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture,--the grafted or meliorated tree in a crab forest. And to marry a pagan wife or husband was...voluntarily to take a step backwards towards the baboon...
    Schr 10.269 17 ...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but truth...and brave obedience to it in right action? Every man or woman who can voluntarily or involuntarily give them any insight or suggestion on these secrets they will hearken after.

voluntary, adj. (11)

    YA 1.371 26 [Destiny] is not discovered in [men's] calculated and voluntary activity...
    SR 2.65 4 Every man discriminates between the voluntary acts of his mind and his involuntary perceptions...
    Comp 2.112 8 Of the like nature [to Fear] is that expectation of change which instantly follows the suspension of our voluntary activity.
    Prd1 2.239 19 The natural motions of the soul are so much better than the voluntary ones that you will never do yourself justice in dispute.
    Int 2.326 25 All that mass of mental and moral phenomena which we do not make objects of voluntary thought, come within the power of fortune;...
    NR 3.244 15 ...we cannot make voluntary and conscious steps in the admirable science of universals...
    Wsp 6.240 16 ...the last lesson of life...is a voluntary obedience, a necessitated freedom.
    Art2 7.39 3 ...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
    Art2 7.49 17 The poet aims...to subject to thought things seen without (voluntary) thought.
    LS 11.17 19 ...the service [the Lord's Supper] does not stand upon the basis of a voluntary act, but is imposed by authority.
    Milt1 12.273 4 [Milton] would...support preachers by voluntary contributions;...

volunteer, v. (4)

    ET9 5.150 2 [The English] have no curiosity about foreigners, and answer any information you may volunteer with Oh, Oh!...
    Cour 7.261 21 I knew a young soldier...who confided to his sister that he had made up his mind to volunteer for the war.
    Edc1 10.155 27 ...as [the naturalist] is still immovable, [the creatures of nature]...volunteer some degree of advances towards fellowship and good understanding with a biped who behaves so civilly and well.
    ACiv 11.297 4 ...it is the mark of nobleness to volunteer the lowest service...

Volunteers, Massachusetts, n (4)

    SMC 11.366 1 This [old artillery] company, chiefly recruited here [in Concord], was later embodied in the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers...
    SMC 11.366 8 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, Lieutenant in this [Forty-seventh] regiment...went out again in August, 1864, a captain in the Fifty-ninth Massachusetts...
    SMC 11.366 21 In August, 1862...twelve men...were enlisted for three years, and, being soon after enrolled in the Fortieth Massachusetts, went to the war;...
    SMC 11.367 4 After the return of the three months' company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of volunteers, and Captain Bowers another. Each of these companies included recruits from this town [Concord], and they formed part of the Thirty-second Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers.

volunteers, n. (5)

    Pow 6.78 3 Basil Hall likes to show that the worst regular troops will beat the best volunteers.
    FSLC 11.181 3 The only haste in Boston, after the rescue of Shadrach, last February, was, who should first put his name on the list of volunteers in aid of the marshal.
    SMC 11.349 5 Fellow Citizens: The day is in Concord doubly our calendar day, as being the anniversary of the invasion of the town by the British troops in 1775, and of the departure of the company of voluteers for Washington, in 1861.
    SMC 11.357 18 One of our later volunteers...said, I go because I shall always be sorry if I did not go when the country called me.
    SMC 11.366 27 After the return of the three months' company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of volunteers...

volunteers, v. (4)

    MR 1.233 6 The sins of our trade belong...to no individual. One plucks, one distributes, one eats. Every body partakes, every body confesses,-with cap and knee volunteers his confession...
    Comc 8.164 11 ...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its stead.
    Thor 10.449 4 A queen rejoices in her peers,/ And wary Nature knows her own,/ By court and city, dale and down,/ And like a lover volunteers/...
    Mem 12.97 8 It sometimes occurs that Memory...volunteers or refuses its informations at its will...

voluptuous, adj. (2)

    Art1 2.367 13 [Men] despatch the day's weary chores, and fly to voluptuous reveries.
    Imtl 8.326 1 [The Greek]...built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii. The poet Shelley says of these delicately carved white marble cells, They seem not so much hiding places of that which must decay, as voluptuous chambers for immortal spirits.

voluptuousness, n. (1)

    EWI 11.118 14 ...experience...shows the existence, beside the covetousness, of a bitterer element [in slavery]...the voluptuousness of holding a human being in his absolute control.

Volvox perglobator [globator] (1)

    GoW 4.290 5 Man is the most composite of all creatures; the wheel-insect, volvox globator, is at the other extreme.

Von Buchs, n. (1)

    UGM 4.12 4 Shall we say that quartz mountains will pulverize into innumerable Werners, Von Buchs and Beaumonts...

Vonved, Svend [Danish balla (1)

    Suc 7.287 18 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/ Success in thyself, which is best of all,/ Success in thy hand, success in thy foot,/ In struggle with man, in battle with brute:--/ The holy God and Saint Drothin dear/ Shall never shut eyes on thy career;/ Look out, look out, Svend Vonved!

voracious, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.70 22 [The English] are the most voracious people of prey that ever existed.

voraciously, adv. (1)

    Boks 7.211 19 [The Germans] read voraciously...

voracity, n. (2)

    Wth 6.117 12 ...the eating quality of debt does not relax its voracity.
    CbW 6.263 15 I figure [sickness] as a...phantom...afflicting other souls with meanness and mopings and with ministration to its voracity of trifles.

vortex, n. (4)

    SwM 4.104 13 ...Descartes, taught by Gilbert's magnet, with its vortex, spiral and polarity, had filled Europe with the leading thought of vortical motion, as the secret of nature.
    Clbs 7.241 7 ...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their accomplishment almost inevitably guides into the vortex of ambition... whom we now consider.
    PI 8.50 4 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see...how rich and lavish their profusion. In their rhythm is...a vortex, or musical tornado...
    PPo 8.250 19 ...sometimes [Hafiz's] feast, feasters and world are only one pebble more in the eternal vortex and revolution of Fate...

vortical, adj. (3)

    SwM 4.104 14 ...Descartes...had filled Europe with the leading thought of vortical motion, as the secret of nature.
    SwM 4.110 11 ...the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens. Each law of nature has the like universality; eating...vortical motion...
    SwM 4.115 16 The form above [the perpetual-circular] is the vortical...

vortices, n. (1)

    PI 8.7 8 One of these vortices or self-directions of thought is the impulse to search resemblance, affinity, identity, in all its objects...

Vortigern [Merlin], n. (1)

    Wsp 6.206 10 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;/...

Voss, Johann Heinrich, n. (2)

    Chr1 3.104 3 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...a lucrative place found for Professor Voss...
    LLNE 10.332 14 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys...than exegetical discourses in the style of Voss and Wolff and Ruhnken...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...

votaries, n. (2)

    Hist 2.15 5 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms...like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods...
    FRO1 11.479 2 One wonders sometimes that the churches still retain so many votaries, when he reads the histories of the Church.

votary, n. (6)

    SwM 4.145 13 I think of [Swedenborg] as of some transmigrating votary of Indian legend...
    MoS 4.174 10 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable friend...finds that all direct ascension...leads to this ghastly insight, and sends back the votary orphaned.
    ET1 5.6 10 [Greenough] was a votary of the Greeks...
    Wsp 6.205 3 ...the religion cannot rise above the state of the votary.
    Prch 10.222 17 [Religion] does not grow thin or robust with the health of the votary.
    CInt 12.125 18 In the romance Spiridion...we had...the story of a young saint who comes into a convent for her education...but...it turns out in a few days that every hand is against this young votary.

vote, n. (33)

    YA 1.371 6 A heterogeneous population crowding...to the great gates of North America...and quickly contributing...their vote to the election, it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    SL 2.162 2 The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his whole being without obstruction, so that on what point soever of his doing your eye falls it shall report truly of his character, whether it be his diet...his vote...
    Exp 3.65 6 Right to hold land, right of property, is disputed...and before the vote is taken, dig away in your garden...
    Pol1 3.206 17 The law may in a mad freak say that all shall have power except the owners of property; they shall have no vote.
    Pol1 3.210 1 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...
    UGM 4.11 16 ...the constituency determines the vote of the representative.
    F 6.14 9 On the whole, [weighing] would be rather the speediest way of deciding the vote...
    Wth 6.103 24 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote...he makes so much more equity in Massachusetts;...
    CbW 6.249 22 ...let us have the considerate vote of single men spoken on their honor and their conscience.
    CbW 6.249 25 In old Egypt it was established law that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands.
    CbW 6.250 7 What a vicious practice is this of our politicians at Washington pairing off!...as if your presence did not tell in more ways than in your vote.
    CSC 10.376 8 These men and women [at the Chardon Street Convention] were in search of something better and more satisfying than a vote or a definition...
    HDC 11.47 15 The moderator [of the New England town-meeting] was the passive mouth-piece, and the vote of the town, like the vane on the turret overhead, free for every wind to turn...
    HDC 11.50 8 Tell [the Continental nations] the Union has twenty-four States, and Massachusetts is one. Tell them...that in Concord are five hundred ratable polls, and every one has an equal vote.
    HDC 11.81 27 The General Court...draughted a constitution, sent it here [to Concord], and asked the town whether they would have it for the law of the State? The town answered No, by a unanimous vote.
    EWI 11.99 11 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the settlement, as far as a great Empire was concerned, of a question on which almost every leading citizen in it had taken care to record his vote;...
    EWI 11.134 21 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out...that [these neglected victims] have...no strong vote to cast at the elections;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    FSLN 11.224 11 Four years ago to-night, on one of those high critical moments in history...when the powers of right and wrong are mustered for conflict, and it lies with one man to give a casting vote,-Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    Wom 11.420 17 On the questions that are important...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
    Wom 11.421 25 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen...standing at the door of the polls, give every innocent citizen his ticket as he comes in, informing him that this is the vote of his party;...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    Wom 11.422 16 Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him brings the other or corresponding half in his hand...
    Wom 11.422 23 ...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote...
    Wom 11.422 26 ...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote...
    Wom 11.423 2 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...
    Wom 11.423 5 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...
    Wom 11.424 11 If you do refuse [women] a vote, you will also refuse to tax them...
    FRep 11.517 11 ...a court or an aristocracy...can more easily run into follies than a republic, which has too many observers-each with a vote in his hand-to allow its head to be turned by any kind of nonsense...
    FRep 11.523 5 [Americans] stay away from the polls, saying that one vote can go no good!
    FRep 11.523 6 [Americans] stay away from the polls, saying that one vote can go no good! Or they take another step, and say, One vote can do no harm!...
    FRep 11.523 21 ...it is useless to rely on [the people] to go to a meeting, or to give a vote, if any check from this must-have-the-money side arises.
    FRep 11.525 11 ...any disturbances in politics...sober [the American people], and instantly show more virtue and conviction in the popular vote.
    FRep 11.543 16 ...north and south, east and west will be present to our minds, and our vote will be as if they voted...
    FRep 11.543 17 ...north and south, east and west will be present to our minds, and our vote will be as if they voted, and we shall know that our vote secures the foundations of the state...

vote, v. (27)

    MR 1.252 23 We do not greet [the laborers'] talents...nor in the assembly of the people vote for what is dear to them.
    MR 1.253 14 ...the people do not wish to be represented or ruled by the ignorant and base. They only vote for these, because they were asked with the voice and semblance of kindness.
    MR 1.253 16 ...the people do not wish to be represented or ruled by the ignorant and base. They only vote for these, because they were asked with the voice and semblance of kindness. They will not vote for them long.
    Tran 1.348 5 [Transcendentalists] do not even like to vote.
    SR 2.54 9 If you...vote with a great party...I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are...
    SR 2.88 26 ...the reformers summon conventions and vote and resolve in multitude.
    NER 3.279 3 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors, and a good man at my side, looking on the people, remarked, I am satisfied that the largest part of these men, on either side, mean to vote right.
    ShP 4.199 4 As Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Webster vote, so Locke and Rousseau think, for thousands;...
    ET11 5.184 9 ...why need [English peers] sit out the debate? Has not the Duke of Wellington, at this moment, their proxies...in his pocket, to vote for them if there be an emergency?
    F 6.23 15 ...nothing is more disgusting than...the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like...the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act...
    F 6.31 14 What pious men in the parlor will vote for what reprobates at the polls!
    CbW 6.250 5 What a vicious practice is this of our politicians at Washington pairing off! as if one man who votes wrong going away, could excuse you, who mean to vote right, for going away;...
    Bty 6.293 22 ...the circumstances may be easily imagined in which woman may speak, vote, argue causes, legislate and drive a coach...if only it come by degrees.
    Aris 10.63 14 If [the man of honor] cannot vote with the poor, he should stay by himself.
    PerF 10.87 27 ...legislatures listen with appetite to declamations against [the moral sentiment], and vote it down.
    HDC 11.65 4 The charges of education and of legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord]; for they vote to petition the General Court to be eased of the law relating to providing a school-master;...
    EWI 11.123 19 The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for...
    War 11.170 19 ...[public meetings] vote and vote, cry hurrah on both sides...
    FSLN 11.236 27 It is of no use to vote down gravitation of morals.
    FSLN 11.237 11 ...a man cannot steal without incurring the penalties of the thief, though all the legislatures vote that it is virtuous...
    Wom 11.419 23 It is very cheap wit that finds it so droll that a woman should vote.
    Wom 11.420 20 We may ask, to be sure,-Why need you [women] vote?
    Wom 11.421 20 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    Wom 11.422 1 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    FRep 11.523 7 ...[Americans] take another step, and say, One vote can do no harm! and vote for something which they do not approve, because their party or set votes for it.
    FRep 11.523 25 If a customer looks grave at [the peoples'] newspaper, or damns their member of Congress, they take another newspaper, and vote for another man.
    PLT 12.38 19 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published...in conversation...of men of the world, and at last in the very choruses of songs. The young hear it, and...they accept it, vote for it at the polls...

voted, v. (14)

    LT 1.290 5 ...[the Moral Sentiment] is voted for at elections;...
    Pol1 3.200 3 Republics abound in young civilians who believe...that commerce, education and religion may be voted in or out;...
    F 6.5 24 Wise men feel that there is something which cannot be talked or voted away...
    Aris 10.38 23 These distinctions [in men] exist, and...not to be talked or voted away.
    Thor 10.454 8 ...[Thoreau] never voted;...
    HDC 11.64 26 After the death of Rev. Mr. Estabrook, in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry? Voted affirmatively.
    HDC 11.71 18 It was...voted [in Concord], to raise one or more companies of minute-men...
    HDC 11.83 17 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown. The author [Lemuel Shattuck]...has wisely enriched his pages with the resolutions, addresses and instructions to its agents, which...at critical periods, the town has voted.
    EWI 11.109 5 Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox were drawn into the generous enterprise [emancipation of West Indian slaves]. In 1788, the House of Commons voted Parliamentary inquiry.
    Wom 11.420 7 ...all my points would sooner be carried in the State if women voted.
    Wom 11.423 23 ...when I read the list of men of intellect, of refined pursuits...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
    Wom 11.423 24 ...when I read the list of men of intellect, of refined pursuits...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
    FRep 11.543 16 ...north and south, east and west will be present to our minds, and our vote will be as if they voted...
    EurB 12.369 13 ...the Court Journals and Literary Gazettes were not well pleased, and voted the poet [Wordsworth] a bore.

Voted, v. (2)

    HDC 11.78 15 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither;...
    HDC 11.80 18 ...our fathers must be forgiven by their charitable posterity, if, in 1782...it was Voted that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day...

voter, n. (2)

    Bty 6.283 22 ...we prize very humble utilities...a voter, a citizen...
    Chr2 10.118 16 In the present tendency of our society...when counties and towns are resisting centralization, and the individual voter his party,- society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.

voters, n. (5)

    NER 3.268 20 ...the ground on which eminent public servants urge the claims of popular education is fear; This country is filling up with thousands and millions of voters, and you must educate them to keep them from our throats.
    ET18 5.300 10 In the home population of near thirty millions [in England], there are but one million voters.
    AKan 11.257 20 ...I submit that, in a case like this, where citizens of Massachusetts, legal voters here, have emigrated to national territory...I submit that the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    Wom 11.420 17 On the questions that are important...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
    FRep 11.523 12 ...[Americans...say, One vote can do no harm! and vote for something which they do not approve, because their party or set votes for it. Of course this puts them in the power of any party having a steady interest to promote which does not conflict manifestly with the pecuniary interest of the voters.

votes, n. (18)

    LT 1.259 17 The Times-the nations, manners, institutions, opinions, votes, are to be studied as omens...
    GoW 4.266 17 It is believed...the negotiations of a caucus and the practising on the prejudices and facility of country-people to secure their votes in November,--is practical and commendable.
    ET10 5.154 8 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer. You shall find this sentiment...deeply implied...in biography and in the votes of public assemblies...
    ET11 5.192 7 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title; lewdness, gaming, smuggling, bribery and cheating;...make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    Wth 6.111 3 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant] people, and we cannot get rid of their will to be supported. That has become an inevitable element of our politics; for their votes, each of the dominant parties courts and assists them to get it executed.
    Farm 7.141 16 If it be true that, not by votes of political parties but by the eternal laws of political economy, slaves are driven out of a slave state as fast as it is surrounded by free states, then the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    Suc 7.290 17 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through...a packed jury or caucus, bribery and repeating votes...
    PI 8.41 22 ...the broker sees the stock-list; the politician, the ward and county votes;...
    Comc 8.173 13 ...when the men appear who ask our votes as representatives of this ideal, we are sadly out of countenance.
    Grts 8.311 21 Leave others to count votes and calculate stocks.
    LLNE 10.353 2 [Fourier's] mistake is that this particular order and series is to be imposed, by force or preaching and votes, on all men...
    SlHr 10.438 24 ...when the votes of the Free States, as shown in the recent election in the State of Pennsylvania, had disappointed the hopes of mankind...[Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and liberty, for his age, lost...
    EWI 11.109 20 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended. Everything generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come to the attack. On the other part are found cold prudence, bare-faced selfishness and silent votes.
    EWI 11.137 5 All the great geniuses of the British senate...ranged themselves on [emancipation's] side;...Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, in this country, all recorded their votes.
    FSLN 11.240 15 ...all the statesmen...are sure to be found befriending liberty with their words, and crushing it with their votes.
    Wom 11.419 18 ...if a woman demand votes, offices and political equality with men...it must not be refused.
    Wom 11.421 1 Those whom you [women] teach, and those whom you half teach, will fast enough make themselves...strong with their new insight, and votes will follow from all the dull.
    Wom 11.422 22 There is no lack of votes representing the physical wants;...

votes, v. (7)

    NER 3.265 21 The candidate my party votes for is not to be trusted with a dollar...
    ShP 4.198 23 The learned member of the legislature, at Westminster or at Washington, speaks and votes for thousands.
    ET10 5.161 10 [The Bank of England] votes an issue of bills, population is stimulated and cities rise;...
    CbW 6.250 3 What a vicious practice is this of our politicians at Washington pairing off! as if one man who votes wrong going away, could excuse you, who mean to vote right, for going away;...
    War 11.170 23 The next season...the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way...
    FRep 11.523 9 ...[Americans] take another step, and say, One vote can do no harm! and vote for something which they do not approve, because their party or set votes for it.
    CInt 12.126 7 Harvard College has no voice in Harvard College, but State Street votes it down on every ballot.

voting, n. (3)

    Wom 11.420 25 If new power is here, of a character...which...opens new careers to our young receptive men and women, you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.
    FRep 11.522 24 When we are most disturbed by [the American people's] rash and immoral voting, it is not malignity, but recklessness.
    CInt 12.122 9 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...need to have their corrupt voting and violence corrected by the cleaner and wiser suffrages of poor farmers.

voting, v. (7)

    LE 1.178 3 ...out of travelling, and voting, and watching and caring;... comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    MR 1.243 26 I ought to be armed...by my voting...
    ET7 5.122 2 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven all voting like sheep...
    ET7 5.122 4 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven all voting like sheep...all but four voting the income tax...
    Cour 7.259 13 [Political parties] can do...the voting, if it is a fair day;...
    Wom 11.421 3 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;...
    Wom 11.421 16 For their want of intimate knowledge of affairs, I do not think this ought to disqualify [women] from voting at any town-meeting which I ever attended.

voucher, n. (1)

    Prch 10.223 1 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws-as mankind begins to see them in this age...needing no voucher, no prophet and no miracle besides their own irresistibility...

vouchers, n. (2)

    DSA 1.123 15 Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers...
    ET11 5.189 19 The grand old halls scattered up and down in England, are dumb vouchers to the state and broad hospitality of their ancient lords.

vouchsafed, v. (2)

    LT 1.288 21 ...where but in the intuitions which are vouchsafed us from within, shall we learn the Truth?
    Wsp 6.238 23 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely...the terror of its being taken away... The whole revelation that is vouchsafed us is the gentle trust, which, in our experience, we find will cover also with flowers the slopes of this chasm.

vouchsafes, v. (1)

    MLit 12.325 16 We are provoked with...the patronizing air with which [Goethe] vouchsafes to tolerate the genius and performances of other mortals...

vow, n. (3)

    Mrs1 3.154 20 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never...some fool...who had been mutilated under a vow...but fled at once to him;...
    CbW 6.277 14 ...when you tax [men] with treachery, and remind them of their high resolutions, they have forgotten that they made a vow.
    Chr2 10.108 25 ...the stern determination...to be chaste and humble, was substantially the same, whether under a self-respect, or under a vow made on the knees at the shrine of Madonna.

vowed, v. (2)

    Chr1 3.115 23 ...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...
    JBB 11.266 16 ...[John Brown] and his brave boys vowed-so might Heaven help and speed 'em-/ They would save those grand old prairies from the curse that blights the land;/...

vows, n. (8)

    LE 1.164 23 ...we must pay our vows to the highest power...
    MR 1.243 18 The duty that every man should assume his own vows...gains in emphasis if we look at our modes of living.
    Exp 3.51 10 Of what use to make heroic vows of amendment, if the same old law-breaker is to keep them?
    DL 7.102 2 Thou shalt make thy house/ The temple of a nation's vows./
    EzRy 10.379 3 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God:/ In Heaven are kept their grateful vows,/ Their dust endears the sod./
    SMC 11.351 26 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...becomes...an altar where the noble youth shall in all time come to make his secret vows.
    PPr 12.384 7 To atone for this departure from the vows of the scholar and his eternal duties to this secular charity, we have at least this gain, that here [in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear.
    PPr 12.384 24 What pains, what hopes, what vows, shall come of the reading [of Carlyle's Past and Present]!

Voyage, Arctic [Elisha Ken (1)

    Thor 10.467 26 [Thoreau] returned Kane's Arctic Voyage to a friend of whom he had borrowed it, with the remark, that Most of the phenomena noted might be observed in Concord.

voyage, n. (11)

    SR 2.59 5 The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
    Art1 2.355 15 ...each work of genius...concentrates attention on itself. For the time, it is the only thing worth naming to do that,--be it a sonnet...the plan of a...voyage of discovery.
    NMW 4.249 23 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it.
    ET2 5.30 12 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port...
    ET2 5.32 5 ...under the best conditions, a voyage [at sea] is one of the severest tests to try a man.
    DL 7.125 7 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea;... in a third, his...voyage to Canton;...
    Suc 7.285 22 [Columbus told the King and Queen] I assert that [the pilots] can give no other account than that they went to lands where there was abundance of gold, but they...would be obliged to go on a voyage of discovery as much as if they had never been there before.
    Res 8.137 4 We are...each sailing out on a voyage of discovery...
    Aris 10.61 19 The generous soul, on arriving in a new port, makes instant preparation for a new voyage.
    War 11.158 11 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world...It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...
    War 11.158 15 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...in which voyage, I have either discovered or brought certain intelligence of all the rich places of the world...

Voyage, Sea [Fletcher, Mas (1)

    Hsm1 2.256 7 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./

voyage, v. (1)

    Wth 6.96 19 It is the interest of all that there should be...Captain Cooks to voyage round the world...

voyages, n. (2)

    SwM 4.100 25 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill, and the added fame...of extraordinary religious knowledge and gifts, drew to him queens...and people about the ports through which he was wont to pass in his many voyages.
    ShP 4.193 6 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies, merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London 'prentices know.

voyaging, n. (1)

    WD 7.175 1 ...to ascertain the discoverers of America needs as much voyaging as the discovery cost.

voyaging, v. (1)

    Wth 6.94 22 [To be rich] is to have the sea, by voyaging;...

vrai, adj. (2)

    Bty 6.294 26 Rien de beau que le vrai.
    MAng1 12.219 8 Since Beauty is thus an abstraction of the harmony and proportion that reigns in all Nature, it is therefore studied in Nature, and not in what does not exist. Hence the celebrated French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de beau que le vrai; Nothing is beautiful but what is true.

Vulcan, n. (5)

    Pt1 3.18 20 In the old mythology...defects are ascribed to divine natures, as lameness to Vulcan...to signify exuberances.
    ET18 5.304 12 [The English] mind is in a state of arrested development,--a divine cripple like Vulcan;...
    F 6.17 22 'T is...harder still to find the Tubal Cain, or Vulcan...
    Bty 6.289 20 ...the mythologists tell us that Vulcan was painted lame and Cupid blind, to call attention to the fact that one was all limbs, and the other all eyes.
    MAng1 12.228 17 ...when [Michelangelo] wished to take Minerva from the head of Jove, there needed the hammer of Vulcan.

vulgar, adj. (47)

    Nat 1.59 16 Culture inverts the vulgar view of nature...
    AmS 1.101 27 [The scholar] is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism...
    DSA 1.133 9 The injustice of the vulgar tone of preaching is not less flagrant to Jesus than to the souls which it profanes.
    LT 1.276 11 The Reformers affirm the inward life, but they...use outward and vulgar means.
    Hist 2.35 13 Sir William Ashton is a mask for a vulgar temptation...
    Comp 2.111 3 The vulgar proverb, I will get it from his purse or get it from his skin, is sound philosophy.
    SL 2.143 7 What we call obscure condition or vulgar society is that condition and society whose poetry is not yet written...
    Fdsp 2.213 24 [By persisting in your path] You...draw to you...those rare pilgrims...before whom the vulgar great show as spectres and shadows merely.
    Mrs1 3.154 7 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;... What is vulgar but to refuse the claim on acute and conclusive reasons?
    UGM 4.18 19 It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to blind the beholder.
    NMW 4.255 13 [Napoleon] had no generosity, but mere vulgar hatred;...
    ET7 5.118 9 The phrase of the lowest of the [English] people is honor-bright, and their vulgar praise, His word is as good as his bond.
    ET8 5.133 4 The Saxon melancholy in the vulgar rich and poor appears as gushes of ill-humor...
    ET10 5.170 16 [England's] prosperity, the splendor which so much manhood and talent and perseverance has thrown upon vulgar aims, is the very argument of materialism.
    ET11 5.190 14 At Wilton House the Arcadia was written, amidst conversations with Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, a man of no vulgar mind...
    ET14 5.234 1 Hobbes was perfect in the noble vulgar speech.
    ET14 5.237 12 ...these [English poets] were so quick and vital that they could charm and enrich by mean and vulgar objects.
    ET16 5.287 16 I can easily see the bankruptcy of the vulgar musket-worship...
    Pow 6.80 11 We can easily overpraise the vulgar hero.
    Bhr 6.187 14 ...nothing is more vulgar than haste.
    Bhr 6.191 26 The novels used to be all alike, and had a quite vulgar tone.
    Wsp 6.231 5 What is vulgar...but the avarice of reward?
    Bty 6.302 10 ...if a man can build a plain cottage with such symmetry as to make all the fine palaces look cheap and vulgar;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    SS 7.13 13 If solitude is proud, so is society vulgar.
    Art2 7.37 8 [All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity contradistinguished from the vulgar Fate by being instant and alive...
    DL 7.122 14 ...[Lord Falkland's] house was a university in a less volume, whither [the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] came...to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.
    WD 7.175 23 'T is the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels.
    SA 8.82 21 Intellectual men pass for vulgar...
    PPo 8.249 25 ...the love or the wine of Hafiz is not to be confounded with vulgar debauch.
    Chr2 10.114 2 The Church...clings to the miraculous, in the vulgar sense...
    Plu 10.321 16 there are, no doubt, many vulgar phrases [in the 1718 edition of Plutarch], and many blunders of the printer;...
    LLNE 10.344 26 The vulgar politician disposed of this circle [of Transcendentalists] cheaply as the sentimental class.
    LLNE 10.356 2 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way, and we suddenly find...that nothing is so vulgar as a great warehouse of rooms full of fine furniture and trumpery;...
    FSLN 11.220 18 In what I have to say of Mr. Webster I do not confound him with vulgar politicians before or since.
    FSLN 11.231 25 In vulgar politics the Whig goes for what has been...
    JBS 11.279 13 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character absolutely without any vulgar trait;...
    FRep 11.514 7 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns that it is by no means by obeying the vulgar weathercock of his party...that real power is gained...
    PLT 12.7 15 Bring the best wits together, and they are so impatient of each other, so vulgar...that you shall have no academy.
    CInt 12.117 27 Society...exaggerates the merits of those who work to vulgar ends.
    MAng1 12.234 15 [Michelangelo] saw clearly that if the corrupt and vulgar eyes that could see nothing but indecorum in his terrific prophets and angels could be purified as his own were pure, they would only find occasion for devotion in the same figures.
    Milt1 12.255 8 Bacon's Essays are the portrait of...a great man of the vulgar sort.
    Milt1 12.266 10 Few men could be cited who have so well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton], and the precise aid it has brought to men, in being an emphatic affirmation of the omnipotence of spiritual laws, and, by way of marking the contrast to vulgar opinions, laying its chief stress on humility.
    ACri 12.284 16 ...the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is right;...
    ACri 12.284 17 ...the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is right;...
    MLit 12.332 9 [Goethe] was content to fall into the track of vulgar poets...
    WSL 12.348 1 [Landor] is a master of condensation and suppression, and that in no vulgar way.
    Pray 12.356 14 [I, Augustine, entered my soul and saw] Not this vulgar light which all flesh may look upon...

vulgar, n. (15)

    AmS 1.112 15 This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries.
    DSA 1.131 24 ...you must...take [Christ's] portrait as the vulgar draw it.
    LE 1.179 24 The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.
    OS 2.290 9 The ambitious vulgar show you their spoons and brooches and rings...
    ET4 5.69 14 Good feeding is a chief point of national pride among the vulgar [in England]...
    ET13 5.221 24 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain. Their religion is a quotation;...and any examination is interdicted with screams of terror. In good company you expect them to laugh at the fanaticism of the vulgar; but they do not; they are the vulgar.
    ET13 5.221 25 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain. Their religion is a quotation;...and any examination is interdicted with screams of terror. In good company you expect them to laugh at the fanaticism of the vulgar; but they do not; they are the vulgar.
    Wsp 6.218 17 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius... The vulgar are sensible of the change in you...
    Elo2 8.126 6 ...the learned forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is right;...
    Elo2 8.126 7 ...the learned forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is right;...
    Aris 10.55 18 If you deal with the vulgar, life is reduced to beggary indeed.
    SovE 10.205 15 ...freedom has its own guards, and, as soon as in the vulgar it runs to license, sets all reasonable men on exploring those guards.
    Plu 10.307 9 These men [who revere the spiritual power] lift themselves at once from the vulgar and are not the parasites of wealth.
    MAng1 12.237 3 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt of the vulgar...
    ACri 12.286 25 Speak with the vulgar, think with the wise.

vulgarisms, n. (1)

    ACri 12.292 18 Vulgarisms to be gazetted, moiety used for a small part;...

vulgarities, n. (1)

    CbW 6.247 3 Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.

vulgarity, n. (13)

    Tran 1.347 9 With this passion for what is great and extraordinary, it cannot be wondered at that [Transcendentalists] are repelled by vulgarity and frivolity in people.
    Fdsp 2.193 8 Vulgarity, ignorance, misapprehension are old acquaintances.
    Chr1 3.115 5 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived...then to be critical...argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.
    Nat2 3.190 18 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer. What is the end sought? Plainly to secure the ends of good sense and beauty from the intrusion of deformity or vulgarity of any kind.
    UGM 4.29 7 How superior [are children] in their security...from vulgarity and second thought!
    ET1 5.20 3 There may be, [Wordsworth] said, in America some vulgarity in manner, but that 's not important.
    Wsp 6.231 6 What is vulgar, and the essence of all vulgarity, but the avarice of reward?
    SA 8.90 1 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...
    Aris 10.36 5 ...we, certainly, have not come here to describe well-dressed vulgarity.
    Aris 10.62 15 ...[the gentleman] will find...in the civility of whole nations, vulgarity of sentiment.
    Aris 10.63 26 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy who suffers a vulgarity of speech and habit to blind him to the grosser vulgarity of pitiless selfishness...
    Aris 10.63 27 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy who suffers a vulgarity of speech and habit to blind him to the grosser vulgarity of pitiless selfishness...
    LLNE 10.333 25 [Everett] had nothing in common with vulgarity and infirmity...

vulgarly, adv. (1)

    OS 2.294 27 Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers.

Vulgate, n. (3)

    ET7 5.121 2 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge;...
    ET13 5.216 3 The priest [in England] translated the Vulgate...
    SovE 10.209 11 It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus, a fraternity...with brick and stone. Why have not those who believe in it and love it...dedicated themselves to write out its scientific scriptures to become its Vulgate for millions?

vulnerable, adj. (6)

    SR 2.56 15 ...[the cultivated classes] are timid, as being very vulnerable themselves.
    MoS 4.160 6 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing...that we cannot give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict, with powers so vast and unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited vulnerable popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every danger, on the other.
    GoW 4.288 16 Socrates loved Athens; Montaigne, Paris; and Madame de Stael said she was only vulnerable on that side...
    PerF 10.73 23 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...
    Wom 11.412 10 More vulnerable, more infirm, more mortal than men, [women] could not be such excellent artists in this element of fancy if they did not lend and give themselves to it.
    Trag 12.406 16 ...whether we and those who are next to us are more or less vulnerable, no theory of life can have any right which leaves out of account the values of vice...fear and death.

vult, v. (1)

    ET18 5.305 25 ...personality is the token of this race [the English]. Quid vult valde vult.

vulture, n. (2)

    MMEm 10.423 16 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries of the battle-field...what of a vulture being the bier, tomb and parson of a hero, compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?
    MMEm 10.430 2 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion? The vulture and crow would caw caw...

Vyasa [Viasa], 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 8.126 9 The early names are too typical...Viasa, compiler;...

vying, v. (1)

    FSLN 11.230 24 [Reasonably men] answered...that...each was vying with his neighbor to lead the [Democratic] party...

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