Zanoni to Zymosis

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

Zanoni [Edward Bulwer-Lytt (3)

EurB 12.373 23 The story of Zanoni was one of those world-fables which is so agreeable to the human imagination that it is found in some form in the language of every country...

EurB 12.374 1 We read Zanoni with pleasure, because the magic is natural.

EurB 12.374 14 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect, because he speedily betrays that he does not see the true limitations of the charm;...

zeal, n. (16)

Con 1.322 9 What a compliment we pay to the good SPIRIT with our superserviceable zeal!

Nat2 3.179 1 The stream of zeal sparkles with real fire...

Nat2 3.189 14 ...perhaps the discovery...that though we should hold our peace the truth would not the less be spoken, might check injuriously the flames of our zeal.

Pol1 3.209 4 [Party leaders] reap the rewards of the docility and zeal of the masses which they direct.

GoW 4.289 27 This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...without relaxation or rest... worked on for eighty years with the steadiness of his first zeal.

Ctr 6.136 23 ...our talents are as mischievous as if each had been seized upon by some bird of prey...some zeal, some bias...

Comc 8.166 7 This precious brother having slain,/ In times of peace, an Indian,/ Not out of malice, but mere zeal/ (Because he was an infidel),/ The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy/...

Chr2 10.103 15 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when it...sets [a man] on...some zeal to unite men to abate some nuisance...are the homage we render to this sentiment...

LLNE 10.341 10 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of ladies and gentlemen. I had the honor to be present. Though I recall the fact, I do not retain...any connection between [this attempt] and the new zeal of the friends who at that time began to be drawn together by sympathy of studies and of aspiration.

CSC 10.374 18 ...a great deal of confusion, eccentricity and freak appeared [at the Chardon Street Convention], as well as of zeal and enthusiasm.

HDC 11.70 18 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...and we hope...that they will still remain watchful and persevering; with a steady zeal to espy out everything that shall have a tendency to subvert our happy constitution.

HDC 11.83 13 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown. The author [Lemuel Shattuck] has done us and posterity a kindness, by the zeal and patience of his research...

TPar 11.287 26 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind, in which they beheld their own opinions combined with zeal in every cause of love and humanity, they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed them...

TPar 11.289 4 ...it was complained...that [Theodore Parker's] zeal burned with too hot a flame.

Milt1 12.269 12 The part [Milton] took, the zeal of his fellowship, make us acquainted with the greatness of his spirit as in tranquil times we could not have known it.

PPr 12.385 4 The wit [of Carlyle's Past and Present] has eluded all official zeal;...

Zealander, New, n. (1)

SR 2.84 22 what a contrast between the...American...and the naked New Zealander...

zealot, n. (2)

Tran 1.355 13 [Our virtue's respresentatives] are still liable to that slight taint of burlesque which in our strange world attaches to the zealot.

SovE 10.208 10 We are thrown back on rectitude...to mend one; that is all we can do. But that the zealot stigmatizes as a sterile chimney-corner philosophy.

zealots, n. (1)

FRO2 11.490 14 Zealots eagerly fasten their eyes on the differences between their creed and yours...

zealous, adj. (3)

Mrs1 3.150 13 Certainly let [woman] be as much better placed in the laws and in social forms as the most zealous reformer can ask...

ET8 5.140 12 Haldor...told his opinion bluntly and was obstinate and hard: and this could not please the king, who had many clever people about him, zealous in his service.

HDC 11.72 4 The clergy of New England were, for the most part, zealous promoters of the Revolution.

Zeitung, Allgemeine, Augsbu (1)

ACri 12.304 17 The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung deprecates an observatory founded for the benefit of navigation.

zele, n. (1)

SA 8.85 23 ...the wily old Talleyrand would still say, Surtout, messieurs, pas de zele,--Above all, gentlemen, no heat.

zenith, n. (7)

AmS 1.82 7 ...the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star...

Nat2 3.172 3 The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality meet.

CbW 6.265 19 I know those miserable fellows...who see a black star always riding through the light and colored clouds in the sky overhead; waves of light pass over and hide it for a moment, but the black star keeps fast in the zenith.

CbW 6.271 22 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then...we see the zenith over and the nadir under us.

SA 8.92 15 ...we are easily great with the loved and honored associate. We... see zenith above and the nadir under us.

War 11.161 15 The star once risen...will mount and mount, until it...climbs the zenith of all eyes.

II 12.70 5 The star climbs for a time the heaven, but never reaches its zenith;...

Zeno, n. (7)

DSA 1.145 5 ...one good soul shall make the name...of Zeno...reverend forever.

SL 2.159 23 Can a cook, a Chiffinch, an Iachimo be mistaken for Zeno or Paul?

OS 2.275 8 With each divine impulse the mind...comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It...becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian than with persons in the house.

Civ 7.33 4 The appearance...in Greece, of the Seven Wise Masters, of the acute and upright Socrates, and of the stoic Zeno;...are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...

SovE 10.208 22 A new Socrates, or Zeno, or Swedenborg...may be born in this age...

SovE 10.209 3 ...Stoicism...has now...no commanding Zeno or Antoninus.

Plu 10.297 23 [Plutarch] is...not the founder of any sect or community, like Pythagoras or Zeno;...

zero, n. (2)

CbW 6.270 16 ...let all the truth that is spoken or done be at the zero of indifferency, or truth itself will be folly.

Prch 10.224 25 A man acts not from one motive, but from many shifting fears and short motives...so that the result of most lives is zero.

Zertusht, n. (4)

Chr1 3.109 10 The most credible pictures are those of majestic men who prevailed at their entrance, and convinced the senses; as happened to the eastern magian who was sent to test the merits of Zertusht or Zoroaster.

Chr1 3.109 16 ...the beloved of Yezdam, the prophet Zertusht, advanced into the midst of the assembly.

Clbs 7.236 1 ...in the hagiology of each nation, the lawgiver was in each case some man...whose sympathy brought him face to face with the extremes of society. Jesus, Menu, the first Buddhist, Mahomet, Zertusht, Pythagoras, are examples.

Insp 8.275 17 Socrates, Menu, Confucius, Zertusht,-we recognize in all of them this ardor to solve the hints of thought.

Zeu pater, n. (1)

WD 7.167 2 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God,--Dyaus, Deus, Zeus, Zeu pater, Jupiter...

Zeus, n. (4)

WD 7.167 2 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God,--Dyaus, Deus, Zeus, Zeu pater, Jupiter...

WD 7.184 24 Phoebus challenged the gods, and said, Who will outshoot the far-darting Apollo? Zeus said, I will.

WD 7.185 1 ...Zeus rose, and with one stride cleared the whole distance, and said, Where shall I shoot? there is no space left.

Suc 7.312 6 ...Euripides says that Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.

zigzag, adj. (1)

SR 2.59 6 The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

zigzagging, v. (1)

Thor 10.482 20 Devil's-needles zigzagging along the Nut-Meadow brook.

zinc, n. (1)

UGM 4.11 23 Animated chlorine knows of chlorine, and incarnate zinc, of zinc.

z-ing, v. (1)

Thor 10.482 19 The locust z-ing.

Zoar, Ohio, n. (1)

Pow 6.66 4 The communities hitherto founded by socialists...the American communities at New Harmony, at Brook Farm, at Zoar, are only possible by installing Judas as steward.

Zoars, n. (1)

Bost 12.198 26 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth, the Zoars, New Harmonies and Brook Farms...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...

zodiac, n. (7)

Nat 1.12 21 What angels invented...this zodiac of lights...

DSA 1.139 21 The prayers and even the dogmas of our church are like the zodiac of Denderah...

Hist 2.5 20 ...crabs, goats, scorpions, the balance and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac...

UGM 4.12 22 Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences...

PNR 4.83 12 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...love of the apologue, and his apologues themselves;... fables which have imprinted themselves in the human memory like the signs of the zodiac;...

ET13 5.217 2 [The English Church] moves through a zodiac of feasts and fasts...

F 6.41 21 In youth we...go as brave as the zodiac.

Zodiac, n. (1)

PI 8.46 9 Who would hold the order of the almanac so fast but for the ding-dong,-- Thirty days hath September, etc.;--or of the Zodiac, but for The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, etc.?

Zodiacal, adj. (1)

CL 12.164 17 A farmer's boy finds delight in reading the verses under the Zodiacal vignettes in the Almanac.

zone, n. (9)

Prd1 2.226 8 The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitant of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

Exp 3.62 17 The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

Mrs1 3.144 10 ...here is...Reverend Jul Bat, who has converted the whole torrid zone in his Sunday school;...

ET8 5.138 17 [The English] are subject to panics of credulity and of rage, but the temper of the nation...settles itself soon and easily, as, in this temperate zone, the sky after whatever storms clears again...

F 6.37 16 Every zone has its own Fauna.

Bty 6.279 12 Oft peeled for [Seyd] a lofty tone/ From nodding pole and belting zone./

Civ 7.31 20 I see the vast advantages of this country, spanning the breadth of the temperate zone.

Insp 8.279 17 We might say of these memorable moments of life that we were in them, not they in us. We found ourselves by happy fortune in an illuminated portion or meteorous zone...

SMC 11.348 19 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...

zones, n. (6)

ET18 5.303 23 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates, mainly following the belt of empire, the temperate zones...

Civ 7.25 27 The highest civility has never loved the hot zones.

Clbs 7.246 21 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come from many zones;...

Res 8.154 2 ...man is more miserably fed and conditioned there [in the tropics] than in the cold and stingy zones.

CL 12.145 11 ...whole zones and climates [Nature] has concentrated into apples.

CL 12.160 15 ...the zones of plants...are all thermometers which cannot be deceived...

Zong, n. (1)

EWI 11.140 14 In the case of the ship Zong, in 1781, whose master had thrown one hundred and thirty-two slaves alive into the sea, to cheat the underwriters, the first jury gave a verdict in favor of the master and owners...

zoologist, n. (1)

PI 8.11 2 [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.

zoologists, n. (1)

WD 7.177 19 Zoologists may deny that horse-hairs in the water change to worms...

zoology, n. (4)

PI 8.7 19 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science, of which the theories...of Agassiz and Owen and Darwin in zoology and botany, are the fruits...

Chr2 10.92 3 [The man] has his life in Nature, like a beast: but choice is born in him;...here is the Declaration of Independence, the July Fourth of zoology and astronomy.

Thor 10.452 7 [Thoreau] resumed his endless walks and miscellaneous studies...though as yet never speaking of zoology or botany...

CInt 12.127 26 ...I thought...a college was to teach you...chemistry, botany, zoology, the streaming of thought into form, and the precipitation of atoms which Nature is.

Zoology, n. (1)

Nat 1.38 26 The first steps in...Zoology...teach that Nature's dice are always loaded;...

zoophyte, n. (1)

F 6.15 20 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...her first misshapen animals, zoophyte, trilobium, fish;...

Zoroaster, n. (14)

DSA 1.145 5 ...one good soul shall make the name...of Zoroaster, reverend forever.

MN 1.213 20 ...we have...in the oracles ascribed to the half fabulous Zoroaster, a statement of this fact...

MN 1.213 22 It is not proper, said Zoroaster, to understand the Intelligible with vehemence...

Hist 2.28 5 How easily these old worships...of Zoroaster...domesticate themselves in the mind.

SR 2.79 1 To the persevering mortal, said Zoroaster, the blessed Immortals are swift.

Exp 3.73 2 The baffled intellect must still kneel before this...ineffable cause, which every fine genius has essayed to represent by some emphatic symbol, as...Zoroaster by fire...

F 6.17 20 'T is hard to find the right Homer, Zoroaster, or Menu;...

PI 8.19 17 Our best definition of poetry...claims to come down to us from the Chaldaean Zoroaster...

PI 8.21 23 Pindar, Dante, yes, and the gray and timeworn sentences of Zoroaster, may all be parsed...

PI 8.65 5 ...when we speak of the Poet in any high sense, we are driven to such examples as Zoroaster and Plato...with their moral burdens.

PC 8.214 9 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius...which men in proportion to their wisdom still cherish,- as Zoroaster, Confucius...

PC 8.216 6 All the transcendent writers and artists of the world,-'t is doubtful who they were, they are lifted so fast into mythology;...Daedalus, Hermes, Zoroaster...

II 12.80 8 It is the exhortation of Zoroaster, Let the depth, the immortal depth of your soul lead you.

Zoroastrian, adj. (1)

ET14 5.241 27 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the Zoroastrian definition of poetry, mystical, yet exact, apparent pictures of unapparent natures;...

Zoroastrian Oracles, n. (1)

Boks 7.218 16 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are, the Desatir of the Persians, and the Zoroastrian Oracles;...

Zuleika's, n. (1)

PPo 8.259 24 The Moon thought she knew her own orbit well enough; but when she saw the curve on Zuleika's cheek, she was at a loss...

zymosis, n. (3)

Elo2 8.131 19 An ingenious metaphysical writer...has noted that intellectual works in any department breed each other, by what he calls zymosis...

Elo2 8.131 21 ...in the Elizabethan Age there was a dramatic zymosis...

Elo2 8.131 23 ...in Germany we have seen a metaphysical zymosis...

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