Desirable to Devotions
desirable, adj. (13)
Nat 1.59 25
...[the ideal theory] presents the world in precisely that view
which is most desirable to the mind.
Comp 2.123 9
...there is no tax on the knowledge that the compensation
exists, and that it is not desirable to dig up treasure.
SL 2.140 14
...that which I call heaven...is the state or circumstance
desirable to my constitution;...
ET14 5.249 24
...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the
cant, into the preaching of Fate. In comparison with all this rottenness [in
England], any check, any cleansing, though by fire, seemed desirable and
beautiful.
Wth 6.112 22
...nothing is great or desirable if it is off from [the direction
of your life].
Farm 7.141 10
He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside,
makes the land so far lovely and desirable...
Res 8.138 17
...if you tell me...that there is always a way to everything
desirable;...I am invigorated...
Dem1 10.15 15
The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good
fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of
uncertain success, exists not only among those who take part in political
and military projects...
MMEm 10.432 27
Is it the less desirable to have the lofty abstractions
because the abstractionist is nervous and irritable?
HDC 11.43 16
...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled
into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own
benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor
possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
PLT 12.56 13
There are two theories of life;... One is activity...the
following of that practical talent which we have, in the belief that what is so
natural, easy and pleasant to us and desirable to others will surely lead us
out safely;...
II 12.83 22
Many men are very slow in finding their vocation. It does not at
once appear what they were made for. Nature has not made up her mind in
regard to her young friend, and when this happens, we feel life to be some
failure. Life is not quite desirable to themselves.
CW 12.176 1
There are two companions, with one or other of whom 't is
desirable to go out on a tramp.
desire, n. (88)
Nat 1.24 15
The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty.
Nat 1.29 25
A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol...
depends...upon his love of truth and his desire to communicate it without
loss.
Nat 1.30 3
When...the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence
of...the desire of riches...the power over nature as an interpreter of the will
is in a degree lost;...
Nat 1.46 9
We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some
friends...who, answering each to a certain affection of the soul, satisfy our
desire on that side;...
AmS 1.98 20
That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows
itself...in desire and satiety;...is known to us under the name of Polarity...
AmS 1.107 4
[The poor and the low] are content to be brushed like flies
from the path of a great person, so that justice shall be done by him to that
common nature which it is the dearest desire of all to see enlarged and
glorified.
DSA 1.134 15
...it is the effect of conversation with the beauty of the soul,
to beget a desire and need to impart to others the same knowledge and love.
DSA 1.135 16
I wish you may feel your call in throbs of desire and hope.
MN 1.210 19
...this desire to be loved...is finite, comes of a lower strain.
MN 1.218 2
...what is Genius but finer love...a love of the flower and
perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same?
MN 1.219 14
What brought the pilgrims here? One man says, civil liberty;
another, the desire of founding a church;...
LT 1.262 20
How I follow [persons] with aching heart, with pining desire!
LT 1.290 19
You will absolve me from the charge of...the desire to say
smart things at the expense of whomsoever, when you see that reality is all
we prize...
Con 1.314 8
Under the richest robes...the strong heart will beat...with the
desire to achieve its own fate...
Hist 2.11 8
All inquiry into antiquity...is the desire to do away this wild,
savage, and preposterous There or Then...
Hist 2.33 14
See in Goethe's Helena the same desire that every word
should be a thing.
SR 2.72 13
What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves
of the love.
SR 2.78 22
...[the self-helping man]...all eyes follow with desire.
Cir 2.321 22
The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget
ourselves...
Int 2.338 1
...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious
states]...can design well and group well;...and the whole canvas which it
paints is...apt to touch us...with desire and with grief.
Int 2.341 5
We are stung by the desire for new thought;...
Pt1 3.38 27
The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic rhapsodist, the
orator, all partake one desire, namely to express themselves symmetrically
and abundantly...
Pt1 3.39 8
[Artists] found or put themselves in certain conditions...and each
presently feels the new desire.
Chr1 3.93 12
In his parlor I see very well that [the natural merchant] has
been at hard work this morning, with that knitted brow and that settled
humor, which all his desire to be courteous cannot shake off.
Mrs1 3.151 23
[Lilla] had too much sympathy and desire to please, than
that you could say her manners were marked with dignity...
Gts 3.160 27
In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let
the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked,
though at great inconvenience. If it be a fantastic desire, it is better to leave
to others the office of punishing him.
NER 3.272 3
From the triumphs of his art [the master] turns with desire to
this greater defeat.
UGM 4.21 24
I remember the peau d'ane on which whoso sat should have
his desire, but a piece of the skin was gone for every wish.
PPh 4.69 14
...beauty is the most lovely of all things, exciting hilarity and
shedding desire and confidence through the universe wherever it enters...
SwM 4.137 22
I doubt not [Swedenborg] was led by the desire to insert the
element of personality of Deity.
MoS 4.184 1
...every desire predicts its own satisfaction.
MoS 4.184 7
[The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to
every child and filled him with a desire for the whole;...
MoS 4.184 8
[The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to
every child and filled him with a desire for the whole; a desire raging,
infinite;...
ShP 4.189 9
...seeing what men want and sharing their desire, [the hero]
adds the needful length of sight and of arm...
NMW 4.228 6
Fontanes...expressed Napoleon's own sense, when...he
addressed him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever
afflicted the human mind.
NMW 4.243 12
...[Napoleon] undoubtedly felt a desire for men and
compeers...
ET1 5.23 9
I told [Wordsworth] how much the few printed extracts had
quickened the desire to possess his unpublished poems.
F 6.28 15
...we can see that with the perception of truth is joined the desire
that it shall prevail;...
Wth 6.114 24
We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire
to go upon the land...
Ctr 6.164 27
...in an old community a well-born proprietor is usually
found...to feel a habitual desire that the estate shall suffer no harm by his
administration...
Bty 6.299 27
A Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown
by the courting of beauty, but when the like desire is inflamed for one who
is ill-favored.
SS 7.11 3
A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will
light.
DL 7.113 27
The desire of gold is not for gold.
DL 7.128 9
...the sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the competence
of man to elevate and to be elevated is in that desire and power to stand in
joyful and ennobling intercourse with individuals...
PI 8.36 14
...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's
selection of ancient or remote subjects; as when the poet goes to India, or to
Rome, or to Persia, for his fable. But I believe nobody knows better than he
that herein he consults his ease rather than his strength or his desire.
PI 8.42 16
...as every faculty and every desire is procreant...there is no limit
to [the poet's] hope.
SA 8.105 7
No matter what the object is, so it be good, this flame of desire
makes life sweet and tolerable.
Elo2 8.110 3
...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire
to know good things...when such a man would speak, his words...trip about
him at command...
PPo 8.245 8
The rapidity of [Hafiz's] turns is always surprising us:-See
how the roses burn!/ Bring wine to quench the fire!/ Alas! the flames come
up with us,/ We perish with desire./
PPo 8.252 22
[Hafiz] says, The fishes shed their pearls, out of desire and
longing as soon as the ship of Hafiz swims the deep.
Imtl 8.336 27
The implanting of a desire indicates that the gratification of
that desire is in the constitution of the creature that feels it;...
Imtl 8.337 1
The implanting of a desire indicates that the gratification of
that desire is in the constitution of the creature that feels it;...
Imtl 8.337 7
If there is the desire to live, and in larger sphere, with more
knowledge and power, it is because life and knowledge and power are good
for us...
Imtl 8.340 26
It is my greatest desire, [Van Helmont] said, that it might be
granted unto atheists to have tasted, at least but one only moment, what it is
intellectually to understand;...
Imtl 8.344 19
The revelation that is true is written on the palms of the
hands, the thought of our mind, the desire of our heart, or nowhere.
Imtl 8.344 27
Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect...
leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a
caprice...
Imtl 8.345 4
We live by desire to live;...
Imtl 8.351 5
Yama said [to Nachiketas], One thing is good, another is
pleasant. Blessed is he who takes the good, but he who chooses the pleasant
loses the object of man. But thou, considering the objects of desire, hast
abandoned them.
PerF 10.78 15
...not less [than Memory, Fancy, Imagination, Eloquence],
method, patience, self-trust, perseverance, love, desire of knowledge, the
passion for truth. These are the angels that take us by the hand...
Edc1 10.128 9
Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions and
properties, which all put new restraints on the young inhabitant. He too
must come into this magic circle of relations, and know...the desire of
external good...
Edc1 10.129 3
...what activity the desire of power inspires!
Edc1 10.137 2
Nature, when she sends a new mind into the world, fills it
beforehand with a desire for that which she wishes it to know and do.
Schr 10.269 21
The poet writes his verse on a scrap of paper, and instantly
the desire and love of all mankind take charge of it...
Plu 10.310 23
[Plutarch] quotes Thucydides's saying that not the desire of
honor only never grows old, but much less also the inclination to society
and affection to the State...
Plu 10.322 12
...as it was the desire of these old patriots to fill with their
majestic spirit all Sparta or Rome...we hasten to offer them to the American
people.
EzRy 10.382 3
[Ezra Ripley] had early manifested a desire for learning...
EzRy 10.382 9
...[Ezra Ripley] had an ardent desire to be preacher of the
gospel.
MMEm 10.420 18
...the old desire for the worm is not so greedy as [mine]
to find myself in my [Mary Moody Emerson's] old haunts.
MMEm 10.426 15
Usefulness, if it requires action, seems less like
existence than the desire of being absorbed in God, retaining consciousness.
LS 11.24 8
...It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do
nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart.
HDC 11.51 15
In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with
two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their desire...to learn to read God's
word and know God aright;...
HDC 11.52 24
...here [at Concord] [Tahattawan and Waban] entered, by
[John Eliot's] assistance, into an agreement to twenty-nine rules, all
breathing a desire to conform themselves to English customs.
HDC 11.54 1
At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651, [the Indians'] desire
was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog Pond...
became an Indian town...
War 11.163 4
It is the tendency of the true interest of man to become his
desire and steadfast aim.
War 11.174 25
...if the desire of a large class of young men for a faith and
hope, intellectual and religious, such as they have not yet found, be an
omen to be trusted;...then war has a short day...
Wom 11.426 3
The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves
of kings. The melioration of manners brought their melioration of course. It
could not be otherwise, and hence the new desire of better laws.
FRO1 11.480 16
The soul of our late war...was, first, the desire to abolish
slavery in this country...
FRep 11.538 25
...if the spirit...could be waked to the conserving and
creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great
constituency of...faithful...lovers of men, filled...with the simple and
sublime purpose of carrying out in private and in public action the desire
and need of mankind.
PLT 12.32 10
Teach me never so much and I hear or retain only...what
comports with my experience and my desire.
Mem 12.96 10
The mind disposes all its experience...to its ruling end;...one
[man] to heroic benefit and one to wrath and animal desire.
CInt 12.128 5
This, then, is the theory of Education, the happy meeting of
the young soul, filled with the desire, with the living teacher...
Bost 12.185 26
What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might
be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully
generated by the air of that place...
MAng1 12.236 11
The combined desire to fulfil, in everlasting stone, the
conceptions of his mind, and to complete his worthy offering to Almighty
God, sustained [Michelangelo] through numberless vexations with
unbroken spirit.
MAng1 12.241 3
[Condivi wrote] As for me...this I know very well, that in
a long intimacy, I never heard from [Michelangelo's] mouth a single word
that was not perfectly decorous, and having for its object to extinguish in
youth every improper desire...
MAng1 12.241 18
So vehement was this desire [for death], that,
[Michelangelo] says, my soul can no longer be appeased by the wonted
seductions of painting and sculpture.
Milt1 12.262 6
...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with
a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse
the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his
words...trip about him at command...
Pray 12.354 23
The last of the four orisons...contains this petition;-My
Father: I now come to thee with a desire to thank thee for the continuance
of our love...
PPr 12.379 21
...the topic of English politics becomes the best vehicle for
the expression of [Carlyle's] recent thinking, recommended to him by the
desire to give some timely counsels...
desire, v. (31)
AmS 1.110 5
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not
the age of Revolution;...
MN 1.212 19
...[the stars] desire to republish themselves in a more delicate
world than that they occupy.
LT 1.278 27
...I desire to express the respect and joy I feel before this
sublime connection of reforms now in their infancy around us...
Comp 2.99 17
...do men desire the more substantial and permanent
grandeur of genius?
SL 2.163 1
I desire not to disgrace the soul.
Fdsp 2.212 18
Late,--very late,--we perceive that...no consuetudes or habits
of society would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with [the
noble] as we desire...
Fdsp 2.213 4
Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables.
OS 2.268 15
When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see
not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see...that I desire and look up
and put myself in the attitude of reception...
OS 2.270 3
...I desire...to indicate the heaven of this deity...
Chr1 3.99 6
The same transport which the occurrence of the best events in
the best order would occasion me, I must learn to taste purer in the
perception that my position is every hour meliorated, and does already
command those events I desire.
Nat2 3.169 7
There are days which occur in this climate...when, in these
bleak upper sides of the planet, nothing is to desire that we have heard of
the happiest latitudes...
NER 3.278 1
We desire to be made great;...
NER 3.278 1
...we desire to be touched with that fire which shall command
this ice to stream, and make our existence a benefit.
Bty 6.292 18
The interruption of equilibrium stimulates the eye to desire
the restoration of symmetry...
DL 7.114 4
...we desire the elegance of munificence;...
DL 7.114 4
...we desire at least to put no stint or limit on our parents,
relatives, guests or dependents;...
DL 7.114 6
...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince with our
townsmen...
QO 8.177 20
Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence,
What is the event they most desire?...
Imtl 8.345 25
...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of
the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry
eyes that run through it will close disappointed; the listeners say, That is not
here which we desire;...
Edc1 10.139 18
...I desire to be saved from [boys'] contempt.
EzRy 10.384 26
[Joseph Emerson wrote] I desire (I hope I desire it) that the
Lord would teach me suitably to resent this Providence...
Carl 10.495 5
[Carlyle] is eaten up with indignation against such as desire
to make a fair show in the flesh.
War 11.160 11
[The human race] have nearly exhausted all the good and
all the evil of this [first brutish] form: they have held as fast to this
degradation as their worst enemy could desire;...
AsSu 11.248 13
The very conditions of the game must always be,-the
worst life staked against the best. It is the best whom they desire to kill.
Wom 11.426 18
...whatever the woman's heart is prompted to desire, the
man's mind is simultaneously prompted to accomplish.
CPL 11.507 8
...the book is a sure friend...opens to the very page you
desire...
CW 12.173 5
I [Linnaeus] possess here [in the Academy Garden] all that I
desire...
MLit 12.318 12
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect still sigh
and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
Pray 12.352 8
...soon...I desire to leave [my long-attached friend]...because
I wwished to be engaged in my business.
desired, adj. (4)
ShP 4.189 11
...seeing what men want and sharing their desire, [the hero]
adds the needful length of sight and of arm, to come at the desired point.
NMW 4.235 3
The almost perpendicular fall of the heavy projectiles
produced the desired effect.
Dem1 10.21 1
...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or
private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this
kind.
WSL 12.342 3
From the moment of entering a library and opening a
desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear.
desired, v. (19)
AmS 1.105 19
They are the kings of the world who...persuade men...that
this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck...
DSA 1.133 19
...when I vibrate to the melody and fancy of a poem; I see
beauty that is to be desired.
Chr1 3.90 19
When I beheld Theseus, I desired that I might see him offer
battle...
ShP 4.193 17
...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered
[Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this
work of numbers. Happily, no man wishes to. They are not yet desired in
that way.
NMW 4.240 21
When [Napoleon was] walking with Mrs. Balcombe, some
servants, carrying heavy boxes, passed by on the road, and Mrs. Balcombe
desired them, in rather an angry tone, to keep back.
ET4 5.63 6
The crimes recorded in [English] calendars leave nothing to be
desired in the way of cold malignity.
Wsp 6.228 12
...Philip [Neri] stretched out his leg, all bespattered with
mud, and desired [the nun] to draw off his boots.
Suc 7.284 27
...when the timber in the shipyards of Sweden was ruined by
rot, Linnaeus was desired by the government to find a remedy.
PI 8.58 17
[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./
Imtl 8.352 5
[The soul] can be obtained by the soul by which it is desired.
HDC 11.48 10
Individual protests are frequent [at Concord town-meetings].
Peter Wright [1705] desired his dissent might be recorded from
the town's grant to John Shepard.
HDC 11.53 3
...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near,
when there was more room for them up in the country?
HDC 11.56 15
We have among us [says Peter Bulkeley] excess and...pride
in apparel, daintiness in diet, and that in those who, in times past, would
have been satisfied with bread. This is the sin of the lowest of the people.
Better evidence could not be desired of the rapid growth of the settlement
[Concord].
SMC 11.354 13
...justice is really desired by all intelligent beings;...
Mem 12.99 15
The Rhapsodists in Athens it seems could recite at once any
passage of Homer that was desired.
Bost 12.206 7
When men saw that these people [of Boston]...would stand
by each other at all hazards, they desired to come and live here.
MAng1 12.234 9
When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired
he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was
painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the
Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the
pictures will reform themselves.
Milt1 12.271 12
...that which [Milton] desired was the liberty of the wise
man...
Milt1 12.273 16
[Milton] wished that his writings should be communicated
only to those who desired to see them.
desires, n. (18)
Nat 1.30 3
When...the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence
of secondary desires...the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is
in a degree lost;...
Hist 2.34 24
The preternatural prowess of the hero, the gift of perpetual
youth, and the like, are alike the endeavor of the human spirit to bend the
shows of things to the desires of the mind.
Comp 2.94 3
I was lately confirmed in these desires [to write on
Compensation] by hearing a sermon at church.
Comp 2.106 6
How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in
silence, O thou only great God, sprinkling with an unwearied providence
certain penal blindnesses upon such as have unbridled desires!
PPh 4.45 22
Children cry, scream and stamp with fury, unable to express
their desires.
ET13 5.225 8
The new age has new desires, new enemies, new trades, new
charities...
ET14 5.241 26
A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and
these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian
theories in physics. In England these...do all have a kind of filial retrospect
to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...[Bacon's] doctrine of poetry,
which accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind...
CbW 6.264 18
...whoever sees the law which distributes things...is
animated to great desires and endeavors.
OA 7.326 22
The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from
powers untried...
PI 8.20 3
Bacon expressed the same sense in his definition, Poetry
accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind;...
Imtl 8.350 17
[Yama said] Be a king, O Nachiketas! On the wide earth I
will make thee the enjoyer of all desires.
Imtl 8.350 17
[Yama said to Nachiketas] All those desires that are difficult
to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy pleasure;...
Chr2 10.120 18
Confucius said one day to Ke Kang: Sir, in carrying on
your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced
desires be for what is good, and the people will be good.
Wom 11.422 27
...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers
thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote,
representing the wants and desires of honest and refined persons.
CPL 11.495 16
Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who cannot wait for
the slow growth of the population to make these advantages adequate to the
desires of the people...
Milt1 12.278 4
...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry...
seeks to accommodate the shows of things to the desires of the mind...
MLit 12.335 2
...he that loves must utter his desires.
Pray 12.352 21
...O my Father...I can lift up my desires to thee...
desires, v. (7)
NMW 4.224 11
[The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue
to the competition of all...
Wth 6.98 12
Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does
not care to possess...pictures also of birds, beasts, fishes, shells, trees,
flowers, whose names he desires to know.
Edc1 10.137 18
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should
repeat his character and fortune;...
Edc1 10.140 20
...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...
Edc1 10.146 25
Always genius...desires nothing so much as to be a pupil...
LLNE 10.342 11
...a sympathizing Englishman...interrupted with the
question, Mr. Alcott, a lady near me desires to inquire whether omnipotence
abnegates attribute?
Let 12.395 2
One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my
uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood not
to propose the Indian mode of giving decrepit relatives as much of the mud
of holy Ganges as they can swallow, and more...
desiring, v. (2)
HDC 11.81 2
...whilst the town [Concord] had its own full share of the
public distress, it was very far from desiring relief at the cost of order and
law.
Pray 12.352 13
...thou, O my Father, knowest I always delight to commune
with thee in my lone and silent heart;...I am always desiring thee.
desirous, adj. (3)
Supl 10.177 19
A bag of sequins...a single horse, constitute an estate in
countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of
concealable and convertible property.
LS 11.7 18
...I can readily imagine that [Jesus] was willing and desirous,
when his disciples met, his memory should hallow their intercourse;...
MAng1 12.234 27
When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine]
chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold,
Michael Angelo replied, In those days, gold was not worn; and the
characters I have painted were neither rich nor desirous of wealth...
desist, v. (3)
PPh 4.46 4
As soon as, with culture...[men and women] see [things] no
longer in lumps and masses but accurately distributed, they desist from that
weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.
SovE 10.194 10
[Good men] do not see that particulars are sacred to
[God]...that these passages of daily life are his work; that in the moment
when they desist from interference, these particulars take sweetness and
grandeur...
II 12.84 23
Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers,
afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their
private theatre; but they soon desist from the attempt...
desk, n. (10)
YA 1.369 21
...he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger...
values [the land] less.
ET10 5.162 21
Scandinavian Thor...in England...sits down at a desk in the
India House...
ET12 5.204 3
[The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue
on the desk of every library in Oxford.
Pow 6.68 18
[Men of this surcharge of arterial blood]...had rather die by the
hatchet of a Pawnee than sit all day and every day at a counting-room desk.
Wth 6.115 5
...the pale scholar leaves his desk to draw a freer breath...in
the garden-walk.
PI 8.44 15
The humor of Falstaff, the terror of Macbeth, have each their
swarm of fit thoughts and images, as if Shakspeare had known and reported
the men, instead of inventing them at his desk.
Insp 8.291 18
What prudence again does every artist, every scholar need in
the security of his easel or his desk!
Edc1 10.158 4
Nobody [in the school] shall...leave his desk without
permission...
Edc1 10.158 7
...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl...to
check some injury that a little dastard is inflicting behind his desk on some
helpless sufferer, take away the medal from the head of the class and give it
on the instant to the brave rescuer.
PLT 12.62 23
...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly
say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes. And meantime he shall be
able continually to keep sight of his biographical Ego,-I have a desk, I
have an office...
desks, n. (2)
AmS 1.107 19
Wake [men] and they shall...leave governments to clerks
and desks.
EWI 11.133 14
To what purpose have we clothed each of those
representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons...if they are to
sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and sold;...
desolate, adj. (3)
SwM 4.128 19
The Eden of God is bare and grand: like the out-door
landscape remembered from the evening fireside, it seems cold and
desolate...
ET1 5.15 4
I found the house [Craigenputtock] amid desolate heathery
hills...
Supl 10.164 1
Like the French, [those with the superlative temperament]
are enchanted, they are desolate, because you have got or have not got a
shoe-string or a wafer you happen to want...
desolated, v. (1)
SovE 10.207 2
We in America are charged...that...we...believe in our senses
and understandings, while our imagination and our moral sentiment are
desolated.
desolation, n. (1)
Trag 12.409 27
There are people who have an appetite for grief...natures so
doomed that no prosperity can soothe their ragged and dishevelled
desolation.
desolations, n. (2)
ET11 5.172 8
Many of the [English] halls...are beautiful desolations.
Prch 10.232 3
...it is impossible to pay no regard...to bankruptcies, famines
and desolations.
despair, n. (30)
Con 1.318 20
...[the conservative party] sacrifices to despair;...
Con 1.319 25
If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has entertained
as good against the general despair, Society frowns on him...
Fdsp 2.189 18
...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ Me too thy nobleness has
taught/ To master my despair;/...
Exp 3.85 12
...far be from me the despair which prejudges the law by a
paltry empiricism;...
NER 3.267 27
...[our system of education] is a system of despair.
NMW 4.252 26
The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the
terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave, who in
their despair took hold of any thing...make [Napoleon's] history bright and
commanding.
Pow 6.74 20
...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'T is a step
out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness. Many an artist, lacking
this, lacks all; he sees the masculine Angelo or Cellini with despair.
Wsp 6.208 5
The lover of the old religion complains that our
contemporaries...succumb to a great despair...
CbW 6.265 21
...despair is no muse...
Bty 6.284 25
Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.
SS 7.5 12
[My friend] had a remorse running to despair of his social
gaucheries...
DL 7.117 10
...if we begin by reforming particulars of our present system
[of housekeeping], correcting a few evils and letting the rest stand, we shall
soon give up in despair.
Cour 7.261 9
Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly drawn up to face a
bayonet charge or capture a battery. Of course they must each go into that
action with a certain despair.
Aris 10.43 18
The petty arts which we blame in the half-great seem as
odious to them also;-the resources of weakness and despair.
PerF 10.85 20
...[a survey of cosmical powers] warns us out of that despair
into which Saxon men are prone to fall...
Edc1 10.136 23
...let not the sallies of [the young man's] petulance or folly
be checked with disgust or indignation or despair.
Edc1 10.136 24
I call our system [of education] a system of despair...
Edc1 10.152 15
Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the
morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair.
Carl 10.493 24
The literary, the fashionable, the political man...comes
eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily enjoyed,
sure of a welcome, and are struck with despair at the first onset.
FSLN 11.231 5
[Reasonably men] answered...that they knew Cuba would
be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood...as near to monarchy as
they could, only to moderate the velocity with which the car was running
down the precipice. In short, their theory was despair;...
ALin 11.329 24
...that first despair [at Lincoln's death] was brief...
FRep 11.536 22
...I dread to hear of well-born, gifted and amiable men,
that they have this indifference, disposing them to this despair.
PLT 12.55 11
Literary men for the most part have a settled despair as to the
realization of ideas in their own time.
PLT 12.55 18
The curses of malignity and despair are important criticism...
II 12.65 12
We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain...which seems
to sheathe a certain omniscience; and which, in the despair of language, is
commonly called Instinct.
II 12.78 26
...despair is no muse...
Let 12.395 27
But to be...prudent to secure to ourselves an injurious
society, temptations to folly and despair, degrading examples, and enemies;
and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides,
examples, lovers!
Let 12.399 21
...in Theodore Mundt's account of Frederic Holderlin's
Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of the
despair of Germany...
Let 12.404 24
Many of the best must die of consumption, many of despair...
before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot
up into a thrifty and beneficent existence.
Trag 12.408 10
Destiny properly is...an immense whim; and this the only
ground of terror and despair in the rational mind...
despair, v. (5)
Pol1 3.211 1
I do not for these defects despair of our republic.
ET14 5.246 26
[English] novelists despair of the heart.
ET15 5.264 5
[The London Times] adopted the League against the Corn
Laws, and when Cobden had begun to despair, it announced his triumph.
SA 8.77 5
He forbids to despair;/ His cheeks mantle with mirth;/ And the
unimagined good of men/ Is yeaning at the birth./
Grts 8.301 21
...that which invites all, belongs to us all,-to which we are
all sometimes untrue, cowardly, faithless, but of which we never quite
despair...
despairing, adj. (2)
ET1 5.17 11
[Carlyle] took despairing or satirical views of literature at this
moment;...
EWI 11.146 8
I doubt not that, sometimes, a despairing negro...has
believed there was no vindication of right;...
despairs, n. (1)
SL 2.135 9
...there is no need of struggles, convulsions, and despairs...
despairs, v. (1)
MN 1.217 25
...the reason why all men honor love is because it...aspires
and not despairs.
despatch, n. (3)
PC 8.228 6
The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication
with the Source of events, has...a private despatch...
MoL 10.242 10
The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic
communication with the source of events. He has...a private despatch which
relieves him of the terror which presses on the rest of the community.
HDC 11.79 12
The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the
General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the
fullest assurance that their brethren...will...with the utmost alacrity and
despatch, fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns.
despatch, v. (1)
Art1 2.367 12
[Men] despatch the day's weary chores, and fly to
voluptuous reveries.
despatched, v. (2)
SL 2.137 12
When the fruit is despatched, the leaf falls.
Elo1 7.79 13
[The Grecian States] did not send to Lacedaemon for troops,
but they said, Send us a commander; and...Brasidas, or Agis, was
despatched by the Ephors.
despatches, n. (4)
LE 1.162 27
[The youth] is curious concerning that man's day. What filled
it?...the foreign despatches...
ET15 5.266 23
...[the London Times's] expresses outrun the despatches of
the government.
Ctr 6.146 8
Some men are made for...missionaries, bearers of despatches...
EdAd 11.383 22
A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous
magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where
he is importuned by newsboys...with telegraphic despatches not yet fifty
minutes old from Buffalo and Cincinnati.
desperadoes, n. (1)
War 11.168 10
Will you stick to your principle of non-resistance...when
your wife and babes are insulted and slaughtered in your sight? If you say
yes...a few bloody-minded desperadoes would soon butcher the good.
desperate, adj. (5)
NMW 4.236 20
[Napoleon] was flung into the marsh at Arcola. The
Austrians were between him and his troops...and he was brought off with
desperate efforts.
ET6 5.106 21
[The English] will not break up, or arrive at any desperate
revolution...
ET8 5.131 21
[The English] are good...at...any desperate service which has
daylight and honor in it;...
Pow 6.61 17
A timid man...observing...sectional interests...with a mind
made up to desperate extremities...might easily believe that he and his
country have seen their best days...
SovE 10.211 19
...if the instinct of the people was to resist the government,
it is plain the government must be two to one in order to be secure, and then
it would not be safe from desperate individuals.
desperately, adv. (1)
NMW 4.257 21
...when men saw...after the destruction of armies, new
conscriptions; and they who had toiled so desperately were never nearer to
the reward...they deserted [Napoleon].
desperates, n. (1)
SA 8.80 11
The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the
young aspirants and desperates, quite sure and compact...
desperation, n. (4)
Hist 2.23 7
The pastoral nations were needy and hungry to desperation;...
PPh 4.45 27
In adult life, while the perceptions are obtuse, men and
women...blunder and quarrel: their manners are full of desperation;...
Supl 10.163 15
There is a superlative temperament...which affects the
manners of those who share it with a certain desperation.
Let 12.402 8
The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the
academic class...perhaps is the more violent that whilst our work is imposed
by the soil and the sea, our culture is the tradition of Europe. But we cannot
share the desperation of our contemporaries;...
despicable, adj. (3)
Elo1 7.64 11
Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest
of the Lacedaemonians, he will at first find him despicable in conversation...
HDC 11.40 14
[The Concord settler's pastor said] If we look to number, we
are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people
of God through the whole world. We cannot excel nor so much as equal
other people in these things; and if we come short in grace and holiness too,
we are the most despicable people under heaven.
CPL 11.498 15
[Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the
fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God
through the whole world. We cannot excel, nor so much as equal other
people in these things, and if we come short in grace and holiness too, we
are the most despicable people under heaven.
despise, v. (12)
OS 2.289 10
[The poet's] best communication to our mind is to teach us to
despise all he has done.
Exp 3.61 17
The fine young people despise life...
Nat2 3.171 6
We come to our own [in the woods], and make friends with
matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to
despise.
ET7 5.121 20
...the Englishman is not fickle. He had really made up his
mind now for years as he read his newspaper, to hate and despise M.
Guizot;...
SS 7.13 7
...Bacon said of manners, To obtain them, it only needs not to
despise them...
Elo1 7.76 9
...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and
read all over the Union, and he...takes the lead in the public mind over all
these executive men, who, of course, are full of indignation to find one who
has no tact or skill and knows he has none, put over them by means of this
talking-power which they despise.
PI 8.68 15
The poet should rejoice if he has taught us to despise his song;...
PPo 8.241 18
On the occasion of Solomon's marriage, all the beasts, laden
with presents, appeared before his throne. Behind them all came the ant,
with a blade of grass: Solomon did not despise the gift of the ant.
Edc1 10.132 17
Day creeps after day, each full of facts...that we cannot
enough despise...
Wom 11.409 22
No woman can despise [ceremonies] with impunity.
PLT 12.52 12
...because [men] know one thing, we defer to them in
another, and find them really contemptible. We can't make a half bow and
say, I honor and despise you.
Let 12.401 11
On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German.
Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life
is shallow and anxious and full of discord because they despise genius...
despised, adj. (6)
Comp 2.94 21
What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are
miserable in the present life? Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine,
horses, dress, luxury, are had by unprincipled men, whilst the saints are
poor and despised;...
Int 2.334 16
...our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of
childhood...
Edc1 10.132 16
Day creeps after day, each full of facts, dull, strange,
despised things, that we cannot enough despise...
Schr 10.282 6
...a true orator will make us feel that the states and
kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and
caterpillars, when seen in the light of this despised and imbecile truth.
JBB 11.269 14
You remember [John Brown's] words: If I had interfered in
behalf of the rich, the powerful...it would all have been right. But I believe
that to have interfered as I have done, for the despised poor, was not wrong,
but right.
EdAd 11.388 24
...we have seen the best understandings of New England...
constituting a snivelling and despised opposition...and persuaded to say, We
are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
despised, v. (10)
ET1 5.9 3
Landor despised entomology...
ET12 5.208 9
It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton,
Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that, in their playgrounds, courage is
universally admired, meanness despised...
Wsp 6.206 23
King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. ... In sooth, my
standards will in future be despised, not through my fault, but through
thine...
Suc 7.288 3
These [boasted arts] are local conveniences, but how easy to go
now to parts of the world where not only all these arts are wanting, but
where they are despised.
PC 8.231 23
The great are not tender at being...despised...
MMEm 10.404 10
[Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles
Emerson, in 1833... If I had been in aught but dreary deserts, I should have
idolized my friends, despised the world and been haughty.
MMEm 10.420 16
Do I [Mary Moody Emerson] yearn to be in Boston? 'T
would fatigue, disappoint; I, who have so long despised means...
TPar 11.291 17
...[Theodore Parker's] manly enemies, who despised the
fops, honored him;...
Wom 11.409 19
All these ceremonies that hedge our life around are not to
be despised...
Let 12.396 16
How joyfully we have felt the admonition of larger natures
which despised our aims and pursuits...
despises, v. (5)
Wth 6.124 16
Hotspur lives for the moment...and despises Furlong, that he
does not.
Ctr 6.143 11
[The boy] is infatuated for weeks with whist and chess; but
presently will find out...that when he rises from the game too long played,
he is vacant and forlorn and despises himself.
PPo 8.253 13
Only he despises the verse of Hafiz who is not himself by
nature noble.
Chr2 10.121 15
Swedenborg said, that, in the spiritual world, when one
wishes to rule, or despises others, he is thrust out of doors.
Plu 10.309 16
...[Plutarch]...despises the Epicharmian disputations...
despiseth, v. (1)
Prd1 2.232 11
He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.
despising, v. (1)
CInt 12.114 11
Michael Angelo gave himself to art, despising all meaner
pursuits.
despite, n. (5)
YA 1.379 6
Trade is an instrument in the hands of that friendly Power
which works for us in our own despite.
SwM 4.131 7
[Swedenborg] is wise, but wise in his own despite.
Wsp 6.201 9
I have no fears of being forced in my own despite to play as
we say the devil's attorney.
Prch 10.226 21
...we can keep our religion, despite of the violent railroads
of generalization...
HCom 11.343 6
...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these
scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its
signal and lasting effect.
despoils, v. (1)
MMEm 10.420 7
Better anything than dishonest dependence, which...
despoils friendship of equal connection.
despond, v. (3)
CbW 6.264 17
...whoever sees the law which distributes things, does not
despond...
DL 7.132 21
When [man] perceives the Law, he ceases to despond.
FRep 11.532 21
...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man
blunders, [our people] quit him;...and they transfer the repute of judgment
to the next prosperous person who has not yet blundered. Of course this
levity makes them as easily despond.
despondency, n. (9)
Hsm1 2.248 20
Each of [Plutarch's] Lives is a refutation to the
despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists.
MoS 4.185 12
Things seem...to justify despondency...
Suc 7.310 13
Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine.
MoL 10.247 1
I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
LLNE 10.364 16
It is certain that...variety of work, variety of means of
thought and instruction, art, music, poetry, reading, masquerade, did not
permit sluggishness or despondency [at Brook Farm]...
LVB 11.94 22
On the broaching of this question [of the moral character of
government], a general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any
good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery,
appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel.
EWI 11.146 16
...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the
negro] observes the men of conscience and of intellect...so hotly offended
by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of
the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the
human race;...
FRep 11.532 23
It seems as if history gave no account of any society in
which despondency came so readily to heart as we see it and feel it in ours.
Trag 12.406 7
...one would say that history gave no record of any society
in which despondency came so readily to heart as we see it and feel it in
ours.
desponding, adj. (4)
DSA 1.144 1
...What in these desponding days can be done by us?
MN 1.193 11
...the multitude of men...give currency to desponding
doctrines...
SR 2.75 11
...we are become timorous, desponding whimperers.
Elo2 8.113 6
...[the eloquent man]...fills desponding men with hope and joy.
desponding, v. (1)
SA 8.83 2
We think a man unable and desponding. It is only that he is
misplaced.
desponds, v. (1)
CbW 6.264 19
He who desponds betrays that he has not seen [the law
which distributes things].
despot, n. (1)
DL 7.103 20
The small despot asks so little that all reason and all nature are
on his side.
despotic, adj. (7)
Tran 1.339 15
This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling on despotic
times, made patriot Catos and Brutuses;...
YA 1.375 15
The patriarchal form of government readily becomes
despotic...
Mrs1 3.139 1
...at short distances the senses are despotic.
Pol1 3.200 25
Nature is...despotic...
ET1 5.9 19
[Landor] has a wonderful brain, despotic, violent and
inexhaustible...
LLNE 10.365 3
In the American social communities, the gossip found such
vent and sway as to become despotic.
SlHr 10.442 9
...[Samuel Hoar's] influence was reckoned despotic...
despotically, adv. (1)
Milt1 12.253 5
...every masterpiece of art goes on for some ages...
despotically fashioning the public ear.
despotism, n. (14)
Nat 1.49 21
The first effort of thought tends to relax this despotism of the
senses which binds us to nature as if we were a part of it...
LE 1.157 19
...in every sane hour the service of thought appears reasonable,
the despotism of the senses insane.
Pol1 3.211 13
It is said that...in the despotism of public opinion, we have
no anchor;...
ET8 5.140 25
...if hereafter the war of races, often predicted, and making
itself a war of opinions also (a question of despotism and liberty coming
from Eastern Europe), should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings
may take once again to their floating castles...
ET10 5.170 13
England must be held responsible for the despotism of
expense.
F 6.12 23
It was a poetic attempt...to reconcile this despotism of race with
liberty, which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds
committed in a prior state of existence.
CbW 6.253 17
...savage forest laws and crushing despotism made possible
the inspirations of Magna Charta under John.
Bty 6.302 1
The lives of the Italian artists, who established a despotism of
genius amidst the dukes and kings and mobs of their stormy epoch, prove
how loyal men in all times are to a finer brain, a finer method than their
own.
Art2 7.38 23
From the first imitative babble of a child to the despotism of
eloquence;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to
serve its end.
Elo1 7.65 21
[Eloquence] is that despotism which poets have celebrated in
the Pied Piper of Hamelin...
PC 8.217 27
If [a man] has wit, he tempers the despotism by epigrams...
Aris 10.46 13
I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...such
despotism of wealth and comfort in banquet-halls, whilst death is in the
pots of the wretched...
MMEm 10.422 23
To her nephew Charles [Mary Moody Emerson writes]:
War; what do I think of it? Why in your ear I think it so much better than
oppression that if it were ravaging the whole geography of despotism it
would be an omen of high and glorious import.
EWI 11.117 15
It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the
planters were disposed...to exert the same licentious despotism as before.
despots, n. (4)
Comp 2.100 24
Under the primeval despots of Egypt, history honestly
confesses that man must have been as free as culture could make him.
NR 3.238 15
Solitude would ripen a plentiful crop of despots.
ET15 5.272 21
...[if the London Times would cleave to the right] its proud
function, that of being...the defender of the exile and patriot against
despots, would be more effectually discharged;...
CbW 6.254 9
Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely...
Dessaix, Joseph Marie, n. (1)
NMW 4.244 10
...ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to...
Kleber, Dassaix...
dessert, adj. (1)
CbW 6.250 16
Nature...shakes down a tree full of gnarled, wormy, unripe
crabs, before you can find a dozen dessert apples;...
destination, n. (2)
F 6.12 17
People are born...uterine brothers with this diverging
destination;...
Aris 10.45 5
If we see tools in a magazine...we can predict well enough
their destination;...
destined, adj. (3)
UGM 4.9 23
It would seem as if each [creature and quality] waited...for a
destined human deliverer.
ET5 5.88 22
This highly destined race [the English], if it had not
somewhere added the chamber of patience to its brain, would not have built
London.
Civ 7.26 25
The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral;...
destined, v. (12)
SwM 4.108 12
At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out
another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the
skull, with extremities again...the fingers and toes being represented this
time by upper and lower teeth. This new spine is destined to high uses.
ET10 5.159 12
After a few trials, [Richard Roberts] succeeded, and in 1830
procured a patent for his self-acting mule; a creation, the delight of mill-owners,
and destined, they said, to restore order among the industrious
classes;...
ET18 5.303 9
...[Englishmen's] speech seems destined to be the universal
language of men.
Pow 6.69 1
The roisters who are destined for infamy at home, if sent to
Mexico will cover you with glory...
Bty 6.293 10
...many a good experiment, born of good sense and destined
to succeed, fails only because it is offensively sudden.
LLNE 10.354 2
...there is an intellectual courage and strength in
[Fourierism] which is superior and commanding; it certifies the presence of
so much truth in the theory, and in so far is destined to be fact.
MMEm 10.404 13
[Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles
Emerson, in 1833... I never expected connections and matrimony. My taste
was formed in romance, and I knew I was not destined to please.
HDC 11.32 12
...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation
at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about
twelve families more. A month later, Rev. John Jones and a large number of
settlers destined for the new town arrived in Boston.
EWI 11.110 18
In consequence of the dangers of the [slave] trade growing
out of the act of abolition, ships were built...with a frightful disregard of the
comfort of the victims they were destined to transport.
ALin 11.333 24
...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln'
s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide fame.
ACri 12.301 6
I passed at one time through a place called New City, then
supposed...to be destined to greatness.
EurB 12.372 18
Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry,
destined to be the highest...
Destinee [Chaucer, Knight's (1)
F 6.5 26
The Destinee, ministre general,/ That executeth in the world over
al,/ The purveiance that God hath seen beforne,/ So strong it is/...Yet
sometime it shall fallen on a day/ That falleth not oft in a thousand yeer;/...
destinies, n. (7)
MoS 4.183 27
Charles Fourier announced that the attractions of man are
proportioned to his destinies;...
MoS 4.184 25
Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and
passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his strength,--
hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him. He was an emperor
deserted by his states...and still the sirens sang, The attractions are
proportioned to the destinies.
Bty 6.301 1
Those who have ruled human destinies like planets for
thousands of years, were not handsome men.
PI 8.42 1
The attractions are proportional to the destinies.
ACiv 11.300 2
...a literal, slavish following of precedents...is not for those
who at this hour lead the destinies of this people.
PLT 12.41 18
My percipiency affirms the presence and perfection of law,
as much as all the martyrs. A perception, it is of necessity older than...the
Father of the Gods. It is there with all its destinies.
Let 12.394 2
...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of
Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer?
Destiny, Child of, the, n. (1)
NMW 4.231 17
...[Bonaparte] pleased himself, as well as the people, when
he styled himself the Child of Destiny.
Destiny, Manifest, n. (1)
AKan 11.259 25
Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for
an ugly thing.
destiny, n. (46)
LE 1.180 7
...[Napoleon] had a sublime confidence...in the sallies of
courage, and the faith in his destiny...
SR 2.47 22
...we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the
same transcendent destiny;...
Comp 2.101 18
...each [occupation, trade, art, transaction] must somehow
accommodate the whole man and recite all his destiny.
Fdsp 2.201 17
Not one step has man taken toward the solution of the
problem of his destiny.
Int 2.327 6
...a truth, separated by the intellect, is no longer a subject of
destiny.
Exp 3.82 24
The man at [Apollo's] feet asks for his interest in turmoils of
the earth, into which his nature cannot enter. And the Eumenides there
lying express pictorially this disparity. The god is surcharged with his
divine destiny.
Mrs1 3.138 8
The compliments and ceremonies of our breeding should
recall, however remotely, the grandeur of our destiny.
Nat2 3.194 16
If we measure our individual forces against [Nature's] we
may easily feel as if we were the sport of an insuperable destiny.
UGM 4.15 1
There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better
than that other can...
UGM 4.35 6
The destiny of organized nature is amelioration...
GoW 4.286 7
Though [the intellectual man] wishes to prosper in affairs, he
wishes more to know the history and destiny of man;...
ET5 5.93 20
[The English] are a family to which a destiny attaches...
ET9 5.151 23
Nature and destiny are always on the watch for our follies.
ET16 5.279 16
In this quiet house of destiny [Stonehenge] [Carlyle]
happened to say, I plant cypresses wherever I go, and if I am in search of
pain, I cannot go wrong.
F 6.16 25
The German and Irish millions...have a great deal of guano in
their destiny.
F 6.23 23
They who talk much of destiny...are in a lower dangerous plane...
F 6.42 4
...the efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve
to lead us into it...
Pow 6.73 24
Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle...
Ctr 6.138 22
To wade in marshes and sea-margins is the destiny of certain
birds...
Wsp 6.240 19
Man is made of the same atoms as the world is, he shares the
same impressions, predispositions and destiny.
Ill 6.321 22
...we cannot even see what or where our stars of destiny are.
Elo1 7.92 12
For the triumphs of the art [of eloquence] somewhat more
must still be required, namely a reinforcing of man from events, so as to
give the double force of reason and destiny.
PI 8.42 17
...as...every perception is a destiny, there is no limit to [the poet'
s] hope.
PPo 8.244 25
[Hafiz] says to the Shah, Thou who rulest after words and
thoughts which no ear has heard and no mind has thought, abide firm until
thy young destiny tears off his blue coat from the old graybeard of the sky.
Grts 8.303 18
...he who rests on what he is, has a destiny above destiny...
Grts 8.303 19
...he who rests on what he is, has a destiny above destiny...
Imtl 8.327 8
...Swedenborg...explained his opinion of the history and
destiny of souls in a narrative form...
Imtl 8.336 19
We must infer our destiny from the preparation.
Dem1 10.22 8
A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may
fancy...that he...obeys a high family destiny;...
Edc1 10.125 14
We have already taken...the initial step...thus deciding at
the start the destiny of this country,-this, namely, that the poor man...is
allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall
educate me...
Edc1 10.142 10
Let [the solitary man]...yield as gracefully as he can to his
destiny.
Supl 10.177 7
...the religion [of the Arab] teaches an inexorable destiny;...
Prch 10.237 20
...when we...come into the house of thought and worship,
we come with the purpose...to see...the great lines of our destiny...
Schr 10.288 25
[The scholar] shall think very highly of his destiny.
Plu 10.311 6
...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and
his broad humanity, lead him constantly...to the study of the Beautiful and
Good. Hence...his clear convictions of the high destiny of the soul.
MMEm 10.415 27
This morning rich in existence; the remembrance...of
bitterer days of youth and age, when my [Mary Moody Emerson's] senses
and understanding seemed but means of labor, or to learn my own
unpopular destiny...
FSLC 11.205 15
The destiny of this country is great and liberal...
EdAd 11.383 2
The American people are fast opening their own destiny.
RBur 11.440 12
...Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that
great uprising of the middle class...which, not in governments so much as in
education and social order, has changed the face of the world. In order for
this destiny, his birth, breeding and fortunes were low.
FRep 11.536 5
[The class of which I speak] complain of the flatness of
American life; America has no illusions, no romance. They have no
perception of its destiny.
PLT 12.39 23
...[the intellectual man] wishes in thought to know the
history and destiny of a man;...
II 12.76 20
We cannot even see what or where our stars of destiny are.
Bost 12.188 24
...Boston commands attention as the town which was
appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
Milt1 12.251 22
...deeply as that peculiar state of society, in which and for
which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the world, it
shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in
Nature;...
Trag 12.408 6
...in destiny, it is not the good of the whole or the best will
that is enacted, but only one particular will.
Trag 12.408 8
Destiny properly is not a will at all...
Destiny, n. (19)
YA 1.371 21
...there is a sublime and friendly Destiny by which the human
race is guided...
YA 1.371 24
...the Genius or Destiny is not narrow, but beneficent.
YA 1.373 4
This Genius or Destiny is of the sternest administration...
SL 2.134 14
...[men of an extraordinary success] have built altars to
Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian.
MoS 4.175 26
We go...believing in the iron links of Destiny...
MoS 4.177 3
The word Fate, or Destiny, expresses the sense of mankind...
that the laws of the world do not always befriend...us.
MoS 4.177 9
We paint...Destiny, deaf.
F 6.23 27
I cited the instinctive and heroic races as proud believers in
Destiny.
F 6.24 22
Go face...what danger lies in the way of duty,-knowing you are
guarded by the cherubim of Destiny.
Bhr 6.175 13
...Nature and Destiny are honest...
PPo 8.238 27
The religion [of the East] teaches an inexorable Destiny.
Aris 10.41 3
Do not hearken to the men, but to the Destiny in the
institutions.
EdAd 11.386 23
...who can see the continent...without putting new queries
to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
EdAd 11.389 16
Men reason badly, but Nature and Destiny are logical.
FRep 11.537 10
...the Genius or Destiny of America is no log or sluggard...
II 12.88 12
The old Greek was respectable...who found the genius of
tragedy in the conflict between Destiny and the strong should...
Bost 12.200 17
This thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers;...
Let 12.397 6
...we are impatient of the tedious introductions of Destiny...
Trag 12.406 23
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an
intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;...
destitute, adj. (5)
MoS 4.156 2
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
proportion in its presentment...
NMW 4.232 19
I have gained some advantages over superior forces and
when totally destitute of every thing [Bonaparte writes to the Directory],
because...my actions were as prompt as my thoughts.
NMW 4.253 18
Bonaparte was singularly destitute of generous sentiments.
Prch 10.219 17
No age and no person is destitute of the [religious]
sentiment...
Trag 12.411 13
The most exposed classes, soldiers, sailors, paupers, are
nowise destitute of animal spirits.
destitution, n. (8)
NER 3.270 7
When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not
strange that society should be disheartened...
Bhr 6.187 20
Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment
leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost. 'T is a great
destitution to both that this should not be entertained with large leisures...
Wsp 6.234 9
In the greatest destitution and calamity [the moral] surprises
man with a feeling of elasticity which makes nothing of loss.
Aris 10.46 11
I know how steep the contrast of condition looks; such
excess here and such destitution there;...
MMEm 10.415 23
This morning rich in existence; the remembrance of past
destitution in the deep poverty of my [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt...
MMEm 10.416 22
...the simple principle which made me [Mary Moody
Emerson] say...that, should He make me a blot on the fair face of his
Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never been equalled, though it
returns in the long life of destitution like an Angel.
MMEm 10.419 12
...I [Mary Moody Emerson] pass my youth, its last
traces, in...complete destitution of society.
ACiv 11.297 8
...now here comes this conspiracy of slavery,-they call it
an institution, I call it a destitution...
Destitution, n. (2)
MMEm 10.404 20
Destitution is the Muse of [Mary Moody Emerson's]
genius,-Destitution and Death.
MMEm 10.404 21
Destitution is the Muse of [Mary Moody Emerson's]
genius,-Destitution and Death.
destroy, v. (31)
AmS 1.99 26
Not out of those on whom systems of education have
exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to
build the new...
LT 1.285 27
The revolutions that impend over society are...from new
modes of thinking...which shall destroy the value of many kinds of property
and replace all property within the dominion of reason and equity.
Con 1.316 5
...the Friar Bernard went home swiftly...saying...these
Romans, whom I prayed God to destroy, are lovers, they are lovers;...
OS 2.292 10
Deal so plainly with man and woman as to...destroy all hope
of trifling with you.
Cir 2.302 21
New arts destroy the old.
Art1 2.365 23
A true announcement of the law of creation...would carry art
up into the kingdom of nature, and destroy its separate and contrasted
existence.
Mrs1 3.129 14
...if the people should destroy class after class, until two
men only were left, one of these would be the leader and would be
involuntarily served and copied by the other.
Nat2 3.181 11
[Nature] arms and equips an animal to find its place and
living in the earth, and at the same time she arms and equips another animal
to destroy it.
NER 3.283 6
...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and
foreshow, is one who...shall destroy distrust by his trust...
SwM 4.139 17
[Swedenborg's] revelations destroy their credit by running
into detail.
NMW 4.230 4
...[Bonaparte's] whole talent is strained by endless
manoeuvre and evolution, to march always on the enemy at an angle, and
destroy his forces in detail.
Ctr 6.134 21
He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.
And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid!...
Suc 7.310 9
'T is cheap and easy to destroy.
Elo2 8.121 26
...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was
reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his
monthly stipend. He answered, Nothing at all. But why then do you take so
much trouble? He replied, I read for the sake of God. The other rejoined,
For God's sake, do not read; for if you read the Koran in this manner you
will destroy the splendor of Islamism.
Insp 8.290 2
George Sand says, I have no enthusiasm for Nature which the
slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
Dem1 10.14 11
The poor ship-master discovered a sound theology, when in
the storm at sea he made his prayer to Neptune, O God, thou mayst save me
if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayst destroy me; but, however, I will
hold my rudder true.
Aris 10.35 12
...neither...the Congress, nor the mob, nor the guillotine, nor
fire, nor all together, can avail to outlaw, cut out, burn or destroy the
offence of superiority in persons.
Chr2 10.120 12
What would it avail me, if I could destroy my enemies?
Plu 10.320 7
[Plutarch] thought it wonderful that a man having a muse in
his own breast...would have pipes and harps play, and by that external noise
destroy all the sweetness that was proper and his own.
LLNE 10.327 24
The structures of old faith in every department of society
a few centuries have sufficed to destroy.
MMEm 10.424 5
In Eternity, no deceitful promises, no fantastic illusions,
no riddles concealed by thy [Time's] shrouds, none of thy Arachnean webs,
which decoy and destroy.
HDC 11.59 8
The red man may destroy here and there a straggler, as a wild
beast may;...
HDC 11.72 23
A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this
town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety. It was to
destroy those stores that the troops who were attacked in this town, on the
19th April, 1775, were sent hither by General Gage.
EWI 11.127 5
The House of Commons would destroy the protection of
[West Indian] island produce...
EWI 11.138 25
The secret cannot be kept, that the seats of power are filled
by underlings, ignorant, timid and selfish to a degree to destroy all claim,
excepting that on compassion, to the society of the just and generous.
FSLC 11.178 4
The Eternal Rights,/ Victors over daily wrongs:/ Awful
victors, they misguide/ Whom they will destroy/...
ACiv 11.309 25
...the government of the world is moral, and does forever
destroy what is not.
EPro 11.325 7
...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic
feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the
enemy of the human race...
CL 12.140 5
I have no enthusiasm for Nature, said a French writer, which
the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
Trag 12.410 18
[Grief] is so distributed as not to destroy.
Trag 12.411 10
...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter
midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at
night in the cellar or on the stairs...are no tragedy, any more than
seasickness, which may also destroy life.
destroyed, v. (26)
Tran 1.359 16
Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be
superseded;...these cities rotted...all gone, like the shells which sprinkle the
sea-beach with a white colony to-day, forever renewed to be forever
destroyed.
YA 1.378 21
...the historian will see that...trade planted America and
destroyed Feudalism;...
YA 1.378 26
We complain...of [trade's] building up a new aristocracy on
the ruins of the aristocracy it destroyed.
YA 1.390 26
...the terror of old people and of vicious people is lest the
Union of these states be destroyed;...
Comp 2.117 8
...when the hunter came, [the stag's] feet saved him, and
afterwards, caught in the thicket, his horns destroyed him.
Lov1 2.179 9
Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from
one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any
attempt to refer it to organization.
Prd1 2.223 19
[Base prudence] is a disease like a thickening of the skin
until the vital organs are destroyed.
Pt1 3.23 7
This atom of seed is thrown into a new place, not subject to the
accidents which destroyed its parent two rods off.
PPh 4.50 18
...the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be
manifold, arising from the consequences of acts [said Krishna]. When the
difference of the investing form...is destroyed, there is no distinction.
ET4 5.44 4
An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has written a book to
prove that races are imperishable, but nations are...easily changed or
destroyed.
ET5 5.85 26
[The Englishmen's] military science propounds that if the
weight of the advancing column is greater than that of the resisting, the
latter is destroyed.
ET10 5.159 15
As Arkwright had destroyed domestic spinning, so Roberts
destroyed the factory spinner.
ET10 5.159 16
As Arkwright had destroyed domestic spinning, so Roberts
destroyed the factory spinner.
ET11 5.181 9
Evelyn writes from Blois, in 1644: The wolves are here in
such numbers, that they often come and take children out of the streets; yet
will not the Duke, who is sovereign here, permit them to be destroyed.
ET16 5.290 11
The building [Abbey, Hyde, England] was destroyed at the
Reformation...
SA 8.96 27
When Molyneux fancied that the observations of the nutation of
the earth's axis destroyed Newton's theory of gravitation, he tried to break
it softly to Sir Isaac...
Res 8.144 4
At Annapolis a regiment, hastening to join the army, found the
locomotives broken, the railroad destroyed, and no rails.
Edc1 10.146 17
...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British
Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had
been destroyed by earthquakes...
SovE 10.192 20
Nothing is allowed to exceed or absorb the rest; if it do, it
is disease, and is quickly destroyed.
MoL 10.254 6
...now not only all the statues of bronze in the temples of
Aegina are destroyed, but the temples themselves...
LLNE 10.336 1
...the paramount source of the religious revolution was
Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan
fictions of the Church...
Thor 10.458 27
Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard
University] that the railroad had destroyed the old scale of distances...
EWI 11.117 9
...the habit of oppression was not destroyed [in the West
Indies] by a law and a day of jubilee.
War 11.157 4
Wherever there is no property, the people will put on the
knapsack for bread; but trade is instantly endangered and destroyed.
FSLN 11.237 24
The habit of oppression cuts out the moral eyes, though
the intellect goes on simulating the moral as before, its sanity is gradually
destroyed.
PPr 12.387 20
The ancients are only venerable to us because distance has
destroyed what was trivial;...
destroyer, n. (3)
Mrs1 3.127 24
Napoleon...destroyer of the old noblesse, never ceased to
court the Faubourg St. Germain;...
NMW 4.252 16
[Napoleon] was...the destroyer of prescription...
SovE 10.213 18
destroying, adj. (1)
Farm 7.148 1
The traveller who saw [the Sequoias] remembered his
orchard at home, where every year, in the destroying wind, his forlorn trees
pined like suffering virtue.
destroying, v. (9)
LT 1.275 6
...[the spirit of Reform] goes up and down, paving the earth
with eyes, destroying privacy and making thorough-lights.
Mrs1 3.155 10
I overheard Jove, one day, said Silenus, talking of
destroying the earth;...
UGM 4.23 16
...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and
all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts,
destroying individualism;...
CbW 6.254 16
The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvests
of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.
Res 8.144 18
It is out of the obstacles to be encountered that [the Indian,
the sailor, the hunter] make the means of destroying them.
SovE 10.188 18
When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses;
only so are the conditions of the then world met, and these monsters are
the...diggers, pioneers and fertilizers, destroying what is more destructive
than they...
SovE 10.190 18
For my part, said Napoleon, it is not the mystery of the
incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order,
which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich
from destroying the poor.
Thor 10.482 2
The axe was always destroying [Thoreau's] forest.
War 11.151 7
It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy...to watch
the rising of a thought in one man's mind...its expansion and general
reception, until it publishes itself to the world by destroying the existing
laws and institutions...
destroys, v. (13)
DSA 1.141 19
...thus historical Christianity destroys the power of
preaching...
YA 1.376 18
...this unpleasant egotism, Feudalism opposes and finally
destroys.
Fdsp 2.207 21
In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a
social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there
present. ... Now this convention...destroys the high freedom of great
conversation...
Int 2.343 10
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality...
Chr1 3.100 14
...[the uncivil, unavailable man]...destroys the scepticism
which says, Man is a doll, let us eat and drink, 't is the best we can do...
SwM 4.131 6
Beauty is disgraced, love is unlovely, when truth...is denied,
as much as when a bitterness in men of talent leads to satire and destroys
the judgment.
F 6.32 24
...right drainage destroys typhus.
Ill 6.313 6
...we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions.
PI 8.37 17
The critic destroys...
SA 8.107 3
They only can give the key and leading to better society: those...
who, by their joy and homage to these [eternal laws], are made incapable of
conceit, which destroys almost all the fine wits.
Comc 8.169 5
The poorest man who stands on his manhood destroys the
jest.
Insp 8.273 3
The separation of our days by sleep almost destroys identity.
MLit 12.330 12
The least inequality of mixture [of Truth, Beauty and
Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that degree...makes
the world opaque to the observer, and destroys so far the value of his
experience.
destruction, n. (9)
NMW 4.237 3
We are always...just on the edge of destruction...
NMW 4.250 5
...[Napoleon] proposed to consider the probability of the
destruction of the globe...
NMW 4.257 20
...when men saw...after the destruction of armies, new
conscriptions;...they deserted [Napoleon].
ET11 5.188 18
In these [English] manors, after the frenzy of war and
destruction subsides a little, the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar...
without so much as a new layer of dust...
Wth 6.115 20
A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of
every month in the newspapers, which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand
and draw in his arm, his leg and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
SA 8.96 1
The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do
not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your
logic and learning.
MoL 10.247 25
Nature...mocks at the puny forces of destruction.
Plu 10.317 26
If I do not lament that a work not [Plutarch's] should be
ascribed to him, I regret that he should have suffered such destruction of his
own.
JBS 11.281 15
The sentiment of mercy is the natural recoil which the laws
of the universe provide to protect mankind from destruction by savage
passions.
destructive, adj. (11)
MR 1.255 27
...we have seen a few scattered up and down in time for the
blessing of the world; men who have in the gravity of their nature a quality
which answers to the fly-wheel in a mill, which...hinders [the motion] from
falling unequally and suddenly in destructive shocks.
Prd1 2.237 2
On the most profitable lie the course of events presently lays
a destructive tax;...
Exp 3.78 26
Especially the crimes that spring from love seem right and fair
from the actor's point of view, but when acted are found destructive of
society.
Pol1 3.210 12
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and
aimless...
Pol1 3.210 13
...[the spirit of our American radicalism]...is destructive only
out of hatred and selfishness.
NER 3.257 5
I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.
ET1 5.4 22
The conditions of literary success are almost destructive of the
best social power...
F 6.8 23
...these shocks and ruins are less destructive to us than the stealthy
power of other laws which act on us daily.
Pow 6.71 26
We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the
world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of commerce,
but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it dangerous and
destructive,--yet it cannot be spared...
SovE 10.188 18
When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses;
only so are the conditions of the then world met, and these monsters are
the...diggers, pioneers and fertilizers, destroying what is more destructive
than they...
EdAd 11.388 9
We see that reckless and destructive fury which
characterizes the lower classes of American society...
desultory, adj. (4)
LE 1.157 9
I will not lose myself in the desultory questions, what are the
limitations, and what the causes of the fact.
ET1 5.4 2
...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see
the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor,
DeQuincey...
Boks 7.194 8
[The best rule of reading] holds each student to a pursuit of
his native aim, instead of a desultory miscellany.
PLT 12.55 2
The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of
ours...is to substitute realism for sentimentalism;...
detach, v. (16)
Nat 1.74 19
...when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from
personal relations...shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest
affections, then will God go forth anew...
SR 2.76 19
Let a Stoic...tell men they...can and must detach themselves;...
Comp 2.103 24
The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the
solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual
strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the
moral fair;...
OS 2.274 3
The things we now esteem fixed shall...detach themselves like
ripe fruit from our experience...
Cir 2.316 15
For me...love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man,
these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty...from all other duties...
Art1 2.354 26
The power to detach and to magnify by detaching is the
essence of rhetoric in the hands of the orator and the poet.
Art1 2.366 18
Art makes the same effort which a sensual prosperity makes;
namely to detach the beautiful from the useful...
NR 3.225 11
...how few particulars of [the genius of the Platonists] can I
detach from all their books.
F 6.16 21
Detach a colony from the race, and it deteriorates to the crab.
Ill 6.317 25
...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a
gentleness when off duty, a good-natured admission that there are illusions,
and who shall say that he is not their sport? We stigmatize the cast-iron
fellows who cannot so detach themselves, as dragon-ridden...
Elo1 7.90 8
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an
audience is electrified. They feel as if they already possessed some new
right and power over a fact which they can detach...
Farm 7.143 14
You cannot detach an atom from its holdings...
Imtl 8.324 25
...as the savage could not detach in his mind the life of the
soul from the body, he took great care for his body.
SovE 10.185 15
A thought is embosomed in a sentiment, and the attempt to
detach and blazon the thought is like a show of cut flowers.
Thor 10.471 10
[Thoreau] would not offer a memoir of his observations to
the Natural History Society. Why should I? To detach the description from
its connections in my mind would make it no longer true or valuable to me...
FSLN 11.235 25
I conceive that thus to detach a man and make him feel
that he is to owe all to himself is the way to make him strong and rich;...
detached, adj. (9)
Art1 2.365 14
All works of art should not be detached, but extempore
performances.
SwM 4.117 10
Swedenborg first put the fact [of Correspondence] into a
detached and scientific statement...
GoW 4.273 19
[Goethe] had a power to unite the detached atoms again by
their own law.
GoW 4.288 5
...notwithstanding the looseness of many of [Goethe's]
works, we have volumes of detached paragraphs, aphorisms, Xenien, etc.
Boks 7.217 24
Every good fable...every passage of love, and even
philosophy and science, when they...are not detached and critical, have the
imaginative element.
LLNE 10.344 16
What [Theodore Parker] said was mere fact, almost
offended you, so bald and detached;...
Mem 12.110 13
When we live...by obedience to the law of the mind instead
of by passion, the Great Mind will enter into us, not as now in fragments
and detached thoughts...
Milt1 12.276 27
...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the
aids of his learning and his religion...to a higher insight and more lively
delineation of the heroic life of man. This was his poem; whereof all his
indignant pamphlets and all his soaring verses are only single cantos or
detached stanzas.
Let 12.396 22
...whilst this aspiration [to improve society] has always made
its mark in the lives of men of thought, in vigorous individuals it does not
remain a detached object...
detached, v. (8)
Nat 1.50 27
...the beggar, the boys, the dogs, are unrealized at once [when
seen from a coach], or, at least, wholly detached from all relation to the
observer...
MN 1.211 26
There is...nothing that is not noxious to [man] if detached
from [this divine method's] universal relations.
Prd1 2.222 14
Prudence is false when detached.
Int 2.336 15
In common hours we have the same facts as in the uncommon
or inspired, but...they are not detached...
PPh 4.39 15
Great havoc makes [Plato] among our originalities. We have
reached the mountain from which all these drift boulders were detached.
Thor 10.477 21
...the same isolation which belonged to his original
thinking and living detached [Thoreau] from the social religious forms.
PLT 12.18 19
[The perceptions of the soul] are detached from their parent...
II 12.66 6
'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in
that habitual first look which he casts on all objects. Here alone is the field...
of every religion and civil order that has been or shall be. All that we know
is flakes and grains detached from this mountain.
detaches, v. (7)
AmS 1.96 16
In some contemplative hour [the new deed] detaches itself
from the life like a ripe fruit...
Pt1 3.23 10
[Nature] makes a man; and having brought him to ripe age...she
detaches from him a new self...
Pt1 3.23 14
...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought,
[nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs...
Insp 8.292 19
...in discourse with a friend, our thought...detaches itself...
LLNE 10.326 17
This perception [that the individual is the world] is a
sword such as was never drawn before. It divides and detaches bone and
marrow, soul and body...
PLT 12.18 2
...as the sun is conceived to have made our system by hurling
out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether which slowly condensed into
earths and moons, by a higher force of the same law the mind detaches
minds, and a mind detaches thoughts or intellections.
PLT 12.38 25
This is the first property of the Intellect I am to point out; the
mind detaches.
detaching, v. (6)
Comp 2.104 23
This dividing and detaching is steadily counteracted.
Art1 2.354 27
The power to detach and to magnify by detaching is the
essence of rhetoric in the hands of the orator and the poet.
GoW 4.265 13
The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo...
and, by detaching the object from its relations, easily succed in
making it seen in a glare;...
Clbs 7.228 6
Every time we say a thing in conversation, we get a
mechanical advantage in detaching it well and deliverly.
EPro 11.324 2
The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of...
preventing the whole force of Southern connection and influence
throughout the North from distracting every city with endless confusion,
detaching that force and reducing it to handfuls...
Trag 12.416 21
The intellect is a consoler, which delights in detaching or
putting an interval between a man and his fortune...
detachment, n. (18)
MN 1.201 10
There is...no detachment of an individual.
Tran 1.350 20
All that the brave Xanthus brings home from his wars is the
recollection that at the storming of Samos, in the heat of the battle, Pericles
smiled on me, and passed on to another detachment.
Int 2.340 9
Neither by detachment, neither by aggregation is the integrity
of the intellect transmitted to its works...
Art1 2.354 10
The virtue of art lies in detachment...
Pt1 3.18 22
...it is dislocation and detachment from the life of God that
makes things ugly...
Pt1 3.21 23
...the poet is the Namer or Language-maker...giving to every
[thing] its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect,
which delights in detachment or boundary.
NER 3.251 21
The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members
of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the
Church...
UGM 4.30 8
Presently a dot appears on the animal [the monad], which
enlarges to a slit, and it becomes two perfect animals. The ever-proceeding
detachment appears not less in all thought and in society.
UGM 4.30 12
Children think they cannot live without their parents. But,
long before they are aware of it...the detachment has taken place.
ShP 4.201 18
We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the
Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from
the Mysteries...and the final detachment from the church...down to the
possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered,
remodelled and finally made his own.
LLNE 10.326 20
It is the age...of detachment.
LLNE 10.327 12
The association of the time is accidental and momentary
and hypocritical, the detachment intrinsic and progressive.
HDC 11.75 10
The British, as soon as they were rejoined by the plundering
detachment, began that disastrous retreat to Boston...
PLT 12.39 9
The detachment consists in seeing [a fact] under a new order...
PLT 12.39 15
...this is the measure of all intellectual power among men,
the power to complete this detachment...
Bost 12.196 10
...New England supplies annually a large detachment of
preachers and schoolmasters and private tutors to the interior of the South
and West.
Bost 12.201 3
European critics regret the detachment of the Puritans to this
country without aristocracy;...
Bost 12.201 8
The future historian will regard the detachment of the
Puritans without aristocracy the supreme fortune of the colony;...
detail, n. (23)
Nat 1.46 3
It were a pleasant inquiry to follow into detail [the human
forms'] ministry to our education...
Con 1.302 7
That which is best about conservatism, that which, though it
cannot be expressed in detail, inspires reverence in all, is the Inevitable.
Hist 2.11 15
When [Belzoni] has satisfied himself, in general and in detail,
that [Thebes] was made by such a person as he...the problem is solved;...
PPh 4.46 6
As soon as, with culture...[men and women] see [things] no
longer in lumps and masses but accurately distributed, they desist from that
weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.
PPh 4.53 26
The unity of Asia and the detail of Europe;...Plato came to
join...
PNR 4.86 19
[Plato]...descended into detail with a courage like that he
witnessed in nature.
SwM 4.139 18
[Swedenborg's] revelations destroy their credit by running
into detail.
NMW 4.230 4
...[Bonaparte's] whole talent is strained by endless
manoeuvre and evolution, to march always on the enemy at an angle, and
destroy his forces in detail.
GoW 4.273 21
Amid littleness and detail, [Goethe] detected the Genius of
life...nestling close beside us...
ET5 5.89 18
A nation of laborers, every [English] man is trained to some
one art or detail...
ET10 5.164 27
Every whim of exaggerated egotism is put into stone and
iron [in England], into silver and gold, with costly deliberation and detail.
ET17 5.293 20
Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two
or three signal days...one at the Museum, where Sir Charles Fellowes
explained in detail the history of his Ionic trophy-monument;...
PPo 8.238 2
Oriental life and society...stand in violent contrast with the
multitudinous detail...of the Western nations.
Aris 10.64 17
There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable
to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize. And mainly
the habit of considering...things in masses, and not too much in detail.
Supl 10.179 5
The Northern genius finds itself singularly refreshed and
stimulated by the breadth and luxuriance of Eastern imagery and modes of
thinking, which go to check...the excess of our detail.
LLNE 10.359 11
...the architect, acting under a necessity to build the house
for its purpose, finds himself helped, he knows not how, into all these
merits of detail...
War 11.156 17
To men...in whom is any knowledge or mental activity, the
detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and revolting.
FSLC 11.186 15
Let me remind you a little in detail how the natural
retribution acts in reference to the statute [Fugitive Slave Law] which
Congress passed a year ago.
FSLN 11.223 4
...[Webster's] beauties of detail are endless.
Scot 11.464 15
Just so much thought, so much picturesque detail in
dialogue or description as the old ballad required...[Scott] would keep and
use...
PLT 12.4 20
In all sciences the student is discovering that Nature...is
always working, in wholes and in every detail, after the laws of the human
mind.
Bost 12.197 4
...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of
providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the
long winter...generates in him that spirit of detail which is not grand and
enlarging...
ACri 12.294 7
...the only check on the detail of each of [Shakespeare's]
portraits is his own universality...
detailed, v. (5)
NR 3.231 27
How wise the world appears, when the laws and usages of
nations are largely detailed...
ET16 5.285 24
Salisbury [Cathedral] is now esteemed the culmination of
the Gothic art in England, as the buttresses are fully unmasked and honestly
detailed from the sides of the pile.
ET17 5.294 21
[Wordsworth] detailed the two models, on one or the other
of which all the sentences of the historian Robertson are framed.
SMC 11.374 16
The brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed
part was detailed to receive the formal surrender of the rebel arms.
AgMs 12.363 14
These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation,
and their methods detailed;...
detailing, v. (1)
LLNE 10.332 24
In the lecture-room, [Everett]...pleased himself with the
play of detailing erudition in a style of perfect simplicity.
details, n. (73)
Nat 1.67 16
I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details...
DSA 1.121 15
...this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem
foolish details, principles that astonish.
LE 1.163 19
Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable, obliterated past, what
it cannot tell,-the details of that nature...called Byron, or Burke;...
LE 1.163 22
...the more quaintly you inspect...its wonderful details...so
much the more you master the biography of this hero...
LE 1.177 18
[Human life's] laws are concealed under the details of daily
action.
LT 1.281 6
...in its management and details, [the reforming movement is]
timid and profane.
LT 1.289 16
...in all the details of our domestic or civil life is hidden the
elemental reality...
Tran 1.333 22
[The idealist] does not respect...property, otherwise than as
a manifold symbol, illustrating with wonderful fidelity of details the laws of
being;...
Hist 2.31 10
The Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism. Not
less true to all time are the details of that stately apologue.
Comp 2.101 10
Each new form repeats not only the main character of the
type, but part for part all the details...
SL 2.142 6
The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as
he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into...
Lov1 2.171 20
Details are melancholy;...
Int 2.340 16
...no diligence can rebuild the universe in a model by the best
accumulation or disposition of details...
Art1 2.351 10
The details, the prose of nature [the painter] should omit...
Mrs1 3.143 14
...the curiosity with which the details of high life are read,
betray[s] the universality of the love of cultivated manners.
NR 3.231 9
Our proclivity to details cannot quite degrade our life...
NR 3.234 4
Art, in the artist, is...a habitual respect to the whole by an eye
loving beauty in details.
NR 3.234 14
Beautiful details we must have, or no artist;...
NR 3.237 12
We...get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are the
victims of these details;...
NER 3.267 25
In alluding just now to our system of education, I spoke of
the deadness of its details.
NER 3.279 15
If it were worth while to run into details this general
doctrine of the latent but ever soliciting Spirit, it would be easy to adduce
illustration in particulars of a man's equality to the Church...
ShP 4.213 22
[Shakespeare] carried his powerful execution into minute
details...
GoW 4.286 17
Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit]
affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of
Goethe;...no details of offices or employments...
GoW 4.286 23
...certain love affairs [of Goethe] that came to nothing, as
people say, have the strangest importance: he crowds us with details...
ET3 5.37 19
The innumerable details [in England]...hide all boundaries by
the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
ET4 5.64 16
In the last session (1848), the House of Commons was
listening to the details of flogging and torture practised in the jails.
ET5 5.85 12
The spirit of system, attention to details...constitute that
dispatch of business which makes the mercantile power of England.
ET5 5.85 13
The spirit of system, attention to details, and the subordination
of details...constitute that dispatch of business which makes the mercantile
power of England.
ET10 5.166 9
Such as we have seen is the wealth of England; a mighty
mass, and made good in whatever details we care to explore.
ET11 5.190 3
A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen
Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the details which Ben Jonson's masques...
record or suggest;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
ET14 5.246 19
[Dickens] is a painter of English details, like Hogarth;...
ET16 5.289 3
...I put off my [English] friends with very inadequate details
[about America], as best I could.
Pow 6.77 4
Dr. Johnson said...Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness
is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles
of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day.
Bhr 6.169 24
[Manners] form at last a rich varnish with which the routine
of life is washed and its details adorned.
Bty 6.285 24
The miller, the lawyer and the merchant dedicate themselves
to their own details...
Bty 6.306 14
...there is a climbing scale of culture...up through fair outlines
and details of the landscape...
Ill 6.312 16
In the life of the dreariest alderman, fancy enters into all
details...
Civ 7.25 6
The skill that pervades complex details; the man that maintains
himself;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...
which is the index of high civilization.
WD 7.165 15
What sickening details in the daily journals!
Boks 7.203 14
These guides [the Platonists] speak of the gods with such
depth and with such pictorial details...
Boks 7.210 6
...to pass over some details,--the contest [for the Valdarfer
Boccaccio] proceeded...
Clbs 7.243 25
Anthony Wood has many details of Harrington's Club.
Suc 7.284 20
There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by
my own hands. ... The details of working [cannons] in battle, if it is
necessary to teach, I shall teach them.
Suc 7.293 13
The fame of each discovery rightly attaches to the mind that
made the formula which contains all the details...
PPo 8.239 14
Layard has given some details of the effect which the
improvvisatori produced on the children of the desert.
Imtl 8.324 4
The Egyptian people furnish us the earliest details of an
established civilization...
Dem1 10.9 12
A skilful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet
not the details, but the quality.
Edc1 10.153 2
...the devotion to details reacts injuriously on the teacher.
Prch 10.224 3
The health and welfare of man consist in ascent...from
occupation with details to knowledge of the design;...
GSt 10.504 14
I have heard...that [George Stearns] had great executive
skill, a clear method and a just attention to all the details of the task in hand.
GSt 10.506 2
[George Stearns] had been...through all his years devoted to
the growing details of his prospering manufactory.
HDC 11.30 26
I shall not be expected...to repeat the details of that
oppression which drove our fathers out hither.
EWI 11.108 23
[Thomas] Clarkson went to Bristol, made himself
acquainted with the interior of the slave-ships and the details of the trade.
FSLN 11.223 2
After [Webster's] talents have been described, there
remains that perfect propriety which animated all the details of the action or
speech with the character of the whole...
AKan 11.255 18
The testimony of the telegraphs from St. Louis and the
border confirm the worst details.
AKan 11.256 6
...these details that have come from Kansas are so horrible,
that the hostile press have but one word in reply, namely, that it is all
exaggeration...
JBB 11.267 11
...this sudden interest in the hero of Harper's Ferry has
provoked an extreme curiosity in all parts of the Republic, in regard to the
details of his history.
ACiv 11.300 15
If the war brought any surprise to the North, it was not the
fault of sentinels on the watch-tower, who had furnished full details of the
designs, the muster and the means of the enemy.
ACiv 11.304 10
I shall not attempt to unfold the details of the project of
emancipation.
SMC 11.371 11
I must not follow the multiplied details that make the hard
work of the next year.
SMC 11.376 10
...In the above Address I have been compelled to suppress
more details of personal interest than I have used.
Wom 11.408 17
...[women's] fine organization, their taste and love of
details, makes the knowledge they give better in their hands.
Scot 11.464 16
Just so much thought, so much picturesque detail in
dialogue or description as the old ballad required, so much suppression of
details and leaping to the event, [Scott] would keep and use...
CPL 11.495 21
In the details of this munificence, we may all anticipate a
sudden and lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit
of a noble library..
II 12.68 10
...if you go to a gallery of pictures, or other works of fine art,
the eye is dazzled and embarrassed by many excellences. The marble
imposes on us; the exquisite details, we cannot tell if they be good or not;...
Bost 12.197 15
In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical
and rude and awkward population...with great accuracy in details, little
spirit of society or knowledge of the world, you shall not unfrequently meet
that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...
MAng1 12.223 26
Nor was [Michelangelo's] a skill in ornament, or
confined to the outline and designs of towers and facades, but a thorough
acquaintance with all the secrets of the art [of architecture], with all the
details of economy and strength.
Milt1 12.265 26
When [Milton] had cut down his opponents, he left the
details of death and plunder to meaner partisans.
EurB 12.373 27
Many of the details of this novel [Zanoni] preserve a
poetic truth.
PPr 12.380 6
...he is the commander...whose eye not only sees details, but
throws crowds of details into their right arrangement...
PPr 12.380 7
...he is the commander...whose eye not only sees details, but
throws crowds of details into their right arrangement...
PPr 12.390 10
Carlyle is the first domestication of the modern system, with
its infinity of details, into style.
Let 12.393 17
Our friend suggests so many inconveniences from piracy out
of the high air to orchards and lone houses...that we have not the heart to
break the sleep of the good public by the repetition of these details.
detain, v. (7)
ET6 5.113 27
The guests [at dinner in London] are expected to arrive
within half an hour of the time fixed by card of invitation, and nothing but
death or mutilation is permitted to detain them.
SS 7.4 23
All [my new friend] wished of his tailor was to provide that sober
mean of color and cut which would never detain the eye for a moment.
Comc 8.167 3
A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar...
becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison, in which the man sits
down immovably, and wishes to detain others.
SMC 11.348 14
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;/...
Koss 11.397 4
Sir [Kossuth],-The fatigue of your many public visits...
forbid us to detain you long.
Humb 11.458 5
[Humboldt] was properly a man of the world; you could
not lose him; you could not detain him;...
PLT 12.16 16
In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river and
watch the endless flow of the stream, floating objects of all shapes, colors
and natures; nor can I much detain them as they pass...
detained, v. (2)
MR 1.237 21
...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted...the
cotton of the cotton. They have got the education, I only the commodity.
This were all very well if I were necessarily absent, being detained by work
of my own...
CInt 12.131 23
I have detained you too long;...
detaining, v. (3)
Elo1 7.73 17
...the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech...often
exists without higher merits.
JBB 11.273 3
...I am detaining the meeting on matters which others
understand better.
RBur 11.442 27
...I am detaining you too long.
detains, v. (1)
MMEm 10.412 26
Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was
brought here [to Malden]. Ah! mortifying sight! instinct perhaps triumphs
over reason, and every dignified respect to herself, in her anxiety about
recovery, and the smallest means connected. Not one wish of others detains
her, not one care.
detect, v. (36)
Nat 1.43 17
...we detect the type of the human hand in the flipper of the
fossil saurus...
Con 1.321 25
[The sagacious] detect the falsehood of the preaching...
SR 2.45 18
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light
which flashes across his mind from within...
SR 2.54 13
...under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise
man you are...
Fdsp 2.202 12
There are two elements that go to the composition of
friendship, each so sovereign that I can detect no superiority in either...
Cir 2.314 1
...we now and then detect in nature slight dislocations which
apprise us that this surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding.
Exp 3.63 10
...for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect
secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.
Chr1 3.115 18
There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent
and household virtues;...
Mrs1 3.148 4
...although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding
would gratify us in the assemblage [of the individuals who
compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe], in particulars we
should detect offence.
SwM 4.114 19
What was too small for the eye to detect was read by the
aggregates;...
MoS 4.178 9
...through all the offices, learned, civil and social, [I] can
detect the child.
ET15 5.270 19
Sympathizing with, and speaking for the class that rules the
hour, yet being apprised of every ground-swell...[the editors of the London
Times] detect the first tremblings of change.
F 6.40 22
At the conjuror's, we detect the hair by which he moves his
puppet...
Bhr 6.186 1
Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her
train...
Bty 6.288 6
...everybody knows people...who, with all degrees of ability,
never impress us with the air of free agency. They know it too, and peep
with their eyes to see if you detect their sad plight.
Art2 7.47 9
Even Shakspeare...we think indebted to Goethe and to
Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in his Hamlet and Antony.
Farm 7.136 3
[The farmer] planted where the deluge ploughed,/ His hired
hands were wind and cloud;/ His eyes detect the Gods concealed/ In the
hummock of the field./
Boks 7.210 26
...M. Van Praet groped in vain among the royal alcoves in
Paris, to detect a copy of the famed Valdarfer Boccaccio.
Boks 7.219 19
[The communications of the sacred books]...are living
characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on
lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of
men and women.
Cour 7.276 16
...we must have a scope as large as Nature's to...detect what
scullion function is assigned [beast-like men]...
Suc 7.288 25
We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without
regard to the cause;...the way of the Talleyrands, prudent people...who
detect the first moment of decline and throw themselves on the instant on
the winning side.
Suc 7.303 4
[The greatest men] may well speak in this uncertain manner of
their knowledge, and in this confident manner of their will, for the secret of
it is hard to detect...
PI 8.21 6
The poet contemplates the central identity...and, following it, can
detect essential resemblances in natures never before compared.
PI 8.33 9
We detect at once by [style] whether the writer has a firm grasp
on his fact or thought...
PI 8.48 22
...the people liked an overpowering jewsharp tune. Later they
like...to detect a melody as prompt and perfect in their daily affairs.
QO 8.198 11
We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet
in a leading newspaper. What range he gave his imagination! Who could
have written it? Was it not...at the least, Professor Maximilian? Yes, he
could detect in the style that fine Roman hand.
Insp 8.296 13
...it is impossible to detect and wilfully repeat the fine
conditions to which we have owed our happiest frames of mind.
Chr2 10.105 27
Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The
Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings. No leaf thereof could attain
the liberty of being printed (in Berlin) to-day. What...Diderots, Fichtes,
Heines, and many another heretic, one can detect therein!
Edc1 10.139 10
[Boys] detect weakness in your eye and behavior a week
before you open your mouth...
MMEm 10.406 4
Society is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to
her train...
MMEm 10.427 3
I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's]
writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of
Jesus...
Carl 10.493 14
If a scholar goes into a camp of lumbermen or a gang of
riggers, those men will quickly detect any fault of character.
PLT 12.50 27
We are forced to treat a great part of mankind as if they were
a little deranged. We detect their mania and humor it...
PLT 12.53 16
When [a man] speaks out of another's mind, we detect it.
II 12.67 23
...when the eye cannot detect the juncture of the skilful mosaic,
the spirit is apprised of disunion...
CL 12.161 17
How startling are the hints of wit we detect in the horse and
dog...
detected, adj. (2)
Comc 8.160 6
There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some
pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended
by a man...who, sympathizing with the philosopher's scrutiny, sympathizes
also with the confusion and indignation of the detected, skulking
institutions.
Trag 12.409 12
The whisper overheard, the detected glance...darken the
brow and chill the heart of men.
detected, v. (13)
NMW 4.240 6
When the expenses...of his palaces, had accumulated great
debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself, detected
overcharges and errors...
GoW 4.273 21
Amid littleness and detail, [Goethe] detected the Genius of
life...nestling close beside us...
ET14 5.244 27
[Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation, that no
copula had been detected between any cause and effect, either in physics or
in thought;...
DL 7.102 5
I detected many a god/ Forth already on the road,/ Ancestors of
beauty come/ In thy breast to make a home./
OA 7.316 8
Wellington, in speaking of military men, said, What masks are
these uniforms to hide cowards! I have often detected the like deception in
the cloth shoe...of Age.
PI 8.49 25
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.
SA 8.103 13
...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the
company...what with the multitude and distinction of his facts (and one
detected continually that he had a hand in everything that has been done)...
Comc 8.159 16
We have a primary association between perfectness and
this [human] form. But the facts that occur when actual men enter do not
make good this anticipation; a discrepancy which is at once detected by the
intellect...
Thor 10.470 3
On the day I speak of [Thoreau] looked for the Menyanthes,
detected it across the wide pool...
Thor 10.475 4
...[Thoreau] would have detected every live stanza or line in
a volume [of poetry]...
Thor 10.478 23
[Thoreau] detected paltering as readily in dignified and
prosperous persons as in beggars...
Thor 10.481 22
By [scent] [Thoreau] detected earthiness.
CInt 12.125 5
...unless...the professor...takes care to interpose a certain
relief and cherishing and reverence for the wild poet and dawning
philosopher he has detected in his classes, that will happen which has
happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds
himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
detecting, adj. (1)
Tran 1.358 16
...in society...there must be a few...persons of a fine,
detecting instinct...
detecting, v. (4)
SL 2.162 5
...the eye of the beholder is puzzled, detecting many unlike
tendencies...
Nat2 3.178 21
...nature...serves as a differential thermometer, detecting the
presence or absence of the divine sentiment in man.
NR 3.229 21
We are practically skilful in detecting elements for which we
have no place in our theory, and no name.
Civ 7.29 7
...on a planet so small as ours, the want of an adequate base for
astronomical measurements is early felt, as, for example, in detecting the
parallax of a star.
detection, n. (2)
MoS 4.174 16
Bad as was to me this detection by San Carlo [that all direct
ascension leads to ghastly insight]...there was still a worse, namely the cloy
or satiety of the saints.
Prch 10.221 2
...this examination [of religion] resulting in the constant
detection of errors, the flattered understanding assumes to judge all things...
detective, adj. (1)
Wsp 6.223 18
...things themselves are detective.
detective, n. (2)
SA 8.86 26
...what a seneschal and detective is laughter!
PLT 12.14 10
...this watching of the mind...to see the mechanics of the
thing, is a little of the detective.
Detector, Bank-Note, n. (1)
Wth 6.103 19
The Bank-Note Detector is a useful publication.
detector, n. (1)
Wth 6.103 21
...the current dollar, silver or paper, is itself the detector of
the right and wrong where it circulates.
detectors, n. (1)
Schr 10.262 24
I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...detectors
and delineators of occult symmetries and unpublished beauties;...
detects, v. (10)
Hist 2.13 13
Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through
the grub, through the egg, the constant individual;...
Lov1 2.186 5
The soul which is in the soul of each [lover], craving a
perfect beatitude, detects incongruities, defects and disproportion in the
behaviour of the other.
Int 2.326 19
The intellect...detects intrinsic likeness between remote
things...
Int 2.341 3
[The poet]...detects more likeness than variety in all [Nature's]
changes.
Mrs1 3.150 1
Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in
man a love of trifles...
SA 8.84 9
In Borrow's Lavengro, the gypsy instantly detects, by his
companion's face and behavior, that some good fortune has befallen him...
Insp 8.283 1
I understand The Harbingers to refer to the signs of age and
decay which [Herbert] detects in himself...
Dem1 10.26 23
I think the rappings a new test...to try catechisms with. It
detects organic skepticism in the very heads of the Church.
Carl 10.493 17
[Carlyle] detects weakness on the instant, and touches it.
Carl 10.494 4
...[Carlyle] detects in an instant if a man stands for any cause
to which he is not born and organically committed.
deteriorate, v. (2)
Con 1.298 7
...conservatism...is always...pleading that to change would be
to deteriorate...
Let 12.401 24
...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every
other planet is better than the earth. Men deteriorate...
deteriorated, v. (3)
ET12 5.209 6
The race of English gentlemen presents an appearance of
manly vigor and form not elsewhere to be found among an equal number of
persons. No other nation produces the stock. And in England, it has
deteriorated.
ET18 5.300 23
In Irish districts [of England], men deteriorated in size and
shape...
F 6.12 13
...in the second generation, if the like genius appear, the health is
visibly deteriorated...
deteriorates, v. (1)
F 6.16 22
Detach a colony from the race, and it deteriorates to the crab.
deteriorating, adj. (1)
Pol1 3.204 8
...there is an instinctive sense...that the whole constitution of
property, on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons
deteriorating and degrading;...
deterioration, n. (4)
Hist 2.23 13
The home-keeping wit...has its own perils of monotony and
deterioration...
Pt1 3.28 20
...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of
Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and
indulgence;...and...they were punished for that advantage they won, by a
dissipation and deterioration.
ET10 5.154 4
...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave
moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer.
ET10 5.168 8
It is not, I suppose, want of probity, so much as the tyranny
of trade, which necessitates a perpetual competition of underselling, and
that again a perpetual deterioration of the fabric.
determinate, adj. (3)
Elo1 7.99 10
Eloquence...rests on laws the most exact and determinate.
LLNE 10.339 7
There was...a consciousness of power not yet finding its
determinate aim.
PLT 12.27 5
A man has been in Spain. The facts and thoughts which the
traveller has found in that country gradually settle themselves into a
determinate heap of one size and form and not another.
determination, n. (28)
Nat2 3.187 13
...each [man] has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight
determination of blood to the head...
PPh 4.72 12
...the rumor ran that on one or two occasions, in the war with
Boeotia, [Socrates] had shown a determination which had covered the
retreat of a troop;...
SwM 4.119 7
...whatever [Swedenborg] saw, through some excessive
determination to form in his constitution, he saw not abstractly, but in
pictures...
SwM 4.134 22
The vice of Swedenborg's mind is its theologic
determination.
ET4 5.68 15
Clarendon says the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and
gentle, that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on him, until they
found that this modesty and effeminacy was only a mask for the most
terrible determination.
Wth 6.112 7
...[each man's] native determination guides his labor and his
spending.
Ctr 6.134 20
He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.
Ctr 6.134 24
Our student must have a style and determination...
SS 7.8 11
The determination of each is from all the others...
Elo1 7.80 27
Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to
him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?...
WD 7.158 2
...such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so
recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in
them;...
OA 7.320 10
...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you look into the
faces of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors, a
certain concealed sense of injury, and the lip made up with a heroic
determination not to mind it.
SA 8.80 6
He...who draws his determination from within, and draws it
instantly,--that man rules.
SA 8.104 18
We have come...to know...the good will that is in the people,
their conviction of the great moral advantages of...education and religious
culture, and their determination to hold these fast...
Chr2 10.93 1
...courage is contempt of danger in the determination to see
this good of the whole enacted;...
Chr2 10.108 22
...the stern determination to do justly, to speak the truth...
was substantially the same, whether under a self-respect, or under a vow
made on the knees at the shrine of Madonna.
Edc1 10.150 4
...every young man is born with some determination in his
nature...
SovE 10.204 8
The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the
mind, giving it concentration and force. A rude people were kept
respectable by the determination of thought on the eternal world.
Thor 10.471 23
[Thoreau's] determination on Natural History was organic.
LS 11.24 7
My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence
to the present form [of the Lord's Supper]. I have therefore been compelled
to consider whether it becomes me to administer it. I am clearly of opinion I
ought not. This discourse has already been so far extended that I can only
say that the reason of my determination is shortly this: It is my desire, in the
office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my
II 12.76 17
Is it that we are such mountains of conceit that Heaven cannot
enough mortify and snub us,-I know not; but there seems a settled
determination to break our spirit.
II 12.82 19
If [a man] is wrong, increase his determination to his aim, and
he is right again.
II 12.83 14
Him we account the fortunate man whose determination to his
aim is sufficiently strong to leave him no doubt.
II 12.84 2
[Men slow in finding their vocation] ripen too slowly than that
the determination should appear in this brief life.
II 12.84 6
This determination of Genius in each is so strong that, if it were
not guarded with powerful checks, it would have made society impossible.
Mem 12.95 24
...the power [of memory] exists in some marked and
eminent degree in men of an ideal determination.
MAng1 12.231 11
...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an
old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily
onward, with the heat and determination of manhood, his poetic
conceptions into progressive execution...
MLit 12.323 10
...since the earth as we said had become a reading-room,
the new opportunities seem to have...seconded [Goethe's] sturdy
determination to see things for what they are.
determinations, n. (2)
Tran 1.336 23
Jacobi, refusing all measure of right and wrong except the
determinations of the private spirit, remarks that there is no crime but has
sometimes been a virtue.
Prch 10.219 15
Perhaps there must be austere elections and determinations
before any clear vision.
determine, v. (13)
Int 2.328 22
We do not determine what we will think.
Mrs1 3.133 11
There will always be in society certain persons...whose
glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world.
ET4 5.49 10
'T is said that the views of nature held by any people
determine all their institutions.
Elo1 7.86 1
...in the examination of witnesses there usually leap out...three
or four stubborn words or phrases...which sink into the ear of all parties,
and stick there, and determine the cause.
PI 8.67 14
The ballad and romance work on the hearts of boys...and these
heroic songs or lines are remembered and determine many practical choices
which they make later.
PI 8.70 24
Every man may be...lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond
sense to moral and spiritual truth, and in that mood...strings worlds like
beads upon his thought. The success with which this is done can alone
determine how genuine is the inspiration.
Aris 10.48 10
I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his
Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;...
what it would be I could not determine yet;...
Aris 10.54 25
The manners of course must have that depth and firmness of
tone to attest their centrality in the nature of the man. I mean the things
themselves shall be judges, and determine.
HDC 11.46 14
...Concord and the other plantations found themselves
separate and independent of Boston, with certain rights of their own, which,
what they were, time alone could fully determine;...
AKan 11.261 19
A very remarkable speech from a Democratic President to
his fellow citizens, that they are not to concern themselves with institutions
which they alone are to create and determine.
Wom 11.424 2
I do not think it yet appears that women wish this equal
share in public affairs. But it is they and not we that are to determine it.
MAng1 12.217 23
There is no standard whereby the understanding can
determine whether objects are beautiful or otherwise.
MAng1 12.219 1
...certain minds...possess the power of abstracting Beauty
from things, and reproducing it in new forms, on any object to which
accident may determine their activity; as stone, canvas, song, history.
determined, adj. (14)
Cir 2.321 4
Character makes...a cheerful, determined hour...
UGM 4.14 19
...A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. When the
manners of Loo are heard of, the stupid become intelligent, and the
wavering, determined.
ShP 4.189 19
There is nothing whimsical and fantastic in [the poet's]
production, but sweet and sad earnest...pointed with the most determined
aim which any man or class knows of in his times.
GoW 4.282 15
...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I
meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...
ET4 5.57 24
[The heroes of the Norse Sagas] have weapons which they use
in a determined manner...
ET15 5.269 4
[The London Times] has the national courage, not rash and
petulant, but considerate and determined.
Wth 6.92 22
The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust,--a paltry
matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the determined youth saw in it an
aperture to insert his dangerous wedges...
Cour 7.259 20
...the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee,
must be taken by stout and sincere men who are really angry and
determined.
Res 8.146 20
A determined man...puts a stop to defeat...
Supl 10.175 25
...[Nature] brings the most heartless trifler to determined
purpose presently.
SMC 11.356 15
...when the Border raids were let loose on [Kansas]
villages, these people...were so beside themselves with rage, that they
became on the instant the bravest soldiers and the most determined
avengers.
SMC 11.358 16
Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he
confided to his sister that he was naturally a coward, but was determined
that no one should ever find it out;...
FRep 11.530 14
...we say that revolutions beat all the insurgents, be they
never so determined and politic;...
WSL 12.339 18
Montaigne assigns as a reason for his license of speech that
he is tired of seeing his Essays on the work-tables of ladies, and he is
determined they shall for the future put them out of sight.
determined, v. (19)
YA 1.384 6
Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women
in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...will not prove
insuperable, remains to be determined.
Hist 2.19 24
The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock,
says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal character of the
Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.
SL 2.141 13
The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the
base.
Wsp 6.219 1
...the moment of an eclipse, can be determined to the fraction
of a second.
SS 7.6 7
...there are metals...which, to be kept pure, must be kept under
naphtha. Such are the talents determined on some specialty, which a
culminating civilization fosters in the heart of great cities...
Art2 7.41 23
The slope of your roof is determined by the weight of snow.
PI 8.46 17
...the length of lines in songs and poems is determined by the
inhalation and exhalation of the lungs.
PPo 8.249 20
We do not wish to...try to make mystical divinity out of the
Song of Solomon, much less out of the erotic and bacchanalian songs of
Hafiz. Hafiz himself is determined to defy all such hypocritical
interpretation...
Imtl 8.325 1
...the whole life of man in the first ages was ponderously
determined on death;...
Aris 10.48 6
I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his
Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;...
Aris 10.49 26
The prerogatives of a right physician are determined...by the
health he restores to body and mind;...
SovE 10.184 16
St. Pierre says of the animals that a moral sentiment seems
to have determined their physical organization.
LS 11.3 23
In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was decreed that any believer
should communicate at least once in a year,-at Easter. Afterwards it was
determined that this Sacrament should be received three times in the year...
HDC 11.50 16
...this design [the conversion of the Indians] is named first
in the printed Considerations, that inclined Hampden, and determined
Winthrop and his friends, to come hither [to New England].
FSLN 11.224 9
Four years ago to-night, on one of those high critical
moments in history when great issues are determined...Mr. Webster, most
unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
EdAd 11.391 13
Here is the standing problem of Natural Science, and the
merits of her great interpreters to be determined;...
FRep 11.516 12
We are in these days settling for ourselves and our
descendants questions which, as they shall be determined in one way or the
other, will make the peace and prosperity or the calamity of the next ages.
MAng1 12.216 13
This idea [of Beauty] possessed [Michelangelo] and
determined all his activity.
MAng1 12.225 5
[Michelangelo] replied that it was useless for him to take
care of the walls, if [the Florentines] were determined not to take care of
themselves...
determines, v. (15)
Nat 1.55 11
[Philosophy] proceeds on the faith that a law determines all
phenomena...
SL 2.144 2
A man's genius...determines for him the character of the
universe.
Fdsp 2.207 26
...it is affinity that determines which two shall converse.
Exp 3.72 17
The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which
identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body;
life above life, in infinite degrees. The sentiment from which it sprung
determines the dignity of any deed...
Pol1 3.207 6
The same necessity which secures the rights of person and
property against the malignity or folly of the magistrate, determines the
form and methods of governing, which are proper to each nation...
UGM 4.11 16
...the constituency determines the vote of the representative.
ET10 5.162 26
The wealth of London determines prices all over the globe.
F 6.9 2
...the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.
F 6.10 17
At the corner of the street you read the possibility of each
passenger...in the depth of his eye. His parentage determines it.
WD 7.176 11
The order of changes in the egg determines the age of fossil
strata.
EWI 11.122 7
...that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts
itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age...
EWI 11.123 4
Our civility, England determines the style of...
PLT 12.33 14
In reckoning the sources of our mental power it were fatal to
omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have
their fountains, and which, by its qualities and structure, determines both
the nature of the waters and the direction in which they flow.
PLT 12.47 4
There is a meter which determines the constructive power of
man...
II 12.65 6
In reckoning the sources of our mental power, it were fatal to
omit...that unknown country in which all the rivers of our knowledge have
their fountains, which by its qualities and structure determines both the
nature of the waters, and the direction in which they flow.
determining, adj. (1)
Dem1 10.18 12
...this demonic element appears most fruitful when it shows
itself as the determining characteristic in an individual.
determining, v. (3)
SwM 4.107 17
The whole art of the plant is still to repeat leaf on leaf
without end, the more or less of heat, light, moisture and food determining
the form it shall assume.
HDC 11.45 5
I esteem it the happiness of this country that its settlers,
whilst they were...determining the power of the magistrate, were united by
personal affection.
Wom 11.421 22
...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people
vote,-how many gentlemen are willing to take on themselves the trouble
of thinking and determining for you...I cannot but think he will agree that
most women might vote as wisely.
deterred, v. (1)
Milt1 12.279 1
We have offered no apology for expanding to such length
our commentary on the character of John Milton;...a man whom labor or
danger never deterred from whatever efforts a love of the supreme interests
of man prompted.
detest, v. (1)
Wsp 6.211 16
...if an adventurer...procure himself to be elected to a post of
trust...by the same arts as we detest in the house-thief,--the same gentlemen
who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show
civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...
detestation, n. (1)
HDC 11.70 9
...if any person or persons...shall...be factors for the East
India Company, we will treat them......with contempt and detestation.
detested, v. (1)
Grts 8.315 15
How many men, detested in contemporary hostile history, of
whom...we have learned...to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great
benefit.
dethroned, v. (2)
Nat 1.71 1
We are like Nebuchadnezzar, dethroned...
ET10 5.161 14
...[the Bank of England] refuses loans, and...kings are
dethroned.
detraction, n. (1)
NMW 4.244 6
...in spite of the detraction which his systematic egotism
dictated toward the great captains who conquered with and for him, ample
acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to Lannes, Duroc...
detriment, n. (3)
PPh 4.53 1
European civility is...delight...in comprehensible results.
Pericles, Athens, Greece, had been working in this element with the joy of
genius not yet chilled by any foresight of the detriment of an excess.
Imtl 8.333 14
I know against all appearances that the universe can receive
no detriment;...
SlHr 10.448 11
...I find an elegance in [Samuel Hoar's] quiet but firm
withdrawal from all business in the courts which he could drop without
manifest detriment to the interests involved...
deus ex machina, n. (1)
PPr 12.386 13
Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes...and instead of the
common earth and sky, we have a Martin's Creation or Judgment Day. A
crisis has always arrived which requires a deus ex machina.
Deus, n. (2)
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...
Bost 12.211 22
Sicut patribus, sit Deus nobis!
Deux Mondes, Revue des, n. (1)
Plu 10.296 26
M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral
philosophy...in the Revue des Deux Mondes;...
devastate, v. (1)
EdAd 11.382 16
The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day,
ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily
return us stare for stare./ For we invade them impiously for gain;/ We
devastate them unreligiously,/ And coldly ask their pottage, not their love./
devastates, v. (2)
Wsp 6.214 19
We say...that a skepticism devastates the community.
MMEm 10.423 11
War devastates the conscience of men, yet corrupt peace
does not less.
devastation, n. (2)
ET11 5.172 22
In spite of...the devastation of society by the profligacy of
the court, we take sides as we read for the loyal England...
Wsp 6.223 7
From these low external penalties the scale ascends. Next
come the resentments, the fears which injustice calls out; then the false
relations in which the offender is put to other men; and the reaction of his
fault on himself, in the solitude and devastation of his mind.
develop, v. (7)
NMW 4.230 11
The times, [Bonaparte's] constitution and his early
circumstances combined to develop this pattern democrat.
ET4 5.51 27
...certain temperaments...by well-managed contrarieties,
develop as drastic a character as the English.
Imtl 8.331 4
...what is called great and powerful life...is prone to develop
narrow and special talent;...
MoL 10.258 2
The times develop the strength they need.
Humb 11.456 5
If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it
several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the
delight of being able...to see great advances in knowledge develop
themselves...
Mem 12.104 24
Sampson Reed says, The true way to store the memory is
to develop the affections.
CL 12.135 13
...[the land] will develop in the cultivator the talent it
requires.
developed, adj. (1)
FSLC 11.203 27
...[Webster's] finely developed understanding only works
truly and with all its force, when it stands for animal good; that is, for
property.
developed, v. (5)
NER 3.269 22
It was found that the intellect could be independently
developed...
Imtl 8.332 23
...the practical faculties are faster developed than the spiritual.
Dem1 10.24 25
...this is not the least remarkable fact which the adepts have
developed.
Schr 10.279 5
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character...
War 11.156 1
Bull-baiting, cockpits and the boxer's ring are the enjoyment
of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.
developing, v. (1)
OA 7.324 3
All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent, and
we die without developing them;...
development, n. (15)
LT 1.261 14
The reason and influence of wealth...the fuller development
and the freer play of Character as a social and political agent;-these and
other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
YA 1.391 16
...the development of our American internal resources, the
extension to the utmost of the commercial system...are giving an aspect of
greatness to the Future...
Lov1 2.172 16
Perhaps we never saw [the lovers] before and never shall
meet them again. But we see them...betray a deep emotion, and we are no
longer strangers. We...take the warmest interest in the development of the
romance.
SwM 4.127 15
[Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] is a fine Platonic
development of the science of marriage;...
ET18 5.304 11
[The English] mind is in a state of arrested development...
Farm 7.144 13
In the stomach of the plant development begins.
PI 8.7 14
The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years
ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural
Science...
Insp 8.270 21
The Hunterian law of arrested development is not confined
to vegetable and animal structure...
SovE 10.186 24
It is the stomach of plants that development begins, and
ends in the circles of the universe.
Schr 10.280 15
When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular
function...the development of that mind is arrested.
War 11.155 22
The instinct of self-help is very early unfolded in the coarse
and merely brute form of way, only in the childhood and imbecility of the
other instincts, and remains in that form only until their development.
Wom 11.414 9
...in every remarkable religious development in the world,
women have taken a leading part.
PLT 12.21 23
...there is development from less to more...
ACri 12.292 14
Never use the word development...
EurB 12.376 9
...the other novel, of which Wilhelm Meister is the best
specimen, the novel of character, treats the reader with more respect; the
development of character being the problem, the reader is made a partaker
in the whole prosperity.
developments, n. (1)
Exp 3.81 1
...all the muses and love and religion hate these [intellectual]
developments...
develops, v. (6)
Pol1 3.212 6
The fact of two poles, of two forces, centripetal and
centrifugal, is universal, and each force by its own activity develops the
other.
Pol1 3.212 7
Wild liberty develops iron conscience.
NER 3.252 17
It was in vain urged by the housewife...that fermentation
develops the saccharine element in the grain...
Wsp 6.214 3
The energetic action of the times develops individualism...
CbW 6.265 3
...a depression of spirits develops the germs of a plague in
individuals and nations.
Grts 8.307 15
...it is only as [a man] feels and obeys [his bias] that he
rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world.
DeVere, n. (1)
ET11 5.177 9
The pretence is that the [English] noble is of unbroken
descent from the Norman, and has never worked for eight hundred years.
But the fact is otherwise. Where is Bohun? where is De Vere?
DeVeres, n. (2)
ET7 5.118 4
The mottoes of [English] families are monitory proverbs, as...
Vero nil verius, of the DeVeres.
ET11 5.175 9
The De Veres, Bohuns, Mowbrays and Plantagenets were not
addicted to contemplation.
Devereux, Robert [Earl of (3)
Chr1 3.89 10
Sir Philip Sidney, the Earl of Essex, Sir Walter Raleigh, are
men of great figure and of few deeds.
ShP 4.203 12
...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and
acquaintances...Sir Philip Sidney, the Earl of Essex...
FSLN 11.243 19
Having...professed his adoration for liberty in the time of
his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded with his work of denouncing
freedom and freemen at the present day, much in the tone and spirit in
which Lord Bacon prosecuted his benefactor Essex.
deviates, v. (1)
PPr 12.388 9
[Carlyle] has the dignity of a man of letters, who...never
deviates from his sphere;...
deviation, n. (1)
SR 2.85 25
There is no more deviation in the moral standard than in the
standard of height or bulk.
deviations, n. (2)
Prd1 2.234 4
Let [a man] esteem...[Nature's] perfections the exact measure
of our deviations.
Nat2 3.182 18
We talk of deviations from natural life, as if artificial life
were not also natural.
device, n. (1)
QO 8.196 5
It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of
ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person...
devil, n. (17)
Tran 1.336 18
Afterwards, when Emilia charges him with the crime,
Othello exclaims, You heard her say herself it was not I./ Emilia replies,
The more angel she, and thou the blacker devil./
Fdsp 2.192 24
We talk better [with the commended stranger] than we are
wont. We have...a richer memory, and our dumb devil has taken leave for
the time.
Exp 3.62 12
In the morning I awake and find the old world...the dear old
spiritual world and even the dear old devil not far off.
NMW 4.250 14
The Emperor told Josephine that he disputed like a devil on
these two points [hell, and salvation out of the pale of the church]...
F 6.22 26
...here they are, side by side, god and devil...
F 6.33 16
Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded.
F 6.33 22
...the Marquis of Worcester, Watt, and Fulton bethought
themselves that where was power was not devil...
Pow 6.66 13
Of the Shaker society it was formerly a sort of proverb in the
country that they always sent the devil to market.
Bhr 6.179 19
The confession of a low, usurping devil is there made [in the
eyes]...
CbW 6.252 26
[Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in
the interest and the pay of the devil.
DL 7.123 9
[The women of Arthur's court]...said that the devil was in the
mantle...
Suc 7.290 20
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn...
power through...wealth by fraud. They think they have got it, but they have
got...a crime which calls for another crime, and another devil behind that;...
Comc 8.168 11
That letter is A, said the teacher; A, drawled the boy. That
is B, said the teacher; B, drawled the boy, and so on. That is W, said the
teacher. The devil! exclaimed the boy; is that W?
Aris 10.62 17
In the best parlors of modern society [the gentleman] will
find the laughing devil...
MoL 10.257 12
War, seeking for the roots of strength, comes upon the
moral aspects at once. In quiet times, custom...brings in the brazen devil, as
by immemorial right.
FSLC 11.186 1
You borrow the succour of the devil and he must have his
fee.
RBur 11.442 22
It seemed odious to Luther that the devil should have all
the best tunes;...
Devil, n. (11)
SR 2.50 23
...if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.
Comp 2.109 27
The Devil is an ass.
GoW 4.276 12
The Devil had played an important part in mythology in all
times.
Grts 8.313 16
...when the Devil appeared to [Barcena the Jesuit] in his cell
one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed
him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than
himself.
Plu 10.299 11
...[Plutarch] is...enough a man of the world to give even the
Devil his due...
FSLN 11.234 19
These things show that no forms...are of any use in
themselves. The Devil nestles comfortably into them all.
CInt 12.121 27
...in the class called intellectual the men are no better than
the uninstructed. They use their wit and learning in the service of the Devil.
ACri 12.289 13
The Devil in philosophy is absolute negation...
ACri 12.289 15
...in the popular mind, the Devil is a malignant person.
ACri 12.289 17
The Devil a monk was he, means, he was no monk...
ACri 12.289 19
...The Devil you did! means you did not.
devilish, adj. (2)
Cour 7.276 5
...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who
batten on the hideous facts in history...St. Bartholomew massacres, devilish
lives...
Dem1 10.17 15
I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which
manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped
by a conception, much less by a word. It was...not devilish, since it was
beneficent;...
devils, n. (11)
SL 2.134 4
When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and
pleasant as roses, we must...not...say, Crump is a better man with his
grunting resistance to all his native devils.
SL 2.158 23
All the devils respect virtue.
Pt1 3.32 20
All the value which attaches to...Oken, or any other who
introduces questionable facts into his cosmogony, as angels, devils...is the
certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
SwM 4.137 6
[Swedenborg] is like Michael Angelo, who, in his frescoes,
put the cardinal who had offended him to roast under a mountain of devils;...
SwM 4.138 10
Swedenborg has devils.
MoS 4.184 10
[The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to
every child and filled him with a desire for the whole;...a cry of famine, as
of devils for souls.
F 6.34 1
[Steam] could be used to...chain and compel other devils far more
reluctant...
PC 8.233 6
[Swedenborg] saw in vision the angels and the devils;...
EWI 11.146 9
I doubt not that, sometimes, a despairing negro, when
jumping over the ship's sides to escape from the white devils who
surrounded him, has believed there was no vindication of right;...
War 11.171 9
...[peace] is to hear the voice of God, which bids the devils
that have rended and torn [the man] come out of him...
MAng1 12.220 17
Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent
[Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils,
together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to
observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.
devil's, n. (3)
MoS 4.173 7
[The wise skeptic] does not wish...to play the part of devil's
attorney...
Wsp 6.201 10
I have no fears of being forced in my own despite to play as
we say the devil's attorney.
FRep 11.520 5
Our politics are full of adventurers, who...think they can
afford to join the devil's party.
Devil's, n. (2)
SR 2.50 22
...if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil.
Pt1 3.29 5
...poetry is not Devil's wine, but God's wine.
devil's-needles, n. (1)
Thor 10.482 20
Devil's-needles zigzagging along the Nut-Meadow brook.
devise, v. (2)
YA 1.374 6
We devise sumptuary and relief laws...
Pol1 3.220 4
Are our methods now so excellent that all competition is
hopeless? could not a nation of friends even devise better ways?
devised, v. (2)
WD 7.161 18
No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha,
the very material it requires, is found.
SA 8.105 27
...what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?
Devizes, Richard of, n. (1)
ET13 5.216 2
The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...inspired
the English Bible, the liturgy, the monkish histories, the chronicle of
Richard of Devizes.
Devizes', Richard of, n. (2)
ET13 5.224 16
[The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any
saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health
and wealth long to live. And one traces this Jewish prayer in all English
private history, from the prayers of King Richard, in Richard of Devizes'
Chronicle, to those in the diaries of Sir Samuel Romilly and of Haydon the
painter.
Wsp 6.206 16
What Gothic mixtures the Christian creed drew from the
pagan sources, Richard of Devizes' chronicle of Richard I.'s crusade, in the
twelfth century, may show.
devoid, adj. (2)
SwM 4.143 20
It is remarkable that this man [Swedenborg]...remained
entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression...
Elo1 7.74 13
There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently
impressive to him who is devoid of that talent...
Devon, Earl of [William Ca (1)
ET11 5.190 8
A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen
Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...down to Aubrey's passages of the life of
Hobbes in the house of the Earl of Devon, are favorable pictures of a
romantic style of manners.
Devon, England, n. (2)
ET11 5.180 7
...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that
gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the
downs of Devon...are neither forgetting nor forgotten...
Bost 12.189 9
On the 3d of November, 1620, King James incorporated
forty of his subjects...the council established at Plymouth in the county of
Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in
America.
Devon's, Earl of [William (1)
Ctr 6.148 26
Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes say, that, in the
Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a good library...
Devonshire, Duke of [Spence (2)
ET11 5.182 15
The Duke of Devonshire...owns 96,000 acres in the County
of Derby.
ET11 5.193 15
The respectable Duke of Devonshire...is reported to have
said that he cannot live at Chatsworth but one month in the year.
Devonshire, Duke of [Willia (1)
Boks 7.209 25
Among the distinguished company which attended the sale
[of the Duke of Roxburgh's library] were the Duke of Devonshire, Earl
Spencer, and the Duke of Marlborough...
Devonshire, Earl of [Willia (1)
Boks 7.207 15
[The scholar] will not repent the time he gives to Bacon,--
not if he read...all the Letters (especially those to the Earl of Devonshire,
explaining the Essex business)...
Devonshire, England, n. (1)
Wth 6.96 10
Ages derive a culture from the wealth of...Dukes of
Devonshire...or whatever great proprietors.
Devonshire House, London, (1)
ET11 5.181 12
In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English]
families, the traveller is shown the palaces in Piccadilly, Burlington House,
Devonshire House...
devote, v. (3)
DSA 1.135 14
To this holy office [of priest] you propose to devote
yourselves.
ET10 5.156 24
Lord Burleigh writes to his son that one ought never to
devote more than two thirds of his income to the ordinary expenses of life...
LLNE 10.356 13
...[Thoreau] said that the Fourierists had a sense of duty
which led them to devote themselves to their second-best.
devoted, adj. (4)
ET4 5.51 1
Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic
elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter...
world-wide enterprise and devoted use and wont;...
ET13 5.220 1
These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by
atheists. No church has had more learned, industrious or devoted men;...
SMC 11.361 10
Always devoted...[George Prescott's letters] contain the
sincere praise of men whom I now see in this assembly.
Milt1 12.261 24
...[Milton] knew that this mastery of language was a
secondary power, and he respected the mysterious source whence it had its
spring; namely, clear conceptions and a devoted heart.
devoted, v. (15)
Fdsp 2.205 2
...I offer myself faintly and bluntly to those whose I
effectually am, and tender myself least to him to whom I am the most
devoted.
NER 3.253 14
[Other reformers] devoted themselves to the worrying of
churches and meetings for public worship;...
SwM 4.100 5
[Swedenborg]...devoted himself to the writing and
publication of his voluminous theological works...
MoS 4.150 3
Each man is born with a predisposition to one or the other of
these sides of nature [Sensation or Morals]; and it will easily happen that
men will be found devoted to one or the other.
MoS 4.150 15
Read the haughty language in which Plato and the Platonists
speak of all men who are not devoted to their own shining abstractions...
ET14 5.240 3
Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his
map of the mind, first of all, universality...
Wsp 6.210 25
Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to
creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and
establish free trade.
Suc 7.294 11
...the time is never lost that is devoted to work.
MMEm 10.412 11
The rapture of feeling I [Mary Moody Emerson] would
part from, for days more devoted to higher discipline.
MMEm 10.416 15
Folly follows me [Mary Moody Emerson] as the
shadow does the form. Yet my whole life devoted to find some new truth
which will link me closer to God.
GSt 10.506 1
[George Stearns] had been...through all his years devoted to
the growing details of his prospering manufactory.
MAng1 12.221 3
...[Michelangelo] devoted himself to the study of anatomy
for twelve years;...
MAng1 12.240 7
[Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of the most
accomplished lady of the time, Vittoria Colonna...who, after the death of
her husband, devoted herself to letters...
Milt1 12.267 1
[Milton wrote] For notwithstanding the gaudy superstition
of some still devoted ignorantly to temples, we may be well assured that he
who disdained not to be born in a manger disdains not to be preached in a
barn.
Milt1 12.268 5
...[Milton]...devoted much of his time to the preparing of a
Latin dictionary.
devotee, n. (2)
Nat 1.58 17
The devotee flouts nature.
SovE 10.200 4
The word miracle, as it is used, only indicates the ignorance
of the devotee...
devotes, v. (2)
Cir 2.315 2
...it behooves each to see, when he sacrifices prudence, to what
god he devotes it;...
Farm 7.141 15
The man that works at home helps society at large with
somewhat more of certainty than he who devotes himself to charities.
devotion, n. (54)
Nat 1.74 7
...thought is devout, and devotion is thought.
LE 1.176 2
...we have need of...such an asceticism...as only the hardihood
and devotion of the scholar himself can enforce.
MR 1.242 21
...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry, to art...
drawing him to these things with a devotion incompatible with good
husbandry, that man...ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy
by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
MR 1.245 23
Economy is...a sacrament...when it is practised for...devotion.
MR 1.252 16
An acceptance of the sentiment of love throughout
Christendom for a season would bring the felon and the outcast to our side
in tears, with the devotion of his faculties to our service.
Prd1 2.223 11
The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings
of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter...
Prd1 2.232 5
The man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws
of the senses trivial and to count them nothing considered with his devotion
to his art.
OS 2.294 25
[Man] must greatly listen to himself, withdrawing himself
from all the accents of other men's devotion.
Int 2.338 27
The intellect...demands integrity in every work. This is
resisted equally by a man's devotion to a single thought and by his ambition
to combine too many.
Art1 2.364 5
[Sculpture] was originally...a savage's record of gratitude or
devotion...
Chr1 3.106 16
How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite
books...
Mrs1 3.126 16
The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and
caught with devotion by men of taste.
NER 3.258 11
One of the traits of the new spirit is the inquisition it fixed
on our scholastic devotion to the dead languages.
UGM 4.29 22
Serve the great. ... Never mind the taunt of Boswellism: the
devotion may easily be greater than the wretched pride which is guarding
its own skirts.
PPh 4.49 9
The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in
one Being.
NMW 4.241 15
The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is
the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz, in which
Napoleon promises the troops that he will keep his person out of reach of
fire. This declaration...sufficiently explains the devotion of the army to their
leader.
GoW 4.284 9
[Goethe's] is not even the devotion to pure truth;...
ET11 5.175 13
The Middle Age adorned itself with proofs of manhood and
devotion.
ET13 5.218 18
It was strange to hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of
Rebecca and Isaac, in the morning of the world, read with circumstantiality
in York minster, on the 13th January, 1848, to the decorous English
audience...listening with all the devotion of national pride.
ET14 5.252 27
...a devotion to the theory of politics like that of Hooker and
Milton and Harrington, the modern English mind repudiates.
ET19 5.311 4
That which lures a solitary American in the woods with the
wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race,--its
commanding sense of right and wrong, the love and devotion to that...
Pow 6.64 5
...all kinds of power usually emerge at the same time;...the
ecstasies of devotion with the exasperations of debauchery.
Wth 6.116 1
The devotion to these vines and trees [the land-owner] finds
poisonous.
Ctr 6.132 12
I saw a man who believed the principal mischiefs in the
English state were derived from the devotion to musical concerts.
Ctr 6.148 24
In the country [a man] can find...groves for devotion.
Ctr 6.159 3
A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade
gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste
or skill; as when we learn...of a partisan journalist, his devotion to
ornithology.
Elo1 7.63 20
[The successful orator] has his audience at his devotion.
PI 8.11 18
...the saint [sees] an argument for devotion in every natural
process;...
QO 8.182 11
The Bible itself is like an old Cremona [violin]; it has been
played upon by the devotion of thousands of years until every word and
particle is public and tunable.
QO 8.188 17
In opening a new book we often discover, from the unguarded
devotion with which the writer gives his motto or text, all we have to expect
from him.
PC 8.220 26
...one of the distinctions of our century has been the devotion
of cultivated men to natural science.
Aris 10.46 2
Dull people think it Fortune that makes one rich and another
poor. Is it? Yes, but the fortune was...in the balance or adjustment between
devotion to what is agreeable to-day and the forecast of what will be
valuable to-morrow.
Edc1 10.153 2
...the devotion to details reacts injuriously on the teacher.
Prch 10.229 5
...anything but losing hold of the moral intuitions, as
betrayed in the clinging to a form of devotion or a theological dogma;...
Plu 10.298 13
Plutarch was...a self-respecting, amiable man, who knew
how to better a good education...by devotion to affairs private and public;...
LLNE 10.347 23
Mr. Owen preached his doctrine of labor and reward,
with the fidelity and devotion of a saint...
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?
Thor 10.478 12
[Thoreau] thought that without religion or devotion of
some kind nothing great was ever accomplished...
GSt 10.501 15
We recall the all but exclusive devotion of this excellent
man [George Stearns] during the last twelve years to public and patriotic
interests.
LS 11.19 9
Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid
to devotion...
EWI 11.147 6
I am sure that the good and wise elders, the ardent and
generous youth, will not permit what is incidental and exceptional to
withdraw their devotion from the essential and permanent characters of the
question [of emancipation].
SMC 11.359 24
...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott]...a serious
devotion to the cause of the country that never swerved...
Wom 11.418 9
[Women] have tears, and gayeties, and faintings, and
glooms and devotion to trifles.
Shak1 11.447 16
...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful
disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot...whose
American devotion through forty or fifty years to the affairs of a bank, has
not been able to bury the fires of his genius,-Mr. Charles Sprague,-
pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
FRep 11.531 18
In this country...there is, at present...a headlong devotion
to trade...
II 12.87 2
[The probity of the Intellect] consists in an absolute devotion to
truth...
Bost 12.195 1
How needful is David, Paul, Leighton, Fenelon, to our
devotion.
MAng1 12.229 23
In the church called the Minerva, at Rome, is
[Michelangelo's] Christ; an object of so much devotion to the people that
the right foot has been shod with a brazen sandal to prevent it from being
kissed away.
MAng1 12.233 11
[Michelangelo] never made but one portrait...because he
abhorred to draw a likeness unless it were of infinite beauty. Such was his
devotion to art.
MAng1 12.234 19
[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.
MAng1 12.242 20
Amidst all these witnesses to [Michelangelo's]
independence, his generosity, his purity and his devotion, are we not
authorized to say that this man was penetrated with the love of the highest
beauty, that is, goodness;...
Milt1 12.264 26
In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny
respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they
should be, at home;...up and stirring, in winter, often ere the sound of any
bell awake men to labor or devotion;...
Milt1 12.279 6
...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the
angelic devotion of this man [Milton]...
Pray 12.351 4
Many men have contributed a single expression, a single
word to the language of devotion...
devotions, n. (1)
Wsp 6.241 3
There are two things, said Mahomet, which I abhor, the
learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his devotions.